skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Converting coordinates to string-based hashes is quite weird. Why not just find which grid square they are in and used the flat index of it?
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What are bandwidth costs? This comes up again and again, people see HE.net / Cogent / Level3 / Hibernia / NTT whatever offering 10gig handoff IP transit at a colo neutral location for X per month and somehow determine the true cost. When I suspect the reality is that much of cost is invested in routing equipment both internally and externally, evolving SDN and all the goodness it affords, being able to offer SLA per instance in terms of mbit that can be pushed, being able to mitigate DDOS, hiring top network engineers and researchers, being fully redundant across multiple providers and protected circuits rather than just a lonely hand off - or in GCP case building out the network themselves with multiple SLA tiers, being able to mitagate network issues quicker than a PagerDuty alert at a banwidth blender. Granted I'd say there still probably cushioning in there but judging network costs by comparing to a 10gig handoff at a random colo neutral, or blender, or OVH/Hetznet commodity servers, or Linode/Vultr/DO seems unfair in my opinion.
Apple Pay is already supported by N26, in countries where Apple Pay is available.
The sooner the world moves to renewables and stops pouring money into the volatile Middle East the sooner we can all sleep better.
More recently, the North American passenger pigeon. Billions to extinct in 19th century...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Are closed borders and fascism synonymous? Because the US has had closed borders and limits on immigration for over a century now.
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Or Equifax
Although it probably is not intended for this use, I enjoy A.E. Van Vogt's work that way.
Bees sting, they don't bite.
The future of computer security is machine vs. machine
I enjoyed Artemis by Andy Weir. If you liked The Martian, you will probably like Artemis.

Hugh Howey's Wool series was a lot of fun to read.

I also have enjoyed all of Daniel Suarez' books, especially Daemon.
Didn't really expect downvotes. Perhaps it wasn't entirely clear from what I wrote, but what I meant was:

Facebook and Google don't necessarily have to be evil for this to happen.

My point that this is a consequence of economics, and statistically speaking, no matter how nice of people you put in these positions, they are going to tend towards making more money. Surveillance makes money. So surveillance is what you get.

That is orthogonal to the question of whether they actually ARE evil.
I like "The Computer: An Illustrated History". It's out of print, but available pretty cheaply used.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847320139/ for the original or https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Illustrated-History-Origins-... for the reprint edition.
2 years? Try 6. According to Obama campaign adviser Carol Davidsen, they farmed the data in 2012 with FB's knowledge:

From https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975565844632821760:

> "Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing."

> "They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side."
Depends on the conditions. With moderate temperature and dry conditions every single corner on a highway can be taken at 120km/h on any modern car, the overwhelming majority of them can be taken far in excess of 200km/h depending on the car's characteristics.

Then again under bad conditions on a 90km/h roads my survival instinct like you mentioned hasn't allowed me to go past 20-30km/h sometimes.
Accurate eye tracking UI/UX might be the game changer that puts the ML over the HoloLens, despite its other shortcomings.
Yes, simulating lenses is standard for physically-based rendering.
I am not sure I find your argument particularly valid.

Yes, AWS S3 is cheaper if you have no egress traffic, and the monthly storage cost falls below $5, which is a minimum price for DO.

This scenario is very much a corner case. If you have egress traffic, or more than $5 worth of storage, then DO runs ahead quite fast.

I'm slightly disappointed that Backblaze B2 was not on the list, though.
If true and if cost effective to produce.
Any UX expert can tell you that every little bit of friction counts. I see that mentioned or assumed every day here on HN, but somehow in discussions about using vs. abandoning Facebook it gets thrown out the window. I might be comfortable with email, you might be comfortable with Slack, but my uncle or my high-school friend who's a massage therapist might not be. Also, they and a couple of dozen other older, younger, or less tech-savvy friends are already on Facebook and comfortable doing things there. Getting them to switch to a different platform is a hard sell even if it's more convenient, and if it's even marginally less convenient then forget it. Ease of use and network effects are both real things.
I second the notion that fluency is a language syntax problem that should not be solved with the design of interfaces.

Smalltalk also solved this problem with the semi-colon, but for some damn fool reason we followed C syntax but didn't find an alternative. And now we're trying desperately to replicate `&.` in every library and language, but we still don't have an easy way to write:

someObject
.doThis();
.doThat();
.dontForgetToFinishUp().
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> the percent of developers using Windows dropped below 50%.

Yeah, not sure how is this relevant. Developers are not your average CoD, LoL, WoW etc.. players.

