skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds cool.

I have seen the software that the public sector buys and builds. It would seam like they go out of their way to get the worst software they could get.

I have zero confidence in the public sectors capability of creating good technology.
Great response, thank you! Showing my ignorance of situations in Europe and how they differ from Australia.

Thanks for the corrections around usage as well as the spreadsheet full of data!

50 times for solar is quite a lot (~350GW installed rooftop or does it include solar parks?), not practical for solar alone, at least not in the next 20 years.

I'm not sure about France, but in other parts of the world, most of the solar power generation has been added in the last 5 or so years I remain optimistic that installation rates will continue to grow, but your data has shown me that for locations with heavy heating requirements, aiming for 100% renewable anytime soon is just not practical.

Thanks again for the spreadsheet, I work with solar forecasting (including for Europe!), we have only started modeling for storage and would be very interested where the hourly solar generation on the grid came from and other work you've done in this area. My email is [darren at solcast dot com dot au].
At this point, I intend to bow out of the conversation. I feel a great many people have missed my point and arguing it isn't going to accomplish anything good.

I probably shouldn't have replied to any of the replies to me. We all make our mistakes.
Linux Commando: Scanning HTTPS for Mixed Content
The video gives a really good explanation but i loved the book he released freely along with that but maybe I have a preference for that. I am awed at by the knowledge this guy has ... If you haven't already read the book "Principles" by Dalio ( same guy)
And if the NSA and FBI had devoted less energy to turning this country into a corrupt republic on its way to a totalitarian nightmare, I am sure they would have had the ability and resources to ensure that such stingrays were impossible to set up.
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm signing up.
Every comment ever posted on HN is an excuse for other users to argue about epistemology. Even your question is likely to become an argument about how we can be certain of the net harm caused by misinformation after shootings, with citations about that. HN culture is terrified of false beliefs even when it doesn't matter, so it's no surprise most of the comments are about the fear of false beliefs when it might matter.
It does. It’s how most Aussies were bypassing their geoblock about a year ago.
What a bunch of disgusting comments in that thread.
The parent's point is not that Apple's chips won't have bugs, but that Apple's chips will have bugfixes.
But the fact is, he is hiding and tweeted about it. Therefore Twitter is one of his possible information venues. And she spams it with a vulture-like request instead of leaving the line clear for assistance...
> Nope, nothing to do with surrogates either. Surrogates are code points encoded with 2 code units of 2 bytes each.

Surrogates are actual codepoints, the range U+D800 to U+DFFF is reserved exclusively for that use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set_charac....

> A number of emoji, like the heart, are coded using multiple code points, which is even more bizarre.

Not really. It's a base codepoint plus some sort of combining/variation selector, not unlike e +‌ ‌́ = é e.g. U+2764 HEAVY BLACK HEART (which HN strips because as of 2018 HN's commenting system remains hot garbage) + U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 = a red heart. That mechanic is also used to select skin tones on "people" emoji e.g. take U+1F476 BABY, add U+1F3FD EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-4 and blamo light-brown baby. This allows a multiplicity of variants when useful without having to implement each combination individually.

There are emoji which are actually coded using multiple codepoints (not a base + modifiers): the country flags, which are pairs of regional indicator symbols composing ISO-3166 country codes e.g. U+1F1F1 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER L + U+1F1F8 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER S = 🇱🇸 (the flag of lesotho). Unpaired regional indicators display as crummy placeholders at best, they're not just modified, here's with an interstitial space: 🇱 🇸

"Family" emoji take it one step further (and into the "hack" realm imo), they're a bunch of independent emoji (possibly with their own variation selectors) "joined" by ZJW.
I doubt the current $150/share is sustainable given the waste, fraud, abuse, and royalties. I'm forecasting a wave of layoffs before next quarter's earnings. I'll concede the product is good and the UX is nailed. There just isn't enough innovation or growth to support the need for 5000 employees. Those of you who were users of the product 5+ years ago. How much has really changed? None of the recent acquisitions have provided any valuable gain to the company's core competencies. The company culture is a shell of what it once was, with a leader of HR hellbent on neutering the minds of employees to hire unqualified -but- DIVERSE! candidates.
Howdy. I'm the author of both parts of this 2-page series on overload mitigation. Let me know if I've overlooked an important technique for handling too-big workloads or if you have questions (e.g., how we've stitched together TCP's sliding window protocol flow control with Wallaroo's internal flow control).

