skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, let’s look at the Tensorflow example

> Now let’s look at a Pytorch example that does the same thing

Reminds me Escobar (russian philosopher, not to be confused with Lopez-Escobar) theorem, which approximately translates into English as "With no alternative choice of the two opposite entities, both will be an exceptional nonsense."
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> It always puzzled me that internet companies can simply say that the speed is "up to" a certain number.

I always imagine it like this:

Them: "This plan gives you up to 23mb/s."
Me: "So you're saying you guarantee I will not get more than 23mb/s?"
Them: "Right."
Me: "OK. I'll pay you up to $40 a month for that."
And it is even worse for expats.

There's many sites that force the local language down your throat and it's sooooo annoying...
I am actually pleasantly surprised by this, stalkers can go to hell.
Or, you know, Google told the authorities. All I see is that PureVPN keeps the user's email on file.
Yes people are still anthropomorphizing AI. It's a subtle difference talking about their learned judgments of reality v. some sort of human-like logical decision-making process, and that's where most people get tripped up. The AI learns what you feed it. Garbage in, garbage out. The initialization of its world model is arguably the most important thing, and the hardest to make objective. Every decision following that, assuming it learns in an online manner, will be conditioned on its previous decisions since it can only learn about the things it experiences, i.e., chooses to engage with and how.
Strong AI wouldn't be enough, if by strong AI you mean "enough to pass the Turing test". Humans pass the Turing test all the time, but still produce buggy software.
Coal mining was (and is) tech, so it shouldn't be a surprise that some workers can move into another area of engineering.
most people prefer the experience of having humans create and serve their food when they go to a restaurant.

Serve sure, but how many people care about what goes on beyond the closed doors of the restaurant kitchen as long as food is up to standard. Would you really care if your steak was 'hand fried' by a line chef or fired by some kind of meat frying robot as long as it was of high quality done to your liking.

The 'problem' however (at least short term) is that line chefs are pretty cheap and advanced robots are pretty expensive.
I agree, "No logs" means they don't / can't respond to blanket DMCA style "identify this user" generic requests.

It doesn't mean they'll go to court to protect your identity in a criminal case, you'd be very foolish to expect any company you're paying $10 a month for to do that for you as an individual.
Perhaps you're right, but the comparative prevalence of these phrases does seem to correspond to largely different customer experiences.
I think you are conflating two different issues. Yes bad people are bad and should be punished. Does that mean that good people don't get what they think they are getting when buying services (if in fact that's what happened here)?
They would be lower prices, but there would be less home-owners.

If the final goal were to reduce prices, you just need to pass a law that all housing is worth 1$ for an unprecedented successful policy.

It is always interesting to me how in Real Estate, people are intelectually sensitive to price increases: as if price increments were a sign of things going awry. More often than not its the opposite: job creation in a city raises rents which is a net good (i.e. SF and Seattle). Or people moving out of their parents home earlier.

It is senseless to look at the price of one thing and focus on that as a measure of well-being. After all, a man in the 20's would look at our salaries and say we are all filthy rich.
Interesting, I never read Marx, I was just born in Eastern Europe and I used to hear that phrase a lot as a child. The way I understood it is that proletariat must control all other classes for communism to exist.

(I am not sure if I agree with "State is dictatorial" because a state is not a "person", but I certainly agree that democracy is a dictatorship of the majority.)
could have obtained 'records' live instead of from logs...
vpn provider can easy break your crypto if they need to, mitm you and get cleartext 'records' from live data. that being said, i think most vpn providers log because they are forced to do so by law. if you dont want your vpn provder to play along with fbi or nsa, try a russian one or so... they will cooperate with other agencies though ^^...

probarbly some lame story will come back if any , by purevpn, as if fbi did some mitms from their services / on their services, they would probarbly not be allowed to speak of the details of how this was done and what was done..

purpose of vpn is to hide your location mainly, if u want it to protect u from your countries agencies, don't pick one in your own country and be very specific on what one you chose... >.> seems like a case of poor choice and awareness on the user's part more than the vpn provider, who is probarbly unable to stop these kind of intrustions by the agencies without getting taken down...
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Distance from pieces of the infrastructure also doesn't always help, I live 100m from the cabinet, and 500m from an exchange in a large development, but they've not managed to lay fibre apparently (guessing investment in Zone 1 London isn't the best political/PR decision for Openreach...), so it's only ADSL "up to 16Mb", but rarely top 2-3.
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If that's what they mean, that's what they should say.

"No logs" sounds to me like they don't keep any logs.
GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV
Absolute tax rate do have an effect on eg how much corporate behaviour you get in the first place.

