skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep that is more concerning. They might be using unencrypted HTTP to get an idea of the breakdown and then inferring volumes based on HTTPS traffic and known differences between the two.

I basically wouldn't jump to "Cloudflare have a bunch of sensitive data and will use it in bad ways", I suspect they have less data than we might assume from the article, and in general their security/privacy stance is great.
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> But that would give up states rights

When states unite and cooperate they are exercising their right to self assemble or self association. Often individual states exercise this right after chronically being picked apart by a powerful adversary and find they don't want to leave behind the benefits the union provides.

I don't know enough about specifics in the UK to answer your questions. Union members typically vote on the direction of the union or leadership positions and so these members are responsible for their decisions or leadership.
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F-35 don't have any Russian and Chinese counterparts. They're all in design stage.

China may get to the mass-produced stage, but that's stil debatable, since they have issues with their engines.
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>If the Scrum cycle were called "iterations" rather than "sprints", things would be a lot better.

Agree. To me, the real value of Scrum when done right is the focus on delivering increments of value in a sustainable, repeatable way. Scrum provides a means and the existing hype/buzz/literature gives me some leverage in dealing with non-technical managers and getting them to buy-in to the process.
I didn't think the issue worth discussing since it seemed to be a clear case of deliberate power inversion - politicians trying to put fear in the media instead of the other way around. It seemed to be clear cut messenger shooting because reality refused to honor their persecution complex.

Really Google is pretty stereotypical corporate gutless about taking off auto-complete at anything remotely controversial even when it is an objective truth that say Santorum got his name associated with literal filth in response to comparing legalized gay relationships with beastiality. I saw little reason to bother with complexities when the accusations were so coarse and wrong.

Also how is improving hispanic voter outreach remotely a matter of controversy? The US has universal voting rights. Their job is to connect people with information. Complaining about it strikes of the Dotcom Freudian slips of bribery in complaining about him making music videoes with rappers - that isn't remotely illegal and bringing it up says far more about the source than the subject. That is downright saintly compared to lobbying and media conglomerates giving blatant editorial pushes.
I'm using terraform (it has an LXD plugin) to handle the orchestration in the CI / CD server.

So basically. I push code terraform detects if container running service exists, if not it creates the containers, if it does it will upgrade the service in the existing containers without destroying, so my deploys are super fast. I will have a more detailed video series coming out soon on the site I mentioned above.
Long term caffeine intake only temporarily increases alertness to baseline
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A few minor notes:

1. This seems to be oriented to convolutions. While convolution is rather important for image-oriented DNN workloads, there is DNN beyond that, and DNN are not the only technique for machine learning.

2. The graph shows 2-3x speedup (of convolutions, I suppose) over Intel's MKL-DNN 0.17 on the i5-2500K processor, which is a rather old low-end device. If the format used for convolutions in the test used 8-bit integers for storing image channels (which is possible) this is to be expected, since i5-2500 does not suport AVX-512 integer instructions that are employed there by MKL-DNN. It does not even have AVX-2! If that's the case, just switching to 32-bit float could speed up MKL-DNN almost an order of magnitude. The most informative test would be something run on SkylakeX, since it does support AVX-512...
Ethereum thinks it can change the world. It’s running out of time to prove it
I’d love to hear about your solutions but maybe don’t be so quick to dismiss other people’s hard work as something to “help bloggers”. If we were chatting face to face would you also behave like this?

We’re very open to good technical arguments but this isn’t one.
tax, title, and license, inspection and certification for a long haul truck is much more involved than an automobile. For example, a 2019 Volvo VNL might only cost 165,000usd. However the total cost in the first year for owning this truck (assuming the person you hired to drive it doesnt wreck it) is more than a Rolls Royce Phantom...close to half a million. The engine also wont realize the actual MPG advertised until its broken in...roughly 10-25k miles.

You wont realize the gas savings in the first 10 years, or ever really, so most trucking companies rarely care about new trucks with emissions controls that dont save fuel. They get rebates from the federal government for installing those metal spoilers on trailers anyhow.
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perhaps an employee was given access to analyse how their network performed across that week, and afterwards was asked by marketing to make a blog post. you're jumping to a lot of conclusions. FUD.
Of course not. "Friday" isn't universal. Clearly, `-f` is the "Finally" flag
Just an FYI, cannabis sativa has been grown for thousands of years.
Hofstadter raises this in "Godel, Escher, Bach" discussing the characteristics of emergent intelligence.
Yeah, it's the same for me. Too much coffee, like just two cups, can give me a slight and distinct type of headache, but I can pop 600mg caffeine in pills or energy drinks without anything resembling the same effect.

