skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, not invaders. Nah mate. They brought civilization, education, technology and everything of value in India. /s

(For the record this is what is taught in most Anglophone nations; also true shamefully within India itself.)
I have yet to see the supposedly relevant ads that all this targeting is supposed to get me. The closest to targeted I've gotten is seeing stuff I already just bought on Amazon.
really appreciate your reply. Thanks!
If people had critical thinking skills they wouldn't be taking out outrageous loans to pay for often worthless degrees.
Value for society != Roi

There are so many examples of this I don't know where to begin. Ok I'll start: Fracking.
How millions of cartons of ‘organic’ milk contain an oil brewed in vats of algae
hmmm good points.
> But I doubt it is anywhere near as precise as GPS.

It's not. It can be off by several kilometers. Wifi is more precise due to many wifi APs and lower access radius.
A fictionalized but highly readable account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_in_the_Great_Game
Not a lot of support here for information. This stuff isn't free.
Tried to file a bug through the online bug reporter for a few things recently only to be unable to submit. The thing just sits there with a loading indicator indefinitely and the bugs just sit in draft mode.
Can you share a link to your web app? Mozilla developers are very interested in profiling performance problems on real sites. You might want to check in Firefox's about:support page to see if there are any warnings about your GPU being blocked for driver issues.

Feel free to email me if you'd prefer not to share a link in a public HN comment. See my HN profile for my Mozilla email address.
What is used to create the product rotation animation here
What relevance does an event 60 years later in an entirely different place have?
Because every Google user lacks a WSJ subscription and will only be satisfied with news articles they can read immediately for free?

From the fact that I'm searching for e.g. a black & white old Western movie, it doesn't follow that I only want movies I can view on the internet right this second. Edit: I could very well be satisfied with "here are the names of popular ones, but you'd have to go to their publishers since they're long out of print.
A Black Hole candidate formed through a “failed supernova.”
If we want to keep old people in our communities, then why are we only caring about old landowners? Let's just pay enormous amounts of money to all old people in general, so that they won't ever leave areas with decent commute times.
Thanks, that's one of the things that shocked me when I first read it.

A lot of the replies to you are basically saying the same: it's their own fault. So I'll just reply to them here: but the problem is: it doesn't matter how they got there, but they are there now! What are we going to do about it? Do you want to just ignore them and let them die on the streets? Of course not. (Well, I'll assume most people will not like that). So it does end up being "our" problem, even if it's because of bad decisions someone else made in their lives.
Once you get past ... Whatever the introduction was (an attempt at humor?), quite an interesting article. The intro did get me thinking me thinking, though: it's interesting to me how in American culture we consistently and somewhat wrongly stereotype other languages as sounding villanous (Russian), harsh (German), or difficult (Chinese). It seems to me that as far as Hollywood is concerned, Arabic could have taken all three, but it hasn't. It also got me wondering if there are special watchlists somewhere for people who study Arabic for fun or for no apparent reason.
Thanks for the suggestion! I've used MyTube a long while ago but didn't like the UI or experience. I'll be sure to give it another try, as TubeCast has too many bugs and doesn't let me resize it to less than 2/3 screen height.
The whole point of a search engine is to make O(1) queries that iterate through O(n) sources; if I have to individually query all O(n) sources, that defeats the purpose.
How does tie in with CoreML that was announced today, which also uses Metal under the hood and supports models built with Tensorflow/Keras and the likes.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml
Apparently, you have never been the target of hate speech. I mean as an organization or platform, hate speech is gonna cause serious damage. You can't just tell individuals in your community or organization to ignore it. For example, in my country Myanmar,we just got free speech. But now we are dealing with hate speech which actually lead to hate crimes. The spread of religious hate speech causes one community of people to set fire/ kill another community of people. You can't just ignore hate speech.
>> There's some cognitive dissonance here, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is.

