skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe we're all actually very deep into realizing the problem, across North America-Europe-Asia. The context now is what to do about China's economic protectionism and their refusal after two decades of false pledges to actually do what they said they would to gain admittance into the WTO.

France for example is trying to get everyone to focus on banding up against China's dumping practices (the US should be working with the EU on this, Trump is half going about the trade war wrong of course). Germany & others are looking at rejecting the aggressive technology transfers / acquisitions that China is making or trying to make.

India is into overdrive about China's military plans across the Indian Ocean and greater region.

China's neighbors have been sweating for years about what's coming next out of them militarily, beyond their territory acquisitions in the South China Sea.

The US has entirely frozen China's ability to buy US companies and is reciprocating on behavior by increasingly locking out several of China's big companies.
> If the current owners of the water park had been afraid of jail, they would not have built such a dangerous contraption.

That's just silly. First, this case is being publicized. A light sentence will not deter anyone watching, but a heavy one will, at least for as long as this case is remembered -- if we have to do this again 20 years from now, so be it. Second, that the owners/operators in this case were not deterred says nothing about future potential owners/operators of similar attractions.

> If jail is supposed to be about deterrence, this gives a (Darwinian) advantage to people who do not care about getting into jail. Is this what you desire?

I don't follow. I think you're way oversimplifying things. Also, most people don't want to go to jail, while the ones that don't care should land there early and often and eventually for long, thus negating their "darwinian advantage".
Generally, isometric grids don't work well in gameplay.

I beat "Into The Breach" 3 times on hard mode with 3 different classes, and I can safely say that a top-down perspective would have been more intuitive.

It feels like every time I look at the map, I need to rotate the image 45 degrees in my head before I could process what unit needs to do what.
> Dunno about you, but for me giving two self-driving systems control over the car at same time seems like a recipe for disaster.

When I drive a car, I am a 'self-driving system'. It is intended that I am used in conjunction with the car's existing driving-assist functionality.
IME, speed reading is great in the domains where it’s applicable without substantial detriment to comprehension (as in the case of pamphlets, instruction manuals, a first skim of material, etc). What gets my jimmies in a knot is the ‘productivity gurus’ who open up a book and treat finishing it (as quickly as possible of course) as the primary goal. Your primary goal should be to gleam as much as possible from the text, regardless of speed, and I think there is much to be missed at 6 pages a second (arguably, this could also originate from me being a poor speed reader, despite believing in it firmly previously). Mortimer Adler addresses this and more well in his book “How to Read a Book”[0].

[0]: A summary of the algorithm can be found here: https://pastebin.com/wGFMM1pZ
Nvidia Unveils 2 Petaflop DGX2
In general, if an executive says "The future is X", a good first translation is "My life will get a whole lot easier if X is true."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambrid...

Looks like CA is just one means Palantir has used to get Facebook data.
Everyone should use the firefox multi-account containers. Each account you use should have a separate container. The new versions allow you to associate bookmarks to containers.

Fabulous!
This is a good strategy. I grew up on SunOS before Linux. It had (has?) a fantastic set of man pages. You could start with "man intro" and go from there. Looks like it still leads you to the "1M System Administration" section:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-0211/6m6nc66m6/inde...

The Linux intro man pages are still pretty useless sadly.
Interesting question: does a mile in CA four years ago equal a mile today? Not in the sense that roads change (though they do!), but because I worry about regressions and new bugs.

You can mitigate it a bit by simulating many rides in virtual reality--which Waymo is absolutely doing already--but add enough cities and that would get really expensive really quickly, even by Google standards. And you probably couldn't run that world suite of tests for every code submission, or even on a nightly candidate.
Anyone catch the smoosh reference in there?

I think type Flatten<T> should be renamed to type Smoosh<T> hehe
Retracing the evolution of Reddit through post data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Nina_Reiser's_disa...
My fiancee showed me a gameplay trailer for that. "Unsettling" is definitely a word I'd use to describe it.
Even then, there were only a couple trivial places that saw literal copying. The code that checks for array out of bounds was the main one.
We should probably exploit local resources, anyway. Mines in some Asian and third world countries have terrible human rights records.
At the most basic level you have the people doing risky stunts for YouTube, etc, and getting killed. Like the woman who shot her boyfriend in the chest with a Desert Eagle, at his insistence, because he thought an encyclopedia volume would protect him.
It's pretty conspiratorial to call the media a "propaganda machine." I don't think it's propagandistic as much as it is opportunistic - Facebook fraud is in the news so now's the time to report on it, it's just business sense.

Sure, it would have been nice to see this anti-FB outrage spread out over time, but that's just not how human social networks work.
Mm, yep, thanks for that. Primary sources always better than secondary.

