skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what's SCRATCH?
It's an indication that we're missing something. A squirrel has somewhere around 75 million to 100 million neurons. That's not all that many in terms of modern hardware. We ought to be able to build squirrel-level AI with cellphone-sized hardware. What are we missing?
Even then, it's probably too high of latency. These Netflix caching boxes are perennially the subject of "this is how you TLS at line rate and memory bandwidth limits" talks. When you combine this with the fact that these boxes aren't just installed anywhere, but deep inside ISP networks, and ostenisbly the certs aren't for *.netflix.com, but instead for either that specific ISP or even that specifc box, _and_ the certs need to be remotely updated anyway, so they can't just live in an HSM the whole time, I'd just store them on disk if I were Netflix.
And the elephant in the room is... the real purpose, for many corps eg Google, others, is to identify you, track you more accurately.

And your mobile phone number is invaluable here.
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I get that it's hard.

Often, I'll read a science article in a blog, or local newspaper, or general-interest magazine. I'll see something obviously incorrect, and say "well, it's not a science outlet, they can't be expected to know the science that well, and they're just explaining it to lay people anyway, so it's good enough. I'll double check this with a reliable science news source."

But you'd think if anyone could get it right, and trust their readers to care about them getting it right, it would be Nature! If Nature is going to start going to lower their standards to go after clicks, I dunno what reliable source I'm supposed to double check things with.
For the benefit for readers, of course I didn't force event sourcing on anybody.

The above allegation is utter bollocks, which apparently continues a stalking campaign by an ex-colleague who was forced to leave the company by the management.

This also happened FIVE YEARS ago, so the obsessiveness is disturbing.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934546, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13129798, etc.
No, they'd just pay for licences of the commercial UNIX to the uber-global-Unix-vendor company (say something like Redhat, only 100x bigger, because it's not giving away the OS for free), in the same way they for example pay for CPUs to the uber-global-CPU-vendor (i.e. Intel or AMD).
I thought it acted as a preservative?
Python Encryption Program: Scrambler
I was just going to share this since I think it could be of use to some people. Program to encrypt files written in python code. I designed this as a command line tool to be used for a quick goto for encryption and decryption with single files or entire directories.
It doesn't work so well if the phishers also make a 2fa phishing page. People confused enough to put in their password on the login page will also put it on the 2fa entry phishing page.
What are some examples of good user-funded investigative journalist sources? Because the obvious hole in this panacea is that it's literally impossible to know where the actual funding comes from. Anything can be bankrolled under the table by anyone, and you'll never know. In fact, small payments from viewers all over the world are even easier to launder than large sums.

IMO the news sources we have are as good as it will ever get. Maybe we can enact some legislation about advertising, since we all know there are privacy issues around it as well, but at the end of the day we just need people to evolve in the information age. To understand that our attention is valuable, and it's important to be able to distinguish what is worth our attention. We're in for some rough years until we figure that out as a species.
From the company's profits.

When you buy a company, you own a piece of it. The price of a stock theoretically reflects how much profit you expect the company to earn.

In a simple scenario, the company keeps all of its profits in a bank somewhere. The company's value then goes up because you own a share of that money. You'd expect the price to go up to reflect that increased value. You would sell it at a higher price, and it would be a positive-sum game.

In reality it's more complicated. Most companies would re-invest that money so that they'll make even more money in the future. The stock price will reflect how well you expect the company to grow and earn more. It's still a positive-sum game, just with more uncertainty.

It's even more complicated than that, for a lot of reasons. But at the core, it's a positive-sum game, not a zero-sum game.

(At least until the point where people are throwing so much money at the stock market that the prices have nothing to do with a reasonable assessment of uncertainty. And there's a decent chance that this is true today. But long term, such irrational exuberance tends to crash, and over enough time the two mostly cancel out.)
Solvated electrons are kind of liquid electrons in that they are a liquid and the anion is just a free electron instead of bound to something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvated_electron

They can be used to, among other things, reduce pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine.
> It's not decision-makers looking for a policy recommendation. It's investors who want to know what will happen to their investments.

