skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who do these fools think they were representing?

The US government and their agenda to spread similar laws in their country and across the world.

Labor was always on board with the core of the legislation; likely as they were aware of some unreported Five Eye's agreement that Australia will be the 'thin edge of the wedge' to introduce such laws worldwide.

Any amendments proposed wouldn't have changed the goal and was simply the basis for some political theatre to look like such a law has been considered and debated by the politicians. The outcome had already been decided a lot earlier than that point.
I'm not certain how to respond to such a non-argument in such a biased forum as this one. I would respectfully just point out that on this subject, you are in a filter bubble, which you obviously have made no attempt to escape from.
Can you actually force Mark out as CEO given that he’s the majority voting share holder?
http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html
No, this is not a good idea. Failures which are random are harder to diagnose. Something which works or not is much quicker to track down.

The simple fact is that this sort of problem should've been dealt wiht a lot sooner, and a failure to do so is sheer incompetence.

Where that incompetence lies, is up for debate. But given how these things usually run, it lies some levels above the people who didn't have the time to properly follow a poorly-described process in the face of demands to do other stuff instead.
Ask HN: Why most SaaS companies are leaving money on table
In SaaS subscription billing, some developers simply add stripe and are done with it.

In many countries, people don't have debit or credit cards with high transaction limits. Sometimes monthly limit is like $200 and if someone's paying $400 for a product then charge doesn't go through.

I think this is leaving 20% of money on the table which comes through other payment methods like cryptos including bitcoin, wire transfer (manual), skrill, western union, yandexpay, webmoney which is very popular in Soviet block countries.

Why there isn't any subscription management product which supports all of these gateways?
Sure. A classic article from 1990: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.35.9...

An interesting thing from reading about practical experiments in EM eavesdropping is that it's not just the obvious emanations that you have to worry about. Your sidechannels have sidechannels. In that paper, for example, the actual communication radiates and can be received in the shortwave band, but also a frequency-modulated version of it appears in the FM radio band. Presumably a bit of power-supply droop is modulating a local oscillator causing it to transmit a clear signal.
This is really interesting. I wonder how much of this is real, versus PR (although, Brad Smith has an excellent track record in this area).

The company that has the most to lose, were there to be real regulations concerning facial recognition, is actually a company in Microsoft’s investment portfolio. That company has built the world’s largest database of face and identity information. Facebook.
That's actually exactly how the algorithm is supposed to work. Negative emotions are far more catchy. You see dumb boomer memes constantly, you constantly argue, but you're ENGAGED. Which means you're a juicy user for ad targeting.
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There was also IBM's SOM (System Object Model), used extensively in OS/2. SOM/DSOM was inspired by CORBA, just like COM. All of them uses an IDL and are based on querying for supported interfaces, which is a very powerful mechanism.

They all died except COM, which remains the basis for most APIs that Microsoft release these days (even after a brief stumble with .NET where they, if I remember correctly, they tried to kill COM). It's a great technology, and it's a shame that Microsoft didn't open it up and turn it into a truly cross-platform technology.

What didn't take over the world was this notion of object-oriented documents, which was what OpenDoc and Taligent were all about. This idea that content came with behaviour; you could embed an object from one app into another, e.g. a piece of an Excel table into a Word document, and the table would be live-updateable within Word, with all your interactions basically going between processes as COM calls, with the OO behaviour following the embedded content as it moved around, even when copy-pasted between documents. Very powerful, but super brittle. I used embedding a lot in the 1990s, trying to achieve what the PR told me should be feasible and easy, but it invariably ended with app crashes.
A single set of extensions and bookmarks.

With Chrome, even if you manually sync your profiles and keep the same set of extensions installed in both profiles, it runs 2 processes of the same extension. Even when the second profile window is closed.

But for me the deal breaker was managing a separate set of bookmarks.
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> Solaris is gone

Solaris isn't dead. Oracle released version 11.4 in August this year:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-released...

The article you linked to doesn't say Solaris is gone either. It mentions large numbers of layoffs, but acknowledges that there is still a Solaris dev team in place (even if a significantly smaller one).

(Disclosure: Former Oracle employee, although I never worked on Solaris.)
Can anyone explain a bit more context around where this would fit in a running system? Would it handle cryptographic operations like key generation, signing etc? How does the boot loader compare to other projects like libreboot?

