skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Plaid has become the leading financial data aggregation company in the United States. Plaid is planning to leverage its connections to build a bank-linked payments network that would compete with Visa. Plaid’s money movement platform would allow consumers to pay merchants directly from their bank accounts using bank credentials rather than a debit card. Plaid’s established connections and technology uniquely positions it to enter the payments market and disrupt Visa’s monopoly"

Fascinating. I think the line that DOJ is drawing is tenuous. It is not like removing Plaid from the marketplace would remove dangers to Visa's debit card monopoly. Wouldn't a Google/Apple/FB/Amazon be more of a platform threat. Google/Paypal already do this when you can directly pay from bank account to merchant. How does this help?
What does it mean to be a 'a modern [...] hardware design'? Newly created? Robust in some way? Uses in-production parts? I would consider being focused on an archaic driver means it's decidedly NOT modern. Maybe "Open source NE2000 compatible NIC made with in-production parts' is a better opening statement.
A poll's choices are normally arranged along a spectrum. I'd expect most likely at one end, and least likely at the other, with null values ("don't know") at the end.
>open your front door and let them walk out to freedom.

I'm pretty sure my drunken parents' methods of pet care were not in fact humane or in any way to the benefit of the pets who were killed by it.
Can you provide more details about how you're running them model in-browser?
Sorry, I'm not sure to understand what you mean. Do you mean that no COTS access point does MAC whitelisting? I would say that they can do it, but it's not very useful
> Well, this is why. Because, as a rule, if you are a researcher in academia you won't be asked to retract your research because it makes someone look bad.

If your results go against current dogma, or if they reveal an uncomfortable truth, your paper will be rejected for spurious reasons every time you submit it. A recent example from Glenn Geher[1]:

> I have published more than 100 academic pieces in my career to date. I've pretty much been through it all.

> From this context, I will say that the most difficult paper that my team (the New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab) and I have ever tried to publish was a paper on the topic of political motivations that underlie academic values of academics.

That's the pushback you get for researching political motivations in academia. It's much worse if your ideas directly connect to social policies. If your ideas are particularly heretical (or you engage in good faith with heretics), you'll have your life threatened by violent mobs. This has happened to Allison Stanger, Bret Weinstein, Jordan Peterson, and many others.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean...
Right, I was thinking of USB 3.1 Gen 2 which is 10Gpbs. Hooray for these naming schemes.

But good to know about the display connection being the same. I was under the assumption that the increased data rate of TB3 could be used for DisplayPort connection too.
AMC Says It Might Go Bankrupt If You Don’t Buy Its Stock
>recommended against by NIST

As a layman who has too many passwords that rotate too often to keep in memory effectively, I'd like to pass this along to our IT department. Can someone post a link to the NIST best password practices?
> "Pets shed, airplanes have carpeted floors and airplanes aren't exactly deep cleaned between flights, at least in non-COVID times."

Just to reinforce the truthfullness of this. Most planes only get cursory garbage removal between flights. Thats it! They are only cleaned every 24 - 48 hours. But a plane might make 4-12 flights between cleanings, and even these cleanings aren't serious. They do a vacuum and spray sanitizer on main surfaces, but that's it.

In fact one of the reasons that diseases spread so much on planes is not because of people on your flight or the re-circulated air as most people assume. But often disease spreads from people that sat where you are sitting on a flight 1-3 flights ago.

And of course allergenic have similar characteristics to viruses and bacteria. So they follow the same pattern.
HN randomizes pull choices on each page load.
Refresh the page, HN randomly sorts them.
Honestly, I find SQL Server worth the $$$, it's certainly not Oracle $$$$$$$$$ as far as I understand it.
Yeah nobody in the 1990s with a real CS degree didn't know what a linked list or binary tree was. They just didn't want to bother coding it and testing it, when the database was there and being used anyway.
Yep. My wife and I did this and flew first class with two dogs. There is an element of "you cant ask me why I need this animal" from the ADA.

Then again, I had a therapist who vouched for this and actually do have mental health problems that my Shepherd without a doubt helps me with.

No way in hell I am putting the dogs in the cargo hold. The passengers around us and flight attendents were absolutely enamored with how well they behaved.

While I tend to agree that this has been abused - it frustrates me that obnoxious children get a pass.
Microsoft does have their own Rosetta, which has been able to run x86 apps for a long time and will be able to run x64 apps within the next few months in preview builds
> dependency info is turing complete

It's NP-complete in general I think, definitely the case in Haskell-land. I think OCaml sets an explicit timeout for dependency resolution?

> the dependency graph cannot be computed without installing many versions of all dependencies?

Does PyPi not have an index or something? (with statically known package bounds?)
Email claims she was told to stop publishing a paper with basically zero reason/conversation matching the tweet.

