skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll enlighten you. Totalitarian regimes tend to croak not when repressions are maxed out, unlike what the popular opinion suggests, but when they run out of steam to sustain them.

It is especially true when they run out of steam right midway during a major purge.

Venisuela now is a textbook example of that.
yess port 443 for a https address, and port 80 for an http address.

The impression i immediately had was that windows 10 system settings of an individual machine could be reached, across the web , using a URL just like any webbrowser and server normally would operate.
For installing/using Linux applications without root access, use Docker containers. For security, use rootless containers. Most major graphical apps have a Dockerfile now.
I wonder if it's because of the CRT.
But arbitration does, that's the problem.
Teen diving enthusiast's project has removed 50,000 golf balls from off CA coast
Yes, a best of 9 (?) match against Serral or Maru needs to happen.
I actually agree with you on the last part, I do find python's tab indention unsettling. I just think it's better than using "end"s.

In regards to you the use of brackets, array indexing and function calls can use the same syntax: lisp and scala seem to manage just fine. There's a lot of unnecessary syntax in a lot of languages that doesn't really serve any purpose (besides historical).

I'm not trying to argue about any particular syntax. Just that, syntax should be as concise as possible and not include extra identifiers that confuse the eye.

As an aside, I also think that programming languages should probably use less words, and more symbols, as it lets people who are familiar with other spoken languages to more easily adopt them.

Also, using more keywords (like end), restricts the name space of variable names.
What was the joke if you don't mind me asking?
Was the market in 19th century America truly free?

http://histsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-were-tariffs-pol...
TSS switching is incompatible with running in 64-bit mode. It is very slow. Doing most of the same actions (reload segment registers and the page table base) in software is also very slow. Prior to the meltdown issue, Linux system calls had avoided most reloads of the segment registers and page table base.

PCIDs are incompatible with older hardware. They are modestly slow. I think the PCID state includes the TLB.

That pretty much means the kernel must support both methods. The PCIDs is used when possible. When the hardware doesn't support PCIDs, Linux must instead reload segment registers and the page table base, either step-by-step in software or via a TSS switch.

BTW, I had to implement x86 hardware task switching for an x86 emulator. The complexity is insane. See my "Who is Hiring?" post if that sounds fun for you.
Project site:

https://www.theplasticpick-up.org/the-golf-ball-project
tell that to my exwife
I believe they were talking about an alternate world where arbitration decisions would be appealable, not the world we live in.
The other party would then file Motion to Compel Arbitration. This will usually result in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
Well you’re not entitled to it. It’s something that’s available for sale and you’re willing to take it without paying for it because it’s technically not illegal where you live.

Congrats lol.
Exactly. Funny when unions go to arbritration, it’s always a big todo.p and terrible thing.
After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s vendors are the ones picking up the bill
It's a shit argument, because software interfaces are no more and no less "immutable facts" than software implementations. Oracle is correct here; fair use and copyright law need legislative intervention to fix the problem.
I agree with you for the most part, I just feel like the chromecast was badly thought out, being that it was more like a browser on a stick that didn't have any direct user input (other than some phone app) rather than a true TV appliance with a remote.

And while pretty much every tv I own has a chromecast, they just don't get used -- Mostly because the connection between my chrome cast and my pixel 2 is flaky. And that's even on google wi-fi.

And I really miss the tactile feel of a remote control that you don't have to look at to use.
>They only got that ruling by appealing a copyright question to the patent appeals court,

That's not true and doesn't really fit within any legal timeline. That's my point.
No, the issue being discussed is on the other side of the interface: if I reimplement a known API created by a developer, am I infringing the developer’s copyright?

It doesn’t touch the question of “if I work with a certain software, do I have to follow the licensing terms of such software?”, which is what WP plugin developers must abide by.
> It's absurd that you can actually waive any of your legal rights..

"You have the right to remain silent. So, we're just gonna go home now. Bye."

A right that you cannot waive is more of an obligation, even if it's an obligation that in theory is to your own benefit.
Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election
Someone who can do the work of repairing appliances can make good money doing something else. As the manufacturing cost goes down, it really does make less and less sense to support repair.

It's clearly a local optimum, ideally you'd do the engineering to make repair cheap too, but I don't see how you climb out of it.
You can install Ubuntu with UEFI and secure boot enabled without any problems (personal experience). I believe that several other distros work as well, out of the box. All distros can do UEFI with minimal effort.

To be honest I consider things like BMC and the like and whatever goes on inside the BIOS and the like as far greater opaque problems than some of the more esoteric security "assurances" like measured boot.
As the article points out, very few websites and applications have keyboard shortcuts.

