skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but with bitcoin hashing, you're testing out random hashes to see if it works, and there's an equal chance of finding one for all parties. But if you spend more computational power, you have a higher chance of find one (because you got more tries).

Now, a satellite orbiting the sun has 8 mins of latency. Imagine if there was only 1 computer on earth, and 1 computer orbiting, and both "submit", it's the earth computer that's going to succeed first, if both finds a valid hash.

Suppose we keep the speed of the individual computers are the same - but now you double the amount of computers orbiting the sun. Now you are twice as likely to find a valid hash - even tho it still takes you 8 minutes to transfer the valid hash message to the earth network. In that 8 minutes, if somebody else on earth finds a valid hash, they will beat you. But they only have 1 machine, and so their chance of finding a valid hash _must_ be half.

So on average, the orbiting machines will get _some_ hashes through, because they get more tries. Some of their successful tries would just fail due to latency. At some point, there would be a tipping point where a large number of machines would be able to, due to sheer chance, always generate a correct hash! Now, of course, the latency will still be there, so the earth machines would have to rely on their luck to beat the 8 minute latency (which they will sometimes).

What that tippig point is - might be a very large number - is unknown to me of course...and if that tipping point is greater than 50% of the available hashing power, then you might as well just forge instead of doing it for real...
This would halt any legal activity and keep the illegal activity intact.
> I think there's a fairly sizable difference between modern medicine, in which we can develop an effective cure for a pandemic within a year of the pandemic starting, and historical medicine

Yes, there is a difference, and it's striking.

For example, despite the pandemic the wealthy countries have voted overwhelmingly against waiving patents on the long-needed vaccine: https://www.msf.org/countries-obstructing-covid-19-patent-wa...

> I don't think the modern medical industry would work without IP law.

No. Modern medical industry preys on IP law.
The bulk of Singapore's trade is in Asia, America isn't as economically important as it used to be.
just an observation: a person who is technically capable but who is unfocussed and all over the place feels like an apt description for a lot neurodivergent behaviour in people.
Fintech in general is about some tech-useful services for users as applied to money (in different ways).

It's not about proper money management and in that case, as I think, you don't need CFA to do (or wotk in) some Fintech services.

Experience in classical finance will be really useful because you can understand a problem. But again this is not about CFA.
I have a similar story.

I learned at all early age the only thing appearing like the smartest guy in the room was good for was paining a target on your back. I also learned how to emulate empathy, it's not perfect, but it makes up for the natural broken/missing wiring in my head.

Also early in my career I talked my way out of several jobs, You might have the best ideas in the world, but if powers that be don't want to hear them, don't belabor the matter, give your suggestions and move on.

I started out too in customer support, 20 years later I'm making an engineers salary, with an engineering title, which isn't too bad for a drop out.

The best advice on jobs I have, take a bad shitty job that's good for your resume, work there till you have the book experience to work someplace else, rinse and repeat,
It's true that a small minority of people actually have a use (legitimate or not) for bitcoin, but as far as the general public is concerned this is not the case.
I've indeed stretched the concept by equating Chef and Puppet (I guess the latter is closer to TF).

To be more accurate, I'd say that Chef has a declarative structure supported by the imperative constructs of the underlying language, and this is what makes for me a big difference.

Consider the for loop as example. By the time it was added (v0.12), there was a (200 pages) commercial book available. And there are people in this discussion stuck at v0.11.

The difference in the declarative vs. imperative nature, as I see it now that the for loop is implemented in TF, is that it's embedded inside resources, that is, it fits strictly a declarative approach, and has limits. In Chef, you can place a for loop wherever you prefer.

Object instances is also another significant difference. It took a while for TF to be able to move (if I remember correctly) module instances around (that is, to promote them to "more" first class citizens), which made a big difference. In an imperative language, accessing/moving instances around is a core part of the language. In Chef, pretty much everything is global - both in the good and in the bad. But certainly the good part is that refactoring is way more flexible.

I think TF has always been plagued by repetition; in my view, this is inherent in the "more" declarative approach (since they're trying to embed imperative constructs in the language).
According to the W3C Federated Learning of Cohorts
Draft Community Group Report, 13 April 2021, Paragraphs 3 & 7.1.1:

"The interest cohort API lives under the Document interface since the access permission is tied to the document scope, and the API is only available if the document is in secure context."

and

"The page can opt itself out of the interest cohort computation through the "interest-cohort" policy-controlled feature. [PERMISSIONS-POLICY]" [1]

[1] https://wicg.github.io/floc/

Edit for para reference.
Why should I bother though?