It's the cake... you can't have your cake, and eat it too.
The Whistleblower Behind Caterpillar’s Massive Tax Headache
A taste of your own medicine? Would the North Koreans somehow attacking Seattle also be a taste of "your own medicine" for the Korean War or Hiroshima? Christ.
I have a question, I hope this doesn't sound like antagonistic towards any group I fully realize majority of americans are rationale and loving people. I am an immigrant to USA of south asian descent. In my years living in rural new england 99% white areas I have faced considerable racism/hostility from people but when I moved to NYC this has never happened which I really like about NYC. How diverse is the community in northern nevada?
At the risk of directly quoting Apple's website -

> Running strictly on the device ensures the privacy of user data and guarantees that your app remains functional and responsive when a network connection is unavailable.
in what way is the culture of Sri Lanka and China similar?
GPG is still incredibly useful for me, if only for SSH keys on a YubiKey smart card. I need to get better at code signing on FOSS projects.
Microservices Patterns with Envoy Proxy, Part III: Distributed Tracing
Unfortunately, We don't live in an ideal world where everyone is rational and can't be easily manipulated.For example, in my country Myanmar,we just got free speech. But now we are dealing with hate speech which actually lead to hate crimes. The spread of religious hate speech causes one community of people to set fire/ kill another community of people. Hate speech and false facts travels fast and they come back again and again. Sometimes , well , most of the times, the only way you can win is to have zero tolerance for it.
Very well said. I have this image of an alternate universe where people are whining that when they google for that camera, it should give them the name a fence (as in, seller of stolen goods) that offers home delivery.
Exactly what I was thinking. Does this still exist in some meaningful form? We used to have an amazing thing there... I remember before Endless September. alt.* was about as free as it gets.
>Their network works extremely hard to get user traffic onto the internal network as early as possible.

The benefit of this has can't be understated. In SE Asia connecting to their Taiwan region from most places I'm literally just at the mercy of a few local hops at level 3 due to their extensive remote peering. Staying on the Google network is also interesting to observe when connecting between Google Compute data centers.

AWS and Azure behave considerably different.
So, because your product is easy to copy, that makes it not valuable. A rejection of the concept of IP with different words.
Wrong assumptions all around.

Listen, these are not novel concepts. The ideology of "grand social good trumps individual interests (and I decide what that good is)" has been tried repeatedly, around the world. Its long-term effect on human psyche and society are well documented (try some Solzenitsyn).

"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

But it's always "This time is different! NOW we finally have the RIGHT social formula!!". Well, I have some bad news for you, sunshine. I'm not "shitting on education for no good reason". The efficiency tradeoffs that come with increased system complexity are real, the break-even ROI points are real. Your wishful thinking notwithstanding.

Just google the people from my previous post, for god's sake.
Critical thinking topples popular, mainstream, insecure systems and that's not good. You want obedience and the lazy, traditional education systems ensure they put out order-following, capable workforce, not adaptive, ever-changing ones.
There are no more unique WSJ results if they're all a paywall.
If your systems aren't strong enough to withstand another nation's influence, that's on you. The US influences elections around the world, and vice versa.

I see nothing wrong with Putin influencing US elections, god knows the US does the same in Russia. Alex Navalny et al would be nothing without US support...
Model numbers please(!). I know there already was an iPad Pro, and now there's another iPad Pro. Is this the iPad PRO version 11 then (to correspond with the IOS version it was released for), or iPad PRO version 2017 (the year it was released)? Or is it version 2 or 3?

Microsoft appears to be doing the same thing with their Surface Pro, so it's not just Apple.

