skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s all have a moment of silence for John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of Cyberspace Independence back when it was envisioned the internet would be a place where any entities could communicate or associate free of government control or censorship.

Loads of people in here who support the concept of net neutrality which helps enable permissionless innovation by not imposing huge costs on those who publish or allowing others to impose costs on them, now cheerlead for the right to impose extraterritorial regulation without representation.

There was a time you could just set up a site on the net and not have to worry about much, apparently now you have to worry about the Union of all possible foreign laws in case anyone from outside geographic regions visits your site. It’s could be a race to the lowest common denominator of freedom, or conversely yield bulkanizarion of the internet as more Geo-IP blocks go up or more great firewalls.

How many of you love “this video or music isn’t available for playback in your region”?

That could be much more common in the future and contrary to commentary far more likely to hurt smaller and medium sized players than the real targets of the laws.
>which finance themselves from patent licenses.

Patent licenses are only a tiny fraction of their finances.

https://www.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/zv/de/publikationen/Ja...

2016 they made 134 million € from patent licenses, about 6% from their total income of 2.1 billion €.

Of which about two thirds come from either public grants or direct government funding.
Well the Denosovans really originated in East Asia somewhere as their ancestors left Africa a long time ago.

We don't really have a good name for the ancient sub-Saharan humans that have contributed most of the genetic background to all living humans.

The problem with the peopling of Australia is the time has been push back so far now (80K BCE) that it is before the ancient sub-Saharans really got much further than the Middle East.
I think having an external data plugin interferes with the business model of Atlassian -- one database to rule them all. But ecologies like Jupyter might be different.

Great work.
Sorry ... I should know by now that sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet. But the truth is that the server is de-facto obsolete if there are no clients that can talk to it. Hopefully my second paragraph is clear that I don't appreciate planned obsolescence.
> The tech company [Carpe Data] [0] looks at anything publicly available on social media

Keyword being public. I've never understood why people get so upset about this sort of thing. You are responsible for anything you choose to post publicly.

My feelings would be different if it involved fake accounts friending users and seeing items meant only for their "friends."

[0] This article is basically an ad for Carpe Data. May as well link to their site: https://carpe.io/
Now I got something that I need to checkout to understand :)

Thanks for that "seemingly useless" comment
> There is new version each year. And if you are talking about features, what feature would you consider "major update"? New filesystem maybe?

As a Mac user, it seems like the last 4+ years of MacOS updates have added nothing but greater iOS integration, bugs, and misfeatures.
> In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.)

Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to say, but isn't that's equivalent to "before women's suffrage, if you were a man..." or "before the civil rights movement, if you were white..."?

I find it a bit hard to see how that is an argument suggesting that things used to be better?

EDIT: Wait, was that your whole point? That a woman or an ethnic minority seeking justice was much worse of a few generations ago?
FWIW, none of them came from me.

And I see the confusion now: Qubes isn't a company, the company is Invisible Things Lab.
I admit, I usually let my users upgrade their clients as soon as they wish. This is the first time it broke something. :-(
Would IMO totally make sense in markets where they cannot loose anything, like servers, workstations and PCs. Question is whether Apple has what it takes to disrupt completely new markets (with their current management).
Those CNN and BBC news are too often just a long wall of uninteresting text, therefor I banned them just now from my RSS reader.
Someone else pointed out that Apple announced the deprecation of AFP 4 years ago - it’s a bit unfair to say Apple caught you off guard here.
I’d agree with you, that long reads would be useful if the error rate wasn’t so shockingly bad.

There is, likely value in long reads, but what non-niche research applications are there for highly error’d reads that justify a valuation of several billion dollars?
I recently bought a Minitel (v2 I think). Any ideas about what to do with it? I'm thinking something with a Raspberry Pi.
“Apple shifted from AFP file sharing to SMB2”

* SMB2 with undocumented Apple-specific extensions (https://www.mankier.com/8/vfs_fruit)
Not my experience. Overengineering is rampant. I think I've seen more webapps that were using an internationalisation framework than not, despite not one of the apps I've worked on ever having been used in a non-English market. The whole ESB market seems to not have any actual use case. Every time I've worked with a "software architect" they've made the project worse...

Most developers, myself included, are ignorant and do things without quite understanding the reasons for them. Given how much easier it is socially to make the case for "we should follow this best practice" than "we should do the cowboy thing here", overengineering is the natural way of things. All we can do is fight to keep it down to a manageable level.
'Feedback systems: an introduction for scientists and engineers' is another nice reference [1]. I used it and another Wescott text to put together effectively a somewhat extended version of the OP's code [2].

