skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving toward walkable cities (investing more in pedestrian, bike and public transit infrastracture and less in car infrastructure).
Scala utility for making print line debugging easier
Qt: PLEASE go back to WebKit. QtWebEngine will never be safe. I will just never use it. It's Chrome, and Chrome is Google.

And Google is evil.
Firefox deploys two different forms of fingerprint protection:

1) blocking known fingerprinting scripts.

2) blocking underlying techniques.

The second is the one people here are talking about, and it can be enabled by going to your settings and turning on resistFingerprinting. Keep in mind it will do things like normalize your time zone and decrease timer precision.
I also suspect that if it was less widely disseminated a different strategy would be used, i.e. just actually going for military or government infrastructure rather than trying to sway public opinion. Terrorism is a political act,it is all about sending a message.
I wouldn't say bingo card guy got extremely lucky....
Yes, but that only shows things since the last ice age.

There have been at least 5 ice ages. I'd like the cartoon more if it explained those.
If you mean Apple owns and runs an App Store, then yes, but that’s not a monopoly. It’s just a store that they control. Would you say that their physical stores are a monopoly that they abuse by not selling samsung phones?
App Store, in their ios ecosystem.
You have to be careful thinking about what efficiency you are talking about.

At least while the hardware is new, you are getting paid to have your heat on with a mining rig.

Regardless of how efficient your heat pump is (that is Heat output divided by electrical input) you are always paying for the electricity to run it. Even if it has perfect thermodynamic efficiency, even if it is magical and has impossible perpetual-motion efficiency, you are still _paying_ to run it. In the magical scenario the cost goes to zero, but that is still not better than getting paid to run.

You can't compare thermo efficiency between something which generates money and heat and something which consumes money and generates heat until a crossover point when the hardware gets old and starts consuming more electricity than it can pay for. If you have a 400% efficient heat pump you would have to wait until your mining equipment generated 75% of the money it took to power, after that the heat pump becomes preferable.

Or you have to do money efficiency and talk about the capital cost and operating cost/profit of running each system
Where I am from cities cannot legally cross county boundaries. But the people who live just across the county line still have a postal address with the name of the city because doing anything else would not make sense on a practical level. In fact I'm not sure if they are technically in a city at all.
You're a very long way from the only developer to take this road, and it's a road that's very well traveled indeed.

Writing your own build tools seems to be an attractor task for programmers. Every year there are a few more build systems made public by eager developers who started simply by solving their own problems; almost every one of them having started life as a lash-up of scripts by frustrated programmers just like you. I suspect the number of people who have ever traveled as far along this road as you have so far numbers in the millions.
That's like saying McDonald's has a monopoly on what food appears on their menu. It's non-sensical as a complaint.
This. Though it seems to be getting harder to root android phones, at least from my very limited perspective. It's also why I'm a bit horrified at the direction Windows has taken, making some things nearly impossible to disable or remove. I find myself having to dig into the registry much more than I used to in order to stop annoying behavior or system-draining processes. (For example: I'm happy to stay updated with the latest security patched, but do not reboot my computer on your own authority when I may be running very long processes on it. Rather annoying to wake up and find a model I was training was aborted because Update decided to reboot)
Curious (and genuinely concerned) how does one get a reading or otherwise measure these bit flips?
a bit more money

Do you have any reference for how much exactly it would cost in less environmentally harmful way?
What the author said:

> It has a strong thesis.

As in, the gist/central meaning is good/strong.

What I think that you think he said:

> It is a strong thesis.

As in, PhD thesis.
Seemingly not for all platforms.
Isn't it the case that some of these are waste materials of existing mining activity and that some mines could tool up very quickly to refine them, only it just wasn't economical to do so?
I hope Microsoft manages to out-Microsoft Google's Microsofting of the web.

A pox in every pot!
Yup same here, other mapping sites are just fine. Do you have a User-Agent masquerader add on available? I have no connectivity to my freebsd box at home now (no, thank you Frontier) or I'd try it and report back. But for the browser dependency it's a good looking site.
Ethan Hawk ʾworked' at the Department of Transport, right?
I wouldn’t worry, China is no shape to start a war with US. It is currently facing 3 wars: political leadership - with Xi faction vs the old guards. Internal population, with unrests in Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, and economically suffering northeast and western region. And neighbors, with Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, and India, over South sea. The CCP doesn’t have the financial or political capital to fight any of the wars currently.

A 4th war with the economic superpowers - US, EU, Japan would end with so quickly with simply an economic sanction.
Even if it is just a map of economic conditions, that's a useful thing to have.

I could imagine it being a great way to find "diamonds in the rough" too where certain places are much higher rated than the places around them.
Pretty sure you would never say the same thing about Google.
As a power user, I prefer Firefox to Chrome, due to its configurability and to the power of certain add-ons. One simple example: multi-row tab bar, thanks to custom CSS for the UI. It used to be even better before the mass murder of the now-called "legacy" extensions, but today we must settle for the less restricted offer.

