skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely not true. I live in a city where a third of households are carless, believe me, with the neglected state of transit and pedestrian infrastructure, it's not a choice for most. I wouldn't hesitate to say that's the case in almost every American city outside NYC.

But we should be talking about designing our society around more bikes, transit and walking.

Transportation should be accessible to everyone - those too young for a license, too handicapped to walk or drive, those unable to afford a car.

I think our health, environment, liviability and community would all be done a great service by demphasizing the single passenger car and it's accessories (sprawl, acres of parking, endless noise, pollution and isolated commutes)
I can't tell if you're being ironic or not here.
> token amount

:)
>In Google's case, it doesn't do that at all --- solve one CAPTCHA successfully and all you get is another, immediately.

I have experienced Google doing the endless captcha when using Opera's built in VPN.

The first time I went through about 3 captchas and then I "knew" they were messing with me.

So, now, I just change my location in the VPN, and get back the searching...
This is why we're starting to run fiber. 5G and tree's don't mix well.
more info? how do I use this at home? also is it broken?
That's an average, though. It varies considerably depending on many factors. Generally speaking, the less that you drive, the higher the per mile cost will be because there are fewer miles to amortize the fixed costs over.
Youtube really needs a 2-tier advertising system.

Pay the discounted rate if you're okay with your ads being posted against unpopular and unvetted content.

Pay the full price if you only want ads against vetted and popular content.

You democratized video, and now you're hammering against the little publishers.
I'd urge your to consider the huge time investment with converting a large web application to TS.

It cannot be understated how much effort will be put into it. Any moderately sized application with take months of human-hours to get completely switched over.

You'll be wrestling with third-party libraries with meager documentation on how to use with TS, lots of googling to understand how to get the compiler to not complain, and a new build system that has its own idiosyncrasies.
It's Computer Modern, from LaTeX. He mentions it in the article. The css trick mentioned in the other comment doesn't work for fonts in images.
Brainstorming about ways to prevent misuse of the coins used for mining. Having the charity be operated by humans might be problematic (cause as we all know humans are corruptible). So might be better to have the charity be operated algorithmically, ideally via a smart contract. And dumber algorithms might be better since complexity provides more opportunities to exploit.

Since people seem to like the idea of basic income, what if the charity address was exactly that...a basic income provider, which would evenly send out received coins to every real human who registered their own basic income address?
inconsistent with "don't be evil" :P
The patent isn't from Google, it's only listed on Google Patents.

Original Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
I think it has to be done, but it should be done respectfully and proportionately — a high ranking CIA case officer merits much more scrutiny than a NASA scientist, etc. I think we have seen enough serious counterintelligence failures over the past decade that something has to be done culturally and technically.
Are those earlier-mentioned attacks against HyperThreading and caches still viable? If not, were they resolved in OpenSSL, in the OS, or in hardware?
tl;dr: Unless you have 4000 hours of watch-time AND 1000 subscribers, you're getting axed from monetization.

1000 subscribers is going to be impossible if your content is niche.

That guy who put together that excellent 40 minute step-by-step video on fixing my garage-door opener (plastic gears, seriously?)... why would I subscribe?

Youtube is pivoting to being a TV-replacement.
I'd keep looking, as I regularly see remote positions that will hire only in either the "US and Canada," or "North America."
If you're worried about servers being cracked, the best thing is to avoid shared cloud servers and use dedicated private servers.

These attacks rely on some other user-process malware running on the server to gain information via side channels. If every process in your server is your own, for your web services or whatever, you don't have to worry about it.

As usual, nothing beats dedicated private servers.
Original Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
There are 4.8 million Chinese-Americans in the United States. The last time we publicly charged one of them with espionage, the judge ended up publicly apologizing to them and the government cut a $1.8MM settlement. People complain about racism when arguments are rooted in racism.
> At this point i would prefer my child playing with DUKE NUKEM than the actual modern smartphone/PC games!

To be fair, the Duke was superior to pretty much any smartphone game I've come across yet :P
It's unclear what it is you think needs to be done here, and since the preceding post seems to suggest that our government persecute the families of those suspected to be involved in espionage, some clarity would be welcome.
What's the motivation here then? To stop paying money to one-hit wonders and funnel it only to the professional/serious content producers? I don't really understand why that'd be necessary.

Youtube makes some strange choices with their monetization. I really wonder why they are so obsessed with finely controlling who can profit from producing good content on their platform. Why not let a) the users and b) the advertisers decide this? Who is losing out here, absent their preemptive interventions?

