skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
using facebook has become a sort of taboo in certain cycles, so people may be misreporting it intentionally

also, a significant drop in users should be detectable by every website which relies significantly on facebook traffic
The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College
They dont have GB internet there, I have family there. =P
In my copy of Crime and Punishment it has some names (especially place names) where the end notes say it was partially redacted to get the manuscripts past censors. Not necessarily the case for every redaction though.
The next Haynes.
Did they get human subject consent and IRB and HR approval, for this research on their coworkers, and that veered into private medical information?
Is... is the author judging the change in storage versus compute by comparing the size of disk drives to the... Ghz of processors involved?

> My IBM PS/2 Model 55SX desktop in 1990 had a 16Mhz CPU, 2MB of RAM and a 30MB hard drive. That’s roughly one Hz of processor power for every 1.87 bytes of hard drive space.

Yes, yes he is. I just... that seems like such an absurd comparison to be making.
Is "Slowly" the advice for most (all) addictions too: e.g. Not the Miles Davis solution to heroin addiction
I was at lunch once with my advisor and some visitors from a government lab who was sponsoring us. At one point conversation went into hours and productivity (which was particularly constrained at a government facility) and I distinctly remember my advisor bragging about how he could get his students to work nights and weekends to get something done. I sure don't miss it.
Trump Called Apple’s CEO ‘Tim Apple’ by Mistake
There is a way to stop fingerprinting. That way is serving pages via distributed network (over a WoT or torrent-like thing).

All these other ways do is give people the illusion that they're safe from being tracked, when the reality is that they're tracked just the same, but by fewer people so the data is more valuable. This means that the money is centralizing around the actors with the most inexplicable methods of tracking; which are almost always the worst actors.

I hate it too, even though I'm not blameless. It's impossible to compete without a level playing field, and that playing field needs to be technically enforced, because otherwise we get region shopping and advertising / analytics models that push people to create intractable mechanisms so they can paper over how tracking fed into it.

For example, imagine a world where I'm bidding to show an ad to a visitor of nytimes.com. Now, I may not track the user, but if anyone is, they can incorporate what they know and sell that traffic back to me on a CPA model. All I see is the incoming traffic. I don't track anyone (wink, wink) but there is no difference.

In the long run this will either be solved one way or another, and all these online surveillance capitalism companies will crash and burn. Either we get a web with technical guarantees or we get a balkanized internet where every state makes their own weird laws about what is allowed or not.
You can keep any message you want by tapping on it. So yeah, you clearly haven't used SnapChat much.
Great app! Here's a similar tool that I've seen, but haven't used: http://chartd.co
I don't remember WhatsApp ever being ANOTHER. It was the first cross-platform messaging app I ever used.
FileReader is not related to an image tag loading its image, it's a javascript API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader

So attacker would still need to have some javascript loaded somewhere for it to work. If electron app displays user-generated content, XSS can help run a javascript payload, however.
Written by a full-fledged honest-to-god Professor of Sustainability Leadership. Immmmmmpresive.
HN ranks in the top 1000 most popular sites in the US. How many of those visitors do you think are building “new and innovative” software?

How many of those who are building software at all do you think are not just building yet another software as a service CRUD app where the founder thinks they need “rockstar ninja” employees who can do leetCode in their sleep?
Yes, but how do you keep the client from then sending that data to the server?
Which is a shame since it is the only realistic option.
I feel like the major change was who started using Facebook: people who had never "interneted" before. When it first launched and was limited to .edu emails everyone on the platform had grown up online. Before we had Facebook we said and shared a whole lot of dumb stuff anonymously and figured out the real-world consequences of our online actions. We "trolled" a wikipedia article about elephants with John Stewart and learned about "fake news" from Bonsai Kittens and pop-up ads promising we'd just become millionares. We "socialized" on AIM, LiveJournal, Xanaga and MySpace. For early Facebook users, Facebook was just one of many destinations on the internet.