Privacy is really important to me, so I am not affected because I don't use chrome in the first place.
All the people who use chrome, especially on this site, know damn well what they agreed to. You all already opted into this and everything google comes up with tomorrow.
Why should I put in work to give you the warm fuzzy feeling of having staved of the google spying for another day? If you want protection from this, use another browser.

At this point, blocking this from the website level just seems to support google even more, because it takes the pressure from chrome users to actually start thinking and stop being victims.
why is this comment gray? it's true

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
There's zero substance to this is quick blog.

> artworks and medicine have been produced for ages without IP law;

This is bullshit. What are they even talking about? I think medicine and movies/art and IP were invented around the same time. Last 100 may be 200 years years.

In our 100,000 year history that links them pretty well.

Wikipedia - "The modern concept of intellectual property developed in England in the 17th and 18th centuries"

That's obviously older than medicine. Are they including leaches and prayer and birth control which is just a light dose of poison? Well good luck to their world were you die at 40 and art is a few shitty books you'll never get to read.

I assume they build on other crappy (10 year old) blogs and think living in the old days was amazing where everyone lived to 90, because the 'infants' died young that they had such a low life expectancy and everyone had split sleeps and short work days.

Lots of countries have little enforcement of Intellectual Property. What are their living conditions like? How many good local movies do they make? (And if you say Nollywood, you have to explain how it's not just a gangsta related flex)
I feel like Facebook has realized that if they win in a major market and becomes a monopoly, reputation no longer matters as they are dominant anyway. This is perhaps the logic behind nonintervention.
Not a contradiction, the market grew much faster than the market share of the Apple Watch.
The mainly peaceful protests were calling for federal laws being changed, as the only reason the law is invalid is that there already is a laxer federal law about it.
fair call,

I was trying to make it clear that my comments were 'how is understood the article and vid' and not my Wolfram/Weinstein 'physics is wrong I'm going to fix it' manifesto.

So let me try improve that line:

<strike>There are features of our universe that make sense if we think about the</strike>

<i>Kaluza-Klein theory proposed that electromagnetism could be modelled using an additional closed fourth dimension. Kerner generalised this approach to model gravity, time, electromagnetism and the strong and week forces using a total of 11 dimensions. I have understood these models as describing our experience of the </I>universe as a 3D <strike>shadow</strike> <i>projection</i> of a higher dimension system.

Kaluza-Klein was the exact point at which I lost interest in pursuing university physics, so the sentence is marks the point at which the ship of my knowledge hits the rocks. I loved first year physics, but in my second year at university a tutor convinced that physicists now worked exclusively on string theory, which he explained beginning with Kaluza-Klein theory. What he described reminded me of Copernican epicycles, and I felt so little enthusiasm for it, and was deeply disappointed after having loved first year physics and it was the end of my imagining I might be a physicist. Much later I discovered he was suicidally depressed the dry bloodless descriptions he gave were him trying to hang on and keep himself together while describing a subject he had come to hate.
A quick reading of Apples own advertising policy gives me deja vu...

“Segments
We create segments, which are groups of people who share similar characteristics, and use these groups for delivering targeted ads. Information about you may be used to determine which segments you’re assigned to, and thus, which ads you receive. To protect your privacy, targeted ads are delivered only if more than 5,000 people meet the targeting criteria.”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
> In a patent regime, a company can (indeed must) publish their process

Must they? From what I have heard, a number of technologies have not been patented, simply because the potential liability from keeping it as a trade secret was less than the liability of the process being made public
And appropriately it represents a small minority of energy use (~0.6%)
idk if we're talking about ease of getting started Heroku kinda made it as easy as it can get (started with Ruby but now supports all languages).
Earlier discussions of original articles about political manipulation on Facebook in The Guardian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804791
This is insane. So all sites with publicly routable IP addresses that a user visits are used for this cohort calculation! WTF

Every http server project should include the header by default to disable this, and even back port it for older versions as a critical security vulnerability update, since old sites with sensitive information will clearly be still serving content, and the DEVs may not even be working on the site anymore, and basically an IT guy is just updating software (hopefully...).
As someone who lived in such country and has a lot of friends who still live there, I wouldn't care about it too much. The governments of such countries are usually not interested in find every single citizen who's interested in some topic. What they are interested in is suppressing people who are promoting "wrong" values. And you don't need a vague advertising identifier to find such people.
let's just have a committee to decide what uses of electricity are and are not sufficiently meritorious!
> And bawolff... my aim is to at least give those reading from the sidelines some things to think about.

