skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see. Thanks for your answer!

What I mean by "a stack of radios" is at the two races I've marshalled that had radios, they had half a dozen license-free walkie-talkies like [1] which they handed out. The "stack" was figurative, as they wouldn't have stacked up very well.

I assumed you'd be the only license holder and you'd somehow co-ordinate between the license-free radios. If you could get half a dozen license holders, obviously it's a different matter!

(The license-free radios didn't work at either race)

[1] https://www.radio-solutions.co.uk/motorola-walkie-talkie-xt1...
Google IPs seem to be being routed to China for us.

We have servers in San Jose that cannot access Google services. Trace route shows everything going to China when leaving the San Jose data center. We can access the same services from Vancouver just fine.
I think .test is the TLD is the one most likely to work as expected as for all use cases as .localhost might be expected to only ever point to the loopback IP address. If anyone does something more complicated (like using a vagrant private network ip address), you might find some tools break unexpectedly.

Edit: the newer version of the docs have more details (in section 6) on the differences to be expected between test, localhost, example and invalid domains. see: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761
Mailgun just posted to status. About a widespread internet outage.
that's not true. since i believe that meaning is external, the correct thing for me to do is either continue to try to convince you, or kill you both if you don't compromise a meaningful way forward.
Why just 1?
Stan Lee: America Is a Dream
I guess they assume that assimilation is bad, and is causing some cultural havoc - Whereas you and I both feel that assimilation is an imperative, While the newly arrived have historically wanted to do everything they can to be american, some old fashioned and/or non-americas values will always remain for them - they didnt grow up fully immersed in our culture. In any case assimilation is what will happen, with it mostly locked in by the first native born generation, and fully locked in by the second native born generation.

I'm glad you and your family are here, adding to our rich tapestry of culture and experiences.
the numbers are definitely worse. "millions" dead? that sounds pretty bad. Not sure how true that is. It certainly isn't clear. But the idea that a western corporation will do something like changing a product to save money, or not recalling a product knowing that someone out there will die... do you really need to be given examples of that?
> Who is "they"?

From the parent comment: "Chinese vendors and mfgs"
And... clouds: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/08/facebook_cloud_vers...
Nobody said the sites would have unfettered access to these files like they do with their cookies. Putting an ID on a photo is useless if you then have to ask the user to read it again the next time.

Also, why would they be outside the reach of adblockers? WebExtensions can already intercept and manipulate the use of certain APIs by sites, the same can easily apply here.
No objections.

Just to point out the status-quo.
While there is risk, if you buy a franchise and work hard it is a path to a nice life. You won't become richest person in the world, but you should be able to get to upper middle class. The first 30 years are mostly paying the bank though, so be prepared for a long term investment (but after 30 years you can sell your franchise and get the equity back - enough to retire on).

This doesn’t sound appealing to me. How much time do most franchise owners spend in the store themselves over the 30 years because they don’t want to pay employees? (That sounded harsh wasn’t meant to).

Say you’re a first generation immigrant, I understand why you would do that for your family but would you ever want that for your kids or would you just send them to college to do almost anything else?
If you think if standard-driven changes to the compiler will never break your C89 code, because you're using the -std=c89 switch or whatever, you are pretty naive.

The only guaranteed way your compiler won't break your code is if it's left alone.
>Gain land/people? If there's a thriving economy there, war will probably change that quickly. If there's no thriving economy, what's the point?

The point of war in the modern world may in fact be the denial of a thriving economy or industrial base to an adversary. For instance in a large scale nuclear war many of the plans call for the destruction of enemy nuclear weapons as to protect your own infrastructure/population and to destroy enemy infrastructure/population to gain an economic and industrial advantage after the war ends.

War is also not always an economic calculation: humanitarian concerns, revenge, fear, upholding the law, alliances and thoughts of glory can often motivate a conquest that holds no real value to the victor.

Why did Alexander engage in his wars? He didn't seem to particularly enjoy the job of government.

What was the economic value to Rome of destroying Carthage?
The only thing I fear at the moment is how deluded Bloomberg is about the gullibility of their audience.
I have friends in LA and New York all reporting access to Google going through China first and lots of packet loss.
Is that v2 as in >v1, or is there a v3+ that I don't want?

That is, can I just buy from Amazon [0] with a fairly safe assumption that a new C7 is OK?

[0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-AC1750-Dualband-Zertifizier...
They’re probably ok, but you’re locking yourself in/out should you ever want/need to use a non-Apple device.
> I think the GP didn't mean to imply that humans have an innate cat representation from birth.

