skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt that US sanctions are causing them problems.

While I think it will be a long time before China can fab their own 5nm chips, I would be surprised if they don’t quickly get to where they can make inferior but still serviceable CPUs, memory, GPUs, etc. It would seem like very poor execution to not make this a priority.

I am in the USA, and I wish that we were more self-sufficient but unfortunately we are not as motivated because probably no one can mess with our supply chains.
Heck, one could promise to spray any aircraft above the backyard with the water. It wouldn't harm commercial traffic, even if it could reach.
Guns work by having chemical explosives in them. Which is also how gasoline powered cars work.

They definitely do not work by using a depleted battery to charge a second battery to create energy out of nothing.
What Is VPC Peering and Why Should I Use It?
I think you need to hear "Sorry." from someone, and I'm someone, so I'm sorry this happened. I don't specifically recall it happening, because my access to candidate-related communications doesn't last an indefinite amount of time after the fact (y'all can probably predict reasons why the opposite would be unwise), but I'm disturbed that I can't immediately rule out something similar to it having happened.

I have little within my immediate locus of control, particularly with many of my coworkers being away on break at the moment (as I am), but can promise we'll look into what happened. This would be well below our bar. I respect that it might be too late to help you out, but we will postmortem the process.

For the benefit of other HNers: we try to be extremely accessible. There are some operational challenges in working with (a very large number) of candidates per year, but those are our operational challenges rather than yours, and to the extent we ever drop the ball we would far prefer knowing than not. If you ever feel like you need a bat signal, my email address is my HN username at stripe.com, and Patrick Collison's is patrick at the same domain.

Nothing we do on any given Tuesday is more important than making sure Stripe is still capable of hiring great engineers/etc.
If ethics exists it must be universal - otherwise ethics is just = power.

If ethics is universal, rules apply equally to anyone.

Let’s say theft is not moral, unlike receiving a gift. Both are cases of receiving without payment - the difference being that “giver” giving voluntarily or not. The same goes for how sex is moral, but rape is the furthest from moral, or how work is moral but slavery isn’t.

Tax is money collected under threat of violence - pay, or be punished. It can thus not be moral if morality is universal.

It is also bound to be inefficient - spending “other people’s money” is easy, but when you spend it yourself, you ensure it is invested where it creates the greatest value, unless you’re an addict. This is evident as governments waste money in any way that can to buy rulers the currency they need most - votes or special interest groups goodwill.
I guess that's easier and cheaper than adding a circuit to keep regenerative braking on, but dump the energy into a big resistor...
On the contrary, one could argue that the drop in XRP prices (and corresponding outflow of capital) has been one key drivers of the successive ATHs BTC has hit this week.

Longer term, there are many other tokens/protocols that can fulfill XRP’s functions without its obvious weaknesses.
The M1 Macs (and the Intel generation before it) no longer use Butterfly keyboards, but instead use the earlier "Magic Keyboard" which was well-loved. And the M1 Macs have, let's just say, better thermal management than most laptops now.
Is the phone company liable if there's an emergency and the phone system is down?
Yeah if you check the price history there was a massive drop from ~0.55 USD/XRP to ~0.25 USD/XRP shortly after SEC filed lawsuit against ripple.
Not relevant to what you asked, but relevant to the point that was made higher up in this thread.

I think you've fixed something. I get

$ file foo
foo: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1
(SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-
x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0,
BuildID[sha1]=f9e391e2e7da2c80dbfc7820ac87294ef447c57a,
not stripped
Even Linus of Linus Tech Tips fame loved his Razer and recommended it, but had to make a somewhat awkward video when it completely died after barely a year on him.
And I'm pretty sure "any old office building" means buying a large office or small office building and filling it up with them.
Any thoughts on the automated vertical farms that are starting to see good results?
I used to work for a drone company. I made sure to go watch the mechanical testing for prop safety. One of the test objects was a chicken leg, and the prop cut through more than 2mm of bone. The props can do some serious damage!

