skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference between medics and laywers. Medics are playing a game where the rules are set by nature, biology, reality. Lawyers on the other hand play a game where the rules are set by other people in the legal industry (lawyers, judges, or legislators.) Moral men cannot alter issue proclamations about which pill will work and expect their demands to be heeded by nature, but all the rules in the legal system are made by mortal men. If people in the legal system decide that fax machines are blessed, then they are.
The Vec<RwLock<HashMap>> seems like a great hack, though you might still benefit from trying to come up with a scheme that avoids that RwLock (which internally uses a Mutex - as far as I know, even on reads), which can be slow if you have a lot of reads. (That's why evmap [and most lock-free structures I've ever heard of] use epochs [which is kind of like double buffering writes to batch up updates].)
I am getting familiar with your summaries like this which I really appreciate. I am interested if you are writing these up or obtaining them through a script or other service?

Thanks again!
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RM Solves “Siemens Learning Challenge”
Lose yourself in neocities.org for a night.
Ok - at least we know where you stand - you are willing to forgive Facebook for breach of contract, deception and spying on kids, because you want to damage Apple.

Worth noting that Apple has massive and vigorous completion in the phone market in the form of the many Android variants which have exactly the open market you want, and only a minority of customers choose Apple, and they do so in the knowledge that Apple controls the App Store.

On the other hand Facebook actually does have a near monopoly on social networking with no viable competitor at all.

It makes no sense why you’d want to excuse clearly dishonest behavior by an actual monopolist, in order to harm the business of company who has clear and viable market competitors keeping it in check.

Why do you care about Apple at all, when you can just buy an Android phone?
I was going to say, they didn't exactly buy the land on the open market...

I feel really bad for the people who lost homes so that the WI Republican party could pull this publicity stunt. It's hard to even fathom
Scott Aaronson has a good critique of s Giulio Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory. Very short version: https://youtu.be/cscRdv57oRQ?t=849

IIT is basically just hypothesis that defines consciousness by identifying it with certain information processing abilities that have lots of integration and can't be 'divided'.

When Aaronson points out some peculiar things having these abilities (like error correcting codes) Tegmark doubles down and says they are conscious and human intuition is wrong.

IIT explains very little, it just defines consciousness to be something.
But 'Eternal September' describes what happens to a particular platform, as something moves from niche to mainstream. There are new niche things that take their place, but people are often at a point in their lives where they aren't seeking out the new niche stuff anymore.
This is excessively reductionist logic. There's a huge gulf between, for example, the snarky reply below ala "forwarding emails is illegal" and "an app is en masse siphoning all communications between its users and others".

The privacy backlash is precisely about people becoming more aware of the latter class of behavior and rebelling against it. Complaining that "no one would be able to do anything" is a straw-man without relevance to the actual social conversation going on right now.
I am an Apple Developer, but that still requires me to use open source apps, since I have to compile it myself. Also it's a lot of effort.

It would nice if I could just go to a web page, click a link, and say "load this app, I accept the performance/security risks this entails". Like I do with my laptop.
This is the best breakdown I've seen yet. I doubt we'll see the "Production Hell" experienced with the Model 3 again.
Given how wrong forward-looking statements by Tesla are, any forward-looking statement is largely irrelevant at this point.

So the only thing that actually matters is results: how they performed last quarter.
Right, for batch models and training evaluation.

Re. assumptions -- it all depends on the data. If your data, say, collection of bird songs on Galapagos, then assuming there's correlation between day-of-week is counter productive. If a data scientist says me that they need to spend a day or two checking that assumption is correct, then I would look for a more productive scientist. Time to market is critical.

And there are many of such assumptions in every project, just try to do something, anything with data science checking every assumption you make. Basically as I said above, you won't get far.

By the way, majority of statistics theorems start with "take N independently distributed variables". In real world nothing is independent, but we still make useful predictions.
Yes, it does. For testing, in smaller business, this is fine however as you can register up to 100 devices. Enterprise certificates were much easier to use in big enterprise thought even if they weren't really "meant" for that purpose.
No, my claim merely was that the quote does not make the claim about the specific flight (although I didn't word it quite clearly). The findings about bad maintenance culture certainly suggest that the plane wasn't fixed properly.
For me the next couple of years are going to make or break Tesla.

You have pretty much every car manufacturer releasing flagship electric cars in 2019/2020. And most of them are either cheaper than Tesla or offer far more value i.e. premium branding and better interiors. And whilst they have their Supercharger network I suspect that pretty soon we will governments intervening to regulate standards and build out infrastructure.

