skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2018/06/zstd-is-faster-than-... is versus zstd 1.3.3. There are others too on that blog.

Oodle and zstd are both very impressive, it's a shame the former is not free.
right. and SEPs only have value because they are included in a standard. not all of the Q patents at issue are technically SEPs though. That said, just because you have a patent, doesn’t mean you can behave anticompetitively around licensing it. it’s your car but you can’t run over pedestrians.
While looking for the 'best' settings, I found that flow and speed are calculated every 30 in-game seconds. Reducing the timewarp (sim speed) value increases the flow value (there is also some relationship to the density value that couldn't figure out).

These are the 'best' settings I could find (almost 500k veh/h):
https://i.imgur.com/eqM8nbb.jpg

To reproduce, set the timewarp to 0.2 and density to 0 then wait for 30 in-game seconds.
Oh man I remember Homesite. I loved it.

Before that I used the old Netscape WISYWIG editor.
Apple's position: "The Security Considerations describe some bad things that can happen even if the spec is properly implemented. Unsurprisingly, I think those things are bad. No time to make actual technical contributions at this time but I will consider it if this spec gets multi-vendor interest." https://twitter.com/othermaciej/status/951001352347402240

Microsoft is in favor.
"Snowden's actions were clearly global in nature."

No, they were not. The legal consequences of his actions have nothing to do with Europe.

"Trump could also launch thermonuclear war, on that line of thought. Please don't go hyperbolic"

??? Your words are hyperbolic, not mine.

Trump and the Americans should and well remove their military protection of the EU - the current state of affairs whereby Europe has an external party pay for their security is 'hyperbolic' and untenable. Hypocritical, actually.

This is a realty that clouds all discussions.

"As I said, there is no "Europe" as such" - yes there is. Trade negotiations are done at the EU level. The 'trade war' is between US and EU, not between US and France/Germany. Tariffs are applied to them equally.

Finally: Snowden is not a whistleblower. Some of his actions are tantamount to whistleblowing, the rest are tantamount to high treason. Snowden released a lot of information on how the US spies on foreign adversaries, such as Russia, which has nothing to do with 'whistleblowing'. His whistleblowing activities can be pardoned, but he'd be in jail for the rest of his life, or executed for treason.
Considering you can quickly knock up an Azure Function to do the same thing and a lot more for free, yes. For example pingdom will only wait 30s and time out. You can’t condigure that to be higher on any plan.
This is an important point. Transit over StarLink looks like it will be faster than transit overland via fiber optic cable due to the speed of light being slower in fiber cable than free space.

That means that this isn't just a stunt, but an actual upgrade to our communications infrastructure.
I can't agree more, especially with the last part of inheritance nonsense.
Moscow Server Hosted WikiLeaks and Iran’s Hackers Weeks Apart
Change your user agent. I would not be surprised if everything works fine. Although I dont use evernote
But Firefox and Safari aren't on board. I thought everyone had agreed that browser flags were the best way to implement features that weren't actually approved/standardised yet

Turning it on when they know there's no consensus is breaking the web standard
Microsoft is in favor of it. The Chrome team generally ships stuff if at least one other major browser vendor approves.
You can improve your network request speed, but you can’t bring the time taken down to literally zero, i.e. the speed if your page was already prefetched while the user was looking at search results. Yet for privacy reasons, prefetched results had to be served from a cache, yet the Web had no way for Google to cache a page without literally rehosting it on its own domain – which in turn required restrictions on JavaScript, to avoid random people’s code being able to execute in the context of www.google.com. That explains most of AMP.

On the other hand, AMP Real URL is based on Signed HTTP Exchanges, which allow one site to send a cached copy of someone else’s site, in a much more straightforward manner. In theory, Google could now drop the bulk of what’s now known as “AMP” and cache arbitrary pages that indicate their willingness to be cached. That they’re instead integrating this with AMP suggests they may not drop it, which would be unfortunate. On the other hand, since Signed HTTP Exchanges will remain a Chrome-only feature for the foreseeable future, it’s arguably a bit early to expect Google to make that kind of commitment.
Yeah. That option is useless and does absolutely nothing.

I've taken to just unfollowing the users who they force notifications from.

Even though sometimes I'm generally interested in the user's content, I'll view it when I feel like it, not when Twitter wants me to.
"and ruthlessly purges scammers, haters and trolls."

