skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a hose shortage?

Seriously, you're underestimating a motivated government's ability to use violence to either prevent transactions (by taking some of the multisig parties out) or to coerce a transaction (by applying multiple hoses to multiple people).

Say they capture your family. Would you not make a transaction to save your family? If you didn't they'd just take you out. Heck, a motivated government might just take you out after anyways! See how your "coins" are no longer your biggest problem under an authoritarian regime?

In the face of the KGB, you wouldn't be saying "but your violence can't solve this math problem" for very long. Not without that tongue. How many fingernails does a man need anyways? Trust me, that math problem's getting solved. With hoses. Real fast.

This is one of those conceptual exercises that falls right over.
Yup, a black market swaps government for organized crime. Cartels would be incentivized to dominate the network.
The new Zen 3 cores are expected to have a higher AVX throughput per cycle than all Intel CPUs, except the most expensive models of Xeon Gold, Platinum or W and the HEDT i9 models that have dual AVX-512 FMA units.

The cheaper models with only one AVX-512 FMA unit have a lower throughput, which will be exceeded by Zen 3, even at the same clock frequency.

For multi-threaded tasks, Zen 3 CPUs will have a higher clock-frequency than any Intel CPU, so it is expected that any older Intel CPU will be beaten easily.

It remains to be seen which will be the performances of the Ice Lake Server CPUs, to be launched before the end of the year. However, miracles are not expected, because these are using the older Intel 10 nm technology, not the improved one used by Tiger Lake.
The link to Twitter in the article (https://stripe.com/patio11) appears to be broken.
Did you miss the part about me being Romanian? :-)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4109218/do-gamma-rays-fr...

tl;dr: one bit error in 4GB every 72 hours
There seems to be little information about it available although the people on the linked page give it a great rating:

> what Google, Facebook, and most other companies of comparable size and larger do is at best objectively less good and at worst wasting millions of dollars of lost productivity,

> Once you understand the build and deployment tools you first wonder how you ever did anything before and then start to fear how you'll do anything once you leave.

The kind of open-source variant is https://qbtbuildtool.com/
We've switched our chat to Matrix, and it's been a great experience so far. The Element client is real Slack competitor.

I have high hopes Matrix can disrupt all the chat silos out there.
> Not seeing Apple claiming only they can protect user's privacy

You would if you had watched the commercial.
Well a blueprint communicates from the architect to the builder/carpenter/plumber etc...
> Inflation incentivises investment and allocation of capital towards the most productive enterprises

This would be true with deflation, assuming returns from investing outpace the returns from doing nothing.
Inflation incentivises investing for returns that do better than the loss from inflation. It would incentivise investments that have a negative return, so long as that return is greater than the inflation rate.

> Why would you spend money today when it would be worth more tomorrow

Because owning a good today is worth more to you than having the same good in the future. Eg it’s better to have the iPhone 11 today than it is tomorrow, as you have it for an extra day.
Additionally there’s many things you can’t put off into the future like paying for food, water etc.

[edit for typos, sorry, phone posting]
I remember my days at redhat where a poster was hang in the cafeteria with Gandhi’s quote

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

They really meant. Even being swallowed by a behemoth, they managed to cut the beast belly and break free.
I am glad you asked! I built the Heroku integration at Doppler. We are doing a one way syncing as we believe Doppler should be the single source of truth for your secrets. However, we know that addons & attachments are an important part of Heroku, so we make sure we never overwrite any of the addons/attachments env vars. Those continue to live within Heroku as they wouldn't make much sense or be useful outside of that context.
No specs. No prototypes. Yes, code
>because fingerprinting was possible, we should just allow third party cookies

Nothing is either/or. Increasing the cost and difficulty of tracking does increase privacy. At the same time, there is some truth to the argument that Google is not losing the arms race between its trackers and the blockers anytime soon. Fundamentally, as long as web pages have this much control over your computer, they will be able to track you. The web is broken and needs to be paired down and reworked so that privacy is part of the protocol.
> Supreme court judges just do not have the conceptual framework to properly adjudicate this.

It's why silly (and inadequate) analogies emerge:

"Justice Clarence Thomas compared Google's copying of the Java APIs to a football team taking a rival's playbook."
Seems like Pytorch lightening is the only first-class citizen in your offering. Is that true? Or are there value-added features for TensorFlow and other non-DL libraries such as scikit-learn?

Also, is there support for distributed training for large datasets that don't fit into single instance memory? or just distributed grid-search/hyper-parameter optimization?
I am not a mathematician, so don't quote me, but it seems 5% are happy to leave.
YMMV but IIUC it's EAFP when giving TMI on TLAs, especially technical jargon, rather than just quoting LMGTFY or insisting folks RTFA.

