skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's inherent in the functionality of The Points Guy's business model. Write pieces to bolster the various vendor's image. On the positive side, TPG isn't tied to any one particular vendor and does a good job of highlighting the merits of a variety of vendors.
? Take Paris: businesses on the main floor, apartments above. Zoning in the States frequently won't allow this.
As a native English speaker, you're correct.
Maybe? PIREPS are not as useless as the article makes them out and systems for in cockpit weather/PIREPS and wind conditions have become much more commonplace in that time period.
You should definitely CDN your data. A majority of a client-side latency is spent round-tripping to the server. Using a CDN greatly reduces this time.

I don't know your workload, but 60ms doesn't seem that fast. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty good, but for a read-heavy load it seems like this could be optimized to be sub-10 ms at the 99th percentile.
Cigarettes, beer, candy. The profit it’s not on the gas. The ppl that flip out about the price and take it out on the stations are nuts

Also I don’t think the VP of one of the most maligned industries wanted to highlight that their profit is from selling the most maligned product :)
It doesn't say it isn't sponsored or otherwise a promotion. I mean, there is a grey area, and it seems plausible someone would deliberately be in that area.
Quite Jobs-like.
Glad to hear work this is something that's being worked on because Firefox is still losing market share. And that's not good news for all of us.

You may put GPU support in quotation marks, but Chromium is way snappier and faster than Firefox nightlies on my Linux box, and I suspect taking advantage of the GPU is a part of the equation.

I also suspect the whole pipeline is more optimized on Chrome. Firefox has ~3x the input latency[1] and unlike Chrome, also slaughters my CPU when watching youtube videos.

Its not like Mozilla is under-resourced. I think its just a matter of priority[2].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699

[2] https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/
> as well as citizens of other countries where capitalism has advanced to similar extremes, seem to view things with a sense of "personal responsibility" rather than collective or communal responsibility.

that's wrong, what you are referring to is "individualism vs collectivism", there's definitely very developed countries who favor collectivism, the perfect example is Japan.
There's a great story of some Parisian aristocrats that attempted to flee Paris, but became hopelessly lost! Turns out a map of the city hadn't yet been created.
> There is just no way this stuff is age appropriate.

For a four year old? Sure, the MPAA PG rating fairly firmly indicates that the film contains material likely not appropriate for young children.

> I don't care how far the Overton window has shifted.

The content allowed for any given MPAA rating has generally gotten less extreme over time, rather than shifting the other way.
ThePointsGuy is a blog aimed at sharing credit card travel points tips, and all of the offers they share use a referral link so that TPG gets paid for everyone who signs up for a credit card. The entire website is one big advertisement (albeit one with useful advertisements if you're in to churning)
I don’t care what it is! Nothing good ever came out product-wise from Google other than search engine. Let Google search, period!

You can argue that we have second most popular operating system thanks to Google but you can’t argue that have not Google someone else would have filled in the void. And now that despicable news came out about Android founder and how Google covered for him, its akward looking at friends devices thinking to yourself: this has been invented by a total creep with a dream of slavery times being back so he can own people. Disgusting! I mean imagine if it came out that Jobs was a big fan of Hitler or enjoyed fantasizing about mass-blanket genocide! Would you still buy Apple products? And then there is that PR spin that it was fun kinky game of two. No it wasnt as she barely knew him! If I email 7 billion individuals with plan to own them and lease them, how many will come back defending me that it was okay because it was “only a kinky game.”

I applaud Germans for not being gullable when it comes to Internet. Germany amongst all European Union nations have the most strict rules and regulations protecting citizens first and foremost, not foreign entities that pay squad of taxes within German borders. Even on email protection alone you cannot email someone without double optins. We need similar protection laws in USA and Google needs to stick to search!
That sounds terrible. If someone screws up on the road they should be told, loudly.
Played QFG1 all characters...but had to constantly log onto Prodigy and go to the billboards (BBS) “video game cheats” or something of that nature. I may have had to do that to answer some of the Sierra unlock questions referencing the booklet it came with.
Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, raises $1.25B
"The dark pattern is series themselves."

So, making good content that happens to span multiple episodes? That's the kind of engagement I really don't have an issue with.

However—Netflix has autoplay next episode turned on by default, and if you find the setting to turn it off, each episode ends with a large screen prompting you to PLEASE click to play the next episode. As someone who really likes episodes to end cleanly and give me time to think, this REALLY annoys me.
Coverage in El Reg for those, including myself, who didn't see this occur: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/22/sqlite_code_of_cond...
> The number of papers the average researcher is being asked to review is increasing.

