skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be harder to keep every inch of cable in view of a camera than keep every camera in view of another.

Jammers are trackable, but if you use them judiciously, I think they could be used to cover other attacks: activate jammer, attack camera infrastructure, deactivate jammer, and flee.
That is certainly an interesting question. When your position has become so odious that every provider on the Internet wants nothing to do with you, what is the solution?

In any case it is still much better to have multiple providers to possibly be rejected from, as opposed to a residential broadband subscriber who can be completely shut down by a single company. And Gab.com is not a person, so they can locate their service anywhere someone will allow them to host it. The virtual nature of that arrangement is very convenient, and the relative inconvenience of buying a whole new house (in a different city or state, perhaps, since you have to move far enough to find a different ISP) is off the charts by comparison. It seems disingenuous to even try to compare those.
Downvoters might not disagree with your conclusion. They might disagree with either the veracity, the grammar, or even the significance of your premise.
I think one problem is that there aren't lots of good alternatives at least when it comes to warm weather gear. Wool tends to be expensive, difficult to care for, and some people are allergic or vegan. On the other hand, all of the plant fibers that I'm aware of do not keep you warm if they get wet.
>but I don’t recall anything else infecting PLC’s and using ambient temperature sensors to define behavior. That is just one techno. aspect I found original.

The target was interesting and the attack subtle, but attacks on industrial control systems had been the target of research even in the public in the same time frame: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/09/26/power.at.risk/
Definitely. 17000km QSO the other day with CW on 6 watts out.

FT8 bores the crap out of me unfortunately.
Certainly intelligence is causally linked with the physical world, hence our conversation. But, this does not imply intelligence is itself physical. Additionally, saying intelligence is non physical does not turn it into some kind of inscrutable magic. Could you explain why you think this is the case?

For example, I wrote an article explaining how modeling the human mind as a halting oracle results in empirically meaningful results.

https://am-nat.org/site/halting-oracles-as-intelligent-agent...
>I don't see how "the whole [assembling] to make laws" is any more possible now than in the 1700s

They didn't have instanteous global omnipresence that we have today.

We didn't have to travel vast physical distances to do what we are doing right now with eachother.
I use to work at a Fortune 50 retailer on the cloud platform (a lot of tooling around CI/CD for the teams that manage the website). We had a large problem with keeping the metrics pipeline current. A major issue is that be default, Spring Boot publishes about 500 different metrics on a 10 second slice. Allowing every application to pump out that many default metrics, most of which are never used, means that it takes only 334 instances to get one million metrics per minute (1,000,000 / 6 / 500 = 333 1/3). I would guess we had a couple thousand instances in production on a normal day. In a couple weeks, they have Black Friday. Any team that hasn't been able to fix performance problems are given the go ahead to just throw money at it and scale horizontally in obscene ways.

Of course, our metrics were all handled in house. From talking to the teams that handled the metrics pipeline, the vendors were great for smaller companies, but there was no off the shelf solution for a companies that large with that volume. But I did very little with that myself, other than look into the fact that Spring Boot published way too many default metrics. Who needs P50, P70, P75, P80, P85, P90 - P99 on all web requests?! Just set a default that is small and worthwhile and let the developers adjust as needed.
This is a big problem. I find CW to be populated with less annoying people.
Support for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave_entrainment ?
Hello everyone. Author here :-) I released the book 48 hours ago and I am overwhelmed by the positive reactions. The last 10 months I put lots of work into it and finally released it as a top quality and up-to-date resource for people who want to learn GraphQL in JavaScript.

If you are interested in the content, checkout the release blog post that is used here on HN. The book comes with 4 applications, client- and server-side, that you will build along the way, 350 pages, 45+ exercises, 400+ code snippets.

I would be curious how you like the content, but also what other content you would have expected in this book. Thanks to all of you again!
For the most part I use Pocket because my Kobo ereader supports it. However if it supported Instapaper I would swap in an instant.

I've found Pocket often skips bits of text, usually bullet point items which I'm assuming it thinks are navigation menus or something. Really annoying. Instapaper does much better with this.

Every now and again it also finds an article it cannot extract the main content from. In that case it never ends up on my ereader, and there’s no obvious indication that there is a problem.

For either of those cases I save with Instapaper and use Erudite[1] to convert it to an epub.

To track my readying habits, I wrote a little PHP browser based application that interfaces with the Pocket API (and the hn.algolia.com API). Once I’ve read an article I archive it. Then when I’m back at my computer I run my app, which lists the archived articles, any related Hacker News pages, and lets me manage the articles (delete, save locally, etc.). It makes it easy for me to follow up and read the HN discussions after I’ve found the time to read the article.

Naturally I called it Pocket Lint.

