skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In one of their presentations they say that they trawled through the "patch" with about 33 boats and found that a large majority by volume actually is large objects.
Sociall: a secure and private decentralised social network for all
The dismantling of LA’s electric public transit system (which more or less happened in real life, if I recall correctly) is the backdrop of the Who Framed Roger Rabbit plotline.
China has traditionally had the opposite problem: cars had decent enough emission equipment while coal plants would frequently disable their own (coal contributed to more of Beijing’s problem than vehicle emissions, mainly because of poorly operated heating plants). With the crack down on pollution, that is changing, though the real clean up happens when they move off coal (to NG, renewables, and nuclear).
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Facebook is killing most 3rd party publishing apps
Ah yes you're right of course. Has there been anything in the past few years made on modern processes with the die actually visible? Desktop/laptop CPUs and GPUs have all been flip chip for at least the past decade, mobile SoCs are package on package, most other stuff is encased in plastic.
I don't know if you're joking, or if the people downvoting you think that your idea isn't worth hearing, but it's actually a good idea (if we can look past our snobbishness about how over-hyped blockchain technology has become).

Part of the threat model around malicious software updates requires that we implement reproducible builds and store the hashes of builds in a distributed permissionless append-only database.

There are proposals like EthIKS:

http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf

which implements public key transparency in the Ethereum blockchain, using smart contracts, and there are ideas for implementing the gossip feature of certificate transparency logs using blockchains:

https://blog.okturtles.org/2015/03/certificate-transparency-...

Binary transparency can be thought of as just a special case of certificate transparency:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
> "Almost no one has named their sons John in perhaps 50 years?"

"John" is still in the top 30 names as of 2016 (ranked 28th) according to the SSA†. It has fallen, for example, from 14th in 2001 when it peaked at 0.914% (18884 births) of the total male births. It was about half that in 2016, at 0.495% (9952 births).

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/rankchange.html

† Numbers vary with region of course. If you've got different data available, please do share.
For what it's worth, we also trust the NSA to have written and verified our most important cryptographic hash functions, leading to the first rule of crypto -- never roll your own novel hash function.

I see this as the start of a community effort to verify Intel SGX. I imagine that the process of rolling out a consumer facing high stakes product on SGX involves external verification of SGX beyond what it's gone through before.
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> Heh, when I think of embedded code I don't think of 12 MB.

ARM processors are so cheap these days that I think your idea of “embedded” is a bit stagnant or too focused in one field. I’ve built and shipped a product where it had an ARM processor and ample flash (among a bunch of other components) packaged the size of a key fob and the BOM cost is way less than I used to pay for Arduino or other micro controllers.
I've shared a ton on my blog, Inc. column, and my podcast, Leadership and the Environment. At the risk of flooding you:

Avoiding food packaging: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin... (the table of contents on the right is clickable)

Not flying: https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/365-days-without-flying.ht...

Podcast: http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast or https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-and-the-envir...

Picking up garbage: https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/a-millennial-making-americ...

Plenty more if you click "related posts" at the bottom of blog posts and in my Inc. profile: http://www.inc.com/author/joshua-spodek.
Netsurf, you meant. BTW, install trickle (a bandwitdh limiter) and then:

trickle -s -t 1 -d 16 -u 8 netsurf-gtk

You'll enjoy the delays.
That's what I did a while ago and haven't wanted to look for it again - the app was always terrible anyway. On my desktop/laptop, I now log out more as well to not have the orange notification show up if I 'accidentally' browse to the front page.

For Twitter (which I think is more 'addictive' due to the greater pool of talent about compared to hivemind posts), I need to open up my password manager and it's quite a process to log in again compared to a saved browser password (especially with two factor authentication) - quite often that hurdle is enough to have me reconsider idling away.

By the way, did you know the Twitter app requires about 5 taps or strokes before you can log out? They really try to hide that one from users.
The white paper says it uses the Stellar consensus protocol but doesn't specify that the coin is on the Stellar network.
TypeScript seems to have been attracting some srs engineering talent into the ecosystem. If your backend needs fit into the node.js box, TypeScript is pretty compelling as unifying front/back end language; at least as a starter pack.
> Do you have redundant power supply at home, redundant internet connection?

Depends what you need. My last power outage was over a year ago, and Internet issues will generally resolve themselves in a relatively short period of time. That's reliable enough for a lot of use cases.
Why is it exactly that when people quote the 2nd ammendment they don't quote the whole thing. It's relatively short: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

IANAL either, but the courts have changed their position on it over the years. For instance in United States v. Cruikshank (1875) the Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd amendment only applied to the federal government and states could restrict gun rights. Different parts of that decision have come under scrutiny many times.