Ohhh. Your position is that the intended audience is your everyday Joe looking out for their retirement.

Who amongst us hasn’t taken some of our paychecks, put it into a Roth IRA and then immediately rushed to read the words of… uh, Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at JP Morgan Asset Management?

Your position is fascinating because now the goalposts have moved from “he’s not advocating for homelessness and an unchecked spread of a pandemic” to “actually it doesn’t matter whether or not he’s advocating for homelessness and an unchecked spread of a pandemic because his intended readers are incapable of facilitating what he’s advocating for.

Under this assumption that nothing he writes could possibly be seen as bad. He could in theory instead of advocating for people being forcibly removed from their homes and thrown into abject poverty, advocate for just straight up shooting poor people in their faces. I mean surely the intended audience doesn’t have a gun!

He could advocate for incest to keep family money in the family. That’s not abhorrent, it’s how the Hapsburgs did things, so it’s an objectively normal thing to say!

From your position, there’s literally nothing that he could have said that you’d dislike. The level of fealty that temporarily embarrassed millionaires give to the people that don’t know that they exist is frankly phenomenal. JP Morgan isn’t going to pay you to defend them from an inconsequential internet stranger, but you post like you think they will.

Edit: The part of this that’s so incredibly comical, bordering on farcical is the motion that the “intended audience” of ‘Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at JP Morgan Asset Management‘ does not include any
any people that could be in a position to set policies regarding foreclosures.

In order to believe that you have to simply believe that nobody in the banking industry talks to one another or reads anything related to their industry.

It’s like a panicked lie from a toddler or a dog caught eating trash: The only option is to invent a new reality, whole cloth, on the spot and update it as needed.
No, if it seems like it wasn't that simple I told it poorly. It was definitely that simple.
Looking at the images for all these homes: why does all these new houses have tiny windows? Is the Alaskan landscape that bad to look at? :D
Is there any advantage of doing that versus just using a client side certificate to authenticate the device?
Are you looking for an embedded software/firmware intern?
Is there a rule to block modals like this? I can add site-specific things, but I can't seem to find anything that blocks all overlays.
> It's because of how the mining-price system works, proof-of-work energy consumption is independent of the technology widely used. In other words, you can't solve the proof-of-work energy consumption problem with a new proof-of-work hashing technology.

This is not strictly true. The cost to mine will converge with the proceeds of that mining -- that is economic law. But the total cost of mining is actually the cost of ownership + the cost of operation of the hardware. As we know, electricity presently dominates the cost of operation and the total cost. But you can imagine a very low power chip that is expensive to make -- like this photonic PoW, maybe -- and then the cost of the chips themselves dominate the total cost and drive down energy usage as a portion of the whole pie.
I understand that concept, but there are better ways to do that. Nobody is shocked when an Area 120 app (or a Microsoft Garage app) gets shelved, because those are "brands" specifically for Google and Microsoft to experiment with startupy apps.

But when Google decides to put their main brand behind something, announce it to the world, start collecting signups, only to shut it down, that ends up continuing to burn the company's reputation. In this case, it also represented a significant partnership with a major bank, which may have burned some bridges along the way.

And bear in mind, in this case, it sounds like this VP had 3,700 employees under him... hardly a trivial cost of all the wasted effort.
It is just a theory. There's no such thing as "scientific fact". That's simply not what science is capable of, and you're showing you're anti-science by promoting those ideas.
Not to mention algae blooms that are deadly to both aquatic plants and just about everything with a nervous system.

Temperature is part of the equation that keep dangerous microorganisms at bay.

Anyone that's seen the affect of "red tides" can attest to how fast an entire ecosystem can be decimated.

Crazy enough, it happened in Tampa bay, just this year, and other than the people directly affected from the stench or loss of business, the issue basically goes ignored.
They may be, tangentially, my experience resonates with blue collar and union workers that I know.

