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Is Anyone Making a Data Processing Unit (DPU)?
For computer games we have the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which is great for doing lots of tasks in parallel, and now GPU has found uses in machine learning and bit-coin mining. Google has developed the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) for neural network type computations.

Is anyone developing a Data Processsing Unit (DPU) designed for data manipulation tasks such as group-by, joins, and sorting? There's some effort to code GPU to do some data processing, but I feel like data manipulation is specialised enough to warrant its own hardware. There is definitely a market for it.
Unix Server Monitoring Tools
Ah very good. Yip, I've used ngrok before, and it's a beautiful piece of software.. nice!

I do control my pi through telegram (polls a bot), which works nicely for the things I do want to control.

I think for me, I'll just stick with my little linode VPS for hosting side projects :). But, I like the idea of ngrok!
Streaming it in another browser window as a part of my Mechanical Turk HIT assignment as I type, and I have to say -- I'm blown away by the incredible picture quality and buffer-free performance.

Puffer team has done a great job.

As a sidenote, I just realized how annoying cable TV ads are. The content to advertising ratio on cable is insanely bad. This 'Puffer' experience just validated my decision to stay away from cable TV.
The thing Wag screwed up was its total lack of empathy in trying to buy silence.

> a couple thousand maximum

Maximum? Many pups cost more than this and you'd be paying to replace at least. You might also be paying for any amount of vet bills if the animal isn't killed on the spot. If you hit a service or working dog, be ready to shell out tens of thousands for replacement due to the unique tasks performed (not all dogs can do them) and specialized training they receive.

In any case, Wag and its walker are probably not at fault. I'd be after the driver.

Of course, I don't like the idea of a stranger walking my dog anyway. Even a kennel isn't ideal, but at least then I can build trust with a particular business. Wag just puts my dog in the hands of random people I'll probably never see again, opening me up to liability and my dog up to risk.
It doesn't matter how many clicks it is. Email is one of the few sanctuaries away from mass social media. People are not expected to know how to do mailbox rules, nor should that ever be forced upon them. That is not the reason why they use email, it is not what they signed up for.

When you force people to learn things like that, you know what you're called? A spammer.
Get a nice mattress.

I'd been sleeping on whatever crap was cheapest for most of my life. Never bad enough to complain about but was never truly comfortable either.

Sounds expensive at first, but totally worth it for the amount of time you'll spend on it. I went to a few mattress stores and found just the one I want. So comfortable now.

I had put it off for years because I didn't want to be harassed by salesmen but actually the whole process ended up being very painless.

A good mattress will change your life.
Because property values have skyrocketed in big cities. Of course, that's no guarantee that they'll continue to rise, but, this history looms large in media and culture. Everybody knows somebody who became rich this way: "My classmate's parents bought him a condo in Beijing in 2008 and now it's worth millions!"

There is also the continued migration from rural to urban, ensuring that demand will continue to increase for a while yet.
Maybe if github itself was open source people could make a lot of improvements to it to help other open source contributors. I don’t understand why we expect people writing a closed source system to fully grok open source.
It is digital surveillance. I could mine all your opinions from 7963 posts. Find those subjects that trigger a nervous or anxious psychological reaction or subjects that produce bad sentiment. Find out your sleep cycle. Find that one post from 2013 which you have now forgotten. Do the same for the account you most replied to. And then serve you catered (political) ads that are incredibly appealing to your deepest emotions (I was able to heuristically match your laptop with your smartphone, the only part that needed some luck). Or use that information when I am investigating you (with or without reasonable suspicion) or interrogating you (for a death penalty crime with an estimated 4.1 percent of wrongful convictions).

But that would be digital surveillance and I have no reasonable suspicion to surveil you.
I understand why people get upset about their companion animal bring purposely hurt, but I don't understand how most everyone in that same demographic has no problem killing (or having killed through their economic transaction) a cow, pig, or chicken. I don't understand the disparity or the difference. And yes I'm aware it's cultural, because some places eat animals that other places think of as companions (dogs in China, guinea pigs in South America), so I mean that I don't understand the culture that values some animals over others.
> Is it common to buy your own tools in other skilled trades (when you aren't a freelancer)?

I can't speak broadly, but when I worked construction, most guys would bring a mix of personal tools and company tools.
To some degree every country engages in propagandising history lessons for elementary school children. (e.g. Japan depicting itself as morally right in WWII in its curricula), but the USA takes it to the next level: Post civil war, the US government undertook the construction of a kind of pseudo religion, in an effort to unite the very divided post civil war country. So we have various legends about the founding fathers, the story of thanksgiving, the "pledge of allegiance" based loosely on the lord's prayer, and so on.

The whole thing of course, relies on an inherent ambiguity in these legends and ideals, which allows a hugely diverse country to project their own values onto them, and interpret them in a way that feels right- like the entire country believes in the same thing, when really we all believe very different things and are able to see those different beliefs in the same set of stories.

