skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC weighed in with someone who saw it live and fully supports the White House's version of events. CNN has jumped the shark calling the video fake.

https://www.bbc.com/news/46147166
I got the ranty vibe as well.

It looks like the author completed a BS and went straight into a PhD that he's still pursuing, with summer internships at Google, RethinkDB, and the Recurse Center. I wonder if the author's perspective would change if he worked in industry?

Not trying to ad hominem argue his points away, but I agree that one shouldn't be angry about the loose concept.
Volkswagen Will Be the Biggest Electric-Car Maker in 2018, It Says (2013)
It's a proposal for making use of a new storage engine to store Firefox internal data.
Except there is no such thing as “Correct English”.

If we were speaking about eg contemporary France French, you would have a point - there is a governing body decreeing what is correct French and what isn’t.

That is not the case for English.

But even that is besides the point, because “they” as a genderless pronoun has been used for over half a millennia. (William Caxton, 1460: “Each of them should...make themself ready”)
And also forced many websites to open with a popup 'Do you want to accept cookies?'. To the uninformed, could be a very mysterious message.
I'd say these re-designs are inaccessible but people would get the wrong idea; inaccessible usually means not accessible to people who have handicaps of some variety, and that doesn't accurately capture the problems with these re-designed websites: They're not accessible to anyone, anywhere, regardless of how able they are, unless they're the designer themself.

They not only blindly assume you have the latest web browser technology and are willing to use it, heedless of security concerns and basic propriety, on relatively minor sites, they assume you've crawled up inside the designer's head and therefore see the site the way the designer sees it.

Which brings me to why sites "All Look The Same" (kind of a stupid thing to say, but I'll not fight it): It's a design language, something where designers and users can agree which elements do what, what affordances they have, and, therefore, how to use the site to get what they want from it.

None of the re-designs follow that.

None of the re-designs are respectful of anyone else.

These re-designs are a bad parody of design work, and make designers look bad by association.
> Reminder that one chief editor of the People's daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides.

> A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall.

Yeah, I've been told these news anchors are expected to not make a single mistake in their speech or presentation during the broadcasts, and that they're timed so precisely that you could set your watch by them.
Poor wording perhaps. There are a bunch of places in Firefox that use key-value stores, this proposes standardising on one type of store.
A closer example would be books.

For ~500 years, books look approximately the same: normally paged sideways (not top-down), with some margins for handling, with text in rows or columns (depending on the writing system), some chapter structure, and index / contents page, page numbers, covers of more durable material to protect the pages, with some kind of a title on the top cover, etc.

Those features don't just exist because of tradition or technical limitations. They mostly exist because they are convenient, useful, and logical.

But they also exist because people expect them, from times of handwritten books. They put the skills people already had to good use. They created a visual language which is easy to pick up and easy to use, both for readers and typesetters.

Most web sites are a logical continuation of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. No wonder they actively adopt the time-proven, well-working concepts from the print media.

Forms have a much shorter, and much less rich history outside web, and here experimentation was wild; a lot of sites do forms quite differently. Though some common language (like labels, placeholder text, pre-validation, etc) already has formed. OTOH even checkboxes are not yet a commonly accepted visual concept; some e.g. prefer "switches", iOS-style.
Nice observation. I would enjoy a Tao of System Design that coyly smiles and says, The architecture that can be defined is not the true architecture.
You also need to read coding books, documentation examples and webpages, so having to use an IDE is not the best solution.
Even if it is 150-250ms to terrestrial internet connections, it will be a lot better than consumer grade geostationary. The unfortunate economics of launching 3500-6000kg things into geostationary orbit means that transponder capacity on current satellites used for consumer grade VSAT services are horribly oversubscribed. You're not going to get very good satellite service with the current cost structure and tech for $80 to $150/mo on a 3 year contract. One needs to look at figures like $400-500/mo, and a 1.8m size antenna for more complex modulation, before vsat access is really "good".

If the space segment only adds 120ms to what would be an otherwise same latency rtt ping, it's not so bad, people in the US have been spoiled by having CDNs very near all major ix points.
Agreed, he clearly responded to her attempt to snatch the microphone from him while saying "pardon me", as opposed to the white house's characterization that he "put his hands on a young woman".
> Often times "intervention" means some heavy life debilitating medication.

Lobotomies and electro-shock "therapy" didn't cure patients, they just made patients more manageable. The tranquilizers (later rebranded as "anti-psychotics") served the same purpose: treatment without cure.

"Akathisia is a movement disorder characterized by a feeling of inner restlessness and inability to stay still. [...] Complications include suicide. [...] Akathisia is frequently associated with the use of dopamine receptor antagonist antipsychotic drugs." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia

> Sure it may stop the psychosis, but at a heavy and possibly life long price.

