skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need to read that one. I love the point:

> Everyone has an innate talent ceiling. A good writer probably won't progress beyond being a merely good writer.

That reasoning was actually the same reasoning that convinced me to enter tech. I always hated the "follow your passion" thing people say about careers. So even though I was really into politics and debate, I knew I could only ever be mediocre at best in that field. Meanwhile this tech stuff always came naturally. Even now at a much higher level it seems I'm able to get stuff faster and do more than my peers. It's rewarding in many ways.
Tesla’s numbers have been largely complete bullshit so I don’t see how it’s helpful.
Is there any chance that Comcast will stop carrying Google ads? That has to be some quantity of traffic - a few dozen kb on every page load in every browser and app on every network connection. For a 100 kb ad to show 100 times on 5 devices at 100 houses is 500 gb
Tell that to Richard Stallman, who will go ape if you call GNU tools “Linux”
> Equifax would beg for a class action where they get off for $500/litigant + a couple million to the winning attorneys.

But this plaintiff only got $600
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17307809

She did not actually buy insurance, she just told the court what insurance would cost her.
You wouldn't have point to point links with everyone else. You'll still have common trunk lines that get congested.
According to this very study there is only an ~30% gap in abuse between men and women.

That doesn't sound much smaller scale.
You can also use R in Jupyterlab these days and while its quite different from RStudio it is quite practical to conduct data exploration.
The problem with "the right thing" is that it requires you to actually know what the right thing is. Not have talked yourself into thinking it's the right thing, not having enthroned your prejudices with the "right thing" label. No, you have to actually be right about what "the right thing" is. In a world where no humans are omniscient, that's harder than people think. Everyone's sure that they're right about what the "right thing" is, but most are in fact mistaken.

In contrast, "worse is better" lets you throw something out there that's kind of in the right direction, and get feedback so that you can discover what "the right thing" (the thing that people actually need) is.
Thanks. My product is a visual ETL tool, aimed specifically at smaller financial organisations that need to ingest and visualise a great deal of transactional info across different formats. I assume advertising something such as this will take a fairly large budget - how much money, very roughly, do you think I should start with to even make a dent?
But you'd need an entangled pair with everyone you want to communicate with.
It suppresses opinions that are not widely accepted or favorable and deters irritable tones of voice among other things.
For context: there are 26.5 million cubic km of ice in Antarctica, weighing 24.3 million Gt (26.5 / 1.091).

Assuming these estimated 2,700 Gt (the rounded 3 trillion) have not been steadily replaced by new water on top of the ice sheet [1] the reported loss amounts to a mere 0.01% of the total ice sheet.

I don't see cause for panic.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...
>so what purpose does using the legal definition have?

Because that is the commonly understood definition? Both in the legal and academic world (I can find citations from 1995 but I bet it was used before that). As lay people we do get confused when we don't understand those terms. I know I did, which is why I looked it up.
New Zealand does this. It works well. There is plenty of ISP competition - I can choose between at least 20 providers, probably a lot more.

Edit: A colleague just mentioned to me that New Zealand doesn't have net neutrality and doesn't need it for this very reason.
To further this point a bit, because of GraphQLs introspection capability, it becomes easy to combine and proxy existing GraphQL services without redeclaring the schema every time.
If you take a look at what Prisma is doing, it’s creating a GraphQL schema based of an underlying data source which you can then generate bindings off of to include in other applications (think auto-generated client bindings via SOAP WSDL files.

At my company, we are taking a different approach by defining GraphQL APIs that are essentially exposing pure data (similar to Prisma) and then we are merging them and proxying them through multiple layers that augment and alter the schema and data as it passes through.

We can do this because we are leveraging The ability to inspect and alter the abstract syntax trees that power GraphQL under the hood.
Having pulled some of it off to switch to vinyl I wish it was still readily available. It's orders of magnitude more durable than vinyl.
Except that Fox channels on the TV are not part of the Fox being sold.
So all these tech startups are just good at raising fund? Is that a business model nowadays? It’s like this startup I worked for and I swear what we did best was hire people to do nothing...
With money borrowed using Tesla stock as collateral. There’s going to be a bloodbath if the stock dips too low.
Actually it may be more worth it than most energy sucking things.

If it becomes an actual currency, the proof-of-work system will put everyone in an arms race of power/compute efficiency unlike any other.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/06/15/wsl-file-sys... says that something is also kept in ads
Last mile is really the only thing in question here.

