skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is an argument to be made that in the absence of drama occurring up there (space, theistic mythology, etc), people will invent and create drama down here (Earth), except with more dire consequences.

Not a good argument, since all of the examples of what you call "drama up there" that have ever existed have simply been projections of "drama down here", rather than alternatives to such drama.
> I'm also not sure how accurate it is to call it isolated

It's entirely inaccurate to call it isolated - you can trivially pull in other packages from hackage.
Unless your recipients use email clients that don't load remote http images except on demand.

I can think of one email client with ~15 million users that does that.
Yeah, the problem they are trying to solve is absolutely real. The concern is how they are trying to solve it. Instead of pushing sites to fix it, they are pushing sites to become part of the Google-ecosystem. Instead of trying to fix things, they'd rather use the opportunity as a power-grab
Could new 'clip-on' evidence help crack the D.B. Cooper case?
I wonder if some processors like prescot actually need to run hot
Yeah, that rule isn't very well described, but if you read between the lines:

Play once had a table that was stale for 6 months,
and refreshing the table alone gave a boost of 2%
in install rate

Your best engineers will tell you that your fancy new ML system needs to have a silent, behind-the-scenes _heuristic_ system backing it up. The heuristic system in this example is reading from the same tables and running some heuristics to produce output that "makes sense."

If the ML system and the heuristic system are disagreeing in a lot of cases, you have a problem. (Or, for this example, the heuristic system just flags that the table hasn't been updated.)

These flagged items are the things you check _before_ exporting your model to production.

So between developing the heuristic system and chasing down regressions in unit testing, it turns out ML isn't going to save you 90% of your engineering time.
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"Last time i installed Ubuntu on my laptop i could not change the resolution to 16:9 and the only advice out there was to recompile the driver. For any non tech person this is just not acceptable."

Well, this is a trick that works well. People get to invest their personal effort and time into something and that investment becomes part of their identity. On that point, feeling attached, one will be less likely to criticize and will be more likely to defend instead the object of own investment. I come to believe that it wouldn't be that far-fetched for such hoops to be deliberately ignored for acting as such a handy rite of passage equipment that creates and maintains the *nix communities.
What's not controversial is that empirically the equal branches are equally likely. If that can be mathematically derived it probably requires some axioms of probability. But still, it's not a valid objection because the situation is much better than any other theory of probability, like frequentism!

The second problem is easy to see with the classical cloning analogy. Say, someone creates two clones of you and kills the original. Your experience will split, one version for each clone. I think it's clear how that would work classically and how it's analogous to the WMI with equal branch weights.
The terminology they use is:

"The Basic edition of Nylas Mail will remain free forever."
Ah, right! I haven't been keeping up with the latest internal specs of modern Nintendo devices.

I guess I was partially right though, as I do remember the original Wii using Opera for the Internet Channel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Channel
Devs reverse-engineer 16,000 Android apps, find secrets and keys to AWS accounts
To be fair, something like half of the first game was full of super-natural creatures (Undead, monsters), which you were both allowed to kill, and had enough supplies to, on any difficulty.

Thief 2 was almost entirely composed of human enemies, and even had some missions where you couldn't knock them out - or even be seen by them.

Aside from the no-kill requirement, higher difficulties reduced the amount of items you could find, increased the number of objectives you needed to accomplish, and greatly increased the number of guards you had to deal with.
This is true, but I think the point the parent comment was getting at is that an investigation tends to take a more holistic look at the incident rather than simply assigning blame directly to a single factor. Even pilot error, especially in the context of commercial aviation, is often found to be the result of training deficiencies or cultural issues on the part of the airline.
In 2016 it was too late already but it's hard to say when the exact turning point happened. In terms of Brexit it possibly was two-fold: The hurried Eastern enlargement (which ironically was expedited by the UK) and flaws in the design of the euro.

After Trump's victory there were some signs of humility and contrition, which unfortunately were very quickly replaced by the "post fact world" meme and an arrogant "See? We were right all along." stance again.

Developments like that are no one-way road. If people come to their senses the pendulum might swing the other way again.
> I wonder: what's the point of a ranking like this?

To drive mouse clicks by stoking nationalist sentiment and feelings of superiority.

> A ranking of innovative cities would be a much more interesting and realistic metric.

I agree. The chauvinism would still be present and is inevitable when making comparisons between locales, but at least the locales would make sense as economic units.
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Social security is something that we pay into because we get something out of it. What does a robot stand to get from social security?
> Which supported service is not already running in the USA and subject to NSLs?

