skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
N64 VR with JavaScript
But we aren't speaking of land area, we're speaking of buildings, which relate to population. I'd wager that LA County has more buildings than Finland.
The truly fun thing for someone working on these systems is each booking is just a flat text file with the line prefix indicating what is on the line. Sometimes when we need to implement new features/products we just have to use a generic remark (RX) and kind of coordinate with each other about what it means (or not, which sometimes causes fun when trying to manage interline bookings).

Another fun fact is that the booking records are recycled, the frequency of which depends on how many bookings there have been recently. The storage is "infinitely scalable" until the number of seats on planes starts to outgrow the number of bookings that we can hold.
That what I have against his calling these jobs bullshit; these jobs are bullshit for people who have other options; people doing these jobs in Thailand and China feel better because they got that job and are not sitting at home being bored. Anecdotal; a Chinese colleague and friend sent me a happy WeChat message a few weeks ago that his father is out of his depression finally because the state gave him a ‘bullshit’ job watching a corridor into some tiny neighborhood. A lot of people simply need the a job to feel worthwhile; doensn’t matter what the job is.
I didn't write that article, but last week I came to the same conclusion and began my migration from GCP to AWS. I admire Google's tech but Cloud Platform lacks fit and finish. It's not fully productized. It's not even fully documented. (Is it indolence or arrogance to publish a link to the source code as the only explanation of
an important API?) I'm sorry, Google, you ignored me when I was crushing on you. Now I have Amazon.
I am uncertain of the staunch analysis but I believe they're making the argument that YC gives a massive advantage to startups that are part of it, and staunch believes that the selection process is unfair, so it follows that YC gives unfair advantage which can be reasonably seen as net negative.
Barbs for Bezos but Bill Gates Largely Admired in Seattle
2017: The future is always different than you imagined
I think that's a fair questioning. Transistor scaling seems to have run its course, sitting right at the atomic scale (but not beyond -- hence it would be probably undisturbed by subatomic discoveries).

At least there are plenty of biological examples that we haven't gotten close to replicating technologically -- while we have substitutes for almost every biological functionality, there are areas in the parameter space where the bio versions comfortably lead. The brain of course is an example, leading in efficiency and capabilities; but there are many others like compact self-replication, self-repair of structures, micro and nanomachinery (exhibited in cells), and so much more. None of that of course requires advancing physics.

Even for long term technologies, I don't think a deeper understanding of physics would have much to contribute, unless we found something wild like a compound made from new particles. That isn't to say it's not worth pursuing; it just takes a different relation to society, similar to math and philosophy.
You almost always need mixed strategies for Nash Equilibrium to exist so that's not much of a surprise that it doesn't exist if the prisoner has to choose a pure one (expects to die exactly this day and not other days).
> Will the lack of new physics cascade down

It's not that there's "lack" of anything, except understanding. "New" is in the eyes of the observer, the way I see it, there are very new and fascinating discoveries every year. It's more how the expectations aren't properly communicated. Like the article author writes:

"I fear a complex set of issues is likely to get over-simplified, and this over-simplified version of the book’s argument is all that much of the public is ever going to hear about it. "

It's all about for what the physicists can get the funding to explore. The biggest worry is the perception of "simple" public (some of which are actually deciding what is going to be financed) that there have to be "successes" however the "successes" are defined.

In reality, in physics, investing a lot of energy to find something and not finding that something can still be a point of a new beginning, and we had that in history a lot. Without Michelson-Morley experiments that didn't find what was "expected" there would be no Special and General Relativity -- these experiments were necessary. And the invention of Michelson still gives fascinating results: the first measurement of merging of black holes, only a few years ago, more than 100 years after Michelson's first experiment, used as the basis the concepts first invented by Michelson. We simply have to fund the experiments, and every properly done experiment is success, even if the results aren't what a lot of people expected to be.

There were the times where new paricles “appearing” wasn’t expected. Now the expectations were that even relatively small efforts must bring new particles. These expectations will most likely be adjusted.

Regarding financing, for example, the last time I've checked the total cost of everything LHC did, including building it and operating it for years, was around 9 billion of dollars. It's effectively nothing, compared to 1,500 billions of dollars (!) that are still planned to be spent on a plane that will surely not advance the science, famous F-35(!) (and much more is already spent than on LHC!) That puts some views in real perspective. One military plane could finance building and operation of one totally new LHC for at least 150 years, every year one new.
Please do look outside US market. In India two factor authentication via a text message to bank registered mobile number of the customer is mandated by law. Chargebacks here are virtually unheard of, probably most customers here don't even know what a 'chargeback' is.

