skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true for stablecoins, which aren't really cryptocurrencies. The most important single-point-of-failure in currencies is the supply mechanism, which must be trusted. The supply of centralized stablecoins can't be trusted. It is open to human greed, errors and hacking. Do you trust Mr. Zuckerberg having control of the future money supply?

Centralized stablecoins should be illegal, because the issuer can print money from thin air without collateral, unlike banks which are regulated and the money supply is controlled with interest rates.
It's unfortunate.. I'm pretty sure this story is getting buried. It's insane GOOG would do these things, include threats of demotion. Who gets demoted these days anyways?
Our elders really knew how to do some things right.
Doesn't really change the content, and I'm not sure that link really lends much credibility on the topic.... do you feel it does?
One of the biggest scams unfolding. Monopoly money posing as "crypto"currency. Good luck with that, slaves
> "Good enough is good enough"

+1000 to this. Please don't be the guy that slows me down and prevents me from delivering features because you insist on everything being perfect. I can't tell you how many times and how much money people who are obsessed with code quality waste. They spend months polishing code only to get out a feature that no one uses and doesn't matter. But hey, the code is "perfect"!
If i can migrate the data both ways meaningfully, I just put the sql to do so in the Schema migration .sql files.
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Everything about exploring space and planets is a rebut to Murphy's law.
This is very far outside my realm of expertise but isn't it possible they're running some sort of obfuscation on the binary before releasing? 40k LOC seems unbelievable to me, surely even scrolling around in a text editor would be laggy as hell.
>"Plans to privatize the ISS made headlines earlier this year when NASA revealed The White House intended to pull the plug on federal finances in 2025. This isn't the first time privatization murmurs have surfaced for the space station, but a recent NASA audit suggests a conversion to private operation may not be feasible."

>"According to NASA forecasts, there are two main options the ISS could take to stay afloat pending a lack of federal funding. The first proposition involves larger private sector investment, and the agency readily acknowledges it's already taken baby steps to increase commercialization."

https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/31/nasa-expresses-doubts-ov...
And how about Venezuela?

Or for people without a bank account?
The argument on the face of it appears to be rather flimsy. If Google is doing this on Huawei's behalf, I wonder if we're seeing a new Google emerge, one who is willing to go to bat for their partners.
I don't know what is more hilarious: the fact that you would pass judgement on a ~$1TN company based on the experience of a disgruntled employee [1], or that HR makes technical decisions in your company.

[1] mind you, I feel Claire is honest in upholding her views and doesn't have an agenda.
The "lost $200B" refers to market value (capitalization), which these days is mostly smoke and mirrors anyway - so not actual losses in a "profit and loss" kind of way. Also, other articles have gone into great detail about how GE's good numbers over recent years-to-decades have largely been the result of financial engineering anyway, and eventually that kind of thing catches up with you, so matter how well your individual business divisions are actually doing. Problems in their energy division may have very well been the straw that broke the camel's back, though.
Yeah, the only reason to use TF is really its deployment friendliness. If PyTorch addressed that more comprehensively, there'd be no good reason to use TF at all. For research PyTorch blows TF out of the water completely, and it's been that way for years, ever since it came out.
What if the software on the phone, hypothetically was able to detect you beeing in distress and would stop complying to even the correct password if you are clearly coerced?
This is out of an abundance of caution, not necessarily because the law requires it. This explains it: https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Cops-TV-show-need-to-get-sign...
>The whole point of JSFiddle (which I love) is at odds with the bulk of the demographic of Twitter.

I'm not sure that's a line that Twitter would draw, or is even accurate.

I also suspect that most content on twitter the bulk of twitter users / demographics wouldn't care about...
These accusations are unfounded and unsubstantiated. If they steal your tech, you should sue them in court. We, the US and other nations, run by the laws. You have all the rights to sue whoever steals your tech. Android is open source and available to everyone including Huawei. Huawei has every right to use it. Blatantly accusing someone of stealing with no evidence leads to libel and defamation.
You can’t win against people’s insecurities.

They went to school, they where not bashed in the head with hammers.
> So basically a lack of external pressure combined with a lack of caring about preventing this

Could someone who's paranoid guess that this is done on purpose, the goal being to capture all the packets before sending them back towards the correct ISPs?
There is a big industry starting to spring up around this, data insurance. Go to any big insurance conference and all they are talking about right now is cyber insurance. Construction companies are asking for it for example; they've always had to insure their employees, but now they are seeing things like their offices being hit by cryptolockers and being extorted for bitcoin by Russians. They can't afford to lose productivity over something like that so they are getting insured. Those insurance agencies are working with security consultants to help harden the networks too. So yes, this is definitely a big problem, but the wheels are already moving to start addressing this issue, because there is money to be made.
> I'm not sure that conventional human mathematics lacking the ability to explain something indicates another abstract level of complexity above what we call "the universe".

