skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks
I agree with you, the general public doesn't give a shit. There will be headlines for a few times, some people change their phones, and that'll be it. The biggest of these movements, I think, is the "de-googling" one. There's a myriad of articles, subreddits, guides, websites even, listing alternatives. And look what happened to Google. Nothing.

When the alternative to apple's surveillance is to smash the phone against a wall, and buy something that's much less convenient, suddenly surveillance is not that big of a problem. And this is very important to note because many world's powerful entities are moving in this direction.
Also, the running costs of a heat pump are reasonably comparable to gas heating, so you don't even really save money by doing this. (Plus they're more complex and expensive to replace when they break, the installation process is really disruptive and not practical for everyone, etc.) On top of that, a lot of the electricity to run them is going to come from burning gas anyway in most countries. They mostly seem to have caught on in places where gas wasn't plumbed out to so many homes, there are good reserves of dispatchable renewable sources like hydropower, or both.
Improving transportation of mining site employees in Tanzania
No Machine Learning cookies?! I can't handle all of these decisions!
At my work, we are currently in a kind of hybrid situation, where people come in 2 days a week. I am not sure if visiting a 'couple of times a month' is a viable option.

There is still a benefit to it if you are in a project where you need to have in-depth, technical discussions. But the social benefits of being at work, and the 'chance encounters' which would help starting new projects or to bounce ideas of someone are largely gone.

I am curious to see how companies will handle this. Our boss wanted to have feedback from the team on how to handle this in the future and suggested to introduce a weekly 'work on site' day (and make all other days optional), which I think is a decent idea which we should try.
There was an agreement between Canada and the US to go about measuring it well, but I think when trump got elected, it was canned.

Mind you, I think nat gas usage will increase, since it lets us get rid of coal without having to have solved the hard problems around energy storage.
And while MPI was designed for multi nodes, I’ve found that in many cases where a code base supports both MPI and openMP (shared memory with multiple threads in one process), the MPI version runs faster because each single threaded process knows that it owns it’s memory and there’s no need for synchronization.

Being explicit about the data being passed around while defaulting to “not shared” has benefits for making use of all your cores more efficiently.
I don't get people. It's not fucking E2E encryption when it is being scanned.
That's just trying to change what encryption means.
My company (a large multinational bank) (about 100K employees) introduce their "future way of working" back in April. This came after most of our offices in different regions working from home due to covid.

Much to my surprise, this was actually pretty well thought out. This new way, would give people the flexibility to choose wether they work from the office or work from home, or even combine both. (They also offered the flexibility to pick your own schedule) Obviously this is all based on the team that you're in. I opted to work from home 5 days per week (since it really made no difference to me anyway), instantly got approved, and received a US$750 one-time payment to buy some home equipment.

I feel like this was a great way to handle it, give people the choice what they want to do. Some jobs require being in the office, so those people only got 1 or 2 days working from home. Also everyone who was approved for working from home (even just one day), received that one-time payment of US$750.
Matrix Closure (2018)
With our findings, we prove that SEV cannot adequately protect confidential data in cloud environments from insider attackers, such as rouge administrators, on currently available CPUs.

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It is an interesting attack but is the above goal ever achievable? To protect against adversaries from the inside.
The bug which lost more than $600M in various cryptocurrencies a few hours ago
I do not. It would be helpful to enumerate the specifics of this rather than to play the role of a cheshire cat and say nothing.

(I am independently looking for this, but cannot currently confirm)
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Top tier humble brag.
Generating Podcast Episodes with GPT-2 and Google WaveNet
I'm not sure there's too much debate on what parallelism is (simultaneous execution of 2 or more processes/threads). The broader debate seems to be on what concurrency is. Is it a design feature (in which case coroutines in a single threaded program offer concurrency) or is it an execution model (in which case it intersects with or is the same as the common definition of parallelism).

The other debate is on how parallelism (and concurrency) should be done. Shared-nothing or shared-memory? It'd be foolish to say that only one of them is parallelism, but it would be reasonable to debate the merits of each approach in different systems and circumstances.
They were uniformed except for the flags on their arms and armor.
Luckily switching to all electric heating will take long enough to give us time to increase generation capacity sufficiently. Everybody except the politicians setting the targets for renewable energy knows that electricity demand will be much higher in the future when everything runs on electricity.
> I personally think that PRISM works by externally intercepting data communication lines running to these facilities. Similar to the rumors that international comms links have been tapped. The companies themselves have not participated, but the data path has been compromised.

