jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seeing 8 GO mobile data plans was really weird the first time.

Then I remembered my telecom classes and we use octets because there's no confusion regarding byte sizes in older differet architectures.
Ah sorry about that; unfortunately Safari doesn't support any of the systems that I own, so I can't test on it, and it seems to work fine on the WebKit browser I do have...
I was thinking of this:
https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
The same thing if someone does not remember there is a right mouse button?
there: https://github.com/jig-dev/jig-releases/releases/download/v0...
Developing blood clots in the legs because of insufficient circulation is what I was afraid of when seeing the image.
In French SQL is generally spelled out loud without it being an issue. I don't really see why that wouldn't work for coq, though I understand if they prefer to have an actual word, "see-oh-queue" is a bit ugly.
A good indicator of just how normalized they are.
Related to bitemporality, I'd be curious to hear whether anyone has experience with the Temporal Tables[1] extension in PostgreSQL?

[1] - https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables
Dense vectors are pervasive in Neural Networks. Take a layer's activations and you have a new one (which is what NN embeddings are).

Indexing them is really hard: The local neighborhood's volume to be searched grows by radius^dimension; you need a specialized engine.

Now, say you are a three letter agency and have Facebook's image data (2B faces, 100B images). You train a deep learning image classification network to identify faces. But for training time reasons you only can do it on a dataset of about 10k different faces, 10M images. The NN will identify characteristic visual features to make its classification, available at the n-1 layer as activations.

But you need to have the rest of the dataset searchable! You now index the activations of all the 100B remaining images. And with this you can search by similarity of visual features. If you have an image of someone you want to to track, get its activations and search for other images that have similar vectors.

This works for everything that a NN can model: speech, words, words in sentences, videos, etc.

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On a another note Facebook has a feature-rich, GPU-powered, scalable indexation engine called FAISS:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
All these sorts of things were cooked up in the depths of some HR department somewhere, likely by people who fundamentally don't understand technical skillsets. They provide some level of false utility by allowing people to compartmentalize otherwise highly complex systems (knowledge sets) into simple ideas.

Skillsets are highly complex assemblies that can't be summed up or generalized. Doing things like that give us the hilariously misguided strategies that make HR folks hand out Myers Briggs tests for culture fit checks. I know for myself that a lot of my skills are actually just fancy applications of thought processes and theory, expressed in code. Trying to box that into this goofy trichotomy will just confuse someone.
This would actually fall under a "sync license" which requires approval by both the master rights holder as well as the composition owner which is the artist although it cold be the artist and their publishing company if they have sold shares to them. See "permissions needed" here:

https://musicbusinessmadeeasy.com/understanding-the-music-sy...
Yev from Backblaze here -> working to resolve it but can only move as quickly as they do. Also trying to figure out why the sudden "nope" stick.
Thanks so much Greg. I've always enjoyed working with you and watching what you build and do (and draw).

I'm always happy to help, whenever you need it.
dang, as I'd just sent you in email, this is a really tough call, and the article itself is largely to blame.

The submitted title was very clearly editorialised. But both the original title and the entire article text are so anodyne as to make an accurate 80-character precise of the submission as HN requires all but impossible.

The implied violations of personal privacy, third-party doctrine, intellectual freedom, and more, are staggering. I'd hope (though I also begin to doubt) that search engines, browser providers, ISPs, and even online merchants would rebel at all aspects of this proposal.

At the same time, the article highlights numerous issues that seem to be reaching a breaking point:

- Wage-based or even salary-based compensation, during time of global pandemic and lockdown, aren't sufficient.

- Credit is (and has for decades) been used to supplant sufficient living wages for vast portions of the population.

- A necessary foundation of a global p2p or b2c commercial system is sufficient trust on both sides of that transaction that parties will uphold their ends of the bargain, and that neither side has been conmpromised, internally or externally, in such a way as to commit fraud. In-person, cash-on-the-barrelhead transactions solve many of these problems. Local-dealing similarly. Globally we're trying to supplant intrinsic trust mechanisms with mediated ones, with varying degrees of success and tremendous amounts of unintended consequences.

Rather than put all my article responses in this subthread (which likely will and should get reaped to the bottom of the discussion), I'm hoping to write up my thoughts separately. I just want to make clear that this is as subtle a proposal as, oh, say, "Proposal for large-scale passenger handling logistics using IBM tabulation equipment in the central European region" would have been in 1939. This is absolutely horrific, and an exquisite example of Arendt's banality of evil.

Arnoud Boot, Peter Hoffmann, Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski are names that should appear in business and privacy case-history courses for decades.

