skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point you have to be okay with leaving people behind in some way or another. Where you draw that line is going to depend on your goals, market, etc. but if you want progress in design and/or technology you have to draw the line somewhere.

I hope I’m not coming off as brusque with that attitude. I just think it’s practical. I’m intimately acquainted with using older hardware. I was lucky to have a computer and an internet connection at all as a child but I won’t pretend that it wasn’t a punch in the gut every time a website would take ages to load, crawl when it did load or a game wouldn’t run at all. It hurt when the line was drawn at broadband or faster CPUs/GPUs but I’m glad they didn’t wait for me to catch up.

There’s a tug between creators and consumers but the drive toward new technology is a good thing. Eventually it becomes more affordable or can be had for reasonable prices second hand.

That said, I don’t think that precludes reasonable accommodation. If your website isn’t an application it should be readable without JavaScript even if it’s ugly, screen readers should work, users should be able to adjust their font size even if it’s ugly, etc.
Because better weapons - especially, autonomous weapons - lowers the barriers to starting wars. Instead of starting wars for defense purposes, they get started for resource control reasons, or even for business reasons, for the well-connected.
Reminds me of SOAP
How Humans Got Such Big Brains
Thanks for the advice. How many new jobs have you taken in the last three years?

I've had 8.
A bunch now a days. One of my favorites is Siraj Raval. He does them on AI or ML specifically.

Then a bunch others in the technology space including several from Google are very good. Usually also watch most of the Google I/O videos for sessions was not able to attend.

But then I also watch Josh Lloyd during the NBA basketball season.

There is this balance between the person doing the video and then the content. I find myself more and more needing a decent person doing the video unless it is super compelling content.
My gripe is that I only just discovered the other day it chokes on large files, and even the vlfi (very large files) extension is quite cumbersome. I was quite dismayed to tell you the truth!
> I agree. At this point, FB and others are just to big to be able to subject them to policy. Even how they handled the GDPR just right before May 25 is a joke. They have billions of cash on hand to fight all the lawsuits whicht might come.

I don't think we're quite to the dystopian vision of international megacorps being totally above the law, yet. No matter how much cash Facebook has to fight lawsuits, the government has more and actually makes the laws to boot. Facebook is also clearly a non-essential service, if it was run out of business, most people who don't have the last name of Zuckerberg would adapt and get over it in a couple of months.
Ah, so this is how the internet dies. Walled gardens for all, because the current rulers want a cut of the action.
Drones are a worse weapon than a man on the ground with a gun, because they have asymmetric risks. The country with the drones doesn't risk civilian backlash from casualties. They get to start wars without much political pushback. And that means they can start wars for less justifiable reasons.
I quit over 2 years ago. I have kids, and a wife who is on Facebook. If I was a single dad, I'd probably be "forced" to use FB to communicate & coordinate with other kid's Moms and school parent groups etc.

I asked my wife if she uses "Events" since I hear about that so often here at HN and she doesn't - she said she occasionally sees events posted from other users but it's rare. Maybe Facebook Events are for 18-30 year olds and we've aged out?
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but how do you run a game from that?
The irony of a New Yorker article on the blandness of an institution lacking the punch of its early life is sadly obvious to long time New Yorker readers.
Six sigma events
You have to start somewhere. Security is the sum of all parts. This is a small part, but it may have a big impact already.

I'm sure SNI is next on the list, it will just take a bit longer. Until then, let's harden other parts of the infrastructure.
I'm not sure if either of your arguments applies in this case; the argument I was trying to make is that the colloquial usage of the word "space" predates the mathematical usage, so claiming that the word "space" in a colloquial context comes from the mathematical context is inaccurate. (This is a purely historical argument and not one of philosophy.)
This isn't any different from if your normal DNS server is blocked, and 1.1.1.1 is not the only encrypted DNS provider.

If whatever DNS you use doesn't work, then you cannot resolve any new domain names until you change to another DNS server or it gets fixed. Recently used domains will be cached in will thus still work.
I'm not being flippant. You commented that there might be legitimate reasons to bomb a wedding. Well, there are similar reasons to bomb hospitals etc, yet we don't accept that this should be done.

If I misunderstood your original comment, please clarify.
Reliable is probably not the best adjective. Alexa ratings are very reliable if you measure them against previous Alexa rankings.
SNI doesn't encrypt the hostname but in TLS 1.3 it does secure it against middleboxes. If a MitM tries to alter the SNI then the connection fails.

TLS 1.3 also encrypts the server certificate. So if you want to send bonus SNI but get back real certificates that's just a matter between client and server.

