skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But then they can't take bookings through google assistant, which is going to lose non-trvial amounts of business.

If it's costing more money than it's bringing in, then it's no longer worth it. If it's bringing in more money than it costs, then it's a good thing for the business.

If a business needs to hire a dedicated phone person because they are getting so many appointments filled, they aren't going to be upset. But if they get so many flakers that won't show up, they are losing money as customers that will show up are getting pushed out, so they will block Duplex. There are also other ways to solve this problem, require a phone number and name and block or charge people for missed appointments if they try to reschedule. Require some kind of down-payment over the phone when making the appointment. There are tons of solutions to this problem.

At no point is "Pay google to handle the calls" an option. This is really only for places that don't have an online appointment system (that possibly integrates into google), so the solution to the duplex calls would be to invest in one. Since "pay google to handle duplex" would look a lot like an API to a scheduling system anyway, and an independent one (with integrations into Google's systems) would reach more customers.
What do you use as a replacement?
Right, and actually, it looks like only 'ls | grep "${data}"
' (eg, the data var double-quoted) works:

[jbrown@tools1 testdir1]$ data='testfile1
> testfile2
> testfile3
> testfile4
> testfile5
> testfile6
> testfile7
> testfile8
> testfile9
> testfile10'

[jbrown@tools1 testdir1]$ echo $data
testfile1 testfile2 testfile3 testfile4 testfile5
testfile6 testfile7 testfile8 testfile9 testfile10

[jbrown@tools1 testdir1]$ ls | grep `echo ${data}`
<<NO OUTPUT>>

[jbrown@tools1 testdir1]$ ls | grep ${data}
<<NO OUTPUT>>

[jbrown@tools1 testdir1]$ ls | grep "${data}"
testfile1
testfile10
testfile2
testfile3
testfile4
testfile5
testfile6
testfile7
testfile8
testfile9

Believe that using echo in the backticks may amount to same effect as 'ls | `cat ..filelist.txt` (eg, results in ENOENT)

And of course, as many have mentioned grep -f does what I was looking for and would have prevented this whole exercise:

[jbrown@tools1 testdir1]$ ls | grep -f ../filelist.txt
testfile1
testfile10
testfile2
testfile3
testfile4
testfile5
testfile6
testfile7
testfile8
testfile9
> However, its also important to mention, that with react and careful planing, a no-js version is basically included for free.

Careful planning is required of all frameworks to make a JS free version. I wouldn't say it's a feature of React or that it's free.

> One might debate if a page really needs hundreds of kb of js to function, but then again, this is not much different than the classical progressive enhancement site with jquery

JQuery was a crutch that wasn't strictly necessary and with modern browsers you can largely do without it and write pure JavaScript. Assuming you know how, which I would wager most developers don't.
>In the US, 2-3 weeks of vacation is normal (for tech jobs,) so let’s say in Germany, you get an additional week

Are you expected to take those 2-3 weeks? Is your time away actually respected? I'm sure for some it is, but I don't believe that to be universal.

>a great place to live, but in pure economic terms, you are definitely worse off by comparison to a similar job in the US.

Economic comparisons like this hardly capture all that accounts for the differences between these two scenarios. Work culture, quality of life, personal fulfillment, etc. This purely monetary estimation can be informative, but, it is only part of the story.
> At what point are the miners/network considered the centralized institution?

Very much this; I'm fairly sure that if there is an organization that wants to direct / control btc, all they have to do is open up their (real money) wallet and get the majority mining capacity. If they first drop the value of BTC by selling or whatnot, miners / automatic miners will switch to more profitable currencies so the total hashes / second will lower, making a hostile takeover easier.
Firefox gets down to Business, and it’s Personal
What do you mean, what inflation?
That was used to highlight the maximum improvement expected. When the working set doesn’t fit into RAM then you will get some combination of a smaller amount of performance improvement plus a reduction in CPU usage. The faster the storage, the greater the increase in tps that you’ll see. Note that replication is often CPU bound. We will be applying this to non-database workloads as well in the near future.
Why does he hold it in 5 continents? In case 4 get wiped out? Surely, all it is is an encrypted private key they are storing.
It is relevant because the mantra of "traditional financial institutions have your best interests at heart, unlike those Bitcoin scammers" is demonstrably false.
They need to be much more aggressive towards apps that request access to the SSID of the current network. This is supposed to be limited, but in my experience, apps you would not expect to be doing that are doing it, and it's basically the same thing as location data.
Um, nope. While this might be valid for HN, I see the scapegoat video paraded around as "proof" that nobody could have done anything, every.damn.time the collision is mentioned.

PR: mission accomplished.
As the primary author of Gorgonia[0], thank you for this. I've never read this. It's a fascinating read about the thought processes that go into creating TensorFlow.

