skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be too seduced by the enticing ideas at the end of the article. The disconnect here is that success in learning how to predict the results of an algorithmic simulation is not really indicative of how it would perform with the decidedly non-algorithmic natural behavior of weather or earthquakes, phenomena which don't operate in a closed system with predefined limits and parameters. It sounds like the next step, but even if weather were reducible to machine-discoverable patterns, you first must face the need to collect an immense amount of high-resolution condition data from around the globe on an ongoing basis. I'm guessing our current mesh of satellites and weather stations, as impressive as it is, comes nowhere close to enough raw data to sufficiently feed the beast in this case. And even that assumes that we _know about_ and can measure all of the factors that go into weather patterns. I sincerely doubt that's the case.
Is point in time recovery available now in GA? I had checked it a couple of weeks ago for the beta service and it was not available. I think for a managed DB hosting point in time recovery is a critical feature.
Reproducing UberAI's “Deep Neuroevolution” AI Paper
European privacy laws require full disclosure what data you collect, whom you share it with. Opt-in for any non-essential feature, justification for data usage and how long you keep it. Companies start to require their data processors to sign agreements, thus pushing them to be compatible, even outside Europe. For example a Mailchimp or Sendmail would loose a lot of customers if they didn't update their documents (and hopefully processes). It's a huge deal in Europe. Starts May/25th.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=GDPR

(I can't explain why CNN Money or Trulia would change it though).
Isn't deterministic-chaos an oxymoron?
From the article: “If cities allow, and mandate that we be able to park cars everywhere, why shouldn’t bikes have the same convenience, especially considering they require 10 times less space than cars and offer the enormous efficiency, environmental, cost, and health benefits listed above?”

Alternatively we could drop the entitlement to drive and park cars everywhere and the regulations forcing that choice on the country.

But either way, I’m all for bikes and scooters etc. getting the same benefit that cars get.
Can we have more publishing like Quanta magazine? It's just perfect in terms of reporting from the frontier, being easy to unsetstand, and not talking down to you.
Actually, exotic car owners/buyers tend to be obsessed about keeping the original paint. It's a rare Ferrari owner who would be willing to have his car repainted at all.
Thanks for the feedback. I am working on your feedback today.

I love your website theme. I will hit you up from your contact is section. I want to know if your customers in EU/US/INDIA would ever need a 3pl service. We have tie up with major warehouses and we can expose our apis to you for free ; we take a commission from the warehouses
One approach is to get a new cell number and port your existing cell number to Google Voice (GV). You can then forward calls from the latter to the former, using GV blocking and spam filtering to kill off the noise.
Thank you for the link, this is what I'm interested in.
The Hobbit, once they're old enough to get into it (and to handle the scary parts). It literally started out as Tolkien's bedtime stories.
Wait, seriously? You've never heard about Uber? Or this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-job...
Is it possible to develop CLJS without needing the JVM yet?
It will probably be a fair bit longer than that before 2.7 stops being relevant. 2.7 is still the default system Python on a lot of Linux distros, which will be in vendor support for longer. It doesn't really matter if the fixes are coming from the PSF or someone else - nice thing about Foss.

RHEL/CentOS 6 is still reasonably widely used, and the system Python there is 2.6.
Hot desking (or Hoteling as I've heard it called) makes a lot of sense for the headquarters office of traveling consultants. These folks are usually at the client's location Monday-Thursday and back at their local headquarters on Friday. However, there's a huge amount of variation in terms of travel scheduling so having an assigned desk doesn't make much sense. For example, consider a consultant living in LA who's working on a project in the Chicago suburbs. Most Fridays are spent working from LA (either at the office or at home), but sometimes you'll need to take meetings with Chicago people. Hot desking makes it easy to find a place to work for the day because all the Chicago people that are working from home or are at a remote office aren't taking up desks.

