skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These day they just estimate the size of the resultset. It's pretty easy to come up with queries where it estimates the wrong row count until you paginate to a later page. I think the theory is just that approximately nobody clicks on more than the third page.

Example on first try: https://www.google.com/search?q=foobarfrak navigate to the last result. And you get a really misleading "No results containing all your search terms were found." page...
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can someone with edit privilege edit the title to "British Prime Minister"?

Weird to click on the link just to find out which country they are talking about
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I love Unsplash and use their content in my websites and open source projects. I recently found [1] that Unsplash has changed the license of their content from CC0 to a new custom license which I don't believe is compatible with most (all?) open source licenses:

> More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

Am I correct that I can no longer use it in MIT/BSD/GPL licensed projects, at least not without switching to a "the code is MIT but this image is only free as in beer" license?

(I wonder if there's a list of images that were uploaded before this license change...)

[1]: https://unsplash.com/license
I try to be well read on physics, but a lot is admittedly beyond my grasp at the moment, so forgive me if this is a silly question.

Is this saying that gravity would not be possible without the curvature of space because if space-time paths, then no matter as we know it would be possible because all particles would be on their own timeline orthogonal to all others? And since no collisions could happen if this were the case, no energy in the system would be converted to mass to bend the space-time and create the geodesic curvature gravity emerges from? If I have this right, does this mean all energy in this system would be massless (photons?)
Dialects are often more the rule than not.

Italian German, French, an yea, e'en English, have mutually all-but-unintelligible variants.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e34M6P1NXYM
They are the same references. Most companies with a decent HR department will only give the employee verification answers anyway.
It's not misinformation, and there is more nuance to that than you think.

Your phone listening to you to say "Hey Siri" is an Apple device listening to you. Yes, as for any reasonable implementation of an assistant, that detection and recognition is done on the device - but there's the issue of false positives, i.e. your phone can mistake a part of your conversation for the keyword, and start listening to you and upload said conversation. Then it is quite nuanced as what counts as "Apple is listening to you".
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Yes, these data are all available, if you are willing to pay to get those.
"without any elements like carbon which will become radioactively activated"

Carbon has very low neutron activation. Silicon carbide has been proposed as a material for fusion reactors for this reason. But otherwise your points are well taken.
You can use `Ctrl + C` instead of `ESC`

I figured this out today. And I submitted this Ask HN to find out more such things.
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"Tritium can be bred in any sort of fission reactor."

Not at a cost that could support economic nuclear fusion, except to jump start fusion reactor development. And even that would be terribly expensive.
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GP here.

I don't think that trains are bad in Melbourne, although I haven't been to Sydney to compare, it's the buses and trams that have the anti-social behaviour. Having cops at all the train stations at night definitely helps keep the trains in a better state.

Affordability doesn't factor in at all here. The people who cause trouble on public transport don't pay for public transport. I'm not sure what it's like in Sydney, but most train stations don't have gates and the driver doesn't do anything if you don't tap on on the bus.

Ironic that you say that warmer weather caters to hedonistic pleasures when all the clubs in Sydney close at 3, meanwhile Melbourne is one of the few cities in the world that still has 24 hour clubs.
As someone who owns services which had to provide our data for customers as part of GDPR I was super happy to oblige.

The work sucked, but I was more than happy to help our customers get their data from us.
There’s policy and there’s community. People in the community are very opposed to the future we enable when we encourage paywalls.
Isn't the intent of the law quite easy to understand?

Do not track/store anything by default. And your site works perfectly and without questions.

If you then have a legitimate need for some data, without which your site doesnät work (eg. gps location data for a map), then you ask for it.

And if you need to use ads, then have some opt in button somewhere deep in the settings where the user can go and click "please track me aggressively" if he so chooses.
Have you considered Funtoo yet? It's a fork of Gentoo, led by the creator of Gentoo.
"Marketing Firm doxes 340M victims"
> We should change their incentives.

How? Stop using sites with infinite scrolling seems the only viable option.
The easiest way to get around paywalls is to ignore them and let them all die an ignoble death.
Would have. This is what it looks like in Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/yA5dhm2
A lot of people seem to be unaware of switching files within vim instead of exiting and reinvoking.
> if a commercial developer saw a license like that they would just choose not to use the AGPL code.

Except for the server bit, the restriction being described is called copyleft. And it appears in all GPL licenses, except LGPL. Some of the major OSS in use today is released under it: Linux, MySQL and MariaDB, VLC, and of course all the FSF software, such as GCC.
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What you are talking about is called "single system image", that is a single address space, storage is globaly visible, etc.

