skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly the premise that it operates on a thermal principle has been pretty much debunked - it operates instead on electromagnetism, due to the induced EMF when the ball bearing rotates through a magnetic field caused by the current through it. Here’s a paper describing the effect (which has been experimentally verified)... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415755

I built one of these at university as a research project and it works well (albeit drawing a huge amount of current!). Interestingly enough it works just as well in either direction, depending which way you give it an initial push - the polarity of the DC terminals doesn’t matter at all!
The other issue is that increasing the number of branches also decreases the number of hands that go into each bucket, to the point where it might not be effective any more without being able to randomize the branch choice for specific threshold hands. Most pros I know just have a hard cutoff for each branch and don't worry too much if they're slightly out of balance, but smaller bucket sizes could magnify errors. If you have 31 combos for one action when you're supposed to have 30.5, then whatever, but if you have 6 when it should be 5.5, that could become a problem faster.
Thanks! That solved it for me.
Send a field engineer around. These machines cost a lot of money, surely the cost of having someone come and perform updates wouldn't be crazy
Does anyone know if there’s a way to prevent your SMS from being rerouted, or get a special protected number?

The ability to do this would not mitigate Microsoft’s responsibilities here, but at least it would allow some people to help themselves.
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I don't have the exact percentages but I think it's less than 10%. It's not really possible to measure the bot's performance just in specific situations, but my feeling is the bot performs relatively well in these situations. Multi-way flops were basically impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time for past AI's. Our new search techniques make these situations feasible to figure out in seconds.
Right, so the way to look at it is that humanity has always suffered from an epidemic of mismanagement and ineptitude, with no vaccine in sight (though democracy and education certainly help!). Now on top of that epidemic, we are faced with an additional disaster and we'll have to somehow survive both at the same time.
And if it is incorrectly regulated?
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They are easy to locate. The sound can't pass through your hand and doesn't diffract much, so move your hand around at arms length till you can't hear it anymore in one ear, and that's the direction it's in.

Normally they're metal boxes with a grille on the front mounted above head height (because otherwise some teen would put gum in the grille to stop the sound getting out)
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You shouldn't need to actually view the data. Just check the payload size. Compare the traffic at idle to the traffic that's sent when you speak to it. If it's comparable, now it's time to be suspicious. If there is a noticeable spike after saying the wake word, then you can be fairly certain it's actually waiting for the wake word.
With constant traffic cold starts should not be happening. Also lambdas will stick around for 45-60 minutes before going cold.
I believe India has had a better track record than China as far as IP is concerned. The only concern I would have is India's patent laws are different from the US. Evergreening of drugs has been repeatedly rejected.
We would have better success of giving them a choice instead of picking just one.

People work better when they're passionate about what they're working on.

The best way to control your flock is to let them roam free.
Thanks for pointing this out. From direct text from our FAQ:

"Why were Stacks Tokens valued/sold at $0.00012 prior to the 2017 accredited sale at $0.12?
Founders and early employees of Blockstack PBC received tokens at $0.00012 per token in October 2017 based on an independent valuation from Foresight Valuation Group, LLC when the Stacks Token was still in its earliest stage of development and before the publication of the token white paper at the end of that month. This grant was subject to a three-year time lock commencing upon the introduction of the genesis block to the Blockstack network in November 2018, and the nominal price reflected the early, high-risk support of founders and early employees.

Holders of Blockstack's Series A convertible preferred stock who had invested a total of $5.1 million as of late 2016 and funded Blockstack's early growth and development before the decision to create a token, or the drafting or publication of any white papers—were also provided an opportunity to purchase tokens at the $0.00012 per token price. This opportunity to participate at a nominal price was given in return for their early support and in proportion to their equity ownership, and it was based on their reasonable expectation as early investors that they would receive tokens if Blockstack ever decided to create a digital token. These tokens are subject to a three-year time lock, commencing upon the introduction of the genesis block to the Blockstack network in November 2018."

Now more context here:

I purchased my shares in Blockstack PBC in 2013 for $42, as does any other startup founder. Will I get a 23809x return if I sell my shares for 1,000,000? No, I'm earning these by the 5+ years of work and no reasonable person would assume that it's a 23809x return. The grant is "free" or at "$0" and the $42 number (standard practice in startups) is there for a tax cost basis.

Exact same logic applies to founder/employee token grants, as we structured our token grants after equity grants.

