jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I meant that it’s a serious geopolitical problem but that the parent was suggesting it is a paramount concern, and that stopping said domination is worth any cost. The parent says this:

> the end result of this thinking is that critical stuff like electric cars, wind turbines, etc is completely dependent on a totalitarian country

while ignoring that the end result of their thinking is a race-to-the-bottom of nations poisoning their own people to combat China. It’s why I think they are being myopic - they are taking environmental devastation as a given and arguing that China must be stopped at all costs. (Not to mention the conflation of “resources not physically in China” with “non-Chinese resources” which, as stated above, is not actually true here).
Yeah, this is a wildly ignorant take.

Pre 2017 was crazy volatile and unstable. It's still crazy, especially compared to regulated, national markets, but it does seem to be gradually smoothing out from the wildness of it's youth. https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/
And people who hold their wealth in cash are speculating, not investing.
How many bets they'll leave it like this on the current version and fix it for the PS5 version, to show how dramatic of a change it is between consoles?
I rushed to comments just to make sure parky towers was there. That is a great website.

Also on the same spirit, the motherboard+cpu for processors like J4105 or J1900 often are found for less than a raspberry. Even better if used.

Lastly, worst case of maximum cost-benefit, you can try powering on a notebook replacement motherboard (which usually comes with RAM and CPU soldered).
Here is a video using an old Thinkpad replacement board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vrRZqDy74
So, to fix the Big 5 tests:

1. Write up 32 profile descriptions, each with an inoffensive name.

2. Come up with less-offensive names for the Big 5 traits. You can't politely call somebody neurotic, even if it is true. Most people wouldn't admit to being neurotic. It's not nice to ask about that.

3. Somehow, make sure the old names like "neurotic" are dead and buried.
Point of note - using "CUDA Cores" is not the same as using the "CUDA API", particularly from the app's view as it's all behind the NVENC API anyways. But yes, these conditionals are what I was referring to when I said "GPU accelerated video encoding/decoding is done __largely__ via special fixed function hardware" i.e. the fixed function hardware does >95% of the compute work which is what makes it viable.
Way back in the day (1985) I was figuring out how to do timeslicing on a 4MHz Z80, and once I had it working on multiple terminals I slung a simple MUD on it (Shades). Connecting it to a couple of modems (this was the days when BB's were the thing) got people playing, at which point British Telecom's Prestel/Micronet decided they'd like to run it on their system.

The demand was sufficient that it kept crashing the entire national network, and one of my prize memories from back then is the night I was working late in this huge multistorey BT building (Baynard House) in London stuffed with big cabinets filled with computers and modems, and as I was huddled over my little Z80 the double doors burst open and the shift leader stormed in, shouting "There is NO WAY I'm going to put up with your system taking down the entire network". So I looked down my little Z80 box, then looked up at the seried ranks of GEC computers in their 48U cabinets, and did my best to puzzled, in a "Who, little ole me?" kind of way.

Ok, so it was 1200 baud max per user but we did get up to 128 users spread over 2 Z80s, each with 256Kb bankswitched RAM and 2Mb hand-made RAM disks.

The rest of it is a long story but it's still around [0] and I know a few people on here remember it (fondly I hope - though I do still feel guilty about those bills!).

[0] http://games.world.co.uk/shades/
> The fact that this problem is caused by Rockstar's excessive microtransaction policy (the 10MB of JSON causing this bottleneck are all available microtransaction items) is the cherry on top.

For what it's worth, 10MB of JSON is not much. Duplicating the example entry from the article 63000 times (replacing `key` by a uuid4 for unicity) yields 11.5MB JSON.

Deserialising that JSON then inserting each entry in a dict (indexed by key) takes 450ms in Python.

But as Bruce Dawson oft notes, quadratic behaviour is the sweet spot because it's "fast enough to go into production, and slow enough to fall over once it gets there". Here odds are there were only dozens or hundreds of items during dev so nobody noticed it would become slow as balls beyond a few thousand items.

