skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twenge's book iGen is in fact excellent: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/08/28/igen-jean-m-twenge-the-ki... and complements The Coddling of the American Mind.
Porting PuTTY to Windows on Arm
Thank you so much for posting that link. I am on the verge of tears. I am tortured day and night by my conviction on this issue and reading that link made me feel for the first time that I am not alone in this conviction. This man understands completely where I’m coming from. I had no idea there was a formal philosophical name for what I was trying to describe.

Every day I experience the world and I am overwhelmed by how amazingly good it is. I relish every moment and everything is rich with opportunity. But as your link shows, the world is only this way because human society and everything in it happens to be the natural conclusion of all the worlds entities racing to the bottom. We live in a magical time where empathy and cooperation are often the most expedient thing to do. All that needs to happen is for the economic equation to change a little bit and the world will contort into something else, maybe something grotesque.
Yes, that is really the issue and because it is a common misunderstanding about the marketplace articles like this can be misleading.

There was no change to sellers and certainly Amazon wants more people to sell FBA rather than FBM because you obviously have to pay more to Amazon for each unit you sell if you use their warehouses plus storage fees besides than if you use your own warehouses and handle the shipping yourself. Amazon still wants these brands to sell their products on Amazon, but they don't want to be responsible for buying the goods from them if that makes sense.
Dreams of working over 2kbps satellite link (Iridium Go) - shattered.
Great feedback — really appreciate this comment.
"Unstated" things are not evidence.

That's the Conspiracy Fallacy.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

"Look at all these people not talking about how racist they are! Clearly they're all hiding something."
For every autistic savant you see, there's a dozen that you don't see that have severe communication and other mental issues and will never be able to survive and function as an adult without high levels of living assistance.

As offensive as it is, the stereotype you see on reddit and YouTube comments of people with autism yelling "RREEEEEEEE" is sometimes a true one.
Thank you. Appreciate the response.
Having the wrong domain, the forwarding SMTP server will fail both the reverse MX check and SPF. That's straight to spam folder, if not transparent deletion.

For gmail, you can register your domain in the google webmaster tools and it will show how many emails were filtered or not, by gmail users.
This is incredibly impressive! You should be very proud of yourself for not only having the knowledge to work through a project like this but also the discipline to see it through to fruition. Hats off!
I'm not sure you have the right to be upset about lack of attributions when your articles lack attributions for the sources of information and all of the images.
More power to you for being patient enough to fight through! I’m nowhere near that good.
> But it seems arbitrary to say that Android is a failure when it has more users than iOS or Linux.

I'm not saying android is a failure, I'm saying it's sandboxing has not prevented malware and spyware being ubiquitous. This was a problem way back before android itself was a huge success.

> Browsers are another important example of sandboxing.

This has been pretty effective at preventing malware, but the web is a privacy nightmare and constantly getting worse.
No it isn't. Litigation in slow and expensive, and the targets of such litigation would just turn around and whine they're being oppressed by the courts were they to lose.
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Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 with cool modules
It actually runs on my iPhone 8 Plus like a breeze.

If there was a way to solve the annoying zoom-in behaviour when the editor or any text field was focused it would be workable.

Seems like a good option for those would-be iPad-using developers if they can easily run other environments.
I think these kinds of shenanigans (stonewalling/hiding/papering over safety issues/corruption) should be able to be penalized with forced stock splits, maybe something like 1:3, where 1/3 of the split shares go to the gov/court/victims and become a fine essentially.

The fact that ownership doesn't have any real risk makes it so there aren't appropriate corrective pressures from the market side.
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You're right that this is a bad-tax-allocation problem, not a "rich people shouldn't commute through poor neighborhoods" problem.

There are petrol taxes and car registration fees, but that mostly goes to funding road construction and maintenance. This makes sense at first glance, but the article illustrates that it's missing a lot of the costs of driving.

Public education in the US is funded to a large extent by local property taxes. (The result is that rich neighborhoods have considerably better-funded schools than poor neighborhoods.)

Commutes in the US are commonly long enough that it's entirely normal to find people end up driving through poor school districts, while their education-directed dollars go mostly to their own schools. If dealing with the pollution comes from the local district's property taxes (or simply leaves the students breathing polluted air), you've got an uncorrected externality.
Put all Boeing engineers flying nonstop around the globe in Max 8 planes until someone breaks down and speaks up :)
As the article describes, it's a small (or large...) heap with some specific behavior and restrictions- space is allocated in order, making allocation extremely fast; and in exchange there's no way to free individual objects, you must instead free them all at once.
A side note: there is a well-defined value of "acceptable range", i.e. regulators regularly make decisions based on whether the cost of a change would be more than the "statistical value of a human life". (https://www.theglobalist.com/the-cost-of-a-human-life-statis...)

