skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that has little bearing on either what’s possible in the future,

There is certainly a chance that 10-100x more flops will appear on the fah network, but as I said I just don't believe it will happen.

> nor why they aren’t scheduling compute time on Summit, right?

They are. The researchers who get to use the FAH network certainly do have access to traditional supercomputing resources too. Some types of problems require strong scaling (and reliable resources) which requires HPC iron.

> > Also AFAIK garbage flops also count.

> That’s always true in these peak performance measurements, both for distributed projects and for supercomputers too. Also true for CPU & GPU peak flops specs.

I think you're misunderstanding me: I literally meant that the data files returned by the FAH contributors may often be garbage due to data corruption (OC'd cards, no ECC, overheating hardware, poor storage etc.). Not sure to what extent is this still the case today.

> I just don’t see any reason why Folding@Home would or should refrain from distributed crowd computing just because supercomputers exist. They can both happen. We don’t need to try to come up with efficiency numbers or compare utility/flop in order to see that Folding@Home is producing some useful research results, right?

In principle you're right. There are some questions around it, though. Briefly: access is a privilege of few; oversight?; inefficient use of hardware (low Flops/W), just to name a few.

> Maybe it’s worth pointing out that compute time on TOP500 supercomputers is not free,

No, it is not, but access is granted by grant agencies with at least some transparency and oversight as well as scientific review; also, those machine are far more efficient (flops/w).

> and Folding@Home is not a job you can run for 1 day or 1 week and be done.

No, Folding@Home is not the "job"; a "job" at least in HPC sense is a molecular dynamics simulation (or many); a set of such jobs is what is typically required for a project to be completed result of which would end up in a publication. The computational work corresponding to such a project/paper, depending on the size of the machine, can in fact be run in 1 week, and on a large machine even in 1 day.
not sure gov't can do that without legislation - which would need support of voters
Thank you for making this argument more rationally than I am apparently capable of making it.
Yes, sorry about the edits - I was adding examples.

It's a private company, so revenue has to be guessed.

Puppet (Hashicorp competitor, and I think most would agree smaller competitor) announced "approaching" $100M revenue in early 2017[1].

Given Hashicorp's tempo in raising money it looks like they are hitting goals, so their growth rate must be ok.

Based on that it's not difficult to imagine Hashicorp is at $300M+ now?

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2017/04/puppets_ce...
Ask HN: Is this the first time world is experiencing something together?
Watching the Coronavirus news, makes me wonder if this is the first time or after a very long time that the entire world is experiencing the same event together.
My company has pretty much split 50/50 among those that can work remotely in a rotation. I'm in the office this week, will be out next. 1 week in the office, 1 week from home, repeat for as long as necessary. They've also closed the cafeteria. They're still serving food, but you have to take it back to your desk and eat alone. Also no "shared use" utensils. So, the soup and salad bars are still open, but instead of serving yourself, you have to indicate to the kitchen staff what you'd like on your salad. Annoying, but I get it. trying to minimize possible exposure. This is in Illinois. We've also closed restaurants for dine-in and bars are heavily restricted as well.

Today, during my commute on the tollways, the signs indicated do not stop at the toll plazas. All of the manned stations are closed. They indicated to either use your I-Pass or pay your missed toll online. I don't think they even want people using the unmanned cash/self-served stations.
Half of China's provinces no longer have any known Covid infections
For most users the problem is someone intercepting their text messages and then using that access to rob them. Port-outs are one way to accomplish this, but certainly not the only way.

Can you defend against sim swap attacks if your MNO is compromised, how?

Where can I read more about your insurance policy? I can’t find any specific details on your website.
It's a shame you are being downvoted.

These liberal shits have created this nightmare.

Hackers use to be as libertarian/anarcho as they come - now we have an entire generation of nanny state socialistic kids.

It's so bad we have to create pseudo-anonymous accounts just to post our opinions because it doesn't agree with their pseudo-scientific moralistic bullshits.

Breed et. al should be removed from office - raging asholes.
World War 2, Soccer World Cup, Olympics?
Mnuchin Appoints Coinbase Chief Legal Officer to Oversee Banking System
I know somebody at Charter. This is absolutely how they work. No WFH. No exceptions. None.
This is exactly the opposite of speculation causing the crisis. If everyone stops working things stop getting produced and thus companies don't have any value to own. Problem is, people and companies still need necessities like food, water, power, rent, or loans. Some things may be able to be delayed but necessities can't. Now this causes a recession because even if the government printed money people still don't want to spend it on most ofthe companies that make up the stock market. If the stock market was made up of all farmers and hand sanitizer companies then the stock market would go up but it isn't.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know how you could configure user groups with Wireguard? So a common set of ACLs, permissions etc. It seems more geared towards a single user.
Without recourse? I am ready to be surprised. Could you give me more information with sources?
> Where is the core team of 12 people plus 108 collaborators that should have been assembled a month and a half ago

You don’t understand where things were at a month ago. I had a fight with my wife at Costco because she thought I was wasting money and overreacting when I purchased the 50 lb bag of rice (among other items).

