skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really do those calculations though? I doubt ml to cu m is all that common. I find the non-metric approach of divide by 2 (1/8, 1/16th), the convenient way to adjust measurements (e.g. drill bits) and the comfortable use of fractions (rationals) constantly (e.g. recipes for four people easily adjusted for my three-person family; dress patterns etc). Note I spent my childhood in countries that used both systems (and my adult life too) and in my university training used US, cgs and mks systems. I'm not arguing for one because it's more familiar to me.

We're talking about customary human usage. Various fields use their own units from nm to parsecs and whether they should be divisible by 10 is not part of my discussion (sure, for both of these cases it's as good as any other divisor). In fact for daily use, many metric countries retain traditional units not just for daily purposes but even for things like land. The UK is the most familiar case for Americans, but many countries are similar.
I don't think that's true.

Unless bittorrent understands the topology of a network, it will never be more efficient than a structure that takes advantage of the topology.

E.g. Netflix makes servers that can be distributed to the ISP's and can serve content to those consumers directly from the ISP itself, and not over the ISP's outgoing link.

E.g.#2 Multicast clients register to receive multicast streams and the routers know how to propagate multicast.
This is exactly the problem: Some emails you can’t respond because they require taking actions, so they stay in the inbox to remind you. And then it’s the broken window principle... one cool thing I recently found is that on Trello you can have board specific addresses that create a new card when an email is sent to them. This allows me to move the TODO problem outside the inbox.
Github handles it better. It lets you decide whether or not to close the branch, lets you protect certain branches from being closed, etc.
Sequences can be generated at runtime, and it may even be impossible to "regenerate" them (think for instance reading bytes from the network).

Therefore, just reading that sequence changes (consumes) it.
This is a real problem in latin American countries where the taxi system is broken and run by ignorant older men (often with state subsidy) that provide inadequate service. Pleasant then, that the government likes to block said VC funds (Costa Rica).
Brilliant, thanks a lot Sid!
> If there’s a problem with Uber’s rating system, it’s that it’s a five-star system.

"Single axis" ratings systems are unintuitive, unreliable, prone to "gaming", and thus often self-defeating.

I think person-to-person services should have at least 2 rating axes:

• Was the service rendered [as advertised]? Yes / No

This would be for whether the driver dropped you off at the destination, or the seller delivered the advertised item, or the room and facilities matched the description.

A simple confirmation that the contract was completed; emotions should not enter into this rating.

• How do you feel? Disappointed / Neutral / Pleased

This must be presented in such a way that users DO NOT ASSUME that "Neutral" == "Bad." It should be OK to rate Neutral, because that's how we feel about most of the things in life.

I believe this was the original intent of the 5 star systems to begin with: 3 would be neutral/average/okay, 4 would be above average, and 5 would be exceptional/rare.

Or, since they are STARS, even 1 would be good.

But in practice, our collective psychology thinks anything <5 is bad.

Maybe introduce tomatoes or poo in addition to stars. Stars would be how good it was, and poo would be how many things annoyed you.
It doesn't have to understand the topology, it can just understand which peers can serve bytes fastest.

(I don't know if it does this, but it's been around long enough that I'd be surprised if it doesn't).
Herd immoralization.
What's the copyright status of this? It's European, so I assume that the Berne Convention holds.
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/info
I switched to it on Firefox mobile, works well enough for day to day stuff IMO. And if you need to quickly do a Google search you can use the !g bang operator as a prefix and it will redirect to google.
Mexico has only recently become a major poppy growing heroin producer. Before that the cartels were largely making money by dominating the flow of cocaine produced in South America. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/mexico-primary-source-...
A saying in Mexico is that the nation's troubles are due to being so far from God and so close to the United States.
Not suprising considering how terrible their products are. You don't need to benchmark them to know they're slow.
One thing I'd really like to see is translation.

Being able to write "tengo hambre en ingles" in Google and have it give me back an translation box I could interact with is awesome.

I imagine they could use Bing translation or something?
And it's not clear that it was a requirement to implement this on an off-the-shelf phone. There are plenty of developer friendly chipsets out there that are easy to sniff with that could've been run off a handheld device.
> PhoneNumberX was never used on this phone apart from WhatsApp that had PhoneNumberX linked to it.

WhatsApp's sole purpose is to be a data stealer for Facebook - the messaging part is a side effect. It seems like it's done it's job as expected though.

iOS allows the concept of App Groups which means apps from the same developer can talk to each other. Since iOS 11 the Keychain (a secure storage area for access tokens, etc) persists even after uninstalling an app, so nasty apps can put the tracking ID in there (you need to restore your entire device to clear this)

> Facebook is using some form of secret fingerprinting that got Uber in trouble with Apple

Actually, there is very little information you can use for a fingerprint on iOS. All devices are actually pretty similar.

What happened is that WhatsApp did what it was designed to do and got your phone number (and contacts) and uploaded them to FB. When you installed the FB app, it used App Groups to talk to the WA app to get your profile ID from there, and link your WhatsApp profile with your Facebook one. In addition, both of these apps will save a persistent ID in the keychain to track you even if you were to delete & reinstall the app.

When you installed Instagram, it used App Groups to ask whatever other Facebook app there was (WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, etc) to figure out if any of them had a profile on you, and that's how it got your phone number.

This persistence mechanism is more advanced than most malware out there.

> What would security/privacy experts recommend in this situation?

Give the middle finger to Shitbook. Use the GDPR to your advantage to request all your data to be deleted (but don't actually trust they will delete it, because it's in their best interest not to). If you must use their services, use a separate device, on a different carrier, with none of your data on it (make a pseudonymous account if possible), and don't connect it to the same Wi-Fi network as your personal device.
That one needs an extension to accomplish a fundamental feature in code tools is a bit ridiculous. Syntax highlighting isn’t even that hard.
> Moreover, he only owns 20% of the company.

There's nothing only about owning 20% of a public company.

20% and the largest shareholder, is more than enough to turn any public company inside out. Hedge funds do it all the time with dramatically weaker positions of single digit ownership. Carl Icahn routinely does it with a few percent. It's an immense position in the public markets in terms of wielding power.
I'm not disputing the SEC decision about Musk, but why is his once-off and inadvertent market manipulation more illegal than their consistent and deliberate manipulation? Wrap Elon over the knuckles, sure, but what happens to do people with that as their job description?
I would rather write code to kill people, than to control what they watch or consume, and how they consume content. Killing a few people is small in the grand scheme of things. Restricting knowledge or access to knowledge can destroy entire civilizations. Restricting content produces a world I would not want to live in.
A default should not do something destructive or pseudo-destructive. That’s pretty much against most UX standards.
Anyone aware of any PFS / perfect forward secrecy that is baked into this or similar projects like briar, scuttlebut, ipfs, zeronet, kinds of things?

I guessing it would be less likely an issue if your friends / associates have a downloaded copy of your messages for the past year if each week a different key pair was made to decipher a section of the data store or something.
Isn't the property of the generator expression not that it is an iterator (like a range or list also are) but specifically that it is a generator and thus inherently has state that is permanently/mutably exhaustible across different scopes? I like the example, and this is the first time I've totally wrapped my head around Rust ownership, so thanks! I just think precise Python terminology might keep people from getting confused about different types of Python iterator objects. Iterators are anything that has a __next__() method: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/
I think it can be done simpler than that. When the client/server has a choice of multiple peers to connect to, it can pick the one with the lower latency. That way you end up picking peers that are closer and will help lessen the load on the overall network. Not perfect, but a pretty good 90% solution
Strong disagree.

Leadership is key. I dont like Elon's propaganda machine which IMO is what feeds his cult status, but HE is the reason Tesla is a thing.

Believe in Him. Tesla as a company has no chance against GM or Ford. Elon has a chance because of what he has accomplished.

They say history is events and people. Electric cars are something every company will have in the next decade. What company is going to get an Elon?
Based one the effects of the drug described in the article, cannabis hardly sounds like a relevant comparison. Cannabis users don't end up in the hospital with psychosis and run around naked for 3 hours...
> If an institution has lower number of incidents than population average than it's rather ridiculous to claim that it has an "institutional problem" with those incidents.

Doesn't that depend on how they're counting?
Great article! I had some fun with Autovivification a couple of years ago and implemented a small ruby library to do just that https://github.com/mickey/black-hole-struct.

I think the whole point was to help generate a few very long json files (http://docs.grafana.org/reference/dashboard/#dashboard-json) but in the end I had way more fun with this new concept!
A contract provision that is unlawful can’t be enforced.
You can't legally guarantee it (even the GDPR, which is like the top of the line in terms of privacy regulations, is still a joke due to the lack of enforcement) but you can make yourself look more trustworthy by having a business model that does not rely on stealing data.
Musk is covering the fine to Tesla by buying $20M of Tesla stock. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/business/tesla-musk-sec-s...
Incidentally, uBlock origin has this feature built in. uBlock is also better respected than ABP these days I believe, though of course you're free to use whatever addon you prefer.
Most of the functionality is done by the BIOS. It's basically a shell that wraps around the interfaces provided by the BIOS.
Hello... you paged?

It looks like Solid has progressed since the last time I really looked into it. But, from what I recall, Solid focuses on standardizing data formats and storage... but not compute. That is, all of your personal data is stored in some central location chosen by you, and then web apps can access that data (if you give them permissions). The web apps themselves still run on their own servers, controlled by the respective developers.

