skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still seems safe though to set up rules where domain ownership could automatically grant ownership for a protocol. E.g. Facebook.com:// or just Facebook:// if .coms were allowed to be dropped.
Are there research firms that do ground work research, focus groups, talk to people on the street, build real professional networks to extract "problem stories" for ideas, and do competition research to the same level that e.g. short sellers might?

Are these just normal market research firms, and are there boutique firms that have low-volume, high value clients?
the heads were more durable, to be sure, but the SCREECHING a disc would make when one crashed... it was loud. I used to have a spare 14" platter that showed the gouges. Car brakes don't get scored that bad.
I am in the odd situation that from habit collection[0] feels natural - but I actually think "first element" makes a lot more sense than "item at zero offset".

Except maybe for things that are actually pointer+offset (which I think very rarely makes sense in high level languages/most ADTs).

In fact, I think for situations where 0-based indexing makes sense, I'd prefer "memory_area+offset" rather than "pretend_collection_type[offset]".

I also usually talk about "the first character" of a string, or first word of a sentence; not "word at zero offset from start".

So yeah, I think Dijkstra's wrong on this one (or rather he has some very strong opinions on greater-/less-/-and-equal-to, and which are natural - for which I have little sympathy outside of abstract discrete math papers).

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
Those and also the other free electronics CAD talks - there's two newcomers at least that have some exciting ideas.
> I somewhat recently learned about the propaganda from the FBI in the 60's and 70's to discourage hitchhiking.

Would love to read more about that... Got anything trustworthy?
René Carmille
I'm pretty sure the factor five in your second point is in reality way worse than that, probably (wild guess) at least over 25x.

Mining is not only inefficient when implemented in JS (even with the web asm stuff, many clients have no support), or when it runs on crappy or old hardware, it also depends on what your electricity costs. Pro-miners put their farms in locations where electricity is super cheap, often in the middle of nowhere, perhaps near a hydro dam. Most clients are on a laptop or mobile in a city, where electricity is much more expensive, and their electric efficiency is made worse because they run it off battery.

Distributed crypto-mining for micropayments via embedded JS is such a huge waste, I'd probably have more problems if I knew the site was doing that, for the guilt of wasting that electricity while reading, just so the author can inefficiently receive a few fractions of a cent. I might even (gasp) rather watch a video ad instead.
Where I live Google Maps is just so much better then Apple maps that never use Apple. Plus Google is just doing so much with maps then Apple is doing.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne
At those who scroll the comments first, this was well worth the ten minutes to read. I don't think I've wrapped my head around all the ideas enough to summarize it yet. But it really describes everything I love about the medium of scifi.
In time all companies listen to their customers.
Early internet movie players typically buffered the video stream at whatever speed was available until the software was reasonably sure it would be able to play the full (where ‘full’ at the time typically was less than a minute) video without stuttering.

Those old enough probably remember RealPlayer, which was famous for buffering at slower than, often a lot slower than real time.

I think modern video players still take the same approach, but if bandwidth is high enough, they need very little time before they start playing.
> Professor Koppel confirmed that it was not a coherent sentence in Hebrew.

The problem with the human mind/brain is that it is looking for patterns all the time, and it is so good at what it does it sometimes - surprisingly often? - finds patterns where there is no underlying regularity.

The AI, like its human creators, is made to look for patterns. I would be very surprised if an AI was immune to the same kind of fallacy.

That being said, I feel like a six year-old on Christmas Eve! Plus it's my birthday! If they have actually found the key to decipher it, that would so extremely cool!
> The goal is to prevent things like glued batteries which provide zero benefit to consumers

I’m a consumer who prefers thinner devices over easily-repairable ones. (At today's levels of miniaturization, saving the volume fasteners would occupy might permit an additional co-processor, or some other useful functionality.)

A state government dictating how non-essential, competitively-produced consumer electronics should be designed is textbook overreach. Minimum warranty periods, increased warranty scope, increased recycling taxes, open schematic requirements, et cetera better target the factors we care about. Better targeting minimises unintended consequences. Unfortunately, that bill wouldn’t earn its drafters pitchfork points.
I mean prolly somewhere near 40/50% of Twitter's 330 Million MAU are fake, the company will drop 50% or more in value if they ever decide to delete those accounts, incentives are aligned for Twitter to encourage bots by making it easy as possible (not adding captchas, etc.) and not enforce policy
I've read that humans are the same, they quit "aging" after age 110 or so. At that point the probability of dying in the next year is roughly 50%, and doesn't increase beyond that age.
Yes, it is. The moralized version is the retelling by later authors for other purposes, as part of the overall gradual transition, as OP exemplifies by King Arthur or the Brothers Grimm. Jesus was born way before King Arthur too. Beowulf would only be a counterexample if the retelling & famous version had deleted the moralizing, rather than rather hamhandedly and awkwardly jamming on the Christianizing and moralizing onto the poet's oral sources. Thus, Beowulf is an example of OP's claims, not a counterexample as you claim.
Try the use Apple maps from time to time and always go back to Google. Plus Google keeps adding and improving while Apple maps barely changes.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne
What I don't get is how appropriating someone's persona and account details (photo, etc) is not fraudulent?

