skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A company is an organization of people

Blaming a specific team can get too personal. Blaming an entire company is more about the decision-making structure, and is close to as impersonal as you can get. It's really not the same as blaming a person.

> This is clearly not the opinion of those at Cloudflare that are loudly kicking their feet and whining that Verizon didn't devote enough resources to actively cooperate with Cloudflare's troubleshooting today.

They didn't notice, acknowledge, or fix the problem. That's different from a lack of resources devoted to active cooperation. Heck, two messages of "on it" and "it's fixed" would be a pleasant level of "active cooperation", and that takes only a minute or two.
Having millions of people lend you billions of pounds you can invest/trade short term is the sort of loss I want to get into!
Thanks Robert Virding

http://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of-...
And then someone runs over the cone and 100 following cars crash into construciton workers at full speed. The core issue of automated driving isn't solving any of the 1000 simple driving tasks. It's creating an entire distributed system that is inherently robust against errors, failures or manipulation.
The link is 7 months old. I am geniunely curious how this is relevant to the discussion. Can you clarify please?
SGX is "broken" in that it allows exfiltrating data via side channels; AFAICT no one has broken the attestation process by which the CPU effectively signs a statement of its internal state (including SMT) with a key fused into the CPU by Intel at manufacturing time, and which is used as a building block for remote attestation.
Hi, author of the piece here! You're right that WordPress wouldn't have given you a popup before you could read, for free, the article I spent a couple of months working on. It also wouldn't have provided me with any income to support creating the article in the first place.

Medium, on the other hand, does. I mean, it's not much - I get a slice of the revenue from paying subscribers', based on how much they 'applaud' my piece - but it's higher than zero. Despite this, Medium also makes it available to read free of charge for non-members - up to, I believe, a somewhat miserly three articles a month, though you can bypass this if you really must by using a private browsing window to get another three, and another three, and another three, and another three...

I've got kids to feed and bills to pay. If you really don't want to click an X on the login prompt and read it all for free, I can give you my payment details and sell you a PDF copy...
Maybe that's exactly the point she was trying to make :-)
Overdrafts, interchange, reasonable fees (Monzo Plus, business accounts), commission (marketplace: savings accounts, insurance etc).
I thought the open banking and connectivity drive came from Europe's Payment Services Directives, and was EU wide.
Only USA and Eritrea to be specific.
Yes, basically it does not. It is up to the NIF packager to package a working way to handle that.
He told it: random ones.
They're a bank. Banks have been profitable for hundreds of years. It's not the business model that's being innovated here, it's the execution.
I am using it that way an app I wrote for our company. I do have a custom bundler that will make a minified file for production environment but it just runs the source files through “terser”.
You're so dumb here is a multitude of technologies that will work in concert that'll solve all those problems: lithium batteries, polymer and vanadium based flow batteries, thermal storage, compressed air storage (both offshore and onshore), power2gas(hydrogen and methane), not burning natural natural gas until needed(oh a classic!), hydro dams, conventional pumped hydro and hydraulic hydro, gravity battery cranes.

You're clearly not as smart as me.
> Blaming a specific team can get too personal.

And yet blaming a specific team is exactly what they did.

>They didn't notice, acknowledge, or fix the problem. That's different from a lack of resources devoted to active cooperation. Heck, two messages of "on it" and "it's fixed" would be a pleasant level of "active cooperation", and that takes only a minute or two.

Sure, I'm not defending Verizon's inaction. My point is that regardless of the level of the cooperation, some cooperation is clearly still required. And now because of Cloudflare's hostility towards Verizon after this incident, I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is much less inclined to participate in any cooperation. That not only seems counterproductive to Cloudflare's goal, it's also bad for all of us that use the internet.
The UK bank space could do with some fresh players. Currently I'm looking for a new bank for my business, because:

1) I need to have foreign currency accounts. My bank has them, but I'm unable to see the accounts when I log in. They've known about this for 4 months now, and I keep getting sent in circles by the Indian call centre. They've sent me to branch twice, with no coordination, the people in the branch can't help me either.

