skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the extra copying even performed? It either has to be a small thing, or processed in chunks, or oom might be a problem. So its small, in this case, will the compiler really copy, or might it just optimize the operation away?
Hmm, I wonder if they'll be crediting us for all that data egress at AWS prices...
Coal is obsolete anyway, but carbon capture may be useful for natural gas, particularly for applications like peaking plants.
Having used many iOS and android devices before, I usually preferred iOS devices because they were just far far more performant and snappier when running so jailbreaking was worth the inconvenience and it wasn't that hard. I remember trying out a samsung phone and the software they put on it was awful so I went straight back to an iphone at the time. But yes, it was annoying that I had to jail break it in the first place and that they kept trying to block it.

That being said, my current and last phone are the pixel 4a and 2 and they feel just as snappy as the iphones I haved used, I can install any software I want, and the 4a is really nice as it is only $350 with a fingerprint sensor and a headphone jack so I don't plan on going back to iOS any time soon.
I always hated that damn modem screeching sound. I once popped off the speaker on the modem itself, because it was so annoying.

And then I recall, there was always a commercial playing on the radio, that had that sound. Maybe it was for the now dead U.S. Robotics. I can’t recall.

I was glad to finally get cable modem.
This is very cool, and I wonder if I could work something like this into a way to teach my (10 year old) son the basics of digital logic.

In his case I suspect the full syntax of Verilog would be overkill and just add confusion, though. A simpler subset without modules and with only continuous assignment would be ideal.

Gears turning.
Isn't it a question of where you put your trust? For the software solution you have to trust the computer and its file encryption utilities. For the hardware solution you have to trust the USB stick.

Although one could assert that data coming from an untrusted computer might be already compromised. It might not be the case for an air gapped system.

Or you can trust different aspects of the computer at a different level. You can trust it for its normal functions but maybe it doesn't get regular updates for file encryption utilities and USB mass storage drivers. Sometimes you still need to fetch data from it using trusted USB devices.

Threat models can be complicated, also it makes sense to apply defense in depth.
Oh silly you, of course not.
I understand that. I've used dozens of editors, MS Word, LibreOffice, UltraEdit, Vim, etc., however my most productive editor was WordStar. Once you got the hang of the WS diamond it was magic.

Most people who used WS loved it, and they only traded it under duress for say WordPerfect.

I still have hundreds of files in WS format and from time to time I've imported some into MS Word in the days when it had a WS importer but now I no longer bother. The reason is that I now have WordStar 7 running under emulation on Windows 7.

It's strangely familiar to be editing with WordStar on Windows these days but it still has its advantages. If one uses dozens of different programs like I do, one finds it's often difficult to remember where some particular feature is in the menus from one program to another. For instance, I use MS Word to about the same extent as I do LibreOffice and I'm forever annoyed that they don't have the same menu/command structure as it wastes time constantly switching one's mind around.

This is particularly annoying when simultaneously using Windows machines side by side with Linux ones. On Windows one's using Office, and on Linux LibreOffice.

Using a command line editor like WordStar solves this because one automatically knows where all the Ctrl keys are.

Sometimes when I'm trying to get thoughts into text quickly I'll bash them out in WordStar then if necessary I'll pretty them up in Office or LibO.

Your mother was absolutely right, command line wordprocessors are great for quick entry and when you don't want your train of thought distracted by mucking about with formatting, etc.

WordStar was wonderfully logical this way.

Incidentally, I remember years ago in the 1980s at a software trade show where MicroPro was exhibiting its new WordStar 2000, talking - almost arguing - with Seymour Rubenstein (the owner of WS), that the new, supposedly simpler but quite different, command structure in WordStar 2000 wouldn't take off and be popular, as all old WS users wouldn't want to relearn new commands for ones that were perfectly OK and that it would have to compete with established WordPerfect and the new kid on the block MS Word. Turned out that I was right, WS 2000 died long before its older sibling did. This is a classic example of how not to tamper with or upgrade a perfectly good product.
If civilisation as we know it is almost, at, or past, the no point of return, does it actually matter given it’s our only option?
Ought it be https://krajzeg.itch.io/ ? :)
On-board computers that send data home about how many times they have been refuelled and charged? I suppose it might not go down well with car buyers, though.
Aaron Finch. He's an Australian cricketer bloke. I guess OP's girlfriend is an Aussie, so he uses finch as a mediator. And OP seems to be saying he'll dump the girlfriend if finch isn't allowed to mediate.
Well, non USians like me don’t really have a choice
Does karma play a role in this on HN? I wasn't aware of that.
Perhaps the buyer is not paying, she is only the purchaser. The purchase is actually paid for by taxpayers.
I'm reminded of a story Tim O'Reilley tells. When we started out, he published a set of the BSD documentation, which was explicitly licensed for free commercial use, this was long before what we know now as Creative Commons. He kept getting flak from people criticising him for profiting from publishing freely licensed documents, but one time he was at a book fair or conference and one of the authors told him how thrilled they all were to see their work in print and out there being used by so many people. That was a dream come true for them.