The US is keeping its banking system primitive intentionally, as the government is hand in glove with greedy banks. Sending money whether to a business or an individual is free in India, for both parties.
In memoriam High Sierra
It looks like someone have read through the cypherpunk and bitcoin mailing list and extrapolate a story from that, making it feel "from the inside".

A story on how satoshi and hal got to debug a thing together but hal couldn't debug a release build... sending a debug build was 44MB bigger...

A story on mapAddresses.count

A story on ThreadSocketHandler and ThreadMessageHandler.

They all match to public mailing list discussions: https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynaka...
I guess we humans are just impatient due to our limited lifespan. If you look at the really grand scale of things, even the the speed of light, which for us humans is indistinguishable from instantaneous, becomes incredibly slow.

So we now have picked all the 'low hanging fruits' in physics. The really hard stuff may take a few millenniums, which is still unimaginable short compared to the age of the universe. And the universe itself is just out of its infancy and can go on for trillions of years... But we may find another interesting thing or two before we fade away.
I can't imagine House of Cards without Kevin Spacey, I didn't even dare to try to watch it.
Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming
What Marx actually wanted? We'll take your word for it, shall we?

So what did Karl Marx want?

"Until its complete extermination or loss of national status, this racial trash always becomes the most fanatical bearer there is of counter-revolution, and it remains that. That is because its entire existence is nothing more than a protest﻿ against a great historical revolution... The next world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties, but also entire reactionary peoples, to disappear from the earth. And that too is progress."

-Karl Marx, 1849, Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
For others' reference, EU countries often already required TV channels and radio stations to broadcast some percentage of national content.
Ask HN: How do you vet supplement companies?
Looking for US and developing countries perspective.
I like you too.
Running integration tests in Kubernetes
no one mentioning EPUB? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
I prefer a government that stays out of the way, does not tell the people how to live, whom to transact with, or how. One that occupies itself solely with external security of the country. There aren't such any out there. We'll get there, eventually, I hope.
How so?

First of all, it's trivial to convert HTML to a PDF, just hit Ctrl+P in your browser.

HTML works much better when viewed across multiple screen sizes, and has better accessibility features. If the HTML is well written, it will also be perfectly readable in CLI viewers.

PDF is a much more opaque format.
Summer Games Done Quick 2018 Raises Over $2.12M for Doctors Without Borders
This is beautiful. Some feature I would suggest would make it awesome:

1 - Option to add a caption.

2 - Adding screens directly from here and fit it in the screen.

3 - Full mobile mockup. Currently, it cuts the top and bottom.

Edit: I re tried and feature 3 is there. U need to % out the size of the device.
Wouldn't then the people who can only watch one episode per week be risking spoilers?
Could you explain ?

Extermination of what ?

> The next world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties, but also entire reactionary peoples, to disappear from the earth. And that too is progress."

Clearly his prediction failed because the next world war was not about Marxism. Although Hitler might have gained some popularity by speaking against the global capitalist rentier elite and financial system; I do not know.

IMO WW1, WW2 and the Cold War should be considered as 3 parts of the same nuclear world war.

At least there is much more democracy after "the war" and old power structures have been replaced by more modern power structures.
The caption consists of two sentences. They say the volcano is considered a danger, not the man.
Probably that high-energy physics isn't going to produce much new for a while. Low-energy physics, down near absolute zero or involving single particles, seems to be doing quite well. Slowing down light, quantum entanglement - those are all recent developments which look useful.

Microbiology has lots of work ahead. We can read DNA, but progress in understanding it is slow. Lots of potential there.
very good point. actually, 1-1/e is only for monotone submodular function. for a general submodular function, 1/2 approximation ratio is the best you can get.
Machine learning can be implemented in just a few lines of code using something like Amazon Sagemaker to manage the process. In some cases it can be less work than hand crafting dozens and dozens of business rules.

And just because you have a small website doesn’t mean you have to behave like you have a small website.
With my experience of working on +300 IoT projects - In majority IoT application edge computing is not required, devices generate very less data and perform simple computing or no computimg at all.In embedded usually it's better to keep things simple so that cost and bugs can be reduced. Most IoT application or solutions are usually not adopted due to hardware cost (capex) so keeping devices processing, memory and development cost low is important. Few measures can keep IoT deployment secure and you don't need a complex framework - TPM, Secure Boot, Secure Update and SSL/TLS are enough. I still see that such IoT framework will only be used in small % of IoT applications. With public networks getting more reliable and cost effective edge computing would become more of a maintenance nightmare than benefit.So keeping IoT devices thin and doing most of the processing on cloud is better. Though I do agree that in some application IoT endge analytics and computing has value. I believe we are living in a work of political and technology hype :).
Some part aren't even redacted:

"The database unfortunately names its files "log.0000000001". To the rest of the world, "log" means delete-at-will, but to database people it means delete-and-lose-everything-in-your-other-files. I tried to put them out of harm's way by putting them in the database subdirectory"
Which Metering Mode to Use on DSLR
Is it a lot more expensive?
Uh, that doesn't work when you have no recourse but to revoke your contributions.

