skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America has a 1st amendment which protects free speech. Implicit in that covenant is the responsibility on the recipient, not the transmitter, to determine truthfulness. If you care whether Mike Pence actually paid for that ad, go research it -- and if you can't, don't rely on it being true.
That you need to ask the question sort of implies that there is 0 value to Facebook in catching that they were defrauded - if thats right, then there's nothing wrong with regulation. If Facebook doesn't have the ability to determine who is running ads, then I agree with the GP that political ads should be banned on Facebook altogether.

I'm sorry, we make people show ID to buy cigarettes and beer - mass political advertising needs SOME sort of regulation.
Why do you keep giving him screen time when you can see it is hurting him?
Presumably there is a tax implication too? In the UK this would probably be a benefit-in-kind and taxed say it's market value as income.
> Unless Amazon becomes the new primary developers

Which, if they really are the dominant beneficiary, they probably will; whoever is making the most money from the software has the most financial interest in maintaining it, and that's the reason so many big corps that benefit from FOSS invest heavily back into those projects, either via sponsorship of projects or paying their own developers to work on the codebase or both.

But that doesn't serve the interests of the investors in the company doing the initial work, who invested in the hopes of capturing the downstream revenue later development of the work would produce. Which is understandable, but they shouldn't attempt to trade on the popularity of open source licenses with their non-open alternatives.

And that, not the “people doing the work”, is what the Commons Clause is about.
I'd say Win 10 with WSL is now arguably a better dev environment. The only reason I still use a Mac at work is because I need to support Safari/iOS clients and Apple doesn't allow VMs. You are not paying a 100% markup for OSX, you're paying a 100% markup because Apple keeps it 100% proprietary.
This was a reference to an article on the discovery of coal tar dyes. I did test it just before citing it, but sadly it has now vanished.
The thing is, you can't go to most of the sites where history happened. They don't exist anymore.

Want to see where the French Revolution happened? Sorry, Haussmann blew it up and built today's Paris on the rubble. Venice? OK, a few bits of St Mark's basin were there when the galleys came back from the crusades. Dare you to say which bits. Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution? Nup, their Palace of Westminster burnt down in the 19th Century. Imperial China? It fell down and was rebuilt with every earthquake.

Archeologists can go to these places, but they have to work hard for it.

One of the essays in Parkinson's Law turns this into a law of nature. When the grand parliament house was built, parliament no longer mattered, and the country was really run from a dingy shed out the back. That shed was later demolished and a well-appointed cabinet room built in its place, but by that time cabinet no longer mattered, and the country was run by a king.

On the other hand, visiting exotic places makes me curious about how they got that way, which is one way to discover history.
It deletes files, they have to postpone it until they can fix that.
I also hate lines and crowds and general "tourist" stuff.

That said the Louvre is one of those worth going to, and it's not hard to avoid the crowds. Yes, skip the Mona Lisa - it's in my opinion one of the least impressive pieces of the entire museum.

It's a giant museum with only a couple wings actually busy - at least when I went. The rest of the museum was almost empty.
If you are a terrorist, why not get a big truckload of fertilizer? Easier and actually kills people instead of just wrecking their apple devices.

Or if you are some kind of compressed gas terrorist, 5000L of compressed oxygen or acetylene will do a lot more damage than helium.

Anyone who can mount a helium attack can mount much more severe attacks.

I think the probability of some eccentric and well-supplied terrorists trying to ruin Apple devices with helium is so remote as to not be worthy of consideration.

Even if it does come to pass. Oh well, I'll buy another iphone, or an android.
I mean, it's still for sale, the original Macbook Air, it's just a horribly outdated machine now. It's got a 5th generation (2015) CPU, 128 PPI (what), and bezels as thick as your thumb.

It's still a great little thing, the battery life is just great for ordinary casual use. It's thin... but I feel it belongs in 2013, was still nice for a few years after, but approaching 2019 this thing should have gotten a real replacement.