"Browser, hardware, search and purchase history in Fintech credit assessment" is my best spin. 77 characters. Kinda-sorta falls out of that buried paragraph number 6.
I spent 7 years in product before making the transition to being a developer 2 years ago. I've successfully made the jump but definitely had hoped I'd be in a better position than I am now. Obviously this could be me, but I have been pretty surprised how companies/startups seems disinterested in my PM past. I think it certainly gave me a broad perspective on how to ship software customers love, and how successful teams work. It likely is still my inexperience but nonetheless no one seems to care about broad knowledge.
I used to be a Linux advocate once upon a time.

Then I had an Epiphany moment. Not all of us drive a Mercedes. Just because I do, does not mean the Mary has to, or Joe has to, or even Sven has to. They might be perfectly happy driving their Mazda, or their Ford or their Volvo.

Since then, I no longer advocate Linux for everybody. Just because I use Linux, and used UNIX since 1990 before Linux came along, Mary and Joe and Sven can use whatever they like to use whether that's MacOS or Windows or even (gasp) Linux.
This is significant for me, because I’ve turned down interview offers out of concerns that accepting the offer would require me to stop working on side-projects.
The "major highways" in my city are routinely shut down for half a day or more for any and all of the following:

- the President is in town, and he and the 200+ vehicles in his entourage want to go from point A to point B

- a funeral for any firefighter or policeman is being held, and the funeral party wants to travel from the cathedral to the cemetery

- a museum wants to move an artwork (a big hunk of stone) from a quarry to their facility, or a space shuttle orbiter from the airport to their facility (I think the orbiter only shut down city streets, not freeways)

- a hockey team won their league championship, and the company that owns the team wants to hold a celebratory parade (one of our basketball teams used to do the same, back when they used to win championships)

- the police department want to hold a staged "counter terrorism" exercise (complete with stunt coordinator, director, and a giant video screen scrolling the credits for the audience of VIPs) in the center of downtown mid-day on a weekday.

Not to mention that emergency vehicles generally only travel a short distance, and so don't bother with the freeways unless the emergency is actually on the freeway.
I can't tell from this page whether it's open source -- I hope it is.
That is a utilitarian argument!

It is an implicit agreement that some quantity of available assets will be subjected to a certain level of risk in order to insure that one man is not left behind. The implicit agreement is not made because it is sustainable in an environment when a large number of marines require a sacrifice of multiples of their number to be rescued, but because of the number of marines who are at risk of being left behind and the quantity of assets that are available to insure that does not happen.

When considering what risk will be undertaken, you have to appreciate that limits to what assets are even defined as available are imposed by what has been certified as battle ready, which is essentially a risk assessment about a unit's likelihood of survival in an engagement with the types of enemies it is designed for. Or, to consider extremes, we don't field child soldiers, and wouldn't even if it were the only way to make the difference between rescuing a marine behind enemy lines or not.

Perhaps tens, or even hundreds of millions, of dollars per astronaut life does not yet venture into the exotic territory where commonplace statements about "sparing no cost" are meaningless, but it is unrealistic to assert that no cost is so great that you would ever choose to compromise your norms instead.
People will use dogecoin then, so the law will probably refer to "cryptocurrency". Which will not be easy to define and will probably get other centralized currency schemes in trouble as well.
I genuinely believe that the best thing anyone ever did for encouraging programming was putting a BASIC interpreter in every home computer.
Since me and lots of other people here in Latvia have fibre channel (100+Mbps, no cap, no bw limits, ~30USD with TV and phone package) at home, I'm more than certain, that there is no need to go over 100Mbps for a household (i'm not speaking of commercial or startup-ish consumers).

If you are used to downloading large files (read: torrents), they arrive blazingly fast.

If you are willing to utilize all 100Mbps at all times, you need capable router to handle not only all of bandwidth, but to be able not to choke on hundreds of high speed connections, when using P2P (that is CPU intensive).

Also, you can imagine, that i/o speed at 500Mbps (62 megaBYTEs per second) is close to the limit for common SATA drives.

And to finish - when you have network this fast, you'll soon find out, that you need some kind of NAS device, since you download stuff all the time.
I've been reading these headlines longer than I've been reading HN. After many disappointments I'm very disillusioned about algae produced fuel. When there's a story about it pumping out of bowsers then I'll get excited. Until then, it's all vaporware as far as I am concerned,
Accenture hires 3000 employees. Additional 4000 are laid off from Nokia.
Symbian is dying out,slowly but surely.
Thanks for that. I'm the creator of those videos and I'm really glad to know that the AV one actually changed minds.
A massive influx of developer talent, but with a lot of baggage - a managemetn headache for Accenture but the developers will be worht more than the OS in the long run
I was just reading this on mobile, and I got redirected to another doesn't site that told me my device had "problems"!