Hiring has apparently failed to meet goals with zero consequences suggesting a lack of concern with minorities.

I don't think someone misinterpreting disregard for ethical ai research as disregard for minorities is slanderous, heck it might be charitable as the later is known.
Way back when, longer "epic" films in the US would sometimes have intermissions. I don't go to movie theaters much but I haven't seen such a thing in decades. (With plays, of course it's normal unless it's only 90 minutes or so long.)
The article doesn't describe a stack. The closest thing is progressive bitwise OR operations on a ring buffer, good until your whole ring buffer is filled with 1s.
I am not disregarding the skepticism coming from that drama with LeCun..

In the email Jeff writes that the paper she wanted to submit conference review system did not meet Google's internal review standards.

To me this looks really fishy! I did not read her work, but Google has conflict of interest in publishing this paper? If the paper is so out of date as Jeff writes, it will get rejected in conference review system. Reviewers are known for being brutal..

Perhaps she's right to call out BS here, probably not the way she did.
If Lexing is context sensitive and you have random access to your input, why not make it part of parsing by calling specific lexing functions based on the context. (I have used this approach in https://github.com/FransFaase/IParse and https://github.com/FransFaase/RawParser). You can implement some caching, for example with keywords, which usually require you to 'parse' an identifier and then check if it is a keyword.
When did Apple use PS/2 ports? It went D-sub -> ADB -> USB, as far as i remember.
I'm pretty skeptical that big budget superhero style movies can make a profit this way. It either means a shift in the types of movies that get made (not a bad thing), or studios eating cost for a couple of years until the theater market rebounds. I can see non-Disney studios losing a lot of money on this model and mergers and acquisitions would not be surprising to me.
You won't get the brightest students, but rather the richest.
Quite a contrast between Dean's message and Gebru's. I know which one I'd want leading my team.
> It’s supposed to be a currency. And yet it’s not. It doesn’t exhibit any of the traits of a currency I’d want to spend at least.

ah that argument, I read that recently, those are skeumorphs, here is a quote

> When it comes to this asset class, there are still people that argue against the concept of Bitcoin, mostly in reaction to one of its sales pitches without ever noticing what this really is. For example, people are likely to debate about the “coin” or “currency” nomenclature of “bitcoin” and “cryptocurrency” respectively. Ultimately, what we have is an asset with a fixed known supply, which has some attributes of all other asset classes, some improvements, is continually updated to have more attributes and improvements, in a world with massive inflation. This is the macro story of bitcoin, the big picture.

You might begin to notice that I use the term "digital asset" and "crypto" in its new asset-based context very reliably. It can be transferred peer to peer and I frequently do that, I don't use the term currency and I typically don't single bitcoin out specifically as I'm not usually talking about bitcoin specifically.
HiSilicon's Kirin chips use Cortex microarchitecture and are very competitive. I didn't follow recent releases, but I remember that the Kirin 970 was way ahead of the Snapdragon and Exynos chips at the time, both in terms of performance and power efficiency.
Dutch.
The Senate does this periodically to rile up this constituency and do fund raising. The Senate passing the bill does nothing because the house has to pass their bill, then they have to reconcile and pass them again. Fat chance of any of that happening. Just a scam by both sides in the senate and house to keep playing this game and extracting donations from both sides.
Yann was (actively or unintentionally) refusing to participate in the same conversation. His response was the "facts don't care about feelings" one. It's not wrong but it is a thought terminating cliche.
View Binding: Farewell to Kotlin Syntetic
If only they cared about such things for Terminal.app, so we didn't have the extra step of installing Alacritty on every single machine to improve the situation (and not to anywhere near 9ms, even).
I love it! perfect replacement for subtlepatterns.
You gonna change this one to say she “resigned” too?
You're actually right. The H-1 is not the H-1B (in the same way that user ID 1030 in your database is not user ID 103) which is probably where the confusion is stemming from.
Thanks for the fix. I intended monospace, but I thought it was spelled mono.

Fixed now. I've updated all posts now like this: pre.code { font-family: monospace; }
Jeff Dean, Head of Google AI has responded (original article has been updated.) claiming the following:

>Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.
Technological advances can increase the gold supply. Asteroid mining, extracting it from sea water, mining lower quality deposits, etc.

There still has to be consensus on using gold as money, if there isn't it will lose its monetary premium to something that has better monetary properties.
I have had a pretty good time with MacPass [1]. It is not just fully KeePass compatible but also adds a nice native macOS flavor to the game.

[1] https://macpassapp.org/
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: I would consider it

Technologies: Python + pandas, Tensorflow, AWS, Julia, and friends

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowancopley/

I'm a programmer who's great at solving hard problems with data. Some of the problems I've worked on:

- How do we design software that will let institutions collaboratively build machine learning models on data they cannot share with each other?

