skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you I did not cause offense, for neuromorphics this is a wonderful paper and it's important to do basic research like this! I'm just a bit jaded after 5 years of following the literature and seeing most papers sidestep what I see as the big road block.

We can now train sparse, quantized, robust neural networks which are already specified in terms of primitives for which ASIC macros can easily be designed. If we are going to make a new chip that anyway, IP like this is a benchmark I compare to in my mind.

If we want flexibility,FPGAs are being integrated with modern CPUs and will allow you to program precise weights if you want them, making it more feasible to do complex tasks.

So this is regarding the point of ASICS. I don't want to bash your paper, but to me this is the competition to beat and why I reacted to the title given by quanta with context that I think I'd important for people not familiar with the literature.

I fully believe neuromorphic or neuromorphic inspired inference engines will (continue to) have their place.

As for the deployment of robust weights to imperfect hardware, an ex colleagues of mine started this line of research when I did my internship at IBM https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16108-9

So I meant robust in this sense, robust to deployment to real devices
I think you’re inadvertently propping up another idea, that all rules apply equally to children and adults. This is obviously not true.
Biggest concentration of military forces in Europe now since Cold War
To avoid questions of suspicious unallocated space with hidden volume, what about this: Use disk with vastly higher capacity than you really need. Use standard filesystem on it. For hidden volume, store data redundantly in multiple locations inside unallocated space of standard filesystem. When running from hidden volume you can avoid overwriting data on standard filesystem. When running from standard volume you cannot, and it could overwrite some parts of hidden data, but it will be repaired from copies stored in many other locations. Standard volume should be also encrypted to provide deniability why unallocated space contains random-looking data.
Why would `Authentication` be any different to `Cookie` in this regard? They're both HTTP headers. They both require server side support/implementation. Neither explicitly requires JavaScript.

The only difference I can see is that the browser has a native control for one of them, though that control cannot be customised by the site.
>as you can see, humor is not tolerated on HN (, unfortunately)

It is if it's funny.
I always thought you couldn't implement logout with HTTP basic auth, but according to this:

> logging out is done by simply returning a 401 without www-authenticate header

I did not know that worked!
I won't get tired of mentioning this - the basic authentication dialog should show a message from the server that is supposed to inform you what kind of credentials to enter. This is super useful for intranets, spam prevention systems and other stuff. Chrome removed this message years ago because of a dubious security report, and Firefox appears to have finally given in and removed it as well. All because someone could MITM your connection and present a login prompt à la "please enter your YouTube credentials" (completely ignoring that if they MITM you, they could serve you a page that really looks like a login page). This change completely ruined the usability of basic authentication.
Unpaywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20220218180545/https://www.washi...
Hurts even more when you were using a 450mhz PIII in 2006...
> 65%

This just isn't what the tweet shows?
Unless you are counting AdSense as sponsors? That doesn't seems to make sense.

You seem to be saying LTT is beholden to their sponsors? There is always an argument to be made there but misrepresenting: floatplane, AdSense and other sources that I don't see how you can call sponsors, which make up another 33% seems very disingenuous.

Unless I am misinformed about how AdSense works.
>Well I have 3 years before Win10 reaches EOL

You actually have quite a bit longer than that if you're willing to go with LTSC. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...
Breaking change in markupsafe makes flask crash on service startup
Well, you need 180 characters, so are there 90 good usable characters, or 60, or 45 that will work?

I’m not suggesting doing a full UTF mapping onto base64, but just 1..180 mod 3 => char base64[3] would give you 182 board positions in three URL characters.
It’s 2022, accept that everything is now a subscription and learn to eat bugs.
Lithium is more common than lead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...). If fusion required heavy water and lead, would you care that it was left out as an ingredient?
Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923)
I keep hoping Microsoft will go one step too far and everyone will be forced to switch. Hasn't happened yet.
> When my oldest child was 2, he snuck an allen wrench in his diaper and disassembled his whole crib.

I have to tell a colleague/friend about this, his kid is quite similar to yours in that respect.
Came here to say this, as far as LC questions go, this one is pretty straight forward. OP, the way you come up with a solution like this is practice and more practice, the same way you can solve an equation you never seen before, because you have a set of tools (patterns, "tricks", knowledge, ...) that allows you to come up with a solution. Keep practicing and you will see the progress.
Remember eXcite?
> The unfortunate part, assuming the allegations are shown to be true in any meaningful capacity, is that those that support civil forfeiture might say, "see, this is a case of the forfeiture system working as its suppose to work... depriving criminals of their ill-gotten gains."