I can only second your suggestion to stop penalizing dividends over interest on debt. There are even some good reasons to stop taxing capital returns at all.

The perennial favourites of alternative sources of funding for government are eg a carbon tax (where you explicitly don't mind the deadweight loss) and a land value tax (where there's no deadweight loss).

If those don't provide enough revenue, a consumption tax seems better placed than a tax on various forms of income.
Privoxy, a non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities
Growth based capitalism is so resilient that it will eventually end, but it will probably happen too late, either because of a world war or most probably natural disasters that will affect the most basic needs like food production and water resources.

I have been quite excited about the concept of alternative, local based economies, and I'm amazed by communities that try and manage to build one, but I think they are too small to be a viable solution. Still, reading articles like this give me a bit of hope.
I've had a quick look, the privacy policy at https://www.purevpn.com/privacy-policy.php says:

Since PureVPN is committed to freedom, and doesn't support crime,
we will only share information with authorities having valid subpoenas,
warrants, other legal documents or with alleged victims having clear proof of any such activity.

So I think it's likely they would link connection records back to individual users, and if you did that enough times (perhaps only 2 or 3 occurances?), you'd know which individual user was responsible without any detailed logs?
I was able to create standalone java9 modular application using jlink, but didn't succeed using javapackager. Which is a pity, because jlink creates a distribution, which you launch with a .bat file, instead of .exe.
My question is was the information from PureVPN like the statement says, or was it misworded and about his use of the vpn? Were there actually logs or did they match up his IP address after finding PureVPN on the computer and obtaining the accessing IP from Google and putting them together?
Sweden has solved this in a pretty good way I think. As an ISP you have to disclose a range (e.g. 12-24 Mbit/s) and pledge to keep that lower limit. In some areas you see instead the range of 1-XX and then you know as a customer that the connection is less reliable.
"Out of the tarpit" (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1446) is an interesting contrast / comparison to "No Silver Bullet".
For colleges I personally recommend "If they are going to you with advertising, they aren't good enough to be known by you or employers".
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> if u want it to protect u from your countries agencies, don't pick one in your own country and be very specific on what one you chose

Why just use one? Go to a Russian one, then tunnel everything through a US one, then to a German one
Wouldn't an XBox-like phone end up appealing only to the XBox demographic? This is a very limited crowd when compared to Android (or even Sony's Xperia) or Apple's iOS ecosystem.
The author has responded at the forum with a follow up and hereby shares the correspondence with Microsoft in a pdf. [0]

[0] https://tuxis.bestandonline.nl/index.php/s/pAnxQnpDNVv95m3
I wouldn't call getting a large steady paycheck at a nine-to-five a 'failure'.
File isn't smart enough to read too much into the actual ELF format, all it's doing is parsing part of the header.

What that difference means is that fasm put a 3 in byte 7 of the header, while nasm put a 0 there.

And apparently putting a 0 there no matter what the target OS ABI is common practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format...
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> So here we are, still trying to decide whether buttons should be <a> or maybe <input> elements.

<button>, obviously =)
Since I've never tried swimming, I drowned.
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Though be careful, some people are crazy good at telling what's in some food just by taste and smell.

(I know some. In a restaurant they can tell you exactly where the kitchen staff put in the extra work to do things 'properly', and where the chef took a shortcut.)
As I said above "I never read Marx, I was just born in Eastern Europe and I used to hear that phrase a lot as a child."

What was supposed to be the decision making mechanism of ideal Communism if not a dictatorship of top to bottom decisions? How did Soviets (councils) work or supposed to work? A consensus of the majority - aka Democracy? I don't think so.
Bpost acquires Radial, formerly eBay enterprise, for $820M
Have been using gitx for some years on MAC and it’s quiet productive.
‘jump’ on iTerm helps in navigating across folders quicker.

https://github.com/wting/autojump
A friend told me about this monopoly while I was admiring his Hawkers sunglasses, a spanish startup. Prices are 15-40€.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkers_(company)

"In 2014 the company's revenue exceeded 15 million euros,increasing to 40 millions the following year, and in 2016 Hawkers projected 70 million euros in sales."
80% for the first 4 years. 90% "eventually"
On the server the only upgrade issues I've had are things like apache configs breaking when moving from 2.2 to 2.4, or php (from 5 to 7), which happened when upgrading 14.04->16.04. Not sure how redhat/centos/etc would have prevented that.

Likewise a few of our custom system management packages need tweaking when new versions come out, but aside from that no problems with 1200+ servers.
Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots
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If you're grepping binary files, then even with grep, you need to pass the `-a/--text` flag. ripgrep has the exact same flag.

