skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Civil War marked the end of the Napoleonic era. The European powers ignored those lessons for various reasons, mostly because the US and Confederate armies were levies of non-professional soldiers. They also didn't really have an alternative as technology was advanced enough for advanced industrial killing, but not enough for WW2 style engagement.

The key advance was the broad availability of the rifle vs. the musket. (Which was an advantage Britain held over Napoleon as well) With a musket, the killing field was about 50-100 yards. The early rifles like the British baker rifle extended that to 200-250 years. Civil War rifles were 500+ yards.

Military doctrine for WW1 armies was all about fast maneuver warfare like what was happening in 1914. Mobilization speed, elan and discipline would win. This was true until the other side mobilized, at which point the modern rifle (800-1000 yard killing range), machine gun, and explosive artillery equated to stagnation.

What you're seeing today is the future. Nobody can afford to lose large standing army engagements, so limited warfare rules the day. Even the US military has been forced to strip alot of resources from things like armored divisions and artillery, and doesn't have a good public strategy for air power. Limited warfare is cheap, and even the US focuses alot of attention on it -- there are like 50-80k special forces type soldiers.
This might sound glib, but as someone who has used both Thunderbird and Outlook extensively, I don't recommend any desktop email client. Email clients were designed for a whole different era, and only work well in that context.

Gmail, Outlook.com/O365/etc, are designed for you to "keep everything." Problem is that all desktop email clients aren't designed that way, they want you to have a very small limited subset of email that they can index and constantly have in memory.

When these two worlds converge desktop clients choke and choke hard. Outlook is so terrible that it almost needs to be completely retired. They've barely updated it in ten years.

Best case scenario right now is full webmail (with anyone) and browser notifications for new email etc if you need that.
You may wish to consider that the voice in the installer is beneficial for accessibility purposes.
glassdoor is productized extortion, pay-to-manage feedback, like yelp but more subjective.
How strange that the NYT article was about how they tried to pull other companies under the bus when they had privacy issues, and here Alex Stamos is pointing out that "most tech companies", "a lot of parties", "mass media", "NYT/WaPo/ESJ/TV", all failed too and should get the attention instead. The only thing missing is him saying Soros funded the GRU.

I know Alex Stamos left the company at this point, but he has every incentive to toe the party line on this, since his reputation could personally take a hit for his involvement.
If you use Windows' Mail client with Gmail, do you get served both Microsoft AND Google ads?
Anyone remembers just 5 years ago, Microsoft had a huge campaign about how everyone got "scroogled" by Google? Especially this ad about Google reading your mail to devliver you ads? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI1ominSL_c

Oh, how the time has changed!
That helps a lot. This is something that I haven't been keeping in mind. Great suggestions for what to do with the landing page and also some of the best advice for framing how I should think about how a user will see that first page. Much appreciated!
Which aplications would you like to see in Linux?
At least there will be no disagreement about the shipping weight on the auction listing.
Boa-Constructor. We had that years ago but it never got popular for whatever reason, at the time it seemed spectacular. Think it's in the Debian repository.

http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net
And then do it again after most updates to the system.
All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap.

Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
While OSX might be expensive it is such a pleasure to use!
I liked Win 10 email client because I can close it and still get email alerts.

I'd like an alternative that has close to tray functionality.
Amazon has lately been putting ads on prime video for other prime video shows. I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads.

Also, on prime video, occasionally, pressing the fast forward button won't skip the ad. I'm sure it's one of those "bugs" that just happens to force the user to do something the company wants but the user doesn't but I have a feeling it might just stop working all the time and we'll be forced to sit through the whole ad on a paid service.
I wouldn't expect a thoughtful reply, tobyhinloopen seems to be trolling all over the comments here.
No need to repeat what you posted below. We get it.
But it’s not your data they are collecting.

They are collecting usage-stats, aggregated data, in a way which deliberately has been decoupled from your identity so they won’t have to face the kind of liability issues you just mentioned.

If anything, MS seems like one of the few big actors in IT which “gets” GDPR, and they are using it their advantage in the enterprise market.

Of course unwanted telemetry (no matter how anonymized) is going to taint that image somewhat.
"In late 2017, a group led by Rosalyn Moran, a neuroscientist and engineer at King’s College London, pitted two AI players against one another in a version of the 3D shooter game Doom. The goal was to compare an agent driven by active inference to one driven by reward-maximization."

