skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> open a case and get access [...] if you reference a vulnerability that’s affecting your current hardware.

Ok, but that's bullshit, isn't it? Not all customers are going to be proactive/attentive enough to know their hardware is vulnerable. Cisco knows there is vulnerable gear in the wild, knows there is a fix, but withholds the fix until people come begging? Almost feels like the sort of thing that should be illegal (or at least on the losing end of a civil suit).
Just a guess-

The way the video is generated is based on specific points in time.

While going back to that part of the video with it already downloaded would make sense, it might require going back decently far to get all of the pixels.
Judging by timestamps that thread was actually later... just upvoted more.
If you're placing cache servers at the ISP then they will charge Netflix for the seeding bandwidth, which would work out more expensive than running traditional RMTP streams because the BT protocol has much more overhead (TCP vs UDP, CRC checks, tracker syncing, etc). And that's without factoring in the likelihood that the cost of bandwidth per GB from a CDN would be much lower than from an ISP.

So what would Netflix gain in doing so? They'd need to build new clients, convince content owners that P2P is secure[1], convince ISPs to seed content, pay for new infrastructure, etc. And the final product would be more expensive and _at best_ equivalent to what they already have - though realistically it will be worse on all but the top end viewing platforms (ie laptops and desktops). And for added bonus this infrastructure "upgrade" then removes the possibility of Netflix running live services and dynamic ad injection, etc.

So it's more expensive, less future proof, less performant on low end internet connections and wouldn't work on any of the existing smart TVs or streaming HDMI sticks.

Like I've said in other comments, BT is fine for hackers and pirates - for people who want to run something for free, willing to run it on a laptop or even willing to be inconvenienced a little for the sake of running something different. But it simply couldn't compete once you start scaling it out as a commercial platform with all of the customer expectations from non-techies and the unseen requirements / complications that happen with professional video delivery platforms behind the scenes. Plus for all of this talk about how good BT could be, people seem to miss the key point I made right from the start: that existing delivery platforms actually aren't that bad.

[1] I actually have no qualms with the security side of P2P in terms of protecting copyrighted content. But content owners are notoriously slow to adapt to change and hard to please. Getting them on side might prove an even tougher problem than engineering BT to compete with RMTP at the commercial scale.
Hey, it looks like you've been shadowbanned since around september 2016. A skim through shows one or two comments that have been vouched for (as I did with this one), and a lot of 'reasonable' comments that haven't.

I'm not sure what to say, because a fair amount of your comments didn't really seem worthy of a shadowban, so I assume that you cleaned up your behaviour, but alas too late. You might wish to email an appeal to the moderators to sort it out.
I share the sentiment, being in the same situation.

The principle is the same as the one producing colored strips in the BORDER, by changing the color really fast while the TV beam is jumping from one row to the next.

It was easy with the border, as there was a single bit defining the color (the loading routines changed it with the current value read from the tape, that's why you got the crazy border strips, and these were synchronized with the sound).

To change the main screen color though, you need to re-write the contents of the screen memory, really fast. With the limited development tools at the time, I can see how nobody got to create a graphic library as powerful as Nirvana or BiFrost.

There were people who thought of doing it, though. I remember seeing a demo which painted 1-pixel-high horizontal strips in different colors across the whole screen, syncing the border and the screen. My mind certainly was blown :-)
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That's one disadvantage to Twitter,you can search this kind of stuff. Also something I got reminded of was anti semitic remarks crypted in triple parentheses that are hard to search.
> An electronic scanning system could easily be vulnerable to many of the same issues that are presented here

In New York City, optical scanners are used. As a check, random precincts’ ballots are manually tallied. This is a good compromise between cost and security.

(There are additional checks, like a public and private count and vote aggregates being publicly posted at every precinct at the end of the night. Observers can also audit the public and private count of any machine at any time of the day, and they do.)
I see it differently. It appears to me that large swaths of the political right have gone over to intellectual relativism, where everything is reduced to mere opinion, equally valid to all other opinions, and facts simply don't matter. See any discussion of climate change for that.

To be fair, it's happening some on the left as well, but not to the degree it's happening on the right.

Of course, that's my opinion, and I'm a leftist, so you can just dismiss me out of hand.
Citation needed. “Because there existed languages with different concurrency models” doesn’t really explain why the choice of C for Python’s implementation necessitated a GIL (there are plenty of languages and tools built on C with non-GIL-ish concurrency systems, and many languages/tools built on not-C that don’t expose the concurrency features of their underlying language at all). Look into how/why then GIL was added; it has much more to do with not wanting to reimplement the language/break compatibility than it has to do with what the language was implemented in.
The entire article reads like a blog post. It obviously wasn't written by a news writer or edited by a news editor - there are grammar issues and tonal issues and sourcing issues.