Bernie Madoff is their shining example of this, and routinely paraded by the authorities.
Machine Learning for Mechanical Ventilation Control
Yes, it is pretty cool, please don't think I'm bashing your paper. If anything, I'm bashing Quanta and popscience for overhype and the literature in general for mainly avoiding the difficult question for the more tractable one - while fully understanding why.

As I said in a sister comment, I fully believe in neuromorphics inspired inference engines. It's just that we have some of them already, and while your paper is novel, people should take this in the appropriate context.
> Why rally racing and not any of the other races where competitors are alone? Why not soccer team for that matter? That seems closer to development then any vehicle racing anyway.

There seems to be two directions of analogies here. One is arguing from subject to analog. “Programming is like rally car driving so we should act like they do.” Pretty crummy argument. I’d have no answer to your “why rally car?” question.

The other direction is explaining from subject to analog. “Strong-style pair programming is like rally car driving.” There’s much less of a claim here. I’m just saying they have enough shared attributes that I can map how they’re similar and you may find that useful for understanding. So why rally cars? Because that’s the context that has the most similar method as the one I’m talking about (not that it’s the most similar context).

In the latter case, the claim of fitness is separate from the analogy. “This method is useful. It’s like one rally car drivers use”. There’s no “because” in there.
It's a few years out from being an issue for me, but I'm planning to rely on Apple's ScreenTime and parental controls to take care of this issue for me. My thinking is that having the enforcement be automatic and passive will lead to less conflict.

Anyone have any experience with this? Pros and cons?
Might be a little bit of a rediculous request, but do you have an image of your buisness card? I have begun to create my own, and I am wondering what others' in tech look like.
Seven Lifetimes
I agree. I was speaking in her role in keeping orgs like the NRO and DOD happy when Musk smokes a blunt on camera and other such things.
The Trip to Rose Cottage
This whole approach of paying what the local market offers, rather than what the job is worth kinda sucks.

It strikes me that these sort of practices where employers share salary data with each other with the aim of keep salaries low is pretty sketchy and shady. A load of companies get together with the aim of making sure they don't pay a penny more than anyone else etc.

In finance salaries and bonuses are to rocketing to attract and keep talent, yet in tech all the companies get together and basically implicitly agree not to compete. It is a shame that this appears to be legal.

I guess we can vote with our feet/keyboards.

How would a union work here if the company just turn around and say "sorry - your members are already at the top of the rate in this market. Our policy is not to pay more than the market rate. End of discussion."? You could move to another company, but they also only pay market rate etc.
Sure I could go all out for a while but what do I do after that? I'd imagine partying and not working for a year or two would cause my mental health to further deteriorate and to have that while being broke would be a catastrophe.
Sounds like you want something that uses RSS data to build a more freeform database.

I wouldn’t describe RSS software as bad but they do often prioritize the reading experience, which is in conflict with data management due to the small market keeping developer resources minimal.
Maybe stop going on /r/antiwork
Does it come with ads? Because that's my favourite part of Ubuntu
> I wonder how different things were before . . .

Do you mean after Justice Brandeis? After one of the Presidents Roosevelt? Do you mean the previous gilded age? Do you mean some other time entirely? It's not as though greed over time grew monotonically with a particular inflection point on Neutron Jack.
A friend virtualized his hardware and just assigned a dedicated gpu to the windows vm under Linux and gets close to native performance for games.
“When was the last time you used an iOS device without an Apple ID?”

So that’s what I’m doing wrong!
This isn’t unique to Google, same thing happened to me. Working for a name brand technology company in Atlanta, but am located remotely in the Raleigh-Durham area. My pay scale is “corrected” for the difference in markets and am payed a good 20% less than my Atlanta counterparts. By my calculation though, the cost of living in Atlanta isn’t near 20% higher than Raleigh-Durham… so not sure what else is factoring into that descrepancy.
> Literally a trap to hand over your encryption keys. Never sign into an operating system with a cloud identity.

Why does your trust model include "running a proprietary OS that can do anything at any time" but not "the OS explicitly requires a user account tied to an online account?" That doesn't make any sense.

To be clear: there are plenty of great reasons to dislike this change. But they all fall under "user-hostile" or "creeping surveillance capitalism," not "shady conspiracy to steal your encryption keys." They can already have the keys if they want them, and there's nothing you can do about it as-is.
I think I've even seen ads out of the internet!
Does "casual racism" include believing that people of specific ethnicities are swimming upstream if they get involved in academics? Are Chinese, Japanese, and Indian academics swimming upstream too?
> Cat5 struggles with 1gbps.

1000baseT requires plain old category 5 for distances of up to 100m.

Most plain category 5 out there will have no problem with 2.5gbase-T at 30m and less.

