skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
16- or 32-bit chars are pretty common on DSPs from any vendor. I’ve found that it’s usually only an issue with some cross-platform serialization libraries that make invalid assumptions about how an array of octets looks in memory.
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Dear China, stop helping them...
The same thing is used in ultrasounds (except with sound) which is how they can "scan" without having any moving parts. Super cool.
Capacitors are also important:

http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/3-Classi...

Some old leaky "bumblebee" capacitor is worth $75 if it happens to be the .022 uF value found in certain guitar tone control circuits.
The lower orbit means the satellite coverage on Earth is smaller now, so they need more satellites to compensate for delivering the same capacity in a given area. It's better in terms of latency, but it's not a significant difference.
Ditto for the endianness. Or one of those embedded boards with really weird 24-bit stuff or something similar.
You mean "i.e."
Funny enough, the residents of my SF peninsula town (San Carlos, but most others have the same attitude) have had enough of people moving here and want the flow to stop.

Glad to see this initiative by Tulsa.
Finishing up my degree in spring, very few people say no to prestige coming out of new grad, but there are some, and those are absolutely avoiding Facebook among a few others. Currently, the main blacklist companies in my book are Facebook, Palantir, and Uber. Google still isn't evil enough. Amazon gets a bad rep overall for work environment but isn't avoided on moral grounds.
Llamas. And lots of 'em.
There's a lot of oil money in Tulsa, has been for decades. I'm not sure they'll notice.
However, they're also atleast ^2 times bigger than MySpace and have hands in various portfolios (albeit failing ones or the ones which will fail if they over-monetize it). But still far far from over, IMO.
Glad I have not jettisoned the two or three boxes of tubes stored up in our water tank tower that I inherited from my father in law - Time to go exploring again!
Exactly. There are cowboys and then there are master crafters. Both will rapidly produce awesome results, but the cowboy's results are messy, fragile and temperamental, while the master crafter's results are robust and easy to understand.
The weird machine my Computer Architecture class had us learn was the PDP-8, which is almost comically constrained. 12-bit, with exactly one register, no hardware stack, no arithmetic beyond addition and negation.
I can't read the article. Does it mention what charges might apply?

If he conspired with the hackers, I can see where criminal charges might come in. If he merely published documents afterwards, I'm not sure what they could charge him with.
Facebook is directly culpable in abetting a genocide level event in Myanmar. Enough said.
In AWS' HIPAA compliance docs they recommend not relying on their managed encryption services as they currently protect you from a legal standpoint but may not in the future (at least for RDS). Is AWS altering those guidelines and now going to say their encryption is good enough?
I posted about this a few weeks ago; it's a catch 22 situation. Gamers won't upgrade until games and hardware support high frame rate 4K gaming. Hardware manufacturers won't provide hardware until there is demand. Average businesses will stick to 1080p until 4K monitors become cheap enough, and scale well enough (which they don't on anything other than Mac).
Nice spotting
Microsoft Linux is my most favorite oxymoron now
Love Notion so far, if only it had an API already.
That's old school. The latest scam is for hospitals to buy up all the independent neighborhood clinics, and then double charging for services there. For the same service, the doctor at the clinic will charge their usual fee, then the hospital will charge another one for the privilege of hanging their name at the door -- it's called a "facility fee", because you see, by stepping in you've entered a "hospital" even though nothing has changed [1]. For a routine visit, as an example, you pay for the doctor's service and the use of their office. Did the doctor reduce their fee which used to cover such mundane cost of doing business as having an office? Ha! Of course no.

There is simply no end to the greed of the medical cartel hell bent on subverting market forces.

[1] https://www.the-alliance.org/uploadedfiles/Health_and_Wellne...
We could pitch a tent on top of Chimborazo, I'm guessing.
Type inference algorithms generally have two operations, verification and inference. Verification is faster and more complete (i.e. never misses an existing suitable type) than inference because it works from the biggest assumption that is a (hopefully) suitable type for given expression. Hindley-Milner combined with Algorithm W is really brilliant because it makes inference as performant as verification as the constraint solver is integrated in the inference process, but it does not work for all type systems; inference continues to be inferior when H-M is not applicable as is.
CIA Director: 'It's time to call out Wikileaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.'

It's normal for us not to have any direct evidence, but to see the results of their behavior. CIA on the other hand might have recordings, communication etc. They have been digging for years.
Come back in 6 months and say that.

