skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this too. It's not even just politics. You'll click topics about TV shows and see a ton of the exact same long post with errors from different people in different cities. Some descend into markov chain gibberish while others appear to be trying to genuinely sway public opinion in favor or Kim Kardashian or whatever
If it's some kind of representative government, then it would be "the government will push back on anything that threatens the interests of the majority." If you had a power-maximizing AI instead of politicians, it should still court voters.
Yes, but before grid was available people did some funky things to build responsive grids (like using a flexbox column containing flexbox rows or using a lot of repetitive media queries).
Doesn't it already? I've been under the impression that is one of the big "things" about being an American. You will always pay taxes to the US:

"If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, the rules for filing income, estate, and gift tax returns and paying estimated tax are generally the same whether you are in the United States or abroad. Your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you reside."

Per https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxp...

EDIT: To answer your question, no, I don't like that, but I don't think "companies" should be exempt.
The issue is not capitalism and existing law, but the interpretation and enforcement of the law. The issue is that we have removed rational judgement from legal proceeding with regards to tax law. Its clearly demonstrable that Apple is not following the spirit of US tax law, but simply sidestepping the law by offshoring its money in this way. Does anyone with more legal expertise know of a more concise way of expressing this? Could the state simply sue apple and if they win then this establishes a new precedent for not offshoring money to dodge taxes?
For those interested:

https://youtu.be/KPLXrkTZ8mo?t=41s
How did you hack your way to quitting smoking?
Not tech related question I know, but I could use any help/advise I can get.
Here's my question: We know that in the case of hydrogen fusion, the individual protons and neutrons involved change the way they are bound (two separate hydrogen atoms into a single helium), but they don't change into something else. But this is altogether different- we have individual quarks which are combining together to form a new kind of particle. Does that imply that quarks themselves are made of smaller particles?

I suppose there are other examples of this kind of fusion too- electron capture by a proton producing a neutron, for example.
There's a lot of confusion about autofill. Specifically for these user management interfaces etc. autocomplete="new-password" was introduced and as far as I know is supported in widely used browsers.
The browser is owned by the user. If the user wants it to autocomplete a field, then it should autocomplete the field.
This was not a law but a secret bespoke areangement.
Your reply is pure libertarian silliness.

The government hasn't remotely maximized its power.
Has everyone decided to drop ie? For tech related sites that might make sense but I think not supporting ie means turning off support to the users who are older in some cases but more likely to buy.

Where are people drawing the line? Bootstrap 3 still supports legacy browsers but version 4 and other popular frameworks like bulma use flexbox.
Didn't see that implication. Isn't the more obvious solution to have a mixture of effective government and business? We're not talking about going from capitalism to communism, we're asking one of the wealthiest companies in the world to pay their fair share of taxes like the person making $40k does. It's not either or.
How are you inferring that government is the alternative? I don't see that implication.
That's insufficient. Most of the world has a lower corporate tax rate than the United States. The Cayman Islands might be the most attractive place to park their funds, but pretty much anywhere would still be more attractive than bringing it to the US.
Symptom of it being a primary cause would be no loading, then all of a sudden loading of site. However, I've had intermittent connection with HN, so not sure that is necessarily the primary. Edit: clearly spell check is down.
West Michigan is seeing similar: 40% to 50% packet loss for most websites.
>The web is the only platform aside from perhaps some assembly languages that is that stable and that ubiquitous.

The first part I agree with. The second, I don't understand.

.NET and Java are way more universal than assembly language unless you really split hairs and pretend "any byte code generated by a machine that ends up as assembly = assembly."
No, it is not a boards fiduciary duty to maximize profits at the expense of all else for stockholders. This is a myth.

There is no legal basis for this claim.

https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism

So to take your differently put question, would I buy stock in a company that doesn't act this way? Hell yes I would. It means they're likely adults and not just looking out purely for the bottom line. Which tends to lead to bad results.
> I agree. But I am thinking about making a database role for each user. The user becomes that role after signing into the front end, like Apache.

I figured. If you isolate the data well enough, it could work. I'm always paranoid when it comes to DB.

> Isn't there the explain command and the \timing option for the command-line client, psql?
Yes, there is. This however doesn't help you with triggers and UDF, which is how you usually create the logic in the DB.
That isn't an issue if you use a new method name -- I believe "addEventListenerEx" was meant to be read literally. (Appending "Ex" to a function name for an expanded parameter list is a Win32 convention.)
guess this superceeded Songbird: https://google.github.io/songbird/, previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031828

edit: indeed, https://github.com/google/songbird now redirects to https://github.com/google/resonance-audio
Because that's not a place where deep learning shines. Most of the simple tabular data competitions are won by simple methods like random forests and manual feature engineering. Even simple linear regression or at least SVMs will usually get reasonably close to the best possible model.