That is the ethos, it's what open source and CC is about. I may not be in a position to profit from some of my work, or I might be willing to donate it for free. If someone else can do something valuable enough to other people with it that they get paid to do it, good for them. The world is a better place. At the end of the day companies and corporations are just made up of people making a living.
Are you aware that there is an option to disable messages from unknown users, and users you do not share a server with?

There is also a setting for discord "scanning" your messages for bad content, maybe that's something you're looking for.
African countries hit with Trump’s new immigration rule
Yes, I'm sure these words on paper mean a lot.

They are completely worthless. They can do whatever they want in their servers and in the devices planted in people's homes, and there's no way of us knowing it. And if by some miracle that does come out, then they will get slapped with half a day revenue in fines (courtesy of bourgeois-captured government), and move on with their lives.
Do you mean to say you don't care for any living thing but your family?
If you've already got an amazon smart speaker listening inside your home, surely this new mesh network is the least of your privacy worries?
Not really, but I presume they change it frequently (I've seen cordless's author saying they're using v6 apis)
I question the legitimacy of an article about carbon capture that leads off with a picture of a nuclear power plant’s steam cooling tower.
To solve chicken and egg problem. In order to enter password, you need to boot full OS (with keyboard and display drivers, for example); but to decrypt OS boot drive you need a password (or more precisely, some key material derived from the password). So a copy of that key material is stored in a TPM, and provided to software only if measured boot goes as usual (i.e. this is not a Linux booting from USB thumbdrive).
>Mocking people for believing in FET is cruel and unhelpful. Mocking FET itself is necessary and enjoyable

In my experience if you believe in crap like FET you generally believe in other stupid stuff that is also harmful, furthermore believers in harmful stuff tend not to shut up about their belief but want to spread it to others, which is also harmful.

Therefore I reserve my right to mock believers in a flat earth on a case by case basis - that said I'm no longer the fast-mouthed jerk I was as a teen, and a mocking from me nowadays is probably so mild people would just fall asleep, so unlikely to effect things one way or another.
The buyer is a person. Their needs should be satisfied as much as possible, that's the whole point of having an economy.

The seller is a company. Its only purpose is to satisfy its customers' needs.
First was uBlock scriptlet patching window.fetch and replacing player_type=site with twitch_everywhere, facebook, embed, thunderdome, animated_thumbnails, dashboard. Every time took couple of days for twitch to patch it, including just saying fuck it and starting to play prerolls in the dashboard.
Then extension .on webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders to override user-agent

Googlebot
Mediapartners-Google
LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Apache-HttpClient +http://www.linkedin.com)

those also no longer work. Then someone discovered there arent any ads in the embeds so someone else wrote userscript replacing Video element with embed ;-) and finally we are back to patching webRequest to spoof being an embed.

All this cat and mouse will go away as soon as Chrome V3 manifest lands and kills blocking webRequest, because privacy or something (V3 still lets you spy on all webRequests, just not override them ...) :/
There are a few versions of this. I picked up Pako Forever. I've managed 25 seconds so far!
If most of the companies emit 400% of the allocated CO2 quota and you 10% of the quota, statistically your usage can't compensate for the scam that's going on with the current incentives :(
> make a pooled community video set-up and someone can search across all the cameras.

I can't help thinking that eventually "someone" will be able to search across all the cameras even if there isn't a pooled community video set-up.
Although nice, a single person won’t make a difference. We need to change as a whole of society, and that means legislation. 2020 showed society can shift when faced with dire consequences.
Well, it could be worse. Python did the whole Py3k own-goal purely for the purpose of forcing everyone onto UTF-16. (Facepalm, yes.)
Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how
> You do not welcome changes. You approach the very idea of progress with condescending skepticism.

You sure have me figured out. Progress is overrated; everyone should be playing harpsichord only. And no parallel 5ths, and also the tritone is the interval of the devil.
Well... I guess most people equal ML with AI and use these terms interchangeably.

If you just replace ML with AI everywhere in this article it is going to make sense.

The article has other problems, one being the main premise.

The problem isn't to drive a car around track (which is what the polynomials did) but rather write a program that can figure out how to drive a car without you knowing how to solve it.
OnlyOffice Community Server and “Security”:)
> That said, for USAF purposes, crew rest isn't during flight

So... it isn't the same as FAA is it? Because crew rest is during the flight for the FAA - hence the whole point of the article, which is about crew rest stations on the aircraft, not before.
Great set of actions.