One particularly interesting thing is that it looks like Tensorflow started earlier than I thought (I've always thought Gorgonia predated Tensorflow (I started a few months before giving this talk[1], but only announced it one year later[2])).

3 years later, TensorFlow is super feature packed, and I'm still trying to drive adoption for my lib. Oh well.

[0] https://github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/chewxy/deep-learning-in-go-or-shenna...

[2] https://speakerdeck.com/chewxy/gorgonia-primitives-for-build...
Further if you were "more accurate" can you produce evidence that you were right for the right reasons that would pass muster among your peers?
It's less Linux because this is another step towards Chrome OS devices not running any Linux at all except for in niche situations, and in those cases only as a VM. The decision to use a VM is the telling part. If they were committed to Linux as the underlying kernel in Chrome OS this would just use process-level isolation like containers.

When measured in terms of number of devices actually running a Linux kernel on physical hardware, in a post-Fuchsia Chrome OS world there will be less Linux kernels executing on devices at the bare metal, according to my prediction.

Between this and Android pivoting to Fuchsia, the number of non-server devices executing Linux kernels on physical hardware will have dropped substantially.

For anyone who values having a well-supported GPL kernel with maintained and modern hardware drivers as an option it should be viewed as incrementally more bad news.

Microsoft and WSL is another facet of this attack on the Linux kernel. By providing a way to run a Linux userspace directly from existing proprietary Windows installs, they remove a bulk of the impetus a Windows user may have had to attempt running the Linux kernel directly on their physical hardware.

We're headed towards a future where relatively few people run Linux at all directly on non-server hardware. Which enters into a self-reinforcing scenario of even fewer people doing so because the kernel development community will be working with fewer resources to keep up with hardware developments.

I hope I'm wrong, but it's looking increasingly like the future of Linux-based clients will be IoT and raspberry pi like devices.
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> Or is the idea that Bitcoin will be valuable again when the wealthy finally crawl out of their New Zealand bunkers and reestablish the financial system?

The idea is that the transactions are irreversible and you cannot rely on any number of police officers or judges to fix a theft.

The bunkers are for security's sake, not preserving-wealth-in-an-apocalype's sake.
lol, awesome
That is the same with iOS, but iOS doesn't even give you the option of disabling AGPS. Google Location Services' AGPS is anonymized, exactly like iOS's implementation.
>if you do hold the keys you better be absolutely paranoid with them because there's no plan B if they get compromised or destroyed

One could do multi-signature wallets with Bitcoin. So, for example, there could be three keys: one with you, one with your significant other, and one with a third party custodian, and it'd take, say, 2 out of 3 signatures to spend out of the wallet. It doesn't change the bearer nature of Bitcoin, which, some would argue, is a feature.
My question is: Do we need to surf the web that much? Do we really need an iPad that much in the first place?
This is exactly how I feel but I am located in the UK and sources can be really biased on how and what they report. I usually end up consulting several foreign news outlet including what our national media would qualify as not so reputable.
With Ron Howard directing.

And Ed Harris as Jack Poindexter, the veteran radio officer, already retired from field service, volunteering for one last trip (and telling his wife on the phone he'll be late for dinner).
7 surprising things you’ll learn on Dollar Street – Bill Gates
> "Looks like in the future people hoard currency instead of spending and investing it then. That ought to be interesting."

That sounds like the current to me. Too much is locked up (in too few hands) instead of doing what currency should do. That is, reduce the friction of trade (i.e., goods, skills, etc.) Currency is a lubricant. It's no surprise things are drying up.
Apple doesn't even give you the option of disabling its AGPS implementation, so in that respect, you are worse off.
"By being brutal with decomposing and decoupling your concerns you could scale each intelligently and independently."

Yep. This is the first concept he misses.

"They think of microservices as just another buzzword. "

And this is the second one.

What he's describing as SOA doesn't match what I've seen. Even your 1-5 services example is rare. It was mostly taking a buzzword, loading up on some tooling, and cranking WSDLs. You could end up with dozens of those little rascals right out of the starting gate. (It should have been 1-5, agreed. I just never saw it work like that in shops of any significant size)
In my country, the limit is per natural person, not per bank account. Legal persons don't get it (they get a different one though - because of this, there is a very important distinction between business and personal account).
Bitcoin wasn't mean to be "hoarded", this will just destroy crypto currency value to the public. I think most people have already checked out anyway.