I suppose it is hard to prove - since they purchased these profiles from foreign entity. But surely Devumi knew many of these profiles were stolen from real people without their consent.
> Google obtained de-identified data of 216,221 adults...

How much did this data cost?
Being a racist.. made you a racist. Hiding behind 'states rights' was just an excuse.

So, no, being a racist bigot trying to justify the civil war by trotting out "states rights" still gets you labeled as such.

But yes, it's rich irony seeing the states raising these issues.
> If one is riding without holding the handlebar, one can make the bicycle go to the left or right depending on which way one leans, which in essence changes the center-of-gravity. The handlebar will turn in the expected direction as well.

Yes, with the very low weight of a bicycle that can be done at low speed. But I maintain turn by leaning is mostly an illusion because that's not how you actually turn when you're riding on the road and not doing "look ma no hands". Just the fact that your hands are on the handle bar, and that when you lean a little you will also naturally put pressure on the side of your lean, pushing away the handlebar in the direction you're leaning on, which initiate the process of countersteering. It's what people naturally do on 2 wheeled vehicles whether they were taught to or not.

> When turning right, for example, I would have to push the left side of the handlebar away from myself, and, at the same time, pull the right side of the handlebar towards myself.

The only way this could work is that the lean was already initiated by countersteering. You just haven't realized you push the handle bar and to that instinctively. You should really, really give a conscious try later. Keep your bike as straight as possible, do not lean in any way, do nothing but a gentle push on the handlebar on the side you want to turn, and try very consciously to not put any pressure toward any direction after your gentle push. You will witness your bike leaning, then the wheel wanting to go toward the direction of your lean when you're at low speed, the bike doesn't need you to move the wheel toward the direction of the turn, it does that by itself.

Simply put there's no point at which one should consciously do anything other than pushing to initiate the lean.

> have not had formal training in bicycle/motorcycle handle skill

I can somewhat accept this for people who only very rarely ride their bicycle on a week end or holiday. But if you're going on the road mixed with other vehicles, or worse, if you ride a motorcycle, you should be fully in control of your vehicle. You should be able to make a turn as fast as mechanically possible without falling and at least be conscious that one should keep a steady speed, neither braking nor accelerating, while turning, if one doesn't want to fall and crash. This isn't too noticeable at moderate speeds on a bicycle but it's absolutely necessary to understand that you should keep your speed steady while turning at higher speeds, this is how many, many accidents involving only the rider are caused. The person who doesn't realize the turn is going to be steep before they came too close to the turn and chose to turn while instinctively braking to lower their speed.. braking while turning will make you fall. Loss of speed (unsteady throttle handling) will make you fall. Too much acceleration will make you fall.

Here's a good video showing what one can do with their motorcycle when one fully consciously controls its turning, instead of purely relying on instincts and misunderstood ideas like "shifting weight" (don't do that) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVoXGGXRl5k
Completely agreed. This was an enjoyable experience for me, even on a phone. And it didn’t seem to come at the cost of journalistic quality.
On the other hand, the technique would allow people to post photos and videos of themselves in exotic places, et cetera. Facebook's newsfeed would become so fake, that nobody would believe it anymore.

I think the approach will grow old really quickly, and it will turn people into (perhaps more healthy) skeptics.
I'd like to hear more about this. Is this a proven system, your personal theory or a little of both?
Isn't any form of "monster" just a cheap "this thing is evil" marker?
That de-identification is probably the absolute minimum they have to do to achieve compliance, but don't mistake it and think that the data is actually anonymous. We've seen many studies show that 90%+ of the people can be re-identified from such datasets.

Unless Google starts using fully homomorphic encryption or something similar, then you should consider that data non-anonymous. And until that happens, Google and national healthcare agencies should also require consent from the patients before giving the data to Google or any other company for such studies. Otherwise, I hope class action lawsuits will be started against both.
The fact that APL uses special characters is almost completely arbitrary.

It could trivially be turned into the usual pseudo-English syntax by replacing all the single-character symbols with conventional ASCII keywords. (As in J, etc.)

Of course it wouldn't be as dense then, and the distance between the keywords and the mathematical notation they're based on would be greater.

If that's the only reason EWD didn't like APL, it's a rather silly reason.

