skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"“Database should store data not logic!” — well, no. This is called data-base, not data-bag. Databases are specialized engines to deal with, you guessed it, data. And they are extremely efficient at it. Not to mention - majority of the job backends do, is dealing with data. This is good for prototyping. Unfortunately more often than not — prototypes lands on production with updated connection string and debug=False."

Or, as I like frame the issue, there's a difference between a datastore and a database. Datastores/persistence engines store your data in manner that you can get it back later. Think of a key-value store for example. A database, however, assists you with the management of your data, including helping to ensure correctness of the data, tracking changes, among other things. For most systems lot of work is already managed in-database whether you like it or not.
Your description makes it sounds like they are blatantly violating the law are you sure there are not any more details?
Try checking like page number 5/6. This post has 30 upvotes, not 300.

I must know you from somewhere. A random stranger wouldn't spend so much time obsessing and being jealous over my medicore success post.

Based on your green nickname, you probably even registered just to come comment on my post. I advice you to stop wasting time on such activities.
> "SEC filings: The parent company of Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from an Investment Bank in Switzerland that is 75% owned by the Chinese government. UBS Securities is a Swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government,” states the report."

Er, among other errors, that has ownership backwards.

UBS Securities, the Swiss bank, and the entity named on the State Street Capital Form D, is not owned by the Chinese government at all. It owns 24.99% of UBS Securities, a chinese investment bank, and the other owners of that Chinese investment bank are reportedly government and government-connected "private" firms in China. So, even if the "received $400 million from" was correct (and that is also a misreading of the Form D[0]), the entity that they dealt with is a Swiss bank that owns ~25% of a Chinese bank of which the remaining 75% is arguably controlled by the Chinese government, but the Chinese bank, whoever controls it, isn't involved in the transaction at all.

[0] UBS Securities was the "Sales Compensation Recipient" on the Form D, which means that they receieved some money (commissions, finders fees, etc., as I understand) connected with the sale of thesecurities whose offer was identified on the Form D, but it doesn't mean that the $400 million identified as the amount offered came from (or even through) them, though it does mean they had some role in facilitating at least some of the sales.
There's no evidence that she was accused of abuse. How do you abuse people in an academic paper, anyway? Seems much more likely that someone higher up didn't like what she might have implied in the paper in that it might have clashed with company policy somehow.

EDIT: a bit more info from the NYTimes:
"In an interview with The Times, Dr. Gebru said her exasperation stemmed from the company’s treatment of a research paper she had written with six other researchers, four of them at Google. The paper, also reviewed by The Times, pinpointed flaws in a new breed of language technology, including a system built by Google that underpins the company’s search engine."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researc...
To be fair, email account providers - and particularly free ones like hotmail/yahoo/gmail - never agreed to be your partner providing banking/military grade security to the rest of your online accounts. Same as how your telco never agreed to have SMS be a secure protocol for 2FA or password resets.[1]

Far from being surprised free email services "allow reusing emails", I'm way more surprised that orgs like banks and PayPal and crypto exchanges allow using email or sms as "secure reset or 2FA" protocols.

1: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telcos-declare-sms-unsafe-for-...
If I were to build a Bank on top of this, what's stopping Stripe from coming up with their own Banking service that undercuts my bank on every financial metric imaginable due to their higher margins?

Honestly that seems pretty inevitable given Stripe Corporate Card came out almost immediately after Stripe Issuing.
Tiger Lake-H and Alder Lake sound pretty good but they haven't been released yet.
Even without DLSS, this isn’t necessarily true. My 3080 has no problems pegging some recent games at 144-160 fps at the corresponding refresh rate. In fact, I’m generally CPU bottlenecked at 1440p or below.
Waiting to see what intel releases in response.
How are 2 laptops running different operating systems not comparable? The similarities of a Windows laptop and a Macbook far outweigh the differences.
Yeah, renewables can bid the lowest to the grid. They are gaining traction, but it will still take decades to replace the existing infrastructure. Even then, it won't fix the issue. We'd have to make similar changes to other infrastructure like vehicles and capture existing carbon. Then there's a bunch of other contributors, such as landfills, asphalt surfaces, even things like heat pumps and refrigerators when looking at local issues cities. So it will keep the issue from getting worse, but it won't fix it.
A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
I've gotten bitten by Google locking me out of an account because I hadn't logged into it in a long time, and the device that I used to log into it was stolen long ago. Even though I have full access to the recovery email address on that account, because it's an unknown device, Google blocks me from accessing it.