And replacing it with something $200 more expensive (that itself is quite similar to the 12 inch Macbook anyway, which caters to a higher-end casual-user segment), when the air is supposed to be a cheap entry-level product for the lower-end casual-user segment like students... Can't say I like it.

It feels we didn't get a replacement for relatively cheap entry level Macbook Air, but rather got a new expensive alternative to the expensive Macbook.

If they dropped the original Air and dropped this price down to $1100 next year, I think that'd be okay. But really I was hoping for another $1000 Air. And I don't see it happening. $1200 will be the new normal for a modern entry level Apple machine.
Define "catastrophic" in the context of Apple devices ceasing to function.
Doctors were very worried about becoming obsolete from new technology, which is why they shunned the thermometer for quite a while.
Who are 1, 2 and 3?
Nationalistic flamewar is not ok here and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Addition and subtraction are usually fine as you point out. Multiplication and division can cause problems depending on the values and the number of times you do it. If you are doing more complicated financial calculations, you could get in trouble more quickly. If you are careful and know exactly what you are doing, then you can certainly get away with normal FP for many applications.

My experience has been, though, that many developers have a bit of a laissez-faire attitude towards these kinds of details (time is, of course, another area where precision is incredibly important in corner cases). Rather than expecting all future programmers to be as diligent as they need to be, it's probably easier to simply use tools that make it difficult to make mistakes. Every time I'm working on financial systems I build currency classes (usually I'm doing OOP). Usually people grumble and there will be people who ignore the currency classes. I've never had to wait long before someone trips over an edge cases and everybody understands the benefits.
Does Apple plan to support even a proper web browser?
I'm referring to that four letter code. Google Home app does not even request user to input that.

This screen only protect you from entering wi-fi details to third party that's potentially malicious.

However, since the implementation does not ask users to input that code into Google Home app, it won't protect someone other than you (as long as they are in wi-fi coverage of the device) to configure or hijack your device. (and Google Chrome/Home drops down to this "waiting for configuration" state every time internet connection becomes unavailable.)

Latter is the issue I have raised.
There are plenty of times when I say "this software is bloated, inefficient, and should be snappy".

Scrolling through a 3 GB 157-layer 12000x12000 image is not one of those times.
It is definitely not a WiFi printer. It is (was) connected to my machine via USB and it definitely didn't have my WiFi credentials. I would investigate further, but I've not had the printer plugged in for a while now.
The problem is malware, not the porn.
Please don't toss ideological flamebait ("global rise of fascism") into HN threads. It leads to embarrassingly bad, endlessly repetitive discussion.

For those who want that, there are many other places on the internet to go; not here please.
I ran into this once because a price was slightly too low, and got truncated. A $19.99 item got displayed as $19.98. You can work around this by rounding everywhere but that’s error-prone.
This is quite possibly one of the most incredible hypotheses I’ve read, and I love that it is so well supported!
Seems to me they didn't test the whole path. They never bought the ads, so they may have declared success before the actual check happens.
I think most reasonable people think that a Facebook ad that says it's paid for by Nancy Pelosi is in fact paid by her. Facebook shouldn't have a "paid for by" feature if they can't stand behind it.
And apparently, after you do that, you can post as whomever you want. Maybe you'll have a little personal liability (after the election, if someone can find any law enforcement that actually cares), but thats what the campaign war chest is for.
> When you walk by me in the street, you're implicitly reserving the right to throw me in to oncoming traffic

No such right exists, so it is not implicitly reserved.

This is not the case, in law, with copyright.
It's not special, just less porous compared to latex. Mylar balloons still lose gas after time.
How big are the images you view on it?
There is a very big factor that the article missed - license fees.

A good chuck of that fee is goes to licensing. The guide software, guide data, DVR, VOD, etc. often have per-box licensing fees the provider has to pay.

