skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has to be somewhere between "not enough resources to fix" and "wow, we are making a ton of money off this 'problem!'"

There are so many patterns of low-hanging fruit:

"I haven't used it yet but it looks great"

"Seems ok"

"It's useful"

"The shipping was slow"

On any given product with any measure of popularity, probably 10-20% of reviews consist of those formats. One-word sentences with some kind of bland/useless assertion.

You're telling me the people who have massive clusters of machines and who resell tools for machine learning can't at least pick off the easiest 20% of shitty or fake reviews? Hell, give me two days, a few regexes, and a script and I'll do it myself. It's really that easy.

They just don't care.

That said, yes, beyond that lower-hanging fruit, the problem is insanely hard to tackle. But why not crowdsource it? People posting reviews saying "Sandy Hook was a liberal hoax" on a book about the Sandy Hook shooting could be flagged and marked for review.
How do you feel that even with your isp your data still passes through servers in multiple countries before it gets to you? When you request to view a site it’s not a single hope from you to the server the site is hosted on.
The non-intuitive result, where more memory hurts, reminds a bit of two interesting games linked off of cryptographer Wei Dai's homepage (http://www.weidai.com/), under "social costs of intelligence":

• Why good memory could be bad for you: game theoretic analysis of a monopolist with memory.
http://www.weidai.com/monopoly-memory.txt

• Why cleverness could be bad for you: a game where the smarter players lose. http://www.weidai.com/smart-losers.txt
>Newegg

They have gone the way of being a market and are not to be trusted. They robbed me out of $630 through a combination of fraud and my CC company being wankers.
But, in english, "Car" would be a valid (if useless) abbreviation of "Cart". Seeing "Car" next to a cart icon would be just as confusing, which is why abbreviations that are valid, common word are typically avoided. Sure, people will likely figure it out, but it will look strange, since their first thought on seeing "Wagen" will be "Why is there a car button? WTF is this for?" before eventually deducing that it is the shopping cart.

To be fair, German is just a hard language to abbreviate, the compound words really tend to work against this. I'm not a linguist, but I've always wondered if the word length is one of the reasons English has borrowed so few German words relative to the romance languages.
I think it's great that Wiktionary is a good resource for you!

Hearing things like this only makes me with more that people could donate to individual projects and not the WMF at large.
If it's a "once off", then it probably a bad idea to treat them with too much hostility and suspicion. That'd stop further first time mistake/makers from fessing up and fixing things.

If however this project has a history of doing the wrong thing, covering up, and only fixing things for PR value... then yeah, not really a project to put time into. :)
And the convenience of AR over an annotated picture is what makes the former much safer than the latter?
Looks like a fork of HN, so not really created by this S2 ex-employee.
No question it was cutting edge, the spatial mapping feature worked 99.999 percent of the time, something which other platforms haven't come close to achieving.
I'm guilty of having done one of these things.
Yes, but a lot of it is bloat that does not contribute to Wikipedia itself.
Seriously. And when space is at such a premium, and it's possible to build up as much as demand warrants, why exactly should nightclubs be prioritized over, say, people's housing? Perhaps the fact that they're diminishing in number reflects the simple fact that housing is a better (and more economic) use of limited space?

It sounds like they're not allowing enough construction to meet demand, and then being shocked when the obvious outcome (prioritization of some uses) occurs.
> For reasons that remain hard to understand, the decision was made to retroactively rebrand USB 3.0: 5Gb/s 3.0 connections became "USB 3.1 Gen 1," with the 10Gb/s connections being "USB 3.1 Gen 2." The consumer branding is "SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps."

Does anyone care about Gbps for USB? I've never hit the bandwith limitation on USB and see USB type-C as just an annoyance making me buy new cables.

> And 20Gb/s devices will be... "USB 3.2 Gen 2×2.

Pretty straight forward: USB 3.x supports 5 * 2^x Gbps. What we really need is MORE retrobranding!

