skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QUIC makes the web faster, particularly for slow connections

QUIC is a characteristic Google standard -- dictated, poorly thought through, and destructive for the rest of the web. See e.g. https://blog.apnic.net/2018/01/29/measuring-quic-vs-tcp-mobi...
"our experiments showed that QUIC always consumes more than half of the bottleneck bandwidth, even as the number of competing TCP flows increases."

QUIC improves speed for high-latency connections (at the cost of cohoused TCP flows, as above), but is worse than no change for the reality of poor connectivity on the ground, which has highly variable latency, packet loss and/or duplication, and (sometimes profoundly) asymmetric routing.
Not only that, this can be made a machine learning problem if needed. I'm a human, so if I train my computer to act like my mouse movement, it's sufficient to fool facebook. Well, now I realize that this is not as easy as it sounds since as other pointed out we don't know how fine grained Facebook's data is and what they're paying attention to. I'm just saying that theoretically I should be able to train my agent to act just like me.
How to Convert 4K to 1080p Video Easily?
As far as I know there were no corruption accusations against Zoe, they were against Nathan Grayson.

Zoe was just accused of being a horrible person afik.

I too would be interested to see the full text of the list.
You need to take a top-down approach. Have your GP rule out physical problems that can easily be identified objectively and cured before you delve into the subjective realm of mental health where there are no cures. Rule out hypothyroidism, diabetes, chronic fatigue, brain tumors, heavy metals, etc. before you entertain the idea that you have mental health problems. If you determine that you have a clean bill of physical health, find a clinical trial in your area(clinicaltrials.gov) where they're treating depression with psychedelics and get your GP to diagnose you with whatever that study requires for admission.
What is "their time"? Do you know the correct time for each person to die?
I have nothing to hide. I don't intend to do illegal activity with my phone. I also do not want a government entity to be able to access my phone or device simply because they can. I am also very skeptical of any government entity that uses "because child molesters" as valid reason to shame a company for respecting privacy.
Nuts and coconuts are seeds though.
It's not public yet. Sorry. If you subscribe to my RSS feed you'll be sure to hear about it when I start talking about it.

https://www.zachaysan.com/writing/feed.xml
Wait, how do they have a positive margin at all if they are losing all this money?
Your argument fell apart when you said "secret". What do you do to prevent widespread abuse when the secret gets out?
Tor is too slow for general browsing. I only use it for security related stuff. I wish it was faster.
This seems like it will be especially useful with apollo-client for graphQL requests.
Google doesn't make nearly as much money from Android as it does AdWords and Search. Apple isn't in the search market. So, if Alphabet sells Search+AdWords to Apple, Apple will end up with 99% of Alphabet revenue without merging any competition at all.
Plausible $15+ billion in sales over the next four quarters, growing at 70%, with the burn rate rapidly declining, and six years of accessible capital to operate with assuming zero further decline in their burn rate.

Uber will be near or at break-even within 18-24 months. Their sales will be over $20 billion at that point.

Are they worth three time sales? Definitely. How about 5x or more the $20 billion in sales two years out? Probably. Twitter is fetching 13x sales currently, and has only finally started making money after more than a decade of vast losses (even worse, Twitter has almost no growth).

So how does a Twitter-like 10x sales multiple on $20 billion sound, two years out? $200 billion valuation. Does that sound crazy? I think it's very rich, the capital markets may think it makes sense.

Netflix has a zillion PE ratio (and has for a long time), and a 16x sales multiple. Their margins are horrendous and will never be very good. There's a small chance they can ever grow into their current valuation (it'd require 500+ million global customers), much less anything higher.

Uber's quarterly sales will catch Netflix in probably four or five quarters. How about a 16x multiple on Uber's sales four years out, with a conservative $25 billion in sales at that point. How does $400 billion sound?
Part of the reason I use the adaptive cruise in my Camry Hybrid is because it frees me from paying constant attention to the distance between me and the car ahead. Being a responsible driver means keeping an eye on this, as it does make errors and occasionally puts me in an unsafe situation - either too close to another car, or too fast in a traffic situation.
> This is people trusting unknown anonymous third parties to build things that will run in their datacenter.