The $250 also seams low to me. I’ve seen numbers in the $600-$900 range. Cable STBs are also much more expensive than IPTV devices because they have tunners, upstream modulators, MOCA (for whole home DVR), switched digital video, etc. vs a IPTV box that has an Ethernet port and basically just decodes mpeg4 multicast streams. The cost of STBs is one of the reasons MSOs like the idea of network based DVR.
All noble gases exist as monoatomic elements.

They don't form compounds easily but there exist molecules containing at least xenon, radon. Even helium can be made to participate in reactions if pressure is high enough.
Hacker News is a discussion forum. What do you mean "who cares?" The whole point is to talk about stuff.
> Advertising is almost always an attempt to emotionally manipulate people by lying to them.

And lying is similar to violence in that both can be used to make you do what you otherwise would not do, and in particular can be used to make you act against your interests (an observation due to ethicist Sissela Bok). So the description of "abuse" is appropriate.
> Using floats to store monetary values is a bad idea

This is waay overstating the case, it very much depends on whether getting the exact answer down to the penny matters to you.

Worked for a few years at a large investment bank, everything was done in floats because the modeling error of your derivatives pricers would be much larger than the roundoff error, but floats were much more convenient to develop with and faster since you avoided a bunch of casts.

Most of the time people think they need things down to the penny, they actually don't. An accountant does not care if you rounded off a few thousand dollars in your $10bn a year income statement.

A customer does not really care that you paid them $0.33 three times, rather than $0.33 twice and $0.34 on the third transaction (and fixnums don't even solve this 'extra precision' case without a bunch of extra work).
Regardless of who provides them, he published them and they happened to be true. Other intel agencies are free to leak as they please.

But don't paint Assange as anything other than a person who publishes the truth. Unless you have the proof that it isn't.
This is detrimental to the public understanding of ML and AI, which is already in an aweful state.
Keep smiling, waste spammers’ time (2013)
> I can well imagine Apple expecting people to plug in a keyboard and monitor to their iPad Pro, while it gets thinner and thinner.

And at some point, Apple will introduce an "iPad mini" with no display
Quit. Seriously. Life is too short.
I understand what you mean about the feel but lightning ports have a fundamental physical flaw that is part of its design. The pins are on the iOS device side so if they wear down or break that device needs to be repaired. With USBC, the pins are on the cable side so any damage to them is just a simple cable replacement.
Why was "exactly" added to this title? It doesn't help and the position makes the sentence ungrammatical.

Not to pick on bayareafoodster, but I note both their other submissions have poor grammar in the titles. Generally best to stick to what the originals say, unless you can add value without errors.
I think it should go further - ban all political ads, period. They do more harm than good, are mostly designed to confuse and obscure the topics and/or candidate(s).

Instead of ads have the politicians debate on live TV to express their political views. Post the debates online for everyone to watch at their leisure.

Leave the measures/proposals to us to research; in Colorado we get an excellent voter guide that clearly explains the measures, including pros/cons. That's all I use.
Hi Peter! Thanks for the article.

Can you comment on the legal situation, in light of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=united893

It's hard to see how this situation can't lead to charges. Not returning a rental car is grand theft[1], at least in CA; this situation isn't dissimilar. Specifically, see [2]: "voluntary parting" is just insurance lingo, from the legal standpoint, it's simply theft.

Have you sought legal advice on the matter? The police is not an impartial source here, nor the most qualified.

[1]https://www.chamberslawfirmca.com/can-charged-grand-theft-no...

[2]http://www.rentalmanagementmag.com/Art/tabid/232/ArticleId/2...
I'd have opted for 1 personally (losing 30 minutes of data) assuming I knew the alternative was 24 hours. I'll grant you they probably figured it would be much faster than that.