- USB 2.0 becomes USB 3-3.4

- USB 1.0 full speed becomes USB 3-8.7

- USB low speed becomes USB 3-11.7
Solving Flight Monitoring with CRDTs
I'm not totally clear on the history, but from the bigtable paper it appears that (at least circa 2006) Bigtable and GFS were not colocated.
Sure, and that would be a legitimately great service.

But, many people do you think are going to go and check the hash beforehand? How many people even know how to check the hash? Admittedly, the type of user who will go through so much effort to run old Flash content probably skews more technical, but the point remains.

The alternative is that Adobe could just leave the downloads links up under a giant "Not Supported Don't Use" banner. I know which option I'd find more responsible.
It was on Lobste.rs first and I thought people here might like it as well.
Pretty sure those places also feature potatoes heavily because people like to eat them with those entrees.

I know I love mashed potatoes with my steak. And fries with my burger.
Randomly picking on your post, but I could easily have responded to a many in this thread. Docker doesn't solve the problem that you are complaining about. It doesn't even try to solve that problem. It's just an environment for building and running containers. You can pick any package manager you want with Docker. The fact that there currently aren't any good package managers to use with Docker isn't Docker's fault.

I think one of the big problems is that people are using insane base images (and by "people" I include myself, because I'm guilty of it too). A Debian distro is not an appropriate base image for a Rails server, for instance.

For what it's worth, though, there is nothing stopping you from using apt the way you want. You have to do it all by hand (i.e. specify the versions you want when you install them). The dockerfile is your lockfile. I have been thinking that something like Guix is a much better fit, though. I just haven't gotten around to trying it...
Although Joe Average won't know how to, most/all OSes let you pretty easily change your DNS server, you don't have to use your ISP's. But Firefox's UI to _not_ use Cloudflare is _way_ less straightforward.
So the damage is virtually all from large trucks, with sedans and SUVs as a rounding error.

Which is why the California tax on gasoline is 48.7¢/gallon and the California tax on diesel fuel is 67¢/gallon.[1]

Federal tax on gasoline is 18.4¢/gallon, and diesel fuel is 24.4¢/gallon.[2]

I'm not defending the trucking industry. I think more stuff should go by train instead. But truck fuel is taxed more heavily than car fuel. (For those of you in other countries, the number of cars running on diesel in the United States is about 3%.)

[1] http://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/l561.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...
> Microsoft recommends the holograms do not show any nearer than 85cm for the original Hololens - any closer and your eyes go all funky. Why? Because at that distance, some of the hologram is hanging off the side of one of your eyes, and not the other.

This is just comically wrong. The distance recommendations are related to the Vergence-Accommodation conflict. This is a much larger issue than objects getting cut out of the field of view, and the mistake calls into question the author’s knowledge of anything related to the topic.
Owen Lattimore: American author, educator, scholar of China & Central Asia
I feel this is a completely misjudged solution. The reason so many people use Lyft & Uber is because of lack of public transport. This seems like city finding another way to tax people instead of helping its citizens.
I think the order and placement of the words is also important.

The format "(noun) shelter" is similar to and might more readily bring to mind "animal shelter" and "homeless shelter" than a phrase in the "(verb) shelter" and "shelter _____" formats.

The mind is very pattern-happy after all :)
Assume that non-PFS ciphersuites had remained in TLS: You still have to trust the endpoint to not negotiate a PFS ciphersuite.
K3s on Raspberry Pi
Opkg-upgrade – a useful upgrade script for OpenWRT
Well, realistically, you don't need 100 watt power delivery for a keyboard, so you might want a less robust cable.

The big mistake IMO was a lack of obvious keying. Very little stops me from using that 2w-capacity keyboard cable to try to charge my laptop. If we're lucky, there's signaling at the device to tell me what's wrong, but if they had made a different plug on the 100W cable, it would eliminate a lot of cockpit errors.

