skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure: I design and sell lighting products.

The LED component probably will last 60 years (8 hours a day). My guess is they are using Nichia LEDs, which tend to have an L70 (lifetime at which the brightness stays above 70% of the original output) of 150,000 to 300,000 hours. If you run them cool enough and at the right current/voltage, the LED itself will actually last that long.

However, the LED is probably the most reliable part of the whole lamp. You might see a few units last that long, but most of the other electronics will have failed by then. And even if they have not failed, both the LEDs and controls will be seriously out of date by then.

If you look at the market Dyson is in (very high-end lighting), $600 to $900 is in the same order of magnitude on price. Brands like Artemide, Marset, Flos, Roll & Hill, and Anglepoise all command prices most people would think are ridiculous. With Dyson, you get a lot more functionality than those other brands, but I would consider this purchase more like a luxury car (service life of maybe 20 years, original owner has it for 3-10 years) than a high-end watch (could last many decades with consistent service).

I've seen the previous task lamp from Dyson in person, and it does use a lot of metal (minimal ABS). But that doesn't change the argument around electronics. I feel like Dyson really didn't have to make the ridiculous 60 year claim. Enough people in the target market would still buy it.
I suspect one thing that would help that is if upload bandwidth intensive activity grew in popularity. Also a matter of who they want to reach and why for demand. In terms of use cases decentralization is currently still in Cypherpunks (doing it for its own sake) and "connoisseurs" (doing it because what they want isn't available otherwise regardless if it is accessing paid content but bypassing geofences, infringing downloads, or banned content).
I would like to see decentralization be viable as well but it is fairly niche and a solution looking for a problem.

Currently media is downloading more than uploading even for video games. Client trust issues (and not allowing arbitrary cheating) encourage centralization to at least domain servers for the sake of validation and finding other players.

I think something ARGy like say Pokemon Go but strategic (you have fixed resource pools and open knowledge of everything thus cheaters can instantly be flagged as not playing the same rules). But that would also be niche.

One thing that really could use decentralization is IoT (along with actually making it worth useful and security).

Of course the whole domain is sadly a hot mess of greed often about gathering as much data from their customer, screwing them over with needless connectivity requirements and considering actual functionality an afterthought and security an afterthought to that and then wondering why it isn't catching on. That is a whole other rant.
If you only look at market advantage, yes. But from a risk management perspective, non-English speakers are not a protected class so it's not legally discrimination if you don't translate it but it is if you fail to make it accessible to people with disabilities.
I hope Amazon, Apple and Google are doing better. How can we know for sure? It's not unreasonable to ask because I would have thought it completely NUTS to think FB used clear text but apparently they did (or still do). What about everyone else? Does anyone know how to find out?
How the hell are plaintext passwords ever touching a FB server in 2019 ? oO

You should always hash the pwd client-side first... wtf ?
Analogies to the Nazis (which Neimoller's poem is, implying a slippery slope to mass graves or something equally terrible) and dystopian fiction have become so tedious and banal at this point that I group them together with Godwin's Law as examples of arguments with negative intellectual value.

If a commenter is resorting to these, it's evidence they have little of value to add to the conversation beyond concern trolling.

> Who made up that silly rule?

I guess I did. But I can't be the only one sick of seeing these low effort memes pop up around here.
> I don't know anything about FB's infrastructure

This explains a lot of the comments here. Facebook’s scale is not like anything most engineers have worked on. Facebook probably has logs in the 100s of terabytes. Ensuring that sensitive data isn’t logged takes more than some occasional greps.
Nvidia RTX GPUs and Creator Ready Drivers Supercharge Creative Apps
How does pytype compare with the PyAnnotate [1] and MonkeyType [2] dynamic / runtime PEP-484 type annotation type inference tools?

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate

[2] https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType
good decentralized architecture is pretty well undermined by ISPs capping upstream bandwidth. you already can't host a popular website from home - your upstream bandwidth can't handle the traffic
"it took me about two days to get everything extracted, upscaled and put it back together in a way that was pleasing. This resulted only in the first five minutes of the episode being done."

Maybe someone at Google can use spare cloud time to remaster the whole series as their 20% time project? This remastering process would be easily parallelizable.
> Nvidia and co. now have specialised GPU circuits allowing one to stream the encoded video output to memory

Can you give a little more info on this? Is this standard to consumer level GPU's? What is the tech called?
I've been getting spam emails from MidwayUSA, a online gun retailer, despite that I never visited their website, or anything related to guns, and their unsubscribe process is completely non-functional. I was forwarding their emails to the FTC spam address, but eventually took the liberty to create a midway account for them and subscribing to their "eblast lists" (their own words). So far it hasn't accomplished anything.
How did Whites go from 75 per cent in 2000 to 50 per cent in 2020?
In 2010 they were only 62 per cent of the population.

in 2020 they're expected to be just 50 per cent.