We did not sell "discounted tokens" at $0.12. That was the price the market was able to bear in Fall 2017. If you consider that a "Series A" price. A 2.5x multiple for a "Series B" is, again, totally standard and rather at the low end for traditional startups. Same thing applies here.

Finally, we are disclosing all this information so investors can make informed decisions. Not the standard practice in other token offerings. I believe disclosures and transparency is a good thing and that's why we took this approach and worked with regulators.

My one request would be to view this from a "what would it look like in a traditional startup?" angle vs. a "how is this project trying to scam me with a pyramid scheme?" angle. Thank you!
Your link goes to a specific company's post:

https://noageismintech.com/blend

rather than the front page:

https://noageismintech.com/
I believe it was a side effect of the alarm’s circuitry. No one ever gave me a sensible explanation.
The webserver is an implementation detail. It's not uncommon for desktop application software to use native code to provide UX enhancements that are not possible within the browser alone. If the server had been designed securely it would not be an issue, it would just be left-over cruft, which is also pretty common.
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They are selling 180K tokens.

The question is, how many tokens have been pre-mined/created on a non-mined basis (if any).

Who owns these pre-mined / created tokens.

Half the time these blockchain scammers have the public only get access to 10% of the actual tokens, resulting in totally crazy valuations for the premined token's they are sitting on. Someone should be able to run the numbers.

Ie, pre-mined tokens not offered * offer valuation per token = supposed value they've created with platform.
That took place after the final version of the Science paper was submitted. It would have been nice to include but it takes a while to do those experiments and we didn't feel it was worth delaying the publication process for it.
If by this you mean tokens that were locked for 1 year under Reg D and then unlock monthly since the launch of the Stacks blockchain in Nov 2018, then yes there is a subset of tokens that are unlocked following the unlocking procedures that other holders also follow.

Union Square Ventures, myself, and my co-founder are one of the largest holders of such tokens. We have restrictions from the SEC on selling these on the open market (given >5% ownership of Blockstack PBC). Restrictions which are also disclosed in the offering circular. Happens all the time with IPOs.
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Sadly the premise that it operates on a thermal principle has been pretty much debunked - it operates on electromagnetism, due to the induced EMF when the ball bearing rotates through a magnetic field caused by the current through it. Here’s a paper describing the effect (which has been experimentally verified)... http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/motor.pd...

I built one of these at university as a research project and it works well (albeit drawing a huge amount of current!). Interestingly enough it works just as well in either direction, depending which way you give it an initial push - the polarity of the DC terminals doesn’t matter at all!
> 500M is ½ a billion, home rigs can run 100B guesses a second – so that complete list just takes 5ms to try.

5ms?

It would take more than that to just read the 500M passwords into memory, no?
If I were forced to live in Plato's cave, I would rather have no knowledge of anything outside of it.

Many people are locked into an ecosystem by, for example, employment. Why make yourself less happy with the tools you need to use if doing so is for no other benefit? Ignorance can be bliss.
Which doesn't quite have the same semantics, as you can't multiplex the disk easily. Your one app totally owns the device.
These have been around for quite some time. I remember encountering them in Japan about 13 years ago. It was in a fancy store in Tokyo, next to the Palace. As soon as I entered, my 30 year old ears alerted me that they hadn’t died off at 25 as planned. The one clerk in the store couldn’t turn it off and apologized profusely. I decided to have fun, and in my broken Japanese, accused her of having a device to ward off gaijin. She denied it profusely as I walked out, laughing... on to the next store.
Yes. I don’t know how to announce an update as I already have launched the website here and if I link to the front page, there will be no new post
They still pay taxes, though, even if politicians did set a lower rate for a period of time. If they bring the money back in to pay back the loans they'll pay taxes on it.

You call this a "scam" when in reality it's the system working as designed, so I don't think you have a particularly good grasp on this subject. Again, in most countries companies don't pay taxes on foreign income at all.
It's pretty easy to value custom built components whatever you like.

They are either very cheap components, but you paid a massive r&d grant to have them designed for you, or they are very expensive components but you paid no r&d costs.

Choose whatever suits to best avoid taxes, quotas, fees, and regulations...
Cheers, thanks. One of the reasons I asked about 1H/5AI vs 5H/1AI is that historically the new bots for a given form of poker have played a bit wider than the accepted wisdom of the time, so I was curious if there were relatively more multiway pots with 5AI than with 5H.
If you have the capabilities to the whole device.
Such a backwards way of thinking. The youth want to be in plain sight so they can be watched but we push them away.

