skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an FBA seller with mid 7-figure yearly revenue on the platform, I'd recommend it to no one as of about 6 months ago. I'm likely quitting soon.

Amazon's support for sellers is obscene, it pendulums between non-existent and a knife in the back.
> I live in Ghent (Belgium) and only taxis and public transit are allowed in the city centre.

How do they deliver stock to shops, collect waste, or do construction?
Their business model has been broken for years. It’s not incumbent on me to help them survive.
Racism is not limited to American society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_by_country
Well, seems like some people don't actually "obey" this rule you just invented.

And, for now, they have that other invented rule on their side, the rule of law.
Designing Well-Structured REST APIs with Flask-RestPlus: Part 1
What GP is saying is that there is no minimal reasonable distance, just like in real life.

I would say the minimal reasonable distance is the minimal focus distance of a single eye, a few centimeters.
They are hardly 'secret' - they have their own web site! [0]

[0] https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brig...
Thanks for clarification. Not a big deal, then.
1 decade down and iTunes hasn't budged. I suspect your 100yr timeframe is close
The real problem is Google indexing it.

Wasn't there even a rule from Google that you can't serve different content from what the general public is seeing?
> An air gap does have resistance, so there will be resistive heating just like in normal chips.

They also mentioned putting these in a vacuum. Presumably that won't have as much resistance as an air gap.
I spent a lot of time writing TI-BASIC and PHP/MySQL when I was about 11-13. Stopped programming in any serious capacity for about a decade.

When I picked up coding again as an adult, I found that although I had forgotten language-specific details (function names and arity, syntax, semantics, and so on), the flow and rhythm of programming had never really left me.

Since then, I've occasionally offered advice or informal tutelage to friends who are picking up programming and have asked for help. My observation is that programming seems to "click" with those who have, at one point or another, built a trivial project or script without following along a tutorial too closely. It doesn't matter how long it's been since they last wrote a line of code, the actual practice of coding sticks with them, and it greatly eases the challenge of further learning. Rote activities like codecademy don't seem to act the same way, since the user never gets into a flow state.

The article linked in the OP doesn't mention natural language learning, but I wonder where that sits in the proposed declarative/procedural binary. There's no getting around the brute memorization involved, but it does seem like certain language acquisition skills can be applied abstractly to grammar comprehension, semantic pattern recognition and the like, and can consequently make one's third or fourth language easier to learn than one's second.
Possibly in the form of a very strict, very semantic, almost RSS-like subset of HTML? Something that almost resembles the reader view many modern browsers will convert articles into?
Why Won’t You Talk to Me? (2017)
Maybe. My money is on a post about the same time next year where he’s whining about FBA’s Long Term Storage fees catching up with him.
This extension just seems to strip tracking data and pretend to be a Google bot. It baffles me that this is somehow concerning enough to be taken down. And anyway, isn't making exemptions for Google's robots sort-of against their policy?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355
> There is physical conditioning needed to utilize that strength without hurting yourself, but how strong you are is about neural pathways in your muscles, and how they fire, not the muscle itself. Your muscles are actually strong enough to rip the tendons from your bones.

Citation needed. Training for strength also increases your muscle mass, I'm not ready to believe that strength is only about neural pathways.
"news site" ?
Yes, but considering you seem to be keen on reading their content: have you considered that their survival may, just possibly, be in your interest?
No they wont (and don't) but it's possible they will choose to not sign these extensions, probably depending on their lawyers.
I agree with everything in the article - the example of non-intuitive effects of the strict aliasing rule, a tricky integer overflow example, and the unpopular plea to switch away from C/C++.

When I write C and C++ code, I try to make my logic portable and standards-compliant so that it will work on all platforms. So instead of assuming int is 32 bits, I am only allowed to assume that int is at least 16 bits wide. I assume that sizeof(char) could equal sizeof(int) and both could be 64 bits. I avoid bitwise manipulation on negative numbers, because they're not guaranteed to be two's complement. Keeping all of these pessimistic assumptions in mind while I code is a mental burden that I don't experience in other languages.

Regarding integer promotions, here is one tricky situation I reasoned about and asked in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39964651/is-masking-befo... . Suppose you want to compute:

uint32_t a = UINT32_C(0xFFFFFFFF);
uint32_t b = a << 31;
b should be 0x80000000

Looks innocent, eh? Left-shifting an unsigned integer will discard the top bits and never cause undefined behavior. Except, this reasoning can be wrong on some platforms. Suppose:

typedef unsigned short uint32_t;
typedef int int48_t;

Now (uint32_t)a → (unsigned short)a → (int)a → (int48_t)a, due to typedefs and integer promotion. But because a is a signed integer, it is undefined behavior to shift 1's into the sign bit. Kaboom.
They don't use stereo depth data for the front facing camera.
How many units do you have in their FC’s, that you need to draw down?
Or may be Electron will improve to the point where Switching to Flutter didn't matter?