But images are more important in the long term. Robotics has been held back for decades because of lack of good AI. You could build robots that can do incredible things, but they could only perform rote actions. They were blind and couldn't see the objects they were interacting with.

Now that we have decent machine vision and reinforcement learning, there will be many more interesting applications of robots. Automation will be a lot cheaper and more convenient.
It is hard to explain, but you really do feel it in Golf Story. There is certainly a difference in a "light" rumble when hitting the ball, vs a "light" rumble when the ball is tapping along a green.
Same in San Jose, CA, Berryessa area: can't access reddit; however speedtest shows 210M upload, 10M download. I use Google DNS for my apartment network.
I'm poking the docs, can't find an answer for this, so am hoping someone smarter than me can help. For years I've wanted to build audio games on the web (see http://audiogames.net for examples of what I mean.) The resource requirements for these just aren't that intense, so JS/the web seems like an interesting delivery platform, but the Web Audio API's support for what I'd need to do this is...disappointing is the nicest way I'd put it.

My biggest missing feature is a listener/sound source API that renders to 5.1/7.1 surround. Does Resonance do that? Yes I understand that headphones/binaural rendering is ideal, but I have a decent surround system and sometimes I want to put it through its paces. :)

The Getting Started section demonstrates stereo downmixing. Peeking at the API indicates I can pass something called an ambisonic order into some functions, but even the constant for the default gives me no obvious indication of what this means. So maybe this is something audio developers know, but as someone trying to evaluate Resonance, it seems like they've just handwaved around this concept.

And if Resonance doesn't do this, does anything? Even if I compiled to wasm, which is certainly something I'm open to, it looks like the only wasm options are SDL-based, meaning simple stereo and no spatialization. But maybe I've just picked terrible keywords to search for.
Tighter corporate tax regulations as a slippery slope to government oppression? I'm not seeing it.
Huh. Not sure who you're talking to, but I opened with "good for him", and I meant it.
'i' spy an iOS 11 bug: Erroneous Unicode character being displayed in Messages
The problem is not one of intelligence, but of consistency. Even human operators would struggle with this sort of stuff. Though at least with them, they have empathy and personal-bias which just makes the outcomes swing one way or the other even if they don't makes sense.

AI struggles with this problem because it's a vague and poorly-defined one. That's why you have to take the only way out, either ban it all, or allow it all. For the latter, I'd echo what someone else in this discussion mentioned, let them self-censor what they don't like. Rather than trying to come up with one size fits all classification rule that really doesn't cater for anyone really.

I would liken it to a multi-dimensional classification problem. And each person has their own classification. We're essentially trying to pigeon-hole a single delineation between acceptable/non-acceptable topics onto an entire population. It's borderline stupid behavior, and I have no idea why anyone thinks it'll please everyone all the time.
Also see "Bitcoin's lien problem":

> "Indeed, given the high volume of fraud and default in the bitcoin network, chances are most bitcoins have competing claims over them by now. Put another way, there are probably more people with legitimate claims over bitcoins than there are bitcoins. And if they can prove the trail, they can make a legal case for reclamation."

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/03/24/2122678/bitcoins-lien...
We have a system of taxation. I pay my share. I expect others to pay there share. But when the other has found some legal loophole (perhaps one they helped to put in place or at least to maintain) and avoid paying their share, then yes, I'm upset and I want them to pay their share.

Why do you try to cast this as a matter of greed. Apple is getting billions of dollars in benefits from being a US-based company, directly and indirectly.
Seems like we need some government-business GAN to keep each other at check...
We don't need to rewrite anything.

Instead, just start breaking laws that are corrupt, like copyrite laws, and eventually they will be unenforceable.

Copyright laws are already mostly unenforceable against individuals.

Laws only work because society mostly follows them. The ones that people DON'T follow, may as well not even exist.
Also Southern Ontario (Toronto), I've noticed nothing. Been or reddit, HN, many random programming websites, starcraft, etc.

I've checked all the urls people said they had problems with so far (spotify, cloudflare, downdetector) and haven't had any.
3d spectrogram:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c

Animation of the picture illustrated in this article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo

If you live with someone >= 30, turn up the volume and wait for him/her to appear at the door for a nostalgia moment...
> Regulatory compliance. I've worked on applications that had to go to great lengths to get the target browser platform to not do something like auto-complete authentication credentials.

If I had a penny for every time I've heard this excuse for really terrible unsafe practices just to find out that the developer deliberately misinterprets it to make its job easier... it be rather rich now.
> This is why old websites from 1998 still work in your browser.