The terrible medications aren't even necessary to help people recover from psychotic states. The Quakers found that putting their psychotics in an "asylum" and feeding them four meals a day allowed most patients to recover over time [1][2].

[1] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0786723793
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic_asylum#Humanitarian_re...

> [...] we will see that the emperor truly has no clothes. Lots of intervention methods have no positive outcome on long term recovery,

Many common medical interventions 'miss the forest for the trees'. "Stress" (biological/emotional) is the major factor in most conditions, but this is not covered very well in medical training.
Shit software architecture/design is nothing new. There always was shit code, and always will be. The sky is blue.
And not to justify anyone doctoring video and trying to pass it off as news, we have also had examples of news organizations editing video or audio to make it more dramatic, present it out of context, or even change meaning, such as what NBC did with the 911 call audio in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin incident.

I think we're just in a world where you have to question the motivations of anyone presenting video/audio evidence. Editing that kind of stuff is so easy now, and will only get easier and more convincing in the future.
You're describing using the government in a capacity to directly undermine the religious teaching authority of a child's parents. That's probably not legal if that's actually the stated goal of your plan, and it's not going to sit well with parents.
If it gets cheap enough, it will likely happen elsewhere. Onscreen talent is an expense that a lot of media companies would probably happily get rid of. It doesn't mean the reporters go away, but a universally and perpetually attractive, easily changeable, contract-free and salary-free anchor would be a bonus for any news company.

It could even spark new industry as companies arise to create avatars for other public-facing entities where a real person is not required, like corporate PR spokespersons.

Hollywood has already started down this road by creating virtual stand-ins for deceased actors - there's no reason to consider that they won't just create one from the whole cloth within a few years.

It might not happen, but don't be surprised if it does.
You’ll notice that my previous post uses “they” as shorthand for “the user”. If your last remaining argument is that “he” is 2 letters and “they” is 4 and thus it’s unequivocally better to always use “he”, it’s not a very good one.
I'm considering the assumption that the tablet aspect is primarily for watching TV/films, meaning letterboxing is essentially a bezel.
I can also confirm this. Similar situation and similar pre-insurance costs.
You say that because the prediction line lags the price line?

That’s not playing catch up, if the prediction was made at time 0.
Interesting but i am a non believer can you provide figures that show gains through years?
Exactly. Look at the computational power we have thrown into figuring out just how a protein folds for example. I worked in a lab where we used a lot of inference in the 2D structure of RNA over a decade ago after the 23s and 16s ribosomes tertiary structures were resolved. I was simply working with 70-120 base-pair tRNAs and that alone was computationally complex using a known model to compare against! We have still but scratched the surface.

Building a core cell always intrigued me as an undergraduate and I was often interested in the bare minimum (DNA-wise) lab manufactured bacterial strains that were used in experiments.
Not painful at all. Just like a flu shot. The painful shots are the post-exposure ones that go in the gut.

I received Imovax. It was a brilliant purple color - it was the prettiest vaccine I have ever seen. Shot #2 is 1 week after the first, shot #3 is 3-4 weeks after the first.

https://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?doc_id=5983&image_ty...
i've seen the doctored version and the undoctored version. i don't really see any big difference between them in terms of what Acosta did and don't see why either of them are a big deal. it looks like he was just reacting to having the microphone grabbed.
Deprecating TLSv1 and TLSv1.1
IANAL but the impression I get is that loosely defined terms like "tamper" can be interpreted in many different contexts depending on how eager the prosecutor is.

Falsifying your identity to a federal postal service to gain access to someone else's mail? That breaks a wide range of laws
Nice, but too cool
All webdevs use the same tools that push certain directions. No webdev has the time to be creative and try out new things so they build each website the same way.

