skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even then I don't think they would tie it to the WASM definition that tightly as they intend it to be used on other platforms than just web browsers. It seems to me that you could just have the DOM be expressed as a kind of interface which the browser implements, and then each language just has a DOM library which exposes that interface to the programmer.
Snowden's revelations arguably were a significant factor in EU privacy law, including GDPR. In the U.S., government has been unable to regulate big business for awhile, about privacy or anything else.
See also: John C. Lilly's Solid State Intelligence
Nice that the Nokia dude claims the electricity phrase for himself...
More likely is the application of restrictive regulation in order to combat illegal activity that involves bitcoin. Money laundering, kidnapping, extortion, and bribery are kind of a big deal.
The founders of thirt party apps already think it won’t be financially viable for them and their users.
>not likely to be very interested in utm tracking like that discussed in this thread.

I am a digital advertiser that works direct with large and small clients. I use UTMs on every ad campaign I run.

Everything we do to hurt these big companies in online advertising also hurts the small ones. They all use the same technologies.
Probably the same reason airplanes have frequent flyer miles. If a customer has proven to be low hassle you don't want to lose them
This problem will solve itself when we apply appropriate sexual selective pressure to evolve 6-digit hands and feet.
Even Gutenberg's primitive press, which was built out of a wooden wine press, was revolutionary. It used cast lead type. The Romans had lead technology.
Linus Torvalds would hate this
These seems like a perfect use case for my bountysplit.com website I never built.
People literally buy AMD GPUs specifically for the Linux driver
The point of cryptographic lottery is that it's not proof of work scheme where dong work can improve changes and be profitable.

It's possible to define a decentralized objective consensus without PoW and make it unprofitable to use sybil attacks and other methods to game the system.
Are you saying it's good to hire people who lie to get through the interview? What would they lie about on the job?

This kind of thing can end badly. I worked with a guy who was kicked out of two companies (first for fiddling expenses and second for faking his CV on a grand scale) and ended up sentenced to 64 months in prison for fraud. [0] He fooled a lot of very smart people along the way. I still don't fully understand why he did it--he was a smart guy and didn't need to cut corners to be very successful.

[0] http://fraudtalk.blogspot.com/2009/11/former-california-soft...
They have the advantage of size and resources.

If the starting table stakes to get started becomes GDPR-style compliance infrastructure that takes 3 engineering man years to implement properly, then new companies will happen less, which means less future competition for the incumbent.
Yeah, I don’t see NVIDIA or AMD drawing any attention to product flaws, particularly if the end-user solution is “RMA until you get a good one”.

Instead, ping a few review sites and see if any of them are willing to take a crack at it.
It's not stuff getting out that's the problem. It's stuff getting in. This move addresses the certainty that if a malicious actor manages to drop a flash drive in the parking lot it's practically certain that it will be plugged in.

When you're a large global company like IBM you become the target of lot of groups.
Office workers will be fine.

It's the field people that are going to have it rough. Even the best 4G LTE stick won't matter if you're installing in the basement of a huge complex.
Interesting take on the NIH term. I thought this was more an ego thing for the big tech companies. They love to reinvent existing things to look like geniuses
Anything for monitoring tweets with hashtags?
He's not saying companies can't keep a CRM system to keep track of leads and customers. What he means is the sneaky and hidden ways in which FB, Google and other advertising based tech companies track your every action on the web, create a profile for you without your explicit permission and selling that information or access to it to advertisers, etc.
Decentralizing the Last Mile in Bitcoin
I remember last year how Google, GoDaddy and CloudFlair all threw this one website under the bus:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

The Internet isn't as free as people think it is. Things still need to be hosts and those providers could simply chose to stop hosting you.
If you don’t own crypto this can’t happen to you. What other things are you afraid of happening to me? Can you please ban me from visiting the Middle East?
I can't begin to describe how sad I am that we didn't end up using mercurial everywhere.
The reason is the potential health impact on locals, and given that a judge struck it down, I suspect that it is not legal.
Kind of like how automobiles are a luxury, and if people cared about the 4th Amendment they just wouldn't drive anywhere. Nevermind that our way of life is literally not possible without the technologies in question.

Every single one of the revelations you've mentioned was met with public backlash, followed by either a misinformation campaign or intense dog-wagging. This is called manufactured consent. For example, let's look at Cambridge Analytica. When it was revealed that a military contractor was hired to subvert the 2016 Presidential election, the dominant story in the alphabet-soup media was a twitter tantrum from Trump. As it became clear over the next few days that the story wasn't going to be buried easily, the narrative was quickly shifted away from the subversion of democracy to blaming Facebook for leaking user data, culminating in parading The Zuck before Congress. He played his part perfectly: no bread, but enough circus to keep the masses from thinking too hard about what it means for an election to be free.
NixOS is a pretty good alternative. There are definitely areas where GuixSD is better than NixOS but also lots more places where NixOS is a lot better than GuixSD.
Was about to say that I think you mean ‘ride on’. After a search it turns out some places call them ‘riding’ mowers. It sounds hilarious but there you go.
Coinbase's first investment, Compound, earns you interest on crypto
Offshore work, for instance.

