skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the wrong way to think about the cloud. A better way to think about it would be "how much database traffic (and storage) can I serve from Cloud Whatever for $xxx". Then you need to think about what your realistic effective utilization would be. This server has 153600 GB of raw storage. That kind of storage would cost you $46000 (retail) in Cloud Spanner every month, but I doubt that's the right comparison. The right math would probably be that they have 250 million customers and perhaps 1KB of real information per customer. Now the question becomes why you would ever buy 24×6400 GB of flash memory to store this scale of data.
Given that carriers are increasingly boxed out from shore by anti-ship missiles and drones are a lot smaller than crewed aircraft, I wonder if this design concept is due for a revival.

I could imagine drones launched vertically with single-use rocket boosters that would then land on the water for retrieval. You could get much closer to shore than a carrier while still carrying out a pretty effective air strike, especially with several subs.
Peter Todd said it was because he thought he was hacked [1]. Then two days later he posts a blog about wanting to submit a pull request for bigger blocks[2]. Interesting timing.

[1]https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/727078284345917441

[2]http://gavinandresen.ninja/time-to-roll-out-bigger-blocks
King Kai's planet pls
>> I walked out the door of Intel one day in 2011 (longer and irrelevant story).

I am extremely interested in this long and irrelevant story.
Is it just me, or is this site not retina/high DPI-aware? All the images look kind of blurry to me.

Edit: here's a screenshot https://i.imgur.com/xTmYLgv.jpg. The left-hand side is the online viewer, while the right is the downloaded image viewed in the mac preview app. The download is obviously much higher quality.

It kind of bugs me that they can't get this right.
This makes a ton of sense. The GPU IP will be the tricky part. Will they build or buy?
I know someone who (CTO) Billed several k for an hours consultation on 4G
Useful Tools and Resources for Developers and CS Students
Elliott Noss is super smart and humble. Left a huge impression on me when I met him way back in the day as a youngster. He had nothing to prove at all, just super bright and very fun to talk to; I met him at a tradeshow and he spent 30 minutes with me just because he thought our product was cool.
I think that's the same take. Twitter waited until Trump was definitely deposed before they took action.
By my understanding, systemd is just handling the unlocking process and merely provides LUKS with your password/token communication. LUKS is the part that actually needs to be secure beyond systemd just not emailing your password to the gubment/north korea/4chan. LUKS unlocks its key store with the info you provide it which is used to decrypt the drive.
The great grand parent post said voluntary.

In the new future, I might just start wearing masks on the subway in winter by the default. The cost is very low and the benefit is moderate.
Kenny Kerr's blog post on this may also be of interest. In particular, it answers the question I was going to ask about how they're handling Win32 and WinRT in a unified way.

https://kennykerr.ca/2021/01/21/rust-for-windows/
Bitcoin is ECDSA verification, letsencrypt is generating RSA signatures, the two aren't even remotely comparable.
I think long term there could be some truth to that. If we capture enough marketshare then I can see a point in time where we have more flexibility to charge more. However, I have zero interest in making the bulk of our money off of early stage companies. We believe we will be very sticky and more and more valuable as a company scales, hopefully we can monetize more off of companies that make it big and stick with us.
I've actually been building a [jigsaw puzzle app](https://kaesve.nl/projects/masterpieces) because wanted to do something with their online collection. They not only put paintings and other artworks online for free, but also their meta data, through an api or bulk download (see https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/).
Asia has absolutely not been social distancing, avoiding indoor gatherings and universally wearing masks for decades. After SARS, the social acceptability of wearing a mask, especially when sick increased. It was by no means the standard for everyone. I know you said "some people". Some people in the west also have germ pobia.
I own more than half a dozen cameras and a couple of dozen lenses. It's more a matter of what other cameras don't I want.

Almost any dedicated camera will provide a different experience than a phone. Ergonomic design for single purpose. Psychologically because it only comes out to make pictures.

The easiest upgrade is a point and shoot with 10x or 12x zoom because it provides more reach. One with physical dials and physical buttons will provide a dedicated tactile experience. It's the simplest thing that might work and has the important quality of being easy to take with you.

To me, the biggest difference between cameras is whether you hold them to your eye when making pictures (or not). Making pictures with the camera to your eye is "looking through the camera" versus "looking at the camera." Neither is better. But they are different.[1]

Holding the camera to your eye facilitates tight composition of moving subjects because of hand-eye coordination. It facilitates the use of longer focal lengths (narrower field of view) to capture action. The disadvantage is the tendency to make pictures from eye level rather than more interesting angles.

The easiest way to try a camera that can be held to the eye is a used Canon/Nikon entry level DSLR with a kit lens for a couple of hundred dollars. If you like it, there's more than two orders of magnitude headroom you can spend for better cameras and nicer lenses.

