skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pi Hole is free, unless you're counting the system you have to run it off of (like a raspberry pi) but you can run it off any device you want like a virtual machine at home for instance, so you only need to buy a Raspberry Pi if that's how you intend to operate it. The benefit of it, is it blocks a lot more than just ads. For instance, it blocks any attempts to "phone home" by my smart TV or by applications I use such as Nvidia Geforce Experience. It's more extensive than browser based ad blockers because it works for your entire network, not just web browsing (for example, blocks all youtube ads on my un-rooted mobile device). It also has a huge set of customizable community maintained block lists that block everything from simple ads all the way to pornography (if that's what you want).
I run pi-hole in conjunction with browser blockers and still find it a net benefit overall. Anyone who uses my wifi gets an adblocker, any device, for any browser, and any configuration gets the benefit of having it. It's not just myself, a technically literate person, but my mother, sister, girlfriend and friends... Ideally if it stops just one malicious ad from landing itself upon my home's network then I say the benefit is there.

If you have an excuse to run a Raspberry Pi at home for any other purpose then use Pi-hole to piggy back off it and the cost you cite becomes a writeoff. I had a Rpi running OpenVPN for myself, throwing PiHole on it was a no brainer.
Ok, so now define "think".
> Azure Service Fabric Mesh, which offers the same reliability, mission-critical performance and scale customers get with Service Fabric, but no more overhead of cluster management and patching operations. Service Fabric Mesh supports both Windows and Linux containers allowing you to develop with any programming language and framework of your choice.

> Whether it be modernizing existing workloads or building highly available, cloud native applications with stateful services, Service Fabric Mesh allows you to deploy microservices running in containers [...] It also offers intelligent routing between microservices using Envoy.
Eh, whenever they have to rewind 400 years, it's a reach. It's actually fairly likely that "heroes" from battles so long ago have no living issue.
That's a myth. For most of human history, "working" 10-12 hours/week used to be the norm. There are still isolated tribes living as hunter gatherers and they are far from miserable!
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Russia is planning something like this, although the coin is far from reality. Venezuela has already put the coin out there, and it is called El Petro. From the above we can see that some countries are working on this already.
However, as ErikAugust noticed, the thought is cringe worthy to the Bitcoin/crypto loyalists.
Is this the modern day equivalent of "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"?
PITR on say RDS is going to be a fair bit slower than this, I'd imagine.
Why doesn't she try empathizing with men before basically telling us that it's our problem and that we need to change? If women are so much more "pro-social" than men, maybe they need to use their skills to fix the problem, instead of "anti-social" men going and trying to fix the problem.
Social Security in the U.S. is inflation-adjusted.
VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Appears in VR to Talk About His Latest Book on VR
- Has their own poorly written markdown-WYSIWYG hibrid thing that often puts what i'm writing into some state where I need to clear out the whole message and start over.

- Butchers 2-factor auth on mobile and often puts you into a neverending authentication loop (sending tens of text messages if your second factor is setup like that)

- notifications that never clear unless you click on the channel, scroll to the "unread" message, and wait for a few seconds.
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Why use the voice commands, then? Why not just type?
Yeah, I am straight and have the same instinct. There's nothing quite like helping another person blossom into their full self. I don't think this is uncommon, btw. I think this is basically coaching, but in a business setting. There is definitely some overlap with parenting, but there is also definitely some stuff that is unique to parenting.
> It's well-known that deflationary currencies do not work.

Deflationary currencies have worked out fine for literally thousand of years.

Inflationary currencies are a modern concept, with their own advantages AND disadvantages.

I'm surprised this is such a sticking point for people, and that they think the system will literally collapse, when we have centuries of history proving otherwise.

> It's also well-known that blockchain can't scale to handle the volume of transactions that the Visa network handles

Visa level only requires gigabyte level blocks. And that is well within the realm of what many cryptocurrencies are trying to accomplish.

Not Bitcoin core, though, obviously.

Blockchains can scale arbitrarily. They come with some disadvantages, for sure. But at visa levels, they are disadvantages of a certain scale, that matter to people who care about decentralization, to an insanely high degree.

For the vast majority of people, who are willing so compromise very slightly on matters of trust and decentralization, visa scale blockchains work fine.
It's cheap because it's "ok" to let animals die. If an operation is > $5000, most people just don't do it.

Try applying the same logic to people. It's fine in a Randian utopia but for people who aren't delusional, dying because you need your appendix out kind of sucks ass.
Do people use.. other features?

I think I used AWS for email octopus and maybe 1 other thing.