If anyone else is interested in reducing mouse usage and has some familiarity with vim keybindings, I'd recommend the Vimium extension[1]. It's natural to use, and replaces most mouse use cases.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
one benefit of pigovian taxes is increased revenue to ameliorate the externality, but it's not the main goal of the tax. the cost itself reduces demand to the socially optimal level. the government could well burn the tax revenue (or in this case, recycle the paper) and still achieve the objectives of the tax.
Does anybody knowledgeable know how hard would it be to patch the same linux kernel with per-application permissions? I know there is some 'OS' doing it but I am looking for a WSL like solution- 'patch' the existing kernel so I can run the binaries et al unmodified.

There would be a permissioning matrix where I can list allow-all-permissions and deny-all-permissions by default and then change the granularity
Vegan leather brewed in a lab
> Just don't let the company or the worker pick the arbitrator.

That's already the case. If the company and the worker can't agree on an arbitrator, they each pick one, and then the two get together and agree on a third arbitrator to use. Or a judge will pick one. The employee is not required to accept whatever arbitrator a company picks.
Yeah, that would be my guess too.
Congratulations on the PhD and welcome to industry! This is your introduction to the bizarre hazing ritual we've had going for decades. Many many companies use the algo/ds knowledge filter as proxy for IQ test.

You get to decide between a) drilling leetcode for a couple of months, at which time you know the shibboleth and whisper it at large swaths of companies to gain admittance; or b) look for companies that go with a more liberal but likely still uncomfortable interview ritual.
> There's no trick to it, you need to work and get lucky. Emphasis on the getting lucky.

Pretty much everyone gets lucky eventually though. You might never hit a home run, but if you go to bat enough times then sooner or later you're going to get hit by the ball and walked to first.
"A switch to water that’s been ultrapurified by reverse osmosis (plus “carbon polishing” and UV sterilization) has proved revelatory."

This can mess with one's electrolyte balance to a dangerous degree. (She makes a vague reference to buying an "electrolyte mix", but that's before switching to purified water, and she makes no mention of using any.)
The trouble with this line of thinking is there's no viable way to make a legal distinction between interface and implementation. So either interfaces are copyrightable, or code isn't copyrightable.
Are you sure? https://law.freeadvice.com/litigation/appeals/arbitration_ap...

Granted, the appeals are unlikely to succeed, but perhaps that is because arbitration typically has an approximately fair outcome? Appeals of typical court cases aren't likely to succeed either, but we don't say that court is therefore unfair.
Unless you’re doing music production in a non-standard way, you would benefit greatly from a better computer.

DAWs and plugins eat a lot of ram and processing power.
'This is a stab to the heart of democratic accountability.'
Not convinced about this - the internet is a fabulous source of information. Most 'newspapers' run AP service international 'stories' and local news, most of which you'll find a lot quicker online
Because catering to power users is bad for business, and catering to the masses is good for it.

* Power users are far fewer than ordinary people.
* Power users are hard to manipulate, and hard to satisfy.
'Work like a slave on something you enjoy or get another job' is a scammy proposition. Games are highly profitable, no reason developers shouldn't negotiate for what their services are worth. Individual negotiation is difficult, collective negotiation is easier.
I’m 30 and I’d say 50% of my friends use one. They’re super convenient.

-sent from my iPhone SE with indents in my fingers
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How about we reduce the court load by instituting loser-pays tort reform.
But supposedly these Spaniards are consuming oil and not sugar. Perhaps they need to drink it!
I think that is mostly missing the point. Repair business is about scale just as much as any other business.

While it may not be economical for you personally to figure out the fault in your $500 TV, it might very well be economical for a sufficiently large repair business if access to schematics was easy.

There is no reason why you couldn't have a repair chain that can massively optimize the repair process by both collecting information about typical failures of particular products and by developing tools for diagnosing in particular products as well as their own spare parts, so they could offer things like free analysis for common problems and fixed-price repairs for those problems, for example.

Repair doesn't need to have a 100% success rate to be useful, but success rate and whether repair is economical depends heavily on availability of information. Every hour that has to be spent reverse engineering a device before you can repair it makes a few more percent of defects non-economical to repair.

Also, mind you that if it were an engineering goal, the increased use of processors in devices instead of specific circuitry could actually help a lot with repairs. While you might have a harder time figuring out what's going on with a scope probe, a processor in the system could actually help you with diagnosing problems, isolating faults, generating test signals , whatever. Instead, JTAG is disabled in sold products so you can't even use the diagnostic functionality that is built into the device.
I would love DeepMind to put that AI on the ladder as they discussed during the last Blizzcon.

The APM and camera restriction is not for entertainment, it's to develop intelligence rather than 1500+ APM. The interesting part of StarCraft II is decision making and the meta of the opponent, and we didn't see that today.