Red Hat, Canonical, Pivotal (I work for Pivotal) all provide this kind of assurance and it's a lot of our bread and butter income to do so.

In particular, Cloud Foundry uses buildpacks, providing runtime binaries with a chain of custody from sourcecode to the buildpack uploaded to the installation.

Buildpacks make this overall problem a lot easier, actually. You don't need to track the underlying base OS image or manage the runtime binaries. The platform does it for you. But you will still be responsible for tracking more immediate dependencies (NPM, Maven etc), which is a poorly-solved problem currently.
I'm not sure what economist your listening to that is telling you these things, but I suggest you stop listening to them post haste. You can't simultaneously discourage investment and increase savings. They are the same thing in economic parlance.
It seems unlikely to me that the national debt will ever be paid.
I'm sorry to say this but as a part of the community maybe I should state my opinion. I don't really agree with this policy strictly. If there is some shillage in the comment section, it's perfectly fine to email admins, but I think it's also beneficial for the community bring it up. I personally find it hard to realize legitimate shillage sometimes, and appreciate it when my friends bring it up. I don't know why admins should access more information about what we see than we do.
"if there's no controlling binding precedent, most courts would be willing to consider other states' sufficiently relevant judgments at a persuasive but non-binding level."

It sounds like it could be useful to have some sort of database or clearinghouse of data breach cases won against Equifax in small claims court, so they can be referred to in one's filings as relevant judgements.
A lot of the attention you pay during normal driving is on mundane things like making tiny adjustments to stay within the lines. By removing that requirement you have more attention to put towards useful things.
Maybe jobs are being created at the bottom. That reduces both unemployment and the average wage.

Exciting new-economy opportunities, like delivering for Doordash or recharging Bird scooters, pay very poorly.
Wow, a Ford F-150 truck has better stopping distance? Do you have a source for this?
It's very hard on a desktop too.
If this works I'll be surprised... but happy. But realistically, I'll probably still take the blue line to O'Hare unless Musk's toy accepts my monthly CTA pass.
Do we need GraphQL? https://kellysutton.com/2017/01/02/do-we-need-graphql.html

(Disclaimer: From my personal blog)
Never gave Koontz a try. Frank Herbert and Ray Bradbury were my other favorites. I tried a few other "popular" writers (Grisham, Agatha Christie) but thet didn't really make an impact. Do you recommend Koontz?
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/05/pump-brakes-consume...

> In a recent test of various 2018 F-150s, Motor Trend recorded a 129-foot stopping distance for the 3.3-liter XL Supercab model, while an upscale Lariat trim made the stop in 10 fewer feet. For comparison, a Chrysler 300S tested by the same publication made the stop in 109 feet.
Note that this also has some insane side effects, eg setting resist fingerprint also breaks anything that assumed JavaScript date objects actually reflect local time. Like Gmail. Surprise!
Sure, but such systems won't work at all if they don't ignore such stationary objects as bridge abutments. And they lack the angular resolution to determine whether stuff is directly ahead, or off to one side. Plus the fact that roads curve.

Or, as in the Thatcham Research video, stuff that's hidden by a leading vehicle. I always make an effort to know what vehicles far ahead are doing. If necessary, I shift off lane occasionally to check for hidden stuff. And when I'm behind large vehicles, I don't follow so closely that I can't see what's ahead.

But if you're going to do all that, why use Autopilot?
Autopilot-bashing articles are becoming more and more popular as people love to gawk at accidents. I believe a lot of the comments on these threads are no more than online rubbernecking.

When these things pop up, I'd love to know the answers to some of these questions.

1. What is the rate of accidents for Tesla drivers with and without Autopilot on similar driving terrain.

2. How 'correctable' are these flaws in Autopilot? I doubt someone is programming in what to do in every situation. Is the solution to twiddle with some weights and pray your ML pipeline spits out a better version? I'm guessing the true answer lies in the middle, but I don't have the technical background to know for sure.