I don't know what, if any, approaches are implemented but one solution is that you can design a safety feature in the motor control to turn off the motor if it detects blockage.
I was not proposing carrying a dish, instead lay long runs of wires on the surface in whatever pattern you like. But if you want a parabaloid, chose a darkside crater and do the Arecebo thing there.

Also, some frequencies are not possible on Earth at all due to ionosphere attenuation.
...I don't know, might be fun if they ran a stripped down Pop! Distro.
Most sources put that at Ripple and/or its two top execs. They obtained these positions by virtue of the Ripple consensus protocol, which conjured the coins into being and granted the network creator (Ripple) sole ownership.

AFAICT, that's the crux of what SEC will be going after.
There is a serious and interesting debate to be had on this subject but polemics like this don't really foster discussion.
The greatest handheld console was the Genesis Nomad.

Cons:

- It was the size of a brick.

- It was designed with oddly skewed angles.

- It didn't have room for batteries inside, so they had to be shoved in a little pack that clipped on to it.

Pros:

- It was a handheld Sega Genesis.

- You could connect it to your TV.

- You could connect a second controller.

- You could run it off A/C power.

- Ergo it's also a console! In a roundabout, not-all-peripherals-supported kind of way.
Thanks, yes that's true that if the {legal, moral, medical} context was better most of the problem would be gone. People able to workaround the difficulties of this drug may well be fine.

My point was that, in the current context, the use or heroin is hazardous -- in our current society, for most people -- which is not the case for virtual sex and related toys (if not horribly dysfunctional).
hmm, I'm still confused. Are you saying there are just too many APIs and my app's little API is insignificant in a world overflowing with APIs? What if several customers want access to my API? Is there an alternative that I should be using (like GraphQL)?
Bit late to the party, but I note everything shows as being purchased with dollars -- which I assume are USD.

Starting the process of adding a review, and I see I can pick USD, CHF, or EUR. Here in Australia, f.e., I wouldn't use any of those. : )
I mean the religion christianity is today is even more caring of the widow and orphan. The catholic church alone operates a shocking 26 percent of the entire worlds medical facilities. That doesn't count protestanrts or the orthodox.

The difference of course is that the cultural hegemony of christianity has made charity expected
This is true for large business. But an independent contractor, a hair dresser, a carpenter, a plumber, or any number of other people can do business without involving the violent and coercive group known as the state
There already are restrictions about how low and where you can fly a 'real' airplane. There is even a regulation that would keep an airplane from flying over your house at 500 ft. under most circumstances. The reality is that most pilots don't want to be 500ft above terrain unless they are VERY close to the runway

There are also plenty of good reasons to be under 2,000 ft. The most general is that all training and approach for VFR ops at airports is done at 1,000 ft. by default.

Airspace and altitudes are pretty complex, for a more involved example: A VFR flight departing North from Boeing field in Seattle HAS to stay below 1800 ft but above the highest parts of the city at ~750 ft. Because the air-space above 1800 belongs to jets on instrument approach to Sea-tac. In other words, to get out of that airfield you have to fly underneath the 747s. Seattle is just one example, there's weird airspace like this that balances the needs of different users just about everywhere.
I have never seen that characterization of longevity before, so I am generally confused by what you’re discussing. It is my understanding that prevention is heavily researched. I equate longevity with duration, not with preventing illnesses and diseases. Even Science Direct defines it as:

> Longevity is one of the commonly used terms in aging research that may be defined as an individual’s ability to reach longer life span under ideal conditions.

That is the definition I was asking why against. My genuine question was and is: if life is such a struggle and tough for such a huge portion of the population, why is increasing the duration of life an interesting goal?
There is https://culdesac.com/

But I think the market has basically spoken on automobiles, people are more then willing to take the safety risk for convenience and many are willing to live far far outside the city for one extra bedroom.
In the specific instance described in the article, the police and prosecutor failed to produce any more evidence than the facial recognition match.

