skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep so in this case... that's saying that the peer group (chip/semi-conductors) is disconnected a bit from the rest of the market... and directionally its down. Micron specifcally has some "other" attribution too. Glancing at the other semis... they are mostly down because of just the peer factor.

TLDR; Micron (MU) is leading the peer group down (in contrast to something like LCRX which is in that herd but following).
> An example often cited for El Salvador, where a US worker A sends money to a family member B at home.
>If A uses banks and dollars, B may need to travel to a bank (long trip on a bus through areas not very friendly to strangers), pay sizeable cross-border commission, evade gangs looking for people withdrawing money, etc.

I understand the advantages of USDT, like making crossborder transactions faster/cheaper.

However the often cited example but not 100% accurate because it ignores some of the features of the Salvadoran financial system.

There is a a system of "financial agents/correspnondents". There is no need to visit a branch of the bank to receive a remmittance if it is under US$ 500. That can be done in a Supermarket, pharmacy or the main tienda in town. It can even be done with an app (like the one used by the largest credit union).

This is the map of one of just one of the networks, this network owned by cooperatives owned by its users, like a credit union, and not a private company like a bank or multinational bank.: https://www.fedecredito.com.sv/puntos-de-atencion

> With crypto, they could receive it at home.

Remmittances can be received using finantial apps too. The largest private bank in El Salvador has a simple bank account. It can be opened with a selfie, a photo of the ID card. Other banks also offer this simple bank accounts.

Currently the transaction costs via the normal remmittance system, are lower, than by using the only three bitcoin atms in the country. Twitter users reported that recently when the bitcoin price reached $40,000, the only Bitcoin ATM in San Salvador ran out of cash. And that the only way to contact their technical support was via Whatsapp message to a phone number based in another country, Colombia.
Thanks.

This made me checking the situation in Germany. Apperently the washing machine needs a backflow protection by law. Not sure mine has one as it's just a simple looking double faucet (washing machine + sink connection). Maybe that's going to the long list of "deadly" oversights by my landlord XD

Either way, I read modern washing machines prevent this also by their own valve systems. Guess that's the fancy thingy at the end of the water connection. Hope that stops whatever is making notable hydrogen sulfide in the freshwater inflow from spreading into my drinking water... What do they even eat??

For real washing machines and fridges are just increasingly disgusting if you start asking questions... Really glad for my immune system.
As far as we understand, consciousness is an emergent phenomenon based off of your neural activity. We can state with certainty that your consciousness ends when your brain does.
I thought about such a restriction, and now I think the "extreme outlier" approach is better, as it gets closer to the actual goal.

People controlling redistricting will push back all the way, it's not surprising. If courts don't provide a remedy - and with current political structure in USA, courts behavior is depending on which party is long time in power - then theoretically the only reasonable approach would be rebellion, as people need to put in power those who'd redistrict for fair elections, and select judges who'd judge more objectively, and - more importantly - put mechanisms in place which would prevent a party, even the one long time in power, from changing this. That's usually a matter of constitution change, and there is push back, and there is matter of relative urgency - some things which should be there, aren't in a constitution for centuries, so more expedient approaches are needed.
There was a very prominent "permanent" war in the 1960's and 1970's.
Are you refusing to see how this opens Pandora’s box of surveillance on a device that many people store there most personal communications, memories, and other data?
Your Smart TV is already doing this to sell targeted adverts aimed at you based on what you watch.
These laws are simply ridiculous. Good content simply sells. Just look at Parasites, Money Heist. International success from small local foreign studios.
But we know from the article that's not how he was identified. Instead it was from the access logs of the company that he downloaded the file from.

> Hutchinson said his identification by Leathermarket and subsequent arrest raised questions in his mind, saying police confirmed to him that the company had handed over an access log containing IP addresses:
Capitalist proles.
Yeah, wiki has a decent survey of sigmoid (the family, not the specific function ML people often refer to by that name) functions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function#/media/File:G...

Note that tanh saturates to ±1 faster than most except erf when normalized to have slope 1 at the origin (its series at +infinity is like 1 - 2e^{-2x} + o(e^{-4x}), while many of the other options have polynomial series, so they don't approach 1 nearly as fast).

I suspect some applications would in theory rather use erf, but erf is even worse to compute than tanh (on the other hand, erf's derivative is really nice, so who knows?)
I'm halfway through the book. That opening bit is so great, and the rest has been a big letdown so far. Really feels like that opening was written as a short story and then the rest of the book was just tacked on. Maybe the second half will be better.
If you want just one book to learn all things deep learning from scratch with coding including the latest techniques, it should be Dive into deep learning [0]. Really underrated and not well-known.