Does the BBC now have something like the Fortune "Contributor's Network" - a group of random bloggers who get to write under their domain as if they were BBC writers, weakening the brand but bringing in more click revenue? That'd be my guess as to what's happening here.

Regarding just the first sentence example:

> In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female.

The sentence structure suggests it's the countries rather than the authors who are female. The clause is misplaced and "of which" applies to things not people ("of whom" would have been better). Basically the writer wanted to cram in a bit of extra information, couldn't figure out where or how to do so gracefully and grammatically, yet stuck it in anyway.
Controversial non-PC opinions are often flagged on HN, because no productive discussion usually results (not just gender, but also politics).
The interest rates of developed countries tend to follow each other. Interest rates are one of the main mechanisms used to control the money supply.
There is no mention of salaries in the article. But if you want to read it: https://outline.com/ZC4jn8
This also caused the characteristic out-of-order loading of splash screens from tape - they were loaded linearly into this nonlinear layout.
In addition to TFA, do you even bother reading what you reply to? That has nothing to do with what I wrote.

I’d watch your tone, too, Dog Whisperer. Anyone smacking dogs on the nose can save the self-righteous attitude.
DokuWiki is pretty configurable and has plenty of Bootstrap styles so it's not 'ridiculously' ugly. There is also plenty of Add-ons to add further functionality.
This seems to be Strumia's slides:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...
> message boards, IRC channels, chat rooms of all kinds, etc

> But something killed pretty much all of them.

Not in the least.

Interest-driven, channel-centric communities are alive and kicking, from IRC through Discord, Steam and other gaming communities, to Youtube/BitChute comment sections (nasty as they may be) and new meta-/platforms like Mastodon or Minds.com.

What has changed is the expanded version of Eternal September - influx of newcommers who join the ?book / ?gram / ?itter du jour, enjoy the interface candy and the occasional outrage, and are very slow to - or even fail to - explore the wider net of chats and other communities. It certainly doesn't help that media tend to paint all non-mainstream platforms as dark, scarry underbelly of the internet with nothing of value to offer, best to be avoided. [1]

The slow filtering in of new users into smaller communities is not even necessarily a bad thing, as quick influx of newcommers to interest communities can easily disrupt them to the point of derailing. The IRC and the likes being a cozy hangout where friendships are forged and projects are kicked off isn't based on a particular technical quirk of the IRC protocol or clients. It's all thanks to the established, cozy & social culture[2] being able to take in a certain amount of newcomers, guide them in and let them grow into part of the community. Moving too fast tends to break things.

[1] the smartphone is also partly to blame, as it's much less comfortable for extended back-and-forth conversations than a computer; IMO it's more of a prepackaged content consumption terminal. But that's a personal, debatable opinion.

[2] certain glaring exceptions notwithstanding
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How would you design a system where you do need an ID to vote without unfairly disenfranchising a lot of people?

This is not an impossible question by any means. You can absolutely design such a system. But the differences between that hypothetical system and the real systems used in the US are important and instructive.
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Seems to me that the comments of such a discussion ought to be flagged rather than the entire article.

But that can grow out of hand more quickly, unfortunately.
Did you also stop using all Facebook products (Instagram and WhatsApp)? Many of the people I know who are proud of quitting Facebook are happily snapping pictures daily for Instagram or chatting regularly on WhatsApp.
You are right. And I am not sure why you are getting down voted. As stated in the article, CERN distanced itself from these statements. An another physicist present during the presentation consiedered the conclusion superficial.
So if my understanding was correct, by applying the treatment (Immune Checkpoint Therapy I guess), immune system will clean cancer cells like they're doing a everyday task?

Well, then I hope one day that treatment will become cheap enough so it can benefit everybody.
If you reading Elements is difficult then I would recommend Introduction.

I'm not sure if reading Introduction will prepare you for Elements so much as it will just give you some knowledge you can use and see if it makes sense for you and what you want to do to go and (re)learn some of the math tidbits that you need for Elements.
I wonder if this would look good as a force-directed graph.
"I'm not holding you hostage and demanding $20k, you can instead just give me your first born child!"

Holy crap does anybody actually think that's remotely acceptable behavior? I get better support on discounted Chinese routers I've bought in back alleys - they at least put out their patches for free.
I don't think it's polite to photograph a giant emerald when it's in the shower.
CERN is the last place for discussing these kind of social issues which are only going to cause furor.

They should well and indeed be studied, but not there.