Can anyone link to this paper? I can't find it.
Apple’s new iPad Pro seems to bend pretty easily
In short, "you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
45k is cheap for a cinema camera. Since it’s generally large budget films that shoot anamorphic, this scheme allows the camera to be accessible to production companies that might never need anamorphic. Anamorphic tech costs money to develop, so it seems that having all users subsidize an advanced feature they might not want would result in the camera costing more for everyone.
Ah, they don't have to keep supporting Bionic for 10 years instead of 5?
For the same reason count is not a mass.
Avogadro constant is a count relating number of specified atoms to mass.
How does that kool-aid taste
I get that this is a significant milestone but this seems extremely overstated:

"the new changes will have wide-reaching impact in science, technology, trade, health and the environment, among many other sectors."

Am I missing something?
"We already require kids to be vaccinated before they can attend school."

No, not everywhere does anymore.

"I'm not sure why insuring them would increase or decrease their rates."

Because some people are very poor. My friend didn't get her flu shot because she couldn't afford the extra $50 this month. And that's a cheap vaccine that doesn't also require a doctor visit to go with. Some people have to worry more about today than tomorrow or they don't have food and rent money this month.
Facebook running XDP 1.5 years in production: Lessons learned
I don't think that Microsoft serving ads within their native mail application has strong ramifications for Netflix or HBO. They are different market segments with different expectations.
> Let's stop teaching lectures to undergrads in medieval style in 500 person lecture halls

Although I agree with this sentiment, you have to realize that the alternatives are either a) worse, or b) don't scale.

I prefer the ones that don't scale (small number of students in a class who get real continuous feedback and fully participate in the lecture). It works really well, but this model is enormously expensive compared to the 500 person lecture hall.

500 person lecture halls suck, but what's the scale-able, better alternative?

MOOCs aren't the answer -- that's just the old 500 person lecture hall model with a pause button. Woohoo. Plus, it doesn't actually solve the real problem, which is that you need the humans running the course anyway. For a well-oiled machine of a course, maybe 10% of the actual time spent on teaching is spent in the classroom. And for non-well-oiled courses, creating the MOOC and keeping it up to date is a hell of a lot of up-front cost, and with a lot of risk.

> and instead get them engaged in research as assistants right away.

I can tell that you haven't worked with lots of undergraduate students on research projects.

Most undergraduate students aren't ready to participate in research. Of those that are intellectually prepared, few have the grit/persistence required. Of those with the intellectual preparation and persistence, fewer still have the imaginative faculties to actually do research (as opposed to e.g. acting as a tech).

This is true even in very applied areas. You'd be surprised how few CS undergraduates would succeed at implementing something as simple as an experimental change to a kernel or a tweak to an ML algorithm.

At some point you simplify the research problem enough that it's indistinguishable from a course project or homework assignment. In fact, that's even where some course projects and homework assignments come from. But at that point, you're not "involving students in research", unless "doing homework or programming assignments" = "research" that is.

> We need more science and less "publish or perish" politicians posing as professors engaged in grant grabbing.

At times I have certainly felt this way about academia! But I could say similar rude things about every profession.

> Tweed jacket welfare recipients if you ask me.

There are ineffective people in every field, and most of them manage to stay more-or-less employed throughout their working years.
Yea, that's the cable revenue model, it's not working out so well for them right now. I would be very careful about double dipping.
I can just imagine how many M.2 cards would be destroyed if the film industry started using them as media.
I agree. OSX user here as well. It's the "least bad" option IMO if budget isn't much of an issue.

If OSX wouldn't exist, I would likely try Linux, get sick of it, try Windows, get even more frustrated, and get back to Linux. It is very likely I'd be using ElementaryOS or Ubuntu Desktop in the end.
We're always looking for suggestions for new courses to add! I will take a look at this and see what we can do!

If you want, you can email me a way to contact to you at admin@stacks.courses and I can give you an update when we add this course!
Luerl – a Lua 5.2 engine implemented in Erlang/OTP
Sure you do. I get free updates on my hackintosh, I just have to be very careful about actually installing them.
when someone says "let's monetize X", what they're really asking is, "how can we burn all that developer goodwill we've worked really hard to earn". So maybe go looking for another revenue channel?
I'd like to see a way of installing applications that isn't needlessly restrictive. Something like AppImage, only actually used.
>$50/hr for delivering papers would most likely cause the prompt and total collapse of the local economy.

I imagine it would merely cause the prompt and total collapse of the paperboy position, until efficiencies were created to support it (e.x., there's only one paperboy for n square miles, they oversee a swarm of paper-delivering drones, and the number of papers they deliver justifies a $50/hr salary); people simply decided that physical paper delivery wasn't worth the cost; or they decided that it was worth it, and had their pay and expenses adjusted commensurately.

>I'm only aghast that the proposed cure is actually much worse than the disease!

I'm not sure you've proven that.

>I agree wholeheartedly, but I'd guess we probably disagree on the remedy. I'd defer to the market which would of course require a free market to exist in the first place for things like housing.