Not trying to be cruel, but it seems like social media entities like FB seem almost impossible to unseat from their position of being the new public space of the 21st century.

Nothing over the last day has been overly surprising and pretty much typical facebook behaviour, doesn't seem like near enough to overcome the demand-side economies of scale they hugely benefit from.
> We’re no longer working with them but at the time, they were trying to show that some of the activity against us that appeared to be grassroots also had major organizations behind them. I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing, but I should have.

It never occurred to anyone at Facebook to audit what Definers was doing?

For goodness sake, make sure you don't read the comments on that post.
Looks like a few hours walk and $250 for a guide:

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/110735330/standard-rou...
> The DNC/Podesta leaks were timed specifically to cause maximum negative effect to Clinton and the Democrats.

What's wrong with this? Assange didn't steal this information, he just published it. That's the freedom of speech.

Also, US wants to prosecute Assange not because of leak of personal information, but rather because of political reasons. Only because he is against the wars that US started in the Middle East.
Very cool and thoughtful. Thanks!
Internet Archive link for those who don’t want to give Facebook any traffic or have the site blocked: https://web.archive.org/web/20181116055923/https://m.faceboo...
It's interesting that the area he removed was asymmetric; my intuition would be that the optimal solution would be symmetric.
To what degree does marketing rely on psychological manipulation?
No, they do it because most don’t know how to interview. So, they just do what everyone else is doing.
And what are we going to do about it? Sanction facebook? Fine them? Shame Zuckerberg into doing more?

I'm curious how we could actually make facebook do something to fix the current situation but nothing really seems like it would work short of threatening their existence.
I noticed the same exact thing. It's nice Microsoft finally see that its UWP/Store thing is a failure and start supporting the good old way instead of persisting to force developers using something they don't want.
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Couldn't have said better. But from my experience, assume the worst and be ready to walk away.
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I'm sure something can be worked out with an Indian partner company letting the government block sites it doesn't want and spying on us, like existing ISPs do.
I find Google trends to be a good indicator. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=F...
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“P(XXXYYY|H0) = 1 / 6choose3 = 5%. Wow, that's not a very good update for H0. It's probably just false. For expediency, let's just toss it out.”

It only makes sense to toss H0 out if P(XXXYYY|H1) >> 5% (such that the evidence for H1 relative to H0 increases after the observation).

You are implicitly assuming that’s the case because “it makes sense”. But as the parent post mentioned, the likelihood is not defined and in particular if the noise in the observation process is large enough, P(XXXYYY|H1) may be very close to 0.05 as well.
I like this design decision. I can't talk for other people, but if a page looks good on a text based browser, I consider it to be well designed page (although I don't force the converse).

The way I understand it, the only real reason why there is something like javascript at all is that one wants to improve latency / computing load on servers. But since javascript is already here, it is now easy to abuse it instead by cluttering all kinds of junk and computing to the page and to the browser / client.
People are, not the tools. There are always tools that could be used for bad acts but people are the once who can deicide how to use them.
So facebook didn't know that they were paying for the creation of fake news? Seems like they are really going to be up against the wall trying to figure out who their platform is making fake news if they can't even see it under their own nose.
1. Please no red.

2. Able to differentiate a clickable link and text on the header.

Good idea. Best of luck
As I understand, Assange is not an US citizen. How can they prosecute him?

Wikipedia page [1] says:

> Opinions of Assange at this time [2010] were divided. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard described his activities as "illegal," but the police said that he had broken no Australian law. United States Vice President Joe Biden and others called him a "terrorist". Some called for his assassination or execution.

That's ridiculous. American soldiers killing civilians are "good guys", and Assange is a terrorist?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
People seem to have this one backwards. They seem to think only people in the worst position get to make moral statements.

Except that's the opposite of how it works. Upholding morality requires leverage and power. Any person can be broken. That's not a good measure of validity of valid claims.
Ouch.

That's viable for consumers only if it's shared, like by providing an open Wifi access point to everyone around it, or via Ethernet in an apartment or a small village.
Actually, if you send a physical system which encodes N quantum bits you can send up to 2N classical bits.

(check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding)
> the vast majority could safely assume flat memory addressing, 8-bit chars, 32-bit ints, two's complement, IEEE floating point

IME I've rarely, if ever, needed to make any of those assumptions, though early in my career I unfortunately did. Unless you're writing a kernel or a compiler there's rarely a good reason to assume a flat memory model. You would assume a flat memory model if you're manipulating objects in a way that grossly subverts the typing system; I say grossly because assuming a flat memory model usually isn't necessary even for most illegal type punning hacks.

