skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian here. The law passed on Thursday is a massive concern, but in the case of an email provider there isn't as much of a change from what they could already do (TCNs aren't necessary -- they fundamentally already have collection capability unless you are using PGP for everything).

However there are some other worrying changes like the fact that TANs and TARs are secret and have no judicial review. Warrants (even the new computer access warrants that were passed in the same bill) have judicial review. But at the end of the day, they'd be serving a warrant to fastmail, not you.

Personally I use mailbox.org, and one of the really nice features is that you can give them a PGP public key and they'll encrypt everything you receive. So in the case of a warrant (though Germany has different laws on that matter) they could, at most, get the contents of new emails.
I doubt Microsoft is behind in face recognition, which is an AI task that's been studied and done to death in academic literature. Microsoft has actually made some of the most important discoveries in AI (invented ResNets, co-authored Faster R-CNN), they can surely pull up a mere FR system.
I never said UNIX invented the REPL concept (though I’d have thought time sharing systems predated LISP machines) and this a conversation about personal preference so there is not right or wrong answers (aside arrogant comments from techies who feel they should belittle others for having differing preferences).

I don’t happen to like Powershell. That doesn’t make me wrong. That literally just means I don’t happen to like Powershell. Period.

(and voting me down for personal preference is really just pathetic)
The backdoor problem is a serious issue, but TCNs aren't necessary for email providers. All your emails are already I'm plaintext.

I'd be more worried about the fact that TARs and TANs have no judicial overview and are secret in a way that other kinds of warrants aren't. But then again, you aren't the one being served with a warrant.

As an Australian, I wouldn't use it anyway. Mailbox.org is better IMHO, and is what I use.
It's just a story.

Some people like the story and rally around it.

As our world gets more and more hyperconnected whatever delusions groups of people have of their favorite story being accepted as global narrative get tested very fast.

And break down faster if there is no universal appeal. There are enough examples playing out around the world.

All these nationalistic stories will keep breaking down.

There are 5 billion more people in the world than the Americans and Chinese put together. They aren't going to blindly bend over to either an American or Chinese narrative.

We like to live in this dream state that the most powerful countries matter. They dont. Ask the Taliban.

The Indians and Russians and Europeans and South Americans and Africans don't give one shit about Make America great again or Make China great again.

What will play out is a collapse of these narratives in spectacular fashion.
It is not my fault that many devs still don't get the point between a VM, a language runtime, and how multiple implementations relate to a single language specification.
This is a fantastic explanation of developments in hash tables in general.

If anyone is interested, I recently released a scalable hash table for Node.js (@ronomon/hash-table), designed to store literally billions of elements without stressing the GC.

At first, I tried writing a native addon module for Node.js in C (using SIMD), but the Javascript-to-C call cost was just too high, and doubled latency. In the end, I was surprised to find that writing directly in Javascript proved faster than the C module with SIMD, simply by avoiding the bridging cost.

Also, instead of linear or quadratic probing (or double hashing or triangular probing), I used cuckoo hashing, but with a twist. Normally, in the case of a naive cuckoo hash table, if an element is not in its first bucket, then its second bucket must be fetched from memory, causing a cache miss, which for a hash table is embarrassingly slow. This is why SwissTable and F14 tend to avoid naive cuckoo hashing.

However, in our design, the first bucket includes an 8-byte coarse-grained bloom filter (k=1, or a single bit per element). If the element is not in this bloom filter, the element is guaranteed not to be in either of its first or second buckets, and a cache miss can be avoided nearly 90% of the time. Using cuckoo hashing in this way then starts to produce major advantages over linear probing: no tombstones, higher load factor (which has knock-on implications for resize latency), and constant time worst-case lookups.

More design details are here:

https://github.com/ronomon/hash-table
This talk is relevant https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death.... Tl;dw in-kernel JIT has the potential to be 4% faster than direct execution. I am still dubious, however, as JIT requires more resources by a long shot than direct binary running.
In that case you don’t care who wins — just that win quickly ;)
Too bad about the keyboard. That is the weakest part of the system. With that footprint I wish they'd have used a typical tenkeyless desktop layout, instead of the cramped and crippled numpad layout.

Not only are the arrow keys halved but no dedicated hone, end, page up/down keys.

I love the 16:10 dearly, but that keyboard is going to be maddening to anyone but the most casual media consumer. That is true of almost every laptop though, keyboards are typically afterthoughts.
Minerals:Their Functions,Sources and Deficiency
That is the resolution tradeoff with this particular method. Each needle would be fed from a tube connected to its own control valve. Non bound material would act as support while the glue (or other binding agent) worked.

In my imagination I see a chair made from shredded tires, and bonded with a silicon caulking like substance. The shredded tires would be filled into a container between the needles as the printing array rises.
Someone should make a search engine just for forums.