And are you under the impression that you're the only voice that people on the sidelines are going to hear? You need to understand the counter arguments so you can adapt your own arguments to counter them. You can't defeat an enemy you don't understand.
Before Android killed them, webOS existed, as did Maemo.
I like cheese foam, but I'd hardly call it "superior" to boba; they have different roles, and both are delicious together - more so, IMO, than either in isolation.
What does Canary mean in this context?
Last year I had reason to search for a missing walker from my remote home. I went to all the satellite image sites google could find and got nothing - months out of date pictures, too low resolution to be of use. It was a long shot but close enough to be imaginable that there might be a “put credit card in, get high res photo of area from the last flyover”. Lo and behold a few weeks later just such a service appeared on HN.

The person was eventually found by people in the area, and had died on a path in an open field, (sudden collapse and no chance to have used their phone to call anyone) so being out of tree cover etc. might plausibly have been found by a good clear overhead image. Probably still too small for a non-military satellite image, maybe a drone flyover.

I do often wonder what it would take for humans to actually save people Thunderbirds style. We’re getting closer and closer to ubiquitous surveillance, but when you look at the nutty putty cave incident or the Thai schoolchildren in the cave, locations were known there was just no way to blast the rock without crushing the people, and rescue or failure came down to human effort. Very little future tech would have made either rescue attempt enormously easier, would it? To get to people trapped under rock quickly you need to move or melt a lot of rock and you can’t blast or drill casually because of the risk to the people. That leaves slow or low-energy rescue which is slow and limited in what it can try.

How are today’s emergency services doing compared to a platonic ideal emergency service which can find and save anyone anywhere on earth from any trouble they are in, Superman style? Are we almost as good as it’s possible to be (but not evenly distributed), or nowhere near?
Plausible tracks visitors without their permission. This is illegal in Europe where notice or consent or is needed, regardless of how cookies are used/not used.

More info: https://volument.com/learn/data-privacy

Note that I work at Volument.
It's a bridge to a proprietary service. Free software adherents don't have MS Teams subscriptions, and those with MS Teams subscriptions aren't going to care about the bridge being proprietary.
It'd be hard or impossible to distinguish which ones strip it on the backend and discard the original image and EXIF data vs. ones who retain some of the EXIF data in some way. Just because they don't strip it on the client doesn't necessarily imply they're storing the metadata on the backend. (It just leaves the possibility open.)
I really don't understand why Nvidia doesn't just give every buyer a test to see their knowledge of either ML or gaming skill before allowing purchase of a GPU.

Either

(a) submit a history of gaming high scores with dates

(b) a Github repo with Tensorflow or Pytorch code that has commits from at least a year or two ago

(c) play a hard in-browser game to show your skill
Pretty much all network code has workarounds or default configurations that work around problems with specific clients.

I guess this topic is more of a political issue rather than an obvious compatiblity issue, so it's not as clear cut.

But adding special code to deal with buggy clients is something everyone has to do sooner or later.
> "what a boomer"

The more snowflakes discount experience and knowledge, the more stupid they look.

> "ruining everyone's excitement"

Seriously, get a life.
This comment is the single most compelling argument why STEM must include liberal arts/humanities studies
Would be really nice if this "bacterial and fungal growth" also spread to Mars and Venus.
Can you suggest a well maintained xmpp client? I was partial to pidgin years ago.
Private companies orders of magnitude smaller than the public utilities for a major metro area hire such six figure consultants all the time, and investors don’t seem to mind at all. In my experience those types of things always seem ridiculous until you actually know the context, so I’ve learned to assume some measure of competance. This has generally served me quite well, and I also don’t walk around the world outraged constantly by things I don’t understand.
> FAANG

Viz. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google.

I had to look it up (I'm not from around here).
Just lay the fibre please, then open up the ISP market.

I don’t want my ISP run by the people responsible for fixing roads, but I’m happy to let these road-diggers install the cable conduits.

It really is their political and moral responsibility to do so. The roads belong to the taxpayer: we’ve paid for them and yet they are failing to provide us the glass fibre we so desperately want.
Creating an maintaining a network of people in your field is extremely important for your career, especially your later career.

I like to say. At a job you get compensated three ways. Money, experience, and contacts. There are more ways but those are the top three.
If it sends the location at 5% battery power it's close enough to be in the vicinity and doesn't continuously drain the battery.
> Must they?

Yes, if they want to patent it. (You misread the GP.)
> FLoC is still far better than third party cookies

I don't care because my browser blocks third party cookies.
The title doesn't make it clear. It's a fund-raiser; they need money.

Promising-sounding non-profit dedicated to advancing FOSS-based Federated Networks (Matrix, Pleroma, Mastodon, Diaspora, etc). They provide several free federated servers/services.