[0] https://d2l.ai/
O, no... the o's render square and then round and then square again on xubuntu/chrome... what's up!?!...

https://imgur.com/a/0LcqKej

Many things seem to change because people need to change things to rationalize their job title. Is that what's going on here?
They didn't even have that much evidence, google didn't participate in finding the defendant. He shared these docs on social media and was found that way.
You'd use something like gradual replacement to create a true transfer as opposed to a mere copy.
I think the goal, at this point, should be to do anything we can to give us breathing room.

Maybe over the next two years, we can turn things around enough so that we still have 10 years before we hit the emissions limit.

Even that, though, would require dramatic investments that I'm not seeing right now.
The first "subsidy" that they name is the accounting concept of depreciation. I stopped reading at that point.
> At least the Fed is checked to some degree by Congress

I believe you have it the wrong way around.
Who are the unlucky ones that will be double-checking the AI-tagged images for child pornography, all day long?
> To take this a level further, consider the fact that many European countries impose tariffs on US-made cars, making them substantially more expensive to buy in Europe than in the US. A way around that, obviously, is to manufacture them in Europe. Is there something to be said about asking a company that's about to kick Facebook's ass, to use a US-based hosting infrastructure for their US traffic?

With GDPR Europe is actually moving toward a tax on tech by requiring local data-centers be used. If you can't innovate, time to regulate!
> I can imagine that safety regulations are starting to be demanded by the public, and that is a good thing

I remember seeing a sign at the Hong Kong border when going to the mainland warning that there was a maximum amount of infant formula that could be taken across. Hopefully this is that crackdown.
> there is no good reason for the U.S. to maintain such a military so giant that it requires massive, counterproductive subsidies to maintain just in-case we need to engage in a massive war.

Investing in the military is nothing like buying more computing capacity on AWS. It's not as flexible as you imagine it to be. By the time war begins, it can be too late. Afghanistan may have been a mistake but other wars were not.

Additionally, federal defense spending as a share of GDP has fallen gradually since WWII and the Cold War. The past couple decades have been our lowest levels since the 1930s.

Finally, if you were to make substantial cuts to our military, the world and our adversaries would take notice, and we don't want the consequences of that. It's hard to grasp how much of the world's geopolitics is altered by that defense budget the American public views as 'going to waste.'
No, I said Apple uses MY phone to scan pictures before they reach their servers. Google does not use my phone to do that and scans them themselves.
I have NDAs preventing clients from passing on the awful secrets I reveal to them, I don't know if that's egregious but I definitely appreciate it.
It's a catch 22 cause developers want to sell their apps so they will still comply
Domain Driven Design Made Dependently Typed with Idris
https://youtu.be/QBj-4K-l-sg

My talk about DDD and the high level overview of the Idris implementation of the Domain Modeling Made Functional Book, where I used dependent types to formalize the Bounded Context and Workflow abstractions to create a full implementation which is hosted on NodeJS.

For more details see; https://github.com/andorp/order-taking/
And very few people look at what topped it off: the cold war. The insane pressure from the US caused USSR to overspend on military when then barely fed their population. I think people should say "US won the cold war" rather than "the cold war ended" or "the USSR collapsed". It didn't collapse on it's own...as bad as communism was for the population, they could have potentially carry it on forever, like North Korea, if it wasn't for the US pressure.
My example

> If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so.

highlights that it's baseless to put off solving death or even using it as a solution.
Holy cow, they literally say that they reserve the right to never give you a dollar for a tether and people still trust it?
It's a bit preachy, and he really needed an editor to trim the fat, but the story's pretty good.
I think I've fallen into this trap before, and ended up with a small set of features that degrade well if I don't have them.

Something like fish shell will never work for me. Not every machine is mine. So I tried Zsh. It turns out that better tab completion, syntax highlighting and suggestions does speed me up, but I don't feel lost when the machine has a default bash install.

The hours I've spent customizing just to decide it's too much and undoing half of it is baffling. At least I had fun doing it, or that's what I tell myself.
How to Prepare for Gmail’s Rollout of BIMI
They're not even 'tightly coupled'. They're literally the same people.

The Bitfinex loan to Tether literally had the same two signatories on both sides of the loan.
Sorry, speaking of web-based books about Deep Learning, I remember one in which the figures allowed changing parameters and seeing the results - I cannot remember the source or author, can anyone?

I confused it with the one from Michael Nielsen...
> I am curious how that works for iMessage.