- How should we visualize experimental data affecting the entire metabolome so our scientists can comprehend the results?

- How can we extract labels for geographic regions from natural text written about those places?

- How can we build a gamified incentive structure to encourage the kinds of solutions that are scientifically valid?

- Is it possible to model the effects of changes in immigration due to COVID on the US election?

I love small teams and have gravitated towards startups because I like having my fingers in many pies and taking ownership of important things. Looking for a client or employer to be an early engineer on a project that I care about; especially interested in anything in energy transition / cleantech. Feel free to reach out to chat even if it's not directly about a particular job.
Bought any coffees (in person) with the crypto-currency of the week recently?
Yes I did use a Breitbart link, because they happened to have good coverage of that story and showed up at the top of search results. Other sources, such as more 'mainstream' ones I follow (NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc.) did not cover this story seemingly, which may be either a simple omission or a product of their own bias. The fact that the link is from Breitbart shouldn't be a reason for you to disregard my argument. Evaluate the content in there describing the particular incident - it's easy to corroborate.
A big release grows bigger. Personally, I was excited about Mesa 20.3 because Vulkan meets baseline conformance on the Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/vulkan-update-were-conforma...
But why do they think implementing this would be a disaster? Seems you are saying the fundamental issue is a lack of buy-in, and I am unclear what this stems from. The research shows diversity adds value to companies. Fewer blind spots, better long term performance.
There is no ultimate public health solution ever in any situation!

Of course our response will be a multi-faceted approach! Look at how many businesses are now installing UV-lights in ventilation systems, allowing people to work from home, and how the wearing of masks has become normalized and accepted in many parts of the country!

People will no longer hesitate to throw on a mask if they feel ill, unlike before when we used to wander into Target sneezing and coughing all over everything! Think of how awesome that is for immunocompromised people!

The vaccine will be a critical link in a long chain that will hopefully save thousands, and thousands of lives. Whether it 100% eliminates the shedding of any measurable viral particles, knocks it down by 10%, 20%, 30%, 50% or whatever, it's a huge win. Right now we have zero way to even think about reducing viral shedding in real-world populations. We're relying 100% on social distancing and masks.

Get excited! We're gonna kick this thing!
Less accidental; more like undocumented. BIOSes have used Unreal Mode, EMMs/XMSs can or temporarily use Unreal mode, Intel's SMM use it. There's even some evidence modern processors still support & use it.

One downside to Unreal Mode is that leaves the processor in in a state where naughty or non-standard TSRs, Interrupts, BIOS ROM code, and programs can cause hard lock ups.
TLDR : Yann Lecun tweeted that ML models are biased when the dataset they are trained on is biased. Bunch of people, including Timnit Gebru, replied he is wrong and the biases are every where and systemic.

Yann later tweeted again to explain what he meant in the context of deep learning models without hand engineered features, but people ignored him and still replied he was wrong.

It looks like they were accusing Yann of all the systemic biases of society... common.

Is there a paper showing that the Transformers based models are "biased" no matter the dataset ?
Alternatively, hiring internationally should be made a lot easier for highly technical roles. Facebook pays its foreign hires the same as Americans, so as to retain them. Making it easier to hire the most suited person (without thinking about nationality) would make more sense than making them dance around legal barriers like they currently have to.
Replying to your edit, H1 visa has been introduced by 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, and in 1990 it was only split into H1A and H1B, to separate out nurses into H1A.
I don't want to be dismissive of any musician's practices and work, but I couldn't really see much evidence in that video or a quick YT search for KT Tunstall as a really good looper.

If you want to get an idea of how far you can go with live looping, this is one of my favorite videos (Rico Loop wandering around Berlin with looper, a mic and not a whole lot more).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWc3W8WgFWw
From my understanding, this is a Nolan problem. The Dark Knight rises had similar issues with sound mixing, especially with Bane's voice in certain scenes. I remember Interstellar having issues as well. Funny enough, Googling his last few movies (ex: "Dunkirk sound mixing problems") all lead to articles around the time of the movie's release and the audience complaining about sound problems.

Slightly off topic, but I personally use subtitles for everything I watch now because I got tired of missing dialogue for different reasons. More movies being on demand is a blessing for me in this regard.
To me, the Jeff Dean's email sounds like this paper failed to cite some research and as a result made Google look less good than Google actually is. This sounds like somewhat minor academic mistake, but at the same time a major PR mistake.
Yeah John Gruber has really become a shill
over the last few years.

[...]

Yes M1 is great. But it's a closed system.

You can like Gruber or not, and that is your choice. I agree with him more often than not, but I certainly don't always agree.

