skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have any sources for this, but I always assumed they dropped the magplug because it was too thick and they wanted to use usb-c exclusively.
I think ML has potential that Blockchain doesn’t, but not in all the areas that are being hyped.

I work in the public sector of Denmark, and we’re targeted by a lot of the hype. Which is worrisome, because it might actually lead to stupid projects if it becomes a political focus. So far it hasn’t though, and blockchain never did, so who knows.

The thing about ML is that all the BI is worse than what we are already doing. Because it’s hyped we’ve naturally done proofs of concepts, with universities and with big tech, and no one has been capable of providing ML based analytics or BI that is even remotely close to what we already do. Because the simple truth is that we have been working with data for four decades. We have full time analysts who do nothing else, and they are simply lightyears ahead of anything ML we’ve seen, and, they can actually explain their results to our politicians and decision makers.

Where ML does work, and the fact that it does separates it from blockchain, is for recognition. We have a lot of data, often in poor quality, and ML can troll through it faster and with higher quality than our human workers. We had to go through every casefile in a specific area, and identify which ones were missing a specific form. A casefile can be 500 A4 pages long, sometimes scanned in really terrible quality, and we had 500.000 of them. It took 12 people 6 months to do so, simultaneously we did a ML poc. It took 3 months to train the algorithm, but only one employee, and once it was done being trained, it took around five hours with a lot of Azure iron to troll through the data. ML had better results than our human effort and it was obviously way cheaper.

So ML and AI may be a lot of hype, but it’s also more than that.
https://appearin.helpscoutdocs.com/article/225-about-appear-...

"The Freeplan can support up to 4 participants in a room, while the Pro plan supports up to 12 participants in a room at a time."
Its really nice to watch.
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If the routers have public keys it's possible, then the client has to determine (some or all points on) the route. I think future protocols will track use and payment via client-provided keys which are somehow linked to their ISP.
Full-disk encryption. https://www.howtogeek.com/234826/how-to-enable-full-disk-enc...

Nothing more than speculation but...I suspect if you aren't using an open source OS, it's possible the NSA has a backdoor into the machine. The lack of open source is partly why the EternalBlue exploit existed across decades of windows releases.
Mueller Julian Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians
Why? Fastly will make a couple people very rich, and they seem to be doing fine without subsidies. Why should public funds go toward concentrating wealth even further?
Edge facilities are warehouses in regional locations with excellent backbone connectivity, basically your modern datacenter. Cellphone towers can probably host a few racks, that's not a profitable business and its not "internet scale". If the regional datacenter has a 15ms ping to each tower in the region, then you have pretty good coverage.
To noted non-flooding at all cities Houston and Galveston?
"Doubt it" is pretty much a clear invitation to present arguments.

Present an argue against what? “Is not!” doesn’t give a lot to work with. “Doubt it” does a fine job of presenting one’s biases, but it is most certainly not an invitation to stimulating discussion, quite the opposite.
You could do this in C++ by storing the unit of measure with the measurement value and then performing unit conversion in overloaded math operators.
Interesting, I use WSL as well, when I get a chance I'll turn it off and see if WSL speeds up!
I think from long time scientists are studying the topic of Ocean Seeding and Iron Fertilization.

Video on Ocean Seeding - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xofhzc1NZ8s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
What about thermite? Melt right through the steel platters of a hard disk!
Kids get grown, you have more money and time.
Not sure how the title is provocative? Even less click baity. And is there a rule I am not aware of against submitting my own posts?
My main set up is to run Docker for Windows, connect to it through WSL and volume mount code from a drive into Docker to do active development (Rails, Flask, Phoenix apps mostly).

While I never ran Windows defender personally, a bunch of my students (I run a Docker course) who had Windows defender enabled said volume performance was disappointing on Windows. After they disabled defender, things were really good. If you Google around there's a lot of people who mention that. Improvements are being made, but I still don't want a tool actively scanning files while I'm trying to use my machine.
Single Cortical Neurons as Deep Artificial Neural Networks
Due to a sad trilogy of events at the end of last century (specifically Episode 2: Texas BBQ) the ATF of this century mostly conducts stings and information based enforcement (i.e. nabbing people for buying Glock switches online). Were they to go back to kicking down doors of people who are generally considered normal patriotic Americans they would A) be more likely to get shot back at than any other agency (much easier to justify and mentally prepare yourself to shoot back at career snake steppers than your local PD) and B) have some really, really bad optics to contend with.

If you're worried about someone taking your guns be worried about the state police.
The Saturn V only used hydrogen for its third stage. The first two stages (i.e. the ones that operated while it was still in the atmosphere) ran on RP-1.
I'm starting to question if the rich are not overvalued because as more and more money is being shoved into their pockets I have one thing to ask. Where's the economic miracle?