-Scott
You say you're not close to "winning" or "finishing" - is there a way to do so at all?
I think you're right. I think we should start with something more sensible, like gun laws that make it harder to acquire firearms that make it easy to kill several people in several seconds.
The CDC document they link doesn't seem to make any statements about gang vs non gang homicides. I've read/searched for a couple minutes (the word "gang" doesn't appear in the pdf).
If you operate 50 printers you're presumably doing some sort of business. Nobody operates 50 printers for a laugh.

It sounds interesting. Are you printing arbitrary parts that other people send you, printing parts of your own design for your own products, or something else?
Couldn‘t even see the „No, thanks“ on my iPad. Dark pattern by accident?
The Bloomfield i7s are still perfectly serviceable processors. People will almost certainly continue using them unpatched.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/official-woman-shot-boyfriend-...
This sounds like the inverse of the 5 Whys - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
"640 K ought to be enough for anybody."
Disclaimer: I'm not 'tptacek but I'm one of the Latacora principals and co-edited this document.

Embedded crypto gets weird fast. General recommendations are a little tricky, but: is that device talking to the internet directly or some kind of IoT hub or whatever?
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protip: the hint links usually give a good textbook-style overview (click after answering to not affect gamification).
Yev from Backblaze -> We've found that the majority of folks hit bottlenecks on their ends or latency issues before they hit any performance issues on our end!
Not to mention even in all those areas (except A and B airspace), there are still aircraft exempt from the ADS-B requirement. The mandate only applies to aircraft certificated with an engine driven electrical system, so gliders and piper cubs and those sorts of aircraft will still need see and avoid.
The initial 2020 target was 500,000 cars (forecast made early 2016).

Today, they maintain a production target for 2020 of… 1M cars. Despite the delays.

They can achieve 50% of that goal and still be one of the best performing company in recent history. But you would probably insist that it's the biggest miss ever (only half the production target!).
...for a $450 annual fee. If you plan to get kicked off a flight more than once a year, perhaps it's worth it.
About time! Apple's got a whole lot of catching up to do if they want Siri to be in competition with Google Asst and Alexa
I think a different interesting comparable is Uber. Both have really promising revenue growth stories, but (unlike Netflix) have no control over content/supply costs. For both Spotify and Uber ~80% of that gross revenue number goes straight to either record companies or driver commissions and rider subsidies. And the 80% does not diminish with scale.

Uber's 2017 gross revenue was 37B to Spotify's 4B, but the valuations are 50B to 30B. Think Spotify's valuation is a little overheated?
> Encrypting Data Percival, 2009: AES-CTR with HMAC.

I just found that AES-CTR + HMAC is very simple and doable in in languages like Go and Javascript for large objects which can't (or shouldn't) all be put into memory at the same time. In fact, a popular google drive client uses this: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive/wiki/End-to-End-Encryption

(assuming standard secure key generation for both the AES-CTR stream and the HMAC - along with a unique IV)

However, reading this article it seems this might no longer be recommended.
Sharks smell blood in the water.
The advantages/drawbacks section could easily apply to Java as a language itself as much as to Gradle. Flexibility and performance traded for unending complexity, all-encompassing scope (creep), and the subsequent unpredictable behaviour/side-effects which the latter creates.

Which makes this backlash entirely unsurprising because the mainstream foundational tools will eventually end up reflecting the culture of the programming language, given enough development time and an unconstrained mandate seeking to keep the wider community happy.
Not to mention automatic weapons are essentially already banned.