Quoting

>> You actually can add any IMAP server

Well, my own server?
That's not a good excuse for not implementing a standard. It's also a little like saying "private investigators are still the most reliable way to know whether a person is at home": it's true, but not really a better thing to implement.
100% agreed - I have no faith in my fellow developers to do the right things and no trust that capitalism breeds good software.

Just look at the microcosm of modern televisions: no 'dumb' consumer televisions, no updates to broken apps running in the aging 'smart' televisions.

I have no enthusiasm for the future.
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How is this different than Mail and every other email client in existence?

Don't get me wrong, it looks extremely good.

However, I visited the site and immediately clicked on the back button.

I've been using Google Inbox for a few months, and it radically changed how I handle my many mailboxes. It's not rare now that I actually achieve inbox zero.

I would love to see the same amount of innovation that was put into Google Inbox (I think they might have acquired it, though?) in another email client, as I'm always looking to try things out.

In Nylas, I see the same things that make dealing with email a pain: folders, the trash and spam being given the same importance as the inbox, etc.

It's set up to make it a job to keep your emails organized, while you shouldn't keep them organized, because it's just doesn't matter: just reply and mark as done, snooze until you can reply and mark as done, or discard/mark multiple emails at the same time and go on with your life.
wrt GPU memory: If we made InteractiveSession by default grow memory, would that work for you? Seems sensible to change the default for InteractiveSession (e.g., for use in notebooks), but not the default for Session (production training / inference) due to the potential memory fragmentation.
>Its morally reprehensible but still the correct decision in today's business climate.

Using your logic if slavery were to become legal again, businesses should rush to use the free labor because "fiduciary duty".

This is why they teach business ethics.
There's this: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign
As it says in the first line of the article, this looks very much like what happened with MongoDB recently including (I suspect) that the data has just been deleted and replaced rather than copied/backed up by the black hats.
Is not about the first (and this is more about html/css than JavaScript). Is about the easier to work out, specially for custom styling and do custom widgets.

Not get me wrong, I don't like much JS/html apart as be hostage as everyone else to use it in the web, but is clear that as far to build the GUI is way more enjoyable than most GUI toolkit.
Yep. This is real in the US, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRIG & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_Counterte... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice. Sure, these are officially targeted at enemies of the state, outside the US.

But we have proof that they lie about these things preventatively as well as reactively.

I imagine that in China as well as here, their shills are skilled at disruption and redirection.
Funny you should bring up DFW, who was apparently quite into self-help books himself:

https://theawl.com/inside-david-foster-wallaces-private-self...
Great resource. I have a chrome extension http://compakt.nhatqbui.com where I naively added ML features but it was too inconsistent. I now understand the cautioned approach the guide advises on adding ML to a product.
Well you could estimate the impact of backing out of the changes on the application side, with the upside being continued savings in operational complexity. Or, you could address the operational complexity with processes or tooling - which would be easiest with something like a developer OS image.
GBP/USD is listed as "strong sell" on https://uk.investing.com/currencies/gbp-usd-contracts (right panel)

Earlier today it was "strong buy".
Like Airtable?
How does Whatsapp re-encrypt a message if they aren't supposed to have a key to decrypt? Is this done on the senders phone? Is it possible to re-encrypt within decrypting?
Thank you! this is helpful.

Ah, see, I'd go straight for Entry in the hash case. Which might be what you're referring to.

yeah, that later one isn't NLL: it's that

line_result?.split_whitespace()
^ ^

the ? will return your String, but then split_whitespace returns &strs to that String. Since it's not bound anywhere, the String would be deallocated at the end of the line, which would make the iterator dangling. NLL won't fix that.
Thanks for the excellent link, I've been looking for a documentary on Putin's propaganda regime that I saw a few years ago, but this paper is a much deeper look which will serve the same purpose.
Lying is when you disparage someone by asserting as facts, without any speculative words such as "might have", your negative guesswork that you can't possibly know to be a true and complete account, due to non-disclosure. I'll talk about the Mozilla situation in 2014 later, if I ever do; I'm not out to make trouble right now for a project and org that I co-founded.

"Civil rights", if the phrase meant anything at stake in 2008, meant positive rights under state law that were protected by CA's domestic partnership section of its family law code, which an earlier generation of allies (including me) had supported. You could reframe now (post-Obergefell) in federal civil rights terms, but that tells a revisionist account of the history. Back in 2008, state-guaranteed rights were not the issue in front of the citizens of California, and federal bad law (DOMA) was beyond state power to affect.

