skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably similar to switching TV channels (which isn't instant anymore either). The receiver needs to wait for a new "key frame" (on that isn't compressed) before it can begin displaying/sounding?/outputting the rest of the compressed stream.
This is a joke. "You basically start to believe your own bullshit after a while, and that’s a good thing." How can this be taken as serious advice?

I hate this guy, and what this guy represents. I am not a bullshitter, and I will never be one. I'd rather not raise money and fail, than bullshit my way to IPO.
I think the point is that Western Digital didn't need to make this announcement except for taking advantage of the free marketing force behind the word "RISC-V". Most people don't even know that there are CPUs inside HDD/SDDs/memories and whether these use RISC-V or Arm or x86 won't impact the end consumer at all.
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>What if a Coinbase insider steals from the cold wallet?

That's the inherent risk with crypto. You have to resort to "leg-breaking" to get the thief to give up the coin. Otherwise you'd need undue influence on the development and forking of the blockchain to get them back (if I understand it right -- I may not).

That's why many will say to not keep your coins on an exchange, because they are weaker businesses compared to existing financial institutions.

That's not to say you can't secure your investments properly, but to many, it takes a lot of time and effort to get it right.

It really is a "let the buyer beware" landscape.
Wikipedia claims IBM’s SPF in 1974 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_folding#History), using indentation to identify blocks (one may call that cheating, as folding would break down if the code wasn’t indented consistently, but for 1974, I wouldn’t hold it against them)
good i've been locked out of my account since 2002 anyway. my poor neopets are starving
If you are on a Nightly or Developer build, you can not turn it off, I asked on Mozilla’s IRC.

Downloading these builds is considered opt-in into telemetry, and toolkit.telemetry.enabled is hardcoded to enabled, the opt-out checkbox literally does nothing, I was told. And about:config confirmed this.
I'm very skeptical, at least for any meaningful definitions of "oppression".
So basically urban areas get more channels because the new tech uses less spectrum and everywhere else gets less because they will no longer be able to listen to the channels physically located in urban areas that they could pick up using the old tech.

Does the new tech make bandwidth sufficiently cheap that more stations can broadcast their content on multiple frequencies in physically separate locations(which is not uncommon for large FM stations to do today)? If so you'd basically get the same coverage using less spectrum by broadcasting the same station from more sites using the newer tech (not that this would happen if the initial investment in the physical equipment is anything large enough to cars about).
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I can't speak about the DAB protocol, but the HD Radio scheme that is used for digital in the United States seems to be a protocol problem. I say this because I've owned four HD Radios each from a different manufacturer, and each one had the tuning lag problem.

The sad part is that HD Radio is actually startlingly better on AM, while FM is an incremental improvement. But few AM stations use HD because most AM stations operate on a shoestring, and it ruins your fringe coverage.

But when you find an AM station that's in HD and you hear the receiver switch from analog to digital -- holy cow!
The fact that other exchanges are worse doesn't make Coinbase any better though, that's the problem. It'd be interesting to see what % of coins is held by them. While I don't really care about Coinbase per se, I think that it could hurt the public perception of the whole crypto ecosystem if something went wrong and people were locked out of their accounts, lost funds, etc.
I remember the signal as being super crappie for anything not pop music or talk. Out was particularly bad if anybody clapped: it sounded like you are blowing into a piece of aluminum foil.

The solution is to kill radio and use the signal to increase internet access, then everybody can hear what they want.
Maybe. You’d have to explain to me though why there isn’t a major delivery service today that has a strategy to skim the delivery cream in dense urban areas. Not an expert in this market but I expect there are costs associated with urban delivery that offset the advantages of density to some degree.
> it doesn't really matter since the code is coming from Mozilla

For now, yes. Until someone finds a way to push a "study" through which is not from someone "trusted".

> If someone distrusts their add-ons, why trust their browser at all?

Well, trust is rather simple to break, and this - remote installing things - was not part of my original trust I put in Firefox 1.0.
I know things change. This is not one I tolerate, and you are right: I will not trust a browser after a step like this.

Besides the trust, it's unexpected data. Probably don't effect many on big data plans, and is probably a tiny extension this time, but it's still data I have not asked for.
Trust me that if they lose a lot of users in the US but gain users in some place like India or China they will be much worse off. It takes a lot of users from those places to equal one US user due to massive income differences so ads shown to them are much less valuable
Glad to see the continued focus on performance. The last few updates have had noticeably faster startup times IMO.
Thanks for the insight.