For permanent non-traveling roles, I don't immediately see the advantage though.
I don't think Germany considered Russia even close to it's equal, and 1 vs 1 Russia without massive outside aid and unusual weather it would likely have folded quickly.

Japan attacking the US is a better argument, but the US was not exactly neutral either.

Anyway, I am not saying you're wrong, just that history is vastly more complex than just looking at the relative sizes of each nation on a map.
We still have arguments about fabric and color. White at a wedding? A scandal. Rainbow shirt at a rally? Could get you beat up.
I don't think any of those companies represent the "move fast and break things" ethos at this point either.
> The argument is always going to be - Bitman etc are not going to harm the network even if they take over. The reason being it will always be in Bitmain's favor to ensure bitcoin's sanctity.

Wait wait... there are bitcoin supporters arguing this?

Now s/Bitmain/US government/ and this is basically the argument for dollar. (Or any fiat currency, for that matter.)
They are saying Tesla isn’t reporting injuries and then they say Tesla has higher injuries? If they aren’t being reported, then what’s the source of that claim? Do we know for a fact that other companies aren’t also (allegedly) underreporting? Reporting about Ford or GM is far less sexy than Tesla, so there could be less incentive.
(to concur with your point:)

People tend to think of the rewards as set in stone, but they're completely arbitrary (they just have to be agreed-upon by participants). For example, there's no need for them to taper off over time, we could keep them constant.

It's just a question of what you can get consensus for. The geometrically-decreasing rewards of Bitcoin are probably not optimal, but without centralized control there has to be some kind of pre-determined issue rate.

We could just as easily agree to halve them right now (which would probably reduce electricity utilization as well as network security, as miners go offline). And that's essentially what Ethereum is planning to do - a major decrease in block rewards in the near future, so that they can create deflation (dumb as hell, but that's what happens when you let a 17-year-old run an economy, he has big holdings of Eth and just wants to see the number go up).
Just file an LLC as the owner for the script, sit back, and watch the show.
Sounds like a minefield honestly.

Being lower in the hierarchy but making decisions whether a meeting is worth your time pushes a ton of risk onto you if there is a mishap.

How do you respond to "You would have known if you stayed at the meeting"? Would the CEO have your back? How many times before you start getting a "problem employee" reputation.

I think you'd quickly realize to just stay at meetings but now you have no grounds to bring up criticism since it is assumed you could just walk out.
The real problem for Tesla is that their destiny is probably to be the next BMW - a good midrange luxury car maker, about #12 in the world on volume. That would be fine except for the excessive market cap. Tesla's market cap exceeded GM's at one point. The stock has to come down a lot if Tesla ends up at BMW's scale. Even with Tesla's most optimistic production estimates, Tesla will make far fewer cars than BMW in the next few years.

Silicon Valley has a few other companies like that, Uber and Twitter being the most prominent.
Okinawa switched back to driving on the left in 1978 shortly after the end of US occupation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/730_(transport) .
We are using Signifyd to process fraud. Why should one move from an existing platform to yours? Our system is stable, why would we risk any stability to migrate somewhere else?
"A set of universal rules by which the moon exerts a force called "gravity" and that pulls at the ocean over the whole planet, which is spherical by the way, so we get a bulge on both sides because on the near side it makes the water go towards the moon because gravity attracts things, but on the other side it makes the water go away from the moon or at least it looks like that, but really it's still gravity causing it, and that is why we get tides twice a day"

vs

"Neptune is breathing, and so the ocean goes up and down, just like when you are in the tub and take a deep breath"

Now use Occam's Razor.

If you were unaware of the persistent activities of various organizations then you might think that unions creating false information is an absurd idea, just as you might feel about the tides if you were a simple peasant, ignorant of the work of physicists.
It's pretty elitist to think that you can never accomplish anything worthwhile just because you were only a low level employee at Google, which by the way, is a position most engineers dream of.
We need a user account to store your progress: what puzzles you've completed, what code you've entered in order to save progress if you didn't complete the puzzle yet, coding streaks, etc. We're not collecting information about your device.