Those were the negative examples. More positively, engineers are motivated by many of the same things Marines are and I use these aspects in my day-to-day leadership as well. I exercise transparency, when I know the team is shouldering a burden I acknowledge it and steps were taking to minimize it over time. Marines and engineers like knowing their purpose and place in the world. They both desire a framework that establishes a domain for their autonomy. They both desire leaders who are scrappy enough to fight in the trenches but with the tactical persuasion to have vision from above while leading from the front. They're both willing to put in whatever it takes to accomplish the mission but they want to be recognized for doing so, and not necessarily monetarily. Again, I could go on.
And when they do and I do, I have a large cache of weapons and ammunition to wave at them with.

If you think the government is protecting your wealth, you're incredibly naive.
Some weeks ago I tried to start learning Lisp too.

I found it odd, but I’ve seen weirder. Then I tried the simple example of writing a function to compute the nth fibonacci number (it’s almost the first example). After testing some numbers, I thought it seemed slow, so I quickly implemented the same function in Rust (with recursion too).

Rust took less time in compiling, and computing fib(n) for n 1..50 than Lisp to compute fib(50). Maybe I did something very wrong, but for now I’d rather learn Rust better.
Of course! The same way they did for the german Luca app.

Even if it only leads to improvement of the app due to public pressure, instead of disbanding it.

And in general just to be a pain in the a** to the involved scammers, grifters and usual competent action simulators.

Just a few context samples, there is much, much more, and it's
all absolutely ridiculous!

[1] https://www.thelocal.de/20210902/readers-question-who-will-c...

[2] https://algorithmwatch.org/en/tracers/vulnerability-in-germa...

[3] https://newsrnd.com/tech/2021-08-17-luca-app--ministry-of-th...

[4] https://github.com/thesimj/jBaseZ85/issues/1
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Don't you have to login to your Google account to port a number?
How does that generalize to three dimensions?
I think it originally tanked as a backlash against how verbose and painful it was in Java and friends (as well as the limited benefits because of things like nullability)

Modern static type systems are a totally different beast: inference and duck-typing cut down on noise/boilerplate, and the number of bugs that can be caught is dramatically higher thanks to maybe-types, tagged unions/exhaustiveness checking, etc. I think we've circled around to a happy best-of-both-worlds and the pendulum is settling there.
To be fair, these weren't user deposited funds. These were governance tokens they have been giving out to incentivize usage of their platform.
coinbase does kyc. it already knows who you are

why sms? because everyone has it. we're not in a otp/u2f only world yet. sms 2fa is better than no 2fa
I don't know what you mean with "sugar", but the fact that several different types can represent the exact same set of possible values means that a type cannot be considered as just a set of possible values.

> The same type, but with different states depending on the semantics of the language.

This is just playing games with definitions. What you call "state" is a type in the type system of the programming language.
Heating fuel is very expensive in bush Alaska, as is window glass. Small windows help with both.
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> Were we not excited here yesterday on HN, that Cloudflare is cloning and undercutting AWS S3?

Cloudflare provides services directly to its users, who pay for and use said services.

Facebook and Google avoid their users at all costs. They are in the business of selling their users to advertisers. Any services they provide are just carrots on sticks to generate more meat for the grinder.

They are nefarious in intent because they are Facebook and Google, not for any abstract or technical reason.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I don't have great sources of information yet.

Did you see my post regarding the DeFiant podcast with Nate Chastain from OpenSea? He's the one who resigned after he was allegedly purchasing NFTs anonymously and then trying to resell them. My favorite part of the podcast is when he noted NFTs are exciting because the blockchain is a transparent ledger, which is exactly why he got caught. It's so funny.

Almost all the information out there should be filtered through: "why is this person talking about this, what's their incentive?" Cryptocurrency is, of course, all about financial incentives, so that's fitting. And, make no mistake, there is a good reason I'm in here talking too...
The problem is that if the in-vitro studies are correct on their dose curves, then the majority of the human trials are at ineffective doses. This doesn't mean they must be wrong, but it's not a good look. If the studies were showing unequivocal benefit, we could overlook the dose curves. But the studies are still quite equivocal.

