skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is in good-natured jest, but wouldn’t the arrival of widespread quantum computing, which need to be absolutely decoupled from their environment so as to prevent decoherence, actually be an enormous step forward in almost all these “side channel” attacks? In the sense that decoupling must by definition limit any exchange of information that might constitute ‘observation’, and as such, the goings-on of a quantum computer become literally unobservable on the pain of nonfunction.
How North Korea Can Become the Switzerland of the East
Some but not all.
I'm only saying that it would take more effort and place more burden on a developer to figure out how to do all that in their programming language rather than just implement a function. I'm surprised this is a contested point.

Tell me in Java, without looking up any online resource, how to set up a FastCGI web application. Can you? Probably not. Now tell me how to write a static method in Java. If you have at least the equivalent Java experience of a freshman undergrad, you can do the latter but not the former.

If you think Lambda should use FastCGI as its common interface, then by all means create a project on github that deploys a Go-based FastCGI bridge to Lambda and makes it easy for you to bundle up your FastCGI application into a Lambda function. Problem solved! Now you just have to get people to use it.
The counter argument there is that hunger still existing is not so much a product of there not being enough food as much as the food not properly being allocated. There is easily enough food produced in the world to feed everyone as is.
I half-remember reading that someone dumped the firmware of an older iPod by listening to hard disk noises.

Thinking back this doesn't make much sense.

EDIT: I was maybe ⅓ right
https://web.archive.org/web/20070613032334/http://www.ipodli...
Links to ArXiv.org papers or the like aside, most links these days are - to some extent - a bit of "content marketing" for something or someone. But some contain more useful information and insights than others. I actually found this piece relatively useful, in that the "realtor metaphor" really gave me a new insight into the mindset of a recruiter.

Honestly, I'd never taken the think to think through the math and realize the extent to which they care about volume more than optimizing any single deal. Thinking about it that way does shed some interesting light on things, IMO.

Anyway, I wouldn't call this post spam. It's not exactly long-form journalism or a "newly discovered work by Thoreau" but it doesn't really claim to be so either.
Net Neutrality. (Or Netscape Navigator, but I think in this case it's the former.)
Twitter Bans Political Dissidents for Foreign Governments
Hunger is solved, in any country that is not a shit hole.
Project Fi creates its own version of an unlimited plan
Crop failures can happen anywhere, so isn't supplier diversity a good thing? All other things being equal, it seems like excluding US exports from the global market would increase exposure to bad weather and make prices more volatile.

In particular, think about the case where US farmers have a good year and many other places have a bad year.

It seems like efficiency and environmental considerations would have us reduce the amount of land devoted to crops as much as possible, but guaranteeing safety of the food supply would mean increasing capacity. So there's a tradeoff here.
>This kinda reads like a corn industry hit-piece on a rival technology.

The way that this is framed really betrays either a bias or a significant gap in understanding on the part of the author. The big one is their neglect of the costs to society borne from extracting and refining diesel from fossil fuel. Instead they focused solely on the costs of the subsidy.

Look at how they mentioned the Argentine subsidy: "Argentina was doing the U.S. a favor, helping it satisfy its biodiesel demands more cheaply"

They're framing this as a net positive for America, but it betrays their perspective: they don't see disincentivization of biodiesel production by American farmers as a negative thing.
I agree with all of this. Saxophone is a highly expressive instrument... just not a pretty one. And I'm a huge Albert Ayler fan (which also gets back to melodic ideals... Ayler's great compositions are great in part because they're such simple, euphonic Circle-of-Fifths things, like folk music or gospel. To jazz nerds, Ayler is difficult. To non-nerds, Ayler is much easier to understand than most jazz.)
I've felt that way about Blue Apron. I'm perfectly capable of going to the grocery store but I liked having new recipes to try. If I could get just recipes (maybe optimized to limit crazy ingredients and waste), that would be something I might subscribe to.
For better or for worse, there's a limited subset of certification vendors that are considered reputable by most hiring managers. Most of their certifications consist entirely of alphabet soup and are recognized nationwide if not globally. (Unfortunately this does lead to some unfortunate mishaps, like OSCP being overlooked in favor of garbage like CEH).

When someone comes along with an official "I can MongoDB certified architect" certificate issued by Mongo themselves, it's a good talking point during an interview, but we don't consider it a credential in itself.

There's no way to vet every arbitrary corporate certificate that comes through the door; we don't know if it's the result of a rigorous apprenticeship, 1000-question exam, a practical and 10 years of industry experience or a couple YouTube videos and a questionnaire. We don't know if the standards changed with management; what used to be impossible to attain is now printed like money. We don't know if the way Coca-cola teaches students to do things complies with best practices or industry standards, or just with Coca-cola's vision for how things should be done (which is absolutely what I'd expect from an entity like Google, who has demonstrated this in other avenues of influence).

