skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, the search traffic is huge but so is the rate it is falling at. If it stopped right now, it would still be a very huge site, but are there any indications that it does? Are there good alternative explanations for the decline in search traffic that would not indicate a decline in popularity of Facebook, for example can the decline be matched with users migrating from browser to app? I failed to find a satisfying alternative explanation.

Besides that, I noticed a decline of the popularity of Facebook among the people I know at least about 5 years ago. I only looked at the search traffic for confirmation years later when that trend was pretty obvious from personal experience because I was interested whether that was a general trend or only due to me and the people I know becoming older or something like that.

Add to that that I talked to some young teenagers last year that somewhat proudly told me that they don't have and never had Facebook profiles and for all I know Facebook really is on the way down. Whether everyone just moves over to Instagram and WhatsApp and what all that implies for the company Facebook is of course also a different matter.
> Either they have something that is real and extremely convincing to investors that they have been able to keep very secret

Hate to be that guy, but wasn't Clinkle the last top-secret-many-vc-much-money startup that went bust before the product was even released?
You're thinking of all of the chaebol/conglomerate companies combined, so Samsung, LG, Hyundae Kia, Posco, Hyundae Heavy Industries, SK Group, CS Group, Lotte, Hanhwa, Hanjin, Kumho Asiana, Doosan, etc., each of which have multiply companies in their portfolios and are serviced by groups of smaller local firms specialized in support for one or a few of the big ships.

But, do they feel above the law? This is certainly a common complaint of South Koreans. These groups are definitely "too big to fail" and they know it. So yes the concentration of power in a few giant firms is remarkable, and not in a good way.
>>It's good to remember that there are still engineers behind these products.

Doesn't say much. Engineers are even behind ransomware products. You guys may need new justifications to feel good.
> For my own part, I’m happy to mentor folks

Oh joy, I can't wait to be mentored by someone who held a bunch of random front end positions for about 8 months, has 2 endorsements for javascript, nothing for backend, no degree in this field, considers themselves an author now and uses their gender as a weapon/excuse in their public musings.
re: "The question is not whether [databases] are going to be hacked or not, the question is when. These are natural honeypots for hackers."

This is not a good argument for cryptocurrency.

Just like a regular wallet attracts pickpockets, a Bitcoin wallet is a natural honeypot for hackers.

Just like a bank attracts bank robbers, a crypto exchange is a natural honeypot for hackers.

Really, the issue here is money. Money attracts thieves. The money is the honey, and the computer is the pot.

So far there's no evidence that cryptocurrency reduces theft, and quite a lot of evidence that it encourages theft.
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Yeah, I was a pretty serious PC gamer (Quake/Q2/Q3) back during the rise and fall of 3dfx. Pretty much everyone I knew went from software rendering to 3dfx-chipset cards but then jumped ship when the Riva TNT2 cards came out, primarily because they just produced much better visuals due to support for 32-bit color while the 3dfx offerings were all limited to 16-bit.

There was still a bit of a split in the market back then between those who went TNT2 (amazing, at the time, image quality) and those who went to the Voodoo3 (good raw speed, but limited to 16-bit color and thus noticeable banding artifacts)... 3dfx still held on to a bit of a niche there for a while longer, but then once the GeForce and GeForce 2 came out 3dfx was just dead in the water with nothing that could compete anywhere on the performance versus image quality axes.
Whoa wait what how do I find my info in there?
Court Dismisses Playboy's Lawsuit Against Boing Boing (For Now)
HBO is fairly profitable and Netflix isn't. That is a pretty important data point when comparing the two IMO.
Perhaps not to the point, but I find more interesting pieces that I want to remember occur in Hangouts, Slack or some other more expeditious medium other than email.

I suspect that for some, email is losing priority.
People say this - but they rarely put their money where their mouth is.

Actually they do, but a majority of content is downright fecal. Netflix seems to manage to run subscription services, the NYT digital is doing very well, as are plenty of others. Some “services” though? You’re right, if asked to pay for them, most people would laugh and walk away. The Buzzfeeds of the world only exist because of advertising.