However, while the "closed system" thing is a valid criticism of Apple, I strongly disagree that its omission from Gruber's article is a valid criticism of his writing.

Gruber writes for a specific and informed audience.

He is not writing articles for people who've never heard of Apple, or people who may not be aware that Apple runs a fairly closed ecosystem. He assumes that you know all of that.

Whatever you think about his writing as it exists today, imagine if he had to preface every single blog post with background information like that? Should the first 1,000 words of every post include a brief history of Apple and a discussion of open vs. closed ecosystems, and where Apple falls on that spectrum?

He knows that stuff. He knows that we know that stuff.

What's the last article (or speech, or email, whatever) you wrote? Surely, when deciding what to write and what not to write, you considered your audience and their level of context and domain knowledge, as well as the constraints of your medium?
> Watching a movie at home simply isn't an equivalent replacement and it has nothing to do with the size of the screen.

And thank goodness for that. My own couch, no crying children nor people playing with their phones. I can eat and drink what I want and not overpay for it.
That system is bare minimum required by law.
Unlike php, I can see Javascript slowly disappearing thanks to Wasm.
You get certain hdmi splitters off Amazon. They will strip the hdcp off and then you can capture what you want.

There are even specialized devices that you plug a dvi/hdmi/vga signal into and it will turn the signal into IP packets over Ethernet. I’m sure you could get away with a number of things in places you shouldn’t be with one of these.
David Bowie Speaks to Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight (1999)
I bought a new 13' Intel MBP just before the announcement as I needed an x86 machine for development and was nervous it would be discontinued!
This diet is well regarded in my research as well, and prescribed for people with inflammation problems. It also happens to look like the 1st week or so of any kind of elimination diet / partial fasting. I don't know if they are trying to sell something, but you can get the benefits without buying anything, so they don't seem like quacks to me.
I actually think movie theater going is about to become a more social experience. Sure, the Regals and the AMCs might suffer, but the living room theaters? I suspect those will continue to do just fine.

My wife and I saw two or three movies a month in a theater (pre-Covid, obviously). I think I've seen one movie without a waiter in the last decade.

Movie-going as a mall pastime, as an activity to kill time, will probably die. Movie-going at discount theaters available to the working class will probably die.

But theaters will remain. There'll be fewer, and they'll be more expensive, but they will continue to exist.
I'm not denying the known awesomeness of vaccines. I'm denying your currently provably false claims about the extent of their awesomeness, and I've linked to the proofs and specified exactly what you have claimed but what's provably not supported at the moment. I see you don't try anymore to claim what you initially claimed, and that's good.

Your claim "you should be wearing a mask around them anyway, because they're very vulnerable to a hell of a lot more bugs that you could be toting around than just SARS-Cov-2" is also wrong. It's also provable, and was easy to read in the press for months, that many people who would otherwise live decades longer, without people around them wearing masks, already died form SARS-Cov-2. There are still many such who have tried to protect themselves in these months but who will be more exposed to those who would wrongly believe in "sterilizing immunity" of the vaccine if there is no such.

So it's important to be scientifically accurate. At the current moment, all we know is that the vaccines protect the vaccinated from getting sick. We still don't know that the vaccinated can't transmit the virus to the vulnerable, and until we know that, we must say that we don't know that and protect the vulnerable!

As Lawrence Rifkin MD writes, also at the moment on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25287076

"So when facing loss of innocent life in a house fire, cry openly. Allow yourself to hurt deeply. Comfort the bereaved. But don’t say “it was meant to be” or “they’re in a better place.” Go out and promote stoves with smoke-sensing, automatic shut-off valves. The fact that we have the ability, through conscious choice and action, to change the world and make it a better place is a fundamental wonder of being human. It’s what being good is. Not for the benefit of some other world, but for this, our one world; not for some supernatural being, but for our fellow beings."
Interesting, and I've seen and implemented similar optimisations plenty of times. The right query in the right place at the right time can make all the difference.

Did you hear back from them with a positive response?
Nobody said it was disallowed. The grandparent said he called it out as a lazy rhetorical move. It's certainly true that oppression can be tiring (does that point need research?) It may equally be true that some people overclaim on the extent of their oppression, and the mental health harms they are suffering from it, and even make a profession of doing so.
Yes! Slack, Teams, Discord, Spotify. All of these are horrible. I hate to use them. Good thing is I only have to use one of them.
I wish there was more modern low latency software.
Sounds like a Northern to North Eastern European accent to me. But I will say that YouTubers have their own accents that permeate different genres of videos as well, which can add ambiguity.

My favourite accent tidbit is the English voice of the Shinkansen in Japan. It is voiced by an Australian, imitating a Canadian, who was imitating a British accent. The result is a totally ambiguous accent that sounds almost disconnected from geography. I say that as an Australian with a british twang.