On the other hand, molnupirivir is a nucleoside polymerase inhibitor, with a slam-dunk mechanism of action, evidence of efficacy against a broad range of viruses, and increasingly compelling human safety profile.

I don't know if Merck is stalling but the ivermectin case is certainly less compelling.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ivermectin-covid-1...
Musing: sometimes I wish file systems & databases were the unified. I'm imaging just a single fast db engine sitting on my storage—and your traditional file system structure would just be tables in there. I kinda just treat SQLite like that, but it's not as transparently optimized as it could be for large files. Why? I don't want to mentally jump around technologies. I want to query my FS like a DB, and I want to store files in my DB like a FS. The reality is though that there isn't a one size fits all DB that exists.

And more on topic: tokio-uring is really fast [1], and I'm really loving tokio in general.

[1] https://gist.github.com/munro/14219f9a671484a8fe820eb35d26bb...
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> it's a pretty well known that it's used that way.

Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, has some things to say about the use of BTC in crime:

> Based on our research and discussions with industry experts, I have confidence in two conclusions: • The broad generalizations about the use of Bitcoin in illicit finance are significantly overstated. • The blockchain ledger on which Bitcoin transactions are recorded is an underutilized forensic tool that can be used more widely by law enforcement and the intelligence community to identify and disrupt illicit activities. Put simply, blockchain analysis is a highly effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool.

Source: https://casebitcoin.com/story/former-cia-director-finds-bitc...
Email me? chris@finneyfor.com. I can set you up with a testnet. I'm in the end of a massive refactor, but I can give you that.
You jumped from a story about one emerging business line concept to "all of your products", which is a pretty big leap.

It is actually very common for new business ideas to live or die based on the support from one senior executive - I saw this from the inside at Fujitsu, Oracle, Sun and Google, and at many partner companies from the outside.

In a new business line at an established large company, there is almost always another business line executive's toes you are going to step on.

For example, making computer hardware at Oracle steps on the toes of Oracle people selling to computer hardware makers. Shifting to open source steps on toes of internal developers and existing suppliers.

It takes a executive support to maintain these kinds of programs until the expected gain can be evaluated fairly against than the risks.

If a key executive leaves there is quite often blow back on their pet projects. From the perspective "outside the room" it is frequently unclear whether the exec was just moving on, fighting to the end, or saw the writing on the wall and left while the leaving was good.
Yes, there are 14 studies that met the criteria for inclusion in the Cochrane review of Ivermectin. The results are mixed (some show a bit of improvement) but overall weak.

In addition, ACTIV-6 is a massive (15,000 participant) study that will study Ivermectin and two other repurposed medications. Because that study is large and rigorous, it will basically answer the question of whether Ivermectin works and how well.

[1]: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

[2]: https://dcri.org/activ-6-study/
Has anyone used this for internal company VPN for accessing resources on something like AWS VPC?
Google said it went from using your HTML title tag from 80% to 87% of time
So, it sounds like one could use this to legitimately recover an account where one has lost the phone number, the service provider requires SMS auth to get back in? Using it on yourself and it becomes account recovery as a service.
Yeah, I know that. Mostly from nuclear fission reactors. So currently not really sustainable. Or is the plan, to keep the fission reactors running, to fuel the fusion reactors?
There are more people in L7/8 in FB than they are in google. and it's possible to do 8 in 7-8 years. Decent amount of people do 6 in 2.5, 7 in 4.5
I'd guess tomatoes are fine. I'd definitely think twice before eating carrots or potatoes from such a garden though, even washed and pealed thoroughly (and normally I wouldn't peal those.)
it's SK, so there's a probably an element that the law-makers are paid for. SK is notorious for sending its past presidents to jail for corruption cases. but yeah with that netflix redbox, traffic shouldn't be taxin' the telco's pockets hard.