Having one cable for everything is a huge red herring. If you need a keyboard and a power brick and an external hard drive, you need three cables. It doesn't matter if they're different, as long as the OEM isn't pulling some Apple-style "one single port is enough" BS.
It's usually pretty quick. Unless the SD card of the Pi breaks randomly. Then, you've suddenly got inexplicable slow/unavailable internet because the Pi may not respond to DNS requests any more.
I can think of specific projects that might be unethical in that sense, and cannot be justified even by "well, they're doing that".

But I can't see why this one would be in that category.
The ML is only 4 days old. I think its impressive to have some semblance within that timeframe.
In SF, that happened to Cocomos. It was a great club that was closed and sold for development. That’s understandable but it brings to mind the Yogi Berra quote, Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
If the usage fees aren't sufficient, then that's true for all drivers, whether it's Uber, or an eighteen wheeler, or a personal driver. If you get those usage fees right, then the argument that "specific group X profits from using public roads" goes away.
Zach is killing it. Me and him had lunch about 3 years ago and to see this grow into something that is empowering hackers is heart warming.

High school hackers are one of the most under-appreciated technological innovators.
> Does anyone care about Gbps for USB? I've never hit the bandwith limitation on USB

You have if you've tried to used multiple external monitors over USB (a la macbooks).
So basically as long as you're starting out a healthy well-nourished person you can just get on with it.
> and adding additional arteries

Time and time again cities learn this does nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
I run dnscrypt-proxy on a Pi on my LAN. It's set to pick a random resolver from a preset list and then it encrypts and forwards incoming requests to this resolver. Naturally, my DHCP server dishes out the IP address of the Pi to my devices.

I also use the DNS66 app on Android devices to set my DNS and block ads when I'm using a mobile network.
I have a big monitor and fit 4 80 wide terms side by side quite nicely with a bit of room to spare (34" ultrawide 1440 monitor).
That's kind of expected. The oculus go is not really all that compelling in my opinion. The Quest looks much better in terms of moving beyond [oversimplification] two lcd screens in front of your face [oversimplification].
0 consumption at idle. Have to put in some good old fashioned Work=Force*Distance when you perform an operation though.

Also, how many toggles can each gate go through before material fatigue causes the logic to get stuck? Some interesting questions which would need answering before it can be utilized by any industry.
This is fffing absurd. I am a hard core liberal but people on my side are not really smart when it comes to these types of decisions.
It's easy to make a universal port when your universe is a small handful of your own devices with no numbers to live up to.
I'm real curious as to how taxing miles travelled would work, especially if you travel between states.

Trucks have been doing it for years with transponders in the cabs. That's how when a semi fills up with fuel in one state and ends its trip in another state the state in between still gets some fuel tax to pay for road maintenance.
It’s sad to see how many people have such a shallow, incorrect opinion of an organization doing an immense amount of good in the world.
Does Consumer Reports provide any value over Wirecutter? The latter is free and has negligible display advertising.
> Does anyone care about Gbps for USB? I've never hit the bandwith limitation on USB and see USB type-C as just an annoyance making me buy new cables.

External SSDs are probably the only time it matters, or even multiple drives connected through a USB hub.
also CDNs, like akamai.
Sorry - I'm not able to understand the post. I fully understand the problem - I ask this question sometimes during interviews - with two bracket characters. Say, () and []. So a string like "([)]" is not correctly balanced.

Some folks try with counters - but that very quickly gets out of hand. I try to prod them to a solution - by giving patterns that will defeat their solutions.

What I'm expecting is that the person can identify that use of stack here, which (and this is my source of confusion here) - is the most natural way to solve this problem. Push when we encounter an opening bracket, pop and match when we encounter a closing bracket. The function is generic, within 10 lines in C, can easily be extended to more bracket characters.

So - what is the point of this post?
"I am a former felon, convicted and sentenced for assaulting a carjacker."

And right there is everything wrong with the law. Hopefully at the very least you got a nice sense of satisfaction!
It is certainly the plan that existing code should work with little or no modification. Alan Bateman has been doing great work fixing the standard library to allow this, though there will be some limitations round JNI and other areas.