Remember their Dota2 bot that was beaten by a lot of players after a single day. I want to see if AlphaStar can really adapt to the real world, therefore the meta, the real challenge of StarCraft.
Yep. It only happens when the date changes.
I'd be interested if you'd be willing to do a blind taste test between just a plain patty from McD's, BK, Shake Shack, and Impossible. Because this has not been my experience at all.
You have made a good case for adjusting fair use legislation to accommodate the general practice around software APIs vs. implementation.

Unfortunately courts generally can't write laws for the legislature.
However, it is required by AWS when you sign their BAA to have HIPAA compliance.

The approach I looked at to solving this problem was using an Envoy proxy sidecar.
You give "most people" (not yourself, of course...) both too much and too little credit. Pure keyword search was predictable: you typed in the words you wanted to appear on the page, the computer did a bit of stemming, and you got back results that all contained all of those words. It was simple and predictable, so pretty much anyone could figure out how to control it. "Power users" could learn some special syntax to do more.

Current attempts to try to make everything a conversational AI are pure failure. Whoever is in charge of Siri/Alexa/Googlette/Whatever thinks people are saying "hey X, do Y" as if talking to a human. In reality, those people are trying to figure out the magical sequence of words and intonations that will make the thing do what they want, frustratingly and poorly reverse-engineering some inhuman and constantly-changing robot.
The “Bug-O” Notation
>the super minority

This is the same reason clicking once on the address bar in Chrom(ium) selects the entire text, and two clicks narrows it down to a single location - which seems the reverse of what usually happens. The design justification for this on Monorail was something like "most people use the address bar to perform new searches", instead of editing the URL they were already at, so it was better to save them that one click.
> Triply so for juice, which is basically the same as soda.
https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendatio...

did you even read the guideline?
At this point what's the point of remote working if you're going to commute to an office and put your butt in a chair.
Lightning Motorcycles is taking reservations for its $12,998 electric motorcycle
It happens at higher price points too. Sony retroactively dropped PS4 support for my 4K display in an "update." After letting it run, the 4K modes were locked out, leaving at most 1080P, unless I bought a new display. Eck.
They'd lose for the very same reason that Android is within the confines of the law via the Android Runtime. Dalvik violated the Java license, Android Runtime isn't. Aurora's compatibility layer isn't violating the MySQL license either.
This is mostly true. However, there are also signs of change as they are starting to enforce the digital border.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn...
> A complete understanding of quantum mechanics, squared with general relativity, is very likely to have practical applications.

But anything observable in the world of reasonable energies (up to whatever modern colliders achieve) can be predicted with existing theories.

If we discover something that only happens at astronomically high energies, would it really be that useful?
Oracle is right. Google & Android hinder and split Java with their outdated Java version support. If you write code in Java - now you have to decide whether you want it to be Android-compatible, then you need to limit your code to the outdated API available on Android. Or you can write sterling Java code which can use modern Java API. I hope Oracle wins and Android dies or switches to some other programming language, like Dart or whatever Google is capable of.
YES, love this!

The only point that I really disagree with is that money can buy freedom. Only enlightenment brings freedom and it can't be bought. Keep up the good work!
Tor is even worse (think of everyone else who uses it...)
Hiring for worst company ever
No, it's not, but it proves that the link between gingipains and plaque is reproducible. That's part of the causative chain, so it still refutes the glib contrarianism to which I was replying.
I think they should be legal but both parties need to agree to it after a lawsuit is filed. The courts may approve or deny this request on the basis of public policy.

I wonder if a political party (Democrats) will take it up on them to restrict the ability of forced arbitrations between an employer and employee. I think it is just a question of time before someone like @AOC starts talking about it.
You're assuming a new union would be immune to the same fate.

You can be as clever as you like but all systems are exploitable.
Although the platform still exists, IBM has renamed it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
Two reasons I can think of:

An AI trained from human strategy might end up more limited than one that could learn from scratch. It could be stuck in a local maximum of play and be unable to escape.

An AI technique that requires a large dataset of pro play to learn will be much more limited in terms of applying it to other games.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders (Review)
“Reputational harm” comes from trademark infringement, not copyright.

And no, you cannot prevent this sort of scenario without losing the right to interoperate with most software.
> Great Job, Canada. They've shot down many of the lobbying companies when publishing this.

They only shot down diary, meat and juice industry[1], while conveniently ignoring mentioning of lobbying from others (plant-based foods).

Canada actually produces over 50% of the world's supply of lentils and they also grow a large amounts of various grains, legumes that they may be looking to push and make a profit for[2].

The whole food guide is extremely biased and hardly anyone here in HN seems to get it, lol.

