skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the audience does not value the "gathering of such data in as unbiased way as possible" enough to make it economically viable, so instead crowdsourcing suffices.

Local newspapers are dying largely due to a change in the audience they once depended upon. This isn't an argument about "better" in some objective manner but instead an observation of the reality of the situation.
Google invests $22m in proprietary fork of Firefox OS, KaiOS
To my original comment on this, the economics are generally not visible to people. If you tell someone "We can build it one way and it will cost $200 sq/ft that will be energy efficient, or another way at $100 sq/ft that will require 25% more energy to keep warm/cool" and the person will make the false comparison of "wow it would cost 100% more to build and I would only get an improvement of 25% in my power costs?"

(those are all made up numbers but I have had the exact discussion with a builder when I added on a room and insisted it was at least as insulated as the rest of the house, the builder thought it a waste of money, I knew that I expected to have the room for 25 years or more and that the lower energy costs would be a net win.)
Kinda sad that a group with “communications” in its very name was able to let communication break down so much.

There is no way to “rebuild” a comment system without solving more fundamental security problems first, as it is simply too hard to believe what you read online.

Some ideas:

- Costs have to be ingrained in the system. It can’t be “easy” to spout crap in forums, nor should the hurdles be resolvable through traditional advantages (like having enough money to pay lots of people). One example would be: in order to post, you must donate X CPU cycles to Y.

- Webs of trust, one of which would be run by the government itself, seem like a reasonable step toward being able to partially verify where stuff even comes from. The webs must be decentralized so they are hard to bias, where the reliability of a circle is decided by the network at large. If Anonymous Poster X doesn’t have many reliable circles associated, that is equivalent to “take this comment with a grain of salt” (if not “ignore this drivel”).
Amazon Homepage is Down
We’ll see. Twitter has a history of being overinclusive of conservatives in assessing bot accounts. If this purge is just more of the same, they don’t deserve any congratulations.
I, the OP, am a starter myself. I was focused on finishers because they're often undervalued.
Oddly, yes. Sufficiently dense wood takes a lot to ignite and burns quite slowly, and I assume they coated it to make it even harder to get started.
Event sourcing with kafka and Node.js
>No, the alternative would be to know what they said the rules are.

Problem is, parts of the text are maddeningly vague, and they didn't exactly agree in their politics, so a single, simple, objective and provably correct interpretation of those rules is not always possible.

>If you don't think it's an accurate statement of how some judges view the Constitution, make your case.

I do think that's an accurate statement. I disagree with 'people who see, for example, the "living Constitution" jurisprudence as not actually upholding the Constitution, but rather just saying what you want and calling it the law.'

One can disagree with the doctrine of a 'living Constitution' but there is more nuance and thought put behind the rationale than some conservatives want to admit. Both sides believe, in good faith, that what they're doing is upholding the Constitution.

>The former view makes the Constitution the final law; the latter makes policy the master over the Constitution.)

I prefer to see it as the former making the Founding Fathers the master over the Constitution, the latter making the people the master over it. The Constitution is a legal document, not the word of God, and nothing in the Constitution explicitly requires that it be interpreted according to strict originalist intent, so interpreting it either way is equally valid, and equally a matter of politics.
Just the home page it seems, deep links and searches working for me.
>it's a difficult to understand this obsession with http scaremongering

Your surely meant it's not difficult, right? The first part of your sentence is exactly the answer.
Hyperlinking Beyond the Web
There may be hope for automating the dissemination of local and state government information and news when agencies use services like opengov.com. The problem is still getting this information to venues people will notice and pay attention to. This will still probably come down to social media. In many ways social media is taking the place of local newspapers.
Lovely little project. I saw a few little discrepancies too - I guess that's fine, but when I read "functional recreation" on the project site, my mind registered "fully functional recreation".

