skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Do this on my behalf" automation is different than "behave with these parameters" autonomy.

Is it though? The "on my behalf" implies that there are parameters specified.
What he's saying is that the throughput number they mention is constrained by transaction conflicts. The limit for non-conflicting transactions allowed by the consensus protocol is no doubt much higher.
It happened. It was a symptom of dictatorship(or whatever you call it).
US courts provided a reasonable platform for justice in that case.
Then, it is followed by democratic reforms in Taiwan. Taiwan have moved towards addressing root cause,
I see now that the Saudis are far from any self-correcting action.
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oi mate where's ya rubbish licence
> Much of the money coming in has been legitimately earned, if sometimes extricated by gray-market means. But officials say that a substantial proportion is the proceeds of corruption or crime, including the illegal sale of opiates such as fentanyl.

This is how you gently and quietly wage war against a society. Sell drugs to the youth and then buy up all their property with the proceeds.
They could have first accumulate information about where you were and then make a location lookup later, this separatimg the visit from time. They could also make some decoy geo-location request. I dunno if they do, but if i was serious about it I would.

Or maybe this being a frequent location for you they already cached the map tiles from that one time you opened the map while in the neighborhood.

Or maybe they actually loaded all POIs in your home state at some point in the past. There aren’t that many out there.
Wow, so much for "innocent until proven guilty".
ha! depressing

though i doubt the people i was living with who would break into abandoned buildings to establish residence are all that too concerned with your rubbish 'theft' precedent

the tablet salvage was in the states and unfortunately i'd be unsurprised if there are equally uncharitable precedent here as well

.. as an aside, i would be interested in reading your referenced precedent, i agree going through someone's bin to get personal info or to file false credit card offers on their behalf should be illegal, but i'd be interested to read the ruling if it is literally a broken electronics salvage
A similar tool is https://astexplorer.net/ , which I've found quite useful for the JS tools hacking that I've done.
I'm not sure these are opt-out. I think they're opt in.

I have the latest iPhone (well, it was the latest until this fall ) on the latest non-jailbroken firmware and have used an iPhone since the 5s. I go to coffee shops often. They're basically my second home.

I also use the default Apple maps when navigating, and have location turned on for a few services, including find my iPhone.

My phone definitely knows where I frequent. I recently moved cities and my iPhone recognizes my new "home" even though I never updated it. (it's where I sleep a lot, I guess).

Still, I have never gotten these location-based alerts, nor have I ever opted out of them.
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Some of the things you mention are also discussed in the linked paper. For example, quoting from Section 8.11 (Module system):

"... other than inertia one of the main arguments in favor of the status quo was that Elisp’s poor man’s namespacing makes cross-referencing easier: any simple textual search can be used to find definitions and uses of any global function or variable ... "

A few of the issues you mention can likely be improved, or resolved by using a better abstraction, or by deprecating features that are no longer needed. The Emacs community is typically very responsive and willing to discuss many issues in great detail. For example, if you run into performance issues or missing features, you can use Emacs itself to file a bug report, using:

M-x report-emacs-bug RET

As an example for switching abstractions and also addressing one of your points, I find that working on strings can be extremely frustrating and error-prone, both in Elisp and also in other languages. In Emacs, it is often much more convenient to work on buffer contents instead. So, to perform complex string operations in Elisp, I often spawn a temporary buffer (with-temp-buffer), insert the string, and then perform the necessary modifications on the buffer content. A significant advantage of this is that I can use common editing operations such as moving forward or backward by several lines or characters. When done, I fetch the whole buffer content (using for example "buffer-string"), and use that as the result. In many cases, and especially if the data are logically structured, it is better to use Lisp forms instead of plain strings.

However, some of the basic things you mention are in my experience quite straight-forward. For example, with only a few lines of code, I can copy the front page of HN as HTML text (in fact, the whole HTTP response) into the current Emacs buffer:

(let* ((host "news.ycombinator.com")
(eol "\r\n")
(proc (open-network-stream "HN" (current-buffer) host 443 :type 'tls)))
(process-send-string proc
(format "GET / HTTP/1.1%sHost: %s%s%s" eol host eol eol)))

This automatically spawns a TLS connection, and I find this API quite convenient. I can then operate on the response as on any buffer content. Also, I can inspect the connection for example with list-processes, and many other functions. Spawning processes is quite similar, using for example start-process.
That'd make sense actually.

Unfortunately, the term "NPC" seems to be just a childish insult more often than not. I guess the word "shill" is typically an insult and rarely ever used to actually attack an actual bot or paid-marketer (even though that's the implication).

