skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these are it:

https://forum.lede-project.org/t/qualcomm-fast-path-for-lede...

https://github.com/gwlim/Fast-Path-LEDE-OpenWRT
Bitcoin has succeeded in creating a scarce resource backed by computing power. That's about all.
At my kids' school, they encourage appropriate cell phone use in the school. For example, if there is a homework assignment on the board, rather than wait for everybody to copy it down, kids are told to take a picture of the board. They also insist on the kids using some kind of calendar to track everything and most kids use their phone calendar.

There's some kind of Twitter-like service that is used for teacher-student communication and of course they use email and Google Docs a lot.

My kids have had assignments that involve making a movie and their phone is their video camera.

If the kids want to use a computer, they can (they are all issued ThinkPads that are frankly awful) but I think most kids would prefer to use their phones when they can.

Also, the school has a pretty aggressive filter on the wifi so kids that want to access the internet in the school end up using their phone to get access to the things they need.
I'm not sure I believe you that anyone would carry a machine gun on a train - the long barrels would make it impossible to even turn around on a train.
Excellent timing. I'd just updated my performance tool (ppt). https://github.com/lally/libmet

Includes really easy to use performance counter support.
> Mature tools can be understood in principle and configured without needing to see "how someone else did it."

I don't know a more "understood in principle" tool than Webpack. There are no magical invocations just `webpack` and you are done. Plugins are usually just a require and adding to your plugins array.

I also think the maturity of a tool is in being easily understood just by reviewing someone else's config. To me, that speaks volumes for how simple and easy it is to get up and running in webpack.
It talks a lot about Amazon, but there's no mention of using affiliate links.

The issue is that there's a conflict of interest when a page that gives you advice on what to buy uses affiliate links. If they get a cut of my purchase, then they're incentivized to get me to buy the most expensive alternative rather than the best one, and to buy something rather than stick with what I have if what I have is adequate.

This is not an insurmountable problem, but disclosure is important so I know what's going on.
Perhaps it's the same developers making the same stupid mistakes.
Mao wasn’t really, he was content to let the KMT fight off the Japanese while the communists would conserve their strength for the oncoming civil war; Chiangkai Shek knew this and tried to play the same game, but the Americans wouldn’t let him.

Mao is actually on record for thanking Japan in one of his weird off the cuff remarks:

> "(Japan) doesn't have to say sorry, you had contributed towards China, why? Because had Imperial Japan did not start the war of invasion, how could we communist became mighty powerful? How could we stage the coup d'état? How could we defeat Chiang Kai Shek? How are we going to pay back you guys? No, we do not want your war reparations!"
I speculate that not-in-my-backyard-ism is much less of an issue in China, because people living nearby do not get as much of a say in whether to allow it.
It's called UUCP.

Transactions take 3-5 days to process, are sometimes lost, but hey, it's the next great thing, so worth every expensive penny.
what's the definition of market making activity here? my understanding of "market making" is simply "high volume" trade (creating order depth)
It baffles me why they are like that considering how many hundreds of miles of completely unsecured border there are between the two countries. You could easily cross the border by canoe without seeing more than a handful of other people who would have no way of knowing your nationality. I believe it is even legal to cross the border like that as long as you promptly report to one of a handful of customs offices when you reach shore.
Okay maybe my tone was condescending. Apologies, and removed.
Hi, you mistyped Tesla as Telsa in the title and text. :)
Okay, that was a rather weak point, I agree. Regardless, I do think there are more differences than similarities between the current China and the then Nazi.
No in embedded if it is to big it can't fit, full stop. One byte too much means corrupt firmware.
Thanks for the tip; I'll have to check this out! My router's OpenWRT wiki page has had an ominous warning about reduced NAT throughput for some time. Turns out that my router should be supported (Atheros AR9344 MIPS 74Kc based).
Interesting, good to know (for those who use Disqus). Up to 50 000 views is a lot I think.
Phones do have useful purposes for children. When school is in session that purposes is limited to calling 911 (the emergency number in the US). However once school is over it lets the student tell their ride (maybe their parent, maybe someone else already arranged) exactly when soccer practice is over and arrange a meeting place.

Note very carefully that the useful uses of a phone are a small percentage of all the functions a phone offers. I've considered buying my kids a phone watch with 3 buttons: call mom, call dad, call [someone else but I can't figure out who]. Of course phone watches have been in the news for serious privacy concerns, but that is unrelated to the need.
A ban won't stop crypto any more than it stops illegal drugs, prostitution, etc. That said, there would be an effect on the crypto markets if a handful of major nations took action. So the question I have would be: will they aim for the taxes (presumably allowing crypto trading), or for an outright ban?
> Hell, it still shocks me that there were soldiers on my train in France with machine guns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Thalys_train_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2015_%C3%8Ele-de-Franc...
A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree
If it's anything like male primary school teachers, the goal seems to be to get them but with no effort spent on retention.