[1] https://evanmclean.com/software/erudite/
When I worked there, we had to support ppc32/ppc64/x86/x86-64/arm32.

Now I'm guessing the dwarf format is: x86-64/arm32/arm64 with arm32 being legacy.

Back then we were also switching from GCC to LLVM, which at the time I thought was ludicrous because we'd be losing all of the flexibility in architectures GCC gave us. But I guess my worries were without merit.
Roger Penrose is a pretty famous mathematician who has a side-hobby of arguing that AGI is impossible. I believe his most famous work in this vein is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind, but he has a handful of others as well. His arguments are pretty well grounded in both math and physics. I wouldn't describe the work as "quantitative", but it's probably about as quantitative as is possible at this point.
It might be that our modern thinkers are missing the forest for the trees because they are overwhelmed with information about their environment.

I don't have any issue with the current consensus, it just seems incorrect reasoning to say consensus is convergence to truth. Why isn't consensus just groupthink, a notoriously bad way to arrive at the truth?
> and yet, target can mark up their products higher on average than the competitors you named

Costco and Amazon have lower unit margins because they charge annually for memberships or Prime. Walmart has lower nominal markups because they don't use promotions, so all their nominal markups are their actual markups rather than regularly getting eroded by promotions.

When it all shakes out, the thing that costs ~$15 at Target costs ~$15 at Walmart.

> why do you think target spends so much on branding?

That's what companies with no market power do. They can't significantly raise prices so they push to drive sales volume.

> really understanding a firm's market power and the competitive dynamics of it's market requires a bit more depth than noting that products are similar.

On the other hand, when they're independently selling the same product for the same price...

https://www.target.com/p/lego-minecraft-the-zombie-cave-2114...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Minecraft-The-Zombie-Cave-21...

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minecraft-Zombie-21141-Building/...
Rulers have to work to maintain or expand, otherwise they decline.
Sounds like a timer interrupt invoking a scheduler. Interesting!
Oh wow! I just recently stumbled on this in my personal meditation practice. I noticed that it's almost like there's a game loop that periodically hits the CartesianSelfAssertion function. Or something. Everyone I've tried to talk to so far has just given blank stares, so it's kind to nice to run across someone with similar experience. Thanks for sharing.
Um, actually, radiation is MUCH better than most of the chemical options unless you are one of the very fortunate few that has a particular receptor than can be targeted.

Radiation has gotten extremely good at being far more targeted. The doctors actually model the absorption curves and let computers target the specific areas to make sure that the specific area gets the necessary dose while keeping the dose down in the surrounding tissue. If you can do radiation, it is by far the best option nowadays. Sadly, you can't always use it--sometime surrounding tissue is too sensitive to radiation (intestines) and sometimes things are simply too large.

Chemotherapy, though, just really, really, sucks. Almost anything is better.
I really wish Apple to stick an A-series chip in a MacBook Pro with an Intel co-processor.

Best of both worlds.

Don't need x86? Don't spin up the Intel chip, doing something that requires x86, spin it on up.

This way you get software compatibility with the power sipping of the ARM CPU.
For reference, RFC 3484 [1] is the misguided RFC that tells people they should sort their DNS responses to maximize the common prefix between the source and destination address. This is probably helpful when the common prefix is meaningful, but when numbering agencies give out neighboring /24's to unrelated networks, and related networks often have ips widely distributed across the overall address space, it's not actually useful.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3484.txt
That's an interesting perspective. I don't agree with it myself, but I agree that it's impossible to resolve this discussion without a clear definition.

Personally, I define free will as having the ability to "change". To overcome your both your past self, and your environment. Ie, a billiards ball has no free will, because its motion is compelled by its past state, and by the environment around it. Similarly for cars, computers and every other inanimate object. Whereas a human can be said to have free will, because regardless of his past nature, and regardless of the environment around him, he still has the free will to transcend all that and do something wholly "unexpected". To me, that's what separates free will from an automaton. Hence why my definition of free will isn't compatible with determinism.

I appreciate your point though that others might define free will in a wholly different manner.
The goal however is: enough to make a living

I wonder if the author of the game will still get a decent living despite the freeloaders. Seems to me, setting up some kind of in-game cosmetic shop (and make it like Fortnite[0]) will surely get loyal fans put in the support.