If they keep this up it might highly incentivize a decentralized video platform with a built-in monetization scheme.
I keep getting the calendar used against me.

I'm super human by all honest measures, but management without fail starts giving me guff about going to the gym and having lunches away from my desk. I can venture into justifying that I don't use social or anything on the clock which creates clear head space, etc etc, but it'd fall on deaf ears... I'm old school like that.

But the calendar creates an attack surface. I don't want to work at such companies, it's not always been that way, but it's been consistent across shit rung startups.

Management wants me at my desk 12 hours a day and always on call, and makes "jokes" about anything that I mark as time I want away from my desk. Often 2 hours discussions start 15 minutes before I have an outside event noted.

I quit these jobs when the abuse threshold is crossed, but the departments are made up of mostly people on visas etc so they're not so lucky. It should never strike management as a surprise when I leave, but I get the impression they're used to dishing out abuse to "non-compliant" programmers. The bros thrive, the meek get beat down and go home to lonely apartments full of cats where they passionately code themselves to sleep with Netflix.
Oh, neat. Thanks.
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I think most people don’t realize this “endless” CAPTCHA is actually an average of three iterations. You’re supposed to stop when you see no squares with X in them. That is, you should click submit even when there are zero squares matching the CAPTCHA criteria.

Once you realize this it’s way less confusing, and in fact it even clearly states the instructions at the top of the CAPTCHA. But it’s super confusing and definitely a usability nightmare.

The goal, as I see it, is to increase the number of round trips to google required to solve a CAPTCHA, in order to increase the cost for those using CAPTCHA solving services.
"Freemium language" is not an option. The language is, and will be free and open source. I cannot even imagine any other option, particularly after open sourcing the codebase. Premium tools and services is the way to go for us and we don't feel that would be detrimental for Luna. It ranges all the way from simple consulting services to running a Luna based cloud environment, but there is no threat for Luna as a language in that. On the contrary, this kind of support usually helps boost the technology.
Robert Hanssen was an nth generation white American from Chicago, the son of a cop, and he sold out intelligence operatives (who were later murdered) just for cash. Aldrich Ames: similar story.
Well, they told us they work around a mile or so in good conditions with more in near-perfect conditions. They could miss a lot of packets if weather interference happened. So, they were often paired up with another link (slow wired or fast wireless) as backup for highest-priority stuff. They were also sold as more secure from taps. They were also really expensive back when I studied them. Aside from being low volume, that was probably because (as our course materials said) they were deployed in areas where laying fiber was really, really expensive. So, maximizing profit meant charging significantly less than that but not too much less, ya know? ;)

A long time ago, I looked it up again to see what the cheapest, budget setup was. I still have this bookmark of an open design I found:

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

Past that, I don't know any more since I just had basic training on it as I said.
From a design point of view maybe, but the price of the MacBook is far too much for what you get.

The 2011 MacBook Air was a good replacement for the discontinued white MacBook. It was a lot more modern, but retained the same price point. It still continued to fulfil the role of the entry level Mac.

The current MacBook doesn’t do that though. It’s too expensive to be entry level - similar spec’ed to a MacBook Air, it is $300 more, for some new colours and a slightly better screen? Ok it’s a little more portable, but it’s not like the MacBook Air is bulky... The base model having an underpowered processor definitely isn’t helping it’s reputation - it’s like the original MacBook Air all over again.
Don't be fooled by the numbers e9 is 5 orders od magnitude less than e14
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The core looks close enough to dataframes that I'd be curious to know how you compare to tablesaw:
https://github.com/jtablesaw/tablesaw

This looks neat but I'm not sure why I would care about this. There's a ton of solutions out there in the ecosystem out there already with a columnar like interface.

Granted, we wrote our own as well[1] that uses the builder pattern that you then toss to an executor (our main backend is spark for this). One reason we wrote this is for persistence purposes. Being able to encode and persist a series of transforms that you can then load remotely has been very helpful for us in machine learning.

We've since migrated this project to the eclipse foundation and intend on doing a rewrite of the interface as well as integrate our baked in tensor library[2] in to certain parts of the pipeline for speed purposes and handling things like computer vision workloads.

In general, I always like seeing new takes on the columnar format processing approach but I'm just not seeing anything novel here. Clarification of intent would be great!

