skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As time goes on the number of people willing to light something on fire or indeed commit any pre planned crime while carrying their cell phone will drop to near zero.

People who on the overall aren't that bright already use the phone as a countermeasure to "prove" they were somewhere else.

Most cases wont be solved with correlated search data AND location data meaning we will start with a much larger pool of people that will almost exclusively be composed of innocent people whose lives can be ruined on mere suspicion.

What could possibly go wrong.
Yes, although it's arguable how effective they are.

We have RIPA and the Data Protection Act, and we have the surveillance camera commissioner.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/surveillance-cam...

See eg the latest report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Just a few months ago, I recall many skeptics on HN claiming that full driverless technology was 10-20 years away.

Do those people still think that it's going to take 10-20 years for this tech to reach say, New York, now that it's live in Phoenix?
I use one of those android apps. The crickets, fire, water settings usually hit my spot. After 30 minutes the single tone has dissolved and I get a fainter dual oscillator tinnitus. I practice finding quieter tones deeper in the sound field. This weakens the primary tones.

Tinnitus is a mental process, but you can't work with it using thought or direct attention. It requires shifting lower more subtle processes. It's a form of meditation
DuckDuckGo, EFF, & others just launched privacy settings for the whole internet
I disagree. So much crime and corruption is uncovered through tracing financial transactions.. A world where a few mega power brokers who are untraceable, unaccountable, and untouchable by "the people" sounds super dystopian to me.
super cool!

One of the professors at my lab at NYU CILVR (Kyle Cranmer) i believed was super involved with this. Will definitely sync up with him!

Thanks for the heads up!
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I can't decide whether to use the term cutlery (mainly UK) or silverware (mainly US). They're both inaccurate, especially when asking for plastic/disposable versions.
Caltech undergraduates are around 40% Asian, which is about the same as UC Berkeley or UCLA. Whites are about 30% at Caltech.
Exactly, IBM is a company run by finance, not technical people. They survive despite, not because of what they do.
Thaxll, meant there are no large scale enterprise .net core applications out there. All the examples here are not really large scale and are not used by millions of concurrent users daily. Bing is not fully .net core. Why LinkedIn and Github are not written on .net?
Because at 1080p you can actually compare the performance maybe?
No, the top model of Rocket Lake will have only 8 cores & 16 threads.

Therefore, for multi-threaded tasks it will be much slower than Zen 3.

However, it is expected to have an IPC comparable with Ice Lake and Tiger Lake, so if it would reach 5.4 GHz, it might be a little faster than Zen 3 for single-threaded tasks and gaming.
"Members of the public service" is different than "members of the public". This is still a closed beta. But now it seems you are allowed to have your friends along for the ride. I wonder if these friends and family persons are subject to any NDA.
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I've been reading a lot of comments everywhere about disappointment with Big Navi but your comment exemplifies why Big Navi matters even if it's not King.
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It's pretty much impossible to get an unbiased review of everyday carry knives because personal bias is the whole point of the industry. If you just need a knife for regular things like cutting open fruit and boxes, then almost any cheap thing with a cutting edge will do. People who bother to hold opinions and do detailed reviews of pocket knives are coming at the subject from an essentially aesthetic perspective.

It's sort of like looking for unbiased reviews of mechanical wristwatches. If you just want to tell time, a $20 quartz Timex will work fine. Once you step away from the criteria of basic functionality, you're entering the land of opinions.

Edit: this comes across kind of judgmental, which is not what I meant. I just mean that the knife you like is going to come down to your own opinion, and the only way to form that is to check out lots of options and other opinions and see what you agree with.
I agree that it is a very different model, but it's a bit much to say that externalizing car repair costs is what the business model of Uber/Lyft is "based on"
So, the problem with this stuff is that the content is one thing, but just like the semantic web the semantics are quite another thing. What does proposal X or claim Y mean?

For example, "We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools." What does "racial indoctrination" refer to? What does "patriotic education" refer to? I have a strong idea, but that's just my opinion.
Counter-points, since it's worth sharing the whole picture.

(1) The ability for the government to censor transactions to terrorists, rogue states and oppressive governments is a good thing. Evidenced not least by the fact Bitcoin was likely created by an international narcotics and arms trafficking racist bond villain who at one point tried to keep Rhodesian farmland in the hands of the whites and nearly started a cocaine plantation in Somalia [0, 3]

(2a) Inflation isn't some magical evil conspiracy, money is an intentionally lossy store of value. Inflation incentivizes investment and allocation of capital towards the most productive enterprises. This is intentional. Inflation doesn't affect people who own assets, including real estate and equities, so long as wages keep pace with inflation. They have.