2) I need to have an end-of-year statement for my taxes. It seems someone messed up the SQL or something, because I have statements for every month, except the end of the year. They haven't fixed this either.

So I've started looking around for other banks, but most of the challenger banks don't do multi currency accounts.

I'm in the market for a new personal account as well. Revolut works just fine technically, but I don't like what's being said about them and I'd rather not support them now.

It would be nice to have business and personal together, but that seems hard to find among the challenger banks, since they seem to not do FX. (I've emailed several over the past week.)

Lastly TransferWise does Borderless, which seems like exactly what I need, but it seems to not be a real bank account. Certain online businesses require withdrawals to be to someone (or a business) whose name matches what they have as their account details, and that doesn't work with their scheme.
Right, but every other bank offers overdrafts and still don't make much money from current accounts.

Additionally new regulations are coming in (in the UK) banning you from charging a daily overdraft charge [1], torpedoing it's one source of income, which doesn't jive with it's doubling in value in less than a year.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48553193
With that out of the way ... hope they can add IPv6 support next!
This is where they actually bring value right? - Delivering a good banking product outside of the UK.

Because as a UK customer I see no reason to switch after trying Monzo for a couple of months.

Positives:

- a nicer mobile banking app

Negatives:

- no credit cards and no option to top up using a credit card from another bank

- no physical branches

Everything else is comparable to most other banks in the UK. Which isn't bad, just nothing worth switching banks for.
Alongside the other posts, they also offer basic ISA's, albeit rebranded through another company. I imagine they take a small cut or affiliate fee through this, though.
8 weeks‽ This is an overnight job. 1 week at most. Especially for MVP and not production.
They have a number of money making initiatives. As the see themselves as the "hub"[1] for your finances the biggest opportunities I think are probably outside of core lending functions.

- Partnership/Affiliate revenue by way of their "marketplace" initiatives. They get a cut of recommending services for customers. Recent examples include new utility (electricity) providers. [2] Also interest/savings accounts. [3]

- Monzo Plus - "premium" banking features such as virtual cards, metal cards, access to a curated "cheaper" market place [4]

- Monzo Business - business banking, initially focused on small - medium sized business with invoicing, payment and tax management built in [5]

- core lending as other customers have pointed out

[1]: https://monzo.com/annual-report/2018/
[2]: https://monzo.com/blog/2017/09/21/testing-energy-partnership...
https://monzo.com/blog/2017/11/16/monzo-marketplace/
[3]: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/11/01/savings-pots/
https://monzo.com/blog/2019/05/02/shawbrook-savings-pots/
[4]: https://monzo.com/plus/
[5]: https://monzo.com/business/
https://monzo.com/blog/2019/06/24/business-banking-update/
Apart from lending, they are also making the business accounts available for everyone bit by bit. There will be monthly fees for the business and plus accounts.

There are tons of product they can come up with, like insurance, mortgage etc. So making money won’t be a problem with this growth rate I believe.

Monzo also have more customers than banks like Metro, which was older and more invested than Monzo at the time.
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Not that Australia had a strong software industry in the first place (we well and truly missed the boat) but how the country's leadership is treating the software industry currently is going to ensure we never catch up and miss out on trillions in value for the country.