She understands now. We all do. But a month ago people were in absolute denial about the inevitable and it was impossible then to convince them otherwise.
Those are all very different...no?
Only half of the US deposits are FDIC insured AFAIK
FUCK SFBAY SOCIALISM
The author seems to have enough experience with IPSec that people would dismiss his first-hand experience or benchmarks as biased anyway.
1) Stop panic buying and price gouging.

2) Read the story of South Korea's Patient 31.

https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...

3) It's not the flu. It's more contagious and if you get pneumonia you will have permanent lung damage. It can also invade your nervous system.

4) Pneumonia will not kill you, but it requires hospitalization. The US has less than 3 hospital beds per every 1,000 people.

5) Reported cases are a small subset of the actual number of cases. There are not enough test kits.
Should I Quarantine?
okay, you're right, i wasn't paying attention. shame on me. Still, I think it is a stretch to point to the use of this passive participle as the reason why this sentence works or doesn't work.
I wonder what two-factor would even look like for WireGuard. It’s a stateless protocol, so how often would you need to enter a second factor? How would you be prompted?

Maybe that is working at the wrong level? Maybe it’s possible to build that feature atop WireGuard, without failing open (potentially catastrophic if you are using it as a VPN).
> Friendly reminder that, while I don't see any malicious intent in the current actions, these directives specifically sound disturbingly close to those issued by many an authoritarian government.

And yet, China's number of active cases went from 81K to 9K in a few weeks.
Good luck getting a court of law to rule against this order.
Abstraction to me, just makes it easy to delay implementation. There are sometimes when I need to use an interface now but it won't actually be implemented until next week, when the client gets us our API key, or someone else finds time to do it. Using an abstraction means that I don't have to change any of the code that uses the interface, I just have to change the interface. This is also a good way to make a prototype that is easy to optimize, for example by abstracting a very costly computation, you can just focus on making that computation run faster without having to refactor every line of code where that computation is used.
I'm guessing he's talking about SS7 attacks. Sure, you do everything on your side to prevent sim swaps or the numbers from being ported out, but all of those measures are moot if they're bypassed at the carrier level.
I have been a victim 4 times which is the reason I built Efani.com
national guard is already being called up in maryland - "oh they won't shoot you"

oh really? ken state up in this bitch
What Lessons Do I Keep on Re-Learning?
Well, it has to do with running on an agenda of small government then making it bigger and less functional.
Yes.

It's explicitly dangerous to everyone for anyone non-essential to congregate. This virus is no joke. Look at Italy, where people did things like you suggest, and now doctors are literally having to decide who lives and who dies.

Stop your showboating in the name of "liberty" and do whatever it takes to mitigate this threat.
Misdemeanors still involve getting arrested. If you resist arrest because, for example, the law you're being arrested for violating is ridiculous and/or unconstitutional, there's a pretty decent chance you're gonna get shot.
Windows hits 1B Monthly Active Devices
It's worth noting for context that the NBN was meant to be FTTP across the entire country, until the most recent conservative government came in and promptly cancelled all that.
Healthcare gets much more money than Defense, even if you only look at the federal budget.

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
It would really suck to load up the truck and get partway to the new place, only to find out that the cops do give people a hard time about this.
>Happy to give you a bounty if you're able to break into the system.

Yeah, the problem here is that since you’re a MVNO the easiest angle of attack would might just be to go for the big MNOs that you resell (Verizon, ATT, Sprint,Tmo). You can’t really offer bounties for such attacks, and I can’t see how you could defend against them either.
Planned obsolescence - just tell the hospitals that the cheap $5K ventilator is less durable than the $40K model, and won't be supported after the outbreak. And get the FDA (or whoever certifies medical devices) to do the same - give the cheap units an accelerated approval with a short expiration date.
Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer Resigns to Oversee US National Banking System
They’re likely not supposed to be commenting on things like this as an active employee of the company in question.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boom-and-bust-cycle.asp

All you have to do is have an unlikely intersection of events (one being a bust) and you have a crash.
Okay sure, but to sit here and definitively say that a minority of US voters prefer limited government is patently untrue.
When the first line of the repo you yourself linked says ‘It’s not a fork’, I believe we will take it instead of your semantics about it.
If CDC changes guidelines, how long does it take you to update your website?
I think there is a fundamental missing piece of what people consider leadership that is being stressed now.