(2b) Deflation is bad, as it decreases the velocity of money and economic productivity. Why would you spend money today when it would be worth more tomorrow? Hundreds of BTC are lost every few days due to the user-hostile nature of cryptocurrencies.

(2c) Deflation also concentrates wealth with existing holders, hurting the next generation of market participants, and entrenching the current BTC wealth distribution. This is worse than any banana republic. Unless you're one of the whales, you're a peasant fighting scraps, and your kids will practically be serfs.

(3) I want my currency to be subject to "government coercion" when the courts say so. If you don't trust your government or the courts, the "coercion" of the government is literally the least of your problems.

(4) I for one do want the government to be able too regulate, control and trace transactions. Which is something they can easily and explicitly do with a shared public ledger.

(5a) Massive waste, each proof-of-waste BTC transaction produces 100g of e-waste and consumes as much electricity as it takes to drive a Tesla from SF to NY. [1] All to operate a network that you could replace with a single DynamoDB table and likely one man on a stationary bike powering it.

(5b) At market rates for electricity alone a crypto transaction costs about $80, which is socialized across the block reward. When this stops, people will have to pay the whole cost of a transaction, which in turn they will not do, which will shut down miners, which will kill the security aspects of the network.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
> proved that an algorithm devised a decade ago beats Christofides’ 50% factor, though they were only able to subtract 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent.

That is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000002% better than the existing solution.
Let's place skepticism aside for a second and assume that full driverless tech will be fully operating in major metros soon.

What does that mean for the rideshare business? Are Uber/Lyft basically dead if they are years behind Waymo?
Pretty clean website! One concern I have is the comparison of speeches made relatively far apart. References to Covid in March are going to be pretty dated when compared to references made in October.
> I for one don't want government to be able to regulate / control / trace transactions.

If they can regulate it, they will. So crypto isn't the magic money that can skip governmental influence, and that problem will be cryto's own problem.
I searched for “crypto”, and it reports 34 results, but all of them seem to be creative ideas about which other words I might have misspelled, like “crystal”, “creator” or “scripture”.
"In conversations with web performance advocates, I sometimes feel like a hippie talking to SUV owners about fuel economy.

They have all kinds of weirdly specific tricks to improve mileage. Deflate the front left tire a little bit. Put a magnet on the gas cap. Fold in the side mirrors.

Most of the talk about web performance is similarly technical, involving compression, asynchronous loading, sequencing assets, batching HTTP requests, pipelining, and minification.

All of it obscures a simpler solution.

If you're only going to the corner store, ride a bicycle.

If you're only displaying five sentences of text, use vanilla HTML. Hell, serve a textfile! Then you won't need compression hacks, integral signs, or elaborate Gantt charts of what assets load in what order.

Browsers are really, really good at rendering vanilla HTML.

We have the technology."

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Can you give details regarding what you're referring to (curation that is used by Google to manipulate public opinion)?

How is YouTube manipulating public opinion?
Sure, I was addressing the date specifically.
Additionally, the article doesn't mention IBM research, which I assume will continue to stay with IBM.
They supported Linux early, at a time when it was vulnerable.
Every Google related thread is infested with comments like this. We get it. Google shuts down products. How many times we have to have this discussion? Can we now discuss something new?
I've always pronounced TTY as 'teletype'.
What response? The only one, which agrees with it?
That's the compiler, the lisp is Common Lisp (not sure how well known that is outside the group of Common Lisp users).
This is very neat - my favorite part so far is being able to synchronize local .env across all developers instantly. We currently use 1Password as a hacky solution for this, which is a bit of a pain.

I saw the demo video which looks great - one question though, how does this work with Heroku add-ons? If you configure Heroku Postgres for example, a DATABASE_URL env var gets automatically added. This variable can change (e.g. when Heroku applies a patch to your DB and restarts it). Is the sync two way, or do you expect applications to have two sets of environment variables (split across Doppler and Heroku)?
Tons of crime flows through completely auditable sources: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-fil...

Right now, what's happening is a few mega power brokers are traceable, unaccountable, and untouchable by the people. Pretending that crypto somehow creates or enables crime when its sitting right under our noses (as our governments refuse to do anything about it), is frankly ridiculous.
Price cuts? I've not found a single 3080 in store or online yet. There was a 200 person queue for the 12 available at microcenter launch day.
"You minimize (and regret) nuisances like incorporation, setting up payroll, and the gigantic productivity tarpit that is fundraising"

Basically the exact work of Stripe Atlas
It’s not only endless fiddling you can do but occasinally you have to do as well.
Kershaw has a US-made product line and a China-made product line, which typically use different steels.