It's also wrong. If anything, a couple of centuries of mathematical tradition suggest it's easier to reason about logic and formal correctness with terse arbitrary symbols than with English keywords, and that the terseness makes it easy to write down dense concepts that would be much less elegantly expressed in pseudo-prose.

You have to learn the symbols to do math at that level, and most people don't find the learning all that hard.

Given that you have to learn new keywords in every language anyway, it's not a huge stretch to learn some symbols instead.

And of course after you do that there is absolutely no reason not to write and check code on paper, if you happen to think that's important.
Yeah, I mostly took issue with the bit about Raymond - not the idea that demanding that someone who saw micro-transactions and copyright as a means to fund authors and artist of the future should also cone up with the idea of Copyleft is a little unreasonable.

Still, Nelson have had year's to reconsider - and I'd be happy if they at least could've done some reasonably priced reprints - ebooks.
The opioid crisis is probably a more apt analogy, given its class dimensions and origination in the pharmaceutical industy. But see also corporate algorithms commodifying all social interaction into "followers" and "likes" as a way to reinforce hierarchy.
This link needs a [2004] tag.

Without a marked date, it incorrectly suggests that this is new research. (Considering that this is hacker news.)
First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
Not a very accurate opinion you have but I guess you're entitled to it
It was called Breakrs, fantasy sports for music. But long defunct. I haven't lived in Bmore since 2011. Now I work in NYC.
IANAGB and your meta-explanation makes total sense _but_ I'm given to believe that improving human damage repair systems would require gene therapy and this is becoming an easier and easier technique over time–isn't this what powers a lot of medical breakthroughs now? Am I wrong in believing this? Are you definitively asserting that repairing damage is going to be comparatively simpler than improving damage repair systems for the foreseeable future?
If you were dying and the doctor suggested a treatment with 10-30% success rate, would you just give up and shout yourself in the head?
I don't think it implies that unless you've already accepted they aren't doing anything. I think it's entirely possible that a lower class of bots are routinely blocked, but a higher class are always mutating to get past the latest filtering, so has a large fairly stable population.
> Twitter is bigger than any of the botters, and if it wanted it could raise the cost of entry of botting high enough that nobody would be able to afford the bots in any quantity large enough to make a difference.

How would they do this without triggering enough false positives to destroy their product?

I mean seriously, if you are capable of doing this that well, you could probably walk into a job paying >>$750k/yr at any of the large tech companies, because they'd be falling all over themselves trying to get at your magic.
I agree with ChrisSD. None of the antagonists acted out of evil. Their motivations ranged from unrequited love to annoyance over having their livestock eaten by shipwrecked men. They put obstacles in Odysseus's way, but not anywhere near the worst things they could have done. Odysseus was able to propitiate some with suitable offerings, once he understood the offence he had given. There's certainly no Darth Vader in it.
> it's rich irony seeing the states raising these issues

Decentralised decision making is a large component of the American system’s resilience. At its worst, it’s a pressure release valve which shows us the negative effects of bad policy in a controlled setting (e.g. North Carolina’s bathroom bill). At its best, it promotes policy experimentation which can later scale, having been demonstrated to work, to the national stage (e.g. California’s clean air rules).
Is that capacity only from global foundries ? What about tsmc ?
I think this article misses a point that has become standard. My understanding is that the historical consensus already was that the Copernican system was no more accurate than previous Ptolemaic system and for that reason in practice had as many ad-hoc corrections as the Ptolemaic system. The only thing the Ptolemaic system had was conceptual simplicity, simplicity in it's outline and that really can't be determined by a direct comparison of tables.
That increased conceptual simplicity was a response to practical complexity may seem a bit strange but only if you want to ignore fairly natural intellectual impulses (if your system is moving towards complexity-overload, organizing it with simple principles seems like something worth investing in even if you see immediate improvements).

And naturally, "intelligent design" proponent Owen Gingerich might not the most unbiased in his judgments of obviousness here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Gingerich
This is an American filmic convention. Maybe it's a holdover from the Hays Code, which explicitly mandated a good guy/bad guy structure by regulation.[1] Japanese anime and Russian literature do not follow it.

[1] https://www.asu.edu/courses/fms200s/total-readings/MotionPic...
I don't think so. Are the monsters in _Shadow of the Colossus_ evil? Are Humbaba or the Bull of Heaven in Gilgamesh evil? After all, Humbaba may have been 'terrible' but that was his assignment from the gods. (Was Satan the tempter in the Book of Job Evil with a capital E?) They may be dangerous to humans and destructive, but they are merely doing their job or following their nature. It might be better to refer to them, Rowlingesque, as 'fantastic beasts' rather than 'monsters' to avoid the loaded connotations.
The actual ACL article: https://transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/download/821...
Very few people ever supported “state’s rights” on principle: not a single of 5+ political issues mentioned in this threat have different answers from state to state. If you’re for legalization in Oregon, you’ll also be for legalization in Mississippi.

