skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your previous comment I understand you didn’t read the whole book so I don’t know if you got to chapter 4, section ”the skillful interrogation of nature: why RCTs work.” In short, you can use interventions (i.e. a properly designed experiment) to verify that the “cause” does indeed produce the “effect”.
> Saudi Arabia is a very thorough implementation of Islam, and therefore a disgusting country.

You make the assumption that the Saudi version of Islam is the only valid one. It's not.
You're the one that brought up the "basic rules of chess", I was pointing out that abandonment is a basic rule, and taken very seriously. Of course abandonment has to be done intentionally, and that's a judgement call on the TD's part. Like I said, your behavior falls more under "annoying behavior". So any disconnection breaks one rule or another, and the TD/organization needs to do something to encourage you to stop doing it.
He was initially pursued for exposing war crimes in Iraq involving the US army and Reuter's journalists. Everything else was seemingly tacked on after the fact.
So that is, you wait for the gatekeepers to die.
Fi negotiated better terms for international roaming with TMO than TMO gives its own customers. TMO customers are rate-throttled abroad; Fi is not.
As Xenophon saw it
"I'd rather share the road exclusively with other humans that fear death just as much as I do."

Assuming you fear death enough to give your full attention to driving safely, how do you hope to accomplish this wonderful utopia? There will always be drunk, distracted, aggressive, tired, epileptic, vision impaired drivers as long as humans are driving. The true solution is to remove all human drivers and only have computers that don't need to worry about unpredictability of other cars, because the cars communicate directly.
This looks very cool, and I actually have a farm project right now that could use it.
I used a Lime bike for the first time while on vacation with my girlfriend in Seattle. After a long day of walking it was incredibly nice to just get on a bike, go 10 blocks, and put it off to the side.

The experience of first finding the bikes was surreal. They were littered everywhich way across public spaces. One in the middle of a busy sidewalk that people had to walk around, one dumped off beside an obscure tree outside a convention hall, one hiding behind a vendor booth (for which I assume the vendor was stashing for the commute back or just that was the easiest place to leave it), etc.

Then, I felt like a public nuisance while trying to log in and get the bike unlocked while people where having to walk around me.
2G speeds: https://www.t-mobile.com/travel-abroad-with-simple-global
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You can create luck by being prepared and being at the right place at the right time. One without the other; you can’t seize the opportunity.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

George Orwell
I love my Fi.
But I did not activate it in the US and activating abroad was not trivial. Their "Service" called this "buyers remorse" since I could still use Wifi. Long story.
Are there any downsides to Mint? I thought I was getting a pretty good deal with t-mobile, but damn, $15 a month is pretty tempting.
> Money changing hands is mistaking the incentive for the act itself.

I think there's more to it than that. There is no particular reason to think that money changing hands benefits the economy, or society, but there is at least one party that does benefit: the government. Every time money changes hands the government takes a share in the form of income and/or sales taxes. Ergo, there is reason for the idea that higher monetary velocity is better to be popular among both politicians and the economists who advise them.
This is why consolidation of power is bad. You can't out run their influence and consideration. Competition is great in both tech and state because you have options (barring collusion).
I'm going through something similar with Lyft. I got a new pixel phone, had to re-setup my account in an airport added my cards, and was unable to hail a ride due to some "oops, there was a problem, try again" error with both the cards I entered. That was 9 months ago. To this day, I've been unable to use Lyft, and I can't get anybody to really look at the issue.

I'm not sure why they don't want to take my money, but for now, I just use Uber. Hopefully they won't decide they hate met too.
I’m all for the principles here, but one worry I have is the loss of efficiencies afforded by economies of scale which could dramatically increase the carbon footprint compared to the centralized versions.
If I am reading the chart labelled "The visible and UV spectra of liquid water" at http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_vibrational_spectrum.html (about 2/3rds down the page) correctly, water is fairly opaque at 1550nm. If my hurried wikipedia education on the topic is correct, that chart is saying it's quite opaque at that frequency, even at bat eyeball scales. Corrections welcomed from people with more training in this field.

(I'm not sure I'm not getting some crossed units when I tried to resolve that into numbers normals like me would understand; is that really 1/e^1000 transmitted per centimeter travelled? e^1000 is a big number. There's even bigger ones on that chart. Then again, if a two-atom-thick layer of gold is enough to make something look like gold and completely obscure what's underneath, I guess that might make sense and my intuition is just off, because when I convert that into this sort of scheme I get big numbers there, too.)
Daimler is beating Tesla to making semi-autonomous big rigs
Chromecast Audio frustrates me so much. I bought one and hooked it up to my whole-house system combined with a few other fancy things so that people in the house could theoretically cast music or whatever else to whatever room in the house.