Nevertheless, they imprisoned a man for ten days, and proceeded to press for criminal charges over the course of the year. As described the man had to spend his entire savings on this defense.

The court system worked correctly, in that the judge told the prosecutor to produce more evidence. The charges were dismissed.

So we have the "happy" ending of a man whose life has been turned upside down, whose financial situation has been ruined, and who has had to spend his time and effort defending himself rather than contributing to society in a positive way. All because facial recognition was used as the only piece of evidence.
What's the advantage of the abacus or the Enigma machine? Or any of the many Turing-incomplete machines that were built before fully general computers in the 1940s-50s.

This talk might enlighten you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njwQgz63rIs
Everything is fucked: The syllabus – The Hardest Science
That's nothing: Steven Talley was identified by the FBI as the primary suspect in two bank robberies using a facial recognition algorithm. He had an iron-clad alibi, but the police and FBI weren't convinced. In court one of the bank tellers said Talley definitely wasn't the robber. Nonetheless Talley lost his job, his wife and his family and was held in prison for months:

"LOSING FACE: How a Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life"

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/how-a-facial-recognition...

FTFA:

"Talley said he was held for nearly two months in a maximum security pod and was released only after his public defender obtained his employer’s surveillance records. In a time-stamped audio recording from 11:12 a.m. on the day of the May robbery, Talley could be heard at his desk trying to sell mutual funds to a potential client."

Today Talley is still trying to claw his way back to normalcy.

In the outstanding book "Hello World" Hannah Fry examines Talley's story as part of a chapter on crime, AI and facial recognition. Reading Fry's book convinced me that facial recognition software simply does not work well enough to use in police work. As Fry says:

"If you're searching for a particular criminal in digital line-up of millions...the best-case scenario is that you won't find the right person one in six times...". That is not nearly good enough for law enforcement and the courts.

"Hello World" by Hannah Fry

https://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Hannah-Fry/dp/0857525255
If the "foreigners" are visitors to USA, they would face real difficulty getting the law interested in this sort of case. Perhaps other nations are more welcoming to obnoxious tech dudes?
I’m a little surprised to see a “if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide” stance for private transport.

What is the argument why their vehicles should be trackable?
You are correct, and this is exactly what’s happening in Alberta, eg https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/eavor-loop-geothermal...
Unbiased, independent, unsponsored "CONS Reports".

Before buying something I want to know all CONS about specific thing, service, product, car, real estate, etc...

Everyone pitching PROS. I want to know CONS BEFORE I commit.
They usually sell with pre-cut replacement cases in fancy colors.
> Years of saying that a throughput of more than a few kilobytes was impossible

I don't think anyone thought that was impossible from a technical standpoint, just from a decentralization standpoint.

>while one of the devs repeatedly - and this is not a joke - stated the sun revolved around the earth.

source?
> In addition, when stored properly, data recorded on tape today will still be readable in 30 years.

I do not find this to be all that impressive, frankness be.
The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI
I think the issue is that the units are arbitrary, wavelength, frequency, seconds etc... So the likelihood that you would get something that looks like a "normal" number from an alien source seems unlikely.
It looks like the full history of HN (14 years, 25m items) fit into a 361 MB .db3.zst file. I don't think it will grow quickly.
OTP via SMS is not safe enough for any person/organization who might be targetted by a motivated attacker.

TOTP gives you better control over risk (good hygiene is achievable), whereas depending on SMS is outsourcing your risk management to low-paid carrier employees.
Because he's in prison for lying to the court in a copyright lawsuit. He should no longer have the right to sue anybody for copyright infringement.
The Super Gameboy for SNES predates that by nearly a decade

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy
What you can film from your doorbell camera location is of much less concern to me than what you can film hovering outside my window.
Yeah, it's a 2020. It's pretty good considering the key travel limitations, but absolutely awful compared to other laptops I've used that just have more space. Plus the arrow keys...