I'm not trying to defend anything as I don't even use Windows myself, it's just that from a business point of view making sure DX and "gaming" in general is locked to Windows makes absolutely 100% sense as again - most gamers do not care if they have to use Windows or not, they just want to play games.
Just finished watching.

Not quite getting the idea for tuple space.
They collect browser histories? Shouldn't that technically be impossible unless they're using their ad partners across multiple sites?
Great work. Thanks!
Very nice, thanks for creating this!

In addition to (possibly new) hardware that supports much larger memory, compression techniques like this might allow us to start operations with “phrase embedding” or eventually even whole “sentence embedding.”
> it's not the linguists' job to 'de-bias' the grammar and the underlying model.

Sure, but this is not a project of linguistic research. It’s a tool that could see real-world usage. Not perpetuating the stereotypes that suffuse the data we feed into such models does seem like a worthy Endeavour, and I find it encouraging to see the creator taking these concerns seriously in this threat.

(As opposed to the community-at-large, which quickly send them to the bottom of the threat)
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Yes, Mammoths were alive at the time the Pyramids were built. Kinda mind-blowing.
I tend to use http://hckrnews.com/ and only display the top 10 stories.

What I particularly like is the day-split, the high density of information, and the color coding: orange means "Still on the homepage" and grey means "Already visited" (which applies to both the story and the comments).
It used to be that you could get more information than just the friends list but that hasn't been the case since 2015:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/

Perhaps the academic involved was given special access under the condition that he didn't give the data to any third parties, and he did.
Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
This is for federal highways, traffic in a city should not go faster than 25mph in most shared spaces. Motorways is a different subject, but there should only be overpasses or resegined roads and traffic lights for such places.
Well by getting the human race closer to colonizing other rocks floating in space, it kinda offsets SpaceX burning hundreds of tons of kerosene for each rocket.
This is good because it might make people question what they read on FB, but the reality is that (a) the whole digital economy is based on that. FB are no better than Google or Apple (who know where you are, right now!) or a miriad others (b) FB serves some purposes (my old aunt wouldn't be able to work out email, but FB is easy enough for her, for example) and (c) it seems that the trend is away from 'public' platforms like FB and towards non publicly accessible groups such as WhatsApp groups (also owned by FB..) or Telegram or Snapchat etc, so an anti-FB backlash may not achieve much in terms of a "healthier public discourse"

Also, it all depends on how you use it. I subscribe to a lot of food based groups and art events groups, and share next to nothing about what I do. OK, some AI can infer that if I like Lebanese AND Mexican I am probably left leaning. OK, now what? What are they going to do with that info?
oh jeez I was with HSBC in the UK, what a train wreck of a banking experience.
Second that. Lot of maintenance after acquisition has caused us one too many downtime. We already have sizeable presence in gce and the experience has been overall good so we have decided to migrate resources in softlayer over to gce.
> people need to remove this idea that they need social media in their lives

People need to remove the idea that they need social media companies in their social media.

Social media itself is fine. The problem is service providers whose interests aren't aligned with their users.
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Embarrassing admission: I still carry a Treo 700p running Palm OS 5.4.9. Not as a phone, I have my work phone for that. It's for carrying personal info. The OS fits me hand-in-glove so I love it.

I tried converting to Android but every app I tried (and I tried dozens!) either had some critical missing feature or cost too much. And the work phone is locked down, so I can't put any personal info on it.

So I have a bump in the left pocket and the work phone on the right hip. A Google Voice number as my personal "cell" which gets forwarded to the work phone.

I imagine I'll die with a Treo in my pocket. They're reliable, but if one breaks they're $15 on eBay in almost new condition. Since one can still find the original Palms also on eBay, I expect to be able to find replacements for one of the last Palms made for a lonnnnng time.
Why not path tracing?
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One important advantage not mentioned is the sending side. You can respond to websocket messages, push notifications or HTTP callbacks using the same message structure so every new source of messages can be added with only one line of code and the receivers can be unaware of a new source.
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> but it's useless now for targeted advertising

What makes you think this? According to another recent article about Facebook's data collection[0] says:

> And it showed these odd patterns; that, for example, people who liked ‘I hate Israel’ on Facebook also tended to like Nike shoes and KitKats.

This gives me the impression that even mundane bits of information can be used to extrapolate other connections through intelligent guessing.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...
No need for ad partners; their share button scripts are enough for this task. (Google Analytics is the leader on this technique, compounded by secondary tracking inside Google search results, but FB is one of the leading third-party request destinations in the web)
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Aren’t Israeli nukes an open secret? As in they never acknowledge they have them, but pretty much everyone believes they do?
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> Chances are that the 38mph number came from the car itself, so there should be no "variance", leave alone 3mph over the limit.

