skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> citizens can sign away their right to a trial by jury; it's called binding arbitration

You can contract with another private entity to resolve disputes via arbitration, yes, but not with the state. The closest thing might be a plea agreement, but that happens after an indictment. You still have the right to a trial, but you may forego it if you choose.

I suppose if you're saying that a security clearance is like an NDA with the state, it's a reasonable comparison in function, but the means of prosecution is entirely different. It's like saying that everyone could be subject to UCMJ because of conscription.
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Will you stay at the unionized shop though?
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> Yes.

I think you are implying "no"? A "yes" would imply "in addition to those doses there are many more doses being produced for other countries".
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> The biggest buzzkill for me is working on such minuscule parts of enormous systems

I think that was also part of whatever I saw had to say. But I don't remember where I read such a thing, so who knows.
Does anyone else find it kind of funny that a lot of companies' "Individual Contributor" roles so many times involve contributions of others once they get past a certain point? Doesn't that mean it's no longer an "Individual Contributor" position?
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What I argued was that lockdowns don't work.

Depends on which studies you trust. I've read a few, and my conclusion back then was that they do work. However, I've not kept up with the debate once I came to that conclusion, so maybe I shouldn't have phrased things quite as strongly as I did. If you have a recommendation for a single study that makes a particularly strong case against lockdowns, feel free to link it.

Looking for more recent results just now, I found [1], analyzing the differences in response of US states. It seems to suggests that as a general rule, the stronger the restrictions, the smaller the case growth, which would have been my null hypothesis anyway. Cf. https://i.imgur.com/kLfSs6W.png

I do agree that we do not yet know the effectiveness of any particular measure. It would be nice if we knew better, but experimenting with extinguishing agents while your house is on fire is too risky for my taste.

[1] https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-12/BSG-WP-...
As a both embedded and softbank venture (two separate companies in my case) survivor this could be a double whammy - ultra long hw development cycles with no pressure to be anywhere (softbank billions) so it can actually be a cush job compared to “webcrap”. So if that’s the case then I don’t see anything “elitist” about wanting to be in a more dynamic environment. Also this word is thrown around way too much lately
Gov.uk traffic spike after lockdown announcement, 40k to 700k in 11 minutes
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Not if they had enough servers and bandwidth.
This having Google track your users has impacts internally when your own tooling becomes even less accurate because you have to start asking for consent: https://github.com/alphagov/content-data-admin/pull/707

In the case of things like page views, this is something addressable by just gathering the data yourself. If you put in the effort up front, it'll be more accurate than Google (as you don't miss anyone who Google misses).
Honestly, an apprenticeship model is probably fairly well suited for a lot of types of software development. In my mind it's superior to a CS degree or bootcamp in terms of teaching practical skills.

There's definitely challenges in not turning it into a protectionist thing, but done well I don't think it's a bad thing.
You can actually combine error diffusion with your probability-based approach, which helps reduce patterns if I remember correctly (it's been a very long time).
App privacy labels show stark contrasts among messaging apps
Personally I would just work the minimum amount and do open source or other side projects (indie hacking) with the rest of the time. Then leave after 12-18 months.
Does it strike anyone as odd that SolarWinds has a Vice President of security? Note that this company develops network and infrastructure management software and their updates are automatically pulled and installed by their customers. Every VP at such a company needs to be a VP of security, and every engineer needs to be a security engineer. Not understanding that is problem #1. Having a Vice President of Security at a company like this is a bit like having a "Vice President of Profit". Just as profit is everyone's job, so should security, at a company like this. If Target or Costco has a VP of Security that's understandable because security is not integral to their products, but for SolarWinds it should have been.
> Now I feel obligated to add that footer: We're hiring! ;-)

Side note: you should put some contact info in your profile so people know who you are hiring for anf how to contact you. :)
A list of projects using the code generated by fiat-crypto: https://github.com/mit-plv/fiat-crypto/issues/902
Palantir Technologies Expands Japan Business with New $22.5M Contract
Lives in a bunker, and all his former leautenants have free reign.

No way to explain all of his personal appointees losing posts one, after another.
They do? I was under the impression that they don't.

I specifically remember submitting an app, and getting denied. The response we got was relatively vague, saying it was breaking ToS. No screenshots, no call or anything of the sort.

This was the first submission though.
Replace pcie with AXI and that seems to be pretty close to what zynq/cycle v soc have today on the same package?
The index type for CSR need only index nodes. It's the offsets (one per row) that need to index edges.

The blog's portrayal of NVMe vs distributed memory is a bit off:

> With modern NVMe drives random seeks aren’t slow anymore, much faster than distributed network calls like you do when scaling the linked list-based graph.

