skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There really is no such thing as a sane default for compression in general. There are three common use cases and each one demands different tradeoffs. Maximum compression is often suitable for compression once and decompression many times. Lower compression is useful for compression/decompression once. A middle value is useful for compression once/decompression less than once. Then you choose different values based on the relative costs of CPU, memory, network bandwidth, disk space, etc.

“Maximum” is good because it handles a common use case. When you’re running a CLI tool, you’re much more likely to be processing static assets which are served many times. So “maximum” is a good guess of what the user wants.
I also had that, and it finally appears to be gone!

On the other hand, everything is blurry. I've searched to no end, and haven't found a solution. It looks like third-party apps used to when the rMBP was first released and apps that performed their own text rendering hadn't yet been updated to support it.

Any ideas?

Edit: I have no idea how this was even ever set in the first place, but a sibling comment mentioned the "Open in Low Resolution" flag that can be set on a binary, and it was enabled for Firefox on my machine. Either I set this manually trying to solve the performance issues (and somehow this setting persisted across uninstalls), or Firefox ships with this flag set. Unchecking it fixed the blurriness, and hopefully didn't bring back the performance problems.
Could you please not post like this? It's a shallow dismissal and it's tediously meta.

There's nothing wrong with the OP at all—someone sharing the excitement of discovering something for themselves.
I've put my wordpress behind a firewall, in a docker container, and mirror it with wget to my actual webserver, serving the static files. I sleep better at night.
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> For one, the uncertainty principle suggests there is no exact, fully determined reality.

Absolutely not! The uncertainty principle suggests that position and momentum are inappropriate descriptions of reality. The quantum mechanical wave function would be a complete description, if quantum mechanics was all there is to reality.

> Second, Goedel showed us that logical systems are either incomplete or inconsistent.

He didn't. He showed us that finite theories in sufficiently powerful logical systems, specifically number theory expressed in first order logic, admit multiple models. Turning this into "any theory of the universe will be incomplete" is playing fast and lose with the meaning of the word "incomplete".
Seems like slowly the web is becoming secure like TOR.
Nope, since Mozilla doesn’t support illumos-based operating systems, I‘m boycotting Firefox.
It is allowing any device already on the network to vouch for new devices. What could possibly go wrong? WPS had flaws in its implementation, but was reasonable on a theoretical level. This seems foolhardy at best.

WPA2, when properly implemented, is very secure. I'm not sure of WPA3's real purpose. Is strong encryption of wifi signals of any benefit? The days of banking passwords being send in html gets should be behind us. Anything important will be protected by other encryption layers than wifi. Is WPA3 meant to protect unauthorized network access? WPA2 isn't exactly easy to crack. Do we really need a new scheme, and the inevitable new flaws that come with it? Or is this really about streamlining the user experience, about making wifi that little bit less complicated, so that people can attached their smart toasters to the home network without having to actually remember the password.

To clarify for those who obviously do not understand the difference between protocol and concept implementation: Errors in the protocol would have been inconsequential if WPS was implemented properly. Had it not been left on 24/7, the temporary use of shorter keys would have been a good thing. It would have allowed home networks to adopt much more complex keys without having to type them into every new device (a big deal on things like printers which didn't have keyboards). WPS could have contributed to greater WPA2 security. But instead the concept was improperly implemented, allowing the inevitable errors discovered in the adopted protocol to be leveraged.
> On error, any Response can be ignored. A non-nil Response with a non-nil error only occurs when CheckRedirect fails, and even then the returned Response.Body is already closed.

https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Client.Do
Don’t own a car, and obviously I don’t need health insurance ;). I do spend 15$ per month on home insurance.

Joking aside, I’ve heard several opinions that Sweden is a good country to start a startup in. Since there is a safety net to catch you in case things go sideways you can focus a lot more on the startup without worrying.
Class Is in Session: AI App Schools on English Pronunciation
Ask HN: How to ditch an established online identity and start over?
I am active and known in a certain small industry in my home country ("developing world" kinda place) after 15+ years of online presence.

Over the past years I've been feeling constrained and unhappy with that identity. I also felt very alien in my home country and culture, both afk and online. Even my mother tongue and given name are not something I like. They all associate with the world I don't enjoy nor support.

While I'm obviously not a native English speaker, I feel more "at home" while communicating in and consuming English and living in the Western society.

I moved to a western country, but online I was still "there". Now I want to ditch my established identity and start afresh, under a new name. Distance myself from the culture I grew up in.

Of course, I could do all that without changing my name, but I feel like the old world would leak and haunt me.

Recently I came across the "ex Muslim" subreddit, and felt a weird familiarity. My troubles are nothing compared to those who grew up in a religious world and found the courage to leave and be vocal about it. But I could relate in a way. They feel like "the old life" is constantly trying to leak in and poke them.