Alternatively, why not just let the West-Coast replicate to an East-Coast slave, and switch em. Surely the peering bandwidth between West-Coast/East-Coast is higher than whatever they were doing pulling full backups from the cloud?
There Is an API for That!! Open Banking API and Ecosystem
Building on what another poster said, gamers who play on computer utilize pretty much all of the fingers on their keyboard hand (likely left hand for most people, non-dominant for most). The mouse hand is usually just index, middle, and thumb.
> I think the advantage behind using something like Big.js is to future proof the code against hyper-inflation.

This is probably over-engineering.

Currencies that go through hyperinflation typically end up being officially re-denominated many times, there's no 'zero maintenance' path that a library will give you.
I have a bunch of services running off a 8 12 TB IronWolf Pro array in RAID10, and it does pretty well, even for DB stuff.
I've been using CRDB 2.0 for a toy project for a few weeks now, today I notice 2.1 was available so I started playing with some of their new features, I ran a SQL query with correlated sub-queries and then the server crashed. It's the first time I see a crash, so I rushed to the GitHub report to report the bug and to my surprise a GitHub issue was already created for the crash[0], it included the stack trace and an anonymized version of my SQL query that caused the crash.

This really demonstrates they really care about the stability of their product, one more reason to keep recommending CockroachDB.

[0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/32048
I've always wondered if it's basically impossible or just not something people have time for, but many of my friends in college were completely uncoordinated and I find it difficult to imagine them being able to become surgeons. They also grew up before smartphones though, they just never played any sports or did anything physical.
Average tweets have become smaller after a year
Maybe I'm just a fanboy, but I found one of the most impressive parts of the story, aside from actually tracking down the root cause, was that the iPhone User's Guide actually specifically addresses this, along with explaining that it's necessary to give it about a week for the helium to diffuse.
I was just looking it up -- here's the original paper, from 2007:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17309970

And, if you don't want to read the paper, here's a piece about it and some related studies (2013):

https://www.medicalbag.com/lifestyle/gamers-make-good-surgeo...
Or stopped to think carefully... badaboom! Try the veal.
Title should say “JPEG”, not “JPG”. “JPG” is just a file extension, not the name of the compression method.
This is why I am not a part or participate in Facebook.
Not really. They were just another startup at the beginning.
It's really amazing that humanity is at the stage where we're intentionally evading our own immunity to bacterial components so we can repurpose the components to help ourselves.
Rand Fishkin's autobiography has a interesting few paragraphs about "rich founders" and why they are preferred over ones who want to "get rich" - in short VCs don't want you to cash out ever - they want that moonshot.
>Single-page web applications damage businesses.

plus some good points

p.s. I thought vue came before react, but it's the other way around. Interesting
Seems reasonable..
But it's factual, as you said. He has a track record of publishing the truth whether you like it or not.

>> the primary offended party is the UK

Sorry, I disagree. Primary offended party here is Assange - a victim of powers that be trying to contain him. UK is the primary bully here.
For better or worse, it legally is in the USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC) for what we're talking about.

To say that it's controversial would be an understatement.
Good to know that these classical liberals would have supported slavery, denying voting rights to women, and jim crow.

That's not really a system that I'd like to follow.
Well, advertising is a little different than e.g. alcohol or cigarettes because it's not something you make a conscious choice to consume.
The problem is that western countries will not be the first ones to experience the consequences of climate change. Most likely the first victims will be in places where such social safety nets barely exist. Arguably, this is already happening, which is why we are seeing civil unrest and mass migration from North Africa and the Middle East, where droughts and famine were a factor in many of the instabilities.
Because you can tell from the ad choice that it is discrinatory, and you cannot abet a crime knowingly.

With political ads? What is the crime being committed? If it is fraud, then we make it illegal to place an ad without rendering your ID, like with a bank account.
He is blaming “screens” but he needs to consider whether the admissions process causes this, not “screens”. Maybe they are admitting students with no practical knowledge, and maybe this has changed in the past ten years.