In any case, its a very modern and specific reading of that amendment that suggests that none of our governments can regulate ar15 ownership. Further Amendment 10 is fairly clear that if it isn't mentioned then the federal doesn't have the right to regulate something, yet here we are with federal regulations on pickup trucks.
Looks really interesting. Could possible be something like facebook live or insta live where you could still have prerecorded stuff available through links as well and have live comments based on time stamps through the lecture videos.
In the USA at least, it still exists, and it's called cash.

If cash were invented today, it would be illegal. For most small payments if not large transfers, in the USA consumers actually have the right to transact anonymously. Tracking micropayments publicly forever on a blockchain seems like a step backwards. Being able to track large transfers on a blockchain is one of the benefits of living in the world where the Byzantine General's Problem has been solved.
I remember riding on Dunedin's (New Zealand) Trolley Bus service when I was very small, which were standard bus bodies that were hooked to overhead power lines. I remember the driver hooking the bus back to the power lines. Must have been about '78 or '79.
The article says:

> Note: this has nothing to do with p-hacking (which is a huge but separate issue).

I disagree. p-hacking is when one experimenter checks many statistical tests to find one that is significant. The effect the author is discussing is that many experimenters do many experiments and the significant ones get published. One is more unethical (or maybe just incompetent) than the other, but they’re essentially the same phenomenon.
> letting myself get bored enough to stimulate serious creativity.

I think this is another key takeaway. We're so scared of being bored that we instantly reach for our phone as a means to fill this seemingly unwanted void. As if boredom has this negative connotation attached to it.
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Right. I imagine a future where AI capital entities just hold bitcoin and never do anything with it other than hold it forever to secure the things they're doing on the advanced financial platforms of the future.
My point is that the hierarchy is ordered by increasingly sophisticated internal conscious experience. This is the least arbitrary thing ever when it comes to concern around suffering.
You may have missed this point in TFA;

“China is ahead on electrifying its fleet because it has the world’s worst pollution problem. With a growing urban population and galloping energy demand, the nation’s legendary smogs were responsible for 1.6 million extra deaths in 2015, according to non-profit Berkeley Earth.”

It’s great to celebrate progress, but don’t fall for the spin.

A study published in Nature [1] found 3.3 million deaths per year worldwide attributed to air pollution. China owning nearly half that is mind blowing.

The figure for the U.S., by comparison, is 60-80,000. In terms of per capita mortality rate, China’s polution problem is 5x more deadly. [2]

Economics is the study of allocation of scarce resources. China investing more heavily in electrifying their buses is not surprising in the context of a deadly pollution epidemic. The same level of investment into electric buses in the US would be a tradgedy in the sense of actual lives lost due to gross misallocation of public funds.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15371

[2] - (1.6e6 / 1.3e9) / (8e4 / 3.2e8)
Is there any official post mortem available?
The manufacturing process for semiconductors uses a standardized wafer size (in a given fab) so everything can be automated and simplified as far as possible. Having even something like just two wafer sizes makes a lot of the tooling/storage/transfer more complicated and expensive, so it's best to stick to one size and shape.

In order to have uniform rectangular slices of the silicon crystal, you'd have to slice off horizontal cylinder segments. And that would defeat the purpose because if you just used circular wafers you'd have been able to get a couple dies out of that area.
"As simple as"--are you placing birds in a hierarchy?
Has there been an improvement in air quality or have the changes been too small to have an impact as yet?
A Special Security Tool Locks Individual Pages in PDF Documents
A rather slanted headline!

The article later states:

"increase transparency in the agency’s decision-making by requiring all underlying data used in scientific studies to be made publicly available"

That sure sounds like a good thing. It would of course limit the use of data that is unreproducible due to being kept secret, but that isn't bad at all.
The Doomsday Argument: Nick Bostrom [pdf]
Then I'd argue they need to make that more clear. The typical interview setting does not suggest it's an "exploratory" environment, it usually feels more like taking an exam.

At my last company, we would sit a candidate down at a pairing station. We'd offer them about 5 problems to choose from, and together we'd pair program on the problem for 2 hours. Using the internet, the IDE, anything they want was totally fair game. No system is perfect, but this was by far the best one I've ever experienced.
TSMC customers are diversifying into ASICs on "7nm". Shelf life of chips is about to get a lot longer.
I do geo routing in Route53. Because of how often China blocks cloudfront.
Yields will suffer with current DUV process which must be multiple, multiple patterning. The mentioned switch to EUV reduces multiple patterning and should improve yield. But EUV has had its own challenges.
What is the problem? Patents allowed Google (page rank) to get a toehold in its respective market that was dominated by other players.

