skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you assume that they adapt the way human cultures do to such influences, which isn't necessarily true of animal populations.
I think it certainly helps that FBM is the communication standard in Australia - the only SMS I get now are sent by computers, and iMessage never really caught on. This gives some lock in, even if you don't actively use the website or the app. It is assumed that if you want to contact someone after meeting them you'll just look them up in messenger.

Yours is an interesting perspective because I tend to assume that people on HN who say "just call your friends" are less social and don't have as many people they want to catch up with. Honestly events and groups are the real utility - there's where everything I care about happens on Facebook itself (aside from Messenger - which is good, but we would be doing the same thing elsewhere if it didn't exist).

Though the feed is still terrible - I keep my friends list relatively trimmed (~200 people) and it's still rubbish.
> You wrote down some string of characters and showed that it can be derived from some other strings of characters by applying a series of arbitrary-looking rules.

At this point it's turtles all the way down.
Polyisocyanurate#Fire_risk
> committing crimes

No laws have been broken by Trump. Hillary Clinton & co. on the other hand have broken _many_ at an egregious level. Lynch and Mueller should similarly be under investigation for covering up crimes as well.
TensorFlow Object Detection API
Right. Boosts set_fcontext even allows to omit the floating point registers (saves a lot of time if the application doesn't do fp)
Fair points. Thanks for the feedback
any employer of worth would rather take a candidate that takes pride in their own self education and development rather than expecting the employer to foot the bill for career development. If a candidate can show they have learnt and can apply that knowledge, irrespective of how they gained that knowledge (whether it is a university degree, IT training or coursera) I personally try and do a coursera every few months to keep up with my own personal development program.
Quantum Computing Accelerates Drug Discovery for Biogen
Ask HN: What happened to the Silk Road source code?
Was the Silk Road source code on GitHub? Has it ever leaked out?
Cherry Blossom: CIA's Toolkit for Hacking Hundreds of Routers Models
This is maybe one of the greatest advantages I have gained in my years of experience at one company. When I started, I was inheriting the code of other people, with all the baggage of trying to understand it and keep the mental model intact when I needed to make changes. Over time, I've largely rewritten all of the products that are still current, as requirements and dependencies have changed. I'm reminded of the probably apocryphal story of Nikola Tesla and Henry Ford[1]

[1] http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
You sound depressed. When you look at real world data it's quite clear that human misery is disappearing fast by almost any measure.

Clicking around on https://ourworldindata.org/ might cheer you up.
Sorry, but I just don't buy it.

We've fought countless wars throughout our past with surprising frequency. It diminished in Europe as they consolidated from a loose collection of warring states to nation states with foreign policies and alliances (not to mention the printing press). The only big change was in the brutality of war as the participants changed from a professional army to a conscripted army starting with the French revolution, but that has little to do with the ease of expressing ideas (unless you count the spreading of the idea of a conscripted army).

Since that time, the frequency of wars has steadily decreased, especially after the Vietnam war (due to the dissemination of inconvenient information).

People have listened to far-left and far-right broadcasts ever since broadcasting became a thing. Internet echo chambers are nothing new. Before that it was pamphlets and newspapers, and before that, street criers and public houses.

The world is steadily becoming a safer place. The only difference is that as we become safer, our perception of "safety" becomes further and further warped. Things that would have been shrugged off even 50 years ago are looked upon with horror and fear today.
Aaron Greenspan has a great article about toxic waste in Silicon Valley -- "In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree," named after a persistent smell of raw cookie dough suspended around the Wells Fargo on California Avenue. The cookie dough, of course, seems to have been trichloroethylene. https://hackerfall.com/story/in-search-of-the-cookie-dough-t...
from the other side, as a plugin developer, it frustrates me no end that Live doesn't support VST3. i wish they would fix this.
How Amazon Crushed the Union Movement (2014)
None of that has anything to do with "Pay back for humiliation in the 1800's". What you've described is actions of the Chinese government, I don't believe for one second Chinese people support all these actions - I do not, my parents do not, and my grandparents do not, therefore it's not true. Do my grandparents want "payback" on the Japanese for her suffering in world war 2? If she does I won't begrudge her for that. But you cannot claim I do.
It's a good cause that would the increase of welfare his workers. It would additionally empower others to unionize and improve their quality of life as well.
I waited for the 'run by the dev crew' mastodon.social to open registrations because I knew it would be kept the most up to date, and moderated in a consistent manner
I know that it has to do with the width of older terminals, perhaps even back to the teletypes. But those hard restrictions don't exist anymore, yet some people treat "80 characters" as some golden law passed down from heaven that cannot be broken lest you incites the wrath of the gods. That kind of fervour (without some sort of concrete, logical reasoning) is nothing but cargo-cultism so far as I'm concerned. E.g. "we do it this way because it's always been done this way."
agree. it's when something doesn't work at the edges and you desperately need it to is when you're often ready to learn. motivation (desperation ;-) is a marvelous incentive.
The rationale: we aren't a fundamentally different country now, and won't be fundamentally different after Trump's term is over.