And there you become one of the haters. Purge thyself.
I'm aware of that, but it doesn't make me feel any better about it somehow.
I can definitely agree here, It's really disheartening to see this. When I saw this headline I first thought it was Cloudflare using some sort of cool trick to redirect users back to the proper non-amp page, but was just met with disappointment.
Yes. Following people for just a year is ~meaningless. If someone quits smoking, for example, the benefit of reduced lung cancer incidence will show up on decade scale.
If by “Apple’s position” you mean “a 15-month-old tweet by one Apple employee”.

Edit: And the spec has since gotten multi-vendor interest. From Microsoft:

> We're excited about the potential for this feature set to resolve some of the performance and privacy problems of alternative approaches, and we have been talking to publishers who are interested in utilizing these technologies to provide accelerated experiences.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/gPH...
I'm confused, he's talking about the user outcome - improved battery life while consuming content. The technical reason is that the modem spends less time active for the same amount of bandwidth.
and yet they progressed for a greater cause

Well, the workers did it out of a sense of devotion, and in some cases as a way to guarantee their spot in heaven. They Catholic Church would use this quite a bit. For example: Commission a grand religious painting? Go to Heaven. That's why you sometimes see the people who paid for say, a mural in the mural itself getting blessed by ol' JC himself.
Blender 2.8 is not officially released, right? Maybe he would have more luck with the stable version.
I’ll be frank here. I’m an avid R user, I always hear about Julia but until anyone can show me something even remotely close to tidyverse in Julia, I’ll stick to my subset of R that gets me to 80/20 (and really it’s more like 98/2).
As someone who lives in a dense city (Sydney), I can tell you that I would use this satellite internet if it's faster than the ADSL2 and poop fibre most people get at home.
Honestly, I’d love to see StarLink keep the latency advantage to themselves and acquire an HFT firm to extract the profits from the advantage. What are you going to do as a competitor? Build and lift your own comm sat network? The laws of physics are a hell of a moat.
Normally I'd rush to Chrome's defense here (see my post history) but I have to agree with others about Chrome kind of breaking the process here. Other browser vendors have large concerns with this spec, so it's quite surprising that it's shipping at this scale.
I confess my memories of Homesite are pretty dim at this point, even though I used it professionally for a few years. I recall it as being notably worse at the non-editing parts of that than Coda is, but still, credit where it's due.

(Semi-funny anecdote: when I switched to the Mac around 1999 or so, I emailed Allaire--this was before Macromedia bought them--and asked if there would ever be a Mac version. They wrote back nicely enough to explain that they really couldn't do one because it was written in Delphi, which had no Mac version, but that I should consider looking into BBEdit. I still use BBEdit regularly to this day.)
Anything that involves computing dot products on large matrices will be dramatically faster with cupy than numpy (depends on your graphics card of course).
Not sure why I got down voted, but the question I responded to has been answered. The URL structure still has AMP in. So one can access the original page at least.
Does Microsoft still count as a major browser vendor, given that they'll be shipping a blink-based browser? Of course, the same thing might be said back when Chrome was using Webkit too… and I think it was.
The thing about "native Mac" is that the Cocoaheads rarely, if ever, are willing to admit that the platform has an insane number of issues, and making certain things performant can sometimes feel like pure wizardry.

The Web has too much engineering power behind the stack to really compete against now.
There's literally a scifi story about this scenario; a society creates enough "TV networks" to appeal to everyone. (They weren't TV networks, but close enough for this discussion.)

Except they made a mistake, and one person slipped through the net, and was completely miserable and driven insane by this.

To answer your actual question, I bet most social networks would be perfectly fine with just being mass market gatekeepers. It's expensive to have 100,000 newspapers and TV networks to appear customized enough for everyone watching; but it's cheap to have 100,000 versions of Facebook's wall, or Reddit's front page.
Yeah I often run into the need to develop basic UIs for data analysis for people with limited programming experience. Currently I have to settle for using Jupyter notebooks with embedded ipywidgets, but it's not still not very user-friendly. And the desktop app libraries like PyQt5 are overkill for what I need, and most of the visualization libraries I use are designed for jupyter notebooks/web e.g. Bokeh.

If I could just port my jupyter notebook+widgets+plots into an Electron window and ship it to people that'd be awesome.
He's not a random employee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Stachowiak
"he is a leader of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit Framework"

For now, his tweet is all the signal we have from Apple.
I spend more time browsing the Netflix catalog than I do watching television, it feels like. I cancelled in the past but we recently re-subscribed and I'm regretting it.
Non-AMP: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-spacex-satellites.html
Does anyone know what they mean by

> "...and Other Data-Centric Opportunities"

What does Data-Centric mean? Specifically, Data-Centric platforms that they keep referencing?
I'll happily take the downvotes to point out that you could follow gamers, gun afficionados and Jordan Petersonites to get another brand of politics.
10pm Pacific Time is what they said. You can also check your status by clicking apply. ycombinator.com/interviews. If you see anything other than Sorry, then you are selected. All the best.
Didn't read the article, but the engine doesn't provide 250 hp while parked and idling, that's for sure. Certainly it is inefficient compared to an engine sized to provide 2 hp but that's not the same as running it at max rated power.
Mostly those who are selected have already received the mail.
> Can CRISPR be weaponized and permanently damage the genes of a large area of people?

