skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No signalling required here. A degree from a non-accredited institution might as well be toilet paper.
I’m not sure how we could ever gather statistics but I’m really curious if reported drone sightings could just be other objects mistaken for drones. To really see an object clearly such as a consumer drone like a DJI Phantom you’ll have to be very close and at that range it’s going to zip by extremely fast.
> they still don't have a very compelling GPU compute story on Linux.

OpenCL AMD story has been rather flaky until recently, but supposedly ROCm is the most complete and open option there is now. You can also use Vulkan for compute purposes as far as I know. And Vulkan support isn't behind Nvidia in any way.

Some further Vulkan+OpenCL interop is still planned by Khronos.

See https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Ecosystem/issues/42#i...
This time there actually was a big ground-swell of opposition. In the consultation period there were hundreds of submissions, all of them negative (except one from some random church in Tasmania). These were a mix of letters from technical groups, business groups, law groups, human rights groups, civil society groups, and individuals (both developers/specialists and regular concerned citizens).

When the bill was being considered by the Parliamentary Joint Committee for Intelligence and Security, some of these groups were called up. I read the Hansard (transcript) of the hearing - the testimony was impeccable. Clear, concise, and absolutely demolished the bill. Unfortunately, to give you the level some of the senators were working at, a lot of the questions came back to "but don't you think we need to stop terrorists?" when going through how it's technically impossible to do what the law enforcement wants without creating systemic weaknesses/vulnerabilities, and you can't just define that away like the bill tried to...

Coming up to it being passed, there was a huge amount of calls, emails and letters to the members of parliament and senators. Several mentioned the unusual volume in Parliament, and also many in the opposition mentioned multiple times how many problems there was with the bill. They illogically passed it in mid-December to "keep Australia safe over Christmas" (despite the fact that nothing in the bill could be put into effect for months and Australian law enforcement and intelligence services already have far more over-reaching powers to do all sorts of stuff that would be illegal in the US and Europe).

Opposition to the bill was way better organised, and way bigger than anything previous for the tech industry. We are getting better at the politics, but given the irrational actions of the opposition in voting for it (who had the numbers in the Senate to block the bill) I can only conclude that there must have been some dirty dealing going on either between the parties, or between the intelligence services and the parliamentarians.
Doesn't Chromium already lower their revenue from other lacks of integration that are included in Chrome?
All the example websites look really old. Has anyone used Prolog in a recent web project?

I remember seeing a modern and pretty website once that used SWI prolog and JavaScript to help you visualise natural deduction proofs but I can't find it anymore :'(
Most of this has to do with massive growth elsewhere, not so much failing growth in W. Europe, which is more of a new trend.

I don't think the 'warm bodies arms race' is going to end well for anyone, another perspective might be more apt.
Thanks for sharing - seems developer-centric, no? Don't mean that to be snarky, just curious what people outside of tech are using
Interesting, 4.15 had a patch specifically for Coffee Lake thermal support. Maybe it was specific to the mobile chips.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.2/00864.html
Ticketmaster Rolls Out “Fan-Friendly” Exchange in Response to Undercover Sting
I think the policy is wrong but this is ridiculous.

Physics laws exist and are fairly insurmountable. You throw an animal in a sack into a river and the law will get you arrested for it. This for not make the physics "fail to apply." And so it is with math, which software does.

What are good laws to have with respect software?

I'm wildly pro strong encryption myself. Software is not a law free zone, never has been, never will be. Saying otherwise is a little silly, just like the proposed (enacted) encryption laws are (imho) silly... In the US, Britain, Australia.
I took that to be a hint along the lines of "schools should have .edu domains", which is unrealistic; lots of academic institutions use non-.edu domains, for better or worse (in fact, the school district in which I attended uses (DISTRICT).net to this day, and (DISTRICT).edu isn't even registered!).