It's been easiest for us to do this user account creation using out-of-the-box Google Authentication, so that's why we went down this route. Hope that makes sense!
This is a recommendation he's passing onto his own employees.
Odd Spike in Wall Street Fear Gauge Awakens Manipulation Debate
> It exposes a virtual device backed by a real one, adding a layer of compression, am I reading it right?

And deduplication, yes.

>Can I grow the logical size later?

Yes; the man page for the program discusses the growLogical subcommand briefly: https://github.com/dm-vdo/vdo/blob/6.1.1.24/vdo-manager/man/...

>I can also see that we're specifying a "logical size" that is exposed to the user. How much space is really used and how is it allocated?

There's a vdostats command mentioned in the article that exposes how much actual space is available and used.

>Apart from this - what is the status of the patch, is it redhat-only or is it on its way to the upstream?

It has not yet been submitted as a kernel patch.
I first learned about Yttrium blue from the new AMD Radeon Pro GPUs that are painted with them. They're really remarkably saturated (Google image search Radeon Pro WX 7100 for an example)
All the robocalls near me spoof the area code AND the next 3 digits to match mine.
I can't wait for PWAs to be the future of apps. /s

Apple should take the new Firefox Facebook extension and apply it by default to Safari. But also do Google and every other major ad-tech company. Not sure if this can be done without breaking the web though. Also not sure how different Firefox's extension is from Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention. It's possible they already do this.
Occam's Razor (2007)
If your browser doesn't support disabling autoplay, send them a request for change. They created the problem, it's their job to fix it.
I wonder how difficult it would be to use PKI to verify the number you're dialing from and the number you say you're dialing from.
I would still love to try that out by myself. I have the theory that by going extremely slowly you could successfully steer a bit. The problem is only the centrifugal force.
we should just be building more warthogs
Take a look at the list of wars by death toll:

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

Categorized into great power wars (between well-defined states of roughly equal power levels), civil wars (where a single state breaks up into multiple factions that then fight each other), rebellions (where a state breaks up, but into an asymmetric power balance between one province and the rest of the state), and conquests (where a much more developed power - at least in terms of military technology - invades and destroys a less-developed one) and ordered by death toll, you have:

WW2 (great power)
Mongol conquests (conquest)
Three Kingdoms war (civil)
Qing conquest of Ming (rebellion, against backdrop of civil)
Spanish conquest of Aztecs (conquest)
Taiping rebellion (rebellion)
Second Sino-Japanese war (great power, but against the backdrop of the Chinese Civil War)
An-Lushan rebellion (rebellion)
Germanic wars vs. Rome (effectively a civil war in that Roman territory was breaking up and many of the adversaries were trained in the Roman army, but you can quibble about this)
WW1 (great power)
Conquests of Timur (?)
Dungan Revolt (rebellion)
Chinese Civil War (civil)
Spanish conquest of Incas (conquest)
Reconquista (great power?)
Russian Civil War (civil)
Thirty Years War (civil - breakup of Holy Roman Empire)
Ottoman Wars (great power)
Moorish Wars (great power)
Napoleonic Wars (great power)
Mughal-Maratha Wars (?)
Yellow-Turban Rebellion (rebellion)
Second Congo War (civil)
French Wars of Religion (civil)
Indian Rebellion of 1857 (rebellion)
Hundred Years War (great power)
Vietnam War (civil, but with great power involvement)
Crusades (great power)

Readers can draw the conclusion they like from that data, but to my eyes - if you exclude WW2, civil wars and conquests end up killing far more people and remaking the map more than great power conflicts.
You cannot just throw platitudes around like they mean anything. This is not about "pissing everyone off", those are allegations against real damage being done to undeserving people.
No. Chaotic dynamical system can be completely deterministic.
Does any major cloud provider support it?
For the hardware at the pointy end where battles are won or lost, no.