That wouldn't work without the company being at least passively complicit. Links between datacenters are encrypted. If you want even basic PCI-DSS compliance then links between racks must be encrypted (and a rack that uses unencrypted links must be physically secured). And properly implemented TLS or equivalent (which is table stakes for a company that takes this stuff at all seriously) can't be broken by the NSA directly (and if it could be then everything would be hopeless). Thus the MUSCULAR programme where the NSA put their own equipment in Google's datacenters - that's really the only way you can do it.

Remember how the legal regime in the US works with National Security Letters. Companies can be, and are, required to install these backdoors and required to keep their existence, and the existence of the letter itself, secret. Of course Google, Apple, Facebook, every other company with a significant US presence is in receipt of one of those letters and has installed backdoors - the NSA aren't stupid, what else would those laws and their funding be for?
no, and that is the point, until we put pressure there, all effort done here is worthless.
Tech that gives you immortality probably gives you the ability to tune your genes and their expression too. We are, in fact, slightly closer to the latter than the former. Things like CRISPR, though yet fairly crude, are in practical use.

And humans haven't been subject to natural selection for ages. Pretty much the entire civilization is a cushion between you and forces of nature. Even mastering fire and learning to shoot an arrow from a bow were major developments away from natural selection.
Sure thing, and whose carbon numbers should I tell them to use when they calculate the tariff? The figures reported by the PRC’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment?
So basically, you lack the self-discipline to be satisfied with your choices, and prefer to be enlisted in some type of nanny service? Cool, I'll opt out and instead focus on bettering my defecits so I don't need to outsource my mental fortitude.
Rufo (the author) is biased when talking about CRT. He based his career on "Anti-CRT-Activism", so he has strong incentives to a) misconstrue everything that even vaguely resembles anti-racism as "CRT" b) write about it for personal gain in exposure or hard currency.
ahahahahahahahahah, you're a riot
I agree with you. Unfortunately I don't think we're in a majority.
And that's why you're spending so much time arguing that particular thing instead of presenting your own view?

It's like crying out loud about being persecuted before anyone actually did anything to you.
The specific criticism, that even the original author accepted later, was, that the growth of the infections in Israel during the study where focused in cities with lower vaccination rates compared to the whole of Israel. I.e. the effectiveness of the vaccine was underestimated in the study.
Additionally, you have to consider that Israel got the vaccine very early, i.e. more people had their shots a longer time ago.

Meanwhile, Biontech (the developer of the Pfizer vaccine) applied in Europe for approval to administer third shots 6 to 8 month after the second shot. It remains to be seen, whether the higher concentrated Moderna shots will need a third one a bit later.

One has to be very careful to properly separate a lot of different aspects for drawing general conclusions, regarding this pandemic.
>it's a lot better than working in an office everyday

Fuckin' A
Intuitively, I'd think, it should be the opposite - no need to pay for the office space, money saved, can give that to the employees. But no, instead - save money on the office, and then save even more on the salaries. Just wow.
It should be mentioned that this is not in the USA, and that even if he chose to just start burning through his investments, he will also receive a (at least minimum) pension when that time comes around, as well as not having to worry about any healthcare costs.

With that said, he's not 100% retired in the sense that he's just doing nothing - last time we spoke he was doing contracting work as an Engineer. I guess the retirement meant more "free to you want - possibly nothing if you don't feel like it"
My understanding is that this is part of the threat model of TEEs (Trusted Execution Environment). Whether or not this will ever be achievable is a different story.
The hacker, the tax haven, and $200M in offshore deposits
How would you ensure that the companies repay their loans?
Yes.
I suggest 'Primary', and 'Secondary'.
Then let them sort out who is which.
Winner gets to be...oh, wait.
In Italy and Spain electricity is very expensive, so many people uses natural gas for everything but lighting.

And the situation seems that it's going to increase even more.
I think the direct implication of saying that 70K is the point of diminishing return is that people making less than it are less happy? I think the study therefore is consistent with what you're saying?

For very high incomes, even without research data, I still find it only logical that excessive spending doesn't add much to happiness. This is due to almost every product/service not linearly improving as you spend more on it.

A sports car is awesome but after 2 weeks you realize it still only takes you from A to B, and you internally normalize it. You can buy 30K worth of audio equipment but it will not sound 30 times better than 1K equipment, more like 5% better.

Note that I'm purely looking at it from a spending perspective.

As for societal pressures, I disagree. There's a lot of room for a compromise here. For example, our expenses on daily consumables is zero. We don't do Starbucks, going out for lunch, or any of it. Zero.

Nobody is pressuring us to make those daily expenses and by looking at us, you can't tell whether we do or don't. This alone is a considerable monthly savings.

We may use our clothes and shoes twice longer than a typical person, yet the wardrobe is large enough that absolutely nobody would be able to tell. Or care, for that matter.

