skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't turn very quickly at high Mach. So, depending on range and heading it can make things worse. Remember, aircraft don't turn by hitting reverse if you are going east a Mach 2 (686 m/s) you can't just subtract 98 m/s in a 10g you need to go through a curve in the air taking a lot longer than 7 seconds to stop going east.

Start combat at lower speeds and it's going to take even longer to hit high Mach.

Which is not to say it's useless, just not as useful relative to other tradeoffs.
Reminds me of "scam baiting" which is becoming a popular live stream opportunity.

I occasionally watch this guy who calls tech-support scammers or IRS scammers and attempts to waste as much of their time as possible. He will often impersonate an old lady using a voice modulator (or he'll implement other personalities) to make his performance more realistic. It can be quite entertaining.

https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga
The fact that the answer to this is "no" has fed entire subfields of mathematics for a generation.
I tried this once. Now I have debt collectors after me because of my numbers previous owner.
Bermuda Releases Draft Regulations for Cryptocurrency Market in the Country
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions

Looks like a preset list of extensions. I'd assume custom extensions would be very difficult to support in managed postgres.
Yes, this is (finally) correct.

For each external tracker, you will have to consent that use. By name. Per discussions you can find via google, even naming a well-defined class of 3rd party controllers is not enough; they have to be individually named.

This is the impact on adtech. See eg https://pagefair.com/blog/2018/granular-gdpr-consent/ . Or digiday, which is not exactly anti-adtech. https://digiday.com/media/gdpr-will-change-facebook-ad-targe... .

The fact that some page may have hundreds of co-controllers is immaterial, unless you envision "we don't want to" as a defense to the privacy regulators.
Ask HN: Joining the fast paced SV world as a self-taught midwesterner?
Some people leave tech hubs to settle for a more slow paced life, but I am the opposite. I'll looking to switch it up more. I want to move out west and try a new way of looking at work. The culture of highly valuated unicorns and meal substitutes seems weird and enthralling at the same time.

I'm a self-taught web developer working for 7 years now, but my work, and overall pace in life in general, feels very slow and uneventful. Not to mention being underpaid. So even if I wanted to go on a sabbatical, and go on an adventure traveling to do something fun, I cannot afford it.

Not even the local start-ups are doing it for me. They don't pay me well, and I still feel like a cost center in these places. Everywhere I go, there are cowboy coding practices in place, and developers go unappreciated.

And all for what? Uninspired products that I can't really get into. It's one thing if I had a job that paid decently, but at this point in my life, I don't want to work just anywhere. Hardly anyone in the local area is doing anything "sexy". I read articles about self-driving cars, IOT, automated stores, but most importantly, B2C products that I can actually relate to. I don't want to work for a stuffy business, or make small sites that only get 100's of hits per day- I want to be part of the bustling tech scene. I want to understand why RSUs are important to SV when no company in the Midwest (that I know of) offers them.

I know the grass is greener on the other side. I'm mainly interested replies that are in support of my goal, but with advice on how to get ready for tech hubs in general. Should I go straight to unicorn and big tech companies to apply? Or start with something more humble, but local to SV? I want to see it through as a midwesterner, who's been mostly in slow-paced underpaid jobs and rarely traveled out of state. And if anyone has had a similar experience to mine, that would be even more awesome to hear from you.
I'm not of the opinion that a thoughtfully/skillfully developed curriculum is worth little. I'm not even sure you can generally buy its equivalent with patience as payment, so to speak. Personally, I found the Udacity self-driving car 'nanodegree' program to be worth the money (and time), although I haven't reaped any financial reward from it yet. However, I have also enjoyed and learned from free online courses (Coursera ML, ludobots).
Kickstarter Turmoil
uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger are my combo of choice. They play nicely together, and are easy enough to deal with that my non-web-savvy father-in-law surfs comfortably with them. Privacy Badger's most glaring weakness is that it takes a new install of the plugin awhile to learn that Facebook, fbcdn, etc are up to no good, but once it catches on, it’s great.
Yep, totally get it. We wanted to show specific examples, but obviously not disclose PII. So, this was a middle-ground although not idea.

For every client we measure order approval and decline rates before/after. Here are several case studies with those results: https://bolt.com/case-studies

And we have more that we can send over if you're interested in learning more! rb [at] bolt.com.
https://explosion.ai/blog/prodigy-annotation-tool-active-lea...
LZ4 frame format (called LZ4F) has checksums — a stream that contains LZ4 compressed data. But LZ4 algorithm itself doesn't have any checksums.

A block device layer would use the "raw" algorithm, not any frame/container format and use something like SHA256 for checksums.