Idk how I've avoided AWS for so long.
"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation."
That's not correct. You are talking about fiat ramps (to get "old" money in or out). If you mine or stake and get awarded and just use it within the ecosystem there's no need for "id verification". So saying "You cannot do anything with cryptocurrency without verifying your ID" is an overgeneralisation of "You cannot exchange other fiat money for cryptocurrency or visa versa without verifying your id".
Could be worse, if you'd gone to Reading Uni around then you could have ended up with a Cybernetics degree from the Cybernetics department :)
Maybe I don't have enough imagination, but what are the realistic benefits of this compared to USD or existing cryptocurrencies? It seems like this would combine some of the worst features of each to make something that no one is happy with.
All those links are already clicked for me.
Scary tasty too!
> Apple is way behind in features and usability

LOLWUT ? Apple is years ahead of Android.
With always connected VPN on my mobile to my home, blocking ads on mobile works well. Also when connected to hotspots on my portable devices. Great point about work though.
I'm curious to hear about your experience. In my mind, artificial intelligence can't be separated from computer science. In fact, I feel like you need a full Comp Sci degree before you can effectively apply your skills to real world AI challenges.
I probably wouldn't call it automation, but you could regroup all these under the term machine learning or data science and IMHO it would be valid. I think OP refers to AI as the autonomous agent type of AI. Conversation, understanding the world, moving & acting, planning & decision making, multi-agent collaboration, this type of stuff. Some of these might fall under machine learning, but I would say most are outside of the scope of machine learning -- and do not seem to be targeted by the so-called AI degrees. However, I think it's fine to call those degrees AI, because they are AI -- machine learning is AI.

The question is should we name this after the smallest denominator (machine learning) or the biggest one (AI). Also, in the short term future, more and more real AI (i.e., not machine learning) will probably be integrated in those classes, so why not skip one painful rebranding step.
How many jobs could you get with a Udacity certification versus an actual bachelor's degree? On that note, how many people took the AI classes at Udacity after getting an undergraduate degree at a 4-year institution?
> You don’t have to pay for any of it.

In Europe you have a 24hr window to catch the fraud. Afterwards you assume all liability.
I grew up in China. What 'monthly meeting' (where 'you hear a "sermon" and sing some patriotic songs') is your wife talking about? That sounds bizarre
The government also controls the COLA Cost of Living Adjustment. Ask retirees if they feel the modest COLA increases have kept up with real expenses.
Here's an example of some of the community maintained lists you can use to block more things easily. https://wally3k.github.io/
Many of these are updated quite frequently as well.
I’m doing the same thing with Slack, too. I recently turned off slack notifications it’s great. Eventually I’ll notice the icon on my slack or email tab has a notification when I’m not actively doing something, and then I can respond.
I drink and drive all the time, which is to say, I will drive to a restaurant, enjoy dinner and drinks, wait, and then drive home.

In order to be sure that I've waited long enough to be safe, I bought a BACtrack S35 breathalyzer to keep in my car. In many, many years of testing myself, I have never seen a reading above 0.03, at which point I feel pretty impaired. If I'm over 0.02, I don't drive. I don't think I could stay conscious long enough to get myself up to the 0.08 legal limit.

All of which makes me wonder: can I trust this gadget to be properly calibrated? And how would I find out? The only way I can think of is to approach a police officer while drunk and ask them to breahalyze me so I can compare readings. Somehow, the opportunity to do that has never arisen.

It seems to me like a no-brainer that any establishment that serves alcohol ought to be required by law to have a properly calibrated breathalyzer on the premises for its customers to use. But of course this won't happen because the truth is we don't really want to know. We have drunk-driving theatre just like we have security theatre, and both seem to be a stable equilibrium.

Alas.
I don't know if this is on topic but I switched to Ubuntu 18.04 recently and ran into this fairly annoying bug [1]. Installing curl installs libcurl4, which then uninstalls any applications you have that have a dependency on libcurl3 (which turns out to be Slack, Virtualbox, and some others). They really need to figure out how to allow libcurl4 and libcurl3 to live side-by-side if that's possible.

Responses from ubuntu folks on that bug ticket have just been "Those packages are not official ubuntu packages so we can't do anything"

1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1754294
DNS66[0] can block ads without root.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
Wait- that was a reference to political writer P.J. O'Rourke:

https://www.amazon.com/Parliament-Whores-Humorist-Attempts-G...

It's an excellent read.
I know people that work on the Skype team. They don't write unit tests for example, "because we sell code not tests". So maybe that gives a clue.
It doesn’t. Poster was saying study doesn’t show local displacement due to development. That’s flat out wrong.