What happened?

I'm talking about non-hispanic whites
As a European I'm perfectly fine with predatory corporations and business practices being outlawed. I'm just grateful for having a government that has my back.
That's funny.

Unless you rely on the government to steal for you (green fraud, subsidies, etc) there's no point in trying to do anything in the EU (if you can choose).
Erm English is a fluent second / third language to many Kenyans. Or do you mean something else?

Anyway, I just picked Kenya randomly. I could have also stuck to English-speaking countries like NZ / Aus / Uk.
True or not, the comment is rather unsubstantiated with just two words.
Just as alarming for me is that Facebook engineers don't seem to understand risk management:

"In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this. We want to make sure we’re reserving those steps and only force a password change in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse."

Inadvertently logging passwords is a risk. If those logs were accessed then that's a bigger risk. Signs of abuse is an issue. There is no such thing as an "actual risk", there are just probabilities (and possible consequences). Once a consequence happens, it is no longer a risk -- then it's actual.
I think Europe is dead set on legislating itself into digital irrelevancy. Instead of focusing on the obvious question (why is there not a single European company in the top 15 internet companies?) they're obsessed with finding ways to tax US internet giants as much as they can, in any way they can, without giving a damn about the collateral damage they are causing to their own small businesses in the process.

What should _really_ concern the powers that be is that Europe has become a place to sell things, not make them.
I don't know what it means to say that it can't be used legally in fractional-reserve banking.

Fractional-reserve banking is just a pooled-risk lending instrument. If you can lend something, then you can fractionally reserve bank with it.

To put it another way, when you have dollars deposited in a bank, you exchange your dollars for a contract saying that the bank will remit so many dollars to you on demand. You value that contract at pretty much the face value of the dollar amount of the deposit because the risk of default on that contract is considered extremely low.

Fractional reserve banking in Bitcoin would work the same way -- the bank would give out loans while promising to make their depositors (creditors) whole should they require their deposits. They cannot satisfy that contract if more than a certain number of depositors come knocking, but that's true for regular banks too.

With a liquid credit market, even runs on the bank, as long as they are slow, are fairly tractable; you can just sell your debts for their face value (discounted, most likely, for the fact that the counterparty to the sale may not use the same risk metrics) and thereby make your depositors whole without having to call in any outstanding loans.
Link to the video: https://mobile.twitter.com/cspan/status/1108422307008184326
Google benefits from their users having a fast browser (chrome) too, but that doesn't say anything about privacy (both google or cloudfare).
I understand that, but I believe they do not have the correct mentality here. I'm not certain how many of the people saying that have worked on systems as sensitive as FB. They think it's easier to screw this up because, for them, it is, but they don't operate at this level.

This sort of thing should not be any easier to screw up when you operate at the scale of FB. If it happens then you have the wrong procedures in place. In my personal example our logs and logging practices/code were audited in the same way our DB layer was. There was no difference; if a system touches sensitive data, it is a massive vulnerability.
Why? Revenue is growing.
Do you have any examples of a good project layout? How do I have multiple controllers, large numbers of models, etc. There's very little in the way of "just a restful backend" templates in Python.
Bandwidth availability is not currently a limitation for people self-publishing. It's the cost of that bandwidth, and then the difficulty involved in hosting a web server.
That's great for you and that is what it should cost but for a large portion of people that kind of bandwidth is not attainable for an affordable price.
My ISP (cox) blocks ports 80 and 25, and probably others. Also, in the TOS it explicitly states that running servers is prohibited, and could result in termination of services.

The first is mainly done - from what I understand - to combat spam and other nefarious things; to keep people from running malicious web sites, and/or hosting spamming mail servers or whatnot.

But the second is more of an "implied threat"; for the most part, they don't really care if you run a server off some other port, use some kind of DNS discovery service, etc - provided it has low usage, and isn't doing anything against their other terms in the TOS.

So basically, hobby sites or similar stuff are allowed to run; part of the reason of this is because there is (or was) a lot of software (games mainly - if I understand right - but other platforms too) that were essentially servers, and became popular with people. Plus you had things like home VOIP, media servers, etc - that people used and liked. So they kinda let some things "fly under the radar" of their TOS.

But they never removed the language from the document.