So to your point, I pay a few hundred a year for email, streaming services, news, journals, and so on. I wouldn’t use FB if they paid me though. Most social media is worse than free, and a move away from predatory practices and ads would kill them.

Good fucking riddance.
Wire Chat App is now actually close-sourced
Intel Expands Bug Bounty Program
In the Commonwealth we say maths but we still say code.

I've noticed we also tend to also write "computer program" the US way, despite writing "TV programme".
So one of the smartass login messages in our internal slack is "JMAP will fix it".

Interestingly enough, JMAP will make this kind of thing much easier - and we have thought about it in the design! Our Cyrus server already internally keeps a blobId which is a digest of the binary content of each MIME part. Which means you can easily tell that two attachments are identical without reading the contents or guessing based on size and name.

And it's easy to search for messages with file attachments and fetch just the file attachement details via JMAP, making this kind of interface relatively easy to write.

The usual caveats about "we haven't got a particular timeframe in mind" apply - but once JMAP is standard, anyone can write a client to that standard!
More precisely, the verb is 折る (oru) and 折り (ori) is the continuative/noun form, 連用形 (ren’youkei), so it’s “folding paper”.
Cars sit idle 95% of the time, and 17.2 million new cars are sold every year.

If self driving comes sooner vs later, do we need 17 million new cars a year? Probably not.
this is much better than the manual for my analog synth
And people completely gloss over the "good enough" part, and head straight to arguing bitrates and resolutions.

Pop quiz hotshots, why did the CD become a big hit, but the DVD-A died a quiet death?

Answer, because there was no convenience to be had with upgrading!

The CD was a massive improvement of convenience over the cassette tape or LP record. Now you could instantly find the one song you wanted, and skip between them with the push of a button.

Similarly there is no convenience upgrade to go from MP3 to FLAC or some other audio format.

And the same pattern plays out with video.

DVD video was a smash hit because no more having to rewind that VHS, and they took up a whole lot less space on the shelf (buying a TV series season on VHS was downright crazy for the physical space it would require).

BR and similar is simply not enough of a convenience upgrade.
Enron is a prime example for keeping things secret for long time.
The difference here is that if I fail to secure my wallet only I loose my money, but if the bank fails to secure their database, all its customers loose their money.
Someone must have looked into ester/amide copolymers already, anyone would think that that increased the melting point.
Whether it’s coal or natural gas, it’s still more efficient to run an electric car on those fuels, generated at scale, then a petrol internal combustion engine.

96 percent of new generation coming online this year is renewables. Your electric car gets cleaned every year, your gasonline car does not.
Dude, you need to adopt the mantra “It’s business”. That cuts out all personal and emotional issues. Don’t forget, all entrepreneurs who make it have a string of failures in their wake. It’s up to you if you’re going to dust yourself off and try it again. It’s also OK to decide a regular job is the right fit for you. There’s a fine line between being an entrepreneur and being addicted to gambling.
> ignorant to their actual success.

I'll bite - I'm totally ignorant of their success. What metrics are you using to define that success, and where are you getting the data?
Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet
>But that means junior starting salaries around 50k which no one is taking.

Where are these $50k/yr junior positions?

I finished undergrad at a time when $60k/yr was a safe starting point for negotiation but recent searches only show me $15.50/hr at best for a junior. I acknowledge the tenuous distinction, if any, between "junior" and "entry-level" may be a factor for the disparity here.
The great irony of this article is that the author has degrees in forestry and agriculture and a very weak development skillset based on their LinkedIn profile and they still got a junior developer job.
As if! Deutsche Bahn is late all the time, some WWII bomb is found and the track goes through the evacuation zone, someone blocks the trains door from closing because he wants to finish smoking his cigarette, train stops on a turnout track because of course freight trains are more important, people on the rails, fallen tree after a storm, etc etc. Of course compared to other countries our trains are probably still pretty punctual, but it's still annoying when you are stuck at the station for an hour when your whole trip only takes 45 minutes otherwise.