Cutting down on flying is another action you can take, I looked up emissions from taking flights and its a significant chunk of annual emissions.
And together with that Chinese found anomaly on the dark side of the moon. Time to start preparing the flight to Saturn...
This is a dumb meme that needs to die now.
People care for their close ones much more than for strangers. It's human nature. It's not binary between caring and not caring.
Aren't USB sticks like these used in air-gapped systems? So, a bit more security-sensitive than "just" banning USB pendrives and gluing the USB ports.
Just stop all subsidies for hybrid cars, as it creates too much of the wrong incentives. If somebody really needs a hybrid car, he can pay for it full price, or buy a subsidized full electric (or wait a few years more until cheaper options are available).

I'm planning to buy a full electric car next year, and it will be the first time I buy a new car.
> what if i told you that the constant level of energy spent is the level of security bitcoin users demand by virtue of buying it at current price level?

I'd say that you're wrong because security is not the primary thing they're buying.

> would you say constant provision of certain level of security is waste?

I would say that doing so through a constantly increasing level of energy use is indeed a waste.
Nature journals reveal terms of landmark open-access option
All the privacy protections are about preventing other users from monitoring the network. Amazon however will know everything, like what devices you have installed, where they are, who they communicate with, what they monitor, etc, etc. They are using the word 'privacy' to mean "we won't tell you what we know"
The machine learning course at my university starts out with polynomial regression and estimators, statistics of classification, etc.. Neural networks are only one tool in a large toolbox.

But they are all the rage and it is no surprise that a lot of people want to play with them.

Cynically, neural networks are easier as you don't really have to think about your model. Give some examples with some classes and you're done. Or give examples of one class and let the neural net generate new ones. Doing away with the abstraction beforehand is an enticing prospect.
Since overproduction is a good way of dealing with variability of solar + wind and because carbon capture uses quite a lot of energy this might be a good use of over produced energy (those periods when energy prices go negative).

Better than mining Bitcoin.
I'm watching plenty of old movies and series in the past couple years, and I usually switch the speed to 1.08 to 1.15 in VLC. That works wonders with stuff from the 60-70-80s.
Advantage comes with those who attack, not defend. Attackers will always find new ways to attack and eventually break-in. Be ready for this. As history shows, crackers (DDoS'ers) always win if the price for your head is high enough (money or fame).
At least in the US self-proclaimed comunists are on the same side of those that want to completely decriminalize undocumented immigration and stop deportations (which arguably is almost exactly what capitalists want, an entire class of non-citizens ready to be exploited with less legal protections that they can point toward as a distraction).

The problem with comunism is not that it is a faulty ideology, but that even if you tried to start a reasonable organization about it you will be overrun by mindless ideologues.
atmosfair
For your own ethics and morality you should try though.
Absolutely. That’s the whole point.

Remember: he chose to assign himself an annual allowance for “entertainment” the size of 10 of his workers’ wages.

Could he have went with just 9 wages and bump the salary of his workers a bit? Probably. Could he have contributed it to the communist cause more to drive systemic change? Probably.

But he chose not to.

You cannot adhere to the labor theory of value and make such choices without either knowing that what you do is theft, or knowing that LTV is wrong.
Probably not. Proof of work seems to be essential for a successful currency. Go visit the City of London or the Financial District of Manhattan to check out the proof of work of the current financial industry. Millions of people busying around and spending time in huge buildings that are---quite evidently now during the pandemic---completely unnecessary.

If you really want to stop waste then try to convince people to stop worrying about whether others have more stuff than they do. John Lennon wrote a well-known song about this idea. You could try imagining it too. Unfortunately you've got billions of years of evolution against you, but good luck!

Alternatively, if you can figure out a way to do it without proof of work then you'll stop all of this waste while still appealing to our animalistic instincts.

But, then again, who are you to talk about waste anyway? What makes your life not a waste of energy? Don't you consume food every single day?
This is a pointless comment that misses the point of the post completely. It says "you _might_ not".

The given example in the opening paragraph describes a scenario where you don't need it.
I'd like to continue engaging in good-faith conversation, not start exchanging barbs with undertones of acrimony.
You are completely ignoring second-order effects for these systems. You can quite easily turn resources obtained from a PoW system into a PoS financial system and have the worst of both worlds.

Do you want an example?

> If you mine and do not sell, you perpetually consume and fail in short order.

With ETH you can mine ETH, lock in a MakerDAO vault and pay your operations with very low-interest DAI and use that to finance all your operational costs.

As long as your profit from mining is higher than the interest from minting DAI (which is very easy to do), you can mine forever without ever giving up the original ETH. Your only limitation would be in how many people would be willing to buy all the DAI you will be minting.

