skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
be careful about removing the enamel.
Live from the Moon: One Giant Transmission for Humankind
URLs have nothing to do with port 80.
sudo apt install byobu

sudo purge-old-kernels
Usually, Pigouvian taxes like the one OP was proposing are calculated to cover the complete externalized costs of the item being taxed. So in this case, it would include the costs of adjusting to climate change. This would make alternatives relatively cheaper, as well as raising revenue to support research and construction of new energy infrastructure, as well as point addressing of specific projects identified to reduce the impacts of climate change. Of course, this is all if you believe that the current political climate (not only in the US, but in large middle income economies as well) can support such taxes. And then you have to decide what the tax should be! Ultimately, cap and trade turn out to be far easier.
Not a fan of this guide: No explanations, no context and worse: missing critical stuff for your typical hosted $webapp server usecase:

run services as normal user and confine them using apparmor (or selinux if you are masochichst)

the NSA will probably hack you anyway, that drive by script-kiddie that kills your company JIRA instance by DDoSing some gameserver while exploiting some old Wordpress plugin can be stopped by apparmor!

What's missing is some kind of kernel live patching - if someone is not a script-kiddie on your machine that Wordpress shell is a nice tool to elevate to root - your kernel is rotting and exploits are plenty... so consider some kind of live-patching if your are paranoid.

Also no discussion about updates, the need to restart services for reloading updated .so files (like openssl)...

You can obey that guide and be busy with life and some skiddy root exploits your box anyway...

so /rant - there must be some better guides? found those cis benchmarks (https://www.cisecurity.org) a mixed bag - is there anything better out there?
Compact urban settlement is a direct market substitute for the hydrocarbons which would otherwise be required to transport goods and people across longer distances.

The most important thing we can do to transition off of oil and fossil fuels is to maximize the intensity at which we utilize renewable resources which directly substitute for them.

We maximize the intensity at which urban land is utilized by phasing in a 100-1200% national or global land value tax over the next century on the appraised market price which all land is expected to sell for if cleared of improvements.

We can also promote the development of a national, inter-state, zero-emission, passenger & freight rapid-transit market several times faster than automobile highways by allowing private rail and hyper-loop operators to deduct qualified ticket sales from their land value tax liabilities.
Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are all in Australia
Any reasonably secure windows systems have restricted user accounts that do not allow app installs. (I'm talking ofcourse in a corporate environment) The help desk / it call for any app install approvals is common in my experience
Keep it in the ground. Tax carbon heavily to pay for CCS.
Hundreds of Punks Hit the Desert. The Modern Music Festival Was Born
He doesn't.

He just feels it's not his responsibility to enable it, and that the government forcing him to is violating his freedom of choice.

At least, that's one of the things that bothers me about it.

Civilized society is all about trading individual freedom for group stability, and perhaps UBI is on balance a good idea.

I'm not sure myself, but I tend to be skeptical of claims that "X will solve society's woes."

Giving people wealth doesn't change them, and it has really fouled up some places - look at what happened to Haiti after the earthquake when all the aid poured in. Local farms largely died out because they couldn't compete with free food, and as a result the country became less self-sustaining and wealthy.

So, yeah, I guess I have similar concerns for UBI.
At this point its simply a tax. I'm pretty sure that the people who collect them from trash cans gets cents on the dollars for the cans and a middle man is making the profit on transportation of the cans.
1. Go to Office365.com

2. Login

3. Do you want to stay logged in?

4. Is your information up to date?

5. Office / OneCloud homepage ("Good evening"). Press 'Install Office' (its a secondary/white button that blends into background, whereas 'New doc' is a blue button).

(20 URL redirects)

6. Installs page. Press 'Install Office' again.

7. Still Installs page, now with banner that says 'Your Office 365 subscription info has moved to account.microsoft.com. Now there's one place to manage all your subscriptions'. No download happens when you press 'Install Office'. No actual link to account.microsoft.com.