As a developer, I don't typically use browsers as debuggers or programming environments, so I never experienced game-breaking differences.
I agree with that completely, but personally, I seriously doubt Alphabet is going to let its flagship product's flag ship delivery vehicle falter like ie did.

I mean, who knows. Never say never, but they are going to be tough competition. Not to mention that browsers are becoming so advanced it will be tough for a small team to match the engineering prowess of a company like google.
CS4787 – Machine Learning Accelerators [pdf]
Agreed. The purpose of the news is to hold our government accountable, and mitigating kidney disease is not a fundamental part of governance.
Engineering in the Midwest, Particularly Indiana
any engineers care to weigh in how they find the midwest tech/startup scene? i've got a funded startup in palo alto, but looking to create a team in or around south bend, indiana since part of my team is there, along with one of our key investors and fortune 500 clients. i was also thinking about st. louis...
Climate scientist: 'We've created a (self destroying) civ -- I'm terrified'
I think it's funny that panopticlick gives me a little red X for not allowing trackers from companies that have "promised" not to track me. I have no incentive to do so, as I do not get any sort of compensation if they are found to be in violation of those terms.
Crack down harder on DUI. DUI kills more innocents than guns.
You are assuming you are given a choice of applying, instead of being flagged as a person of interest.
It's hard to really claim Gab is alt-right when the truth is really more that it's alt anything. Remember the good old days of usenet, where alt represented all the usenet "channels" that basically didn't give a damn and weren't sponsored by anyone in particular? Sure you had your flame wars, but back then no one got banned for it. The advantage of services like Twitter is that whatever agenda Twitter wants to control, they control. The ability to control the narrative is certainly a profitable one. What was the quote? When the service is free, you're the product. Think on that.
If only you could say the same about potential employees. Your recruiters seem to have a penchant for completely ghosting candidates, even when several interviews deep into the interview process. This has happened to me twice now, with two different recruiters, even after being told by the interviewers that I was well qualified and surely would be moving to the next step. And after glancing at Glassdoor reviews, this doesn't seem to be uncommon whatsoever.
I'm doing my graduate work on that. It's hard.

MIT has a cool project looking at how individual terms are covered though: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/media-cloud/overview/

The relationships when modeling from the author/publication get really big really quick. I suspect as NLP gets better it'll get easier to model though.
I think this is a great article because it yet again shows how news are only there for terrify and manipulate.

Perhaps not always conscious, because they need their jobs and their jobs are to fill a 24 hour cycle with news.

And nobody wants to hear about cancer and heart disease, it bums them out.
> Searches are sent as you type, so it's not really that simple.

You might also very well end up with something that is not a valid URL when searching in your local history or bookmarks.
New York pushes to end measles religious exemptions
Then why are we seeing eg https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-agains... ?

Regardless, their behaviour with their own Dev relations is very much like what they're accusing Qualcomm of.
> Then you're just using Chrome...

Well, yeah, that was the whole point.

If we're saying fire up Chrome just to watch Netflix, I'm suggesting saving some effort and/or isolate the rest of your browser by wrapping it in a very basic Electron app.

At the very least, you wouldn't get auto-logged into your "browser" or anything like that.
Agree, I've been using FF forever. If I work on other peoples computers I install it and tell them to try it out. It's the best.
I agree, this is cyclical.

The jobs economy feels a lot like the late 80s to me. I graduated college then, and entered into a roaring jobs market. Under leadership from right and left (Reagan and Clinton), the American economy provided a great opportunity to establish a baseline income and start saving for the future.

I feel this gave people of my generation a huge step up. I think that people who graduated at other times (i.e. 2009) had a much rougher start. It's just the luck of the game.

It feels about the same to me now. I hope so, for today's grads sake.
>How is a developer supposed to understand the capitalization rules?

By relying on the compiler to check it?
One quibble:

>> * The fact that ride share companies don't hail drivers on the street means that they are not required to be a part of the artificially constrained supply of taxi medallions. This allows for much lower barriers to entry for drivers, and eliminates the need to spend six figures on medallion.

That is not efficiency, that is regulatory circumvention. I think almost everyone agrees it is a circumvention that is good for consumers. But once you drive down the cost of medallions through competition you have no advantage.

You sound so passionate about the advantages of Uber and Lyft I hope you are holding a lot of Uber and Lyft stock.
What are you basing this assumption on?

The funny thing is, no matter how I reply to your comment I lose by default. If I say I have - you say I'm lying. If I say I haven't, your point is proven. What option do I have?

Perhaps you'd like to chime in on the discussion at hand rather than speculating on my personal life.
The Guide to Stakeholder Interviews: Understand Your Clients
Perhaps you should take a moment to review what a monopoly is.
don't mean to make an offtopic request, but anyone have book or podcast recommendations for learning more about the Chinese political situation?
We will see. Thank you for the link.
We haven't seen that before, looks cool! The approach may be similar, but we packaged Hedgehog as a standalone / documented library to be consumed directly by developers. In looking briefly I wasn't able to ascertain how the private key is stored / propagated between devices in his model so it's hard to comment more precisely.