The use case for Encrypted SNI remains sketchy. If I am the secret police of some authoritarian nation, who would block diebartdie.example why wouldn't I instead block the IP addresses of servers offering diebartdie.example? Only because it causes collateral damage? But why do I care, teach them not to associate with my enemies.
People Are Fleeing Silicon Valley for Nevada, Texas and Idaho
Money is dumb but it is a necessity to move forward in life. Without it we can't provide for our family, possibly not have a family or have the basic every day needs. We become bound to this society that is so focused on money and status that we forget about the little things. Little things like memories, friends who are always there, pride in something you've created, or things you feel at your core. Those things are true wealth and not "having assets that earn while you sleep".
Why do the codebases need to share a similar set of languages and tools? Integrating two services doesn't necessarily mean merging them into a single product; Facebook could likely allow the two to communicate without a complete product merger.
The Interstate Commerce Claus doesn't pertain to jurisdiction, but to authority. On paper, the federal government only has the powers that we have expressly enumerated to it in the Constitution. One of those powers is to regulate commerce among the several states. Originally, this was so that a person in one state would have a venue to sue a company in another state that it did business with and have a fair judiciary, but has since expanded to encompass regulatory authority.

It is due to the Interstate Commerce Clause that the government might pass a law, not that it entitles them to sole jurisdiction over a company breaking a state law. Put simply, if there's a law against killing puppies in Georgia, but there's no law against killing puppies at the federal level, that doesn't mean that Facebook can kill puppies in Georgia and get away with it.

If there is also a federal law against killing puppies, and Facebook kills puppies in Georgia, then either Georgia or the federal government can file charges, and jurisdiction would be settled then.

In this case, because it was an Illinois law, only people who have used Facebook in Illinois may be plaintiffs.
Semantic nitpick, we don't declare innocence, but only that guilt was not proven.
It's not worth fiddling with internal settings for this one, clearly the bug report indicates it's a known regression and it looks like a fix will be pushed out soon.
How about intent for a start? Facebook's feature broke the law by design (albeit perhaps unknowingly), while Equifax never meant for people's data to leak.
Right now it’s a hard sell vs Python, but I can imagine Python running out of runway soon. A lot of it’s existing scientific and statistical computing stack is built around the assumption that you’ll be working with data that conveniently fits in memory. Once you’ve sized out of pandas/scipy/scikit, your next major option is Spark, which is certainly powerful, but is also unwieldy.

I could see something like Julia earning a lot of mindshare if it had a really polished solution for the space between, “my data is hundreds of megabytes”, and, “my data is hundreds of gigabytes”.
The Chinchilla Bubble of 1955
Basically "Undos" become actions that you can later "Undo". It's very weird. I accept that it means you never loose a change but it does feel a bit like boiling the ocean to produce some salt ... that said, it's an "alternative approach" that does have its merits. I like that about emacs, it challenges your assumptions and makes you think! As much concept art as a tool in itself.
This, combined with Facebook's previous motivations to "get into video" are probably worrisome to FB execs.
Yeah, so as I suspected, it’s “widely understood”, which means discretionary and up to the whims of regulators in 28 different countries. But don’t worry! When they bankrupt you, you can just challenge in court! Of course, that’s hardly novel for any country with the rule of law, nor is it cheap or likely to succeed.

This is yet another example of: “the EU regulators are our friends! You can trust them!”

I’ll pass.
I don't think anybody would claim that even the weak form of the EMH applies in all cases. Like the idea that objects of different weights fall at the same speed it's an approximation that can be very close to true in some cases but can be badly misleading in others. If you've ever listened to economists talk about prediction markets they always seem to bring up the idea that markets with low capitalization have low efficiency.

And even looking at the highly capitalized stock market I know at least one story of a major player that got its start noticing a violation of weak-form efficiency and becoming very rich by fixing the violation.

There's no reason to think that actual markets are now finally efficient and in fact there are some that are publicly know, but which only bring a small return and require decades of investment to fix so nobody is interested in trying.
With MQTT, there are a number of broker implementations which offer redundancy/resiliency. I did a quick check and didn't find any place stating anything about any of the routers being able to run in a redundant/resilient mode. If that is available, running WAMP becomes feasible, as I saw some interaction between MQTT and WAMP being possible.
Very interesting project. The presentation[0][1] (though from 2015) gives an interesting overview of the two projects.
The youtube channel[2] has some exciting [3] videos. And I really like his argument for Server Side Decorations[4]

Another project to keep an eye out for is Simula[5]

[0] https://speakerdeck.com/letoram/arcan

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/letoram/durden-tiling-desktop-enviro...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGooU472l1UqbUCXR3q1SEQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7Y1H5D8cY

[4] https://arcan-fe.com/2018/01/27/argumenting-client-side-deco...

[5] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
I can understand being confused by emacs' undo but I don't understand what copy-pasting has to do with it. If you undo too much then you can effectively "re-do" by stopping your undo sequence (simply moving the cursor around for instance) and then undo your undoing?

A big advantage of emacs' tree-like undo is that you never lose any part of your history unlike a naive linear undo sequence. Like in this Firefox edit box for instance, if I type a word, undo it then type an other word I can't go back to the state I was in before I undid the first word. With Emacs I can usually restore any previous state my buffer was in (within the limits of the size of the undo buffer that is).
There is a reply in a parallel chain (timestamped after your comment) which expands on the line of thought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17204069
Is it just teens dropping Facebook? My wife and I are GenXers and we've both mostly stopped using it. I removed the apps from all but one device and deleted the bookmarks from all browsers. I check it once a week or so, mostly for events and photos from my parents.

I'm half tempted to disable/delete my account and see if I miss it at all.
GDPR and the VPN industry – only 4 providers proactive
Good point, although the way it's described it sounds like the problem cropped up right after deploy. So they would have been watching it actively. But as said above, 17 minutes to notice, figure out what's going on, decide what to do, and propagate the resolution seems reasonable.
Data Breach Report: May 2018
There are now plenty of VPN apps on iOS App Store China, some of which have literal "VPN" in their names. Many were removed, but then many new are added. For example, I used an App called Wingy to connect to my shadowsocks server, and that app was removed during the purge of VPN apps. But then other Wingy-like apps appear, and I am now using one of them.

I don't know what exactly has happened though. Is Apple defying China's government in secret now? Or are Chinese regulators only concerned with GFW bypass on some special days that has passed?
Bananas have died out once before – don’t let it happen again
There must be some hard data. Looking back over the last 40+ years. Were research institutions that divested from defense funding during the Vietnam era adversely impacted. Perhaps short term. But on long scales there has been more than adequate consumer and private sector demand to compensate.

Politically, the company could face a backlash in the form of antitrust scrutiny over search monopoly. Which Alphabet seems to be anticipating as historical inevitability. With the foresight even that perhaps breaking up large trusts is great for startup innovation ;)

But it raises the general question. If given the option of taking $ to do basic science. Regardless of the funding entities motives. Do you do it anyway? An argument can be made to always take the money and do the science. You don't know what the world will look like in 10 years. Drone AI used for surgical strikes today will probably be civilian transferred to AgTech and planting seeds tomorrow. And there is always the possibility of a breakthrough.

Among the many great examples are the Human Genome Project, the Manhattan Project and DARPA Grand Challenge. Terrestrial plutonium enrichment may turn out to be the key to deep space exploration, or space based defense. Early DOE-funded genetics research was specifically interested in answering the question: can we survive radiation induced mutations from the fallout of a nuclear war? And less than two decades after a Humvee from CMU completed 8 miles on its own in the California desert we will see fleets of semi-autonomous vehicles rolling out in major cities.
Yeah but as more and more podcasters and talk show type youtubers start livestreaming on twitch to diversify income it'll get some more mainstream appeal.
Alex French Guy Cooking (he's French, he cooks, he builds crazy contraptions to help, check out the video about the supposedly heavy duty pasta machine he bought from China to help him make ramen noodles faster)

Tom Scott, I think a lot of us watch Tom Scott!

Steve Mould, doing science stuff

Minute Physics, doing short and accessible Sharpie-drawing animated explanations of various interesting concepts in physics

Techmoan does some good videos on retro audio technology. And other things, but those are the ones I watch apart from the occasional interesting kitchen gadget review (yes, someone makes an appliance designed solely to cook bacon. No, you shouldn't buy one).

The Gaming Historian, well-researched videos about various bits of gaming history (the latest being an exploration of the Sega 32X).

8-bit Theory, a channel exploring game soundtracks from a musical theory perspective, including videos exploring things like why Mario's soundtrack sounds so happy, how the sax solo in a particular track in Mario Kart 8 works, or how themes evolve through multiple iterations of a particular franchise.

Retrohistories, another gaming history channel, doesn't produce a lot but I like what he does do. Although I should mention, he's a friend of mine!

Guilliame Erard has some very interesting videos about aikido, footage from various demonstrations by prominent aikidoka, interviews, etc. One recent video I found very interesting indeed was an exploration of daito-ryu aikijujitsu, the immediate ancestor of aikido.

I also watch a whole load of Minecraft players, either for building ideas and techniques, information on redstone (although someone needs to actually write this all up somewhere in a coherent fashion, I have never been able to find such a document if it exists already, it's clearly in people's heads), or just the gameplay videos from various things (mostly Minecraft Evolution or other series by the people who are involved in the Evolution SMP - I am for example watching almost everything NettyPlays is putting out at the moment).

What I don't watch regularly is anything about programming.
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> This has a flipside though. If you do manage to find success (and say, own a profitable business or have an exit), you'll be taxed into oblivion.

Ok, but if I'm already living the life I want to live... who cares?
> I suppose you can object and campaign for the EU to setup its own Great Firewall or something along those lines and only allow companies to operate within its borders which adhere to stringent rules around posted imagery. Good luck with that.

Europe isn't China, and the distribution of those photos isn't an existential threat to the government, so a Great Firewall is overkill.

Facebook has assets, operations, and revenue that originates in Europe that could be easily targeted with little controversy to gain compliance. If that doesn't work, Europle could always try to make the executive decision-makers personally liable. I'm sure Zuckerberg wants to be able to visit Europe in the future without being arrested.
Encrypted SNI for TLS 1.3 is being worked on: https://github.com/ekr/draft-rescorla-tls-esni/blob/master/d...
Machine Learning Practica
Is it even theoretically possible to show that markets are efficient on purely theoretical grounds? As a thought experiment, imagine that all human brains have a weird defect that causes them to always ignore some specific kind of information when making pricing decisions, including when they write software dealing with those decisions, and under all other conceivable circumstances. In that case, it seems to me, it would be impossible to decide on purely theoretical grounds that markets are efficient because it strictly depends on the empirical observation that human brains have this weird defect. I could imagine the other way around to work, i.e. that there could be an obstruction to markets being efficient that can be shown to exist on purely theoretical grounds. But no matter what the answer to the second question is, in no case could you arrive at an »if and only if« result without including the empirical observation that brains do not have this weird defect.
How to Make Better Cryptocurrencies with PoL and DASH7
Seconded. I especially recommend his teardown of the Juicero, in which he displays his insights into design for manufacture, plastics, metallurgy, electrical engineering, etc, peppered with hilarious and insightful jabs at VC culture. For me, it's his masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

My wife recently watched all 45 minutes and was entertained throughout, despite her not being technical at all.

Speaking of which, I also share a distaste for his "engineering boys club" sense of humour. I think his heart is in the right place (though who knows?), but it's definitely from another era, one that I won't be sad to see fade off into the distance. That being said, the rest of the components of his humour (obscure Canadianisms, etc) are great and I enjoy the particularity of it.

EDIT: added link
So you're not interested in scandals of the form "bank sold foo bar to pensioners as being a risk-free high-interest investment"?

There are a few tens of thousands of banks in Europe that haven't been in trouble with the law. By your condition, the number of banking scandals in my home country (Norway) is either zero or one since I was born, and that possibly law-breaking scandal involved nine or ten customers (they asked the regulator once and assumed that the answer applied to nine similar deals).

The world outside the Garden of Eden doesn't really get much better. The low cost of account insurance in most of the world tells a similar story: banking largely functions, even if not without warts and mishaps.
Here's what grinds my gears: That the cursor follows the visible buffer. It would be nice to be able to scroll to another part of a file and then just start typing and be back where I was ...

I mean I could understand if this was an efficiency thing to do with scaling to large files due to a kind of a tiling memory model or something, but emacs doesn't even do that!

It's not a huge deal I've learned to get used to using Ctrl+U-Space to get back to where I was.

I read somewhere that somebody tried to implement what I'm talking about but never really got around to trying it cause it seems a little half-baked.
Tom Murphy 7 has the most original content ever:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3azLjQuz9s5qk76KEXaTvA
> "You can follow brands but the youth want to follow a band or an actor not a toothbrush company."

At what age is it supposed to become the other way round?
In the case of Julia, you can check out the original motivation back in 2012 or this recent answer on the message board.

https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-motivation-why-weren...
Yes it is, and since it's IP based, it's even easier if you are for example working from an office and there are multiple people using google.

But that is why they only show recaptcha, you fill it in and you will get extemption cookie for 30 more requests :D
SpamCannibal comes back to life, starts blocking everyone
There is a LaTeX version of the paper available:

https://content.iospress.com/articles/algorithmic-finance/af...
> “Solo” discovers that the young Han is pretty much identical to the older one, with the same skills, mannerisms, and values. It would’ve been interesting to learn that Han was once a sensitive boy with a musical gift

A wacky, subversive twist like that would go a long way in getting me interested in Disney’s direction, but I just don’t associate them with anything particularly risky. Which is ironic because I thought the casting of Adam Driver was brilliant — it’s almost possible to imagine him single handedly saving the prequels if he were retroactively cast as Anakin.

He’s good enough that I’ll go watch Episode IX, but the ending of “Last Jedi” left me incredibly underwhelmed. What storylines and character arcs are even worth wrapping up? I guess I’m mildly interested in how they’ll even attempt to make Rose and/or Finn relevant.
Yes, seasonality is big and gets bigger the further north you go. I'm at 56N and recorded data to make a graph: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html
For me it was a PowerMac 6100