It worries me, and I thought maybe we could discuss this type of cyber-rebirth, its caveats. Maybe someone has relevant experience and wouldn't mind sharing.

- How do you make sure the old identity doesn't leak into the new one? (apart from obvious technical non-contamination policy)

- Feels like starting from scratch in 2018 is harder than it was 15 years ago. Maybe it's the other way around. I guess I'm getting cold feet.

- I want to write and create, but I'm worried that being this weird person who magically appeared on the internet just a few months ago would make people wary. Google my new name: the guy never existed before 2018. Where the hell was he?

- Will changing full legal name (first and last) bring lots of problems for years to come?

- Am I being silly?
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Not sure why someone would do this, but even without a plugin you can go to General Settings and set New User Default Role to Author. This would give any new accounts the ability to exploit this.
This reads like an apple press release, with no critical thought whatsoever.
> Spotify knows exactly how many people listened to a song, and pay accordingly.

From what I understand, they actually pay based on how many times a song is played, which is not the same as how many people listened to it. If I only listen to an unpopular artist, but I don't listen as often as other people listen to popular artists (lower play count, even though it's still my favorite artist), nearly all of my subscription fee goes to the popular artists.

In the old days of purchasing music, it didn't matter how many times a person played the disc/track - it cost the same. You might argue that each play represents the marginal utility to the listener (and should thus be the basis for compensation), but I'm not sure that's entirely true.
It doesn't say _any_ device. On the contrary, it sounds like the network admin has to explicitly delegate that authority to the configurator device:

> With Wi-Fi Easy Connect, a network owner chooses one device as the central point of configuration.

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-easy-connect

Though with WPA2 (personal, at least), isn't it already possible for "any permitted device" to "vouch for new devices" by simply giving those new devices the Wi-Fi password?
Cost of dealing with a dead teller is probably higher than the amount of cash that will satisfy most traditional robbers. If that robber-satisfying amount can be recovered with a certain degree of reliability, the security model is effective in deterring attacks, minimizing attack damage, and ensuring physical safety of team members.
I have two forward-thinking friends who grabbed their initials, so they have 3-letter .com domain names.
Regarding your original title, did you change it?
> WPA2, when properly implemented, is very secure

Not really:

https://github.com/d33tah/call-for-wpa3/
I see this claim from HN moderators from time to time that "both sides" get same treatment, but I can't recall a single time where this kind of article stayed in the front page, or forbid, had flagging turned off. Anecdotal, but it is the observed pattern that I have seen.

It would be lovely if someday you all made a statistic summery of how often moderation action is made on gender equality articles, "which side" the article is on, and what the moderation action was. A nice intern project that would at minimum give some data on the subject.

I suspect that it is partial possible to do from the outside using the API, and I have been tempted to do a bit of casual dig into how often dang comments his moderation with "I understand" or "I get what you ..." vs a more aggressive "do not do this again" or "you will get banned". It would naturally just measure the tone, but would again give some insight in how the moderation is spread on both sides.
A lot of people were/are just cheap
And here I just bought a Sinemia[1] pass (billed annually) ...
~$10 per month for 2 tickets for 2ppl per month (4tickets total). I do like that I can reserve 2 tickets at once though (seats beside eachother)

[1]: https://www.sinemia.com/new-plans
How to make a Nixie tube [video]
GPUs Help Dengue Fever Researchers Slow Time
I recently wrote an automatic memory leak detector and debugger, which makes this a lot easier (imo) [0]. You write a short input script that drives the UI in some loop, it looks for growing things (objects, arrays, event listener lists, DOM node lists...), and then collects stack traces to find the code that grew them. While it won't find all of the leaks, I was able to eliminate an average of 94% of the live heap growth I observed in 5 web applications (which found new memory leaks in Google Analytics, AngularJS, Google Maps, etc).

More information about the technique can be found in a PLDI paper (which I presented last week :D ), which I tried to write clearly so that it is accessible to a technical audience (i.e., non-academics) [1].

[0] http://bleak-detector.org/

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3192366.3192376 (shouldn't be paywalled, but if it is, it's also available at [0])
192.* and 127.* work just fine ;)
So what is a better WP alternative? Drupal?
More questions:

Does it support extended attributes? You'd imagine so, but you'd have also expected NFSv4...

Will it ever support SMB?

Can you set per-UID quota limits, both in terms of bytes and IOPS/disk time?
If you're on macOS I suggest checking out https://github.com/haxiomic/firefox-multi-touch-zoom

I installed it today and it has changed my life for the better.
Given how many people / media say we are entering an App world, are domain name still worth a lot of money?

I waited for .Web I think for now close or over a decade? And it doesn't seems to be coming despite all the silly Tld we have now.
Just get browsers to implement it, I think by the time Zstandard was open sourced, there was some browser support for Brotli already (probably because Google controls a major website, a major browser, and the standard library for a major OS).

