skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst part is there isn't any possible way I know of to defend yourself against this other than not having a phone.
I am starting to wonder what all have I consented to? Every week I learn I have consented to this and that because of a news article as I never read those contracts or TOS. I wonder if there will be a way to phrase long contracts into bullet list of ideas for someone simple minded like me in the near future.
I always find this argument really strange. How is making a complicated decision (which language is best for this task) easier using less information (the benchmarks are only one facet of the decision)?
1982, the PWA B767 Full Flight Sim Ran in 32-bit Architecture
Yes, it is very hard. That is why the leaders in the industry are not recent startups, rarely have anyone under 40 on their staff, and have been working in the field for 15 to 20 years. This is not casual technology, it is intended as a public safety technology, and the industry takes that seriously.
Yes, benchmarks are important, which is why we should use proper ones. The Benchmarks Game is not one of those.
Mauna Kea is on the big island, north of Kilauea. According to the USGS reports, trade winds are currently blowing the ash clouds south-west, away from the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. If the winds shift and start blowing north, I would expect that they'd keep the doors on domes closed. If opened, the ash would not only fall onto the scopes, it would get inside the dome, into all the nooks and crannies, and into sensitive equipment. Just having so much particulate matter in the atmosphere would make observing hard anyway so keeping the doors closed seems to be the best solution.
I'm pretty sure the way this works nowadays if that your launch bombs you throw your game into as many bundles/deals as possible so I'm guessing those sales are at 5-10% of the original MSRP at best.
Yeah yeah, it's not about running on very old hardware. The point is it runs terribly on modern hardware.
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Is that possible? Yes, but it's not in their interest to do.
Yeah, especially the Genoese. They dominated the Black Sea slave market all throughout the 1300s and the early 1400s, they used to buy them from the Mongols, on the Black Sea Northern shores, and ferry them (so to speak) down South to Pera (across the Golden Horn from Constantinople) where they were selling them.
I'll make my daily comment: every article written on Tesla does not need to be submitted to HN. It's mostly stupid drivel.

HN needs a filter feature.

This article, case in point: there is no news here. It's just another random sell-side analysis and it's nothing new in any way. It only says "they won't be able to make the semi." There is absolutely nothing insightful or meaningful in this piece. It's just the same thing they said about the Roadster, the Model S, the Model X, and the Model 3: they won't be able to do it.

Is this really front-page HN material?
Well the article does explicitly say:

> Is this an ideal blockchain implementation? Probably not. It can be improved in many ways.

To your point, though, couldn't the rules just be part of the block chain and documented as a "transaction"? Any change in the rules would just be another transaction and require majority approval.
Slavery overlaps with the Industrial Revolution by at least 100 years, and even longer in the colonies, such as India and Kenya. The resources needed for industrialism were dug up by slaves. It is tough to make the case that slavery impeded industrialism, when there are many cases where slavery seems to have helped industrialism. I think its best to look elsewhere for the roots of industrialism. Descartes and Newton helped form certain intellectual foundations, and the willingness of English peasants to fight and die for their religious beliefs lead to the end of the witch burning and heresy trials. That's important because a few years later Jethro Tull and Charles Townshend begin the Agricultural Revolution. Jethro Tull was 26 years old when he started working on his machines, in 1701. He was not necessarily smarter than all previous farmers, but he belonged to the first generation in history that had a guarantee that they could violate tradition and they would not be burned at the stake for it.
Not sure where to report: German translation is broken by always showing big umlaut letters ÄÖÜ instead of äöü.
> Oh yea, and green threads, god do I wish Rust had green threads.

They still don't? I thought they were working on that years ago, no?
The link you gave is a lifesaver!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Having gone through Library Genesis' Wikipedia entry a couple of times, I was surprised at myself for not having thought about this before!!
> I disagree with the people saying the benchmarks game is useless. It mostly seems to conform to my own experiences with the various languages involved.

I think it can only tell you about the performance cieling, and even then it can't tell you that for languages like Go where fairly obvious optimizations (like arenas) are prohibited while all manner of clever tricks are permitted for other languages.

Your remarks on performance comparisons were really insightful.
I've noticed this too, I think it has something to do with the fact that the two hands are "mirrored" in a sense, and operations like opening/closing arms are identical except for mirroring. Who knows, maybe they're even encoded like this somewhere in the brain.

After getting used to it it's not that hard to write mirrored text with the opposite hand. It's definitely a lot easier than doing it with the dominant one.
> Kevin Bankston, director of New America's Open Technology Institute, explained in a phone call that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act only restricts telecom companies from disclosing data to the government. It doesn't restrict disclosure to other companies, who then may disclose that same data to the government.