Take a look at LZ4 source: https://github.com/lz4/lz4/tree/dev/lib

VDO LZ4 source:

https://github.com/dm-vdo/kvdo/blob/master/vdo/base/lz4.c

No LZ4F frame format or checksum in sight.
I have a project that's relevant here - netograph.io captures low-level data on website behaviour, then indexes the data in various ways for querying. Right now, it ingests a sizeable fraction of links on social media live. Here's my data for the api.behavioraldata.com domain, which is the first tracker they mention:

https://netograph.io/datasets/social/domain/api.behavioralen...

It's interesting that Netograph has seen this exclusively on .pl domains, and that it hasn't cropped up again in the last month. You can do similar digging through the dataset for all the other trackers they list.
I was selling Pepper for a long while but I had a hard time keeping everyone happy and building for all platforms. So I got frustrated and stopped. Now-a-days, I actually have this all automated, it's a lot less work. I use virtual machines to checkout changed code and go through the build process, Unit test, package up, etc. They run all the time on a Mac Pro with 64gb RAM using VMWare Fusion.

I continue to enhance it. It's quite different. I have taken inspiration from KDevelop and QT Creator. I feel like it competes with any other editor our there. Dare I say Vi and Emacs too. I actually have a special interface for those users so they feel at home. A nice worksheet, built in shell, I wrote plugins for build systems like CMake, make, gcc, and also of course Git support. I wrote an iOS version that lets you use your Apple Pencil to hand write code, use it to edit existing code, save and commit back. I take your handwriting and convert it to proper letters/symbols/numbers , automatically.

Whew. I can list out more things if you want :-)

Thank you for being a Pepper user, BTW. I hope that you found it enjoyable while it was available. The old Windows, Linux and FreeBSD builds still work :-)
I'm not aware of any cryptocurrency that has successfully implemented a decentralized PoS system. There have been a few that have "master keys" to sign blocks, however.
Usually only works for me if I start building something myself and learn it by doing and then afterwards take a class to fill the holes I missed. Usually I will learn a new trick or some alternative way of doing something.
The conceit exists with people who assume they are experts at something despite having very limited experience with the subject and zero attempts at research. Are you saying you or anyone else is equipped to be a decent parent just because you were a child and maybe had a parent? Or is it just because you are a decent person that you think you are equipped?

I know plenty of decent people who think it's okay to spank a child when we know full well that it results in kids thinking that violence is a solution to their problems. It took me years to unlearn yelling at people as a solution to my problems. It took me years to not fight every little semblance of stupidity I see. It took me decades to recover from depression induced by a father who still thinks to this day that he was doing the right thing by yelling at me for my every little wrong as a child.

This same ridiculous logic that spawned this frivolous criticism is the same logic that results in people saying "we've gotten along just fine for y years without x; you are being ridiculous for wanting or saying you need x." Feel free to substitute in electricity, clean water, doctors, internet, cars and child labor laws for x. And yes life finds a way despite a lack of technology or understanding but that doesn't mean we can't seriously improve our lives or the lives of our children by using either. If you took a second to look at current child development research you would see how out of your depth you are.
Thanks for verifying. Just got off the phone with the Play Store support folks. Apparently it's the Play Store policy on play.google.com to list every permission you've ever asked for forever. We pushed a build many moons ago while we were in beta that asked for permissions by accident, but fixed it very quickly. We no longer ask for those permissions.

This isn't a great experience for us or other developers, so I'm escalating internally. Thanks again for the report.
Show HN: Domain-tailored CRDTs for document collaboration w/o server involvement
Sure, let's devote two lanes on every road to bike parking and I will never again leave a bike in unmarked spaces.

Add two lanes for riding the bike and I'll also stop interfering with car traffic.
I'm pretty sure every country with a Jewish or Muslim population practices male circumcision, at least.
The only problem I ran into with the old Radar was a situation where a card was declined, and the customer contacted his bank to clear it up. The bank said they had no idea, they didn't decline the charge. When I followed up with Stripe, turns out Stripe declined the charge, and it never got to the bank.

Is there a way to tell when this happens in the Dashboard? There wasn't at the time, but I'm hoping this is maybe now visible somehow? It's obviously helpful to know when trying to help a customer resolve the situation.
A big phone
> as long as you accept that the main purpose of reading a story aloud is to relax and enjoy the story together rather than to develop skills

American culture puts so much stress on young kids these days. While I’m still an undergraduate, I see my sister who is about to graduate high school make dark jokes about going to college and her life but it seems there is some truth there.

If or when I become a parent, I’m going to teach inner cultivation rather than productivity, etc. I.e. “Do whatever you please, pal. I got your back.”

It’s just the whole social order seems very toxic and I don’t want that for young kids growing up. I argue that it’s the way we are raised and taught that we become so anxious, etc. We worry that we if we aren’t accumulating skills for the workforce or whatever, we are wasting our time. No, man. Play video games for the sake of playing video games. When did we become so anxious about doing the latter?
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.
> The problem is that you cannot define what is a "real effect" without begging the question

That's precisely my point. We don't know the sizes of these populations, so you really can't say anything quantitative about how the p-value affects the proportion of bad results in any given journal. My example was intentionally contrived.