If that blurb was meant to be taken as "You happen to know that your school only has a .edu domain", then yeah, this would have been conclusively phishing. Otherwise, just because it might be malicious doesn't mean it's phishing.
I hope this reduces the "we need donations" banner to an extent. I contribute changes whenever I can, so seeing that banner each and every time is a bit frustrating.
according to google maps, there are about ten mcdonald's restaurants in SF, so I would argue yes.
I fail to see the looming student loan crisis given that they can't be discharged in bankruptcy.
> ...For example, maybe Unis get together to publish their own wikis on more academic subjects. ...

There's nothing stopping them from doing this. Wikis are actually a nice example of a federated standard, with good support for "InterWiki" cross-linking, well-understood naming conventions (thanks to Wikipedia) for encyclopedia-like articles, and open licensing via CC-BY-SA.
> Beyond the local galactic cluster though -- quite possibly nothing.

Do you mean the Local Group?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group

Or the Local Supercluster?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Supercluster
I like the idea, especially because online dating for 80% of men is practically worthless[0].

You mentioned that reddit advertising is very non-linear. Could you elaborate? It seems like the targeting options at this point are extremely crude.

[0] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
If the world was truly going to take the time/money/effort to rewrite the operating system from scratch and create a new standard core for the future of computing, there are much better options than Rust. Ada being just one of them.

It would be a real tragedy to do it all again, only to make a mistake on the very first decision, what language to use.
Next to no one uses Chromium. The integrations usually start in Chrome, leaving Chromium pure, allowing Opera etc to forge their own path. This is a disturbing trend to change the course of the project, likely due to Edge being based on Chromium.
You guys really need to lighten up.
Instead of trying to take out the drone, someone should take inspiration from that story [1] about lidar ruining some cameras (but not eyeballs) and start targeting the drone cameras.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886283
It's pretty obvious that these changes are from Micro$oft. Redesigning the feed, adding a pro tag, etc. They all seem geared toward emphasizing the social aspect of GitHub, for future integration with LinkedIn or what we don't yet know. I agree that no change isn't realistic, but GitHub has always been a place to code, not link your LinkedIn profile or socialize. I fear that if they go down this route, they'll go to far and GitHub will lose what made it special in exchange for becoming a "Jack of all trades and a master of none."
Microcredit was a hugely hyped solution to global poverty. What happened?
TIL I've been doing it wrong for thirty years.

Only being slightly facetious. What's going to happen to me if I don't mend my ways?
I thought much the same thing. ZFS scratches most of these itches. (Sharing common blocks, it metadata is self-verifying, it's able to serialize a minimal set of changes between two snapshots, etc.) Just ship the filesystem images as, well, filesystem images. Plus if you want to go from development to production: you can `zfs-send` your image onto your HA cluster. ZFS makes for a durable & reliable storage subsystem that's been production-grade for many years.

This is essentially what Illumos/SmartOS does, and it seems to work out well for them.
I've learned that a code snippet is not the same as working code.
I read the same thing in Gene Kranz's book Failure Is Not An Option - it should probably be added there as a reference.
Italy has had the same debt levels for almost 30 years now. Who could lose faith, has already lost it a long time ago. And a lot of that debt is internally held anyway.

If necessary, Italy will again be put under special measures as it was at the end of Berlusconi’s run; but it will never, ever default. Italians will self-tax to death before they default on their public debt, because too much of that debt is with themselves.
Public response from wag
https://wagwalking.com/daily/an-open-letter-to-the-wag-commu...

In particular

>Separately, we’ve taken a close look at one of our standard processes when paying a claim. In the rare instance when there’s an incident in which we need to work with the pet parents to make sure their needs are addressed, we’ve required them to sign an agreement — a common practice in the business world. It was so routine for us, in fact, that we didn’t pause to see if it made sense for every situation...