Especially the WWII bomb thing is annoying, because they tend to find one every few weeks when there's construction near the tracks.
yeah, that one is hard to live down. It's happened (as far as we can tell) twice in the entire history of the company, amongst hundreds of "I've lost my password" requests per week. Lost password was seriously in the top three most common support requests every week right up until we built the automatic recovery system:

https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/07/21/multiple-ways-in-keepin...

and we responded fairly directly to that Hacker News thread the next day with this:

https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/12/06/security-account-recove...

Obviously it's hugely embarassing to the company that it happened at all, and awful for the victim. I think it's perfectly reasonable for you to bring it up, and it is a consideration for anybody choosing us to do their research and decide if the steps we've taken to mitigate it happening again are sufficient.
I generally use webmaster@[their domain] so they get the SPAM instead of me.
Isn't the issue more about design though? It seems to me that it'd be easy enough to take a random sample of chips made by your Chinese manufacturer, cut the top off and verify it matches your design with a microscope. However if the complex product is designed by an adversary it's easier to hide a backdoor, probably also easier to plausibly claim it was an accidental bug.
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You can't compare Rolls Royce, a very high end hand built car creator, to Tesla, who aspire to be a mass producer.
They do, but it might be confusing because they list "Home" and "End" first, before the Cmd+Up/Down alternatives.
Even viewing it more generically, the same scaling issues apply, and the same inevitable re-decentralization awaits it. Centralized systems trade robustness for efficiency. The drive to lower costs will always result in re-centralization.
for clarity, we provide very "basic" python bindings. For example checkout https://facebookresearch.github.io/TensorComprehensions/mapp... for simple example of how we expose mapping options to python.

Also TC doesn't do data allocation itself and it requires tensor library from users to do that. So if you are using Caffe2 for example, you could use the TcOp that we ship inside TensorComprehensions for Caffe2 and using caffe2 pybindings, you can already write TC in python. No work needed for creating python bindings. We welcome PRs on this :)

As for other tensor libraries, like ATen based on TH* used in torch/pytorch, you have the ability to create tensor but these require integrating tensor library into TC and writing pybindings for them. PRs welcome on this as well.
> If this is the premise for serverless database it's a weak start.

He also seems to imply that you have to keep your test db's running all day instead of simply paying for them by the hour. :|
The roadster was a lotus elise based kit car they electrified
More than half of the people who get the police called on them in the United States need mental and psyche help, not traumatization and incarceration
I sometimes feel like the smartest move is to use a product coming from a country ruled by a hostile government. Like, if you're in the US, sign up for Chinese services, but if you're in China sign up for American ones.

(yeah the relationship is more complicated than "hostile" but you get my drift)
I love the smell of fresh astroturf in the morning.
I am more aware of Xiaomi than Hauwei. ZTEs were around, but those are garbage phones. I know that Xiaomi makes phones, smart bands and a smart tv. I literally had no idea what Hauwei was making until I looked up right now.
The takeaway being that the Kirin line of CPUs is proving difficult to create a backdoor for.
Worked pretty well for them in the past - originals like House of Cards, Master of None, Orange is the New Black, Narcos, Stranger Things, Bojack, Black Mirror, etc were vastly popular and certainly drew in more users
I doubt foreign bots are flooding this thread.
This isn't correct for most residential installations in the U.S. for most of those, they have split phase power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power) provided by a center tap transformer. This produces a neutral and two hot wires, each 180 deg out of phase from each other. Hook either hot to a neutral, and you get 120V, hook one hot to another and you get 240V.

In some places though, (I know it's common in New York, and also in a lot of datacenters), they do something like you describe, and hook 2 phases of a 3 phase system together. Since these are only 120 deg out of phase from each other instead of 180 in the split-phase system, you get less voltage, specifically 208V.
Thank you for passing it on, I'll send them a message tomorrow.
The US has a closer relationship with South Korea's security apparatus than China's, though.
Yeah, but... have you read the (fine) article?