It's all kind of fractured apart since the invention of the internet. That illusion of common beliefs is hard to maintain when we can actually all talk to each other.
It may be sufficient, but sufficient isn't the same as ideal. What people have come to expect of social media, of forums, etc. does not translate particularly well to email.

Yes, it can be done, but it's not going to be how people, _ordinary_ people, expect. The world has had 10 years to get used to the Facebook and Twitter workflow, they're not going back just because we think email is sufficient.
Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you were referring to the finance information on finance.google.com, not investor information about google itself.

For the latter, companies are not required to release reports on their website in a timely manner. That’s what EDGAR is for.
Thanks for that - I'd never heard of wireguard -> http://jonathanhamberg.com/post/2018-10-17-wireguard-behind-... that post was quite interesting - it's quite different the way it seems to work

With WireGuard there is not necessarily a central server.
There are many peers and any peer can connect to any other
peer assuming they have the correct authentication
credentials. Every peer has a private and public
key used to identify its self.
The Streisand effect strikes again. This is what happens when the legal department has no customer empathy, and to these lawyers, everything is a nail to their hammer of a contract.

Some people mentioned that Wag should have offered more and demanded less -- absolutely!

But think about if Wag even said "sorry this happened, that's all we can say for your terrible loss" even without a compensation offer and without an insulting NDA. It probably wouldn't have pushed the owner to post this and for it to end up on HN -- and now the world knows.

I honestly believe Wag and Rover and other large companies that offer pet walking services should put up a very high liability bond for pet injury -- on the order of $10K or more. That way they have skin in the game to vet their walkers better. Most owners value their dogs above that, and that incentive is the only way to get these corporations to listen.
Always impressed by what 0x builds. One of the best Blockchain projects which really delivers on the promise of decentralization. Many other projects claim to solve all the problems one have, but at the bottom their protocols are controlled by a single or a few accounts.
I’d be more sympathetic to Wag if they made it possible for the pet owner to pursue the drivers.

As it stands, it sounds like they have not provided enough details to identify the walker, let alone investigate the driver (if there even was one). So I’d say Wag is just as culpable as a maybe-existing-driver.
Ditto. Tab issue in prod release, Not nightly. I love the app but it’s made me look for diff options. I close tabs all day, it’s a big bug in my head that should’ve forced an update. Otherwise monster fan.
Because trust in strangers is one of the things Wag (and Uber et al) are supposed to provide when you pay them.
Most interaction in life eventually boil down to trusting in strangers (that you pay).

Your kids? Schools, daycares, after-school programs, schooltrips, babysitting; let them do anything on their own? All stranger interactions.

At most you get transitive trust. But that doesn’t amount to much.

No, the main reason we’re able to sustain this model is that we believe in two big functions:

1. Most people operate nuetrally, if not well.

2. We have a strong deterrent for the biggest misbehaviors/risks by strangers, through government reprecussion.

You want to not rely on trusting strangers at all? I’m not sure you can do that except by exiting any major population, and returning to reliance on small, close-knit communities, and strong family-oriented relationships (eg first, second and third generations of family living in the same small circle).

But thats a far more substantive change than I think you’re imagining.
A Godsend! I really appreciated the separation of the s-plane as rectangular and the z-plane as polar. It is astonishing the depth to which we can analyze the frequency harmonics of a signal.

;-)
Sure, not every single project is going to succeed. But the government is executing a long term strategy. Rather than a few extremely large megacities, the plan is to boost mid-tier cities and the small towns that connect them. So a lot of these small towns that don't have anything going for them right now will be connected in time. Spending on building out infrastructure continues. Remember the photos from a few years ago of subway entrances in the middle of a field? Now they're in the middle of dense neighborhoods.
OH COME ON!
It's not clear exactly how this helps him work compared to just using hosted versions of the services.

It looks like there could potentially be a lot of maintenance to keep multiple individual servers up and running, and this is probably multiple side project in and of itself.
Harry Potter has already had a sustained popularity, compared with many other popular young adult/childrens series.
Clearly not; SSRF isn’t in the top 10, but log misconfiguration is.

The OWASP Top 10 is fashion, really, nothing much more.
Yeah agreed, would have saved me a minute if you had built an escape hatch
Its not that you should not trust anyone. If I trust my dog to someone, then I have to accept that there are risk that the dog my die horribly. Likewise, if you trust your dog to me, then you better be ready to accept the risk that your dog might die.
AFAIK the new Strong Customer Authentication will be based on 3-D Secure 2, which as far as I know is basically bundling a couple of existing verification method (e.g. AVS, Address Verification System) under a new scheme and fallback to 3-D Secure authentication if the trust level isn’t met.