M1 does shake things up somewhat, and will make an even larger difference at the high end.
For those that don’t know nullc is Greg Maxwell, a former Blockstream employee. He is infamous in crypto circles.
Reminds me of this guy who graduated from Harvard Law School but ended up homeless: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/the-homel...
Yeah, but that would mean using an aftermarket case. Some people just want the original non-augmented experience, with all the quirks (also I doubt an IPS mod + case could be any cheaper than just getting an AGS-101).
Ask HN: Resources for Cryptography and Cryptocurrencies
I'm an ex-physicist (theory) looking to learn more about cryptography and cryptocurrencies. Much of the stuff I can find on cryptography are general purpose textbooks that start from the beginning with cyphers etc. For the cryptocurrency side I generally find stuff for the non-technical audience or for engineers (focused on implementation), but not much for the more mathematically oriented audience.

Can someone suggest a good thorough primer on cryptography and cryptocurrencies that discusses things from a more mathematical perspective? Ideally something that nonetheless doesn't assume too much familiarity with the field. I'm imagining a 50 page pdf called something like "A primer on cryptography and cryptocurrencies for physicists".
It is a well known fact. Here is one in Portuguese. https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/brasil/corrida-pela-vacina...
Protocells.

Self-replicating cells that can be programmed to perform specific tasks.

The first protocells will be bacteria with heavily modified DNA. Eventually, we’ll be able to build fully-artificial self-replicating protocells (more “artificial cell” than “small robot”). Being fully-artificial will help us integrate new tech that nature hasn’t quite discovered/made-full-use-of yet — like different battery techs, RF communication, transistors, etc.

Here’s a good paper exploring the topic:
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/5/2/1019/htm

Imagine a blob that could wash along the floor, clearing 100% of detritus and intelligently depositing it — or perhaps even recycling it.

Imagine being able to repair a worn hip joint by injecting then commanding these protocells — no surgery required.

Imagine them self-assembling into structures to transport, deposit and combine material like an advanced 3D printer, building objects to incredible detail, or massive structures quickly, or both: massive structures with incredible detail.

Imagine programming them to kill all COVID-19 virions!
In English, when purchasing on behalf of a corporation, “we” would almost always be used.

“we” is even frequently employed by auctors writing papers to depersonalize.
It's not only that. There is also the "replace by fee" stuff that allows BCH to make instant payments with 0 confirmations for small values. This was hinted by Satoshi as well, but was made impossible by the current BTC.
Why is desktop Linux bad?

I use MacOS (whatever it is called this week)
Mint and
LXDE

Love Mint (typing on it)
The Apple OS has a lot of rough corners (e.g. (max/min)imising windows is a world of pain)
LXDE is acceptable because it is on my PI and I do not use the desktop much

I have not used Windows desktop for about a decade, has it really gotten that much better?

I am really happy with desktop Linux
Clang and GCC regularly go toe-to-toe with or exceed ICC and have plenty of architectural cost models for modern systems, in part thanks to the extensive documentation and free tools from Intel themselves. ICC does have some gimmick features like GPU offload, and (last I saw) much better auto-vectorization. But as far as run of the mill code goes, you aren't going to get some magical double-digit performance uplift on average scalar code that can only be attained by ICC and/or Intel doing subterfuge.

Beyond that, making a claim of a conflict of interest requires more than just "It seems like these words fit and sound right, to me." Because "Microprocessor company writes well optimized code for their microprocessors and sells it" hardly seems like a conflict of interest at all in this case, it literally seems like a company selling a product that goes with their existing product. Absolutely everybody does this, including AMD, IBM, Nvidia, Apple, etc. It is not a "conflict of interest" for Intel to both design a microprocessor and also sell code that works well on it. What might be a conflict of interest is if they said "We have an obligation to release these specifications, but also we can make lots of money off them if if we keep them private despite that existing obligation, so we'll just keep them private." Which is a much stronger claim. (In fact even the infamous "cripple AMD" legal SNAFU over ICC wasn't a conflict of interest, it was brought as an antitrust suit, AFAIK.) It's not like Twilio has a "conflict of interest" when they implement new features in their product portfolio, build them on Twilio's servers, and integrate them with other Twilio products.