I kinda take issue with saying "the ARPG was born at that moment", though. We had JRPGs for almost a decade before that included realtime combat.
It still makes sense to have a test. We put every citizen through a driving test. Those are gamed too, but at least they learned a lot of basics... and they are probably better drivers than people not required to take a test. After that, market forces will hopefully go the rest of the mile.

I mean heck, this latest incident wouldn't have passed the original Darpa challenge that got us here.
Tesla’s autopilot runs on MobilEye only AP 2 runs on NVIDIA.
Indeed! At minimum we would need the Mars Dragon or Orion with a long range trunk attached to carry supplies and repair pieces. It would be really interesting to see an orbital pairing (a-la the Lunar Module/Command Module) for an L2 repair mission.
Falling upwards?

Words having meanings! Let's just use words that mean what they mean. Facebook did not "LOSE" $100B, and the stock is not "falling".
Have you considered, that the AI is simply trying to greedily close the points on it's knowledge graph?

Perhaps having a dense graph is simply more profitable for FB?

Sure they won't know who you know, but they can send their messages (ostensibly "on behalf of") that person you know/friended.

Sure, poison your personal data (get your Fakebook on), but going out and spamming connections may not exactly hurt FB.
Ha. I was just talking here the other day about how my friend at Facebook would always say that Palantir has even more data, including just about everything from Facebook, and a commenter responded that they couldn't see how Palantir would actually be able to scrape up Facebook's data...
Copyright has a creativity requirement. I can easily see a court ruling that 0x51234 bit 5 is not creative whereas SetBrickMode(true) has a spark of creativity in that it could have been named multiple things.

Without endorsement, there is definitely a line between text in which one can be "creative" and numbers in copyright law as written.

The problem here isn't the line between creative and non-creative, the problem here is the introduction of copyright, a concept created for expressive works, into a field that consists of functional works. It should not be a surprise to anyone, not even lawyers, that this isn't going to "just work". The surprise to me is that it has taken this long for this foundational clash to start emerging at a big scale.
It's a gamble that jaywalkers lose every year.

When you're going to jaywalk, ensure that the next car is far enough away to where it doesn't matter if they stop. That's the correct way that would've saved this person's life without any further analysis.

I'm taking issue with this:

>that person died for no good reason beyond Uber rushing tech out the door before it was ready

Well, no. They died because they lost their gamble on an unguided crossing where the oncoming car did not stop.

We are now analyzing why the car didn't stop, but notice how no charges were pressed.
We're talking about keyboards, not headphone jacks. So I'm not sure what your point was, other than to instigate an argument.
Start small and be patient
Could this be used against Facebook in court eventually? Like showing this as evidence that Facebook has been maliciously trying to abuse its users' privacy?

Zuckerberg said that because that would have benefited Facebook if it became true. It's like IBM now saying "forget Intel and transistors, quantum computers are the future!" (because we happen to make them and be ahead of everyone else in this).
Only a few ;)

Good to hear you are motivated and asking questions! That sure beats the pants off of most folks. You'll be fine, just keep putting in the effort.

The internet can get you down a lot, and it is tough to ignore. It's not just you, we all feel it. That said, try to read more and comment less, if you get my drift. Find good sites, only read them, ignore FB and CNN, and mostly just read real books.

As for your education, don't let school get in the way of college.

Go to the parties, tell yourself that it's 'networking' but go because it's fun.

If you stay in just one Friday night per month to study, you'll be ahead of everyone else, but I don't know what that gets you in the long run. Still, you'll get better grades.

Pull your bed away from the wall so you can hide the beer bottles back there and use a towel at the bottom of the door to smoke inside (hot air is less dense and will flow into the room from the top, cold out of the room from the bottom) but just go outside in general.

Don't have a GF/BF in college. It's not a hard rule, but enjoy the freedom and the chance to just study. Don't try to get married before you are going to have the time to spend with them as a person, not as a just student. You change after all the HW and stress dies off.
Have a look at netdata: https://github.com/firehol/netdata
The same thing that happened when China "cornered" the rare earth metals market: other mines were opened and a temporary advantage mostly disappeared.

The same will happen here.

In addition, cobalt can be recycled from existing batteries, but it is currently not economical to do so. When you can trade existing batteries to Best Buy for a couple bucks, you'll know the price of cobalt (or nickel, or lithium) is genuinely high.

People interested should read Junkyard Planet: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Junkyard-Planet-Travels-Billion-Dol...
GWR is to blame for that. They're seizing the opportunity presented by having one more interaction (among many) with you, to saddle that interaction with this ratchet pattern. There's nothing special about GDPR that leads inexorably to that.
Visual Basic was released in 1991.
Happy to see that the greater public understands what Facebook really is.

But we still have work to do regarding Google. They are even worse IMO. For those two, you are the product.