But for most of today's Facebook users Facebook is the internet and they missed out on their internet training wheels. Facebook has merely replaced AOL for a generation of people who will now take any "article" their friend posted at face value, share it with all of their friends, and then angrily complain about "mainstream media" when their phone blows up in the microwave instead of charging like the "news" told them it would.
Ada/SPARK would be an even better choice than rust.
Because Google (even just search and mail) is extremely popular, and they ran a relentless advertising campaign, persistently telling everyone to install Chrome, right on the front page among other places.
Correct. While 30 miles is the low end of the predicted ranges (that's more for the pure multirotor vehicles that are nimble but not efficient) these are vehicles for that urban trip. Pick you up, take you to your destination, and when they run out of battery, do a quick trip to where they can recharge or swap. The cities that are overwhelmed with traffic have plenty of interest in this. Also useful for police, ambulance even fire (just to get crew and maybe a small pump and hose on scene before the truck gets there.)
Considering 2008, what's the point of those lessons? Might as well save a few tax dollars on "regulators".
It's ridiculous that it's a point of pride for supervisors to overwork their students. Along a similar vein one of my supervisors used to come in on weekends just to see who was there and he would deprecate those he didn't see on Monday.
Fireside Chat: Walter Isaacson and Eric Schmidt
I just don't think this is true. I mean, I see your point, but it just doesn't seem to be that significant in practice. Possibly because the interest you get at a bank has inflation priced in. In reality, more or less everything is getting cheaper in real terms. There are some exceptions, like housing (urban land), and services (people's time) but these are exceptions.
The article is making numerous inaccurate statements, because it's got an agenda and the author is invested in lossy media encoding quite heavily. There's a degree to where it's relative: in the car with the windows open you'll not be hearing 16 bits of audio resolution.

Monty's gotta monty, and this argument has been going on from the very earliest days of digital: back when people behaved exactly the same way over digital recordings that are now commonly accepted to be excruciatingly bad for a variety of reasons (generally having to do with bad process and wrong technical choices).

You can get a HELL of a lot out of 16/44.1 these days if you really work at it. I do that for a living and continue to push the boundaries of what's common practice (most recently, me and Alexey Lukin of iZotope hammered out a method of dithering the mantissa of 32 bit floating point (which equates to around 24 bit fixed for only the outside 1/2 of the sample range, and gets progressively higher precision as loudness diminishes). Monty is not useful in these discussions, nor is anyone who just dismisses the whole concept of digital audio quality.
Yeah, the author is not arguing against using 24 bits when recording, just when distributing to end users.

If the producer is planning to slow down the audio (and wants the ultrasonic components to become audible), then recording at higher sample rates makes sense, and the author doesn't address this; probably this is pretty rare in practice. You'd also need ultrasonic-capable microphones.

The much more common operation is to filter or amplify the signal, and for that, more bits per sample is better to avoid amplifying your quantization error. The author covers this in the "When does 24 bit matter?" section.
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Apart from memory safety issues, there are type safety issues that can cause equal security harm. Go's approach of casting interface{} back and forth is as dangerous as allowing malloc/free. The worst part is that the language designers don't see this as a problem.
Thanks, those look like good reads. So I see in my version of FF that it is enabled as true but I don't recall ever seeing a prompt.

I would love to see a blog post about some of these features and why things are difficult.
I strongly believe that every currently living person on this planet will die, hopefully just because of old age.

Not sure why you assume there will be 7.2 billion violent deaths.
I definitely would agree that you should pick the best tool for the job and not limit yourself to one ecosystem if it's too difficult.

One way to make Spark a bit easier to work with is through kubernetes or a tool like databricks that provides it as a service. Kubernetes, in particular, provides you a really nice amount of flexibility and composability when designing systems. One thing that we created to try to fill the gap of having to integrate System X with Spark was HTTP on Spark. This makes it easy to integrate Spark with other tools in a microservice architecture. When you couple this with containers, you can do a lot very quickly.

For datatypes I would look into different Spark connectors, these days there one for almost every database/streaming service/ cloud store under the sun.

This being said, Spark is a large piece of software that uses many different programming concepts which can be daunting. Our goal is to try to listen to feedback like this so we can try to make the Spark ecosystem a bit easier to use for everyone.
AWS has workspaces. They're not super cheap but it's all handled for you.

Browser, mobile, desktop, etc.
Feel free to message, here or on twitter or whereever.
Some of my passwords I have memorized only as muscle memory. Without going into too much detail, if I didn’t have a qwerty keyboard, I wouldn’t be able to enter it without a couple minutes of thinking “okay, this key is there on a qwerty keyboard...”
Could have gone worse ;)
What if the choice were between relevant ads and irrelevant ads? (targeting is the mechanism by which you can make ads relevant)

For an example of irrelevant ads (minimally targeted), start reading your junk mail.
There seems to be an error in that argument. If you shrink your workforce holding productivity equal, then labour becomes more expensive and wages and prices are going to be pushed, i.e. you just get inflation.

A larger labour force means more competition in wages, but it also increases supply so this shouldn't have any effect. If this wasn't true, then you could reduce inequality simply by artificially restricting the supply of labour, which I don't think has ever occurred.
Ask a Google Techspert: What Is Quantum Computing?
Who care's? Seems like another reason to just call out Trump.
A state machine with context is one case I have used it for.
Rent means having access to liquid capital that you can invest in alternatives that are not property.

It also means: no property taxes, maintenance costs, stamp duty, and it makes it easy to move.
The only way I can get along with my friends and family is through the strict community guidelines of HN - we just can't handle the raw exposure of email or SMS, and the algorithmic preprocessing of Facebook makes it even worse. We plan parties by encoding times and dates in the whitespace of our posts about JS frameworks. I found out that my brother was getting married by decoding the carefully placed typos in a post of his about the housing crisis in SF. I know it sounds dystopian, but engagement-maximization strategies are ruining everything else, and direct exposure is simply untenable.
In search of 0xffffffffff600400: troubleshooting containers
> What's more likely - that the bank gets hacked, or that you install a keylogger?

The bank gets hacked. I say this with the utmost certainty because while I haven't been hacked since I started behaving securely at 15 years old, my bank that uses partial passwords was recently hacked. I live in Pakistan, a lot of banks were hacked 2018-2019.

I also complained to them about saving passwords in plaintext. They never replied. Every bank in my country is terrible.
Developers use software in weird ways. I've written scripts to hit buttons thousands of times for hours on end. It makes sense that they don't want developers' janky experiments polluting data used to drive design decisions.
Works every time!
You don't need to root your phone to run Blokada, if that's what you're asking... I installed it sometime last year and as of right now, it claims to have blocked 595944 requests.
Fortinet Is Hiring for DevOps Engineer
Considering that password databases are getting leaked on a regular basis at this point, depending on any specific password database not getting leaked is a pretty bad bet.
Fortinet Is Hiring for Web Developer
Installing the pixel lets you better target your own ads. Similarly, google gets free pings from developers for "free" analytics, or "free" captcha.
Holy damn, thanks so much. I didn't expect my cry for help to go anywhere.
Thanks for your response, I had actually heard about Yuri before and was hoping you would respond to this post!

I have a lot of questions for you if you don't mind, maybe you don't want to answer any/all of them that's fine.

1. How do you handle constraining the AI such that it's enjoyable? If you read through the comments here you'll notice just about everyone is saying the hard part is not making a good AI but in making a fun AI. Do you know of any research in this area? most examples I see are all about making the best AI possible. It seems like it's really hard to find a good reward signal to use for "fun". Have you seen this [0,1] paper on learning from human preferences? does Yuri attempt to do something similar? It seems like it would be labor intensive for the play testers.

2. Does Yuri make use of imitation learning at all? I.E learning from lots of human data when it's available to bootstrap the learning process?

3. Do you let the game designers impose any structure on the AI? I.E. "I want three phases for the boss where he progressively gets more aggressive" or use RL just for certain small parts of the behavior? A well defined path finding algorithm with the RL deciding where the agent tries to go? stuff like that?

I have a ton of questions about the technical details side of Yuri too, what frameworks are you using, which RL algorithms etc etc, not sure if you are willing to share those or not.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741
[1] https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum...
Can you use the STL? What boundary is considered trusted?
Spotify has compressed audio at pretty low bitrate. The FM signal has a full 20hz to 20khz frequency response and they are probably playing CD quality audio. Since it's just raw analog audio represented by radio frequency, it sounds better than the compressed stuff on spotify.

If you have a good signal, FM can be very high fidelity. Ever since people ditched CDs we've been listening to low quality streams and rips.
"I would never, ever, use Ada for a non-academic project including those for embedded systems headed to space."

"Failure should be expected and using a very strict language will help, but is ultimately only a crutch. It comes with a lot of cognitive trade offs."

The best study I ever saw doing comparisons put Ada at safer and cheaper to use for critical software:

http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.pdf

SPARK proves absence of certain kinds of problems that even experts run into. You can do that with static analyzers and such on subsets of C. They tend to cost way more than a SPARK Pro license. SPARK the language is also easier to learn than mastering C with all its dark corners. If not proof, they can also do contract-based, test generation and/or fuzzing with contracts as runtime checks. Will knock out tons of errors.

So, I think the evidence is against your claim so far. And, as to this:

"What happens in the real world? C."

COBOL, Excel, Visual Basic 6, C, C++, Java, and .NET all have piles of code out there. That mean any one being dominant proves its the best? Nah, that happens for social and economic reasons, esp when ecosystem is established. Especially for C. It's worth considering alternatives such as Ada/SPARK, Rust, and D.