You just have to be really careful when you talk about p-values because _so many people_ have this misunderstanding and it's actively harmful to getting the correct interpretation. That's why we keep going back and forth here — I'm not disagreeing that the situation is bad, I just want folks to recognize what the stats say and what they don't.
Stanford University is moving toward an open plan office setup when it moves its IT staff to Redwood City next year. (Professors, of course, still get offices. So do managers.) Some buildings are already open plan. This is very bad for morale, or course, and very problematic for people who work with PII or PHI. It's a good thing that there is a medical center branch on the grounds, because illnesses will go up too.
Yeah, that's a good point too.
I think a lot of lawyers are poring over provision 42 of GDPR these days:

"(42) Where processing is based on the data subject's consent, the controller should be able to demonstrate that the data subject has given consent to the processing operation. [...] For consent to be informed, the data subject should be aware at least of the identity of the controller and the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended. Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment."

Are people free to leave Facebook?

Me, I need an account with Google for my job. Will they now only be allowed to demand I consent to the parts of the data processing necessary to provide the services I use? Or in other words, since I don't rely on their advertising, does GDPR mandate that opt-in to tracking for ads must be optional?
It's trivial to block several distributed hosts simultaneously. An aspiring censor would simply find the most common federated endpoints for a given service and block all of them. Only the users of that software would be affected. There wouldn't be any collateral damage.

If the censors somehow didn't hit every single worthwhile federated endpoint, users would still be left wondering why they couldn't communicate with most of their friends. Moving between federated hosts would also necessitate an entirely new identifier, so users would need to rebuild their social graph again.

In addition to being ineffective against censorship, there are several other properties and trade-offs that make federation a difficult proposition for an application like Signal: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Look back at your comment and tell me with a straight face that it was reasonable for anyone to figure that out on his own :)
It is tempting to dismiss the possibility of a serious war. We did that after the Great War, the War to End all Wars, now known as World War I. It's been a while, over 70 years now, but you can be sure that there will be another serious war.

When that happens, there will be no satellites. There will be no way to remotely operate any equipment. Mere navigation and communication will be difficult again.

Any sort of unmanned equipment will have to operate autonomously, making deadly decisions in an unfamiliar and hostile environment. That's a tall order for modern AI.
Dude, my whiskey is almost over, still waiting for you to shatter centuries of mathematical foundations. Don't make me wait too long please. Getting drunf af.
even after cross-validation?
NoScript + self destructing cookies.
> One quick fix: designate one car parking stop near every street corner as drop-off spots for dockless lightweight EVs. Problem solved.

Yes, this seems like an efficient and practical solution. Personally very happy to see how quickly people have begun adopting alternative transportation options, need for cars is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Zillow is not accurate at all. In my market, Redfin has been accurate to within 5% of the price, up or down. However, Redfin is a real estate agency, so they use their estimates and have access to data that Zillow doesn't, and they will adjust the algorithm at a neighborhood level.

Zillow is merely a real estate value estimator (they don't use sufficient data to earn the right to call themselves an appraiser nor do they provide sufficiently updated listings to justify calling them a listings service).
All solutions break things to some extent by design. So "usable" would be quite subjective.
And the US probably does the same in other countries.
Ironically, the FB opt-in approach from the article is more privacy-forward than the publisher's automatically implied consent...
Ive heard but can't confirm that ABP sells the ability for ad servers to be white listed.
Ublock + enabling various lists is better. Check out Umatrix.
"In digital advertising, ..."
Stopped reading right there. Maybe a great article though. I started working on that thing called BigData not that long time ago but now realized that 50% of the job is advertisement, not fan of it at all, I want to like the end product or at least be neutral about it.
Is there a museum for these extreme colors?
(Like the blue in the article or the pink in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM)
B.S. Cancel the F-35, do a new procurement round, fly-off, etc. on 3 different platforms (naval, air force, marines use cases: CATOBAR carrier based, land air strip based, VSTOL capable) for 3 different planes. The "F-35" is already substantially 3 different planes, the commonality is comparatively minimal and clearly hasn't resulted in lower unit costs (which was the original justification).
Heavy metals are bad but accumulative over a lifetime. Licking any one cadmium-tainted product isn't awful for you, as long as you don't work in a cadmium product factory and the general society at large makes an effort to not put cadmium in everything.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002210/
I'm also old enough to remember how buggy DoubleSpace was and, truth be told, that still kinda puts me off disk compression.
I have to wonder whether at some point the EU is going to become so aggressive that the big US tech firms really do start calling their bluff. Stronger legal privacy protections may be long overdue in our modern, online world, but that particular measure is transparently aimed at undermining entire business models that have supported services evidently valuable to literally billions of people around the world, and that may be a bridge too far.