Assuming 8-bit chars is useful, yes, but really only so you don't need to insert masks everywhere when doing bitwise operations on chars, such as when marshaling integer types (preferably without type punning). AFAIU an 8-bit ASCII string won't be packed 2 characters to a char on implementations using a 16-bit char, so pointer arithmetic and string manipulation will always look the same assuming the same string encoding. As with integers more generally, most of the time all that matters is that an integer type has at least N bits, whether or not you'll use them.

If you're depending on fixed-width types then usually there's a leak in your abstraction somewhere or you're doing bitwise manipulations where it's probably wise to use explicit masking, if only to make the code more clear, if not provide the ability to parameterize the value range. Typical exceptions would be cryptographic code, hashes, etc, particularly code that needs to perform rotations. But thankfully C has provided fixed-width types for nearly 20 years now, and almost all (if not all) compilers, even niche compilers, support these.

Assuming two's complement is only useful when you're depending on overflow characteristics. But signed overflow is undefined, anyhow (and for still-good reasons), and unsigned integer types are already guaranteed to be using two's complement representation (which requires emulation on some architectures, similar to how compilers transparently synthesize 64-bit long long integers on 32-bit platforms).

I've never done heavy floating point arithmetic so can't speak to the usefulness of assuming IEEE floating point for, e.g., managing error accumulation. But IME general purpose software likes to assume IEEE floating point for its indirect benefit, like how JavaScript provides the ability to perform accurate 32-bit scalar arithmetic by dint of providing a single 64-bit IEEE floating point integer type, or how VMs (including JavaScript JIT VMs) abuse floating point to implement tagged types; but arguably the reliance on 64-bit IEEE floating point has been on balance detrimental by, e.g., making the adoption of 64-bit scalar arithmetic in languages like JavaScript more difficult.

Also, it's noteworthy that WebAssembly makes use of some of the flexibility (or, rather, stricture) of the C standard. Appreciating the subtleties of C semantics helps make your code portable not only to archaic environments, but to bleeding-edge and future environments.
I think it depends on what games you are trying to play, and how much graphics combined with high fps matter to you. I play Rocket League on a 4k screen with a 1060, and it holds up at 60fps without any problem. I also play GTA V, racing games, and the occasional first-person shooter, with no problems whatsoever. It's not the best for top tier competitive play in highly demanding games, but I think it depends on what you want out of it.
They lied to congress directly in claiming during testimony that Palmer Luckey was not fired because of his $10k donation to an anti Hillary PAC. As the recent Wall Street Journal article shows, what FB told Congress was untrue.

Why believe them now?
TOPS-20 on the DECSYSTEM-20 had 7-bit characters, but this was a 36-bit machine... so sizeof(int) needs to return a fraction or something...

(There was a C compiler on it, but it cheated and used 9-bit chars).
Then what would you suggest?
Facebook is still big, but it is losing it's throne as king.

Facebook is only used by older folks at this point.
So much cloud encryption is a total checkbox. As a security professional I sometimes don't have a clear threat model that the magic crypto is meant for.
The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that never have to come down
I mean, it's mostly Chrome right? I bet ARM electron and VS Code could be done today.
Say it under oath, Sheryl.
If it's possible for your application, you might consider offering a 'feature-limited' aka 'crippleware' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware) product to help you determine its potential usefullness to a wider audience.

There are a number of approaches to doing that. After getting burned a few times paying $(100s) full-price for products just to find out that a feature I expected/needed was missing, I stopped doing that. I've since found some feature-limited stuff that lets me 'create-but-not-output' that I liked.

If it turns out to be a hit, you can change strategy. If the audience is limited, you can move back to shareware.
His methodology was to generate random shapes, fit them into the existing best known cover, and then shift them toward one of the corners; once you know that, it's unsurprising that he only removed area from the opposite corner.
Do you have a Facebook account?
Everyone is reading this in Archer's voice
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The OP is making some short cuts. 1/(6 choose 3) means that they start with the assumption that every possible ordering is equally likely. If that is the case, then the odds that XXXYYY pops out is 5%. What happens if we change our assumption? Let's assume that XXXYYY is more likely. This would imply that algo B is faster than algo A. If we assume that any of the other (or all of the other) combinations are more likely, then this reduces the odds that XXXYYY would pop out.