I wonder what it is.
Thanks for that link on an easier way to run GUI apps through LXD. I was using LXD containers to experiment with some cryptocurrencies and wound up using SSH and X forwarding to run the GUIs, that looks like a much better option.
I am the same way. I decided to try caffeine in pill form, and it gives the the heightened awareness and increased productivity without the jitters and anxiety.
No, China putting their taikonauts to space using chinese rockets.
My apologies! I was on mobile when I read it last night and the RFC links don't seem to go directly to the comment on my android device for some reason! (it loads the full list of comments, but never takes me to the correct one, and searching for sebastian didn't show any results, i guess because his username is the only thing that shows up)

Thanks!
Key finding: "Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal," said Professor Peter Rogers, of Bristol University, and colleagues.

So lets say if your baseline alertness when you never drank coffee was 5, drinking coffee will temporarily boost it to 7, but if you keep drinking coffee, the tolerance will make it so that your baseline will eventually fall to 3 and you need coffee to temporarily boost it back to 5.
Most of humanity is completely unable to personally verify the claims made by climate scientists. For most people is mostly a consequence of who they trust and what they want to believe.

Deepfakes have the capacity remove one of the few ways to convince "ordinary people", ie video. If only specialists can tell the difference (and perhaps even they), different groups will be able to construct complete alternate realities for themselves.

That is likely to lead to war.
If I'm not mistaken, generalising your question leads to: "What is the use of studying history?"
It is not the technology that is dangerous but the scale and manner of its deployment. Patented, opaque, closed source, championed by mega-corporations closely allied with powerful governments, entirely beyond the analysis or oversight of the vast majority of citizens, completely connected realtime to various other systems, automated, eternally slurping up data for indefinite storage... these are the real concerning factors.

After all, a good old security guard also does 'face recognition' of everyone passing by, but with a human there are obvious limits and a person to confront, charge or circumvent. With ubiquitous, tiny robots all over the place, society will get sharply stratified into the 'watched' and the 'watchers' and the latter will get access to nearly limitless data and power. That's not good.
Are common people not allowed to do utilitarian things with their privately-owned vehicles?

How else am I going to build a retaining wall, lawn maintenance, be the volunteer dance dad in the parade, pick up some building supplies for weekend projects, all while fitting three oversized safety-regulated car seats?

Come on, this statement is close-minded.
If cash gets the axe, these systems will be even more in demand, and the best thing is that they are open source software. Hopefully for those that live in a country where they still can enjoy their democratic freedoms and retain the right to some privacy.
The part about coordination matching is interesting: it's pretty much what Snowdrift [1] hopes to achieve at a larger scale. Unfortunately it appears it will always be vapourware, but still...

[1] https://snowdrift.coop
More of a cul-de-sac than a road, as far as that article is concerned. Here's a more in-depth account of a developer's struggle with mental illness (warning for language). I've always enjoyed reading his other posts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/23vx1j/bc_mother_ki...
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I haven't heard of any tax breaks in Seattle here.
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Knowing one's past is knowing one's self.
Maybe Sumerian and Enochian are best left unspoken.
It's probably because it's most likely nonsense and can't be read.
Even if we had a "net-zero emissions world by 2070" it would be way too late. I suspect we needed that 10 years ago.

If we want to prevent disastrous climate change we should ban all combustion engines by Jan. 2021 and pay insane amounts of money for captured carbon.
Of course that would be incredibly painful. Many people would starve to death, all our quality of life would go down dramatically for a while. But the alternative is that even more people die.
Fascinating. Seeing a truck that's over 10 or 15 years old is uncommon here in the UK.

If I saw something 30 years old it would be rare enough to default to believing it was on its way to a vehicle show, or owned by a collector.

I'm sure there's a few out there, still in active commercial use, but few enough that you'd be surprised to see one.
> The similarity between these and NASA's shuttle is stronger than I remember.

Because USSR decided to copy Space Shuttle (instead of another competing Soviet-produced approach).
The operating costs of modern emissions equipment is far greater than the cost of the extra fuel wasted on a less efficient drive-train. It might be close to even for operators that do maintenance in house (I'm not familiar enough with the industry to know). If emissions equipment wasn't expensive and unreliable (relative to the rest of the truck) this market wouldn't exist.
There are different kinds of donation matching. I think the kind that stores do where they advertise it or products that advertise it are doing it for positive publicity (especially if the "charity" they are donating to is just some "BigCorp Foundation" that they themselves set up).

