skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to how revolutions happen. The government does something bad, many are frustrated by it, but they are still overall happy with the government, and only a few speak out.

Then the government does more bad stuff. More are frustrated, only a few speak out.

And on, and on, for decades. It seems like nothing will ever change. And one day "something happens" that makes all of that frustration come up, and the people are furious like nothing else, and you may even see riots and whatnot. And the people on the sidelines, who have no clue about how life was in that country wonder "why would people be so violent, and destroy things?! It doesn't make sense!" Yes, it does make sense. It's just not pretty.

And yes, it will happen to Google, too. I've tried to warn them and other tech companies many times in the past on HN, that they can't just screw over their users and piss them off, thinking only a few spoke out, so it must not be such a big deal the evil thing they've just done. Many more people are usually frustrated about that thing, but they usually keep that frustration inside because they would like to continue using Google.

So, yes. Google is definitely next. Just maybe not tomorrow, or next year. Maybe in a few years. My guess is it will be something around how they use their AI, especially now that they've become a war contractor. Maybe they'll sell their AI tech to US law enforcement to target American citizens in various ways. It's probably inevitable.

A Facebook exodus was never going to be linear. It will be drastic, and it will "surprise" people, even at the company, just as this surprises you now (although I wouldn't say that exodus will happen now, but this is definitely a one of the big final steps before that exodus, at the very least).
Why would Oracle do this to their language? It seems like a surefire way to make sure a business will never choose Java ever again. When it comes to languages, I think there's definitely a right and a wrong way to implement changes. It's been four years since I tried to do any Java programming, but I know there are many business who are trying to build codebases that last even longer than that. Are we transitioning into a workplace where language stability is a thing of the past? Is it already a thing of the past?
I use https://www.tarsnap.com/.
This explains why there were so many big numbers in the openjdk-* package section in my distro. I had assumed they werr placeholders for some reason.
It could be smartphones, i also think the technology would be interesting for streetview.
I suspect you can get arbitrary memory read with Spectre 2 as well; just have to find the right gadgets. Which in a big program of the sort that would have a sandbox inside is somewhat likely...

(I can't comment on specific counterexamples in more detail than that, even if I know of any.)
Ah something like AWS step functions? It always amazes me how management believes that dragging & dropping boxes is more efficient than writing an if statement...
Look up ABE, for example, or just look through the Options, especially under Advanced.
What are people supposed to do though ?
Yeah that's true. Oh well, fractions it is then!
Once something like Facebook Messenger has reached a critical market share trying to get people to stop using it

writing this comment from South-East Europe where many people use facebook not just for cat pics but to find work and network with colleagues. It's a huge problem in developing countries where facebook IS the Internet. FB recently announced it would roll out job-posts for low-income workers[¹]. This will mean an even stronger lock-in for the user. While the discussion on ethics evolve mostly user-privacy and CA/FB role in Brexit/election hacking, the problem for less developed regions is facebook taking from them without giving back (fb is known not to pay it's taxes in Europe)

¹ https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/facebook-job-posts/
Why not just probe around the plants and look for red against the green and brown backdrop
I've been using MeWe recently, it's basically like classic facebook (chronological, not full of crap you didn't sign up for) but sadly doesn't have a critical mass of users yet.
From the code:

https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/js/flagwaver.js

Aug 3 2012

Since I started working for a new startup not too long ago,
I commute between home and work for over 2 hours a day.
Although this means less time on three.js,
I try getting a little coding on the train.

This set of experiments started from a simple hook's law doodle,
to spring simulation, string simulation, and I realized
I once again stepped onto physics and particle simulation,
this time, more specifically soft body physics.

Based on the "Advanced Character Physics" article,
this experiment attempts to use a "massless"
cloth simulation model. It's somewhat similiar
but simplier to most cloth simulations I found.

This was coded out fairly quickly, so expect more to come
meanwhile feel free to experiment yourself and share

Cheers,
Graphics Noob (aka @Blurspline, zz85)

Suggested Readings:

Advanced Character Physics by Thomas Jakobsen Character:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070610223835/http:/www.teknikus...

http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_cloth.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloth_modeling

http://cg.alexandra.dk/tag/spring-mass-system/

Real-time Cloth Animation:

http://www.darwin3d.com/gamedev/articles/col0599.pdf
Constructive conversation on certain topics is sometimes not possible when in a forum that leans too far to the right or the left. There is a common mentality among many people where they know they are right, such that no response to differing opinions is even necessary, a downvote will do (which is doubly useful, because it censors the downvoted person for some period of time). And if you do not support the narrative, you will be downvoted. Respect is a two way street, or at least it used to be.