Diversity is found near exclusively in the domain of homepages built by people not in the business that didn't make their website to put on a resume to proof they can use whatever tool is currently in.
Robert Pirsig on The Scientific Method (1974) [pdf]
It’s interesting to me that my town, Mountain View refuses to require rabies vaccinations or licensing for cats.
We already have blockchain anchors: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mycryptopedia.com/what-is-a...
> People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it
There are more slaves now than ever and most of them are children. How is that ended?
I'm working (as a consultant) for a company that does state-of-the-art chip design. The complexity is mind-boggling. The number of different types of core components isn't very high; at root it's all transistors and (nominally) rectangular pieces of metal. But these simple building blocks interact with each other in ridiculously complicated ways. Just processing the files that contain the timing information for the current generation of chip fabrication technology takes over an hour on a fully-tricked-out server. Checking a design to see if it meets a timing spec takes many hours using dozens of servers. And then you have to deal with power, thermal constraints, geometric design rule checks (the list of rules you have to follow is a PDF document hundreds of pages long), clock distribution... Frankly, it amazes me that state-of-the-art chips work at all.
To clarify, I’m more concerned about silent data corruption instead of crashing. Why does Synology not have bit rot? Becuase of ZFS? I thought ECC memory is almost required for ZFS?
In our case at Meltwater we also have new documents as well as updates to old documents coming in. Meaning older indexes are actively being modified with low latency requirements on visibility and consistency of those modifications. This makes it more tricky to both reindex as well as doing a seamless/no-downtime-whatsoever upgrade to a new major version. It's not infeasible at all though, and we're working on it. Reindexing a PB of data should be possible on a matter of weeks based on our estimates, but we shall see!
Seems like the real problem is the lack of interoperability between a special coding parser and arbitrary snippets of online code.
The fundamental laws of the universe, at present, seem to be a whole lot simpler than many of the things that arise from them. That's as much of a statement in that direction as I think can be supported.
Oh please, Toyota and the Japanese carmakers started the transition away from fossil fuel decades ago when they made hybrids mainstream, and California's decades-old fuel standards system dragged the remaining automakers into investing in hybrid, natural gas, fuel cell, and EV technologies.

California politicians had the dream of moving automakers from fossil fuel even before Elon moved to the US. At least for this staed goal, they deserve far more credit than Elon, a latecomer to the game.
So the next time my wife says I can buy a Toyota or a Ford - and I buy both ('cause that's what "OR" means), she won't mind at all? Great! (Kappa)

If you know the history here, you know these logical operators don't map onto our intuitions precisely. We celebrate Boole and Peano for just this reason; they created simplified versions of the meaning of a few english words resulting in new terms with simple logical relationships that were interesting.

PS - at least some of the first logicians didn't use the contemporary inclusive "or" operator you apparently find so natural; forced to a choice, they went with the exclusive option! I know 'cause I used to own a small english book from 1870 or so, passed down by a relative, by Jevons with that difference. Probably this book: Elementary Lessons on Logic, Macmillan & Co., London, 1870.
This type of scam has been done many times for years...
Sorry to be that guy but it is for good reason. Don't learn Morse Code visually. The time it takes to convert an audible signal into a visual representation is simply too long to be able to decode a real Morse Code signal.

I learned visually at first and the amount of effort it took to unlearn it was unbelievable. You have to learn by hearing the audible character and have your brain immediately translated it through shear practice and repetition.

If you have to convert it to a visual dot dash symbol in your head you will be too slow to ever have a conversation on the air.
> Doesn't seem practical. It might be useful as a learning-framework for MPI / Supercomputer programming... but it wouldn't be a tool that I'd use personally.

I read somewhere that some real supercomputer systems programmers actually use toy clusters of Raspberry Pi's to test their scheduling software. It helps speed up their development cycle because they can do initial testing on their desktops.

Edit: I think this is what I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78H-4KqVvrg

http://www.bitscope.com/blog/FM/?p=GF13L
If we only had one fork and everyone had to share it, but Jim insisted on taking his sweet ass time then I would go over to Jim and ask for the fork so all of us could eat. If Jim still insisted on hording the fork, well, then Jim would have a problem.
These types of experiments pop up from time to time. You have to compare the performance relative to the single lag error. So the baseline is to use the previous time step to predict the current time step. Ultimately, it's not worthwhile to attempt to predict stock timeseries the SNR is far too low. It's more valuable to attempt to predict a trend, e.g., +1 is there will be upward movement in time window x, -1 if downward, 0 is within some epsilon of the current price.
Right -- falsifying identity to get postal resources would be a relevant category of crime. I don't see how mere non-destructive observation of the external packaging would count as tampering though.
I just signed up, and this is what you see after you create an account: https://i.imgur.com/uHponvi.png

Verify online, verify by mail, or... skip. When I hit skip it just sent me to a dashboard that says I'm not enrolled because I'm not verified. I'm gonna let this sit for a few days and see if I start getting the emails.
Yes, Instagram
What in the world ever happened to Xamarin? Weren't they acquired by Microsoft two years ago? I felt sure we'd have a nice cross-platform desktop GUI by now. . .

I'm feeling more fearful that they acquired Xamarin just to destroy it.
For what value of "best?" In the majority of cases, "best" is what gets the product shipping fastest. Not memory usage, not performance, not coolness. Just getting in the hands of the guys in the warehouse who are wasting time using spreadsheets, etc. The "easy, laziest option" is what gets you from 0 to full speed first.