The best and brightest have so many strong reasons to leave, and many will not come back.
WP Engine to Acquire Flywheel
This seems a little contradiction, I don't understand it:

The 4-wheel drive car is designed to go for long periods without cable charging. The battery alone has a range of 600-800 kilometers, depending on the usage. When it does need to be charged, the model’s energy efficiency makes it charge two or three times faster than any other electric car on the market. This means drivers can charge up to 400km overnight with an ordinary power socket

"without cable charging" but "can charge up to 400km with an ordinary power socket" :\
speed. A hot code upgrade can deploy a whole cluster in a few seconds. Plus it can keep states safe without rebalancing.
So true. The real danger with 'AI' at the moment is the premature deployment of half-baked parlour tricks or the over reliance on simple algorithms where there are real consequences. i.e. prison sentences and insurance eligibility and yes, autonomous vehicles.
> companies have sprung up to work as a middleman doing all the boring bits for a cut of the money

This is creating a problem just as much solving one. The billions in grants that are given away every year by the EU are basically controlled by a cabal of private consultancy firms who will cherry pick companies to write grants with; and create tailor made proposals designed to fit the call perfectly. On the one hand this is good as it creates a ‘pre-filter’ to stop you from wasting your time writing a proposal; but on the other hand it puts the EU’s R&D budget into the hands of a small group of private companies.

Either way you look at it, it means that, unless you are ‘in’ with one of these consultants, getting the funding is extremely difficult (I write from experience from both sides of the coin!)
REPL driven mobile development with Clojure(script)
hey, i work at monzo

we're currently making money from interest charged on loans that we make to our customers, from interest that the central bank pays us on our deposits, as well as from interchange that we earn when our cards are used. this is what most banks do (except they also make lots of money from fees that we don't have)

there are several other ways we'll make money and we just started experimenting with a few of them. we launched a premium account that charges a monthly fee [1], we operate a savings marketplace in which we earn a commission [2] and we help people switch their bills to a cheaper provider if they are currently overpaying [3]

we release our financial statements every year and new ones are coming out soon. feel free to have a dig then :)

[1] https://monzo.com/plus

[2] https://monzo.com/features/savings/

[3] https://monzo.com/blog/2019/05/08/switch-energy-supplier-thr...
What makes you say that? You can get one for 2-300 euros and it will outlast you since you can replace every single part. I’m pretty sure it’s the cheapest option available if you take a long term view.
Failure handling. Load profile is slower but far smoother, it degrades far more nicely.

It can handle stateful things and distributed systems far nicer, with a programming model that is really adapted to it.
Here is what I discovered in my experience if this helps someone, completely anecdotal.

Paper vs Computer

1. Paper:

- Ability to spread things out, to take stock of a big project, simultaneous refer back, draw between two pages etc.
- Faster draw diagrams etc, partially fixed, see article about thing student who used latex/inkscape to draw.
- Faster to connect up different ideas.

2. Computer:

- Search: When I need to go back to find that idea ('keyword'), when you have hundreds of sheets is super easy.
- Faster to type.
- Easier to organize, I just copy paste and create folders etc. I use Latex and org-mode.

Few Tips

1. Cornell'esque techniques definitely help when revising and organizing.

2. Taking some notes actually helps you to focus better. Reduces random day dreaming, skipping crucial info (which leads to rest of lecture/meeting being harder to understand) etc.

3. Take condensed notes gives me time to listen and makes short notes.

4. But especially in Math related areas, there is no way to assimilate information in one sitting. I often used to hear a random English sentence, only to later realize that some word there had a specific mathematical meaning and it had much deeper meaning than I initially understood. Over-simplified example, xyz is a group. Group here being group theoretic group.

5. Video Recordings of classes and reviewing them and then scribing watching the videos helps a lot, esp for the likes of Advanced CS/EE courses.

6. Writing is learning, verification and long term information storage at the same time. One of my advisors once told me, when I asked him how do you store so much information about various papers etc, "Thats why I wrote that book".
I'm honestly surprised Tesla etc aren't already doing this. I also feel that what we've seen with Tesla's struggles to bring cars to market, Lightyear would be better off partnering with an existing company rather than trying to launch their own vehicle.
Exactly, we are in a very early phase. However, the hype wave is driving a dangerous level of premature deployment of half-baked parlour tricks or the over reliance on simple algorithms where there are real consequences. i.e. prison sentences and insurance eligibility and yes, autonomous vehicles.
Things I use Raspberry Pis for:

* Pi-hole

* Home Assistant

* Processing assistance and PPP/Serial and tcpser connection for an Amiga 4000

* MyCroft personal assistant

* Octoprint for 3D Printing

* MotionEye camera management (Moving across to a NUC)

* A 4 node pi-zero cluster using a ClusterHat for distributed Pi approximation optimization I normally run once a year on Pi day.