So they better get ready quickly before the onslaught comes and like you said be profitable if margins drop.
> Nintendo gets criticized pretty heavily for their decisions to do stuff like use plastic. Their devices are frequently described as “toys” on gaming forums that I visit due to this.

Are you sure it's not because their products are literally toys?

Incidentally, there is no shortage of real honest to god tools which are made out of plastics. Glass reinforced plastic can be a very robust material, particularly for its weight, and the weight of a tool is often an important consideration. Fetishizing metal for the sake of metal is often done in the domain of luxury goods where feeling and appearance count for more than objective practical physical properties.

Right now my primary computer is an aluminum macbook. The aluminum certainly looks nice, although I've found that the hard edge hurts my wrists when I rest my hands on it. Would putting a slightly larger radius on that bevel really negatively impact the supposed physical strength of the metal design? Nah. But it would negatively impact the aesthetics of the laptop. Apple made it sharp because sharp looks thin and looking thin sells well.

Contrast this with the T60 I was using a decade ago. It's not thin and it's pretty damn heavy. It's also got a metal skeleton but plastic exterior. But for all the faults of that laptop, its plastic components do not make it fragile. I dropped and stepped on that thinkpad more times than I can even recall but not once did the plastic break. Plastic, the right plastic, is actually pretty damn durable.

The thinkpad of course is still a typical consumer good. But next time you're walking past a construction site, take a look at the tools being used by the workers. There are a lot of plastic parts among those tools, and the tools hold up just fine in an environment far more demanding than anything you put your Apple product through.
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Potential Suspension of Django Channels Development
They can in a jailbroken phone. I want that functionality without all the hoops of jailbreaking.
That’s why it’s a two stage system: leaking the key only permits forged requests, but an attacker still has to spend the time reversing the hash chain. For each and every phone they want to crack.

Apple has also done a reasonable job of holding onto their signing keys, to date.
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Introduction to machine learning with Python and repl.it
No, you're left with content the content which hopefully isn't terrible.
> Google lost my trust

you might want to try occasionally using !sp instead of !g -> same results, no google.
What's the point of having this, other than to getting petty revenge at "The Man"? It's not like you control a surveillance system that could use those voiceprints.
Very fascinating, I will definitely listen to this. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah lol I can imagine the Taiwanese execs used to a tropical climate getting off the plane thinking WTF.
They were just examples or things that won't get approved that I might want to install.
In 1995 been on the net at all made you an outlier which is why I said by percentage though perhaps that wasn't clearly put.

None of my friends had a computer at home and didn't understand anything about them beyond those things we use in school for an hour once a week I was literally the only kid in my year who programmed them as a hobby.

We were not rich or anything but my father (for his faults) was fascinated with them and so I had access years before they became a thing.

They just were not embedded into the fabric of a working class northern town in England the way that they are now.

It's strange been under 40 and remembering three distinct phases in my life, pre-computers in homes, 1 computer in a home (maybe) and now everyone is wandering around with the kind of hardware 15 year old me would have dreamed of in their pocket.

I've been on the leading edge of computer adoption since a child and I still get future shock when I walk through a bus station and literally everyone is starting at a little glass rectangle streaming video wirelessly.

The other thing that still makes me smile is that my mum has three computers in her house, all of them running a linux kernel (Kindle Fire, Chromebook and a desktop running Mint) meaning as a percentage of devices owned she out 'Linuxs' me (I have an Xbox and dual boot for gaming), in 1998 when I was faffing about with RH and getting in trouble for breaking the family PC I wouldn't have seen that coming either.
Why do you assume from a single comment that I "only ever us[e] one gender"? If I were a writer who is sensitive to these issues, and who tries to address them by taking care to mix up using he/his and she/hers when writing, would it not be the case that you might see one comment from me using he/his and then another one later using she/hers?

(And note that for some singular-they advocates "he/she" and "her/him" aren't really any better either, as they omit trans folk and other non-binary people as much as using "he" in one place and "she" in the next does.)

This is a place where the language is rapidly evolving, is all I'm saying, and therefore maybe we should lean towards reading people charitably until such time as a consensus has been reached.
It would take quite a large doze of benzos to keep someone calm enough to drag them underwater through a cave when they can't swim.

You'd also want to stop them from moving about and potentially causing trouble.
They didn't used to allow them for some arbitrary reason. It was just an example of something I might want that might not get approved.
Baldwin is a blessing to WI but you can't give the voters too much credit. They chose Ron Johnson over Russ Feingold twice.
Nobody called Apple the antagonist. Learn to read.
>Advertisements appear by default, but if a given site annoys you enough, you can go into your ad blocker's preferences and add it to your blacklist, and then you'll never see any ads on that site again.

