skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I don't know if this applies to the article author, but I've met a few "lifestyle" post-docs. They do just enough to keep in the system, but don't rise above that (either capability or motivation).
It's a bit disingenuous to expect Twitter or any other social media to actually delete deleted data, except perhaps through a GDPR request or similar. Plus, if your account gets hacked and deleted, or if you delete the account and rejoin, you might be very happy that they didn't actually delete anything and are able to restore your account. (I'm not a fan of social networks or what they do with our data, but the database administrator in me tends to side with them on that front. Keeping data around is a lesser evil than losing it.)
Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?
"High quality comments" for a user in general is completely subjective. They might have "high quality comments" on C programming, and "low quality comments" on marriage equality. You'd need a custom filter for every possible topic of conversation, and even then you'd have to filter based on what you find to be "high quality".

It's easier to just filter based on popular opinions or popular people, which is what karma is for.
This is exactly why I like to use these UI toolkits, and despise most web "UI" frameworks. That uniformity is why these applications are usable and predictable, and yes, boring. Deviating from the defaults takes effort, and that's a subtle hint that it's something to reconsider. You're deviating from the norm, and that might indulge a developer's whims or the demands of a manager who wants their application to stand out from the crowd. But that superficial difference is something I've despised ever since we have WinAmp and XMMS skinning the UI like many media players, purely to look different at the expense of usability.

Even after reading lots of UI guidelines, and developing several tools and applications, it's taught me that I'm terrible at it, and should let an expert do that part while I stick to the other parts!
If you look objectively at the numbers, you'll see that nuclear is one of the safest forms of energy production we know. Even considering conservative estimates from Fukushima and Chernobyl, nuclear power has net saved over 2 million lives simply by displacing air-pollution related deaths that would have occurred had the nukes not been built.

Coal kills on the order of hundreds of thousands of people per year. Fukushima killed zero. Chernobyl directly killed 60, and caused up to 4000 early cancer deaths over the next several decades on top of a population that would get millions of cancer deaths anyway, and that's with a bizarro linear no-threshold model almost unheard of in other latent estimates.

Nuclear is also very nearly carbon free. So if you start factoring in health effects of global warming, nuclear's even better.
Obviously, I knew what you meant. You just expressed it in a humorous (and, I think, not entirely valid) way, granting agency to the device rather than people.

> As others who have worked on IoT devices have pointed out, there are rather valid user experience concerns behind baking these "preferences" into the products.

Which is something that I have not denied. What I assert is that there absolutely needs to be a way to change that behavior if users wish. The lack of that ability is, in my opinion, something that is harmful, both technically and socially.
This chart shows overall card fraud rates (in absolute $) as being essentially flat, albeit noisy, over the past several years: https://www.zdnet.com/article/identity-theft-credit-card-fra...

If transaction rate is increasing, that means that fraud costs should actually be going down as a percentage of transaction income.

And of course, Visa and MC control the technology. Their continued avoidance of major technical advances in the core card technology (things like one-time credit card numbers for online shopping) tends to undermine the "fraud is why we charge so much" theory. Also wouldn't hurt to look at the profit margin of Visa while you're at it, it's remarkable.
In Canada we've got the Interact network which was built by a coalition to banks and offers an entirely separate plastic based method... it's sort of like a US debt card. You Americans should really give the free market a try one of these days...
Kotlin – making a natural and fearless high scale transition
I wonder if I would like or hate doing something like that today - waiting for & finally seeing a piece of paper containing an unknown message coming out of a device sounds somehow fascinating... :)

Just get a job at any restaurant in Japan. Fax is the way nearly all to-go orders are placed. Fax machines are still massively popular there.
Although rewrites are notorious for being a bad idea, I think rewrites for research code are mandatory. Do the research, figure out what it is you're actually trying to accomplish, and then actually write the system you plan to use. Research code is best used for reference only.
Good Cloud Storage (GCS) has this functionality out of the box.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations

/I work for Google/
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The incredible depreciation of yachts is a much bigger part of the cost of owning a yacht. A million-dollar yacht will go down to like 200k if that after 10 years.
> The truth is that accidents like this can never be cleaned up or salvaged.

While global warming is easily solved.

Coal or nuclear are both bad but differently. Which one is less bad depends on your risk model
Yes, as the article says, it's a 1990s-style ultra-configurable do-everything design which, in practice, almost always gets deployed in a lowest-common-denominator set of constructions that are themselves mired in 1990s crypto.

No modern cryptographic engineer looking at any problem PGP solves would design a system that looked like PGP.