In a similar way but a different mechanism, I also had the same thing happen with some accounts which I had opened up using my mobile phone number. I have struggled with mental illness throughout my life, and one of the things that can happen through crises in particular that can have vicious consequences is having no ability to regulate your behavior, in particular your finances, so you easily and quickly wrack up debt, cash out retirement accounts and blow through all that money, and being unable to pay your phone bill (or any other bill) leads you to losing that phone number, and any account which you access through that number.

The systems that we use as a society to authenticate identity for access to digital services and systems, is incredibly punishing to people who struggle with mental health issues. It's a bit of an own goal, since some of the potential solutions to it are potentially technical in nature rather than requiring legislative or societal action.

That said, the difficulties presented by the digital world to people who struggle with mental illness pale in comparison to those they face in the physical world, and how ineffective the society, governments, and medicine are at helping those people, sometimes hurting them in that process through lack of training, ability, and the flaws in the design of the overall systems.
I'm not sure where you are, and what regions the vendor I'm using covers, but I did pick Beyond Solar.

This was mostly because my neighbour, an ex-power plant engineer, with much more expertise in this tech than me, had selected them three years ago, and his son had gone through a similar process a month or so ago and also chose them.

Quality of the equipment is the big factor, and I gather a lot of the significantly cheaper companies are cutting costs on the quality and/or warranty.

I was recommended https://www.solarquotes.com.au/ by several trusted sources for comparing options, though didn't end up using them.
I'm not imagining, but a 20% endorsement deal and (in the cases I know about) a much more direct line to an artist rep for customer support in lieu of going through the customer support process isn't too bad.

Hell, I've gone to shows for the sole purpose of hand-delivering the artist a replacement product.
Underrated tricks that help me to not get overwhelmed at work
I would like the people downvoting you to explain why they think it's truly revolutionary. I just went back to reread the Tom's Hardware article on the chip, thinking I must have missed something, and I'm not seeing it.

Full credit to Apple for incrementally improving their A-series processors over the last decade until they're good enough for laptops. But I'm not seeing that this makes anything fundamentally different. Just compare the A14 with the M1, for example: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-1804-vs-a...
It was a different MS back then, cloud services were still new, and companies were still figuring it out. Maybe the reasoning was to keep people afraid from using hotmail alternatives in fear of losing their accounts.
The real statement is they will delete your data as they see fit with no explanation at all, right?
So it's like a union... but without any democratic control by the members, just a company trying to maximize profit from it's "customers" instead?

What problem with unions are you trying to solve here?
Three channels

1. Performance (Paying for traffic / leads)

2. SEO (People click through to your site after googling you)

3. Viral (Your users share you)

Other than that there's no truly scalable D2C growth channels. First round has an entire article on this https://firstround.com/review/drive-growth-by-picking-the-ri... Good luck!
>The author is bashing another author for not doing measurements, yet himself declares that m1 beats all the other CPUs, without providing any measurements.

That's because there are plenty of measurements published, which agree with the author, and disagree with the "another author".
The final competition is going to be naval power which is where your "of course" has to be qualified. Naval power is what backs the dollar and lets US act as the hegemon which the world can rotate around. Challenging that is a highly destabilizing act.

US is in the process of becoming a true empire which can only be gimped by international institutions like the IMF which would reduce its currency-based influence as well as otherwise monopolizing decision-making power in channels of aide and diplomacy. But if the US can recover its political will then it still has more hard power than China can clamor for, and most of its allies which were on the fence are reorienting back to US partnerships.

No one should want this kind of engagement to be enacted. It can get hot and messy in the worst way. But here we are. You lie in the graves you dig.
Thanks. RNN layers later, if I can find the time
I think I stopped midway through Season 2 when they started going off on weird tangents and it became obvious this was going to be stretched out to make more money.

But maybe it was because I was young, and the format was new to me, but the first season did capture my interest.
Family Sharing for App Store Subscriptions Now Available
There is no harm in simply buying an item, and how that item is later used is not under the seller's control. There is no victim here.
They have no way of knowing how many people are in the room with you. That $20 could be split ten ways.
The lossless + Atmos tracks are often 3 gigabytes or more by themselves. I'm not sure if you can replicate this in AAC tracks.
Sorry, I'd heard that, but apparently not yet. US US$21 trillion, China US$14 trillion.
I think "cultist" or "zealot" applies more to the FOSS/Stallman crowd.
> For example, NN-512 can exceed 48 effective FMADDs per cycle (on the 27 peak FMADD machine) with Winograd-Cook-Toom-Lavin, if the tensor is deep enough (enough channels)

Roughly how many channels do you need for this approach to be worthwhile?
A general purpose utility server is never a bad idea. I have a hypervisor on my home network that I will programmatically spawn instances of various vm images stored on my NAS if my dns server sees a request from my workstation for that resource. I can run about 8 at any time but I have almost a hundred different vm images each with their own purpose
Probably login... Send or upload would make sense too
"Chooses not to" is so disingenuous it's hard to take you seriously.