8. Go to account.microsoft.com. No download button.

I'm literally unable to download the Office dmg right now. Also, this is the improved interface. The prior one from last year was even less clear, except for the fact I could download it.

Most other apps have a 1-click download button on their homepage, and guide you through the login/reg process when you launch the app. Oh, that's right, Office ALSO does that, in addition to the aforementioned steps. It's braindead.

I think companies sometimes acknowledge that they've screwed up so badly that they need to rethink how they do things. Microsoft demonstrated willingness to do that since Satya became CEO and have shifted the entire company strategy away from Windows, killing a sacred cow. Whether or not that's what's going on behind the scenes here, the end user experience is severely improved going to App Store.

Regarding UIKit, yes the current Marzipan apps suck, all four of them. They're not mainline apps by any stretch of the imagination, and none were previously on the Mac. They'll get better. Just because Marzipan/UIKit today doesn't have good MacOS affordances doesn't mean it won't in the future, especially since it's not even being offered to developers right now. I don't see why it's difficult to see where the puck is going here. There's certainly some implementation details to work out, but it's better for the ecosystem as a whole - users, devs, and Apple - to have a single framework in the long run. Were you making something from scratch you certainly wouldn't make two frameworks.

To be specific, Apple has been against a 2-in-1 style product. I'm not advocating that, sorry to have caused confusion. I'm saying they'll have same underlying tech (UIKit/marizpan), but different end-user UX affordances based on mouse vs touch.

Remember that iPad is as large a market as Mac right now, and is moving upmarket and attracting more pro apps. There are also way more iOS devs than MacOS devs, 10:1 or 100:1. Devs making technical decisions about Apple ecosystem products right now should be getting the hint, and if they're not they likely will this June at WWDC. Apple doesn't tend to lurch around on product decisions, almost everything they do is a multi-year strategy executed in well-telegraphed steps.
Any game that is specifically going out of its way to support these ai’s will naturally do it through an api, though I’m only aware of dota2 and sc2 (sc:bw also does, through a community-modified client that serves the api, iirc). For adhoc games, eg atari, pixel-parsing is the natural result, but no one would intentionally set it up like that
I uninstalled and then used homebrew and mas to install. Now I think 100% of my software is installed via homebrew. Nice!
I do similar but I personally recommend OpenVPN on 443/tcp rather than 1194/udp. It looks like SSL traffic because that is essentially what it is. Make sure you use your own locally signed CA and certs and enforce CA trust for a successful connection - to avoid any silly MitM tricks.

There is a reasonable argument against using tcp for the tunnel instead of udp due to what can happen to latency when you have a tcp inside tcp stream when one or the other or both are dealing with retransmits (bear in mind that tcp has some guarantees about delivery, whereas udp does not).

In theory you can get an exponential stand off instead of linear due to tcp (say RDP or http) in tcp (openvpn). In practice I find that it does not generally matter these days and I can generally stream BBC iPlayer when abroad with minimal fuss over OpenVPN.
Mark talks about the control that users have. I am disappointed that Mark didn't take the opportunity to simply link to that page. Too few people know about https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/.
So the agent still needs to hook into something with elevated privileges to install packages, just that instead of having granular control in the package manager, it has moved to server side with an RBAC/HBAC tie-in. I agree that it solves practical issues, but it would be nice to not have privileged access at all. Also, doesn't it create friction if you don't have a package in your repos ?
Internet experiment goes wrong, takes down a bunch of Linux routers
Yeah what is a cheque? ;)

I can go weeks without my wallet now, Samsung Pay on my phone works just about everywhere in Australia, and it's great. Banking app even lets me generate a code to get cardless cash from ATMs, should I need notes.