It's pointless if nobody wants it anymore.
This isn't my experience. I have a Chromebook Pixel, which is x86, and games and movie apps work fine on it. I think anything major is likely to be cross-compiled, and it's only niche apps that won't run.
I think he means the volatility/instability of it.
Recruit also has brought Indeed, originally an American company, strongly to its home turf, Japan. At face value it "competes" with the older job hunting services owned by Recruit, but they are differentiating the brands while they surely benefit from the synergy.
Like every business operating in China, Apple has to comply with local laws. And that's what they do. Everyone else who operates in China complies with them as well. Apple also complies with US laws and laws of EU.
Determining If All Elements in a List Are the Same in Python
Investments need to have intrinsic value. Under the new spin that bitcoin isn’t intended to be a currency, it makes little sense as an investment because there’s no value in any particular set of random numbers. If nobody is using it except for speculation, where’s the incentive to pay to keep that network running?
Why Privacy Is the Most User-Friendly Feature
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I only sign git tags and releases.
I don't sign git commits, because it's supper annoying, especially when rebasing large number of commits.

Package signing and verification works for distros, because significant effort is spent on curating keyrings of trusted keys. (And even that isn't foolproof! See https://bugs.debian.org/842939 for the latest example.)

It's not clear how automatic signature verification could work for pip. Who's going to decide which keys are trusted?
Could it possibly be bulk data from sensors?

I worked on a project in several states for IBM that handled traffic shaping and detection on highways and onramps. This system was used to identify gridlock and adjust lights at offramps or give people an ETA until theyre downtown. Most adjacent cities were staunchly NIMBY and didnt care to have the state government trenching cable to and fro for traffic control, so the data ended up hopping from town to town on microwave subcontracted from the cellular company that handled the large electric billboards on the highway.

the benefit of this was also the ability to route signal control data to large intersections without having to shut them down to dig cable trenches from the IBM network.
BCacheFS developer requests review for upstreaming
I can’t be the only person tired of this canard, right? It’s said over and over that the benefit of Apple is an alignment of incentives in Western markets. That is to say, Apple is not faux-idealistic, they are capitalistic, and in most places that aligns with user goals. China is the exception, but for the same reasons.
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Limited? This is public and unrestricted API, to my knowledge: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/systemconfiguratio...
This is exactly the sort offbeat content I love from your blog. Thanks for writing it!
The problem with raising the insurance is that banks pay for it, and the FDIC maintains a fund for paying out claims. If the amount at risk was higher, fees would have to be higher and the FDIC would have to keep an enormous amount of cash on hand. Hell, even at that level, the FDIC was badly stressed during the 2008 crisis. The point of the FDIC anyway is not to protect rich people from all losses, but to prevent runs on banks and promote stability in the system. Most depositors don't have that much money.
Those of a certain age may remember a similar project by Ethan Mollick on what Wikipedia adorably calls the “early web” in which the phrase was “I can eat glass, it does not hurt me”.

> The Project is based on the idea that people in a foreign country have an irresistable urge to try to say something in the indigenous tongue. In most cases, however, the best a person can do is "Where is the bathroom?" a phrase that marks them as a tourist. But, if one says "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me," you will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040201212958/http://hcs.harvar...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Eat_Glass
Is the legacy of Marx and Engels unwarranted?
Not only is it an untested VTOL airframe that'll be commercially available in 5 years, it's an electric plane that will have 60 mile range and 5 minute recharge time. I'm shocked that the articles writing about this thing take all these ridiculous claims at face value.
Many of the comments in here are getting hung up on efficiency.

Do you know how efficient your car is? Your water heater? No, and it's not because those figures are important. What actually matters is how much it costs you to travel each mile and how much it costs you to have hot showers.

It's cost per kilo that matters, and that's it.

Carpet the grounds outside an oil refinery with this stuff and you might, just might, have a worthy competitor to natural gas-formed hydrogen used in hydrotreating, with a fair amount of development on this technology. A Bergius process might likewise benefit.

Right now, the billion dollar question is will this ever outcompete PV-powered electrolysis? PV panels are ridiculously cheap, bound to get cheaper, and they would appear to be better suited to making and concentrating hydrogen at the high pressures needed.

The notion that this could power your Mirai is doubtful, because the energy input necessary for the hydrogen pressurization the Mirai requires is equal to or greater than the energy content of the hydrogen itself.
Bunkers? Like prepper bunkers? To survive what? If things go __that__ sideways, a hoard of crypto-currency will be the least of their worries.

Apparently, even the financially wealthy can be common sense poor.
Everything in this universe, short of quantum nuclear decay and atmospheric noise, is deterministic. AI is deterministic; we just often don't understand why the outputs it gives arise from the inputs.