People are used to thinking of their job in a stressful situation as comforting people and part of that is giving them choices. Or commanding people to do what they don't want to do, or a combination.

When there is a situation that affects people differently and collectively, the important thing IMO is to release them from the conflict of individual vs group decisions by giving direction that is fair and aimed toward the collective interest.

It's hard to change gears and do the opposite of what normally seems right.

I got frustrated because it seemed like leadership didn't understand that they don't have to force us to do anything, but they can't just let us all decide for ourselves - the task that is necessary is to tell us to do what we generally know needs to be done. It seems redundant, but it's vital, it's not magical, it just has to be done. Kind of like pulling the rip cord on a parachute - it's not rocket science but you have to do it and do it now.
> Explicitly dangerous behavior? Going out to a burger joint or a bookstore or anywhere a free person wants to go and was able to go to yesterday is suddenly explicitly dangerous behavior?

Reminds me of what people in Italy said.

> Governments using times of crisis to stifle civil rights is far more dangerous in my opinion. Let's wait and see how many permanent new laws and regulations get created because of all this.

Like 9/11? Don't see many Republicans clamoring to revoke the powers granted as a result of 9/11.
For the downvoters, I'm just pointing out that removing all caps and limits doesn't automatically create abundance.

As far as establishing effective policy: ISPs have a lot of practice rationing bandwidth, I'm sure there's a way that's fair enough. Putting a price on it is a good start.
Alameda County joined Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties with the City of Berkeley on a legal order directing their respective residents to shelter at home for three weeks beginning March 17.

http://www.acphd.org/2019-ncov
This could easily fail if they do not ask the reason for your extension.
> if they're going to be restructured - if they're solid enough for that to be possible - would the bank fail?

That depends on the bank's cash flow position and their reserve assets. It's quite possible that the bank might not be able to sustain, say, a couple of months of loans not being repaid even if the loans are ultimately going to be restructured.

Of course, one obvious way to forestall this would be to extend short-term credit to the bank itself. IIRC this was done during the 2008 crisis. I have not seen talk yet of that being done now, but I would not be surprised if it were.
during SS7 attack your phone is pushed to deprioritize to a lower network. We've programmed our SIMs against that so if SNR goes high, we don't abide to default settings. This does take out 99% of the attacks . Looking into a setting to inform customers the moment we believe there is any such attempt
A bunch of my friend group (average 5 years of experience each) just went through job searches, and all of us applied to hashicorp. Among us, we had big data experience, distributed systems experience, frontend, backend, etc. Very wide gamut.

None of us even received a reply, and from what I've heard this isn't unusual. I'm always a bit flummoxed as to what companies like this want when they somehow even develop a reputation for ghosting.

Vault is cool though I guess. Maybe they just get that many applicants.
Don't know about the Bay Area but where I live they've declared a judicial emergency and shut down most of the courts. It might violate the right to assembly but you're unlikely to get a judge to hear your argument until after the order has been lifted.
Not really SS7 attacks, it seems that this service is just built on top of regular MVNO/reseller APIs offered by the big carriers that we already know to have serious trouble with not getting hacked.

They might be able to protect you against regular port-outs, but not SIM swap attacks performed by people who’ve compromised carrier infrastructure.
My anecdote: our Eufy has been working great for just under a year, now. We have a lab that sheds bucket-loads off hair, and it is generally able to keep things clean. The only real problem is that I was a bit over aggressive cleaning the roller brush, and removed some padding, and now I need to get a new one.
Well I was referring to people over 70 as a cohort, we are saying the same thing essentially.

On an individual level however, adding an illness with 15% mortality on top of all the other things over 80s can get is a big deal.

80+ year olds are a varied cohort, and some are reasonably healthy, with multiple years left to live. The hip fracture data is biased because frail people with other problems are more likely to fall.
Do you feel like this same attitude applies to something like Ebola? If someone were to walk around with Ebola, sneezing and coughing on everything, would you still be of the opinion that they should have the right to do so?

Does this stance change depending on whether or not you are immune to the disease or its more deadly effects?
WWII also gave us precedent for imprisoning citizens based solely on their race.

Precedent does not turn a civil-rights-destroying idea into a legitimate one.
Does On-Policy Data Collection Fix Errors in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning?
people like you are going to get our children and grandchildren enslaved.

We should be smart about quarantining but we should always maintain a sense of skepticism and rebelliousness toward government.

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
maybe you're thinking of unrecognized escape sequences?

E.g., printf("Hello \m") is undefined.
Curated markets (QE) do. Sometimes it's called a "correction", which makes sense, but does not change the inevitability.
> America is not spending trillions on their military

Over many years they certainly are.