Basically, I can only use it with Google Music. I rarely can use it for other things because it will only cast a subset of things that support casting. For example, I can't cast YouTube to it, because it doesn't support video. But what if want everyone in the room to hear what I'm playing and the video is irrelevant?

I'm considering buying an HDMI->DVI/Audio adapter and just using a standard Chrome Cast.

I feel like Google had the right idea here. But just missed the mark.
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TMO only gives 2G internationally which, while it doesn’t sound terrible, it ends up being unusable in practice. Your experience may vary though I guess.
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It's not illegal, but it absolutely should be a sackable offence because it completely compromises the manager and the organisation's equal treatment of staff.
The content is great. I like how you start off teaching the language by showing how to execute simple programs from the command line (I learned that you don’t need the `-f` option to execute a file). I’ve come across far too many PHP introductions that confuse the new learner by attempting to get them to set up a web server (usually Apache) and then all the strings have to be wrapped in HTML markup when printed. There’s a lot to be said for keeping it simple for teaching the essentials of a language.

The site is cleanly and beautifully formatted and I love how lightweight it is: HTML files, a CSS file, a JS file and an image. It’s such a refreshing change from the thousands of visually cluttered sites that make hundreds of resource requests (most of them third-party) and whose content is not visible without allowing third-party JavaScript. When I completely disabled JavaScript on this site, all I noticed were non-essentials such as Solarized syntax highlighting and the Table of Contents; I could still navigate through the site using the Previous and Next links (and of course, the browser’s Back button).

Kudos!
For US customers, TMO is the next closest (and is the carrier partner Fi uses for international roaming anyway). The catch is that TMO's ONE service plan throttles 'free' international usage to 2G speeds. Fi on the other hand does not.
that's fair, sorry dang. you do great work.

that being said, not really sure why my other comments are flagged (below in thread). seems in bad faith.
Quake 2 was released closer to the Star Wars release date than the present day.

...those xkcd style "make you feel old" statements are quite fun to make.
I'm perplexed. I can see hating them for other reasons, but expensive would not be the word I associate with Google Fi. I pay $22 including taxes/fees per month, but it's probably not a good carrier for people who watch a lot of video on their phones.

* they're also probably one of the only honest carriers in terms of taxes/fees. My previous carrier had a much higher tax % which I thought was normal, but now I realize it was just a markup disguised as a tax, so they could continue to offer their "$40/month for everything" price point while actually charging $50/month.
My biggest problem has been with connections to automated testing systems. Specifically in the ability to keep the two in sync. My professional work in the last decade has mostly been on those automated systems, so I have a somewhat unique view. But here is what I see as missing in most (but hvae seen good parts of at some internal systems):

1. The automated system works on testing multiple configs on multiple branches. When problems arise they are marked in the testing system.

2. In the really good ones a bug can then be filed in the issue tracker that includes one or more "rules". These "rules" cover the failures discoverd in the testing system, with limits on the matrix of configs, branches, and time ranges.

3. So back in the testing system you can distinguish between "covered" and "new" bugs. You also can immediately see when a bug has been fixed, as the system then points out tests that were expected to fail that are not suceeding (flaky tests are a really nasty problem in this).

4. In an ideal system (I was working on this part at one point) the failures would not simply be of the "it failed" variety, but rather look for a fingerprint (e.g.: patterns in the logged output, or in the stack-traces). Then you could see when another bug encoches on the first (sadly common in really large systems), or when two bugs happen to hit the same tests on different configs at about the same time (again, sadly common), and even have the system suggest when old problems re-emmerge to expand the rule coverage.

Sadly there are no testing systems out there (that I have found) that can really support the "configs" model to make this really worth it. Filling that hole is what I would probably do if I won the lottery... but since I have to make a living...
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I'm not upset. Sorry if I'm coming off that way.

It's just that there's a big disconnect between what people have read out of the article regarding it's applicability and what remedies actually flow out of it.

Hence the ...so what?

Large sites will have a tool like photoDNA or ContentID to be able to flag works so you can't do something like repeatedly upload something like Aquaman an hour after release. That's reasonable. With respect to a site like HN, it's highly probable the entire article literally has zero impact, unless people take to posting book chapters in comments constantly (and if that happened, you'd expect they should take action in some way).

The proportionality requirement alone alleviates almost EVERY concern people are bringing up. I don't think the legislation is perfect, but it's pretty good, fairly clear, and very easily suited to judicial interpretation to create fair results in unanticipated situations.
This is really cool, and I can’t believe I’ve lived long enough to see Quake 2 be called “retro.”