I'm skeptical of this model because:

1) If the code still runs on the developers' servers, there is no way to place technical restrictions on what they can do with your data. They can make a complete copy of whatever data you give them access to, they can store additional telemetry on the side, etc.

2) I think developers will resist standardized data formats because it makes it hard to develop new features. If you want to build any feature that requires storing additional data, it needs to be supported by the format. Perhaps the formats are extensible, but if multiple vendors do not agree on the extensions, then your data is no longer portable, defeating the purpose. I find it hard to imagine that any developer will voluntarily restrict themselves in this way without a huge incentive, and I don't see what that incentive is. (Certainly, not enough people care about data sovereignty for that to be an incentive.)

My opinion is that data sovereignty efforts must focus not just on storage, but on compute. The servers on which code actually runs should report to the user, not to the developer. Developers should build apps, which run on the user's servers. This way, developers are still free to create whatever data formats they want, but the user ultimately controls the storage. Other developers can attempt to develop "compatible" software which can read the same data, but this doesn't hold anyone back from adding new features to their own software.

But my own attempt to create such a platform didn't work out. So, you know, you shouldn't necessarily listen to me...
I don't know enough about UK politics to say much intelligent here. Does it seem to you that the elites wanted to remain and the common folk wanted to leave?

I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, but information from someone who knows more would be nice...
That's been available in popular adblockers for almost as long as adblockers have existed[1].

https://adblockplus.org/filters#elemhide

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...

[1] Before browser based adblockers existed (late 1990s), we used to use filtering proxies like Privoxy (formerly Internet Junkbuster). Of course, at the time, text filtering was usually Perl regex instead of CSS selectors.
So he made one big mistake. He's done a lot of good stuff. He was punished, he's done a lot of good for the world. Compare him to the heads of banks and financial orgs in 2008, people doing credit default swaps,, the entire financial world that takes a cut out of most transactions for no good readon, like ipos. He's a huge net positive for the world.
Why exactly do the homeless deserve this money? If "the homeless" as an entity is deserving of all money, why isn't everyone taxed at 100% and all proceeds given "to the homeless"?

You have not provided any valid reasoning for your statements.
I have been a couple times and agree as well as it makes for a great vacation destination. For Starwars fans you can actually climb the temple IV in Tikal which was the original Yavin 4 filming location.
should've asked instead: "...because he lives in China and didn't attend Tsinghua?"
That doesn't make it more efficient. It might make it faster at the expense of using your ISP's outgoing bandwidth multiple times over.

The most efficient network distribution is one where the data only travels each network link once for all destinations. This is the way multicast works, e.g.
Bitcoin Slightly Retraces to $6500 After a Strong Support and Rally
>which is why nobody has ever really used it.

Indeed, though it's often paradoxically employed by some libertarians who advocate for full decriminalization.
I'm glad they're desperate enough to allow the word "Tracking" to be used in the instructions. This is why I think all "Ad Blockers" should rebrand as "Tracking Blockers". It would force a more honest terminology to be used. "Turn off your tracking blocker" is a much scarier request to make.
In real life the DoD does end up killing lots of people that it probably doesn't need to be killing. I would generally agree that countries need weapons or to at least be friendly with countries that have weapons, but you have to look at how those weapons are used.
Do you think this approach applies if you’re trying to save energy to work on side projects? I feel like if I work as hard as I possibly can at my day job, at the end of the day I’m not left with much juice left to work on the things I actually care about.
No. (No, it predicts right things locally; no, dark energy is not in conflict with GR; and probably no on the scale of galaxies, with some assumptions).

We can (and do) test General Relativity to exquisite precision in the solar system.

Those tests constrain the local density of any sort of effectively undetectable matter which includes among other things the (thermal) cosmic neutrino background, lots and lots of relativistic neutrinos, and a fair amount of ultrarelativistic neutrinos (like those that ANITA studies).

Effective undetectability is a function of current technology versus the goodness of estimate of (high) flux of the particles; we can spot small numbers of GZK-interaction neutrinos (with various observatories, including ANITA), we can spot small numbers of Super-KK neutrinos (mostly because we know the path they follow), we can spot small numbers of solar neutrinos (there are A LOT of them and we also know what direction they're coming from), but we have no real hope right now of spotting relic neutrinos (since as we take the momentum to zero, we lose the ability to spot recoil interactions; the emitted photons get drowned out by the CMB; the cosmic neutrinos are also travelling in random directions, like the cosmic photons).

If we take the local density of any of these neutrinos way up, their gravitational effects in the solar system (and indeed in similar systems we can study with various different telescopes) will be pronounced, and straightforward to study with General Relativity.