But if it is something like an npr pledge drive where they say "for the next hour all pledges will be matched"or like this then I don't look at it so cynically.
News messages such as these are increasingly scary and alarming. They paint a picture of a very nearby dystopian society that, until now, was the stuff of fiction.

The news is successful in scaring us, but what can we do against this type of thing? What can I as an individual do? I can install ad-blockers, etc on my PC, but how can I prevent the technology described in the article from impacting my life or that of my children? I don't want them to grow up in a 1984 or Brave New World scenario. What can I do today to stop from, at the very least, my country from going down a path where this is considered normal?
Thanks for the suggestion. Gonna pick it up soon!
Right, you always get nickeled and dimed more at the higher end places because they just assume you can afford it. However not all Hilton places suck. Hilton Garden Inn is pretty good, free breakfast, free wifi, and the rooms are nice. I've been staying in Courtyard Mariotts for work lately. No free breakfast but the rooms are nice.
The bash shell? Vim?

Photoshop/Illustrator?
Solving the fake news problem in science
Ask HN: How do I evaluate a scientific study?
Recently I’ve been trying to base more of my decisions on published literature rather than secondary and tertiary sources, mostly in the area of health and diet. But apart from sample size, I don’t know where to start in evaluating the merits of a study. When comparing existing results to make a decision, what sort of factors should I consider? Experimental design? P-value and significance level?

It’s particularly an issue when so many issues have contradictory studies, and it’s hard to decipher which one is more likely to be correct!
I have to agree with this. What people need to understand is Scrum clearly states the framework itself is not intended to solve your problems. Rather, it's set up to unveil your problems so you and your team can solve them yourselves.

So, if you have a ton of issues while using Scrum, that's actually kind of the point. The real issue is not the framework that unveils your issues, but rather the level at which a team is empowered to fix their own issues.

Scrum is both powerful and useless depending on how empowered teams are to manage their own work. It's really that simple.
How roads are funded depends on the State and locale. In some States, all highways are funded solely by use (gas and car) taxes as a constitutional requirement. Local roads, on the other hand, are funded almost arbitrarily -- it does include a gas tax in many places but in many places it does not.
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Enochian isn't a real language, though, it's just something John Dee made up while tripping on mercury or something.
This may be the case at the ones you've been to but the ones referred to by the article are all within 5 miles of existing, thriving major hospitals.
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Kind of: there has rarely been an OS interface before or since that has been so consistent and clear. (The earlier System 7 is the only other one that comes to mind.)

Yes, XP was plastic-y, cartoon-y, a little day-glo, verging on infantile.

BUT: everything felt meticulously planned, logical, consistent, and easy-to-use. Everything felt like it was in it's "right" place. It was a triumph of UX for its time.

Unlike today, where OS's tend to include a confusing mix of paradigms that are anything but consistent. E.g. on macOS, a totally confusing mix of UX skins ("traditional", iOS-inspired like Stocks and Voice Memos, skeumorphic dashboard widgets, old "dark" apps like GarageBand, new "dark" mode for all).
Parmer and Dallas. The land is usually occupied by political signs. Traffic is going to be even more fun on Parmer. See picture in this article:

http://www.kut.org/post/apple-says-its-building-new-1-billio...
Ok, the idea was to communicate to someone who has never seen an ADT before what kind of thing it is, rather than a full decompilation of how it's really implemented, but thanks for that too.
Texas has a"Robin hood" school finance system, where districts with high property values are subject to recapture, where they send a large percentage of the property taxes collected to the state to be used for districts in less wealthy areas. If memory serves, Austin ISD sends almost half of its billion dollar budget back to the state.
I would actually, because it sets a bar that if you’d like your book to be preserved then you need to make a choice, is your book so valuable that it should be free? If not, there’s plenty of other places for DRM books. What they’re doing instead is trying to have it both ways.
I like archive.org. I've mirrored thousands and thousands of their math/science ebooks into my apocalypse drive right next to the copy of wikipedia/wiktionary/wikispecies/etc and every binary/src package for the two distros I enjoy the most.
Can you explain how your offering is better than this:

https://bubble.is
I used QtCreator. It's good but not reliable or fast enough for large projects.
Iron is a very good heat conductor.
Apple 100% does not care about it's creative class anymore. I love my 2013 macbook air and pro. It's over though. If you need to get things done there are plenty of linux options.

Yes, all of the trackpads suck.