It shows one neighborhood with displacement where development “contributed to the ongoing transformation of the neighborhood.” The other that resisted displacement not only maintained high crime, it also had a higher proportion of rent controlled units (which you didn’t mention).

That demonstrates that development can cause local displacement, although there are many complex factors at play that can resist it. Like if you build right next to skid row, maybe your building is not enough to gentrify the neighborhood, plus rent control protects residents. Absent those, you’ll get displacement.
As others have already commented, existing currencies are already "digital". On my most recent trip abroad (to Copenhagen) I took some physical currency, and didn't use it at all.

Every transaction was digital and instantaneous (I use a Monzo Mastercard). I got a smartphone notification within 5 seconds of having approved the transaction.

The original promise of "cryptocurrencies" appeared, to me, to be decentralization, not their digital nature. The idea that a currency could be free from the control of a given government or set of governments.

This premise doesn't seem to have held for most current cryptocurrencies, as the prevalence of exchanges as central points of control has just led to governments targeting them to get the information they need to apply things like taxation and money laundering controls.
On the other hand, I've got a friend with a film degree pulling in decent money in Houston as a solo consultant (hiring contractors as needed (like me)), going from oldschool oil EPC to oldschool healthcare data analysis firms pitching "Big Data analysis" and "AI trained data modeling."

Mostly it's plugging .CSVs into google's cloud platform tools, but sometimes I get to peek at some homebrew R or python modeling stuff.

He (nor any of us that he pulls in for big projects) will never do research for MIT or OpenAI, but money is already being made in "AI." If his business ever explodes into a full blown company, these undergrads are exactly the kind of people he'd hire.
MATE does exactly what I need it to do without getting in the way, one thing GNOME 3 and Unity could never claim to do.
>It didn't make sense all along.

Let me rephrase.

What I mean is, "or it would make sense to do it, but homeowners will be too stupid to do the math." My hypothetical is about people who 1) would not install panels but 2) installing panels would be in their individual interest.

I agree that PV technology has improved in price/efficiency.

>Many people are not quantitatively analytical, even in situations where such analysis is in their material self-interest.

That's a fair point. You're entirely right - some people will not think about it. Some people will think about it but be wrong.

My intuition is that people are still better at making the the decision themselves than if the decision is made legislatively. Let me explain why.

Firstly, I'm skeptical of residential solar. Why? Installation costs (on average) 59 cents/watt. [1] This would be cheaper if it were on the ground rather than on a roof. There is lots of cheap land (assuming that you don't care that it's out in the boonies.) You could put solar panels there instead. However, there is an incentive to put solar panels on a roof: net metering. The utility must buy the residential solar, even if it's useless to them. I think that this is a misaligned incentive, and it might be more efficient to have huge fields of solar panels than to have solar panels on each house.

Second, this seems like something with limited political accountability. It seems like they could have created an alternate way of complying: pay the government enough money to build an equivalent amount of solar somewhere else. Then, you can remove the exception for shaded houses/tall buildings, because they have a non-stupid way of complying. This seems like it's better for everyone involved. However, it would then be clear how much money the policy costs, rather than "homes have gotten more expensive, but it's hard to pin down how much of that is caused by the policy and how much is other factors."

[1]: http://emp.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/german-us-pv-price-ppt.pd...
A long long time ago, I got a Bachelors degree in Logic and Computation, with a specialization in Computational Linguistics from the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon. Seemed to be the closest thing to an "AI" degree on offer at the time, from my undergrad perspective.
There's so much long-awaited features that are finally stabilised.

impl Trait is HUGE. And there's tons of other stuff too. This must be the biggest single release since 1.0.
Been running it myself for 5-6 months, and other than the occasional (actually, very rare) complaint from the Mrs. that a link she clicked won't go through due to a blocked tracker/analytics intermediary, it's been a peachy time VPNing into our home network so it works just as well on the go.

Our install Pi-Hole points its upstream DNS to 1.1.1.1, with uBlock Origin where possible installed on our devices. Can't imagine going back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
Oh, now he's fixing it, not salvaging it?

May last year in NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-...
This hasn't been my experience at all. I've been interviewing for internships back in the US while studying abroad this winter/spring, and basically everything has been done over hangouts (since I don't have international calling).
As has been pointed out before, statistics like these "for every five open faculty positions, only one is filled" are incredibly misleading.

