skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reference! I was wondering how this is possible. So looks like it is actually possible to get a trademark on a plant. How any country would want to agree to this is beyond me. Article 64:

64. Infringement.—Subject to the provisions of this Act, a right established under this Act is infringed by aperson—
(a) who, not being the breeder of a variety registeredunder this Act or a registeredagent orregisteredlicensee of that variety, sells, exports, imports or produces such variety without thepermission of its breeder or within thescope of a registeredlicence or registeredagencywithout permission of the registeredlicensee or registeredagent, as the case may be;
(b) who uses, sells, exports, imports or produces any other variety giving such variety, thedenomination identical with or deceptively similar to the denomination of a variety registeredunder this Act in such manner as to cause confusion in themind or general people inidentifying such variety so registered.

There do seem to be protections in article 39. With that limitation the whole thing does sound a lot more benign. Like they could just use a new name for the variety:

(iv) a farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sowresow, exchange, share or sell his farmproduce including seed of a variety protected under this Act in the same manner as he wasentitled before the coming into force of this Act:Provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety protected underthis Act.

Explanation.—For the purpose of clause (iv),“branded seed”means any seed put in a package orany other container and labelled in a manner indicating that such seed is of a varietyprotected under this Act.
My mistake- I finished that article with the impression that there was a more general "book desert" than just an absence of small book stores.
If you're e*trade you'd probably only do it if you saw a long term future for crypto.
Free market != allowing companies like Apple to do what they want.

Even in a free market there are regulations in particular around around anti-competitive conduct.
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I’m curious, how can a database be accessed without authorization? If authorization is enabled? Also how unauthorized access can be discovered?

Say I use Mongodb and enabled authorization. Will I be fine then? How to discover unauthorized access?
I was once flown out to look at a significant performance problem. The customer could not do a days worth of work in a day. We’d told them to buy a fully loaded Sun E15k, and it couldn’t keep up.

I instrumented everything (recompiled everything so that the binaries spat out gprof data, iostat output, vmstat output, sybase monitoring) and it quickly became obvious that the DB driven config was configured in a way we’d not anticipated. The fix was easy (just use a btree in a couple of places instead of a linear array walk), but then we had a huge problem.

With the fix, the CPU bottleneck became a 15% CPU utilisation. The system had been sized based upon our advice. Whoops. What happened next was political and I won’t go into it. Deliberately vague on the industry and customer because of the 7 figure cost involved!
Why would a non English speaking non technically literate person go and install a random parental control iOS app?

I have half a dozen such people in my family and they don't even know how to open the app store, let alone the password for it. I install stuff for them when they need it, which is like maybe once in a year.
Here's a link to the paper itself, since the APS article only links to the main journal page: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.08...
> I can't possibly be the only one here who understands what they were getting at, right?

It was both accurate and profound.

Unfortunately the parts that were accurate were trivial and the parts that were profound were incorrect.
It's clearly user error, but I think the point is that it's less of a headache to change the OS than the user.
Slightly related: the "Reply All" podcast had an episode called "The Snapchat Thief" where they discuss swim swapping, etc.

May be of interest to some of you: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k/130-the-snapc...
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When I worked at Mozilla, "talking to a room full of bouncers" was a common joke on my team. In a fully distributed team (we were spread out across the northern hemisphere) this is a terrible way to work. You don't know who is online or whether you can contact them. There's no guarantee they'll get your message if you send them something urgent. Everything that's not "typing text in real time" is harder and worse (search, sharing files, sending long messages, mobile support, etc.) and everyone has to scrounge for their own tools to work around these insufficiencies. In a work environment, using a tool that only does part of what you need it to do is a crazy irresponsible use of resources.

IRC might be useful in some circumstances, but supporting team communication—especially for remote teams—is not one of those circumstances.
Aside from what others have said ITT, i have a personal hate for the general fact that we cannot lookup a phone number on the internet with accuracy and ease.

FFS, 411 was amazing before the web.

Also, in about 1989 my friend and i used to have a contest between us; to call 411 and see who could keep the 411 operator on the phone the longest.

This was a fun social engineering exercise for 14 year old nerds who like the idea of being phreaks.

Our record was 45 minutes and got to know a lot about the 411 system, where call centers were located and how the 411 system worked.

This was right near the time that we ran the long distance bill up to $926 for one month of calling into a BBS in san jose and PCLink to chat....

Got grounded for a month for that one...
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> Selective breeding is not patentable. Literally millennia of prior art.