The issue is that, well, the whole scheme is designed to protect the merchant (via liability shift) and not the user, and we still have to trust the bank to “verify” us (might not be a big problem in EU, but in Asia it’s still common to have OTP code over SMS or even... a 6 digit passcode)
No, there is also e.g. bagaveev.com .
On Not Writing
Why do they get praise for their 2012 predictions but get a pass for their 2016 mispredictions? If they gave Trump a 30% chance to win and, as you say, it is perfectly ordinary for a 30% chance event to happen, then what is the point of their prediction? What is the point of listening to someone who can never be wrong?
LinkedIn represents in spectacular fashion how the internet runs primarily on wide-eyed, childlike gullibility: anybody can claim to be whoever or whatever they choose to portray themselves as, and no one the wiser. During my time using LI a few years back I found it occasionally a venue for some halfway decent discussions, usually on topics having precious little to do with business, management, recruiting etc, but its focus on matters of business was laughable. The "INfluencers Program" was little more than a bully pulpit for self-important yuppies to work their personal brands, and the way some of these vacuous outbursts passing as articles by their so-called "INfluencers" would be boasting tens of thousands of views within hours of posting made it look like a conspicuous pay-to-play scam with authors paying for artificial read stats to elevate their own profiles. Meanwhile, I encountered so many scammers and spammers obviously hiding behind false identities as to make it a rival for twitter in terms of its lowlife untrustworthiness as a serious means to make contacts for serious purposes. Probably these comments here trumpeting its legitimacy as a corporate recruiting and networking tool are written by LI employees or on contract by ghostwriters, because you could stand on a street corner with a handmade sign saying "I Am Someone Important, Honest" and you'd be making a more credible representation of yourself than anyone with the sense God gave geese could possibly see LinkedIn as being useful for.
Please explain why wanting to hear both sides of a story gets an "OH COME ON!" from you?
As an EE with shallow knowledge of anything EE I would like to work and work you .
Then you just find a random stranger and don’t bother paying for a service which ostensibly exists partly to guarantee some level of trust.
> Edit: Platforms don't kill dogs; people do. Stop trusting people.

I disagree with that notion. Trust has always been a big problem. But when a two way market is built on a platform you trust the platform to carry out it's due diligence on your behalf. Situations like:

The walker that was with Winnie when she was killed had a different name in her bio paragraph than was shown on her profile—which makes me wonder if Wag is monitoring whether or not the people walking your dog are who they say they are. Sara asked the walker what her name was, but the walker did not provide an answer.

shouldn't happen at all.

But it's seems that most of the time platforms forgo the need for verification and think trust should solve itself because "people". It takes a harassment case (in case of Uber) etc for companies to open their eyes and realize "people" are not so simple. It takes a good and concentrated effort to run a clean platform.
LWN: Some unreliable predictions for 2019
Lyft now integrates public transit info in app
TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
Missing from the discussion as far as I can see is mention of the walker’s behaviour. I don’t know what rules Wag have, but calling the owner as soon as possible and stating what has happened is a pretty basic thing to do. Deliver the bad news to those that need it as quickly and accurately as you can, with updates when appropriate.
Not answering then lying is not ok, and whatever Wags’s rules are this shouldn’t have happened.
Motherjones had a reporter get a job as a prison guard. His experience was similar: if he doesn't play nice with the inmates they will make his life hell. This was at a private prison, so the under-staffing issue might be more pronounced, but the principle applies.
And that statement still holds.
This is terrifying behavior both on part of the walker and Wag. I don't blame Wag for having occasionally sketchy immoral actors that don't care about animals--that's essentially impossible to entirely prevent, especially as they continue scaling. However, their responses to these issues are extremely concerning and do not indicate a company that's managed well.
To expand a little on your first point - the market of people who truly love dogs, or love them enough to think of walking them to earn money outside of the Uber for X economy, is probably tiny. Most people just have regular jobs and/or don't need the money that much and/or don't love dogs that much. You can scale the access to being a dog walker but you can't scale the "I give a shit about dogsness".

Maybe the sharing economy model is just a poor one in certain cases?
I'm a vegan but your point is tangential to the discussion and doesn't really make sense here.
I got a memory foam mattress from Costco for under 200 delivered and I was quite satisfied. It also rolls up to about 2ft diameter.
IOUze: blockchain for real business
I like how this is hosted on ics.uci

