skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Japan some places require me to sign my name with the exact same way than it's written in my passport using block letters. Normally I'd just write a cursive, stylized version (without my middle name).

Some other names allow stylized signatures, but then they require that the signature must be almost exactly the same every time I write it. Again, not something I'm used to.

This, of course reflects the fact that the Japanese don't use signatures to sign contracts. They use personal name stamps. The requirements make sense if you think your signature as a "name stamp that's written manually".

Of course, signatures are not names, they have extra cultural, societal and legal baggage, but... just a data point that might be interesting.
Yeah, I'm first to crap on US health care, but there are days I sort of understand why things in the States are the way they are. Almost everyone I know here (in Poland) tries to go for private care whenever they have spare cash, because public health care is pretty unpleasant and makes you waste a lot of time (+ you usually get scheduled for a visit many months in the future). This can actually be more expensive than private care if you count opportunity costs.

Recently my wife & I were forced to use the public service, and after 3 days of traveling back & forth, day after day, to another city, being told to visit another ward next day, and come back the day later, I was begging for someone to throw money at to make our problem go away. And I'm not really blaming the staff; they're all severely overworked, underequipped and underpaid. There's a huge problem with public health care here, kind of an opposite to the US problems. Poor or rich, you will get medical attention, just possibly months after when it's needed.
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I apparently failed to make this clear - it's not GraphQL that causes that, but the libraries to use it on the front end (e.g. Apollo). These allow for front end logic, but it does NOT read as a simple case - you appear to be swimming upstream to do that. (Disclaimer: I've not used any such library myself. I've talked with GraphQL directly, which was definitely a bit more convoluted than REST directly, which is why people like libraries to streamline that).

The second point I apparently failed to convey is that these are CONCERNS of mine, not conclusions. I'm looking to find reviews that explore these so I can reach (preliminary) conclusions, but so far I largely see one-line reassurances. Which are great, and I appreciate it, but they don't leave me feeling like I've really done my due diligence on my concern.
Google Buzz (hmm, wasn't that "wonderfuil" person Zunger involved with that one, too?) is just around that timeframe, and the rollout of that was pretty bad.
"However, it does not explain why HTTP and FTP are worse compared to the TCP benchmark which is doing wire speed at ease"

Do you have some more detailed info on the configuration and commands you used? Nginx, for example, doesn't have sendfile() turned on by default (just one example of a configuration that might change benchmarks).
Can I open e free market for contract killers?
Lowest bidder and fastest killer would win
I 'm going to have to defend Mozilla here. There is this very perverse idea here that everything should be free, but that's only because you are used to using VC-funded services with an expiration (acquisition) date. This seems to be endemic thinking in SV but the rest of the world has to make their own paycheck.

Maybe mozilla should think of experimenting with some micropayment service though. They are ideally positioned for that.
No. For example, Cilium uses eBPF for L4 routing/filtering and Envoy for some L7 filtering.
That's interesting. I've had a couple of calls like this in the past and have always insisted on going to reception instead of giving details over the phone. Thankfully mine turned out to be genuine.
Lots of animals have opposable thumbs: https://animalsake.com/list-of-animals-with-opposable-thumbs

The only thing that makes the Homo genus unique is control of fire.
And I've explained that you can't expect the average newbie coder to navigate the recompilation process; I'm unsure why you blithely dismiss people who aren't as capable as you.
Thats not how it works. To become an addon reviewer there is a process and it is not like all the reviewers are the same. Again please, don't treat volunteers who are donating their time and effort as unaccountable or as if they don't know security, they are accountable and there is also a staff team working on there. There are a ton of volunteers who are very good with security. Whatever happened between this addon author and the review this is kinda private to them.

I really dislike when people assume that because you're a volunteer that you're unaccountable or less capable technically or security wise than an employee. That is simply not true.

There are volunteers in all places at Mozilla and personally, I think this is great. Also treating Mozilla as a company is not really the ideal mindset. Mozilla is at best a NGO, a foundation, who owns a company for legal reasons, who is also a community, who builds a ton of stuff. It is quite a complex entity to be summarized as "a company should handle this different".
Yeah, what about that? They get the same overall investment strategy as an index fund, just without the concentration of power?!
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As a developer yes. If that cost can't be baked into building new products, either the developer needs to learn how to emphasize the importance, or that company needs to go out of business.
Maybe the page was edited since your comment, but it says "Author: Jie Qi" at the bottom of the page.
This was one of the unexpected perks of moving to FastMail, which has been an awesome experience so far. I'd highly recommend it.