Protips: `rg -u` stop looking at `.gitignore` files. `rg -uu` searches hidden files/dirs. `rg -uuu` searches binary files.
I think you said it better than me.
They also own lots of optical machine building companies as well as factories all over the world. It’s pretty much impossible to be in the optical business and not buy from Essilor.
Yes.

> The Tor network currently only supports TCP ipv4 traffic
TorVPN
Perhaps some brands do it that way, but usually in the luxury goods industry (and quite often in fast fashion like Nike) manufacturers will create "accessible" pieces designed specifically with brand poseurs who can't afford the premium products in the portfolio in mind, with a larger logo/unique design to emphasise the acquisition of a brand's product.

I can't find the source online, but I remember reading in "The Luxury Strategy" [0] that the cars at the lower end of the Mercedes line-up had badges 2" larger than those on the premium cars (e.g. A vs S Class), and the LV on the lower end Vuitton bags was larger than the higher end ones - specifically so they could be seen more easily to heighten the ego of the owner.

[0] Kapferer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Luxury-Strategy-Break-Marketing-Bra...
Stop, just do it.
Concepts of maintainable unit tests
By definition, all labor-saving technology costs jobs. That is, unless you do something to compensate for it, like produce more total stuff than you used to. And, of course, more total stuff will only get made if people are willing to spend more money to buy the additional stuff.

There's only a problem if we're expecting people to get that money from... wait for it... jobs. So let's lower interest rates and make it easier for everyone to borrow money. That will boost spending and create jobs! What could possibly go wrong?
Read this, thought it was well written and thought out, look up at the headline... "Oh man, Jon Skeet!"

Fun problem.
EPEL is a must. Also I'm using official nginx and postgres repositories for latest releases. Never used other repositories.
For me, social media does use all available mental resources. I timed “a quick look at twitter“ once, and when I looked at the clock after what felt like 5 minuets, I found I’d spent 40 minutes absorbed in irrelevant minutae. I can’t tell you a single tweet I read in that time.
Indeed. Getting these text based configuration tools work requires a lot of experience in language design.

Lots of tools become accidentally Turing complete, like Make. You need to plan these things from the start. If you want any computation possible at all, you need to be extremely vigilant, and base your language on firm foundations. See eg Dhall, a non-Turing complete configuration language (http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/12/dhall-non-turing-comple...).

If you are happy to get Turing completeness, you might want to write your tool as an embedded DSL and piggy-bank on an existing language, declarative or otherwise.
Not entirely sure what do you mean by “higher order components” but what you seem to describe would lead to the same problems we had with inheritance in various oop languages.
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I'm replying to myself here but to anyone else interested, you can now -- unofficially, as of v57 -- use a U2F-enabled YubiKey in Firefox.

See the details on Mozilla's Wiki [0] (short version: in "about:config", enable "security.webauth.{u2f,webauthn}") and visit Yubico's online demo [1] to test it out.

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CryptoEngineering#Using_U2...

[1]: https://demo.yubico.com/u2f
You're right. 2FA is convenient as hell until biometric authentication will do it with user's consent ( just tap something ). Yubico is quite near this target, but fragile usb dongle hanging from the side of your laptop isn't still optimal. FIDO is doing great work trying to bring secure authentication on the market, but the risk is that it'll be another complex OpenID which is killed by the giants ( Google, M$ etc ).
There is a continuation post the next day:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CodeRea...

It's because there are three or four different things that could be the reason
behind the code he talks about, not just what he described in this post.
You should still be able to give the other side the best defense imaginable. (See 'steelmanning'.)
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I found his question perfectly reasonable. Furthermore, his experience can be confirmed by many 'experienced' weed smokers. I'd say it really depends on the strain, and perhaps also on whether you're using weed or hash.
Excellent post! The feeling of having accomplished and learnt after going through those task lists at work or with kids or managing money is something unexplainable & you have put it in words. Bookmarked !
I used to commute over one of the bridges between New Jersey and Philadelphia. The machine would be changing concrete barriers daily in the wee hours of the morning to allow one more lane for commuters going into the city, and later in the day for those returning home.
Cyberstalker caught after PureVPN coughs up logs to FBI
Not sure if this is relevant to HN, but I figured I'd post it anyway, some people might appreciate the science that went into the neural-synaptic link.
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insert emotional defense instead of logic here

Sadly, we live in a world where too often, emotion and reactionary tendencies guide people's opinions.

Scarily, these opinions often become law.

And since too many of these people hold power, the only solution I can see is to blend in or hide.
RFC2487 says:

A publicly-referenced SMTP server MUST NOT require use of the STARTTLS extension in order to deliver mail locally. This rule prevents the STARTTLS extension from damaging the interoperability of the Internet's SMTP infrastructure. A publicly-referenced SMTP server is an SMTP server which runs on port 25 of an Internet host listed in the MX record (or A record if an MX record is not present) for the domain name on the right hand side of an Internet mail address.