My understanding, which may be incorrect, is that the 38mph number came from GPS recording, and that "cruise control" in Uber's self driving vehicles is not based on GPS speed, due to the impact poor/loss off GPS signal would impact it.

>Modern cruise controls are perfectly capable of maintaining set speed, even at a considerable downhill.

I'm not particularly handy with repairing cars, but I have a pretty decent understanding of how cruise control systems work due to nerding out on it when I bought a car with adaptive cruise control. Everything I have read on the design of cruise control says this simply isn't the case, because it isn't even a design goal. Much more important in the design is keeping close to it while maximizing fuel efficiency and driver comfort, and even in modern cruise control not all systems have access to the brakes, which would be required for keeping it at the set speed going considerably downhill. Anecdotally, all of the cars I have owned fit this and do not keep my vehicle at exactly the set speed, including the most recent one with ACC.
Dust is a killer for consitrating solar power, but much less so for PV. You can also clean them with minimal water useage. It's just a tradeoff of how much desalination is worth it for efficiency gains.
On the other hand, I don't mind reading a short article on a different way of approaching programming. I agree that I would prefer something a lot more in depth, but if it eventually comes along I won't be surprised about it now.

For me the key here is that it's short, easy to understand, describes an interesting idea (even if I'm sceptical), and avoids trashing other ideas.

I certainly prefer this kind of article to the majority of stories unrelated to tech or business that are very popular on HN.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but where is the Azure data?
This prompted me to research UK political advertising regulations, or rather the fact that there are none at all for non-broadcast content. That is insane.
9p is used in KVM's VirtFS

https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_kvm/data/kvm_...

https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/system/presentati...

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VirtFS
Absolutely. But if you have the choice between a) not knowing 100 pct of the time, and b) knowing for certain it's not private X pct of the time, for unknown X probably not 0, you'd want b. You will have more information by trying.
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> HTML full of long complex class names is a bit harder to grok.

I wouldn't recommend long and complex names either, but with something like tachyons, they're not long or complex, there are simply long lists of orthogonal classes.
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S3 will sometimes return a "503 temporary error" response if you start writing lots of files per second. From my understanding, if they see that your bucket has a constant high write rate they'll make some configuration changes in the background to accommodate the higher write rate.

That being said, last month I wrote over 60 million files to S3 and the number of failed writes were tiny (solved by simply retrying the write)

I've not used DOs spaces yet, I'd love to know if they guarantee read after write consistency. I know S3 has some issues with that depending on use case. Maybe it's time for another look at spaces.
Justice? Because political actors used the available tools to their advantage?

If we're going to go down that line, what justice should be served to Jimmy Kimmel, who regularly pushes his political agenda in what's supposed to be a variety show?
I've had them as my primary bank for about a year or so.

I would not recommend them to anyone, especially not as the main bank. Some issues I personally experienced:

- Double transaction entries (making monthly reports, subtotals, etc wrong).

- Failing to execute standing orders (not acceptable).

- Atrocious 9-5 support.

- Broken fingerprint login on certain android devices.

- Abysmal security [0]

- Couldn't log in few times (outside support hours), app/website unusable.

- A lot of other less severe bugs (categories being wrong in web and reports for example).

I've closed my account with then in October 2017, here's what happened since:

- I still get monthly reports about my closed accounts.

- I get various summaries e.g. the "Your 2017 with N26"

- They reported to SCHUFA (German credit rating agency) a month AFTER my account was closed that I opened an account with them (again).

- After I contact their legal department about a week ago and I demanded my data in accordance with German data protection laws, they started to apparently do something with my account, since now I get emails like that my phone has been unpaired and so on.

- For all the issues I've outlined above after closing my account I've tried contacting support. They ignore me after I clarify that my account should've been deleted.

This is just what I remember from the top of my head. I also paid for their premium N26 Black subscription.

[0]: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money
If you visit from HN, the site displays a webshit parody.

Otherwise it's text only and loads very fast.
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And large scale refactorings require good TDD tests. And I've yet to see a large scale project that has these.
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Sounds like it would lead to interesting "not a bug, it's a feature!"-worthy result of clipping through objects in the dark
I guess the UK/EU will have a field day with this, considering the GDPR is in effect in a little less then 2 months.