(... and I can't help but add IANAL, IANYL, TINLA, etc.)
I think more than better multi tasking it's handling of load when things are at the limit in some fashion whether is excessive cpu or ram.
There's the benefit of being able to continue playing media as the user navigates the site, like soundcloud.
I read the article and it doesn't make sense to me, but I wouldn't expect it to, as I know next to nothing about business. I however expect this to be similar to the Siemens/Infinion Technologys split a number of years ago: there might have been administrative reasons, but at least as important was the appearance to potential investors. Siemens (and IBM) are huge, diverse, slow moving entities with comparatively stable outlook and correspondingly low expectations of gains, while Infinion (and the new former IBM Cloud entity) are younger, more specialized, riskier, but potentially much more profitable companies, which attract a different crowd of investors / investing strategies.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Memory: 16GB

Storage: Samsung Evo 970 500 GB NVMe SSD

OS: Pop!_OS 20.04

Pretty middle of the road specs but it's plenty enough for the web development and light gaming that I do. :)
But now if I write my own libc implementation, someone (who?) could come after me for violating their copyright on the libc api.
Looks like a real number to me
I recall for y2k IBM was selling replacement mainframes because the new one was faster and you would pay for it just on power bill savings in 2 years. That the old one would never get the updates to work after y2k was not really a factor in sales. The old mainframes were water cooled and very power hungry, newer chips (now 20 year old technology) were air cooled and used less power.
Google end-to-end encrypts Android backups. Apple does not end-to-end encrypt iCloud backups (on by default on every iOS device), and it serves as an effective cryptographic backdoor to the end-to-end encryption in iMessage by escrowing the keys (as well as the full message content and attachment history) to Apple each night, using Apple keys, which permits Apple (and by extension the FBI, without a warrant) to read every message sent or received by a device in such a default iCloud backup configuration, without ever touching that device.

They were going to fix this, but Apple Legal killed the project while it was underway. This was done at FBI request, according to Reuters' sources.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Tesla sells a driver assistance system comparable or a bit better than competing technologies from MobileEye or GM.

Their innovation is branding this ADAS as “self driving” and claiming they will eventually release a software update that makes it more like Waymo’s existing technology. They also have avoided safety features like eye tracking that prevent misuse of the ADAS as if it were a self driving system.

Waymo and Tesla really aren’t facing the same issue because the high-profile Tesla crashes are blamed by Tesla on the driver not properly overseeing the ADAS, while Waymo cars are on the road with no safety driver and have never had a major accident, and won’t be able to blame the non-existent driver if they do.
Yeah older ttys were basically a typewriter with a connection to a computer between the keys and the printing mechanism

https://youtu.be/CRdma6NINIw
Fantastic article really compelling to see the cloud become such an amazing tool and how these people are doing is spot on!
This is neat, and I really appreciate it!

Some thoughts:
If there's a way to dilineate between education in a title versus a topic ("Secretary of Education", "patriotic education"), might be good.

I'm finding it weirdly hard to go from "the word is here" to "this is the context in which it was said". Some thoughts:

If there's a way to always have the search term centered in the block of text, ala that speed reading program.

Less aggressive highlighting. Maybe just change the font color, instead of highlighting and spacing.

Maybe change the text color of the sentence that it's in (as well), to help me quickly find the start and end of the most-relevant sentence?
It’s for people who like to carry around an expensive item. If you need a knife for your work, odds are that a box cutter is the best choice since you don’t have to worry about dulling the blade. This is what I used to carry. Most people with the expensive EDC knives work in an office and use them for cutting open packets of m&m’s
That employee is distanced enough from the idea that people would genuinely want to leave that I kinda laugh when I read their quote. COBRA alone would eat up most of the severance.

Either people managed to get through a _whole interview process_ in a week, or they're fine with the idea of being jobless during the worst economy in 12 years, or they price the benefit of not being there fairly high.

Which then leads us to how the whole argument is blinkered. It reduces decisions to a cost benefit analysis where a significant part of the benefit doesn't have a market price. Then, it questions if the benefit was too large, but by definition the arguer is still at the company and thus believes the unpricable part of the benefit isn't worth enough enough to leave.
Is it though? will autonomous vehicles ever get to point where there is even close to less than one engineer for each vehicle? Engineering salaries are substantially larger than driver's salaries. Also, there is the cost of years and years of extremely expensive research that needs to be offset, cloud infrastructure costs, hardware costs + costs of retooling factories for integrating the large numbers of sensors + compute. I can't imagine (without doing any actual math) that there's a cost savings within 200 years
Tests this year on blood from people who had SARS in 2003, indicated that 17 years later they still had T-cell responses . On the other hand, coronaviruses which are experienced as "colds" apparently have a lot less retention of immune system recognition. Optimistic scenario is that the immune system is "smart" enough to recognize which infections are a big deal which must be remembered forever, and which are not. Pessimistic scenario is we got lucky with SARS, and may not with Covid-19.
Exactly what I am wondering.
You mean like, why do the people who paint markings onto an ambulance have to do it reversed?