To me, fallacious sunk cost reasoning is about the only mistake you can make buying a camera. Your next camera is just your next camera not your last one. The more pictures you make, the more you will understand which pictures you can't make and being able to make different pictures is the reason to look for new gear (unless you are getting paid making the same pictures "better" usually isn't a good reason).

[1] It's not quite either or. Cameras with waist level finders sort of sit in between. A tilting screen camera at 90 degrees can capture some of the experience but not all of it.
Brexit: Lamb exporter to EU 'making virtually nothing'
> human beings may be individually smart (compared to some other species) yet the collective intelligence of humanity is rather poor (which translates to the unability to solve collective problems such as sustainable management of our finite natural resources (e.g. oil) or of the consequences of our activity (e.g. biodiversity fall and climate change)).

This makes a big assumption: that our inability to solve these problems is rooted in a lack of intelligence (collectively or individually). I don't think that's the case at all. Solutions to these problems are widely known, and most educated people support them, at least in theory.

The problem isn't with our intelligence, it's with our incentives. Climate change is a tragedy of the commons (as are other environmental degradation issues, such as loss of biodiversity). Each of us would benefit if everyone cooperated (a nice environment for each of us), but each of us also benefits when we individually defect (cheaper energy for our various needs). As a result, we predictably end up with the suboptimal outcome of (almost-)everybody-defects.

What's the way out of the dilemma? It's clearly not a matter of getting smarter. I don't think it's an issue we can solve with moral pleading either: we've been trying that for decades. But what if we could change the game and remove the incentives to defect?
* We could implement a carbon tax, incentivizing firms and consumers to use carbon-neural energy sources.
* We could subsidize clean energy, incentivizing the same.
* We could invest as much money as possible in reducing the cost of clean energy sources, eventually removing the need for ongoing tax/subsidy policies.

If non-polluting energy sources are cheaper, more widely available, and easier to use than polluting sources, no one would ever choose the latter. No heightened intelligence required.
I feel like native desktop development has stagnated a lot in the past 10 years. But Electron and other frameworks have enabled hundreds of desktop software that are basically web tech based.
Thats understandable, what you considered disgusting may not be conisdered disgusting by other people.
They did sell their Ting Mobile division to DISH the other month though, so some retrenching has apparently been in order.
Maybe email them with your findings? They to care about history, maybe they'll be receptive to fixing the issues.
Or maybe alien civilizations stopped visiting Earth after the dinosaurs got wiped out because their convenient big body small brain meat supply got wiped out. Would be interesting to find out if the same aliens seeded multiple systems with dinosaurs.
since lambda is for simple and short anonymous functions most of the time why do I need type the whole word each time? can they also do what javascript does(or similar):

x => x * 2

instead of

lambda x : x * 2
>also he knew adam back was satoshi but couldn't tell anyone because of the NDA he signed (adam had long been compromised at that point).

uhh what?
It's the museum with The Night Watch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch) which is a giant painting, but the two times I've been there it has been pretty well lit. And not in the basement. But yeah, it's an amazing museum.
System Creates the Illusion of an Ideal AI Chip
My understanding is they receive liability protection because they have no real editorial control, instead acting like a ISP
Neither of these papers supports the claim you made. The first one explicitly says that antibody-dependent enhancement has not been observed for this virus:

> There is no evidence that ADE facilitates the spread of SARS-CoV in infected hosts. In fact, infection of macrophages through ADE does not result in productive viral replication and shedding

"suboptimal antibody responses" are indeed...suboptimal...but the paper here is not showing that. As the OP noted, the concerning result is limited to a few examples of monoclonal antibodies. The human immune response is much more complicated.
Yes. There is strait up clear evidence of his fraud.

The tricks he used to convince Gavin were revealed later and shown to be fraud—he used slight of hand to reuse a historical block chain signature rather than produce one.
It is still early in the journey for us. You're absolutely right, only time will tell what customers best react to and we may end up having to adapt.
It's not unheard of to give people who were party to the creation of some critical thing the company does pay that simply can't be matched elsewhere in order to make them stick around. Usually you pair it with a fancy title like "global architect" or some other mumbo jumbo like that. Pretty much any time you hear about someone making 500k+ without being personally responsible for the success or failure of a heck of a lot of stuff it's a role like that.

Think of it as a $200k salary with $500k of "just to ensure you won't find a better offer elsewhere" on top.

These aren't the kind of roles you can work your way into. You have to be in the right place at the right time and be there for a long time.
>to offer high compensation. I'm hoping that's part of what's happening here.

so, the new old guys are brought in at market and higher - otherwise how you'd bring them in? - ie. it sounds like at the scale of at least 3x+ of the current engineering comp at Intel. Lets see how that would sit the the current engineers at Intel. I don't think it would result in high collaboration and team cohesion.

