skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people do you think download the application, then check the signature? Additionally, if you can spoof the download link on this HTTP page, you can also spoof the signature link, and provide a fake signature matching your malicious package.
This is just a service I don't get the mass market appeal for. Washing your clothes does not take that much time and dry cleaners are readily available in every city. So these companies don't seem to solve a real problem, rather they're just a luxury. Luxury products are hard to maintain:
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I think this is one of those ideas that sounds very solid, but might be less so.

Who hasn't said, "I wish my laundry were done and folded by someone else?!" The problem might just be that the problem is so much easier to state than the solution, however.

Maybe the solution isn't related to a service that comes to your house, takes your laundry elsewhere, and brings it back to you. Each of the failed startups (I think? going off the top of my head) did this, in one form or another.
Imgur album now compares brotli and zstd. Looks like zstd is always significantly faster, but Brotli compresses slightly better for every dataset except the XML one.

This is with brotli level 1, by the way. My understanding is that brotli is pretty quick through the first few levels, but the levels that ask for the highest compression are insanely slow (which is a valuable thing to have as an option, for things like game assets or something, which are compressed once and delivered many times!)
Really nice work compared to what I consider to be the quite bad Brotli -- an incredibly slow compression standard that only ended up in browsers because it was created by Google.
I'm a complete dunce when it comes to compression and how it fits in the industry, so help me out here. Say that everyone accepts that Zstandard is amazing and we should start using it. What would the adoption process look like? I understand individual programs could implement it since they would handle both compression and decompression, but what about the web?

Would HTTP servers first have to add support, then browser vendors would follow?
Just about anything is better than brotli.
Ha! That's not an analogy I would have thought of, but yes, it's the same ROM + latch state machine architecture as the Apple II disk controller. The demo's state machine generated a lot more control signals (24) and controlled the RAM, I/O and the ALU chip rather than a disk drive, but the concept is very similar.

(Background: Wozniak's design for the Apple II disk controller used very few chips. A ROM and latch implemented a simple state machine that did much of the control sequencing. The CPU also did a lot of the low-level control.)
As interesting trivia, the reason why elephants went extinct in northern Africa is largely because of the massive number that were brought to Rome and killed in gladiatorial games.
Frameworks are anti-modular because they expect to be the world into which you plug your program. They’re prefab software architecture, which is great if it happens to be suited to your application, but painful if you later discover you have different needs.

To me, the defining feature of a framework (as opposed to an ordinary library) is that it’s explicitly not compositional, not replaceable, and not a “good citizen” for interoperation. Doesn’t sound great.

But there is a valid reason to incur these costs: prefab solutions let you ship something basically good now. The same thing happens in game development: do you just write a game, reinventing a lot of architecture now, or do you choose an engine, working around its limitations later? It’s more of a business decision than a technical one.
There was recently a Google result here[1] where they were able to summarise a paragraph into one sentence. It looked pretty convincing. How does your "excruciatingly impossible" stand when confronted with that? Were the paragraphs in that result particularly easy to summarise? Does the problem's difficulty grow super-linearly with length of the text? Is there something else in the way?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353955
Will it be paid after the beta?
It's important to be upfront about these things.
Private corporations have no strong incentive to regulate speech, and it's very easy to gain a competitive advantage by being less regulated than one's competitors.
What resources on security would you recommend for developers that are not specializing in security?

There are a lot of land mines of misinformation on the Internet today.
You can have preallocated buckets in an array. What's the difference you ask? When you have more elements per buckets, the variance becomes smaller as a fraction of the bucket's size. Imagine you had a hash table with buckets of 1000 elements. You'd probably feel comfortable with a 90% load even without any strategy to handle bucket overflow except growing and rehashing. Obviously, the downside is that we have to do more work to search in buckets.
UX experience?
Is low energy significantly different from high performance code? I thought the general advice was make the code as fast as possible so the work can be finished and the CPU slow/power down again.

Are there cases where an algorithm takes 10x the wall clock time to execute, but actually uses less energy on the same chip?