Thats literally what ABP has. Ads which have meet the acceptable ads criteria appear by default, and the rest are blocked by default. Users can however go and disable that setting so that all ads are hidden by default.
What do you consider a large majority? Consider a three mathematically ideal gerrymandered districts. Two are engineered to have 50% + epsilon supporting party voters. "Burn" the third by stocking it with 100% dissenting party voters. 1/2+1/2=1. 1/2+1/2+2/2=2. A 2:1 majority of voters receives a 1:2 ratio of representation.
It wasn't meant in the sense of "I know it leaks because of the smell", it was literally said as "The leakage is caused by the smell". The conversation was in French so I have to translate here :D. I wasn't trying to be an ass at the time, I was just... surprised at their twisted understanding of basic logic.
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Hey guys! I'm the founder of Akia. We launched this chrome extension after we found that a two-sided approach to this market would help us drive sales.

To those who are testing: Akia shows up during the checkout process once you've entered payment and contact information.

Looking for feedback, questions, thoughts, or some first users on the product. :)
I think Tesla may start to face issues when the other automakers start coming out with electric cars within the next few years. I sold off all my stock in Tesla, although I think they may still be a good short term bet. The supercharger network and cool factor is their big advantage at the moment, but I think in the future they won't do as well when there's more competition.
Do you think that this chart of historical DAU (Daily Active Users) is correct? https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

Looks too stable to me (especially taking into account the scandals).

What's the definition of DAU anyway? E.g. if I used it on 2 days in a row, e.g. yesterday and today, and then do nothing, am I counted as a DAU or not for that quarter? Or maybe I have to be active for at least 50% of the total days of the quarter? Etc... .

Thx
Always mind boggling to see those margins on that sort of volume. It’s no question FB is one of the greatest money-printing machines ever built.

Where does the growth come next though? Do they need to diversify their revenue streams away from advertising? Do they just start paying out dividends or can they really reinvest earnings at a sufficient return to satisfy shareholders?
If it's for testing, one could do,

ssh -R *:9000:localhost:5432 user@host

No security aside from whatever your local is setting on that port.

You simply hit example.com:9000 and you'll reach your machine's 5432 port.

I use a 128MB VPS as the proxy for this ($15 per year).

And you're not limited to HTTP traffic. You can expose anything like this.

-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport

The * is allowing anything to connect. If not specified, only local connections are allowed.
IMHO you're really overreacting here. It's not unusual or bad style to pick a random set of pronouns for a specific imagined person in such a few sentences of scenario.
"within an order of magnitude"
Bezos having his privacy violated like everyone else? Get the popcorn out now.
Is that backwards? ISTM when we let the intellectuals run things, they come up with all sorts of plausible pretexts for wars... Right now the most anti-intellectual politician in several years is the one who happens to be bringing the troops home from Syria, Afghanistan, etc.

I'm reminded of a great passage from ITBWTCL:

But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.

[EDIT:] Of course, in the next paragraph Stephenson describes a different sort of intellectual devolution in USA.
Is there any possible way the old google could be resurrected? By google themselves or just someone cloning the tech? My google-fu keeps getting worse, on pages I know I've found handily in the past. I'd almost pay for a good search, cash or personal data or whatever.
It's not just land that was given to Foxconn. They were also relieved of a variety of environmental protections -- LCD manufacturing is a dirty industry that requires an enormous amount of water. Nobody did OK on that deal.

People pretty much knew the Foxconn deal was a fraud, because Foxconn, and the state government, both have a history of similar deals. There were some mining deals in northern Wisconsin that would make your hair stand on end.
I really loved xkcd 2059.
Ah so locks come into play when you deliberately disable compile checks?
That annoys me too, I tried with lite.qwant.com but their exact match operator annoys me, as I have a spanish keyboard.

Results are decent but I just hate that.
I am cautiously optimistic about this one. Partly because of promising recent decisions from them, and partly because if there's one thing Microsoft knows how to do well, it's business software.
We used to argue about the cost of enforcing a linewrap under 80 in email days, without really discussing how elision of the \r\n embeds in the PEM encoded or Base64 would make this a non-issue.

=Endmarker
Jail and losing health insurance are not equally shitty outcomes.
"Merits of technology" includes privacy.

Privacy is a basic right here. We get it that you are against it and want "everything goes".

That doesn't make enforcement a protectionist matter.
Yes. Musk abstained from voting. Musk made his opinion known, but otherwise "fairly" let the shareholders vote on the issue. At least technically fair. It was 85% in favor of merging.

I say "technically", because Musk also went around trying to convince people that they should allow SCTY to be acquired by TSLA. But hey, shareholders trust Musk and were willing to follow his opinion on the matter. So I guess its fair overall.