It doesn't matter which framework really, any improvement is much better then what we currently have. WhatsApp on Mac currently uses 1GB Memory sitting there doing nothing. Not too bad for an Electron App I guess since Telegram uses 650MB after being opened for 48 hours, but it does sit at 150MB once it is closed and reopened.

And before anyone else say Memory were suppose to be filled, consider that paging actually lower the lifespan of a SSD, I have currently done 2TB of writing over the past few days.
Yes! https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355

It's definitely against their policy in my opinion, but I guess you could make a weak case that this is what the public would see if this was their "first visit".
There's also a social contract with government, such that laws are supposed to be thoughtfully written to achieve societal optimums, and rebalanced when that's not the case.

In practice, American legislators have to raise large amounts of money just to say in office. So it's unsurprising that they listen mainly to the concerns of people with money: https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

We are in an age where information distribution is approximately free. And where the costs of producing information-based products has declined drastically. Paywalls are not any sort of law; they're an attempt by information producers to have their cake and eat it too. They want the abundance of the new, computer-driven world. But they want artificial scarcity, so that they can charge like they did in 1970. My sympathy is with journalists here. But that doesn't mean I have to roll over and let them break the web.

The laws in question here, the DMCA and the CFAA, are both too new and too old to be reflexively bowed to with "OMG spirit of the law!" Too new because they are obviously part of society's attempts to deal with technology, and are equally obviously driven by the interests of people who have piles of money and are trying to protect those piles. And too old because both, but especially the CFAA which was written in 1984, reflect a very early understanding of what computers are, what they're for, and how society should treat them.

As far as I'm concerned, this is an ongoing negotiation. We need to find ways for journalists to get paid. We need to find ways to have a much more informed populace. We need to preserve as much as possible of the freedom computers and networks have given to every individual.

If we want paywalls to be a part of law, then we should have a national debate about whether publishers deserve a special protection so they make all of their content available, let it be downloaded to any computer in the world, and then have that computer enforce any restrictions they think are good ones. We are not obliged to just concede that debate right at the beginning just because you think reading an infinitely replicable article already on your computer is exactly the same thing as stealing a unique piece of fruit from a blind man's store.
Well, for one thing, it would make a takedown request like this impossible to enforce.
Article isn't paywalled. Did not need me to login/register. They did not ask me for my email. Don't care about http/https. Should I ?
No, a country has sovereignty on its territory and can do whatever they want, including blocking whatever websites they want and not giving a crap about whom they offend.

This is why you need to follow the law in the countries wher the service is operational, otherwise the service risks being blocked at the very least.

Of course, countries have trade agreements and the circumstances under which services and products can be blocked is negotiable. And this can cut both ways, e.g. companies in the US selling services and products in the EU have to be lawful in the EU, otherwise they can be fined, even without a presence in the EU. This is why most US companies selling their services in the EU have started charging VAT, even if the US has no such thing.

As to your remark, a website can be at the same time legal in one country and illegal in another. What can happen next depends on the country you’re talking about and the trade agreements that are in place.

But generally, when we’re talking about avoiding payments and taxes, you’d better live in a country with no extradition agreements.
The problem is people having opinions but lacking the most basic facts...

This is about "soft paywalls" that allow you to read maybe a dozen articles per months.
I don't think anyone seriously says that e.g. a biker doing hard mountain bike rides or bicycle stunts etc will be as good after a 10 year hiatus in which he never touched a bike.
The various local branches of the ACLU have been doing some impressive data projects.

- NYCLU won a lawsuit that forced the NYPD to release a database of their stop-and-frisk activity. The analysis of the data -- which showed a huge racial disparity in who was targeted -- was instrumental in winning a court order to reform the practice. In 2011, the NYPD committed 685K stop-and-frisks. In 2017, they did 10K. [0]

The ACLU of Northern California [1] filed records requests with 63 California police departments to uncover their financial deals with Geofeedia, a tech company that claimed to offer crime/protest detection using real-time feeds from Facebook/Instagram/Twitter's APIs. Geofeedia, which had recently raised $24M, had to vastly cut its operations after the tech companies shut off API access.