How about admitting that trying to make you doing the right thing conditional on them agreeing to be legally gagged was a horrifically morally repugnant way to handle the situations. There is no situation where such an agreement is beneficial to society and as such should be wholly illegal in all possible cases.
> No idea why Berlin is so reluctant to deal with credit cards.

https://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everyt...

A short answer: because of history.
Is it impossible to attempt to innovate in a space without being accused of trying to kill the space's current leader?

(googler, but had never even heard of knol until now)
Ask HN: Revolut account frozen – this has to be illegal?
Hi
This is my first post (will post screenshots eventually)

So
I decide to move to revolut and start using them for some of my spending. After a few months I passed my 30k top up limit for the year. I then proceeded to send proof of income and all that sort of stuff onto them . Within a day my limit was lifted to 70k within 1 year .

All was going well , I was telling all my mates to get the app as vs a normal bank, interacting and using revoult for daily spending was amazing ( especially the premium service ...which I paid for ) until some time in September/October . My account suddenly was frozen .

I contacted support via in app chat and they asked for me to yet again prove my income . I happily obliged.

So here is the bit that drives me up the wall and cannot be legal and if it is it shouldn't be . The live chat support turned around and told me that they were closing down my account as they did not like how I was spending my money. They then refused to go on a phone call or tell me any further details . Then then insinuated that I was engaged in unlawful behavior.

Then the kicker is ....I can no longer use the in app live chat .

So all those with revolut , stop using it . They are an absolute joke and shouldn't be allowed operate if they can just suddenly close peoples accounts ( I know they are not a bank yet , I think they got a license in the uk in the past month but thats beside the point) and insinuate that their paying customers are engaged in illegal activities without providing evidences and I am no lawyer , but you cant just go around accusing people of being a criminal ( I am not , I am a college student studying Theoretical Physics) .

I will post screenshots at some point , but be warned I do loss my cool.
There's also this excellent talk from CCC a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ
Turned out the progressives were very wrong and he basically sold his soul to the big coal/climate change denying/religious right faction of the Liberals to become PM. In saying that Peter Garrett in Labor was not the Midnight Oil firebrand everyone expected.

Turnbull's replacement of FTTP with FTTN in deference to Telstra was shameful and showed how much weight he gave innovation. One year on NBN and I've already had a week offline (and no landline phone) due to faulty copper.

His appearance in the Panama Papers and alleged ties to Russian oligarchs bear out the reality of his world view: Malcolm is in it for Malcolm. I'd even question his Republican stance as being nothing more than posturing.
I’ve never understood this - aiming a laser at a vessel moving at over a hundred miles an hour many thousands of feet away seems incredibly harmless, unless you have one gigantic, powerful laser...
Could you explain more about your dislike of Firefox's leadership?
A couple of options I know of:

https://www.xplane.com

http://home.flightgear.org (free)
And yet if that's what you already normally do you would've "failed" that question for correctly identifying it as not actually phishing.
From my perspective (computational physics, not machine learning) the situation with GPU compute is very simple. If you are fine writing everything from scratch and won't need the CUDA ecosystem (which is really all there is for good sparse matrix, linear algebra, etc. support), write OpenCL 1.2 (or even GLSL if it's a visualization-heavy code with relatively simple compute) and buy whatever gets you the best compute/$ at that time. Otherwise - and this probably includes most people in this space - you have no choice but to keep using CUDA. There is just no meaningful compute ecosystem for AMD GPUs, sadly.

I'm still very much looking forward to the Radeon VII due to the memory bandwidth, since I'm currently working on bandwidth-constrained CFD simulations. But that's a specific usecase and I write most things from scratch anyway.
Please change the source to this: https://blog.google/products/search/expanding-knowledge-acce...
Years ago, from somewhere I have forgotten, I copied the following:

Among the first Anglo-Saxon poems, from the eighth century, is “The Ruin,” a powerful testament to the brokenness inherent in civilization. Its opening lines:

The masonry is wondrous; fates broke it
The courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying...