(Memory use/access is the main thing I guess that could be different.)
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One of very few movies that had me fall off my chair from laughing when I first saw it back then.
Are you aware of the history of the car seatbelt in the US? The industry was against them and it was strongly opposed for quite a long time. http://blog.esurance.com/seat-belt-history/
Not just tuned for web workloads in general, but for specific web workloads. The Brotli dictionary is mostly composed of English words and phrases, and fragments of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It would perform poorly on non-English text.

I have a feeling that the dictionary was designed with the specific goal of performing well on a specific corpus similar to the Large Text Compression Benchmark[1]. It has quite a few words and phrases that I'd associate with Wikipedia's "house style".

[1]: https://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/textdata.html
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I use "fastest to complete == least power usage" as a rule of thumb because of "race to sleep". I suppose that might be thrown off by power usage characteristics varying based on number of cores working? How does one even begin to write code that prioritizes power-efficiency over performance?
Ironically, government regulation tends to work more like your second example. You are also objectively wrong; the FCC, the primary Internet regulator, is not voted in and is in no way transparent.

It's also good for profits to be less proscriptive than one's competitors. There is no discernible reason that competing ISPs would choose to limit free speech of their own accord.
How cold?
> But why would they care if people take it up, if it's not particularly harmful?

They don't care if adults do so; they do care about teenagers getting hooked, because it acts like a habit forming step up to tobacco smoking. This doesn't mean they seek to ban e-cigarettes; merely to limit its sale to adults, just like tobacco in most countries.

> 'Second-hand smoke' is junk science propagated purely to advance bigotry.

I'm surprised to find that sentiment on HN, even most smokers seem to agree that their smoke may harm others and are considerate about it. Ask any asthmatic over the age of 30 if they agree — we've seen the world shift from smoking everywhere to smoking only outside and in your own home. You have no idea how much of a difference that makes to us in our daily lives.

> And, of course, a huge loss for freedom.

Don't be silly. No one is forbidding you to smoke in your own home. Do you really want to go back to the fifties where smoking in the office, public transport, or in public buildings was commonplace? The reason smoking is banned in the workplace is simply because many workers do not have the luxury of simply quitting their job to work for an employer that doesn't allow smoking on the premises. Freedom is about the balance between one person's freedom to do something and another's not to be unduly burdened by it — unless you are an anarchist.
> If there's corruption, that's still a crime. Why not figure out how to highlight it and stop it?

That sounds nice, but in practice, white collar crime, often committed by white people, has much lower incarceration rates than simple drug crimes. Even in Seattle, where its now legal to posses pot but not legal to smoke it publicly (yet this is routinely ignored), we found that black people were being incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people for public smoking of pot. An investigation found that there was one freaking cop who went around arresting tons of black people for this 'crime'.

This is the world we live in.

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So...this page has a YouTube embed, a SoundCloud embed and then also a Scribd embed. I got lazy with the timings / formatting of the transcript, but would be people rather a single link to something like this? https://presentio.us/t/610902

Note: You can click the text in the first few paragraphs to jump to the correct part of the video.

Thoughts?
So yeah, we tried Slack too
Maybe there should be a widget that biases for less dense areas or does it proportionally, but the results aren't necessarily wrong as-is. A 2M+ population city with 20 <special interest group> meetups on a given weekend doesn't have more proportional interest in the topic than a 200K+ city with 2 <special interest group> meetups, but it still has 10x the total amount of activities for a resident to go to. I guess it depends on if the person is trying to figure out the absolute amount of activities available to them or the extent to which that activity dominates the culture of the area. I'd personally want to use the tool to figure out the absolute value.
9 to 6, unpaid 1h break. Been there just after school (but mainly to be able to say I did stuff for BMW).
Sure. But customers are not likely to realise the impact on users not in the US or otherwise "dangerous". I get captcha'd every time I clear cookies, to access static content. This is just wrong behaviour.

I highly doubt that CF customers understand. I cannot imagine them saying "yeah, I think requiring people to solve a puzzle before they read a text document seems reasonable".
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> enabling us to pass over 99% of the upstream numpy test suite.

Flipping awesome! I wonder how much of the high level stuff like scipy/sklearn work now?
How would Cloudron be related to a tool like Dokku (self hosted Heroku through Dokker)?
I seem to recall that, during the initial deployment in the 90-ies, I read about China requesting that some parts of its territory be excluded from coverage. But I cannot find any links to that, and the coverage map doesn't seem to have any holes now.
Why in the world do you think DNS is the issue? If you're worried about that, look at Namecoin. This is a solved problem.