Many men in these professions are viewed with suspicion.
How do you know they don't question older ladies as well (on suspicion of drugs)?

There's no mention of that in the article.
Unfortunately M1 is only available to US citizens or permanent residents at this time.
Based on the other replies about MySQL being simpler and faster, it makes me wonder again why SQLite didn't win.
Speaking from experience, Unifi is rock solid. I've got 2 Unifi access points and a gigabit PoE switch in my house.

Troy Hunt also had a great article detailing his work with Unifi gear as well: https://www.troyhunt.com/ubiquiti-all-the-things-how-i-final...
You should absolutely rebrand as a course/training material, since it seems you're shipping much more than a printed book. As a researcher, experiment journals are really valuable, since in countless occasions I find the final, published articles / sample codes are 100% "draw the rest of the fucking owl" [1] material.

PS: Typo in the #release_bar: "has been offically released!"

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[1] http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/572/078/d6d...
I stopped reading after that paragraph. I'd rather give honest answers than think that I have to lie to get funding. Also, my startups have raised tens of millions of dollars, so I'd rather not trust the author's advice.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, which was much better than my presumptuous comment deserved. I did my time in Academia as well, and the results were a PhD I don't use, and the skills to live cheaply on a TA/RA stipend. It's a hard road, and it's hard to fault someone for not taking it. Still, it's a shame to see so much talent going into parasitic tech jobs when they could instead be unironically "making the world a better place."
> The particularly ridiculous part of this was that after I waited an hour for them to tear everything apart in my car looking for contraband -- at which point it's been verified that I was doing nothing wrong -- they continued to be completely antagonistic.

> He again and again seemed to imply that I might have been smuggling, after which I had to remind him that my car was extensively searched and cleared.

No no, you're definitely guilty. But if they can't find the contraband you're one of the smart drug smugglers, and thus even worse than the dumb smugglers they catch everyday.
But you don't know for sure what those broad needs and behaviors are. If every school is forced to implement a policy and they are wrong about the policy, it will be impossible for them to find out because there will be no way to make a comparison.
Jeez, at this point we might as well assume you can collect information from anything. I bet someone has made something that can restore the image on your screen by the vibrations on the windows that the sound of the power supply makes as the data flows in.
Everyone? It's trivial to tap barbed wire.
Ubiquiti also has a line of Unifi mesh gear: https://unifi-mesh.ubnt.com/
Basic security. Like how everyone failed at keeping Equifax in check.
This seems like pretty much standard procedure going back at least 30 years. No family ties (wife, kids)? No property? No verifiable job to return to? No Entry. No discrimination there.

Bit of an arse for suggesting he was lieing about being a freelance web dev though.
Did US F-22s Almost Shoot Down Russian Aircraft Over Syria?
I noticed it based on Pi-Hole [0] and seeing the excessive DNS Requests to those URLs... started googling and found this post which I thought summed it all up nicely. Looking at the author's post, it also appears they noticed it due to Pi-Hole as well.

EDIT: It was a different post that someone had seen this via Pi-Hole. Not sure how the original author discovered it.

[0] https://pi-hole.net/
The text of the Constitution disagrees:

>No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Note how the early part specifies citizens, the latter part specifies persons. At border control a person is in jurisdiction of the USA legal system and so, according to the literal text deserves equal protection of the law.

I'm aware the established interpretation differs, however, the writer of the amendment clearly meant to extend the rights and protections to all IMO.
China hasn’t card very much about its environment, so minimal environmental reviews are required to setup a new factory.

This obviously can’t continue as china becomes more serious about environmental protection.
Ha, I use Elm because it allows me to iterate quickly, especially as I don't need to run the app to find out if there are bugs, since the compiler catches so much.
It's really nice seeing the traced SVG placeholder making it into the wild. It started as a visual demo using hand drawn SVGs in a Tweet [1]. Very quickly people were asking if it was hand drawn and I took the challenge to figure out to automate it [2]. What I really appreciate is the community adding value along the way. Someone else automated it in node, and others have added it to Gatsby and Webpack.

[1] https://twitter.com/mikaelainalem/status/918213244954861569

[2] https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams/status/918772434370748416
Assumed so, thanks!
MFW it takes up to two weeks for an international wire transfer to clear.

MFW banks are closed on Sundays.
That was surprising to me to learn too, since I would have expected a more manual human-operated line to be able to retool faster.
Homophobia in football, the fan's perspective
I wonder if there is a website/api that will give you loc of pypi or npm packages.