The steel used in most US-made Kershaws is Sandvik 14C28N. This is very likely the steel you're thinking of, and the owner of knifesteelnerds.com rated it as his favorite budget steel[0]. It has extremely high toughness (resistance to chipping/breaking) and a fine grain structure that allows it to take a very sharp edge without microscopic rolling/chipping. Some other steels are used, including 420HC on low-end models, CPM154 on automatics, and several steels commonly found on more expensive knives in special editions.

Chinese Kershaws usually use 8Cr13MoV, and don't put much effort into heat treatment. Some use D2, which is semi-stainless, somewhat hard to sharpen, and low-toughness (it chips easily), but high in wear resistance. Some low-end models use even cheaper steels.

[0] https://knifesteelnerds.com/2020/06/15/what-is-the-best-budg...
Is that something the website could solve?
Why does Waymo need to prove viability but Uber does not? Uber cannot lose $8B/yr forever.

The obvious advantage will be price, if Uber even still exists.
Did they also issue a laptop?
With most modern PC processors, both GPU and CPU, one of the primary limitations is thermal headroom. There are features and technologies with varying names across brands and processors that essentially do the same thing: run at the maximum clock that the current thermal situation will support.

From my personal experience, my Threadripper 3970X will happily maintain ~4.4GHz all-core (rated for 4.5GHz max single-core) so long as I can keep the temperature in or below the 70s, with no overclocking.[0] There are power limits as well, but rated performance numbers are within the power limits. Overclocking can put you past the marked power limits, and certainly needs ample cooling.

[0] Granted, I need to pump cold air into the case to maintain the temperature, but that's a limitation of my current thermal solution. At some point I'll probably upgrade to an excessive water cooling solution (:
Ah, the slow follower strategy.
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> In most circumstances, the Department does not
liquidate seized or forfeited AECs (Anonymity Enhanced Cryptocurrencies), as doing so allows them to re-enter the stream of commerce for potential future criminal use.

Moon Cannon for Monero!

> Some AECs, however, offer features, such as public view keys, that potentially can facilitate the fulfillment of AML/CFT obligations, depending upon the implementation of such features.

Nice, also a Moon Cannon for Monero!

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That's not really the court's responsibility. There is no legal definition of "interface" or "implementation". They're just trying to interpret a gray area in the law and it could come down either way.

Any real solution will have to be legislated.
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That's not a particularly ridiculous claim if you are familiar with the recent history of civil rights.

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/07/living/sixties-women-5-th...

Specifically there wasn't a law to prevent it AFAIK, but in practice banks denied women lines of credit without their husband's approval as a course of normal business.
The idea that 'power players' can avoid prosecution by using cryptocurrency is absolutely untrue.

Once you grow that large, you get a lot of attention and suddenly it is economical to track you down, even if you are using 'untraceable' currency like Monero.

When you are a 'small' player, buying or selling small quantities of cannabis, it isn't worth the time to trace your transactions. The Justice Department is targeting everything, not just big-time criminals.

This seems like a prelude to a burdensome requirement for platforms to make it easier to execute warrants for crimes using cryptocurrency, which will sweep up everyone.
I think there's basically no way to get around the fact that

a) society, for its own protection, needs a term for "Person you shouldn't trust alone in a room with a small child"

b) nobody ever wants to be identified, personally, with that term, whatever that term is
DDG is based in the US. It's under the same laws as Google and has to honor search warrants from the police and has to comply with laws (including FBI's NSLs).

This is why I don't use a US-based search engine.
Haha I had a similar problem with argparse so I built a declarative cli and I documented the hell out of it, I added all the recipes in the README. For me it's just ctrl+f in the README and I get what I need. So far it's worked well and people contributing to another project using it haven't complained.

https://github.com/Woile/decli

But nowadays I would recommend something like typer: https://typer.tiangolo.com/ it's quite nice and has autocomplete built in.
> Do you really care about the longevity of the taxi company whose cars you are riding in?

I mean, look at McDonalds and Coca-Cola, for example. I'm skeptical about the idea that simply having the SDV technology somehow also translates to being in a leadership position in terms of regulation, customer support, branding/marketing/being-installed-on-peoples-phones, etc etc.

Uber already had to fight uphill regarding regulation in many places so it definitely has some moat now (see, e.g. Uber and Ola in London). Waymo is on completely uncharted territory, regulation-wise.

I'm also curious about how the economics and logistics will play out. One criticism of existing ride sharing is not accounting for vehicle depreciation and wear and tear (and this on mass produced vehicles). Waymo vehicles have a lot more expensive technology on board, so I'm curious how that balances out in terms of lidar/etc shelf-life + specialized tech inspections vs ROI.

