skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That there exist other ways to make money besides mining it, also does not mean that mining is not a conversion of energy into money.
Nevertheless, it is impossible to say why a 'neural network' would be better than some other model function with a large number of parameters. It's true, there are some significant successes achieved with NNs, but there is not a lot of work separating necessities from contingencies. Basically, a lot of it is trial and error.
I am Swiss and for many countrymen the wallet is big enough, that we're even called an iPhone nation. But I moved to Android after iPhone 2, because I was fed up with the funny limitations Apple imposed on me, for "consistency" and "security", like:

- forcing me to sync music in iTunes, with my 500GB personal music library crashing iTunes

- no mms support, back when this was still a thing

- no video recording

- no file access

- no copy/paste functionality

later, owning a MacBook Pro in 2016, reminded me of those funny decisions Apple made for me, like no CMD+X for cutting files, no real full-screen button and regular kernel panics when connecting/disconnecting my multiple screens and MIDI devices for music production.

I since completely turned away from Apple and I am happy. Not because of my wallet, but because of the freedom of choice I gained. As a plus, yes my wallet has more left for other stuff now.
Discrete TPMs have been going out of fashion, fTPM (firmware tpm, i.e. soft TPM located in ME/PSP) has been standard for a few years now.
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No, you have to go to a menu labelled ‘keyboards’ and switch off the switch labelled ‘Enable Dictation’
It seems to be explicit about being a hardware TPM which is included in the CPU instead of an extra chip, so I guess no.
So you let Amazon use your WiFi to bridge their proprietary IoT network to the internet, potentially lending your bandwidth to anyone near you with an Amazon device. Existing Amazon devices already support it and it will be turned on soon. Is this opt in or opt out?

> Amazon Sidewalk uses Bluetooth, the 900 MHz spectrum and other frequencies

> The maximum bandwidth [...] is 80 Kbps [...] capped at 500 MB [per month]
there already are cryptocurrencies claiming the same thing: iota, eos, tron and probably thousands more.

so what's different this time? to me it seems ETH is always overpromise, always underdeliver kind of project. they promised global scalable world computer since inception in 2015, now they say it was never possible with ETH1 and they need to hardfork to ETH2. why do you have any confidence in their statements?
What could be the max switching frequency of a USB-C power supply? I'm assuming the MOSFET allows fine-grained PWM of the heater which the power supply itself may not be able to replicate.
Really tall walls around the data centers.
Completely agreed. Every serious project I've been in has been striving to invent storage that's as close to their problem as possible. And I do the same in my hobby projects.

The file/directory abstraction survived for a long time but nowadays it's often a limitation more than a convenience.
There is a great detailed answer on the page but for me it boils down to "so I never have to think about it ever again".

I'm sure veracrypt on the cheap drive works very well, but I dont want to think about usb drives ever again so if I can make the problem go away (and its the customer/company paying for it) i'll buy the product with off the shelf capabilities.
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Star Wars (and probably the Marvel/DC superheroes) is effectively the new Iliad. Its heroes, themes, and aesthetics, will likely self-replicate for centuries and be used by historians as a reference for cultural values of these times. It is already much bigger than Mickey Mouse, in practice, and has now enough material to be enjoyed throughout one's entire life (it's actually becoming difficult to be a completionist, with all these TV series).

I fully expect, in about 100 years time, to get statues of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa erected not-ironically.
Thank you very much for your time and support!

I do understand your concern - however the data collection works a little bit different "under the surface" as it seems.
In the statistical analysis of the data we do not look at the "complete" breast images.
The study is designed in a way, that the most important parameters around breast (reconstruction) surgery (e.g. breast size, breast shape, areola size, areola position, scars etc.) are being combined in 88 images in a way that in the end allows us to extract the data "broken down" to the different parameters. So the result of the study will not be "people like image X more than image Y".
Instead we want to get a far more profound understanding of the influence the different parameters have on the perception of the breast. As we also measure the decision time, results of the study will be something like: "most people (or maybe just men - that's what we want to find out) tend to accept breast size asymmetry more then areola asymmetry. The decision happens much faster on areola asymmetries - so that seems to be more obvious and therefore has to be taken more care of during the surgery."
Nobody has every done a profound analysis of these individual parameters alone - so that is where we see huge potential for a better understanding.
I hope that explanation helps a little bit! Thank you very much again for your support!
Solderless breadboards are the equivalent of exploratory programming. If you know what you want to make you might as well go for a PCB (you can simulate the logic quite nicely these days).
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> if it is using HTTPS for DNS resolution, I don’t know how you would block that

By filtering traffic sent from that particular device based on a query to your DNS filter to approve or deny the destination address. (Some implementation work probably required.)
Speaking about network, I would have dedicated few lines to PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
He is also known for his Star Trek lectures. As far as I know only in German, but if you understand it, really entertaining https://www.startrekvorlesung.de/
Also, very likely, it is largely a "replacement market", i.e. people that already own a flat or house in London decide to sell and buy a (larger) house in the country or in a nearby town, so there should be a flood of houses for sale in the city.