---

However, this RFC is now 18 years old.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/uta/documents/

shows that https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-email-deep/ is now in Last Call -- the title is "Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of TLS for Email Submission and Access" and coming up soon we have https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-mta-sts/
with this abstract:

SMTP Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) is a mechanism enabling mail service providers to declare their ability to receive Transport Layer Security (TLS) secure SMTP connections, and to specify whether sending SMTP servers should refuse to deliver to MX hosts that do not offer TLS with a trusted server certificate
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Interesting take. Makes you think about the apparently rather durable popularity of zombie horror, which even outside its occasional fads retains a strong base of adherents.
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ok, I've seen stellmanning? https://www.google.com/search?dcr=0&source=hp&q=stellmanning...

on edit: never mind, I see you mean steelmanning. However that does not really have anything to do with what I said, you should be able to give someone the best defence imaginable, but what if the best defence imaginable is shit compared to the other side. Then you cannot argue both sides equally, this does not mean you do not understand either side. It means one side is actually wrong, and the other is correct.
> vpn provider can easy break your crypto if they need to, mitm you and get cleartext 'records' from live data.

Could you elaborate on that? I'm going to China soon and don't know if I should trust commercial VPN providers. I was under the impression that if I use SSL/TLS it's impossible to MITM my connection.
There is a reason why it can be more moral. If managers are just running the share price up to inflate the value of their options, that costs the owners (shareholders) money. (The managers might keep exercising options, then spending the owners' money to buy back shares. Long term you end up with the same number of shares outstanding. Where did all the money for those buybacks go? To people who exercised stock options.)

A genuine robber baron capitalist who intended to hang onto her own shares long term would generally just shitcan managers who behaved that way. But 401k investors don't have the option.

I'm ignoring workers here. I'm only talking about morality between owners and managers.
No, I don't think you're sorry to be pedantic. If you really were sorry, you would have made amends (e.g., deleting your comment) instead of doubling down.

Everyone understood just what you meant. (Every single person, literally.) Your pedantic observation was not new. People just thought it contributed nothing to the conversation. Around here you get downvoted for being off-topic, not just for being wrong.

There is a perfectly good pedantic-mark: it's called not replying in the first place.
SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS)
Like a clean Wordpress theme using only a conservative number of plugins (Advanced Custom Fields to take care of most things). It's quite a viable business model.
I predict that once a machine is invented that can automatically make a coffee, anyone employed making coffee will lose their jobs too.
My last 4 properties have been 4Mb/s, the aforementioned 1.5Mb/s, a place that had 30Mb/s cable, and now 6Mb/s. All south-eastern suburbs.

I'd say inner suburbs like Fitzroy are probably batting above average. You've got much shorter distances to the DSLAMs there for ADSL2, and more businesses which means more infrastructure.

Obviously the average and median are going to go way up now that they're connecting FTTN and HFC everywhere. From the people I've talked to, the average seems to be around 20-30Mb/s. My parent's house is actually slower now that they've officially installed HFC there (they were getting 30Mb/s on cable, now 20) :/

Woeful is definitely a good word for it. Clusterfuck would be up there too.
TCP IPv6 traffic is supported. [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5547]

Only relay to relay traffic is actually IPv4 only. [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4565]
Sorry, I can't spell. It's steelmanning. (Edited the other comment.)

The idea is to beat a steelman of the idea. Because that's a greater victory than beating a strawman.
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You can still use xargs without overhead :

> fd .py | xargs stat
According to Boris Chertok (see NASA books, "Rockets and People"), a control specialist of the early soviet space program, the lack of good digital computers was one factor in losing the race to the moon. The early space missions were controlled by electromechanical sequencers, basically the technology you find in old washing machines. They did some marvelous purely analog systems for attitude control, though.
The fundamental structure of the Internet is not designed for anonymity. That's why this is ultimately a losing battle. Strong anonymity needs a different network structure and transport protocols, and trusted, open hardware and software stacks from the ground up. A chink anywhere can be used to insert malware and track/target users. The existing networks and stacks are impossibly hard to secure and plug all the holes.
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Some believe that a human life has intrinsic value, even outside the value of the species as a whole and even outside the value of that human's labour.
I had a mouse that did just that. Nothing I tried could fix it.

I gave up and took the batteries out, and forgot about it for a few weeks.

When I tried it again it worked, and works fine ever since.
Plus Irish Coffee (just whiskey) has been a thing since forever too.