Troll is the most accurate word I think. I think people are generally happy when a paid employee interacts with the audience (technically a "shill" but... in the case of MMORPGs and such, people like feeling that the game-masters are listening to them).

I'm personally going to stick with the word "troll". I don't really care if they're paid or not, or foreign or not. If they're hampering the discussion, they're a troll. If they're helping the discussion, then they are welcome. So "Troll" is the best distinction, and the main one that matters.
I'd suspect bots will be able to become much better at avoiding suspicion much faster this way. Any popular extension is basically a free A/B testing environment for bot producers.
Not really -- for instance, at HN we pay more attention to comments that explain stuff well, refer to sources, and so on.

The bots might be a blessing, in some ways, if they result in more people looking for good explanations rather than for assertions or herd direction; assessing ideas rather than their sources.
Have you spent a lot of time with a Google Home? I've personally found when compared to Alex it tends to do a better job at "question" style things, when it doesn't randomly not understand something it just minutes ago understood just fine.
qt scaling worked for me with QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 and QT_FONT_DPI=287.
I'm guessing you're OP? I have to say, I've never seen someone create a full DCF in response to an internet comment I've made!

At a high level, it's a really cool build you've put together. You might consider writing down some of your methodology and assumptions in the blog post, as it's unclear from the post alone where those multi-billion figures come from. And someone could reasonably argue that there's overlap between the categories you've chosen; for instance, is a big part of the goodwill value of a NPM download realized in the improvements to recruitment and code quality? Even so, even if many of the assumptions are inaccurate, the order of magnitude may very well be correct... and if so, it does speak to the open-sourcing of React being a very valuable move for FB, even if payoff is spread out over time.

Taking a step back, I think you'll find a big segment of Hacker News really dislikes clickbait in the way you titled and structured the first blog post. It's a shame, because I think your devil's-advocate analysis deserves more attention. Certainly the followup deserves discussion.
Seems humorous to think my anecdote representing a larger regional culture was meant to be interpreted as an isolated incident.
Alberta has an Oil based economy, they are wealthy.

BC doesn't have much of a real industrial basis in anything.
Wonder if the CBC should have found any of them for their story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-a...
SA get more negative press now than they did after the 9/11 attacks even though 14 of the 15 attackers grew up in SA and even though wealthy Saudis were the main source of funds for the madrassas that created most Islamic extremists.

The US doesn't need SA the way it did in 2001 what with its having become self-sufficient in petroleum.
"lots of regional office, but not many headquarters."

You could say this about Canada in it's entirety.
Yeah, I figured those might be out of your scope, thanks anyways. I'll open a ticket for the title bar thing in a bit.

Also, thank you for sway and wlroots!
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This won't download for me but I was able to get it quickly here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16279#files-area
...and if you provide online chat with customer support or sales, people will send credit cards in that too. If you have customer accessible support ticket submission system, that will end up with credit cards too.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) that you have to agree to follow in order to be allowed to process credit cards requires secure storage of all the cards you store--not just the cards that you intended to store or just cards that come in through channels you intended for receiving cards.

This is a serious issue to take into account when choosing your chat system, ticketing system, and email system because you can't just ignore those wayward credit cards. If you choose systems whose developers did not consider this and failed to provide good tools for finding and redacting unrequested, unwanted sensitive information you will end up having to hack such tools into the system yourself.
Methods look cool and the whole project very interesting, but why no usage example?
I'm a member since 2015 but the cynic in me says the service's success is due to its low effort/feel-good ratio...
We play cards.
>Does anyone have tips or resources on how to improve their listening skill?

Get married?
>> This is bullshit. The difference is that this guy was a blue check mark with a column in the Washington Post. He was a journalist, one of them.

Well yes, it turns out people care about it a lot when someone in their group gets cut to pieces with a saw.
Canada generally exports natural resources, and not much else besides assembled cars that we don't design. (We don't have a lot of high valued exports - highlighted by the odd trading relationship Canada has with China: they buy natural resources, and we buy finished goods from them, which is the opposite of most 'wealthy v. upcoming' trading relationships. Of course China overall is wealthy but per capita it's not)

But what Canada does maybe the best in the world is 'boring, stable governance' - which is what so many people want.

If the environmentalists would have it ... and I was King ... I would carve out an area on Vancouver Island and make it basically like Singapore - an open city state, that Canada manages, but basically for expats from anywhere.

Anybody can come, keep their homeland citizenships, and live in a super above bar and stable regime. There'd be a few extra rules here and there, and they wouldn't be citizens - but they'd get what they want.

This way you avoid the massively disruptive socioeconomic issues, and you can actually possibly create industry and a new kind of financial sector, and maybe a few added taxes to boot. Win Win Win all around. All complexities aside, BC residents would protest it to death merely on environmental grounds.
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> Meanwhile in Alphabet City, NYC a restaurant sells it for $20 a pop.