For transactions bigger than ~AUD100 I do have to enter my pin but that's a minor inconvenience.
I'd recommend you to read George Orwell instead of that grease monkey stuff on the picture.
This blog post is laundering history. The choice quote: "With smartphone apps now common, we sometimes forget how hard it once was for developers to build apps across a wide range of different platforms. Our 2008 release of the open-source Android platform changed the game." This could be equally said of Java itself, a good eight to ten years prior, which brought a serviceable userland onto desktops of all kinds, mobile phones of the day, and embedded devices too. They lifted that API to bootstrap the developer ecosystem for Android after their efforts to license Java from Sun failed, and did a different cleanroom implementation underneath.

In the gold rush to develop Android apps, their frozen-in-time copy of the Java ecosystem rose to prominence and sought-after Java libraries were held back for years to lag behind official Java's versions. Differences between Android's facsimile of Java and real Java (from plenty of other vendors) caused confusion and divergence to the Java ecosystem, as Oracle's own efforts to leverage Java faltered too. Android's popularity de facto forked Java for years and did so without the permission of the rightsholder. If the copyrightability of APIs isn't the answer we want in the field, what instrument do we need to prevent the same from happening to other products too?
And what do you have to say about those global average temperature charts?
Do you understand copyright? Copyright protects the specific expression of an idea, it doesn't protect immutable facts. An interface is an immutable fact. That's the essence of the argument.
Doesn't really matter from an IP perspective, if you buy the idea that the work was significant in the first place. (I don't buy that; everybody comes up with basically the same sorts of standard API for their hobby programming language as every other programming language.) But if you accept the premise that the work is copyrightable, then it clearly transfers to Oracle via acquisition.
DMD also comes with a built in D interpreter, RDMD, allowing you to use D as a scripting language with a compiled binary. This can be embedded or called from your D program allowing your program to have a scripting layer written in the same language as the compiled binary. As far as I know, executing a .d file with RDMD is nearly as fast as running a compiled binary.
> The Java APIs are interfaces, but they’re the result of tons of work which Oracle bought, and it doesn’t make sense to me why those interfaces aren’t their intellectual property

Just because something takes work doesn't mean you get a government monopoly on it. Sewing patterns and recipies aren't granted copyright for instance.
so this is not like the URL that would be typed into a browser?

like this sort of thing:

https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html
I don't work at Apple and I'm not a journalist.

I'm offering a possible reason why this is relevant, tying it to another trend (convergence of platform UX frameworks) that is well discussed and already has code shipping today (Marzipan apps). I'm also offering reasons why both companies would find it valuable.

Why would Apple pay Microsoft for this? They might cut a better deal, but pay them?
There was a story on the fp 2 months ago by someone who went to an interview at Google to present her work (didn't work out) only to find out that a patent was later filed by Google covering much of the presented material.

Reminds me of the McGreggor vs Khabib fight - "it's only business"
Late on this but in case it's useful:

if !isdirectory($HOME . "/.vim/undodir")
call mkdir($HOME . "/.vim/undodir", "p")
endif
set undofile
set undodir=~/.vim/undodir
How many licenses of GSuite to you maintain? One license, $5 / month. Seems reasonable.

I have six family members. $360 / year for GSuite, that's untenable to me.
It’s a short people problem too, for the same reason. At least the tall person can lean over.
China launches app encouraging users to identify and report ‘deadbeat’ debtors
Yes that's interesting,

> The credibility line is basically "newspaper" and "everything else".

Yes that's pretty much how it works in my head. I realise that I tend give more credibility to anything that can be bought, printed on paper, at a newsagency[1], regardless if it's a daily newspaper or a weekly/monthly magazine. I am 40 by the way, it would be interesting to hear what younger people think, since they had way less exposure to traditional print news.