...and so, that Sword of Damocles is left hanging over our head as a threat: "Don't get too popular...it'd be a pity if something happened to your system".
Solar Storm Warning: Experts Warn of Power Outages from Solar Flare
Look at net neutrality, the official corporate statement is of course they support and free and open internet. However "According to lobbying disclosures filed with the U.S. Senate and reviewed by Sludge, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and their largest trade groups, the Internet and Television Association (NCTA) and CTIA, have spent $190.3 million on lobbying the FCC and other government bodies, much of it to reverse net neutrality, since the 2015 rules were passed."

Source: https://readsludge.com/2018/06/11/today-net-neutrality-offic...
The configuration method for the Gunicorn server (http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/configure.html#configurat...) would be a great example to follow. Configuration files are just Python modules. You can specify the number of workers and set log file locations with the following:

from multiprocessing import cpu_count

def max_workers():
return cpu_count() * 2 + 1

workers = max_workers()
errorlog = "/var/www/lcfs/logs/error_logs.log"
accesslog = "/var/www/lcfs/logs/access_logs.log"
And nuclear power costs less than half as much in South Korea. An MIT study examined the reasons and suggested various changes to industry practice and regulations in the U.S.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/10/02/4-ways-t...
It’s actual _reality_ TV. We’ve been trained very well not to know the difference any more.
I love the new updates. As Stripe is such a developer-driven service, the docs are such a critical part of the experience. Stripe doc updates seem to set the standard for API documentation across the web and it's great to see them investing in the docs and raising the bar once again.
> How seriously could the cloud companies cripple Europe's internet if they all banded together? If they were to block and European traffic though any device they owned...

That sounds a lot like an internet blockade...and blockades are acts of war:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/blockade-warfare

I'm sure the US Government would have something to say to companies that decided to wage a kind of private war on allied nations.
There's a considerable evidence that trans identity is correlsted with variations in physical sex-related traits at a more specific level than counting the number of X and/or Y chromosomes (which themselves aren't sex related traits, just things which contribute to the development of such traits in ways mediated by physical environmental factors.)
"This is propaganda of the highest order."

That's a little much.

I don't see any reason to believe anything other than the simple (and minor) outcome here: a small deviation in outcomes due to prenatal hormones.

That's not propaganda it's just bad math, worst case.
Do you have a reference? I was wondering the same but have no reference.
You're confusing deflation with deflationary currency.
You still have to do all the work of building the geometries for the art assets, are you really saving that much on not having to color/texture those assets?
I wrote a web (WSGI) framework in python because I didn't care for the abstractions of some of the larger ones.

It was a good bit of fun, and it was faster than anything else at the time. Much of the speed came from doing less out of the box. Additionally, it didn't attempt to handle any of the actual connection layer. Everything is done via the WSGI interface, which I think is a great abstraction.
>In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this.

We, because of all those 2000 devs who had access to them, nobody could never had stolen them...
I was just thinking the same thing. There is no reason the password itself even has to be sent over the wire.
Why would Europe finance its own version of a cultural cancer? Investing in business tech would make TONS more sense.
Totally happens yes. In my Japanese university club, the rule at drinking party was: minors can drink if they want but others should not incite them to drink if they don’t want to.
An update on diversity and inclusion at Monzo UK
I'm not against nuclear, and I'm not saying renewable are absolutely perfect, but let's break down the claims you're making here as there's a lot to unpick.

>We don't even have a workable way to recycle or decommission photovoltaic solar panels after their useful lifespan

Nor do we know how to recycle nuclear waste (since that's what you're comparing it to) At best we know how to store nuclear waste, but we'll only know if we've done a good job in thousands of years so I wouldn't bet on it.
You also seem to forget how Uranium is mined in the first place, but mining is involved for solar panels so I'd say they probably compare equitably here.

There is however progress in recycling solar panels [1]

>Reflector based solar plants and wind plants are causing so much ecological damage that their initial designers and proponents are now advocating against their use

What damage are we taking about? The tortoise in the link you gave seem to have been displaced. Sure it's not the best, but I'm sure building a nuclear plant comes with its own side effects, such as warming of the surrounding water, increase in traffic and noise pollution for the local wildlife.

>The guys building the Ivanpah solar plant have been walking off their jobs because of the wildlife destruction they were causing

There's no mention of that in the link you posted

>Wind and solar are a feel-good distraction which fall an order of magnitude short of meeting our projected energy demands.

Wind and solar resources can provide an order of magnitude more than what we currently consume. [2]

>Nuclear is literally the only path forward

No it's not.

>Nuclear fusion preferably

Not anywhere near being production ready, though the day it is I'm happy to have a fusion boiled cup of tea, heck I'm happy to pay more taxes in order to fund research.

>It just hasn't filtered down to become popular opinion for some reason.