This is a 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater' issue. Change the patent system too much, and inventors will not be able use their ideas to compete against the big money of established players.
Thanks. It looks like at least the third bullet has been reconsidered, based on this announcement.

But I think the front matter on that section gives (at least for what I'm after) a pretty good start on an answer to my question. They aim to version all libraries together as a platform (like, say, homebrew or yum+rpm). Where Conan aims to behave a little more like what I'd term "pypi for C++". That is, if I'm reading this correctly, and I'm not yet certain that I am.

One thing that I want to do, and it's clear to me how I'd do it with conan (or pip) but not yet clear to me how I'd do it with vcpkg, is have a version of a package that's available in a public repository also be available in my internal repository with some added private patches, and have my version "win" for my projects.

Our recurring need for this is when we're building out patches that we want to have incorporated upstream but aren't ready to do that yet for one of many reasons.
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My requirement is I need a sandboxed baseband or at least the ability to actually know it's off. There's a 4G DragonBox Prya coming out that you can put a SIP client on, and there's the ever-on-the-horizon Neo900.
Haven't been here long enough (~12 months) to anecdata that, but it's generally recognized that government policies are increasing air quality rapidly in many major cities. Example policies: routinely spraying water on the roads in dusty areas and near construction sites, banning motorbikes from city centers, banning the import of second hand vehicles, encouraging electric vehicles, moving polluting industries away from population centers, increasing industrial regulation, reducing opportunities and increasing penalties for corruption. I have a German friend who builds air quality monitoring systems for export here and he said that restaurant kitchen air vents are actually one of the worst urban air polluters now. Another is construction. He said India's cities, especially Delhi, are literally off the charts (sensors incapable of registering pollution levels that high) and that, compared to India, China has things well under control.
I remember the first time someone verbalized about my completely relaxed face. I was miles away, daydreaming, and one of my friends touched my shoulder and asked if I was alright. I told her yes, and asked why. She said I just looked really sad.

So apparently I have resting sad face.
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Geo-fence
All the tips on how to spend less time on the internet are great, however at the end of the day that time still needs to be replaced by a more productive pastime if one just isn't feeling it when it comes to productivity. Otherwise, the mind will creatively figure out an endless list of other things to idle time away with.

In the past for many people, this might have involved more segmented activities such as quality computer games and the like. But really, I think what most of us would do better with now is more time spent outside with a cardiovascular activity such as cycling or running.

I say cardio, because that often eats up a good chunk of time and rests the mind in a way that few other sports can and also because it's essential for physical and mental health and cannot be substituted. Don't worry about the strength stuff immediately if it's not already being done - that will easily follow once the cardio routine is sorted. As popular as 'strength' is right now in fitness circles, cardio is still key and the (evolutionary) root of all health in my view.
I worked on page number extraction for a large online retailer. There were some amazing places they could be located. Stacked numbers indicating location in book/section/chapter, middle of the outside margin, mixed up based on if it was a title page or main body page.
For some things authoritarianism is very effective at achieving results.

For instance, China's government simply mandated that everybody would start using a simplified writing system that was supposed to increase literacy. And the country.. just sort of went along with it.

Also, iodizing salt is sort of a big deal. Turkmenistan, being a dictatorship, simply declared non-iodized salt illegal and gave out 11 pounds of iodized salt each year to each family, and (presumably) sent out inspectors with iodine testing kits and threats of fines. Kazakhstan, being a democracy, had to cajole its people into accepting the change.

Same thing with China and India. China switched to a remarkably different writing system. I'm guessing that the process went something like "You guys have two years. After that all government forms and mass media will be written in the new system. The schools will all be teaching the new system." Whereas India, which would benefit greatly if they all spoke a mutually intelligible language, is a democracy and will never give up their ancestral languages.
Actually the USD is backed by trading volumes. The courts, police, and military have little leverage over forex markets.

The Federal Reserve has been a fair steward of the dollar, with only a 96% devaluation since 1913. The curious can check the official numbers here:

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
If you have persistent stomach pain not eating can sometimes do the trick if you suffer from digestive inflammation. The inflammation can be triggered by eating the wrong combination and or quantities of certain foods.
Same here, it's why I cannot justify getting offended by people eating dogs when I eat pigs which are about as smart.