Also, it's a really hard one. Biases abound.
Your suggested system is basically the same as in Mario Kart, but without accounting for players moving backwards. As evidenced by your comment, it's not trivial to come up with a problem-free solution.

Further, no programmer makes perfect decisions all the time. The system they used wasn't that overcomplicated and is similar to many racing games. The description in the video makes it sound slightly more complicated than it really is.

The differentiating bug here is that they allow the player to go from key checkpoint 0 to the last key checkpoint without, at that point, decrementing the internal lap counter, instead decrementing that only when you pass backwards over the finish line.
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I agree that we need cryptographic timestamps. Seems like this would be a good use for blockchain, but any implementation would be better than nothing, as long as it's not fully centralized.

The proposed workflow seems overly complex, though. For authorship verification all you need is ability to submit a block of text and receive a signed timestamp.

Input: text
Output: timestamp + signature
Verification input: text + timestamp + signature.

The simpler it is, the more universally it will be used. It should not 20 minutes either. The crypto involved should be pretty trivial.

Any metadata could be built into the text itself as comments or hidden fields. However, this will not verify the URL the data is coming from, which might be desirable.

The second kind of service could be verifiable archival service.

Input: URL.
Output: page content after rendering + timestamp + signature.
Verification input: text + timestamp + signature.
The service stores: timestamp + signature.

This could be used to verify that at time X URL Y contained text Z. It doesn't matter whether the text is dynamic and go change later, since you could keep original page content.
Can you do a small write-up on that lambda function? I know nothing about those, but I know that Netlify kind of? supports them? If possible I'd like to set up an end point on my Netlify deployed site and do what you are doing. Thanks! :)
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Situation: Presentation claims "male scientists were being discriminated against because of ideology rather than merit."

What happened: Presentation's ideology is criticized.

What I expected to happen: Presentation's veracity is disproven on a scientific basis.
Folks are passing the slides, which don't actually have data (EDIT: supportive of his preference or σ=1.15 arguments, he does summarize and offer a bit of data about how women claim to be marginalized in the field). Folks there say the slides are not reflective of quite how angry and off-putting the talk was. It was not presented calmly.

Here are the slides:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...

WARNING: These slides are not very good or compelling and invoke, "Cultural Marxism" as a causal agent for why women want to and feel entitled to a fair shot at STEM positions by merit.

You can be modestly sure anyone who says, "Cultural Marxism" (a direct invocation of the specter of Nazi propagandists' "cultural bolshevism") isn't arguing with the best of intentions. Folks invoking that nonsensical saw aren't about to present a huge quantity of well sourced and organized evidence.

Usually that phrase is associated with statistics about the number of Jewish investors in the US, how CoCs are destroying culture, how dangerous Muslims are to "European cultures," or how women and socialism caused the fall of the Roman empire.
OAuth and similar technologies are a blessing and a curse. Users are too willing to use one site’s login credentials to log into another site, and this willingnessis a phisher’s dream come true. This whole class of problems would go away or at least be minimized if there were fewer of these “log in with Facebook” and “log in with your google account” opportunities to exploit.

In this case it looks like the 3rd party service required deep integration with Steam so it was probably unavoidable, but many sites use OAuth as a crutch because they don’t want to bother butlding their own sign-in system.

I’ve stopped using services if they don’t provide an option to create a site-specific username and password. Facebook login the only way to sign up for your site? How about no.
I said "stoke and profit off of", not "exploit" - devs have free choice and simply need to get informed about where their incentives are (mis)aligned. I also never said these platforms don't do anything to create value. The issue is that they can prosper even if the typical dev is throwing his time into the meat grinder, and devs should realize this rather than assuming that because a market is large it is viable for the average (or even above average) participant.
Alternatively, they could say that they were thinking about which candidates to pick! On the ballots I have seen, party affiliations are listed, which means that it is expected that voters will enter the booth without knowledge of at least some candidates.
Anyone who has studied hard, possessing a good work ethic, willing to learn lifelong and open to new approaches does indeed deserve success. What else would you have them do - walk over coals?
tl;dr I got tired of people saying I was "lucky" that I could ride a bike to work and made a tool to help them do the same thing. It shows flats for rent on a map with transport and bike routes instead of roads.

https://www.gaffologist.com/ (Ireland-only)

Sorry if it sounds like a plug but it's the best answer I have to your question. I studied physics in college and hoped it would help me work on energy efficiency or renewable energy generation technology, but it turns out that when I graduated (in to the worst recession in a century) nobody had any interest at all in what I was able to offer. I'd still love to work on saving the planet if I could do so while paying rent or a mortgage.
[citation needed], not because you're wrong (you're not) but that's about as unhelpful of a response as you can make without just personally insulting the person.
What does the lock screen display if you don't have ads? I might not be interested in paying to not have ads, but paying to put a picture of the family on the lock screen might have some appeal.
Exactly, your choice is either ads-as-screensavers or one-time $15 purchase to get generic screensavers instead.
His arguments seem to fall into two categories to me:

- Women are cited less

- Women publish less.