Would be good UI to a.) disable the control b.) add a comment.
I hardly think it's a lie. My browser contains no trace of anything related to Looking Glass, even though I'm opted into Shield Studies. It seems to affect some people but not others. Definitely something that should be fixed in the core mechanism of how these things are downloaded by your browser if there are cases where it can happen without user intervention, but it doesn't seem to be intentional to download extensions without the user's consent.
I love listening to analog radio on my (now oldschool) iPod Nano 6th generation, just enough technology to bring something new with featuring live-pause so you can pause the radio.
> why would even care about Wallstreet?

> I am seriously worried about the large exchanges ability to handle the amount and size of the transactions.

One approach to solving hard problems is to enlist the help of people who have a great deal of experience in solving the same hard problems.

You don't have to, of course. It's possible that having a table tennis table is sufficient to help one muddle on through.

But it sounds like Coinbase are taking a more pragmatic path. In the circumstances, that's probably prudent. Unfortunate but prudent.
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This could be a fun add on for an art museum's online collection browser. "Investigate the collection by scatterplot."
The irony is that people pay, just not to the right place. Every unnecessarily-bloated download tears through data plans and costs people money to their ISP that never makes it to the provider.

I want plain-text ads that provide just as much revenue to web sites but without obnoxious experiences and fat downloads.
They should just operate both.
Speaking for myself here, but I'm not concerned that Mozilla might push malware into Firefox installations. I'm concerned about the lack of judgement in pushing an extension with a vague, scary-sounding name and description simply for a cross-marketing tie-in, and I'm worried that it could have damaged the trust ordinary users have in Firefox.
There's a large difference between the Democrats and the far left.
Solid trolling.
Most modern audio players have the same issue. WinAmp/XMMS took up very little of your screen, while most modern players will assume that full screen is what you want.
This approach makes a lot of sense. Where people really need help is bike sizing and fitting. What size bike do I order? How do I adjust it to fit me? Bike manufacturers will list a height range for each frame size on their website. You will need to adjust things differently if you are on the upper or lower end of that range.

The other model I've seen work locally is demoing high end bikes. Specifically mountain bikes. The local shop has a weekly mountain bike ride where you can try out several bikes. This is probably worth the effort if they sell a couple extra bikes a week. The mountain bikes they demo range from $3-6k. This shop has bikes on the show floor, but could easily switch to demo only.
Even evm has gotchas and problems. It isn't just solidity that has design flaws.
I think one of the biggest effects people aren't talking about in other comments are jobs.

Amazon can automate the hell out of getting goods to me, so we essentially don't need 1000's of stores and millions of retail workers anymore.
It does. Maybe we should fix that instead of constantly trying to disempower it. Conversations in the US in particular always get conducted as if government had to be bad and is out definition disconnected from the people. We have technologies like approval voting to name one that could improve this. It's insane that you have to hijack one of two parties to bring any change. We must have a functioning government! We must stop working around that.

How the government makes decisions aside, for this concrete case, the money the government pays with is ultimately the tax payer money. So why not buy the received yourself? I don't want a receiver and I don't want to pay for yours. I don't even understand why it's not all just internet at this point.
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I don’t think you are disagreeing with the person you are responding to. They are trying to say the problem isn’t necessarily the ‘scientific process’, it is that if you cheat rarely enough you might not give your opponent enough samples to prove it. Your point that if you had enough samples you could prove it is actually agreeing with them.
They also have limits on political speech. The IRS gives them breaks. One of the big misunderstandings/myths is that a church cannot support a political candidate.

Some people cry "free speech violation" but they can endorse a candidate, they just need to give up their tax privileges. This is why the ACLU is split into two parts. One you can donate to and get tax dedications for, but the other is their lobbying arm, and therefore cannot allow tax deductions for their donors.
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Some buffering is probably inherent. The protocol is at http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300400_300499/300401/01.... if anyone wants a long read.

At a guess the critical number is "The transmitted signal has a frame structure of 96 ms duration (Transmission mode I)", which implies that most systems will need to buffer at least that much and probably several times that.

Theoretically you could decode all the signals in a particular DAB multiplex at the same time (e.g. all the BBC stations are on the same multiplex in the UK), and then change instantly between them, but I don't think consumer recievers let you do this. Might be able to try it with SDR.
> non-decentralized

Is there a difference between centralised and non-decentralised?
Many comments seem to miss the real significance of this.