(And, of course, most "cat 5" is actually "cat 5e".
I'm not sure you understand how governments work. That's ok. On a census, there's no box to check off every strain that makes up my ethnicity. There's a box that says "Hispanic". I'm being descriptive, not prescriptive.
There was a good "how its made" out there that showed a company that sells them for hospitals and etc.

It was cool to see how the various intersections and etc worked.
Thanks for the link to the new repo, I had missed that.
It's a little facetious, but it did put a smile on my face. It has a certain ring of truishness
Interview them. That is what we did and it worked great. Where are you located? I used ours twice and both times was happy.

You can incentivise them to push for higher prices with the terms you offer them. The ones I worked with were highly motivated and skilled at pushing higher.
Why do you think it should take you a day? Set the bar lower. Under promise and over deliver. Don't say "it'll take me a day" when you aren't sure.
> The company set up an internal calculator for workers who left the expensive areas of San Francisco and New York to calculate how much their pay would be cut if they did not return

If you moved based on what the calculator said and then they cut your pay that's pretty messed up. I don't think the workers should expect to be paid the same as higher cost of living areas, but transparency in how these calculations are made should be available to them (especially if the rates can change year-to-year).
Safe Ecto Migrations
Does one of you want to give a try to lenns.io? That’s a new type of RSS reader I’m working on. It has import/export so you can try and leave easily.

I’m planning for the aforementioned customizations but they are still a few months away.
Quickly Invite Teammates to Atlassian Cloud, Slack, Google Group Directories
Source/Origin article (linked in the "Patch now" section): "Zabbix - A Case Study of Unsafe Session Storage"[0]

[0]: https://blog.sonarsource.com/zabbix-case-study-of-unsafe-ses...
The main reason Google did well in the past is that it was a fast alternative to the busy Yahoo!.
Getting Started: Creating and Running a Runbook
The website is making the browser make that request, and the user has not had the opportunity to accept or deny the data transfer to the destination. That's it.
> it would be a bit of a red flag to have large number of indeces on a flexible schema where each customer uses their own schema, embedded in a single table

Yeah, that makes sense. The issue is that MongoDB can only shard by index, so we couldn't use a collection per user, which is why my mind went to a Postgres table per user. Can you shard by table with Postgres?

> Try out a few options to get a sense for the design. Yes, it will take a few days to spam the database and run performance tests. However, because you are making a critical design decision and doing something less-than-standard, you need to accept the extra work - or figure out how to fit into a more standard pattern.

That's great advice, thanks!
I was once 21 and I had the same thinking as you did and as OP does.

I thought I knew better than these people telling me I knew nothing and it turns out… I was wrong.

That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more.
Now I just wish there were actually competent encryption that can keep up with PCIe SSD speeds.

I have no option but to just use the BIOS SSD password encryption thingy instead of some Ubuntu LUKS or ecryptFS which are both slow AF.
The end of the article explains "going to the south for cheaper labor".

Definitely agree. My only concern about maintaining pay across the world -- does it contribute to inflation in those areas? Would this be bad for the areas? Or does it help by adding revenue?
> If it takes 3-5 failures to actually get the information on how to recover an account you'll lose a few users before the first failed attempt

That's why you should also show the information when they cancel the prompt. Users will click the login link (because that's where password recovery is normally located), see a login popup, click close or cancel, and be greeted by a recovery page. No need to fill in fake info that way.

There's also no reason not to link to the recovery page! You could just as easily add a link underneath or next to the big green buttons that say "login" and "register". It all depends on how barren ("clean") you want your front page to be.

I abhor modern authentication systems (Google and Microsoft don't even show the password field next to the username field anymore for fuck's sake, you have to pass some kind of AJAX/Javascript validation logic), that's why I want authentication to return to the browser itself. There's a lot to be fixed regarding browser auth UI, most importantly better password manager integration, but taking auth flow control away from over-eager web designers can solve a lot of usability issues.

Browser auth is actually quite successfully implemented on mobile through U2F. I can click login, tap my thumb on the fingerprint sensor, get directed to a recovery/signup page if my device has no keys for that website or get authenticated automatically. On the desktop side TPMs should become available more often now that Windows 11 requires them (macs already have their own TPM implementation, of course). The quicker websites adopt this flow, the easier auth will become. That said, I've seen webauthn sites that don't ask you to validate your email after signing up, and that's a recipe for disaster, so the system isn't 100% perfect.
This story gets reposted on HN quite often, and makes it to the front page.
Several things don't add up in it.

The author claims that code was copied but I looked at both repos and they share no code at all. [0] [1]

In his article, the author claims that " If I were the patenting type, this would be the thing you would patent. ps. I don't regret not patenting anything."
That's really not how patents work, and looking at the repo, a second year CS student could do the same really. I don't see anything that could remotely be patented. It reads where to find the installer from a config file and determine what to do based on an enum.