All of the sys calls in the GitHub repo just set flags in something called magic_mem and then call hitf_syscall, for which I can't find a definition.
GPG doesn't use a centralized authority. It uses a decentralized "Web Of Trust" model.
Agreed, no evidence to back opinion in that post. My parents never blocked me from learning something I was interested in. They nurtured a wonder (in me) for learning new things by being interested in everything I showed and “taught” them. The only detrimental thing my Dad ever did wrt my career was discourage me from becoming an engineer because he said that I would have no chance of becoming a CEO if I did. He loved his career though and a went on to study business which I hated. Luckily I also majored in computer science or I really don’t think I’d be happy.

One thing to note though. If you force your kid to code they may end up hating it just like some people hate maths because it was forced upon them when they were too young to appreciate it.
I basically agree that the quoted statement supports the idea of a dysfunctional system, the system is crazy. But it should also be acknowledged that it’s pretty rational for a country to spend more on health care as it becomes wealthier. Beyond basic health needs you notice all sorts of expensive marginal conveniences that get bundled into healthcare costs. One example is the ubiquity of motorized wheelchairs in the US. It’s really hard to go a day without seeing at least one in any US city, while I don’t recall ever seeing one in Berlin over a couple of years. People who couldn’t walk either used cheap old-fashioned wheelchairs, crutches, or presumably stayed indoors. I’m not really making a judgement on which approach leads to better health because I don’t have that data, but one costs thousands more. Comprehensive health insurance in the US may also cover modifications to a vehicle or hole to accommodate a motorized wheelchair, again thousands of dollars.

Another example: someone who has trouble concentrating at work in the US might spend (out of pocket, or through insurance) $1000 a year on an Adderall prescription Where in Germany it’s quite unusual to get an adult ADHD diagnosis, and even harder to get medication. People are more likely to just live with their genetics on this issue, or make non-medical accommodations, and their problems holding down a job or a relationship never become a medical cost on any spreadsheet. Again, I’m not saying one is better than the other, but culturally speaking, a larger number of personal problems faced by Americans are medicalized than in other countries.
>My approval has nothing to do with it. I don't own photons after they bounce off my face.

They should not exist in the first place, except made by people who have my clear consent for that specific picture. And those would know the limitations on publishing them.

Mass surveillance is a clear and apparent threat to society. The idea of a completely transparent human without any shred of privacy left is simply abhorrent.

Hello 1984

edit: I read "Photos"
This, and get Tree Style Tabs. It's literally the best thing about Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Your proposal may lead to an unintended DDoS of the CA.
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Exactly the same with me: I tried switching to Firefox 63 last week on a 2015 MBP running MacOS 10.11, and compared to Chrome it seems to use a lot more CPU and thus makes my machine run noticeably hotter.

I guess this might be due to the new Rust layout engine I've heard about which is more parallelised?, but even just having a single tab playing youtube or a gif uses more CPU in Firefox, so maybe it's something with hardware acceleration?
Arithmetic, carpentry, and coding are tools that enable you to solve certain problems. In order to solve most problems, a person needs to pay attention to detail, which was the author's point, but the author fails to understand that paying attention to detail is orthogonal to the choice of tools to equip a child with.
No, the best thing about Firefox is Tree Style Tabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
I don't think most people are surprised and I don't think most users care. This is just the media grasping at anything it can get its hands on to attack their rival.
Isn't that called "a smartphone"?
Easier interop with Rust crates?
You're right, I totally forgot that you can't hide all Pocket details directly. They're just hidden in menus I never use, so I didn't notice.
Is that an honest question? Take a look at the dozens of posts in the parent article and tell me the quantity isn’t meaningful.
Yes, that chart shows that they have relatively few people doing their interviews in Golang, so their outlier pass rate should have correspondingly large error bars (which you have to imagine because the graphs were drawn without any statistical sophistication).
I like VSCode a lot. The only reason why I sometimes switch to other alternative is the multi-file search results. When the fix this, I will be a happy camper: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63465
Yes he is, and at risk of a felony charge waiting for him if he returns to Aus. Not sure about extradition but I assume that could be on the table too.
Still remember doing some programming on ICl terminal and a colleague bought a radio controled car for fun. Then we found out these car will be taken over by the terminal.

Not very impressed then as we are sitting there nights and days.
I read this on Firefox.! :)
>fastest tap to ride time

I've never heard that phrase and I like it. I'm sure we'll start to see it more.