Totally untrue. New plant varieties can be patented regardless of how they are produced.
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But the 8069 is a microprocessor (CPU). This is a microcontroller. Radically different architecture and (typical) use case.

They don't have MMUs because they are designed to directly address a much smaller ram space. On an the micro in the article, this is only 16K. They are also designed to execute machine code directly, and automatically from an on-board or external ROM, whether a masked ROM (rare these days), an EPROM, or an EEPROM/NVRAM of various kinds. They are not designed to use an OS at all.

That's what makes this so impressive.
What does that specifically have to do with golang or Rust?
Then nobody ever draws a line. We just acquiesce at every step.
> But I don’t understand why, on the basis of Cambridge Analytica, the company should be fined out of existence.

I'm with you that it shouldn't kill them, but it needs to really hurt so they take better care (and not do illegal stuff in the future). I don't think something like this does. It's annoying, yes.

Consider a similar scenario where a food or drug manufacturer doesn't check their raw materials and poisons a bunch of people. Should their supplier make sure that they don't sell them poisonous stuff? Absolutely. Do they themselves bear the responsibility to make sure that nothing bad happens? I believe so, so by skipping their own checks to save a few bucks, it's their fault. And you can be quite sure that in such a case, there won't just be a small fine - there will be a fine, and production halt with a lengthy and expensive re-certification, because the processes they had in place are obviously flawed. Yeah, FB doesn't produce food, so those regulations don't apply to them. I don't really subscribe to the theory, but there are many who believe that they have the power to sway elections - that certainly puts them in the same ballpark as the company that provides your aspirin or pizza sauce.
How is that different from Slack though? Did people use bouncers that don't set /away ?
(I'll repost one of my comments in a similar thread, with a few minor changes.)

If you have only one xenon atom in a box, to have a 50% chance that to see that it decayed you should wait a "1.8 x 10^22 years—or about a trillion times the age of the Universe".

If you have two atoms in a box, you must wait approximately half of the time to have a 50% chance to see the decay. (It's not exactly one half, there are some technical details here, but one half is a good approximation.)

They have 2 tons of xenon. I'm not sure if 1 ton = 1000kg or 907 kg, but it doesn't change the result too much. I'm also not sure about the isotope of Xenon they are using, so I'll use 131 as the atom mass, but it doesn't change the result too much. With 2 tons you have 2 x 907 * 1000 / 131 x 6.02x10^23 = 8E28 xenon atoms, so you expect to have a few decays per hour (if I did the calculations correctly).

I'm not sure if they can detect the 100% of the decays and the noise level, so it probably takes a longer time to detect a good signal.
Well an easy way is for all the big US media publications to move their HQs in the EU, then make facebook pay every time their links are being shared. Sounds like a shrewd decision they can make today.
Thank you! I wonder if there is a way to see the % of votes from subreddit members vs others. Memes and similar sh*tposts can really ruin a subreddit in weeks.
Here's the arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.11002.pdf

Look for the discussion of backgrounds.
Throughout most of human history, most populations have faced famine at least one year out of ten, more often in marginal areas (the Israelites planned for one year out of seven, according to the Bible). Sorry, that is not "working quite well" by any reasonable definition.

You really should look into the massive increases in agricultural productivity over the course of the 20th Century before making blanket statements of this nature.
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Fifteen years addicted to heroin, five years addicted to life (2018)
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They already have precedence in this, having a special version of the language only the golang authors can use (e.g. generics and asserts), and then claiming that they're not useful or too complicated for others to use.
> > Attaching your personal GitHub or Bitbucket account to this Docker Hub organization will allow other organization owners to create builds from your private repositories. We suggest using a service user (also referred to as a machine user or bot account).

> c.f.: https://docs.docker.com/docker-cloud/builds/automated-build/....

Did they remove this language from your link? I don't see it anymore.
yeah, of course, but a lot of this also has to do with the information that is available to us, particularly since the advent of the internet (although the spread of false information has shown to pose a threat to this). Smoking was also stopped because its negative health consequences became undeniable. Although, if you go live in France you'll see that a lot of people still choose not to act on this information. As far as I'm concerned, the consensus is out about social media, the way it's currently being used is detrimental to our health.

One large issue with these particular "addictions" is that we are hooked on them without being aware of their addictive nature. Whether or not the intentions were malicious are certainly something that needs to be addressed but the obstacle remains, which is that we have to individually endure the difficulty of withdrawal to break out of the cycle.

And that really is the case, it's withdrawal and withdrawal sucks. A lot of us already live demanding lives, experience depression/anxiety on varying but significant scales and don't really have the energy to devote toward the will-power that is required when distancing oneself from an addictive behavior. And it does require energy.