There's no rational debate to be had, since they only really seem to happen with bodies fresh in our minds.

I don't have the right answer, or claim to, but i do know that making these types of decisions in a crisis, rarely works out.
>It's an incredibly reasonable and rational feeling to have and I don't believe it's fair to the parent to completely dismiss his concerns that way

How? It is literally not even close to something to worry about unless, as I posted elsewhere, you either own a gun (accidental deaths), are suicidal, or are involved in criminal activities.

Similarly, the difference in deaths like traffic accidents between countries is so much more massive than the firearm homicide rate that it is absolutely insane to list that as a hard-line criteria.

It is not reasonable or rational to be scared of guns in the US unless you are actually involved in sketchy situations or own one yourself.

>And in all fairness, "it's not a big deal, you probably won't be a target anyway," isn't the most attractive selling point is it?

Only from a psychological perspective. If you are actually concerned with your statistical likelihood of death, this is exactly what you should be interested in. Lurid stories from a country that has a third of a billion people is a completely irrational basis for such a decision.
Great, thanks for the in-depth reply. Just saw it now. I agree that TPC-C is much harder than flexasynch, which is just a KV benchmark.
Here's a different benchmark. NDB got around 8m ops/sec on 8 datanodes when performing 1.2m HDFS ops/sec in https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast17/technical-sessions/... .
That is not a KV workload. It is, in fact, a very mixed workload with every transaction being a cross-partition transaction, lots of batched PK ops, lots of partition-pruned index scans. Transactions containing lots of ops. Full-table scans. Index scans. And get this, it's open-source. Research has, of course, advanced since NDB, but nothing open-source still comes close to it for some (sometimes complex) OLTP workloads - anything subscriber oriented. Not TPC-C workloads, they suck on NDB.

I'd never heard of MICA, will read up on it. Calvin, though, is extremely limited. They tried to build CalvinFS on top of Calvin, but it didn't work. Subtree ops didn't scale (at all), as the DB wasn't flexible enough. Features and maturity sometimes matter, and NDB has both.
> Now, there is no militia to speak of. The federal government and its assets span the width of the continent. It's hard to imagine how civilian guns would help overthrow that. Obviously, things would come down to guerrilla warfare. 231 years have changed the situation a lot. The assumptions that were made then don't really apply...and the interpretation of the amendment, and the discussion around it, have shifted in that time, as well.

..

I used to think that too, but I think the assumptions made then still do apply. We have a heavily militarized police and an increasingly oppressive surveillance state. It's a grim thought but surrendering the ability to rise up en masse has happened before and not ended well...
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> Thousands of years of human thinking have determined that the prospect of death is an integral part of the human experience and may be the thing that provides life meaning. I don't know about anyone else, but the idea that the coming natural death of me and probably everyone else in this thread is on par with a genocide is upsetting

To me, this sounds like the naturalistic fallacy. Is there a better argument than this one?
Banning firearms in general worked for the UK and Australia, 2 places that have experienced this type of massacre while having a significant number of legally held firearms. Since the firearm bans there has been a huge reduction in these types of incidents. It is entirely possible to do the same in the USA, however it may take longer to remove all weapons simply because you have been so slow to respond to this problem.

Basically when things like this happen and people think that the government are going to take their guns, a certain type of person will buy more guns, just in case. If there is a gun amnesty or ban then these people will not turn in their guns, it will be these guns that are then sold illegally or stolen and will perpetuate the problem for longer.
>"Why the assumption that "to pull a Netflix", they will have to get rid of the back catalogue?"

If they start poaching artists from the labels who own the back catalog or if the labels start to see Spotify as a competitor instead of customer there will a reckoning when it comes time for Spotify to renegotiate their licensing terms with the labels.