Lots and lots of vessels have painfully slow satellite links - think <=64kbps - whereas the others mostly have very slow satellite links - ~512kbps.

Trust me, in such conditions you do not want to cough and ask whether you can download your training material off the corporate VPN...

(Heck, in many cases, shipowner policy prevents any third party computer from being connected to any onboard IT infrastructure, anyway.)
> one of the biggest gaps in US privacy law.

Gaps? How about lack of?

https://content.next.westlaw.com/6-502-0467?transitionType=D...

General Laws: Not Applicable.

Sectoral Laws: There is no national law.

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How outrageous and disgusting that congress can make a big show of questioning facebook over privacy, when they don't have the courage to pass even moderate data privacy laws. How much do you want to bet this location data will be ignored by congress?
Does disabling the location data via the settings make any difference, and is there an app which will turn off location data after a set period?
This isn't a reason or an explanation, just a statement of the arithmetic.

The siblings comments to yours are right - it's nearly random chance (give or take conservation of momentum during accretion of the solar disk into planets).
Every base is base 10!

Decimal is natural hands-based system. It's perhaps archaic, but neither arbitrary nor particularly divisible compared to its neighbors. (It's better than undecimal (9+2), but same as novemal (9), and worse than octal (8) or duodecimal (9+3))
Totally agreed. For the thought experiment, make the super liberal assumption that most value was produced and realized in the past year (or a single year), and it becomes comparable. Otherwise, the inefficiency is a hard lower limit. So in the extreme case, the lower bound is 5x inefficiency. If we assumed a value equivalent to 1-5% of market cap is realized every year, it becomes 100x to 500x inefficient.
So, use Google voice or setup your own w/ Twilio (try all numbers), and have a work cellphone and a home cellphone, a one-way pager (for when you are traveling), and another travel phone without a battery that you would use if necessary, based on the pager message?
+1 for salt -- I wish it had better docs or examples of how to build out a larger system; it's hard to start with imho even if you know ansible well. The existing docs read like man pages without the helpful examples even.

At the last gig, I wrapped salt deploys with a small Slack bot, so users would fire deploys from Slack; you could see what was going out and who was pushing. It was a very very nice, simple, fast solution that should scale to hundreds of machines easily.
I can't help but be amused in the irony that this says it requires more points than prior to hit the front page, yet appeared on the front page with only 3 points.
I have the option of exchanging money for bitcoin and then sending it somewhere. Lots of ransomware includes detailed instructions for how to do this, along with phone support to walk you through this process. This isn't a hypothetical, and I don't own crypto, and I don't want someone to encrypt my hard drive and then give me instructions for buying crypto and sending it to them.
I agree the greater emphasis is Foundation-style analysis, but really, it's for both.
Yeah, NameCheap is pretty flaky with the warning emails. I once had their WhoisGuard service expire (it was on a different renewal phase from the actual domain, for some reason), and I never received any warnings about the service expiring until they sent an email to notify me that the WHOIS records had been automatically updated.

I've since added a monthly calendar reminder to log in to all registrars and verify all services are still enabled and correctly configured with plenty of time left.
What do you guys think of this?
> (transaction irreverisibility, lack of inflation, etc.) are in fact bugs

They weren't bugs for the thousands of years when gold was used.

> they don't realize how finance and economics actually work.

You probably mean the last 40 years of finance and economics, since our modern monetary system has really only been around since Nixon took the US off the gold standard after the US over spent due to the Vietnam war and Charles de Gaulle started to exchange his dollars for the quoted rates of gold.
You've hooked a NN up to a PID? How's that going? It's hard enough tuning those things by hand using squishy human brain networks.
Clearly if there is no incentive to spend money to optimize it then it is fast enough.
I have been 'caught' buying a burner phone - many years ago - and since then I have thought about why it is that anyone can buy a burner phone without having to produce their mother's birth certificate and many years of bank statements. You would think 'terrorists' and drug dealers should be banned from such purchases.

However, if you have a burner phone for whatever reason, you are tracked and it is a relatively simple task for a three letter agency to see when that burner phone swaps cell towers and what other phones swap cell towers at the same time.

Consequently, for tracking purposes, letting anyone have a phone is what they want.

Even with the best efforts at 'operational security' a mere mortal is going to end up getting tracked.

Think of it a bit like 'shadow Facebook profiles'.

For instance, in the drug dealer scenario, the guy has one phone to speak to his mum and girlfriend and another set of interchangeable burner phones for his customers. It is all too easy. I am sure that the agencies can turn on the cameras too, fortunately the police still run Windows XP and have too much paperwork to fill in for this type of stuff.