Literally, as an at-will employee, the only bargaining chip in your hands is the sentence:

I quit.

Do you really believe it's possible to reason with people perched upon a throne of power.

Not quite. Not ever.

You get bro cultures like Uber, until a debacle like an SRE's scathing blog going viral lobs an arrow directly into the throat of the CEO himself. Okay?

That's how far these things have to be taken, when your combat is with authoritarian sociopaths. Blood in, blood out. They die by the sword. There's no two ways about it.
Well - if they are MLM or pyramid schemes then they are full of crap
I don’t understand this at all. I’ve worked with a close to a hundred data scientists now and every one of them is an expert in the business problem they are trying to solve.

You can’t just throw an algorithm (even one like AutoML) at a problem and expect to be able to do magic with no knowledge of the domain. The technology simply doesn’t work like that.
Funny how the blog is trying to use the x^2 + 10x = 39 example to illustrate that modern notation helps understanding and reducing errors, but then forgets the second solution for the equation (x = -13). In all fairness, though, it's is just meant as a translation of al-Khwarizmi's text into modern notation where only one solution is given.
Ask HN: What is the essence of what you do in your daily job?
Besides money, what is it that you do and in what ways does it fulfill you?
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Also, they force you to watch ads on top of the subscription you're paying. I'd rather pay more than watch 3 minutes of shitty ads per episode.
The link is not about ASLR, but ROP. ROP != ASLR :)

Anyway, even there, we can read : "ASLR aims to prevent an attacker from using previous knowledge of the address space to gain an advantage and execute malicious code. This has proven extremely effective in “raising the bar” of exploitation and is one of the most significant research challenges"

So, back to square one, why ASLR is obsolete? Its one of the main security features.

Recap: OPNsense uses HardenedBSD as base OS, which have ASLR, along with other BSDs. pfSense uses FreeBSD, which don't have ASLR/ASR.
Bigfoot Believers, Yeti Tee, Ufo Believe Products – Teespring
EPUB, open PDF alternative supported by the largest number of hardware readers
> Will the lack of new physics cascade down, or is there enough "stuff" between physics and technology that tech can keep on going.

Definitely enough. We're at the dawn of bio and nanotech and haven't even scratched the surface of the consequences of 20st century science. It'll keep technologists busy for at least 50 years if not more.

Pure physicists on the other hand are in a tough spot. By pure I mean those not involved in applications, e.g., HEP, string theorists, etc. Though I'm not a pure physicist and it's just my opinion.
GitLab Moves to Automate DevOps
Azure is not that great to be honest. Last time I used it (a couple of years ago), it happened to me that my VM was shut down and they sent me an email. Apparently the real hardware it was running in had a problem. That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice.

Hopefully they fixed that by now...
In German cities with tense housing markets you are usually required to buy off the kitchen furniture and appliances from the previous tenant, who usually overcharges insanely. Otherwise you would just not be forwarded to the landlord.

Also, these days a nice kitchen is an important status symbol for when you have guests over. So many Germans prefer to get new and personalized kitchen equipment when they move in. Knowing of course that later they will be able to sell it at little loss.
I pity your lack of knowledge of the quality of TV right now.
You can use IBAN domestically in the SEPA area for EUR account numbers. The banks usually allow the use of bank account numbers too and they then translate them to IBAN, so you don't have to.
What's more, account numbers in some countries themselves contain check digits.
> In all fairness, though, it's is just meant as a translation of al-Khwarizmi's text into modern notation where only one solution is given.

Probably because negative solutions were not recognized as valid at the time.
Can you recommend any of the others?

I’m aghast at how little I remember about the books I read! I’m very interested to see other approaches.
I think they still are mainly focused on their ad business as the core of the company and cloud is something they 'do on the side'. For Microsoft, Azure is core business, it's the future of the company. If they fuck it up, they're dead. Google apparently doesn't see their cloud offering as their core business and therefore doesn't get the attention it needs.
Making a decision purely based upon some posts on HN and the original artical isn’t a good idea either as there is little data on how often this happens and how often (and pulling the plug could happen with another IAAS). You need to weigh up your options for risk management based upon how critical your project is, the amount of time/money you have to solve the issues.

You might never see this happen to your GCP account in it’s lifetime.
So it's impossible to move on any other day? That sounds incredibly stupid. Does everybody start new jobs on the same day too?