That classification also made me stop eating octopus even though it's one of my favorite dish.
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Not sure if being backed by coercive force is a positive or negative :).

For a reference point, gold is another sovereign asset and it has held up pretty well over the years.
I was enlightened by the link above to NUMMI. Here is a transcript of that video: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/transcript
You have seen the same advice from Paul Graham: "Do things that don't scale", http://paulgraham.com/ds.html.
In the case of NUMMI, the emphasis was changed from quantity to quality. It didn't mean automation, it meant listening to suggestions from the workers. The worker adopted the change because it meant a change from industrial mayhem to a fulfilling work experience. The changes at that plant have (too) slowly trickled through the US car industry, as the managers involved moved around the GM organisation, finally giving the US car industry the high quality we see today. Tesla is similarly learning that, rather than automation being the magic answer, it's the one-off things that humans can do by coordinating that will bring costs down and quality and production up.
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> The fact something looks "dark" on that plot doesn't tell you anything about how much of the space is allocated.

A lot will also depend on when the scan is done. For instance, the University of Cambridge has 131.111/16 and hands it out to student devices, so if you scan during a vacation a large portion of it will look empty.
Doesn't seem any better than Photoshop's content-aware correction tool. Would love to see a side by side with the same images.
> why the DNS test usualy takes >60 seconds

The server-side part of DNS validation takes about a second. The delay is all about clients waiting for their authoritative DNS servers to update. If you use a fast DNS provider, there's no reason to wait longer than necessary.

> If any certs were issued for hijacked domains (which as far as I've ready was only one, not using LetsEncrypt), it's a pretty glaring failure on the issuer, assuming they used "DNS Validation"

It wouldn't be a compliance failure, though. CAs are not required to be invulnerable to BGP hijacking attacks.
I didn’t mean to come across in such an insensitive way.

The perspective I was coming from was a little more meta. To date we’ve seen outsourcing of business functions and consolidation of job functions where technology advancements have reduced labor needs. VMWare eliminated datacenter hardware teams. AWS eliminated data centers. Modern clients eliminate all of the bullshit associated with Windows PCs.

We are getting to a point where business functions will go down the same path. This is an age of giants.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16914632
>Remember my original comment? No matter what choice the TAs, they can be accused of having a bias that can affect their views as a teaching assistant. That's why I didn't think your comment added anything useful.

Remember my response to your comment?

I explained it's a matter of probabilities. I'll refresh your memory:

>>They're rent-seeking organizations where the benefits concentrate to their members, while their costs diffuse widely across the general population.

>>For these reasons, I suspect being a part of a union is a significantly larger source of bias than not being part of one, and that's roughly what Public Choice Theory on special interests would predict.

I don't have the time to engage in a debate where I need to tediously repeat myself because you choose to debate in bad faith.
Doesn’t it make more sense to be upset at people eating pigs and dogs? Same here about octopus too, although it was never my favorite, I won’t touch the stuff. Pigs, dogs, cats... I try to avoid eating anything that can out-think a toddler.
They are the same in that they both create a situation in which the p-value cannot be trusted. However, in one case this is deliberate. In the other it's a problem with the whole enterprise.

Also, running multiple tests without correcting for multiple testing (usually by reducing the threshold for significance) is just one form of p-hacking. The more insidious version is when one runs the test after every few participants until random chance makes it "slip over the edge of significance". In that case there might not even be enough variables for multiple testing to have occurred, and it becomes very difficult to detect.
This process doesn't filter for competence. It filters for people with fanatical enthusiasm to jump through hoops. It filters for people who will be young, impressionable, and prone to being exploited.
Obligatory Bobby Tables reference [0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/327/
What I love about that video is how much fun they seem to be having. The music is amazing. The costumes and act are crazy. And they make it look so effortless. The album versions of these songs don't quite approach the energy of this concert.

This video gets removed from YouTube from time to time I guess due to copyright but someone always puts it back up.
Yes but if a storm displaces the plastic from the trap every 30 days, seems like a waste of that resource.
Isn't it moreso backed by our collective belief in it? Taking a leaf (or ten) from Sapiens here
I didn’t spend hundreds of dollars on a mechanical keyboard with custom caps and switches to “click”.
Like I said, if you want to debate, post in an appropriate forum like Reddit and link to it. I can resume this with you there.

Long political debates are not appropriate for this forum.
To beat porch thieves, Amazon slips packages in car trunks
In addition to the possibility of cleaner power in the future; simply moving the emissions from tailpipes on the street to plants 100km from Beijing or Lagos or Mexico City... Still increases overall life expectancy.