I'm happy to engage in a debate any time, finding someone else willing to participate is a problem when everyone is only interested in discussing the nuances of how they agree with each other.

I'll also disagree that it's not better to comment at all - voices of dissent are valuable in a democracy, silencing them is the actually dangerous path to take, but that seems to be the path that's been chosen, so we'll see how it works out.
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That doesn't stop anyone using IP addresses directly, and I find that a small minority does (but that minority does including, e.g. Microsoft for some Win10 updates).

Depending on your threat model, you might need to go the proxy/firewall route.

Hosts file is a weird middle ground - that has to be installed and maintained on every device, many of which (e.g. iphone/ipad) won't let you do that. It's better to set up a local DNS, which will serve every local machine; and as I mentioned, doing this at a firewall level is better yet.
I have nothing to hide” - most of the people
a pregnant teenager being outed by the store Target, after it mined her purchase data – larger handbags, headache pills, tissues – and sent her a “congratulations” message as marketing, which her unknowing father got instead. Oops!

Don't confuse privacy with secrecy. I know what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy.
I found this article very interesting about FB - http://www.salimvirani.com//facebook/
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> It's sad, really. It's one of the really innovative companies, but it's not easy to sell tech ahead of its time.

This glorifies failure quite a bit. One major objective of tech companies is to produce products that customers value and like. Lytro failed to do this. Just because the underlying science is complicated doesn't make the tech "ahead of its time" due to the fact that maybe the tech, as implemented, just isn't what people want, now or in the future!

Having complicated science underlying a product certainly doesn't excuse a company from producing products that people want.
Why would it be priceless?

With dash-cam video you can just chose a fixed hyperfocal distance and have everything in good focus.

You certainly don't need creative DoP and bokeh...
> Robust? Yes. It would take virtually forever to run out of space through repeated list reordering.

I think the author missed a pathological case with using the Stern-Brocot tree.

The goal is to sort each item with a score. Then to insert something between two items, you calculate a new score that is "between" their existing scores.

- Option 1) Take the average of the two score a/b and c/d:

(ad+bc)/(2bd)

- Option 2) Take the mediant(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediant_(mathematics) ):

(a+c)/(b+d)

We don't want to use the first option, the average because almost by definition you would require at least another bit of precision in the denominator for each insert due the multiplication by 2. This limits you to a meager ~64 repeated inserts before overflowing the denominator.

So the mediant is better because the precision requirements is limited by the number of times you can add instead of multiply. This might seem to grow a lot slower at first. And the author even showed that if you're repeatedly averaging 0/1 with the new score, you would get the pattern 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, .... Which means you can handle up 2^precision number of inserts which is much better than before.

But this only applies to inserting to front (medianting with 0/1) or back (medianting with 1/1) because this will only add a 0 or 1 each time.

If you go down a zigzag path down the middle of the tree instead, you can get the two numbers added to be much closer in magnitude and explode. For example: 1/1, 1/2, 2/3, 3/5, 5/8, 8/13, 13/21, 21/34, ... (it's fibonacci!).

So essentially you get the same thing as the averaging case where the precision required roughly doubles(1.6180339887...) at each step and it will overflow quickly.

This isn't a purely theoretical edge case either. The example from before can be realized by repeatedly inserting between the last two items inserted, which arises naturally if you're repeatedly adding to the middle of a list.
Not really. Remember that whole, "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes" thing.. Yet instead of actually doing this, they continue to essentially outsource their power, and responsibility to the administrative state. I mean DT almost blatantly came out and said, well these new tariffs aren't exactly because of national security..

Don't kid yourself, both parties are essentially the same, who feeds them just look different. On top of that, Congress continues to cede more powers to the administrative state.. It becomes all about control really..

The primary reason no one should have been worried when DT got elected is that for a great many years, the system was designed that no matter who is driving the ship, they won't sink it because they don't have that power (same goes for BO & GWB). But for years we've been pushing for more centralized authority with power resting at the figurehead, that really ramped up after '01, and later BO put it on steroids.

As private institutions fall away for newer generations, the govt becomes "something we all do together", and the primary solution for having someone else take care of societal problems for us, after all, it's what we pay taxes for...

Congress keeps outsourcing it's responsibilities to the president, no matter what letter, R or D is behind the name on the office door. Tariffs, wars, weaponized govt agencies, privacy rights, drone strikes, surveillance, and on and on...

This isn't a problem of the system, it's merely a symptom of the current state of our society and I personally don't think whether it's tariffs or privacy, little will change in a direction that we would like. The people want easy solutions, they want someone to take care of problems for them. That's exactly what we are getting.
Eh no to the 0.1%. But I have to concede that the power of shocking but nonsense headline numbers is hard to argue against given how I'm burning through Karma here.

