skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the time of the election, the polls had narrowed considerably. There were a lot of clowns with predictions of 99% chances and whatnot, but people that actually understood statistics and polls had the race a lot closer to a coin flip at the time of the election (IIRC 60-40 odds).
I can tell you generally how this works in Azure, I can't speak for AWS, but unless a customer is using BYOK for encryption of their data, I can't imagine how AWS c o u l d n ' t be capable of accessing data, and even then I wouldn't gurantee they couldn't still get your data. In Azure (as of a couple years ago), in order to access a customer's tenant it required VP approval, the support engineer was granted access for a specific amount of time, and typically only to specific services, all with the customers knowledge beforehand. It may have changed since the last time I had to go through this process and was restricted to blue badge employees. I have worked support cases since then and the support engineer would not even do a log me in/WebEx, etc session as they said they were not allowed to see the portal. But it may have been that they were not a blue badge and/or bcuz the customer was a critical infrastructure customer.

In order for AWS to comply with LEO's they must have some way of accessing data, that is NOT to say they do this for business purposes.
There’s a theorem known as the Convolution Theorem:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem

Much used in simplifying kernel operations and convolutions (and some other nifty tricks.)

Another useful idea is also that in the domain of the fourier transformation we have exponentials (Fourier series are some series of $ c_n e^inx$), and when multiplying exponentials we get $ e^ix * e^iy = e^i(x + y) $

Moreover this is usually coupled with the case where we integrate on some periodic signal (so it’s integrated from 0 to 2pi, and unless the product of e^i(x+y) = e^0 = 1, then the integral becomes 0 as well. )
It is a matter of enforcibility. Alabama can try to ban say women with exposed ankles and you as an operator of a website in California can tell the DA in a notorized letter to go fuck themselves because they lack jurisdiction.
I haven't had that experience, but working over IM/IRC is a mode I'm used to.
wow, I really like this! I'm really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w/o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!
Yeah, I haven't read the article (paywall) but from the first paragraph or two it sounded like AWS invested in the company and launched a competitor 4 years later.

To me, that sounds like the startup just wasn't able to perform well enough to beat an AWS-built solution, in the eyes of an executive.

Of course, if I were doing a startup that played in AWS's space, I'd view them as a pretty formidable competitor and I wouldn't expect to get a great deal from an investment or acquisition from them, since unless I have a really special sauce they can probably build whatever we've done and sell it better.

It's shitty, IMO, and probably drives startups away from a field in which they could sell to AMZN – since they know they won't get an awesome deal. Probably reduces innovation in the field overall.
FPGAs are good at nothing in the scale that can challenge non-configurable silicons...

They are good at a lot of things that are in a smaller scales. Like general prototyping/testing/simulation, telecom, special-purpose real-time computing etc.

The behind-scene logic is that FPGAs can never make things as flexible as software. And flexible software always offset the inefficiency in a non-configurable chips. Just comparing FPGAs and CPUs/GPUs will never teach FPGAs vendors the reality, or they choose to ignore after all...
A startup advantage over large companies
Yeah, I learnt it the hard way when I accidentally purged my Google Authenticator with all 2FA data.
I guess it depends on what you consider to be the greatest downsides to ICE. Maintenance was never a concern for me, but emissions was. Also, I like quick cars, but hate how loud they can be.

It's why I got a Model 3 Performance. Insanely quick acceleration (that doesn't yell to every cop within a mile that I'm gunning it) when I want it, and crazy good efficiency when I don't. If someone made an ICE that could do 0-60 in under 3.5 seconds while still getting 50+ mpg on the highway, I probably would have gotten one. There aren't even any plug-in hybrids that can achieve that.

> Drive ICE until you can switch, and then switch. For that 1:1000 place you absolutely need an ICE (I need to drive to the top of a mountain in the winter), rent an ICE.

I could definitely support that plan.

I haven't road tripped in my Tesla yet. I planned one this year (Portland -> San Diego, about 2400 miles round trip), but cancelled it due to COVID closing everything we were going to do. Though I've taken a couple 300-mile day trips. 150 miles out, then recharged for the return trip while eating dinner or shopping. Easy and fun.
You get more access to the hardware. It appears that auto-focus isn't available via a webAPI for example.
I mean, the problem is that in the FPGA world the tooling and synthesis languages are inextricably linked. HLS is an approach that, IMO, is also the completely wrong direction since a general purpose programming language like C/C++ won't map nicely to the constructs you need in FPGA design.

What we really need is a lightweight, open source toolchain for FPGAs and one or more "higher level" synthesis languages. I've always wondered if a DSL using a higher language like Python isn't a better way to do this. Rather than try to transpile an entire language, just provide building blocks and interfaces that can then be used to generate verilog/VHDL.
In 2008 I was asked in one company to add ipv6 from a network stack because it was going ot be a government mandate to support ipv6. That came and went. In 2015 I was asked to add VLAN support to another network stack https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5517.txt to allow duplicate ipv4 address to co-exist in the same network. Ipv4 is not going anywhere, it doesn't have to. IpV6 is an effective way to segment your network at the hardware level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6QvIrruZjw
Well actually someone is trying to purchase TikTok. Rings a bell somewhere.
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Is AWS a monopoly?
Ah. Thank you for the clarification.
Instead of relying on the whims and fancies of a bad faith and racist actor - Trump administration, Harvard and other Ivies should start looking to set up international campuses, in more immigrant friendly countries like Canada, Australia, Dubai, and Europe
Use of lethal force by civilians is permitted against robbery and trespass to varying degrees in many (maybe even most, not sure) US states.
It sounds like programming isn't for you. I hope you find happiness in whatever other things you choose to do.
Nonsense. Maybe the generic low-end catalogue models will be replaced by some kind of AI but it definitely won't happen in high fashion. I've worked for some of these organisations and it's ALL about the in-person social aspects of the industry. Catwalk shows are an event with real people, not because it's the most effective way to showcase the physical items but because it creates a buzz that everyone wants to be a part of. The business thrives on parties and bars and muses and the backstage chaos, frantically pulling everything together at the last minute so they can glide out there and look serene for a few brief seconds. The designers and stylists and hair and makeup and accessories people love working with the girls - even the difficult diva types who turn up late and think they own the whole show - because it brings fun and spontaneity and joy and relationship building and uncertainty, the dangerous unpredictability, just on the threshold of losing control, is a big part of the energy and many people in the business have their entire 24/7 social life wrapped up completely in their careers. These techno "models" are a gimmick that will be used for as long as they grab headlines but in the long run, fashion people love people (each other, not necessarily their consumers) and - this may be hard for many IT types to comprehend - the business will always thrive on those people who are able to walk into a room and move around and pull faces that grab attention in surprising and unexpected ways, especially if those people are also enjoyable to work with in a way that some CGI never could be.
I mean sure, but we can expend resources, they don’t have that luxury.

It’s like Venezuela threatening to invade Columbia. I guess they could try, but they have much bigger issues to deal with than showing they “have more soldiers”.
While I agree with what you say, I think there's also subsets of modeling which can be cheaper with a computer which doesn't need wages, an agent, travel, or royalties. Also remember that models are human talent and human talent tends to come with costs which must be geographically local: makeup, photographer, scene, etc. Humans can only work so many hours a day, they can develop drug or eating habits, they can age. They can say indecorous things which will cause an outrage mob to want to boycott brands associated with them. All of these are costs or liabilities.

Granted, there may be a new generation of agents that specialize in AI models and royalties may still exist (with shrinking margins), but if nothing more, AI is likely to opt downward pressure on wages/jobs/contracts some of the non-minimum-wage models. Once it's bootstrapped, it will either become more appealing (for the reasons I mentioned above) or turn out to be complex and not worth the cost/risk. Only time and experimentation will tell.
> 1) if you're in CA, with liberal moonlighting laws, start working on something of your own, save money, and launch what you're working on for side income or full-time entrepreneurship. Of course, if that excites you.

Be careful with this. All FAANG companies and many more include broad IP-assignment clauses in their employment agreements that allow them to claim any IP you make with or without company equipment, at home or at work. While CA law is generally favorable to moonlighting, there is an exception for any work that is similar to work your employer does or may do. For FAANG companies, that could be everything, so they have wide latitude to claim your IP. Just my personal experience: All employers I've ever worked for in CA have been very clear right up front: They will own any of my side projects so just don't do it. This is the opinion of a non-lawyer so take it for what it's worth.
There are different kinds of modelling. The old paper catalog - now website - modelling has already been replaced. You can see the results all over Amazon and various merch shops. Clothes and other objects have colours and textures shopped in effortlessly.

Is that AI-able? Not yet. Making edited images look seamless is still a moderately skilled job, and AI is still struggling with basic object recognition, never mind the semantics of object presentation.

It might be possible one day, but not for a good few years.

High end modelling is about celebrity, and that's not going to be replaced any time soon.