Look at Lenovo's site, e.g. for an X1 Carbon, and it tells you we're now on Gen 5. Thank you, Lenovo. And Dell doesn't try to hide that their latest XPS 15 is the 9560. Thank you, Dell.
indeed. I'm surprised how buried this comment is, because it's a really good deal (until they change things). anecdotally, DO sent me an email when one of my droplets was sustaining around 200MB/s, but it wasn't a "knock it off" email, it was an "is this intentional" email. is the ~400MB/s figure from your own experience?
IMHO the promise of static typing is about having more structure in your code that can help you with understanding of the code and also help to figure out more patterns in your code to refactor and reduce complexity.
Hard to off load 18 million of maple syrup.
I have a codebase at work (which arguably was optimized for 2.7) that is about 2-5% percent slower when running in Py3* . It's not a huge slowdown, but it is consistent.

Hope 3.7 finally puts it on par (or faster) than 2.7, but we've decided to migrate with 3.6 anyway. Don't take me wrong, I like having finally put 2.x behind, but it still bothers me a bit. Maybe we just have to get used to optimizing the "3.x series".

* this has been measured without startup time, just function calls, with horrible datetime.datetime.now() timings and %timeit magic-keyword from IPython -- always consistent.
Again, Steve Jobs. Under Steve Jobs, I think Apple would figure out a way to make the user experience terrific, without the end game of "Apple hordes every piece of your existence" like Google.

Steve Jobs reinvented PCs, reinvented mobile. I think "the next Steve Jobs" could do the same thing for search. I'm less and less certain of Google's monopoly on that space going forward. It's still built around Web 1.0 tech, has hacks into Web 2.0, but there's a Web 3.0 it's not ready for.
I have a 9 year old 27" iMac which I still use daily as an external monitor, and it still looks fantastic.
Tbh, if you're getting by fine without it, why deliberately look to find uses for it. Generally speaking, I hate trackpads, especially for things like dismissing message boxes or scrolling. So those two are where I use the touch panel the most.
Am I suddenly supposed to feel sad for the British?

How's about we get more stories about the Bengal famine of 1943? 3M indians died b/c Churchill took their rice.

Or the 5k-10k indians that die each day b/c westerners don't let us have access to viable uranium powered energy?

Where are those stories?
Yup. I took a swag at a generalized breakdown of "data transfer" costs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7479030 four years ago. The values might be slightly different today, the logic isnt.

I suppose part of the issue is marketing. The customer reads the bill as "bandwidth." Would consumers understand better if there was a separate "network infrastructure" line item? Would they accept differntial pricing for network quality or class? Dont see why we'd find out as long as theres no downward pricing pressure.
The Atari Grand Challenge Dataset
yep, I love your comment.
Atari Grand Challenge dataset
Excuse the bad ASCII, but the page is laid out like this:

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|3|-4-|

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1. Will scroll normally and disappear from the view port.

2. Will scroll a little bit, then become sticky

3. Will over scroll a little bit at the start (the gap between "human interface guidelines" and "overview" is bigger at the very top), then become sticky until you get near the bottom and will then become sticky again.

4 and 5. Will scroll normally.

This goes beyond sticky elements, it's sometimes sticky, sometimes moving elements, It's unexpected and confusing behavior. Not confusing enough that anyone will get lost, but confusing enough that your eye's get drawn to other parts of the page because they start/stop moving as expected at various times.
Physics are often rendered on the CPU.
Because a) google is better at indexing a given source, and b) every user shouldn't have to build their own search aggregator across the n sites they have privileged access to; that's the role of a search engine (except for it covering all sources not just a few).
> The project itself made mistakes early on by not sufficiently warning people of the risks of the DAO, which gave justification for the do-over.

This is the weakest justification I've heard out of all of them. How do you get a "do-over" for not realizing that weird new financial instruments are risky? And how does rolling back the risk make people more aware of risk? Anyone who was not aware of the risk the whole time deserves the most to lose their money.

The right time for the DAO to say "wait, guys, this is risky as hell and we have no idea what we're doing" and give back the money was before they lost the game they had created.