The 0.1% is a number concocted by treating the value of European retail sales as a numerator and the Irish corporation tax as a denominator. The problem is that the dimensions in this division are not-compatible. By the same calculation Walmart only paid 1.2% corporate tax in the US in 2014 (corporate tax paid / total revenue). In actual fact, Walmart paid an effective rate of over 30% because corporate tax is calculate on profits - not on revenue.
I ignore ads. I don't click on political news...

But Facebook harvests whatever cookies and trackers it can out of your browser, even for activity outside of and unrelated to Facebook itself. You will be productized in every possible way. (For one example, haven't you seen Amazon ads in your feed for items you may gave looked at/for strictly external to your Facebook tab?)
How Hard Is It to Get a Cartoon into the New Yorker? (2011)
Just spit-balling, but could it be used for cheap depth perception, like a LIDAR alternative?
Agreed. However, the jackasses in relation to employer/employee wage negotiations are not the customers but the two parties involved.

If I was to negotiate with some other party that whenever you came within 100 metres of my awesomeness that you would be required to pay me 4000 drachma, what would your response be? The acting of tipping is a personal acknowledgement that the person has placed your actions so far above the norm that they consider it appropriate to honour you in some way.

What you are wanting is to have other people say that your actions are so outstanding that, even though they are nothing actually extraordinary, you should get something extra because of your awesomeness.

If you are not getting paid for doing your job, why on earth are still working for the tightwad (your words) who has employed you?

You are conflating a private negotiation as though it is a public interaction. It's not.

I have worked for lots of different companies over many years. My own attitude is that if the employer is not worth working for, then you don't work for them. If they pay rubbish wages for serious work, you don't deal with them. If they are tardy paying you, then you finish up with them and move on.

If I need to work in a remote place to cover the bills I have, then I work in a remote place. If I have to change industries or learn a new job then I will and have done so. If you don't consider yourself worthy of fair wages then that's a problem you have to get over.

Too many people think they are constrained by their circumstances and instead of doing something, they wallow in self pity. I have met those who had nothing or had lost everything due to circumstance and they have been an inspiration because they made a choice to do something about it.
Pointing machine
Good points. Lightfield tech will be common on day but that's probably at least 5 years from now
You can maybe verify that the app doesn't currently send messages anywhere, but what if there's a way for Facebook to send a request to WhatsApp for a dump of all messages within a date range?
Meh

A big rocket will get you there.

The tricky part is getting back. Still, in some aspects, easier than going

Also easier when you don't have to do all the calculations by hand
>Lytro failed to do this. Just because the underlying science is complicated doesn't make the tech "ahead of its time" due to the fact that maybe the tech, as implemented, just isn't what people want, now or in the future!

As we speaking abstractly? What theoretically could be if we didn't know anything about the tech?

Because otherwise this specific tech is very much an "ahead of its time" technology, whether consumers adopted it or not.

Besides, consumer adoption is a BS test for a technology being ahead of its time.

Failure in the market can simply be because the implementation was not good, or the marketing wasn't, or the support was lacking, or the price too high, or 200 other reasons, that don't depend on the technology not being ahead of its time.
There is a reason it's not bankruptable. If it was, lenders would not loan to students.

And if, like now, the government backed the loans and they were dischargeable, it would create a death spiral of companies encouraging loans to no end with tons of students accepting them, knowing that they can just file bankruptcy right after graduating.
Wow, that's a surprising comment to see and on multiple levels.
Would the Windows-equivalent of fork() be CreateProcess() ?
People often write "Comments" in the same journal that address a work's shortcomings. This can be the referees who are ultimately over-ruled by an editor, or any other interested reader.
Among other things, CA and Bannon tested out slogans such as "deep state" "drain the swamp" on the Facebook accounts in 2014 to see what would be most effective in motivating voters for Clinton opponents and discouraging Clinton voter from going to the polls. This shows that one should not be limiting a query to when they started working for Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-oversaw-cambr...

Obviously CA was not infallible, they could only get Ted Cruz to second against Trump among GOP candidates in that initial mad scrum, Cruz thought he could win with only evangelical voters in the primaries based on what they looked at with previous GOP primaries and was blindsided by Trump coming at the primaries from a different angle.
And they were right to fear them...?

Not to mention the cars were much less safe in the early days, and getting a driving license was probably a much less strict process. It's only after much criticism over decades that those have improved. And cars still kill tens of thousands every year.
If the Scientific Publication Mafia is your definition of the "West", then, yes, let's stick it to the "West".

Anyway, is there any proof that Sci-Hub is part of the Kremlbots, besides Alexandra Elbakyan being from Kazakhstan?
AMD promises firmware fixes for security processor bugs
> No.