Then, who has the best self driving route/priority for the fastest tap to destination time :-)
Pocket by default is one of the best feature of Firefox, for everyone. Try to use it for week.
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If you distrust them both for sure you should prefer keeping them in competition.
You could define flags as an enum with values 1, 2, 4, 8, ... and OR them together.
I feel like a lot of confusion could be bypassed entirely by using megagrams (Mg) instead.
Can Twitter not do something where new and low activity accounts are given less weight and thus rise in relevance more slowly compared to seasoned and active accounts? Maybe even disallow likes and retweets till it matures as an account.

That said, you can't just ban "non-local" accounts from injecting themselves into a remote topic. If Kyle Jenner wants to tweet about something in France or Brazil, it should be non-exceptional (etc.)
I could but this ain't a corporate scenario.
I took a look at a large list of apps that uses electron. I found three that would actually have significant user bases. It might be used everywhere, just no one is using the result.
So what's up with throwing boxes at everything all the time? Is that just an easy way to put varying amounts of external complications in to see how it handles?
* Google stands up for privacy^W, user control, and open standards like HTTP2

* They back it up with high quality technical products like Chromium

* They built Go, a language I love

I could have written the same with Microsoft/VSCode/C# and Apple/Safari/Swift.

Seriously: Mozilla is good, but they're not saints, they're not totally different from other companies. They sometimes erred, even on the privacy of their users, which is their strong point. They are a commercial entity that sells services. It's easier to to keep enforcing a "Don't be evil" policy when you're not powerful enough to be evil.
coder.com is a similar tool.
I will never understand why Twitter exposes the UI language of all users. Terrible, security-wise.
Exactly. I back crowdfunding product campaigns occasionally and I just assume that 10-20% of them won't work out even if they raise the money
> * That the unfixed dupe SSL cert problem that makes Firefox unusable at work is going on a decade old and has no movement on it,

What problem is that? I haven't encountered that, but I really don't use FX that much.

>. Like making the actual browser better, rather than shoveling in crapware like https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/price-wise and ancillary, niche garbage like WebVR

Nah, I'm sure their priorities are in the right place /s - they sent me a newsletter message for a concert they're hosting for some reason because I'm on the MDN mailing list: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/concerts/?utm_campaign...
There was 300ish responses. The tech community and savvy individuals are strongly against it, but the vast majority of people don't care or absolutely don't understand what's at stake here.

As with most deeply technical issues, it is hard to communicate to the general population exactly what the proposed problem and solution is, so the politicians are allowed to freely pass legislation (without understanding it themselves mostly) without much opposition besides the vocal minority.
You may want to redo your analysis with a #giletsjaunes or whatever the french tags are. Don't expect a French movement born on Facebook from mainly boomers to use an English tag on twatter.
I’m no chess expert but I am a game theorist.

I got the feeling that AlphaZero cares about materiel only insofar as it occupies positions and projects power; in this sense it is further in the abstract-strategy realm than grandmasters and human-coded chess programs are.

Human-style players are like quantum theory: they’re concerned with stuff. AlphaZero is like general relativity: it’s concerned with bending the backdrop so mere stuff becomes pliant and goes where it wants... of course you need stuff to bend the backdrop, but beyond that...

I don’t know if I’m making much sense, cockeyed metaphors are my only means of expressing my impressions.
Not that they don't deserve it but articles critical of the major tech companies are a large portion of the content here so a few anti-Facebook stuff in a row isn't really at all surprising.
Adding delays to responses can also work too.

Years ago, during the tail end of the Age of XML, I had a conversation with one of the admins over at W3C.

To make your app work you're supposed to cache all schemas locally but an inordinate amount of people don't. Their apps will be slow because of that, but work anyway. So tons of traffic goes to w3.org. They can't remove those schemas because then nobody can use them the right way (download them 1x and keep the result). But how do you get people's attention?

I pointed out to him that a human downloading the schema isn't going to notice if the request takes .3 seconds or 3 seconds, but someone loading that schema 100x in a loop is sure going to be incentivized to figure out where the extra 5 minutes of processing time came from. He allowed that I might be onto something there but I never heard back about whether he tried it.

You want to kill off an API, assign it resources (hardware, bandwidth) that get progressively smaller, or add artificial waits that get progressively bigger. Depending on how horizontally scalable your app is (is it easier to add a sleep or to pull servers out of the cluster?).
If it were just 3 platforms (android iOS and browser) then it would be less of an issue - when you have to support 12+ platforms such as TVs, keep an always evolving design language up to date on all those platforms, making a change requires 12x the work.
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They are trying to secretly force tech companies into unpaid labour to destroy the security of their own products in their ham-fisted stupid attempts however.

This is much worse than the authoritarian way they handle traffic fines.