Unless their navigation interface used a Java applet.
I was just thinking, shouldn't there/couldn't there be a site that aggregates actual statistics (as opposed to the crowd-sourced DownDetector) regarding internet connectivity/health globally to provide an accurate snapshot of what might actually be happening?

Edit:

Sorta like this[0] I suppose.

[0]https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/...
Flexbox, especially with Autoprefixer, is pretty safe to use in production.

Grid support is much spottier, but can be safely used in production depending upon your supported browsers.
I'm interested in NM (probably Albuquerque) as well. How's Los Alamos as an employer? Anyone from Sandia Labs around? Anyone else worth considering there?
It does. It also works in VR.
My local network has those as the default nameservers, and my laptop has them set manually as well. Still having problems.

Normally, ISP name resolution is the first thing I look at, but this seems atypical.
This reads a bit fatalist, why don't we close this particular loophole and deal with the next when it comes along. This may be a game of whack-a-mole but we're never going to have a sane tax code if we don't start killing some moles.

If anyone is knowledgeable in accounting and wants to point out some future loopholes that may arise, sure we can get those as well but... don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I've found this[0] chapter has a great overview of WebRTC communication. I do wish the transports were a bit more pluggable so I could use, say, an onion service to bust NAT for me.

In general I believe WebRTC, as a set of multiple protocols, has too few full implementations (i.e. w/ the stun/turn/ice server AND client sides, media extensions, etc). I think with more implementations, WebRTC will become a decent p2p standard even without the browser. I personally am starting to toy w/ a Rust impl of some of the RFCs.

0 - https://hpbn.co/webrtc/
The second animation in the readme file demonstrates 3D.
Law is not just a set of confining rules like a programming language, exploiting loop holes has moral consequences.

Corporations are run by humans, some of those humans must ultimately answer for crimes of tax evasion. Just like the VW executive who is currently doing prison time for other corporate crimes (technically their vehicles passed the required tests).

Some people would prefer more than this to prevent scapegoating. i.e corporate death penalty... liquidation selling off the assets to the competition, dividing the result between the parties (government, citizens etc) defrauded or harmed. Unfortunately this will never happen with this size of company due to the impact it would have on the economy. The best we can hope for is government intervention, i.e impede company freedoms in proportion to it's crimes, much like a criminal record hurts an individual's job prospects. This would also make strategically immoral profit less attractive (Think of the Fight Club car recall equation).
You're welcome. I looked into it because it would make a pretty cool project and while pretty advanced, not impossible.

The cheapest analog-digital-converter chip I found is the TVP7002. Dealing with the digital pixel output is still way way too much data, but now it might be possible to scan the picture a few pixels each loop. The reasonable approach would be to process it in an FPGA or specialized chip and only deal with a compressed and scaled image in the ESP8266.
I actually experimented with this using ultrasonic signals (most people can't hear above ~16-17kHz), and with very simple modulation was able to transfer ~30bps. Was a very fun proof of concept, using just a cell phone and a speaker! I think the idea is great and there are many applications for it.

In this one I embedded the signal into a song, and then the phones would parse the modulated data to all synchronize together and create an ad hoc light show with the flashlights!
> we also can't ever move forwards.

There is a thing called Forward Compatibility. Not everything old has to die to move forward.

On our OpenGL 4.x videocards still run OpenGL 1.x. And no, fixed function pipeline of 1.x isn't anything like the modern shader pipeline. (Sidenote: many cards that were designed in the 3.x era and nVidia backported 4.x support into their older cards which is amazing to me.)

>Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to introduce an "archival" mode in a browser.

Internet Explorer already did that.
Comcast Outage – Nov 6
Away from Confluence and to the documentation directories?
Or maybe content creators need to get away from Google.
No, not fiduciary duty. One theoretical approach to corporate governance/management, but it's not a legal duty.

A competing theory is guaranteeing the long-term health of the company instead of short-term profits (current shareholder value). Another is being a good corporate citizen in society.

These are usually all at least in a bit of tension.

The reason shareholder value is often (almost always?) pushed at any large company is because it so often aligns with the boards' and managers' short-term goals, i.e., make lots and lots of money while the making is good.

For a long time, and perhaps even still, Amazon has been held up as an example of a company that is not especially driven by the theory of maximizing shareholder value.
Outsmarting Our Primitive Responses to Fear
Switches are perpetually sold out. Maybe they could sell more multiplayer games, but I'm betting they can actually charge a premium for the controllers right now because there's a lot of demand to play that can't be met by people getting their own console.
Very interesting! How does this relate to Reinforcement Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models? A major weakness of current crop of Deep Learning is the decision-making modeling; I assume that's where Pyro is intended to be used, right?
HVMN Ketone is a clinically validated superfuel
Google Releases 'Resonance Audio', a New Multi-Platform Spatial Audio SDK
Not in an anonymous forum where they can't even lose reputation.
LBOs never left. That you're hearing about them now is simply because it's on HN.