Hey DDG peeps, if you stumble upon this comment: make a forums-only filter!
Nope. Your point was to argue personal preference as fact rather than simply accepting that some people like apples and others prefer oranges.

I get so utterly sick of stupid arguments where people compare their tools and then proceed to makes claims that one is objectively better than another when it’s clearly just a matter of personal taste
Thank You!

I value this little slice of odd than yet another post about some oddly named (many consonants, no vowels) new react framework or some such. ;-)
Maybe this should be flagged and removed, but the author is completely in the wrong here.

As far as Linode, or anyone else should care, the guy who is paying for the account, owns the account. If he's the one paying the bills, why wouldn't have access to the account?
or whatever turmoil seems to be happening at either facebook or google of late.
Can you give an example of the "neither" case?
> spacetime inside the black hole flipped around, where space becomes temporal dimension and time becomes spatial dimension

No, this is not correct. The "flip" is in a particular choice of coordinates, not in spacetime itself.

> time is traversable in either direction while the singularity becomes an inevitable place in the "future"

It is true that the singularity is inevitably in the future--that's because inside the horizon, the future "time" direction points towards the singularity. But time is still only traversable into the future; you can't "reverse" your travel in time inside the horizon.
Sorry, but based on some style issues in the rest of the document, I don't think that was meant to be playful. I think it just meant "The lasers improve all aspects of" this technology. (I could be wrong.)
The lack of maybe or nullable types in perl6 with the need to check for definedness at run-time (Int:D) is one of its major design blunders. Also this syntax!

In cperl I rather use proper maybe types as in every other language. ?Int is (Int | Undef)
you cannot use Int? as this would confuse the parser to look for the matching :
> it misses the point of the talk to suggest that wasm is the prediction bearing fruit

Does it? It seems that the talk has two main points:

1. Javascript succeeded because it was (at least initially) just good enough not to be completely unbearable, but bad enough that people ended up using it primarily as a target for other languages.

2. Ring 0 JIT can be 4% faster that normal binaries.

WASM is primarily a target for other languages, and qualifies as a language that can theoretically be JITted 4% faster than native code can be run.
Why can't high end luxery items have adapter slots like the think pads of old..
Political flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of what other users are up to. Please don't post like this to HN.

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Scala Witnesses: An alternative to Scala Implicits as we know them
Could you cite studies and give examples?
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. Is there any two-year home residency requirement on the J-1 holder's visa (check DS-2019)? That may affect your ability to switch to H-1B (or any other visa).
Mostly hair, it turns out.

My theory: this post is a precursor to the launch of an Uber for goat rentals. It's the grass and weed trimming solution of the past, and also the future?
> the time and space axis gets flipped at the event horizon. This also happens to a fast moving objects due to relativistic effects

Neither of these things are true, and I have no idea how you are getting either of them from the Wikipedia article you linked to. Penrose-Terrell rotation, which affects how objects appear to observers when they are moving at relativistic speeds relative to those observers, does not "flip" the time or space axes; it's an optical effect due to the finite speed of light.

As I noted in another post upthread, the "flip" of time and space axes inside a black hole's horizon is a property of a particular choice of coordinates, not of spacetime itself.

> This kinda implies time and space are the same thing

No, they aren't, because there is still a fundamental difference between timelike and spacelike directions in spacetime. That is true regardless of how you choose coordinate axes.
How the Avengers: Endgame trailer hints that Captain Marvel will save the day (a
The part I don't get is... Somewhere along the line auhor got clients CC to out into linode...

which then paid for all servers, instead of just client's servers. And author didn't migrate his servers away.

But then auhor complains that client didn't pay, and author didn't charge his CC.

The situation may suck, but as author points out, he made a number of errors trusting client, and author made some additional errors as above.

As author can still ssh to his servers, I'd say he migrates the sites away, and chaulk it up as a lesson learned. Not sure why Linode is the one talking the blame in this tale.
I’ll look into it thanks
No, it doesn't. The singularity inside a black hole is a future singularity, not a past singularity.
Oh cool! The mentioned Computer History Museum celebration site is online: https://thedemoat50.org/

The symposium is this Sunday in Mountain View: https://thedemoat50.org/symposium/ I'm looking forward to it! It seems it won't be live streamed, but other events will be: https://thedemoat50.org/events/
> Can anyone perhaps explain a little better what is meant by the interior volume of a black hole grows forever

There is no reference to an actual paper in the article (which is typical for these pop science sensationalist websites), so it's difficult to tell what this is supposed to refer to. As far as I know, it's actually an effect of a particular choice of coordinates inside the horizon, so it's debatable whether it actually has physical meaning.
I've got an unfinished 6 head printer that was intended to print 6 identical objects at a time.
Can you give a reference to a paper that describes the math behind this?
This isn't biblical retribution. In the Bible, there are consequences for crime, for sure… but there are also the concepts of restitution and restoration.