He himself goes on to say he tried replicating the user experience from several existing package managers available on Linux. And Microsoft did create Nuget 12 years prior to AppGet. I’ll give some leeway to the author since I don’t think the author ever filed for a patent so he might not be familiar with the concept of prior art.

Throughout the article the author uses the term acqui-hire but it seems Microsoft was simply considering him for a PM position (and he failed the interview). There's nothing to acquire since there's no patent, no IP and no brand. Only a registered domain and what seems like an anemic userbase, if any.

I’ve done acqui-hires in the past and that’s not what the author describes. First you never deal with HR, there’s no regular interview (especially not at a hiring event and with other candidate present) and there’s always a contract. I get that the author isn’t really in a tier one market so he might not be familiar with how it’s done (or maybe customs are different where he’s from?) but what should have tipped him is that he never spoke to anyone from legal about licenses, only to an engineer who then referred him to HR…

However, the author is quite clever. Being featured in The Verge[0] and on HN's front page will probably bring a lot more eyeballs to the startups he's trying to promote. So congratulation to him for the free advertising!

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

[1] https://github.com/appget/appget

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget...
The people who weren’t willing to move out of their small towns are almost defined by their aversion to risk and must settle for less.

Why wouldn't corporations take advantage of this?
The current back-and-forth over regionally-adjusted pay for workers is one of those arguments where I truly find it very difficult to come to a conclusion.

On the one hand, the logic of the employees is pretty irrefutable: why should anyone be paid less money for the same work, just because they have a different zip code?

On the other, it's hard for me not to agree with the employers' basic arguments. In a capitalist sense, they're gonna pay what they need to, nothing more: market-based pay is just that. PR aside, they're running a business.

Probably the argument that makes the most sense to me in favor of pay adjustments is that a worker making a Bay Area salary in North Carolina is effectively being paid more than their SF-based-counterpart, because while the nominal value of their compensation is the same, the NC worker's purchasing power is much higher. In one view, they are (almost!) literally being paid more.

But I just can't get over the very basic logic of "same work, same pay." It seems deeply, critically unfair to me – and beyond unfair, it seems like a quick way to make anyone outside SF feel "lesser-than."

I don't know. Does anyone have links to convincing arguments you've read one way or the other? I think this really is a kind of unsolved question, and one that is only growing in importance with remote work.
Im pretty sure EU passed GDPR as a response to brexit figgling and facebook/google avoiding paying taxes.” Hurting EU market immensly.

Politics dont understand the web but noticed its dengerous if left unregulated.
This approach is a lot more hassle to setup than Proton, but it does yield some really great performance and ~100% game compatibility. I've been planning to go this way for my next desktop build (Windows gaming VM with native GPU pass-through).
This is vulnerable to 2nd preimage attacks. As a rule of thumb, you should use HMAC whenever you are concatenating values.
What did you end up using for WebRTC? Any specific things that you needed when looking at WebRTC implementations?
Looks a lot like the content from the Google Feed to the left of the Pixel homescreen, meaning it'll be entirely ads, clickbait, and spoilers for shows you're in the middle of watching
From the talks I've been to the targeted performance of blankets is 120% and simulations predict this should be possible without prohibitively thick blankets.

ITER's TBM will be doing important work to test theory.

It isn't clear to me that external sources of tritium will be necessary. Between Li-6 fission and Be neutron multiplication there is theoretically plenty of neutrons to go around even though they aren't easy to capture.

Viability of blanket breeding hasn't been demonstrated to work yet, but my original point is that it hasn't been demonstrated to not work. I see now the "might" in your statement.
Some Steve Jobs handwritten docs with numbers on them, if you wanted to make the comparison yourself:

https://www.cultofmac.com/ezoimgfmt/cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-con...

https://www.cultofmac.com/ezoimgfmt/cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-con...

http://site-macgasm.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012...

https://www.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Apple-1_...

https://photos5.appleinsider.com/archive/jobs-111222.jpg

https://cdn.hiconsumption.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ste...

https://news.justcollecting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/j...
There's multiple RSS to Email services (and trivial open source software you can use to convert RSS feeds to E-Mails to yourself).

Isn't that what you're looking for? Then you can use any non-"basic email client" to get all the sorts of advanced filtering etc. you're describing.
> what is up with all computers _still_ having 1 gbps ethernet ports?

See last week’s discussion on “A disquisition into the sadly slovenly takeup of 10GBASE-T” and note that the article was written TEN years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315790
Multi-Paxos in Python, Tested with Jepsen