skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can assure you that a lot of things professors do and say (for better and for worse) have little or nothing to do with scientific enquiry

We have been talking so far of censorship of ideas and of "academic context", which doesn't necessarily coincide with the university building. My point, from which I might have strayed a bit in the thread, is that protests are irrelevant to the academic discourse (again, not "what professors chat about during the day") and as such they should be considered exclusively disruptive, and certainly not a way of making any sort of point. Shouldn't university, in general, also teach students to present their cases and conclusions in a cogent manner, as opposed to picketing a hall and shouting?

Then there is of course the case of bad behaviour or mistreatment of students: but what does it have to do with "controversial ideas" and public protests against them? It's a matter for disciplinary committe and investigations about actual individual facts, not about general statements and beliefs.
Then they should lower rates across the board. There used to be a time when "just being on Steam" justified the high cost to smaller developers, but the market is over saturated now because they don't curate anymore that it isn't the case.
So, yes, this person is a total noob, and his/her experiment is obviously going to fail.

But the author expects that option. It's an experiment. The blog post talks about spending 3k to 5k on the experiment, which I presume is not a lifechanging sum for the author. The experiment will fail, but apart from a bit of lost money there's not a lot of risk.

The problem is when people do the same thing, but don't consider the fact that they are inexperienced. They think they have it all figured out and spend their life savings on it. They sell their home, take another mortage, and end up with mountains of debt, and a product nobody wants.

It doesn't sound like that's what the blog author is doing.
See kythe.io for the semantic bits.
I do believe that in biotech, you need to truly be motivated by improving lives.
It seemed to me that this article mentioned a few strategies that the GS report advised for to sustain revenue growth that could also tie in to making useful biotech products (e.g. finding a market that has a disease with high incidence).
That being said, this post title seems to be a tad bit sensationalized. Certainly an investment bank of this ilk would advise towards making profitable investments.
My experience has been many people who work in the biotech industry(albeit scientists,engineers, etc) want to help people.
Obviously, no company is going to function like a charity but perhaps not all companies are created equally?(when comparing a financial services firm with a biotech company).
What I said is not a very nuanced look I suppose, as biotech companies can do things like develop IP from publically funded research and often do things that can be anti-consumer interests.
Electric driverless truck set to gain approval for public roads
I rent cars from time to time since I can manage without during a normal month. Once you've built a rapport with the local office you'll find they give good deals, such as a much better class of car you have opted to pay for and discounts on extra days, etc.

If I wanted permanent access to a new car I would lease instead.

Hard to see how this new option offers any advantages?
I can't stand this kind of inane climate science denialism every time there's one micro shred of progress. ALL diesel (and oil, and coal, and gas) has to be banned from EVERYWHERE within your and my lifetime. Quit lending your voice to reactionary concern trolling.
"It's not like each game creators could run a worldwide distribution and payment operation"

You mean like a website? I think it's more fruitful to imagine multiple merchants competing to sell devs wares and lessor commissions as a result of competition.
An M&M is a type of candy popular in the US with a hard outer shell and a softer interior. The author is using it metaphorically.
Some people learn by preparing and some people learn by doing. It might be expensive but I bet this person will learn a ton for the next iteration. This guy is a hacker in my mind and I appreciate his approach.
Isn't that what Pulsar Functions are designed for? https://streaml.io/blog/pulsar-functions

This presentation compares the Pulsar Function approach against Kafka's 2PC: https://www.slideshare.net/merlimat/effectivelyonce-semantic...
This seems to be a classic example of an argument in which the ends don't justify the means (the means being allowing the lawsuits, the ends being publishers switch to "absolute paywalls")

It may mean that without a harsh letigious method, publishers do not offer "soft paywalls". It's more likely they will continue to do so to not be shut out of the market, AND we won't have waves of frivolous harsh lawsuits bankrupting independent developers.

The alternative you're proposing is to in effect be held to ransom by content providers - your argument could equally be made for any form of drm or appeasement (without root how do we know you are not recording this, wothout your location how do we know you are within our licensing area, without direct retinal scans how do we know who is really watching, etc)
Also known as "don-t-you-dare-complain-about-this-mob-or-an-even-bigger-mob"

(...effect)
Give it a few years and the UK will no longer exist. The largest remainder will most likely be called England and the rest will have broken away.
There's a GDC talk about this (up on YouTube, can't remember the title) about the cost/difficulty going alone vs going through steam.

The tldr is that valve apparently knows exactly how much it costs you to run this apparatus yourself, and the rev share reflects that reality. The numbers are apparently really close.

The catch is that as you sell more units, the cost of the apparatus starts to diminish as a percentage of revenue, so running your own marketplace starrs to make sense when you get into the blockbuster territory.