PGP used to make some sense as a simple at-rest storage format, but in the era of Nacl and libsodium, even that use case is a poor fit.
So filecoin would just be a slower, less scalable, and more costly way to pay for S3?
Forgive the macabre question, but if a human (or other living creatue) were to venture in to the plant and collect this fuel by hand, how long would they survive?

I'm in no way suggesting that this is an option, of course -- just curious.
Solar, wind, storage. Fusion at a distance.

EDIT: "20 years from now" is still faster than any nuclear generator getting built.
Unless if you're Costco.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/06/20/how-did-costcos-cr...
I guess the question is more: what makes these primes more interesting than, say, cousin (differ by 4) or twin (differ by 2) primes, or any other differ-by-n primes.
I personally believe it is not just hype — it’s a transition that feels only natural from both a technical and a management perspective
Sadly I have to agree with you, that is the way we're heading. Short term, for TVs, I can just buy a large monitor and a sound bar, if I'm willing to pay more.

Your general concept for "digital exhaust" is good though. It's extremely clear in phones. I can either pay a for Apple and limit my exhaust, or I can get an Android phone and pay the difference with my data.
I have not done passthrough with a GPU, so I cant comment on how "good" it will be. You will need to see if your hardware supports it, and then see how stable it is and is it really worth it. I'd also make sure your system has enough resources (cpu, memory, disk) to do what you want to do with this setup.

I work with passthrough networking devices everyday in KVM, so I would suggest KVM, vs HyperV.

Have you seen this? https://blog.zerosector.io/2018/07/28/kvm-qemu-windows-10-gp...
Burning Man, Seeking to Change ‘Convenience Culture,’ Boots Camp for Wealthy
> Uninterrupted Voice
The same krispNet DNN, trained on hundreds of hours of customized data, is able to perform Packet Loss Concealment (predicting lost network packets) for audio and fill out missing voice chunks by eliminating "chopping" in voice calls.

This is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time! I wonder if/when it would be possible to rewrite whole words in real time using a voice that sounds just like you.
> After 40 years of average stock market returns, I have accumulated 1000

Your math is as far off as your reasoning. The long-term average return is 7%, so after 40 years your first years' investments would only have multiplied by only 15x - subsequent years' even less, and that's not adjusting for inflation. If your income exactly kept pace with inflation, you'd end up with 151x your income in original dollars or 43x in inflation-adjusted ones. I'm sure you think you'd get bigger raises than that, and you're probably right, but then again 50% savings (especially after tax) is pretty unsustainable, so you're off by between one and two orders of magnitude.

> What policy choices created this wealth disparity?

That's almost a non sequitur, since even if policy choices didn't create that wealth disparity they could well have created others. But, as it turns out, they even contribute to that one. How is it that those investments of yours return 7% on average, year after year after year. How is it that capital grows at ~2x the rate of wages? The answer has a lot to do with property (especially intellectual property) law, liability law, tax law, subsidies, tariffs, free infrastructure, etc. That's a lot of policy choices favoring your choices over Joe's. Maybe those are even the right policy choices, but to pretend that they didn't have any effect at all is ridiculous.

> How much of my wealth do I need to give to Joe?

None, but that's the (deliberately) wrong question. The real question is how much you should give to the society that sustains both of you, or how much you should never have had at all. There's a lot of room for debate on that, but first we have to get the facts and figures right - something you have so far seemed loth to do. Care to join a real debate?
The missing member
> If I spend bitcoin, I pay a small fee (a few cents).

Worse than that, actually. Bitcoin transaction fees can be pretty volatile, but they're currently in the $0.20-0.30 range.

https://bitcoinfees.info/
Yes, you can. Can this device detect that you've done that and refuse to work anyway? That, I don't know.
Care to point to the scientific demonstrated evidence that the food chain is collapsing?

We are much more people today when we were in the 50ies yet we are doing much better.

So once again besides all the speculation what can you prove?

I don't care about speculations i was asking about demonstrated evidence.
Ooh nice, any ideas on features to come?
The threat model is: A code triggering spectre v1 gets read access to the entire address space currently mapped in. ^*

Since process boundaries are enforced by not mapping any ram not usable by the process, this means they don't get violated by spectre v1. If you have two threads which only share part of their address space, the unshared part is protected. Any executable or library mapped into multiple processes is readable from any of them.

^*: With modern cpus, multiple processes can be mapped in simultaneously using ASIDs, however this doesn't matter because they work as they should and properly isolate the processes. You can just assume the model "only one process is mapped at a time".
> I think this may have started with Slack, but I’m seeing other digital products [...] send users a temporary password to their email in order to login

Pretty sure that’s about as old as time itself, I don’t think it was invented by Slack
>WebUSB has been god send for us.. We were able to allow customers to flash their units through their browser

Does the end-user know about this? Your comment doesn't make this clear to me.
>> The paper notes that Spectre can, and will in the future be able to defeat all programming language level techniques of isolation.