The laissez-faire approach to market management is what "innovated" tent cities into existence in the first place, man.
IAM isn't a cutesy name. It literally stands for Identity and Access Management.
In my opinion it is because a mole is a numerical amount of atoms vs the mass of the substance, so it makes reactions, formulas, and measurements easier to determine. Avogadro's number is useful just as a baseline to use (number of carbon-12 atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12), like there are 12 inches in a foot or 100 centimeters in a meter...
... and Boole is the great great grandfather of Geoff Hinton (back propagation, etc.). The plot thickens!
Tested now. It works just fine, with the proper antenna. RTL-SDR is a receiver, with this toy you can only sniff some non-encrypted data exchange between the phones and the cell towers, for example IMSI numbers (as its name explains ). You can't do MITM attacks or intercept anything.
Funnily enough, they have started lagging U.S. and European companies after the mid-2000s in terms of vehicle technologies like advanced transmissions

Scotty Kilmer is an almost half-century veteran of the car repair business. (He's become the new Car Talk of 20-teens YouTube.) His position on the automatic transmissions made by most car companies, in the current fleet of used cars, is that they're a bit crappy. As in, you're a bit lucky to get 100k out of most of them trouble free, and you're very lucky to get 200k trouble free. One of the few makers of automatic transmissions that gets it right is Aisin, which is the supplier to Toyota.

One way this might change, is the use of computers to operate what's essentially a manual transmission on behalf of the driver. However, even that might fall by the wayside, outside of particular niches, with electric vehicles.
Location targeted marketing (spam).
People constantly confuse communication with a lot of talking and collaboration with sitting in the same room or constant meetings.
https://saintlad.com/install-macos-sierra-in-virtualbox-on-w...
I think recommender systems are the biggest culprit in this. Most recommender systems are probably trained with a simple objective of maximizing the amount of time the user spends browsing through the list of recommended items.

The whole idea of continuously giving your users content so that they can passively scroll down and be entertained is just like putting users in a box where they can pull a lever to get food. When users are given all these options without having to think and to actively search for them, they just become vegetables.
In a meta-sense, I don't think your question is dumb at all.

There's a complicated technical topic which you're still not understanding. There's no indication it's a question you could easily answer yourself, and you're posting it in a forum of people likely to find the topic interesting, some of whom might give an answer that clicks for you.

Well done, IMHO.
They really should cut the middle man.

What surprised me reading that wiki page is that apparently the metric system was opposed in the US based on religious reasons. That is mind-boggling.
Zeroing out the lest-interesting octet of an IPv4 address is only a placebo that doesn't provide any useful anonymity. The other data being collected at the same time almost certainly has enough identifying entropy to correlate a partial IPv4 address with other personally identifying records, probably trivially.

For a longer explanation, see my post about the &aip=1 feature in Google Analytics that does the same thing to the end of the IP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17170468
Real-time text detection on iOS and Android using React-Native
A lot of regular applications have Linux builds: https://github.com/mike-u/linux-apps-for-everyone
It's not a fundamental constant.

> the Avogadro number was initially defined by Jean Baptiste Perrin as the number of atoms in one gram-molecule of atomic hydrogen, meaning one gram of hydrogen. (from Wikipedia)

(It's since been refined to be 12 grams of carbon-12.)

So a mole is defined to be approximately one gram worth of protons and neutrons. We use it because grams are a significantly easier unit of mass for humans to work with, than like individual particles.
It is somewhat relevant for this discussion that Suneung was established in 1994 and postdates most of economic growth of South Korea.
Yes, typically Apple wanting a large slice of whatever they touch, like the app market.
Let a gorilla like Apple into your market and soon your slice will get smaller and smaller, slice by slice.
They call the the salami game, one slice is not worth much, so you let it go, then another - soon all that is left for you is the string, and that is not worth fighting about either.
That said, the greed of the banks/cards with their 3-5% (?? or so) fee on products that might well have less than a 10% margin has invited competition, as all vendors hate these high fees, and if Apple charges a lot smaller fee, they may well shoulder their way in. After all, the merchants now finance all these points, and miles etc, so some good may come of it.

So I say let Apple in, but also let in google and facebook and other payment methods and cards, lets get a broadly based competitive milieu going.
This is all too common in developing economies. Due to general economic mismanagement leading to limited opportunities and sticky cultural beliefs, students are pegged against each other. A national exam is used as a filter to allow those the exam deems "smartest" into the top programs in the country. These exams are notorious for being cheated on, and many students effectively spend their secondary education over fitting their education to succeed on the exam reducing the likelihood they will pursue any other interest.

The thing that I don't think most of these countries realize is, if you've spent an entire child's life teaching them to compete with others, and making that a ticket to their success, all you do is enable that behavior and it becomes a habit.