Behind closed doors is where people die from drugs and where teen pregnancy happens, it doesn’t happen hanging out on the street corner.
It all depends on how much data they're processing. It looks to be mostly a pay-per-use model.

I'd say their big cost is Kinesis and potentially API Gateway. Lambda is great for this kind of workload (mostly).
He's taking home the special expensive beer and not telling them about it because he cares about the health and well being of his team so much, and yet they wouldn't even consider him a hero for this, how ungrateful they are!
Think beyond your scope. IT is a tool.

The risks of compromise of an anesthesia machine are scary. It’s also scary that without EMR integration, a dosage might be misreported or an allergy missed.

It’s possible to securely segment a network to defend against these types of risks. The bigger problem here is that the professional practice of IT is such a garbage fire, it’s assumed that the LAN is compromised and airgapping is the responsible choice.
When it's within your power to verify but you don't take the time to do so, you lose the authority to go online and claim your conspiracy theory has any merit at all.
The only two places where the cold starts will hurt is the API key auth and the JWT auth/posting to kinesis. Plus if it's being called with any kind of decent frequency it won't matter.
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I would love to see that article. That isn't surprising in the slightest to me.

Just a quick nitpick. A bad config more often than not in my experience is opening up a code path that is riddled with bad code, whether it was not vetted with the proper testing or the wrong environment.

But to your point, I think most people would agree that configuration changes are almost never reviewed with the granularity of a code change. Yes, we may do our due diligence with an approved PR and vetting the configuration and testing the change before deploying it. But, reviewing a PR with a bad config change in json or yaml doesn't necessarily tell you about the code paths that it will open up which makes it much harder to reason about the consequences that a potential bad config push would do.

We should always be reflecting about how adding knobs (configuration) to our programs greatly increases the complexity of the service.
I wonder if you could put a current regulator on it that would provide the minimum current needed to achieve a certain RPM. Seems like the heat issue could just be that after it reaches its maximum speed, the excess current is just wastedin ohmic heating.
Which carrier sold Android phones - where most users by their phones - have user replaceable batteries?

The Moto G is usually cited as one of the best mid range phone and it doesn’t have user replaceable batteries. I don’t think most of the cheap Walmart phones have user replaceable batteries.
The web developers that think like this are bad at web development, and likely security. Why would anyone trying to brute force your authentication portal care about using your UI?
Take it easy on the insults ;)
I agree with this, but to be clear, the "summer interns hypothesis" is not "summer interns go around breaking stuff," it's "the existing population of engineers has finite resources, and when the interns and new grads show up, a lot of those resources go toward onboarding/mentoring the new people, so other stuff gets less attention."
And up to version 6, Android was not disk-encrypted. If you lose a phone, they don’t need your pw, they can just take the SD card out and read it. All your stored passwords, all your stored cookies, they can read them all...

Never again will I ever trust Android anymore if they can’t even get the basics right.
Seems like the open source-ness of Android is of little use. It helps manufacturers rather than users.
Top 3 are EC2, DynamoDB and Lambda.
Thanks for not letting this old lady have a say :) I am sure your mom is proud of you
Any redundancy on that piece of hardware?

"Two is one and one is none," as the Special Operations folks will explain.

Sure, the math is squirrely; but the sentiment is real.
£1k in prizes is not £1k cash in hand. If it is merchandise, now the winner has to do all the work involved in reselling it. If it is non-tangible earnings like travel, it cannot be resold at all.
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That's exactly right. Background location tracking leads to constant traffic. Not running into cold starts as an issue.
The commodity information you get from social media is not the same thing as investigative reporting that takes months of research, public records requests, shoe leather reporting, data analysis and interviews to uncover corruption in government, abuses of power, regulatory loopholes etc. Twitter does not fill the role of the forth estate and society would not be better off without it. It's easy to take it for granted when you get all of the benefits without bearing any of the costs.
17% sounds good to me. I did co-op at Elections Ontario and the place is just chock full of barely employable people who resist change to the status quo.
Well, neat!

I haven't used the plugin since the ST2 days, so I didn't realize it was no longer needed.
libfs is an abstraction layer around some of the VFS bits. An analogous Unix approach be would be shifting the burden of compact file descriptor allocation (where Unix open(2) must return the lowest numbered free descriptor) to the process rather than the kernel. (IIRC this is also actually done in Fuschia as part of its POSIX personality library.)

Notice in the above that it's implied that that actual filesystem server (e.g. that manages ext4 state on a block device) is in another process altogether. And so for every meaningful open, read, write, and close there's some sort of IPC involved.