Of course preventing this on a large scale is a necessary goal, but we can make instantaneous changes now. Baby steps. I didn't delete my Facebook but I blocked the news-feed, uninstalled the app and hardly ever use it other than to see if people are trying to contact me.
You could also allow for auto-handshakes, drivers who prefer to drive only within a radius handing over there passenger to another driver in transit.
Looks like I am too late to this party. I just recently started visiting the mozilla ircd. There are lots of channels and very little way of navigating around. I was trying to figure out who to talk to about network support or if such a channel existed and no one had an answer. People come in asking support questions but no one has an idea of which channels to best ask in. #firefox, #introduction and #newbie are 3 channels doing the same thing and the questions just get split off. If they can't maintain their ircd, maybe just register a project on freenode who seems to be able to handle roughly 80k people just fine.

Edit: Just checked, freenode has a #firefox, not sure how official or how maintained it is.
Unless you're the CEO.
To play devils advocate for a second, remember how much noise Google has to sift through. Every possible search term exists in every possible combination, often written in lovingly crafted content farm articles by actual humans.

If Google offered you those, it might be 1000 pages of empty nonsense before your actual desired content.
Please use Matrix. Please.
Wow, 2800 pounds of Xenon, at $120/gram, is about $150M. Hope they don’t have leaks. I thought these detectors used dry cleaning fluid.
It is poorly written. Some writers confuse mental diarrhea with good writing. His style is overly wordy and needlessly punctuated.

He takes too long to push the informative points, all the while cloaking them in too much empty dross.

At first, I thought this was an example of something written by an AI program. It is lumpy and disjointed to the mind in the same way that the Uncanny Valley is disorienting to the eye.

I'm going to settle on it simply being a poorly written meandering of thought disguised as something that it isn't.
I've seen some failed attempts to log on to my GitHub account from 'Quito, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador' (which is quite far from where I live, as I live in Sweden...).
Not sure this is related at all, but they started appear after this leak was announced...

Luckily I use both 2fa and random password for github, would suck to loose that account ;)
I’ve built such an app, and it’s not seamless. It’s literally 20 steps.
> I get that people want to see a company crippled but wiping out a quarter of revenue is a death-blow.

What do we think would change if "Facebook" as a company went bankrupt? Certainly, the website would continue operating - it's profitable. The technology is still worth whatever it's worth. I have a hard time imagining that a purely financial threat to the corporate entity changes the product too much.

What it does change is the incentives to the capital involved. It threatens equity. If we all agree that the Facebook "tech" is morally neutral(ish) then the purposes its being put to are what we should challenge. Breaking the back of the company's financials seems like a reasonable way to do that.
I don't have an angry blog post about the size of cross-platform libraries.

Instead, I took the (longer) time to hand-tune Qt source and qconfig.h. My cross-platform desktop builds are under 2MB in a single executable, which appears to be something the OP wanted in the first place.
Add a zero?
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Yes, but the criminal always has first draw, first action. Unless the criminal is a bad shot or otherwise unlucky, you just escalate a situation in which you are already on the losing end of a stick.

Just explain to me the game theory plus of a main-street battle, where the bad guy already holds you at gun point- and you have the chance to accelerate towards the bitter end?
>A crawler need to differentiate generated content from "real" content somehow.

"Somehow", aka using computing power and storing results, but that still turns into an explosion of computing time and data storage. I mean, what is the difference between the example I listed and Facebook's front page? They are both 'real' content in a generated format.

And a converse argument for your Sanskrit example is, what if I have the sanskrit number and don't know what it is? I put it in google and the site returns it as the number one.

> linked somewhere on it

And those links can all be generated by algorithms.

Anyway, back to your original statement. There is no 'real' content. Only data exists. Most content systems used on the internet allow this data to be combined and displayed in a multitude of different ways depending on the call method and attributes of the viewee. Many times these combinations of data can present novel value to the user. And with the future only presenting us more automated data collection and presentation methods, search engines have lost this battle.
I know I hate it when I join IRC channels and have no context as to what anybody has been talking about, as there is no history to quickly go over. Even just having the past days history would help in this regard, at least for more active channels.

It's the same as just barging into a conversation a group of people are having. You don't want to just join and start talking about a completely different topic. So you join, and wait for a bit to get a feel for what they're talking about before piping in. But with IRC, sometimes it can take _days_ to get that amount of information, depending on how active the channel is. The same thing could easily be accomplished by being able to read the last 10 messages in the channel.
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There is a team at RIT working on one - https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/high-tech-toilet-sea...