And then of course there's the risk of becoming a record label. For every Bruno Mars that blows up there are 30 or 40 other artist that failed to break. And each of those flops costs money and requires resources such marketing, A&R people etc.

>"All they need to do is to get people to stream less licensed content and more own-produced"

People want to listen to what they want to listen to when they want to listen to it. That's the whole value proposition of streaming for users. If someone has a specific record or song in my mind you aren't just going to persuade them to try some "non-licensed" content instead. It's not a sports drink.

>"I would assume that Spotify's music licenses are highly variable cost, ie almost entirely pay-per-stream."

No its most certainly not pay as you go. In fact the labels demand a certain percentage up front.
The suspected shooter is confirmed female: https://twitter.com/LesterHoltNBC/status/981283642373758976
Ok, I'm impressed. If there ever was a good argument for using an IDE over a text editor, this is it.
So put it in a Hardware Security Module [1] and store it in Fort Knox.

Competent certificate authorities manage to store their private keys and not leak them. And the security community loves SSL, even though it depends on that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
The prolog is “I don’t like how you’re acting or have acted, therefore you’re a narcissist” ;)
It's not recommended not because it's insecure, but because it's easy to get wrong.

XSalsa20Poly1305 can also be implemented in a streaming/buffered fashion, it's just that most libraries implement the easier to use interface.

If you're encrypting objects that won't fit in RAM, it's worth considering encrypting separate chunks, making sure that the order cannot be changed (e.g. by incrementing a part of nonce for each chunk and setting some flag for the last chunk, see https://github.com/dchest/nacl-stream-js or https://download.libsodium.org/doc/secret-key_cryptography/s...). This allows detecting tampering early without writing malicious results into a file. Again, should be done carefully, as it's easy to get wrong.
Given this story [1], it will be interesting to see how the differences in culture and openness will allow to perform well inside the company, especially if it requires deprioritizing a walled-garden ecosystem to succeed in AI.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-siri-once-an-original-no...
What operating system? I found Google Play Music Desktop Player to be pretty awesome (although it's just a browser underneath but it has much better integration with the rest of the system through themes, media keys) also native last.fm, lyrics, etc.

https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/
This is a poor straw man argument, banning guns is not the same as banning people assembling together for any reason.
I think it's deeply ignorant, maybe even delusional, to say/think access to guns, and the "gun nut" cultural resistance to making formalized, standardized, rigorous access to guns harder than easy, aren't a significant part of the problem. And that's because there is no other demonstrated factor that distinguishes the U.S. from other countries: we don't have more mental illness than other countries, we don't have fewer instigators of irrational anger.

Right after Parkland, a teenage cousin of mine initially did not want to go to the (voluntary) student walkout. Why? He told me his school in San Francisco gets numerous shooter threats. It's that common. And he felt being in a protest with a bunch of people clumped together made a very good target for another shooting.

This level of fear proves there is an inadequate balance between 1st and 2nd amendments. In effect, the 2nd amendment is being used to abridge free speech through fear. And I absolutely think gun nuts love this, it's exactly what they want, to shut down rational debate and conversation.
> Why does the method of updating the core OS matter

Because updating Arch is about 100x faster than updating a Mac to a new version. The loading bar looks nearly complete and then "About 17 minutes remaining."
Usually, when I think composition of primitives I think MtE vs EtM vs M&E; but that feels like something that's covered. There's also protocol design, but that's also covered ("use TLS"). Can you give an example of the sort of composition you're talking about?

FWIW I'm more hopeful that I can make mTLS work immanently as part of the environment than everyone getting it right in their app. Less httpd more caddy, if that makes sense :)
But what if it costs the business more than the card margin to handle the cash? Eg they need a physical cash register, have to take the cash to the bank or have someone pick it up, pay for insurance for it, count it, keep change etc
I don't get it. They don't own the IPR so at best it's a thin revenue model on giant cashflow to agencies. All it's got is cost side risk and a thin skin of ui advantage.