[0] http://www.wisecrack.co/shows/wisecrackedition/fortnite/

But looking at the website, it looks like it's gotten popular enough to support a decent living for years to come.
A more fully accurate version of my statement would be we wouldn't have "FDA approved" drugs, but I dont think it's accurate to say we would still have the drugs without for profit research. Many (most?) approved drugs are discovered and developed entirely within for-profit institutions. And much of the technology licensed from academia are just assays (not chemical matter) which are used by pharma companies to screen libraries of drug-like molecules, which they must then optimize before they can be "drugs". Sometimes companies license drug like compounds straight from academia but it is rare that these compounds are fully optimized for human use -- sometimes they are very rudimentary and wouldn't be suitable for human use without significant optimization -- and they aren't really yet "drugs"

Pharma companies don't just run clinical studies. They do a massive amount of discovery work and preclinical development, probably on the order of $100B worth / year

I do agree that drug testing reform can play an important role in lowering the cost of drug development. Things like not requiring cardiovascular outcomes studies for diabetes meds would be a great start, and providing clearer guidance for development of complex generics. However i dont know what else might be done that wouldnt compromise the quality of approved drugs, a lot of the difficulty is just our limited ability to directly study human biology
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I used to work at Meraki. There, we would, every 5 minutes or so, record byte and packet counts classified by traffic class and remote end of the connection for every single client connected to an SMB internal or customer-facing network.

(Meraki actually did implement its own time-series database, and after I left published a paper describing its design and implementation. https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/trust/lt-paper.pdf. Good quote on the motivation: "As discussed in Section 2.3.3, customers have a nearly insatiable demand for high-resolution historical data, even though they mostly query data from the recent past."
Coincidentally, I just saw this Reddit post yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/9uxeq3/factorio_a... - "Factorio as an exam for computer engineers recruitment in Japan. If you play the game well, you can get a job!"
I'm very curious to understand why you feel this way.

After all, a very big and important part of our lives is influencing other people (potential and actual boyfriends/girlfriends, kids, friends, investors, students, patients, juries, professional peers, hiring managers, subordinates, voters, etc). I'm sure you don't want to criminalize all of that.

So how do you distinguish advertising as the type of influence that is especially bad?
I can comment on this as I'm kinda that guy at my rocket club as well. Basically many RDF or GPS Trackers in the hobby rocketry community operate over 70cm and require a license for legal operation. Add to that many people buy trackers and yet don't fully familarise themselves with their operation. So you'll have someone with a GPS tracker that has no idea how to get coordinates "out" of the system or what to do with them when they have them. And GPS is the easier system to use as RDFing a tracker (foxhunting) is more readily described as a skill or even an art. It definitely takes practice to become proficient at these types of things. Add to that the fact that many GPS systems are different from an operating perspective and you have a bit of a steep learning curve.
The Acting Attorney General Has a Biblical View of Justice
My Android TV has more features, like the feature where I have to wait a full second for it to respond to pushing the volume up button.

(or, there's benefits to having a non-"smart" tv)
Your comment reminded me of Seve Jobs mocking the idea of a pen for iPads. You can’t trust that such statements are true or that even if true today that they will be true in a few years. Ideas, tech, beliefs change and sometimes companies publicly proclaim things that are just plain false.
I came here hoping to read this. I'm not clever enough to implement it, but my first thought was that someone would see a connection here.
Media literacy, or more broadly critical thinking skills, is good to teach but hard to apply in practice when it comes to the news. This is because we get our news so fast, and in so many places, it's hard to slow down and evaluate pieces in-depth.

Pardon the self-serving comment but given the relevance, I hope it's useful.

My startup has built tools to simplify the evaluation so people can focus on harder questions like "why did the media construct the message this way". Here's a blog post we published today on why this is important.

https://blog.civikowl.com/making-it-easy-to-apply-media-lite...
Sked? I'm just 15 wpm but if you need a VT ...
Government officials seemingly beholden to corporations.
Am I the only one that just can’t stand the way zulip looks?

I really don’t understand it myself, since it looks more or less the same as other apps, but my instinctual reaction is still ‘yuck!’.
Ah, I was thinking of Taligent, and it was Windows 3.1 timeframe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent
>Year after year the Googlegeist survey finds that one of the things Googlers most enjoy about working at Google is their fellow employees

Hiring has very little to do with that. Perf review, feedback mechanisms, and work environment are orders of magnitude more critical to that. I've worked two startups with completely different hiring processes from Google and the other employees were amazing to work with there too. The key is feedback to correct issues and a quick PIP/fire process for folks not cutting it.
But without optional parameters, what is the point of named parameters? Hopefully most functions have a limited number of parameters, with these parameters being in a somewhat logical order, and the names of the values passed to the functions hinting at their purpose. In addition, more and more IDEs have the ability to display the parameter names. Some display them at all times, other on mouse-over.

I write a lot of C#, and find I only used named parameters when a function has default parameters. Even then I prefer to avoid writing such functions myself, and Microsoft seems to agree [1].