Maybe in the form of a forum badge or certificate like pdf.
I've had good luck running the windows airport utility in wine if that's all that's holding you back.
Good article!
I don't know what you call those new Google captcha, where you have to press "I am not a robot" and then you are given a bunch of images and a question that goes something like: "Select all images that contain cars"
Do you consider that a CAPTCHA? Or is it something else?
Now that's one system that I would like to see beaten.
From the article:

Yep, it generates 4-letter CAPTCHAs using a random mix of four different fonts.
And we can see that it never uses “O” or “I” in the codes
to avoid user confusion.

this seems to be a very simple CAPTCHA system to beat from a ML problem perspective, right?
I don't know about his books(courses?), but his site PyImageSearch is one of the more well known sites regarding computer vision. I certainly got a lot of help from the site (Thanks Adrian).
An under-reported fact is that Google has done more than any other country to help spread the use of AI in China. AlphaGo was a Sputnik moment that galvanized the government, which threw its weight behind AI a few months later. TensorFlow is widely used and Google is paying evangelists to tour the country, giving speeches and writing books about its use. This hiring center is just one piece of a larger strategy for them to ensure that TensorFlow wins the API wars in machine learning.
R really is the best language for data science. Was looking for such a tutorial to scale things up, thanks!
They do touch on it in the article. Permits/regulations added to NIMBYs and pre-existing ageing infrastructure conspire to slow things down.

Not to mention political point scoring over large job creation projects. With the rise of robot workers factories such as these might find themselves unwelcome in previously accommodating areas where their size, logistic needs and impact on the surrounding infrastructure were previously offset by job creation.

So at this sort of scale it's as much a question of logistics and impact to the surrounding area as it is one of pure engineering.
Never thought I'd laugh so hard at something like this!
I seem to be shadow banned from here and I have no idea why!
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Apple Gives $390M to Finisar for FaceID iPhone Component
Well, that's indeed a big problem, and very big reason why Net Neutrality is important. I live in Netherland and I have half a dozen broadband providers to choose from, including one that strongly believes in freedom of information, so I'm fine without legally mandated Net Neutrality.
The race for AR glasses starts now
Consulting can scale as long as you realize that's what you're doing.

Their are 3 proven models for software companies. Sell boxes (Microsoft), sell bodies (Accenture), or customization & support (IBM).

It critical thing is companies needs to understand the business they are getting into from CEO to Sales to boots on the ground.
> Honestly, the most racist person that I've ever encountered in my life joined the US Customs & Border Patrol 16 years ago and last I heard he was still there.

It is scary to hear these things. Like a black truck driver who got pulled over who said he had stuff in the back that he had to deliver in so many hours and that he had a job to do and the officer allegedly replied the driver wouldn't have a job by the time the officer is done.

What is really screwed up is people assume that just because I put on a uniform or a badge, I am now somehow perfect and incapable of bias. No, that is obviously not true. We all have biases we need to be aware of and actively work to mitigate.

The funny thing is it doesn't even have to be about race. It could be that someone has a personal/departmental vendetta against you. Now every time you go to work they could pull you over and (I assume legally) ask you questions bla bla making you so much late every time. What are you going to do? What is your employer going to do except let you go? Who will believe you?
Probably a bullpup machine gun, like the Famas, especially for the French military. Not sure about the terminology though: is a machine gun? automatic rifle? Frog here, not used to guns.
http://www.friatider.se/gigantisk-databas-ver-invandrares-br...

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/extremhogersajt-och-nazis...

This was fairly recent, as I understand it, SVT is the more "reputable" news source and they don't seem to be refuting any of the data. Shortly after the migrant crisis began, Swedish police stopped recording information about the ethnicity of perps.
> index funds are huge and yet most people still prepare very poorly for retirement

Retail financial products are only just now entering the internet era. At least in UK, before 2017 we did not have Vanguard, Monzo, Revolut. Nutmeg was less known. Older banks and investment accounts are still relatively hard to use via the internet (e.g. requiring ancient identity verification methods) and understand for unexperienced.

Cryptocurrencies have a chance to bring much faster improvements to this space. I think the biggest question right now is whether crypto can become self-regulated in practice and avoid being regulated by traditional centralised means. If we can protect average Joe from scams and help him navigate the finance space cheaper and simpler, we don't need old government for this.