It seems like intelligence services spend a lot of their time dreaming up ways to do an end-run around the law. This is the same reason US intelligence does partnerships with foreign intelligence services.
Somebody should build a service for this.

My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they did, the homes got snapped up quick.

We thought about sending letters to see if somebody wanted to sell to us without going the realtor route, but we never did. Facebook ads would have made it way easier. And a service where we forked over $50 to run some ads plus $250 as a reward and pushed a button would have been better still.
1) Not to die by suicide. (going well so far.)

2) Reduce the numbers of other people dying by suicide. (Ambitious, but surely the right thing to do. I have no idea if what I'm doing actually makes a difference though.)

3) Make treatment for people with mental ill-health safer and better.

4) Help my child grow into a happy & well adult with skills and knowledge to live life as they wish.

5) Tidy my appartment a bit.
Has anyone suggested a practical way that people can avoid being tracked? (Aside from Airplane Mode or keeping your phone in a Faraday Cage)
Given the way it is being used in Fuchsia for writing critical system components like TPC/IP, WLAN, disk management, update infrastructure, it wasn't really dishonest.

C code in the 80's was about 80% inline Assembly on 16 bit machines, so surely there is plenty of room to improve Go's optimizer if they so wish.

Of course Go will never fit into those PIC micro-controllers with 16 KB of RAM.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose. Think of breathalyzers as another example of an objective way to measure the smell of alcohol.
I’m sick of that label/epithet getting tossed around. No it isn’t. Racism is a prejudiced attitude towards individuals on the basis of their ethnic or national origin. The comment demonstrates none of that.

Seriously, is the world really a better place if we can’t laugh at one another and especially ourselves?

Moreover, it sounds to me like the commenter is showing a decent level of respect (or sportsmanlike admiration) towards Russians in general.
It's purely a software issue. Microsoft, Ubuntu, and others have come close to building a responsive desktop GUI.
We have 32 and 64-bit CPUs, why not a 128-bit CPU? (2014)
A new, collaborative model for open textbook publishing
It's interesting we don't [in the UK nor in English language sources online] refer to the likes of Kepler as being part of Christian science, despite the characters often being trained priests in one denomination or another [Copernicus, say, was a doctor of canon law], often being funded by Church patrons. There's an interesting divergence in the perceptions; I'm interested in whether that's a modern issue or if it represents something inherent in the mode of the science being performed?

Wikipedia mentions scientists who were historically - and are elsewhere - known for their Christian faith, priests and such but without mentioning that they were Christian believers but with scientists who were living in Islamic countries [I don't know the history to know if they, for example were Imams or wrote religious treatise] they're flagged as Muslims. Copernicus/Kepler/Brahe [I didn't check further] aren't claimed to be Christian, Al-Kindi is claimed in the first sentence as a Muslim amongst Muslim scholars, in a Muslim World, etc..

Any input on historic differences, IYO, that lead to these different characterisations?
One of the things that GDPR requires is real informed consent, small print hidden inside a thirty-page EULA is not acceptable.
I don't know, getting people to run my Python code currently consists of "make sure you have Python 3, run `pipenv install`, run the code".
A Detailed Explanation of China's Social Ranking System
Thanks for the heads-up! That's a bit embarrassing considering we're Germans :>
What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
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I think you touched on a key point. Javascript IS a decent scripting language. Treat Javascript as a scripting language and not for general large scale application development and you will probably be pretty happy.
The TPC/IP, WLAN, disk management, system update stacks in Fuchsia sound very like systems programming to me.
Audi, Ford show off cross-brand cellular V2X for the first time
> You first have to be aware of the existence of something in order to then tolerate it.

Sure, but that's irrelevant to my point. We typically have $known_small_quantity of cases where we have detected people being dishonest. But we also have $unknown_quantity of people who were dishonest to us without us realizing it-- maybe because we were naive, or because the deceit was so sophisticated, or it was so carefully contained, etc.

> The thing about dishonesty (aside from the fact that a person willing to be dishonest about one thing, is more than likely willing to be dishonest about other things too), is that it tends to beget more dishonesty.

You necessarily based that opinion on the cases of $known_small_quantity dishonesty. Which, unless you are a professional PI, is almost guaranteed to be crude and fairly easily detectable.

Again, the point of the article is that this cheat left little to no traces of dishonesty aside from choosing the same reference. Yes, the author describes the candidate as "too good to be true." But that's after the fact, and after the author admitted that they would have hired the person without the coincidence of knowing the reference chosen.

If you assume from the beginning that "dishonesty begets dishonesty," it leads you astray. For example, how many of the author's current employees are just luckier cheats than this candidate? That's a question you don't ask if you assume dishonesty is necessarily self-destructive.
My favorite hedge is "The American people have spoken" whenever 350 or so adults with landlines answer a loaded question by saying they "somewhat agree."
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Until the levee en masse in France pretty much all European armies consisted of mercenaries, criminals, and various other people considered the dregs of society, rather than patriotic citizens devoted to the cause.