There is no legal representation, no judicial oversight and no actual definitions of essential terms in the bill.

Make no mistake, this is a dictatorship.
Why would they? That would reduce engagement.
It's 100% posturing and optics. There was nothing achieved by passing this law at the last day of sitting.
Another interesting place to help fact-checking: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com
I've thought about this but social media sites have negative incentive to prevent abuse. To them, all engagement is good engagement, it seems, whether it's vitriol or misinformation, if it gets people clicking, it's gonna make ad money.
Hardware manufacturers: How do you manage certificates that the customer will not touch or even see? Do you deliver new CAs alongside firmware updates? Do your software lifecycle requirements take certificates and cryptography in general into account?
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Is disingenuous communication protected by freedom speech? If I am allowed to say X, can I also pretend to be person Y and say as X as Y? Can I pretend to be person Y_0 ... Y_N-1 and still say X for any arbitrarily large value of N?

disingenuous - Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does. [0]

[0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/disingenuous
I assume you meant to say dynamic allocation?

It depends on your application.

If your application is fine with returning failed allocations and can handle the case, then it's okay. But if you have a real-time or safety critical system, for example, something running on a vehicle, robot, or flying device, you usually can't risk failed allocations. In that case the better bet is to reserve memory on the heap for your array and ensure that you are within bounds or within a certain threshold by checking on push data to your array or using a circular buffer.

There are many approaches to solving a problem, and many ways to implement the solution, but the path you take usually depends on your application and your constraints. Think about which set of tradeoffs with respect to performance, safety, and memory usage makes the most sense for what you are trying to do.
With my limited understanding of the Australian energy market, the system 'saved' $40M across the Australian energy market, it didn't generate $40M in income for the system operators.

ie by being a fast peaker supply, it stopped spikes in energy prices across the Aust Energy market which is where the savings of $40M come from.
Brazilian here.

After the horrible very bad choices we made on last election here, thanks to WhatsApp, I fear that "digital democracy" looks each day more like mob rule fed by paranoia.
Why is the assumption that "bots" are being created by people not in France? If I was part of a semi-violent protest group I would definitely not use my personal account and instead create something new like this.
To OP or anyone else at DeepMind: can you comment on why you decided not to release all of the games?

IMHO as a competitive scholastic chess player (former national U16 champion and top 3 world U10) and software engineer, it would significantly increase credibility of results. Not to mention would be fascinating to see the “ugly” games in addition to the ones handpicked by your team.
Carl Icahn gives his rationale:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/15/billionai...

Basically if you believe that ride hailing apps will succeed as a sector and that there is room for two companies in the long-term, then Lyft gives you a much better "value" investment in terms of the ratio of the company's valuation to the number of customers or dollars of revenue.
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I don't think it would have a big impact. New accounts should by their nature have few followers. Accounts with historically low activity should also have little effect on "engagement".
Python can go wrong for large codebases. There are exceptions, of course, but if I focus on the consensus: large code bases in a dynamic language have an anecdotally significant likelihood of becoming unmaintainable. It's a glass ceiling that almost everyone I've met, who has done serious work with a dynamic language, has encountered.

There are ways to deal with it, but it requires rigorous discipline, and resisting Python's dynamic siren call earlier on in the process.

Golang naturally guides you into a style of programming which scales. You're not fighting the language (or your own inclinations) to avoid getting entangled later on.

Everything has exceptions†, you can shoot yourself in the foot with anything, yes. But, reasonably, it's about the relative struggle to end up in a similar place. Which is higher for Golang initially, but higher for Python later on.

Not trying to turn this into a Python vs Go thread; they both have their place. But Python can definitely go wrong, in an area significant to many people.

† Except Go... T_T
It doesn't require thousands of TPUs and the latest deep learning methods to reveal these fake accounts, so there's at least something that can be done? Value authorative accounts higher somehow such that new / fake ones don't get this traction?
Depends which country you live in.
Yes, they're mostly the same. On some points Firefox is better (e.g. DOM Inspector, Network tab, animations, dark theme), on others Chromium is (e.g. Profiler, sources). I use both.
From [1] "Price discrimination is made illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act. 15 U.S.C. §2, the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. §13, and by the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§13-13b, 21a, when engaged in for the purpose of lessening competition, such as tying the lower prices to the purchase of other goods or services."

I'd gather that the same might apply to sale/no sale and not just prices, i.e. you can't not sell something to someone purely for competitive reasons, there has to be 'some reason'.

[1] https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/price-discrimination/

Full disclosure: I'm definitely not a lawyer.