1. Because that's where there's a real lack of competition

2. Because traffic going long range is already "slowed down" even with net neutrality. If you are paying a CDN, they likely have paid for higher priority "leased lines" between their data centers, while the rest of the traffic goes over the "regular internet" (keep in mind that the "leased line" and the "regular internet" here are probably the same fiber, the distinction is legal, because under net neutrality carriers are still allowed to charge differently for "leased lines")
On the other hand, Netflix is making more content than the "Big Three" ever did.
Her dad was also the subject of the book: ‘the soul of a new machine’
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private browsing won't stop browser fingerprinting, which is an increasingly common tactic. Your browser fingerprint then is linked to other attributes (including other devices you may own, where say an IP may be shared) allowing firms to build profiles that are not-linked to cookies, which is harder to block.

Blocking the canvas fingerprint also enables easy identification, so you'll need a free add-on that generates noise.
As someone who works in compilers: no, it's not possible to make the compiler do a better job. There's a reason why VLIW architectures keep getting proposed and keep dying.

The instruction-level parallelism that a CPU can extract is primarily a dynamic kind of parallelism. You can, say, have a branch that's true 1000 times, then false 1000 times, then true 1000 times, then false 1000 times, etc.--as a compiler, telling the hardware to predict true or false is going to guarantee a 50% hit rate, but the stupid simple dynamic branch predictor will get 99% on that branch.
Yep, it's a really useful thing libraries and librarians-without-libraries spend a lot of time doing. We're often good at teaching things that are poorly documented or that people assume "anyone can use." I'm a huge fan of tech and the people who build it but they're not always the best educators, y'know?
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> The fact that China built a large hydroelectric power plant (Three Gorges Dam) that displaced a lot of people, shouldn't be an argument against Bitcoin.

It was an observation about how much of an understatement "a single power station" was, not a suggestion large scale hydroelectric was the world's only power source. I mean, another way of putting it would be 10+ large coal fired power stations which is probably a more accurate reflection of how the additional power generating capacity is supplied...

> The people who get richest from the stock market are those who are already wealthier to begin with. Are you against the stock market and securities in general?

No, but I'd never pretend that, say, an HFT trading shop was going to save the poor, still less that it had such potential to liberate the poor it would be worth using the same amount of electricity as Ireland to run their trading algorithms

> a better comparison would be Bitcoin eventually becoming a popular alternative for gold investment, and/or an alternative to Western Union.

Whether you love gold or find its appeal faintly ludicrous, its demand has survived over several thousand years of increasingly advanced alternative investments, and continued to increase after the end of a gold standard, so arguments that the existence of Bitcoin might seriously dent gold mining are hard to take seriously even before we get to the stage where the actual litmus test is dent gold mining to the extent it cancels out the energy use consequences of Bitcoin

I've used Western Union to send myself amounts in the $1k range to a developing country before. Cost including currency conversion was nowhere near $95 (people have paid more than I did for BTC-BTC transactions!) and I got cash I could actually spend. And I don't think a better Western Union (everything in the history of Bitcoin suggests catastrophically worse Western Union) would be a good use for more energy resources than a typical developing world country either, and am confident relatively few remittance-recipients in those developing world countries would agree. For the tech and price savvy, cheaper options already exist.
And they had to send a lawyer from Atlanta to Vermont which probably at least tripled that. Not saying it's not small change, just saying there are other costs.
A really great book, very entertaining and interesting.
Reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icyball
Alt-255 corresponds to code-page 437 255, which is ascii 160
Unless you do something quitec complex dplyr is faster for such operations and consumes less RAM too.
In M&A cash means loans, not equity. If successful they'll probably issue a lot of bonds, but in the immediate term it would be loans.
Why wouldn't the car be programmed to follow the car in front and switch lanes? Any disadvantage in this?

Surely if a car in front has switched lanes then it's a good idea for it to switch lanes or if not, to register that a car in front has changed lanes and to then look for the reason why, perhaps in this case, then becoming more aware of stationary objects ahead as threats and be more aggressive in avoiding them. As the problem before was that the stationary object was likely not an issue and stopping would be a bigger problem, but the chances of the stationary object being an issue if the car in front changes lanes, is now rather high.

If car in front changes lane and unknown stationary object appears, slow down, follow car in front and also change line or slow down and give some kinda alert about possible obstruction so the driver can take the required action or at least something.

I understand the stationary object issue, but if the car is not at least applying some logic when it sees another car change lane and then also see's a stationary object that it ignores there is a big problem in this logic. There are two red flags and the car is choosing to ignore both of them.
The title makes it sound like she’s some random Joe. Random Joes don’t have Wikipedia entries.
AI Nationalism
>If a couple got into a fight in school at 12:40 P.M. on a Monday, the clip showed up on the platform at exactly that time, creating the uncanny impression that you were watching something that was actually happening. If the producers posted a clip showing a student getting dressed for a party on a Saturday night, many young viewers would be doing the same thing.