[1]the place where they sell newspapers, outside of Australia it's not called newsagency but I can't remember the correct term and a quick web search didn't help, sorry for that
Fun fact: the 13 digit ISBNs are actually UPCs (aka bar codes) but with the country code set to "Bookland"

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland
I have the same , but also have an IP ACL on the VPN ports / protocols (only on new connections). When I do need to Connect from random remote ip , I have a port knocking rule that adds ip for 5min to acl

I actually have the port knock action on a blank website w a unusual subdomain. So we need i it I pull up website and can then vpn in temporaryly
White House Framework on Immigration Reform and Border Security
Hi fellow HNer's,

Please go through this link.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/white-house-framework-immigration-reform-border-security/

I solicit your opinion on what has Trump done to enact this framework so far, especially on the nuclear family part. Please also voice the positive and negative repercussions you think it might entail. Also, since there are huge chances that Trump might return (Incumbents are mostly re-elected if history is anything to go by), what might he do in his second term.

Also, in general, where do you think legal immigration is headed to in USA? (H1B, L1, work based visa et al.)

Any feedback would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Not OP,but if it looks good on "reading" mode it prints nicely. Plus you can adjust font size and print width to conform to your taste.
It's a beautiful thing that this comment exists :-D
Well if feel the need to have a physically secure room, then presumably you want to actually be secure.
You are neglecting two other factors a.) American neoconservatives who have a lot of influence on GOP foreign policy and want regime change in Iran (and think we should do this with military force now) and currently are represented by John Bolton, the current National Security Advisor, and American Christian fundamentalists who believe they need to make parts of Revelations come true by among other things, supporting Israel no matter what, and having the capital of Israel be in Jerusalem.
Here's a graph of AlphaStar's APM versus a professional player's: https://i.imgur.com/TXeLkQK.png Evidently AlphaStar also has a similar Economy of Attention (where the player focuses) to a professional player, at around 30 screens per minute. Additionally, AlphaStar's reaction time is around 350ms, a significant disadvantage over a pro.

The skepticism in this thread is absolutely justified but I think it's important to note the lengths to which DeepMind has gone to address and assuage the fears of superhuman mechanical skills being employed in these games.
There is also a significant barrier to entry in SAG-AFTRA. Doesn't that mean union membership is just as probable as landing that great job?
We should be looking to form an inclusive global community that can progress together instead of boxing ourselves into arbitrarily drawn man made lines which we are thrown into by luck of birth.

How willing is the average russian citizen to do so, given its government stance? The chinese one? The iranian one?

It's nice to have those sentiments when you can afford to have them. How are SV companies going to force that to happen in the aforementioned, and other countries?

Until we're ready to speak as equals, si vis pacem, para bellum. Without actually getting into conflicts, the US should be ready to win them all. Thinking otherwise is naively dangerous. And the late position of some SV firms and their employees is borderline 5th columnist.
I think you're more likely to promote a shift en masse to EV manufacturing before you're able to institute a global land value tax (Tesla is building >200k EVs/year, other manufacturers are following suit, a million EVs are sold every 6 months [1]), with the added benefit that all of that EV manufacturing is going to stoke demand for more battery manufacturing capacity we'll need for utility scale energy storage. We don't stop building solar PV, wind, battery, and EV manufacturing capacity until CO2 emissions are halted (remember, we need to account for current energy usage, the transition of mobility to electricity, electrical growth and the amount of energy we're going to need to sequester existing atmospheric carbon back into the ground).

Urbanizing is a noble goal, but not realistic in the decades timeframe the necessary solutions demand. Build more solar [2], wind [3], energy storage, and electric transportation now, rebuild cities over time. Everything I mention above can be scaled in a massively parallel fashion.

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank (Project Drawdown: Summary of Solutions by Overall Rank)

[1] https://i.imgur.com/21eLTwr.jpg

[2] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/01/22/solar-will-rebound-th... (Solar will rebound this year with more than 100 GW of new capacity)

[3] https://nawindpower.com/eia-2019-to-be-biggest-year-for-new-... (EIA: 2019 To Be Biggest Year For New Wind Capacity Since 2012)
> what instrument do we need to prevent the same from happening to other products too?

...We don't need such an instrument, because the outcome you mentioned is desirable.