Actually, that is what I meant, though I don't have a reference for cat detectors per se. But there is ample evidence for innate feature detectors of comparable complexity (e.g. human facial expressions), even if the actual target is something other than cats.
If they are shiny new features, absolutely. Browser features, especially from Google, are notorious in being experimental and removed when they want to be. Browsers in general will remove things unless their internal teams find use for them. Browsers do not want to support more features than they have to, as can be seen by subscribing and listening in on the mailing lists for Firefox.

However your equivalence in this case is a completely false one, because file system API's are not going to just be 'removed' as that would break literally every application that uses standard fopen. over 20 years of standard is a pretty good boat to stand on unless there's signals that say otherwise.
Quantum ‘compass’ could allow navigation without relying on satellites
Wrangling FoundationDB: Zero Downtime OS Upgrades
Estimate * (1.25 n)

where n is the number of non-technical people in the room
Indiana Utility Says Replacing Coal with Renewables Will Save Customers $4B
This is awesome!

I run a similar project called Ansible-NAS, which was borne out of FreeNAS being a pain in the ass to manage and upgrade. https://github.com/DaveStephens/ansible-nas
Also: it has a 50% (and decreasing) success rate at actually filling in passwords and no quick menu to copy/paste them.

Lastpass has been on my "replace at next opportunity" list for a while now. No time like the present.
This is partially because browsers don't have decent API to handle basic auth. Bitwarden will log you in via basic auth if you only have 1 matching entry for the URL but surely things can be better than this...
With this much wide distribution of ML algorithms in use, its still funny to see papers begin with "One of the mysteries of deep learning is that...." and then goes on to lay out the multiple ways we have no idea why some of these DL techniques work.
This was actually an intentional choice not to do that. Setting up forwarding means you may have email continually passing through Google servers you didn't realize was still doing so. By having a hard cut between the two, I know for a fact that any email received at FastMail is not going through my Gmail account, and any email received at Gmail is, and needs to have the contact information updated.

I have a vacation auto-responder permanently on on Gmail as well to notify any individuals who hit my old address where my new address is.
Maybe it's better, but another one is simpler (no need to bother with the server part at all). From reliability viewpoint, hard to say. A priory, I would trust firebase more, but I might be wrong.
Is YouTube Down?
Both YouTube and Spotify are down it seems. Anyone else having issues.
could you determine who somebody is by evaluating the decision tree at each split?
Atomic parity violation research reaches new milestone
This is a bad take. By releasing tools like this it helps all websites, including Gmail, have the data on how to speed up their website.
Direct link to book scans: http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/...

Note - the Reddit comment provides some helpful commentary in English, hence OP didn't link directly to the book scans.
The same massive flaw exists with your offline password manager. The gambit of this argument is that you (or more generally the public) are more capable of properly securing and storing secrets, instead of a company of experts hired to create, configure, update and audit a service to do so.

That's a call each person can make for themselves, but if I'm advising the normals on how to handle it, there's little doubt which direction I'm pointing.
Open Source Synthesis with Music Thing Modular’s Tom Whitwel
The trouble is that opponents can mount a response while the attack is in progress. Information asymmetries would force a defender to assume the worst once they see the first missile in the air and launch their entire arsenal before their counter-attack capability was destroyed. It becomes a feedback loop when the aggressor is forced to assume they'll be met with the defender's entire arsenal.
FF NNs of even one hidden layer are universal approximators. That is, they do find the global min. What this doesn't tell you is that it's likely a huge graph and will take a looong time to optimize for even trivial data sets. There's lots of proofs around. That's why SGD is used, and for only a small subset of training points at a time.

Re 2: No.

Re 3: Yes.
Annoyingly, now it's really needed Wikipedia gives no pronunciation guide. Apparently it's Bzho-ZOFFskyi in Poland (where zh is like the si in vision) or Briz-OWski in the US.
Can confirm many IPs are being sent to China.
I read this and thought that whoever tries stuff like this is just a moron. There's not really much discovery to be made if any. It's extremely costly and dangerous. The only benefit is vanity.
I wrote a similar tool to estigator! It's bare-basic, but aims to solve the same problem: https://uncertain.io/
Walled gardens like Google and Facebook have more personal data than any other independent companies. Because of the services they offer, they also have more direct relationships to users and are more likely to get consent from all of them for their ads.

Meanwhile, all other marketing companies are further blocked from interacting with users because of the lack of consent and direct relationships. This makes the existing monopolies even stronger, and makes it much harder for newer companies to even attempt to compete.
Adding an Approval Workflow to Your Forms
Multiple prebiotic metals mediate translation
There is a small town mentality in NZ which is happily absent in the Australian big cities.

For instance, nobody in Oz has ever asked me what school I went to. I got asked that regularly in NZ by status-insecure middlebrow white people.
This is just one example. There is also fentanyl, knock off prescription medication, and I've even gotten fake sex toys from China.