This is not a joseki dictionary, and it doesn't play 50+ moves for you. This is AlphaGo Master's explanation of how it sees the opening. Humans have a very good understanding of endgames, and we might understand opening in a single corner, but when it comes to whole board knowledge, we are way worse than AlphaGo is.

As it happens, AlphaGo disagrees with human play a whole lot, just in this subset. There's well known fuseki strategies played by professionals that AlphaGo thinks are downright terrible, and it shows lines of how it would play against them.

Sure, it'd be nice to have even more moves and alternatives, but this is really nice, as it helps us in the parts of the game where we are the weakest.

Compare this to what Alpha Zero is teaching us about chess: It has interesting opinions regarding a few openings (Goodbye French Defense) but ultimately it's saying that our opening knowledge is very sound, but that it will not just crush humans, but traditional chess programs in the middle game.
In the U.S., the switch freed up frequencies that were used for cellular LTE coverage.

Right now, the American TV stations are going through a second frequency shift (called a re-pack). Everyone's being shoved into a smaller chunk of the spectrum, made possible by the transition to digital.

Some stations are sharing channels. Others are being paid by the federal government to go off the air entirely. The resulting frequencies will be auctioned off to the wireless carriers for 5G data.

Re-packing has happened before, even in analog days. When I was a kid, analog TV sets had channels up to 74. Then channels 70-74 were reassigned, my guess is around the early 80's.

And if you go way way back, there used to be a channel one in the United States, but it got reassigned, too. These things happen.
Until it reaches new stable equilibrium, becomes new status quo and get protected from introduction of invasive species.
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If you're still using Firefox after this it's probably safest and best just to disable everything under Firefox Data Collection and Use
I'm actually referring to one example. The reason why I don't count it is because it looks a LOT like it's being blocked for partisan reasons, rather than concerns about an actual monopoly. TWC owns CNN and the federal government wants them to divest it.
True that. I feel like we've really gone backwards on that aspect concerning TV. I remember a time where I could turn on the TV and be 3 channels further all within the space of 2 seconds. Now my "smart" TV takes 5 seconds just for a first paint, and changing a channel once takes a second. You just can't beat the latency of analog circuits!
Most people (including myself, an average HN reader) don't actually know how to do this locally.
I think that is unlikely. A vote is tied to a person, not a location. That said, I think voting system like Estonia's, where you have a cryptographic key on your ID, is the only correct way to do e-voting.
Just another voice that would love using nvim as a backend. I like what you're doing!
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Funny, I'm the exact opposite. Most of the chat programs I use (or have used) use the combined approach. Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and so on all have the "buddy list" permanently attached to the conversation window such that you can only see a single conversation at a time. I prefer the MDI of yore since I can have multiple conversations open at once (on desktop, I realize this isn't feasible on mobile).
This discussion (Ask HN: Fully online CS degrees? "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899383") came up three days ago and has over 100 comments.
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I remember that hack fondly. It made things so much easier.
While I agree that releasing this as an undocumented extension was a poor PR move, in practical terms, I don’t see how this is any more insidious than the ‘no internet’ dinosaur jumping game built in to chrome.

Both are first-party. The difference seems to be that the dinosaur game keeps you entertained, where as this hopes to promote awareness of privacy/security.
This is the case in many countries, is this way in Venezuela too, for example
While I agree with you on that, your previous comment was simply wrong. Non-profits are very much allowed to just "take money" (legal restrictions aside, but for-profit businesses also have legal restrictions). They're not allowed to take that money and distribute it to shareholders as profit.
Are you switching to Chrome, the browser that sends your every keystroke back to HQ?
I have to agree with you because I'm in a similar boat.

I've worked out an arrangement with my dad to pay back about half my loans interest free. The interest itself doesn't amount to much on the principal, but it's a significant chunk of money. However, because we refinanced those loans onto his home equity line, he can deduct that interest.

Currently I live at home and commute 1.5-2 hours into work. I don't expect to be doing this forever, it's a 1-2 year gig to knock my debt down by overpaying as much as possible.

It helps that I have a well paying job for my major/area, too.

All said and done, this is not ideal for me- I'd like to live on my own and shorten my commute. But my debt is not ideal either, so I'll take what I can to reduce that, even if it means living out of my childhood bedroom.
For those curious, yarn supports a local offline mirror:

https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/11/24/offline-mirror/
Floppy + SD card reader -- looks handy. But still has an IDE connector. Recent motherboards only have SATA. The review here says you can't access the floppy via USB, fwiw: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682019...