>“SKAM Austin” had many hidden layers, and the producers wanted viewers to uncover them all. The characters, some of them played by local teen-agers, all had Instagram accounts, and, like real people’s, the posts offered insights into the characters’ pasts and their hopes for the future. Collectively, the video clips, photographs, and comments imbued the characters with a depth that not even flashbacks provide in conventional TV.

Nobody will accuse me of being cultured let alone cultured in teen drama TV/Netflix series but I know attention to detail when I see it.
Been playing around with Beaker Browser--super cool project!
> They are used extensively in [...] Windows itself. ADS underpins pretty much every FS operation on windows, including listing directories.

I think you might be confusing alternate data streams with NTFS attributes (not to be confused with file attributes or extended attributes). i.e. Paths are formatted as \PARENT\NAME:STREAM:$ATTRIBUTE and I think you're thinking about the :$ATTRIBUTE portion (like $DATA, $INDEX_ALLOCATION, etc.) rather than the :ADS portion, because as far as I know Windows does not use ADS extensively by any means. I've only seen a handful of uses in the OS. Or maybe you mean the fact that directory $INDEX_ROOT and $INDEX_ALLOCATION attributes are used with a stream called $I30, but I don't see why that's "underpinning" anything in any way... they could just drop the ability to create any other streams and it wouldn't affect this.
As a person who recently had to do this, my suggestion would be to find someone close to either your home or work. Next would be to find someone of the gender you prefer (I prefer same-sex), then find someone in the age group you're in. I've had good luck using this heuristic to whittle down the list to a few names.

Then go for a brief session with each of them. You should pick the person you feel most comfortable talking to EASILY. This person should be someone you don't feel judged or threatened by. You should be able to understand them clearly and they you.

Think about it like it's a date. In a way, it kinda is.
Yes, but calling her a librarian is like calling Dennis Ritchie a programmer. It’s 100% true but doesn’t really tell the full story.
Company behind tiny food delivery robots says people are kicking its machines
No, in this case there's no TV part of it. But I'd still consider the film division as the "media" and the streaming services that can show the films as the "tubes", both of which Comcast would have ownership over. Comcast currently has a 30% ownership stake in Hulu, and would pick up another 30% from 21st Century Fox.
If it goes much higher I’m planning to open a substantial short position, I don’t see TSLA getting into the 400s.
That's actually a great point.

FPGA and GPU development has been granted quite the stimulus package from the crypto craze.

There are secondary benefits to this technology.

I bet the economic incentive got a lot more people into coding than before too.
No, I can't think of an arch that does that. Power, SH, Mips, Sparc, Alpha, ARM, and RISC-V all have separate architectural register files for the floating point state.

Some ARM ABIs end up passing floats in integer registers, but that's just for compatibility for code that doesn't assume the presence of an FPU and might be doing everything soft float.
The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential, turns out it was a fraud
Yep, all true. Incognito doesn’t protect you from tracking. The sooner cookies become useless to sites & advertisers, the sooner they come up with something else we can’t block. We might be mostly past that point already.
It's true but can be turned on and off. The device matters.

I tried to do 500 books about 2 / 3 a week with some taking 2 weeks. Mostly history/biographical. Made it to about 350 over a couple years. My ebook reader died and could not get the same ( old Alaratek 6") and lost interest.

I never read a novel now. Trying to watch every tv series I've missed. Getting through a series in a week or less. I've always had the ability to torrent these shows but streaming services have made it so easy.
Dexus, a company that manages real estate only in Australia has $26 billion of property under management, split about 50% owned by them and 50% managing for other people. Their total portfolio is under 150 properties. That's all in a country with 20 million ish people. You could get a lot bigger than that.

But of course it wouldn't be the quickest way to grow since you'd need insane captial. If your competitive advantage is the extra return you're squeezing from the properties, makes far more sense to lease them so you can have more, rather than be buying them upfront.

https://www.dexus.com/who-we-are
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wgno.com/2018/02/09/watch-thief...
What are your thoughts on the Mill CPU team's claims re: their ISA allowing compilers feasibly to schedule operations statically?
Can you cite a source or provide a little more info on how you know this? I'm interested in this kind of thing. See my story above about a recent problem I had with a Toshiba drive.
Unicode 0+00A0 (decimal Unicode codepoint 160). ASCII only defines 0..127.
Fermi Paradox simulation
Hmm, ok. It's a long time since I've looked at that. Come to think of it, I think it might be 20 years since I opened CA:QA...
EPSRC publishes results of public dialogue on Quantum Technologies
Basically every CPU with a pipeline -- even simple, in-order cores -- speculate by way of branch prediction. I think with the Cortex A53 the pipeline is short enough and the branch predictor simple enough that you can't build a useful spectre attack. It's also common in simpler in-order cores to speculate a little bit around memory accesses.
Most Americans’ Wages Have Actually Declined Over the Past Year
Future cases matter more than one little payment. For them, the best-case is if this is a one-off. The second-best case is that they can set up and control a processes to pay people off regularly. They will get stingy when they set up that process, and not for the one off payment.
From what I understand, this is a difficult claim to sustain because it can be argued as speculative. (See Jessamyn's own writeup.)