You can do something similar in Gmail with `name+label@gmail.com`, but a shocking number of sites ban valid characters from email addresses (intentionally?). That and a lot of clients have super annoying alias settings, so replying to such an email is a royal pain.
Bogle has gone on record that he believes the market efficiency limits of passive indexing are somewhere in the 70-90% range of equities held inside such broad market indexes [1]. A more reasonable and less click-baity headline would have been "Bogle Sounds Governance Warning on Index Funds".

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4594f554-ba1a-11e7-9bfb-4a9c83ffa...
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Here is an Map from ISRO's Bhuvan website: https://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/events/events/kumbhmela.php

Shows you a comparison view, of just what a vast city is set up for the event.
Merged isnt the right word - everyone was migrated to the legacy Marriott System.
I doubt Darwin would have anything to worry about today. If his paper actually got any attention on social media at all, it would not go against any of the beliefs of the companies on social media. Frankly, given some of the things that regularly get said about groups of people, Darwin really wouldn't be that controversial. It was more problematic in his age. Heck, since 1950, even the Catholic Church acknowledges Darwin[1] and says there is no conflict.

Which group would get Darwin fired?

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humani_generis
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curl -Ss "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/威蘭運河" | iconv -t utf-16 | wc -c
142008

There are only 3799 non-ASCII characters on that page:

curl -Ss "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/威蘭運河" | tr -d '\1-\176' | wc -m
3799

Compared with 67204 ASCII ones (tr -cd).
And our genetic code. And schools and fire departments and lasers.
> Cetaceans are said to have consciousness not unlike humans'; maybe they have speech and an advanced culture; we don't know. But they lack means of manipulation and live mostly floating above abyss, so they don't have a material culture and technology.

You refuted your own argument. Sounds like it's more about the "material culture and technology", which started with control of fire.

No living species other than Homo sapiens harnesses fire.
Because replacing one smug self-righteous prick with another one is going to change everything! /s
As long as there are at least some active investors left they can, because they follow price changes set by active investors passively.

If index funds start to create systematic valuation errors, active strategies start to perform better and they start to outperform index funds. This is not the case, because index funds beat active fund management constantly over longer periods. (The article raises concerns of corporate governance and accumulation of power that is different issue).

Matt Levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-24/are-in...

>there is an alternative view that the rise of passive investing will improve capital allocation, because bad active investors will be driven out but good ones will remain. The passive investors can't influence relative prices, since they just buy the market portfolio, meaning that the fewer but better active investors will continue to make the capital allocation decisions. On this view, lower returns to active management are a sign that prices are more efficient and capital allocation is getting better
The article says that this solution has unintended consequences too, since you are now transferring voting rights from the share owner, who cares about the long term performance of the company, to share renters, who generally just care about the short term, which is counterproductive.

Although I'm not sure I get that - I don't quite see how the renter's would be especially more short sighted - it's not like the fund is obligated to hold the stocks any longer than anyone else.
>The simplest and best reply to the Darwin tweet is this

That's a terrible reply as it implicitly endorses the idea the rich and powerful can say and do anything while the less fortunate better know their place and toe the line.
technically it was for hiring someone to murder a guy. Or are you implying that was entrapment?

edit: i stand corrected
> for starters.

It is not only for starter but for the whole platform ecosystem. It is not even user-hostile. It is just to prevent "Nah forget Firefox add-on market, just install this file" fragmentation. Firefox add-on platform is already much smaller than Google chrome (of course). I wouldn't be happy if the market got even smaller because of the fragmentation.

And Firefox already allows us to install whatever we want in dev/nightly version, for hackers. So I don't see any problems here.
This is a larger problem with the world.

So many people have been promised dreams of modest wealth or more via side hustling.

But those dreams are an illusion. Passive income, for most of the population, is an illusion.

I don’t want to knock anyone for trying side projects. You might even get rich, but the odds are low (so make sure you enjoy it somewhat in case it doesn’t pan out).

Money for most people in their lives will come from steady, well-paying, full-time work.
There was a minor kerfuffle a few years ago because Obama was considering someone for Secretary of Treasury whose signature (which would have appeared on all American bills) was just five or six loops. It bore no resemblance to his name. He just apparently decided that was going to be his signature, and that's what he used for most of this adult life.
Can you propose a schema that permits all names to be represented without requiring coercion in any case? You'll need to start with with a graphical format, or a character encoding scheme more expressive than Unicode.

Computer system or not, you won't be admitted to a hospital with your name recorded as the first 1000 digits of pi followed by the emoji for coffee and a drawing of a mouse in sneakers.
> If 90% of shares are non-intervening that means hostile takeovers are now 10x cheaper to implement.