Also Intel issue seems to be process node, not the "architecture" per.se., and one can wonder how several years gap may affect one's utility at solving intricate issues of current node.

Anyway, fab to fabless is a classic paradigm shift , and Intel just fails to grasp it and to adapt.
It's not easy to get someone committed long term, in my experience, but startlingly easy to get someone forcefully admitted against their will for a 'short-term' stay, that may (does) turn into longer term care.

You need three things: 1. a person who is naturally combative, 2. a wellness check performed by the police, and 3. an underfunded mental health facility.

The police show up and the person gets combative, naturally. The police then swear the person is a danger to themselves and/or others. The person is committed, short-term, for evaluation. During this evaluation process, the person refuses to follow prescribed treatments; in an underfunded facility this treatment is generally accompanied by powerful psychoactive drugs, that most people, especially naturally difficult people, will refuse. Then comes long-term care.

Now, I know it's not the context of a judge ordering it, but it really isn't that difficult to do.

Source: you wouldn't believe the things I have seen in my career in higher education. Some people and especially controlling families are truly, absolutely, evil.
Ting was sold to DISH in September. They may have kept the ISP part.
"People claim Twitter can't possibly moderate content at scale, except that Twitter makes money at that same scale."

I'm sorry, but is that supposed to be a logical argument? Because it doesn't actually make any sense. Twitter is a platform that allows pretty much anyone with an internet connection to post content. There were, on average, 500 million tweets posted per day last year.

So on one side you have the set of potential content creators, churning out half a billion tweets per day, and that number will almost certainly continue to steadily increase. So, as a company with a set amount of income, and who is beholden to its shareholders, what's your plan to moderate 500 million tweets per day while still turning a reasonable profit?
It can, and already is in much of asia. When ever you're sick, you wear a mask.
I’m not ideological about this, but I don’t understand how it’s not obvious to anyone technical that Bitcoin can’t simply keep increasing block size to meet global/mainstream demand for payments without eventually sacrificing decentralization, which is the only characteristic of Bitcoin that makes it valuable.

Sure, doubling the block size a few times would likely be fine, so Bitcoin may be overly conservative right now, but I firmly believe any long term solution will require some form of “layer 2” for payments.
That's cheap 20 years ago I looked at a secondment in Malaysia and that was full ride tax free expat - house and servants! provided.
Ripple to Offset Carbon Emissions for XRP Ledger
"While cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, in particular—are not known for their environmental friendliness, blockchain payment solution Ripple is striving to ditch the stigma by creating an open-source tool for projects to reduce their carbon footprint.

Designed in collaboration with blockchain-based nonprofit Energy Web Foundation, the tool, dubbed EW Zero, will allow any blockchain to decarbonize through the purchase of renewable energy in local markets worldwide.

The XRP ledger foundation, the newly formed developer hub of the XRP token, will be the first to employ EW Zero to offset the network's carbon emissions."
Would be interesting to run linguistic analysis on written text by CSW and Satoshi.
It's somewhat frightening how much political control social media has. Their ability to silence political ideas, people, or entities they disagree with is a lot of power for them to wield.

I'm not debating justification of their action, merely the responsibility and power they hold.
Correct because you could be potential liable if you did nothing, right now they have no liability and the ability to have editorial control.
State of Design in 2021
Interesting to see what this will mean for the vaccines currently in use. If they generate the spike protein and the spike protein is significantly altered in the new variant, we in the uk are fucked.
Here's an IP question:

Under what legal arguments can the Rijksmuseum do this? Or, alternatively, how can those museums that do so prevent copies of their works?

Copyright? Wouldn't that have expired long ago?

Edit: I understand the reasoning behind preventing flash photography of the paintings---it damages them. But that's not really what I'm asking about.
My love life was pretty much a zero. I didn't even bother asking anyone to proms in high school; I knew I wasn't going to get a "yes". I dated some, but nothing was really going anywhere. I felt frustrated - like I had love to give, but nobody to give it to. Then, when I was 27, I met someone and asked her out. We kind of connected, I kept asking her out, proposed, married her. It's been 30 years, and it's been OK at worst and really good much of the time.
This is actually something that I wish was fixed. We can't do anything but treat it as a market priced entity - but I wish there was another way - a way to own but not own. Something between rent and own. Maybe if a non-profit organization could somehow start "owning" a bunch of homes and people buy into the organization. For each "owner" they are allocated a house. And then to move is to just find someone else that is moving within this large house owning organization. Kinda like a vast distributed network across the country that owns houses and people pay a standard rate to live in it. If you can't pay, you're out of the network until you can again.
There's nothing ironic about that.

