skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't very precise.

Tor's nine directory servers are not run by tor itself. One employee runs one of the nine, the rest are different people from around the world, with different affiliations who are not under the control of Tor. You must get a majority of the directory servers to block something from the network, before it will be blocked. Its not any one of the nine that can do it, they need to convince five other people, none of whom they control, to also block before it is actually accepted.

How do you plan on dealing with abuse? Sybil attacks, or bad actors on the network?
But asphalt is more easily repaired and can be recycled...
I think that would work, but the challenge would be in finding a denser liquid than water in quantities that would make it useful - and cost effective.
There is lineage OS no? I thought that's what one plus users install anyways.
Nothing wrong with politely pushing back against assholes. We should not tolerate behavior like Lubos' in civilized society.
> but it benefits the consumer

In the short run, until there is no competition. This is a classic tactic of monopolists; serve consumers at below cost, wait until competition dies, and then raise prices to higher than pre competition levels.
great! now we just need more than two people that know f#. i keed...kinda ;)
I see you put your affiliate ref link here, that should be profitable.
And it is... video services specifically
As others have pointed out, and I quote, "a proprietary system from a for-profit company should not be used as the basis for addressing in any country."
I was about to leave an extremely similar comment, but I was going to frame it in terms of the NSA "direct access" story. I got the impression from that story that immediate denials from tech companies, which seemed categorical, turned out to hinge on which magic words were used.

In this case, when I read a sentence like "We don't use your microphone for ads" I end up doing that game where you re-read the sentence over and over and emphasize a different word each time, trying to guess which one is the magic word.
>> One of the things I like about the sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc) is that we're slowly being reminded that it's okay to trust our neighbors

> Except it's not neighbors but complete strangers you're asked to trust, and that trust is sometime misplaced.

I'm guessing you've never lived in a place where the common means of transportation is to just stand by the street, look for the next car coming by with empty seats, and signal/ask how much it is to your destination?
In what sense does PHI protection chill innovation? Health IT seems to be one of the more vibrant and innovative sectors right now.
18 is the voting age in the US.
You can find some examples at [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Are you going to tell me what’s does have to do with charges that would cause these to decrease?
Of course they deny it. Even if they did there is absolutely no way they'd admit it. This article asserts nothing.
The commodity GeForce Nvidia cards versus the Enterprise Tesla NVidia cards is history repeating itself, with enterprise disks vs commodity disks. We all know who won in the end (commodity disks, of course).

The 1080Ti card is about 60% of the performance of the P100, but costs 700 dollars instead of 5k dollars. Of course, people will try and build these boxes, they have a much higher ROI compared to Nvidia's DGX-1. So what do NVidia do? Try and stop vendors from selling them!
https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-geforce-server
Only replying to your last point.

I had a chance to see static typing benefits in action and I will always agree they are a bit ahead of the dynamic typing.

That being said, I feel static typing is a bit overrated in web dev and outside of enterprise systems overall. F.ex. when I tried to quickly immerse myself in Elm, I figured that obsessiveness with static typing can make a dev's life very miserable and can basically require doing cartesian product structs for many scenarios -- especially if you have to work with data coming from several API providers and provide API yourself to users whose requirements are periodically changing.

I might be a bit in a fanboy mode here I admit, but the compromises that Erlang / Elixir do seem very adequate -- they do forgo some of the benefits of the static typing in return for a bit more productivity / less friction. Granted, if you are irresponsible then you can easily shoot yourself in the foot with them as well. No magic bullets.

(Conversely, if you apply some discipline -- which is still probably two orders of magnitude less than the discipline you need in C/Cpp -- then Erlang / Elixir's dynamic typing is almost like static typing.)

This isn't a blind hate towards static typing; having exposed myself for educational purposes for limited amounts of time to Elm, Pony, Crystal and just an hour of Haskell -- and having worked with Go professionally for several months -- I am not as impressed as I expected to be. I clearly see the benefits but again, I feel they are a bit overrated. A language with a reasonable compromise between type safety and programmer productivity seems to be my cup of tea. And I am not claiming that this "reasonable compromise" -- which is a very subjective term -- is an universal truth. Not at all.

Lastly, Elixir's macro system is not hugely powerful (at least compared to what I know about Clojure) but has served all semi-arcane tasks I tried -- and succeeded -- to achieve with it. But that's of course very specific to one's work and it too can't be claimed as an absolute truth.

Not willing to derail here. Your mention of Haskell triggered a few associations. Apologies if the comment is out of place / topic.
Why do all discussions on QC always address the application of factoring integers, thereby breaking cryptography? I find that off-putting, and it's the reason I lost interest at some point. Instead, I want to read about applications that actually bring something useful. I suppose such an approach would also much better raise interest in the development of these machines.
Was the information in that training based on the bad data from the drug company?
Yeah my wife was planning on doing this with her student loan for her social work degree and I just refinanced it all to a five year loan so we could get rid of it.