Yeah that's a good question. If I'm sitting in my car and looking at an ambulance in the rear-view mirror, it's not the mirror itself that reverses the lettering, and that's the key thing to understand.

The only thing the mirror is doing is reversing the Z-axis. So the question becomes, why does a Z-axis reversal cause me to perceive that the X-axis is getting reversed?

If I turn around to look at the ambulance, I just took my head through a 180 degree rotation around the Y-axis. Then (and only then) does the image get reversed on the X-axis.

If you could imagine being behind the ambulance, and it were made of some imaginary transparent material, you would still see the lettering as not reversed.

The key is to be precise when you use words to describe an optical phenomenon. A mirror reflects, and that's all it does.
PRISM data is obtained without a warrant, even for USians whose data is supposed to be protected by a warrant, because of a special secret interpretation of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) Section 702.

It's warrantless, and the court that decides whether or not it's legal is itself classified and unaccountable and almost never denies surveillance.

This abuse was cited by Ed Snowden as one of the reasons he came forward. It's a public law, but a secret interpretation by a secret court that cannot be challenged by the people to which it applies.

It's not inaccurate to describe it as a military coup, given that it allows the US intelligence community to surveil everyone in the legislature and judiciary.
When the 3800X and 3900X came out, they included coolers.

Then the 3800XT and 3800XT bumped the clock speed by around 2%, increased the price by 15–18% (coming in at the prices the X models had been at release, but said X models had come down), and removed the cooler, which effectively bumped the price by, I dunno, maybe another 5% to get equivalent coolers—if you can even get cheap coolers for them.

Now the 5800X and 5900X are coolerless too.

Any idea why they seem to have changed their philosophy here? I’ve always thought having a cooler was very convenient, as on paper the provided cooler seemed to be quite good enough—though to be sure there’s a reason why the 3950X and up don’t include a cooler (“cooler not included, liquid cooling recommended”).
arXiv: machine learning articles now link to code
Yeah, that is only for 4 vulnerabilities out of 55. And 3 of them were only "High." They still have 10 (!!) more critical vulnerabilities they may receive payment on.

Also, they state in the article: "However, it appears that Apple does payments in batches and will likely pay for more of the issues in the following months."
I see this type of comment thrown around a bit, but a quick pass of the senior management suggests otherwise. https://newsroom.ibm.com/executive-bios? Not a whole lot of MBAs and a decent amount of engineers.
Slightly OT but not really: why didn't Google buy Sun when it could?? I'll never understand this.
A larger cache size would improve memory latency assuming the working set can utilize the full 36mb, which I'm sure the 2 games that had a 20% uplift can.

It's purely speculation but I suspect the cache size was limited by yield concerns rather than timing constraints. It looks like the 5600X has 1mb less cache so they probably engineered a way to disable faulty sections of the cache on a 1mb granularity.

Edit: My speculation's wrong. The cache difference between the 5700X and the 5600X is due to core count differences. It's the sum of the various cache sizes, and I misread the slide.
How has this line of reasoning ever convinced anyone of anything. It’s painfully obvious you’re pushing an opinion.
For reference, the severance package was 4 months of salary for employees with <3 years of tenure, or 6 months of salary for >=3 years of tenure at Coinbase.

The severance also included 6 months of health insurance. (Source: https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-severance-apolitical-missi... )

What percentage of employees at Coinbase are actively interviewing for other jobs at any given time? 5%? If someone has one foot out the door already, taking a bonus equivalent to half a year of your salary is a cherry on top of changing jobs. I'm surprised only 5% of the company took this opportunity.
That's a good point and would be cool to have that. I built this primarily to act as a starting point for keyword searches. Hopefully the quotes from the candidates are intriguing enough to prompt further independent research.

Do you know any datasets that provide good unbiased definitions of these terms that candidates use? Let me know if you do, I can index them and add to the UI.
Tesla has the lead in marketing only, which may be why you think they have the lead, because marketing works.
A relevant point here that patents expire in ~decade or two, whereas copyright expires when Disney tells you it can expire (which is never).

Not that expiring in a decade or two would help in the area of tech where stuff moves so fast.
Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic
10:41 , so 10 more seconds. I910900k bottlenecking Hitman 2 at 4K Max
Sophisticated new Android malware marks latest evolution of mobile ransomware
The higher the resolution you run a game at the more likely it is that the GPU becomes the bottleneck for the frame rate.
There are some differing opinions on the effectiveness of a canary. [1] The legal team where I work have the same opinion as Moxie's lawyers.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20141027143819/https://github.co...
One thought: If you see a resume with Coinbase until October 2020, that's probably someone who prefers political activism in the workplace.