That's why I said we need trusted cores - i.e. ones that don't implement speculative execution or share cache with other cores. Untrusted code needs to be run in physical isolation, not just virtual isolation.

But the real solution to all of this is not to run untrusted code at all. This raises the question of how we come to trust the code we run. The simplest and most obvious thing we need to do is disable javascript. I mean how can you possibly trust code that came in a 3rd party payload used for advertising? How can you trust anything from Facebook? Or any of them? The answer is that you can't and in may cases should not.
there's a bit of a misconception here, the President's concern lies with the border due to sphere of responsibility, comparing it to non-border counties is silly for that reason and the obvious reason that people don't just stop and settle down in the first county they come across...

worst of all though is this idea that comparing the crime rates and abuse perpetrated by illegal border crossers to crime in other areas as somehow relevant, it's almost like saying your car doesn't need gas because it's smaller than cars with a lower average MPG

taking action to protect the nation foreign invaders is literally in the President's job description, not being the local Sheriff

there's literally people getting killed, and many very recently, and people make reports like this, it's actually pretty fucked up and I can only imagine what it would be like to be one of the victims standing there waving your arms while being told you don't exist and that your loss wasn't real and could not have been prevented, sorry about your bad luck

basically, this is not a numbers game, there's no way you can argue that people in immediate risk of getting kidnapped, raped, or killed is not an emergency simply by counting them...

oh sorry! my mistake, I just realized the duty of the President to protect all citizens doesn't apply until we've reach some arbitrary milestone for the number of people in danger... that's not how it works!

the people who died represent a failure of government to do a most fundamental duty, something we pay them to do, protect us
The big money is in sign-up bonuses, like "spend $3000 in the first 3 months and get 50000 points, which is worth $500 cash or even more towards travel".
I have used one site which combined magic links with normal login, and it worked excellently... unfortunately I can't remember what the website was.

If you remembered your password, you could login normally. If not, they would email you the 'forgot password' link, but there was no requirement to set a new password! I only logged in once every few months and could never remember the password, so for me just using it as a magic link system worked well, but frequent users would not be inconvenienced by it since they could use the normal login process.
Actually the web components don’t rely on jQuery. Perhaps you were seening it on the playground app which was built with openui5.
Can ancient rocks be used to detect dark matter?
Doing any kind of neural net anything in realtime is usually not possible due to processing power requirements.
this reads like an ad
Thinking it's more fun to do than read research.
There's a step beyond owning a yacht and an airliner sized private plane - having your own airport for your own private planes. The Google founders have that. They lease 1000 acres of Moffett Field.

Brin was rumored to be building a giant dirigible at Moffett, but not much has been heard since 2017.
At this point, it seems simpler to run OpenShift, which is essentially Kubernetes + extra stuff you don't have to use + nicer console. If you go with Red Hat, you get a number of benefits, such as not being affected by the recent 'Doomsday bug' in docker that wasn't really that doomsday-ish.

Does Google actually support self-hosted Kubernetes?
There was this thread from awhile ago: "Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494224
Visa and mastercard should be careful they don't compete their way out of a market. Stripe, square, apple, google, samsung, etc; there is no reason these companies couldn't band together to create their own clearing system.
Visa and MC started as credit cards, but almost nobody I know uses them that way anymore. They're all bank cards, and visa/MC/Amex are just proxies. I see no reason why they can't be replaced, and I'm honestly hopeful that they will be.

Okay and seriously: I actually just want US Mint backed card. I think it's absolute lunacy that these private companies are essentially levying their own tax on consumer transactions. Cash is outdated, and the government should react appropriately. (And only in my most feverish of fever dreams: it's a cryptocurrency, and only at >104F temperatures, it's on the ethereum network. Oh boy a man can dream!)

In this world: Amex, Visa, and MC can go back to being credit cards.
So a mixture of unreliable, expensive, and "20 years from now".
> melted core material would just keep melting into the ground until it "got to china"

aka "China Syndrome", just like the 1979 film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_syndrom...
What the Republicans are trying to do does absolutely nothing about what Russia appears to have done.

"Securing" our elections is about suppressing the vote of the poor, not about stopping fraudulent voting.
We did. We had American Express, Diner's Club, Discover (the old Sears) ,department store cards, gas station cards, Bankamericard (Visa) and Interbank (Mastercard). In the 1960s there were hundreds of credit cards. Visa and Mastercard won the free market battle.
I don't know if the stats you quoted are true but UPI is a fantastic product. The only problem being you can't use credit so you pretty much pay through your bank account.