I don’t know how people manage to spend $50k getting a degree in social work. Something is wrong with the system that that is allowed to happen.
What someone says they are and what they actually are can be very different.
As suggested in the comments on Reddit, there's another possible explanation for this -- someone else in the conversation does a search based on what you were talking about, clicks on a result that sends tracking data to Facebook, and then the ads are retargeted to you based on a shared public IP address.
> Accept shares if he doesn't have cash.

And if the shares lose value while he's out on bail? Our defendant just lost their incentive to reclaim them.
The Babbage Papers
I worry about facebook and all that and the state of privacy in the modern world, but a lot of these stories sound a lot like confirmation bias to be honest.
Water is freely available. In the examples mentioned, there's typically a natural reservoir (a lake) or man-made reservoir (a retention pond) that's used. You might get a slight boost from using sea water (density of 1027 vs 1000), but I feel like the salinity might wear your equipment faster.

Also, heavy metals like mercury and iodine very are expensive compared to water. And once you start talking about using metals for storage, it might be worth exploiting state changes instead.[0]

[0]: http://www.ambri.com/
I was thinking if near the like button they had a report hate speech / fake news button and just didn't show stories much that where that was clicked it would probably make a difference.
And safe. Imagine the disaster if that mercury tower started leaking.
Instagram is Facebook though.
Agreed. The subsidies(tax breaks) help drive up prices (just as student loans have inflated higher edu cost). Unfortunately, in the case of housing, as mentioned, property taxes come into play. It seem unlikely gov is going to cut off its own revenue stream.

My point about the banks was, we can't expect low end houses to be built if they can't be sold (because banks are less likely to finance them.) I'm not suggesting artficial support. I'm curious to know if the void in this segment in housing is fed by a void in bank support.
So why was the program introduced, if everything was running so well?
Exactly the same setup here!
I hadn't heard of / thought of the thermal storage idea (freezing ice at night - when it's more efficient both cost wise due to cheaper power, and thermodynamically due to lower outside temperature - and then using that to reduce the need for daytime cooling), and it's so obvious in retrospect that it seems like it should be everywhere. Given what a huge amount of electricity is used on air conditioning (~6% of all electricity generated in the US, apparently), this seems like it could be pretty big.
A further thought. You should focus on comparing it with Tor, like maybe making it the first one to compare with, since it is both similar and well-known. And then maybe add on other ones.

Another thought: compare early on with Ethereum and IPFS. Yeah, they are really different things, but as soon as you say web decentralization, people who are not techies but read about such things will think of them, so you need to explain early on how this is different so they get pointed in the right direction.
This sounds like it could be useful for me. I've never so much as looked at Nix; if i go and read the standard documentation, will i learn how to do this? Or is it a creative application of the tools?

Does Nix make it easy, or even possible, to bring in dependencies from legacy sources on the network? For example, my company has an FTP server full of carefully-packaged, versioned libraries in tarballs, and it would be great to be able to use those, rather than having to repackage everything.
>we’ve all been Rick. But Rick really does have bigger fish to fry than anybody. He understands everything better than us. So you give him the right to be jaded and dismissive and narcissistic and sociopathic.

-Dan Harmon

Rick is literally designed to be the person every pretentious cynical asshole thinks they are. He exists to glamorize toxic anti-social behavior. Harmon backpedaling after the sauce thing blew up in his face isn't going to change this.
no you re arrogant because u can't fathom that some people cannot afford it.
> Why Linux? You already have Linux for OS, why the same on firmware?

The Linux they're flashing to the firmware ROM is a custom minimal build. Using that, they can then boot a standard distro kernel. And depending on your threat model, you might not need to update the firmware kernel as often as the distro kernel, as it's only used for booting. Note that this is for servers; for an embedded system you might as well boot directly to the final kernel.

> Why not Minix? ( Used in Intel Me Already )
Why not OpenBSD? ( Very Secure )
Why not NetBSD? ( Extremely Portable )
Why not FreeBSD?

A few guesses:

- Linux is the one most familiar to the developers of this. And to the Google sysadmins, presumably.

- Compatibility: If the distro kernel resides on, say, an XFS filesystem on an MD-RAID device, the firmware boot kernel needs drivers for that.

- It uses kexec which is a quick and easy way to boot a Linux kernel from another Linux kernel. If you want to boot from another OS you'd have to figure out something else.

> Why not Coreboot?

Coreboot is preferable, but since the low-level firmware on modern x86 server platforms is tightly controlled with hardware signing keys, no data sheets released etc., coreboot hasn't been able to run on an Intel x86 server platform for the past decade. This project (NERF) is a pragmatic compromise, by replacing only the upper parts of the firmware stack and removing/disabling the ME as much as possible.