Remember Obama was also at that time in favor (he said; maybe he was strategically lying but we don't know) of the conjugal definition of marriage.

Yes, I know people find Obama's position then defective and wrong, and some (few) even said so at the time. But I don't see anyone going around arguing that Obama thereby curtailed civil rights, since he supported civil unions or domestic partnerships. If he got off the hook for the "curtailing civil rights" charge by evolving many years later, then what does the phrase mean? It's not a historically or legally accurate description. It's just a rhetorical club to beat up enemies and spare friends.
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The 'API marketplace' and 'API economy' narratives are largely pushed by companies who make API proxies: Mashape, Mulesoft, etc. (EDIT: not Mashable, they're unrelated)

I've yet to hear true success stories in this space; to me it just seems like wishful thinking (on part of the marketplace and on part of API developers) about a second app boom; notably, in the hype cycle, the API boom has largely been superseded by the Chatbot boom, which is functionally very similar, although the gatekeepers are different.

That is not to say you can't make money this way. Perhaps it's useful for hobbyist-level projects, or cut-from-the-same-cloth wrapper APIs that hardly offer anything unique but at least one sucker signs up anyway -- the same as with apps, really. Is this actually a thriving market?
The UK has enough troubled bank liabilities of its own (e.g. RBS) and its own social, security and defense costs. None of which go away on leaving the EU and many of which increase since they can no longer be shared.

Debt to GDP does not look falling to me: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...
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If I recall correctly, the 2836 and 2837 were specifically designed for the Pi so they could be as close as possible to the original. Also, Eben Upton always insists that the next model isn't coming any time soon right up until the launch announcement.
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When I was in college, I majored in math and physics. Only two math classes gave me trouble. One was Real Analysis. There were just too many theorems. I couldn't remember them all, and then I couldn't figure out what to use to solve the problems on the test.

Eventually I realized that, out of maybe fifty theorems, only maybe three were used to prove all the others. So I memorized those three, and worked out anything else I needed for the test on the fly.

You don't need to keep up with the Hotness Of The Week(TM). You need to know the fundamentals well, and you need to be able to learn the rest when you need it.
The column "The Hard Edge" in Computer Shopper magazine (Bill O'Brien and Alice Hill) teased Intel's heat output on the new "Pentium" chip by saying they'd get a tiny frying pan made to fry an egg on it. :-) (can't find the original article, but it's referred to in this 1997 article https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19334858.html )

Before then, I don't remember my IBM 386/75 or 486 needing fans ... but the 486DX2/50 had problems with RF emissions from the corners of motherboard traces (IIRC) so they left external clock speed lower for many moons ...
> ... it is always for the best.

Not necessarily. People often underestimate (in engineering fields) how much work it will take to rebuild something. In software there is a high degree of creativity which can have large downstream effects. You need to architect your system in such a way to make it possible to replace components when needed, this is where strong separation of concerns is important.

One thing that I've seen happen time and again is an organization bifurcating itself, so that there is one team working on the new cool replacement, and the other working on the old dead thing that everyone hates. Needless to say this creates anymosity and serverely limits an organizations ability to respond to customer demands.

Starting over should be taken very seriously.
or perhaps it was the dreaded "rm -rf ${DIR}/*" when $DIR is not defined.
What happened to the keybase/pgp plugin? Is that a pro only feature?
Usually it's old software that gets leaked. Windows NT4 source code has leaked before, amongst others. It doesn't have much of an impact at that point, except for enthousiasts.
What constitutes a typical city in America?
> where the locals named it "dirt"

Well, I mean. It IS mostly dirt. At least the parts where humans lived the most when it was being named. It also had a god or demigod status for many early cultures (and some current ones, I'm sure). It's not like we never realised the importance of dirt.
Hmm, that behavior might enable a neat non-firmware mitigation: replace the Intel MAC address and block all packets originating from it.
Well, the non-article on nextweb references the Register one, here it is, just in case:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/17/police_warn_of_dutch...