The question is whether, through regulatory capture or negligence, monetary costs are being valued too highly.
Chips themselves aren't actually very regular in terms of their layout -- not all tracks are connected the same way, parts are partitioned across different clocking areas, some parts of the chip contain things like memory resources while others do not, etc. You don't actually have a perfectly symmetrical die. FPGAs for example are quite "heterogenous" in the device resources they contain (clocks, DSPs, memory, registers) and they are scattered in many places over the chip. (Note that FPGA resources are fixed while ASIC layouts are not, but both of them use simulated annealing/analytic placement algorithms in the design phase for automatically laying out digital logic among the chip. Both of these problems, while complex, do ultimately aim to solve the optimization problem of minimizing wire-length -- among many other timing/clocking constraints.)
In that case, I'm cautiously optimistic that they've reconsidered the nonsense!
Uh, no saying "any other device" is too sweeping of a generalization. You must be logged into a browser specifically: You cannot turn two factor off from the app.
Amazon has no power over whether or not you buy it. They only decide whether or not they sell it. If you want to contact the author or publisher or another bookseller and purchase it, please explain how Amazon is preventing you from doing that?
Oh please, so they're suddenly far more moral than snap/insta/insert-photo-share-site-here? What an absurd reach
"Sex worker" is a broader term than "prostitute". The former covers most every commercial activity whose objective is orgasm, the latter covers only those whose normal job is orgasm via insertion (although they may do it by other means at a client's request.)
In the past, the answer was sometimes. About 6 years ago I lived in a Dallas suburb where I had ATT fiber directly to my house. A friend a few miles away, in Dallas, had copper. We had the same services, same prices, same hardware, etc.
This is censorship. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Thanks :) (I don't mind people saying it over and over again, believe me :P)

I actually started building a much smaller video game console with a cheap Cyclone II FPGA board (a friend of mine wanted one and I tried to figure it out how I could make something smaller and cheaper but still retro and cool) and I'm using VHDL, it's not exactly easy to learn but it's pretty cool, and I find it really hard to find good resources to learn from.

If I was to start all over again, I would use an FPGA for the graphics, for sure, at the time I just didn't know how.

And thanks again for the comment :)
Agreed. DOCSIS 3.1 is nice. I think most of the bad news around coax is because a lot of cable operators overload their nodes.
Food innovations changed our mouths, which in turn changed our languages
There are also cold-starting issues when running very high ethanol fractions.
Stripe and PayPal choose to work with certain credit card networks, not all.
I wish also IntelliJ Idea could do this. Very nice BTW.
Android devices do not receive updates. This creates all sort of issues, including inconsistency and lack of features. Legitimate and sensible decision, but sad.
It's hard for me to figure out what the right analogy even is. Is the first version of the smartphone a (non-smart) mobile phone or a PDA? In some ways the Newton is a precursor to the iPhone, and those sort of devices had an enthusiastic but niche audience and didn't seem close to going mainstream for a while.

For VR, most of the major industry players are continuing to invest (and were never expecting it to go mainstream in the last few years), and the active user count is persistently going up. The absolute numbers are relatively low. But the cost, software, and hardware right now are all pretty terrible and rapidly being improved.

With a growing base and major cost/quality improvements on the horizon it probably has a fairly secure future as a niche gaming platform. I don't think the data is conclusive yet on whether VR is the Next Big Thing.

There's kind of a chicken-and-egg SW problem for new platforms. Most of the popular mobile apps were only developed because of a large existing base of networked devices. For iPhone 1.0, the killer app was probably the ability to use the desktop web. Is there anything VR could do for normal consumers, that doesn't require enormous software investment (before there's a market)?

People watching TV/movies on their phone/tablet is pretty common (in addition to the living room). It doesn't seem too out there that VR could become cheap/good/comfortable enough to be popular for that use case (watching 2D TV on a phone). It's only marginally less social if you're watching by yourself anyway, and could even feel more social depending how the virtual theater is set up. Maybe that's one pathway that could drive more mainstream adoption.