> and even then it's still barely affordable

By definition everything is barely affordable, because the government will always spend everything they get. Obviously if they wanted to - for example - spend $500 billion welcoming the little green men from mars they would have to cut back something else. That's not to say it's not worthwhile, but it would be, by definition "barely affordable".

> To give every American 12k per year would cost about 10 times the military budget (7 trillion versus 780 billion). And that's before we even discuss shenanigans like debt jubilees and free healthcare

It fascinates me that so many countries on the planet do things like liberal welfare and 'free' healthcare, yet the richest country in the world by a very wide margin calls it shenanigans.

It feels like you don't want to believe in reality.
Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour
It’s relatively easy to develop a detection method, however the most important thing for any detection is the false negative rate, considering current situation. If the false negative rate is high, such a test might encourage spread of the virus. Some Chinese company already developed antibody-based detection method a while ago, But never saw they change the detection method in clinic. Elisa use the same basic principle as an antibody based test.
The line I quoted is an example of such anti-social behavior. I thought that much was clear.
I’m also a tailscale founder so perhaps I’m biased :) but I think you are both kinda right. I see zero trust and microsegmentation as two different axes. Zero trust proxies are a way to establish and authenticate an encrypted stream; microsegmentation stops streams from being established except through explicitly permitted (and presumably supposed to be secure) pathways. One enables good things, the other prevents bad things.

A good security and connectivity system provides both.
We can because due to our relationship, we control the # and they don't. We've a slightly different arrangement. Think of that you've ATT and you're roaming in Canada on Rogers network. Rogers employee can't port you out or do funny things to your account. Similarly, we're using their network but they can't access your account
It absolutely is, but this is an emergency and there is a direct causal link.
> The case could be made that you should go out because you don't believe the disease is as bad as stated, or that you should stay home because it is.

While I agree with your last sentiment, the scientific facts don't care about what one believes. Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous.
Oh heck. You are right.
1. Most of those problems are being tackled: localities, states, and the fed have interest free loans and many have frozen rent and evictions (for both residential and commercial real estate). As far as that goes, 1-3 months with the above addendums makes me skeptical about mass bankruptcies.
2. This is such a silly point I keep hearing: "Everyone is a socialist in a crisis", "Oh suddenly people realize UBI and universal healthcare are good!" - DUH! Collective problems require collective solutions. Everyone agrees that the tax-payer foots the bill for the healthcare of veterans in WW2, everyone agrees with price-controls when fighting Nazi Germany. Everyone agrees with collective action to fight collective threats because it's necessary.

If you contract a pandemic disease, collective action must be taken for the good of everyone else. If you break your leg falling of your roof on a bender, you and only you should foot the bill. This isn't hard: supporting collective action against Coronavirus doesn't mean M4A is a good idea for more normal situations.
Are you just looking to set it up with iOS and Windows clients? If the Wireguard server is running Linux, an easy way to copy the config over to an iOS or Android device is to use qrencode. For example, `qrencode -t ansiutf8 < $config_file` will output a QR code that can be scanned from the Wireguard app to automatically import as a new tunnel.

I used StavrosK's guide (thank you!) to put together two scripts a while back, one for generating a new server config file, and one to generate a new client config, outputting the config to a file as well as to a QR code on stdout. You can copy the client.conf file over to the Windows machine and import the configuration via the "Import tunnel(s) from file..." option in the Wireguard client, or scan the QR code output from the mobile device clients via "Create from QR code".

Here's my script for generating a client cert: https://cdn.seedno.de/txt/wireguard-certgen. It assumes Wireguard is already configured on the server on interface wg0, and is using the default port of 51820/UDP, though both are configurable via variables. For reference, the accompanying setup script is https://cdn.seedno.de/txt/wireguard-setup. Both scripts require a bit of customization to match your environment (you may want to be particularly careful with the iptables firewall PostUp/PostDown commands), but hopefully they can serve as a starting point to figure out any issues you encountered last time you tried.
> If it misses a spot today, it will get it tomorrow.

One of the complaints about the smarter robot vacuums (like ones that map the house) is that they consistently miss the same spots every time. I think the dumb "bounce off the walls randomly" algorithm is actually the best one for this kind of product.
Wireguard is early, agreed, but I totally disagree with this attitude that “real world IPSec works fine”. When I have to set up an IPSec tunnel where at least one side is a vendor I haven’t already suffered through, I always allocate at least a full day to getting it to work. Perhaps it’s because I’ve chosen obscure fly-by-night vendors like Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft, and Google. Or...maybe IPSec, in theory and practice, is a nightmare of unnecessary complexity that should be killed with fire.
Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Furthermore, how does being backed by Valve actually be of any significant value? I've heard of this argument for a couple of years now and I'm still not convinced (not that I follow Wine development that closely).