skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Option:
3. Pay your IT/Security department or hire a consultant
Pay for licenses and updates of software and hardware
Don't expect job of 5 people to be done by 1
Don't let bunch of trainees run your infra

Government should make companies pay even more so other companies understand what the proper way to "not getting ransomed" is or spend money finding out. Instead of money going god knows where to finance god knows what.

SolarWinds was blaming some intern for a bad password, if it would be up to me, I would close down whole company for such utter bullshit. I understand at their scale it is still possible to have some loose ends but no one was doing any audits, no one was doing any security awareness? I bet you could blame at least 10 managers there for not even thinking about security and not some intern.
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I'm about to lose $4,800 in credits from Digital Ocean. I've been promoting them on my blog for the past 5 years or so

Something that I found weird is that they mentioned on the email I received:

> Please note that since all of your referral credits were issued more than 12 months ago, they will all expire starting next week.

Either the wording is odd or it's just my interpretation, but from what I understood they are implying that all my credits are older than 12 months

But the thing is I have several credits issued this year:

May 06, 2021
April 07, 2021
March 08, 2021
February 02, 2021
January 08, 2021

Or they consume the credits from newer to older.
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There needs to be an independent investigation, as top AP people have said. The world won't at this point believe any "evidence" because the criminal claims they have it.
Voters shouldn't be able to influence private landowning anyways since it violates private property rights. The whole point of owning land is so you can decide what to do with the land. If you want to decide what to do with someone's private property then work a deal with them instead.
But we do have ways of testing it. We can and do look for extraterrestrial civilizations coming from nearby planets and solar systems, and thereby place bonds on the output of the Drake Equation.

For some combinations of parameters, we should expect to see life on most other bodies within the solar system. The search for life on the moon and mars are simple empirical tests of these predictions.
Well I guess we’ll see if you’re right...
I came here to say this as well. The video is so crisp and detailed that it is mesmerising. And being able to view it from the comfort of my iPad screen? Wow. Technology really is amazing. It’s funny (and maybe sad) that it took something as small as a quality video loop for me to really appreciate all of the things involved in the process of me being able to view that video.
Yes, but every couple days it switches back and you have to “request desktop site”.
> Richer people tend to talk about themselves more, in both Asia and EU. Maybe it's because they are able to experience more given their wealth/status, thus having more topic to talk about. Or maybe they get wealthy because of that self-centric attitude.

Interesting. My experience (Poland/EU) is pretty much the reverse. That is, I expect a richer person to take less about themselves, and more about the topic at hand. That is (generalizing), a rich person will say things like, "$Person is a great $X-maker, you should check them out", or "yeah, X is great, especially ${some refined form}", whereas a less well-off person will keep saying things like "yes, I love X", or "I hate X", or "I'm taking X classes", or "I know ${list of famous people doing X}". My provisional explanation is that the rich person doesn't feel the need to prove anything to you, or to themselves, so they can just talk about the topic itself, instead of trying to position themselves within it.
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From what I know in India Churches owns more land that Indian Army.
Ask HN: Will we see serious inflation 2021?
It is Hadoop that requires (mostly) Java 8 and Java 11 (runtime only).
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+Ja...
That "the only thing missing" is the main reason to go to many conferences.

A lot of people (those with less social desire/social skills) seem to resent it, but it is true: Networking and casual technical conversations that happen afterhours are the draw for many technical conferences. Talks can be good, and occasionally there are well-constructed lab sandboxes. But mostly, it's going and speed-dating with peers and sales teams to talk about your needs and architecture, and building a good web of contacts.

I also believe fully remote technical/collaboration work, without any periodic physical meetups, will be awful for a lot of people. Sure, those who bought into it pre-pandemic prefer it, and that's fine. But I really think there is concern to be had for the fraying of social bonds and teamwork that can be done, even (or especially) with people you have a tough time working with.
Open a window somewhere in the world
For everyone here comparing Teslas range to this:
It takes less than 10 minutes to fill a tank with hydrogen.
It takes 40+ minutes to fill a Tesla to 80%.
it's not like there aren't a million tools to read postscript type 1 fonts. I think your documents are probably safe
All of the people currently mining Ethereum will switch to mining other coins.

But, the mining rewards for those other coins are typically static.