"No" isn't just a word, it's a full sentence. Just refuse to review for free, demand an appropriate consultation fee instead.
If the journal actually pays you---good. If it doesn't, you did your part to make their exploitative business model unattractive.
Thanks for explaining this clearly.
Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
I'm putting "GPU support" in quotes because "GPU support" is such a broad topic that it's impossible to pin down precisely what you might mean by it. There aren't any areas I'm aware of in which Chrome uses the GPU whereas Firefox doesn't. If anything, WebRender makes it the reverse, though since Chrome uses Skia-GL it's more of a matter of which GPU features a browser uses rather than whether a browser uses the GPU (in particular, WebRender uses the Z-buffer and the early-Z functionality, which are quite an improvement).

I will say that, in my opinion, WebRender is generally better optimized for modern graphics hardware than Skia-GL as used in Chrome, due to the reduced overdraw via aggressive use of the Z-buffer and better batching.

Often times performance bugs are just that—bugs. The existence of performance bugs doesn't necessarily indicate that "the whole pipeline" in one browser is better than the other. Browsers are broadly quite comparable in terms of the script-layout-painting pipeline these days. In the case of Firefox, I'm personally confident in the IonMonkey-Stylo-WebRender trio.
How? I was just under the impression that figuring out a correct elevation via gps is a hard problem. Airplanes use barometric pressure for altitude.
At some point, when you realize literally everyone in the thread disagrees with you, you have to wonder where you went wrong. No?
Project maintainers are often forced to conform to style practices, run tests, follow rules about commenting, etc.

I don't see why it's so "draconian" to expect maintainers to be civil as well. That used to be considered simple professional courtesy.
That definition of "malicious compliance" refers to orders that come from a superior.

Why should people outside the SQLite project have standing to give such an order to the SQLite maintainers in the first place?

Why should the "respectful and emphatic" response be to resign oneself to reluctant compliance, even if the SQLite maintainers disagree with it? That sounds Orwellian to me.

I think that's what rubs people the wrong way about this. It all feels very authoritarian. It's expressed in language of positivity and inclusion, but it operates in terms of pressure and coercion. It all sounds great if you're aligned with all of the politics of it. If you're not, then you're the enemy: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1042249983590838272
> grown organically around us over a few hundred years

But in the case of Chicago, nobody really lived there until recently. I'd bet that in the last thousand years or more, there were never more than 500 people living in the general area until 1820 or so. The first Europeans in the area were the French, who saw it as an amazingly good logistics hub for shipping between New Orleans and their settlements in what is now Quebec. But they had no real interest in living in Chicago any more than Native Americans - up until the "Raising of Chicago", it was a pretty terrible place to live!

If you are in Chicago and come across a road that is not on a grid with intersections at 90 degree angles, there is a fairly good chance that it is centuries-old Native American path. For example, Milwaukee Ave was a path that led to (what is now) Milwaukee, Michigan City Road was a path that led to (what is now) Michigan City (where it met up with the path that went from (what is now) Detroit to (what is now) Rock Island Illinois on the Mississippi River).
Discussion on reddit in /r/medicine, by actual medical professionals AFAICS:

https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/9rpajq/dermatolog...

Copy of the starter comment by OP there:

> Starter comment: NYTimes discusses an article that details Venture Capital buying dermatology practices that do an unusually high proportion of high dollar procedures. The article made it through peer review and was posted as an article in press. It was suddenly pulled. The AAD’s incoming president works for an VC Owners clinic and sits on their board. Lawyers for one firm called lead authors institution to demand changes. This is a huge assault on academic freedom. More so than any nonsense from Washington. Coming on the heels of AAD telling multiple people incorrectly that they failed the board exam over the past few years, this is another major scandal that could result huge changes. Or retaliation.

From another comment there that is a tl;dr of some the problem:

> VC involvement in derm practices is a huge, huge issue. One of the bigger practices in town recently was bought by a VC firm, and, lo and behold, all their borderline melanomas now, after being read by their "new" pathologist, need re-resections to get more ti$$ue. I no longer refer to them. Don't even get me started on electronic brachytherapy.
1. What’s so special about a Tesla charger? From an electrical POV nothing I can see (for companies like ABB a TSLA charger is a toy)

2. Car dealers are everywhere, especially in rural areas where e-cars are at the most disadvantage. They’re filled with mechanics that can quickly install a charging station.

The auto makers could roll out charging stations by themselves and get national coverage in months.
For pages like Facebook and Reddit, the performance is great. But Chrome is almost double the framerate for svg animations (I measured on a Macbook).
NASA: the cost of fixing errors [pdf]
29. Twitter seemingly ignored mail bombing suspect's repeated threats (arstechnica.com)

30.Telegraph operators were first to know news of the Civil War (laphamsquarterly.org)

Rather fascinating juxtaposition of two titles on HN...
QFG1 was an amazing game. It solved the main problem of adventure games: players getting stuck. The solution is embarrassingly simple: allow every puzzle in the game to be solved in three different ways (corresponding to fighter/mage/thief classes, but any class can use the solution of any other class). For example, there's a bird nest in a tree and something is glinting inside. You can climb the tree, or throw something at the nest, or cast a "fetch" spell; any of those will work. That makes you feel that the nest is part of the game world, not just a "lock" requiring a unique "key".