Universal declaration of human rights article 23 may disagree, fwiw. Assuming you accept that declaration at all, of course. But the point is that there is, shall we say, a wide spectrum of views on this topic.

> I was obviously referring to national governments

That wasn't obvious at all, since you were commenting in a subthread that was specifically about how city governments are subject to many of the same restrictions even though leaving cities is "easy" (certainly comparable to leaving github).

> However, just try opting out of city services (and taxes) while retaining all your private property

The context here, just to remind you, is whether "just don't interact with entity X" is a reasonable response to complaints about entity X doing certain things like censorship. It's a well-established principle at least in the US that a city government cannot infringe your free speech rights. It's likewise a well-established principle that a corporation effectively can. This is largely due to accidents of history and somewhat due to differences in enforcement mechanisms (in that a city government could try to get you jailed with more success than a corporation).

But the "if you don't like it, just don't deal with them" response doesn't address any of that, and is in fact particularly weak because for many people it is _easier_ to not deal with a particular city government (i.e. move to a different city) than to not deal with GitHub.
The intent was to make it easier for students to get loans. And it worked. But many people are irrational and get in over their head.
An API is a contract. HTML can be tweaked and become incompatible with your parser at the developer's whim.
This is a good opportunity to start a jailbreak PSP project to get open source software on the PSP. Does anyone know if it's possible to downgrade the BIOS and PSP firmware after this fix is applied?
What other said plus L-Glutamine seems to be part of protecting the intestens.

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

> On the level of tissue, glutamine plays a role in maintaining the normal integrity of the intestinal mucosa.,[12] but randomised trials provide no evidence of any benefit of nutritional supplementation.[12]

It's cheap to buy and try if it changes anything for you.
This is simply factually incorrect. Ireland and Apple lodged the appeal to the ECJ against the ruling in November 2016. Ireland was forced to collect the 13B pending the appeal in December 2017.

The US is not the lowest tax destination - in fact it has a relatively high corporate tax rate. Apple is making their international profits subject to US corporate tax which is why the US is on the side of Ireland and Apple in the appeal.
> As I understand it, most of these companies sensibly say "unknown weird thing in/near road means stop the car."

That's not entirely true. A Tesla, for instance, won't stop if it detects a stationary object on the highway, assuming it's a false positives of the algorithm.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar
Would you like to share your RSS feed, send a PR
Man, I love the Little Debbies snack cakes.
I think that this is actually a part of the GDPR so in a months time we may have it.
It doesn't do what I supposed it would do.

> A column of type hierarchyid does not automatically represent a tree. It is up to the application to generate and assign hierarchyid values in such a way that the desired relationship between rows is reflected in the values. Some applications might have a column of type hierarchyid that indicates the location in a hierarchy defined in another table.
I discovered Lytro at the Maker Faire when they had their "borrow a Lytro" demo. It was a great bit of marketing: take a Lytro around the Faire for an hour (where are there are always plenty of interesting subjects) and afterward they put all your shots in an online gallery for you. I got a fun shot or two that day and promptly bought one of their first cameras.

But it wasn't a very good camera, and they completely missed the boat on making it a storytelling tool.

I took my Lytro with me when I walked with Team Torani (the Italian syrup people) in the Columbus Day parade that year, and did not get even one good shot. I wished I'd brought my little point-and-shoot instead, or just about any other camera, because I would have gotten dozens of good shots.

The pitch at the time was "you can put your photos on lytro.com, and people who view your gallery can click anywhere to refocus!" But who wants to do that? If you're looking at a gallery of photos, do you want to go clicking around to bring different things in and out of focus? I don't.

But for a photographer, this had some potential as a storytelling tool. Imagine having a photo that would do its own "pull focus" [1] when you view it, like in the movies. The photographer could first focus on one subject and then have it slowly change focus to something else to reveal something new to the person viewing the photo. Kind of a Ken Burns effect [2] but in the focus plane instead of - or perhaps in addition to - panning and zooming.

I remember one photo I got at the Menlo Park street fair that would have lent itself to this. I had the camera down around knee height, and a dog came up with his nose inches from the lens. In the background was his owner, an attractive young lady. It was a nice shot, and I imagined having it start with the dog's nose in focus and then gradually pulling the focus back to the owner.

Granted, this wasn't much of a story, but it was something. I couldn't even do that. All I could do on lytro.com was set the initial focus, and then leave it to any viewers to go clicking around to fiddle with the focus themselves. But nobody wants to do that.

It seemed like an opportunity lost, because they were so focused (pun intended) on the amazing technology and not on how to use it to tell stories.

[1] https://vimeo.com/233143268

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect