skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, Hulu is by far the worst of the major streaming services. From a design perspective it looks good, but the UX seems to be designed take you to the next episode of the last thing you watched and that's it. If you want to watch a different show, or an episode out of order, or even just want to browse, you're fighting an uphill battle against their "FULL SCREEN EVERYTHING!" design.
I wonder what the efficiency is compared to a modern "rocket stove" build [1]

Mass rocket stoves are _incredibly_ efficient. So much so that I've always wondered why more similar designs weren't used in times when the primary heat sources were wood, etc.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwCz8Ris79g (skip to 1:50 if you want to see a full one and not the ms paint diagrams)
IIRC, this was what the connection poolers (pgpool, pgbouncer), and perhaps all now-popular postgres extensions/enhancements, looked like in their initial years, as well.

In the context of a "large-scale service", my guess is that there's a chicken-and-egg problem, where an operators of such a service has to decide they want it to be production-ready enough to throw money and/or engineering resources at the project, which can attract yet more contributors.
What makes you think that people aren't going through they're POs and server farms and looking today? Just because a couple huge players told prior to publication, doesn't mean everyone was.

These things literally take time, and there's no indication of how widespread the targeting was.
It looks like I may have been misinformed or working off of old information. I'll look into this some more, thanks.
>Go ask any teacher in any history department in any decent school anywhere in the world (except China) and they will be happy to explain.

In the US maybe. In the rest of the world it will be a much more nuanced discussion.
3.14% gross here in Vancouver. 2.27% net (aka after subtracting off maintenance/utilities/taxes paid by my landlord).
I should have mentioned that it's also occasionally a casual gaming machine. The emulators are all through RetroArch these days, so that migration would be seamless. It's the Steam games that would be the sticking point. I know I could probably get most of them running under WINE, but it's the guaranteed compatibility of a 20-year gaming library that makes it difficult to fully close the door on Windows.
How is a company with a P/E of 150 whose competitive advantage has been all but obliterated going to force a lemonade stand, let alone Hollywood, into a talent war?
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Facebook switches to first-party cookies for tracking
Wow what a coincidence. It's so random how these things happen.
Not really, no. Why do you think it be easier to police? In concrete terms: who do you expect to do the policing? Because this is the kind of work that requires an expert, to catch an expert, messing with a product created by people 100% ignorant of _what_ they're making. Just _that_ they're making them. Where are you going find enough experts to check the work of even a single production line?
You always have to start somewhere.
That certainly contradicts what I've heard about these papers before. Gender, Place and Culture does seem to be a top journal. Thanks.
@less_penguiny: Very nice article, as others have said. It seems like you really nailed a lot of subtleties.

Your article hinted at a problem we all face: sometimes we're left guessing whether or not the other person is intentionally bragging. I.e., there's a problem of ambiguity.

I'd like to suggest a follow-up article: suggestions for how to communicate certain ideas in a way that minimizes the risk of being interpreted as bragging. Or maybe better, minimizes the risk of making the audience feel bad because of the same underlying psychological issues (insecurity, envy, etc.) that get tickled by bragging.

For example, another comment in this discussion [0] points out how someone trying to praise you could be (mis?)understood as actually bragging. It would be awesome to post a catalog of ways people can avoid this kind of ambiguity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148282
> So to build trust they can

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
Self Driving is not only a technical problem, it will be a people/marketing/legal/political problem. By the time these will be solved, GM/Tesla/Toyota should have competing solutions.
Beautiful work. I set this: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*y8eAZdMBfXkIB2S8X... as my new desktop background ;)
Wait so who is actually going to build the technology?
> I'll stick with being forced to use it for games only.

Steam just got an upgrade that automagically runs a lot of games via a modified version of wine (called proton) sometimes even with better performance than on Windows. It's worked very well for everything I have tried it with so far. So that just leaves games not available in Steam. The biggest of which has to be Blizzard, however a lot of their games already worked decently well with Wine, so hopefully proton works with them as well.

As of today most games may actually already run better on Linux than on Windows.
We use a lot of energy. Last time I ran the numbers I estimated that if the Drax wood-fired plant used UK wood rather than Canadian wood it would consume every tree in the country within a year.

750k tonnes/year: https://www.drax.com/sustainability/one-company-helped-trans...
Lost world: An ancient ninth planet that went missing
First guess: not being allowed to admit it due to national security reasons and it being an ongoing investigation. On the same day several Russians were exposed trying to attack OPCW. They were exposed by Dutch military intelligence. At the press briefing the UK ambassador was there. Same day US indicts several Russian spies. This to show that these are major, international events and that proper disclosure towards investors is probably on the back burner as long as operations are continuing. It must be maddening for those involved not to be allowed to discuss it, or even having to actively lie about it while government officials leak freely in the game of thrones.
Could you please post civil bytes instead of angry ones? This muddled back-and-forth is in need of charity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On further exploration of this topic, I'm also noticing that maybe I could put a certain spin on this blog post by the following logic. The age we're living in we're seeing a lot of boundaries become far less rigid. Class and social distinction being a few of those boundaries.

I'm not sure if this was the intention of the author, but I'd prefer to look at this maybe as a "guide book" for etiquette in this regard. Regardless of a speaker's intention it's also perception that is at play here. If braggarts are more aware of the audiences they are with, and audiences are less sensitive to these things that separate us in our life experiences, on both ends of the spectrum this has the potential to "move the needle" to a more comfortable place for everyone.
Not really: I'm letting the practical dictate the process. Catching this kind of inflitration requires experts to scrutinise the work of people who know nothing about what they're making, to catch experts with a much more vested interest in success, and you aren't going to find enough experts to take that job, at a good pay, to check the output of even a single plant. Let alone an entire industry.

If the question is "why don't we move chip production to the US, so this doesn't happen" the answer is "because you might be able to do that for one or two plants. And it'll probably drive up the price by an order of magnitutde, so they'll go out of business soon after. And you sure as hell can't move the entire industry because of prohibitive cost and shortage of manpower to do the bit that you want tacked on that can't be trusted to be done abroad".
> as Alphabet is not selling

They will license/sell it eventually when/if they will get it to work. What else would they do with that tech ? Last time I've checked Alphabet did not produce any cars or had any infrastructure to do that on scale.
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Sublime Text for sure.

I used to use Apple Notes and still have years of stuff on there. Before that it was Evernote. And before that it was text files somewhere.

I came back to text files just because of the lack of formatting. It forces a primitiveness on the idea that ensures that it doesn't become distracting.

A lot of people in the WIP community are starting to use Notion. Haven't looked at it yet.
Jail: where you'll loose your current job and be destined for minimum wage for the rest of your life!
That can be a feature in the summer when you wanted to cook inside.
That Facebook group you joined years ago? It might now be supporting
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You are correct that more stores are mixing their house brand in with "national" brands (or whatever term you want), and that stores have discovered the good ROI that comes from upping their house brand game (which is the point of the linked article).

I want to add that there is a hidden benefit for name brands to having the house brands there, at a lower price point. There's plenty of fascinating reading on "price positioning" and how having a lower house brand right next to the national brand results in increased sale of the national brand.

My main point was that I don't think Amazon sees its relationship with vendors the same way that older retailers do. WMT has a deserved reputation for being very aggressive with their suppliers, but I believe that their culture still sees the relationship goal as win-win (they would argue that they are helping their suppliers achieve better efficiency, or often licensing the national brand's stock to make their house brand so more sales for all). I know nothing about Amazon's buyer culture, but their own brand activity does not seem to give much consideration to supplier health.

It's also interesting to note that their own brands are immune to the commingling problem, which gives them a perverse incentive to let that problem ride. That makes me very uncomfortable.
How exactly is that helping getting the device back ? or the data ?

How is that supposed to work anyways ? I only know a few stories of stolen iphones and macbooks and thieves had no issue using the devices or selling them.
>So when they say that a downside to wind power is the much larger amount of space required compared to previous expectations, is it in the NIMBY "I don't want to see a turbine when I look out the window", or something else?

Extra space means extra dollars. It seems that the necessity for reliable backup power, and overly optimistic output projections figure into wind power's costs being underestimated.

From the article:
"The observation-based wind power densities are also much lower than important estimates from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

Utility solar installations aren't looking good either:
"For solar energy, the average power density (measured in watts per meter squared) is 10 times higher than wind power, but also much lower than estimates by leading energy experts."
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A lot of SQL databases can definitely adhoc determine if indices are necessary; it's just not the default because predictable performance and explicit indices tend to be preferred.

Postgresql has a handful of plugins that can tell you if you had an indice; would it be used and you can see query plans before/after without actually having to add indices until you're comfortable. This same plugin could easily automate indice creation, but most people don't.
This almost makes me wonder if "Verified" accounts is a step in the wrong direction.

Imagine a twitter where you actually have no way of knowing whether an account is "real" or not. Perhaps people then would take it far less seriously, and the only safe approach for a celebrity to take would be to say "we don't use Twitter" via other channels.

Well, then again, that would be Twitter shooting itself in the foot.
Have you seen elementary OS? Very clearly macOS inspired and they've done a great job with it. Worth a look for anyone who hates half-assed and inconsistent UIs.

I'm not a regular user (just toyed with it in some VMs) so I can't vouch for how the updates do, but I was impressed with the overall level of polish. It's an Ubuntu-derivative based on LTS releases so it lags a ways behind the cutting edge.

EDIT: looks like elementary OS 5.0 "Juno" is in beta and should be out soon. This release is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
You keep condescending to me without having understood, or at least engaged with, my argument (and I'll say that reading about the civil war makes it very hard to see it as a morality play where the virtuous Nationalists are defeated by the evil Communists; Chiang Kai Shek does not have a lot to recommend him as a defender of liberty or human rights). It doesn't matter if they're Satan Incarnate. Skepticism is much more important with American rivals, because the US media leans so much on US government sources who have an agenda (especially now when they want to set the stage for increased military tension with China) and because our "cartoon villain" conceptions of their leaders makes us throw common sense out the window.
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>Or even why two SPI roms?

Because AST2400 has input for two flashes, one main, one recovery. And the configuration that uses that is not common. That specific moment actually makes it harder to detect, while being very simple from technical side.
Ok, that finally makes a bit of sense about "if" this is true, how it might be carried out. And I agree with the author that the simplest action for a chip on the SPI bus would be to hold the MISO line low during power on to suggest to the BMC chip that its QSPI flash isn't programmed (note that QSPI starts up as 'regular' SPI and then switches over[1]). I would guess that the next thing the BMC would do is assume its on the factory floor and hasn't had firmware loaded yet and so it would attempt to boot via TFTP from some server to start the firmware loading process.

FWIW at NetApp the firmware engineers called the BMC the 'BiteMeChip' because they always caused issues when bringing up a new filer motherboard. They were finicky, were often hard to update, and when misbehaving could completely screw up the system.

So I can see this as a vulnerability but really I'd want to stick some probes on that 'mystery' chip and make sure it wasn't just some LC filter or something which is shunting off noise on the data lines.

[1] https://github.com/ChuckM/stm32f469i/tree/master/demos/qspi
Very likely, they mean Alanya Cafe by Marina Park.
"The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol." - Larry Wall
They also have a poor system of justice. They similarly have high rates of confession.
It's quite obvious. Instead of every IDE supporting every language (N*M), you have every IDE supporting language server and one implementation of server per language (N+M).
What does it say, though? An alternate interpretation is that Americans are aware but feel the choices presented are a sham.
But note that as always: that's too late. By then, the damange has already been done, and the person you take out of the system is simply replaced by anyone else. Card skimmers sure as hell haven't gone away just because we wised up to them: we now just pay A LOT MORE on law enforcement, and all that gets us is law enforcement now at least staying in lockstep with the skimmer's increased sophistication.