[1] http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/amwiki/index.php/Main_Pag...

[2] https://github.com/RhysU/helm
Theora was the result of open sourcing a proprietary patented codec (VP3). Musepack is based on MPEG.
What about domains that are instaflagged? For example, I tried posting a Breitbart article [0] about a conservative blogger at Google, because in this one case I felt like it was the best "primary source" to get the discussion started. It was auto-killed like every article on Breitbart. [1] So I resubmitted via archive.is and actually got 6 upvotes [2], showing there was at least some interest in the topic that would never had surfaced if I used the original link.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103017

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=breitbart.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16246184
As I've stated above: Fraunhofer is predominantly government funded.
That's awesome! Do you have more information/documentation?
iPad is converging on this space IMO.
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> > the development team has been largely disbanded

> Source?

Bloomberg.

Apple re-organized its software engineering department so there's no longer a dedicated Mac operating system team. There is now just one team, and most of the engineers are iOS first, giving the people working on the iPhone and iPad more power.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple...

> > Apple markets and wants iOS to replace your laptops

> Source?

apple.com, major print media, and all Mac Stores, which have ads talking about why iPad Pro are laptop replacements. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQB2NjhJHvY

It sounds like you have very little involvement with Apple products.
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Your server ran 2018 software back in 2012?! That's amazing!
Or people learn and see that they can make a happy path of 90%. Or the business removes an implemented unhappy path of 5% that fails 50% of the time. Or the business introduces a new unhappy path to go with the times or times just change and the happy path is now only 50% of the cases.

You're completely correct. Software needs are easy and hard, and times change.
I never had Ziegler-Nichols as part of my Control Systems syllabus. My univ referred Bakshi & Bakshi as primary text book.

Google Books link → https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Control_Systems.html?...
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I'm hellbanned because HN doesn't like my views. Sometimes my comments do go through for whatever reason.
Unlike Facebook, Strava has no "real name" policy so you can be as anonymous as you want.
We better get this racism thing in check before we're literally dealing with different species of human (assuming that some groups of people remain isolated and we don't experience total global homogeneity in the future)
Some other good articles on Pilecki: [1] [2]

Of his imprisonment under the Soviets he told his wife:

"I cannot live. They killed me. Because compared to them Auschwitz was just a trifle."

[1] - http://www.poloniainstitute.net/witold-pilecki-bravery-beyon...

[2] - https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/story-of-the-m...
> A nice win against Gnuchess

Not sure why you guys don't show the PGN, but here you are:

1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. exd5 Nxd5
5. Bb5 Nf4 6. O-O Bf5 7. d4 Nd5 8. Ne5 Qd6
9. Nxd5 Qxd5 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. c4 Qd6 12. Qf3 g6
13. Nxc6 Bg7 14. Bf4 Qe6 15. Rfe1 Qxc4 16. Rxe7+ Kf8
17. Rae1 Kg8 18. b3 Qc2 19. Qd5 Be6 20. R7xe6 fxe6
21. Qxe6+ Kf8 22. Bh6 Bxh6 23. Qf6+ Kg8 24. Ne7#

Question : when you switch to self-play reinforcement learning, do you plan on starting from the networked obtained in supervised learning or tabula rasa? I understand starting from tabula rasa will require more comptuting power/time, but if you start from the supervised learning network, isn't there a risk you inherit human biases in the game style? It would also defeat the purpose of having the system discover existing chess theory and possibly new one.
I noticed 100MB/s.

You don't need 10GbE and Cat6 for that. 1GbE and Cat5/5+ are fine. The SOHO NAS from Synology or QNAP with ARM CPUs, 1-2 GB RAM and 1x 1GbE ports are achieving such performance.
I like the idea of taking the brewing into account. It’s clear that the added cold water from the pump will result in cooling of the boiler water, and the amount of cooling is easy to calculate. But you probably need to add a sensor to measure the water flow.
Fife isn't city living; that's not relevant to the article.

Mind you, with your self-driving vehicle, you'll be able to sip coffee and spot herons. And I believe packetized self-driving vehicles grouping together into convoys ought to be able to exceed 200mph in the future. That future isn't today, but the article is explicitly forward looking, about geometry that doesn't change.