For instance maybe in prior years applicants were more likely to have practical job experience: a summer job in retail, fast food, etc. Now maybe they only select students who have programmed existences.

Just seems odd to me that he would make this observation then suddenly jump to blaming it on “screens”.
Governments don't answer to short-term visitors, they answer to residents. Quite frankly, it's a good thing that Venice or Amsterdam or Barcelona are not pursuing a Benidorm-style frantic race to the bottom for tourism.
I really want to be generous here: I think your experience is very isolated. I have family that is executive level at a Wall Street bank, they would have you fired over the superfluous loss of a dollar, much less a few thousand dollars because that type of rounding error can end up in the millions over the course of a year if you deal 100+ million dollar transactions 5-6 times a day.

Here's how it would go:

"Why are we losing a couple of thousands of dollars?"

"Well it was easier to just work in floats"

"Pack your shit and get the f--- out of here, now."
It's temporarily lucrative for the app developer and probably for the app platform as well.

They're selling the ad space per impression, so more impressions equals more money...until the people buying it figure out their ads are ineffective.

It makes me wonder how someone in the advertising department for these companies hasn't seen their 3-year-old trapped in a cycle clicking on Momma's ad and burning through budget causing some reevaluation of priorities.

Where is all this dumb advertising money coming from?
Anonymous social media site that does not track you
> Money isn't speech.

there are several supreme court cases that have ruled differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo
How to deal with 3000TB of log files daily?
"Voluntary Parting" is just insurance contract lingo to absolve them of paying out in this particular scenario.

It's called so on purpose, to divert attention, in the spirit of the "PATRIOT" Act: the meaning is the opposite of what the name implies.

Any sane naming would call this "Not getting your shit back" exemption, but hey, that actually calls into question getting this insurance in the first place.

So, yes, no matter what KitSplit and their insurance say, the coverage is simply not there.
It makes sense you would jettison your light sail before starting deceleration approaching earth. That means the things they jettison would pass by us first while the actual spaceship is still slowing down.

Perhaps the main ship is on the way!
My go to point on this subject is even if you have the perfect front end it won't save you from a slow DAL. I'm not sure why we aren't allowed to be full stack developers anymore because having a say in both the front and back end is a great way to prevent frivilous work from being done.
Yup, same experience in Florence. Beautiful city but just couldn't enjoy it. I saw half a dozen other Italian cities and had a great time, Florence was the worst experience and it had little to do with the city and everything to do with the guests.

The one thing that bugs me about museum tours these days is that they all wear in-ear headphones connected to the guide. Which means whereas before you'd mostly have groups of 5 people with one guide, you now have groups of 20 people walking 20 meters behind one guide because distance isn't an issue. Some rooms become unbearable, it's like you take a super busy street market in Mumbai and hang up some paintings and expect people to enjoy the art while navigating through a flood of people.

In a way it helps because you get fewer guides and possibly less shouting. You'd hope this makes things more quiet but it doesn't. It drops the costs of a guide for individuals to next to nothing due to the size of the groups, so you get massive groups and more groups.

Having a few groups of two or three individuals standing around isn't an issue. But when it's a blob of 15-20 people, it's no longer possible to navigate through it or look through/past it, you have to go around and if they're infront of an art piece, you're mostly out of luck.

As for the city, in many parts you hardly hear any Italian and if you do, it's someone in the tourist business trying to sell you something.

I'm not necessarily complaining, I'm part of the problem haha. Just sharing my experience.
So does anyone know of a way to take a set of files and write them to an HDD, in NTFS or exFAT format, in a single sequential write? Essentially building the FS on-the-fly (because we're talking about datsets that are much too large to fit into memory)?
In a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure -- there's 4 ports available. (Most Intel NUCs seem to have only 0 to 1.)
I think he's right on and should continue giving this comment section the facts about what even these apparently "clean" apps are doing. Data tracking is the edge of the sword opposite to advertising and should be treated on equal terms!