It talks of "Various companies used him to build sites with web shop functionality," so very likely it is just a few companies 10-30 with 500-2000 users each that total 20,000 credentials stolen.
Hmm, that behavior might enable a neat non-firmware mitigation: replace the Intel MAC address with your own and block all packets originating from the Intel one.
I think the idea was just to show the magnitude of the difference. They are advertised as having the exact same TDP, so they should have approximately the same power draw at the wall, but the 6-core actually drew quite a bit more power.
Nylas Basic supports generic IMAP accounts. We don't show them in the list of supported providers for QA reasons but you can still add such an account like this: https://imgur.com/a/WBdXe

(By the way, feel free to open a Github issue if you're encountering problems syncing your IMAP account: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/)
>But I doubt they can match that sort of scale with their economies.

Chatbots scale much easier than manual astroturfing.
It's definitely the right thing for the VR market, and probably for people in general, but it doesn't help those working for Valve in other areas when Valve's VR tech goes to making other companies rich rather than raising their own salary.
Shake Shack founder: Tipping is 'one of the biggest hoaxes'
I used ST3 exclusively for about 2 years, writing python mostly. Now I've switched to JS and feel like VS Code is noticeably better choice for it.
Whenever this comes up, I get eviscerated on HN, but I don't think Catmull was involved in the mean-spirited conspiracy that union groups are trying to traipse up. I believe he saw those deals, which were absolutely conventional as you can see by the list of participants, not as limiting employees from seeking other employment, but merely discouraging counterproductive bidding wars.

One potential interpretation is that this artificially depresses worker salaries as workers are not continuously being auctioned back and forth. Another potential interpretation is that this allows the company to have the stability it needs to function, prevent toxic sentiment among peers who take a bid from one company or the other, potentially leaving others holding the bag for the project.

I believe this latter interpretation is the intent of most such agreements, and that the former is rarely considered legitimate (i.e., continuous bidding wars would be too disruptive to be feasible even if there were no formal agreements in place).

Such understandings are very common across competitors in all lines of work, whether they're written or not; at a former company, I was personally told by the CEO that we couldn't actively recruit someone who worked at a competitor because we didn't want to risk starting a bidding war over talent and potentially throwing everything off-kilter. Such arrangements are not SV-exclusive, let alone Pixar-exclusive, and they are done out of practicality, not malice. Market value for employees can be correctly surmised without feverish, aggressive overbidding.

The incident is frequently misconstrued as a complete block on any cross-hiring. My understanding is that it was simply an agreement forbidding cross-recruiting; a gentleman's agreement that they wouldn't try to start an arbitrary bidding war over the one company's talent if that company wouldn't try to start one over theirs. Employees were still free to seek and obtain employment at any of the major studios independently if they so chose.

I think that panicked cries of wage fixing and intentional repression of employment opportunities are not only not credible, but farcical. I'd ask myself why someone is interested in painting an imbalanced and unrepresentative picture such as that.

If anything, these agreements are a failure of the contemporary legal and HR departments across every major technology company involved in computer animation. I believe the intent of the executives was nothing more than maintaining a stable workforce. Their lawyers and HR people should have warned them that there was another dormant interpretation that could've been used by exploitative politicians to misrepresent the situation.

Last time this came up (that I saw), the Pixar, Apple, and Intel et al chiefs were being compared to Nazis. That is beyond the pale.
Nice try 50c, nice try!
You must count the fact that computers these days were luxury and one simply cannot afford one like we do nowadays.
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It does not need to be a modal form - a notification message, embedded in the the chat log, just before a "Hey, could you send me some money", could make some people think twice before transferring:

"Wow, he is asking me in excess of USD500 just after WhatsApp warned me his cell phone has changed. Weird".

The simple alert shown in moxie's own blog post [1], perhaps less cryptically written, would probably do the job.

Heck, if this happened between me and girlfriend last week, I would most probably fall, as I did not know this was disabled in WhatsApp. Now, at least, I have turned the notification on.

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/images/whatsapp-keychange.pn...
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I always find it interesting (sad) how the industrial complex is always trying to screw the avg worker.
Well, there are standards for that (RFC 3798 as pointed out above), but this is entirely something in your control so that you can know if an email was read or not. You choose to turn on tracking (on a per-email basis with a default of your choosing) and then get notified whenever that tracking pixel is hit.

And the thought that using Electron and being the best email client are incompatible concepts is misguided. There are many quality products built on top of frustratingly bad technology stacks. But if you think about it, Gmail is a web app too. Different wrapper (your browser), same tech stack. And Gmail is pretty good.
> for the UK joining NAFTA: politically impossible.

Maybe not Nafta, but TTIP could probably be signed the day the UK leaves. Whether that's a good thing for the UK... eh.