I think the article is ideologically blind to how mass transit has similar supply and demand problems (e.g. when I take the train home, I often have to skip multiple departures due to overcrowding), and it drastically underestimates the potential for technology change.
Real world neurons fire differently depending if signals are applied from the same, or different sides. This got me thinking. So I wrote the Spheron.

Working version in repo.
* Quick Update *
I have added a Timer.
You can check out the following workout as a quick example:
https://gymphy.co/r14-jNiBG

Would love to hear your thoughts / feedback :)
"And I have one particular server that we have loved for a long time."

Yes, for over 10 years now! (I looked up the manufacturing date from the serial number, week 29 of 2007)

I feel for your acute pain, but I think you got your moneys worth and then some out of that system, there should be plenty of saved budget to replace that with a new storage server. One that has support from the vendor.
Those aren't hardware-focused companies, but I'd say Adobe and Autodesk do quite well on maintaining high quality products (and, like Apple does, being pricey)
Easy to fix that. Archive.is is a popular tool.
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Success hides all problems. Didn't Apple just end their largest quarter to date? What would analysts be upset about? What would Apple think their problem is when they're making more money than ever.

Perspective is important here. I agree generally with this whole "Macs going downhill" theme, but this isnt new, and the market doesnt really care. I meant the infamous "Apple has lost the functional high ground" article was from beginning of 2015, after months of this sentiment going around last time https://marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-grou...
I'd not considered the reduced attack surface, I'd mostly been thinking of the efficiency gains. It's a very good point.
I'll recommend reading the other pages on Fraunhofer's site explaining their goals and why they were created, and how they differ from the other German research societies .

But of course, government funding is today one of the largest sources still.
> edit: Despite knowing almost nothing about AFP, I found articles on Google saying that Apple shifted from AFP file sharing to SMB2 in an article dated 2013 -- that's five years ago! Apple themselves state that AFP is deprecated

I too found third-party articles, but the only official notice I could find from Apple was in the recent APFS FAQs [1]. Either I'm searching for the wrong terms, or Apple could have communicated the issue better.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Fi...
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Users can configure Strava so that activities are private by default.
It should be added that it wasn't made technically irrelevant the minute internet appeared either, Minitel had a few things figured out (thanks to its centralized monolithic ways) that took internet a while to achieve. Most important of those due to centralisation, the service-tied-to-a-paying-number and several numbers for different price point; payment and authenticity were the norm. Selling stuff to every days common users was a normality, it was done without any security risk, and an impersonator pretending to be your bank or whatever would be much taken out by France Telecom.

Meanwhile we were still trying to convince people they could buy on the internet by the late 90's, and how to recognize which site is their official bank and which one is a scam.

PS: Xavier Niel (the CEO/founder of Free/Illiad) is well known for having made his money on paid minitel adult services.

We suffered late internet adoption because of the minitel, yes, but that's because the minitel had been so good for so long that it had become part of our normal life by then.
> No, I meant the scenario where a company listens to the engineers and lets them put off business goals to spend weeks to months every so often refactoring, ending up with a modern, easily-maintained system instead of an arcane mess.

I've seen it happen, once. Almost two years of work, lots of architecture, design and all that. Built a beautiful codebase that implemented a product that noone actually wanted. It was a positive experience in some ways, but not something I want to see again.
These are very neat, but all of these I've seen the last few weeks use the same trick of putting some garbage at the end to make it a prime. I wish people would vary their techniques a bit: like, make it base 10 and make an ascii-art image, and introduce imperceptible noise to make it a prime. Or, vary the number of rows and columns, and maybe scale of the image, to make it prime.

We need to disrupt the "images as primes" industry!
On desktops or notebooks, where the power budget is much bigger an cooling more efficient, they might push for a high performance ARM chip, coupled with an x86 translation layer. They pulled this successfully twice already (m68k -> PPC and PPC -> x86).
Fruit concentrates usually, like lemon, blackcurrant, orange etc. squashes, but also cordials made from various herbs and spices, roots, etc.

If you're in the UK, there's normally a two or three metre section of shelving dedicated to them in the supermarket.
You could see it as a positive. Until a few years ago, people with influence got preferential treatment. Now anyone with a twitter account can.
For what it's worth, I agree with the parent. IMO Microsoft's strong-arming around "SecureBoot" is enough to distrust everything to do with EFI.
I do share a love-hate relation to Go.