Equifax could have printed certifications. Until recently, they were a reputable name. Would you trust an information security certificate issued by them now?

There is no accountability with corporate certifications. You're advocating faith-based hiring by trading on name alone.
Rolls-Royce and Google Cloud attempt to make autonomous ships a reality
Thats probably the most commitment I've ever seen for fixing a bug like that

Thats awesome
Have to disagree. Use Google search a lot and find it uncanny in getting me what I need in most situations in the first couple of links.

Now I am old and been using search engines for a long time and remember Veronica and Jughead coming online and do think I have learned through the years how to word a search to optimize getting the results.
Simone Biles Says She, Too, Was Abused by Larry Nassar
https://github.com/ankyra/escape (disclaimer: I'm one of the authors)

We use Escape to version and deploy our microservices across environments and even relate it to the underlying infrastructure code so we can deploy our whole platform as a single unit if needs be.
For those of us interested in agro-ecology (Permaculture, etc.) David Blume makes a great case for small-scale alcohol fuel production integrated into your permie farm. Pretty much any sugar or carbs can be fermented to make alcohol. The byproducts can all be reused directly on the farm. The chemical elements that make up the fuel all come from air and water so your nutrients and trace minerals etc. are retained on the farm, the alcohol fuel is essentially packaged sunshine.

He's got a comprehensive book "Alcohol Can Be a Gas!" http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/
How would the client know the hash is valid?
This topic is way too complex to be experimented upon by mere thought. For example, take a gander at this discussion on corn ethanol EROEI a few years back. Lots of data, detailed analysis, vigorous debate, and a headline conclusion of an EROEI of 1.07.

There's a lot of debate about this, with numbers varying due largely to differing assessments of inputs and credits for byproducts, but I have never seen a convincing EROEI for corn ethanol over about 2.

EDIT: I forgot to include the link! Here it is: http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/6760
It's often far less convenient to get to a recycling center in the US (especially for people without a car) so they do more of their own sorting.
Declarative UI systems that look a lot like HTML+CSS+JS, keep cropping up in other domains besides the web; I think, but for increasing freedom to replace the JS part with some other languages to specify behavior, the basic model will be around for a long time.
Miners were mining when Bitcoin was at $10.

Marginal capacity that's barely profitable at $19,000 will disappear at $18,000.

As the hashrate decreases at same difficulty level and transaction volume, fees go up which attracts more capacity.

The difficulty level adjusts approximately every two weeks, so if mining isn't profitable and blocks aren't created fast enough, difficulty will drop to make mining more profitable.

In the last 30 days during the latest bloodbath du jour, hashrate is actually way up from 13 exahashes/second to 17 exahashes/second.

https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=30days
Tentative guidelines for GUI composability
I'm really excited about the code formatter. I'm glad more and more projects are following Go's lead on this.

How was the default style decided? And very importantly, what's the forum for users to bikeshed endlessly about how it should be different?

More seriously, as someone who's literally updating a bit of code to use a :simple_one_for_one supervisor right now - is the new DynamicSupervisor more about naming, so people understand it better, than semantics? I was under the impression that :simple_one_for_one, :rest_for_one, etc, were all standard erlang OTP supervisor strategies and that Elixir mostly deferred to them. Is it still using the same erlang semantics under the hood?

Oh, and edited to add: does that mean using `:simple_one_for_one` with a `Supervisor` is now deprecated? If so, what's involved in transitioning to the new approach?
that's the difference between CGI and FastCGI, though.
We (Seattle) used to have separate bins in the late 90's or early 00's. A lot smaller total volume than the 96 gal toters, though.
A low national birth rate is only an issue if you also hate immigration.
Or something like X3dom will take center stage.
Bethesda had a subtle visual joke in this vein a few years back when their E3 announcement had a faux dir readout (https://i.redd.it/jm4nxvx92z2x.png). In it, they had the new DOOM game listed as "DOOM4^H", as it was previously announced as "DOOM 4" but then the project got scrapped and reannounced as just "DOOM." I found the throwaway gag pretty amusing personally, but none of my friends caught it.
Selfish people who think their taxes will go down if they don’t have to, in their minds, subsidize rural counties. What happened to “United we stand?”
It's not a comparative term, so it confuses the discussion to use it as such, just as unfunny comments derail discussion.

"Either it is or it isn't," implies that it's a binary. That's incorrect and muddies the waters. It's quantitative in a practical sense, as in geography or geology, not in an absolute sense as in mathematics. So "more carbon neutral" can be sensibly interpreted in this quantitative sense. Your use of language implying that it's a binary, "confuses the discussion to use it as such."

You probably think it's "unfunny" because you missed the logical distinction. Now that it has been explained to you how you were the one who derailed the discussion in the first place with bad logic, you probably still think it's "unfunny."
Then Datomic should at least release their own, properly done and fair, benchmarks.
The cost of production is simply the cost of the (produced) factors of production (see Böhm-Bawerk's "Value and Price", part of his "Capital and Interest" works).