Maybe because it's not true?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling/europes-f...
[2] https://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10933
> since that requires risk and ingenuity

That is great for many things, but for something like self-driving tech, it is already being used in cars on the road. This is not just experimental, it already has people's lives on the line. That is a lot of trust in something that is not available to be audited.
The URL for this post should really be changed to that. It's nothing more than a two sentence blogspam submission with a link to the original creator.
>You can store plaintext passwords in logs because you don't know better.

This whole conversation is about how it likely was not done on purpose, and that it was the result of logging HTTP requests and responses.

If they wrote logger.info(password), yea I'd say that's as outrageous.
But you could take the raw footage and the edited video and recreate the edit lists (which they should still have btw). Or just scan each film frame, then match the video to film frame by frame and re-assemble the list of frames. All software done by one person. No creativity or judgement needed.
Do you know if and how those updates translate to codes that need to be complied with?

For example we have codes for ramps that specify the maximum grade, length, minimum platform size, etc. I’m wondering if something analogous needs to exist for the web. (Actual regulatory codes, not W3 standards or guidelines.) it would be “fairly” easy for something like USDS to define something like that for use for all Govt sites, and that could be enforced across agencies. Seems tricky for how you’d handle that with non Govt sites.
Throw in a VR headset and you got Ready Player One.
Maybe it's old hat for phone devs. But the fact is this is the _iPhone_ prototype - a major inflection point in not just mobile phone history, but in world history. So even if its physical form is nothing special, its significance is.
New Zealand has fallen.
"THE SOLUTION: Let restaurant owners and employees agree on a fair, livable wage. Ensure they make that wage, every single shift. Just count tips as part of that."

where in logic does counting tips as wage make any sense? pay your workers a living wage, tips are a gift of good service, not a vital part of someones living wage."

i guess this comes from a UK perspective, but being paid a salary, and then earning tips with good service. made those tips even sweeter.
What You'll Wish You'd Known

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
I mean, snark all you want modest_sarcasm, but facts are facts. The right of revolution doesn't depend on legal access to firearms, and the evidence of that is... literally every revolution since the advent of firearms.

And Americans have started enough such revolutions around the world that they should have figured this out by now.
Who on earth would raise 200bn in capital? The public sector can't finance private institutions because it's against the EU laws. As a matter of fact a lot of local governments have been fined for supporting big corporations with public funding.

Other than that, VC funding isn't as strong as it is in US and I doubt they give more than 30-40bn in total funds in a year.
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There are a lot of startups whose mentality is "get big quick enough so that we can get bought out by Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc"

Yep. I worked with a startup that, after a few months, obviously had this as its primary motive. They made an app similar to another big-name (at the time) app, with the intent of having that bigger app buy them out.

When the big fish didn't swallow their little fish they blew all of their remaining cash on a big party in New York and flew in all kinds of bold-faced names to bring attention to themselves. And it worked. A few months later they were eaten by another company, everyone lost their jobs, and the founders retired at 31.

The irony is that a few months after that, its only competitor "pivoted" and abandoned the space it was competing in. If the small fish had held on, it would have owned that market.
I believe your source is unreliable.

For example read this report:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/578df0f5e5274...
"Scar (physics)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scar_(physics)

> Scars are unexpected in the sense that stationary classical distributions at the same energy are completely uniform in space with no special concentrations along periodic orbits, and quantum chaos theory of energy spectra gave no hint of their existence
>I think Europe is dead set on legislating itself into digital irrelevancy.

Just because the EU passed privacy regulations?
http://archive.is/XDkU9
Nvidia's is called GameStream, and has been in consumer cards for about 4-5 years now. Moonlight[1] is an open-source client that lets you stream your PC games to most any device.

They may be referring to ShadowPlay, a feature that keeps a buffer of the output so you can save something that just happened. Again, available for 4-5 years.

[1]: https://moonlight-stream.org/
Interest rates are driven by the market. In the late 1970s you couldn't get a dollar loan with near-0 interest rates either.
> You can't get information out of SD video that wasn't there before with upscaling

But you can infer visual detail from the information that is already there. Especially because ML uses information from the training set to help make sense of the information that is already there.

e.g. if I show you a picture of a key then you can figure out what the lock looks like because the key contains that information, even if it’s not visible.
I'm pro nuclear and french. The media are terrible when speaking about nuclear, but the communication around nuclear is not bad. There is some obsfucation using technical jargon, but almost nothing is hidden. IMHO France has made a big mistake when it has stopped building plants. Now, we have lost most of our know-how. I think the future is solar power and that a nuclear plant build now will become obsolete before being amortized. It is too late to build new nuclear plant and maybe a bit too early to build solar plants.
Somehow this reminds me of two of the memes that circulate endlessly on Twitter, the cartoon dog of "this is fine" in a room on fire, and "I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire" from the IT crowd.