Thus, no matter how progressive or good-neighborly future administration policies are, allies now have to build in the risk that every 4 years there will be a 50:50 chance that those policies will be reversed and any agreements voided.
Because ideas are free, here is one: as Bezos, I would like to know what things I could do to improve the world, both with my time or with my money; I would like some kind of social platform where I could learn about issues, propose solutions, and make them happen. In other words, a massive issue-tracker for the outside world.
I'd say countries with strong unions like France have seen the detrimental effects of such unions (ongoing strikes for no reason except asking for more holidays and higher waves even though the said professions are already well above the median in all metrics). At the same time, such strikes disrupt everyone's else business and comes as a net cost for society.
I try hard to stay open-minded about the many strange turns the human mind can take in its conception of the world and how it might get there. And still I find the title more than a tad melodramatic. His is not a problem that couldn't be fixed by a brief excursion into any of hundreds depressed towns in America - let alone developing nations, where jobs are scarce that pay even remotely as well as what the author is evidently qualified for. A little perspective rarely hurts.
The dirty secret is that most of the people that can grind away for more than 8 hours in a day are producing shit that needs to be re-done by somebody that isn't grinding themselves so hard.
I submitted this in relation to the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, London 2 days ago.

Also relevant is the article referenced by Wikipedia:

http://www.probyn-miers.com/perspective/2016/02/fire-risks-f...

Edit: more specifically I was interested in the following. In the relevant article it states:

>The most common forms of insulation cores for composite panels in use in the UK at the end of the 20th century, in order of decreasing probability of fire propagation, [4] were:

>polystyrene (EPS),

>polyurethane (PUR),

>polyisocyanurate (PIR),

>phenolic,

>mineral fibre.

And then:

>PIR, a variant of PUR having improved fire properties, is difficult to ignite and exhibits a pronounced charring which enables it to withstand fire for longer, but is ultimately combustible.

OK - so PIR "is ultimately combustible".

But then there is also the convection effect of cavities:

>If flames become confined or restricted by entering cavities within the external cladding system, they will become elongated as they seek oxygen and fuel to support the combustion process. This process can lead to flame extension of five to ten times that of the original flame lengths, regardless of the materials used to line the cavities.

So maybe what is needed is an sufficiently hot trigger - e.g. an exploding fridge or tumbler drier - and a PIR clad tower block like Grenfell Tower can become an inferno.

Unfortunately, it seems that all this was known and understood by the fire authorities in the UK and that they had been communicating it to government for years, but nothing was done.
> All that is required is the desire to provide a useful service for the least consumption of resources or energy

Yeah, that's what we call free market capitalism.
TCP Crypt
QM for example has zero relationship with well known phenomena.
They use a language without a standard library in production?
> Having shorter lines makes reading diffs easier (whether it's unified, context, or split diffs).

But is the difference that significant between 80-, 100- and (say) 120-characters wide? I personally wrap at 100 characters, I don't find that I'm fatigued by looking at diffs of the code.
Flagged for misleading title. The actual text of the comment is this:

> "AD6" which I looked up and Ad6 is an advertising network so perhaps that was triggering content blockers

It's much more reasonable for an ad-blocker to block "AD6" than "ad".

Either way, the problem is not the add-ons, but rather the fact that the web isn't safe or usable without them. I'd rather have an occasional broken page (which I can fix by disabling my ad-blocker) than not to use an ad-blocker at all.
I've been writing mostly small python projects for 15 years, starting with 2.2.

I've had no issues in the migration to 3.

I did some building with it around 3.3, starting to commit around 3.4, and with 3.5 I build everything in it.

I don't have the performance challenges Instagram has, but my experience with application development in general is that 98% of performance challenges can be solved with (not-too) clever engineering. This applies to projects in every language.

There are a vanishingly small number of scenarios where the performance of your runtime actually dictates your performance limits.