Naively (ignoring other dynamics of index funds), sure, compared to 100% investors actively engaged in governance. But I suspect investment in index funds replaces largely hands-off direct investment and so, market wide, has virtually no average effect on that (though it may shift the effect among firms compared to those investors doing so directly.)
...who'd be collating that race data on homebuyers?

Good luck. Link it if you find it.
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Also, is Romana still actively developed? It seems like they had a lot of momentum, then suddenly things went radio silent on their Slack and git repo.
No, it wasn't for that. He was never charged with that and it is likely that those messages were sent by FBI agents trying to frame him.

Or are you just trying to manipulate public opinion?
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https://www.slideshare.net/ThomasGraf5/accelerating-envoy-an...

Slide 21-25
HN has a good rule [1] about comments: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work." The above comment is being downvoted because it just voices dissent, not a real, substantive opinion. I can guess what their intent is, but that's hardly a basis for good discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Joy of Computing
Are there any writers out here?
That sounds downright awful.
American Colonials against the British, for example
anecdotally: i run a fairly fingerprint-resilient browser setup (using firefox containers plus additional measures) and, while i am asked for full CAPTCHAs every single time, i haven't yet noticed them increasing in difficulty.
Most vote with the board on all matters.

The only large fund i know that regularly gets its hand dirty is the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
It could be a private extension developed by a company internally, and only distributed to internal users.
I wouldnt call it a wreck, probably 80% of members transitioned without any real problem. For some though, its been awful.
I don't see why not - when Amazon releases a new product, it's usually featured here. Namecheap is one of the leading registrars, and their moving into this space is newsworthy.

I'd even say that the rise of easy-to-use VPN services is newsworthy in and of itself, as it signals a greater awareness of privacy concerns and an increasing level of sophistication for the general public.
Calling "they" an ugly or cumbersome construct seems like a reach. I am a native english speaker, and the use of that word to describe people with unknown characteristics (such as criminal suspects and people with obscured features or seen from a distance) has been very common even before the gender-obsessed people took root. It is merely english.
I haven't kept up with the technical developments, but when I was experimenting with an Oculus dev unit a few years ago, I remember a good deal of work going into creating the frameworks and tools to generate good, positional audio as an important part of creating immersion.

Makes sense that this would be both useful and easier to do well since there actually is positional data for where sounds ought to be coming from. Ideally you'd have the audio equivalent of the tools used to simulate generation, occlusion, reflection, and refraction of light on the graphical side.

But adding it to stereo tracks via post-processing is a lot harder to do well. It reminds me of "simulated surround" effects on my old home theater boxes but with more panning around instead of just trying to route certain frequencies to the proper speakers.
I'm coming from a legal angle. If you're giving advice without a license, and something happens, just because you gave advice opens you up to liability. I've been practicing a while and have been around the block a few times.
No worries, it’s a unique experience.

I would recommend starting your stay at one of the “foreigner” camps. These are usually the camps of leaders from that are based in, or have a major following from, a developed nation. (We stayed a Brazilian buba’s camp). It was a good base camp, to escape the festival when necessary.

From there you can explore as deep into the festival as you want. It goes for 2 months, so you’ve got plenty of time.

It can eventually become overwhelming and you’ll need somewhere to recharge.
That episode has one of my favorite lines:

Frasier: What cuisines are being fused?

Niles: Polynesian and Scandinavian. It's called Mahalo Valhalla.
Ballmer was a great CEO. The company made record profits, completely dominated the enterprise market, started getting into cloud services before anyone else, and managed to break into the living room and the giant gaming market with the Xbox. He even invested in Facebook. He fumbled the mobile phone fight with Nokia against Apple and got pushed out for it, but overall the company did incredibly well through his tenure.
I hope this catches on - it looks like there's already a second good story on the HN frontpage, about patent issues with crowdfunding.

I'm always impressed at how big a difference it can make to go from "people know this is a problem" to "there's a central place to see what this problem looks like and how much damage it can cause".
TIL about "mojibake"

(I visited Japan for 2 weeks for the first time about a month ago; had a great time)
Apart from the date I think many modern programmers aren't aware of the influential PDP-10 (Mark was a PDP-10 programmer, which is how we met in the early 80s).

The PDP-10 had 36-bit words which were byte addressable -- and bytes could range from 1-63 bits in length.

So beyond the humorous language (nonets, septets) and inline PDP-10 assembly examples this was a absurdist joke intended to appeal on several levels.
Yeah. You can treat the version as just another attribute to identify the series.
I am aware of mozilla's given rationale (and I disagree with the implementation), I was just pointing out that patrolling an addon store is orthogonal.