3. I see a lot of references to Waymo leading the pack of would-be self driving vehicles. What is it that Waymo has done that makes their self-driving tech so much better?

4. Are we okay with accepting the costs of self driving cars given their potential in the future? Most major transport-related revolutions have come with a significant human cost at the outset as the early adopters accept a large amount of risk to push the technology forward. With time and usage, things stabilize and become safer. Flying was quite dangerous early on, too.
Even ignoring chroma, video compressed at streaming bitrates is nowhere near the nyquist limit for a given resolution.

In addition, YouTube generally encodes 4k at like 5-6x the bitrate of their 1080p encodes (codec for codec), rather than merely 3-4x higher which would be closer to the same quality per pixel.

So yeah, YouTube's 4k is better on a 1080p screen than their 1080p stream.
Awesome, it's available on Audible so there goes one more of the credits I'm trying to use up so that I can finally cancel my membership. :-)

I watched that interview linked elsewhere ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17307920 ) and also thought this could very much apply to software development, especially for me when tackling new stacks.
Unfortunately the kABI does not encompass every symbol exported by the kernel, there is a whitelist maintained in the kernel-abi-whitelists package and scripts to check conformance of a module to the whitelist. Symbols are only ever added throughout the lifecycle of a RHEL release, so anything that conforms to the 7.3 kABI will also work on 7.4 - but if the module uses a symbol NOT whitelisted in 7.3 there's no guarantee the 7.4 update won't break it.

Not that it's much solace when your proprietary blob breaks, but Red Hat does make considerable effort to give vendors a stable target to build against - unfortunately not everyone fully validates conformance which results in the same old problems cropping up from time to time.
Yes. See the FAA’s research on actual autopilot and pilots’ attention fatigue.
I am sorry but you are using Graphql the wrong way, it should be stressed that GraphQL never and never could replace your SQL(it is a wrapper around your SQL backend)
Trouble at the Koolaid Point (2014)
Government provides services. Services cost money. That may sound like a complicated and largely unbelievable concept but it’s true.
The people who make the effort to seek out great prose tend to gravitate to the same stuff.

Those who have no interest in leaving their cave defend their sloth by claiming it's all a matter of personal opinion.
A 66% increase in the monthly deficit, in this case, amounts to about a 0.4% increase in national debt, by my back of the napkin math. I agree that it’s a dumb move, but I don’t think GP was wrong to say that it barely affects the momentum.

You’re free to disagree, but it will help the discussion if you can find a way to do so without the ad hominems.
Essentially the CPU is running a JIT branch optimization and speculative loads which cannot ever be matched by static optimization. The interesting part is that any JIT compiler that is so dynamic in performance will have these problems.

The solution might be to actually prevent some kind of security important code from being optimized in this way. Say, forcing full cache sync in-order execution for parts of code with no resource sharing between cores.
I would pay extra to skip that endless ride any day.
hot desks?
Accelerationism could be advocated by anybody who wants radical change that the majority of the public are not on board with, under the belief that the present course will bring more people to agree with them. If it makes sense to the Marxists, it probably makes sense to the far right as well. Of course if they miscalculate, they just end up working against their own interests.
It's hard to read on desktop too. The UI requires me to horizontally scroll in order to read the comment. Feels broken.
Colonialism?
I'm debating taking the commercial checkride and doing it part-time.
It's expensive to get the time for even basic commercial and seems impossible to get ATP unless your full-time.
Will there ever be a HN thread not wondering about something's applications on AI?
I don't see that setup as anything out of the normal skill required of human drivers. Cars change lanes from in front of you all the time, sometimes because there's something stopped on the road in front of them.