This concept is pretty much completely dead in the supercomputing world, and has been for decades.
The limitless resources of the government is never applied to all laws. Regulatory institutions are budget constrained like the rest of us, and will prioritize what it considers to be the worst cases.
What made it rise from $300 to current day prices? What price do you think reflects it's real value? Why is it worth that price?
I always felt just a tiny bit of xenophobia, or at least ignorance, in those complaints. Yes, your strings have the beauty of containing no more than 127 different characters. But isn't it quite obvious that there are people "out there" that don't only speak english?

Being from Europe, my strings are still 99% ASCII compatible. But 1% is about four orders of magnitude too big for a failure rate. Every single string that goes through an application and isn't ISO-specified (bank account etc) will sooner or later be hit with unicode. Just wait 'till bank accounts allow emoji identifiers.
Indeed. Which is why I standardized on inches, which match the hardware at Home Depot and whose rulers make it easy to divide by powers of 2. :P
The Overton window is the range of acceptable public opinions. It's what you're allowed to talk about in polite company and what kinds of policies people will seriously consider. It's not a measurement of where popular elected officials of a given era lie on the political spectrum.

Nowadays, I think that people can talk about whatever economic policy they want and they won't be ousted from society. For example, in the US, Bernie Sanders ran a campaign supporting UBI and he got a significant chunk of the vote, so that idea clearly is within the range of acceptable discourse.

As for LGBT rights and most social issues, I think it's pretty clear that views which were acceptable a few decades ago are unthinkable today.
The document is 88 pages long. There are 31 mentions of 'legitimate interests'. I'm still not sure that recording everyone who walks past your store 24/7 is legitimate interest.
To be fair, my first guess from the title was Reinhold Messner. Different kind of solo. (And perhaps a better candidate for having strange biology?)
to re-phrase, if it's not something an HR department would want to encourage people to do, like being on LinkedIn and sharing opportunities and referrals, it's essentially parasitic.
Original conversation sounds machine generated.
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I know the billionaires are building compounds in the mountains, but what are the everyday engineers doing? What are books/resources/knowledge bases that you've backed up and potentially found handy?
The way utilities work is equivalent to a credit card: you use the service over the course of a month/year, then at the end you pay for what you used. This is a form of debt. If you could pay at the atart, this would be alleviated, but you don't know how much you will use at the start. I'm sure there are various other solutions, but none as simple as verfiying credit history, then waiting to charge until the end of the period.
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> Do you have any data to support your claim about what the average person thought about Equifax

Here you go, first result in Google:

https://morningconsult.com/2018/01/16/months-after-data-brea...
After posting that, I ran into this, which I feel obligated to post: the most recent comment on the article, apparently from Alan Kay, 6/16/2017 (the article was published 01/2014).

"A few corrections. (I was Chief Scientist of Atari at the time.) I told the TLC people that this was the greatest game concept that I'd ever seen (and still think so). I had loved Rocky's Boots and was really excited when Ann showed me the ideas for Robot Odyssey.

What I told her -- and it's clear she misunderstood -- was that scaling up the Rocky's Boots approach missed the point of "robots" and "computers" (meaning that robots should have a "no ceiling" range of being "really capable") and that programming was invented for computers for a reason.

I didn't say it couldn't be done -- I said it wouldn't work well enough for most potential users and players (and I believe that the sign they made was "Alan Kay says this won't work" (and if you think about it, it really didn't given what TLC was trying to do):

(a) I was very sure that the UI ideas they had wouldn't scale gracefully, and

(b) I was very sure that scaling logic up would quickly change the "bang per effort" ratio for the worse.

What I tried to get TLC to understand was that using some higher level language e.g. "nicer Logo" for programming the robot brains would revolutionize game design and playing, and would make Robot Odyssey a big hit.

After all these years I still think this is a wonderful concept, and is still waiting for the right designers and builders to marry the concept with the resources needed to make it great to use."
I have built a generic deployment tool that does the following

1. Does dependencies installation
2. Does Code linting
3. Creates a new release folder and gets the entire codebase there.

shared/ - for common assets like user upload data and images
releases/
2018060291205/
2018060300703/
current/ - ll be pointing to the active release.

4. Notify the team on slack, emails and whatever
5. You can rollback at just click of a button and it ll point to one of its previous release.

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I was building enterprise apps 10 years ago. 20, actually. I made the same arguments then, and I will stand by this evaluation now.