I’ll likely live long enough to see the Unreal Engine of today called retro. I’ve never thought of this before, and it’s wild.
This is by far the thing I miss most about Fi, and I'm shocked that no other carrier so far has replicated the feature.
I traveled to India in 2017 and 2018. I had problems getting HSPA+ most of the time. Had no problems with local carriers.
To be honest, it sometimes does feel like millionares are overrepresented online, and that social media sites have a higher percentage of wealthy contributors than the general population. You see quite a few business advice stories by people who 'just happened' to get loaned $XX,000 by relatives to start up their business and going on Twitter/Instagram/YouTube/whatever will show you plenty of people who seemingly don't have to work a day in their life.
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I am not, and the fact that you accuse me of that proves your malignant intentions.

And maybe learn what "to equivocate" means.
Was anyone here at HN into Dark Forces II / Jedi Knight back in the day? The retro graphics of this post made me a bit nostalgic. The in-game scripting in Jedi Knight was my first exposure to software, and the modding community at Massassi was an incredibly creative and lively place.

The poor checksums on game assets in Jedi Knight, along with early multiplayer on MSN Gaming Zone made the whole gaming community an adventure. You could never be sure what kind of shennanigans you encountered, with people having all sorts of weird gameplay hacks.
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> Looking for the next poster to jump in and say something about...

Predicting a likely (and imo, reasonable) response to your comment is not the same as rebutting it.
Shouldn't this also be a problem with other non-passive sensors like radar. If we have a traffic jam of cars each sending radio waves from multiple sensors there has to be quite some interference, no?
My bad. I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A as I was posting it.
Just because you're working on a system that is already in place doesn't mean that you can't do new things. The refactoring is "new work"
Any idea when Atlas will expand support for Sharding configurations and taggable zones? My impression is Atlas ONLY supports a 2 field shard, and the first shard MUST be location. Also it's impossible for clients to set write-concern to tags, because you don't support custom tags as MongoDB itself does.
Sure, there is no complexity to speak of when your threads do not need to cooperate nor share any data.

But then someone has a bright idea that e.g. a global cache to share some state between all threads would be a good optimization, or that threads need to be able to store some global settings, etc. and complexity related to threads start to creep in to your application.
Just a tip, in the states the term 'remote sensing' refers to aerial photography of crops either by satellite, airplane or drone. These photos can find problems in the growing crop related to stress.

Things may be different in Europe but over here your use of the term will confuse people. Good luck on your project it has many applications.

https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/fabe-5541
And because there are so many SPF records including SPF records including... you can be pretty undetectable.
I feel that this story by the BBC, presumably filed by Jonathan Head (https://twitter.com/pakhead), was what spread wide awareness of Rahaf's realtime emergency situation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-46773625

I was reading r/worldnews and came across this on page two. It was so strangely under-voted. I just entered the twitter URL in that screengrab and saw a scarily fresh video of her attempts of blocking the door to her hotel room (air-side @ BKK, "Miracle Hotel", where they had put her waiting for a flight to Kuwait). That made it so real. I posted that link and it got thousands of upvotes very, very quickly. I hope that spread some awareness, somehow.

Afterwards I feel quite a bit upset that media in Sweden under-reported this event. I'm pretty sure it's the confused feminism/Islam alliance that caused this.

The countries whose journalists really stepped up here were: The UK and Australia.
Read this wonderful, but appalling book (true story) over December:

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

PRINCESS describes the life of Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband and her country.

Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room."

PRINCESS is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage, and you will never forget her or her Muslim sisters.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004J17GY4/ref=tmm_kin_title_...

Before I only vaguely knew of the struggles of women in Saudi Arabia.
I am happy with Fi, and have been a customer for 2.5 years so far. There are certainly many use cases in which Fi is way more expensive, but that is the case with any carrier.

I think as far as customer support I have had more problems with Verizon than Fi, but your mileage may vary!
Source link: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/01/global-...
"quasi-fundamentalist fervor to the secular belief system of "Intersectionality"". I don't have a clue what that means, but it certainly sounds like you're trying to call them dumb liberals or something...

I miss the days when such people were just "dumb liberals" like me. Now, there are people who spend their time going after other people, like obnoxious religious people used to go after homosexuals. It's not the ideology which is problematic. It's the meta can be wrapped around it which seems inextricable from negative emotion, oppressive acrimony, and a desire to impinge upon other lives.