I mean I doubt that most people can afford to buy another house, keeping the one in London, or that most people that are now in a rented house can afford to buy one (even if outside the city) "suddenly".
The approach they show in the end - it's still machine learning though? Exploring a space and finding parameters to optimize for a loss function (speed around the track), just not deep learning with neural nets.
That's most likely based on attestation.

Which means the OS still have full control over what it does send but the "thing" can attest that what the OS sends is valid and not made up.
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you're on to something here.

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?

would you say constant provision of certain level of security is waste?
Not in my experience, at least in engineering. The teams I work in are filled with quiet people who either simply lack confidence, or worse even, have no personal opinion about the topic at all. They're frustrating to work with because someone has to drive meetings, bring up problems, and come up with solutions to these problems and if the whole team were filled with these "gorgeous quiet creatures", nothing would get done. The energy seems more like "I don't really care about this just tell me what to do" rather than "I am brilliantly analysing this situation as a wall flower ready to spring to life when it's most important". Even if they were the latter, how's a meeting supposed to function this way? Are meetings really theatrical exercises, or a game where the person who says the most clever thing in a few words as possible wins?
T&E across Europe are biased (not in a bad sense but they will drive their agenda as strongly as the other side) ecological association. In my country they will oppose all personal transportation but bicycle and public transportation. That's why this kind of "study" should be read with a grain of salt.
I love his shirt: "Star Wars #1 Fan" with a picture of the Enterprise :D
I think links like this are really helpful. Too often I suffer from the (common on HN) mindset of, "I know nothing about this field, but I'm intelligent enough to know this is stupid". Posts like this are not only interesting, but give me a small dose of humility.
I released a small game a couple of years ago -- a challenging puzzle game called Omnicube [1].

It was inspired by my time playing competitive chess. I loved the experience of sitting down and solving a book of tactics puzzles. I found it fascinating that the individual movements of each chess piece are quite simple, yet they combine to create really challenging puzzles. With Omnicube I wanted to create a game that had a similar feeling of challenging puzzles derived from simple mechanics. I think it would appeal to a lot of the HN audience!

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There's a difference between something like a Prius+ and the PHEVs mentioned in the article though: the BMW X5, Volvo XC60 and Mitsubishi Outlander are big, heavy SUVs, it's hardly surprising that they have poor emissions.
Yes ML is overkill in this case, now test it with sensor noise, track obstacles, and the simple polynomial version might break down
zero electricity is wasted on PoW cryptocurrencies. energy consumption is equivalent to constant maintenance of security at the level demanded by market.
Google maps allows google to add your location to their knowledge graph in various ways (real time, plans, favorites, etc). It's so well done that it would take a herculean effort to create a competitor map service (see OSM). Amazon can't compete here, I suspect.

I'm not a wlan engineer. Can someone smarter tell me if this tech can be used to expand Amazon's location knowledge to track non-user devices more intelligently, i.e. across neighborhoods?
If the coal burning power plants are already starting to lose the bid to wind power and photovoltaics, I doubt they stand a chance with the substantial added cost of CCS. Maybe it could be used to sort of pull carbon from the atmosphere if it was combined with renewable fuels. But it does not seem likely that it's going to save fossil fuel profits.
I think it's "the soul of man under socialism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Socialis...
Having worked with some financial institutions, I can assure you it's often the same orgs that spend bazillions on extra-super-secure hardware etc and then leave security holes large enough to drive trucks through elsewhere. In short, if you make the process to do things the Right Way hard enough, people will just circumvent the process.
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The never having to think about it, in this context is don't use them. A significant amount of government and businesses have blanket bans on USB pendrives and disable USB mass-storage in the mobile devices themselves.