[0] https://www.nyclu.org/en/nyclu-campaign-0

[1] https://www.aclunc.org/blog/facebook-instagram-and-twitter-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13010337
MySQL Database Performance Optimization Using MySQLTuner on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator. There are capacitors that use vacuum.
The current does not flow through a CMOS device in a conventional sense. Single nanoamperes, at most, but when you have billions of transistors that stacks up quickly.

In CMOS, only one device of a PMOS/NMOS pair is open at the time. In simplest terms: electric field gets through a CMOS device, but not so much of current.
Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies
I think this is a great point. More confidence -> more speed -> more stable bicycle.

Part of me wonders if learning to ride a bike actually isn't all that difficult in the grand scheme of things, but we all remember it as being tricky because we did it at such a young (and uncoordinated) age.
Any idea why Juno appears to be pre-programmed to start with a pretty huge radial outward velocity?
Very cool! - Most search problems are solved this way - interesting index data modeling to the needed use cases, not magic machine learning neural network unicorns. Many want to sell you the latter. The thing that gets the job done is usually the former.

One big reasons for this is the need for really good training data to do supervised learning on search problems. If you’re Google or Wikipedia, you can get this data. But many struggle to understand what a good result was for a query based on clicks and other user data due to low volumes of traffic.
Laziness and obesity.
HTTP is public by default and SMTP is private by default. The laws respecting this in the US are pretty solid, especially for email. In the US privacy generally trumps public access which allows email to retain its private by default status even if served over HTTP (web mail).

That said anybody attempting to make parts of content non-pubic in HTTP without appropriate security restrictions are void the protections of law. The remedy for this is to ensure necessary security is in place so that non-pubic content is limited to account and session, which then puts part of the burden on the end user to ensure they restrict the credentials that provide access.

Content, not already covered, served over HTTP without the necessary security in place is not private.

There is a clause in the DCMA that makes it illegal to circumvent security controls. The stipulation there is that the security controls in question must be adequate and reasonable. Dropping a CSS model over some content is not a valid security control, and thus has no legal protection. Of course everything regarding DCMA is open to argument at legal expense.
This was posted here at least 10x before.

The last time someone posted a link to a hopeful successor at github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022357
It depends on which newspapers you are talking about, but what I said was that newspapers should not have tried to replace subscription fees with ads, because subscription fees were never trivial and were always needed for serious newspapers to be profitable. There is also the issue of online ads generating far less revenue than their print counterparts, and the fact that newspaper ads include the formerly profitable classifieds section which now has to compete with things like Craigslist.
This can be mitigated by turning off auto-play, and creating your own curated playlists.
>"race is a social construct" seems strange.

It merely means that race is something that doesn't exist outside of the social conventions of a society, an identity pasted onto oneself or someone else based on superficial and meaningless biological attributes.

Racism can be physically dangerous if 'race' is associated with ethics (be it high or low), such as in this database. But mainly, racism is just stupid (i.e. it obfuscates the real issues).

To think of 'race' as a meaningful category in research underpinning policy mostly proves to an outsider how ingrained racism is in the US.
I lasted a few hours with VS before jumping back to Atom. Just couldn't stand it.
Passport evidence reveal that the Paul Manafort and Julian Assange story is fake
Does anyone know a comparison between this and CockroachDB? Or have experience running either in production?

They seem to compare against other databases, but not against Cockroach which seems to be the biggest competitor. I'm looking at implementing a global-scale database cluster with very specific requirements, and YugaByte seems to meet those but a comparison against CockroachDB seems warranted.

Edit: just noticed they do compare features against CockroachDB: https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/comparisons/#distributed-sq..., but they don't have an in-depth comparison.
I work at a game company now. When I started 6 years ago it was on a contract basis and the salary was lower than I had hoped.

Your advice seems spot on to me.
Bcachefs File-System Might Be in Shape for Upstreaming in the 2019 Linux Kernel
Protip from a parent: set this up before you need it. If you're going to be leaning on YouTube to give yourself 20 minutes of coffee time in the morning, you're probably not going to have as much time and energy to set this up as you think.
I think this paragraph really sums up the whole article for me:

> The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway.

If you live in a forest you'll think the world is made of trees.

Paul Graham is a very clever man, and I have a lot of respect for him, but he lives in a high tech bubble. People in high-tech start-ups use apple; people who work in creative industries (mostly) use apple; most of the rest of the world use Windows PCs. So to declare the desktop (does this include laptop?) "dead", especially back in 2005, is most definitely premature.