[1]: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/DataVec
[2]: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j
Is it really true that something solely based in Hawaii can raise the alarm? I would think there would be several systems involved (e.g. NORAD). How is it that this could be the result of a bad interface and a "fat finger"? I know... malice vs. incompetence... but in this case the incompetence seems a bit too unlikely / too much. I think it is either incompetence at a larger scale, or it is a hack... but perhaps I am placing too much faith in our national missile defense systems.
That's treason, so it's fair for me. Russians and Chinese probably shoot betraying spies after being debriefed and tortured. It's part of the equation, that's why they should ask for millions and millions, risk vs reward.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined...
There was Eudora for that.

I think one thing that maybe kept ThB from innovating was that people took webmail to heart. It's few people who want a thick client or even want to go thru the config. What port, what server, etc.

On a mobile device, the UI walks them through the scenarios (Google, Microsoft, etc) so they usually don't have to guess or have "IT" set it up for them.

Plus, what ships with MAC and Windows is good enough for most people who do want some kind of thick client.

Regardless, ThB was the ugly child at Mozilla since ever. They should have taken the Opp when Eudora was finally killed, but I don't think Moz had the energy.
Uf! Yeah, that's pretty spendy but not out of line with what I expected.

Very cool though, always awesome to hear how this stuff works in practice.
As a guess, they are moving to implement a much more stringent manual review of monetized channels, and the change to the eligibility criteria is an effort to reduce the number of monetized channels to a number that's more feasible to review. But if that's the case, I wonder why they don't just say it.

>Why not let... the advertisers decide this?

The advertiser's have been pretty clear they want YouTube to be the content police. That's what the big advertiser revolt a few months ago was about.
I was surprised to find that GraphQL was probably the easiest sell to my team ever.
I worked in a Japanese company for the last 2 months and people are not tense about it. Looks like you see it differently.
If you're making <$100/year out of your videos (99% of the channels affected) it is highly unlikely that you were making new videos because of the money anyway.

So only <1% of impacted channels might be materially affected.
People like money.
Better luck next time I guess! :-)
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Either you do net neutrality or you do all of the following:

1) Remove "franchises" from localities.

2) Simplify right of way provisions to allow new cable to be buried easily.

3) Companies with installed poles must allow fiber to be run across them. (If they don't like that, go underground)

4) ISP's must tell consumers in plain english what restrictions exist on their service. Bandwidth caps. Throttled or Blocked ports, protocols, and sites.
"There's no point in checking if a reference refers to null, because (unlike pointers) it cannot then be assigned a useful value, and also because any such check will be removed by the optimizer, because null references are undefined behavior (in both C++ and Rust)."

That is a good point; I did not realize it was considered undefined behavior, which does make it substantially different from a null pointer. (Of course, that means the compiler remains free to check for null when the reference is created, which would have been the safer approach. The check would only be needed when creating a reference from a pointer, and even then it could be optimized out if the pointer is known to be non-null.)

"It is an improvement but (obviously) the unsafety in this case escapes from the "unsafe" block into the surrounding "safe" code and other "safe" functions."

Right. Despite the name, the "unsafe" keyword is not really meant to say that the code inside the block is unsafe, but rather that the compiler is not responsible for its safety—it is up to the programmer to expose a safe interface. This code breaks that rule, and the result is undefined behavior. The constraint does help in narrowing down the source of the problem to a small core of functions explicitly marked as unsafe, rather than the entire codebase.

As steveklabnik pointed out, the safe version (unwrapping a None value) results in a panic call rather than actually dereferencing a null pointer, meaning that you can reliably intercept it with std::panic::set_hook—it is not undefined behavior.
No idea. I just met their new criteria for 10000 views before monetization, which should mean I've already been vetted?

Does a company like Google really need human review on videos? With 10k views, their AI/ML should detect what's risky content or not based on what they know about users.

Here's a great video that we'll see less of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDB2QVEuy60

A well-produced 36 second video on replacing your Corolla's brake light, rather than a 5 minute video going blah blah blah. And I'll never subscribe.
What can they even sue for though? By definition the downgraded classification is not in effect yet, so I would think it could not have an impact on any of the complainants.

The A&C argument seems rather weak to me, but I guess that is left to be seen.

I for one feel that the Start Your Own ISP route is a healthy thousand times more helpful than suing the government for not wanting to stand behind a minute classificatory nuance that somebody gave a pet name.
> Apple

Do you have specific examples? I don't usually see instances of Apple being more than price-gougers who do a decent job with privacy, and I'm interested in learning more.
Money, it says he was offered a CIA contract, apparently many retired agents work as independent contractors after retiring. His mistake was not asking for FU money from China, considering the great service he performed. It's not China doesn't have the money
That seems both cruel, and needlessly harsh. Surely you yourself have weaknesses which could be exploited, and I hope that you’re not prepared to kill yourself over it. By the same token, telling people that they are too stupid to live is pointlessly cruel, unhelpful, and frankly wrong.