The poem comes from the Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon poetry and several key lines have been destroyed by damp. So, one of the original poems in the English lyric tradition contains, in its very physical existence, a comment on the fragility of the codex as a mode of transmission. The original poem about a ruin is itself a ruin.

Here is another translation:

Splendid this rampart is, though fate destroyed it,
The city buildings fell apart, the works
Of giants crumble. Tumbled are the towers,
Ruined the roofs, and broken the barred gate,
Frost in the plaster, all the ceilings gape,
Torn and collapsed and eaten up by age.
And grit holds in its grip, the hard embrace
Of earth, the dead departed master-builders,
Until a hundred generations now
Of people have passed by. Often this wall
Stained red and grey with lichen has stood by
Surviving storms while kingdoms rose and fell.
And now the high curved wall itself has fallen.
I’m totally against the Australian approach and goal here, but come off it, you know that isn’t what was meant.

Three lines of argument are especially noteworthy:

“It is impossible to regulate cryptography.” or “Banning cryptography is like banning math.”

This argument misses the point in confusing the knowledge about cryptography with the wide-spread use of cryptography - or more specifically the use of cryptography to protect confidentiality. While it would be beyond the reach of governments to remove the knowledge about cryptography from the public sphere, it is certainly not impossible to threaten those that employ “illegal” cryptography with sanction.

This is exactly what happens with most regulation: Speed limits do not prevent the thought about driving fast, instead they address actually driving fast. It is behavior that is regulated, not thought.

So, similar arguments about the futility of regulation or the impossibility of enforcement aim a bit too high. Regulation does not require perfect adherence. Often it is enough if some people adhere to the specific law, and others can be punished in case of being caught. Again, speed limits are not perfectly enforceable, but they limit the number of drivers that drive recklessly, and it allows taking action against some drivers and thus nudging other drivers into compliance.

https://opaque.link/post/fog_of_cryptowar/

Shallow arguments don’t help anyone, they just marginalize the speaker beyond a narrow audience that already agrees with them.
You think a recession in Europe will impact Britain less after Brexit? It’s not as if Britain will have more trading options.
I've heard the breaking chain story many times, but I suspect it's mostly an urban legend. At least on the 1403, the hammers can't all fire at once. The chain and hammers have different spacings so only one hammer is lined up at a time, 11.1μs apart; the worst you could do is fire every third hammer in rapid sequence. For reference, a standard chain sequence is
1234567890#@/STUVWXYZ‡,%JKLMNOPQR-$*ABCDEFGHI+.¤

The 1403's print chain is pretty complicated to understand, so I built an animation: http://righto.com/ibm1401/printchain.html
How do you make something easy for one party to decrypt but remain difficult for everyone else?
Technical statistics of Wikipedia, including page views, edits, and bandwidth
Wikipedia has finite resources that cost money. So they have to restrict it to hosting articles that will have some level of audience.
I think you meant https://www.x-plane.com instead.
So room and board often gets separated out from tuition and while significant, is not the larger part of what a student pays at a "four year campus" college or university. One can also typically map room and board to cost of living in the area and find that you are merely getting a bad deal in most cases, not an astronomically bad deal.

A lot of the costs go into intangibles, like my college had some pricey guest lecturer programs. It is true though that university overhead has been growing quite fast lately and a lot of money in the last decade has shifted to things that are decidedly unrelated to education (I mean, LSU has their own lazy river).
It wasn't unique to them. In the early 80's I worked at an OEM minicomputer company that now would be called a startup. (I don't recall the term existing then.) We built systems from DEC 8-bit processors and Control Data disk drives. The drives were 40MB, 80MB, and (I think; it's been a while) 150MB. We sold an entry-level system with a 20MB drive. It was a 40MB drive with a hardware switch to disable addressing half the platters. When the customers would pony up the proportionately significant fee for a "upgrade", the hardware guy would go in, make a show of disassembling and polishing things, and when no one was looking, flip the switch to enable addressing the entire drive.
I was in your boat, it is a pain, but...