> Why not the OpenSource UEFI implmentation?

It's designed-by-committee crap which is far less battle tested than Linux.

> Why not switch back to simple and easy BIOS?

It's less evil than UEFI sure, but I guess it's unfortunately only a question of time until it's removed from PC firmwares (Apple already did it many years ago, AFAIU). Besides, AFAIK switching to BIOS mode does nothing to disable the ME.

And if you're going to do something from scratch, you might as well use something sane like coreboot.
some people said in the Reason3 update article that F# is better suited for JS devs than OCaml.
This would copy the runtime for every app you need.. Pretty sure if you used docker this wouldn't be the case but I'm 100% sure. Obviously space isn't the biggest of deals, just mentioning it.
Sounds like a pencil stabbed it.
Couldn't somebody decompile the android or iOS app and try to find evidence for one way or the other?
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Yes, wine.com was one of the the early ecommerce sites. Started in 1995, but may not have been transacting until a few years later.
Any ideas out there on what could lead to a migration away from Facebook to say, Mastodon? [0]

Facebook probably has the strongest network effect that’s ever existed.

[0] https://mastodon.social/about
I just want to add that this has also happened to my wife and I multiple times and with very specific ads showing up, shortly after the conversation.
Could be shared IP or even just "target people located near people who are targets" since they have location data
If your poor the tax deduction doesn't mean much since it's based on a lower tax bracket.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim trailer using only ASCII characters (no filters)
RankPL, a qualitative probabilistic programming language
So I guess when people complain about being assaulted by poor vetting by Uber, that's just noise and the uproar is overblown and we should accept assault by taxi drivers as the price of living in society.
Yeah, thats why I point it out as being ironic - I often get the feeling that The Outline is contrarian just for the sake of trying to be edgy. It just so happens that this time I agree with the point.
> using something like mercury

you really don't want to do that.
If the "grievances" sounds ridiculous, it's because they were. It was a paper-thin front over a steaming pile of misogyny and hate looking for an outlet and excuse. And the people who knew exactly what it was loved how much it pretended to be something else and swept people up in its wake; the confusion and ambiguity made it all the more powerful as trolling.

There are quite a few logs available to read where what could very loosely be called "organizers" revel in the confusion and ambiguity, while talking about the real aims. It was always a hate group, anything else was a front.
There seems to be a lot of articles posted on HN purporting to explain the housing crisis from companies that profit from it.

Bearing that in mind, it's not so surprising to see "labor shortages" get the blame while untaxed land, low interest rates and wealth inequality/property hoarding go unmentioned.
The only variety that I can remember as a kid, was the house on the next street where they gave out Chick Tracts instead of candy.
I just started using GitPitch.com which is backed by reveal.js It integrates seemlessly with GitHub, GitLab, etc. Feed it markdown and graphics and it produces beautiful slideshows. The author is incredibly responsive (I just commented on a feature I needed and it was done in < 12 hours and done right). Freakin' amazing!
I think one of the problems is that the medical and legal community seem to be incapable of doing anything but extremes. About 5 years ago I went to the doctors for headaches and was given a subscription for 90 pills every month of fioricet and expected to only take it when I needed it and not more than 3 a day. About a year and a half ago after I got a new doctor who was appalled, asked me if I would consider going down to 30, and was surprised when I told him I had no problem with that because it was unneeded and I was already only refilling it 1-2 times a year anyway. Now in the past year I hurt my shoulder pretty badly, to the point where I was having difficulty using it due to the pain and was dropping light weights. I was told physical therapy and aspirin and if it still hurt too much to use I could try more aspirin. We seem to swing wildly between giving out a ridiculous amount of drugs(90 a month no questions asked) to giving out none, even when people are in pain.

Why can doctors not prescribe something like 3 pills a month to someone? Its not nearly enough to get addicted on, but can help someone experiencing severe but temporary pain. Is it something in our legal framework that only allows doctors to prescribe a months worth at a time with the assumption that its taken every day? Is it some pressure from insurance companies who don't want to deal with paying out small claims like for 3 pills?
There were a couple of violations in that episode that I remember instinctively grasping when I originally watched it as a new episode when it first aired.

I had been eagerly anticipating the episode, based on station promo spots that had teasers about the episode, and I really thought it was going to be a really good episode.

It was obvious that some extra effort was put into the animation, I had anticipated solid writing to match. It looked like it was going to be on par with a good Treehouse of Horror episode.

Instead, it turned out to be fluff. Only the trippy animation got attention, and the entire episode is built around the trippy shots. The episode lines up what might be considered the first “jerk ass” Homer incident, such that Homer eats this MacGuffin chili pepper, apropos of nothing, and why? There is no reason. It doesn’t build his character. It doesn’t reveal or change anything about Homer. And he’s the centerpiece of the whole episode, the other characters don’t figure into the plot very much, other than as sentimental plush toys. He just does it. Why is he at the chili cook off? No real reason.