After reading this article I am not so sure this will be the case for long.

Regarding the 'nothing to hide' rationale, if anyone has had a sick, crazy psychopath stalker pursue them for YEARS then being on the electoral roll or being on Facebook can be as good as fatal. There are good reasons to not want to be tracked, even if you have one stupid person focused 24/7 on stalking you rather than an agency/police force doing it.
Talking banana reads twitch comments. Trolls attack. Author fights back
For the first point, the article explicitly examines at Bitmain’s profit margins on their devices, where they find e.g. a profit margin of 56% on the Antminer S9. Although Bitmain might be headed for increased profits in the short run, from an economic standpoint it is reasonably to assume that market participants will converge towards zero economic profit - this is a standard economic assumption.

For the second point, he’s fairly careful to specify that these are estimates from a third party (Morgan Stanley) and does not explicitly specify that he expects all of them to be Bitcoin mining rigs. The estimate of power consumption he produces here, 8.92 GW, is used merely as a check on his main figure of 7.67 GW obtained through the economic analysis; he does not directly rely on the Bitmain production figure. Plus, he also notes that this 8.92 figure doesn’t take into account the ~30% of the market not owned by Bitmain.
Seeing what is happening with GDPR currently is cause to be cynical.

Lawmakers tend to copy & reference laws from other places as case studies. So if one law shows up somewhere, that law tends to start spreading around like it's a meme.
I thought giving concrete commandline invocations to be rather clear and precise.

I use 'guix environment <somepackage>' and 'guix system vm config.scm' every day. I don't need more, cause these two solves most of the problems that was described earlier.

What is it I can provide that would be clearer, more common usage, than the examples I use almost literally as they are here?

And that 9 line docker file references at least one other unknown file, and is part of a bigger program. Docker would not be able to reproduce with the information given in that post. How do you expect me to reproduce something with at least 2 huge unknowns?

That is why you got a more generic answer for implementation, but once you have your implementation once, you only need the commandlines I provided.
The thing that worries me about this line of thinking is that as far as I know, we don't know much about why SAT solvers tend to work well in practice. So if I ever happen to hit a problem that the solver cannot solve, all we can say is "well bad luck". If the algorithm fails, I won't have any way to know why. This strikes me as a bad situation to be in.
Portable timepieces were specifically invented for seafaring, at least a century after it was obvious that they were needed for navigation.

I suspect most of the applications you described could be serviced by an hourglass and scale, which (I think) are much older than precision timekeeping.
Why?

Would it only prevent transmission of radio signals, not reception of them.

Just the TX, not the RX.
Numbers like 24, 60, and 360 are 'highly composite numbers'. Here is a GREAT video on these 'anti-prime' numbers :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JM2oImb9Qg

These anti-prime numbers were studied first by Ramanujan (of course) and conditions are that:

1) The prime factors must be consecutive (2^n X 3^m not 2^n X 5^m)

2) The powers of the prime factors must be deceasing as the prime number increases (2^4 X 3^3 not 2^1 X 3^5)

3) The numbers end with the the highest prime to the highest prime (2^4 X 3^1 not 2^3 X 3^2). Except for the numbers 2 and 4.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
huge.. this is a big deal.
I meant the entire pipeline from physical cashiers to the cars that transport money to gold bullion to everything else. Crypto solves it all, it lives entirely online.
OpenAI and the other research labs (FAIR, Google Brain, MS Research) are heavily focused on image and speech models, but the reality is the vast majority of models deployed in industry don't need DL and benefit more from intelligent feature engineering and simpler models with good hyperparameter tuning. It's definitely the exception that more compute automatically yields more performance.
Are cases locked / glued shut? It seems like it would be easy enough to connect a new usb header...
I'm surprised it's not in the billions, to be honest.
To be fair, neither the left nor the right are persevering in debate these days. For every X-"ism" claim from the left, there's an equivalent "fake news" gaslighting attempt from the right. The degeneration of politics today comes from both extremes of the political spectrum.
by that logic, same thing applies to bitcoin. on a centralized exchange ownershp is just an entry in the database
It's the first of many. Companies have been circling for years, prepping for access to the US market.
In general I would agree, but the source code is so short here that you would be able to glance through it first to confirm nothing sketchy is going on there: https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper/blob/master/b...
Well what I was saying, and why I suggested hedging the accusation, is that if someone does, say an AI that determines court sentences then that might cause the AI to be racist even though race was never set as a parameter. Such an AI might have racist behavior because of the naivety of designer[1], not that the designer was themselves racist.

Obviously the designer could make this data set racist on purpose, I was just saying that an AI that judges on race might be due to stupidity and not malice. Hanlon's Razor.