I found that I actually like the UI in firefox after customizing it. For me it may have been easy because I use sway (i3 clone on wayland -- clone is the best, it is actually more / better than i3). But it really ended up looking nice[0]. I found I could customize more things that I could on chrome, including the start page.

In any case, if you don't switch, I urge you to give it 15 mins and tinker with the ui config and a home page config. You can rid your self of alot of weird chrome bits that I think most find ugly and make it look smooth.

Further more, you can set up your own sync server and sync all your stuff to a safe spot.

[0]: https://imgur.com/XpTxwn9
Viacom will buy Pluto TV streaming service for $340M
My favourite example of such variation between languages and locales concerns examinations. The examples that follow are of different English locales; in the case of India, their form of English tends to match the words that would be used in their local languages.

In different places as a student you might: give an exam; take an exam; write an exam; do an exam. Give and take are opposites, and some of these terms can be used for the examiner as well, again with variation between countries, languages and locales.

If without context you said “give an exam” in India you’d mean you were the student performing an exam, but if you said “give an exam” in Australia it’d probably sound a little odd but indicate you were the lecturer presenting an exam to your students. Similarly with “write an exam”: in India that sounds perfectly normal and indicates you’re the student, performing the exam; but in Australia it sounds perfectly normal and means you’re the examiner, preparing the exam.
That's because the Climate Talks aren't about the climate. 1500 private jets flew to Davos so their passengers could ensure a good crisis doesn't "go to waste."
Modernising 1960s computer technology: learning from the CDC 6600
Last time I did a DOM benchmark Chrome still beat it by a significant margin. Also, only personal experience, but Chrome seems way more responsive with multiple tabs open than Firefox.

One annoying thing is that current versions of Firefox seem to rely on disk I/O too much, so if it's busy, you can't really do anything (switching or creating new tabs is greeted by spinning loading circle that takes a long time to happen).
> Apparently they're WEBP images and my version of Firefox (version 64) doesn't support them

I loaded the page with Firefox 65 beta and all the images worked for me. The site doesn't seem to be serving WebP images to Firefox. When I checked all the image types via Page Info they were mostly JPEGs with some PNGs and one SVG image.

There's probably some other reason why the site is broken for you. Have you perhaps changed your browser's user agent string and so the site is giving you WebP images because it thinks they will work?
Having GUIs compose programs seems antithetical to the idea of shell scripts which are often thrown together quickly to get things done. Personally, I view shell scripting as a "good enough" and if you need more structure then you change your tools.
> It seems like this is a cheap and easy way to cause a whole lot of disruption. We're going to see more and more of this.

Pretty sure there are consequences for violating FAA regulations, so I doubt there will be a lot of intentional aircraft disruption by drone operators.
What Happened to CurrentC?: When Platform Innovation Fails
> that's just being helpful, nothing more.

To add, the introduction itself is a very small part of the process of closing funding.

Typically consultants/bankers who help with larger fundraising rounds and charge for it would provide much more services beyond a simple introduction/recommendation.
Would love to read more. Do you have a link to this project?
I didn't assume anything, I just wanted to point this out to clarify that fan noise isn't just about the card itself. As for proof, there are lots of sites (Tom's Hardware, Anandtech, etc) that compare different brands of cards by noise level—search for reviews of whatever card you're looking at and you're likely to find a chart comparing them. I've also personally experienced some rather large differences by switching brands of the same card, with both AMD and Nvidia.
If they mark the cookies as http only then that wouldn't be a concern though, for xss attacks anyway. Subdomains would also solve that issue.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HttpOnly

Personally I think they separate them out for branding. Things that are on google.com are flagship products, and getting your thing under google.com means you and/or you're project has a lot of clot at Google.
I will answer any and all questions
When the laser hits the cockpit glass, the whole panel lights up.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VshPGuKoa2Q