So the answer is: because they (the staff) wanted to do a trippy vision quest desert sequence. And that’s it. No other alignment with the Simpsons universe. It’s just Homer trips out in the desert. Everything else is window dressing. Any tugs on the heartstrings, and appearances by the rest of the cast. The spirit animal becomes nothing, and is never seen again, in any other episode that mattered.

And so, then we have the principal violation of Homer doing drugs, and the ancillary violation of Homer “doing drugs” without actually doing drugs. The pepper is a stand-in for hallucinogenic drugs, obviously. And here we have homer trying the pepper, but for dishonest reasons. He didn’t set out to trip balls in the desert, and his character is unaware of this outcome a priori, conserving a moralistic aspect of Homer, the family man, even though, we, beyond the fourth wall, know better.

So they do this episode once, and without any explanation, or impact on continuity, and the jokes aren’t even that great. The episode isn’t very quotable, and has nothing else going for it, aside from the animation, which everyone does remember.

So, at the time, everyone said they loved this episode, but really the episode sucked, and rewatchng it decades later, it still sucks. But people remember the animation, and The Simpsons is animated, so surely this must be a “good” Simpsons episode. But it’s not.

At the time, I remember a subliminal inkling that if this episode passed muster, then more bad episodes were on the way, and I was right. The Poochie episode aired soon after, and I remember watching it at the time, and thinking to myself: “message received, this show isn’t going to be good anymore, don’t expect much else going forward... “ and it seems that was interpretted correctly.
A lot of CEOs are overpaid.
This isn't a benchmark that I'd expect to see a significant difference in. The majority of the CPU work is in the regular expression, and Ruby's regex engine is implemented in C.
No microphone access is needed for the spooky ultra-targeted advertising claims. You just have to keep in mind that Facebook is cross-referencing all your information with everyone physically near you (even people without Facebook accounts, as they can be extrapolated from their relatives and from photo geodata and tags), and cross-referencing all of those results with cookies from ads all over the web and with purchase history results from credit card companies and retailers.
All of this is true, but unfortunately, none of it seems to matter. Because almost every major web property relies on Google, AMP has continued to grow and thrive, and it shows no chance of stopping any time soon.

It actually doesn't even matter what Google's marketing folks say about it. As long as Google controls the web, whatever Google wants is what websites are going to do.
This is what I did on mine, I haven't confirmed that it is no longer sending anything to oneplus but it did remove the package.

To clarify:

* Make sure adb is installed (https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-lin...)

* Run "adb shell" (you should see a prompt that says OnePlus)

* Run "pm uninstall -k --user 0 net.oneplus.odm" (you should see "Success")
I'm really not trying to make this about me. Just trying to help with some tips for someone who self-describes as being a "mediocre" programmer.
I think the counter argument is that housing prices will fall and be closer to free market. I can't really get much worse for the poor, the status quo clearly isn't helping them.

You do have a point, but there seems to be another side as well.
I’m sure they don’t use the microphone for ads. If they use the microphone, they surely use it to feed data into their profile of you which gets used for all sorts of things... like ads. One level of indirection is enough to make this denial technically true.
As far as they go, yes.

But what about something like firmware updates? What should be the frequency of update? How long am I required to support a device? Which update networking modalities am I required to support?

These aren't small decisions. They can make a product viable--or not. Having this in the hands of something with the proven competence of the TSA (har har) is far from desirable.
Finally, to tie this discussion off, two truly official references that explicitly address the issue of runtime complexity.

In the best case, as determined by Halko et al., you low-rank k approximation of a n times m term-document matrix is O(nmk), and randomized approximations get that down to O(nm log(k)) [1]. And, according to Rehurek's own investigations [2], those approximated eigenvectors are typically good enough. I.e., in both cases, the decomposition scales with the product of documents and words, not their sum. Therefore, this is clearly not a linear problem.

On top of that, when these inverted indices grow too large to be computed on a single machine, earlier methods required k passes over the data. These newer approaches [1,2] can make do with a single pass, meaning that the thing that indeed scales linearly here is the performance gains of scaling your SVD among a cluster with these newer approaches. Maybe this is the source of confusion for some commenters here.

[1] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/27187/

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-20161-...
Not all. Many quantum computing efforts are interested in using quantum systems to solve optimization problems, which seems more useful. Certainly simulation or optimization are most likely to happen within our lifetime compared to scalable implementations of the gate-model for QC.
This is horrendous. The only way to combat it is for the companies in these plans to block ISPs that do this.
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Or just have a proper methodology with many samples, control group, etc.