The point is that stealing, lying, and poisoning Americans is part of Chinese culture. And what's worse is it appears that their state department is egging them on.

So sure, there are Americans that do greedy things and have externalities. The problem is, it's China's stated national policy.
But for some reason, LinkedIn has twitter envy, or at least Facebook envy.

It's like how Nature seems constantly put out that it stuck being the premier journal for high end research and wants to make it's presentation and editorial content look as much like Scientific American as possible.
Ask HN: Creative uses for an old iMac?
We have an Intel iMac from 2009 with a Core2Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 20" screen. There is no support from recent MacOS versions and the installed MacOS feels very slow.

What creative use cases are there instead of throwing it away?

Thanks,
Raoul
I wonder how much of the higher piracy outside the USA is being caused by a lot of USA content being desirable, but not being released (or much later) on broadcast TV outside the USA.

Sitcoms like Big Bang theory... I'm not sure if they're worth paying for for a lot of people, but it'll take a long time before you can watch it for free (well, except for the advertisements) outside the USA.
Back when the internet was decentralized as I remember it as a kid, all of the people you call "everyday internet users" weren't even on it yet. At best, they were on AOL. Usually, though, they just watched TV.

So what's wrong with creating a new space for savvy internet users who appreciate the freedom of a decentralized web?
Aliens? Yes. UFOs? No.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/25/al...
Or a Chrome app, even though they are currently deprecated.

Yes the user needs to install it, and then it is free reign for $HOME.

So it isn't Download location only.
UPnP wouldn't exist without NAT. The underlying root cause of UPnP is NAT (and the slow deployment of things like reliable mDNS implementations). Admittedly, Plex would have different security problems without NAT, given its model, but arguably those security problems would have simpler solutions in a world without NAT.
In the US we spend 12 years in state mandated school and no body seems to come out any smarter :P
Yes, it is a valid site. Looks like you've got something wrong with your local or network config that needs to be fixed.
Inside the New Industrial Revolution
I run https://jivesearch.com, so I might be biased. The single biggest thing they can do to improve their product is open source everything. They've instead decided to move away from that by freezing their instant answers with no explanation as to if/when they will re-open source them. Makes me question their commitment to privacy and transparency.
It seems there is a global outage. Google, YouTube and other services are intermittently failing. Mailgun just posted a message about it “[mailgun status] Identified: Global Internet Connectivity Issues http://stspg.io/6d0b57ceb”
In the age of open source browsers that's only an excuse if they're being blocked from contributing an API.
It uses Traefik to handle reverse proxy and by default sets up a sub domain per service.
Only works for HTTPS.
Why React Hooks, and how did we even get here?
https://uncertain.io/ I wrote this tool for this exact purpose! A horizontal line means you know nothing. A near vertical line means you are damn certain. Theoretically your stance is somewhere in between.
I went through the above OP's comment history as well, very peculiar.
Los Angeles here, Google.com and Spotify have been intermittent/down all morning.
Thank you for creating this! And please finish this, this will be the most prized tool in my arsenal :)

This is exactly like I do things!
I wish we had clear/consistent vocabulary for talking about privacy and personal data captured. This seemed pretty clear but it did take a lot of text to explain it and in the end, I still wanted to know if sessions are tagged together such that you can recreate sessions? Can you associate multiple sessions in anyway? You can tell a lot about an individual even if you don't know who they are from information like this.
Database of 18,000 Retracted Scientific Papers Now Online
Defective DNA damage repair leads to catastrophic genomic events in tumors
Oh I agree. The claim was that most people couldn’t do a multi-day hike. Not that they’d find it difficult and perhaps not fun.
> If one of the other participants change the ratio of two slices to 0.5/1.5

This is not what happens. From the point of view of the first cutter, he got a piece he values at 1 and the others got pieces he values at 1-x and 1. Then they make the repartition of the remaining x. The person who got previously the piece that the first cutter valued at 1-x chooses first, but can’t get more than 1 (as valued by the first cutter) in total. And the first cutter chooses before the other person who got a piece he values at 1, so he cannot end worse off.
A large part of the magic is mostly referenced as historical stories, and then something happened where the magic went dormant (e.g. dragons got smaller and smaller over generations until they just stopped hatching). The present day story takes place at a time when the magic seems to be just coming back into the world (spells to create wildfire suddenly started working much better than they used to).

For most people in that world, magic has never existed outside of legends, and much of the knowledge on how to use it is gone or at least not available to most people (probably only in historical records at the Citadel).