I don't know the details here, but you can disable iMessage and just send plain SMS, which in theory does not send the data to Apple. But then, part of the point of using iMessage is that the message contents are not sent to your carrier and have some encryption in place. I would guess your best bet is to find another phone manufacturer and use a different messaging service that provides better security if you want to opt out.
more warm weather AND more rain, crops on average will do better.
Ok fair, it's a culture difference. Here in Finland, a sandwich is what you'd have for a coffee break snack, and a salad for lunch means you're worried about gaining weight or about to go out with someone for an actual lunch later. =D

I did once work in a place where all of the tech team would bring lunchboxes or microwave meals (ugh). Normally the percentage is much lower, I'd say maybe 20%. Of course it depends on what options are available.

If the canteen is the only option around and it serves crap, it'll get fixed pretty soon, because the bosses eat there too.
Why not just include the contract in the email then? It's just text right? Three's no special legal meaning to the markup.
They charged him without any evidence. They were harrassing an activist. It wasn't incompetence.

[Edit: the article didn't say they charged him; I was wrong]

Well, that's how it looks to me, on the basis of a single report in a tech journal with a sort-of tabloid outlook. Maybe there will be more information in coming days.
Yeah thats very true and I didnt think to mention it. I very much appreciate how concise latex is, and that I don't need any special editor for it.
Think less on quick-draw-shoot-the-cop sort of scenarios, and more along the lines of a "the freedom fighters generally live in these hills, and they like to blow us up with bombs or shoot us from far away when we aren't suspecting" situation.

If there was a tyranny and a rebellion, the cops are going to think twice about going out and about without full force since they might be ambushed.

Alot of this sort of situation: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54137838
Who the hell is investing in this? When/what's the return going to be?

An entire site that depends on mostly reposting someone elses copyrighted material.

Reddit's funding (for what it is), is something out of the dotcom era.
I've always used dd to make bootable usb sticks, but stared using Balena etcher to make the bootable sd cards for my raspberry pis and it's so darn easy. I can do it on the command line, but etcher detects the correct media to flash every time i've used it, and when I'm doing multiple sticks it just makes it easy.

This looks awesome if I were to be making large rpi clusters
I wonder if instead we had taken $2 trillion and 20 years to cure cancer(s) instead, how close we would have come.
A livable city means a city that is not car centric. Such is my opinion. Far too much land and resources are used for parking spaces and those spaces are largely unused. Our cities are hostile to pedestrians as well as our law enforcement. Our car centric culture is regressive due to the large cost of car ownership, mandatory land usage for parking spaces and subsidies to pay for roads.

https://www.illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-cr...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40441392/see-just-how-much-of-a-...
I read the opening chapter while sitting in my 95°F bedroom in the middle of Seattle's record heatwave. This certainly made for a viscerally impactful reading experience, but not necessarily one I would recommend.
> An imagined scenario from 2041

Why is this an imagined scenario? It happened in 2019:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_heat_wave_in_India_and_Pa...
> An imagined scenario from 2041

Why is this an imagined scenario? It happened in 2019:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_heat_wave_in_India_and_Pa...

One of the things the article horribly fails to even mention is that when resources are scarce, people don't just sit there patiently and go into a physiological breakdown. Not at all. People get up and fight. When the bottom layer of Maslow's hierarchy isn't met, all civility goes out the window and violence breaks out, as people fight for what resources are left.

From the Wikipedia article about what ACTUALLY happened in 2019:

"Conflicts over access to water have also occurred throughout India. On 7 June, six people were stabbed in Jharkhand during a fight near a water tanker, and one man was killed in a similar fight in Tamil Nadu. In Madhya Pradesh on 5 June, a fight over water led to two men being "seriously injured", while in a separate fight a day earlier, a water tanker driver was "beaten up"."

I'm sure there were numerous other instances not in the news.
The language need a fairly limited set of functions to support actuary calculations. You don't want things to get out of hand, with side effects, complex libraries, and so forth. Things need to be robust. Language like PL/SQL and SAS were fine but the systems are a pain to deal with and require technical knowledge that actuaries don't always have. Python is no emerging in the field by default because it allow quick prototyping but I would have concerns of the long term stability and maintainability of anything built out of it.
Taking down Bin laden wasn't a waste of time, just staying there after he was dead was.
+1 to the reality that most productivity tips come off as hopelessly naive to the reality of life with kids, sick parents/spouses, customer demands, etc.

Few things that have helped me:

- Have something like google calendar that reminds you so don't forget something important. Avoid turning small tasks into huge ones by missing a critical deadline

- Change the game when it is stacked against you. Most productivity advice is written about what can you do alone in the current situation (game) to improve, when changing situations could make things much better. I see too many people get stuck in bad relationship, bad job, etc. trying to make it work. Find places where the tide is rising and raising all the boats rather than working against you.

- Be kind and realistic to yourself. Look around, life is challenging and nobody wins everthing. Coach yourself the same way you would coach your kids with kindness and empathy and setting them up for success rather than something impossible.