I'm also for making the alternatives plug into and use C ecosystem nicely. Maybe even compile to it to leverage its tooling. When that happens, the alternative will strictly be better than C for being able to use all of its ecosystem strength with as little or much weaknesses as integrators want to bear.
I think I'd argue the opposite. I wouldn't compare hackers to nuclear missiles, but defending against hackers doesn't seem to be realistically possible. Consider the state of the security world now, how many piles of money already get thrown at security, and how vulnerable everything still is. With that in mind, I find it hard to believe that even in the fantasy world of all of the "good guy" nations, whoever you think those are, working with vendors to fix every flaw they find instead of holding them for later exploitation against selected targets, that the security landscape would be meaningfully different. Somebody would still find and hold zerodays and use them in attacks. Whoever that is would have a huge advantage against whoever didn't.

I suppose in a perfect world, we'd all melt down all of our guns and turn them into wrenches or something instead and all live in harmony. But we don't live in that world. In the real world, if you melt down all of your guns, someone else will keep theirs, and use them to take your stuff, because you can't hurt them anymore. And similarly, if you disclose and patch all of your zerodays, someone else will still have their own, and will use them to hack your stuff and cause you damage, and you'll have no way to fight back, except to break out the guns and start a hot war with them.

We're still learning how things work in the cyber-war realm, but I feel doubtful that it'll ever be possible to have defenses so good that you can rely on the fact that nobody can touch you.
I don't like the fact that the new calculator always seems to be the wrong size, when using different DPI monitors. I don't need calc to take up 90% of the screen and I don't want to have to resize it. There's no real need for that. Agreed on the history missing functionality, that has annoyed me too.
> Amazon also assured landlords that its decision to close pop-up stores wasn’t a sign that it is pulling back from its expansion into bricks-and-mortar retail, one landlord said.

> “The pop-up stores were designed to ascertain demand, and Amazon can leverage that data for prototypes of other stores,” said Mr. Charles Lanier, director of real estate at Plaza Associates Inc., a private commercial-property landlord that operates Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N.C., which contains an Amazon pop-up.

> Amazon is innovating at a fast pace, he said, adding, “We’re big fans of the brand.”
Fraud reduction includes having to refund money, not just revoking licenses if the payment is reversed.
There's debate because depending on how you slice the data, you get different views, many(most?) of which show very small gains in real wages. As an example, the first link you provided shows generally increasing real wages over the last two decades despite your claim of falling slightly.

Your second link shows cohorts other than the bottom 10th percentile showing real wage gains as well (see figure 3 both charted series and figure 4 2 out of 3 of the series).

Spooky23 introduced data to show a modest increase in real wages in the last 10 years.
It did fail, but note that it did sound freaking awesome. I have one. The thing rivals all the rest of my studio gear which includes a Lavry Black and a MOTU 16A capable of 24/192k (which doesn't actually sound better than the Black, but does spec better)

The Pono is kind of 'polite' sounding, and possibly not the most mastering-grade accurate playback compared to far more expensive DACs, but by God it sounds good. If you come across any at pennies on the dollar you'd be a fool to not snap them up, it's an extraordinary little piece of tech. (if you do and you don't want them, give 'em to me!)
Messenger works as a standalone app, I've found it easier to message people there instead of friending them where they'll live in my feed forever even once they cease to be relevant.
I was about to correct you since one opened near my house, but it sounds like all 9 of the 365 stores will be converted to a regular Whole Foods by the end of the year:

https://www.eater.com/2019/2/27/18243123/whole-foods-365-sto...
In this case I think it's valid because the old calculator from windows 8 and below (before the app version) is sometimes called win32calc.
Interestingly enough, direct messaging is only available in app. A workaround had to be created by an ex-Instagram employee.
Stop posting wsj articles. They’re just advertising for the wsj walled garden.
Yeah, I certainly don't know either. I'm just saying that arguing that it _is_ a pipeline issue based on the stats vs. saying that it's a culture issue that affects the pipeline is just two people talking past each other.
Digital radio is very very low bitrate. A good FM signal is superior.

FM is capable of the same frequency response as CD, and it's a purely analog signal. If you don't have interference, you are getting a very pure stream of audio. The station is also probably using CD grade audio, so most of that quality is preserved.

From an audio standpoint, FM is a pretty decent sound medium. It's going to depend on your equipment, signal, and if you are moving.