I just bring up mathematics as an example of something that philosophers have typically categorized as "necessary truth". For example, 1 + 1 = 2 is necessarily true (there is no possible world in which it is not true) and as such requires no additional explanation as to why it's true (aside from just defining terms).

The fact that the earth is populated with living organisms is a contingent fact. That is, it is possible that there be no living organisms on the earth (or, in philosophical parlance, "there are possible worlds in which the earth is not populated with living organisms"). It seems perfectly logical to conclude that if there are living organisms on the earth, but there need not be, then therefore there must be some explanation as to why it is so. Indeed, one might say that the entire enterprise of science is predicated upon the notion that contingent facts have causal explanations.

So when it comes to the question of "why does anything exist at all, rather than nothing?", I think it's fair to question whether we can know the reason, but it likewise seems inescapable that there must be a reason.

> Also I don't know that infinite regress is necessarily a problem. Cycles most immediately come to mind, aka "loop quantum gravity".

Well, I can say that it doesn't look like the universe is headed in some kind of loop (because of accelerated expansion) but that (at best) answers the physical question whether we are in a cycle, not the metaphysical question of why there must be a prime cause. I admit I don't have a good answer for that, but I will certainly think on it. I also don't know enough about loop quantum gravity know how that relates (though I trust it does).

> That being said, I see no reason to abstract things more than needed.

As the saying goes "a theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler". In this case, I would say that a "prime cause" is the simplest theory available. To posit that the universe exists without cause is too simple, and alternative theories (such as the multiverse theory) are more complex.

> "Prime cause" just appears a very fallacious argument to me, I guess that's the point. No offense intended.

No offense taken! It's always great to hear what parts of my thinking other people find unconvincing. I like knowing how other people think about these kinds of issues.
>Google and Apple being the main offenders here, due to their cell phones.

I didn't realize Apple had a behavioral advertising division. Can you share more about Apple's tracking, maybe some links or whitepapers?
See also Tesco vs Levi's:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1403156/Tesco-loses-battle-...
You could import your Steam/Origin/Gog/etc library of stadia compatible games.
That's been demoed for VRchat already. Facial feature tracking has been around for years.
In this case it's simply being used as a system of control while distancing FB from the responsibility for issuing currency. Facebook wants to own the money you spend and collect a vig on each transaction. The parent was just pointing out that's the real motivation here. If you go looking for a technical reason you won't find one.

Unask the question and ask who benefits instead.
This seems to me like a technical problem. Assuming one must really store sensitive things on smart phones, there should be a way to do this AND allowing one to share the phone unlocked with an adversary without risk of leaking data. Multiple unlock codes maybe?

Maybe a tertiary duress code that starts a timer and performs predefined actions after {n} minutes. i.e. send control code to a server, notify friends, family, lawyer you are under duress with GPS coordinates, wipe phone at the risk of destroying evidence, start sending audio to youtube, transfer / delegate data to a different predefined device, etc... Might be useful if you are being mugged.
seems fishy af. he tries to block the hole of a yellowjack nest by driving a stake in (??), and a fire starts (?????). uhhh
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yes there is actually a #startups on freenode.
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Pocket isn't really Firefox-branded. Neither are Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Bugzilla, Rust, etc which didn't make the list.
I think their claim might be a bit more nuanced. They are the original vendor of the Software, and have a special status that allows them to have an expertise on the OS that other third parties do not.
That was my first thought when all these shenanigans went down. I think there is still an argument for security- we're currently well versed in android but that isn't the case for whatever closed source Huawei OS that comes out.
> every fresh batch of graduates who come into the workforce are equally terrible at advocating for themselves

cough the problem is further up the pipeline cough.
There's only one real advantage of a pegged crypto currency: easy and cheap transfer. It's generally a pain in the ass to move money, everyone wants a cut. Wire transfer, international wire tranfer, paypal - they all want their cut. For a simple update of a single row in some database.
> What do you think society would look like in 20 years? My guess is what would happen is we would build robots, machines, software and hardware to do everything. We would all be living in massive abundance.

> We would essentially be retired, in the sense that none of us would have to work for any of the basics. We’d even have robotic nurses. We’d have machine driven hospitals. We’d have self-driving cars. We’d have farms that are 100% automated. We’d have clean energy.