Also, they have a more direct rival to Visa and MasterCard as well. RuPay, which has lower fees apparently.
We shouldn’t be burning coal either.
LED lights? Highly isolated apartment buildings? Revised urban planning to accommodate a post-commuting work-life? Other energy saving technology? In EU we have a comfortable living off consumption levels that in the US would qualify as church mices' (still not enough to prevent collapse though: https://web.archive.org/web/20140913032823/http://graduatein...)
German Journalist Yücel's Long Road to Freedom (2018)
>> Processor affinity would become a security-influenced decision with a CPU like that.

Yes it would.

>> That would allow for a whole new class of bugs.

I think it's necessary, but not easy.

Actually what I think is necessary is for people to stop running code from random places - or even common places. Google could work without running stuff on my machine.
Soon enough there will be an AI filter that will take any old hacky, coughing, wheezing singer running around on stage, singing out of tune - and turn it into virtuoso chops. Maybe even derived from their own voice.

Which will give entirely new meaning to 'lip synching'.
When gravity breaks down
U.S. landmine policy is mostly aligned with the Ottawa Convention, with an exception for the Korean peninsula
https://www.state.gov/t/pm/wra/c11735.htm
There is nothing even close to be as cheap / clean and give as much power than nuclear right now. Not every country have wind / sun / rivers to match what produces nuclear energy.
Opioid maker used rap video to push powerful painkiller
A lot of the article focuses on DMs sent from eventually deleted/suspend accounts being accessible from the receiving account.

When you send a message to another account, it's in their account now. Of course it's not going to disappear along with your account.

This had been the canonical behavior of messaging clients for forever. Email obviously, but also IM, chat find, etc. (Trying to remember about BBSs.) Once you press send it's not yours anymore.

This should 100% be the expectation of users anywhere they go. Once you press send, do not count on being able to withdraw it under any circumstances.

Does this genuinely surprise people or is it a slow news day at TechCrunch?
> ... and people still ask if nuclear might not be as bad as coal!

That's playing on feelings rather than making a rational argument. Regardless of whether I am for or against widely deploying nuclear energy, this is not the way to talk about it and create informed opinions. The media are already doing their best to play on feelings on this topic, we don't need to replicate that here.
Having access to tools in theory and having the physical and mental capability to engage in violent behavior (whatever the reason) are two very different things.
Dolt – Dolt Is Git for data.
I agree with most your points, but trying to make a connection between "exploration of bringing Google services to China" and "supporting free and open Internet" feels like a huge stretch to me.

Let's ignore the fact that every other tech company such as Microsoft and Apple are in China, and the fact that Google already does censor content in most other countries. Let's also ignore all the other things Google does for OSS and the web.

I'm just amazed at all the random places people manage to bring up and force their disagreement about Dragonfly into any discussion around Google.
> and people still ask if nuclear might not be as bad as coal!

It's not even close. Nuclear is so much better than coal it's unbelievable.

Just to start with coal releases orders of magnitude more radiation than nuclear. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

Then the number of deaths from coal, take a look at the numbers:

Coal: 100,000 deaths per PWh.

Nuclear: 0.1 deaths per PWh.

That means coal is 1 MILLION times worse than nuclear. I mean seriously, what else would it take to convince someone?

Let's see, what's worse? Taking 10 years to do something, or killing 1 million times as many people?
Tapestat
I don't think so. I rather think it's water droplets acting as little prisms. Radiation would hit the camera sensor in a random pattern and the effect would decay over time.
A bit like how you determine pi with the monte calro method by throwing points at a circle and then checking whether they are inside or not.

I found a video of the robot on YouTube [1] and it seems that the rainbow patterns don't follow the "monte carlo throwing" pattern, but their location depends on the scene.

I don't know how radiation would affect a CMOS sensor, but I would guess it to be similar to what strong light is doing, e.g. when you point your camera into the sun. What then happens is an effect called "blooming": CMOS sensors work by photodiodes converting light to electric potential. If the radiation that reaches one of the photodiodes in the sensor plane is strong enough, the potential would jump to the other sensors next to it, causing a large bright field in the digital image.

Edit: Oh and it seems that the material itself is reflecting light in a rainbow pattern, but that's not the same as "ionizing radiation hitting the sensor".

Edit2: it could just be oil. Oil on water causes rainbow like artifacts.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyKEVD4oC4s
Okay, how should we have powered the industrial revolution?
A Brief Overview of Kademlia, and Its Modified Usage in IPFS, Swarm, Storj