Old Bill Burroughs went on about that, sort of. That is, race-specific viruses for efficient genocide. It's probably also an SF trope, but nothing comes to mind.
Is that what you were getting? I was in the Kaiser hospitals for 2 weeks and they gave me lots of good options. They had a tablet where you pick one item and it narrows down the remaining items to match your overall nutritional needs (calories, protein, etc.)
microwave is a broad term. WiFi in your house is in the microwave band. microwave CAN be directional and focused, but doesn't have to be.
WiFi:
Tier 1 is unquestionably Qualcomm Atheros (surprise!).

Ethernet NIC/CNA rankings(IMHO):

1. Mellanox is the pack leader right now.

2. Chelsio is right up there with them, but not leading.

3. SolarFlare and Intel bring up the middle ground.

4. Everyone else (QLogic, Broadcom, etc)

Aquantia is an unknown for me. As long as they dont suck, they'll probably go in tier 3.
This. Exactly this. If Google actually cared about performance, that is what they would have done.
I too feel similarly. I was disappointed to have to leave Coda behind when I started using Linux more often than Mac OS. On Linux you are rewarded for using the tools that other Linux users celebrate. Life just becomes easier that way. So some of the bells and whistles of Coda and other commercial packages like some of the mind mapping apps are missed, but somehow life goes on. I am much happier now in my desktop environment overall, though.
Well now I get why Apple settled its lawsuits with Qualcomm suddenly or Qualcomm might have asked for a lot more money interesting how Intel announces this a day after the Apple and Qualcomm settlement
Zstandard uses ANS in some (all?) of its modes, that's very much brand new -- 2014
If Google didn't penalize sites that don't use AMP, and instead just measured response, paint, etc times and such, I would agree with you.
Dog Asks to Get Petted
My dog asks me to pet her...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijLDXDm0NP0
The good news is that all the solutions are systemic, relying on individual heroic actions to preserve privacy won't work for society at large.

The bad news is that we hate each other and don't like systemic solutions, even if they are easy (and it is comparatively easy to specify what information private insurers can use when setting premiums and then audit the premiums).
ok the web is getting hijacked
The point about how the medium of Twitter shapes the message rings true to me.

Everything is so short it seem largely trite and careless. They system is built for score keeping and it feels like people post just to score even if that isn't their intent.

Responses don't seem like they for the person they're talking to, rather for everyone else who might see.

Even the most thoughtful ideas seem soulless and reduced to only the simplest elements. A statement that someone is a terrible person rings out loud, any nuance or deeper concepts seem awkward and weird.
Planes, boats, busses, trains, cars, and rural sites can all massively benefit from a much bigger bandwidth pipe with low latency. Add in the US military which has already given spacex $28.7 million dollars to see if they can put it on all their vehicles (planes in particular for that award) and I think they have a decent sized market.

[0]: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-us-military-500-70...
The great polybius documentary by Ahoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg
You may be underestimating the resentment with current duopoly operators in the US. I live in a dense city and I would switch in a heartbeat even if Starlink didn't offer better/faster/cheaper service. Just being on par would be enough.
No email yet.
maxim@monos.digital
Seems like posters with many thousands of followers have different needs than the typical one; sell premium tools to handle their use case
What do you think about making a second edition?
>> Starlink is also going to be seeing competition in the coming years thanks to companies like OneWeb and Telesat, which plans to create smaller constellations that will offer service by 2021. Tech giants like Amazon and Samsung have also announced plans to deploy their own constellations, which would consist of 3,236 to 4600 broadband satellites, respectively.

SpaceX has a huge advantage in launch costs here. Mass produced satellites will be lower cost per unit than most others, and launching on used rockets will give them the cheapest deployment costs ever. And they are the only company that can reuse rockets today. I don't see the competitors really having a chance.
You overestimate what people will understand from a technical description in a configuration option. Even if they were experimentally inclined, which most people are not, they probably wouldn't even notice the effect, particularly if not a new user. Twitter is a black box for most users.