Do we really need to run a thought experiment? Haven't some of it already happened to see the results? Doesn't look that rosy as this guy is describing.
Open hardware is less important than open software but that doesn't mean it isn't desirable. But anyway, vector v gpu:

Think AVX2 instead of GPU. You extend support for MIMD architecture will all the benefits of Out-of-Order execution and deep pipelines, but add data-level parallelism through SIMD or "vector" operations. This can allow significant performance gains for fundamentally sequential operation that still needs to perform linear algebra operation. Furthermore a lot of the speedup relies on unrolling sequential math operations and manually breaking data dependencies in the code, which has diminishing returns for larger vector/matrix dimensions (you'd spend more time loading/storing into GPU registers even if you had no bandwidth concerns over PCIe).

Vector processors/architectures are commonly found in special purpose architectures called Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), which are important for a variety of applications like automotive, aerospace, controls, audio, IoT, or anywhere with real-time data acquisition. FPGAs are also popular for this task.

However a lot of those devices are pretty cheap (or really expensive, not a lot of middle ground due to economies of scale) and either underclocked or overspec'd - meaning you either pay out the ass for an overkill processor or pay out the ass for a complicated systems architecture to use multiple chips on the same board (with proprietary tooling, shout-out to ADI)

Cheap(ish), low(ish) power, high(ish) clock, CPUs with 256 width vector operations are highly attractive in a number of markets. The fact that its open source makes it even more attractive, if you can afford to do a run of them.
> By insisting even at the risk at being wrong, you force everybody to show their hand and sometimes they'll realize that they may be wrong or off point and that they need to reevaluate the situation

If this was more common, I think the world would start to become a much better place surprisingly quickly, at a cost of people suffering a little minor intellectual humiliation until they started to be more disciplined about their beliefs.
I would say that consumer computer software is the biggest threat to any security.

Turns out that if you can compromise someone's phone, you have a window into everything that person does, sees, and hears; both online and off.
Lets get back to basics with online advertising
Every new financal technology tries to kill the existing middlemen, then replace them with new middlemen who promise to be better. Turns out, these new middlemen (1) never fully comprehend how complex modern finance is, which raises costs, and (2) are human and thus become corrupt, whether subtly or unsubtly, over time.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that, in conjunction with point (1), many of these modern finance plays also totally fail to comprehend the vast investment into technology that traditional finance companies have made. They see a shitty iOS app, think "wow Old School Bank is never going to understand computers, let's disrupt them", so they start with an amazing iOS app, then struggle to reliably implement the rest of the stuff that matters (process automation, scalability, government relationships, customer support).

Point being, the world turns, time goes on, the players might change, but the game doesn't.
I modified the title slightly for length.
Unfortunately it is t that insane. This happens every day, every hour, and every minute in corporations around this country. For profit is t for people full stop. The bottom of the barrel is always feasible.
Can someone help me out here... this is not a charter school, correct?

"Indeed, half of Pathfinder’s inaugural class was previously homeschooled, Wilder says.

Legally, they still are. Despite its name, Pathfinder isn’t actually a school. It’s not accredited and doesn’t have a state license, which means it doesn’t have to abide by state laws on mandatory attendance and testing. It doesn’t award grades, nor will it give out diplomas should it take on high-school-age students. (It will help them create portfolios as part of their college-application process.) Instead, it’s a “homeschooling resource center,” a place that offers homeschoolers opportunities to socialize and learn in a small-scale, customizable environment. "
No, that's exactly what I'm talking about:

They'll buy the md5-email-to-cookies from one provider (e.g. Lotame, Liveramp, etc) then use that to onboard email+contact data they've purchased from companies that have email address-to-personal data (e.g. MVF, ZoomInfo, etc).

IF that was done as purely a lead qualification step, it's a good way to take legitimate content syndication done by a third party into direct marketing, but there's no technical reason they need to be leads or have any level of qualification -- and only a weak market force (poor conversion rate) that prevents it from being more widespread.
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That's a great point, thanks for making it.

Personally, I grew up in a rural area in NY that is basically being systematically wiped away, because of these policy decisions made in a vacuum that few people understand.