She cannot and will not expose that information without inviting all sorts of litigation. This is not a case where she can just "choose" to release that information.
I have my own domain, and run exim+dovecot on a low spec Linux machine. This setup has run solidly for years. I serve E-mail for family and friends. When I first set it up, I had some deliverability problems, but once I had DKIM and SPF set up, it's been rock solid. No experience with containers or docker or any of that stuff, sorry.
Yeah - I believe this person believes that a set of data in its original state gets full-deleted. I do not believe that that data, in all of its forms, gets deleted from all of its storage locations. I'd hazard a guess that Google doesn't even have the ability to know whether it's been fully deleted across all of its storage locations even if they wanted to.
The NSA's worldwide surveillance collection used by the CIA to kill someone without any approval from any other organization and without concern for civilian casualties.
The herd-immunity threshold is probably around 20% -- enough to stop exponential growth in cases, but not enough to get the virus to self-extinguish.

It also helped when front-line doctors figured out the treatment they were told to use ("invasive ventilation") was a death sentence. They stopped ventilating all their patients, and their patients stopped dying so quickly.

The sun also provided progressively more adequate illumination (providing Vitamin D and red light), starting with the vernal equinox on March 20.

Covid Season has returned this fall, like clockwork. The only factor that really matters is light exposure.

https://www.space.com/vernal-equinox-2020-earliest-spring-12...
98% of developers account for only 5% of revenue! Crazy!
Hi, other author here.

0. Indeed. Though if your set consists of 100 million elements, you'll indirectly need to have at least 27 bit elements just to be able to identify them. So for practical problems you can probably say that the sketch size does grow logarithmitically with the set sizes.

1. The capacity scales with the symmetric difference between the sets. So if one party has [A,B,C] and the other has [B,C,D,E], you need capacity 3 (for A,D,E). So every "change" to an element costs at most 2 capacity; insertions/deletions each cost 1 capacity.

2. Sketch size is exactly (element size in bits)*capacity. So 1000 bits for a sketch with capacity of 100 10-bit elements.

3. I'm not really up to date here. I believe that PinSketch is the best known deterministic reconciliation (meaning that reconstruction is guaranteed to succeed if the capacity is sufficient). There are more performant algorithms and more trade-offs to make (between capacity and probility, e.g.) if you allow probabilistic recovery.

4. I just wrote a (slow) native Python re-implementation for demonstration/testing purpose: https://github.com/sipa/minisketch/pull/26. The C++ code relies on many low-level optimizations that are hard to replicate in higher level languages, so expect a very serious performance drop.

1. Shouldn't be hard to compile to WASM with emscripten, but I haven't tried.
It's illegal to grow it.
The "coffee" shops seem free to sell it, but they themselves bought it illegally.
We also had the ludlow massacre where the local militia and mine company guards attacked the miners with machine guns (pre nfa...) and dynamite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre.
My final post is that this is my first post on hacker news after reading it since slashdoyt.
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That is the symbol inside out.
I went through it.
First post is last post, then all is complere. stpo
You're not paying a lot if you manage to use your printer well!

O_______O's approach is based on a model of plenty, of trying to provide & share the production means they equip themselves with. It's good for others, & it encourages one to continue to reap the benefit of the investment, by continually printing photos. Marginal cost ought keep lowering for years & years.
Timestream hasn't even really been generally released as best I can tell. We wanted to use it, went to TimescaleDB, and then ended up going to Druid to improve performance.

Seriously, If you need to do this at scale, use Druid. It's much more efficient for time-series data.
Full delete? No copies or derivations? No anonymized versions? No subsidiaries?
It aligns with the Dutch people I've met as well - it's surprising!
(IANAL) One small point to add is that since Timnit was a manager at Google, she also acts as an agent of her employer.[0] With this, there is going to be a higher expectation of conforming with company policies and processes, particularly how she interacts with other individuals inside and outside the company due to her actions having a larger impact on Google's general liability.

I am not sure how this may have influenced Google's decision in this particular case, but I imagine it was part of the evaluation. Other comments here delve further into her current and previous actions.

[0] https://www.lynchlf.com/blog/personal-liability-for-managers...
Google even lets you schedule them every two months, which works nicely for me.
The employer can't modify the specifics of the resignation by "moving it up", since that's not what the conditional resignation offered. They can fire her, sure, but they can't call it "resignation". You can't "resign" someone, but you can ask for their immediate resignation. If it's not voluntary, it's firing.
I gather that's how the law works. I just don't understand why it's so broken.