(The fact that you refer to this loss as their "smart" "contract" getting "hacked" indicates that you still don't want people to be aware of the risks.)
Am I the only one around here who wants to keep their private keys private?
That's better yet - thanks for sharing! Most of my Python processes run for weeks at a go, so startup time isn't that important to me as long as it's not glacial. But 40ms (on my system) or 22ms (on yours) is totally acceptable for interactive shell usage.

Thanks for including the syscall counts. I know they'd been working to reduce that, but I hadn't seen how much progress they'd made yet. Are most of those to malloc() and open()?
According to this Facebook should rank very low.

Facebook doesn't even need Google, their users just visit the site directly.

I guess Mark zuckerberg doesn't lose sleep over this.
I'm pretty sure HTTP caching headers don't provide a guarantee that they will be stored for any length of time at all, the browser is free to empty it at will. They also don't guarantee that all your cached assets will be valid with respect to each other (ie your browser might cache an HTML file but not the content it refers to).

Most importantly, though, you can't simply disable HTTP caching when you notice that you're back online. Those cache entries are there now, and they're hard to get out. Service Workers, on the other hand, will just transparently stop intercepting stuff.

With respect to localStorage, I think the idea is that you absolutely can do almost an entire offline mode with it, with the caveat that your content (html, js, css, images) won't get stored there, so you can't load the page at all!

Also I think there are considerations about how difficult it is for many front end architectures to implement this transparent fallback themselves. If you're a Redux or ClojureScript type of programmer it might be utterly obvious and even trivial to implement (just add a simple middleware), but sadly not everyone is, and a lot of the offline logic would have to be implemented everywhere in your codebase. A service worker lets you do it all in one place.

It's a toss-up whether to use localStorage or a service worker if you could viably do either. Blanket logic over all your HTTP calls would be easier in a service worker, and more customized logic would be easier in localStorage, I'm guessing.
Not at UNIS :)
Apple Keynote's used to be HUGE events. I wouldn't be shocked if a huge percentage of the global tech audience, apple fans or not, paused to watch.

My interest was waning for years, I didn't even realize until today around 6PM EST (way after the event was over) that there was a Keynote. Nobody though to text me asking about it, nothing happened in the keynote that anyone text-ed me about during it, nobody even mentioned it on our slack channel (which in years past, was a play-by-play of keynotes).

The magic, really, is gone. I'm quite sure Apple is going to stick around long-term, and they'll still be highly successful if not the most successful company, period, but, the unquantifiable magic is gone and I doubt it will return.
I totally agree with you, bad phrasing on my part. I'm talking about the less trivial aspects of "shame" as it applies to carrying a reputation, say, in Silicon Valley - thus affecting who will hire you, who will fire you, even who will refuse to connect with you in business.

Of course, you are totally free to develop opinions about people - but at the same time laws for slander, libel, and defamation exist for a good reason. Many people made Luckey out to be Hitler, but if you met him in real life you'd probably find it hard to insist on this comparison.
In the US pretty much all carriers have moved to shared data plans where you can get a pool of data to share between all devices on the plan, which can include other family members.
I think you read a different article than I did.
The studies I've read seem to indicate that lead exposure erodes impulse control which leads to people making very bad decisions they'd otherwise not make.

So it probably tilts things towards people committing more brazen crimes which lead to higher arrest rates, but also more crime and violence in general.

The "all-else-being-equal" studies tend to focus on the primary source of lead: Leaded fuel. As many housing projects were built next to highways, people living there were exposed to significantly higher levels of atmospheric lead than in other more remote parts. When lead was banned from fuel, crime rates dropped, and you can see this play out in similar neighborhoods in different states where the phasing out happened at different times.
260k in profit which needs to be rolled into a place to live in the same market that just kicked you out of your home...
Won't the browser show an error about a circular redirect? Or does that take a few bounces?
Did anyone suggest AlphaGo and the human brain work identically? That sounds preposterous.

I remain puzzled by your comments.
Safari ON MAC supports it.