If you need to stop too many fibers running at once then this should be very simple to implement using any of java.util.concurrent’s mechanisms, if they block the fiber it will be parked and another can be run.
If you want usage fees to be proportionate, I think you'd need to tax according to the maintenance costs caused by the vehicle per mile (eighteen wheelers cause vastly more road wear than cars). That's really all you need, except perhaps for some fixed cost per mile for the size of the vehicle, to tax congestion.
He is already doing a crazy risky thing. Sure, equities may return 6.6% in the very long term but what does he do if the market drops 20% next week and stays low for the next five years?
Whatever you pick, it should be a guideline and not a strict rule, so it doesn't interfere with automatic edits. Renaming a variable so that it's slightly longer shouldn't cause cascading changes.

(This is why gofmt doesn't enforce a line limit.)

When a human edits the code, they can fix it if the lines seem too long.
Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented."

We laugh at it today, because some patent commissioner couldn't see past his own limited view, and made that claim.

Yet, when I postulate questions about things we have very little science with, I'm dismissed. I ask for science to be used with emotions; yet Im the dumb one. I want scientific method to determine consciousness; yet I'm the non-scientific one.

Again, you're the standard fare when it comes to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
> to boost the weight of the dish

This claim doesn't make any sense. Who buys restaurant dishes by weight?
I've been using this for the last 3~ months or so on my OpenWRT 18.06.1, r7258-5eb055306f (but with the latest packages) setup on my Linksys WRT3200ACM and it's been so useful and saved me a lot of time (hence sharing).
I would think so, when you consider the lack of convenience involved in the following steps:

- Realize that you should try to research which parts of your breaker box are deadly in the first place

- Find the model number on the breaker box

- Google it, and sift through the results to find relevant information about which parts to touch/not touch

The mental loops you have to jump through would convince most people not to try at all, and just call up a professional. An annotated picture would be just as good, but having the hololens understand what you're looking at and the context of your situation (no doubt a difficult set of problems to solve) would make a huge difference.
18,000mAh battery has a phone in it
Speaking as Stephenson/Doctorow fan as well as a member of ever-growing sector of the population that have had their technological paranoia continually proven right for the last fifteen years, improvements in additive manufacturing of miniaturised computation technology assists in keeping a small section of power with the larger population, rather than being forced to rely on hyperlarge gated conglomerates to parcel out materials to us.
Further to your point, make previously unemployable employable through augmented reality assistance.
Exactly. Their annual spendings grow exponentially, roughly matching the donations amounts. It cannot be operations costs. More like irresponsible foolish management.
Everything that contradicts my point of view is an exception, everything that confirms it is proof. Since there are a lot of poor people, and few privileged, i get a lot of proof and very few exceptions.
It's right there in the toolbar, the "P"-ish looking icon.
From the article:

> [San Francisco Supervisor Aaron] Peskin is drafting a measure for the November election that would levy a 3.25% fee on rides with one passenger, and a 1.5% fee on shared rides.
“Crazy Bernie” May Be Perfect
> doesn't improve the security of your systems

Having PFS increases security for your end users. (Minus your storing of the session keys, of course; if whatever you need the session keys for doesn't require you to store them forever, then it still seems like a benefit.) Being able to use standard, well-audited libraries instead of a proprietary piece of "enterprise" code is a benefit.

> Aside from adding a ton of latency and extra performance overhead

The performance of TLS on today's hardware is negligible; CPUs have instructions to accelerate it in hardware.

> you now have a new operational endpoint that you have to trust

No: In the prior TLS 1.2 design, the decryption key was on both the node MitM'ing the traffic, and the actual end nodes dealing with the traffic. The proposed TLS 1.3 alternative does not change that. (Nor does it improve it.)

If your TLS 1.2 was that you terminated at the node doing the MitM'ing, then do the same thing in TLS 1.3.
The USDA only approved that in December.

I strongly suspect McDonalds can't change their processes and supply chain quite that quickly, nor are they likely to take the PR hit now.
I meant, how much weight do you, ~aviv, personally lose on an 8-10 day dry fast?