If we had such an instrument, Linux would not have been possible, because it's compatible with the Unix APIs. OSX would not have been possible, for the same reasons.
I've read somewhere that we are basically born prematurely (as you said) because if we waited any longer then our enlarged head sizes would make delivery quite possibly fatal.
That’s about $150 worth of parts.
Google Chrome could block the ad blockers eventually
So, >50% of Game Developers Want to Unionize?

I'd like to see how this >50% is distributed across various measures, especially in terms of salaries and lines of codes produced. My bet is that according to Pareto's distribution they fall in the bottom 50% in terms of headcount whose output and compensation is ~15% of the total.
To me the difference is that an interpreter read the code and execute every operation immediately as it encounter them, while I expect a compiler to process a large portion of the code and potentially perform more transformation on it before executing it. In some way I see an interpreter as potentially invoking a compiler on a single operation one-at-a-time and executing the result of the compilation before moving to the next operation.
Yes, if this decision doesn't go Googles way, all hell is going to break lose: WINE, Samba, S3 compatability, Amazon DocumentDB. The list is enormous and frankly, everyone loses somewhere. It's a complete nightmare.
The two motivations aren't mutually exclusive.
new OISC instruction: RUN <x86 instruction you want to run> <parameters>
What Happens When You Drink a Gallon of Water a Day?
I got a Sonicare and was very disappointed. Didn't seem to help me.
Interested to hear what others here think.

The APM metric includes all clicks a player makes. AlphaStar's APM is lower than a typical pro's, but that does not mean it is making fewer actions. All pros try to keep a high "tempo" by constantly clicking the screen even when they are not making any actions. e.g. Instead of sending a unit to a specific location with one click, they will click 5-6 times while dragging the mouse to that spot. The theory is that keeping a high tempo allows you to make more useful actions overall.

Unless AlphaStar's average and maximum APM is 3-4x lower than a pros, rather than just 2x lower average and the same maximum, I do NOT believe that this is a fair test of the AI's strategic decision making ability.
The biggest issue with allowing the ai to have high APM is that it will inevitably learn optimal strategies that depend on that high APM, eg stalkers can take on far more immortals than we normally expect, and the AI will learn it this way, because the high APM allows a new stalker strategy (or rather, empowers an old one greatly) while not affecting immortals significantly. This also naturally means the AI leagues see a different game balance than the human leagues, leading to strategy divergence.

And then when you drop the APM limit, suddenly all the learned optimal ai strategies start falling apart, and the whole thing has to be relearned.

More annoyingly, there’s not much for human players to learn from innovative ai strategies that are based on inhuman accuracy of play (because we couldn’t possibly execute it).
Microsoft employees got swept up in a reply-all email apocalypse
> It's a way of tuning so that all semitone intervals are an equal [2^(1/12)] frequency ratio

Or so I thought until I programmed an AVR. The F, I think it was, is terribly out of tune. I haven't found the wikipedia article again, that had the correct Frequencies noted in Hz, with F decidedly not in the scheme that you allege.
That's assuming you didn't read OC reply to the same comment above.
Today, 1/1 games without the camera hack were won by the human.

This is disappointing, but their PR is a success. Mainstream media is already saying "AI has beaten StarCraft". Another lie for the AI bubble I guess.
Yeah, that's the exciting part :D
Well they are only using your data now for ranking your organic news feed and other operational purposes (such as catching fraud which, I hope, you will believe is a big problem on social networks).

Unless now you are like I don't even want FB to rank the news feed and show me posts from fraudulent accounts..
>"Of course, that turns out to be the fix for meltdown, unless you have the process-context identifiers (PCID) available on Haswell chips and newer."

Using TSS based switching is incompatible with PCIDs? Or is it incompatible with separate address spaces for user space and kernel space?

PCIDs are process ID tags on cache lines correct?
Thanks for the list of trivial banalities Sam. Next time give us advice on how to be born into a well-off family that gives you the best education money can buy.
Are there any bolt-on augmentation interfaces that utilize the same API the bots use to allow players to more effectively enter their intent?