That's what Microsoft's core customer base cares about.
Cloud Computing Without Containers
If we forget for a moment that Vim lacks almost everything needed for being an IDE, the free sample is not very appetizing:

- the home row post-facto rationalizing of 'hjkl' is unnecessary and simplistic

- 'o', 'O', 's', and 'cc' are missing from the insert mode table

- still in the insert mode table, 'i' and 'I' should be "insert", not "append"

- and 'C' changes "to" the end of the line, not "at" the end of the line

- '%' is not called anything except '%'

- there is nothing "automatic" in the behavior of '%'

The author should have enlisted a technical editor.
Yes, and if is alive is easier to look for symptoms. People bitten by any species of microbat receive three shots.

There is a lot of difference between risk depending on the bat species, so it helps a lot if can be classified by a specialist.
Bit rot on cold storage is at least detectable if using filesystem with checksumming (e.g. ZFS).

I’m not aware of any solutions to detect bit rot in RAM other than ECC.
I initially read that as chiropractor and was very confused... I obviously need beer!
Great concept. It seems like the graph view is begging to convey more information. At the very least it seems appropriate for the nodes to have an icon based on what kind of data they contain, for instance, a paperclip or document for an attached paper, a histogram for univariate data, a regression plot for bivariate, etc.
Yes, it doesn't fit grammar for ordinary JSON Numbers, but since it is plain old standard JSON there is nothing wrong about it: it just puts some demand on consuming application.
Instead of

{"boring Number not greater than 2^53": 1234}

you could send something like

{"exciting huge BigInt": {"value": "12(…)89", "type": "BigInt"}}

where you have all hints what to do with it. You can even invent some funny perks, like

{"exciting huge BigInt serialized to base36":
{"value": "12(…)yz", "type": "BigInt", "base": 36}
}

assuming you could create some parseBigInt(radix) function.
I have to disagree with this. Websites loaded slower because our connection was much slower. You’re comparing network speeds to page load times, which are different.

With today's speeds, the older internet is so much faster than “modern” sites. Some sites even have a loading bar (ex: gmail). Compared to sites with minimal/no Javascript, they’re much slower. 5s is not a good load time for a webpage especially with today's internet speeds.
This needs to be brought up more. It's a huge bonus. F# is fantastic.
I would absolutely say the same thing about people in the US, provided it was in service of an important, higher purpose, as it is here.
Acosta is a grandstanding twat
I would highly recommend PHP for quick web development. We've been using it for all our sites and it's such a breeze to develop using it. We've never had any performance issues either (in my experience they are always more on the db end)

I'll highly recommend that you spend some time learning composer first. That is a must for any serious php development.

Then there are optional things you can learn like a framework like laravel, symfony, etc. My personal opinion is to stay away from it since I have found that a router is mostly all you need to get started quickly. Often times the headache to configure and debug the framework far exceeds the utility of it. So my own personal preference is to just use composer and a router and native PHP. Keeps things simple, easy to debug and super easy to deploy. But YMMV.
This might be the programmer in question. Pretty impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
America’s Multimillion-Dollar Bounty Program Just for Drug Lords
"There are lots of ways other than Twitter to show those signals you talk about."

Yes there are. At no point have I suggested otherwise. What I'm saying is this:

- A dicey Twitter accnt is a red flag.

- The lack of a Twitter account (very often) a __red flag__.

Of course there are exceptions. Always are. Let's not get stuck in the weeds over the obvious :)

If you think you are an exception (read: you're 99% certain) then yes, of course, don't worry about. But if your "logic" is, you don't care about Twitter (and have not considered that I, the buyer, do) then good luck. My confidence in you being able and willing to serve me has dropped, likely significantly.

The original article was about SaaS. If there's a SaaS that (e.g.) never ever goes down (or anything else mentioned) then sure. No Twitter. Anyone else should probably not ignore it. Is it really that big of a deal to be safe rather than sorry?
Yes, it is that easy. I did it and told my parents about it. They signed up to be notified when my grandparents received mail so they could make sure bills were taken care of. Not a case of abuse, but they didn't have to validate anything to start receiving notifications of other people's mail.
> The PCIe interfaces SSDs that Apple's been using allow really fast speeds of upto 3Gbps

AnandTech reported int heir review of the 2015 Macbook that this was just NVMe. Has something changed since then?

This is just Apple again trying to pass off a standard as their own innovation to justify their proprietary incarnation.
> I have 0 doubt you would find it ridiculous to use the same drones on US soil because of the risk but hey as long as its not your family/friends, its just a "risk" right?

I would not find it ridiculous at all. So, I guess your argument kind of falls apart then.
Noted, thank you for your feedback!
I'm disappointed that the CPU isn't upgradable. I got my hopes up with it being a desktop part number (i3-8100 according to everymac.com).
I wonder if more than one party can sign up for the same address? Am I safe because I've already signed up or are they happy to let someone else monitor my mail too?
It’s fun to ask an anti vaxxer what they would do if they were bitten by a rabid animal. You can watch cognative dissonance kick in.
Amazon strikes deal with Apple to sell new iPhones and iPads