Plus load times are usually the one thing you start ignoring early on, just start the session, go take a coffee or a piss, and by the time you're back it's loaded. Especially after QA has notified of slow load times half a dozen times, the devs (with fast machines and possibly smaller development dataset) go "works fine", and QA just gives up.
Consider checking https://appfleet.com as well, we worked a lot to simplify the process with a nice UI and a constantly improving UX

Disclosure: I work for appfleet
>The issue isn't whether every case should go to trial. A plea bargain is an exchange of (forgoing) a trial for a reduced charge or sentence.

In reality it becomes a punishment for demanding a fair trial.
here's a screenshot of the email sent to an 'affected party'

http://gyazo.com/b31792d4fc4460c006c49d858cc113e3

For partners, their personal details being leaked is much worse. Think more swattings, pranks etc.
You are sitting by a friend in an airport and want to send them a great video of a cat.

You$ airpaste cat < funny-cat.m4v

Them$ airpaste cat > the-stupid-video-i-have-to-watch-now.m4v

You don't have to dig out your IP address. You also don't have to toss it up to a server with some awful upload speed, it all stays local.

The name suggests the author was thinking of Apple's AirDrop system which does sort of the same thing. You can share content to an iOS device or Mac without leaving your local network. You pick a recipient from the available, acceptable, recipients and if they accept the content transfers. The usual way of filtering recipients is to only see recipients who are in your contacts.
Should clicking on the companies (lyft, Kickerstarter..) open in a new tab instead of navigating away from Stripe?
Yes this is old news, and here is software for recovering the password when WPS is enabled: https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
> For me at least, it means I don't like guitars that are too easy to play - I want it to fight back and make me work for my tone.

Interesting perspective. I'm the polar opposite. I have a love/hate relationship with Strat-type guitars. I love the huge dynamic range they have, but I feel the design of the guitar is fighting me all the way. I always end up back at my Les Paul, which sounds great no matter what I do.
There's also the fact that iCloud backups are encrypted with keys that Apple controls. So even if messages are securely end-to-end encrypted, Apple can produce available iCloud backups.
I'm a Java developer (and it might shock people, but I like it), where I work we're still stuck with good ol' Struts, it works, and a big international corporation uses this system.

But comparing a functional scripting language with a object-oriented statically-typed pre-compiled language, arguing one is better than the other, does not make sense to me.

You can easily revert the situation and say that static typing is a weakness of java, and it's poor fucntional (until before v8) capability is a drawback and a strong point for Javascript.

I'm not into the JS world so I can't say anything about the tooling, but yes, Java's tooling and ecosystem is an extremely strong point.

My complaint is about dismissing Javascript as not a "real language" while it's got A LOT going for it.

EDIT: I also worked with GWT (GXT from ExtJs, actually) in 2011-2012, and it was really nice. I miss it.
I read about it, but it seems that it will function like pocket i.e saving individual webpages.
Those lessons appear to have left us needing a loading screen to show a web page. I'll stick with not bolting everything I can find together into a Frankensteins monster of a stack.
Cool, submitted report
have you heard about deep learning? Computers are coming up with novel solutions without human involvement. It was done before in the 70s and 80s with neural networks, but it only worked on simple tasks. Now the main limits seem to be computing power (and learning how to train it).
I'm confused for being ignorant about some key aspects of this. Any help would be appreciated:

- What is the range between the remote control and the receiver on the drone?

- How does the person piloting the drone know where it is going? Do they track its GPS signal?

- How does the person piloting the drone know what it is landing on (ground, rooftop, trashcan)?