[1]Not realizing that there are other parameters that correlate with race
It's extreme. The only think that coal-loading can produce is minuscule amounts of dust that can be eliminated with a piece of tarp. I don't object the people's right to try and pitchfork down the coal industry, but the company should appeal.
Languages don't live in isolation. They are products of their time and their fates are tied to their ecosystems. JS is a popular porting target because the browser is a widely-deployed environment, but also because platforms like Node and Electron are in widespread use, and therefore targeting JS enables targeting some frontends and some backends with the same code. This project even takes special care in supporting the differences between execution environments.

Ports to languages that compete in the same solution space are more prone to drawing criticism because, almost by definition, ports are designed to be feature-comparable, yet cross-language rewrites benefit both from the thorough examination that naturally must take place during a rewrite, and the different features offered by the target language. Most arguments about cross-language rewrites are proxy arguments about whether the bulk of the benefit comes from starting over, or mainly from a tool that offers different -- say, more intuitive, or less error-prone -- ways of capturing what the programmer means; intermingled with a fair bit of language favoritism.
This is called federated learning[0] at least by Google. I don't know whether they've added this to more products or whether it works well. It would be interesting to see this done in open source.

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collabo...
There are a lot of use cases where they're still quite valuable.

- Social sites tend to redirect outbound links to sanitize referral information. So you can get a bunch of traffic from Facebook, and have no idea if it's people viewing your page, going through their news feed, postings in Groups, etc. All of your Facebook traffic will have a referral of (l|lm|m|business|mobile|web).facebook.com/(l.php)? [1]

- Unless someone is using a web client, any clicks from email will show up as direct traffic, just as if someone typed the url in their browser directly. So you can't evaluate email performance in GA without dedicated utm parameters.

- The Source field in GA defaults to the referrer, but is overridden by any explicitly provided utm_source data. If you capture the true referral information separately (i.e. put the value of document.referrer into a custom dimension), you can compare the two and glean all kinds of nifty info like traffic from Site B and Site C resulted from a link on Site A.[2]

- The concerted effort to upgrade sites from http -> https has led to increase in traffic marked as direct that's not direct, because of referral header stripping. Note that it's not inherently an issue with https itself, but with the fact that not everyone is using https yet, combined with the cumulative number of pre-existing http links.[3]

There are plenty more, but those are some of the bigger things I can think of off the top of my head where standard GA falls short and having utm-tagged links are beneficial.

[1] Yes, I'm aware that this regex is lacking escape characters. But having them reduced readability.

[2] If someone takes a utm tagged link from Facebook and shares it on Twitter, by default it'll look like it came from Facebook in GA. Unless you're capturing the document.referrer value manually in a custom dimension, you wouldn't be able to suss out that this was happening and would never know that they're actually coming from Twitter based on a link you shared on Facebook. Or even that they're coming from Twitter at all.

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
This occurred to me. It solves part of the problem, in that your phone number isn't tied to a physical location anymore. But it creates a new problem in that you don't actually have a cellular connection.
Bridge, Hearts, Pinochle, Spades, BS/Cheat, and President off the top of my head all deal the full deck. The first four tend to be played only with 4 players because it's an even deal, which is too bad
I'm OK with both of those "problems".
Or maybe that just means, that power in Wentachee is over-subsidized?
xco shows Xcode for me.
Yes, but shouldn't you have separate "build" and "deploy" container images? You should "build" a particular version once, "deploy" the result into a test environment, test it thoroughly, and then "deploy" to production, right?

This is not my job (yet). Please tell me if I'm wrong, because I'll need to do it in the next few months.
It's open source. If you don't like it, don't use it.

Rewriting git in Javascript seems pretty useless to me, but who knows, maybe it was a fun challenge for the author.
How to be efficient at chat support
>A thought experiment: how much energy should Bitcoin use?

If it used proof-of-stake, then it should be a negligible amount compared to what it uses now.

(Disclaimer: proof-of-stake is still being researched. Many altcoins presently claiming to be proof-of-stake rely on centralization (peercoin), likely have issues, and/or are underverified. I'm cautiously optimistic about the Ethereum community's thorough research into proof-of-stake.)
Is there any logic to me being triggered that .google is a TLD now?
Are you in the Silicon Valley or Seattle? Location matters when you're talking about compensation numbers. If you're on a visa it also seems like your compensation could be less due to negotiation power. However, it sounds like you're not in the Silicon Valley since salaries for new grads start at above 100k/yr. It sounds like a lot, but it's really not when you factor in the cost of living.
If your boss made your annual salary in less than a day, how would you feel? [pdf]
Maybe it's the optimist in me, but if they hemmed and hawed, I'm thinking they might have been internally rocked a bit, and might be subtly changing their view on their own timetable.
This seems appropriate. Local governments shouldn’t be able to determine international commerce policy.
Did the octopus come from space?