Brindle Room, right? I've only had their burgers, but Mile End also has poutine for $9 and I can confirm that it is authentic enough for this Canadian.
Sorry, what I'm not sure about is whether an agency is liable if it releases exempt information. Exemptions allow an agency to deny a request, but the agency still has discretion whether or not to follow the exemption.

> So, if you are not sure - and they are also not sure - then they could ask for a ruling before releasing. Err on the side of caution is good practice when it comes to releasing data.

Again, that is simply not how the law works. Some years ago, elected Washington state legislators and the governor decided the law should make these tradeoffs between transparency and privacy. And until subsequent legislators get together and decide otherwise, that is the law of the land. Washington government agencies do not have discretion to reject requests based on requester identity or motivation, period, nor can they make up their own reasons for exemptions.

The "middle ground" has already been decided -- that's ostensibly how the law got written and signed in the first place. Your line of argument would allow literally any government employee to make arbitrary rejections -- the law was codified to prevent exactly that situation.

Your concerns are no different than concerns raised about freedom of speech and the press (and of course, the right to bear arms, but let's not follow that tangent for now) -- e.g. "I'm all for people being able to express themselves, but what if those people say incredibly hurtful and damaging things?". The legislature can pass laws that limit those rights (e.g. defamation laws), and courts interpret whether those laws follow the Constitution, but it is not up to the executive branch (i.e. government agencies) to ignore the law because they disagree with it.
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Copula Graphical Models for Wind Resource Estimation [pdf]
How is this different from Runscope?
Totally agree on trade vs invest. I used the wrong word but the sentiment was that of investing.

Thank you for introducing the books. I will definitely give them a read.

Do you or anybody you know personally purely invest for a living? The reason I ask is one of the ways of testing my hypothesis of investing for a living, I want to see how common (or uncommon) this is. So far I have not come across anybody the handful of people I have asked. I was hoping this thread would gain traction on hn and I could caste a wide net.
I don't think there's any good solution: even the current one took over a decade to negotiate. Any territorial changes are unlikely to remain nonviolent - united Ireland, hard border, independent NI, it's all very explosive.
I'm pretty confident my 'home chemistry set' included something by that name back in the late 80s. One of the experiments I remember is drinking some of it in order to render my pee blue.
Lots of statements about performance, with no benchmarks or numbers. If I've learned one thing about performance optimization, it's that what's obviously faster is frequently slower (unless cache behavior, ILP, etc is obvious to you) - always measure.

I enjoyed the article and applaud the author's work, but I don't feel good about the claim to beat the standard library without discussing the benchmark that indicates this. Insertion pattern matters a lot for this kind of thing.
You can add me too.
When it was first announced, I complained about "Go" and someone said it provides an interesting challenge for the search engine team. (There are lots of synonyms.)

I find that searching on "golang" generally does the trick.
I don't know about other countries, but that also happens to me with Google Maps in Mexico. I sometimes query a street located in my city and it will send me thousands of kilometers away (even if they do have the street in their DB).

I guess Google Maps calculates the probability a place will be looked for, and of course a small street in a not too big city in Mexico will be less likely to be searched than a popular place in Europe. But common if I wanted to look for something in Europe I'll zoom out and place the map in Europe. If my zoom is in my city I obviously want to look something in MY CITY!
This is a pretty interesting shift.

Is it a general trend such as it happening in Engineering, and/or sciences or is it localised to just tech?

Perhaps the younger generation is more anti war?

Thoughts?
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This appears to be the source paper, but it's not nearly as interesting as I had hoped, and I'm at least already aware of how to project principle stress tensor components.

http://nonlinearstudies.com/index.php/mesa/article/view/1723

A unified bending/shear beam (spar) theory has been formulated by merging a number of previously completed theoretical segments into a comprehensive analytical treatment of linear non-homogenous viscoelastic Timoshenko beams (spars) with stochastic properties and random dynamic loads including shear center and neutral axis spatial and temporal motions due to bending, and including realistic physical starting load transients.
I'm not sure "trolling" is fair, but perhaps phrasing your confusion more as "the home page doesn't give me a very clear idea what this is," which is true; the actual front page doesn't mention Smalltalk at all. I suspect that they wrote it with the expectation that nobody just "ends up" on the Pharo web site without having some idea what it is already. Under normal circumstances (e.g., not being linked from the front page of HN) this is probably a reasonable assumption, but it couldn't hurt them to have something like what Squeak.org has: the first full sentence on its home page is "Squeak is an open-source Smalltalk programming system with fast execution environments for all major platforms."