When you enter our house, you won't see some stripped down project by a frugalist. In fact, it is above average luxurious. We have furniture that is of such quality that it is effectively ever lasting. We have very high end electronics, not budget stuff. And so on.

We may even appear richer than average whilst spending less than average. So the societal pressure is zero, because we don't appear poor or poorer compared to our peers.

Cut daily expenses, buy quality and utilize the longer lifespan, put this delta into additional savings. Spend part of savings to lower cost of living (mortgage, energy bill), and get even more savings.

Difficult? Easy.
Who checks where you work from? Can a 100 devs pitch in and rent a house next to Google’s office and claim that that’s where they all live, while working from somewhere else?
Less humans, not so much.

Less rich humans, maybe? At this point, just getting rid of people probably still leaves the earth in a tailspin of overheating
If you are focused on fairness, get into politics and get laws passed.
>yeah with the small difference that the virus scanner reports to you

Important to note that in case of the Win 10 Defender and its default settings, executables, and hashes of other files are uploaded to Microsoft automatically.

Much less worse than a csam false positive reporting someone to the authorities, but not really "reporting to you" either.
A combined cycle gas plant has an efficiency of 50-60%, pipe that electricity into a heat pump with a COP of around 3 and you're well ahead of burning the gas directly for heat.
Well, I often post about the macroeconomic benefits of fiscal stimulus and CO2 taxes.

The idea that fighting climate change is bad for the economy must die.

Overly simplified: The working economy runs out of money as money concentrates in corporations and the wealthy. Salaries can't be paid at the small business end. Unemployment is pretty much guaranteed. The government pours more money into the economy to alleviate the shortage of money.

What should you pour it on? Schools? Roads? Bridges? Research? Out of ideas? Put the rest into fighting climate change.

The funny part is that it doesn't even require you to believe in climate change. Renewables are cheaper. Electric cars will last longer. Although grid storage is not essential, it would be amazing to have energy storage in the electric grid to prevent blackouts. It would also encourage goal directed research which is much easier than blindly guessing the next big thing.

Now, if it turns out all that climate change noise is true and you end up saving the planet, then think about the profits you would make compared to the business as usual scenario which would obviously have the risk of massive loss of GDP.
It's not too bad to invent the same thing over again based on some new and (potentially) revolutionary technology. It's a try, which is unclear to succeed. What are the alternatives to do? There are some, but working on Cryptocurrency is something valid (even "hot") to do these days.
My strategy:

- Stuff I am working on, documents, small stuff: iCloud Drive

- Stuff I want to consume (lossless music, movies) and larger files I occasionally need but that I don't need to update: https://www.transip.nl/stack/

- Stuff I want to archive and maybe need to retrieve at some point in the future: B2
then again the term "ship" once probably was the vessel on which slaves were transported so we need new nomenclature for that as well.
Dropbox is still the best

OneDrive (I use it at work): if one file fails, all files stop syncing. It sometimes tries to sync some files from teams and just never finishes. It also has very strange file name restrictions. if the file name is bad (eg whitespace at the end) it will just stop syncing anything. Still better than Google Drive as it is a standard folder. if it crashes your data is HERE.

google drive (I used that at work): on MacOS is it is utter crap as it is not a folder but a mounted thing. So it is not "there" when you login. So every application that tries to open a file on google drive just fails. Because it is not an apple FS a lot of apple apps will complain. MySQL Workbench will often fail to save and often destroy files. If not running it is not mounted and none of your files are here. you also can't copy out google files (writer, spreadsheet, etc). For whatever reason.

iCloud: some strange folder nested hundred levels deep. I only use it because of some ios stuff.

So yeah, Dropbox might be pricey but through all the years it really worked very well for me. (And I really don't care about any of the other services they have)
As long as there's more demand than supply for SWE workers, something like that would never become the norm.

All of the dystopic news stories of WFH employees being subject to monitoring are invariably from fungible employees.
You could equally say that Apple don't have a monopoly on phones, which is true, but they do have monopoly-like control over the apps which iOS users can install, which this legislation is trying to remedy.

Similarly, if the Epic Store is the only place you can download Fortnite, and you really like Fortnite, but hate the advertising and data harvesting and battery use of the Epic Store, then you are being denied the ability to participate freely in the market for app stores.

Saying "just play a different game" is as unhelpful as saying "just buy a different phone", and doesn't address the underlying complaint that product tying is an anti-competitive practice that consumers should be protected against:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_%28commerce%29
IMAP emails are all addressed by a 32bit UID. Overwriting it would require that you experienced a hash collision, data race, or that your IMAP provider sent out the wrong set of IDs.