Making solutions that do not require carrying of sensitive material on portable devices is a much safer approach.
What if every day was a pandemic day?
I was using i3 before, so kinda went back to that and when that was set up I decided to try out sway again which actually did stick this time. So been on Sway for a couple of months :)
Rule of law is great, until you find yourself an outlaw just by the fact of being alive.
> free

Exactly. The professor didn't pay for the privilege.
>"All is that " = "All I know is that". Dyslexia regarding my own writing sometimes.
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If only there were some rigorous mathematical frameworks we could use for dealing with uncertainty.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my comments. Yes of course I am aware of the status quo and very much following all major events. What I was commenting was the general everyday activity involving law and legal system. I don't know how you get confused but I wasn't referring to events like the Hong Kong situation, which is clearly not a local level case.

I merely want to contribute to a meaningful discussion by personal experience so I wouldn't expand to those topics (in my opinion quite sensationalised by social media). I live in Europe now and absolutely understand what the general public are interested in.
Engels viewed communism as a historic inevitability that would see the proletariat rise up and seize the means of production. Redistributing his family's wealth would not help accomplish that.
Riot has written about their League of Legends test infrastructure https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...
I've seen something similar actually for our client-embedded web plugin, a web crawler hits a client's site and I see 6x traffic hit AWS WAF periodically - fortunately the brunt is rate-limited.

I'd be almost certain that AWS' staff looked at the logs to determine this, they would've sorted it in 20 minutes by seeing a load of requests coming from a specific host.
No order of magnitude estimation and no time-scale. Carbon capture is irrelevant. This problem has to be solved at the root -- the energy demand. https://withouthotair.com/
Agreed, my own day job enforces this (much to the chagrin of users who assume they can)
So, a member of my immediate family is senior management at Public Health England, the civil service institution that should have been planning for this.

When the government announced they were shutting down PHE, in an attempt to copy the RKI (forgetting that PHE is far more than disease control, of course), the RKI wrote a letter to all senior management at PHE. This was quite a confused letter - the RKI didn’t understand why the UK gov were making this decision, when the RKI modelled their processes on PHE. I’ve read the letter.

Add to this, daily squabbles between cabinet office and other branches of government. If there was good news, you’d hear back immediately and you’d be blocked from sharing it. Bad news, cabinet would stall sometimes for weeks.

But ultimately all the guidance was irrelevant because the UK government are not interested in listening to it. When an adviser egregiously broke the rules, a story which dominated the headlines for weeks, they changed the rules. You see it now - the UK isn’t even on the downslope of wave 2, but apparently in 2 weeks we’ll have fans at football games and business as usual.
And doing the track the fastest.
> so are the trusted execution environments used by fTPMs?

AMD PSP for sure is. I think I might have heard something about Intel ME being on the PCH in some cases???

Anyway seems like the point is to make it a "more hardware" TPM rather than a firmware one – i.e. the key memory would only be accessible from fixed function crypto hardware blocks.

Coincidentally, this might mean that the embedded TPM would still work after me_cleaner destroys most of the ME firmware :)
Sure, but you can get the latest image automatically as part of your container build. It's not as hard as it seems.

Or you can build an image from scratch without any distro and then there's nothing to maintain.
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> conversion of energy into money.

You are treating this is a some function of fundamental physics. It's not. We are only talking about "conversion of energy into money" because that is what the best current implementation of a BFT system is using.

It's accidental. You are focused on the "Work" part of "Proof-of-Work", when what we care about for solving consensus in distributed part is the "Proof".
Even with trained psychologists or psychiatrists there's a limit to how many times you can put your hands in the fire before it's impossible to craft some skin back.
> The political left is screaming for "revolution" all the time.

Oh definitely the left is always advocating violent revolution.
Where have I heard that before?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25196754
Why not just save the money and start elsewhere?
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That’s not the same as living in excess while preaching solidarity.
I fully believe this was a DDOS attack. But, this is good advice. If you think you're getting DDOS'd, check for the number of unique IPs against your own user pool. Probably a lot more people introduce bugs into their codebase that DDOS's their own app than get repeatedly targeted by a well-funded attacker as above.
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I don't know, this is my field and the post is pretty stupid. Hardware encryption is trivial to do, even in a small form-factor, low-power device like USB storage. A 60x price differential is completely unreasonable.

This is rent-seeking on market segmentation. Certain government agencies and contractors are prohibited by law from using a bog standard USB storage device, and require this FIPS certified thing instead. The manufacturers know this. They also have budget to pay, when they are forced to.
Wilde (who lived 500m from where I stand) was a nuanced user of absurdity. I think what made him stand out in his day actually was that fact.

He casually reflects on absurdities, contradiction, and their prerequisites rather than burying them. What Wilde is doing in this essay is giving credence to counterarguments, either between socialism and individualism or between socialism and his own, famously hedonistic character.

