skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't need to be the NSA to secure your crypto, as you seem to be implying.

I said that people keep their funds hot to use them, not that you need to be the NSA to secure them.

Trust me, I know how to set up a crypto wallet and secure it.
Well, 80% of my job is CRUD. But the 20% remaining is custom logic attached to some objects being modified. That’s where the money is made and what prevents it from being automated away entirely.
>It turns out that the main driver of demand for housing is being close to other housing.

This seems to be conflating the symptom with the cause. I doubt housing is more attractive because there are more houses nearby; they're attractive because more services are nearby. Granted, they are going to correlate strongly but I think it's a mistake to conflate the two.

Consider the following:

1) A house with no neighbors within a 100 mile radius. But it has all the best restaurants, utilities, schools etc. within walking distance.

2) A neighborhood with hundreds of houses, but none of those services within 100 mile radius. It's a little isolated island of housing.

Which do you think would cost more to live in?
Who's effects were worse?
> Wonder if they are working on a deal for Tesla to provide battery backup.

Running an entire leading edge semiconductor plant on battery backup is a crazy proposition in my view. Especially, for intentions of surviving another Texas winter situation without any disruption to operations. Approximately 24 hours of full-coverage battery backup would have been required to bridge the rolling blackouts.

Last I checked (about a decade ago), the SAS A2/S2 lines accounted for ~13% of the electrical load for the entire city of Austin. Just look at the amount of power one EUV light source requires today. These lines will have potentially dozens moving forward. Then consider that all of the photo area accounts for a tiny fraction of total power consumption in one of these plants.

If it were even remotely feasible for the Samsung semiconductor lines to operate on standby generator power, they would have installed these units already and no losses would have been incurred.

They might as well be smelting aluminum behind those walls. Any backup generator power or UPS devices are designed for life safety and stopping the line without causing 10+ figure losses. You cannot run one of these facilities on in-house power. Another commenter proposed a nuclear reactor installation. This is actually not a terrible idea once you understand the scale. Putting 10-15 semiconductor lines around a nuke plant makes perfect sense to me.
A full test is absolutely needed - including any system or DB restores and the system needs to be fully functionaly tested

A quick backup verification is not enough - I learnt this the hard way and lost 9 months of data only after I did full annual DR test. The backups were setup and configured by the (very well known) manufacturer of the backup software. They screwed up on the DNS name
> Kind of funny to brag about this pay-to-play award on your website, though.

That is why the award exists.
You're right that our existing digital payment systems are far better than crypto for most transactions, and that crypto (and cold hard cash) dominate black market transactions, but there's a really interesting class of transactions that don't fall into either of these groups: stuff that's technically legal, but sketchy enough that no big corporations want to touch them.

Crypto is increasingly being used as a digital payment workaround for areas that Visa and MasterCard try to avoid, like pornography and donations to controversial organizations. It's probably just a sliver of overall crypto transactions, but this is very much the use case that justifies the bitcoin-as-a-currency model.

Pornography is to Bitcoin as "Linux ISOs" are to BitTorrent.
iMessage is extremely secure and utilizes end-to-end encryption, why is this concerning to you?
Do you really want to force everyone around you to wear blindfolds? Or maybe you would prefer wearing a burka?
Governments should be banned pending a better solution
But if economic opportunity is concentrated in cities that are too expensive for average working people to live in (even when renting instead of buying), then this is a societal problem. Even if the shift to working from home for some occupations becomes permanent, not all jobs can be performed from home.

While some metropolises such as Tokyo seem to be set up well for providing housing at a wide range of price points, others such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles do a much worse job; there are some people who regularly commute 2-3 hours each way from these metro areas because this is all they can afford, yet the job markets in the Central Valley (near the Bay Area) or the Inland Empire and Antelope Valley (both near Los Angeles) areas are rather anemic at best. For many of these people, the choice isn't between a condo in Fremont versus a single-family house in Tracy. Instead, it's an apartment in a place like Stockton or Modesto versus moving outside of the orbit of the Bay Area; that's how bad the housing crisis has gotten for many people.