Not only are everyday people poorer but GDP is stagnant. From a western perspective the rich got a ton of raises and failed to deliver. We have countries with negative birthrates and people living in smaller homes with more food insecurity. Central Banks have been doing their best to raise prices and keep the rich afloat yet I don't see the big economic miracle.

Prehaps the source of their wealth is not productivity but good old fashioned power dynamics? What value are the rich providing to most people exactly? Wonderful new technology? That's pretty neat but what else do they have to offer?
U.S. military spending set to increase for fifth consecutive year
Eating Dogfood at Scale: How We Build Serverless Apps with Workers
You might not want to give the new Alberta government any ideas.
I'm pretty sure OCaml doesn't use an optimising compiler, I don't think Delphi or FreePascal do either, not sure about the others. Just as Go does, these compilers will perform some optimisations but generally fairly local and simple. They "deliver performance" in the same way Go does.

According to its documentation, dmd doesn't even do function inlining until you specifically opt into that with `-inline`.
I have the same impression. If AI system figured out that the risk of the car being stolen when someone lives in a certain place is bigger and adjusted fee to be higher, then it means AI worked correctly.

One might claim (I presume author does and this is perfectly ok) that this is a bad thing that there are "bad neighborhoods" and we should fight it, but what does it have to do with proper calculation of insurance fee? Should we expect that AI will apply some "social justice" concepts while calculating insurance price. I am not sure what author proposes.
Report suggests the 'fake news' came from Trump, not news media
Lack of competition in the Apple ecosystem, plain and simple. I think people know this before making the jump. Or they work for a company that forces them into choosing between a windows or osx laptop. I'm in this crowd and I have no love for either. I despise apple hardware but hate windows itself far more.

Most people are best served with a good chromebook. That crowd won't be the ones frequenting this type website.
They acquired Firebase. On Firebase Hosting for apex domains one needs to add Fastly's Anycast IPs. Switching CDNs would be a nightmare.

One related gripe I have with Firebase Hosting is that it refuses to renew certificates if you also add IPv6 addresses.
The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need
It's a stupid design. So what if a lot of people aren't affected by it?

My mouse is wireless. When it says battery low you know what I do? I plug it in and it looks just like a wired mouse for an hour.

Tell me what exactly you get in exchange for losing that feature? Sexiness?
A Portrait of the White House and Its Culture of Dishonesty
Three Drug Dealers on Darknet Are Accused of Laundering Millions Through BTC
You forgot one major thing. The algorithm. Facebook decides what you see and what is being recommended to you. If they recommend to you something that has more engagement but is fundamentally false, we have a problem. It's one thing when it's just a pure communication platform (whatsapp), another when you push/promote some content in the feed over something else. No they don't have a master evil plan, but they are careless and don't care about their own responsability. One example where it becomes a problem: it was proven that there was violence in Myanmar triggered by false information that was pushed by the algorithm to more people
This is a fair question, albeit off topic.

You can see Mozilla's latest annual report report at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/

And the latest public financial statement at https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but not on WebThings or producing those reports)
Fair enough. You have a valid point on "your objections are not valid" is not the right tone. I'll edit to highlight that feature branches have their benefits in some cases. Thanks for reading!
Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Sues a Podcaster for Libel
AFAIK root access is only needed once for setting up the /nix directory during installation.

It is however possible to install nix stuff on systems where you have no root access:

https://matthewbauer.us/blog/static-nix.html

(Requirement: namespaces for users)
use interactive rebase?
Nostalgia aside, this is at least one solution to the problem of content discovery and relevance being driven entirely towards corporate interests and SEO by Google.

I'm not certain I like the premise of the design of the banner being up to ring administrators - design should be up to the site owners.

I'm also wondering if this isn't a bit overengineered. With just the index JSON file and an id indicating a site, you have most of what you need to generate "previous" and "next" links, and you could do that with vanilla javascript, without web components, without requiring cloud hosting, without a dependency tree.

I'm probably being a curmudgeon about it, I really like the idea and there's nothing wrong with it as is, it just seems far more complex than it needs to be.
Got a recruiting email about a company working in Augmented Reality, remote. Normally I'd ignore recruiting emails, but the idea of sitting at home wearing a hololens sounded too cool to not at least LISTEN to the pitch.

Yah, they're not doing AR. The guy explained it was a marketing gimmick for VCs (though he made it sound nicer than that).
This is a tired trope, that “business people” are brainless and gullible. Almost as tired as the “VCs are so dumb they’ll throw money at anything-AI” idea repeated in the article.

Maybe, just maybe, the people running multi-billion-dollar companies, and multi-billion-dollar investment funds, are not stupid?