Also, cost of switching goes both ways. If this forces the hand of the other players to roll out SDV (via Cruise partnerships for example), Waymo doesn't necessarily stand to dominate the market, since it's already so crowded w/ well-funded/well-positioned players from all sorts of directions.
I don't think it will even be close to general availability in Phoenix.
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I guess they have the lead in the sense that you can drive to a Tesla dealership today and buy a car that will kind of sort of drive you home. That's something!
The domain was available ;) More seriously, outside of the properties (easy to spell and most people have heard of it before) I wanted something that was more than just environment management. Something grand we could grow into.
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> If the FBI thinks someone is making a nuclear bomb in some postal code, there should be a process for helping to sort that out

Constitutional way to do that would be to fly a drone and see which house lights up ;)
this is pretty dope. tried it out. though position of "." on top of i's will for sure tell it's robot handwriting.
I agree with the point on CL libraries, which is truly sad after this many years. But Lisps like Clojure address this formidably by integrating deeply with the JVM and actually also Python.

Im not sure his code is idiomatic SBCL but it could be written more succintly and functionally by most LISPers.

To the point on static/dynamic typing, I disagree. But its a discussion thats been going on for so long that Ive concluded its mostly a matter of taste. For Clojurians who like static typing, Spec packs a big punch without removing flexibility.

Still, Haskell is pretty great but Im more efficient in Clojure, Your mileage will vary.
The knowledge has been lost, but also probably never really existed. The legendary damascus steel had a specific mix of impurities, things other than carbon and iron, but the smiths of the time could not have known of those impurities. They would simply know that iron from certain sources/mines was magically better. When those sources of iron ran dry, damascus steel stopped being a thing. Today it is more of an ornamental pattern than a practical improvement in the blade.

On the opposite side, Japanese swordsmiths worked with very pure iron heavily refined from sources like river sand. It didn't have many impurities, resulting in rather soft steel. That in turn mandated all the folding that Japanese swords are famous for. Damascus steel was good ingredients turned into great steel. Japanese steel was mediocre ingredients turned into good swords.
- Bitcoin is auditable.

- Traditional sources actually at least try and stop it from happening.
Probably second half of 2021. They'll get the Threadripper and non-X desktop CPUs out of the door first.

The Zen2 APUs and laptop chips came out a few months ago, practically a year after Zen2 launched.
> The ability for the government to censor transactions to terrorists, rogue states and oppressive governments is a good thing.

Disagree, due to the fact that the government being able to censor transactions of the government's choosing means that the government is able to censor transactions of the government's choosing. That's not a good thing.

> I want my currency to be subject to "government coercion" when the courts say so.

I would agree with this if and only if the protections of the law were equally applied, and all people had equal access to due process. Presently, both of those things are entirely untrue in most large, developed countries, despite being aspirational/stated goals.

The legal system can and does entirely fail people on a regular basis, and should not have the ultimate veto power over every type of private property, as has been the case historically.

> I for one do want the government to be able too regulate, control and trace transactions.

Many of us feel that freedom of association and freedom of trade with those associations are inherent natural rights, and such regulation or control over them is an illegitimate infringement upon them, regardless of however many democratically-elected representatives say they're not.

Ultimately the state's authority to do such things ("regulate, control") is based on the application of violence, or the threat of same. Violence cannot solve math problems, ergo, cryptocurrencies are a fundamental threat to the authority and existence of the state.

Honestly, I'm completely surprised that they've allowed them to get as big as they have without banning them outright.
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Frickin' lasers, perhaps?
ECC statistics are available for Ryzen if you use Linux (configured to load the appropriate EDAC module).

So on Linux, ECC is fully supported, even with Ryzen.
Regarding 5a - Calculating energy spent per tx is misleading, as the energy spent to secure the btc network also benefits those merely holding the coin.
What I’d love to see is an 8-core APU, for a powerful Linux desktop that doesn’t need especially good graphics.
Why would you say to avoid cloud like the plague? I was thinking about trying to start something in that domain.
Doesn't mean they don't have a plan to profit if it goes Oracle's way.
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I want to signal-boost this. TPU support on PyTorch is partial. You can run modeling computation on the TPU with PyTorch, but not the data-loading. And without the TPU's data-loading, you're significantly, significantly bottle-necked, to the point where you are often better off using GPUs. The reason why TensorFlow and TPUs synergize so well is that the TPUs themselves can consume data for training, allowing for massive scalability.

I have great respect for the PyTorch-TPU team, but I would recommend not heavily advertising PyTorch-TPU support until this major feature disparity is made up.