Likewise for high end fashion photography. You can't hand something like Nick Knight's work over to an AI, because no AI has the creativity or imagination needed to make images that look like that, and engage the viewer like that.

It might be possible in principle to automate some of the more obvious fashion cliches - intensely aesthetic people with cheek bones in a variety of exotic locations - but it's harder than it looks, and the quality of manual production values will make it very hard for AI efforts to cross uncanny valley without getting stuck in it.

Attempts will also suffer from the CGI problem, where CGI turned out to be more expensive than modelling for most movies. And the results end up looking plastic and rather soulless no matter how much detail they have.
Thanks, that's a really helpful perspective.

I've definitely seen the same thing happen – an org that isn't sure it can build function X well might invest in a startup building X just in case.

Of course, they may or may not take advantage of that situation by misusing confidential information.

Either way the startup could lose (or just not have much negotiating power).

So yeah, sounds like this may not be a case of AMZN misbehaving. But I'm still not sure I'd want to talk to them if I were a startup, at least until I know they really need us and are willing to pay a lot.
It "evolving" isn't a reason to let down your guard, it is more reason to hammer a stake in the bastard's heart before it becomes something even worse. There is nothing good about it.
Their code is open source, so you can always check for yourself: https://github.com/bitwarden

Quick googling on this topic says that as of 2018 they were using authenticated AES-CBC.
Ivies should work together on these far flung campus complexes (regardless of politics; it disintermediates US residency requirements from participation ability). Just as you have the Greeks or interest groups on campus, there’s no reason higher eds couldn’t share physical facilities. The value is the in person networking, no different than startup accelerators.

A significant amount of the world is currently learning how to operate with country borders closed, now is a great time to prototype such a model. Geography should not slow down learning or innovation.
How can anyone not be interested in owning ARM?

Whoever controls that company can decide who's allowed to make processors that run consumer facing software (sure, RISC V might present a threat in the long term, but it's a good decade out).

Of course that would be a nightmare for every other licensee (which is why I'm hoping for the IPO), but the potential gain is immense, isn't it? Or are the licenses so nice they're safe regardless of who owns the company?
The 40-year mission of an Apple Distinguished Educator
In a rare bipartisan vote, Congress sends billions to the national parks
> Never use your primary DB as a queue. Using a separate Postgres instance can work if you over-provision capacity and don't need to maximize throughput, and a Redis-based solution can work if you don't need high availability and can tolerate some messages lost if something goes wrong.

That is a broad generalization that assumes most applications are operating at mega scale. The benefits of simplified dependencies (a single database instance), transactional guarantees (a single database instance) and persistence (not using Redis) far outweigh the eventual possibility that the queue will place too large a load on your database.

As the author of Oban[0] (an PG backed persistent queue in Elixir) I'm definitely biased. However, the level of adoption in the Elixir community seems to signal that a lot of companies favor simplicity and safety over a possible scale issue down the road. The primary application I work on processes ~500k-1m jobs a day and the queue overhead is virtually invisible.

[0] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
> Nothing in it is really new.

That isn't really the point. The point is that the US armed forces already use space for military purposes so extensively that they even have a whole branch dedicated to space militarization.
Neither "traction of products hosted on its platform" nor "customer list of those hosted products" are typically public information. They are information to which a trusted vendor might have access. There seems to be a fine line between trusting Amazon to sell and ship one's products and services without using its position to sell competing products and services, and trusting AWS to host one's confidential data without reading that data...
Sierra Club Says It Must Confront the Racism of John Muir
I sometimes think how much more powerful Russia would be if they just adapted and played nice with everyone else. Probably on par with China.

Perhaps it's the communist past that made them this way. Imperial Russia made a huge effort to westernize and modernize, but after the revolution, they kind of slid backwards, into some weird "self-sufficient but still world power" way of thinking.

They have nothing to speak of when it comes to the economy, it's mostly natural resources being exported, and it's all owned by a few very rich individuals. Sad state of affairs.
The 64-bit ARM ISA was basically redone from scratch, around 2010.

It isn't "mostly the same instructions but with 64-bit registers" the way 64-bit x86 is.
Great to see it! It certainly speaks to the positive nature of BitWarden being open-source.
Or, the simpler explanation, they could just be unconnected events.
Throwaway to avoid being ID'd.

I was on the team that was peripherally involved in building the Amazon Dash collection of products. The scale idea has been floating around within the company since 2015/2016. It takes long to do this at scale and a cost-effective point.