After one year don't your contracts switch to monthly?
Singapore - No hot water in kitchens. I thought I just had a weird apartment, but everyone swears, that outside of a few expat focussed house/apartments, 90+% of the country doesn't have hot water in the kitchen.
According to Wikipedia, sale and distribution of zoophilic pornography is legal in a few states, including CA.
I’d like you to elaborate on that, because I don’t think anything I’ve said would be considered flaming. This thread is about a political topic and I’ve simply presented my perspective on it, in what I think is a pretty level headed manner. I also don’t think I’ve been using this site for any sort of battle, I comment on any topic that interests me.
Ironically, they let you know every time they can that you can contact your personal adwords sales person by phone.
Sure, how about private companies who have CCTV then? Could someone just 'ddos' a supermarket chain by getting a hundred people to all ask for their CCTV footage?
That's a very different beast. Not page aware.
The NSA is deleting all of its call records since 2015 because of privacy issues
I have re-implemented rackets for loops using named let in a way that allows me to almost reach feature parity in a weekend [0]. I could implement python's list comprehensions the same way without much fuss.

I can't imagine having to do the same using an already existing looping construct with it's own edge cases and subtle semantics.

[0]: I didn't think about post-guards when I started, and adding them now would mean having to do some restructuring of the quite hairy emitting macro, which I won't do since I don't see the use case for post guards for anything else than making in-value a bit more elegant
The Rise of Biometric Smart Cards for the ID Card Industry
That article doesn't really say that:

> The organization would have to target a data subject in an EU country. Generic marketing doesn’t count. [...] However, any U.S. company that has identified a market in an EU country and has localized Web content should review their Web operations.

(It's actually a decent article that captures the nuances of GDPR well.)
How Nuclear Explosions Were Used to Save the Environment – Facts So Romantic
My thought is that there is no paradox, "Friday" being the execution day can be a surprise. If the prisoner finds out that Friday is the execution day on Thursday because he is not executed on Thursday, the specific day is still a "surprise," just a day earlier than it happens.
Because it's easier to produce?
You don’t need GPUs for machine learning.

In fact the majority of tools in this space are exclusively CPU based.
Are you sure the problem is not Acrobat Reader? I haven't used it for more than 10 years but I remember it being slow.

Okular(provided by KDE), for example, is blazingly fast. Or at least, I haven't noticed any slowness.
Sofort are problematic because they a) access your account via credentials that it's against bank ToS to share and b) they scrape and store (and likely sell) transaction data unrelated to the current transaction because they have access to your account.
Read too many books, can’t remember.
There's tons of great TV shows nowadays. Mentioning Grey's anatomy and Glee does a disservice to TV.

Besides the obvious Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad there's Stranger things, Black Mirror, Westworld, just to name a few. Hell, all of the above are much much better than 90% of the crappy Marvel/superhero/blockbuster movie Hollywood keeps spewing nowadays.
Previous discussion from when the article was published:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9632751
> I always feel like the user is grabbed by the balls when it comes to device manufactures trying to force you to give them your data rather than hand it over to someone else, just because they know the user can’t do anything about it really.

This isn't a manufacturer problem, it's an Apple problem. Lack of choice is baked into their design, which is uncontroversial among both proponents and detractors; the former would (reasonably) say that there are tradeoffs that are the other side of the coin to constraining the user so heavily.
Hello Scott,
I have gathered from YouTube that you enrolled in CS Major in order to make your own video game, How does that fit a prodigious math geek who started learning calculus aged 11 and lately one of the pioneering quantum theorists?
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The article makes a lot of hard claims, but contains very few examples to back them up.

What are well known scenes, subcultures that have died like this?
Renter's protection. Any lease in the Netherlands was permanent until the renter left. Most still are. Living 30 years in the same rental is not exceptional.
So consensus largely is - probability of fraud is higher in adult entertainment business, downstream processors either charge exorbitant fees or altogether refuse to accept such payments, to mitigate having to deal with chargebacks.

My question is, Why is chargebacks still a thing ?
Why hasn't the US adopted 2F Auth for payments ?

With advent of smart phones we can have reliable identification based on two factor authentication, by sending a text message to mobile number registered with the bank, or even go further with text + fingerprint / text + password. The odds of fraud with such system would be minuscule.

Is there any reason apart from banks being greedy and the government being hand in glove with them ?
I only read on a kindle, so obviously the marginalia system is out of question. Here’s what I do: I highlight the passage, write a note where I summarize it with my own words. That’s all. But I also have a (physical) notebook where I write using the Feynman technique. On top of it all, I read at least 1 hour a day where I’m fully focused (or at least at 80% capacity) and you know what ? Good shit sticks: I trust my brain to capture what it deems valuable. If I forget something I don’t sweat it, it’s more likely that I don’t need it.