The chief cause of this is zoning regulations and other policies in the Bay Area and Los Angeles that discourage denser development, thus encouraging sprawl further and further out; hence, the "drive until you qualify" phenomenon. The normalization of mega-commuting has social and environmental consequences.

Yes, there are cheaper metro areas, but these cheaper metro areas tend to offer fewer job opportunities compared to the more popular metro areas. Part of what fueled the social divide between "blue state" and "red state" America is economic opportunity being increasingly concentrated in a handful of coastal metro areas, while these opportunities have largely failed to trickle down to much of rural America and the Rust Belt.

What's needed are two solutions:
1. Change the zoning policies of certain metro areas in order to accommodate the demand through densification instead of sprawl.
2. Find ways to encourage the economic development of areas outside of the coasts.
Graphic novels are books.
Would you feel the same way if someone did a painting of the same scene from memory? What if they were particularly adept at creating photorealistic paintings? How about if someone wrote a very vivid description of the same scene? Would you feel the same way?

I'm genuinely interested and not trying to make any particular point.
"Investing" in a possibility that something might happen that is completely outside the control of the entity I'm investing in sounds like plain old gambling. Not that you can't do that with stocks also (see penny stocks, for example). It's like saying I'm "investing" in the ball landing on "00" when I put my chips on the table.

I guess I'm too old and curmudgeony to do that.
Tesla fans flood JPMorgan's Yelp with 1-star reviews as Musk spars with the bank
Accordion was very popular in Brazil and Uruguay when I was growing up. This deceptively cheerful song, "Asa Branca" [0] (four accordions in the lineup) is about the persistent drought in Brazil's Nordeste (Northeast) and the resulting diaspora ... millions left to go to São Paulo and other cities/regions in the 80s and 90s.

[0] https://youtu.be/zsFSHg2hxbc
Open Software Licensing Primer
I've been on a minor hunt lately to see if I can find smart home light control which makes sense, or some technologies to put together which would.

The basic problem I've had is I've been dealing with adding new light switches in my house through old wall chases - this is miserable (or impossible). But in 2021, why do I need to pull 3+ wires to a light switch to get a light to control (and god help you if you need a dual 2-way switch - up to 6). Why can't I just run live/neutral?

The other problem is the excessive use of wifi: we have powerline ethernet, why can't communications be implemented as a low bandwidth wired protocol over a wiring system I already have?

My ideal IoT home automation would solve both of these: no wifi, use powerline ethernet (with a bridge unit somewhere for the automation), and let me go all in on decoupled switches and lighting. And then whoever does this, target selling it straight to electricians because we'd be talking huge cost-savings and simplifications for wiring up new builds, and retrofits could be handled the same.

Let me fully separate my control points and let's just commit to getting the basic technology right - if my car can be CANbus wired, why can't my house?
To be fair, you can still make a VB6 (or <insert favourite desktop app framework here>) app.

The problem is that for legitimate reasons, most of the processing no longer happens on the client device, so there’s suddenly a lot more complexity.

Making a desktop app that owns its data and is its the sole user is still easy. But most business requirements nowadays want a consumer product where people can interact with a subset of the data with a web UI or mobile app. That’s where the complexity comes in compared to VB6.
The warning is for government-sponsored attacks, not any kind of automation.

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/updates-about-gove...
The GNOME Foundation is seeking contractors to work on Flathub
Everyone wants to live on an acre in the city in a palatial mansion.

But if you have to decide between an hour commute and living vertically plenty of people would choose to live vertically.
Nothing worth doing is easy. My grandparents moved from another continent and left all their friends and family behind in search of a better life. Sometimes you have to leave your comfort zone and take a risk.

It's great that you want to fight for lower housing prices. But what happens if you fail? In 30 years if you're still stuck renting a tiny apartment will you have regrets? Pick your battles wisely.
Yes, GPUs are able to directly pass messages and bulk data to each other these days. It's completely supported in CUDA, OpenCL, Vulkan, DirectX 12, etc. DirectX calls it "Explicit Multi GPU".