The issue is that the government, given sufficient regulatory power, will start doing things like banning porn or "extreme" political views. This is not hypothetical; it has already happened in the UK.
Go is backwards-compatible since version 1. All standard library packages are still there. Only chapter 14 and 15 predate Go 1.
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I'm actually enjoying this conversation. That's why I've stuck around this long. To quote your last comment:

"What they do instead is impose regulatory frameworks that forbid companies that could run gig fiber networks from doing so unless they also serve markets where they would hemorrhage money."

Who cares if they're hemorrhaging money? The Public Works Administration hemorrhaged money electrifying the South. The Post Office hemorrhages money delivering to far flung rural areas. Society however has made the judgement that these costs are worth it because they promote inclusiveness and equality. You are making the opposite judgement. That judgement is inherently political.
Planning financial investments for a 50 year time horizon when mass-market finance has really only been around since ~the 1970s is crazy. An entire retirement system predicated on long term financial returns > GDP growth, likewise insane.

There is insufficient data regardless of modeling technique to derive decent simulation-based conclusions about asset classes that literally didn't exist 50 years ago. There are decent datasets for precious metals, real estate, and government bonds, but the results aren't super encouraging for average investors.
Good thing Uber has already done the hard work for them :) Speaking as someone who uses Uber a lot, if another service offered it cheaper I'd jump ship in a heartbeat. I think the same goes for the drivers, who are in many cases already driving for multiple services at the same time.

>Google would have so spend a shit ton of money on advertising

How so? if it's 20% cheaper I doubt it will need much advertising at all.
Not "wrong" - just fractally revealed details. What I find amazing here is thatit shows the fractal nature does not only work by looking into ever smaller regions - we also are discovering fractally larger structures exploring in the other scale direction.
Enable it everywhere you can, and just write down & guard the backup keys.

Also, I don't use it, but 1password can store and backup 2FA keys so you can theoretically recover from a lost phone that way, depending on how you store the 1password vault. Not a replacement for backup keys necessarily.
> Better operational efficiencies?

Some of them do not realise that the logistics problem (of picking up stuff and delivering them) can't be solved by common routing.

Most of them work mostly on their mobile apps.

Some of them realise that the logistics problem they have is an NP-hard problem and try developing the solution in-house. Most of the time it results in failure (I believe some other firms that fell apart, I believe it was some Google acquired team cleaning services, particularly mentioned they couldn't solve the logistics problem in time and just when they did the funding disappeared).

Some realise that they can outsource their optimisation to services like:

+ open source: optaplanner, OpenVRP, jsprit, mixed integer programming solvers

+ proprietary services (ascii sorted): ArcGIS, ClearD Optima, DirectRoute, Foxtrot, Graphhopper, Optimoroute, Paragon, Roadnet, Route4Me, RouteXL, Routific, Routyn, Satalia, jOpt

All designed for different variants with some features that miss in others, available in all or some.

For some business the quality of routed paths isn't that important, for some it's crucial, especially if one wants to bring down the price.

Oh yeah, the problem is called Vehicle Routing Problem (or multiple travelling salesmen), it has variants that include vehicle capacities, pickup and delivery (one location preceding the other), pickup or delivery time windows, lunch breaks that don't have real location and other features.

That stuff is hard to solve if you have to run a business like Washio.
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I'm surprised to see this here on the front page of HN. Seems to me the audience here would generally be hostile to this, and not necessarily in a religious fundamentalist way. In other groups I run with, full of brilliant people who have developed their skills in both rationality and mysticism, this article might be criticized for other reasons -- not whether this is yet another example of superstition, but rather, in it's authenticity and whether it was a fluff piece.

Some comments at the meta level and on a tangent: I still think of that article posted up about René Girard, his influence on Peter Thiel, and the fascinating philosophy of mimetic violence. It's something I want to deep dive into. One of the questions it probes is: why do people create a scapegoat? Why do people want to say things to put down other people?