And then adventure games promptly forgot that idea and went back to locks and keys. Last year's Milkmaid Of The Milky Way and Thimbleweed Park are artistically head and shoulders above the QFG series, but allow only one solution for each puzzle, so they feel like guessing games instead of worlds. I wish there was some new point-and-click adventure taking the QFG approach.
Massachusetts would switch just to spite NYC.
I'm curious to know, what is the point of linking to solar time? What advantage is there to the Sun reaching its highest point at 12 'o clock?

Most people are awake for about 6 hours before noon, and about 10 hours after. Most social events also happen after the work day. So our day is already shifted from what would logically follow from our clock. Being on +2 already feels like a compromise between the two.

I'd love it if getting up at 4am and going to bed at 8pm was the norm, and solar noon was the exact midpoint of the day, but as I am not a recluse I cannot start that trend, and therefore shifting the timezones seems more reasonable.
> The problem with any form of voting that allows you to verify your vote was counted correctly, is that anyone can verify you voted 'correctly'.

That's not correct. There are several systems that let you verify your ballot was included in the count and the count is correct, which together show that your vote was counted correctly, without letting anyone verify who specifically you voted for. See Punchscan, Prêt à Voter, and Scantegrity II for examples.

Look at the research literature under end to end auditable voting systems [1] for more on this topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
Paris is built upon former Parises. Every once in awhile a giant sinkhole opens up unexpectantly to reveal a previos version.

I can't remember if this aided in the construction of the Métro or Paris's mail system (ruuuubes! A series of them!) but it might have.
It would take a lot of fuel to recover individual probes scattered across the ocean, causing a different kind of pollution.
(6) Design the new version to be compatible with the old version at the module level, allowing the different versions to interface with each other, where individual modules can be upgraded in isolation without breaking changes to their consumers, e.g. Rust 2018.
The Washington voting system allows for write-in candidates despite also having a bubble that the voter fills in with ink or pencil. If the write-in votes outnumber any of the winning candidates, they could hypothetically count them by hand, but that never really happens.
I like to tell people with a straight face that turbulence was actually introduced as a cost saving measure in the ‘70s.
1. We'll be releasing more info about our first cohort of Pioneers soon!

2. Sure! Just don't do anything you wouldn't do if you were running Pioneer :)
Very cool profession, where can I learn more about the tech behind the gambling industry, got any good recommendations? Are any start-ups shaking up the traditional slot machine gambling industry? Is it still run by shadowy Mafia types like we see in movies?
Ever noticed that the person who appeals to your sense of duty is always your boss who doesn't want to give you a raise?
Nothing as long as the "limited data" bullshit is around.

LTE/4G is already more than fast enough for pretty much everything; the main blocker has always been limited data.
The (undocumented) PPS limitation on EC2 instance types before they added SR-IOV NICs is around 150K PPS. If you had your own full machine — usually the top size of a given instance class, but no guarantee — this would be pretty consistent. But it was a shared resource. This made running memcache clusters really painful on EC2, given that they’d easily get limited by packet throughput before CPU or bandwidth. With modern instance types it’s much better!
WebRender doesn't accelerate SVG yet. That will be the second stage of the Pathfinder work. Stay tuned :)
At first glance, hooks are hard to reason about. They encourage changing pure functions into stateful functions that return different results depending on when they were called.

Immediately after seeing the first example, I'm left wondering what happens if I called useState(0) twice? Does it produce references to the same state object or two separate ones? Does it throw an error? I see "count" and "setCount" being destructured, but where are they defined? Through static analysis during a special build step, through getters, or what?
Amazon also limits DNS queries - probably in a well meaning attempt to prevent DNS amplification attacks from originating within AWS. And I mean DNS queries across their network whether or not they hit Amazon's DNS servers. This is _any_ port 53 UDP traffic.

https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/undocumented-limit-dns-aws/
When I was a kid, my parents would drop my off at a daycare called Kids Time Out.

This was the early 80s and they had a cocktail version of Asteroids. I mastered it! I could play it all day!

One of my favorites to this day, along with Gauntlet, STUN Runner and VR Racing/Daytona USA.
One thing I was looking for the entire article weather these limitations are imposed by the Instance or the TOR networking gear.