So you'll have a dramatically increased number of GPUs chasing the same number of coins - which is going to result in increased mining difficulty and reduced profits, potentially dramatically reduced.
One could argue this is the exact same thing: protecting their long-time customers from a small number of big customers (datacenters) that can afford to dramatically out-price their gamer customers temporarily, but might disappear (if they develop their own hardware?) not too long from now.
this is a total false equivalence. you’re really comparing computing hashes to buying medicine and destroying it?
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Has anybody written about the opportunity cost to society of technological resources going to crypto mining instead of to consumers, creators, and scientists? I'd be interested in reading such an analysis of cost/benefit of crypto vs. creation with the limited supply of hardware and electricity.
I don't have a citation for how massive the used market is, but I can tell you without a doubt that people in my circles buy used cards, and that I commonly heard it as advice to save a buck.
> I'm curious how you reconcile that against things like the benefits of filling from the extension avoiding the system clipboard & key loggers

I'm mostly punting this to macos. I don't give my kids admin rights on the devices I let them use and in general I think you need a11y access to log keys on mac, granting which requires admin.

AFAIK, modern browsers prevent interaction with the clipboard without user interaction, so using the system clipboard for passwords is not a huge deal. As a mitigation, 1password and other password managers clear the clipboard after a timeout.

On my linux machine, I use a bitwarden CLI in a script that either uses xclip to put the password into the clipboard or xdotool to type it directly. To my understanding, the security model in X is quite a bit worse than that in mac, but I prefer this over using a browser extension.

> the inherent phishing protection that comes from 1Password only suggesting credentials on sites where the URL matches your items

I can't wait for a passwordless world to come. For now, my kids only have credentials on sites that are relatively worthless, and I use U2F on all the sites/services I possibly can that have any value.

On the sites that have value but don't support U2F, I either accept the risk or try to find alternatives. Banks and financial services (I live in the US) are a perennial disappointment here.

I do use the bitwarden app on my iphone, and when you actually go through the password filling feature (instead of just switching to the bitwarden app and searching), it does suggest only those passwords that match the URI you're looking at. I haven't closely examined why I'm okay with this integration but not a browser extension on other platforms, but I am.
Purging credit amassed over years with only a week of prior notice sounds really, really wrong.
Well, the reparameterization idea is quite convenient if the operations you want to perform are more naturally expressed in the new parameter domain. Path dashing is a good example: in arc-length domain, simply take fixed steps in u (say 0.05), perform some fairly simple arithmetic to convert that u to regular old t, and then evaluate your curve at t. The new domain gives you a new space to live in, that for some things is pretty nice.

For accuracy/precision, my [non-peer-reviewed] sense is that numerical methods will probably always get you more accuracy/precision. For the case I was experimenting with (path dashing, and some other related things like placement of text glyphs along the path), extreme precision didn't seem necessary.

The method I ended up with (Costantini's piecewise-linear solution with K=5 pieces) meant that for each Bezier in my path, I performed some preprocessing to determine the reparameterization coefficients. With that preprocessing done, I now had an O(K) evaluation algorithm to convert the arc-length parameter u (in [0,1]) to t.

Another surprisingly big bonus: there exists an equally simple O(K) inverse, i.e. given a t, return u. This allows you to easily compute the distance you've traveled along the arc, if you know where you are in the original parametric domain.

To your other question, unfortunately I don't know how these techniques tend to handle cusps. I didn't get that far in my experimentation.
Sure they can - all land is controlled by land use regulations, zoning regulations and other laws and regs. Your local elected officials are in charge of changes to such things. By all means, vote for the people getting into those offices, and get engaged with local governance. Especially in the more rural areas, where the large land holdings tend to fall, there will be a smaller electorate, and the local community can have a significant impact on local decisions.

For federal land, significant projects are open for public comments, and they absolutely respond to the people who live in the area. I've seen numerous development projects proposed by the rich get shot down after the community got involved through the comment process.
Interested to hear your thoughts on Polkadot. At the end of the first section, you stop the 'innovation train' at NPOS. Polkadot takes all the ideas presented in your article, combines them and adds a couple unique ideas such as parachains.
Apple music is absolutely a piece of shit app and has been getting worse over time.
Not anymore because latest business was, if you don't pay they will leak the data:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/05/13/ranso...
Nvidia never applied those mining limitations rectoactivelyl they only announced for newer cards. Still they crippled VFIO capabilities with driver updates in past so they had bad track of record years ago.
Better videoconferencing hardware is not a solution to people wanting to get together socially and serendipitously at events. And, by the way, how many people are going to turn a room in their house into a work videocall room?

Personally, I find that--for most people--the idea that working remote shoves a lot of cost onto employees vs. commuting probably off-base. (With some exceptions for people living in small city apartments near offices.) But installing a room-sized videoconferencing setup at home even for people with decent-sized houses is pretty silly.
GPUs are no longer used to mine Bitcoin. They would lose lots of money trying.
True ownership of land is allodial title[1] and that’s basically impossible to acquire in the modern world. I believe however a bunch of Brazil is actually privately owned[2] and home owners, in the commonly used sense, pay taxes to the private owner and not the government.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/25/434360144/...
Sure, you could just say that your “principles” are simply the entire exact sequence of actions you take in your life. That way you could by definition never change or violate your principles.