The site hosting the article isn't substack nor is the article a condemnation of advertising.
I think you might run into the issue of whether or not that capacity is actually being provided or just reported. You can definitely track that a procedure was done: you have the patient that you can contact to verify, bills for the materials that were needed, and bookings that guarantee no one was operating on multiple patients at once. If you just pay for capacity regardless of whether or not it's used, how do you know that they aren't just turning half of all patients away at the door and claiming that they provide the full capacity? There's political unrest about not enough capacity but your healthcare providers are saying no one's coming in and still taking the full amount of money.
It should be noted that long term mask wearing does have adverse effects that not everyone seems to be aware of.

"Maskne" has been a huge problem for many, many people. The massive breakouts I and many, many others have sustained over the past 12 months will cause lifelong scarring and the emotional issues that come with that.

Another example is adverse effects related to deformation of nose and ear cartilage [0], which while primarily affecting children may still have adverse effects among the adult population (my little brother just had surgery to correct the exact ear protrusion noted in the article).

Frankly, herd immunity (either through vaccination or contraction) will be achieved and masks will stop being worn, or people will simply accept the dangers of another yearly virus (don't forget, Influenza still causes millions of hospitalization each year) and move on with their lives (which if you've traveled to certain parts of the country, many have).

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302120/
The "horrific abomination" turned a process of trial and error and custom shell scripts full of low-level, platform-specific commands into a single, consistent interface. I don't see the downside?
I think the argument can be made MeWe and Substack actually pose more of a threat to the established order because they are mainstream.

Parler isn't competing with Twitter or Facebook because the average person doesn't want to see a feed full of white supremacist's discussing conspiracy theories.
Is it? The first century spanned year 1 to 100 (there was no year zero). So the XX00 year is considered to be part of the preceding century. Thus 2021 is indeed the 21st year of the 21st century.
Very cool. I wasn't aware of this. Thank you!
there already articles about it.

according to one of them, twitter changed their TOS to allow people to discuss their attraction to minors on their platform[0].

people always take about "dog whistles" -- imho this is a big one, at least for me. allowing pedophiles to discuss their attraction to minors openly on your platform is completely absurd.

[0]https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2020/01/09/twitter-lets-p...
I want to point out that it really depends a lot on what kind of lab it is. I think for R&D, buying cheap stuff off of ebay or labx is great.

But if your goal is to eventually scale up and build a production lab, you will need to switch your mindset when you get some funding and buy some decent equipment. It can make a big difference from my experience. My company started out at a sub-par lab space with second hand equipment. When we moved to a very well equipped lab, we found ourselves exponentially more productive. Mainly because we no longer have to constantly second-guessing our results due to sub-optimal equipment/reagents. Re-running experiments because of potential equipment failure adds up in terms of resources and psychological stress.
As someone that leaned pretty hard into using a Yubikey 5 for GPG/SSH keys over the past year, I am looking forward to giving this a try on my Fedora workstations. If you are interested in a fantastic walk through of using a Yubikey with your GPG/SSH keys check out https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

I am also really looking forward to the YubiKey Bio getting released too.
One issue with GDP: how do you define wealth? It's hard to incorporate more abstract assets like social trust or environmental conditions (latter can have direct impacts on things like tourism)
In the ICO boom, I worked on many of their products.

For the most part, everyone from the CTO to contractors like myself knew the business plan was terrible and the founders were as deluded as the investors. We were just trying to extract as much money as possible from these companies before they went under.

It worked. I was earning anywhere from $400 to $5000 an hour.
Ask HN: What was Airbnb's MRR when they joined YC?
I've been writing functional code for a year or so now at work with the help of ramda in nodejs, there is also a port for python.

My colleagues don't like becuase it's so different to what they are used to but I am putting out code faster and with less bugs so I'm not going to stop.
His point is, when you go from being practically the only game in town in 2014, to being a joke-ass also-ran "competitor" being trounced by the underdog processor company[0] who damn near went bankrupt and had to sell their fab just to stay afloat; and when your two biggest allies 1) make their own System-on-a-Chip that fucking slaughters your best offerings in a ton of benchmarks and real world tests, and also does it on 1/4th the power[1] and 2) is actively working with another company to also make their own System-on-a-Chip that you can be damn sure will also go into, not only their premium tablet and laptop line, but likely also their cloud service division [2], you had better shape your ass up with a quickness and do whatever you need to do before you end up a footnote of history.

[0] - AMD

[1] - Apple

[2] - Microsoft
MBAs are the equivalent of butter bars in the military. You get a lot of fresh faced BCOM -> MBA grads who know absolutely nothing but doctrine and are put in a position of power.

CompSci -> Work in industry -> MBA usually produces the best managers.
You can't really fairly compare 1099 to W2 hours without subtracting for holidays, vacation, self-employment taxes, benefits, capacity/downtime, etc. The math might easily work out to a 30%-40% difference.
I remember downloading x-files windows 98 themes when I was a kid on dialup on weekends. good times. Also surprised it still exists. was a great time to be into computers.