Now imagine how much it'll cost to stay in lockstep when the level of sophistication becomes "a single component the size of half a grain of rice".
>They treat it as the front page of Facebook.

yes, well said. I find this especially annoying. They also nag me to install or try something, and the only thing that the nag messages are achieving is making me start to hate windows....
it's pretty easy to dump an SPI chip and some vendors/customers routinely do so.

In this model, the implant basically contains a binary patch that is injected at boot time over a segment of the BMC binary - counter overflows, chip cuts out the SPI and transmits its payload instead. After the payload is injected the implant goes dormant again/resumes passing through the SPI, so dumping the ROM after boot, or even physically clipping onto the SPI chip will not reveal the wu-tang secret.
We can't predict the future. But our plan is to become a public company in 2020 https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#sequence-

And while it doesn't prevent an acquisition our recent fundraise makes it less likely https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/19/announcing-100m-series-d...
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Twitter is like trying to watch a football game where all 40,000 members of the audience have a microphone and each think they should be the announcer.

You turn the TV volume off, but members of the media have been perusing the seats for a interesting cherry-picked "announcer". Finding one, they parrot it to the rest of the world and that guy's opinion shows up on your phone anyway.
Linux Mint has been nothing but solid and consistent since I started to use it.
I just wish it wasn't full of bots... facebook is my only actual way to put a thumb on political opinions across the spectrum I have access to (friends in SF, Texas, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and then internationally).

Despite subscribing to one of those bot blocklists, it's still incessant. There's just so many bots. It's become a mild hobby of mine to hop on the latest "Twitter Moment" about politics just to refresh my public blocklist.
housing isn't just a financial investment. people factor in the benefits of living at a certain place over just the investment value. to a person who will live and earn a big salary at a place with a lot of good jobs or send their kids to good schools, the place is worth a lot more than to a landlord who can only rent it out. of course that can push rents up, letting investment value catch up, however that's only the case if there is no supply.
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Sorry to be that guy but.. sigh..
this is no hacker news,
it's just news.

Please don't turn this beloved site
into a news aggregator.

From the guidelines :
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics [...]"
I have a theory that every popular website will ultimately become MySpace clone, ramping up advertising/revenue until it drives off all of their users. With all of the ads, and promoted products, Amazon is stepping closer everyday.

I've been an amazon customer since they started. I've ordered thousands of books. However, this year, I cancelled my prime membership. I got tired of them not delivering packages. Sometimes they were delivered to our postal box; sometimes the front door; and sometimes not at all. I gave up and discovered that brick and mortar stores often have better products and I can get it immediately.

As far as people saying they get free months of Prime, my wife had packages never delivered and we would complain, they would just apologize and refund the purchase. Packages that were late? They just apologized. Once, the driver couldn't find our address, so he called the technical support who called my cell phone. I had to walk two blocks waving my arms before he found me.

Now, I find when I'm searching for something, I find that I don't get the best price. If I search long enough, I will find the same exact item cheaper. I'm convinced the search results are prioritized to make them the most money, not the best price or best match.

After canceling, I bought an electronic device and paid for fast shipping. The package was shipped out of the local warehouse, where they gave it to the U.S. Postal Service to deliver. The shipping cost via USPS was probably around $4. If I remember, they charged me around $12.50 for expedited shipping. They arbitraged the postage. I felt scammed.

I only shop at Amazon as a last resort now.
The engagement of user responses seems to have no bearing on whether a news article will embed them. I cannot count the times I have seen some CNN, Business Insider, etc. article talking about the latest Twitter 'controversy', and the tweets they link to have a handful (zero-to-five) of retweets and stars.
If it's anything like Japan the cops just torture suspects into confessing