It's been a while since I used a classic Mac, having defected to Windows in the 90s and not returning until the 2010s, but I'm pretty sure (?) I could:

* drag the bottom right corner to resize the window
* drag the scrollbar thumb to scroll
* drag a rectangle inside a finder window to select multiple items (see below)
* click the top right corner to "maximise" (kind of) the window

Regarding dragging rectangles, I remember my awe as a kid when I first saw a GUI system (a Lisa being demoed at an Apple expo in the early 80s) and I rushed home to write a "drag a rectangle" program on the Apple 2 (a ][ or a //e - my Dad was a dealer for a while) with game paddles :) Hence why I think you could do that in the old Mac finder.
I've spent a couple hours every morning the last eight Tuesdays explaining to a customer that the software that they purchased from us, and installed on their servers, goes down for a few minutes at 1:00 AM because their server team is rebooting those servers to apply updates. Every week, same time, same issue, same cause, same review and root cause analysis demanded. Fixing broken processes in broken companies is 1000 times harder than anything else in software.
The Self-Made Fallacy: Most of Us Owe Our Success to Privilege
https://github.com/RoaLogic/vga_lcd

richard herveille created one 16 years ago which can do the job. it's silicon-proven: ICubeCorp put it into their IC3128.
I enjoy working with my team as well but I think there’s a happy medium to be struck. It’s not a binary of :: have your attention constantly pulled or being hidden away and unavailable for collaboration.
HTTPS is definitely good but this is a bit strong handed.

Many small devs don't want to deal with the complexity of HTTPS and the extra fees. It's a lot better with Let's Encrypt but I've talked to non technical people who have shelled out $300/year to their host providers just to have HTTPS and inevitably lots of things break due to hard coded links in their outdated software.

If authentication happens through a 3rd party provider and the there isn't any need for a site to be secure, why force the matter?

Broken sites lead to a massive drop in sales. All because Google thinks it knows best.

If they truly wanted to solve the problem, why don't they offer a proxy, that converts HTTP traffic to HTTPS traffic that gets used in Chrome.

Instead they force people who don't have the technical knowledge that they can get HTTPS for free to pay huge fees and inevitably have their sites broken in the process.
How to build a high impact growth team – Structure and Hiring
I've got 30GB+ of photos/videos in my Google Photos (unclear count due to Pixel free upload). I launch Google Photos, I see the most recent photos. I scrub down to 2011, there's the photos in 2011. It doesn't try to load the entire library in one go.
Is there any downside to using this to secure local servers with non TLD domains such as server.local?
For now..

Look at the trend. First it was just a small SEO bump.
Pew found a 35% decline in reporters covering statehouses from 2003 to 2014. This is a scary lack of information for voters and watchdogs.

http://www.journalism.org/2014/07/10/americas-shifting-state...

==Less than a third of U.S. newspapers assign any kind of reporter—full time or part time—to the statehouse. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, only 30% of the 801 daily papers it monitor send a staffer to the statehouse for any period of time. In Massachusetts, whose capital is the largest city (Boston), just 6% of the state’s newspapers have any reporting presence at the statehouse—the lowest percentage of newspaper representation of any state.==
Complaining about performance reviews seems similar to complaining about the tech interview process: there's general consensus it's bad and has many shortcomings, yet companies keep doing it and few feasible alternatives are put on the table.

Also, I don't see much of a difference between "classic" performance reviews and the "360-degree reviews" that the article mentions, other than the latter having better branding.
Check out the paper "Difficulty Rating of Sokoban Puzzle": https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/880f/32f843e8e1fe9c712b0fc4... -- in particular the "problem decomposition" model introduced at the end. Being able to break a solution into subproblems makes it easier, even if there are a lot of steps (see Figures 5 and 6 in the paper).
That demo video is a disappointment compared to earlier videos they showed. Earlier videos must have had heavy post-processing or a very optimal room setup because their SLAM was rock solid.

This more recent demo shows the common issues with SLAM.. jitter and loss of tracking on surfaces / backgrounds without sufficient visual features.
Teen requires surgery to remove knotted USB cable from penis
You can still fiddle with macOS. Though it's getting harder, with SIP and whatnot.