I emailed the guy in charge of Safari on iOS and he said they have no plans to implement web push notifications on iOS!
Again. The craziness of the universe. Thanks for doing the calculations I appreciate the context.
Mayan EDMS issue to add rate limit support to the OCR backend. https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/issues/287
Levi's sells many different kinds of jeans made from the same material, buttons and zippers, yet they have different price points.

The materials involved are only one factor.
Handbooks for LG
Want to disrupt the restaurant industry?

Sell food at cost!

/s
90% of college "critical thinking" will result in same conclusion. 9% will change their conclusions to match with the majority. 1% will be shamed.
I'm not sure the compressibility of files is really a factor these days. The largest files on your disk are probably either application software and associated libraries or some kind of media files which are already compressed.

Not many people have a meaningful amount of raw text files sitting around on their system, and those that do can always create a compressed volume if they're so adamant about them being transparently compressed.
Hmmm, I'm not sure I see this as a problem. Isn't China a good enough example that having a government controlled Internet doesn't really solve any of these issues, but in fact makes them worse?

I understand the issue that corporations can do unexpected things, but at least, in a much shorter span of time, corporations who consistently bad decisions for their users end up dying, supplanted, or worked around.

But let's imagine we had a totally anonymous, fully sponsored portion of the internet, what would stop it from being used for child porn, spamming, and propagating fake news?

And even if we could somehow regulate it and not encroach on anyone's freedom and/or privacy, that doesn't guarantee that the government won't just change the regulation rules every 4-8 years.

The upside to corporations is that if one screws up, then at least, theoretically, there are options.

I guess my overall feeling is that there's no such thing as free speech, at least not in the sense the author means it (as im reading it, which could be my bad).
As a member of a society, we all agree to abide by certain standards. So I think no matter whether it's authoritarians in a corporate suit, or a bureaucrat's, it leads to the same general dissatisfaction, but at least with a corporation, you can let your dollars (or ad views, membership, whatever) vote for you.
Not having read TFA due to paywall I've noticed that a hell of a lot of people deriding critical thinking really mean something like: "So many people disagree with me about the environment/healthcare/religion/liberty/whatever and I just know they're wrong so they must be unable to think critically."

They, them, over there. There are whole courses run on "Why other people are so unfathomably wrong." [1]

Maybe the TFA says so, but maybe we should actually look at our own thinking. What facts we'd actually not bet on yet find it ok to use as opinion foundations. How many ways could we be wrong in what we think. It doesn't seem to be popular (or I'm missing the point, am not up to date with the zeitgeist, or thinking is totally overrated anyway or ...)

[1] one example. Maybe it's excellent, for all I know. https://www.edx.org/course/making-sense-climate-science-deni...!
>Several counties even ban the sale of nuts before harvest is complete, to discourage black-market sales.

Wouldn't that create a black-market for people who want the nuts before harvest?
Ask HN: How does your company prevent phishing attacks?
Thank you!

And for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...
The article compares cloud costs to putting a little x86 server on a colo-provided 100 Mbps connection. I think you are not talking about the same kind of service, and also this reference price does include amortized cost of network engineering.
I tried some of the NES games with my 4.5 yo. Many original games are very unforgiving with their controls and he quickly favoured Dr Mario where there was less immediate penalty for a mistake. And even with that, he quickly went back to Lego and chess.
Is corporate VC a KPI for a bubble?
Elon Musk Deconstructed
Amazing to see the number of people who try hard to justify this blatant rip off pricing. This is coming from the same group of people who complain endlessly about the cost of wireless data and telco data caps.
Yes, they came perilously close to losing India - so much so that the crown stepped in and took it off of the EIC.

While it was unfortunate for India, it's a shame that 160 years later we still have corporations and they are no better now than they were then.
The screenshot shown on the screen is a 3D CSS transform, and the iMac itself seems to be 179 individual images, animated depending on scroll position.

Check your browser's element inspector.
Give Oryx and Crake a couple chapters. I thought it was really good.