You weren't punished forever. Forgiveness existed.

You weren't in debt forever. There was an end in sight.

Look up "Jubilee".

IF ONLY we had that today.

I think the only thing coming close to this concept has to do with your credit history, and things falling off after 7 years.
Would you please stop posting inflammatory, unsubstantive comments? Nitpicking plus Nazis equals particularly pointless.

Edit: you've been posting a lot of flamewar comments lately (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18620146), and we've already asked you not to. If you keep doing it, we're going to ban your account.
Why is there faeces and urine everywhere?
They replaced the screen on mine in store. I think it depends on what tier of shop you’re in as some of them don’t have full service ability.
I think the closest tenkeyless laptop to that is the newer ThinkPad X1 Extreme models. 15", all the high end goodies, pretty much best keyboard by far of any laptop - with no numpad.

Ideally I would love a 17" version with desktop standard tenkeyless layout, with track point, too. Having special proprietary layouts for laptop systems is abhorrent.
I've done the same comparison and there is no real comparison. Khan excels in the k-12 area because most of the schools these days have extremely limited curriculum and generally teach a series of limited topics in each subject they teach. Sure, for that type of stuff Khan is okay. When you get into the university level stuff...it is definitely not what you learn from a BA degree.
Bridging autonomous vehicles verification and regulation
That’s a very good point. The file locking semantics are different and totally incompatible.
If Perl is too verbose for you, you can always go to APL.
That executive wasn't entering those countries on a tourist visa, but neatly submitted that they are travelling for business purposes and have the appropriate business visa.

There is a limited range of activities permitted on those, including attending meetings and conferences.
Spotify gives up SF Mid-Market office – and tax breaks – amid safety concerns
How to Get a Freelancer License Dubai
Have you tried The Witness? http://the-witness.net/
A lot of that "cryptic charade" comes straight out of the UNIX environment. To those familiar with this, it was/is hardly "cryptic".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am386 http://www.redhill.net.au/c/c-4.html
Please ask me if need any assistance.
Still, Houdini is again leading on the CCCC live championship table, with Stockfish at the #2, and the open-source AlphaZero clone lc0 at #3

https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship
Make sure that Kubuntu is giving you a stable version of KDE. My issue with Ubuntu in the past has been that it too often takes unstable snapshots of upstream software in order to accommodate it's own self-imposed release schedule.
Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB) Agar: Principle Purpose and Colonies Characteristics
Stage0: a set of minimal dependency bootstrap binaries
Yeah, that's what happens when you focus on buzz word trends. Self-driving car is a hip term right now but there is a ton of science, math and engineering that goes into it. For Udacity, which needs to impress investors, they need to focus on the money and that is by selling hyped up courses that make people think they're learning something. In reality, it is just the high-level overall of it with nothing significant. If they actually focused on the real science and engineering of self-driving cars then most would flunk of it very quickly...and no one would really want to go that route...unless you are a major geek of course that likes a challenge. The truth is the amount of those geeks that exist is very to the amount that would pay for the buzz word course. So of course udacity is going to focus on where the money is at.
Eventually if electron gets popular enough you will have only one additional browser per system - the linux distriburion packaged shared electron. (e.g. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/electron... ) (not sure but even that could use a shared choromium lib - or am i wrong?)

It is the same as having shared GTK or QT libraries (both with embedded web engine BTW - so plenty of engines already), or having a shared global python deployment with shared global packages (from these you sometimes need two: v2 and v3)

So you will have one extra component per system.

In Windows world maybe you will have one additional electron component per app, but there, it is the "normal" way (you have qt dlls in every qt app etc...) anyway, so not much difference compared to other frameworks there too.
There is definitely no nomad-friendly visa here in Thailand where I live. It's just pretty easy to fly under the radar because enforcement of laws of any kind is pretty lax. It gets expressed in things like how an immigration officer in one office will make a public statement that digital nomad work is fine, while at another office they raid a local coworking space looking for digital nomads.

To work legally in Thailand you need a work permit which you can only get on an eligible visa. A tourist visa or visa exempt stamp, which digital nomads enter on, is ineligible. And it requires an employer to sponsor it. Even volunteering requires a work permit.

As long as you keep it quiet and don't make enemies you can fly under the radar. But if someone rats you out or the police see an opportunity to make some easy money you will have a very bad time.
Did you really manage to turn CSV files into a flamewar topic?

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid turning nasty in arguments on Hacker News.
Here's a video that I like that kind of demonstrates how fast things could go if you optimise for speed this way...

https://youtu.be/-P28LKWTzrI
And lizards.
I agree that I did not replicate the theme and plugin system of WordPress. But the beauty is that you probably don't have to. WordPress has to cater to all, which is probably the source of all the issues people face.