Twitter very likely did market research on its effectiveness for the target market they were trying to please. Probably that's just not you.
The main interesting part isn’t about making phones faster (although that’s a fantastic side effect since now it’ll be feasible to work off a cellular connection instead of having to find a good cable link for fast internet), it’s about everything else. Houses don’t necessarily have to have wired to the home fiber, instead, a 5G antenna on the side could easily get you gigabit.
So, with TCP the speed should depend on the bandwidth-delay product (which depends on the full peer to peer round-trip latency, because it needs ACKs coming in faster than it empties the window, otherwise the sending peer just waits).

Whereas most UDP applications are constant rate, with some kind of control channel.

Bufferbloat should not matter for your home connection. (Unless it is constantly in use by more than one client.)

However, when congestion occurs and the data you sent, that sits in these buffers are already stale, irrelevant, but the problem is that there's no way to invalidate the cache on the middleboxes. And it leads to worse performance because it clogs up pipes with stale data when those pipes get full. So it prevents faster unclogging. This results in a jerk in TCP, because it scales back more than it should have without the unnecessary wait for the network to transmit the stale data.
That's unfair to the millions of Americans living in rural areas having to cope with current slow speeds. Don't you want the world more connected?

The problem with the current scenario is ISPs and wireless providers won't run lines or stand up towers for a low populated area. They know they won't ever make the money back for the project. With low orbit satellites this problem is solved. Would you rather those people live in the past just because they don't choose to live in the city?
> If your site has AMP Real URL enabled Cloudflare will digitally sign the content we provide to that crawler, cryptographically proving it was generated by you. That signature is all a modern browser (currently just Chrome on Android) needs to show the correct URL in the address bar when a visitor arrives to your AMP content from Google’s search results.

Is the dig (emphasized above) about what constitutes “a modern browser” really necessary? Is a modern browser now whichever one that supports something you like?
Is there a jurisdiction that treats ownership and permission to do something as the same thing?
And considering Apple's strict policies around public communication, it's pretty safe to describe it as a formal statement of the company's position.
Once upon a time power companies refused to provide grid access to people outside of the cities because it didn't make money fast enough, the government stepped in and made it happen and now not being able to get a power hookup is a ridiculous notion. If this doesn't happen, the government will have to step in again, otherwise those people either become second class citizens or they get really angry at being excluded from society and take violent action.
I, personally, love the interest based groupings of tweets below the trending topics on the search tab.

That said, I like following people because one of my interests is people.
A $45 router is enough to de-bufferbloat connections up to several hundred megabits, and past that bufferbloat is less of a concern (in part because its difficult to saturate).
> You can improve your network request speed, but you can’t bring the time taken down to literally zero, i.e. the speed if your page was already prefetched while the user was looking at search results.

Maybe I'm just old, but I don't understand why this is a worthwhile goal. Even with its bloat the internet today is much, much faster than it was 15 years ago and I'm quite happy to wait a few seconds for a page to load. In addition, doesn't pre-fetching every result just waste bandwidth on mobile?
Anyone can buy a launch on a SpaceX rocket.
What now? https://www.tensorflow.org/js/guide/platform_environment#web...
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Since Microsoft's position is now "implement Chrome with Bing as the search default", I am pretty sure most, if not all, web standards Google proposes will be enthusiastically supported by Microsoft, as they'll support them regardless.
Doesn't look like the entire structure was destroyed.
Lyft is the only one I've ever seen in the USA. Even Uber has struggled in markets where a strong player already existed.
> What happens to inactive satellites? Do they de-orbit themselves in safe locations? Or just stay as space junk?

I believe they plan to use the last bit of their propellant to lower the perigee into the atmosphere, which will then naturally deorbit. They recently submitted documents to the FCC stating a change to materials to ensure everything burns up and wont impact the earth. [1]

[1] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/03/spacex-higher-necess...
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At the same cost SpaceX pays for a launch? That seems improbable to me.
Compilers are not currently allowed to do it if “failure” is in the form of an abort from an inlined function, as in the case of .at(),
These are jump the shark moments for companies, they usually have insightful opinions, but execution and the essential details lack.

The other alternative: we all stop using Twitter. There's simply no need for it.

Maybe there should be a 'journalist Twitter feed' that journos can comment and post on, but with no comments. So we get the live action, but not the clutter.

All pop culture and political tweeting is rubbish.
The biggest issue is that google is forcing websites to use its own html subset by judging sites that use it instead of by judging sites based on actual speed. There are a lot of posts on HN about sites that got no speed increase or even regressed when switching to AMP.
Yeah, but you don't need "most humans" to use it. 10% would probably finance it very nicely.