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/code-quality/c...
The USPS has built an operation centered around delivering direct marketing (snail mail spam) as its primary function, with other deliveries from bills to packages as a very secondary one. Trying to transition from that to delivering this many packages without increasing its workforce...well, it's an amazing example of the pointy-headed boss approach that's the bane of both the private and public sector. "We've finally gotten revenues ahead of expenses! ...What do mean, there's too much work to do?"
And now refer back to the original quote:

especially if those astronomers live in nearby systems, such as around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth, or TRAPPIST-1, a star about 40 light-years away that hosts seven exoplanets, three of which are potentially habitable. If the signal is spotted from either of these nearby systems, the study finds, the same megawatt laser could be used to send a brief message in the form of pulses similar to Morse code.....“If we were to successfully close a handshake and start to communicate, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years,”

And you'll see my point that you wouldn't say you can reach a star that's 40 light years away in "just a few years" when "just a few years" is 40.

Note that the starting number was 40, and the "to be compared with" number was 40. 40 is not "a few" of 40.

And yeah, I was a little sloppy in using "light years" as time.
The pricing makes sense. Demand dictates price, not features. Products catering to a smaller market tend to cost more, especially if you are buying individual units from a supplier who usually sells in bulk.

LG's IT line[1] is not unreasonable in terms of pricing, especially if the purchaser is also paying the electric bill, demands long-lasting color accuracy or otherwise wants a purpose-built solution. I have not used one and I don't know if budget display manufacturers like TCL and Vizio have comparable products.

1. https://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-display/it-product...
Nothing, you pay for the easy updates and to support the development. Paint.net does it the same way and probably some others that do open source on Windows.
DS software was specifically designed to use screens as separate units (for example, actual game video on top, extra data on bottom), not as a unified screen, which helped.

There were other dual screen phones other than the Axon, off the top of my head I can remember NEC Medias W and Kyocera Echo (which was the first Android dual screen phone iirc). There was also a Sony tablet with dual screens, Sony Tablet P.
It's hard to teach history if you're going to test people on it. There's too much history for anyone to really know even a tiny bit of it, so it's probably better to teach it through literature.
Seems like a solid book to me. I wrote one myself in the last 3 months and now it seems like nothing compared to yours, haha.

I'll definitely read it. I like the fact that it focuses on Apollo and not Relay.
It's pretty ridiculous that "Time-Series Database" has come to mean ingesting massive amounts of streaming data. They've been around a long time and have many use cases.

They're a great way to store data efficiently, accessing specific data if you know the time range you are looking for is very fast and simple, and you can roll your own in a few dozen lines of C if that's what you want to do. If that's all you need, why not?
I don’t think it’s just nerds. I think the idea has quite a bit of mass appeal [1], it’s just that existing versions are in some way unsatisfactory. the phone is already on its way to replace our wallet and I think it’s just a matter of time for it to replace our laptop bag. I’d very much welcome that if it could do all the things I’m doing on my Thinkpad, it’s just that human interface and OS are not there yet (meanwhile the chip, RAM and storage is not a problem anymore). Give me character input solution that’s >60% of a Thinkpad and maybe a fold-out screen that doubles the area of a 6inch device and you got it, for more I’m gonna sit at a desk with docking.

[1] see for example the movie “her”.
Given the same option I ended up with 10:30 to 7pm, but then again I don’t have kids.
This is probably a good idea. I checked your github for sample code but couldn’t see anything obvious. Any chance to open source something from Capital One?
That’s a broad and inaccurate generalization. You just need to find a niche that is more socially appealing to you if you want to use it to socialize. Sounds like common sense but it’s easy to be weirded out by the “pig farmers” or by listening to a chat where one of the parties expresses conservative views.

But overall hams embody the best aspects of science and engineering culture and DIY/maker culture.

Most of the subgroups bave active online communities and are more focused in their on the air activities, and a bit less inclined to shoot the breeze about Fox News talking points.

CW tends to be nice and some of the “rag chewing” (casual conversation) is remarkably thoughtful and there are some really interesting people. Doing conversation well on Morse is a bit of an art form.
Crazy. What surprises me the most is the fact that the USPS receives no federal funding. With a budget of even $5 Billion, the issues highlighted here could be solved or drastically reduced.
USA Drug War was always meant to be racist, and it always has been. See the statements of e.g. Anslinger and Nixon. Seeing mere contingency where intent is clear is a tawdry sort of privilege.
> Roger Penrose is a pretty famous mathematician who has a side-hobby of arguing that AGI is impossible.

If AGI is impossible, natural intelligent is either impossible or non-physical, but Penrose’s argument seems be that computing is insufficient for AGI, not that AGI is impossible.
I have a C7P and I can't see where an ad might display in the input selection menu. Also the remote has an input select button and it also automatically switches between inputs if they support CEC, so you don't have to even pull up the menu.

That being said, I have only ever connected it to the Internet twice via Ethernet to update firmware. Otherwise it remains offline.
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And they all are speaking at the GraphQL Summit today and tomorrow in SF!