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> I said Apple uses MY phone to scan pictures before they reach their servers.

Now you appear to be making a false statement about your own words.

You only mentioned photos you store in your own device, and you said nothing about uploading to servers.

Here’s what you said:

> Nothing in those links says that Google can scan the pictures you store in your device using your own device to do the scanning.
The US and EU are massive food exporters (the largest in the world). The US even burns a lot of its corn in car engines...
Banks pass audits, have specific capital requirements, and you've even helpfully highlighted the FDIC insurance that protects individuals from their fuckups.
They were using built in system fonts on each platform before.
I see you get your "facts" from Facebook. You are gravely mistaken, and you contribute to the propagation of falsehoods that are making dealing with this pandemic increasingly difficult and detrimental to everyone.

The mRNA vaccines have all been put through standard safety testing before being rolled out to the public. In other words, they are not experimental.
That seems high, although I don't know how you are amortizing purchasing cost.

It's worth noting that there is the middle class used car market and car repair market, and a lower class used car market and car repair market, and the lower class one is much cheaper and more grey market.
Automatic Updates - Your device will automatically improve over time, as we'll keep adding new features.

Why did they have to backdoor the thing? Now you don't know if it's scanning your content or extracting crypto keys and sending them to master control. It's a copier. You had one job.
I doubt those companies could have been issuing that much actual, proper commercial paper. Where are they getting the USD for those loans?

My guess is that they're sitting on collectively about $45B in BTC and other crypto and they take loans out in USDT with that crypto as the collateral. Then they use that USDT to fund crypto ventures, speculate, and fuel arbitrage and wash trading bots.

Maybe there's an intermediate step in there where those two companies are the originators of the crypto-backed loans, but it'll amount to basically the same thing.
This is exactly what i first thought too!

A little embarassed, but when i was new to my team as a jr engr i totally did this intentionally.
First, having a Free computer doesn't prevent you from also having a corporate terminal. Devices are inexpensive these days, especially used devices that can have Free software installed onto them.

Second, phones are a terrible platform for privacy preserving technologies, both currently (mobile OS dumpster fire) and intrinsically (lower resources, poor input, well-known network identity). Anybody who cares about digital privacy should have a real computer laptop/desktop that they use for the bulk of their activities.
Why invest in something if you know that your money will be stolen?
Why wouldn't that be legal? Obviously you should be using S/MIME or GPG if you're worried about fraud but it's not like hand signatures are all that secure.
Yes you are 100 correct, I mixed up port and agent forwarding, I’ve needed both at different times and last time it was agent forwarding so got confused.

There is another issue for port forwarding https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337 but no PR that I’m aware of.

Regarding why it hasn’t been merged, there is a comment on the port forwarding issue which sums it up quite well I think https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337#issuecomment...

My understanding is that the maintainers prefer doing one thing well (and securely). Which to be honest is something I really appreciate even if it means I might have to figure out some agent and port forwarding workaround :-/ at least I don’t have to worry about if my version of mosh will work with whatever the server runs
At the cost of almost $1k USD
The book never gets better. It was a painful read for me.
It doesn’t. I appreciate that the author wants to tackle big themes, but there was so much hand-waiving and wishful thinking about how people want to live and choose to live that it really undermined the plausibility of the plot.

I did appreciate some details, like the idea of airships for long distance leisure travel and large swaths of land being returned to wilderness. But overall it didn’t live up to the hype.
This is a great article.

What I’m about to say is a bit controversial and cannot be implemented by majority, or even a large minority. Maybe a subset of HN that isn’t already in this mindset:

Treat all devices as adversarial as you possibly can within some sensical reason. Use Tor, for example, but expect that everything you do is being logged and that sometime in the future if a vulnerability, exploit, whatever is discovered that can trace these logs back to you, that you know what you’re in for. Apply this to whatever else you feel like could have a negative impact on you.

Obviously this is now coming to light because of Apple but this has been an issue long before.

To put it into more morbid terms: assume that the government thinks you’re storing CP and they’re going through your trash, and behave accordingly.
Huh? Why? In what way?

If you're talking about taxes, I don't think this is true at all (Social Security taxes phase out much faster for a single earner than for two).
Which Go Modules Does Google Use?
I feel a bit stupid but I don't understand what his project does, so if someone is kind enough to ELI5 I would be grateful.
Seems reasonable decision but for me it increases the barrier to contribute. I already learning Go to contribute to some projects
Slippery Slope Fallacy
Solar Earbuds [video]
You may be interested in https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden -- it's an alternative Bitwarden API server that does not require a subscription. You just need somewhere to run it.