So the answer to your question is that miners ought to leave when the market value of their mined product is less than the marginal cost of production (assuming they keep track). If you have already recovered the cost of the mining tool, then the marginal cost is determined by power (electricity, cooling) and difficulty. At that point you'd be better off turning off the mining tools and using your money to buy BTC rather than power. On the one hand, BTC can go a long way down before that point, and difficulty would change; on the other hand, if the market price were to fall so much as to stop mining it would be tantamount to a complete destruction of the BTC system; I'm not sure how that would happen, it would surely not be simply a question of BTC pricing.
Great!

But there article is about the current difficulty of finding someone to take things that can't be upcycled---the specific case are mills in India that can no longer evonomically recycle cloth into emergency blankets.
They're not punishing small channels for logan paul. he's an incredibly easy problem to deal with, and they already solved that problem by kicking him off YPP.

This is to deal with the much larger problem of small channels posting awful content in such huge volumes that it's difficult to police, and causing headlines like this one: https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/youtubers-made-hundre...
Depends on the cost of electricity, difficulty adjustment, etc

So if you're running a miner right next to the hoover dam, with your basically free hydro-electricity, you can mine for a lot longer than someone in San Francisco where PG&E quadruple charges them for any use above a certain threshold at an already high electric bill rate
Glad someone is working on this!

One of the reasons we built PGP signing capabilities into Krypton [0] is to make it easy for anyone to sign their Git commits/tags. Almost nobody uses this awesome feature of Git. We even ended up implementing parts of the OpenPGP spec in Swift [1].

0: https://krypt.co/docs/start/code-signing.html

1: https://github.com/kryptco/swift-pgp
Wow, yeah, that's pretty uncool. Thanks for filling me in.
If VSC + JS would be free, open source and running on all platforms, why not?
It should be noted that I deal primarily with geo-spatial image analysis, so there is a not insignificant amount of bias with regards to what data I'm interested in. I like using the USDA NAIP API for imagery, since I can call in imagery using GDAL directly into python or R. I rely heavily on freely available public utility data sets (Parcel level utility data). Beyond that and other than as a starting point, you're training data is always going to be something you've invested in heavily. Good training data is 100% the game. No modeling exercise is going to go well on poor quality training data. Currently as a personal project, I'm trying to develop a platform for developing and training data for geospatial modeling. If you're interested, hit me up on a PM and I can explain it in more detail (after work).
That's a great model. Do you use cloudformation each for deployment? If so, have you thought of creating a single cloudformation template for the whole deployment so you can do the entire deployment in one stack update?

Have you encountered any issues to watch out for when only using one APIG for each environment (150 micro-services). Have you encountered any downsides to doing this versus 1 micro-service to 1 APIG? I'm also running into the Gateway throttle limits and I think deploying many micro-services (like you have done) to 1 APIG is the best solution.
You don’t need to screw around with creating boxes, patching them, etc. if you’re tiny and only have one or two boxes running one or two services, then there’s not much point automating anything.

If you’ve got 100s of services or handle huge load spikes, why spend extra rev cycles on concerns like “do I have enough machines” or “are these things patched?” or even “how do I make sure my service stays up?”
>What if there were no pleading, every case went to trial, and the penalty was the one assigned to the circumstances of the case at the beginning of the trial.

This is a misunderstanding of how things work and is begging the question. Part of the trial is determining what punishment is appropriate based on the facts and arguments presented in the trial. Indeed, determining the "circumstances of the case" is at the core of what a trial is.
«everyone in Bitcoin lost 50% of their purchasing power from peak mark»

Deceptive statement. Only those who bought Bitcoin in the last 90 days really lost money. Everyone else is heavily in the green.
Early prediction of LTV for your SaaS
I can confirm that at least some judges take it seriously. The judge I clerked for paid careful attention every time, looked for nonverbal hints that the defendant had reservations, asked follow-up questions and, in at least one case that I saw, adjourned so that the defendant has more time to think it over and discuss with his lawyer.
The closest thing I have found are the Sainsbury's meal plans which are weekly [1].
However as far as I can tell there is no optimisation to limit waste and the number of ingredients.

[1] https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/meal-plans/weeknight-meal-p...
Google's Project Fi now offers unlimited data (with a catch)
With the ZX81 and hardware of that era you kind of knew a lot more about what was going on with the radio waves as you would listen to a radio and have interference from television and computer kit, e.g. loading and saving programs off tape decks. The whole spectrum that was a bit more accessible with things like CB radio, nowadays we are deaf to analog signals and would not 'notice' and interference.
The author touches on this only glancingly, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I too have been suffering from information overload, mostly from social media apps on my phone. I have mostly solved it recently by getting a new phone and not installing any of those apps.