The test in only "rigged" in the way a unit test looking at a specific edge-case is "rigged". Yeah, it's not something that happens every day, but there's very few human driver who wouldn't have perfectly safely followed the Merc into the right hand lane and easily missed that inflatable car. Most of us would have noticed the stationary car in front of the car we were following, and quite likely had already changed lanes before the Merc did.
I had an encryption requirement at both Oracle (for Windows) and Canonical (for Linux). For Windows they used some endpoint protection suite; for Canonical the functionality is built-in to the Ubuntu installer.

Also since I own a Mac as my primary laptop, I've just always used filevault there and it helps me sleep a lot at night. Means I am not concerned if it gets stolen, my derpy photos won't be in someone elses hand. I don't care so much about the hardware.
Some indentation can make logs more readable:

:71: 04:09:04.26 Added to trace list: All
:271: 04:09:04.26 ----v
:271: 04:09:04.26 TestProcessTickFiles:
:97: 04:09:04.26 ----v
:97: 04:09:04.26 SetupTickFileProcessing:
:157: 04:09:04.26 ----v
:157: 04:09:04.26 GetNumLines:
:161: 04:09:04.26 Returning number of lines as: 752
:161: 04:09:04.26 ^----
:140: 04:09:04.26 ^----
:277: 04:09:04.26 ^----

As well as log functions that output arrays, in some applications being able to log state machine changes can be handy too.
A smart person wouldn't be a criminal in the first place.
That and most wage workers are not part of the public insurance pool and are therefore mostly insulated from the ACA. Any increased costs due to insurance requirements or regulations should be stabilized by now for employer plans.
Gee, why am I cynical about this?

https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/bill-gates-are-vaccines...
That's not how human attention and focus works. There are literally decades of study on this sort of thing. Almost every other major carmaker and autonomous vehicle development company (except Uber, and some poor woman was killed because of it) have publicly abandoned plans for SAE Level 3 autonomous vehicles because over years of testing they've found that their own engineers, test drivers, directors, etc, who are intimately familiar with the technology and the peculiarities of their own product, can't stay focused on the car and the driving environment under those conditions.
so this will make the actual http request the first time, then keep a recording? I’m not entirely clear how this works from the docs.
The problems you outline are real, but have straightforward solutions. You can persist queries to the server and then GET them in a really natural way, using query params to provide arguments for your GraphQL query's variables. Then, when it comes to caching, just do it at the resolver level, using something like DataLoader, perhaps with a KV store.
Must it? I'd far rather a gun not fire than fire.
except reliability reduces a total, not sum integers like beer count.

if I write a shell script with a scp line right now I can tell you it has 100% reliability. up to X% reliability means that "in the very nice and controlled environment, with the own devs attacking every production problem, trying to get 100% got us up to X%"
Silent failure and continuing to run on errors are common in interpreted languages. SAS has similar issues, most RDBMSs will continue to process queries after failures. It’s something you need to explicitly guard against.
I hope you don't respect copyright, trade secrets, patents or NDAs in general, not just the intellectual property frameworks used by cultures that you're not a member of. All intellectual property inconveniences someone; that's its entire purpose.

Not that you're making an argument here against native secrecy and privacy traditions being written into law, but you seem to be saying that you don't feel any obligation to follow them.
Or, and this may just be a crazy thing to think, unemployment is at historic lows so why aren't real wages rising is a valid question to be asking and explaining.
? you can have 99% margin and still loose money :)
Thanks for the link. I remembered the article, but didn't manage to find it.

In the Thatcham Research video, however, swerving would have been far more workable than braking. But then, we don't want too much autonomous lane hopping, either.
If you squint a bit, you will find every computation is a kind of search. You are searching for the "output" based on the given "input". Ex: Deep learning is just searching for the weights. What people usually called search is where the search space is explicitly defined (a set of records in db etc) but in most cases the search space is there just that it is implicitly defined in the computation problem description.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/13/a-min...