Would it be stronger to pay for credit freezes and then sue to get that money back? And would it still take a multi-thousand-dollar chunk out of Equifax to respond?
> Here's how that works: Thank about Haskell, or another purely-functional language. An attacker provides you with a pure function to execute. Because it's a pure function, for some given set of inputs, it will always produce exactly the same output, no matter what machine you run it on, or what else is going on in the background. Therefore, the output cannot possibly incorporate observations from side channels, no matter what the code does internally.

This is patently false. The attacker can do timing on his side and see how long it takes your service to return a response. If you let an attacker have any sort of output channel, you give him the power to use his stuff to find side channels, and there is nothing you can do to close it.
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What source is your torrent from?

A WEB-DL is different from a (1080i) HDTV capture is different from a Blu Ray rip.

Netflix are optimising for bandwidth over quality - hell, the audio still seems to be 96 kbit AAC.
I don't like social media being used this way.

I mean, I don't like social media at all, i only use irc and gnusocial these days, but it seems dishonest and dangerous to use social media as a canvas for fake interactions. Like reality tv in real life. That's not something kids need to be interacting with on social media imo.
poor shorts i got some of their money
I didn't say that it's a western plot in my comment.
The trailer is overflowing with bait akin to "learn more after this commercial break!!" on the news. That technique generally correlates with nothing of substance coming later. Is the MH in your username for Mark Hyman?
The current uses in Windows I'm aware of (not including external programs) are:

- :$I30, :$Bad, $Info, $SDH, and a number of others, internally used to name the stream that stores the children of directories. But the stream names seem pretty unnecessary to me; they aren't exposed to external code so they could well be different files and it wouldn't affect any user.

- :Zone.Identifier, for denoting whether a file is from an untrusted origin (so you can get that annoying pop-up every time you run a downloaded file)

- :WofCompressedData, for the newer transparent file compression mechanism (older ones were different)

- :Win32App_1, used for I'm-not-sure-what

- :encryptable, used along with Thumbs.db, also for I'm-not-sure-what

- I think there was one more regarding extended properties or something, but I can't think of it right now.

Aside from breaking :WofCompressedData I don't think anyone outside Microsoft would shed any tears if it was removed.
While this is true, there's plenty of non VC backed companies, consultancies, and startups at WeWork. I never liked the place myself, but it does provide value. A lot of money out there is dumb money, and a lot of it is smart money, and there's nothing wrong with having some percentage of your revenue be dumb money. AWS certainly does but nobody would question the sound fundamentals of AWS as a business. WeWork has a better balance in that regard than many others.
> GM won't tell you any details about future plans for Bolt and other EVs. Tesla: "we'll make 10k by end of 2018". GM: we'll increase production, don't ask us when or by how much"

EVs are now, and for several years into the future, a small part of GMs story. They are Tesla's whole story. So, yes, GM can afford to be less specific—heck, even less certain—of exactly what they are going to do in the EV market.

> Netflix won't tell shareholders viewing numbers for any of their shows

Netflix doesn't sell individual views of shows, nor does it sell products (e.g., advertising) to customers on the basis of any show’s viewership; that's about as relevant a stat for Netflix as the number of ceiling tiles in the headquarters building is for Tesla.

Tesla sells electric cars, and a very small number of models of them.
Well, like you said, you don't even know how fans work.
Water - its importance.

This writing reminded me of Robert Sheckley's "Prospector's Special", a short sci-fi story [1]

[1] https://freeclassicshortstories.blogspot.com/2016/04/prospec...
Is there anything I can play with for mutable torrents? I thought it was still only in research paper form.
I've read through at least half a dozen times, and I'm re-reading it in preparation for my first real flying lessons. (I'm very excited.)
Maybe pre-2015, but since the European Migrant Crisis, there has been a disproportionate amount of migration from sub-Saharan Africa, which is the region that scores lowest in those surveys.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10840/spain-migrant-crisi...
FWIW: "... 60% of peak download traffic on fixed access networks in North America was accounted for by four VOD services: Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Video and Hulu."

from https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-end-of-video-coding-...
Wow - I really ruffled some feathers with this post :-D As I scanned the feedback, I found myself agreeing with some, but not all, of the comments.

I actually found some of the direct attacks amusing and got a good laugh. That said, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to comment. One of the goals of any specification should be to iterate the spec based on the valuable feedback of others. I'll definitely take this opportunity to do that.

Thanks again.
You are replying to said librarian, fyi.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066
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