Amazon and Microsoft don't have business selling your data (or at least it is not central), you are not the product.
Related vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_bVgplit0

IGN Unfiltered episode with David about his origins and the creation of Diablo/Blizzard North.
Ray of Hope: BlockChain's Growing Importance in Retail Industry
Really nice introductory article, though some of the more… axiomatic assertions, are iffy.

> If it’s possible to build more reliable systems with programming languages with stricter constraints, what about languages with the strongest constraints? I’ve skewed all the way to the far end of the spectrum and have been building a web service in Rust

Bit overselling it, that introduction would work better for something like ATS or possibly Idris. Rust has its strictness, but it's not exactly "you must prove this recursion terminates"-strict

> Synchronous operations aren’t as fast as a purely asynchronous approach

This is misleading. Synchronous sequences are generally faster than asynchronous ones because yielding and getting scheduled back has a non-zero overhead (this is regularly re-discovered, most recently by the developers of "better-sqlite": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616374).

Async operations are a way to increase concurrency when your synchronous sequence would just be waiting with its thumb up its ass (e.g. on a network buffer filling or on a file read completing), so you can provide more service over the same wallclock time by (hopefully) always using CPU time.
The entitlement I was referring to was based on the tone of the criticism. "I wish Krita had image editing features" wouldn't have got any reply from me. But adding "the open source evangelists always have a dodge" sounds to me like a personal attack on those devs. Do they owe something to the artist community? Or have they breached the terms of some work-for-hire contract from the graphics industry to code an all-in-one tool? Nope.

What is the "dodging" in limiting functional scope of a tool? Each and every software project I know of places some limits on what it will and won't implement. Even Adobe has a suite of tools where one tool like Photoshop can do things Illustrator can't and vice versa. It's not Adobe being "dodgy" about their tools, and nor are open source projects.

Nothing stops people from forking GIMP, implementing whatever fixes they want, distributing, and even selling it. Refusing pull requests is not a crime.
I agree. The people who pound the table about guns, but refuse to pound the table about the countless failures of the system to protect these kids, are cynically using this event for political gain.

The FBI not picking up the kid after being tipped off, the sheriff's department not picking up the kid after 39 visits, or the Sheriff Deputy that did not engage the shooter, but waited for backup, all point to already existing policy that failed to be followed properly.

Even the principal himself, who evacuated a school based on an unsubstantiated fire alarm (every fire control panel tells you what switch was pulled, so he could easily have called a teacher near that station for confirmation) shares some of the blame here. Also, the fact that he evacuated multiple buildings, rather than only the building where the alarm was pulled, was a confusing mistake.

There are people who are actually trying to fix a very broken system, and they are not the ones using this to advance a political agenda.
That's obviously incorrect.

The US has extremely low tariffs and protectionism against foreign participation in its economy. That includes, particularly, in agriculture, where most of the world has extremely high tariffs by comparison (and the US is the world's largest agricultural exporter, so it tends to suffer more than anyone from those foreign agriculture tariffs).

Toyota gets to set up plants in the US, and own its Toyota US subsidiary. Nintendo gets to the do the same thing, owning Nintendo of America. BMW gets to do the same. Bayer is allowed to buy Monsanto; InBev is allowed to buy Anheuser Busch; Roche is allowed to buy Genentech; Novartis gets to buy Alcon; Sanofi gets to buy Genzyme; etc. None of them require forced partners to do so as in China, they can just freely go about their business and retain a 100% ownership position.

The US is among the least protectionist major economies and has among the lowest tariffs of any large economy. The exact opposite of what you're claiming is in fact true.

Check out the US agriculture tariffs versus the rest of the world:

https://i.imgur.com/F7NZXRz.jpg
Related, "Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds":

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analys...
Sure, for forensics, but how would FB's AI know that your new data is garbage?

Isn't that like NP-hard or something?

Furthermore, would they care? Realistically, you're padding their numbers. Things can be popular simply because they're liked (whether it's synthetic or not).
Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
One can build cool projects on top of APIs like those of Twitter, Facebook, and so on. Which sites do you wish had an API?
I mean this will force salaries to increase to attract workers b/c they won't have loan forgiveness as an implicit benefit. This will also reduce workers in those occupations driving wages even higher. That or the non-profit/gov't agencies will have to go without (and maybe that's the reason for this effort). It may also cause schools to drop tuition or make it easier for rich people to get into schools since there will be less competition.
You are right but the problem is this: I would like to use Google maps but I do not want Google to have a perfect profile of me so I try to add plausible false data.
Nvidia GTC 2018 Keynote: Live Stream
Calling this 3d printed reminds me of how some video games are referred to as 2.5D. It looks like a 2D array of dots without any real third dimension construction other than the volume of the dots. The resolution is also a fair bit lower than even consumer grade 3D printer technology. The current results are already impressive, but it seems they have a lot of headroom to grow into as well.