Also, still wondering if you're in a dry or humid climate. And come to think of it, whether you're in a hot or mild climate.

Because I know of people who've been drinking water, but still reached a point of dehydration requiring medical attention, in hot or dry environments after moderate-to-extreme exertion. So my hunch would be that an 8-10 day "dry fast" might require minimizing activity in a cool, humid place.
On tracking citations: how citation databases can be better constructed and used
> You have biases and subjectivity when "measuring" yourself

As do the nurse who draws your blood, the tech who tests it, and the doctor who interprets the results. By all means recruit them to assist in your study, but don't do it in blind faith.

> that makes your own "measurements" of yourself unreliable

Perhaps in some ways and for some metrics, but conversely you are the best at knowing where you experience pain, how you "feel," and how today differs from yesterday.

> you cannot even do something so simple as estimating the effect on life expectancy :)

Well, no more than anyone else can :)
Based on the comments here, it appears to me that many people don't understand the economy lose from the inefficiency of public transportation. 1 hour of bus transportation usually take only 20 minutes of taxi ride. It means I can save 40 minutes from the taxi ride. This 40 minutes have considerable value.
I wonder if the proposed rule will contain provisions to keep Uber from taking the difference out of the drivers' pockets.
> Have all your phone audio streaming to the internet.

This may be illegal in many jurisdictions. There are at least a few states that require 2 party consent to a recording of a phone call. There are some 1 party consent states. Not sure about the ratio...

Not sure what how it'd pan out across state line phone calls.
GTK and QT were handling all-in-one localisations for 2 decades with middle eastern languages, Chinese, Indic languages, and pluralisation without the need making localisations into standalone versions. That was once done by amateurs more than 2 decades ago.

Today it pains me seeing Android and Windows devs hardcoding texts letter by letter whenever they need to do more than bare basics with text layouts or handle different Chinese locales.

I think where Qt/Gtk succeeded and commercial software failed is the accent on making localisations legible over them "being pretty."
USB has more more limited bandwidth constraints and, IIRC, has much higher CPU overhead and overall higher latency.
[...]spreading misinformation, if I believe someone is spreading misinformation I'm going to call them out on it. I was WRONG this time (again have to admit that?)

Maybe you're bringing something to the conversation that isn't inherently there? Someone could be just wrong without trying to 'spread misinformation' and cowering in fear of your implacable fist of callout justice. Similarly, someone could just be pointing out you're wrong without a diabolical plan to force you into some embarrassing public recanting and ruin your reputation.
This is why paid parties usually have a higher price for later arrivals.
Affirmative action is not equality of opportunity, its equality of outcomes. That's why places like Harvard have to give Asian students SAT scores negative modifiers in order to level the playing field of outcomes.

We need to get a the root of the problem, not try to patch it at the top when its too late and override meritocracy. It all boils down to culture, which OP's article reinforces.

Highly recommend Amy Chaus book The Triple Package. Its discusses why certain cultures succeed better than other in the US.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ishango-bone-the-worlds-ol...

Apparently, the periods hypothesis is not favoured for a variety of reasons... And just because counting to 28 is more useful to women than men (men and women who tracked the moon phases for millennia don't agree) doesn't make it more likely to be periods counting.

Plus the numbers on the bone are not 28 but "are understood to indicate 9, 19, 21, 11; 19, 12, 13, 11; and 7, 5, 5, 10, 8, 4, 6, 3"...

9+19=28, here it is!

LOL that's numerology, not science...
I’m in awe that your experience is that that sort of behavior is rare.

Sanitary environments seem to be in the extreme minority to me!
What was the motivation for building it this way, instead of by more directly exposing PCIe? There must be some upside to they way it’s designed, no?
People always say nothing works because they never see relevant advertisements.

But the disconnect here is the at the ad VIEWER is not the customer, the purchaser of the ad is the customer. It might be whoever has a relevant ad for you won't bid enough for you to see it.
The 5G thing is the carriers's doing, not the standards body.