Maybe something like this: (USB floppy) https://www.amazon.com/External-Floppy-Portable-Windows-Requ...
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My main issue with deprecating FM in favour of digital radio is its use for emergency broadcasts or in war. Not because of the protocol itself, but because of adoption: almost everyone has a working FM radio available, but few people buy dedicated radios that support digital radio. I would guess that new cars is the main source of compatible receivers.
So can someone explain what this could mean on the consumer side? I've been mostly thinking about it from the producer side and how tech companies will have to pay a premium for fast service to be delivered to users, but I'm seeing the packages and wondering if as a consumer I would have to call up my ISP to add a random site that I want to access to my service. How would like aggregation sites like Reddit or Ycombinator even work then? I dont know enough about what ISP's can and cannot do to answer this question for myself.
Do you realise the scale at which wall street/nasdaq/nyse all work? Have you ever looked at trading volume in large brokerage tools like TD Ameritrade. GDAX isn't there.

I think the point most people here are making is–this is the big leagues and if you want to be taken seriously, suspending trading mid-day is unacceptable (happened this week).

Nothing to do with web sockets IMO.
It's hard not to gloat when you got rich by going against people who were so wrong for so long and still won't admit it.
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If this were the first incident, and they quickly backtracked on it, then maybe we can give them a pass. But this isn't the first case of somewhat shady behavior. Remember the "user-enhancing" sponsored tiles a few years ago?

https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504

> Excited to share the launch of @mozilla @firefox Tiles program, the first of our user-enhancing programs

The problem there wasn't just the idea of putting ads in the browser, it was also the way in which they tried to present it as a useful addition just like every other ad company tries to defend ads
> I haven't researched deeply, but apparently the add-on does nothing until the user opts-in on studies.

It adds some css to a list of words:

https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894...
Just the author not fully understanding what he's writing about.
This is being added to the browser, outside the realm of security updates, through what is supposed to be a UX improvement program, for commercial purposes. It's written by a commercial company that produces advertisement content. It's not clear this code is audited.

Sorry, but I'm uninstalling firefox. They have broken the basic trust I have in them as a user to not push arbitrary code to my machine against my interests.
Have you looked at the Dragon Box app?
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Operational concerns might push you otherwise, but I think in terms of correctly representing the world what makes the most sense is a separate table of deaths with a primary key that's also a foreign key into the table of people, and which has a nullable date of death. That lets you represent all three of "they are living", "they are dead but we don't know when they died", and "they are dead and we know when they died".
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> I'm not concerned that Mozilla might push malware into Firefox installations

Nobody is concerned about that, in my opinion. I'm concerned someone will push malware through Mozilla into Firefox installations. Pushing addon installs should not be possible at all.
How were they able to search electronic devices? It's that easy / routine now at airports?
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>What happens if Coinbase cannot obtain replacement bitcoins at a price near what the insurance pays out?

People lose their bitcoins. It's as simple as that. That's a risk everyone should understand before buying.

They might be compensated in some other way, like fiat, and then the insurance company either picks up the bill or goes under. Then it's just business as usual as far as bankruptcy goes.

So yes, you have every reason to be wary of exchange solvency because of how new they are and how little support is provided to them by government and law enforcement compared to the banks. Every investor should understand that as critically as they understand how important their wallets are.

>This whole system is just not ready for prime time.

Yeah, it's one big experiment. I'm sure these problems were encountered before in economic history, but it seems like they are repeating a bunch of blunders within a short time frame, which to me, smells of manipulation (Satoshi probably didn't invent it to just manipulate people)
you're still thinking old system. In new system geography is fine because elections are cheap and you can do them weekly/daily. Fraud matters much less because you can't do much damage in a day/week as opposed to the sort of terms we have today. You can also temporarily back to the last known good recent from a particular quadrant/zone.
What matters is long-term, persistent fraud and this can be audited against using geography and plausibility.

Sure a tourist can vote in one week but their vote is gone the next week after they fly home. It would be a new paradigm so try not to use the mindset of the old system where elections are expensive and results long-term.
Which is kind of a dumb thing to say. They even note that a typical Catan game only has 60 rolls. You could have many suspicious looking rolls that would result from fair dice. The fact is that 60 rolls isn't going to be enough even if you were cheating a lot more than what was shown in this post.
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