Also the British Empire lasted significantly longer and a big factor in pulling out was protecting the Caribbean possessions from the French.
You can click "hide" on the story so it disappears from your feed. I know it's not automated, but it's pretty easy to click and then ignore it completely.
Modern FR systems can compare tens of millions of faces per second, per core, on a $99 Intel Compute Stick. The thing that sucks about Nest and similar "security cameras" is their wide angles - that makes the distance of recognition far too close. To detect a face, FR needs between 28 and 54 pixels of head height, but to recognize with accuracy is requires a minimum of 120 pixels of head height. A Nest camera will not produce a head that large until it is 3 feet from the camera. I'd prefer to make recognition at 30 feet or more, preferably when a bad actor is not yet inside the property.
They had green threads, but removed it. To my knowledge, there are multiple libraries that effectively implement green threads, but it's still a work in progress. Might be production ready, not sure, but I believe at the very least the ergonomics are a work in progress.
Ask HN: What do you do if you don't like AI?
Here in Spain Vodafone, Movistar, Telefónica, and other ISP are going to join forces with Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to develop better AI. But I don't want to contribute to AI. For example, they allow companies to bill you jointly with your ISP, and that before you allow it. As an anecdote, not long ago as I was switching off my mobile phone a screen appeared and I was subscribed to a music service that I didn't want, I complained to my ISP and the ISP said I should complain to the music service. Clearly the main use of AI is to take money from my pocket by selling me services that I don't want. One can try to protect yourself by keeping away from AI fueled products.
My mailbox is full of junk ads I don't want to read, that is illegal but companies continue filling up my mailbox with junk.
I really don't want my tv and phone to be always listening and ready to sell me new products.
I think I am not alone in thinking that some people dislike being treated as idiots.
The use of AI will create a toxic market by using asymmetric information: sellers will know a lot about you but you won't know about the products they are selling, I don't want to buy IA fuelled junk.
The main example of the toxic use of AI is in the realm of education. The distracting and destructive effect of AI fueled products in young kids is a manifest in itself.
Those who know well how poweful is the enemy are the ones that put their kids away from AI.
Today AI is the search of a tunnel to puts ads directly in your brain, and use any weakness of your brain to penetrate the attack.
AI is the biggest Trojan to beat. Surely, the job of many HNers depends of this use of AI, so is clear what to hope here. Surprising, someone at Google said that not all weapons are allowed, good to know!
Maybe by some 3rd party then? Maybe an application of all the fancy natural language processing or some other ML. I visit the site, paste the TOS or maybe there is a list of TOS that has been translated and i get a nice gist.
why an extension needs all website permission, even then can't google provide a mechanism to avoid password fields out of scope of access. Is there a reason why it is not done ? technically speaking.
Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
Slightly directed at a sibling comment, but yes indie games (can) make a significant amount of revenue through non-release sales, even at heavy discounts. For example, Dustforce more than doubled its cumulative revenue through a 50% steam sale and inclusion in a Humble Bundle: http://hitboxteam.com/dustforce-sales-figures
No, Python is much more enjoyable than JS (see what happens when you turn subjective statements into objective ones?).

It feels to me like JS is more for people who want to write "clever" code and Python is for people who want to write boring, more maintainable code. It doesn't help that JS has a gentler learning curve and attracts more people who just want to get things done without thinking whether those things should be done that way.
The simultaneity of your and mkandas89's comment is what I'd call a canonical example of spooky action at a distance.
I try to get shit done, but end up spending my time writing code templates for //go:generate.
Rome's population shrank from ~1 million to ~35 000: http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/rome-populatio...
That seems like a healthy perspective on the situation, then. My comment was based on the 'minimum viable advice'. I have no idea about the costs and qualifications required to become a ski instructor, your economic prospects as a programmer, your skill at skiing, and the workforce demands of the ski instructor industry. Those would all play into any logical analysis of the decision.
The aliens are just so smart and pitiless! The game does a great job of making you feel weak and vulnerable -- one sonic pulser can wipe out half your squad if you get bottled up. And just when you think you're getting the upper hand, lobstermen show up and cut you to bits, or you discover that your star aquanaut is susceptible to mind control. Guess it's time for another play-through and inevitable defeat :)
Notice, too, how the chain of sea mounts curves to the east as they near Asia (or, conversely, shifts west as you move away). Some 40 to 80 million years ago, the direction of the Pacific plate shifted 60 degrees although some scientists claim the shift was due to the hot spot moving underneath the plate. Either way, the energy required for that shift boggles the mind.
I think a more realistic option is Congress imposing a requirement on them, the way the terms of a loan have to be presented in a standard form.
Throwaway account.