If you're working on something and are worried about Python's performance, or which Python to use, don't. Use 3, optimize later.
Really? What about tabloids? What about Rush Limbaugh? What about Bill O'Reilly? A shitload of people consumed primarily absurdly terrible news sources before they were on the Internet.
You are right, my formula just computed the total price, I've updated my comment.
China's quantum satellite in big leap
Why’s that? Falcon Heavy is projected to be able to take up considerably more payload.
U.S. states could not set self-driving car rules under Republican plan
Especially since it covers a ton of content on the left side…
Do you have a specific example? AFAIK Falcon Heavy can beat Delta Heavy on everything but some deep space and missions requiring super long coast. I am not sure how many of those UAF has.
Being explicit isn't relevant: a relaxed store to an atomic followed by publishing a pointer to it won't have the expected happens-before relationship (program order won't be respected).

In any case, the only reason to think about publishing is how loads and stores are ordered, so it isn't irrelevant. The single valued struct can still have the partial initialisation problem, it just appears as the single field being completely uninitialised.
French business owners have earned that reputation of fraudsters. To the point that salary-men, who cannot cheat much, used to have a tax reduction to compensate for that inability to cheat compared to business owners who were "expected" to cheat.

All small business owners around me, or whom I ever knew, are fraudsters. At the moment, the one right left of my house is a fraudster (he's been caught several times but doesn't care). The one 50 meters forward is a fraudster (he's not been caught yet). The friends of mine who own bars and restaurants are fraudsters, they generally don't get caught, or they only get caught for minor stuff, unrelated to their main fraud. The guy the wedding of whom I last attended got a several millions euros fine (so, same for not so small business!), he didn't blink. The bosses I worked for broke many work rules and that's just considered standard behaviour.

Cheating is a religion is this country.
That looks like it adds types rather than checks?
I think most of the water usage is not from growing the trees, but in the actual manufacturing process.
Median wage is meaningless against systems with long term stagnant wage growth against a rising cost of living. Strikes don't have an effect unless they disrupt something, that's why they work. If you see a minor inconvenience to your morning commute instead of a collective work for your rights as a worker then I'm not really sure where your priorities lie.
Here in south America paper mills work with massive pine plantations, in deforested land or in former wetlands.
Isn't one pretty much the other?

I look at the overall dynamic as epidemiological. You need both the disease agent and the transmission vector. But if you've got a latent agent, and a suitable host, then providing the vector will trigger the pandemic.

If you look back at history, you can view the Inquisition and 30 Years War both as attempts to retain ideological purity in an environment where the spread of undesireable agents (ideologies) was promoted by a new reproduction and transmission system (mostly: printing, also increasing literacy rates).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_years_war
I'm sure the overall content of this article is worthwhile, but I find it very hard to read. The author has trouble developing flow, and the sentences are often structured very awkwardly.
How do you suppose one Trump election drives those odds up so high? And what percentage of international agreements has Trump actually voided? As bad as things may be, the sky isn't actually falling, and it does us no good to pretend otherwise.
Oddly enough this doesn't really resonate with me. I've done contracting for 5 years and 90% of the work was focused on new development with the opportunity to get hired after the contract was up. Now this was a few years ago and my experience was strictly in the Midwest but I never saw myself as the bottom-feeder. If anything it was a good way to work at a company you liked where you didn't know anyone on the inside to recommend you. The experience was actually rather interesting and enjoyable.
Bezos is being very logical as usual. He's about to be pinned with the title of world's richest person (assuming the stock market isn't about to deflate of course), and all the negative press that goes with it. Such as the optics of world's richest person vs pay & work conditions of Amazon's poorest workers, the headlines will never end unless he starts pouring a billion per year into philanthropy.
If you ever happen to be near Pescadero in the Bay area, make sure to stop by the (one) coffee shop there and check out the Apple II in the back. Real nice treat.
People often aren't aware of the fire dangers of plastics.

If you get a chance you might see a demo from your local fire department of how quickly a synthetic fiber couch will burn up and fill a room with smoke. Have a few beers, smoke in bed and you can die from the fumes just like that.
Now I want to invent a hominid that intuits probability.
That's absolutely true but the horizontal peer-to-peer connection wasn't made it was mostly one-way.
How do we know what WhatsApp uses? And do they use it in a secure way?
> "Material" is just a way of dismissing the current imperfections that we can't economically do anything about.

I said material nonlinearities, not material imperfections. I've never researched this for real, but I would imagine that your average imperfect set of headphones is mainly imperfect in that it has poor (or inconsistent) frequency response, poor transient response, and/or poor noise characteristics. But maybe headphones do commonly have significant nonlinearities -- I don't really know.
That presumes that Amazon can't substantially automate their labor away, which is exactly what they'll aggressively do if you raise said cost of labor a lot.

The actual end result will be far greater tax payer cost for fully subsidizing people that no longer have any employment, versus partial subsidization.