In general, Intel is ahead of almost every other vendor when it comes to publicly-available information regarding performance optimization (first and third party), by a landslide.
that would be an unnecessarily complicated way of reimplementing friction brakes.
I don't give a damn about his reputation. The point of the legal system is to protect the innocent, not ruin the reputations of the guilty. He continues to use the legal system to victimize people, and this should not be allowed. Strip him of his right to sue anybody over copyright. Leave intact his right to sue the government to restore his other rights. To this man, courts are a weapon used to extort people. Allowing a criminal like him to keep his weapon is moronic.
> I am always stunned that many (most/all) of these high tech gadgets lack a LOT of safety features.

Exactly. I would also expect a drone to have triple redundundancy of all sensors but they seem to have only one copy of each.
The "free" part you're describing is called referential transparency. What it means is that a pure function, called with the same parameters, always returning the same results without side-effect, can be substituted with its return value as an assignment (or as part of an expression).

The most important part of that explanation is can. The idea behind certain properties of FP, this being one of the most important ones, is that you are able to describe the results you want (somewhat declarative, moreso than imperative languages, less so than logic programming) and let the "compiler" or the "runtime" determine how that's delivered, without knowing or caring how it's executed. The problem with that is that the "compiler" or the "runtime" has to actually do the optimization, and if it doesn't, you're... executing unoptimized code!

Taking your React example, if it had appropriate heuristics, it could noop a ton of work and devs wouldn't have to even think about optimizing really simple good hygiene patterns. But it doesn't even look at your source code, it has no idea what weird stateful complex mess you're calling into, and it just assumes the worst.
Damn the preparation is astounding! Hats off to you sir, your work is banging
Yeah! Human error is a huge black hole.

We can fix the software (Heartbleed), but the main thing is the hardware (Meltdown)
This is a great idea! I tried it on a 200-page document [1], and it took over a minute to process in my browser, and the result seems to be about 75% highlighted. Not sure if it's the "math-ese" or length that is the issue.

One cool thing is that it highlighted both the same sentences in English and French. I presume you translate the text before analyzing.

[1] https://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/theses/leahy/thesis.pdf
> You should look at the math in the article I linked. It's proportional to the aggregate of everybody - which basically completely disconnects it from what individual users listen to.

I have actually read the article, and that's wholly compatible with my take on things (that before and after Spotify artists are paid roughly proportionally to how much their music is "used"). There are two interesting points that can create the apparent problem/paradox you're seeing:

(1) It's interesting that a typical power user before Spotify would pay more money for more music, and now there's a flat rate (or counting ads, two flat rates).

(2) The definition of "usage" has shifted a bit. Skipping a lot of details, before recordings people paid per performance, with the introduction of CDs and whatnot people are able to pay per unique song listened to (with power users typically though not necessarily buying more CDs), and Spotify shifts things back so that artists are compensated in terms of total listen time.

It's probably true that power users should pay more (if not, and if artists are appropriately compensated, then everyone else is subsidizing their use), and there can be an interesting discussion around how listeners actually derive value from music and if unique songs matter more than total minutes (or if a more complicated but less explainable metric ought to be used), but the big guys dominating everything is not a new phenomenon.

As an aside, the advertising, distribution channels, and network effects enabling the big guys to dominate everything to the extent they do _is_ moderately new on a human timescale, but that would be true independent of the payment scheme and doesn't seem super relevant to the discussion.
The ML device is pretty much just a MATMUL processor.