I love it is based on a mix of Oberon and Limbo, compiled to native code and an improvement for what a safe C like language should probably look like, and who knows maybe someone decides a day to do a "Goberon" OS for they OS PhD research.

Basically what Java and C# 1.0 should have been all along, about 20 years ago.

However I also dislike some of the design decisions regarding features that will never come to Go, regardless of how much we get to discuss them, even with the mirage of Go 2.0.
>Bethe's only reason to dismiss a new particle as an explanation was Occam's razor.

Thank you for pointing out the other fault of Occam's razor: both sides of most arguments tend to assume the razor is on their side. This aspect was addressed in the second article I linked.
That's only because the context has been shifted from the more general news of CNN to the tech and developer oriented news of HN. Within the original context of CNN no one would think it's about programming languages. They don't post stories like that. The CNN headline writer clearly wasn't trying to trick anyone.

Kudos to wowsig if it was submitted as a joke though. That'd be quite clever.
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That “legacy” i.e. backward compatibility is the major reason why people buy and use Windows. While indeed expensive to develop the platform, I think breaking it will be a disaster. See what happened with windows phones and tablets.
One nice thing about Bing is that it actually offers an API. I had a client who needed some scraping done -- basically, scrape a bunch (millions) of search terms and then intersect the results -- and I was able to use the Bing API to do it, without any need to beat Google CAPTCHA's or setup complex proxy systems.
If cost and fuel are major concerns then sending a person is by far the cheapest option. Not the most productive but in the areas that need reforestation (i.e. where they burn or clear cut, Asia / Amazon) the labour is not that expensive. Though there are a lot of other factors involved.

These kinds of projects remind me of Juicero, where it combines a few things western (middle/upper class?) people care about with technology and expects a great result but end up a middling disappointment.
Not normally made with carbonated water, no; the citrus flavours do work well with carbonation, but berries less so.
> ... converting/reformatting 300 Tb of disk is a lot of work, but it's probably less work than contacting Apple ...

He didn't know what the problem was, so he contacted Apple support. Unless you are suggesting he reformat 300tb everytime there's an issue, I don't see how he could have avoided contacting Apple in his situation.

> ... and whining about how Apple is going down the drain in a public blog post.

I don't see why the author can't voice his opinion on his personal blog. You've voicing your appreciation of specific Apple products in a public forum.

> Apple themselves state that AFP is deprecated.
Deprecating isn't the same as removing. Unless Apple has previously said they are removing (or will remove) AFP support in High Sierra release notes, or otherwise announce it somewhere, I don't see how it's the user's fault at all.
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That's what caught my eye too. 100MB/s is nothing. The author claims that he's getting half that with SMB, which means something is horrifically broken with his system.

Anything worth using as a file server should have no trouble doing 100MB/sec with pretty much any protocol.
My information is that reformatting HFS+ to APFS is only a matter of seconds or minutes because what is mostly replaced is metadata (not the real data). So going from Sierra to High Sierra should be no problem with reformatting, but going back is a big problem then ;)
Russians and Chinese especially interested in who will become field agents and who will become analysts. Want to hazard a guess on which overlaps more with Strava?
You're way off. The reason this "news" is news is not because Strava has done anything naughty, it's because people that are tasked with the national security (and often some secrets) of their respective nations have committed such an easily avoidable op-sec failure.
Meh, if your servers are valued that much, you should know better.

I even know that Apple is not investing in servers anymore and hasn't in years. AFP was also abandoned.

They should've planned for this and switched to some more solid server configuration like Linux.
It's not that your opinion is unpopular, but that it's completely irrelevant.
My advice: Build your own workaround / software solution for this problem with a future opt out option to replace the server with Linux and Samba (yes I know Samba is a pain but it is the standard nowadays).
> leave a couple of coins in that desk

What does this expression mean?
So realistically you could just throw these seeds from the air using a plane and it would be even more efficient?
Modify some sort of sprayer to spray seeds over a large enough area. With enough seeds there should be sufficient trees to survive and grow.
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It's pretty hard to define wealth, since so much of it historically has been illiquid. If you can't turn all or most of your wealth into some other form of asset, should it really be counted? But you can say the same about Bezos' fortune: he can sell $1B of stock per year, but selling much more would devalue his worth considerably.

And of course is there a difference between the absolute control that absolute rulers had and ownership?

But there's little argument that Mansa Musa was the richest of all time and that Putin is currently the richest.