There isn't an advanced economy in all of Europe for example that doesn't use heavy government (aka the top 50% of income earners) subsidization for the benefit of the bottom 50% of earners. The healthcare systems in Britain and France? The bottom 50% of employed persons are not primarily paying for those very expensive benefits, they're receiving large government subsidies that help offset their terrible pay, in the form of all sorts of welfare benefits. Britain for example has such a low median wage, it barely qualifies them as the 50th poorest US state, how do you think their bottom 50% of workers get by if not through huge subsidies via the government to offset that terrible pay? For some reason when companies in the US do the same exact thing, it's evil.
OTOH, using HF would be easy to confuse with high frequency.
> The USA makes stupid mistakes sometimes, but they alway eventually sort it and sort it on the right side of history even if it takes time.

There are several areas where the US has not yet done so (including some that are older than the US, like treatment of Native Americans, and including some where it's heading in the opposite direction of the right side), so the idea that the US always does so is empty nationalistic sloganeering.
The American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848, the Franco-Prussian War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, the Chinese Revolution, the Cold War (which to a large extent was prosecuted as a propaganda / media war). And the current propaganda wars by Russia against the United States, UK, France, Germany, Qatar, and others.

I've listed to bibliographies / references elsewhere in this thread addressing several of these examples, others are quite easy to find.
I'm enjoying my XPS 13.
> Think of the Hubble as a Keyhole pointing the other way.

I still remember one discussion on NRO where an user mentioned that it donated a space telescope to NASA [0], built around the same time as Hubble, that had better specs. And that's the spare one!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
Feels gimmicky. How is he planning to parse through millions of responses? Instead talk to leading non profits and get their advice or perhaps just help fund them instead of creating a new one. World does not need a new charity organization. Just help the ones that are finding it hard to raise money.

If I were Bezos, I would fund Elon Musk so Elon can solve as many problems as possible without worrying about investors.
It's not a scarce resource in the parts of the planet where the paper is produced, and it is not cost effective to transport water to these places in sufficient quantities for it to no longer count as 'scarce'.
Yes, If any malicious program is running in user land in windows, it can easily bypass UAC. But, as was mentioned when this was being discussed on reddit[0], UAC was never meant to be a fix-all security boundary.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/6e1uft/a_poc_demons...
Republicans: States' rights, except when our corporate overlords don't like it!
My Favourite Visuals in the 1995 Film “Hackers”
The news was exceedingly highly tailored. It's just that the tailors agreed on their cuts.

Noam Chomsky, Marshall McLuhan, Jerry Mander, Niel Postman, and Robert W. McChesney all address this, as do many, many others.

If you'd like it from the horse's mouth, here's Edward R. Murrow's 1958 "Wires and Lights in a Box" speech:

http://www.rtdna.org/content/edward_r_murrow_s_1958_wires_li...
It's seven percent annually, 10% for one month. (This is covered slightly better in Ars Technica.) Spring and autumn have lower energy use because less heating and cooling is needed, and wind works particularly well at those times, so the ratio is better than the annual rate at those times.
I guess I'm wondering about OP's comment and whether a slimmer wrapper would make much of a difference.

No doubt a modern browser engine like Chromium is an incredibly complex thing and requires a lot of resources, etc.. Would optimizing the wrapper even very aggressively make any difference?
Amdahl's law, if you spend more on interconnects you only speed up a subset of your workloads. But the reverse is also true so buying more nodes and less interconnects only speeds up a subset of your workloads. The optimum is going to seem wasteful on average.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)
I wonder what takes more CO2 output. Mining stone, or growing trees and processing them in paper farms?

Smrt.
Are there any works of fiction where people who live in the asteroid belt aren't called belters?

I vaguely remember Lois McMaster Bujold writing a book about genetically engineered humans named Quaddies, since they have four arms (in lieu of two arms and two legs) who work in free-fall, but I think that was an interstellar series, and they weren't just in an asteroid belt.
The solution is to push through the correct solution by playing the exact same game. Politicians interested in reform are for the most part far too quiet. Every time there is a violent crime committed by an ex-convict they need to use that politically to absolutely slam the criminal justice system until something is done. "Tough on the crime system" is just as good as "Tough on crime" if you're loud and obnoxious enough whenever a camera is put in your face.
Snap sinks to IPO price for first time since market debut
Why's that a problem? I'd love for robots to take care of me.
I thought they mainly used fast-growing pine plantations planted specifically to harvest for paper.

(Which still isn't 100% ideal, because monocultured pine isn't friendly to the local species and they're generally devoid of animal life, but way better than clearcutting wild forest.)