Similarly, a FIFO system for a share sheet is definitely deterministic, but that is immaterial to the question of whether it is predictable by its users. And that's what matters.
Bitcoin has no inflation, there are only a given number of total bitcoins in existence, which many (myself included) would argue makes it a poor currency.
"full size" doesn't include the wings, sadly - just the interior and main hull.
What group is hoarding currency? With interest rates and the global economy roaring low we've had an explosion of investing in the past few years. I don't know of one group of people that would benefit from holding cash in the present environment
Dynimizer can react to drastic changes in workload and reoptimize depending on how you configure it.
>Well, if the user is a begginer-level hacker it will easily be able to bypass the block.

Or alternatively, operating uMatrix at default settings. Didn't even see anything.
> but hardly anyone writes "truely RESTful APIs".

That's pretty much what I said! Web frameworks don't help you at all in this regard, which is why REST is unncessarily difficult to implement. Most web frameworks give you just enough for HTTP-based RPC.
Why are you bringing up Minecraft revenue for just 2011? It grew like crazy.
Yes, I use separate frames, but I find that having a combined buffer list of shells and editing windows just adds to the context switching overhead - it's just less mental separation of stuff.

I'm not sure what I want exactly - maybe something like separable workspaces that have independent saveable and restorable configurations.
"The funny thing about AI is that it’s a moving target. In the seventies, someone might ask “what are the goals of AI?” And you might say, “Oh, we want a computer who can beat a chess master, or who can understand actual language speech, or who can search a whole database very quickly.” We do all that now, like face recognition. All these things that we thought were AI, we can do them. But once you do them, you don’t think of them as AI. It has this connotation of some mysterious magical component to it, but when you actually solve one of these problems, you don’t solve it using magic, you solve it using clever mathematics. It’s no longer magical. It becomes science, and then you don’t think of it as AI anymore. It’s amazing how you can speak into your phone and ask for the nearest Thai restaurant, and it will find it. This would have been called AI, but we don’t think about it like that anymore. So I think, almost by definition, we will never have AI because we’ll never achieve the goals of AI or cease to be caught up with it."
Nobody said it's easy to implement :)

I'm curious - what differences do you have in mind?
Awesome, thanks for the overview.
Explain what with China?

Apple are legally required to follow the law of countries they do business in. In China the law requires that the government, not third party apps, gains access to additional information. Apple can limit third party app privacy violations while still following the law.

The only stand Apple could take here is:

- Stop selling in China

- Have executives go to jail

Just as if they violated US law or EU-member's law.
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A CDN mirror is available here: https://cdn.mbw.44bytes.net/files/2018/05/NTNU_DigitalForens...
Who is hoarding currency on a notable scale? Why would they at the very least not invest in short-term bonds/mmfs
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Does this include apps like Foursquare/Swarm that sell aggregated location data to hedge funds? [1]

...or are the big players exempt from the rules of the game?

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/290543
Finally.

I wish third-party analytics would be next. A lot of apps are using analytics from companies who’s business model is inherently incompatible with privacy (Facebook & Google) and that concerns me.
That’s a rather blatant strawman: it’s literally a textbook example of the value of regulation and laws which make that happen, not the goodwill of bankers.
Probably not the best idea to give Bitcoin to someone to keep in their vault.
> ...microservices need to be isolated all the way

They may be, but don't have to be. Like many other technology terms that go through a hype cycle, microservices also vary in definition by a large measure. This talk from 2014 by Martin Fowler [1] is about the breadth of definitions as well as contrasts with monoliths.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdBVIX9ifA
What’s in it for your clients?
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You can at the very least make copies of the keys, and have your protection protocol be "wipe when anything suspicious is detected". You can't do that with gold.
great, I wish they'd buy more of it
Agreed. I've run Linux for years with no issues whatsoever.

I feel that people who criticize the platform have yet to try it...

Though to be fair, if your are running Photoshop or final cut Linux is not a great use case
Just got my parents a $500 Samsung Chromebook, and the build quality is incredible.

Macbooks continue to look less and less appealing to me, if Chromebooks somehow got Adobe CC, I'd switch immediately.
But it doesn't. Google Location Services is what gives permission to use Google's AGPS service. Meanwhile, on iOS, there is no way to disable that at all.
With China, there's literally no option aside from having their products being barred from being sold or manufactured there.

The fact they're standing up for user rights when given a legal possibility is a good sign, compared to most major companies which are harvesting anything and everything even going beyond the scope of what's legally permissible.
It used to be called "savings".
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Here's the bigger issue than efficiency, IMO:

> during the first 6 hour cycle where the photoelectrode generated 0.18 μmol/cm2 of hydrogen

And then...

>After a further 6 hours illumination, the LaFeO3 thin film generated 0.08 μmol/cm2 of hydrogen (Figure S8). This provided additional evidence that the film is re-useable, although the amount of hydrogen produced is almost halved

From 18 to 8 units/area in just six hours is not a good decay curve.