The TV adaptation also downplays the magic more, either out of budgetary reasons or to keep it more accessible to a general audience.
We should wait for the energy comparisons to be made till we understand. :-) Emulating brain with machines or vice versa is not an interim solution.

Alternatively, perhaps the common task could today be defined based on something that Deep Learning can handle, like say visual object recognition using a pretrained model.
> except slightly modified to use ranges because the naïve method of taking derivatives isn't great when you have to take 2^(2^16) of them when your alphabet is UTF-16 characters.

The paper we read described how instead of deriving by a single character, one could also derive by sets of characters. I then improvised the range approach by myself - it was very cool being able to handle unicode!
> Global news keeps everyone on the same page as crises unfold

Have you watched Russian news? Or Fox?

> World powers separated by vast seas, neutral countries, and demilitarized zones.

That's just not true. Where was the demilitarized zone or neutral country between Ukraine and Russia?

> Less chauvinism. Kaiser Wilhelm II makes Trump look diplomatic and cordial in comparison.

I somewhat doubt that. Again, you've heard of Putin?
There are 5 versions at least. The specific HW version is easily identified by a sticker underneath the router.

Consult the openwrt table of hardware[1] for more details.

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c7-1750

Edit: eBay seems a lot better for this task - https://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m4084.l1313&...
AIWA – A Decentralized Wallet and DApp Integration Tool for the Aion Network
BlockxLabs is pleased to announced the BETA launch of AIWA - A Decentralized wallet and DApp integration tool for the @Aion_Network now available on the Chrome Store. For more information, please visit http://www.getaiwa.com
Design and characterization of electrons in a fractal geometry
Over 8 years ago I suddenly developed intense pain in my finger when clicking a mouse button, after years of using them just fine. Typing is fine. Just index-finger "clicking".

I have not really used a mouse since. I switched entirely to a combination of TrackPoint and Magic Trackpad. But it still hurts to this day to make that movement, even in the air.

Most vertical and ergonomic mice do not help, as despite benefits such as vertical grips they continue to use mostly standard index and middle finger movements for the clicking. I'd need something such as thumb-based buttons.

This mouse looks interesting as it appears to change the clicking movement itself. I'd love to be able to play an FPS again...
Aliens? Yes. UFOs? No. (2008)
Related: "Ten things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition" (2015) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11315994/Ten-things-n...

1. You're going to have to eat a lot of raw butter.

When you are skiing across Antarctica and putting in 12-14 hour days of pulling a sled in minus 40C, you have to keep your calorie count up. A normal man burns about 2,500 calories in a day. We burn between 7,000 to 9,000. That means supplementing your dehydrated food with slabs of butter. In the first few days of the expedition, it tastes revolting, but then your body just craves the fat content and you eat the butter like blocks of cheese.
I just want to mention how insanely insecure browsers' native password managers are. It asks you password only on export but never to fill on sites and you can see which sites are saved with no authentication, you just need access to the machine physically to access them all.
Why do browsers never implement something as easy as lock the vault with OS account pass after a certain period after unlocking like any password managers do?
Designing and building a great entry-level patch antenna for FPV
im not suggesting a chapter on it, just a basic attribution or citation would be good (ettiquette).

anyway i did enjoy the concise style of the handbook. well done!
2018.45/46 Post Diwali – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
Don't forget Sci-Hub.

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/321239.321249
Ultimately the answer to the economic value of Rome destroying Carthage was that Rome became the undisputed ruler of the Med for 500 years. Up until not that much time prior to the Punic wars, it wasn't at all clear that Rome would become the power that it did.

Obviously the animosity between the two played a huge part in the desire to salt the fields of Carthage, but that is almost exactly how The Entente and the Central powers felt towards each other after 2 years of war - neither of them could stomach laying down their arms, because so much blood had been spilt. So they had to keep going, and going, and going
Is there a technical reason why the T2 chip can't be disabled wholesale for situations like this? Obviously, this would disable features like touch ID, but that seems like an okay trade off.
Restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer, Part V
It has been a common practice for devs to setup a local DNS server that points any *.dev domain to localhost. Maybe you did it (or installed some tool that did it) and forgot.
"Basic needs", in this case, does not mean simply "the bare bones necessary for physical survival." It also includes enough financial security, luxury, and leisure time to actually enjoy your life. I mean, it's all about happiness, after all.

The point is that once you get beyond that figure (which I have seen quoted at around $80k, but the general idea remains), increases in income correspond to rapidly shrinking marginal increases in happiness.

So it's certainly not that once you get past that, you're stuck, flat, forever. It's that below that, lack of money is a major thing preventing you from attaining the full measure of happiness that a secure member of modern society can.
Magneto-ionic control of magnetism using a solid-state proton pump
Midair 3D Printing – Making coil springs without support