People blame "the other" and get caught up in racist nonsense. Meanwhile, we're reverting into ancient latifundia and turning into a society where basic human needs aren't being met.
The US and China are ramping military purchases with each other in mind. So I’m sure the US at least partially made this decision based on the likelihood of a future war, or the higher probability of much more tense relations.
To add, the SAF is not just a pure BlackBerry tax. Without getting too deep into it, there's stuff that needs to be set up with the carrier, and that's why BlackBerry push was a true push back in the day, without the phone burning through both battery and data. And when this gear malfunctions, you'd know, because you're not getting push at all.

They sipped battery and data, and once that gear is setup, the SAF was very profitable.

Even to this day, email is not the same level of instant.
It's a tax thing. It's apparently cheaper to give someone $100k of stock versus $100k of cash.
I think you're preaching to the wrong platform here. HN is one of few corporate tech forums out there and twitter is a very corporate medium.

Whole twitter culture honestly is quite saddening and it's leaking to alternative mediums as well (like mastodon.social has started to suffer from same problems).

We worked so hard to create easy and accessible way to micro blog and communicate through text via formatting, proper structures with rss feeds etc and twitter just threw all that through the window in favor of short unformated, unsorted and algorithmitized, toxic "chats".

Ugh, I'm excited to finally see it go the way of the dodo.
Do Huawei phones even receive that many updates? Google just "makes available" the updates - they don't update Huawei's phones themselves. And many of Huawei's phones don't get updates for long after release either.

By Google's own logic like 95+% of Android phones could be considered a national security risk, because only a small percentage actually receives patches in time or at all.
So they will call the pro-choice movement by the name the pro-choice movement uses and they'll call the pro-life movement by the name the pro-choice movement uses as well. Disingenious to pretend this is neutral.
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Giving any entrepreneur $300m or $1b (in the case of Nuro) and not expecting "strange behaviour" would be weird.... that's private jet, Four Season suites for conferences with butlers, and Thomas Keller catering for company Xmas party type money.
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> Indian cars/manufacturing/importing has different economics and pollution impacts. You are free do your own research and make up your mind.

No, you don't get to go ahead and do that. The burden is on you to provide evidence for your claim, not on the person you are talking to.

> I am against the idea to replace cars which have already contributed to significant pollution being removed from road.

Didn't you say that taxis in India don't last as long as they do in the West? If so, won't it be possible to electrify 40% of them by 2026, through natural attrition? The whole point of this law is to give a heads-up on a multi-year process.

> The lowest hanging fruit for me is to get US and other top polluters to reduce pollution.

Agreed. The West has had modest per-capita pollution reductions, but needs to go much further then that. As does China. (It's overall per-capita pollution has matched that of the European Union. If you look at its urban areas, alone, they pollute just as much, per-capita, as the US.)

China is no longer a developing country. It's a 350-million person developed country, with all the same carbon footprint as any western economy, sitting on top of a 1-billion person developing country.

> India and China are doing good already as they are increasing more green cover

Increasing green cover isn't anywhere close to enough. If we tore down every city, uprooted every field, and covered the entire planet with trees, we'd offset only a few years of global emissions.
>Do you never see code that has global side effects?

The answer for modern languages and frameworks is "write pure functions."

>Or that is written a particular way to take advantage of the hardware that it is running on?

Move to service/helper/utility class for that particular hardware or with a name that clarifies it's for that particular hardware.

I find comments to be necessary very rarely. Atm looking at a codebase where they are made to cover up for a lack of desire to think.
What about an oxygen consumption fee?
With regards to "state of mind" evidence, the general distinction that has been applied to other things, and one which I think makes total sense, is that state of mind evidence is protected when the existence of the knowledge itself is incriminating. If someone left a phone at a murder scene, the fact that you know the password to the phone is itself incriminating. On the other hand, if it's undisputedly your phone, and police are just looking for what's inside, then ordering you to provide the password is no different than ordering you to provide the key to your desk drawer.
and how would you program that?
I visited that page. I didn't check but I don't think any of my satoshis were stolen. Don't see what's dangerous there.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but what does

> with television broadcast critical timing/latency on stream switching.

mean? Is this minimising the time it takes for the channel to change once the person sitting at home has clicked the remote? Or is this for live broadcasters trying to mux multiple raw video streams into a single watchable stream? Or something else?

If the former, what's special about that case over some normal network box?
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This doesn’t seem to use device native cloud storage (ie iCloud on macOS/iOS).

Why?

This is more of a general thing, but you’re doing it too - why do app developers feel this need to store data in their own secret squirrel cloud system that the user has zero reason to trust.
What's the argument against Alibaba?
It's always extra for wifi
This is both vague and slightly unsettling:

Microsoft told the FT the database was no longer available, because the person who curated it had now left the company.