Fundamentalists scapegoat non-fundamentalists. (Maybe because it is less acceptable now to attack someone for their religious beliefs, so it is easier to attack someone for their lack of religious beliefs). Atheists have responded in kind. I'm not saying this happens here on this specific forum, but I have seen this dynamic happen a lot in other places, both online and offline.

Rational skepticism is one method of inquiry, useful as long as the people involved remain open-minded. Yet, whether we're talking about rational materialists, religious fundamentalists -- or even the drama I got sucked into with that Hong Kong martial arts article -- there is a tendency to rhetorically attack others. It is as if there is a _irrational_ tendency attack ideas (and not in the sense of trying to refine it through oppositional rhetoric, but to dismiss, to destroy, to deny the idea's very existence).
I was using rclone with Swift first, so it was a natural choice.

If I was only using GCS, I might default to a Google supplied utility, but I have not compared the two.
I've dropped the first 10 years of my career so I could fit my resume onto a single page. Nobody even asks or cares. No employer even reads your resume past the first half of the first page.
The majority of the work was done by a single person though. I think by the time facebook joined the majority design was done. Granted he doesn't seem to be like a normal person so doesn't matter that way.

But for compression isn't majority of the language would actually use bindings rather than implementing it natively for performance to make this moot.

I would assume the road to finding the optimal solution and understanding why it worked is much more complicated than the actual code. And a quick look doesn't seem to suggest its a very big code base for the library itself.
Me:
Google
Github
Dropbox
Dreamhost
Amazon (store)
Amazon (AWS)
Microsoft
RamNode
Twitter
Apple
Facebook

Why wouldn't you enable it on Google and Apple? Those seem like the most important. You print out the backup codes and keep them safe.
> > Internet is a public good -> regulatory powers are voted on and enacted by public bodies who are transparent and can be voted out.

> You are also objectively wrong; the FCC, the primary Internet regulator, is not voted in and is in no way transparent.

The FCC has only the regulatory powers it is granted by statute, hence, "regulatory powers are voted on" is correct.

Those powers are enacted by Congress, which is an elected body which can be voted out.

The FCC is, in fact, governed by a number of transparency laws in the execution of its regulatory powers (and Congress has some degree of transparency, as well.)

So, I would say that your attempted rebuttal is more wrong than the post you are claiming is "objectively wrong".
Somehow I feel "ancap" may be ideologically motivated.
Disclaimer: I understand the parent and I are hijacking the thread, but...whatevs.

This. x1000. I wish there were more places I could put my four goddamn years of CS knowledge to use. I joke with business people in our team how they could steal my job after maybe 2 weeks of programming bootcamp.

TBH, any 9th grader with reasonable determination can do what I do on everyday basis, while the advanced/cool stuff that I really enjoyed/struggled with in college slowly fades from my brain.

I wish there were a way to somehow reconcile these. I want to make money, yes, but I want to do cool stuff too. I'd be willing to take a not insignificant paycut to work on cool stuff. Unfortunately, it appears that places with more 'interesting' stuff to work on are also those that end up paying more. Just like how colleges that are more expensive to get into are also those that will [more likely] have more money to throw your way.

What gives, people of HN?
Yes, but a fully functional assault rifle killing dozens when sold to someone whom is badly mentally ill - no liability? For example, liability could extend to the sales process rather than be held by the individual store. http://everytown.org/press/new-fbi-data-shows-mental-health-...
Out of curiosity what did your load look like? What was the best performer?
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Are there internal projects inside Bloomberg that use this? It is really great and it is very impressive that it seems that you almost single-handedly did all this. I am curious what moved Bloomberg to start a project like this.
Funny, I just got an email a week ago saying they had noticed my password hadn't been changed in awhile (2012, which was interesting based on the article). Sounds like they knew about this and beefed up security.Or, they beefed up security on newer passwords but didn't cut over the old ones? The email did not mention any data theft, kinda wish it did. Too little, too late.
Is there any way to animate these textures?
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So, tough question: Is killing entire cities filled with people, in a brutal and oppressive crackdown, a worthy exchange for a priceless species?
This is pretty incredible! No more need to buy gyro-stabilizers for these cameras (if you are posting to Facebook). I've found the Facebook 360 viewer is more intuitive than other viewers out there.
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