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I doubt even that. Most agents would probably just say "I don't like them either, but it pays the bills".
Found the vegan. Also, I'm vegan. Secondly, is every comment on HN perfectly on point and never tangentially related? No, many many popular threads are not directly related.
Dude, I'm sorry but could you please kindly go away? Your vegan agenda is completely out of context in this thread. To me, this is unacceptable behavior, I wish HN mods were a little more cautious to this sort of comments straight outta an agenda that has nothing to do with the thread at hand.
Great product. Switched from MySQL workbench and it was amazing. Haven’t upgraded to Mojave though. Apple hasn’t been the same since they switched to one year OS release cycles.
Vermont tested and found FCC cellular broadband maps wildly inaccurate
In some european countries docking is super cheap and you can buy a used sailboat for 2000euros. 4g mobile net is great. Croatia, greece, spain, italy. Of course not the best ports. I know it doesnt answer the question but wanted to chime in about our situation. Currently thinking about a live in sailboat in the canary islands. I work remotely.
I think the current system makes people reluctant to giving honest opinions, but changing it wouldn't have much effect, as people are already used to social media.
No matter, this incident in particular is still a drop in the bucket for Wag. Wag knew the dog was dead. All they needed to do in order to look good was pay for the cremation, maybe the cost of the dog, and be supportive. Instead the did the opposite and came off looking greedy, dismissive, and insensitive.
Great tool, would be nice to have INSERT / UPDATE table sql script generator.
I don't have to do this frequently but if any dev/QA/myself need to do this, I dump the DB and run grep. Not the fastest way for sure but gets the job done!
What was that, a bathroom rental service? Sounds like profiteering off basic bodily functions, in a way that was previously uncommon & often socially unacceptable.
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Show HN: Minimal Compact – The quickest way to run thumbor
My thoughts exactly. I was hoping to find something more useful than the same benefits t I'd get from a free azure subscription.
Python Shop and Hackathons at Yelp
>From my experience, people signing up for these type of work range from generally ok (most Uber drivers) to absolutely desperate for money

Come on down to Miami, where it’s not unusual for the actual uber driver to be different than uber drivers profile.

You can’t really get more shady than exploiting undocumented immigrants who can’t get a DL, and having them illegally without a DL by driving under someone else’s uber account for a fraction.
> From my experience, people signing up for these type of work range from generally ok (most Uber drivers)

I agree with your general point, but the vast majority of Uber drivers I've seen are worryingly dangerous drivers (even worse than most taxis). I would not be surprised if many are driving all day, and are exhausted while being in charge of another person's life.
>good tools are worth paying for

Not ALL tools need to be paid for.
Haha a little off topic but I'm curious. I work in a Softbank invested startup (not Wag). Could you elaborate about Softbank being the most silly part? Is it silly in this case, or in general about companies Softbank invests in?
I think perhaps that the press and social media only has so much attention for negative stories. If there's 50 negative stories in a year, and five of them get circulated widely, would having 100 negative stories in a year result in getting ten of them circulated widely? It's doubtful. There would probably be more people reading with a larger number of stories but I don't think it's linear.
How to Reach Social Media 'Opt-Outers'
Love DataGrip...was a big Sequel Pro fan until I started on a project with PostgreSQL and found DataGrip. Haven’t looked back. (I’m now using DataGrip for MySQL as well.)
Diplomat warns that tech industry has become a pawn as politicos fight dirty
FWIW I had the same reaction, then upgraded due to the Mojave crashes and discovered that the nightly doesn't update that often and is stable. It's been fine for months.
Mojave was a really painless upgrade for me compared to previous upgrades.

MacOS High Sierra was the worst upgrade for me. The APFS update borked my laptop and they dropped support for the integrated raid card from my 2010 Mac Pro.
I can't find the article any more but I think Toyota has it's engineers build a handful of cars by hand as part of it's kaizen process. This would act as entry point for next the next generation of engineers.
I haven't spent years raising, training and forming an emotional bond with that cow, pig or chicken. I believe it's possible with the cow or pig, in which case I expect the owner to be just as upset and rightly so.
Is Russia Averse to Crypto?
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guscost correctly describes the limitations of MAC address tracking. In my experience building Aura Vision [1], we've also discovered MAC tracking is no longer GDPR compliant, because an identifier about a person is stored indefinitely. This gives retailers the ability to measure the same identifier returning. The same goes for Bluetooth/BLE tracking.

We are a CCTV/deep learning system that uses existing infrastructure (think old school grainy security cameras), and we're are also able to capture additional information like age and gender of a person. Unlike other invasive/HD CCTV systems, we don't use facial recognition, and we also work over very wide areas, not just over restricted doorways.

[1] https://auravision.ai
That's the problem with lawyers and administrators. Wag should have just ignored their lawyers and did the right thing. It's pretty easy to see what happened here, the executives/administrators/lawyers at Wag are cowards, and were too afraid to compensate these poor people without some sort of legal agreement covering their asses.
Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers
Looking great. One issue is that the font-size is too small.
A very relevant link, albeit from an American perspective, is the AfterPrisonShow on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSonmKTLAPC2bTCF4JHQ1lg
well you could use to make a fake account and then post only statements inline with a particular political/ideological opinion and use that over time to compute who supports those particular positions. When it comes to controversial issues this might not be a good thing.