This means that either we had it right (algo B is faster than algo A), or the result we saw was at least as unlikely as we predicted. That's what it means to have a "confidence interval".

I'll leave the Bayesian version to someone else because I don't really trust myself to do it.
It might be indicative of something, but how many people are going to be searching for Facebook anymore? There's only so many markets to expand into, and if you have it installed you probably won't search for it much.

Not that I necessarily think Facebook is thriving right now, but I'm not convinced that Google Trends is a good indicator for established mainstream applications people already own.
The trend for Facebook has been going down since 2013. That maybe because people are using the app more than they are using it on a browser.
> I also want to address the issue that has been raised about a PR firm, Definers...I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing, but I should have.

To be fair, are COO's normally aware of every firm that the company is working with? I feel like the CFO would need to know given their role in overseeing company financials, but not sure if it would make sense for a COO to be in the loop.
It didn't work out for Facebook, so I'm not sure it will. SpaceX isn't trying to connect people below they poverty line, so unless they convince India that the rich need it, I can't see it happening.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-...
This is such a meaningless platitude. Let’s start selling nuclear weapons? Hey it’s just a tool!
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What's good, Facebook go home!
And before they choose, they're supposed to determine who is more likely to win. And they admitted they didn't do that fairly as they were being run by Clinton campaign.
> The problem with advanced type inference is that the exact algorithm needs to be part of the standard for compability reasons

I don't think that's true -- if you have principal types, you can just say in your language spec that the principal type is inferred.
15k? Maybe it widens as you gain experience, but my last job search (at ~3.5 years of experience) resulted in a 90k difference between the highest startup offer and lowest non-startup offer.
I don't think Patreon does. As you can see you cannot see that information for every creator.

Publishers/creators can choose to show or hide the number of subscribers and their monthly earnings. This site simply is scraping that freely available information.
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I agree, I think NVidia really stumbled with this RTX nonsense. I'd much rather have enough GPU cores to render 4k 60fps comfortably over some extra eye candy.

I was really looking forward to the 2080 release to upgrade my 1080, only to be disappointed by the benchmarks.

Hopefully AMD will take advantage.
As a new grad out of college with friends at FB, I can attest that it can actually be 250k (base + equity + returning intern signing bonus). At least for year 1.
They could tell you what they will try to collect from insurrance then you know your risks.
This is incorrect. Derivation doesn’t prove usage.

http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
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Citizenship isn't usually relevant to prosecution, unless it's for something like treason. The US prosecutes foreigners for hacking crimes committed outside of the country as well.
tell that to my mother who's addicted to facebook and views it as the internet basically
As one of the authors: Yes, it is true, 3 orders of magnitude (so about a factor of 1000 on GPUs). But please be careful, this holds only for higher order derivatives (like Hessians, or Jacobians), as stated in the paper and as the title says. For gradients, the speedup is rather limited.
http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
The problem it certainly going to be uplink/downlink - even with this massive constellation, you're fairly limited by the available RF spectrum. If you had a decently high subscription rate in a reasonably densely populated area, you'd probably be down to dozens of megabits per second per user at most.

This could deliver absolutely massively better internet in less populated areas like rural, shipping, etc. but I feel like people are perhaps getting the wrong idea and thinking this could supersede terrestrial networks in urban/surburban areas - in which case there will be a lot of disappointed people.
I'll try this again: if 3 other people pledge with me, I'll delete my Facebook account tonight.
Exactly!

http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
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It can be really tedious to list the cases where principal types do not exist. Haskell has a separate section for ambiguous overloading [1] for that reason, and more ad-hoc or advanced type systems will be harder to describe.

[1] https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch4....
I’ve never heard of a pro athlete being evaluated by their ability to bench press.
Very good analogy that demonstrates how silly those interviews are.
Interface, Inc. the company that likely makes the carpet your chair is on right now if you're in A class office space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface,_Inc.
What is the best evidence of this? I know that Facebook was used by participants in this, but is their culpability because they didn't do more to stop it, or was it actually something they were doing that actively enabled it?

Genuine question, if anyone has more info on this.
Is this permanent?

Somehow, I do not see this ending well. As attractive as eliminating pain may be, the fact is we need a sense of pain.

A knee that cannot communicate pain lacks the feedback needed to prevent further damage.