Just kidding, graycat, I'm a fan! How's your project going? any news?
Wow, very cool. I'll have to try the Rpi WSPR transmitter. Do you happen to have a link? Does it require the Rpi v1?
Do you know an example of a bank that lost its customers' money due to being hacked?

On the other hand, plenty of crypto exchanges have been hacked.
I pay fastmail for a side business account but I've been thinking about buying a Google Domains "account" for personal use just so I can use a custom domain for free on Gmail. Identity theft is the sole reason I don't trust anyone else and Google owns my soul for that. In a matter of hours, just like your link shows, a hacker could reset the password for everything I have. With the data he acquired it could also be possible to circumvent TFA.

Unfortunately even with me owning everything after the "@" I'm still locked to Google (I don't mind losing data) and they could freeze my domain if I do something wrong on Gmail. Could as in theoretically. Am I being over paranoid? Did this ever happened to anyone? Will I at least be able to reach a human on Google domains? Because I sure as hell won't be able to using a free Gmail account.
Competition wise, I think Amazon would be the bigger threat, because that company does not hesitate to lose money almost all the time while Wall Street continues to cheer it on. Netflix on the other hand, does get some unfavorable treatment as far as its stock is concerned.
The United States maintains wartime control of the South Korean military (look up OPCON to find news about the topic).
Fb keeps many things within its own app - all links clicked inside the app never goes to browser.this is a very big security risk, imo.

Controlling webview means they can even see your password and all.
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Sure, but If I want to learn a difficult-to-communicate lesson, I would hope that the people who have a wordless understanding would keep their communicating to themselves—unless-and-until they come up with some coherent words to match their thoughts, that they can be sure can be used to reconstruct those thoughts without their brain there to help.

People don't yet know what they don't know, until they know it—so it can't be the learner's task to preemptively avoid vacuous lessons. That responsibility has to fall to the teacher.
Hey Dave! That was a fun trip. For those that are wondering what we're talking about, Dave and I once carried a bunch of amateur radio equipment up a Colorado peak in the middle of a brutally cold snowstorm. Video: https://youtu.be/g850RIQp6rA

Thanks for the HIRF-6 link. That's unbelievable! Hope you are doing well.

EDIT: woah. M0XER did 8 circumnavigations. That's unbelievable. I wonder if that is a record for a man-made, atmospheric object.
Wishful thinking. Facebook may be struggling in 2020, but they certainly won’t be dead. I’d wager they’ll still have more than a billion DAU.

Edit: do you have an explanation for why this graph has been cratering for years while Facebook’s MAU and DAU have continued to climb?

Also, see Youtube’s search trend. Pretty sure it hasn’t been dying for years now.

This just isn’t a good signal, sorry.
I guess we shouldn't bring up the whole "NSAKEY" thing again.

But if we did I'd have to wonder at least a little bit if those phones not having one is the real motivation behind this "warning".
By "crypto functionality" the author means talking to a blockchain, not doing cryptographic operations. Metamask, the example given, is a browser extension that provides access to the Ethereum blockchain by injecting a JS object into the web page. It provides a wallet and transaction signing and broadcasting. Web crypto API's are quite different.
But in this case we know with practical certainty that the NSA is still spying on us, don't we?
Not required, but FAA requests that you file one. NOTAM is required for payloads exceeding a weight limit.
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>(even more specifically, an email with remote images can totally change after being content scanned).

Can anyone speak to the prevalence of this abuse strategy? Are our anti-spam engines able to handle this?
I personally think it can be learned overnight. And a "non tech" marketer who understands the product does far better than an experienced marketer who doesn't know anything about it.

However, it is a full time job to improve in.