The NYT can't even keep their site clean from virus malware laden advertisers. Ridiculous.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bv5ju0f73bdmcr/Screenshot_2016-06...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ba1g2u2cuox95zz/Screenshot_2016-06...
Summary in sixth paragraph:

The team split a single photon between two laboratories and tested whether the choice of measurement in one caused a change in the local quantum state in the other laboratory; using a homodyne detector with six different settings, they were able to quantitatively verify the waveform collapse and the entanglement of the split single photon -- the strongest proof yet of single-particle quantum entanglement.

But how do you "split a photon"? Mirrors?
Too bad they bent over for Russian government though. I wouldn't bet on Github growing a spine anytime soon. If these attacks continue, Github will delete the material China wants them to. They already shown weakness once when they censored what Russia wanted to censor.
it's a standard version of e.g. GCC and Clang's __builtin_expect
Full disclosure: I don't work in defense, but I've read Wikipedia.

>>> I can't comment from the perspective of the F16 specifically, but from experience working on upgrade efforts of military and IC ground processing systems, the challenge is the legacy systems are very tightly coupled to the hardware. They make strong assumptions about register size and number, bus bandwidth, filesystem block size, all kinds of things...

>> Worked around F16's and F22's when I was in and can attest that this is the source of the issue for upgrades. Everything in the software is so tightly coupled to the hardware that updating the F16's would be a monumental effort.

> Could that be addressed by old software trick of modularising components - software and hardware-alike - and rely on some extensive semi-open protocols to connect these?

I think the military has already done that to a degree, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1553 (serial data bus)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1750A (16-bit ISA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_16 (tactical radio communication)

It sounds like there are two issues: 1) protocols and standards themselves can become obsolete, so it's like updating Apple II DOS to read a ZFS array (or a modern Mac to work with 5 1/4 floppy drives).
Apparently without Denuvo lifting a finger, a major player appears to have been forced out of the game, not by the most secure copy-protection system available today, but by a self-perpetuating grass-roots clash of personalities with a single pivotal mistake underpinning everything.

I think it's very naive to assume that anything that happens on reddit is grass-roots. Especially something like Piracy where there are all kinds of financial incentives for various actors, I'm positive any conversation taking place on Reddit is, less than organic, shall we say.
I agree,Rust development for microservices and JSON APIs is quite doable. Your new book looks quite exciting. Is there a preview somewhere?
https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/
> But doesn't this defeat the goal of NFT? If you are the owner, then if it's stored by the creator or not it's irrelevant, right?

Assuming the creator is trustworthy, then I don't think so. Isn't this common in the art world? I thought lots of expensive art is stored in expensive secured vaults. Or maybe I'm thinking of the film Tenet (I don't actually know anything about the art world).
Rent control does allow renters to vote against new housing development (in the name of "preserving" a neighborhood) without having to bear the cost of increased rent.
What's the advantage of using Rust for web development vs. JavaScript (for example) and using Rust for specific tasks as necessary? The Node/Rust interop is decent enough.
Does the fact that this was unanimous imply that this was more about signaling than about achieving some real-world impact?

Presumably if they can get unanimous agreement today then there was some point in the past when they could have passed the same resolution but with a mere majority, right? And if you really think it's important to remove these constraints in a region and state with a really serious housing problem, you'd want to pass it as soon as was feasible?
these academics also use the term "white fragility", that not only shows that white is known to be a race but it also sanctions anti-white sentiment. these offensive statements are a feature, not a bug, and it's very telling how with a little sunlight they abandon their training materials.
You make some good points, but role models and peer pressure are two different things. In my subjective experience the latter tends to have a significantly larger impact. Role models are probably relevant in the first step to make people realise this kind of job is a possible choice. But I doubt it's enough to motivate anyone to stick to it and go through the whole learning process.

And afaik the reason female programmers were the majority in the beginning was mostly sexism combined with the view that writing the programs was a trivial task comparable to simple data entry jobs. Which inevitably was proven wrong after a while.
How about let us define our own boundaries?
Like we do with people.
No, you have it precisely the wrong way around. The harm done by birth is harm because the victim is still around to suffer it. Compare this to the harm done by death, where there is no such victim anymore.

As I said before, the question of whether I should stay alive even if I don't think it is worth it is way more complicated than the question of whether new lives should be begun. One complication is that suicide causes non-negligible stress for both the suicide and their surroundings.
But look at the greater problem: Obama or not, people don't actually do anything. Sure, there will be some forum discussions, but that's pretty much it. The EFF and ACLU seem to be the only organized movements that actually try to do anything. In the political landscape these issues just do not appear.
That's right. Facebook doesn't fn care about maintaining API and when something isn't working you find out it's deprecated, without warning.
I thought analysts took a dim view of security by obscurity.
Yeah. I can imagine how nice it is when you are free to release code and docs with the quality of Facebook API offerings and nobody would tell you any bad word about that.
Google preemptively tries to kick Opera out of the browser world. Many new services come up with dedicated code to block Opera claiming that this browser can't handle them. I can't tell you how many times I changed Opera's UA string to Firefox and those services start working. Magic! <sarcasm