Also, I wonder if the coloring of the dots is simply to keep track of which type each is.
Aircraft use multiple flight systems developed by separate teams in separate languages/technologies -- and then compare their answers to get redundant consensus.
That's so un-American.
Microsoft: https://advertising.microsoft.com/home

Amazon: https://advertising.amazon.ca/

... You are the product.
This is ripe for a new awards ceremony inclusive of all platforms.
Not only that, she was crossing from left to right and was hit by the edge of the right side of the car. She could have been missed entirely.
Very Interesting.
Thanks!
Probably quite low, given this quote from the article.

> the current was still too low for most practical applications
Looks like it's not maintained anymore, and gimpshop.com is a scam website from someone else (looks like, I might be wrong).
A service that continually updates your profile data (well the non-invariant type), adds/removes random "friends" and the like would be interesting.

Do it progressively enough, and when would FB know the difference?
I'm grateful for Jaron's Who Owns The Future for really laying out the scale of what's going on, and the stakes.
I am not tracking development besides release notes, but that's great news!
Here's a possibility: legislation is passed prohibiting FB (and other websites) from using data that the user has marked as deleted.
And this is one of the best shut-down notes I've seen. It discusses the problems and choices made candidly.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-cant-wait-you-see-what-we-d...
AS has been covered elsewhere, an API is a functional description and not copyrightable, irrespective of what a specific court says. This specific court has had its rulings slapped about so much by the next higher court, it is a wonder that they haven't just packed up and gone home.

That is why telephone books and others things are not copyrightable. They are lists of facts. API's are lists of facts, a functional specification for use.

There are consequences if this stands and it will not be to our benefit as programmers, developers, designers, etc. Nor will it be to the benefit of society as a whole.
dstat, iotop, htop - lots of similar tools, giving you the same data on linux
The first amendment wasn't written with social media in mind, just like the second amendment wasn't written with semi-automatic rifles in mind. The US needs to enact common sense speech control to stop these tragedies from propagating.

Secondary thought: maybe if we restrict online speech to those over 21, we could stop a lot of bullying that leads to these problems in the first place, and as an extra benefit this kind of ban could stop children from posting things online that will negatively impact them later in life.
If they launch in one city or a few select cities, I don't think that signal tells you that much.

It is true that if their tech can't handle rain well, they would avoid rainy cities. But even if their tech can handle it pretty well, why pick a city that has less than maximum odds for success? Going for the low-hanging fruit first could very easily just mean that they know how to prioritize, not that they can't reach the higher fruit.

Also, there are lots of other factors (like regulation and other driving conditions) that dilute the signal.
Who said, "Why would you do this?"
Exactly! This addon has no new exciting tech. It's just specialized/preconfigured UX around an existing feature, and opportunity-grasping marketing after the recent Facebook privacy barfs.

I'm happy to recommend/install it to friends I install uBlock Origin for.

Great job Mozilla :) . More of this.
Can't believe so many people argue against this.

Sometimes I forget what a corporate brainwash hackernews can be.
Goodbye Cannes and Oscars. You do this and you will make yourselves irrelevant.
Web Browsers Reject About Two Thirds of Cookies
I like this idea and wonder whether it would be possible to automate this. For it to work, it would have to make random tracking pixel requests 24/7 to prevent Facebook from filtering out the noise. Even then, the individual fake requests would have to be indistinguishable from real ones.
I had posted on Twitter from a comment here that "good cinema is good cinema no matter the release medium" – a hollywood writer targeted my tweet in regards to Spielberg comments.

He said: "His argument is that the very definition of “cinema” is the movie theater. Are you saying that a very good film shot and released on NBC should be allowed entry to the Oscars? That’s what the Globes and Emmys are for."

So I said: The source of production and viewing outlet is less relevant than 10 years ago. At 30,000 feet the end user would say a movie is a movie and, some don’t prefer a movie theatre.

His response: "So you’re saying that TV movies should be eligible for Oscars? And, if so, should the Emmy awards for those films be eliminated?"

My response: "No, I’m not saying any of that. I’m not in that industry. A movie is a movie to me and most the world. That’s all"

The bottom line: Strong opinions and ego are flaming internal Hollywood politics, which, are disregarding the enduser.
If companies let laws get in the way of making money, there would be no need for enforcement bureaus.
Did I say they were? You’re patching into the use of the word feeling.

This just seems like a replay of J++. No one outside of Oracle or Google can determine the facts behind those statements you quoted, so the best outsiders like us can do is go based on “feelings” based on basic reasoning
FB has always been ignoring users (kinda like Firefox!).

See the original "wall" and the system before "timeline".
The first edition suffers from being a victim of its own success. Much of it has become common wisdom and many of the refactoring techniques now have IDE support.

"Working Effectively with Legacy Code"^1 is usually what I recommend instead. It felt like a more up to date approach

More generally "The Pragmatic Programmer"^2 is a classic for a reason. But from you're comment you've probably already read it.

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