skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of alternatives. I'm not suggesting the U.S. let ZTE wantonly violate sanctions or that a mere fine is enough to fix things. But there's surely some middle ground. Imagine if the top leadership of Apple had done something similar and sold a few prohibited items to Iran. Why destroy the entirety of Apple over that, most of which is a benign electronics business that employs massive amounts of people? Alternatives could include firing or arresting all of the top leadership, putting in place strong enforcement mechanics to ensure it never happens again (with the assistance and assurance of the State), trades for other things that are desirable for us, etc.

Perhaps the alternatives that the Trump administration will propose are weak and will be a terrible bargain, but that's a different matter than saying we shouldn't even consider alternatives.
As someone who’s account got flagged, is there any way to figure out why? I’ve done the appeal process, black hole of course.

I hardly posted anything, and somehow got flagged without notification, when I tried to log in one day.

The consensus seems to be that if this happens it’s generally because of illegal content but given my posts were all stuff for family/friends, I’m not sure what could trigger this.

A bit annoying, and my linked Instagram account is just fine (same content).

This whole experience has colored my view of our AI future quite negatively - I have visions of “computer says no” cropping up all over the place with no ability to appeal/dispute, and I’ve turned from a neutral observer of GDPR to a strong supporter even if I’m not a EU citizen.
Nomulus: Google's open source top-level domain name registry
Privacy right is not in the Constitution, it was created by the courts (IIRC there was a hilarious argument about penumbras of Constitution and stuff, but really, how credulous has one to be?). So I would think they may make it restricting anybody they like. And of course the Congress is the legislative body, which can legislate these restrictions, as it does with a myriad others. As long as the Constitution does not ban it, it'd be fine - and it's not likely that SCOTUS would consider right to privacy as contrary to the constitution, I think.
New York HR Startup Namely Fires CEO Matt Straz Amid Investigation
Larceny is a little more but very nice; Buffalo Trace a bit more still but delicious. Disclaimer: I'm new to bourbon.
I stumbled on a blogpost by bunnie huang which describes a liability angle, which I found to be plausible: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5127 - worth a read.
I read it as 120 datacenters, each with 10Tbps capacity
Does that mean it is actually being used in production, or is it just a potential? If so, I hadn't realised it had come on that far!
This generally is the metric you care about - a difference of one percentage point can be an improvement of twenty percent, as that means that the total number of "bad events" that you expect to get when running the system is decreased by 20%. And it's quite reasonable to assume that here, as in almost all other domains, "x% improvement" means the percentage difference (multiplicative), not the percentage point difference (subtractive). For pretty much every percentage quantity, things like defect ratios, recidivism rates or financial interest rates, "20% increase" never means an increase of 20 percentage points but an increase by 20 percent of the starting value. If we're nitpicking, "1% absolute improvement" is an inaccurate statement, the improvement should be described as 1pp (or 20%), not 1%.

Especially for more well defined problems, going from 98.5% to 99.5% is "just" 1pp absolute improvement but the fact that you have three times less mistakes can well justify a more complex model that requires ten times more hardware. The metric that you'd actually care about would often be like "number of hours required to correct the mistakes" or "number of lost sales due to mistakes", which all would get modified by the relative percentage change.
tl;dr

- MongoDB good for some things, but not time-series data

- In fact TimescaleDB sees 20% higher inserts, up to 1400x faster queries, and a much simpler query language (read: SQL)

- But if you still want to store time-series data in MongoDB, this post presents two different ways of doing so, with trade-offs
>The same can be said thousands of 16 bit applications that are no longer supported on 64-bit architecture.

And some of those are a big loss as well.

But most of them are obsolete and deprecated (because e.g. Office suites, OSes and gaming moved on) in a way that Python 2.x programs used in businesses are not.
If I were to try to setup a system with as much security as possible, I'd go with OpenBSD, in a Tempest Room[1], without a direct connection to the Internet. I don't recall the exact procedure, but there is a way to securely get information into and out of such a system, but it involves CDROMs, not USB memory sticks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
Oh, right indeed. I had forgotten about those since they aren't really practical. I honestly find it pretty amazing that any sub-cubic algorithms can even exist for dense matrix multiplication. It's just far enough away from my expertise to seem magical.
Is it really cheaper to build your own

Depends on what you need. In the general case, No. If however you need something 'special', like the very fastest CPUs, lots of RAM and/or multiple GPUs for example, then Dell/HP etc. tend to greatly overcharge for these configurations.
>Surface RT: introduced: 2012; Discontinued: 2013; Windows support ends 2023 (11 years)

Disingenuous. 1 Year, not 11. It may be receiving some critical security patching but the RT is absolutely an unsupported, forgotten, isolated and largely unusable piece of hardware, and has been for several years now.
They should have fired the author/s of this abomination much earlier instead of allowing that thing to evolve up to that size.
This is not true, most universities lose money on their sports programs.
Bike helments use MIPS to help mitigate rotational forces. (https://www.bicycleroots.com/blog/mips-helmet-technology-wha...) I wonder if something like that would make sense in the NFL to help lower rotational impact.
My Xiaomi Air 12 Laptop is completely silent, fanless and uses SSD. Very happy with it and it comes like that out of the box.

https://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_416105.html
This is kind of a weak comparison. You can always look up the whois and send email to the privacy address, just like you can send mail to the physical address to reach the owners of a specific property.