But neither is my website a simple brochure site. Members create their own content, upload photos, enter their location on a map, enter available dates, have the ability to chat with other members. When I tried to do al this with custom and available plugins, it never felt as a coherent experience. Then there is a lot of automation in the background, notifying members of unanswered messages, expiring profiles, notifying members of expiring memberships. Getting all this properly done with the CMS provided API's is more work then writing it from scratch yourself. With the benefit of not having to worry about CMS API deprecation.
Whoa that sure sounds plausible.
You need a catchy slogan.
“Your Face, Somebody Elses Money”
Tabs open using the container they were opened from
I think the true innovators in that realm are games like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, both of which were heavily influenced by Raph Koster, who came from a background of roleplaying in MUDs.

There have been lots of "sandbox" games before and after, but those two really captured the right balance between creating a rich world to explore and giving the player(s) the tools to shape it and create their own stories. They really understood the concept that "it takes a village" of different players and playstyles to form a dynamic community. I think they were really ahead of their time and hinted at what might be possible in terms of creating compelling alternate realities in VR.
Exactly, difference was in graphic handling, but beginning of the book tells you otherwise, completely concentrating on CPU power and glorifying 386(while wolf ran fine on 286). Maybe it was just padding, and later chapters rectify this "inaccuracy".
You could use Verilator to stimulate a processor, and SDL to give you a graphical output, if so desired. If you detest Verilator, Modelsim DE or above comes with TCL embedded, you could use Tk to build a graphical interface.
Must intrigued me, but when I played it as a kid I never got into it. Just felt like a puzzle game that was boring.

However, the books that were part of the Myst universe drew me in. I loved the books.
I didn't mean it as a pejorative, just that the game play concept was almost identical to that of ADVENT. Instead of typing "go west" you just clicked.

The innovation was in the graphics, which really pushed the boundaries of what could be done on a computer of that era.
Being neither a Haskellian nor a Perlist, I found the article interesting and I think you nailed the reason why.
"It's roughage, ain't it?"
VS Code takes ~6 seconds from clicking its icon to having its window show up. On an 8th-gen Intel i7 with an SSD. Yes Electron has abysmal performance.
We banned that account for trolling.
Thanks for replying. If your remove it, it is palatable. Stop carrying the flag for something detrimental to the end user.

Firstly anything that ships data out of a secure environment is a risk regardless of your intentions. You don’t always get the code right (this has already happened in .net core), the surface area of your software is multiplied (everything that sends telemetry talks to different hosts) and finally it adds a huge amount of noise to logs and IDS systems which make them less effective.

To stop this it requires a large effort and costs a lot of money. This adds a lot of noise to audits, requires administrative effort to silence, means we may not be within compliance of various data protection directives.

For this we get no observable product improvements. Look at windows 10 for all the telemetry. It’s a pile of crap.

Telemetry is literally a guessing mechanism so you don’t have to listen to your users concerns. A cost cutting exercise. You closed connect and didn’t listen to your users then. You cut off partner support pretty heavily. Now you collect data and make a finger in the air guess.

Just no. Fix MSFT not us.
AlphaZero does effectively a pattern matching of the board, whilst a traditional engine needs to calculate and rate every move into depth (<15). This search space is exponential, whilst AlphaZero's evaluation function is constant.

With deep search trees as in Chess or even more so in Go, a pretrained evaluator function easily beats any tree search. Applied AI.
Ask HN: CMS with automatic back end generation
Somewhen during the past year, a CMS was posted here where administrators could define the frontend templates using mustache syntax, and the CMS would automatically infer an admin UI. Sadly, I couldn’t find it anymore. Some more pointers I seem to recall:
- had a bit of a special name, possibly a single noun
- written in Node
- commenters asked whether it was only possible to create a single site per template or also collections, as in blog posts

Does anyone remember?
Shell Oil executive boasts that his company influences the aris agreement
Feed, like I acknowledged in my original comment.

> ...corn and soy subsidies that in turn make cheaper feed...
Cafe in Japan Hires Paralyzed People to Control Robot Servers
The recent game “The Return of the Obra Dinn” is a fresh take on this environmentally driven storytelling.
Configure Facebook to always use it's own container
I have no problem reading that. Sure, I dont understand it in fine technical detail (what's Mu? An implementation of Perl? A codename for Perl 6?) But I believe I understand enough of it to start using it.

This specific example seems similar to the __repr__ vs __str__ thing in Python, and not very alien at all.
Bassett Furniture is made in the US? I'm surprised the quality isn't better, the furniture I bought from them was (mostly) broken down & uncomfortable after a few months, and ultimately ended up being replaced within 3 years. What I replaced it with has lasted more than double the life of my former Basset furniture already.
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I keep hoping they bring that back for an X1 Extreme successor. That is where that keyboard truly belonged.