But usually people use “principle” to refer to a relatively concise statement that can be applied to a large variety of situations.
How can computers calculate more accurately than the human brain but also have PRNGs or even true hardware RNGs?
It is very natural. Land can be used for multiple purposes. 100 years ago agriculture was very important activity and it made sense to own more rural land. Today the amount of money I spent on buying a tiny house in Palo Alto would buy me 50acre ranch in Texas. But I am not interested that as that 50 acre ranch is unlikely to be a valuable asset 20 years down the line.
IBM in the 90's strongly agrees with you - this software stuff is never going to be profitable and everything people pay for will always end up going through us!

More seriously, I disagree about software being less important because there have been very real innovations for tooling accomplished in software alone. Email is a pretty classic example - but a more modern one might be Google Cardboard which can turn your smart phone into a rather underwhelming VR headset. There are plenty of hardware alternatives but the same basic functionality was accomplished on generalized hardware.

Additionally, all this technology is only really possible due to other technology - we don't discount a new shiny computer just because it's just a dumb oddly shaped box if you can't supply it with electricity - but the costs to develop software are generally lower than hardware so I think it's fair to have a general notion that hardware is more innovative - it's just that you're conflating two different variables - cost and medium.
My solution is not to do that. Make and sell the cards to the people who will buy them. If you're selling out make more and/or raise prices.
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If it got widely deployed onto infrastructure not owned by Google, real-world internet conditions would ruin it with latency and lag-spikes.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

-- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thank you! I didn’t know this was possible. I was in the exact same boat. Bought the app, never use it because I keep forgetting about it.
Simply I don't like fake news.
I imagine they are using lightfield type displays like the ones made at this company - https://lookingglassfactory.com/
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I’ve used such a Cisco system. Compared to regular video calls the latency and quality was light years ahead, much more natural conversations were possible. By which I mean it was possible to laugh, interject, and generally have a realistic conversation with a colleague in another country without having to compensate for video lag in that very careful way I find necessary on Meet and Zoom.

That said, there was no “emotional connection” like the Google one is described as offering. It was still a video call. There was no forgetting that. I suspect the 3D and the apparent physical closeness to the display add a lot.
Increasingly it is apparent that the US is going to have to learn how bad socialism is in a first hand manner, increasingly few people alive in the US fled the horror of past attempts at socialism and our "education" system love to white wash those past attempts as "not real socialism™" thus its rise in modern politics as being considered a viable economic path.
That, and a lot of his ETH. The illiquid shitcoins are still worth a couple hundred million at the very least. +$200k in ETH.
lots of the acreage is divided up into multiple parcels. I wonder what the top 100 largest contiguous parcels are.

i've been on a couple 10-15k acre ranches West of Austin TX, certainly large enough to get completely lost on which seems to be my speciality...
I can bypass my OS certificate verification by installing my own CA. How does the mechanism wrt nVidia driver and hardware work to make mining impossible?
Because in the long term, they probably can't rely on mining for income. And if they stop selling gpus for a while, they are going to destroy their customer base.
Gamers will get angry, people who use CUDA will look for alternatives, enterprise supply chain managers will look for more reliable manufacturers (AMD).

Essentially, this move would wreck their basic business. And dropping that business for crypto is very risky. It is also probably not what investors would expect.
I hadn't heard of this before - do you have a link or something with more details?
To give them credit when it’s due, they recently lifted this limitation.
Block live access? Maybe.

Block access entirely? Only if they were willing to stop all communications and travel in/out of the country. You could carry keys on paper and instructions in your head and apply them on the "free side" of the border. I don't think it's practically possible to entirely prevent such transactions. You can make them illegal; you can make them difficult; you probably can't stop them as an individual country.
> Syntax highlighting for #tags.

What's the best way to search for #tags with VS Code? Are #tags indexed into an e.g. ctags file within a project or a directory?

> @bibtex-citations: Use pandoc-style citations in your notes (eg @author_title_year) to get syntax highlighting, autocompletion and go to definition, if you setup a global BibTeX file with your references.
This can be just as easier, and probably more truthfully, read as "miners can no longer make the used market a minefield by selling overtaxed consumer cards without disclosing their provenance." Because, yeah, having ex-miner cards burn out is a pretty common thing on the used market. Great!

Cryptocurrencies are not inherently good or valuable and cryptocurrency people aren't special and their world-burning habits and desires need not be privileged.
It's market segmentation, and it's not a new strategy.