- How likely is it that when a drone is found, its pilot can be identified? What methods of investigation, if any?
It may be plenty for you, sure. But you're flipping the phones. I take it there's a market for people who want phones without security updates. That's certainly not me though. I find it despicable that the phone I bought almost 2 years ago (Pixel 3) will not receive any updates after October, and as such, I will no longer use it. But there's literally nothing wrong with the phone, cosmetically it's in near perfect condition, all the hardware works, and it's still plenty fast. As it stands, to get the max 3 years of support, you literally have to buy the phone on day 1. This is pathetic. My next phone will be an iPhone.
What's that system? MySQL? Are there any other OSS RDBMSes which are comparable and scale better?
What do you make of Amazon Aurora?
I read it as "Hey, there is this game trying to depict a historically accurate medieval scenario. I modified it for fun to allow gay marriage".

And the first paragraph seems to confirm this interpretation:

> Crusader Kings III is a pretty impressive game. It’s impressive not only for its official content, but also for its extensive modding tools. Even before its release, I was drawn in by its promises of an improved modding experience. Relevant to this post, I was also impressed by an apparent dedication towards improved inclusivity.
> When you write if [ -e /etc/passwd ]; then .. that bracket is not shell syntax but just a regular command with a funny name. It’s serviced by /usr/bin/[, or (more likely) a shell builtin. This explains a lot of its surprising behavior, e.g. why it’s notoriously space sensitive: [1=2] is no more valid than ls-l/tmp.

To me this is even more interesting than the size thing. Wth seriously! It changes the way I will think of it next time I'm gonna use it.

I thought perl was a strange language with all the swearing cartoon characters, until I was introduced to bash and all the strange things like the hyphen for a default argument and what not. Writing shell scripts without stackoverflow is so hard because of all such idiosyncrasies (or maybe remanants of the past?).
It's definitely not a fact, but rather an argument.

Non-technical people within my circle appreciate GDPR. They fall into recent Apple's privacy advertising, FWIW. Many of my non-IT business peers have moved to private email services long ago — e.g. Protonmail, Mailbox.org, Fastmail, etc. — regardless of Google's Eric Schmidt[1] anti-privacy stance back in the day. Almost everyone I constantly communicate with use Telegram, and privacy of comms (FWIW) was among selling points at the time of switching the IM.

I won't exaggerate the value of privacy for a general public. But since Snowden's publications, Cambridge Analytica scandal and GDPR discussion with a widespread media coverage, common citizens became much more privacy-concerned, at least in Europe.

Below I quote highlights from the recent FRA (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights) survey report "Your rights matter: Data protection and privacy - Fundamental Rights Survey", June 2020[2]:

> 41% do not want to share any personal data with private companies, almost double the number compared to public bodies;

> the type of personal data influences people’s willingness to share. Only around 5% want to share their facial images or fingerprints with private companies;

> 72% know the privacy settings on their smart phones. But 24% do not know how to check the privacy settings on their apps;

> 55% fear criminals or fraudsters accessing their personal data. Around 30% worry about advertisers, businesses and foreign governments’ access to information without them knowing;

> 33% do not read the terms and conditions when using online services compared with 22% who always read them;

> 69% know about the GDPR. A similar number know their national data protection supervisory authority (71%);

> only 51% are aware that they can access their personal data held by companies.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

[2] https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-20... (PDF)
(I'm not not very familiar with Postgres, but this is common among RDBMSs).
What changed is size and/or statistics. Also, if the Query Optimizer supports something like parameter sniffing, that happened.
Unacceptable? Not really. Annoying? Very much so.
This is both an ad hominem and an appeal to authority, while you could have provided actual arguments that refute his point. Now it just lowered your credibility.
Why do you feel the need to make up totally absurd excuses to protect his image?

Do you know him personally or has he done something for you? Why do you believe he is a person of integrity?
Yeah, I personally like using an Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier.

There are some cool packages out there, that detect your emotions and attentiveness while driving.