Much of this is due to the segregated way my network is set up, and the Pis have largely replaced previous OpenWRT devices, although some of these Pis have now or are in the process of moving to other more reliable systems.
Persistent foam (crema) forms due to the presence of trapped CO2 in the grind, rather than just the high pressure.

Espresso grind is special. It's not just fairly fine grind, it's a mix of fine, moderate and coarse grinds that are packed together. If you are to try and use just an uniformly fine grind for espresso, the machine will have very hard time extracting from it - literally a drop a second instead of a flow.
But don't TSMC use UV right now for their process? If so, UV vs EUV can't be the only reason for the mess they've gotten themselves in.
I just found out about Monzo yesterday when I read an article regarding poor quality of Revolut customer service [1]. This banking app looks very promising, I would really like to try it but I'm in Dublin Ireland and here Revolut is basically the de facto of banking apps. How will they deal with this sort of competition?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20261823
You'll definitely want to check out ATS[0].

It's a functional, dependently-typed language with performance on par with C(its compilation target), and has a type system and theorem prover that guarantees memory-safe code.

[0] http://www.ats-lang.org
General intelligence? Does it even exist? I find the evidence that humans have it unconvincing, and I've seen nothing that makes me think we're "one invention" away. The direction of machine learning seems to be specialised tasks on specialised data sets; surely the very opposite of any kind of general intelligence.
That sounds more like a Communist dream. Capitalism doesn’t reward really efficient slaves.
Thank you! CloudFlare's response is appropriate.

The incident itself and lack of response (for HOURS) from Verizon's side is absolutely unacceptable. It's 2019, filtering ALL of your customer's routes according to - at least - the IRR (including the legacy ones connected to the old router in the closet) and having a responsive 24/7 NOC contact in PeeringDB are a matter of course.

Proper carriers like NTT go above and beyond simple IRR filtering nowadays with things like peerlock (http://instituut.net/~job/peerlock_manual.pdf).

AT&T uses RPKI and was completely unaffected: https://twitter.com/Jerome_UZ/status/1143276134907305984
Big congrats to Monzo, and I can't wait to see what their marketplace looks like when it's finally fleshed out.

What's the state of account switching in the US? I'd have thought a big part of Monzo's strength in the UK is the mandated account switching service:

https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/

Is there an equivalent system in the US to reduce the friction of switching banks?
Maybe you could create multiple wifi networks, one that uses pi-hole and one that doesn't.
> the express intent of the developers to get rid of garbage collection in favour of some convoluted, needlessly complex borrow checking

This is incorrect. Nobody wants to get rid of the GC [1], but to offer the possibility of writing GC-free code or just work around the GC and prevent it from allocating if one wishes to do so. There is a full section on the D website about the GC and how to optimize its behaviour or work around it [2].

1. https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.2288.1523320489.3374.di...

2. https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html
The annoying thing about this is if the voice was default male, people would scream "PATRIARCHY", whereas if the voice was default female people would scream "STEREOTYPE" (or similar). Can't win.
As a braille user, I was always fond of "laptops" without a built-in display, simply to save ssace, weight and power.

I found a braille display which features a small compartment with micro-USB inside. Used a Pi Zero (these days 0w) to transform that braille display into a full-features Linux laptop. I documented the first version here: https://blind.guru/brlpi.html
I wouldn't undervalue the effect of getting a notification every time your account gets used with additional details and the trivial ability to look back over past transactions whenever you want.