This pricing update apparently takes that fact into account, which means that when companies start running the numbers on their new game launch, the justification for building their own marketplace starts to go away.
The gem is in the accompanying paper: https://www.ebiomedicine.com/article/S2352-3964(16)30398-X/f...

They are asking about safety and effectiveness, and in France there has been a debate about the HPV and Hep B vaccination, yet French children are still mostly properly immunized. The big European measles outbreaks happen in hardline Dutch Reformed communities.
That is correct. The dielectric ‘conducts’ an electric field, which attracts and repels electrons on the opposing plates.
We're all connected in a sense and we all rely on each other in a way we don't even realize. We are all a part of a whole. Oneness if you will.

By destroying one part to satisfy another part, we're still chipping away the whole.

In the Gaia's hypothesis, the human race is the brain of Earth. We are the neural network that powers the thriving liveliness of Earth. We're suppose to be the protector, keeper and guardian of Mother Earth yet we aren't doing our duties. We are all slowly waking up to that fact as we become more aware and conscious.

Hope it will not be too late...
I feel like the arguments given here are kind of weak for not implementing HTTPS. Plus, fingerprinting and such can be cirumvented pretty easily by adding padding data to the payload of a random length.

That said, I don't think it matters too terribly much here, and in situations where privacy is much more important, Apple seems to be blowing Google out of the water, since their business model isn't inherently anti-privacy.
Well, it's because of the government that once lied to the population on this subject.
And, here we think that the vaccine is not safe, but the benefits are worth the small risk.
But there is also a bunch of idiots thinking it's better to not get vaccinated and don't vaccinate their childrens.
Drive a locomotive through your Linux terminal
> You need to do more research before you hop in!

Does he, though? Maybe to him the experiment is the research. It's ok for you and him to have different approaches to learning. As long as he's comfortable with losing his investment, let him learn from his mistakes.
From Warfare to Outsourced Software Development
I wonder if it does anything useful at all, since it -O9 is not defined, unless the compiler is some kind of special version.
Elon Musk Wants Tesla Gigafactory Employees to Live on Site in Mobile Homes
I agree. When I swam competitively taking even a week off was something you could feel in the water. It might only add a second or two to your splits, but you could definitely feel it. It was weirdly distressing, actually.
so I thought this page was some elaborate crowdforce powered learning language site but saddened to discover it's just a clever clickbait with affiliate links to existing commercial and free websites.

I recommend these websites.

https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/

https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/

https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/

https://www.thegermanproject.com/
It's just a fact, no need to get your panties in a twist and no need to make it seem like I deny climate change.

I've seen a couple of kids in exactly that situation and this is what happened to them. Any kind of rule has unintended side effects, it does not hurt to point those out even when you are in support of the rule.

Quit jumping to conclusions. FWIW I built a house that was off the grid powered by windmill and solar and experimented with building electric vehicles before Tesla came around because I believe that to be the future. To call me a climate change denier is hilarious.
Chabge is hard. You can fight it or you can embrace it.

Sometimes embracing change requires letting go.
>Enforcement of the ULEZ will be based on the declared emissions of the vehicle rather than the age. Generally speaking, petrol cars that meet the emissions standards are those registered after 2005. However cars that meet the ULEZ standards have been available since 2000.

So you can avoid it just by driving a fairly normal low polluting vehicle.
A bit of a funny full circle, isn't it?
Here's a more rigid version that uses bendable copper pipe with sweat (solder) fit joints.

http://tinhatranch.com/how-to-build-a-qfh-quadrifilar-helix-...
In those pictures I counted just two people who looked overweight, and at worst they were a little chubby. Yet there's plenty of food in the photos, and it's ice cream, soft drinks, burgers, hot dogs, etc., the same stuff routinely blamed for the obesity epidemic four score years later.

I suppose a lot of that is that these photos are from public places, and most of these people ate out rarely, mostly eating healthier from their lunch boxes and at their dinner tables.
Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago
> Any game needs to be 25% better

Actually, 42.86% better with the 30% cut, and 33.33% better with the 25% cut, and 25% better with the 20% cut.
This is super cool. Very similar to timing attacks. I wonder if there is a way to tune the model. Essentially cater the probability of each key to a person with maybe a sentence or something.
For the frequency ranges in which they overlap the rtlsdr dongles out perform the HackRF. I bought my first rtlsdr in early 2013 and am a HackRF kickstarter backer. The BladeRFs are great if you want to do serious work like running cell basestations. That extra price you pay is worth it in that regard.
Note that Elasticsearch is built on top of Lucene (lucene.apache.org), which is a straight forward search indexer that creates a reverse index and document store, and gives pluggable low-level access to parts of the indexer path. Would be very easy to create a custom analyzer to create a trigram-based index (my guess is one already exists).
Microsoft wins $480M contract to supply U.S. Army with 100K HoloLens headsets
> technical ability is not the same as permission

Exactly. 99% arguments here are essentially the equivalent to "since Marriott/SPG are horrible at cyber security, I am ENTITLED to use stolen credit cards from their leaks."
Web dev options on an iPad (2017)
But electrons can still pass through perfect vacuums. Whether or not a vacuum conducts (obviously it doesn’t) is irrelevant.
Could you please remove more caps? This breaks the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not clear it's regressive. It will hit older car drivers but benefit those riding the bus (less congestion, less fumes at the bus stop).