There were also other similar products that were scrapped because there was no way we could sell them at a reasonable price.
High Level Assembly (HLA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly

> HLA was originally conceived as a tool to teach assembly language programming at the college-university level. The goal is to leverage students' existing programming knowledge when learning assembly language to get them up to speed as fast as possible. Most students taking an assembly language programming course have already been introduced to high-level control flow structures, such as IF, WHILE, FOR, etc. HLA allows students to immediately apply that programming knowledge to assembly language coding early in their course, allowing them to master other prerequisite subjects in assembly before learning how to code low-level forms of these control structures. The book The Art of Assembly Language Programming by Randall Hyde uses HLA for this purpose

Web: https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/

Book: "The Art of Assembly Language Programming" https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/

Portable, Opensource, IA-32, Standard Library: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hla-stdlib/

"12.4 Programming in C/C++ and HLA" in the Linux 32 bit edition: https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/...

... A chapter(s) about wider registers, WASM, and LLVM bitcode etc might be useful?

...
Many awesome lists link to OllyDbg and other great resources for ASM; like such as ghidra:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ollydbg+site%3Agithub.com+in...
Now I'm confused. Excuse me if I paraphrase your dialogue to illustrate my confusion:

em-bee: IPV6 IoT only run into problems if X

avianlyric: X is like 99% of the problems IPv6 devices encounter.

em-bee: thanks. i didn't realize it would be that bad.

What new information did avianlyric bring? Was that not a re-statement of what came before?
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Their latest motorcycle units are dog slow because some dumb product manager decided to build it on their old hardware platform using newer firmware which isn't a good mix. I have a 10 year old auto unit that is better then the junk they have now.
Yes, totally. As I said, it's a very significant issue, but it requires a separate ability to tie the tor identity to the user's real identity.
> Can someone tell me why models are so in demand? Can’t people remix existing photos and so on? There are tons of stock photos now too. It’s not like they need a new model for every time they show a watch.

Usage rights.

Time of models and photographers is cheap - for below supermodel catwalk class it is less than $150/h including the overhead. For catalog/commercial models $50/h including overhead is a good pay.

Buying out of usage rights is expensive. Worldwide buyout for a dozen images for 1 years could easily be $50,000. So instead they get those 12 images for that specific usage type (online) for the time rate + $1
Applies globally.

Literally.
The point I'm making: None of that has anything to do with the Space Force formation. It was already happening when those assets were under the Air Force, for decades. The radars, GPS satellites, etc. formerly run by the Air Force Space Command are now run by the Space Force. Same thing for the staff; they're the same people.
I think there's a difference there, though. Retail sales and reselling are parts of what most people broadly consider the "same industry". I mean, a small seller making a deal with Amazon to resell something that they know Amazon could sell on its own is at least always aware of the competition.

In this case, tech investing and online retailing are not the same industry. Amazon is using a dominance in one to fund the other, which then it uses to either drive valuations of potential competitors down or to simply outcompete them.

And that's a plausible antitrust problem.

I'm normally not in the Amazon haters camp. Most of the time I'll defend them against the typical charges of unfair competition. Not this time. This is sketchy.
Tesla sues Rivian in lawsuit alleging trade secret theft, poaching talent
I don’t think that’s it. This is more for international audiences. For internal distraction they’ll threaten some Caucasus republic or Ukraine.
> Capitalism works best in the long run with near perfect competition

Unfortunately someone like Amazon using their size and market power to produce copycats is the opposite of perfect competition since they can operate at a loss or at cost and starve out any newcomers.
"Crime rate have very little to do with how society is policed. "

This is totally false.

Here's a far-left VOX article even brandishing the idea [1]

Policing practices, particularly the number of police and their tactics have an enormous effect on crime.

Obviously, social systems do as well, but there are plenty of very poor places with very little crime.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18193661/h...
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I meant in Mexico. Things move slower here
I fully agree that it is bad and a legitimate issue. As I said, "a very significant issue".
I'm not really into electronics, but I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult to control the switch of a cheap KVM-switch with the GPIO pins of the RPi. One might even control multiple KVM-switches and daisy-chain them.
To give people a sense of how such capabilities are likely to be used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Notice:

In June 2013, a DA-Notice was issued asking the media to refrain from running stories on the US PRISM surveillance programme, and on British involvement therein.

In October 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron made a veiled threat to newspapers over NSA and GCHQ leaks, stating in Parliament that the government might use "injunctions or D-notices or the other tougher measures" to restrain publication of leaked classified information if newspapers did not voluntarily stop publishing them.
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