I’ve seen their pitch for commercializing it and it seems legit (without having done a ton of due diligence).
It didn't deserver +24 either.
Authorization has a common English definition too. If, for example, an employee's credentials were compromised, anyone who wasn't that employee who accessed the database would be considered "without authorization". And checking the access logs for any use of that employee's credentials would give you some idea of what data was accessed. Enabling authorization on your mongodb is good, but it absolutely won't stop all forms of unauthorized access. They may gain access to your server itself, or gain some credentials to your MongoDB database some other way (for example, if someone carelessly ships them as part of your software, or includes them in a github commit, or something like that).

In the worst case, if someone notifies you of a configuration problem or some software bug that allows anonymous access to your database or the ability to remove logs, you may have to assume the entire database was compromised since the existence of that configuration issue or software bug.
It’s a JavaScript tool that existed 5 years ago.
If a complete copy of all messages sent were on your computer and the administrator had the ability to delete this data from your computer whenever they want, I consider that to be an infringement on the control I expect of my own computer. On the other hand, the contents a phpBB forum (or even HN) are stored on someone else’s computer and no one has the ability to arbitrarily delete stuff that I’ve downloaded.
This is, I am sure, a dumb question, but I read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XENON and I just don't know enough to completely understand the concept, but my dumb question is how do they know the event they saw was a spontaneous decay and not caused by a WIMP or whatever Dark Matter is? If it is such a rare event, how do we know that it wasn't a dark matter particle that caused it but the reaction was different than anticipated ? Can anyone take on a ELI5 here ?
Take a look at https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge which bridges a lot of protocols.

It only support public channels at the moment, but we're planning to add user/user communication too.
Chatting isn't about always being online and getting messages. Somebody else in the channel should be capable of responding to a request. That's the whole point of a community, IMO.

Need to make sure something important is captured from an IRC discussion? Put it on a wiki/mailing list. There's also things like meeting bots. Most communities I've seen, there's very little value in an IRC chat history for conversations other people had (eg, just stuff like 'help me with x').
I work on AdSense at Google. We need to crawl all the pages that serve our ads so that we can show ads that are relevant. We actually store those crawl results in a different place than search to prevent exactly that problem. We could probably save a lot of money if we consolidated those indices, but we don't do that prevent biasing search results. As a result a large percentage of pages that show Google Ads are not in the search index.

If Google was so evil, why would we purposefully send traffic to sites where we only get a percentage cut of the revenue?

EDIT: I realize I needed to explain this statement a little bit more. If we show ads on google.com we get 100% of the revenue. If show ads on reversephonelookup.it they get majority of the revenue. There is a limited amount of advertiser demand. Instead of manipulating the organic search results, it would be more profitable for google to just show more ads on the search page or inflate the ad price or something.
People have sued the wrong person and lost plenty of times. He probably wouldn't lose if he got sued, but even if he won, the trouble might be more than he wants to handle. And if he does lose, well, that would really suck, and that's not impossible either.
It could be a nash equilibrium, where everyone's best interest is for everyone to switch to a new platform, but for each individual person leaving Facebook costs them more (since if not enough people leave there's not a big enough pool of people looking for a new social network to have another valuable social network) than the small amount of damage it inflicts on the company.

If Facebook died we would all land on another platform, it's just very hard to move people over iteratively. The government could push that transition along, if it wished.
Agreed, thanks. That blog post was just trying to explain what it is, not why it is, mostly as a basis to complain about education rather than teach physics.
There's the Vocore2. Five volts, 74ma draw when idle. https://vocore.io/v2.html

No video though.
Give it a rest. The project is really impressive and quite a feat. Leave the militant piggy-backing out of it.
But if you want a TUI client that involves editing config files, it’s an option. I like being able to make that decision for myself.
They’re documented but they were meant for enterprise usage. Tracking user habits is a risk, just like VPN apps could track all user’s network requests
> Most current quantum algorithms require a series of discrete operations to be performed

Ok so what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-variable_quantum_in...
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More. What they do is double the rent on businesses when their contract is up, and leave the derelict properties up as an example to the other businesses of "you have no negotiating power. We'll just leave the property empty if you don't pay up because it only has an opportunity cost"
Hey, thanks for that. Interesting. I'll take a look at those books.
Tried tcp too. Weirdly it refused to work. Haven't been able to fully check for configuration errors on my end here but i can't think of anything I did wrong either :)