Also, still trying to dig up the last article I read about this, but didn't that figure lump pretty much all faculty positions together? I could definitely believe there are lots of contingent faculty positions going unfilled, but the numbers probably look quite different for someone who's not interested in part-time positions, teaching-only positions, soft-money positions, etc.
Comparing VS Code and Sublime for JavaScript Development
In the past, being good at sadness was a major contributor. Now, doing things for others helps a lot.
The biggest learning I had from this and watching Justin work is to be honest - don’t try to bullshit and pretend you know more than you do. Be honest what you don’t know - but then act quickly to learn what you don’t know and answer those questions.
Spotify Announces New Hate Content and Hateful Conduct Public Policy
I'm implying that sometimes, "Improve ability to handle scale as measured by X improvement in dropped calls and Y improvement in user-reported call quality" is always going to be in the backlog, but it is probably being starved by other initiatives like "Support integration with BigClient Internal System Z."

That's a scenario where the needs of the people making and receiving calls are subordinate to the needs of the people paying for Skype.
>they were first treated as a single group of lock-step individuals by those looking to oppress them. Is it crazy that to respond, they respond as a group?

I think it plays into the propaganda of the oppressive regime by not asserting individuality. "See, they identify as the group we claimed they were the whole time," the regime would say.

That being said, there is acting as a member of a group and identifying as a member of that group. The former need not entail the latter. For instance, donating money to the ACLU doesn't change your identity to ACLU-er (et simis). No, you are just helping that cause.
insmod and modprobe are still synchronous. Once you have loaded a network driver, you can be assured the corresponding devices have been created.

What's new (around 2006) is the kernel will probe buses in parallel and invoke modprobe in parallel to load the appropriate drivers if they match the driver's alias.

Introduction of userland components to populate /dev also largely predates systemd. devfs was introduced during 2.3.x. udev replaced it during 2.5.x.
The American view on this seems to largely be that the crooked politicians are the ones OTHER people elect. Since our national level laws and policy are set by representatives of much smaller localities, we can love OUR guy, and think everyone else is a no good crook.
> that's not working in latest Chrome

Oh, I was talking about Firefox. Chrome's tab management is ... much worse.

I also typo'd. "* foo" searches bookmarks with "foo" in them. "% foo" searches open tabs.
You can get more detailed memory usage information by going to about:memory
Hard to compete when local government is so corrupt they won't let you run physical cables to people's homes.
I think Reddit is the community you're looking for if you're going to post these kinds of comments.

Typically comments on HN require more substance to be taken seriously.
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BACTrac actually recommends you send it to them on a regular basis for calibration
If you are on Android, you can install the Brave browser for Android. It's essentially just a recompiled Chrome with built-in ad-blocking.
In the R. Kelly case, that is true. I clicked into the linked policy and read that before reading the rest of the article. Spotify says, "That’s why we do not permit hate content on Spotify, and remove it whenever we find it."

The policy is aimed just as much at content as it is at artists.

Edit: This is the policy https://artists.spotify.com/faq/policies#hate-content-and-ha...
> He responded with "I'm Irish Catholic and I know what drunk people look like".

Perhaps the officer was impaired.
impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice!
Congrats on the release!

Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?
I recently found myself inserting &/*/ref/ref mut into match expressions before I'd even seen a compiler error. My first thought was "aha, look at how experienced I am with Rust now!" Followed immediately by "I can't wait until this isn't something you have to learn to be productive with the language." And now that day has come! Really exciting for me.

I also need to go and find all of my impl Trait TODO comments and get to work on cleaning those up! What a good day.

I should also say that while I haven't read the second edition of the book yet I am excited to have some new Rust-related content to read. The first edition of the book was a really eye-opening learning experience for me (both about computers and Rust and also about how to build a community and prioritize teaching) and I can only imagine what an improvement on that is like.
> You should have Legal expectation that whatever measurement is used, will only be considered evidence of a crime if the measurement exceeds the legal limit by more than the margin of error for that measurement.

I agree completely, and that is exactly what my point was.

If the hard limit is 0.09 because it's 0.08 with a margin of error of 0.01, then you're getting a ticket at 0.09.

Are you saying anything different?
CMU seems to agree with that. Upthread bertjk posted:

"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation."
> It is a response to being grouped by outside forces in the first place, where these groups do have a single shared problem now - that they are not viewed as individuals and treated as a single bloc.

On what evidence did you reach that conclusion, ropans808? And assuming it's true, how is that reaction -- "I resent that you have treated me, not as an individual but as part of a single bloc, and therefore, I am going to espouse certain positions simply because I belong to that bloc" -- a logical reaction?