It reminds me of the early 2000s when IBM and WebLogic were selling 5-figure appserver licenses hand-over-fist into enterprises. I would have to dig, but I do recall a study sometime later finding that almost all of these customers were just using them as servlet containers. It's not that WebLogic, Oracle et al have no purpose, it's just that the people buying these things tend to have no idea what they're doing.
fine; but it’s also a red flag for companies that do some pretty terrible things with your data... id prefer not to use a service that gives off those red flags than to chance it. we all have choices, and if a company chooses to represent itself in a shady looking way, i’ll choose to take my business elsewhere.
I saw him give a talk once. He told outrageous lies about himself. Half the audience believed him, and the other half really wanted to. He looked like he was enjoying himself.

I considered him such a great writer that I went around telling people that I'd be willing to read anything he wrote, even his laundry list. Which led to the idea of asking to buy his laundry list and creating a website called "Harlan Ellison's Laundry List". I suspect it would have been magnificent. Sadly I never got around to it - too late now. Probably would not have worked anyway as he was said to be notoriously anti-computer in his life.

Magnificent bastard indeed.
How to quit is probably what most people don’t know, when it’s been invoked by something looking for $EDITOR
The issue isn't complicated at all. Regardless of any country's laws. Don't use my personal information for anything other than verifying my identity or record keeping. Don't give it to anyone, don't sell it to anyone, don't use it for marketing bullshit, dont analyze it to find out how to sell me things, or how to trap me in targetted advertising (which I block anyway because you have no right to spam me with them or waste my bandwidth) or filter bubbles. If you can't do that when fuck off, there's no reason I should do business with you.
Fusion has fundamental engineering obstacles, not just unsolved problems.

The basic problem is that heat transfer limits guarantee that fusion reactors will be big and expensive (meaning: power density an order of magnitude worse than a fission reactor core, and probably worse than that.)

The core of a PWR fission reactor that one can build today has a power density of 100 MW per cubic meter. The power density of ITER (dividing the gross fusion power by the volume inside the cryostat) is 0.05 MW per cubice meter, 2000x worse. Other fusion designs aren't quite as ludicrous, but will still be much worse than fission.

The problem is that heat in the PWR has to get out of fuel rods that are 1 cm in diameter. The heat in a fusion reactor has to get out of a plasma vessel that is meters in diameter. The ratio of surface area/volume is orders of magnitude higher for the fission reactor.
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Yep, the Daily Bruin has written about their proliferation — and the enforcement/arrests due to violations of helmet laws — on several occasions.

https://dailybruin.com/2018/04/08/ucpd-to-crack-down-on-elec...

I can see how they'd be useful on the hills at UCLA!
I'd like to see some sort of browser request header that can set or deny permissions on a global basis, dealt with by an options page in the web browser.

Then sites only need to serve up the annoying dialogs if they need a permission you haven't set, otherwise clearing cookies periodically means being plagued by the dreaded things. >;-(
I don't think it's so much that software devs take it "lightly". In my experience as a infosec consultant, the bigger problem is that most software devs are too cocky when it comes to security. Most think that security is just a subdomain of computer science (it is not!), and that because they took a crypto class in college, they are 100% qualified to handle the security themselves. They think they are taking it seriously, but they don't understand that knowing how to write software does not make you an expert in securing software.

Most devs don't seem to acknowledge that good security requires having a separate, dedicated person/team to handle it, just like how you would hire a lawyer rather than having your software devs handle legal issues.

I once posted on HN that every company that deals with sensitive data, big or small, must have a dedicated security person/team. My comment was downvoted/flagged, and I was bombarded with responses like "why would we waste the money on a security person? my dev team already knows to encrypt passwords".
There's currently a TC39 stage 1 proposal to add something very like the Python syntax to JavaScript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-slice-notation.

There's an active Babel feature request to implement exactly that proposal: https://github.com/babel/proposals/issues/41. As such, it'd definitely make a lot of sense to implement this!
Fusion isn't marginal because funding is low.

Rather, funding for fusion is low because fusion is marginal.

The money would be there if the technology warranted it. But examined closely, fusion doesn't appear promising, so people close their checkbooks.
Facebook is dramatically noncompliant, and people on my privacy professionals listserv have been debating parts of Google. I assume the EU cares, but it's also a massive fight to pick, and Facebook and Google are well-suited to handling it.
Consider saying explicitly which languages are supported by your service because it not written anywhere in the blog post.
When I was in middle school, we were picked up by bus, any time my parents had to go to school, we drove -- walking was never an option (which I assumed at the time was because it was too far to walk).