Having said that, how few minutes qualify as "good"? Because if you click "About," that page has a heading that says "Pharo features" whose first bullet point reads "A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk."
> It couldn't even turn on a flashlight

Thanks for this idea. I just tried it, and Siri was able to do it successfully.
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Building a more recursive web
I'm not sure I've ever used a SortedDictionary in real code. Almost always just a Dictionary or often ConcurrentDictionary.
I have a plan - instead of combatting the bots make their influence smaller by limiting the access to them. Hike up the mobile internet prices would be a good start.
It's sad you won't even consider alternatives to the broken voting process we have today.
I found this article unreadable as Bloomberg's relentless assault (of ads) on my eyes nearly gave me a seizure. Note to self: Don't read Bloomberg.
It’s not that Pharo discussions are rare on HN...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pharo.org
what do you think our rivals are doing right now? Sitting on their hands refusing to develop advanced threats?

We must protect our country. Let’s not be naive to the fact that we have enemies who want to destroy us, or overtake us in power and influence if we’re weak.

Personally I want the smartest people in the industry working on protecting our country and developing this tech.

Which do you trust more, a self-flying UAV with deadly cargo developed by Google or some random government contractor?
What about turning milk into a biofuel? Can yeast grow in milk and produce alcohol?
AVL (and other binary search) trees in general are just a poor choice for most situations given the realities of cache behavior.
Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI
That’s cool and all but it stops being cool when some of this tech ends up being sold to countries like Saudi Arabia.

> Which do you trust more, a self-flying UAV with deadly cargo developed by Google or some random government contractor?

Neither. Why would you want google to develop uavs?
It’s sad that you’re a software developer and can’t see the unacceptable level of risk in using tech to vote.
And the commentary is limited to the US tech industry (FAAMG).
The high end government contractors (Northrup, Raytheon, etc.) all have quality engineering, and those who work for these companies know what they are getting into. I don't think most Googlers join the company with AI weaponry in mind.
I think the issue is not that there are missing features, it is that there are too many features. Elisp would benefit a lot from pruning and standardization of its many, many, many builtins.

This is a very hard problem to recover from, because backwards compatibility is so important for something like Emacs. Breaking old versions would be completely unacceptable, which makes it very difficult to remove any features.
https://prerender.com/ is a great service (fully MIT-licensed at https://github.com/prerender/prerender ) for this type of thing, both for rendering internal pages and for scraping/rendering external sites that rely heavily on client-side code.
This is a very serious allegation and I need to know details. Please email me (jgc AT cloudflare DOT com) with details of the site and who you are alleging made such a change.
They have a whole white paper on differential privacy. But more to the point is motive. What motive does Apple have in collecting individual user location data? They don’t sell advertising outside of the App Store and that’s just based on keyword search.
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I'm curious how much of this is because of demographic trends in America--Lactose intolerance for adults is relatively common among everyone except northern europeans.

Would especially explain the decline in liquid milk consumption (and also part of the popularity of greek yogurt, which is pretty low in lactose content).
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> There are no use cases that aren't (already) better served by existing technology.

Repeating for the N:th time on HN.

* Porn

* Donations to wikileaks

* Pot

* Sending money to Venezuela

* Leaving Venezuela with your wealth intact

* Payments without giving all transaction info third parties (PayPal, VISA, etc)

* Digital payments for the unbanked

These are all served better by cryptocurrencies than other alternatives.

A common counterargument is fees are very high on Bitcoin. This is true but it's only an argument against Bitcoin not cryptocurrencies in general. See Bitcoin Cash for example.
It never ceases to amaze me how much there is to emacs and emacs-lisp. After 15 years of daily use I still discover gems like this
Cool! I'd added the highlight-on-hover in an earlier version - been meaning to add that here too.

The other analyses are more interesting than just the AST, though, IMO, while the AST is most useful for people working on additional analyses.
It sounds like in-game currency without the actual game.
My phone was dead at the time, so I was using my desktop with google hangouts for the call. I was not booted from the call. My internet died. End of story.

I work from home, so my internet going down is a big deal for my livelihood and all that. I'm not saying that something suspicious happened, but I figured it was an interesting thing to happen. You're frankly thinking into it too much.
How is this in any way relevant?
There's also a website with a public archive iirc
You're giving the bin companies permission to take it because you have an agreement with them and have placed it in an agreed location.

If a third party bin company you had no relationship with took it it would also be theft.
The US practices a pretty unchecked sort of militarism. The only thing which has caused it to withdraw from war that it often unilaterally starts has been solider casualties. In the future where there are no soldiers on the battlefield what is going to dissuade the US from continuing war?