As a central London user of mostly public transport I'm all in favour. Though I've got an old petrol car I'd be happy enough if they banned everything except zero emission vehicles. In fact I think that would be a good idea for Oxford Street. Kahn wanted to pedestrianise it but that wasn't really practical as people need to do deliveries and get from A to B but electric busses could work. (Oxford St has some of the highest NO2 in the world plus very large numbers of people standing in that https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/calls-for-action-on-t...)
You realize that it takes a lot of work to make a website to accept payment from a hundred countries in dozens of currencies and handle customer support and chargeback and fight fraud?

You can try to run your own website, to save 10% fees on a minuscule userbase, it simply doesn't cover the costs.
This might be a bit pedestrian of me, but I hope they’re not trying to encourage too many satellite launches... I think we just need improved and more open shared architecture.
I think one of the potential vectors is that his gmx account was hacked.
It's not gonna happen. Firefox would be dead by now if it still allowed bad or incompetent actors to make Firefox unusable (as in slow, unstable, and btw insecure), because users wouldn't keep up with that for too long. They'd just use another browser. This may be okay with you for now because you know how to protect yourself against malware, but in the long run Mozilla needs market share to stay relevant and be able to compete with the richest companies on this planet.
Trigram is defined in the dictionary as "a group of three consecutive written units such as letters, syllables, or words." Thus using the term for a triplet of tokens seems appropriate.
Switch threading vs. direct threading virtual machines
I'd also wonder at the thermal properties and with a gap of 35nm, these would make chips large again. However, I suspect they would need to do vertical placement to allow the gap to be large enough without stepping back in silicon real estate. However, the question then becomes more important about the thermal properties of such an approach.
It turns out that density is a big bit of what makes you think a product is high quality.

Take an iPhone for example - it's more dense than pretty much any other phone out there.

People say they want light stuff, but they actually buy thin but dense stuff.
I think this is the overhead for mitigating by adding additional code (a branch on overflow that can be predicted as not taken), rather than the cost of lost optimizations that could have been used by assuming that UB does not occur. So a useful number, but measuring something else.

Although perhaps it can be used an an upper bound on the boost provided UB-free optimizations? That is, the overflow checking has both a direct cost, and prevents certain beneficial optimizations. Thus we can assume that the optimization benefit (on SPEC CPU 2006) is something less than 30%. That is to say, real, but not enormous compared to an algorithmic difference.
A 20 year old BMW is a beater car that can be bought easily for less than 5000 EUR. Banning old cars is the way to drive those cars out of the market.

If a poor person needs to replace a broken car, the new laws will limit the valid options to 2006 or newer cars. You can buy a 2006 car for cheap nowadays.
Or it can provide safe cover for people who want to keep defeated ideas alive and provide legitimacy for people who want to present those ideas as silenced rather than defeated.
Why not just define these things? Make -fwrapv, -fno-strict-aliasing the standard?
Water flow up or down this post change your thought
Shifting gears has always been a conscious activity for me, at least in part. Even biking a lot I can get surprised by a hill if I'm not consciously planning my shifting 5-10 seconds out and end up with my chain jumping off.
It’s also the explanation for noob gains (getting much, much stronger in the first 6 months of lifting or so, then tapering off as your ability to recruit muscle catches up with the muscle you already have). If you’ve ever lifted, the feeling of learning to use your body more efficiently is pretty obvious.
Is there a compiler flag that can be set to print a warning about all undefined behaviour? I'm no a C dev but this UB business seems like a little cat and mouse game between the developer and the compiler which tries to find "tricks" to avoid doing stuff, which seems backwards.
> Stop enabling the destruction of journalism?

If paywall is what is destroying journalism, maybe it's a useless and worthless enterprise to begin with. Especially with today's journalist spreading ideological poison rather than reporting news. Stop blaming technology for the problems of modern day journalism.

> But I still don't understand this attitude that appears to go even further than just "I want it for free" to an almost gleeful appreciation of vandalism destroying the foundations of democratic societies.