Maybe random reallocation to a rack with newer switches will guarantee better baseline PPS.
Can I be a skeptic? The study was carried out by the people who sell the software. How reliable is that?
I did 'read the article', and it does not include the original CoC text that you quoted. Furthermore:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find it's easier to spell if you pronounce it in your head as nark-iss-ism.
Please cite the law which creates a legal duty for Twitter to take any affirmative action. Even if there is one, I'm sure it would be quite narrowly interpreted.

If Twitter is covering its tracks it's purely for PR purposes.
I don't really consider requiring a touchscreen (be it in car, or on phone) for climate controls to be an acceptable replacement for a couple simple mechanical buttons and knobs. In the best case, it's less convenient, and it adds many additional failure cases.
The notice about affiliate links may not have anything to do with Delta. The Points Guy has an affiliate-driven revenue model, so that notice might appear before all of his posts.
I've gotten close to this as a software developer with a paramedic certification working for an EMR company. It's definitely nice...
My problem with paying for paywalled content is that paying or not, they still ask you to agree to nonsensical privacy policies that allow them to stalk you by every means possible.

For example, see the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2f...

> Premium EU Ad-Free Subscription
> No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking

And yet on the actual signup page you still get the following:

> By subscribing, you agree to the use by us and our third-party partners of technologies such as cookies to personalize content and perform analytics

Until this changes, my middle finger and ad blocker are the only things these idiots will get.
Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare
Delta is infamous for reporting “light chop” and seeking other flight levels. It doesn’t just make for a more comfortable flight, it’s good for airframe maintenance to boot.
Care to point us to the story?
Yes, it is actually true. Both Perls have a regular release cycle, and continue to be used in companies around the world. The amount of developers isn't really growing for Perl 5, but it's not really shrinking either. eBay isn't dead just because Amazon and Ali became the dominant players, nor is Perl dead because Python and JS overtook it. The market just got larger.

Also, please try Perl 6. The marketing may be a cautionary example, but the language itself reflects 15 years of polish.
Limits are done on the physical host or the host’s NIC. The TORs are not involved.
Thanks!

Dystopian hyperbole aside, your point about law complexity is a good one. Our current system is arguably already too complex. Anyone attempting to build a home can attest to that. But at the very least we are able to move through our day to day lives without worrying too much about accidentally breaking the law because it tends to reflect common sense.

But as you say, new tech would highlight all of the inconsistencies, new laws would be put in place to fill in the cracks and so on until it all becomes a massive web so complex that grey areas become too hazardous to risk.

I can imagine how that might even inadvertently stifle innovation. Considering that new ideas are found on the cutting edge (see Uber, Airbnb, crypto assets) and that the cutting edge is inherently a grey area, small business might become so wary of it that they give up innovating altogether.

Human progress would be left to the whims of only the largest companies with the means to take on the risk. Ironically, progress would prove to be the killer of progress.

May we all live in interesting times, eh? Perhaps this will be one of the few times in history where a sluggish, unresponsive government proves to be an advantage, haha
Also, they only allow the original headlines.
Fairfax owned SMH were one of the major groups lobbying for these measures, largely due to impact on cable TV sales. It's no surprise they claim they were successful, and it's not one we can consider overly credible.

Around the time these rules came in, Netflix became a thing, and Australian networks started to compete by removing the pattern of putting shows on TV two years after being shown in the US.

I remember when they were promoting a big deal around cliffhangers in Lost, but anyone with ThePirateBay had seen the next two seasons. The fact this situation is largely addressed is why most people around me stopped pirating.
Any particular area you’re interested in? Hacking on a side project right now with frequent flier miles and points.
Wouldn't TLS take care of this anyway? Sure, you can exploit a race condition and bind to the port before the legitimate service does, but you wouldn't be able to get that service's private key.
It has to do with hardware support for virtualized networking. Instances capable of SR-IOV or with the ENA can sustain millions of PPS. It makes a huge difference.
I'm not sure if there is less turbulance, or if I've just grown accustom to it. I rarely notice bumps/jostles when riding in a car or bus, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
Boeing must hire software devs?
How to seduce a lady by text message. text seduction mastery
Mass resignations threatened like after the James Damore memo?

Doubt it.

Sexual misconduct is more acceptable at Google than writing gender biased dogma.
> It is not uncommon that one neighbour tenant in the same house pays two times your rent

In the US, it is not uncommon that one neighbor homeowner next door pays two times your mortgage.

I would be interested in your story about home-ownership, but difference in pricing due to time of arrival doesn't seem like a differentiator between renting and buying.
For me, it's the intensity and brightness that really stand out. In Asteroids, the ship and rocks are clear, smoothly drawn straight lines, but the shots from enemy ships are intensely bright points that actually make a small circle around it on the CRT also glow faintly.