Also, i wonder if this violates any political campaign laws aswell?
Kalman filters do exactly that. Add in accelereometer and you have a basic INS.
We should use machine learning to detect if the user want to pay something or not!
I totally understand that but the price hasn't dropped in what, a decade? My home internet connection (which includes a shedload of last mile costs laying fibre to my apartment) has went from 2mbit/sec to 1gig/sec (for less money in real terms) in a similar timespan.

I'm not expecting it to be at the cost of a 10gig cogent connection at LINX, but some drop makes sense. DO/Backblaze pricing seems to be more on the money.

Keep in mind these provides also do charge on top for a lot of other networking services (VPCs, NATs etc) which often can really add up, so I'd expect some of the SDN capex to be absorbed by that.
> Driving isn't just travel along a vector. Maybe trains, but not urban roads.

Trains travel along a straight line, not a vector in 2D space.

> If a ball bounces in front of me, I slow down expecting a dog or a child running after it. No self driving car now, and in 30 years is going to be able to infer that.

Incorrect. I don't know why you think humans are so special that they're the only system capable of inferring such correlations.
Each of your examples is headed by an individual who's both passionate about openness in their respective domain and who has a source of income that's made them rich enough not to really need to sell out (or by groups of people who don't need to in the case of P2P and OSS).

Even if you could find someone who fits the bill though, each of the examples is either irrelevant to the government or too small to have a significant impact on what the government do. I strongly suspect that any ethical Facebook alternative would find it very hard to operate if it got big enough to complete with FB and still refused to sell out.
In my eyes, this phrase is the big problem:

"an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model"

And as long as FB is making billions out of this model, it will not change. The only think one can do is remove themselves from being the means to FB's profitability and leave the FB employees sharing their own data.

In a similar spirit, anyone who has my name & phone number in their contacts, when they decide to use any application that 'wants access to contacts' inherently performs the same violation of my private information.
Generally in an Actor/Agent based systems messages are still passed to specific 'entities' rather than using a Pub/Sub bus where 'entities' are only coupled through the messages they send and those they subscribe for. I think the article describes the latter.

Although I've written buses in the past that let the user address messages to different 'entities' and groups, even ad hoc groups defined by features like spatial locality.
I don't think Israel considers them an open secret. Their existence is commonly assumed and Israel does little to dissuade the rumors, but we do not have specifics. No doubt they have the devices but we are not sure of their delivery methods or warhead sophistication.
That's the curse of dimensionality in effect. In very high dimensions, the probability that two randomly chosen vectors are orthogonal increases, and conventional distance metrics become less useful since most vectors end up very far from each other.

In geometric terms, think of a circle embedded in a square. As the number of dimensions increases (e.g. a sphere embedded in a cube, a 4-dimensional ball embedded in a 4-dimensional cube, etc), most of the volume in the cube is outside the radius of the sphere. Any vectors you have effectively become sparse.

Basically this means that, while you need large dimensionality to model complex relations, high dimensionality makes it difficult to model these relationships (and need exponentially more data).
Hm, interesting, always thought it was from parts 'med' and 'ved'. Though Ukrainian's 'vedmed' kinda contradicts suggestion that first part it 'medv'. Maybe it started some long time ago with 'honey eater' and then transitioned...
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Signal does 90% of what Facebook did that mattered, the only thing I miss is topical groups. I probably travel in unusual circles but everyone is on Signal and only half are still on Facebook.
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That attitude just adds to the problem.
Sure. But if the result is inconclusive, do you leave it at that or demand to know more? What exactly does making the data public better than entrusting a competent organization such as NTSB?
I backup all my data to a local SAN, Backblaze B2 and Google Drive. Restic encrypts and deduplicates all data on the client before uploading it to the cloud.
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This is assuming the panel are close to the ground and not mirrors.
I can imagine that raytracing for a few effects will be possible when you switch on "Ultra" settings on desktop games, for the guys who have V100s in their machines.
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted. Wikipedia attributes poaching pretty much entirely to demand for rhino horn in "traditional Asian medicine".

> Rhino horn can fetch tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram on the black market in Asia and, depending on the exact price, can be worth more than its weight in gold.
That doesn't help at all because all the methods will still have to be declared in IJdkRequest and implemented by every concrete subtype returned by the methods.
Yes, it is critical that we are pendantically correct in this matter. Alignment on the definition of natural selection is the only way to make sure we save the rest of the Rhinos.
Data gathered from browsing websites that share data with FB (by third-party tracking or by direct acquisition of data from other companies, I'm not sure if FB does the latter) and from apps that include FB libraries (a surprisingly high number of apps) can still be associated with your ostensibly deleted profile.