It's been around since GPUs transitioned to PCIe, it's just that both AMD and NVIDIA just locked it to the "professional" GPUs, or only used it under the hood of some other feature. AMD GPUs have used PCIe peer to peer copies for CrossFireX since the GCN Radeon GPUs (R9 290X and friends), that's why they don't need an external bridge.

There's DirectGMA (AMD) and GPUDirect (NVIDIA) which allows PCIe drivers for other devices to directly copy to and from GPU VRAM.

Other than driver support, nothing prevents PCs from having GPUs communicate directly with storage devices. The GPU would need to expose some of it's VRAM over PCIe (using a BAR window). The OS and the GPU driver would need to create some NVMe submission and completion queues either in system or VRAM that the GPU can be considered to own. You'd then issue NVMe operations where the backing pages point into the VRAM. The resizable bar support of the current Radeon and GeForce GPUs is a major step in this direction, although again, resizable bars were part of the original PCIe specification and has been available on server hardware since ~2008.
I would like to add that Control-IQ still underperforms open source DIY artificial pancreas systems like Loop (https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop).

The guys that built Loop and the Riley Link (https://getrileylink.org/) (bluetooth to RF adapter relay to control wireless pumps that were reverse-engineered) are heroes.
There’s generally home owner dues in those types of communities.
I suppose "ensure" is too definite of a claim. But it's clear that the US can apply all types of pressure to try to hinder a takeover of TSMC/Taiwan. Methods range from open negotiations, to trade/economics sanctions, etc.
If you are motivated by learning rather than practical usage, FPGAs are a great way to learn more about how things like CPUs or peripherals can be designed. It is also a way to understand how to evolve hardware and software at the same time.

Two examples that I have been loosely involved with;
* Google's CFU playground which is all about profiling and adding small number of new OpCodes to build an accelerator for a specific ML model (http://cfu-playground.rtfd.io/).
* The Fomu workshop (https://workshop.fomu.im) which walks though treating an FPGA like an embedded MCU where you can then modify the MCU!
Maybe so; it's pretty normal to expect a property setter to perform additional operations, as it's necessary for making data binding more manageable among other things. But using Go to Definition takes me directly to the getter/setter, so imo it's not exactly hidden.

I think it becomes problematic (or more magical) when these network/database/expensive calls are made willy nilly throughout an application, without a dedicated class or layer to aggregate these kinds of operations. If you have things architected correctly, it's not a big deal to trace these kinds of things throughout your app.
Oh. You’re gonna love this: Marko Brdnik https://youtu.be/O8wdFySW6mg
Marko Hatlak
https://youtu.be/XDqurD7WdIg
Hate to tell you, but I've been using sid for well over 20 years, and it is usually more 'stable' than most distro out there.
It's not that surprising.

It's not 'profitable' and it requires actual competence.

It's the same reason you have meetings where nobody will commit to anything, hoping that some other fool will commit to take on extra responsibility for no extra pay. Politics is exactly like that.
> What limits are there in the frontend world?

Like making that new scroll hijacking feature that a marketing guy saw on Apple’s website work on IE11 or something.

Again, none of these features are essential, but from the business perspective they are still requirements.

In comparison, most of what you’d do on the backend is a solved problem and there’s existing reliable & battle-tested tooling such as frameworks and relational databases that you can offload the hard work to.
Ah I didn’t see the other article about her sending viruses to Wuhan. That is a really bad look especially after she was forcibly removed for unspeakable reasons. The look is even worse after she disappeared off the face of the earth. I’m sure CSIS has had many eyes on her for some time.
It would be more accurate to call it "visa dollars" as transactions are only possible at the discretion of visa and by paying visa a fee.

A better example would be in new zealand they truly have digital "NZ dollars" because anyone can transfer them to anyone for no fee.
Off topic but are expat and immigrant the same concept?
No such "problems" in California due to prop 13 (yay...)
More details here: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/seeking-contractors-for-work...
> Meanwhile in London your workers will have free healthcare, their kids will have free higher education, etc.

Oh it's free for engineers? Who pays for it? The Queen pays for it?
I have a feeling the people who will confront a photographer taking their picture, will be very quick on the draw to film the whole ordeal with their own camera. Regardless of consents.
I lived in an area that lost power every time there was a stiff breeze. This was back in the 1990s, when we still used telephone modems. I blew up 3 of them. 2, even with surge protectors.

But power came back quickly, because I was on the same trunk as the fire station.
> The US VC market right now is very "frothy", as the VCs say. It's so frothy, you might as well say the froth has churned into butter. The article says that European investors lack "boldness", but one might instead say that US investors are lacking outlets for their ample capital and will throw money at nearly anything right now. I guess it depends on your point of view.

I wonder how many US investors are actually (partially) Europeans.

It's really not that hard to meet many Europeans in the valley who decided to move there to innovate and build without the restrictive environment of their homelands. I wonder how many Europeans investors are diverting parts of their funds to more ambitious and risky investments here in the US.
"Paper wealth" is an odd term that's not used in the study. It seems particulary odd to call real estate investments "paper wealth." After all, land and buildings are pretty darn real, hence the name.

These investments may be overvalued and if prices change, owners will find they're not as wealthy as they thought, but they'll own the same thing.

Also, what does it mean to say that wealth is "tied up" in real estate? Prices going up doesn't change anything real. The effect might be more resources going into construction and renovation, though.

Debt and financial derivatives backed by inflated asset prices might be the problem, as in 2008. Those income streams might be less solid than they look.
> If you can trust your government and your banks to a reasonable degree, it's much simpler to run things the centralized way.

Then, the $2,699,580,856,745 [1] question is, do you trust your government and banks to a reasonable degree?

Looks like a lot of people have voted with their wallets.

[1] At time of writing, market cap of all known cryptocurrencies/tokens on Coingecko.
I really had Atlas Shrugged in mind, which is convincing enough to regularly show up on Republican booklists (and AFAIR at least one Supreme Court judge) and has all sorts of (my opinion) problematic views on ethical egoism and the like.

> hilariously over the top

These days I'm not sure anything can be so over-the-top that no-one will take it seriously.
If you can afford to live in one of those places it's great. If your homeless you'd probably be ok with a little less green space if it meant you had a home to live in.

Also very little of the NIMBY vs YIMBY debate is whether or not to turn forests into condos, it's almost also SFH vs denser construction.
Soviet Rocket Engines
From someone smarter than me: people think they need backups while in fact they need restores…
I'm not comfortable sharing the whole thing, since it's very specific to my house. But I may be able to come up with a much lighter version that could be shared.

No idea when I'll find the time, but if you want to email me (check my profile), I'll reach out when I find the chance to do so.
Project F (https://projectf.io/posts/fpga-graphics/) has a lot of cool examples with visually interesting output.
I guess I have to be explicit.

For a $3K Laptop you are looking at M1 Pro or M1 Max, those would cost at least $50 to $100 more BOM cost. Excluding other factor. That translate to roughly $125 to $250 retail price increase at the same margin.

For a labour of $20 to $30 increase per iPhone unit, would equate retail price increase of $50 to $75. Excluding other factors. Not to mention I seriously doubt labour would be an increase of only $20-30 per unit. The different in cost / productivity is likely higher than 3x.
Microsoft doesn't work indirectly. Neither does Amazon.
It wasn't doing a vertical take off. It accelerates along the flight deck and uses the ski-jump at the bow to help it get airborne.
QOI_DIFF16 {
u8 tag : 3; // b110
u8 dr : 5; // 5-bit red channel difference: -15..16
u8 dg : 4; // 4-bit green channel difference: -7.. 8
u8 db : 4; // 4-bit blue channel difference: -7.. 8
}

I'd think that the extra bit ought to be given to green, since that tracks most closely with luminance. That would make this somewhat analogous to the RGB565 layout for 16-bit pixels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_color#16-bit_high_color).
I don't think you'd be ok with someone that would come to your house every morning to take pictures of your daughter that goes to school. You'll call police on day two if that happened.
Supply-chain snarls and labor shortages are holding back Fiestaware
Has anybody read about insuline resistance?
https://archive.ph/Ppe62
Antivaxx Holocaust
Read my comment again. I made no mention of education systems implemented in communist states. I said educational communism, education where everyone is pulled towards the mean no matter their individual effort or talent.
As an intern at my first job a few years ago I basically did something like that.

We had a data hunting that would go out into supermarkets and collect data, but oftentimes with errors. Supervisors would sift through all of them and spend 4-5 hours a day removing/fixing/joining faulty entries.

I saw that, wrote two Python scripts to automate it (~2 weeks from start to deployment). All that workload automated immediately, and to my knowledge it's still in use today.
> Oh, by the way, even though climate change is a very real existential threat for our species, we are spending a country's worth of electricity on meaningless SHA-256s, because we're too greedy to quit.

Some cryptocurrencies, tokens and NFTs are more useless and waste more energy than others.

Cryptocurrencies are here to stay and some of them will be abandoned. Thus, as painfully admitted by the author, it is getting harder for them to ignore it; hence this rant.
> Looks like a lot of people have voted with their wallets.

Hmm, but is the vote they are casting "I don't trust my government" or "Give me big ROIs"
It already exists as a curiosity: A toilet that uses waste as fuel for a bioreactor and pays "users" in a cryptocurrency: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korean-toil...
Fairly content-less article, but with that headline I'm not surprised it's at the top of the front page.
> Nobody cared about the tech then, nobody really cares about the tech now.

Agreed, out of 1000 people who want to talk about crypto, maybe 1 is the cryptography PhD who is in it for the tech, and everyone else is trying to get rich before the whole thing pops.
I get your point, but no you don’t on an aircraft like this.

If you are on a takeoff roll with a heavily fueled and armed aircraft and it detects an ingestion it has no idea if running until it blows up will save lives or not. The pilot needs to make that call.

There are significant failures here, but without being on the scene or seeing the write up I can’t say what they are beyond the failure of both the ground crew and the pilot.

This is speaking as a 21 year Naval Aviation Senior Enlisted who has spent plenty of time on the flight deck.
Not the one you're replying to, but I'm my experience this means writing your own tools and automation for the job you do when none exist. (Or are too expensive.)

I've seen many shops where the amount of code for dev and QA tools significantly exceeds whatever product they ship.
try scihub
eh, some truth, but media bleeds into IRL. to the contrary, i have met people who care about statues and monuments. perhaps somewhat surprisingly, the number of retirees around me who have initiated discussion around such things (or even taken action like parading/protesting local confederate-related statues) exceeds the number of millennials who have done so.

but yes, overall only a small proportion of people i know really care about these things
I specialized in high throughput synthetic biology and in applications adapting vectors and pathogenic proteins to subvert the human immune system (for immunooncology mostly). So I have all the background needed for supervillain thinking here :p Of course you can do multiplex markerless construction - but it’s a huge pain in the ass at these lengths and it still leaves open the question of what the point of such work would be.

I feel like I’m taking crazy beans - 20 years ago a satbecoronavirus from a wet market nearly started a global pandemic - hell my colleagues at the time were the ones that identified it as a coronavirus! We have epidemiological evidence this happened again. Absolutely nothing about this sequence is obviously synthetic or even unusual for coronaviruses. How is zoonosis not the null hypothesis?
Market cap doesn't mean anything without knowing the number of shares available as well as who's holding them.
Of course! It's the "Do as I say, not as I do" Doctrine aka "Rules apply to everyone else but me".
A First-Hand Assessment of Cultivated Meat Progress
Sure. But it is worth asking if this particular channel of support is worth enabling all the other forms of criminality that use cryptocurrencies.