Most minimum wage workers can’t afford a 1br apartment in most of the country. “Kind of sort of not terrible” may actually be a high target to aim for.
Amen. GraphQL is neither a query language, nor particularly graph-oriented, IMO. It's a framework for building APIs. It's comparable to a really full featured hypermedia framework. I'm a huge fan, but the marketing is definitely confusing.
ThereThere.table()

ThingsWillGetBetter.table()

INeverLikedHimAnyway.table()
I'd be very surprised if they attempted to build anything other than an electric train. If they're trying some sort of "hyperloop" I would share your skepticism, but as I understand it the Boring Company is about boring tunnels more than anything else (at this stage anyway.) Is an Elon Musk company capable of boring a regular tunnel and putting a regular train in it? I don't know the current state of their boring machines, but it seems like it should be feasible.
Interesting tidbit in this RFP is the winner has to pay for it! So of course they chose a startup that hasn’t built anything and has no financing.
What's the next big thing in consumer products?
What's the next big "must-have" consumer product? In computers, desktops, laptops, tablets, and phones have all peaked. 3D TV flopped. What's in the pipeline?

- Virtual reality? Many people thought that, but it's been five years since the Oculus Rift. Will the Oculus Go change things?

- Internet of Things - not hearing as much about that any more.

- Boxes you talk to, like Amazon Echo? - how's that doing?

- 4K TV and beyond? Becoming mainstream.

- Home robots? Does anyone have a robot vacuum that really does the job?

Anything else?
I recommend checking out one of King's novella or short-story collections for a different perspective. Some of those are actually some of my all time favorites.
>But if you're going to do all that, why use Autopilot?

What's the point of having a self-driving system that doesn't do all that? The entire point of self-driving systems is that they're safer because they can see farther, anticipate more, and react faster than any human. If they can't, what's the point? Why even offer Autopilot?
The impainting can be global and locally, but it has to be temporally stable to avoid shakiness associated with impainting multiple frames.

Photoshop unveiled a similar temporally stable algorithm which does just that (provided that you select a marquee selection around the object.) I can't find the link though. Perhaps those two algorithms can be combined to first locate the object then remove it.
> the syntax is strange and reflects an earlier evolution of the ideas that went into the tidyverse.

Because it's the "grammar of graphic" see the link below.

https://ramnathv.github.io/pycon2014-r/visualize/ggplot2.htm...

If you don't like that syntax use another library. But ggplot2 how you code graphic like that is amazing for me and many other people. I've tried SAS and Matlab and ggplot2 is the best.
Ah, didn't know that - that's a great story. Others here might enjoy this:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53235/how-stephen-kings-wife-...
Blender's UI is quite efficient. Unfortunately it is very strange, both for the user and for the addon developer.

When I inquired about certain things (like callbacks for buttons, or custom panels/windows) a core developer gave me the rather annoyed reply (paraphrasing): "Blender isn't an application framework and Python is meant to enhance functionality, not create it." Which is unfortunate, because Blender has become a de facto application framework, even if the developers don't want to admit it.
It could be done in a type safe manner as opposed to magic strings.
Yeah I don't get these comment comparing Lisp and R rather Python and R.

R is such a bad language to learn FP in.
Letting people keep more of the money they earned is a subsidy?

That’s not how it works.
Wages are most certainly not a 'tangential issue'.
That’s not a coherent rationale to say a tax cut is a subsidy.

Let me guess, cutting welfare payments is stealing?
Any human paying attention would follow the leading vehicle as it swerved. That was not at all an abrupt swerve. Also, most people know not to focus just on the leading vehicle. And to back off when the can't see around it.
> Or maybe they're not the bad guys and the state has deemed them "bad guys".

Fun conversation topic. A large proportion of people cannot comprehend such a concept.
> In that video, does the Tesla try to brake, and brake hard?

It's different takes edited together. Note the cameraman near the dummy car as the tesla approaches (you can see him and part of the video was shot by him).

> In that case, I don't blame Telsa for crashing

And in the case where it didn't brake? Would you blame Tesla then? Well... none of Tesla's driver assistance can handle that case, there's no way that they would brake. It will not brake for a stationary object (unless that object was previously moving).