Still, disturbing that the URL includes "archive".

OTOH, they recently open sourced the iOS flip side of what's open on macOS. So who knows.
As someone from the last generation born without ubiquitous web, the biggest difference for me is the definition of community.

Now, a community is whoever you want it to be. Folks who play the same game you do. People who hate rocks. People who think purple hair is awesome. People who think purple hair is stupid and red hair is awesome.

The people may live next to you, or they may live in another country.

Previously, all these people who made up your community were in your town, by necessity. Because of that, you pretty much rolled the random dice and that's who you interacted with.

Gain (present vs past) -- being able to find a community that's similar to you. Especially if you don't identify with the norm (imagine being the only person you knew who thought computers were cool). Much more rapid dissemination of ideas and social mores.

Loss -- forced mixing of and interaction with different groups. Exposure to new ideas and different perspectives. Identification with people who aren't like you (but are still "one of us", i.e. from the same town)
Kudzu was also the name of one of the first hardware detection scripts for early Linux distros
If you think scala editor tooling is bad, check out haskell's. Scala can't lose people comfortable working with nice tools like IDEA to haskell.
Interesting to see that this headline typo (copied from the Gizmodo article) has lasted on the front page of HN for 9+ hours!

Chalk it up to only reading the beginnings and endings of words?
GSoC 2018 Report: Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 2
There's a few videos on YouTube of someone demoing APL in a modern context, and dictating the meaning of the symbols aloud; it felt strangely cryptic, but I'm sure someone who's worked with APL for some time would probably be able to latch onto it okay.
How many USB<->serial adaptors are there out there? Since 10.9 (IIRC), they've included their own FTDI driver.

I sure hope you're right though. It hasn't happened yet thankfully!
Boy, I can't wait to read the post mortem on this one.
usually in these cases where the CPU is so slow, it simply doesn't have the bus bandwidth even to feed an LCD. so the LCD is an SPI device or 8080 MCU compatible memory-mapped peripheral, that has its own internal SRAM as a framebuffer. a good example is the HX8357D (now obsolete sadly) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/video/...

technically speaking it's perfectly possible to use an 8mhz 8-bit arduino-style processor to make a phone, if all you want is calls and SMS! the processor inside the actual GSM/3G modem is far, far more powerful than that.

i added up the number of actual processors in a smartphone once: it was insane. DSP in the Audio IC. ARM core in the GPS. ARM core in the 3G Modem. ARM core in the main processor. 8051 core in the capacitive touchpanel controller. the list just goes on and on!
I love how the "Meet the dogs of Amazon" link on the error page works, though.
> I've seen lots of people suggest that OOP+FP fusion is what allows Scala to provide an easy gradual on-ramp to FP for people and projects transitioning from Java, which is Scala’s key value proposition.

I feel like I'm at the tail end of that on-ramp, and while I'm still as a whole really appreciating scala, I'm starting to wonder what the end-game is.

Now that I understand and am comfortable with all the functional stuff, I'm left wondering why I still have the OOP stuff, and why some of the FP stuff isn't more natural. I guess you still need some OOP for java interop, but the pure-scala ecosystem is pretty significant already.

I guess what I'm saying is that the easy transition from Java is only a benefit for bringing people in, not for a language as a mature ecosystem. And I'm thinking maybe I should get into one of the full-FP languages.

In fact, if anything, what's keeping me from making the switch is not any OOP features, but actually just imperative! Especially for performance-sensitive sections, and some rare-but-necessary data structures, it seems you really do want a small amount of mutable state.
It appears you didn't really read the article. There's no need to pull 100gb of data.