The market is bimodal. There's the crypto miners and there's the gamers. Right now, gamers are getting starved out and middlemen are pocketing the surplus selling gaming cards to crypto miners.

Nvidia want to capture more of that surplus for themselves, while also taking money from the gamers. Satisfy both markets with different products at different prices, prices that leave less money on the table.
Jen built https://lunchmoney.app (a budgeting and personal finances tracking app with a great UX) all by herself.

https://lunchmoney.app/about
> Current implementation depends on the exchange rate

No, it does not. You are staking ETH, not USD. Essentially, you are staking a percentage of all ETH, percentage capped from below.
This is a really great point, and I hadn’t thought of it like that. Thank you
> a) let's keep consumer grade stuff stable in price

Consumer GPUs had far from a 'stable price' before the mining boom.

GPUs have more than tripled in MSRP once you factor in that NVIDIA has moved lower-tier chips that previously only featured in their lowest end x50 and x60 tier GPUs up the stack and started selling them for $400+ MSRP. Look at the GTX960, which launched at $150 in 2014, against the 3060 which launched at an MSRP of $330.

It's even worse at the high end. Flagship GPUs like the 980ti and 1080ti launched at MSRPs of $650 and $700 respectively, now the high end GPUs are $1200 (2080ti) and $1500 (3090).

> none of it is malicious.

It absolutely is malicious. NVIDIA is trying to stop a strong second hand market from being formed so that they can continue to charge ridiculous prices for GPUs that should be 1/2 to 1/3 their current price if the market was healthy.
Hey! This is a great callout, we'll think about how to make it better!
> when we improve things because we know they can be better instead of racing to avoid a disaster.

I’d encourage you to read the Wikipedia article on Taylorism and then to read The Toyota Way and/or Leadership is Language.
Is this something that will eventually get worked into Dialogflow?
Yup that happens sometimes.
Pointing out that hypocrisy is a strategy some took with criticizing Apple, but it's not the direction PG chose. [1]

He said nothing about Dre, focusing entirely on saying "He's a good guy, actually", which is the epitome of the strategy taken by men historically to defend other shitty men.

That's not "defending sexism" per se, but it is excusing sexism because of the content of someone's character. "Sure he said sexist things but he is not sexist". It does not pass even the most baseline level of scrutiny.

I think it's also worth saying here that the comparison to Dre is super irrelevant:

1) Musicians may write lyrics in the first person, but the general default for all musical content is it's "fictional", and not representive of their personal views on the matter. It's artistic license with ideas - occasionally problematic. That is not the case with "autobiographies", which is what Antonio's book was purported to be.

2) Dre has taken complete ownership of all of his past indiscretions and apologized for them [2]. Antonio double down.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1392756490138791937

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Violence_against_women
It's always lovely to see people who, I'm sure, are staunch defenders of "workers rights" turn around and say "yeah just fire anyone who isn't currently an asset to the company by whatever criterion".

The difference between "can" and "should" is the entire moral universe.
not that hard to do if you have actual depth sensing cameras, and even without those, something like the oculus quest 2 does that exact task (generate a rough 3d volume based on several 2d video feeds) you can see a neat example when you draw your guardian space, and move objects (and notice how it updates the 3d volume representation)
Not who you're replying to, but the US Govt does own a lot of land that wouldn't be useful to anyone else. Some rural and desert plots sell for less than $1000/acre.
Of course government can decide private property law. Slaves used to be private property. And you can't do whatever you want once you own a piece of land, see environmental laws etc.
If I were a chip manufacturer like NVDA, I would pursue the crypto market with a special chips for each different crypto, to move the crypto market off their gamer line.

Then let the crypto people pay 6x for 4x performance using half the power, e.g, meanwhile using that income to fund the research for the the 3nm, 2nm, 1nm production lines.
> It was eye-opening to see Cyberpunk running almost perfectly on DAY ONE with the same performance as Windows.

I'm looking at Cyberpunk right now (because it is on sale) and Steam says it is windows only. Most of my Steam library doesn't work on linux, what are you running differently? I'm only just getting back into games after a long hiatus.
You mean, like a mainframe? Tech goes round in circles, more like.
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There is a very big difference. PoS collapses governance into a single group: custodians. With PoW governance is a push and pull between miners and custodians. Additionally, PoW miners need to constantly sell Bitcoin to cover operating costs, whereas stakers in a PoS system have a small fixed cost and large stakers will always stay large. Miners on the other hand need to constantly invest and expand to stay competitive.
Lol. Can you personally verify what your bank is doing? No you can't. If it was on the blockchain, you could.