--

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-new-food-guid...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3uewoEocYY
I think some card games meet your criteria. Specifically, Bridge, Hearts, and Auction Pitch (aka Setback) are all complex, turn-based, imperfect information games with some amount of cooperation. I’d love to see DeepMind take on one of these games.
It has been pretty bad here. This [0] might be interesting for anyone wanting to check out how anomalous these temps are against long-term averages. Apparently South Australia had 17 temperature records broken on Thursday (though I can't find the link now).

[0] http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&...
No there isn't. It's very easy to qualify for membership in SAG as virtually every feature-length movie is SAG compliant. The only filter they use is checking there's a legit paystub so you didn't just shoot a short in your bedroom and try to pass it off as a screen credit.

https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits/steps-join

Worked over a decade in indie films, never heard of any producer having a problem getting SAG to recognize paperwork.
Back when I was growing up, we got the newspaper. It was kinda something you just expected to be available. Then my parents one day just told the paper boy to stop delivering. My dad was just getting into Yahoo news and getting his wall street fix online. There was no longer a need for a paper.

The product was not the paper but just this entire morning experience - coffee and newspaper. And the idea that different family members would grab different sections. It was totally incredible.

Would I ever get a newspaper subscription? Nah, but I think there's a lot missing from the good ole days of it.
> They don't target the lowest common denominator.

Maybe not _technically_ yet, but certainly in spirit. For example, Apple removed a lot of features from their Photos (formerly iPhoto) and iMovie Mac apps to match the much more limited iOS versions.
Kaelux.com
We get hoaxed
Its a 2+ hour video most people forgot how they got to the page by the time the video ended
I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now. When I see reports from the country where I live (be it my home country or country where I currently live) I see lots of distortion, omissions of very important news that don't fit the current media paradigm, or even obvious lies.

I don't see a point in spending my money and my time to read fake news. I've just stopped consuming news and felt a lot better.

Social networks and Internet in general are much worse in this respect. There's immense amount of bots/government agents (from every government in the world) spreading all kinds of fake information. Then real people start reposting that. You still can do fact-checking but if you'd fact-check everything, it would require as much time as a full-time job. So I'm planning on stopping reading the social networks also because in most social networks there's no way of blocking reposts or filtering out the politics-related messages.
Latency != Bandwidth
This graph is incredibly deceptive and I'm kind of upset they posted it. There are about 10-15 seconds of gametime where APM is incredibly important, and the AI boosted to 1000+ APM during those periods. During lulls it cruised at ~30 APM.

Meanwhile humans are literally spamming keys to keep their physical fingers loose and ready - they're not performing anything close to 400 useful APM on a regular basis (or in TLO's case - 1500 ... He kept walking his units straight into death while spamming keys).
anyone knows what Ingo Molnar is doing these days?
Zero evidence?

The the surface of the earth has temperature X. We can measure measure X with some degree of precision.

Any theory of physics that makes a prediction about the earth's temperature can be checked against the measured value of X.

All widely accepted theories that predict a temperature near X rely on the role of greenhouse gases and CO2 in particular to yield that temperature. And they all agree, more or less, that every doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration will result in an equal additive increase in our equilibrium temperature (so equilibrium temp grows as the log of the CO2 content).

Granted, to make _very precise_ predictions, you need to add forcing factors and feedback mechanisms that are hard to measure and hard to model and that's where computer simulations run into trouble. But the theory is sound and widely accepted.

I got most of the above a few years ago from some version of this class: https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-warming

Also the instructor's book, and the IPCC report from a few years ago.
Lee Sedol was still top 5, certainly no worse than top 10 at the time. By all mean he wasn't the best and most dominant, but the difference with the top was tiny.
Is anyone in the publishing business reading this? If so, I've got a personal story to share.

I love cars. I'm a gearhead and I just love cars. I subscribe to several car magazines. Except I don't get Car & Driver anymore, and my subscription to Motor Trend is going to go unrenewed. Why?

In both cases, the car mags started running political commentary. If it were balanced, I wouldn't like it but wouldn't quit reading. But it's not balanced-- both mags express support for one side of the political spectrum, disdain for the other.

I can't justify paying for that. So I wrote (not for publication) notes to the editors, telling them I'd quit subscribing if they didn't stick to the proper wheelhouse. Neither editor replied. That's enough for me, I'm not going to pay for that kind of content.

I think ESPN has undergone a similar cycle. I believe their subscriber base is greatly diminished, yet they seem to continue on with a politicized agenda.

I just can't understand why the business owners allow this to continue. It seems counter-productive to me.
Small newsrooms have been replaced by Reddit, blogs, and a nexus of updates from Facebook, mailing lists, and instant messaging.

News isn’t just what gets printed on paper. There’s nothing about printing information on paper that somehow makes it special.