A stupid move, but fair.
youall forgot to mention beaker browser.
Another gem, is the practice of seeking the minimal encoded instance which is correctly identified as "legal" by magic. People do this for a.out, JPG, PNG &c..
What makes base64 encoded random data not regular?
I was purposing each phone be loaded with a unique “export key” while being built. For about 1 dollar of GPU time, you can force an attacker to take a month of continuous hashing, on similarly performing hardware. (Okay, people with fancy ASICS could get that down to a week... but that still seems like a big win.)

More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19040252

I agree that it would be a consistent political battle — but it’s already that, and it’s clear people with power are getting fed up with technologists attempting to impose their ideology without compromising with other social needs.

That’s what prompts laws about wiretapping or mandated backdoors.

I haven’t heard the same arguments about safes I do about encryption — and the reason is because there’s an understood bypass, if they gain access, have time and money.

By compromising and allowing targeted cracking, we split the faction pushing for backdoored phones, solve most of the issues, and give ourselves a viable path to accomplish something rather than being forced into backing down or completely compromising systems. Further, by being willing to compromise, we gain a voice on shaping how that discussion looks — rather than largely being excluded.
They desperately need to port messages/facetime to windows and android. They could very easily charge a flat yearly fee with the promise of secure messaging. They're going to miss the boat just like blackberry before them if they don't move sooner rather than later.

EVENTUALLY Google will stop dropping the ball, and then it will be too late.
It's not so ridiculous to expect progressive enhancement to work. It takes designers willing to use <a> and <img> tags for that to happen.
Still touting the 13000 jobs, and the $10 billion plant, and the 8K television panels. Reality has not intruded upon their beliefs and perceptions.
It's more about how you do it, not what you do.

Csikszentmihalyi brought up that flow happens when you work on something difficult but have the skill level for it.

Typical flow activities are mountain climbing and motorcycle riding.

Two of the symptoms of flow is losing yourself and losing track of time. This happens when you do something difficult enough that you can't focus on anything else. All other input is turned off, it's just you and the problem. With extreme sports, losing focus means death or injury. With programming it's not automatic to forget everything and just code.

But a condition of flow is that you have to do it for its own sake. Not for money, recognition, or even to help someone. These can be side effects but not the main focus. You program for the sake of programming itself.

You can probably even get this kind of buzz from doing Hackerrank, but any side project will do.
Competition undermines any form of cooperation. Presumably Amazon is a company of people cooperating, otherwise they would all just be individuals under competitive contracts right? Competition undermines cooperation but we do it anyway because some must be good right? Just like some amount of child abuse must be good right? Or a small amount of lead in your body is good right?
Sometimes moderation is not a good answer. There is no safe level of competition in a cooperative organization.
The Church-Turing Theorem is not really a mathematical theorem; It is more like F = Ma in Physics. It's an empirical result.
Yeah Skaven had some tracks in Bejeweled as well :)
We really appreciate your support! Yes, we’ve discussed something exactly like what you’re describing here. Open-core is an important revenue stream for open-source projects. We’re carefully considering how we can support projects that best fit an open-core model. I’m curious to hear more about the challenges around that shift towards an open-core model.
Spoken from the point of view of the company.

From the point of view of an individual, I wish GDPR-type principles - that my personal data is mine, and that I have the right to see, to challenge and delete the personal data that you, the company, are holding on me - would be binding in other regions.

I'd love to see the new social giants - US or not - that might emerge in a post-surveillance environment.
Internet is no more fun cause, people are making money out of it DOT
This feels like the Cobra Effect in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

"The Walt Disney Company itself states that this process is done to both control their market and to allow Disney films to be fresh for new generations of young children. A side-effect of the moratorium process is the fact that videos and DVDs of Disney films placed on moratorium become collectibles, sold in stores and at auction websites such as eBay for sums in excess of their original suggested retail price. The practice also has made the Disney films a prime target for counterfeit DVD manufacturers."

By making the movies hard to buy, they create an incentive for counterfeiters to sell bootleg versions. Not only does this take revenue away from Disney they could otherwise earn, it also floods the market with fake versions that are most likely lower quality, actually causing a bad experience for new generations instead of the intended effect.
Daily active users is the number of unique people who showed up in a single 24 hour period. Monthly active users is the number of unique people who showed up at least once that month.

To get the ratio of DAU to MAU, you can either take the average DAU for each day of the month, and then compare that to the MAU, or you can take the DAU to MAU ratio for each day and then average that. They'll both come out about the same (doing it the second way smoothes it out just a bit more because of the loss of precision which makes the month to month comparisons or quarter to quarter a little smoother).