And 100gb is comparatively small for a photo and video library. The article mentions testing with 250k photos, which would be well over 100gb (2-3 times that at minimum, significantly more if RAW and high res).
Elon Musk says he will fund fixing Flint’s foul water
And yet they recently changed it so that if you name a text field username or password it will get filled in with the current user's info, even when it is an admin page where you create new users. There is no way to instruct Chrome to NOT autofill your credentials onto another user. They removed support for the HTML attributes ages ago and even removed the workaround (hidden fields with display: none that don't get used) developers used to prevent this behavior.
Failing to give thought to something doesn’t make it go away, but of course it’s your right not to think. As long as you understand that ideology and opinion aside, it can greatly impact your ability to do business in Europe, then you go be you.

Most companies don't do business in Europe.

As defined under GDPR? I’d love citations for that claim.
Most Markdown parsers will accept a data:uri blob, as they allow inline HTML.
And you're in the US? Have never heard of that.
The UI is nice, and very clean. It's nice that I don't have to sign up, or do much to try it out. I especially like the randomly? selected stock background photos LOL.

The person/name recognition could be a tad more robust though. It may help to augment the training set with artificial lower case names, so the ML keys in on other features of the name better. This can help with more "exotic" names, which sometimes don't start with uppercase characters.
Just the homepage being down makes me think the entire site is down, but as another user pointed out, you can still search and links work.

I wonder if checkout works. Can anyone confirm?
> You won't see high performance open source micrarchitectures that implements RISC-V core.

India's Shakti Core is a 6-stage pipeline that runs at
2.5ghz in 20nm and uses only 120mW. Their roadmap includes
VLSI variants which will piss all over ARM and Intel,
which is funny because the India Goverment has given them
unlimited resources and backing to do exactly that.

All entirely libre-licensed... starting here: https://bitbucket.org/casl/
Red Flag #1 should be that you’re doing a rebuild.
The scam is w/e they tell you to get you to buy it :)
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17511287
Their job isn’t to build the whole thing. Their job is to research and explore how new ideas and tools might be useful to your business.

It’s just R&D. It’s not an exotic idea.
Medical scams have traditionally been cure-all’s. If you look at claims made by old patent medicines, orgone boxes, electrical therapy devices, it’s easier to lost what they don’t claim to cure.
C++11 added extern templates which can easily solve the bloat problem. If a template consistently has the same type like, say, std::vector<int>, you can just extern it and tada they all share the same generated implementation ( https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/cpp11-language-templates#extern-... )

So even if the linker fails to de-dupe, you're still able to manually fix it pretty easily without giving up on templates entirely.

But libkern predates C++11, so decisions made by that team at that time are largely obsolete and should be heavily re-evaluated rather than blindly followed.
just the homepage
> It makes sense for the health of the network for big companies like Netflix to have business relationships with the ISPs to push the servers closer to the edges.

From what I've read, (I haven't followed it too closely as I'm not from the US) the issue is that repealing NN enables an ISP to throttle Netflix for users who don't pay more for (for example) a 'Media' plan WITHOUT even needing to make a deal with Netflix. Monopolies then become a problem because certain areas of the US can only get connection with one ISP, so there is no room for them to choose a better option if their only available ISP starts charging through the roof for access to specific websites.

I could be completely wrong, but this is what I took away from most of the pro-NN arguments.
My comments:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/10522187689085
Don't dismiss tech solutions to mental health problems
Mommy why are the clouds orange?
Intero with either Visual Code or Emacs is fantastic for Haskell. I own licenses for all JetBrains IDEs, a big fan, but my Haskell setup is equally great to work with.
On the other hand, experts will frequently demand that the new system do the same thing as the old system, in the same way.

You can't blindly listen to the experts.
Looks like just the desktop homepage is down.