Question: has anyone out there come across a non-high-tech multinational corporation that uses apples instead of PCs?
>What would be an alternative or more effective method of defending against the Russian and Chinese troll farms?

Not believing everything you read on the internet.
I had a friend in England who said the big thing to do when you "made it" was to import a Cadillac Escalade from the States. You could tell because they were left hand drive. Here in North America, Escalades don't seem like such a big deal anymore.
- an expression of the view that an academic is clouding their judgement with their own politics

How is that not an ad hominem attack?

- or simply behaving unreasonably in a manner which has nothing to do with scientific enquiry or their subject matter.

This can be implied by the discussion of the ideas; stating "you are behaving unreasonably" is, again, not an argument. Protests are manifestations of personal and emotional involvement- I don't see what these things have to do with scientific inquiry.
Bad analogy, counterfeit money dilutes the value of all other outstanding money when it is spent.
Broad baseless claims are pedantic.

> There’s also a social contract about respect for the law.

Which law, and as it applies in which context?
Think of olympic lifters. Pyyros Dimas, a guy who isn't "huge" (compared to say football players or body builders) won a Gold for the clean and jerk at 215 kgs (474 lbs) in the 85kg weight class (187 lbs). There is something else going on there besides muscle mass when a <187 lb guy can throw up almost 500 pounds completely over his head from the ground.

Here's a good article on the impact of your neural pathways on strength:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170710091652.h...

from the article:

> Jenkins found evidence that the nervous system activates more of those motor neurons -- or excites them more frequently -- when subjected to high-load training. That increased excitation could account for the greater strength gains despite comparable growth in muscle mass.

Adrenaline does wonders for the excitation-induced stimulation of the skeletal muscle system
I wish GitHub had decent search functionality.
Are there any good writeups on how to implement the trigram index side of this? For instance, the code alludes to the idea that you could store each trigram as a bitmap over documents, then the Boolean combinations become bitwise operations. I suppose you could keep the bitmaps in compressed (or even probabilistic sketch) form, then decompress only those required for a query, but is this the right intuition? Are there lower-level libraries or databases that do this kind of thing well, rather than rolling your own on a KV store or using something monstrous like ElasticSearch?
IS JESUS a CAUCASIAN – WHO CAPTURED HIS IMAGE WITHOUT a CAMERA?
It is not only about Education in terms of knowledge in specific domains either, it is more about the population being able to some sort of critical thinking, which is more of an ideal than reality.

One of the reason why I think it didn't work out so well in poorest countries. I think they will need 10 to 20 years of Well placed Educational structure before Representative Democracy being used as a political system, and then hopefully moving to Direct Democracy.
I'm not convinced this is a worse evil than the previous situation, which was that any and every crapware installer injected browser plugins/toolbars without consent.
I taught an adult to ride a bike and he was pretty good after only an hour or so, to be honest. It's true that adults can't just do it, but it's also nowhere near as hard as it for children.
> Its also a hedge to prevent every large game seller from setting up their own store.

That ship has already sailed - EA has Origin, Ubisoft has Uplay, Activision/Blizzard has Battle.net, Microsoft has the Windows store, and Bethesda and Epic have their own launchers.

Nearly every major publisher has already made the investment to develop their own store and digital distribution infrastructure, so they have little reason to pay the Steam tax now.
This is an erroneous way to view evolution. It's tautological that those traits that increase fitness (more viable offspring) become more widespread in a population. But those that don't disappear ... their survival is not "optimized". And all species eventually become extinct.
KarTrak
> Paywalls were invented this decade.

Paywalls were used in adult industry even before the 2000's.
> Alternatively, the add-ons break the social contract, whereby content creators request payment for their content.

That's what access control is for. If you don't secure your content, you don't get to whine that someone is reading without paying.
Then they should get real jobs.
When they bought that company it became their system. You can't just hand wave away PCI compliance hehe.
I recommend reading this to learn why your milk analogy is off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
Be that as it may, Marriott now owns it - literally. Just before this news broke, there was evidence of disarray in one or both company's systems in the kerfuffle over the awards system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18558876

It might be a case of years of technical debt coming due with a vengeance. I wonder if the technical people of either party to the acquisition were aware of the size of the problem beforehand, and if so, what they said about it and how it was received.
I'm not sure there is a reliable, generic approach for detecting overflow in conformant C; you probably have to come up with the appropriate proof for the specific operation that you're about to do. OpenBSD does it for multiplication in reallocarray() [1], which was introduced because it was easy to code an integer overflow when doing something like malloc(sizeof(member) * nmembers).

[1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/stdlib/r...