And the decision to not even let users add additional signing root keys is yet another axis on the decision space that was totally neglected.
I'm a long-term Windows user and if it wasn't for the negative responses about the current MacBook Pro keyboards I'd have quit Windows about a month ago. The update data loss problems, insane updates (let's change the Start Menu again, 3D Printing?!?) and Stasi-like Telemetry just feel like a company that doesn't respect their home customers.

If someone would write a fantastic file manager like XYPlorer or Directory Opus for Linux then I'd probably never look back and just buy Crossover.
On August 21, 2014, Ulbricht was charged with money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. None of the procuring murder allegations were part of Ulbricht's indictment in New York, although the evidence was factored into Ulbricht's sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...
> high fat isnt an issue since it makes you feel full

High fiber carbs and protein make you feel full too.

> The real problem is they started pairing sugar and corn syrup and grains in general with high fat food.

aka: calorie dense foods. Also, it's the type of grains they use - low fiber, high GI - not grains in general.

Individual bodies' responses to fat/carb ratios, while different, are marginal, and orders of magnitude less important than total calorie consumption - especially when overeating.

If you're eating 3,000 more calories a day than me, it really doesn't matter that your body, for example, stores 10% more fat from carbs than mine does.
I would expect the EU to follow with GDPR shortly, massive fines incoming.
Coincidentally am finishing up an EMT class and prepping for the NREMT test. I have been very struck by the similarity between the differential diagnosis process an emt uses and the troubleshooting a server or network issue. Similar problems too when you get tunnel vision (It must be asthma/It must be the DNS resolver... etc). Nice video!
Thats not the process, that is just a way to reach out for a team as apparently they've been unable to communicate with them. If you think about it it is great that you can actually use some channel to talk to people involved in a product you use. That is not that common.

There is a process, it is through the AMO developer hub page for their addon. What I've been saying here is about ways to contact the team if they want to talk to them directly. From the Addon admin page, from the "review history" page, they have a form to message their review team. Usually, if something happen and by any reason your addon is rejects, you can use that form to escalate and find out why it happened. There is also an email address for escalating this stuff which I am assuming they've emailed already.
Yes, fire was a key thing in the development of technology, and then (a few hundred thousand years later) domination of the biosphere.

What I mean that animals which did not develop technology may have other kinds of advanced culture, such as that we would recognize as culture, e.g. in social organization and explanation of the world ("philosophy"), and/or art — it they have a capability for structured communication and thus capable to pass more and more complex knowledge across generations.
This looks really nice.

I did a huge deep dive on HTML/Javascript table libraries when I started working on Polar - which is a document management platform for PDF and cached HTML content (https://getpolarized.io/)

Right now we're using React-Table (https://react-table.js.org/)

I didn't actually see Tabulator when I did the full comparison and this seems to be right up there with Tabulator.

Table support is hugely important for us. We have to render the list of PDFs and documents you're managing, sort them, and also not necessarily have to render them all on the same page, so having pagination is insanely important.

There's a few things react-table doesn't do a very good job on including key bindings so I'm going to have to take a look at this library too.
No genuinely thought that's what they got him for. Should read up on it I guess.
Ambient occlusion was originally invented as a computationally lightweight way to add depth cues based on the assumption of uniformly diffuse illumination of the whole scene. This works quite well in animated movies where we perceive this as part of the stylized look. But this is not physically correct.
Then you don't get security updates. That's forcing users to make uncomfortable tradeoffs.
Just another example of the major problem with pharma funding med schools, paying for continuing medical education, paying professors and other massive undisclosed conflicts of interest. The top med schools are some of the worst offenders.

I wonder if any of this is correlated to negative health outcomes? Nah, maximizing shareholder value and doing what’s best for the patient are totally compatible.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/08/05/doctors-l...

https://ethics.harvard.edu/event/drug-companies-and-medicine...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778453/
> I might move my head slightly from time to time and pick up the sound from different angles. If that could be simulated using headphones, that would be pretty cool!

This could surely be done (and probably has been done) using a VR headset or even just IR lights and cameras a-la TrackIR. If latency was low enough, you could process the sound to model the changes caused by head position/orientation.
Exactly. And libraries, moon/Mars/deep space exploration....

It amuses me when there's an article that recognizes a similarity between humans and other species, many jump onto the "see, they're _just_ like us" meme.

What I'd be intrigued by is if there is any other species (is there _any_?) that has, century over century, via pure self- and collective-determination, advanced their state of being, achieved new capabilities, live in ways completely different than their ancestors, etc. I'm not including genetic adaptation or evolution to suit an environment -- I mean self-driven advancement. Seems we're quite unique, in that regard.