It's pretty much inevitable IMO, given enough time, because removing intermediaries reduces cost and friction of the flow of value. In the future, the average Joe might:

- create his personal wealth account with a portfolio, after evaluating his character and beliefs (similar to how robo-advisers work)
- instead of keeping any wealth in cash money, a small chunk of his portfolio will be spent for each transaction he makes (while being converted on the fly to a chunk of seller's portfolio, with value expressed in a stable-coin)

I think the goal should be to stop using any form of cash as a store of value, which is just a part of pre-internet history now. With cryptocurrencies available now for anyone to invest, make mistakes and learn, we have a pretty good start.
ban is good. cell phones in class / school is not needed and just unneccesary distraction. seeing as how addictive the devices can become, it's imo a good thing to throttle the use of them for kids a bit. They should obviously learn about the technology to be able to cope with a highly technology oriented society, but it's not helpful to have all kids with cell phones in schools. it will benefit their school work, and also social interaction with other kids.

good ban. go france!
Some thoughts on the paper as a researcher in space-efficient data structures:

When we design compressed data structures, we generally assume that the data has been generated by some statistical or combinatorial model. Then we design the encoding for the data and the data structure itself, assuming that model. There are often principled ways to achieve that.

We also need an index to find the correct block of data to decompress. This is where we often have to resort to ugly hacks. The constant-time select structure for bitvectors is a good example. To find the i-th 1-bit, we split the bitvector into blocks and superblocks of certain number of 1-bits. Then we have different ways to encode the blocks and superblocks, depending on whether they are dense or sparse. There are lots of special cases, but the index still often ends up wasting space for redundant information. We could adapt to the data better by adding even more special cases, but that quickly becomes impractical.

The key idea in this paper is that data structures often contain components that are learnable. For example, B-trees and rank/select indexes are essentially increasing functions, which should be easy to learn. We can afford having more special cases, if we don't hard-code them but handle them as data. This in turn can make the indexes smaller and faster.

The drawback is index construction, which requires a lot of resources. (This is a common problem with sophisticated data structures.) Spending minutes to index 200 million elements can be justified in some applications, but it's way too much in other applications.
Could be similar to https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/..., but I still wish authors responded more promptly. It's been 24 hours since the first report.
Was he right? Maybe school in the 50s was much more touchy-feely than in the 40s. After the Great Depression and a couple of World Wars, maybe there was a regression to the mean.
Some generalisations from this data:

- Developers likes newer tools more than older tools

- Developers who work with newer tools are paid less than developers working with older tools

These points are not really surprising.
Something like the LBR for cache misses. I'd love to know which IP/address values caused an l3 miss.
JavaScript isn't the problem. The cargo-culting by mediocre developers is the problem.
The same can be said for video games.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170622103824.h...
It's a little more complicated than that for me - I stopped coding a long, long time ago and most of my work now is strategic and business focused. Some of those tasks are highly specialized and I can invoice $200/hr. Some are commodity tasks that the market is used to paying much lower rates for and I have to bill $100/hr (and then prove value by taking fewer hours to do it than a cheaper resource would). Other things are well-defined and I can charge a set price for and net greater than what any hourly rate I would have been able to negotiate would be.
At its core, the goal of the two regimes (China, Nazi Germany) is the same: control information so that the existing regime is portrayed in a good light that preserves stability. Just because China isn't genocoding Jews doesn't mean they don't have hundreds of thousands of political prisoners, disadvantaged minorities, and a completely authoritarian government. As is, you would never hear of the North Korean concentration camps that China supports, nor the Tibetan and Uighur genocides that are ongoing.

Google's move is purely financial. Google's biggest ambition is to control Chinese search, but its greatest ambition is to control all search, and the internet as whole. Google, as all other appreciably large tech companies, wants to hold a dominant position in the Chinse market, and to do so is willing to sacrifice market share in inferuor products. How much China gets involved is TB.

The really fun part? Watching corporate entities justify genocide, sexism, racism, etc. in their grabs for dominance over the remaining European provinces.
Happy to answer any questions about Brytlyt GPU Database and this benchmark.
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Brytlyt
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A few months ago I tried backing up some files to ipfs, and I think I also took a look at SIA. The interfaces were annoying, albeit somewhat usable. I decided not to back anything up because of my very limited knowledge on what these projects actually imply.

I just opted to use a national/local service instead, it's cheaper and easier, and it's run by a company that complies to the EU regulations.
Thanks for providing the relevant mark. You just saved me 40 minutes!
YC Work at a Startup
that's just propagandist fluff attempting to justify american intervention
> If you are white and a foreign national, the worst thing they will do is kick you out

I've attended to computer security conferences in the past, that would not be the first time some security guy is arrested for no reason at the US border.
This is exactly why B2B startups should avoid chasing whales. Any customer that makes up more than 10% of your revenue is going to be able to demand things and get them; even if those things are not in the best interest of the product. Your sales people will want to chase whales if revenue is the only metric; so you have to focus them on volume.

It's inevitable at some point; which is why most enterprise software companies end up as consulting companies after a certain scale. Consulting companies are ironically transforming themselves to be software companies as well, so competition is fierce.