It would be much more interesting and productive to discuss what they see in AI and why they feel so much urgency, rather than dismissing them as fools falling for magic.
Today I was driving around beautiful spring-time Vienna, and I happened to stop at a traffic light as Chancellor Kurz, sitting in the passenger seat of some 2019 rich-car convertible, also happened to stop in the lane next to me.

He gave me such an evil glare, it was astonishing. So I glared back at him.

In real life, I found him to be as loathsome a creature as in media. Perhaps, fatter than I thought he was.

I hope I can continue to report such things on the Internet in the future.
Mine sold wicker furniture in the front, but the back was water pipe city.
INF on-site treaty compliance inspections used to occur, but eventually gave way to satellite checks.[0]

With the INF suspended, however, perhaps the UN is still performing on-site compliance checks?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...
There are many little things, I just don't feel that Android UI is as polished. I can live with them or in some cases I probably can customize things, but it's still irritation.

Here are some random ones:

* When I have to enter pin (6 digits) I must press "OK". iPhone unlocks after 6-th digit automatically.

* It seems that Android app developers prefer the ad model. I don't have a single app on iOS with ads. Yet it's hard to find a single app in Android without ads. And I hate them.

* I spent something like 30 minutes trying to add a second phone number to my own android contact. I did not succeed. Theoretically I have to go to Google profile and add it there. But that button was not there. With iOS me is just another contact that I can edit as any other contact.

* To turn off all radios (airplane mode) I have to swipe from top, then swipe again to uncover the full menu, then swipe again to go to the right menu and only there I can click to enable airplane mode. With iOS it's one swipe and one click. I guess that I can customize this screen with Android and I can't with iOS... I don't want to bother, actually.

* I hate back button philosophy. I don't want to switch to other apps with back button. I prefer back buttons in app UI.

* I can't tap top bar to scroll to the top. Some websites provide that button as part of their UI, so may be it's just an iOS habit.
Yes the Netherlands is sinking. Hilariously enough its because of draught. The entire country is basically man made and a natural disaster. Luckily there is virtually unlimited budget and good engineering to keep things going.
EDIT: adjusted the diagram to make it more clear that we're not mutating the &str

Here's some string data, in memory somewhere:

Hello world

A `&str` is a pointer, length combo. The pointer points to the start of the string, the length says how many bytes there are:

(p, 11)
|
\
|
V
Hello world

A `&mut T` is a pointer, so a `&mut &str` looks like this:

p
|
V
(p, 11)
|
\
|
V
Hello world

Since it's mutable, this means we can re-assign what it points to, and create a new `&str` to the later part of the string:

p
\------\
V
(p, 11) (p, 5)
| |
\ |
| |
V V
Hello world

Since the inner &str is immutable, we can't change the underling string.

Hope that helps!
Implement Some Handy JavaSript Functions from the Ground Up
"America succeeded in spite of Americans" - Immigrants
Ask not whose ambulance is being chased, one day it’ll be thine with that flippant attitude. Not everyone down here is paid by the hour.
No, INF treaty is about ground launched weapons, the same thing launched by boats are fine.

On of the things the Russians did was to take a boat launched weapon capable of INF prohibited ranges, putting it on the ground but only testing it out to ranges allowed by the INF. )I think they put something heavier on it so it wouldn't go as far as the naval version.)
> What exactly is it about the platform that makes it so "evil"?

Off the top of my head I'd personally nominate

Ads on WhatsApp
Password breaches affecting both fb and ig
Forced homogenization of the product offering via Stories
Sleaziness around graph growth
An upcoming boondoggle of an integration between Fb Ig and WhatsApp identity systems supposedly to align them on strong privacy via end to end encryption
And personally I'd add the pursuit of end to end encryption at scale, which sounds like it'll lead to a disaster of moderation. (Ie don't count me in as the supporter of e2ee in the first place.)

> Do we really think we can stem "fake news" by expecting Facebook to bear the responsibility for everything that is communicated on their platform(s)?

I am not sure what the alternative you propose is. Dig your head deeper into sand?

> are we truly confident that hamstringing Facebook with a "break-up" is really going to lead to a better future? Do I really want my kids to be using TikTok/WeChat/Telegram or some other foreign controlled platform over which my government has much less oversight

I am not sure which is your government but it would probably have some power as long as we're talking about commercial operations, which tend to have some substantial presence in the jurisdictions where they're operating at scale. Or, even just blocking...
For varying definitions of acceptable. It's certainly less acceptable than an engineering degree.
It's still a valid question to ask though.

And many people do program outside of work. Not necessarily big projects, but things like AoC, ProjectEuler, or just learning a new language/framework.