Timeline: Zstandard was released August 31, 2016. By that point, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera already had Brotli support. Safari and Edge got it shortly afterwards.
Nice try but it works fine in all browsers for me.
The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture
The 60% rate is, if I understand correctly, the combined affect of the LLC paying its fee and taxes and then poster paying personal income tax.
Pardon my negative comment, but given their history of absolutely terrible crypto, I can't wait to see how they mess it up this time.

Some thoughts on WPA2: https://github.com/d33tah/call-for-wpa3/
Whoever owns the trademark can file a trademark dispute and get the domain back for "cheap".
The same applies to Google. Microsoft appears to have the leg up on Oracle & IBM as far as winning "enterprisy" clients.
> With a jury, you've got 12 yahoos off the street

It was originally written as a 'jury of your peers', though it seems to be a good strategy to make sure the jury is the furthest thing from that.
There's also single-character punycode domains, e.g. ¢.com which converts to http://xn--8a.com
Theory that Voynich manuscript is written “in old Turkish”
Disable animation effects to improve TST performance.
"Subjective experience exists" doesn't imply there's a single, uniform fabric of experience, nor does it imply anything about how subjective experience relates to an accurate perception of the world. Even if I hallucinate something that doesn't exist, there's still a subjective experience that I have of that perception.

I have no idea if anyone else subjectively experiences anything; everyone else might just be philosophical zombies. I still want to know why I have any subjective awareness of the world, though, and I don't see any way that that question can be answered via any sort of objective measurement or scientific process. You can study my eyes and my brain to explain why I can accurately perceive the color blue, but nobody can truly explain what it's like to see the color blue.
Tab hiding is part of 61.

> More customization for tab management: added support to allow WebExtensions to hide tabs
Some of my professors also have ridiculous code standards or exam standards. One of them teaches "algorithms and data structures", but he's not allowing us to even use a break or continue in our loops because he thinks it's "bad practice". We end up with a nested hellhole. Another example from the same professor (correct me if I'm wrong on this as I'm not a C++ expert), but he's constantly inheriting from unique or shared pointers in his classes. Like why though? Why do you have to complicate your code like this? Why can't you just have a normal class with unique or shared pointers in it?

Lastly, and this is taught by another professor, is my class for Linux. It includes bash and C++ programming and focuses a bit on the POSIX API. Our exam was last week and we had 3 parts. The first part was a theory exam by the professor that taught the class. It was about bash/POSIX commands and very little Linux specific stuff. He expected us to know all of the options from all of the commands you can think of: cut, split... You had to know all of them and off the top of your head. It's ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I failed that one, but I absolutely nailed the next part which was about bash scripting (where you could use if statements and the like, the first part did not allow it, only redirection and piping). The man is mad (hah man, that's what I needed during that first exam part).
GDPR from the Cockroach Labs POV
If i remember correctly, they created the first transatlantic ARPA link in the first years of proto-internet, so they were there from the beginning, ie before DNS. Maybe they just stared to use DNS earlier than Berkeley.

They had a rather respectful network in 1993, they probably had been running for more than 15 years by then.
Why would it have a high Alexa rating. Seems suspicious.
That sounds like the cartoonish view of the Chinese gov that someone who only has any contact with it through western media buys into.
Another day, another browser vulnerability

And people still justify using it 'because it's easy and simple for non-tech folks.' The non-profit world is _riddled_ with it.

Another day, another OS vulnerability

And people still justify using it 'because it's easy and simple for non-tech folks.' The non-profit world is _riddled_ with it.

Another day, another Android vulnerability

And people still justify using it 'because it's easy and simple for non-tech folks.' The non-profit world is _riddled_ with it.

Another day another PDF/flash/etc exploit

And people still justify using it 'because it's easy and simple for non-tech folks.' The non-profit world is _riddled_ with it.

Another day another security breach of a major non-WP website

And people still justify using it 'because it's easy and simple for non-tech folks.' The non-profit world is _riddled_ with it.
Same situation with most of our "high desert" here in Oregon, which is probably best described as "steppe" outside of a few small areas like the Alvord desert.

There are some dunes here, too, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Valley_Sand_Dunes
> "gzip (which should be disabled for HTTPS)"

?

Please explain.
> if Brian didn't mess up the language design, these sorts of "code drivels" wouldn't have appeared!

OK, ignoring the s/Brian/Dennis/ snafu... WTF is a "code drivel"? What are you trying to say here?

Second, your point is irrelevant: It's pointless to write a book about driving cars and fill it with a long rant about how riding motorcycles is so much better. It's a non sequitur, and false advertising. Much like how this book is presented as a good resource for learning C and is, in fact, a horrible example of precisely how little the author understood C.

> Then we can argue that back in those times it was something progressive etc.