They're also looking for membership, costs €1/month and gets some extra perks. I'm joining.
It's pretty easy. System Preferences - Sound, it's right there.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211996
Can the EU prevent an artificial intelligence dystopia?
Is this the first release with Google's "FLoC" tracking system?
What jobs inquire about your financial history? That seems a little dystopian. Can't get a handle on your finances because you don't have a steady job, better not give them a steady job!
Another category of toilets that require neither water input nor plumbing output are incinerator toilets such as the Incinolet and Cinderella[1].

Thought HN might dig the innovations happening in the space.

[1] https://www.treehugger.com/hot-poop-cinderella-incinerating-...
The tool is in process of getting published. Not much I can say yet.

I didn't start this project and I am not the sole contributor. The project is medium-sized.
I think the key to doing this is not knowing about the 75% fatality rate
It's not clear if it was entangled because it was written in the specific framework or because it was just badly written code. In the latter case, this hasn't really anything to do with the framework. Additionally: did you make the v0.12 a migration just work, or did you change the codebase to take advantage of the new features (and remove inherent duplication)?

There are inherent problems in the TF framework and the migraitons. 0.12 introduced for loops, and 0.13 added modules support to them. So a proper migration should convert deduplicate resources into lists of resources. This is painful for big models, since one needs to write scripts in order to convert resource associations in the statefile. And hope not to miss anything!

Due to the strictly declarative nature, it's also difficult to slowly move duplicated resources into lists, and handle both of them at the same time.

At this time, our time is stuck with a certain TF version, and can't move without spending considerable resources.
Ben explains his methods here:

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382371967618097157

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382781121407029253
If you run any websites, you should do this because, although YOU might not use Chrome yourself, your website visitors often do.

When websites block FLoC, the activity of their users on those websites are not available to Google's Cohort Assignment Algorithm.

It's not about your personal privacy as the individual website operator. It's about your customers' privacy as visitors to your website.
Mozilla DeepSpeech Engine in Flutter Using Dart FFI
Flask does the same thing as FastAPI with @app… what will it do? Or am I not understanding correctly?
The Do Not Track ended up being used for tracking and identifying users. Support for it is now removed even from Safari, https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/

> Removed the Do Not Track flag, which ironically was used as a fingerprinting vector, adding uniqueness to the users who had enabled it.
Australian judge rules Google misled Android users on data
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2adrUaiyI
Nobody would invest billions in IP if someone from the street can walk by and take it.Is that such a complex subject to understand? IP is not a different concept than property.

People like to say "you can't actually steal IP, you get to keep yours". Of course you can steal IP, by using it or redistributing it without compensating the creator, you reduce the value of their IP. You stole from them by taking part of the value of the IP for yourself, robbing THEM from having it.

Scenario: an inventor invests 10 million for a product and makes 20 million in sales. He goes to invest the 10 million profit in his next invention.

Alternate scenario: an inventor invests 10 million for a product and makes 1 million in sales, because competitors use his IP for free and saturated the market. Inventor goes bankrupt.

Call it anything you want, but to me the competitors stole $19 million from the inventor. Yes, we can't predict the future, so it's harder to argue hypothetical situations. But seriously can't we put 2+2 together?

Plus IP expires. It's not like patents and so on forever stay the property if someone. Eventually they become available to everyone in all their documented and archived glory at the patent office.
But they seem to be able to cancel a price cut as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26657436
“action which produces value exclusive rights...” This does not describe “property in general”. (Also, it is gobbledegook.) The concept of property (excluding ip) is extremely straightforward - control of something scarce. Things called IP are not inherently scarce, and the arguments used to justify it are plainly not the same.
> The ModMic is also excellent

I have a ModMic 4 and I am disappointed. I used it for voice calls with my Sennheiser Momentum headphones.

- Accidentally pulling on the wire will cause it to turn on the magnetic handle and create unpleasant noise for others.
- It picks up signal from the phone trying to connect and transmits it to the listeners as buzzing sound. So I had to put my phone far away to avoid that.
- The mute switch does not really mute, it’s more like turning the volume to 10%. Learned that the hard/awkward way.
- Sound quality is mediocre, to me it always sounded like any generic mid-range headphones+mic combo.

If I could test ModMic before buying it, I would pass. I’d rather put the money towards a standalone mic (e.g. yeti) + boom arm. It’s expensive, but the quality is way better. I now use Røde PodMic with Scarlett Solo. It’s whole other price tier, but I do not regret spending that money, which I cannot say for the ModMic.
100 Nobel laureates urge Biden to make COVID-19 vaccines patent-free
While i agree that property rights are usually excessive, i doubt the author has ever spent hours crafting their own artwork and had someone use it for their advertising without the courtesy of asking.
They've been able to keep the Corona out...

If it were up to me we would have started reducing the amount of nicotine in tobacco by 5% a year starting 30 years ago.