But yeah - I believe more programmers don't rather than do.
Agree that feature flags count should not explode because you can never test all combinations. Feature toggles should drive the life span of a feature from start of development to "adopted and becomes the default" or "rejected and we scrap it all out". At the end of the day the number of feature toggles should remain relatively low.
Laraberg Beta, a Gutenberg Implementation for Laravel
To do parallel construction at scale you'd need to get the information into the hands of law enforcement in a plausibly deniable way. Doing that at scale would either have a predictable pattern (if every agency starts getting "anonymous tips" then questions are going to start getting asked) or would need to involve many people in order to plant the information in a more varied manner. Involving the recipient agencies themselves is not going to happen because two people can only keep a secret if one of them is dead so a cool million is going to be a non-starter.
> German men, in my experience, tend to get quite obstinate in their old age

Perhaps, the men are also depressed? Maybe if they feel like they're not useful any more because they don't work.
From 2017 to 2018, they added 147 new paying customers. Of which, 57 were enterprise and based on their metrics claiming > 80% of revenue was from these "enterprise" deals, probably high dollar.

Still, ~$50m in marketing/advertising spend to earn 147 new paying customers (340k/customer) seems high to my untrained eye. Do those enterprise deals and that "132% Dollar Expansion Rate" justify such high CPA?

Those with experience with this kind of enterprise-focused company - is this normal?
> I couldn't justify spending so much on a laptop

Apple MacBooks lately are being priced on par with the competition. You want premium screen and trackpad - you will have to pay just as much for a windows laptop.
You know what is truly ironic?
I don't have a "main" account to begin with. I am foremost a lurker.

Why did I create a throwaway account, and why did I purposely name and highlight that it was a "throwaway"? Two reasons:

1) I wholeheartedly disagree with whole concept of Karma and "internet points" as a whole. I do not see how this adds any reputation to the user due to previous posts and there is absolutely no need for it. Posts can be "upvoted" and collect "points" on a thread by thread basis, but why should this extend to the user and follow them around? Just because someone has a cute cat doesn't mean their opinion about capitalism holds more merit.

2) It is my belief that some people would easily dismiss a comment, especially one with an unpopular opinion such as the one I wrote, and cry out "troll" if they saw that the post was made by a new user with no comment history. Whilst I understand having a comment history helps to support the fact that you are not trolling, not having one should not imply you are - but sadly that's often the case. For that reason, I (used to) think that creating an account and purposefully indicating that is "throwaway" would at least act to preemptively highlight that fact to anybody who was thinking about judging the content of the post based on previous comment history. Obviously, however, that doesn't seem to have helped here as the only comments so far have been related to the name and status of my account as opposed to the actual message contained in the comment.

Hopefully the fact that I am taking the time to respond to these quick critics will at least help to support my "authenticity" as a commenter.
The magic mouse is easily the best mouse I've ever used. It feels nice, works great, and the capacitive touch feature is one I now consider mandatory.

Could they put the port somewhere else? Not with the current design (and it's a design that works spectacularly well for flicking and scrolling with fingers on the touch surface -- it seems to be a bit more than a design for looks). Well I suppose they could put it on the left or the right, but that would be stupid. They can't fit it on the ends. So they should have designed it for a non-issue that users of the mouse have no trouble with?
This site claims to have photos, GPS coordinates, and hiking directions to Hyperion: http://famousredwoods.com/hyperion/ ...is that the correct tree?
On reading the headline my first thought was "That's fine just as long as it applies to everyone" and then I see that it's just a measure to control people.

Eliminating anonymity should be done through measures that amount to enforcing traceability at fundamental technical levels - that will affect everything from spam to fraud. But simplistic things like this just require people to identify themselves, which is just a form of social control.
My First Headless Computer on Google Compute Engine
But in this case, it will be used the way that e12e described.
The apple hardware: crap keyboard, any slight usage leads to blaring fans and immediate thermal throttling. Options mean end users could actually pick something that fits their needs and not have to live with what Apple thinks YOU need. There have been times when choices haven't been good on the non apple side but in recent years the apple's few top down dictated choices on the hardware side have led to clearly inferior products.
Please see my response to piffy.
It's not limited by network speed because I have HOMEBREW_NO_GITHUB_API and HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE enabled. It's not like I just today stumbled into the problem.

Brew's not even consuming much system cpu time during `brew search`, despite hogging a core for a full minute.

Even just `brew help` takes almost 10 sec cold.
It's a lot harder to kill a pedestrian with a bike than with a car, though. Cars are a lot more lethal than bikes, and most countries have road designs that are bike-hostile. You have to be a very assertive and alert cyclist there to not get hurt.

That is to say, consideration and respect goes both ways.
I think that’s the future. AI will give people something to hide behind. Imagine a US health insurance that declines you because of “AI”. It’s already bad enough the way it is but this will bring it to a whole new different level.
Thermite is surprisingly bad at killing disks beyond recoverability.

Search for "and that's how I lost my other eye" from defcon23. Probably available on YouTube.