Aside from your infelicitous attempt at English, this is wrong: This book was never good, and claiming it was insults the past.
By using the "recirculate" setting you avoid bringing in polluted air from outside the car in the first place, so it certainly does help. Just return to fresh air when away from busy roads and polluted areas.

And paper filters do, of course, remove dust and particulates, which are part of the problem. Just not things like NOx and volatile organics. And depending on the filter, it may not be effective against really small (eg PM2.5) particles.
I got: ca.com > Creation Date: 1996-02-09T05:00:00Z
[Gates Fdn Spent $575M on Teaching] Rand Corp on Teacher Effectiveness
The Athabasca sand dunes are also visually interesting
http://photojourneys.ca/2017/12/31/exploring-saskatchewans-a...
> Two-letter

Numbers are not letters, but you're right, that's the correct number of possible two-character .com domains.
Jordans Furniture does those promotions every year. They are different events though every year. The insurance company paid out $30 million in furniture when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2007.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=377...

Funny enough, Jordans Furniture is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.

Last year Cleveland was treated to $1.7 million in free windows from Universal Windows Direct when the Cleveland Indians went on a 15 game winning streak.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20623379/local-window-com...

If you're wondering about premiums, the first article quotes a guy in the business who say the premiums are usually around 30% of the value of the prize. That means the $75,000 premium paid by Universal Windows Direct was a steal. Of course, the odds of a 15 game winning steak in baseball are very small.
You can capture a heap snapshot in most browsers now using development tools. However, even a blank webpage (about:blank) has tens of thousands of objects allocated for the default JavaScript/DOM APIs. It's challenging to manually grok a JavaScript heap.
Yeah, I didn't notice the video in the article with the proof-of-concept demonstrates this. Thanks.
Ask HN: Simple blog and newsletter SaaS?
I want one place to create a blog, allow people to subscribe to the blog, which automatically sends them emails when a new post is published.

Is there a service that does this as a single package?
It's very hard to even respond to you. Moving a billion people is not that hard? Unbelievable ignorance, hubris, and/or FUD.
Very happy that GCP is opening in LA, however pushing the VFX angle is interesting considering the bulk of that work has moved overseas due to tax credits. Sent the link to a friend at Dreamworks that still has a sizable amount of work in Glendale.

Will also be interesting to find out how they are solving/pricing the immense bandwidth/storage requirements needed to make such work practical.
If they were concerned about users health, then drugs would have been legal and regulated. Under prohibition people ability to buy clean and cheap drugs is very limited. That leads to severe health risks.
I'm perfectly able-bodied and I use my Echo almost exclusively to play music now, after having done it through stereos for decades. It's just easier (usually -- classical music is awful). I don't think I want it to control my lights or anything, but for weather, music, and alarms it's been great.
8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15451442
192.168.* is only a 16bit rfc-1918 allocation. Perhaps you meant 10.* ?
Overall the article is confirming that Intel keeps giving out minor cpu gains of 10-15% on single core, which is hardly even noticeable.

It's only when apps and games start to truly use multi core that users will notice higher performance.
When I use the universal installer on Linux, I get a weird glitch in Firefox where the extension just vanishes after I type in my email address. Haven't tried it on 61 yet though.
The impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience
There was a hot take yesterday, that Instagram is slowly morphing into the WeChat of the west. And no other app is even close.

https://twitter.com/dhof/status/1010902202691538944
I don't use it, but I do think it's pretty cool. It's small, as a 6'1 male I would say it's just big enough.

My girlfriend uses it when she's having troubles sleeping, she says that it really does put her to sleep quite well.

However, she says that there is a bit of adjustment, when you wake in the night or in the morning, there is a slight moment of panic when you don't have your strength back and are in a sleepy haze, because you have a bit of trouble moving around. But you get used to that.

When you receive it, you have to tie the weighted insert down with cloth ties inside the washable cover. I wish there were more of these on the inside though, the weighted part of the blanket can get too out-of place for my liking, and I also don't trust the ties to hold up for very long if you're not careful moving it. It definitely takes two hands and a good grip to get the blanket on top of you.
Having money on the sidelines is not "timing the market".

Warren Buffet has $116 billion in cash on hand.
Yahoo began liquidating a bunch of old domains back in ~2013 (eg AV.com, formerly owned by AltaVista; Sled.com; and Sandwich.com for $137k, formerly owned by Broadcast.com, among hundreds of others), HP might have been doing something similar. Sweeping out the closet. $57k for a solid three letter domain with history certainly does seem cheap. I wonder what Musk paid for X.com, to get it from PayPal (surely seven figures).
I get the impression it's been complicated to swap the batteries and have the fleet on compatible batteries.

Ashok Leyland of India are launching one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3Au0fIMjQ
Symbols in common lisp and scheme can both start with $ and contain hyphens.