As I said before, live and let live is the best way. Don't judge, lest ye be judged. Most of all, don't project hypothetical emotional and mental states on others and engage in moral judgement and condemnation on that basis. This is precisely what accusations of "internalized" _-isms are, such pronouncements are objectively produced by adherents of intersectionality, are objectively stated in presentations of the ideology, and objectively have as little evidence backing them as accusations of "satanic influence" had from fundamental religious people during social controversies of the 80's.
Even with really quick exposures? I've taken pictures of the sun before (before, during, and after last year's eclipse) with my cell phone camera and it seemed fine.
> I believe that in order for a patentee to sue for infringement, they should first have to present objective evidence that their idea is actually nonobvious, along the lines of the "Graham factors" [0]: commercial success, long-felt but unsolved needs, or failures of others.

This triggers one of my pet soapbox issues: The U.S. patent statute requires a patent to be issued to an inventor unless the patent examiner can show that the claimed invention was not new, useful, or nonobvious. True, the inventor must tell the patent office about any prior art of which s/he happens to be aware, but the inventor has zero obligation to do any kind of prior-art search to see what else might have been out there. Contrast that with the Ph.D. degree system, where the burden is on the candidate to do a literature search and convince his/her committee that s/he didn't reinvent the wheel.

Another contrast: When a university grants a Ph.D. degree, the result isn't national industrial policy in the form of a statutory monopoly over the claimed subject matter.

And another one: Ph.D. degrees require a defense before not just an experienced advisor, but also a committee of people who know at least something about the subject matter. In contrast, patents and their statutory monopolies are typically approved by junior- or mid-level examiners generally either flying solo or (in theory) supervised by one more-experienced examiner. Only if the examiner issues a final rejection will the invention be reviewed by a board of appeals comprising senior examiners.
We can call it "Sidar"; play on the word cider, and the logo for the company or brand would be a jar of cider with an eye floating in it.
Only two things I noticed when comparing on their website. 1) lock in contracts, and 2) they piggyback off the T-Mobile network while Google Fi dynamically uses the best of 3 networks. Otherwise seems like a pretty frugal option.
I know of several ethnic Abkhazians from Jordan and Syria who volunteered and fought against the Georgian army which was threatening to conduct total ethnic cleansing of Abkhazians. "August 25, 1992: The commander of the Georgian army, Gia Karkarashvili, stated on TV that he would sacrifice 100,000 Georgians to kill all 97,000 Abkhazians, if that is what it took to keep Georgia's borders inviolate.' [A similar threat came from the head of Georgia's wartime administration, Giorgi Khaindrava, on the pages of Le Monde Diplomatique in April 1993. Goga (Giorgi) Khaindrava, told the correspondent from Le Monde Diplomatique that "there are only 80,000 Abkhazians, which means that we can easily and completely destroy the genetic stock of their nation by killing 15,000 of their youth. And we are perfectly capable of doing this.''] https://abkhazworld.com/aw/conflict/729-chronicle-1992-93-ge...
Something I'm always interested in is how vulnerabilities/attacks are leveraged once a system is compromised.

Obviously if an attacker controls DNS they could do all sorts of bad things: setup a phishing site that looks official, put up a fake press release announcing a merger or sale to manipulate the stock price, hold the domain hostage, etc.

Most of those actions (while bad) would be detected pretty readily. What's clever here is that the attackers _maintain_ a working proxy back to the real system for an extended period of time. Time during which they can then inspect the traffic and peel out sensitive data, presumably to re-use those credentials to break into other systems and escalate further.
And Disqus comments, which are also pretty surveillance spammy.
I assume then that Bing will be responsible for this then (or if they won't then they'll need to find a new engine)
Selling mass location data to the highest bidder is indeed extremely slimy and even a threat to "national security".

But the fact that Google (or any centralized entity) has aggregated so much detailed information on billions of people's personal lives is itself a threat to global/national security.

What happens when that data is hacked/leaked and then sold to the highest bidder (who isn't interested in advertising)? That data could be easily weaponized for a shocking/devastating attack the likes of which we have not seen since the first atomic bomb.
>It's a scam because the equity have any decision making power.

Well there is no equity as there is no equity in any non profit corporation. That doesn’t make nonprofits a scam.

The shareholders elect the board and the board elects the officers and the officers control the day to day operations.

>It's still controlled by a small group of people aka the board of directors, the stock structure is setup that fans could not mount a hostile takeover

Well stockholders do get invited to the annual meeting and vote for a number of those directors.

You can claim all you want investor won’t invest when they can’t get their investment back, but again the Packers are proof you are wrong, no shareholder can recoup their investment much less make a profit, but they have no problem raising as much as $250M when they had their last 2 public offerings.

Edit: another example is the Gates foundation, supporters donate because the believe in the organization (like the Packers) yet supporters have even less rights than the Packers shareholders and obviously no chance of a “hostile takeover” and yet people “invest”/donate.