This is no different than a PoS system, except that it still has to bear all the PoW costs and externalities.
Why? The smart speaker is designed to capture audio and send it to Amazon. The only dumbness is in the people who install it and THEN complain about their privacy. How did you think it worked?
That's not symbolic AI though. That's only statistical methods. The statistical methods are all the rage now, but explainable AI that can reason is an important area of computer science (and research) and uses formal methods.

Edit: yeah, you can downvote this, but current AI research splits right along this line, whether it's symbolic or statistical. Some AI courses will use NNs, others will use Prolog and ASP. You can't just dismiss a whole field of research by reducing AI to statistical methods.
See also: https://github.com/google/minetest_pnr

Similar project but for minetest (open source minecraft clone)
My favorite small game is probably Golf On Mars[0], the sequel to Desert Golfing. The game could almost not be simpler: you hit a golf ball into a hole, then the view shifts to show you the next hole. Repeat. Forever.

There's no interface, no objectives or awards, and no story. Shot power and ball spin are the only controls. The landscape is randomly generated and has enough features (water, sand, cacti, etc.) to keep things interesting.

Calling it a "small" game seems like an exaggeration. "Micro" might be a better word. It sounds like it would get boring after a bit, but honestly that might be the best part? You can kind of zone out and play for bit. It's almost meditative.

[0] https://captaingames.itch.io/golf-on-mars
Hey as a (way smaller) competitor of yours, I honestly feel you.

I understand you may not want my advice. But anyways, here it goes :)

I have dealt with similar issues too at my full-time job. We ingest data in the billions range too, and our costs are a lot lower than what you describe.

* On the public endpoint, can you move the first point of contact closer to the edge? You want to block requests before they even reach your ingestion pipeline. If not, add a few geographical Load Balancers with the sole job of accepting requests before forwarding them to your Lambda. Divert traffic at the DNS level using a geo routing policy on Route53.

* Are you also hitting DynamoDB for every request as part of your spam system? I found it quite expensive on-demand, unless you provision capacity. We used to pay tens of thousands per month for DynamoDB in the past, when a single Redis instance would have done it. Specially if it's temporary, non-critical data such as spam detection.

* Do you batch the incoming events before triggering SQS?

* How are your networking costs going? They tend to creep up in the AWS bills too.

It just sounds to me you clearly need something in-between the public endpoint and those Lambdas. But maybe I'm missing some info. Otherwise you're going to keep paying for capacity that a "traditional" server could handle, without costing you more for each request.

If you can't fight back, and don't want real requests to be lost, put a server at the battle-front, and buffer all raw HTTP requests into a queue made for this (like Kinesis). You can then process events and recover the data at your own pace. I did this in the past, and could handle 60k+ req/s with 2 instances on AWS. I used a simple Go tool to capture the traffic https://github.com/buger/goreplay

Also, at my full-time job we use Kinesis to buffer all analytics events, it's cheaper than SQS and handles billions of data points per month. This also keeps the ingest rate constant, but you seem to already do that with your workers.

Full disclosure: I'm Anthony from http://panelbear.com/ , and I just want to offer honest help.
The problems you mention are likely an artifact of him using a bad optimzation method, not inherently a limitation in the function approximator. Ironically, its most similar to genetic search, a method most commonly associated with machine learning.

If he used a standard optimzation method instead, convergence would be fast and the result much better. A similar problem, using splines to set force inputs for a robot that travels through a maze with barriers optimized using start and end position and force minimization, was a lab in a course I took last year.

The question becomes one of hyper parameter search, i.e. what kind of model/function approximator is sufficient. Here the problem is easy enough that its easy to find a sufficient simple model.
The huge networks are nice for more general problems because they tend to work moderately well for everything... in the dataset.
I don't even know why this is a question. So, people burn hydrocarbons for energy. How do you expect to capture the carbon piece into a stable compound that can be buried without expending more energy? Please draw this chemical reaction out, along with energy balances and how endothermic it is.

The idea that you could do this belies total ignorance of chemistry, fossil fuel genesis and the laws of thermodynamics. Life actually does a pretty good job of turning CO2 into dirt which gets buried -encouraging that rather than building some preposterous contraption involving mineshafts seems a little more sensible.
“The reason was an XLS file reaching its max # of rows resulting in case-information to be truncated.”

Pretty hard to call that an “Excel error.”
nice summary. are you working in HPC?

edit: In case you work for Cerebras, I gotta say, 18GB is indeed low for such a compute dense beast. I'd expect it to have access to at least 200GB off-chip high bandwidth memory.
> They conceded nothing and admitted no external influences

In the case of Marx this is inaccurate. Indeed, in Das Kapital he develops the Labor theory of value [0] from earlier works of David Ricardo and ... Adam Smith.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value