Maybe it's me. I have no track record identifying winners or losers.
I'm sure part 2 is great as well, I've only had time to do the first part so only wanted to speak to that. The way it jumps up and down the hardware stack is a very good tool from a pedagogy standpoint - doing assembly language before the CPU really informs why we want the CPU to be set up in the way it is.
React hovering on two elements made simpler
Yes, it's of course used in Grails. I'm also a fan of Spring Boot + Groovy.
Yes, I'm sure both likely exist, but that doesn't make Stingrays operated by eg. China, Iran, DPRK, Russia any less of a problem !
I don't think Sheryl Sandberg is pretending anything.

The scrutiny on her as COO is disproportionate here.

Can you even name an equivalent person at Google (now) or Microsoft? Or a presently troubled company - Tesla, maybe? I'm doubtful, and I'm willing to say there's probably a sexist element to this inappropriate scrutiny.
London now has a higher murder rate than NYC, which gives a different perspective.

Does it, though? The homicide rate in NYC has dropped hugely in the last couple of decades (an order of magnitude!); it's still much higher than London's when you look beyond a timeframe of two or three months. Meanwhile other large cities in the US, including LA, fare much worse than either London or NYC.
Probably yes. The factors that align to support someone to have access to and finish college vs. drop out have a lot to do with "luck".

Also, maybe I was lucky to have been able to come across stuff like this in my life to better shape my view of reality:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol...
Spotify could do what Netflix started doing and produce their own music... Netflix used to be at the studio's complete mercy too.
Genre is a discovery hack. If you listen to "Reggae", that may be only because you know you like Bob Marley and the Wailers, but you don't necessarily already know that Peter Tosh plays similar music, or that Desmond Dekker is similar, but is actually considered Jamaican (First Wave) Ska. It won't be able to predict if you will also like or dislike Rage Against the Machine or Elvis Presley, or individual songs that an artist plays out of their normal genre.

If Spotify can solve discovery, by using actual human listening patterns, playlist contents, machine classifiers, or whatever else they may have at their disposal, it is much less important that they have licenses for all the most popular songs. The popular songs are the easiest way for the system to determine what kind of sound any given listener will like, but tuning the radio and auto-playlists to respond to likes, skips, and dislikes should be able to reveal the songs that people will like, from artists nobody has heard of [yet].

I think they're almost there. When I go to radio mode based on my "Liked from Radio" playlist, I want to also be able to specify between "I'm passively listening, so just play music I probably won't want to skip" and "play only new stuff, so I can actively train your algorithm". As it is, it mainly just plays things that are already on my list, and I have to skip ahead on everything I have already liked when I'm trying to train it.

The key issue is that if Spotify is the music discovery engine, people won't discover music that isn't on Spotify. You have to license to them, or you don't acquire new fans. It only helps them that broadcast radio has consolidated itself into a uniform ball of only the greatest hits by only the biggest stars.
I've been a big fan of Backblaze for several years now. I'll make sure to stop by your booth at NAB and express my nerdy appreciation for your service.
Banning firearms in general won't work in America. There are already more guns than people in circulation, the right to own them is codified into the Constitution and requires an amendment to fix (and amendments are ridiculously hard to pass), and of course there's the huge section of the population that would probably rather die than let their right to own guns be infringed. Not to mention that we do have a giant border with Mexico to our south that would probably make any attempt to remove all guns from America pointless.
That is precisely why those who want to place themselves in the in crowd use first names.
Looks like it got broken up into smaller mini-courses available here: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou...

Main page: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html
> In America we used to have to go to special stores only open certain hours

That was (and is) entirely state dependent.
This claim doesn't make sense to me. I think game loading times are primarily limited by the hard drive. It's about loading data from there into RAM (and/or GPU RAM). The hard drive would be the bottleneck.
By dropping transmutative alchemy from the sprint, allowing the implementation of a capability system on top of a now unforgeable subset of existing resources...