Say I don't get the green card and my visa expires. Facebook isn't going to suddenly hire an American to do my job. Instead they'll just relocate me back to Europe. Team communication becomes harder and USA loses a taxpayer. Who wins?
For those who looked at list item #9 ("no code versioning") and thought the author's makeshift solution to migrations seems awful, I highly recommend sqitch[0], an extremely simple but well thought out migrations tool that is platform- and database-agnostic. I'm using it on a side project with success, and haven't run into any major hurdles yet.

[0]: https://sqitch.org/
> Which is exactly why she has refrained from releasing it throughout this whole drama: plausible deniability.

I do not think there is evidence for that. It is normal to remove employee access to email if they are leaving so it is unlikely Timnit would have access to the email to share.

Timnit says says she has been cut off from her corp account as well:
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364734418726912
The jit is run-time translation still - not run-time emulation.
We only got rid of Slack because Teams was essentially "free." If we had done a fair comparison based on functionality, quality, and usability, I think Teams would have failed. If Teams had cost us anywhere near what Slack charges, there's no way we would have used it. Everybody at work bitches about it, and honestly, it's awful.
IMO, all software should be like this. If you’re inactive for X time, they send an email letting you know your account, and all associated data, will be deleted if you don’t log back in. Probably sending a few such emails to be safe, but ensuring there’s some sort of automated inactive account cleanup.

So many people have defunct accounts, filled with personal data just waiting to be hacked. I’d be totally up for legislation to enforce “must automatically delete inactive accounts”, it’d reduce the efficacy of hacking shitty old services with bad security, who are probably storing your password in plain text or md5ed.
> Does the US always need an enemy to pick a fight with to feel " validated"?

So what exactly are you asking for? Do you want the US to be totally apathetic? Never to comment on the erosion of democracy in China and Russia?

The US certainly doesn't have moral high-ground on many issues, but I still want our officials to recognize and speak out against human rights abuses and authoritarianism.

If there are always authoritarians in power, then, yes, the US should always have an enemy regime to speak out against.

> Everything China is being accused of is and has been done by the US as well

I'm so sick of this "both sides are equally guilty" nonsense. It's not always easy to say one country's regime has done worse things than another, but this isn't one of those times.

It is absolutely inarguable that US has never done the worst things that Xi has been credibly accused of.

The CCP's treatment of Uyghur's is, even at its mildest, much worse than anything the US has done since slavery ended in 1865. Even the Vietnam War is unlikely to have killed more innocent civilians than China's Uyghur concentration camps are likely to have killed.
Poor man's architecture for mitigating outages: Avoid us-east-1 (N Virginia). It unequivocally is the fail-whale of AWS regions. Every service there seems to have abnormally high usage numbers and absurd amount of scale to deal with. As James Hamilton would like to remind us, at such scale, even rare events are frequent [0]. The curse of being the default region, I suppose?

us-east-2 (Ohio) and eu-west-1 (Dublin) are my go-to regions. Prices are the same and most new services (and new features) are almost always ready to go on launch days.

[0] https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/at-scale-rare-even...
I have a collection of Eudora backups still kicking around (an old Mac OS9 and earlier vintage mail client). I don't have a _good_ way to read them any more (but at least I can grep them when I want to hunt an old email down... I've done that maybe twice in the last decade...)
This doesn't appear to do any SSL interception unfortunately.

This plus a Frida [1] script or two would be amazing.
> I'll let the SEC filings do the talking,

The SEC filings said that State Street Capital sold $400 million securities, for which sale they paid UBS Securities (the Swiss bank) some money.

UBS Securities also owns ~25% of a Chinese bank with a similar name, whose other owners are Chinese firms which (lets just assume for the sake of argument) are state- and state-controlled enterprises.

And State Street Capital co-owns, with Dominion's own management team, Dominion Voting Solutions.

So, what you have is the private equity firm that (among many other things) has an ownership role in Dominion paying some money to a Swiss bank connected to a sale of securities, and the Swiss bank involved also owns a minority interest in a Chinese bank in which Chinese government firms own a controlling interest.

How that even approximately equates to "China owning voting machine" is something of a mystery.
I guess it could. Are a lot of people watching movies with ten people round at their house? I really doubt that.
That would be a bold supposition, I think.
I was talking about academia, which is why I said "scientific research."

What SV is doing is perpetuating US dominance in software (and some hardware development fields). If most of the skilled software engineers in the world become off-limits to SV companies, then the global software industry will cease to be so heavily concentrated in SV.

It's strange and amusing to see people earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year complaining about foreigners undercutting their salaries. They imagine that if immigration is restricted, then the open jobs will go to Americans. The reality is that the jobs will leave. Aesop must have written a fable about this sort of situation.