It's like code - many people can make a MVP, but trying to scale it needs dedication, and the great ones can do 10x the mediocre ones.
This seems to greatly improve battery life too, at least for me. Did this for Twitter too. Even with background turned off, I would see them using background battery before
Gosh it's getting so you have to worry that you might inadvertently be exposed to Chinese ideas now. Or that - God forbid - they'll steal all the good pure American ones. Like how to be a spendthrift blowhard with great hair.
Wait. Are you are saying that if Google were to know that your intent was to legally mine Ethereum (or some similar proof-of-work currency) on a large scale, that they would refuse to rent you GPU's? This seems extremely unlikely. Why would it be in Google's interest to turn down any paying customer, much less one willing to pay millions of dollars a day?
Bernie Madoff is another standout example, and the many scams in the supposedly expert world or wine, such as Rusy Kurniawan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Kurniawan
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Thanks for the info. Day job has me using the NEC frequently, and occasionally the NESC.

But I never thought about pole xformer sizing until this house. Our 35kVA (summer) faceplate xformer services nine homes. Even though it browns, it keeps on working. They've got a lot of margin, it seems
Just P/E by itself does not say anything. Amazon was at around -3000 or more at some point and people were still buying it and pushing it up (this continues to happen even now, with Amazon's P/E being around 297 as of this very moment whereas Netflix is about 209). Even the P/E projections for the next two years look significantly favorable with Netflix than with Amazon.

The businesses are very different, but P/E as such is just one measure of market sentiment on a stock.
He certainly can't simply be dismissed. OTOH he was recently seen promoting the idea that Magic Leap can't get camera-based inside-out positional tracking working, which is probably quite preposterous.
Harbor is promising. Their paper and code is still light on the details, but I am rooting for them. There are some open questions around compliant secondary trading, real world enforcement etc - but very promising direction. Do you know other projects that are attempting real asset security tokens?
My god, that website is dreadful, not just poor / dated design but no TLS/HTTPS with a login form!

It's Sharepoint... and it looks to be proudly developed by https://sharepointexperience.com
My internet is way faster compared to 2008. Probably had something like 10Mbps back then, paying less for 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home now.
I hadn’t seen that, can you link me to it?
I once studied SICP out of curiosity during undergraduate days. It's an interesting introduction to functional programming using Scheme.

Of course, it don't focus on algorithms itself. You need to study other materials, provided in books already mentioned here :)
A centralized crypto exchange is as centralized as a bank. Both have the same security risks. What cannot get hacked in the same way are decentralized exchanges like RadarRelay
Why not use 2FA with Fastmail? https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/2fa.html
OMG Thank you to both of you! I've seen dozens of references to SICP in lists online, but I never knew there's video of the course, no-one mentioned that. Great stuff.

After watching the first 10 minutes of the first lecture, was so good I immediately got my super-non-techy housemate to watch it, after explaining how revered among programmers the book is. She said "Thank you for showing me that!" hehe.
Very misleading headline. California has a ballot-initiative process where first you satisfy some bureaucratic requirements, then you collect a bunch of signatures, then it's on the ballot for the next election and voters might vote for it. What's happened here is that a particularly dumb initiative has... gotten past the "bureaucratic requirements" step, and is now on the "collect signatures" step. Absolutely nothing about the procedure thus far does any filtering for good policy, nor is it intended to filter for good policy. That's the responsibility of petition signers (who shouldn't sign dumb things) and voters (who shouldn't vote for dumb things that somehow manage to get signatures anyways).
Ah, thanks for that! The link to the paper in TFA came up as a 403 when I looked yesterday.

This is a much more interesting video. It looks like (1) the cockroaches head/eyes are robust enough to just take the hit, which is interesting - I always wondered how robust insect eyes were compared with mammalian eyes which are obviously very delicate, and (2) the kinematics of the head/thorax flick the thorax upwards on impact. There's a lot of this kind of 'physical intelligence' built into animals' bodies, and it's a fascinating field of study - witness the recent finding that flamingos on one leg are statically stable: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/flamingo...