Not testing for a particular browser is fine (and truth be told Opera just works in 99.99% of the time). Blocking it just because one can is pure evil!
What amazes me is that the great swath of Obama supporters who decried the Bush administration's civil rights abuses are strangely quiet about the continuation of those abuses today. (Caveat: I'm not American, but if I was, I would have held my nose and voted for Obama in 2008.)
And unless meat-eaters are "supplementing" their diet with something besides beef, their diet is going to be pretty poor quality as well. The need for nutritional balance is not unique to vegans, and meat-eaters often fail at it (hence all the obesity cropping up simultaneously with diseases stemming from lack of other nutrients).
Why? for location data all they need is GPS. If you know location you find the black box which has the telemetry data.

Is there a reason a location tracker can't be self contained with it's own power supply and no connections to a plane's telemetry feed?
This is because criminals lie; the role of the defense attorney for a guilty client is to wrap a plausible story around this lie. The prosecution and law enforcement is playing an iterated prisoner's dilemma and the accused is only there for a single game. If law enforcement or the prosecution lies then they may get away with it, or they may get caught. If the latter they can face fines, loss of the status that allows them to practice their profession, loss of pension, and even imprisonment. If the accused lies and gets caught they are unlikely to face any additional charges beyond the ones that brought them before the court in the first place. The accused has a strong incentive to lie and the prosecution does not, judges and juries know this and that is why they weigh testimony differently given the source.
Facebook is doing a lot of awesome open-source work. They already have Open Compute, many projects on Github - https://github.com/facebook, and sent a developer to MediaWiki to help with the migration to HHVM. I hope Facebook keeps open-sourcing their internal projects (in addition to contributing in existing ones)!
To be fair, those products should be blocked in every country. I realize what the PRC is doing: blocking successful foreign corporations, then when they have sufficiently copied / provided for the local market, they expand. Quite duplicitous and I hope it fails miserably, no offense. I feel that the US government might be hesitant to allow Chinese companies, protected by the PRC, access to sensitive information on its citizens.
Why again do we want to build a base on a big rock? And why do we fund NASA for $20 billion/year? Especially in a struggling economy? Why doesn't some other country step up to do this if it's so important? It seems the US spends money on everybody except itself. Yet, we're the target for every criticism, while others stand practically idle.
I find it odd that the author matter-of-factly concludes that the girls had a dysfunctional relationship with money. There are plenty of other conclusions that could have been drawn.

For my part, with the money on the desks, I probably would've gathered it all up if I was the first one in the room and turned it in to the leader of the session or campus police. With someone holding up a $20 and asking who wanted it, yeah, I would've immediately asked for it.
Right now, oil and commodities are transacted in US dollars so countries have to stock-pile dollars. When China becomes the dominant economy, this won't probably won't be the case for long.

See this discussion from yesterday -- "Petrodollar Warfare -- AKA the "Oil Currency Wars" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477659)
I really like the idea of planning some tweetable quotes ahead. Of course this is not necessary for all audiences - but in some settings it can create a lot of positive hype.
Another great selling point of Clojure in big, evolving projects is architectural agility. The combination of dynamic typing and focus on data structures allows you to pivot your codebase even when it has grown out from infancy. Changing database model, splitting to different microservices etc. come relatively easy so you can perform a refactoring while still continuing to add new features.

To be fair other types of refactorings (e.g. changing some map keys from keyword to strings in a big codebase) are unnecessarily painful. But dev tools are getting better and better by the day.
Wow. You've inspired me to work on more side projects in 2015. I'm fascinated by AdDetector. And your Inflation app has seriously made me consider investing my money so it doesn't lose its value. You should consider placing ad links to investment opportunities on the inflation app. Seriously put an affiliate ad to eTrade or Scott Trade or some Bank CD Rates or something.
I personally use arvixe.com (http://www.arvixe.com/windows_vps_hosting) and have been pretty happy with them.
To be fair... he probably does.
I think the larger programming community is coming around to the stability and good engineering present in the Postgresql development team and code base.

Over the past decade we've seen a lot of different data storage options presented that have exchanged critical data integrity features for speed, architecture, "document storage", or some other fad factor of the day.

I've been using Postgresql in a production environment since 2004, having converted from MySQL and never looked back. I'm not bagging on the other technologies, they're great for certain tasks, its just that Postgresql is great data storage and query engine and I think you'll grow to love it. I recommend the #postgresql community on Freenode as they are helpful and generous with their time.

Someone on HN once said "Postgres is the answer until proven otherwise" and that's a pretty good sentiment.