The tendency in his period was to argue for hermetically sealed worldviews. Marx's famously, and later Ayn Rand's are like type examples. These worldviews internally saw themselves as a complete and absolute understanding of history, sociology, economics... the Truth about people and society. They conceded nothing and admitted no external influences.

Wilde's essay is still read because it's one of the few which actually captures the real political/philosophical debate of his era. The ideals behind the ideology, the dangers of these going wrong.

He was a mighty intellectual, and if you want to understand why 19th socialism was what it was I think he's indispensable.
if the implementation isn't screwed (sounds like a big if), they would normally have better emissions than their non-hybrid variants due to regenerative breaking (especially for big heavy cars) and better ICE burning modes (even if you use the same ICE, and much more improvement can be gained by making an ICE optimized for hybrid application). If the article is anywhere close to truth, then it can only be explained by the bad implementation - may be they moved the freed diesel engineers to do the hybrids after the dieselgate :)

Recently walking a dog waiting for the light i saw/heard a Volvo XC90 hybrid doing ICE start from the red-light stop - the ICE started a moment before the car started to move - it did cross my mind back then that such start of engine would [unnecessary] burn a lot - ie. my Prius starts moving on pure electric with the ICE kicking, if/when needed, some moments later, much smoother, better torque and better efficiency. The performance-wise the XC90 had a regular start, far from anything fancy, and anyway large starting ICE wouldn't produce much performance while starting (and waiting for it to spin from the 0 in order to get some performance would eat the time thus killing that performance), so why would they do that ?
An important observation. People forget that genetic algorithms and a whole swathe of classical machine learning strategies exist.
Amazon here is effectively bootstrapping their own global mesh network. Fun and scary in equal measure.

I wonder if this was in the original plan for the Echo all along, or just evolved organically. It definitely has potential for being another well-paved road to total-surveillance hell.
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> The entire world was communist from the time cave paintings were drawn in France tens of thousands of years ago, to about 10000 years ago.

No, it wasn't.

Some of it was vaguely communitarian in non-communist ways.

> Whereas capitalism has only existed as the predominant economic system anywhere for a few centuries

Capitalism has been displaced by modern mixed economies as the dominant economic system of the developed world for close to a century. How long it was dominant is debatable because it's not really clear where to draw the line between pre-capitalist systems and emergent capitalist systems. I tend to say early capitalist systems were around 16th C,
Yeah, remoteness can be a challenge for any process if you don't adapt. We're finding our [0] users write more than ever, and have fewer stand ups and video meetings. I think it's a win for deep work, but a loss for creative collaboration. Very easy to turn into mindless feature factories this way. We're working hard to keep creative collaboration alive while maintaining the best bits of remote work.

0: https://kitemaker.co, the super fast, hotkey driven product management tool that has deep integrations to the tools you use every day.
That’s really not a good example. The polynomial-driven cars behave erratically and slow down for no reason - fixable, but the key is that improving that behaviour will take many man hours of trial-and-error work and math, where the ML version will just improve itself based on the goals.
This is a very poor analysis. What matters for the "haves" and "have nots", to keep using your terminology, are the entry costs. That's what separates the ability to become a "have" or "have not".

Entry costs in PoS are significantly lower; you just need a consumer-grade computer, broadband and the electricity to power a consumer-grade computer (i.e. of the order of 100 W). In PoW, you need specialized equipment (ASICs), larger amounts of energy (of the order of 1000s W) and broadband, this equipment will also need be renewed every few years.

The minimum stake of 32 ETH (in the case of Ethereum) can be avoided by using pooled mining, so that's not a true barrier of entry.

Being a validator still requires effort, you need to set-up and maintain the infrastructure and guarantee sufficient availability (higher than 2/3 of the time) to avoid being penalized. As with any economic activity where there is ample competition in the end the profit margins will be quite thin, so presenting this as free-money for the "haves" is just dishonest. If staking rewards are too high, more people will be tempted to stake, reducing the staking rewards, if they get too low some people will be disincentivized to stake and stop doing so, raising the rewards. This will tend to balance around just marginally profitable. This also happens in PoW mining. Main difference being that due to the low entry costs in PoS this economic activity is accessible to a much larger amount of people.
Isn't that just searching a space? Machine learning generally refers to a fancy way of searching a space. Here the guy searched randomly so I'd say not machine learning.

But perhaps using a cost function or a loss function is enough to call it machine learning. A machine just used an algorithm to learn another algorithm after all.