Distributed memory machines has 1 microsecond off-node latency and 15-20 microsecond reductions (with thousands of nodes). These latencies have been pretty flat for the past 20 years in supercomputing, and have been widely available at cloud providers for the past few years. NVMe is not as fast as it's made out to be. https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/99079794835421184...

The other issue is that NVMe is more expensive than DRAM or HBM when you care about bandwidth (and graph/network analysis is almost always memory bandwidth limited, even on HBM). Suppose you need to do 1000 traversals of a 1 TB data structure. This takes about 10 seconds with 100 HBM devices ($1 at on-demand pricing, assuming amortized startup), but days of saturating NVMe bandwidth.
Is there any resources on how proof of stake works in etherium? There's this page https://eth.wiki/en/concepts/proof-of-stake-faqs, but it just seems to be listing out some possible approaches without explicitly saying "etherium does this".
>> But banks in the United States normally operate with a reserve requirement of only 10%

The banks are legally allowed to do that, Tether wasn't. According to the lawsuit at some point they started declining buying back USDT, due to the lack of real dollars in their bank account. That's clearly a fraud, since they were assuring their customers they have sufficient reserves.

Also, the reason they were at some point missing $850M was because that money was seized in various countries as coming from drug cartels. Seems like there's a lot of rope to hang them with.
Study: Folklore structure reveals how conspiracy theories emerge, fall apart
A direct link to the paper is here, the title of the paper is "An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The fact that we've gotten through worse doesn't mean it's not a major issue. There's a large gap between "human civilization will survive this" and "not a big deal."
Some analytics information is public, if you know where to look. You can add /info to the start of the URL path, and that might reveal some information about the page.

For example: https://www.gov.uk/info/find-coronavirus-local-restrictions
Brussels Hackerspace (HSBXL) is using Matrix, but I am sorry to say, but the Element app sucks a bit, it tries to fetch a full history at first shot, nullifying my end user experience.

I deinstalled the app and went back to IRC.
"The pay is okay. Supports my cost of living and higher than most people my age, but a little underpaid compared to most Software Engineers in the US.

The thing I don't like is my actual work. From the day I got here (3 years ago) I've found the work to be really boring 90% of the time. I would prefer to work somewhere that I can work on an actual product from start to finish. And also work on products that have some actual value to them. I don't really care much for the code, I'm more interested in building products and optimizing them and learning along the way."

Pretty much my same situation, but I hate my job due to doublespeak and being screwed over. Basically, I've learned to accept it. We can't all be astronauts etc. I think the Japanese have a cultural understanding that it's best to hope that your child is average. Makes sense when you consider standard distribution etc. I'll try to work and save so I can retire someday.
The chaos and banditry is caused by software churn. Nothing is ever finished, so nothing is ever secure, so you must ally yourself with a powerful warlord.

This is why I am in the process of migrating my website from HTML to PDF/A.
Yes, this is the commodity fetish in action. The laptop seems to just appear before me when I fork over a thousand bucks, conjured out of the ether of "the market." But of course there are long (often blood soaked) supply chains, all with their own interesting international, political, developmental history, that brought the thing to me. But the details are mystified by the complexity of all the actors and processes involved.

The feeling that tech work is mostly mental and somehow "immaterial," like we're just beyond all that concrete meatspace stuff, is really an illusion.
Tether's market cap has increased a ton in the past few months.

BTC's market cap is like over 600 billion...

Huge institutional accounts are taking their coins off exchanges and putting into cold storage.

How does that go along with what you're saying?
Cool this is super helpful, thank you!
I have a feeling that many agencies will release a lot of information about unknown flying objects this year.
Iterative design perfectly illustrated through a Lego obstacle climbing car
It started from a good intention (I think), but the right question to ask is why would you want to reduce your individual carbon emissions?
If it's to save us from a climate catastrophe, then I think it's a false good idea.

Imagine if everyone did that? If houses produced zero carbon emissions, we would build even more!
And it doesn't stop there: he is considering buying a newer vehicle and investing in an even more powerful recharging system. See where the problem lies?

For now, the solution lies in reduction and common sense, not in mass overconsumption. Maybe one day we will be able to build without taxing our resources or producing waste, but for now this is not the case.

Reducing our consumption of meat, produce to last longer, reducing tourism, avoiding airplanes, boats and cars, buying less clothing and manufactured goods from abroad, installing a thermal curfew at night would, among other things, be much more effective. But this requires other sacrifices.