Oracle bought Peoplesoft using an LBO for example. Dell is another high profile LBO/MBO.
I understand wikipedia isn't an absolute source, it's a summary of opinions and research. And what follows is my own opinion, though I'm linking to wikipedia for background and context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

I would draw attention to this particular line:

"Progressive - Work for every user, regardless of browser choice because they’re built with progressive enhancement as a core tenet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

Here's why I like this - "progressive" isn't just a nice, modern sounding word, the way "rad" or "radical" doesn't actually mean "nifty" or "cool", even if it came to be used that way in slang. Progressive has a very specific meaning, which is that it was built through progressive enhancement.

Progressive enhancement, to me[1], is a very different principle from the app that is built as a javascript heavy front end, even if that technology gracefully degrades to plain html ("graceful degradation"). Progressive enhancement is just one strategy for achieving graceful degradation (which might not be the primary motivation, it can be a by-product). You work from content, start with the most basic presentation, and add technologies progressively, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth.

I think "progressive" is one of those great sounding words that has come to mean "an excellent and forward looking web experience". This is what happens when you use a great sounding word to describe a more narrow principle or technique (re, RIP, "Agile"). In this case, it was a reasonable use of the word - progressive can mean "in stages" rather than "forward thinking", but there is an ambiguity here, and I think this recent post is a result of that ambiguity.

[1] I say "to me" here not because this is necessarily my own personal opinion, but because I'm not 100% this is the intended meaning. I may follow those reference links in the wikipedia article and see what was meant. I think this is the case (built in stages, progressively), but I have to qualify it here because I'm not sure.
Issues here in San Jose area - it appears to be Comcast from what I can tell. Same as others, cellular via ATT is fine.
Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication
That seems unsupported by the article, in 2015 Ireland changed its laws, Apple consulted a law firm on advice on how to proceed and sought assurances from the govts involved that it's understanding of the law was correct.

Where is this agreement you speak of?
I think the only value-add is the prestige of a given journal. So, just brand.

The other comments are saying it's minimal publishing, peer review, and hosting costs. Oh and they spend a bunch on lawyers obviously.
> Individual developers working for individual companies are rarely if ever thinking about the good of their users, except in a very narrow profit motivated sense

But the megacorp Google is acting all altruistic and not at all abusing it monopoly powers?

Give me a break.
‘Trainy McTrainface’ becomes official name for Swedish train
Left your dial-out prefix set to 0118 999 881 999 119 7253, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK9pfbGSE4A is incredibly cool. Thanks for this series!

It's so neat to watch a pro in a completely different domain. I know some of the basic concepts, but it's mesmerizing to watch him reason through voltage levels and pinpoint a failed resistor. That's magical to me.
some in Seattle are complaining: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/internet-issues-plague-users-a...
I live in a city and have 2 full-fledged grocery stores + approx 70 bodegas and restaurants within a 10 minute walk. Also have a Target + Best Buy.
Pure free market Capitalism is playing a game of Monopoly where after each time anyone passes go, the player with the most money gets to create a new rule. Guess what? The game is gonna get pretty skewed, pretty darn fast.

Consolidated money is power. The only way that capitalism can work long term is if there are rules actively countering/fighting using that power to change the rules.

Money is power and capitalism consolidates money. So capitalism consolidates power. Consolidated power can change the rules in its favor to consolidate more.

The only options are prevent entities from consolidating money (which means you're risking losing capitalism), Or prevent entities from using money and power to change the rules (which, if you think of all the ways gratuitous money could be used to influence, is the social equivalent of solving the halting problem).
>First, there are the countless instances where something is trivial for a single person to suss out that doesn't scale.

This is an interesting argument to me. It's basically conceding a shittier solution, because we "can't scale" the effective one. As we talk more and more about automation, I think this is similar to what we've seen in meat space with things like tools.

I've heard so many people complain about chinese hammers or socket wrenches (though I also know there are quality chinese tools out there) or many other examples. Things mass produced cheaply are lesser quality, but we're willing to make the trade off as a society because we get things for cheaper.

And now we see this in the information economy. Even though we know a human doing this work would be much more effective, we're not going to do it because the cost is too high.
Lots of similar reports on the outages mailing list:
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2017-November/0108...

"Anyone having packet loss, please send traceroutes to the list. There is clearly something happening, but not much useful data yet. Some traceroutes might help narrow down the cause of the problem."