Mobile works. Detail and search works.
Most companies don't do business in Europe.
I have made no such assumption. ALL I am saying is that you have not made a "tragedy of the commons" argument.
There's a similar phenomenon in the military - a lot of any soldier's time is spent maintaining their gear, moving/packing supplies, etc.
California Malls Sharing Customers' License Plate Data with Law Enforcement
nonsense. rocket-chip has been taped out at 45nm and achieved 1.5ghz, years ago. india's shakti core is going into 20nm and as a 6-stage pipeline will run at 2.5ghz. as that one uses only 120mW, even 16 2.5ghz cores would only consume around 3 watts (!!!).

caveat of course: the L1/L2 cache power consumption isn't included in that figure, but, crucially, with the Compressed Instructions reducing cache misses by 20-25% that's equivalent to having approximately double the I-cache size.

basically by a fresh start they're on to a winner.
It would probably expose too much of the implementation. Also, instantianted methods would live within the downstream libraries, making shared library linking fragile and un-upgradeable.
Also, you could create your own specializations potentially circumventing safety/security features.
True - I'm more worried about the privacy intrusions from advertising networks than I am for MITM attacks.
> We've passed peak oil

That is not true
I am part of the voting base, and I much prefer having greater choice in what I read and where I consume my news. I'm more informed now than I was before the Web. I'd prefer not to go back to a world where the only source of current events was the newspapers and television.
Actually, the Org format is supported by web sites like GitHub and GitLab, and there are several parsers in different languages. It's even supported by Pandoc, so you can convert to/from anything Pandoc supports.
A better title would mention this is an Ex-Tesla worker currently being sued by Tesla...

I'm not saying there is no story to be read, in fact I plan to look in depth a bit later, but the current title is somewhat misleading
If you see the demo runs on the website FAQ, that example of about 20-50 LoC cost ~$200. You can extrapolate accordingly. Now if you integrate into your CI, I am of course going to only rerun on changes (syntactic, easily checked; and hopefully semantic later.)

If you want a more precise cost analysis, shoot me an email for your specific contract.

And you are right about audits. Except a caveat: The system will by default check for global properties as well, e.g., no double spend. Again, look at the examples in the FAQ. They had no assertions in them. Yet, we find errors.
>Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

...

>During World War II, kudzu was introduced to Vanuatu and Fiji by United States Armed Forces to serve as camouflage for equipment and has become a major weed

The irony.
He keeps on saying they don't do enough, the times is able to do this despite not even having access to raw internal data

I feel like Twitter as an organization doesn't actually care about the problem, just about their image.

Why else would they talk about the hate speech stuff and continuously elevate groups like The Proud Boys through their verification process (that also affects their suggestion algorithms). And we shouldn't forget that many Gamergate people are still active on Twitter and often use their accounts to direct harassment to people on a regular basis!

The even more cynical view is that there's a group of employees within Twitter actively protecting these kinds of users
Have followers on Facebook and filter your friends requests. That is what I do.
We have an open office and the chatter ebbs and flows on mutual terms mostly. Doubt it would work with over 30 people. We're a fairly tight-kmit group and that becomes impossible after a certain size.

Our office has many places you can be alone, and we take advantage whenever needed. The open office warehouse echo still blows, but we manage
More importantly it should mention that he was caught red handed stealing company secrets and sending them to others. This one is a bit better coverage of it:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/tesla-whistleblo...
There really isn't, but then again, I don't know why they'd pay at all; it's hilariously easy to get a "following" on Twitter by simply following random people. I never use Twitter, but I once tried just following random people to see what would happen and I had about 200 "followers" within a few days, all from maybe an hour or two total of randomly clicking. Now 200 is peanuts, but imagine if I had kept it up for longer! Hahaha. It's so ridiculous how easily people will just follow each other on Twitter. It means virtually nothing, with or without fake accounts or people paying to boost their count.
Sounds reasonable, except it would still backfire when those in power believe their "feelings" are more important than widely acknowledged and vetted scientific data like many appointed in the current administration. And when need be, any corrupt official can buy an "expert" to tout whatever point of view fits them.
This has to be costing Amazon a fortune at the moment
Better today than Monday.

Using numbers from 2013, Amazon makes $2000 per second, down for 30 minutes = 3.6M

Edited: per hour to per second