I'm constantly surprised by how useful the app is.
> high verbatim note content was associated with lower retention of the lecture material.
I think this a key finding/point. And other connotation to this idea would be that, whatever you learn, write them down in your words.
In the world of investments, that would be called buzzwordily as “back testing”.

But is it sufficient to answer _why_ the machine chose to act a certain way given a certain set of instantaneous input criteria?
Haha, that's ridiculous, I know for a fact they have had face to face meetings with RBS for example. I doubt they will sell while they are still growing, but they will sell.
How would git perform as source control for large binary files like the ones Pixar are working with?
I don't know if you live in such a city, but I can tell you that in mine the rare days it snows circulation is extremely chaotic, with people having slow paced crashes all over the place, and I'd wager AI is good enough to do that as well.
Awesome. Thanks for this timeline and for the team being absolutely amazing.

I love the shaming of Verizon without the sugar coat. Divisive for sure, but a welcomed one.
I wish Monzo was available in continental Europe as an alternative to Revolut before expanding to the US.

As a product, I find Revolut to be much better thought-out offering for both, private customers[1] and businesses[2], but as a company I trust Monzo a way more.

[1] https://www.revolut.com/our-pricing-plans

[2] https://www.revolut.com/business-accounts-made-easy
Does "expansion of peace" include peace in Kosovo, Lybia, Syria, Iraq and other countries? The list of military operations by US [1] is nowhere near empty. That "authoritarian nation" didn't do anything close to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...
Can someone explain why the supply voltage for traditional finFETs can't be taken below 0.75V as is quoted in the article? Are they just talking from a mass production yield perspective?
A device that waits for the SSID of my Olympus WiFi-enabled camera to show up and then sync all new photos:

https://github.com/gvalkov/olympus-photosync-server
https://github.com/gvalkov/olympus-photosync
Curiosity's Mars Methane Mystery Continues
I had an almost unused 2012 model still lying around and had it tested by a local government lab. I took the water sample myself (so it does not officially count because it's not "certified") but after speaking with the head of the lab about the procedure.

Result: Waaaayyyy over the (German) limits for lead in drinking water.

I wanted to sell it but added to the post that I wanted to wait for the results, and that I would scrap it and not sell it if there was lead. There were several people who still wanted to buy it. As someone who has had to have treatment with chelators, albeit against mercury, I have seen what those academic and abstract warnings "there is no amount of lead (or mercury) that does not do damage" mean in practice: With my (university clinic researcher) doctor's consent I continued chelation far beyond any of the "limits" (i.e. when tested levels had fallen below any official limits in urine or blood I still continued, for years). It STILL had an effect, and it was recognizable in objective symptoms, not just subjective ones.

For almost 100% of people the dangers of lead (or heavy metals or environmental poisons in general) are way too abstract to be taken seriously. I've given up - actually I never really seriously tried, and if so only by short comments such as these and never to anyone in person in order to not ruin relationships - to convince anyone. Those poisons don't make you sick in small quantities, they just, very, very gradually, make you function worse. Since this is 100% correlated with aging, since it takes a long time, all those effects will a) be part of your life, you got used to it gradually, b) attributed to age. Only if you do were to do something really extreme such as what I did (had to, was forced to by circumstances) would you be able to see a difference. For what it's worth, my doctor too thinks this is vastly under-recognized and a much bigger problem than even the vast majority of doctors think. The only reason I now it was not "stress" or "age" is because a long list of quite common ailments is completely gone now, from occasional small localized short cramps to psoriasis to warts to only mention three common ones.

I would not buy that machine. There are lead-free alternatives. I have a Vibiemme Domobar (with PID). This particular machine uses copper everywhere, even all the small parts of the E61 brewing group, which I've only ever seen with brass parts everywhere else. I had its water tested too, no lead whatsoever, but elevated copper - which is a non-issue (the body has far better mechanisms to handle copper, since it's an essential metal, reflected in the official limits in drinking water, which are several orders of magnitude higher for copper).