I think it's premature to mark VR as a fad just yet, at least before not-terrible mobile systems come out. There's not too many tech products I can think of that would be popular if they could only be used chained to a $1000 desktop PC.
exactly, plus for my elderly parents facebook has opened another world. Internet and google is too complex for them.
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I mean, .1% seems drastically too small to me. I'd guess maybe 1, maybe even as many as 10%, represent actual at-least-somewhat-active users?
> The point being that airlines can and will fly airframes that in one way or another would be illegal to manufacture today for safety reasons

Of course, this is also true for cars. The vast majority of cars on the road would be illegal to manufacture today.
Title is misleading. This is 3rd party contractor that won an RFP bid yo push out hard copy verification of ballot and voter's choice with some "DARPA techniques". Not quite the secure confidential system with data integrity I was hoping for.

> We will show a methodology that could be used by others to build a voting system that is completely secure.

This really feels like a Proof-of-concept or reference architecture, at best.
"The decrease in gas mileage is not worth it"

That statement presumes that you know what ethanol-free gasoline would cost. It is often possible to find ethanol-free gas if you look for it, but at least here in HI it is substantially more expensive.
In my opinion, the root cause of this is that Linux made a conscious decision to not maintain binary ABI compatibility with device drivers.

Android is open source, and Linux-based. The licenses allow phone manufacturers to fork Android and integrate it with devices that only have closed-source binary blob drivers, without involving Google. The end result is a bunch of phones whose kernels (and thus OSes) are impossible to update. (I am told that Microsoft found this sufficiently frustrating and that it decided it would write its own drivers for the vast majority of hardware.)

Linux has a Very Good Reason to discourage binary driver compatibility -- it would rather see those drivers be open-sourced under GPL and moved in-tree. But the end result has seriously hurt the security of more than two-thirds of Android users -- users who otherwise should be inclined to choose open-source because they are paranoid about security.

I think the right answer is to require folks to have Android Q+ to continue to use security keys with an Android account, but I imagine that's not a viable choice because the optics would be that Google is doing a "money grab" in exchange for security.
> every build takes much longer than promised, and always, with 100% certainty, costs billions more than planned.

That's true of pretty much every large infrastructure project in the US (and probably outside the US, but I'm less familiar with that side of things). Nuclear reactors are hardly unique in that regard.
This will not be of general interest to HN, but I disagree. If compaction is behind then commanding a higher compaction rate can free space, and it can also bring down your service. You can also call for higher rates of splits and merges with the same effect. I have no idea of those actions contributed to this outage.
> This is fucking bananas. For nearly a decade, Facebook has been at the forefront of innovating how code is deployed at global scale. They presumably have gradual rollouts, automated rollbacks, anomaly detection, not to mention (I assume) loads of organizational safeguards in place to ensure this sort of thing never happens.

> Something else happened. This was not a configuration issue. Edit: If it was, I'd expect a post-mortem post-haste.

I've worked on automation projects at a large scale, and Facebook uses an unusual and clever method to deploy their software: BitTorrent.

I can only speculate about why FB went down yesterday. But if you understand that it's being deployed via BT, you can see that there's the potential to have a lengthy rollback window.

IE, this isn't like uninstalling a single RPM; this could have impacted a significant fraction of their fleet of systems, across multiple datacenters, and if so, the amount of data they'd need to move to rollback could have been tremendous.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Facebook-use-BitTorrent-to-co...
Facebook does a lot of work like this for its internal development uses (also, when it used to open source Nuclide).

I think this is a good first step, but there's a lot more problems that are harder to solve than what this offers (and are what I'd consider the main problems that need to be solved...)

One example is language services. Integrating something like C++ autocomplete is difficult, and not something they seem to have done (looking at their page). The right way to do it is to run the C++ autocomplete on the server, and have some way of providing those suggestions over the connection to your local editor.
When any normal person visits a store they can see the security cameras watching, and they can likely image that they may be counted.

It is not accurate to say that it is like that the average person who goes to a web site is even in the slightest aware of all the different ways in which they are being used.
Whales have nothing to do with ads.
It can be used as an oxidizer, as in some places MTBE has been banned.
That said, at least it's progress in the right direction (I Hope). We'll see how it turns out.
Or maybe people are complicated and they use tools to connect and amplify natural behavior. All this digital technology and instant communication with everyone is still very new and the human species is still learning how to best use it. If Facebook didn't exist then something else would've taken its place. This is part of technological progress and similar things happened with the invention of radio, tv and telecom.