A process accessing a block device directly without any IPC is something that can already be done in Unix. For example, you can open a block device in read-write mode directly and mmap it into your VM space. Also, see BSD funopen(3) and GNU fopencookie(3)[1], which is a realization of similar consumer-side state management, except for ISO C stdio FILE handles; it's simpler because ISO C doesn't provide an interface for hierarchical FS management.

There's no denying that Fuschia's approach is more flexible and the C interface architecture more easily adaptable to monolithic, single-process solutions. But it stems from it's microkernel approach which has the side effect of forcing VFS implementation code to be implemented as a reusable library. There's no reason a Unix process couldn't reuse the Linux kernel's VFS and ext4 code directly except that it was written for a monolithic code base that assumes a privileged context. Contrast NetBSD's rump kernel architecture where you can more easily repurpose kernel code for user space solutions; in terms of traditional C library composition, NetBSD's subsystem implementations have always fallen somewhere between Linux and traditional microkernels and so were naturally more adaptable to the rump kernel architecture.

[1] See also the more limited fmemopen and open_memstream interfaces adopted by POSIX.
The bot bluffs, and understands that when its opponent bets it might be a bluff. I would consider that to be strategic behavior. The fact that its strategy is determined by a mathematical process doesn't change that in my opinion.
Except you ultimately want your buffer cache, virtual memory, and vfs tightly coupled because they're three sides of the same coin.

IMO, the ideal combo looks something like this FUSE/BPF work combined with XOK's capability based buffer cache rather than trying to split everything out into user mode.
> You'd be surprised.

No, I wouldn't.
The fact that the money to pay taxes ultimately comes from customers does NOT mean that increased taxes will be levied on customers.

Here is a concrete example. According to economic theory, the competitive price of a good in a free market should be the marginal cost of the least efficient supplier in that market. If a tax increases your costs but you are (still) not the least efficient supplier, then prices should not change at all, and the taxes will entirely come out of your margins.

This tax is aimed at a handful of large internet-only businesses doing business in France. These businesses are large and profitable in part because they operate very efficiently, and are in competition with offline companies whose operating costs are much higher. It is unlikely that this tax will by itself make their margins higher than the competitors, and therefore is unlikely to make them raise their prices.

What is an interesting scenario, though, is that taxes + GDPR fines + complying with new copyright legislation + whatever else gets dreamed up becomes enough that internet companies decide that it is worthwhile to take a stand and exit various EU countries. They haven't for a variety of reasons (including that corporation vs country battles can make other countries wary of said corporation), but if France keeps picking a fight, those calculations could change.

One of the upcoming interesting battlegrounds along this line is from recent EU copyright legislation. It strongly implies that various tech giants will be required to put software chosen by various national governments on their network to proactively identify and block copyrighted content. Software out of their control that processes everything coming in and has legitimate reasons to "phone home". Maybe you trust countries like France and Germany to only require trustworthy software. But what about more corrupt countries like Romania? Do you trust their copyright filter software to not cross the line into spying and censorship?
Cleveland is largely the state of Ohio’s fault, and Phoenix is investing in light rail.
honestly it's not as bad as I was worried it would be, given the awful wasteland that is crowdfunding.

If they work, features like the entrance and the one-way access to the comb seem like they are good if you have are afraid of bees and don't care to overcome that fear.

I can't comment on the pricing vs more traditional hives. I assume it's higher, because mass production vs small run crowdfunding.

Availability of replacement parts in case of breakage? hm.

I worry a bit about the honeycomb being exposed to direct sunlight (well, behind plexiglass), hopefully their early testing reflects all the climates they will be selling to.

smh at the woo around health benefits of beehive products, like "known to be useful in treating [...] hepatitis". (note: that text is from an image, so you won't find it by ctrl-f) Without even the usual disclaimers that you find near these kinds of things that parse like health claims but which turn out not to be according to the small print :-P
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I think the thesis of this article is rather forced. The actual claim is something like:

"Passwords don't matter, as long as your password isn't in the top few dozen common ones, it's not in any credentials breach accessible to attackers, it's longer than 8 characters or so, and you don't reuse it."

That was a lot of criteria that seemed to matter, if you ask me.
Those large tech companies can make money in France because the french government provides all that is necessary for a free, fair and functioning market.

Staying out of the way? They can do that for free.
The pros described the bot's preflop strategy as very sensible, so I think it's unlikely there were more multiway pots with 5 AI's.