We do see pronounced gravitational effects at the scale of galaxies; one way to explain them is to add a thin dust of slow-moving mass where the dust motes remain on extremely stable orbits (implying no heating from (photon) radiation, no cooling by emitting (dark? photon? whatever) radiation, and no collisions with ordinary matter dust).

Dark matter is extremely sparse at the scale of star systems -- but then star systems are extremely sparse at the scale of large galaxies! (Likewise, the interstellar medium is extremely sparse, but there's a lot of space among the stars!) Low-interaction is easy enough; Earth is highly opaque to ultrarelativistic neutrinos, but as you take the momentum of the neutrinos down, Earth becomes highly transparent to them (so do telescopes and other instruments, alas, which is why they are hard to observe). (Standard-model) neutrinos are too light to stay in the places where the gravitational effects are observed -- gravitational interactions with the ordinary mass of the galaxy would kick them away. So something else is needed. The question is what, microscopically, it is. However, wishing the gravitational effects away doesn't work, and neither does modifying General Relativity (at least not so far).

In the standard cosmology, Dark Energy is precisely a component of the Einstein Field Equations of General Relativity (it's literally \Lambda, the cosmological constant). So it is entirely the opposite of being in conflict with General Relativity. The research question is mainly why it takes on the value it does, and whether it does so in any sort of spacetime-position-dependent way.
How is it piracy if you buy the music? Do you live in a country that forbids format shifting?
Assuming that was true[1][2] the point still stands, it means Musk could spend more time on marketing than the tedium of corporate matters.

[1] You could argue it's true by pointing out that ninety percent of Tesla's marketing IS engineering, engineering that fuels a powerful perpetual hype machine.

[2] It's obviously not. He is formally trained in economics and physics, and he proved these qualifications with PayPal and SpaceX respectively. When it comes to marketing he's quite clearly uncomfortable in that role.
I admit I did exaggerate, but when Steve Jobs died, there were crowds of people claiming that Apple’s innovation was gone
Musk reportedly refused to sign the deal at the last minute because he felt he would not be truthful to himself and wouldn't have been able to live with the idea he'd agreed to accept a settlement and any associated blemish.

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/09/28/elon-musk-walked-settlem...
sounds alot like another half assed fuzzy logic spinoff
The defamation accuser's complaint alleges compensatory damages "in excess of" $75k only because it's a jurisdictional requirement for US federal court. He will seek much more at trial, plus additional punitive damages.
Neither methanol nor B100(B99) are fossil fuels derived from petroleum products.
as long as they aren't being stored, it shouldn't matter. You could just read user's IP, use that to filter results, then throw it away

Also IP by itself isn't really that much of a privacy problem. It only becomes a problem when it's used in the process of delinkage of more sensitive information
What would security/privacy experts recommend in this situation?

It sounds glib, but the obvious and best recommendation is to delete both Facebook and Instagram apps from all of your devices.

It's not feasible to expect to use apps such as this – whose primary design principle is to track and extract as much data as possible from it's users – without being tracked cross-app and cross-device.

For a similar reason, when I launched my adblocking app (https://www.magiclasso.co/) I didn't release an Android version. It is a losing battle trying to work against the key reason that something exists. In the case of Android it is owned and developed by the world's largest advertising company, so it would be futile trying to create a privacy and security first adblocker in such a hostile platform and environment.
Filing public charges requesting his removal as CEO even though they weren't seeking that in the settlement seems like a calculated move to maximize the impact to the share price and thereby force a quick settlement. It was evidently effective, but it was a hell of an expensive way to win if you're measuring winning in terms of protecting investors. Anyone who got stop loss'd out of their shares has a right to be displeased.
I'd rephrase that as moving back toward search.

Google wasn't always there, and even after it became popular, some time passed before the name was used as a verb.

Personally, I Ask Jeeves to Lycos it.
It was multifacted involving culture, demographic, immigration, law enforcement and external competition.

1. Banning of italian immigration in 1924 ( Immigration Act of 1924 ).

2. The integration of italians into american life.

3. Poor immigrant italian families transitioning to wealthier italian-american families generation after generation.

4. Decades long government crackdown on organized crime.

5. Competition from non-italian mafia ( russian, ukrainian, asian, cuban and of course the mexicans ).

As immigration stop and as italian american moved out of cities to suburbs and got professional jobs, the mob lost its prestige and demographic base. And as the government cracked down, the structure of the mafia was slowly dismantled along with its reputation. Finally, just like the italian mafia usurped the irish mafia, the italian mafia was being squeezed by other younger and stronger ethnic mafia groups.
Hipchat is already toast, it was being replaced with Stride, and Stride got the axe. Atlassian has now partnered with Slack for chat.
This is the shorter one ddg.gg