I recently looked it up on a map, and school was 0.7 miles from home -- a 15 minute walk. The worst part of the walk was that it crossed a 4 lane road, but it had a traffic light.... there were no sidewalks in our neighborhood, but that didn't stop us from walking to the bus stop.

Ironically, our neighborhood bus stop was 2 blocks from home in the opposite direction of the school, so I walked 0.3 miles away from school to take the bus... so in reality, the bus "saved" 10 minutes of walking time, though I spent more time than that waiting for the bus.

Now that I'm older and wiser (?) I seek out bike friendly commutes (through housing and job choices) and commute 15 miles by bike even though I have transit and car options. And I'll take a longer commute route to stay away from schools, seems that kids still aren't walking to school much, and my community has decided not to offer regular bus transportation so parents drive their kids, and it's like a car war-zone near the school
Why do so many JavaScript devs use 2 spaces for tabs? Its terrible for quickly reading through code
Is GDPR that much different from the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz? Maybe those sites were compliant already.
I'm curious, what do you consider "fundamentals" for CS and "tools" for bio?
A rather irrelevant nitpick to this discussion. Let's not pretend we didn't know what lost meant in this context. And of course it's the process of making a copy that's the issue.
s/white/ass/.

A white hat, in the context of these surveillance companies, would be Tyler Durden.
This was a borderline case, because he didn't actually know definitely that they had had a breach. He only speculated based on being assigned a planning task for such a scenario.

This settlement reflects the uncertainty of legal proceeding.
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I know. Yet this is a very common pattern. So obviously people are either uninformed, or they believe there will be no actions against violators. Taking action solves that problem.
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Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment
That's basically what GDPR does. It broadens the scope of what is considered sensitive info and slaps a fine on people PRIOR to a breach. If a breach is found, then any breach of GDPR means EU can come after that company and hurt them seriously.
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Yep it does. They tell you exactly why you are seeing a ad.

For political ads you can also go to a page and look up all the ad campaigns they are running, how much money was spend, who was target, what the ad creative was, etc
It's pretty accepted style. E.g. https://google.github.io/styleguide/jsguide.html#formatting-...
You're a genuis to me. Didn’t know any of this. Good luck.
"https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html"

Well now I read that link, but I don't think that's the actual law...
I'm only seeing a very short summary too.
I'd think that in all those languages, -0 == +0 tests true, though. In JavaScript even -0 === +0 tests true.

The only way to tell them apart in general is to divide by them. In some languages you might be able to type-pun and examine the bit pattern, or do things like Object.is() or whatnot.
F# is not compatible with UWP because .net native doesn’t implement the .tail IL opcode so it’s a no go. Moreover WPF allows a wider distribution that UWP which is restricted to Win10.
The claim was:

> Average person saw Equifax commercial on “hey be smart we will keep your info safe with alerts” and thought “wow this company cares about my data” when its precisely opposite.

The result you cite is a general consumer favorability rating for Equifax, which is different than this particular claim. People who didn't hear anything about Equifax and Congress are included in the general consumer poll. I'm not trying to nitpick, I'm just pointing at a lack of data for this particular claim.
Yes, I know. there are ways around it though, even without VPN. What I was referring to was PRC pressuring foreign companies via the internet license mechanism, basically they have used targeted bandwidth throttling of foreign companies/technology that have not purchased PRC internet licenses. If you buy the license they don't throttle you. They have also been centralising internet routing regionally to speed things up. Basically, you have a two-speed internet. It's similar to what would likely happen if net neutrality were scrapped in the US. Social credit could lso be applied globally, even to nation states if they so chose.
Couple it to the internet license and they have a powerful too that reaches far beyond their geographical territory.
Exactly! The only thing a "breach" changes is allowing us to actually see the files that Stasi 2.0 are keeping!

I'm much more worried about the persistent legally-blessed attacks against our decision making (eg advertising) and financial independence (eg price discrimination), than about receiving backscatter from uncoordinated randos defrauding banks et al. Banks who are responsible for much of this surveillance infrastructure in the first place.
Not likely
By "95% accuracy on the LibriSpeech" you mean a word error rate of 5% on that test set, using your own training data?
Anyone get pytorch to work on windows? I could not figure it out. Keras and tensorflow work great on windows.
It's classic, steal the castle, make a shaky peace and marry into the royal line.