For example, the 737 uses high bypass turbofans optimized around fuel burn, the fighter has a low bypass afterburning turbofan optimized around weight. Huge divergence. (And by the way, on both the civilian and military sides, engine development programs are yuuuge and very long. There's a reason for that that isn't simply due to greed.) The 737 has a standard weather radar, the fighter is able to focus megawatts in a narrow arc across less than a square centimeter of its nosecone and employs all sorts of trickery to resist (and possibly inflict) jamming, while detecting small targets that are trying to evade by blending into ground clutter or disappearing into something called the Doppler notch. Another huge divergence. Meanwhile the entire aircraft has been designed with stealth in mind, and that's a skill set with no civilian counterpart -- when was the last time you heard of an electrical engineer calling the shots on airframe design? Even designing for high supersonic aerodynamic performance (maneuvering, not just cruising) is pretty much a military-only skill, and supersonic analysis is wildly different from its subsonic equivalent. It just goes on and on -- I haven't even brought up guided missiles, which result from substantial development programs of their own and benefit little from civilian technology.

Now, there might be some subset of military products for which there aren't as many valuable differentiators -- I'm thinking of things like logistics assets, vehicles and infrastructure designed to move war materiel where it's needed. And there's precedent for that, where for example civilian airliners are converted into tankers. But on the whole, you can't take what you've learned building a 737 and apply that to building a competitive jet fighter inside of any reasonable time scale.

So, could you go to war with a 737 and a bunch of bombs hanging off it? Against insurgents, probably, yeah. But it's going to cost a lot more than, say, an A-10, the ground troops won't get any guns passes from you, and a single Su-27 is still going to ruin your whole day.

Another attractive option might be to skip a generation of hardware. But an important thing to remember is that every time a wise head retires from military aerospace, valuable skills and knowledge are lost. Sure, things are documented, but you can't easily replace human know how. So what happens when you go 20 years without a major fighter program? Experienced hands get thin on the ground and you spend a good amount of time and money climbing out of that hole. The upshot is that even if you'd like to get off the military upgrade treadmill for a while, you're going to pay some significant fraction of that savings down the road, whether in increased cost, schedule and/or reduced product performance.

Having said all this, I believe there are better ways to do what we're doing, and I think the F-35 was a foundationally ill-conceived program. But hand-picking a few basic military technologies to nurse while leaving the rest to whatever the civilian market will support is not the way to fix it.
So he Pulls a Fixler?
IPFS fork usable as a Go library
Are there any usable solutions for end-users besides wholesale blocking of ad/analytics/tracker services? With all this, it seems pretty reasonable to assume all third-party elements on the web are hostile.
Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
Not trying to side-step, just trying not to get into the weeds too much, but since you asked, reposting a bit of my response from another part of this thread:

We need a user account to store your progress: what puzzles you've completed, what code you've entered in order to save progress if you didn't complete the puzzle yet, coding streaks, etc. We're not collecting information about your device (or any other personally identifiable information other than the Google Account we associate with your account).

It's been easiest for us to do this user account creation using out-of-the-box Google Authentication, so that's why we went down this route. Hope that makes sense!
It's important to look at everything with a critical lens, especially the stuff you support. Tesla is deeply flawed, and in order for it to succeed, it needs to overcome those flaws.
You can also skip pub/sub and/or use it to write files to cloud storage, then load from there by using a cloud function that will trigger the load job when a new object is created.
The terrible quality bike racks are a major problem. Thanks for pointing this problem out.

I'm particularly irritated by racks which are so close to buildings that they can only be used at half capacity. Whoever installed them obviously has no idea how they are used.

In Austin, many bike racks also are coated in bird poop, though I'm not sure what can be done about this aside from regularly cleaning the racks. I never ran into this problem anywhere else.
This is nonsensical and wrong. Transactions aren't what causes energy consumption in Bitcoin, you can process all the transactions in the whole Bitcoin or Ethereum network on a Raspberry Pi. It's the proof-of-work hashing that makes Bitcoin energy-inefficient, and that's purely a make-work problem, just a way to make mining arbitrarily difficult so the block times hit the expected average.