My goal is to get back to the state where I am actually bored sometimes, because being bored is an opportunity to think and let my brain work through some of the information I've already jammed into my short-term memory.

Insulating myself from media works, but it's a choice, and that choice itself has a cost. Before smartphones and the Internet, I could be in a state where I wasn't overloaded with information and I wasn't spending an iota of effort to maintain that state. I can be in that state now, but I am constantly paying a mental tax to keep those shields up. Don't install the app, don't let myself spend too much time on reddit (or here for that matter...).

It may be that there is no solution to this problem short of radically excising myself from modern society. But I do hope we come up with broader solutions to it than what we have now where it's all on each of us to maintain constant, exhausting, vigilance against the tide of data that seeks to wash us away.
A Three-Perspective Theory of Cyber Sovereignty (China, PDF)
Just to add: I've worked on pipelines like this for dozens of clients and I'd be happy to talk more in-depth about your options, as business requirements do tend to influence your delivery pipeline a lot. Email is in my profile if you're interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
There's a pretty similar discussion happening downthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16169803

The short version is that I don't think it's fair to compare Go's stability to that of a "barebones" language with an infinitesimal stdlib (e.g., C), because that's where most of the change is likely to happen. Go's already proven to be far more stable than most "batteries included" languages: think Python 2 vs. 3, Ruby's fairly considerable churn over the years, PHP 4 to 5, etc.

Obviously my designation on Go here is subjective, but it seems to me that it compares favorable to any other platform that comes to mind.
> nobody was and is actually running qmail

I had Qmail running circa 1998 and I'm pretty sure it was vanilla, no patches. But after all this time I could be wrong.

Anyway, shortly thereafter I discovered Postfix and that was the end of my relationship with Qmail.
I'm working on a columnar Python DSL right now, I think of it like SQLAlchemy for Pandas/Spark/Flink. My goal is to create a language that makes the cumbersome parts of the PySpark API much easier to express. I started off with the intent of replicating the R's dataframe API because it feels more fluid--but what you're doing feels eerie, because I came to the same conclusions as you around focusing on a language for columnar manipulations, and letting the "linking" become implicit. Then I want to transition to rethinking the ML pipeline, I like Spark's more than sklearn's, but there are still cumbersome parts that my intuition says can be solved by a columnar API.

So if I were you, I would do Python DSL, because it addresses my immediate needs of increasing productivity. :)
Google's crawler at some point last year started indexing a really large mostly text based AngularJS app I built: https://www.fwdeveryone.com

Even if it didn't, headless chrome makes it really easy to pre-render content for web crawlers.
I think they do only stop ad-based monetization? This post is about revenue from the Youtube Partner Program, which is the advertising monetization program. Content that gets demonetized for other reasons (e.g., queer content) still earns Red revenue, so I imagine this is the same.
Why Hotspot? There are many bytecode languages, with their own execution environments - .NET/CLR, Parrot, BEAM, etc. wasm is an attempt to design one specifically for the web, rather than trying to shoehorn one made for a different environment.
They're there to criticize.

A movie about two guys kicking each other in the balls for an entire hour might become very popular with the public. But it's shallow, repetitive, and with no actual redeeming qualities.

The quality of something has only a small influence in its popularity. Critics are there to evaluate quality.
Can you use the filter feature within your Connections list to effectively accomplish the same type of search you were looking to do? Or does it lead you to the same blocked result? For me it works, but I haven't done much searching recently.
Certainly the duty of care ought to be in full force when one is acting against a clients wishes. Ignoring an illegal defense in favor of a legal one might be reasonable; ignoring an unlikely defense in favor of an illegal one looks like a clear absence of assistance of counsel.
Azul (and AFAIK most lisp machines) does not do garbage collection in hardware. In these contexts the "GC HW" involves hardware acceleration of read/write barriers required by concurrent and incremental GCs (which otherwise requires the compiler/JIT to inline implementation of barriers into user code). The reason why Azul can now use stock amd64 CPUs is that they found that you can abuse the MMU to provide exactly this kind of HW accelerated barriers.
> In a world where hunger is still an unsolved problem

At best its only a problem in specific locations and due to political problems. I don't believe its reasonable to demand that progress in renewable energy adoption should be aborted just because some nation on some random corner of the world is experiencing political problems.
Journeying: fueling personal change with transformative value
Disclaimer: I'm not a bitcoin expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

With that said, here's what I think would happen:

1. Bitcoin price goes down enough that a lot of miners leave

2. The difficulty decreases since blocks are taking more than 10 minutes to produce

3. It gets cheaper to mine bitcoins, since less hash calculations are necessary per block (on average)

4. Miners want to join the system again, since it's cheap, thus taking away the risk of a 51% miner

So, bitcoin should self-correct