I've met many foreigners working in the West who strongly believe that because they were top performers academically in their countries they are better than everyone and it shows through in arrogance much more frequently than people who we in the West might consider "top performers". What I like about many Western education systems is the emphasis on collaboration. Some Western countries don't have a national entrance exam and that's really for the best. You create a funnel of homogeneity in your academic system by using that as your qualifying metric without much thought to anything else and your economic development persists on that path with those deemed to be top performers looking down on their fellow citizen.

Of course, I do not want to over generalize. This is not ALWAYS the case and I've also met many foreigners who are humble and amazing to work with and Westerners who are arrogant and dismissive.
gcc 8.2 is also available for RHEL 7: https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/over... It's included in the subscription.
Truthfully, they're probably not an employee unless there's a union involved. Independent contractor, most likely.
My, I wish there was an OS that respected my freedoms unlike all of those... Hmm.
Or perhaps some sort of venting system that engages at a certain altitude or pressure preventing the ballon from over expanding. Like a hot water tank has a pressure release it the tank gets too hot will vent releasing pressure.
It seems like they can get people to sell their privacy and autonomy cheaply if they can convince them it's the normal thing to do. Having an option that doesn't do any of those things would undermine the illusion.
>we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads.

Cable TV model isn't dead after all.
Agreed. If Microsoft doesn't come through with Andromeda, the Librem 5 is my backup plan.
The actual text of the resolution, for those with low tolerance for dumbed-down PR releases:

https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/CGPM/Draft-Resolution-A-EN...
Fun (?) anecdote - metric apparently has been used in US engineering for quite a while; a petrolhead buddy of mine was puzzled as to all the fractions used on the drawings of his (I think) Chrysler Hemi V8 from the fifties - on a hunch, we converted a few to metric. Bingo.

(Just making up a number here) 3.937" stroke? Why on Earth... Ah. 100.0mm. That's why.
Built-In and Higher-Order Functions for Complex Data Types in Apache Spark 2.4
The money you would likely pay would be less than what they can make by selling you ads (as a whole). If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.
Constants aren't and variables don't, in my experience!
A horse oversimplification rendering your comment to be borderline bullshit.

Ultimaty, by your interpretation, you can’t do anything privacy-sensitive online because every packet you send over the internet contains (in case you weren’t aware) your IP-address. :shocked_face:

That’s how the internet works. And it’s not privacy sensitive unless connected to other data.

The GDPR is perfectly reasonable, and obviously has amendments for these kind of things.

TLDR: Stop spreading FUD.
This particular implementation cannot read SMS data, so it's not really 'yet another reason'. There are ways to MITM the connections between cell phones and towers (e.g. Stingray), but this is not one of them.
You'd think that but that isn't what the experiment showed.

None of the subjects had been through the experiment before.

They were all commanded by an authority figer (man in a white coat with a clipboard) to shock an unseen but heard fellow subject with increasingly large voltages. The "victim" was an actor who begs for mercy with each shock and then suddenly goes quiet. The experiment goes on with the subject shocking the "dead" actor when it finishes.

Most did what they were told with no complaints.

Some complained that what they were doing was wrong but still did it anyway.

Only a very few said "no I won't do that, it's wrong" and left the experiment.

There's no reason to think that the people working for Facebook or Google are any different to those test subjects. They'll spread fake news, dodge taxes or compile massive amounts of data on people just because they're told to by their boss. Just like most other people would.
I guess the next redefinition will happen if and when there's detectable drift in "fundamental" constants?
Copy-Paste Error Reveals Assange Already Facing US Indictment
I thought it was just a ratio. Mass per mole. I admit I have never used this in my day to day life and college was 20 years ago. So maybe I am clueless.
To be fair, the only serious competition for home users has laptops that (now) start at $1200, plus tax, applecare, and dongles (oh, you wanted a USB-A connection like basically every device in the world uses? Jony is about to courage your wallet. You want to be able to connect it to the odd tv via HDMI, what everything in the world uses? More courage!)... so basically $1500 to walk out the store. I'm aware you can get an old air with 5 year old guts for $1k, but that will prolly not be sold for much longer.

My parents do not need $1.5k of laptop to browse the internet, email, and exchange photos of grandkids. Particularly in a world when a decent laptop doing the above should cost $750 or less out the store.
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This is infuriating. I'm paying for the service--that's supposedly what's sustaining it--why are there ads? If you (Amazon) decide you want more money, let me decide to pay more to eliminate ads.

Similar things abound with Hulu. Even the more expensive "ad free" version has some ads for certain shows/movies due to "licensing agreements" (read: Hulu wanting more money).