I wish home ownership were private. Aside from the DMV selling your data it's where I get most of my junk mail from.
Maybe I don't really get it (I'm not American), but why would victims sue Uber in the first place? It seems to make sense if they sue the sex offender (e.g. driver or passenger).
There are USB versions of the TI-Link.

Alternatively, a while ago I used Emscripten to build an emulator for the TI Voyage 200 (a late revision of the TI-92). There's some minor glitches, but it's mostly functional:

https://woofle.net/v200/
Funny how the song predates the sport by 10 years.
Are they on the same account with the same login, do you have only one username and password for all your cards? If so, you'll be able to get push notifications for different cards to one device just fine.

I'm talking about different accounts, not different cards on one account

All of my AMEX cards have their own account, that means each card has its own username and password.

For me, when I go to notifications for all but one of my accounts I get this: https://imgur.com/a/gzqxZJu

My AMEX cards used to all be on one account, but I moved them all to their own account because it makes things easier for me with AMEX offers and just account management in general.
Seems like the black rubber “bumpers” are intended to provide the “crumple zone” effect

The helmet compresses into the bumpers?
> Please do not confuse PacMan with pacman (the arch Linux package manager). PacMan is a classic, popular arcade game released in the 1980s.

This is the most wonderful praise one could give to Arch.
From the reviews my publications have received, it's quite clear that almost every reviewer (including myself!) has constructed their own ad-hoc mental criteria of what they're looking for in a paper. This encourages the evolution of highly-specialized, ultra-niche subdomains and conferences, where one wrong word can disqualify you as a "bad venue fit", and when you're writing your paper, you're trying to predict what the reviewers will think more than about the technical information you're presenting.

I don't have very many paper, but I've started writing ad copy, and this sounds exactly like writing ad copy.
I wish they made a smaller chassis.
> Only if you already decided on the warfare part. An alternative is to stop killing unknown people abroad and in so helping create new terrorists, and instead doing something about cooperation between the governments to stop the violence.

So your solution is to negotiate with people like Hitler and Bin Laden and to appease groups like Daesh. Ask the millions murdered in the Holocaust how that worked out for them, how Western non-violence was the solution.

While you're at it, ask the millions of South Koreans living in peace and prosperity how they feel about Western intervention to protect and even rescue them and their ancestors from the Kim regime. Ask the people of Bosnia and Kosovo whether we should have left them to the whims of Milosevic, just as we left the Tutsis to their fate.

We're not the ones who have decided on the warfare part. We're not the one who expand their reach by slaughtering boys and men while kidnapping and raping women and girls wherever they go. We're not the ones who commit ethnic cleansing and hack babies apart with machetes. That's already been decided. The only decision we have is between leaving these victims to their fate and living up to the words, "never again".
North Korea Halts Talks with South Over US-South Korea Military Excercises
Having stayed in various hotels (including expensive ones) which used atrocious lightbulbs, I would’t mind if some of them decided to choose lightbulbs more carefully.

Manufacturing might be a bit overboard, as that takes running a factory, but if a hotel wanted to partner with an existing lightbulb factory to commission lightbulbs matching the hotel’s spec, that might be a nice feature.

In the case of lightbulbs, they could probably find something available off the shelf which matched whatever reasonable spec they might develop. But for a large hotel chain, ordering custom lightbulbs probably wouldn’t break the bank.

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Helvetica is an awful typeface for anything but posters, logos, and headlines. Please never use Helvetica for body copy.
> Law really needs to evolve.

Or at least updated to protect against modern abuses such as purchased adjudicators and unconscionably forced waivers of a meaningful right to argue for relief before a real court. The federal bit of alternative dispute resolution doctrine responsible for this mockery dates all the way back to the 1920s and desperately is in need of a revisit.
That's what happens when Product Managers present the things the engineering team is doing. :) The bigger projects are in London. I'm going to try get the engineers out to SF next time we host and go a bit deeper. The EM is on this thread answering questions also.
Came here to say the exact same thing. P3P may be "officially" obsolete, but if your business wants older browsers to be able to handle your code, you're going to have to deal with it.