It's incredibly unlikely to be Thunderbird's fault.
Pre crime police work would be social services. But increasing funding for those are not popular with conservatives and libertarians.
Tied to your account, obviously. Stimulus money that has to be used this month, or it will expire. For the receiving party of that money, it is "normal" money, that doesn't expire.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but programmable money would make it possible.
Why do we imagine that in person communication is somehow mystical? I guess science doesn’t work because papers are not presented in person? I guess we are not engaged by films because the actors are not physically present?

It’s superstition.
> Which is true for most kind of cloud storage.

Sure, it's not actually saying a lot. My point is that's the very first thing in their marketing message, so they're very much advertising themselves as secure/private. By comparison if I pick an arbitrary cloud storage service - Dropbox - their first line is "Bring your files and cloud content together with the tools your team wants to use".
Plenty of folks work long and difficult jobs while on Cannabis. Before it started giving me anxiety, I programmed on it for years. It made hard tasks more exploratory and fun. OP just sounds like a lazy manlet, not drug-induced malaise.
I used to walk to the office. Now, I need to buy office furniture and use up space in my own apartment, which my partner and I used for something else before. Either that, or rent a desk at a co-working space that I will need to drive to. (I don't own a car yet, but probably will need to buy one soon anyway to pick up groceries and restaurant meals.)

I used to eat almost all my meals at work. Meals were subsidized by my company, and they were a lot healthier than restaurant food or takeout. That's several thousand dollars per year of compensation that I'm not getting anymore, not to mention time I didn't use to spend on cooking. Not to mention compensation for gym membership and fitness classes that I'm not getting anymore.

The work gym has closed, and I don't have space to set up a decent home gym. After all, I now have to use up space on a home office!

Working from home for me has meant losing space in my home, losing free healthy meals daily, and losing my shape. I admire y'all who can stay buff with one left kettlebell and practice breast stroke on the carpet, but I can't, and even if I could, this is a lot worse than what I used to enjoy.
What people lack in these threads is workers' solidarity. It's not like offices are going away or anyone would be forced to WFH when pandemic is over.

What does average Joe get by opposing it? A pat on the head when this is all done? There is collective leverage here, use it to get more for everyone.
Yeah, it could pose a distraction but I think this is exactly the correct way to improve computer vision.
>Food is also big draw. Now I have to worry about what I eat every day and make my food

Haha. Not sure which country you're from, but this definitely sounds like a first world problem.

Your statement tells me that you could afford to only eat food others prepared for you in the past. (Not sure if that was a free office cafeteria)

For many that is expensive and could even be an unhealthy way of life.

I've never really thought of going into an office because pre-prepared food is easier to get. That's a new one.
Remote work is not for everyone. I am saying this as a remote software engineer for a decade. I don't like offices, I don't like those little gossip corners, I don't like commute.

I love to travel, have a small corner at a cafe where no one knows me, put on headphones and work. In the last 14 years I have moved 12 times. It says something about me I had not realized for a while.

I build my own small routines, like walking, cleaning the house, cooking, daily grocery. Currently I live in a small Himalayan village and I am starting to build engineering for a super early stage US based startup. Met the founder through On Deck. I love my routine, and I love staying outside socially busy places. I have anxiety issues.

Living in a village, people assume I must be a less productive person. My US founder worked with me for a couple weeks and decided it is in best interest if I lead all engineering. She/he is ex Uber, really high caliber person. There are people like me, I have met them, I know them. They all want to live away from busy places and do not like offices.
> It is an interesting attack but is the above goal ever achievable? To protect against adversaries from the inside.

No, safe execution of untrusted code is impossible by the very definition, not without undoing 40 years of IC design practices.

It's an almost physical limitation which makes it very hard to compute something without some electromagnetic leakage from/to the die.

Take a look on secure CPUs for credit cards. They have layer, upon layers of anti-tampering, anti-extraction measures, and yet TEM shops in China do firmware/secret extraction from them for $10k-$20k
I'm doing interviews now and, naturally, the question comes up. Am I looking for a remote position? Would I mind that the position is only partially so? Or that it is fully on-site?

Obviously it's just anecdotal data, and I'm in Europe. So take this with a grain of salt, but I'd say:

* There has undoubtedly been a big rise in remote positions, but not a huge one. Many of these seem to come from companies willing to hire people living in other cities/countries, given how they write the ads.

* A lot do mention that they are most certainly going back to the office soon or soon-ish, or that they have already started going back at least partially.

* Many have taken the option of partial remote. Most of these have stricter "2 days per week" or "Mondays on-site, rest of the week at home" rules, but some are still experimenting and are more flexible.

* Very few offer the option for the employee to choose, whatever their decision is.
This is interesting to hear.

When I was implementing it in KMail, I was looking at Thunderbird, and envious of their fancy search UI. I had plans of implementing something similar, but it never panned out.