It's very presumptuous to think a single person or company knows better than the entire world on whether something is "good" or not.
"Are developers trying to improve the product, or are you just collecting data to sell to 3rd parties?"

Problem is, there is no way to know or properly police this.
A search for “dead autistic kid” finds many examples of ignorant mistreatment.
It's my understanding from various reporting I've heard on this subject that the location data that is the subject of the OP is in fact data that is reported live via satellite comms, not data that has been retrieved from the FDR.
It takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of gasoline, too. Anything less would be amazing.
I'd also agree that "Tumblr-as-less-shitty-Pinterest" is a pretty major use, as is general "Twitter-without-a-character-limit" usage.
I think the author would agree with you, that improving chess-playing is not likely to be a productive domain for advancing AI in future, and for essentially the reasons you give here: it is too formal (this guess is based, in part, on some of the authors' other writing.)
I agree that we need to abolish the taboo of not talking about salaries. It creates an information asymmetry that primarily benefits employers.
Fine, so buy it somewhere else. Better think long and hard about the legalities of giving anyone bleach to drink, though.
What this solves is one of the reasons why many vim/emacs users can't leave/change their editors so easily ;)
What is the alternative to a cost benefit analysis though? We could spend an infinite amount on diminishing safety gains.
Whites?
By "whites" here, I assume you mean "white-collar workers". Usually, in vernacular, "whites" is taken as a slightly derogatory metonym for "white people", so I was initially slightly taken aback by your comment. Sorry if I was being obtuse, but I have never heard the term "whites" used in this fashion.
Can anyone attest to this new system's engagement or possible effects on blockchain technology?
My bet is this is related to AML (anti-money laundering) more than BAML being vindictive. Especially since you were using it to pay people remotely. Not forgiving them for poor customer service, but that's what it seems like to me.
That’s right! The idea for NALA was totally shaped by these conversations. I wrote a short post about how NALA was born that provides a bit of insight into some of these interviews (https://medium.com/nala-money/how-we-built-nala-e40a0e3e9ac3).

The most obvious take-away was that sending money via USSD really isn’t user friendly at all (takes a long time, have to memorize unique and sometimes complex payment codes, etc.).

Another take-away was that users have multiple sim cards (each 'bank' account may be tied with a different sim card). So having one interface to actually make and manage payments could prove extremely valuable.
> Seems like a lot of people were forced to be productive yesterday

Well... except for those companies dumb enough to farm out their intra-company communications to facebook.

A friend of mine's law firm had to resort to - OMG - the phone - yesterday.
I happen to agree the burden is on people to prove it’s safe. But that’s not how things work. Take Climate Change for example. How many people take the uncertainty as a license to keep going off the cliff?

Read this story as a possible alernative:

http://m.nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/the-last-invention-of-m...
I presume this is due to tokenization or something, but there's a lot of extra whitespace in the code samples that make them look very unrealistic:

def _ _ init__(self, default):
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See if the default value for the field on a view is
timespan.
" " "

< select >
< option > value < / option >
< option > value < / option >
< / select >

And indentation is also missing completely. Maybe you need to use another NN to guess which language the fake code is in and autoformat it accordingly!
I agree (and thanks for calling me a smart individual :) )

Nowadays is so much easier to get information on how to build something apparently very complex. You don't need to go to a library or seek out and go talk to experts, you actually have access to all that through the internet in forums, articles, posts and videos.

Also it's easy nowadays to order all the things you need for a project online.

Thanks :)
The problem is not with the ethanol. It's with the corn.
Here's this hen strolling through the backyard, humming her tune and tentatively pecking at things. You're watching her, contemplating how dinosaurs might have looked the same and how they must have moved in those alien ways. One second later she's raced into a shrub and plucked a mouse from between the leaves on the ground.

And you can't help but feel a pang of regret for the vermin. You lost many of your ancestors in just this way. You're a survivor. Tomorrow you're going to eat that egg. In revenge.
With leapfrog you can use x + v dt/2 for the positions to calculate the energy. Or use this update rule:

x += v*dt/2
v += a(x)*dt
x += v*dt/2

This gives you the x,v at the same time, yet still doesn't require storing the accelerations. The acceleration calculation can imperatively update v :)

In fact, if you call that update leapfrog(dt), then you can get a fourth order symplectic method like so:

leapfrog(c1*dt)
leapfrog(c2*dt)
leapfrog(c1*dt)

Where c1,c2 are particular coefficients which you have to ask Yoshida.