Aside from the Jetson, I have an 2080 Super on my laptop.
I don’t claim to have all the right answers, but I am a psychologist, and I have spent many years learning how to not think. All of the errors, mistakes, and failures in my life can be viewed as lessons I was always supposed to go through. A perfectly positive attitude charms our brains into properly regulating our internal physiology. Anxiety and the other negative internal states (mania, depression) typically can be cured by changing our internal dialogue and our perspective. One thing is for certain: you and I didn’t make this world. We didn’t invent people, trees, viruses, or love. We are part of a bigger picture. I compare it to being an actor in a movie. Why critique the scene? Why look back at previous scenes and wish they were different? Why hope for better scenes in the future? The script is perfectly written. Just read your lines. Play your part right now in the current scene with all of its ups and downs.

Prioritize your health. Go your pace and accept the consequences. Always feel satisfied with your choice.
ahh not really. VB and powerbuilder UI builders predate Delphi and Csharp.
Within reason, I personally am not offended by small variations based on legitimate negotiating for larger volumes (or even smaller volumes). I feel like most places will give you at least a bit of a discount if you offer something in return like enough volume to make it less hassle to sell to you.

Or if you just ask... I've definitely gotten 5-10% "discounts" multiple times just by asking if they can give me one. I figure this is the "wasn't price sensitive enough to ask" surcharge.

But if the prices were super random feeling yeah, for sure. I haven't personally run into more than a ~5-10% variation myself usually.

I think the only time I hear about it is when I get a price from a vendor, turn them down, and then have them come back with an offer for the same thing at 25% off. At that point they're kind of highlighting that their pricing is 25% higher than it needs to be for them to make a healthy profit so while I might take them up on it (once) I'm extremely likely to find a new vendor.

I've definitely done that before with a company that had dramatically overpriced high speed cameras. We kept ordering from them because we didn't want to worry about changing the brand. I doubt we'll order from them again.
Apple music peripherals are a great example of what I'm talking about. They don't use bluetooth because W1 chips (their integrated solution) blow bluetooth out of the water. Bluetooth can still exist in other devices because people don't need low latency and high bitrates, but they definitely need their cars not to crash because a standard causes hardware and software from different vendors to run into interoperability quirks. There's no agreement on the best hardware or even the type of hardware for self-driving, so there will be a lot of those quirks.
I'm old enough to remember back in 2002, Openbsd.org had a banner:
"Five years without a remote hole in the default install!"

Then, later that year OpenSSH had a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability that allowed an attacker to gain remote root access. They changed the banner to:
"One remote hole in the default install, in nearly 6 years!"

It stayed that way almost 5 more years when in 2007 a flaw in IPv6 was discovered that resulted in a kernel-level buffer overflow, and the banner was updated to:
"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"

At some point, that slogan was removed, probably because of the fierce criticism and debate it sparked. Even still, OpenBSD pretty much designed the idea of "secure by default" and still to this day, probably lead all modern software OS in this ideology.

I can't think of any other major software distribution where I can count exploits on a single hand after many, many years.
That's fair. But I think for their current use case, lane keep assist, they make due with less. They're comfortable in level 2 self driving. For anything above that you're probably right, but I would love to see big auto outsource much of it a company dedicated to self-driving. Specialization is essential in these sensitive fields and automakers already rely on suppliers heavily. Very few can get away with the Apple model and even Apple relies on outside parts.

The funny thing is that w/ any other product we would scoff at fully integrated end to end solution for a product that doesn't exist. No product market fit, no minimum viable product, no incremental products.
Any situation where you want to keep latency under control and thus asynchronous programming is not adequate.
I think it is understandable if people don't want the surroundings of their property cluttered with buildings.
Relativity theories say that objective truth only exists globally/abstractly, and cannot shared between observers.
And it's my opinion that human lives far far far outweight the "joy" guns bring.
> Honest-to-goodness real-life implementations of Paxos can be found at the heart of … Google’s magnificent Spanner database…

I'm not sure about Spanner and Paxos. Sebastian Kanthak said during his Google Spanner talk:

"If you've been to the Raft talk this morning, our Paxos implementation is actually closer to the Raft algorithm than to what you'd read in the Paxos paper, which is… if you haven't read it, don't read it, it's horrible." (at 7:43)

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/spanner-distributed-googl...
Seems like it could be used as a way to lazily copy objects; a solution like this could make a lot of sense if, say, a server had entire objects instantiated and the client only needs to know they exist, but not what each object contains.
I imagine NY would be much pricier if Long Island was left out.
I want to complain about the fact that I read this a year and a half ago, but since I just reread the entire article, I'll just say: neat!
Regarding the 2), after checking her company website, I'd say this is her business attire: http://www.rubymakeupacademy.com/images/inc500_2.jpg
mac users can always use AMD's openCL offerings...
My bet is she was a front for some Eastern EU or EEU mafia group and now rests in a concrete-filled barrel at the bottom of Black Sea, with all the money taking multiple round trips through off-shore banks, never to be found by their MLM "investors" again.
Makes sense, given that the underlying drivers only support macOS 10.13 (which is likely considered out-of-support by Apple now)
What's actually funny is how people still believe that no use cases exist. Here are just some examples:

* Uncensorable donations

* No way for a third party to freeze your payments (internet is full of horror stories of PayPal)

* Not all businesses can accept digital payments (marijuana stores or porn have trouble)

* Credit cards and payment processors take a 2-4% cut, of all transactions.

* You can use cryptocurrencies anonymously (to for example buy VPNs)

* It's possible to flee your country with some of your wealth intact (for example by converting to Bitcoin and crossing the Venezuela border)
OK, sure.

But it's pretty clear that he meant child porn. I mean, he even shared some of his favorite themes.

The point, though, is that he didn't need to say any of that.
I have a few dozen followers, all of them are very real people, many with very differing interests.

Spend some time each month pruning follower bots and unfollow the accounts that were once interesting but monetise themselves.

It's a bit of effort but for niche science/engineering/software stuff it's actually quite useful to see. Especially science/astronomy.

I look at it as a ”legal” drug. Take too much and you are fucked. In moderation and taken with care it's actually quite cathartic.
Server sided redirection mistake. Most likely crappy developers were hired, or they don't care about their website in general.
UBI is not a donation. It is forcibly taken at gunpoint (though they will ask nicely many times before pulling out the gun). Also, there can be no "unconditional" giving without "unconditional" taking in a world with finite resources.
Why Xiaomi uses its own Android flavour for the Chinese market is clear. But I don't believe they will push their own Android flavour to the US and EU markets, but rather use Playstore-enabled versions. Their first goal is to compete against Samsung in handset price. And Samsung has shown that it is very hard for an Asian manufacturer to introduce their own OS flavours and apps into a Western market.
Heisenberg
Very nice!
"doesn't mean that we've somehow lost the technology to do so"

I can think of two examples.

The LM had some truly weird chemical milling technology invented mostly because they didn't have the CNC mills and CNC EDM gear we have today. Design and production floor feed back on each other and some design decisions were optimized to production realities such that you could at enormous expense either reinvent the chemical milling processes or simulate them with EDM and/or CNC mills but it would be enormously cheaper to scrap the design for a chemically milled door or whatever and replace it with a door designed specifically to match the modern technologies of EDM and milling machines.

The other example I can think of is I don't think we have the tech anymore to make aerospace grade core memories. Too much info was in the brains of people who died decades ago. To a first approximation the cost would be something like the entire fixed capital expenses of the whole computation industry from 1940-1960 plus many man years of R+D and more importantly reverse engineering and reinventing the QA/QC that man rated aerospace grade core memory would require. It would be a heck of a lot simpler and cheaper to use modern tech.

There is an obvious computing analogy. For a good time check out the "soylent news" project as in soylentnews.org who spent weeks re-implementing modperl 1.0 and apache 1 and all that so as to re-implement /. using the last public release of slash code. Its non-trivial to bring up old software while simultaneously applying a decade or two of security patches and best practices.