Other people are addressing the first... and how his statistics aren't sufficient to show a lack of bias.

I think the second is on even weaker grounds. That could easily be the result of discrimination by professors, collaborators, reviewers, etc. in deciding who to work with, how early to try and get students work published, whether to accept or reject something for publication, etc. I have no real evidence for this, he has no real evidence against it.

If I was going to expect discrimination somewhere in the process. It would be professors and collaborators who actually see the person they are working with. And it would be by people reading papers many years later based on the reputation of the authors name instead of the content of the paper. Neither of which are disproven by any of his slides.

That said - I find the fanatical attacks from the side I am currently arguing for far worse than the work itself. Ignoring and punishing people for opinions isn't just wrong, it encourages them to hold the opinions more strongly in secret. Open discussion is key, and we should know that as a society by now
They sure change my mind. I'm just not always convinced what people are saying are facts. At best they are the current best explanation and at worst only opinions.
People are openly getting chosen for jobs on the basis of their gender or race, and that's 'disgusting'.

That said, CERN shouldn't be the place for this kind of discussion. Though it should be happening somewhere.
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The missing link here is that COBOL is being used as shorthand for experience with mainframe programming, which of course you can’t really get unless you’ve been employed programming mainframes before. Anyone complaining about a lack of COBOL programmers is essentially complaining that nobody else is picking up on the training costs for their non-standard, incredibly expensive infrastructure, and that they don’t want to train people themselves.
You either have to believe that there is a meritocracy and that it's under attack by an unnamed mob of truth-haters or you have to believe there is a pattern of shitty behavior (against women in this case) that people are--sometimes clumsily--trying to rectify so that anyone with a contribution to make to physics (or computer science, etc.) gets a decent chance at it.

I believe the latter.
Yep. I had no idea until now that it was an actual cooking thing either.
American elections are more complicated. A typical November ballot will have upwards of 20 choices on it, for national, state, county, anf municipal positions, judges, and referendums.
Outside of Christianity, and obesity -- which isn't a protected class IIRC -- I can't think of any that make up more than 51% of the population.

The US Black population is around 13%; Hispanic population is closer to 18-19%. Asian and Pacific Islander is around 5%. LBGT population is estimated at around 5-6%; transgender estimated at around 0.3%. Muslims are <2%, and Jews roughly the same. Old people, defined as those over 65, are around 17% and rising to around 24% because of the baby boom. Kids, defined as 0-14 years, are about 18-19%, and are unlikely to be in the company boardroom. About 19% of the population had some sort of disability, with the majority of those being older (50+).

In 2017, 80.4 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.3 percent of all wage and salary workers. Minimum wage isn't a protected class though.
One quick note on point 10: the question of whether owning a gun makes you safer isn't a politically contentious one -- it is a knowable fact in the realm of empiricism.

Whether individuals should be allowed to own guns, without regard to whatever risk there might be, is the politically contentious one.

But the mere question of safety isn't political (how things should be), it's observable (how things are).
I’m surprised Scotland doesn’t have its own TLD.
There can also be an intermediate phase of migrating from a hardware mainframe to a virtualized mainframe. I understand that's what TicketMaster did a while ago.

> Hi! First post on here.

Welcome, and very nice post. :)
I think it's very important to choose the stack with which you have the most experience. In this way, you will protect yourself from the situation when something went wrong on PROD and you do not know how to fix it. I generally for reliability and predictability.

Sorry, maybe it does not answer your question?
I’ve been wanting to write some programming articles for a while, so I figure the best thing to do was start with something simple and share it.

Let me know what you think! I know it’s not the most difficult thing ever, but I’m hoping I explained it well.
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No, but using them to ignore injustice is wrong.
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>That could easily be the result of discrimination by professors, collaborators, reviewers, etc.

Your go-to analysis of this data is that there's a grand conspiracy of misogynistic discrimination? I'm finding it really hard to imagine anyone deciding not to cite a paper on the sole basis that they saw a female name in the authorship.
Blame falling standards in UK education, and the fact that bright kids don't go into the media any more. A 2:2 in media studies from an ex-poly and this is what you get.
Thanks a lot! TIL there are libraries for that.