If you have the misfortune of encountering it, you can get really hard to detect bugs with ajax calls or script files not getting loaded in IE when you don't have P3P set up correctly. (for instance: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/craft-a-...)
Cross the valley, sure, but what points to the valley right now? Useful abstractions arise out of concrete issues with present approaches. What are some of the concrete issues in software development which this abstraction could help with?
I’m not sure when you worked on AS/400, but from what I remember there was no xml involved at all, although you had to deal with DB2 and the almost comical table and column names...
"To quit, press ESC or q."
They fail to teach you the most important command of VIM.
I actually connected on LinkedIn last year with Darek Mihocka, a guy who I last knew of 30-odd years ago.

He'd made a Atari ST extension called (I think) Quick ST. The ST had awfully slow text output due to many things such as the interleaved bitmaps and lack of hardware assist. His made it much faster. I wrote a competitor that was faster than his. A couple of month later he wrote a new version that obliterated mine.

I literally spent weeks trying to work out how he'd done it, went through the 68k reference manual, nothing.

Then one day it came to me in an actual dream - 12 year old me actually woke up and started typing. It was the 'move.p' instruction. From memory this instruction split a 16 bit word into 2 bytes but aligned on a word (16 bit) boundary. I added this and my code then beat his.

Bear in mind this was before the internet, so no to-and-fro with conversation, all I saw was what he did. It absolutely stood me in good stead for the rest of my career, each time now I see a programmer who writes something completely sloppy I ask them how it will scale. I really miss those days and wish somebody could bring this back for newer people to learn the basics.
Perhaps you like white wine? I can't imagine an $8 red that was very good. If so, please let me know what it is.

Price certainly varies with variety. A Pinot might be $20-40 while a cab would be more like $40-80 for the same quality.
The most common comments I hear from people who have become proficient at various types of violence are:

They experience less desire to assert themselves physically because they understand who they are and feel more secure in themselves.

They understand that you can’t really tell who is and isn’t worth getting into an altercation with just by looking at a person. There are a lot of very unassuming people who are quite good at handling themselves physically.

Out of continually confronting contained (often consensual) violence they develop a deep respect for what people, both themselves and others, are capable of. The idea of casually entering into real violence without good reason is not taken lightly.
The term is contextual in kernel development, ISA dependent kernel would be designed around the architecture (for example, ToaruOS, a great OS and one of my inspirations, is designed around x86, working closely to the architecture, which has always been the developer's intention).
Sorry I'm sending you this here, I actually found this post of yours here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877297

I'd be thankful if you could elaborate on the process. Apparently, there's still not enough progress made in importing IPFS to iOS.
I play chess and have boxed and done martial arts, although never together in the same ring.

I found chess more destructive than boxing — it serves little to no cardiovascular benefit, and can be hugely addictive. (Bullet chess and competition play can readily take over your life, and I've seen careers and relationships destroyed by it.)

The fittest people I've ever met have been boxers. Yes, the risk of head trauma and eye injury during fights is higher than even MMA (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26327287 ), and every fighter must weigh the risks of that with what they gain from the sport.

> Getting used to boxing means you get used to seeing violence and it

> doesn't hurt so much any more.

(1): Getting hit still hurts.

(2): Seeing people getting hit outside the ring hurts more, because you're more aware of what they're going through.

(3): I've seen boxing (and martial arts) restore respect in people and their communities; kids transformed from roaming the streets to training at the gym every day (not always in the ring; many days just working out).

It is easy to see two people knocking the crap out of each other in a ring and assume those exchanged blows embody everything the sport has to offer, but like many contact sports there are more positive side-effects than bloodied faces and the normalisation of savagery.
But awards aren't smaller, it's LESS costly, and it's faster.

People make the mistake of assuming that the advantage for companies has to be in the trial results, when the fact is that there's plenty of advantage of paying claimants at a higher rate as long as you're getting it done faster with fewer billable hours to your attorneys.
That was purely on the list of reasons why I personally got interested in Rust and I support redox on patreon. I love the idea of an OS built on Rust from the ground up as a way to eliminate a category of security bugs.

The second slide is about when Cloudflare chooses Rust as a language.
Sure, I agree, for specific tasks. Just like a hammer is a better tool than a screw driver for putting nails in a block of wood.

Thats my point. They're tools not lifestyle choices. Learn your tools, know your tools, don't be afraid of other people's tools.

They all, usually, have some sort of value.

I might as well note this too:

I am speaking in broad strokes, you're going to be able to pinhole this as much as you want because of that. I'm simply suggesting that if your immediate reaction to how another organization uses these tools to replace A with B at a certain level is "this is clearly inferior" instead of "well, what can I learn from this" well, there's the problem.