EDIT: Please down vote if that expresses your feels, but if you've got a new MBP or Mac Pro and feel supported by Apple I'd love to know why and what you use it for. I miss being able to buy a solid computer from them that I knew would be my workhorse for 2+ years and have a long life after.
Netflix contacted me a few times about coming in for an interview, but I did the math and even at Netflix salary, I would still be taking a relative pay cut by leaving Austin for California. I know I'm not the only one coming to this conclusion.
Okay, DX is an important selling factor, so your approach seems reasonable to me.
Because they don't boot successfully in LXD - their init doesn't like the LXD environment.

Obviously this can be fixed but it's non-trivial to figure out why. For the time being it's easier to keep using LXC for those.
https://www.statnews.com/2018/12/13/solving-fake-news-proble...
yep, terpenes are organic compounds found in a wide range of plants. It's one of the reason pine trees smell so nice.
Find a senior on your team whom you trust, and ask for uncensored, even brutal feedback. Just be clear that you can handle harsh critique and that you’re more concerned about learning than about having your feelings hurt. You can also do the same with a peer, though you’ll get slightly more value from a senior.
Anyone have any idea what that would do to a human finger, a demonstration of which was sadly missing from the video?
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AFAIK Basis and DAI are both trustless; not everything is as bad as Tether.
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Yes they do, mostly bing + yahoo and yandex. Do they give which percentage of backends they use for any non trivial search?
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How about duck + (Ctrl + enter) ?
These were supposedly accounted for before we went, they're not "The WMD" we went looking for. These stories are written in a manner to confuse and mislead. I'm still confused, anyhow, the latest is below

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-m...
Lovely Story! I enjoy the use English with the little bit of German and French thrown in. Love the characters as well.
Agile is all about how contractor developers should interact with their clients.

By coincidence, some of it applies to software development.
They also cost a great deal in required infrastructure, drive up competition for affordable housing, and create complications in other ways. Texas has no income tax so there's no revenue from that. The city will end up net negative from most corporate incentives.
Climate change is reversing a 50m year old cooling trend, not where you'd think
Ask HN: Does GitHub started to downfall?
In the past Github has been more than reliable. It. Just. Worked.

But now I've started to see lots of small bugs and nuances. Like dropdowns that wont work, widgets that never finished loading, broken UI pieces, and more things keep appearing that I just thought that this is a trend, not a small bump in the road. This could be happening 'cause I'm using Firefox.. but in the past, that was never an issue.

Did you experience some similar problems? What do you think about the current state?

I hope the best for the platform, so I just want to ask: please dont break Github.
Well, this is what a number of jurisdictions are doing, or have already done. Canada is doing pretty much exactly this - implement $12/ton in 2019, ramp it up gradually through the 2020s. 90% of tax revenues are refunded directly back to taxpayers.

The problem of course is... it's a tax. It doesn't matter if it makes sense, if it is revenue neutral etc etc. Someone will just start yelling about elites robbing the people.

I guess you can see how it plays out in Canada. Not only is the tax slated to be imposed this year, but there is a federal election in the fall.
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Wow... That is pretty convincing and damning...
There is no develop, master is continuously deployed. Users can create feature branches and PR them but there is just no merge commit, they are pulled in fast-forward. In projects where I need stable releases, I create stable/1.2.x type branches off of master at a point in time. I cherry-pick commits onto it after the first release if there are subsequent ones.

You can see this in action here:

https://github.com/dj-stripe/dj-stripe/commits/master

https://github.com/dj-stripe/dj-stripe/commits/stable/1.2
No income taxes in Texas.
I agree but think this a period we need to go through, it will end on it's own when society thinking has changed and women inventions, role models, insights etc. have entered mainstream. For now there is some hyperbole but the pendulum will get to normal. This may take some decades but it's temporary.
The advertisements for these sites is unusual. Actual examples of appropriate use according to one of the operators:

- Stomach pain

- Wounds that won't heal

- Shortness of breath

- Bleeding that doesn't stop (minor bleeding illustrated by the cartoon)

> maybe panicking about being ill

This, except for the shortness of breath.

EDIT: copyedit
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No, retail is staffed with normal employees. They get full benefits, access to the stock purchase plan, etc.
As an engineer in Austin, I mostly concur.
What you describe is ideal, but we also have to recognize that the city has limited ability to stop things from getting unbalanced. Cities like San Francisco and Seattle are adding more jobs than they are housing. Banning an increase in housing doesn't create a balanced system, it just shifts the deficit to the suburbs and the road system.
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Dont know what you have "fixed" ...

Its still not encrypted!
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