That might be seen in a positive or negative light, depending on your stance.

I personally am afraid to associate myself too publicly with a political stance, lest I be wrong and/or the environment changes.
Ring signatures are cool tech, but it's important to point out ring signature plausible deniability promises only work _in the absence of outside (off chain) information_.

When coupled with outside information (Cooperation with exchanges and other large holders, timing attacks of IP addresses, etc). The plausible deniability you get from ring signatures can be much lower in practice

Edit: Here's a really good video with some of the core monero contributors on EAE attacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABIcsDJKyM
This is the sort of thing I imagine people sticking on top of a subwoofer in the vertical orientation. That'd be my plan when I decide to go for it.
Thing is, I’m not convinced Go is actually “taking their time,” it’s just intentionally crap and there won’t be any significant improvements. Generics have been “coming” since the language became popular ~10 years ago.
> I would say that "the programmer has to do the garbage collection" isn't an accurate way to describe Rust.

Although you could characterize it as "Rust makes the programmer think about and describe the garbage collection."
We do support Terraform via our CLI, but the integration is still a bit more primitive than some of our other integrations that are more "one click". It is definitely on our radar and we are actively exploring a tighter integration with Terraform.
I think a reason that leads to the need of something like a 'data lake' or anything that looks like a messy pile of incoherent data, is the difference between how data scientists and traditionally data analysts deal with noise in the data. Most BI tasks require the data to be as clean as possible, it's important to be aware of the quality of the data before you calculate your MRR for example. On the other side, data scientists deal with noise more as a parameter of the models they are building. This difference leads to different requirements on how the pipelines should operate. In such a context, having a messy pile of data might help increase the velocity and the independence of some teams inside the company.
It's funny how back in 2005, IBM sells their PC/server division to Lenovo. Lenovo is currently the largest PC maker. During this time Dell has been bought and sold and re-bought.
Is it clear that boringIBM will keep services, rather than cloud IBM? I can't figure it out from the announcement.
Stock coolers have never been popular among who build their own PCs. They were considered mediocre at best. Since people wouldn't care whether they were in the package or not, removing them might have looked like an easy way to increase profit margins. Removing the cooler from their production cycle might have also increased their production throughput.
The biggest news to me is EDB acquired 2nd Quadrant. Which somehow didn't hit the HN front page.

Would there be more features coming to Open Source Postgre, or is Postgre now a Postgre Core where Enterprise features get moved to EDB?
Not that I don't agree with your main point about warrants being too easy, but wouldn't a "rubber stamp" equilibrium be inevitable in any fair system? Eventually the institutional knowledge builds up to have a good idea what requests will be granted before making them.
I mean, I usually look for another job every year or two. If someone is also willing to pay me lavish amounts of money to do that and take a trip across Europe in between, please sign me up.
> but larger caches are slower (due to the speed of light)

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say due to gate delay because of an additional level in (de)muxing?
Not really. If you’re eg a Retail corporation, you would not want to spend a dime on AWS. So it’s usually not just tech that’s involved in making these decisions.
Is the serial cable the interface used to transfer the saved sampled data to the PC? What does,

>It can currently stream I/Q data to a peer via TCP

mean? Does it somehow stream data over the modem's ethernet connection?
i gotta say, it was such a strong article that i thought about applying (specially after i saw that they have openings in LATAM).
I would disagree. There are a lot of data types which are a fixed length array of bytes (e.g. encryption keys), which make more sense as a value, rather than a container type.
Should Oracle win this case, I predict that Free Software licenses will emerge as the clear market choice. Licenses that enshrine interoperability along with the freedom to modify or reimplement in part or wholesale will suddenly provide significantly more value over non-Free software which will be a proprietary minefield and the value will not be for technical but purely from legal liability. Anyone setting out to do something new would be wise to build on top of software they are at least assured will not be used against them in court should they find success building ontop of it.
Ask HN: What's the oldest software you still use on a regular basis?
They acquired RedHat, and with that came Openshift.
It might actually. Phoenix suburbs are different than the densest city in the US in a region that sees the worst of weather. Saying this as someone that hopes Waymo succeeds.
> If let unchecked, many millions of people would be dead - this has been avoided only by control measures, and we're not past it yet.

This is an unfalsifiable claim, considering that virtually every country has done something to inhibit spread. It's also meaningless, because nobody is saying that nothing should be done to inhibit spread.

The question is, what should be done? How many people-years can we realistically save, and at what cost? Every year, almost 3 million Americans will die of any cause. If we take a CFR of 0.4%, and a "herd immunity" threshold of 70%, the upper bound of deaths in the US from COVID-19 is under a million. The average age of a COVID-19 fatality is higher than life expectancy, which means that half of these deaths would've occured under any circumstance, in the near future. We can see high excess mortality right now, but we haven't seen how that translates into lowered mortality in the future.