I used to think programmers/computer scientists where open minded people. Then I realized as a whole it tends to be we're only open minded if its within the domain we chose to be most active in

Still far and away better than any other folks I've met, of course, but this is really a community culture problem, which is why I find it so counter productive.

Alternatives to bash? Many do exist. zsh is bash compatible but does implement its own tools and subsets.

If you're looking for something that removes the bash syntax there is powershell, which does run on Linux/macOS now as well:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

Then of course, there is oil shell:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil

which is more like a subset of bash (and somewhat close to the idea of stripping away all the legacy stuff)

Then there is xonsh: lets you use python as a basis for most everything

http://xon.sh/

The stalwart fish:

https://fishshell.com/

fish shell has alot of niceties and a more object oriented syntax (kind of)

and for the daring there is ergonomica:
https://ergonomica.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

which has a lisp like syntax

as does https://github.com/dundalek/closh which uses clojure and its syntax

and i'm sure there are more.
Interestingly enough, not even the path of /bin/sh is guarenteed. From the POSIX:

> Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by getconf PATH, ensuring that the returned pathname is an absolute pathname and not a shell built-in.

EDIT: I wondered what POSIX recommended to do for any use of the shebang and this is what I found:

> Furthermore, on systems that support executable scripts (the "#!" construct), it is recommended that applications using executable scripts install them using getconf PATH to determine the shell pathname and update the "#!" script appropriately as it is being installed (for example, with sed).

Wow.
Rust is being used in production at Cloudflare. Redox is not used here in any capacity.
I saw a startup, Velkess with a flexible lasso type flywheel (safety), I think 15 kWh. It folded though.

Do you know any companies doing in the 15kWh ballpark type flywheel batteries? It's an idea I really like - I wanted to pair it with a small hydropower installation.
Except it's not new, and the stats show it's not what you think it is. You're not thinking ahead -- you're making assumptions based on a lack of knowledge of a complex field you know little about, and consequently reality doesn't look like your assumptions.
> Law really needs to evolve.

When I see a wish for something to 'evolve', I generally can substitute "get society to devote an order of magnitude more resources to," and arrive at a better description of what's actually being wished for. Education needs to evolve, our prison system needs to evolve.

But the signs of evolution are already there. Arbitration is precisely a legal evolution. Private prisons and schools are evolutions of their respective institutions as well. The problem is that they don't solve the resource scarcity that is really wished for.

People generally don't want to settle for an evolved solution, they want someone else to pay so that they can take advantage of the one that's already there that we know does a good job.

The only fix here is to have fewer, but better institutions, and for them to focus their efforts on engineering, not innovation. What's a model for introducing private entities into public spheres that actually drives better outcomes? I would bet that Europe offers many interesting examples to base policy on, but our current political climate seems too caustic to make progress on.
Is Snowden a good guy?

Debatable, but regardless - do you think the reason US government have not killed Snowden is the lack of "sophisticated military toys"?

Also, my government did enough stupid things (like killing innocent people in war zones by mistake) for me to want them to have more intelligent weapons.
For those interested in doing this, the case manufacturer Zalman also makes a series of atx format cases where the whole body is a radiator, with heatpipes to a cpu block.
The Macbook? My Macbook's fans are incredibly noisy. I've already replaced them once, hoping that would fix the issue, but it didn't. Macbook fans are just noisy. At least the 2011 unibody ones.
Ah, for this I'll defer until we have more data.

At the moment we have a simple(ish) implementation running at the edge purely within Nginx and a project underway to see how it behaves, gather metrics. That environment gives us a good place in which to control testing, and we can easily compare it to other parts of our code where we already do more trivial request matching (our Page Rules feature).

It'll be a couple of months before we're satisfied we know enough to say whether we'll keep it simple or will seek to make it more specialised to our environment. We haven't yet determined how far we're going to go with this... could it replace our WAF? Is it cheap enough for the DDoS layer? If we do go down those paths then it's obvious that yes we'd move the filtering to other places.
I could have kept going - these are meant to be examples, not exhaustive. My point is that rather than rebutting simple stereotypes with other simple stereotypes, everyone is better served by acknowledging that history and people are complicated.
Any channels in particular? I've seen mostly freenode mentioned everywhere.
I enjoy watching boxing, but understand your point. However, the purpose of hitting someone in the face isn't to procure pain but to make the opponent lose consciousness (actually it's a lot more painful getting hit on a forearm). In a boxing match there's no hatred for the opponent, although some boxers need this to boost their performance, and no desire to injury or harm; it's just like fencing with hands in place of swords.

In many ways, boxing is one of the less violent sports around, both for those who practice and those who watch. I'm more of a football (soccer) fan than a boxing one, but if I had kids I'd rather bring them to a boxing match than to the stadium where they would grow learning that faking a foul can bring a penalty and the victory.