The problem with scaling to larger numbers of transactions is that block sizes become bigger and it takes more disk space and bandwidth to run a node. But, the bigger we make them, the more transaction fees there are, so incentives for miners would actually go up.

(very marginally so - block rewards are like 100x as high as the transaction fees, which actually leads some miners to not include transactions at all - trading off a 1% lower payout for faster propagation times and an increased chance of "winning" if they successfully mine a block at nearly the same time as another miner)
This repository is an unofficial fork of `github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs`, converted from a `gx` based project to a plain Go project. The goal is to act as an IPFS library that can be imported and used from Go apps without the need of switching all dependency management over to `gx`. As a bonus, this fork is compatible with GoDoc!
Where would that end? Would links to content that’s only partially visible such as to previews on the Amazon store, or to Google books, get a tag, too?

What about geographically restricted content (parts of BBC.co.uk)?

What about pages that beg for donations, either extremely politely (theGuardian.com) or more aggressively (Wikipedia.org)?
The product looks interesting but the hand picked examples are literally useless. 3 examples where you approved a transaction that a competitor opted to decline. Based on your examples your model could literally be "approve every transaction".

It's not a fair comparison unless you compare approval/decline rates and total fraud per platform.
Applications use libraries that implement data compression. Such libraries usually have checksumming in their algorithms, because compression is not very practical without it. LZ4, that VDO uses, has checksumming too.
the cars are a product demo. selling batteries by the gigawatt is the real biz. GE not GM.
Why is your site not secure? Let's Encrypt makes this easy.
Hey, would checkout Bolt. Know the team there well, and they’re very focused on false positive reduction, which they recently published a post on:

https://blog.bolt.com/better-fraud-detection-with-bolt/
That's shockingly cheap for the value.
They're the best we've found as well, but there are lots of managed database providers of all kinds. https://www.compose.com is another big one.
I would have thought they would consider zstd also, because that would be even better and easier tunable. But I guess there are some license problems still.
They have to, and by a significant margin, for the trends in the graph on the OP's source to obtain.
0% chance I'll ever use this or let one of my team members use it.

I don't know a single person that's said a single good thing about Oracle, including people that work there. I know a ton of people that have been burned by Oracle and their lawyers.
(Disclosure: ex-Ravelin employee, a competitor)

What are your false positive and false negative rates (if I may ask)? I see you allude to the importance of those metrics somewhere in the post, but I don’t see the comparison with yourselves.

Crucially, if you’re taking on responsibility for fraud (i.e. false negatives), you’ll be heavily incentivised to skew your model towards low false negatives. Unfortunately, because of the very nature of algorithmic fraud detection, these are inversely linked to false positives. Less fraud <=> more genuine customers bounced, and vice versa. By taking a side in that bet, your priorities may not be aligned with those of the customer (esp high margin merchants are totally fine with some fraud). Is there something you do to counteract that?

This is something I always wondered about when I saw other companies with this business model.

Nice post though, and amen to the “we detect fraud!” - “how?” - “uhhhhh…” comic :)
> The point the parent comment is trying to make is that meetings are a waste of people's time.

Any guesses what the corresponding point I was trying to make was?
> Considering each BrainFuck command
on average takes 5 or more assembly instructions to implement,
even assuming a perfect 1 instructions per second on a 3GHz
processor, it would require almost one hundred cores to compete
with this performance

I assume the authors intended to mean "1 instructions per cycle" here, but even with that amendment isn't that pretty poor performance for modern CPU? I was under the impression that modern CPUs have peak performance way above 1 IPC, although if that is realizable with BF interpreter is another question. It would have been nice to see comparison to some reasonably high-performance BF compiler.