Claiming “state’s rights” is therefore never more than a convenient argument when you want to avoid the substance of the issue. And if that substance is racist, you are likely to be called a racist no matter what.
Billions of Plastic Pieces Litter Coral in Asia and Australia
In Japanese, the word for this is 'soramimi', which is basically misheard lyrics, and there's a show that turns it into hilarious skits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lgOZlQJ_sw
> CloudFormation has its virtues

Which seem to mostly revolve around AWS vendor lock-in. Which, you know, can be a valid business decision - accepting vendor-exclusive tooling for better vendor support to try and simplify initial deployment and lower near-term, initial ramp-up costs - but it has its downsides too, like losing control of costs over the long term and making advanced work (like multi-cloud deployments to improve reliability) more fragile, difficult, and sometimes de-facto impossible.

Seems to me like the question of CloudFormation vs. Terraform has more to do with whether the business makes a strategic decision to allow for vendor lock-in or not, rather than mostly aesthetic discussions over the merits of YAML vs HCL.
That video is awesome, but self-driving is only true if you want to drive in tight little circles.
The really dumb thing - it was all preventable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident#Hospital...

"On September 11, 1986, the Court of Goiás stated it had knowledge of the abandoned radioactive material in the building. Four months before the theft, on May 4, 1987, Saura Taniguti, then director of Ipasgo, the institute of insurance for civil servants, used police force to prevent one of the owners of IGR, Carlos Figueiredo Bezerril, from removing the objects that were left behind. Figueiredo then warned the president of Ipasgo, Lício Teixeira Borges, that he should take responsibility "for what would happen with the caesium bomb"

Apparently - the court posted a guard at the site, but it wouldn't allow the removal of any of the contents of the facility. The owners even "wrote several letters to the National Nuclear Energy Commission, warning them about the danger of keeping a teletherapy unit at an abandoned site".

Then guess who got screwed - the very owners who tried and tried to warn about this deadly problem! From wikipedia:

"In light of the deaths caused, the three doctors who had owned and run IGR were charged with criminal negligence. Because the accidents occurred before the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and because the substance was acquired by the clinic and not by the individual owners, the court could not declare the owners of IGR liable. One of the medical doctors owning IGR and the clinic's physicist were ordered to pay R$100,000 for the derelict condition of the building."

While sure, they weren't found liable - that was probably small consolation.
I seriously always failed getting over that first hurdle every time I tried. I didn't try this one yet, but most guides deviate from whatever my setup will be by a little, and that then increases to a lot of investigation work with pretty unclear config values and not a lot of debugging tools.

Have I invested enough energy? Apparently not. But I'm over the weekend-sized amount by a multipler bigger than three.
I agree. Just buy them. If they spend $100K a year on buying fake accounts and then banning those accounts, that will be more effective than messing about paying a team of 10 engineers to do pattern analysis. If they spent $2M a year on buying and then banning fake accounts, they would squash it completely.

They're not doing it because they like the big follower counts themselves. They're in on the con.
But it existed! And it was hardly the only good vs evil story line.

Furthermore, even if St. Augustine claims that the Manichaeans are wrong for saying that evil is a fundamentally existing entity, he doesn’t claim evil doesn’t exist! Quite the contrary, he asks how can an omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent God create evil?

Some claimed that there was no evil.

St. Augustine resolved that evil exists in the absence of good. It feeds off good. But it exists.

So a good vs. evil dynamic still exists
Yeah that's true, the above commenter syllogism is the founder of Spacy I guess. Similar tool but for a different purpose.
@granitosaurus you're dead, but you make a valid point:

> granitosaurus 3 hours ago [dead] [-]

> There's also nim, which is rather new and not yet v1 worthy but I'd say it's still a worthy contender to the "closes thing to python with types"

I think nim looks nice, and have some very python like qualities. But while it's statically typed, I think it's more "python with native compilation", than "python with types" - in the sense of how the typesystem help with program design.
It's my own deductive theory. An opportunity is a profitable product, meaning demand is higher than cost. Most opportunities are new opportunities, due to market efficiency. So something must have occurred recently to increase demand or decrease cost.
I recently tried to switch back to Firefox from Chrome because I was missing how Vimperator was able to hide all of the UI and just give me a small statusbar at the bottom like in Vim. However, I found that's no longer possible with WebExtensions, so now I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions if I want a browser with absolutely minimal UI and Vim controls?

Seems like we're getting closer with this version though. I might just have to be patient.
It's one that, in mainstream Christianity (be it Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox), is not particularly addressed, though. Not with results that believers would, for the most part, be satisfied with.

(A relative of Manichaeism still exists today as Mandaeism, though. I thought that was interesting when I found that out.)
Or just, you know, February 9.