I work in location / mapping / geo. Some of us have been waiting for this to blow (which it hasn't yet). The public has zero idea how much personal location data is available.

It's not just your cell carrier. Your cell phone chip manufacturer, GPS chip manufacturer, phone manufacturer and then pretty much anyone on the installed OS (android crapware) is getting a copy of your location data. Usually not in software but by contract, one gives gps data to all the others as part of the bill of materials.

This is then usually (but not always) "anonymized" by cutting it in to ~5 second chunks. It's easy to put it back together again. We can figure out everything about your day from when you wake up to where you go to when you sleep.

This data is sold to whoever wants it. Hedge funds or services who analyze it for hedge funds is the big one. It's normal to track hundreds of millions of people a day and trade stocks based on where they go. This isn't fantasy, it's what happens every day.

Almost every web/smartphone mapping company is doing it, so is almost everyone that tracks you for some service - "turn the lights on when I get home". The web mapping companies and those that provide SDKs for "free". It's a monetization model for apps which don't need location. That's why Apple is trying hard to restrict it without scaring off consumers.
Well, PyCharm is already doing a lot of parsing for syntax highlighting and autocompletion and other goodies. They're checker implementation probably just takes the AST PyCharm already has available to it, which saves the round-trip of saving to a file and having an outside checker open and re-parse the file.
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NHS cyber-hero 'discussed bank hack role'
Basically, yes :-)

https://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmfu...

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-01-17-some-thoughts-on-...

A 2005 paper presented is linked, where he demonstrated such an attack and worked with the usual people to implement fixes.

In fairness to cperciva he clearly distinguished his work from Meltdown/Spectre - "These new attacks use the same basic mechanism, but exploit an entirely new angle."

I think that since the world was surprised by how bad it really was in practise, its fair to say cperciva (as well as others) predicted the explosion, but not necessarily the timing or the blast radius.

There are I am sure many other papers in corners of the net that explain the next one to come bite us.

PS cperciva was the Security Officer for FreeBSD and tends to know more about this stuff than the average bear.

(Again HN shows its ability to have someone with truly detailed knowledge just one comment away.)

NB _ I may have some details wrong, please correct if needed.
Thank you for telling me. I've been hovering around this possibility since I'm using Intellij and am the primary owner of the code. Although I'm also keen on this code being as accessible as possible for the rest of the organisation and few has even heard of Kotlin.

When I suggest switching to Kotlin everyone's always smiling dismissively like "ah, you with your crazy ideas again".

Might do it though. Maybe.
I was curious if you used the word "grotesk" as a technical term in type design, like how "gothic" (apparently) has typographic meaning. I looked it up, and learned that "grotesque" is a class/category of sans-serif fonts.

Re-reading your last sentence, you probably meant in a general way, as in "grotesque: characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion; outlandish or bizarre".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif#Classification

Edit: Oh, here's a great comment from someone who worked on the font, with a mention of "Grotesque" san-serif.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075836#17080855
Like the HANS device in F1?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HANS_device
I've never heard of this game. Indie game devs feel like marketing isn't something they need to do because their game is good enough on its on.

It's not.
Martial Arts - Tae Kwon Do

Guitar - Jazz, Classic Rock, Metal, Blues

Bread Baking - enjoy making several different kinds of breads by hand from scratch.

Candy Making - I'm "famous" amongst my circle of friends for the caramels I make. I'm particularly fond of my toffee and nut brittle and my marshmallows are out of this world.
Hah, could you imagine, someone saying they found a bug in a piece of Rust code? I haven't read the HN terms of service, but I'm guessing they you'd get banned pretty quick for something as egregious as that.
Sketch + Zeplin are my tools of choice, also! :)
Wonder if this feature could be added to torrent clients.
source: good generics implementations

Haskell: 100%

All Other Languages: 0%

source: flawed generics implementations

Haskell: 0%

All Other Languages: 100%
HN wonders about whether our industry truly is unwelcoming to women, meanwhile people openly joke about soliciting prostitution. “Riff culture” and “it’s just a joke” don’t make it acceptable.
Probably a bigger myth is that farmers hid out in trees and picked off stuffy Englishmen foolishly clinging to warfare in lines (so why was von Steuben important, then?), which only comes close to describing reality in places like Kentucky where a bunch of partisans were participating in what we might today call guerilla warfare. But even in that case it was less picking off soldiers and more killing your loyalist or patriot neighbors. Warfare in lines was completely logical given the weapons available at the time.
Interesting.. I hear that from CRT televisions, but not from other electronics.