You can be intelligent, but old and suffering from MCI, or a more advanced dementia. You could be mentally ill, or brilliant in one field, but utterly ignorant of finances, or human nature. You could be a genius with TBI, or you could b young and foolish.

I can’t see what you’re saying as anything other than venting of spleen. Maybe it makes you feel better as a mechanism to cope with frustration, but I’d encourage you to reconsider that attitude toward your fellow humans.
I've been on the receiving end of this when using some VPNs -- after a few you realise you're being stonewalled.

It's an _incredibly_ frustrating experience for real users caught in this
Maybe so, but won't there be less incentive for someone new to post some obscure repair video later on, to help the few people who might benefit from it and make a few dollars?
We had a proposal for meeting free days but then a lot of people got nervous and it got reduced to a meeting free afternoon and then nothing. It seems a lot of people ca't live without meetings. For me it was perfect though.
It's how I started with Adsense. The $10 a month I started making motivated me to create more and more. Over a few years, I learned what worked and didn't, then started making $1500/month.

$25/year for a video that took <1 hour to make is an excellent investment.
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Even a trickle is an incentive for some people. But now they are completely disincentivized.

For sure some people will continue regardless but there will be a few who also won't pursue the growth curve [making more quality fixit videos, for example] because getting the traction is getting too hard for their niche.
> we can raze the mountains of collective technical debt that have accumulated over the past decade.

Not likely when professionally written code is full of errors, many security-related (e.g. attempting to load and execute .gifs). I recently presented a compilation[1] of the errors produced by one widely-used commercial ad function. If this is how a professionals write commercial code, I don't want to imagine what amateurs have been doing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/web_programming/comments/7o8dzf/cop...
Ok, so it's not deleted but maybe it gets a banner with links on up to date stuff like in OP. Then, if they can't use that due to legacy software, they go forward with whatever the answer contains for what they're stuck with. That might help both types of users.
When is there going to be a legitimate YouTube contender? Seems like it's ripe for a replacement...
I think there are some high performance work athletes who can work 90 hours in a focused manner but there are also a lot of pretenders who just hang around and do nothing.
There seems to be somewhat of a pattern of Go being linked to outages (CloudFlare and now Twitch). Any regrets investing in Go?
Yup. I ditched my car because of uber/lyft.

the problem, from a business perspective, is that I live in silicon valley, and still have the expensive parts of owning a car; there's still the parking that came with my residence, and my employer is still paying for parking at work. (I dunno about you, but my desk is rather smaller than a car parking spot.)

If Uber/Lyft were to raise their prices to profit-making levels, all I would have to do is buy the car, which is, as far as I can tell, not the most expensive part of the infrastructure required to support owning a car, at least not in my area.

If uber/lyft want to make this sticky enough that they can raise their rates, they need to hurry to lobby the cities to build housing without parking, or otherwise allow me to opt-out of buying car infrastructure, otherwise... well, yeah, I'm going to get driven when it's subsidized (I take uber and lyft, whatever is cheapest) but once that subsidy goes away? if it becomes as expensive as I think it will, I'm just going to buy a car again.
So if you were a foreign government and you wanted to place a loyal agent into a privileged position inside the CIA, how would you do it? Just have them enter the country on a tourist visa, walk up to the front door and ask for launch codes?
Yeah, but that 1% how-do-I-do-this video is a big reason to come to YouTube. Auto repair and some construction videos are life savers. I think they missed the boat on fixing their problem by pulling up the drawbridge and cutting down on the utility of their service.
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Thanks for trivializing my analysis, but I don’t see myself as a chronic doomsayer. In fact, I’m bullish on Asia and know from firsthand experience that Americans are, as a culture, increasingly moving out of the game at hand. I don’t expect any accolades for being right, but you could at least not puke some lukewarm theory about how America can never be wrong at my feet.
Ah - make sure it goes to a good home
one of my advisers in grad school would schedule the 'show and tell' meetings for his research group on Friday afternoons so the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed, plus there was a set time limit as he would leave at an exact time to pick up his children from school :)
I see, my mistake. You are suggesting that trade outside of the purview of Governments has no utility. It must be a wonderful place where you live.
Looks really cool but not sure where I would get started with something like this on OSX
Yeah but they are probably trusted little to start (as all new hires) and over the decades they gain trust. Then a light lights up in Beijing...
Why not both?

Sell them on culture, but the compensation still needs to be not insulting.
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