Destroying ecosystems through chemical pollution or to find rare materials also means increasing the number of invasive species and reducing the living space of other living species that find it difficult to coexist, spread more disease or simply disappear. We are nevertheless experiencing the 6th mass extinction and this has a direct impact on what makes us live.
The Maya emitted very little carbon, yet, the traces of their massive deforestation still have a significant impact on the fixation of carbon 4000 years later!

Afterwards, this is only my point of view.
I willingly admit that I found it difficult to respect some of these good behaviors myself. But at least I'm trying, and have been since a long time now.
Hey now, I never said I wanted anything! But it's hard to believe that removing the elites from power is going to be a simple reform. The most powerful, established and connected people in government aren't going to simply walk away, it would take a major disruption.
What's the point of Ether though? Is there any actual use case?

The only crypto usecase I've seen so far that makes sense is for Bitcoin, a store of value, like digital gold. Works against inflation of fiat currencies etc.
>FireEye is a reputable security organization that is publicly traded. If they were lying and it was discovered as a company their business would go away rapidly and some of their executives might even go to prison.

I think a more likely outcome would be their stock price would drop for a few weeks, maybe executives would resign, and then it would be forgotten.
I have this what I consider healthy attitude: I do not really give a flying fuck about what market wants. It seems that the guys like myself are still served really well. As for what happens in the future we'll see. I am tired to count how many times said marked had to correct its wet dreams.
Here is a screen shot of the page.
The only difference between this and what I looked at before it went down was there was a small screen capture of a trex in a maze from the game 3d Monster Maze.

http://archive.is/GxV04
+1 about cursor: pointer. I also noticed that the text inside at least the top button can be highlighted when clicking. You can disable that with user-select: none;
Decentralization of anything other than leverage over liquidity and thus price, which is what the Bitcoin 1% (more like 0.01%) holds, is nothing more than a misdirection story to furnish prospective Joe 99% Bitcoiners with the illusion that once they switch to BTC, their wealth will be placed outside interference or control by undesirable, presumably centralized forces.

When Bitcoiners say decentralized they mean, in fact, that its value (through some gating mechanic like issue or "censorship") is not controlled by a government, as if this is somehow any better than the value of one's wallet being controlled by unknown parties, front running exchange operators or mining cartels.

Bitcoin proponents pretend that government centralization of money supply is the only kind of centralization of money that needs fixing, and its mechanisms are thus designed to make an elaborate show of diffusing operational accountability while doing nothing to counteract a pathological concentration of leverage.

As a result, it doesn't actually decentralize anything, it instead relocates all of the centralization under obfuscated cover. This in itself isn't a problem, if promoters would upfront about it. But then no decentralization meme would certainly mean no Bitcoin at $30k, and what's the fun in that?
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The average global house size is much larger than that. China has the smallest at 500 square feet, so my point stands.
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It's definitely all over the place, but it works very well.
Back when I worked at Marvell Semiconductor (circa 2005), we made laser printer ASICs for HP. We did a lot of dithering in hardware. We had a hardware block that did error diffusion, we had a hardware block that did regular diffusion. We also had a hardware block that did Blue Noise. I was responsible for implementing the firmware that drove those printers' scan/copy path: scan an image in monochrome, run through the dither hardware to create the bit pattern fed to the laser engine.

No one could explain to me how to use the blue noise block. I couldn't understand what the blue noise block was doing. This is the first article that explained, in terms I could understand, how blue noise dithering works.

I can die happy. Thank you.
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> Taiwan has had a total of 815 cases and 7 deaths [2] in a population of 23 million.

They also closed their borders to China in January, and in March to the rest of the world. The US, by comparison, has had 7.2M international arrivals in 2020 -- and that's just non-citizens:

https://www.trade.gov/visitor-arrivals-program-i-94-data

Point being: it's easy to overstate the importance of measures like these. If you had to draw one bright-line difference between Taiwan's response, and the response of ~most other nations, it's that they closed their borders early and kept them closed.
Oh wow; very interesting. Simple. I like it. The open graph image on Wikipedia is different. Which image are you using for that preview?
Thing is tho leaders of any organization can always be bought even if you can't buy each and ever leader all you need to do is

a) put democratic process

b) buy majority of the leader or minority is veto is available to influence a particular decision.

A large fraction of a group can easily be bought by direct or indirect transfer of common human motivation like wealth, power, social validation, sex (maybe given them access to your currated harem), maybe promise them after retirement job or give referral to one of his kids or pay for his education abroad.

The transfer doesn't need to be direct so many times it's hard to trace what got what and why they influenced a particular decision.

This is why such organizations where you elect leaders will never give you those who want to do good for the society at large.
I like how clean and minimalistic the design is.