If the likes of Facebook and Google all turned off their services across the EU for a day, and replaced them with a SOPA-blackout-style message explaining that they can't afford to continue providing services without the ad model that pays for them, a lot of people would notice, and the EU probably wouldn't get nearly as easy a ride afterwards. I don't know how much damage would be caused if those same big tech firms cut off EU citizens permanently, but for better or worse, very many people now rely on the likes of Facebook and Google Mail for their everyday lives, and I'm betting the damage would be worse to the EU citizens than it would be to Facebook's and Google's financial statements (assuming the alternative is that they continue to operate but with a heavily damaged business model).
Yeah, I think a decreasing block reward was a good idea, but I think it's on the wrong schedule. Following something like Metcalfe's Law, the value increases geometrically but the reward isn't decaying fast enough yet. That means at some point in the "middle", the value of the block reward will be increasing much faster than the amount of the reward is decreasing.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=n%5E2+%2F+(2%5En)+from...

That's where we are now, and it means the reward will be large enough to drive bad behavior at least until the next halving (probably two years from now http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/ ).
The blog post didn't call UAW extermist, that remark was clearly directed at Reveal the organization behind the article/campaign. Quite a big difference. UAW was only referenced in regard to the fact Reveal cited Worksafe in the article, an organization which previously pushed an anti-Tesla PR campaign funded by UAW.

Additionally, the Reveal journalist said on Reddit that many of the people interviewed were indeed "union supporters" (the words Musk specifically used), but also said that not all of them were, such as Tesla's former safety manager.

The "extremist" part may be debatable or an exaggeration, but the other parts had carefully chosen words and were not inaccurate.
Are you asking permission for misbehaving by trying to determine exactly how much is too much?

Is there some magic scale threshold for excessive force? No. There is no fine line because you shouldn't be anywhere near the line.

100 billion. It's not 'lots' or millions, or a billion we're talking about here. It's one hundred billion. That's 80 events per day on average for every human they've ever seen (1.2 billion, in the about section). If they see half of those on any given day that's 160 events per person, maybe 200. Per day.

Fine grained tracking you do on your own site to determine why people leave and whether they see your new content? I could see my boss asking for that. I wouldn't be enthusiastic. I might make excuses that I was too busy doing other things to help. I might even complain, but we probably aren't running that forever anyway because it tells you less and less over time but still costs the same.

But this is an ad network, not a usability study. We are currently busy handwringing about ad networks, and I'm a little taken aback by the dissonance here.
Obsolete might be a strong word, the U-2s are still in service.
Why is the kernel community replacing iptables?
> Not sure if this can be done without breaking the web though.

If that's the case, the web is already broken.
Why Isn’t Automation Creating Unemployment?
Those sound like the perfect usable solutions. Do not run code on your machine (Javascript) unless you want it to be ran. The only good way to do that if you use a modern browser is using extensions to help you do it. It's definitely true that most third-party Javascript is not good for you, and just tracks you in malicious ways, slowing down your browser and putting your data at risk.
I've been working with all these tools for a while now (and a bunch more along the way).

It's not the orthodox cloud-thinking, but you're often best off processing at the point of creation (or ingestion). Normalize the data as much as you can, (probably) compress[1], and send as close to the target as possible.

If you grab the data, send elsewhere, transform <repeat>... it all gets slow and expensive pretty quickly. Also a headache to manage failures.

This is especially true if you're using BigQuery. Stage your near-raw data into BigQuery and then use it's muscle as much as you can. A classic example here might be de-duplicating data. A painful prospect for many distributed systems, but pretty easy on the BigQuery side.

This is all especially true for time-series data. With BigQuery time partitions you can keep the queries fast (and the costs reasonable).

Also limits the range of technologies and languages you need to wrangle too.

1: Choosing your data format and compression approach can make a huge difference.
The underlying issue is executing arbitrary third-party JavaScript on your website.

It’s unfortunate that browsers and standards organisations haven’t done more to promote safer methods of third party integration. The state of the art is still injecting script tags into the document. Given that the web is powered by embeds, ads, and analytics, there should be better sandboxing tools.
Clothing is usually dyed, rather than inked or painted. Some dyes are better at attaching to fibers than others, and some synthetic polymer fibers are notoriously hard to dye.

But on the other hand, some dyes diffuse into certain plastics very easily, and then never come out. It depends on the chemistry.

The only pigmented clothes I am aware of are "dirt shirts" that are infused with strongly colored soil. The reddish orange color is undoubtedly iron oxide, and they will fade with every washing, because there is no binder to keep the pigment attached to the fiber.