Journalism has never been one of the foundation of democratic societies. The united states and democracy itself existed far before journalist. How about you people get off your high horse and stop pretending you are better or more important than you really are? Frankly, journalism today is a net negative - causing racial/societal strife, pushing fake nonsense like campus rape culture, peddling conspiracies and rather than holding power to account, all journalism today is acting as mouthpieces for the power.

Journalists and newspapers are free to get off the internet. Don't see why the internet has to change so that a few journalists can make money peddling poison to the masses.

The news industry should adapt to the internet and not the other way around.
Sports and competitions of all sorts have long been part of international political war games - from the Olympics to landing on the moon.
> Since when was HN anti-privacy?

The Citizenry should have privacy while the government should be transparent.

Tangent: Somewhere along the lines this has flipped and we've somehow stumbled into a situation where the government believes it deserves privacy and owes the citizenry none. I'm not sure how we ended up flipped, but it is not a good sign. This can probably go without saying considering the user-base here, but if we don't know what our government is doing, we can't hold them accountable and we have no idea for who or what to vote.

Tangent to the tangent: If we're not careful, we might end up with new classes divisions, those who have both privacy and access to our data, and those who have neither privacy nor access to data, even their own. Strange times.
I'm referring to all the times I've heard on HN that US universities one-up each other in building sports facilities.
Firstly, thanks for the useful add-on!

> - provide an XPI (that will only benefit the few since the side-loading process is made awkwarder at every point release) ?

You could get your add-on signed as an "unlisted"[0] add-on and upload it to GitHub as a "release" (for which you can upload binary files[1]). This would make the add-on less easily discoverable (than it had been), but at least all Firefox users could install it without much of a hassle. OTOH if the add-on becomes popular again, take-down requests might be sent to you or GitHub.

[0] By unlisted I mean not publicly distributed via AMO; there's no restriction on distribution via other channels. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Dis...

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/distributing-large-binaries...
You can ask a few friends/relatives to open the account?
> “The weather was bad over a rather long period,” he wrote in a letter. “None of the pictures were very good.”

Before I read that statement my first thought was 'these are not that good'. [1] And in fact I actually question (despite what appears to be proof that they are Adam's photos ie 'given to the library' that they really are his photos.

I did photography (and made money from it; had a darkroom at home growing up) and artistically it would be extremely odd for someone (especially of his caliber) to release photos that were not up to visual standards. It's part a sense of pride and partly just you don't show your work if it's not good. And you care about your work and you definitely care if the product is not quality and so on. I remember another photographer (whose last name ironically was also Adams) when I was in high school saying that 'nothing leaves my darkroom that isn't ready for printing or publication'.

These photos are actually prompting me to see if there is anything about Ansel Adams that I should take into consideration that would change what I am thinking about this. Something doesn't add up or make sense.

[1] I don't mean visually they aren't interesting. But they look quality wise (even considering he said the weather wasn't nice [2] to be very poor. I say that as someone who has printed photos and knows the difference.

[2] That could also be part of the 'cover' story to explain why they aren't quality that one would expect.
People who bring in more sales are worth more money it's not shocking that they get a better deal. It's like saying capital one gives air miles to people who don't even need them. Well ya. It's not a gift it's purely mercenary.
You cannot simultaneously claim that racism is a social construct and it has no relevance in analyzing social behaviors. I doubt anyone here disagrees with you on the biological reality of race and how it has far more to do with social convention than anything else. But that _does not_ mean it can be discounted in this kind of analysis.
Does anyone actually consider glovo a real job? They really seem to try hard to avoid branding it as such.
Sounds like confirmation biased anecdata.

ALL, really?
Also, they were more active:

- most likely didn't own a car : transit + walking
- no TV, internet etc
- working in a factory
> I'm sure they also had a credential rotation policy, hired 3rd party pentesters, had a vulnerability management program, etc

Why are you so sure? The vast majority of the companies out there is terribly sloppy when it comes to security and does not have any of those. I doubt the effectiveness of credential rotation by the way, that's mostly outdated advice.

Six letter passwords without any complexity requirements are still pretty common ('123456'), as is unsalted MD5 for password hashes, IDS is a term that usually requires explanation and if there has been a 3rd party pentest it usually was long ago.

Some industries are better than other (fintech, medical), but there too you find terrible examples.

I look at another company every week and the state of security at most of them is usually fairly bad with a few exceptions where things are mostly in order. Note that we do not do a security audit, this is just a general look at company affairs and security is only a very small part, just enough to tell whether or not they take it serious or not and how big the risk of an embarrassing hack is, and what the damage would be if one took place.
I'm pretty sure it's not the talk you're thinking of, but Jeff Vogel (who has been mostly-successfully making indie games consistently since 1995) mentions it in this GDC vault talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs

They were able to stop paying a third employee when they went to Steam. That's a lot of value to the business.
Can't something like Stripe + Braintree provide the same at a fraction of the cost?