The approach we've taken at Audius on initial funding is to avoid funding the wallet entirely - we use EIP-712 signatures combined with a trustless transaction relay service that pays gas / submits EIP-712 signed transactions on-chain on behalf of users. In this way, the user wallet never holds any tokens but is still used to secure access to their account. We'll be open-sourcing our contracts and infrastructure code soon, but here's a good public example of this model in action: https://github.com/hellobloom/core/tree/master/contracts

That said, other folks may decide to use Hedgehog differently - perhaps you integrate with something like Wyre (https://www.sendwyre.com/) to help users fund their wallet client-side without knowing that crypto is there.
Ah, thank you! This works well:

import -window root -pause 1 /tmp/zbarqrcodescan.png && zbarimg -q /tmp/zbarqrcodescan.png | xsel -b
Some one's been watching too much Mr. Robot... for what it's worth, don't bother with imgur over tor; they block uploads from those ips. You can, however, use the lunapic upload to imgur feature. Public library also might be an option, though I might reccomend i2p. Whether it's really "more secure", I dont know, but it doesn't have the same mainstream knowledge (or use by journalists), so three-letter guys would be slower to break it.
Many people talk about how terrible personalized ads are, so it seems like it's still a win?

What does it mean if they don't even bother to turn it off?
Integrating the TVM Deep Learning Compiler into PyTorch
This is sad. I remember the MapR demo at the NVidia GTC a couple years ago, and their demo was amazing. I hope they pull a rabbit out of the hat and are able to continue, but if they don't then I hope they Open Source as much as they can.
Economic ties are great and all, but compared to the absolute insanity of opening up the possibility of MAD I don't think they're really all that important when we're talking about a US-China war.

They might do something to limit proxy wars, but if we're already cutting some ties over some bullet points on a trade deal, I can't imagine they would have deterred any type of at all war anyways.
To echo what everyone else is saying, get FZF. Most of these linux productivity things are just some dumb pet project that solves a specific problem that a specific person finds annoying. FZF is not this - it makes something you do hundreds of times a day (history and file opening on zsh, bash, fish, whatever) indisputably better. If you find yourself sitting there tapping ctrl+r multiple times like an idiot for some thing that may or may not be there, do your stubborn beardy ass a favour and install fzf.

You can implement some or all of the tips in this HN post, it'll make fzf results better.
It doesn't even have to be alcoholic drinks
The problem is that tree searching is largely serial, in the sense of, you don't know the next position you want to search until you finish searching the previous position. So you can't just send a million positions to a GPU to evaluate in parallel because you have no idea which positions you'll want to evaluate.

So GPUs are pretty worthless for computer chess unless your algorithm evaluates positions with a deep CNN (which do run well on GPUs). It's not a question of how much time people have spent to investigate running chess algorithms on GPUs, it's a question of what kind of algorithms are better suited to CPUs vs. GPUs.
Not 100% true. Semiconductor industry isn't a result of free market, it is a highly strategic sector that is largely influenced by political/military goals, this is a claim from Obama administration's own report of China's ambition in chips.

Quote from the report

> 'The global semiconductor market has never been a completely free market: it is founded on science that
historically has been driven, in substantial part, by government and academia; segments of it are
restricted in various ways as a result of national-security and defense imperatives; and it is frequently
the focus of national industrial policies. Market forces play a central and critical role. But any
presumption by U.S. policymakers that existing market forces alone will yield optimal outcomes –
particularly when faced with substantial industrial policies from other countries – is unwarranted. In
order to realize the opportunities that semiconductors present and to effectively mitigate major risks,
U.S. policy must respond to the challenges now at hand'
I'm not sure if this accomplishes what you're looking for, but when I switched to Firefox I had similar complaints and turned to custom keywords:

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

Basically, Firefox allows you to set a keyword (which I often set to an abbreviation + question mark) which you can link to a site's search URL. For example to search Google Scholar I would type my keyword, "sch?" and then my search query, and after pressing enter I am taken to the site's search results. It's a few more steps you have to take, but has the added benefit of allowing you to add the functionality for any site.
Not everyone is understanding what you're saying, as evident by the downvotes you're getting

I'm fulltime FF but I won't pretend that the in-site (site specific) search works as smoothly as it did (does?) in Chrome

In Chrome you would go to foo.com and you would use their search input and from then on, in your address bar you can type foo (or maybe just f, depending on how often you use foo.com), and press <tab> to search within the site

This is a workflow you get used to

For the longest time I wanted this in FF, but I think the real thing that clicked for me was just heavily leaning on duckduckgo's bangs

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

(Firefox does have in-site search, which you can use by right clicking in the site's search input and clicking "Add a Keyword for this Search", but I'm not even sure how it works heh)

edit: okay so this is how it works https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address... and I just added `a` for amazon.com and I typed `a` in the address bar and pressed <enter> and it didn't do anything, hm

edit2: so I guess my main point should have been: Firefox has a manual step for what Chrome did for "free", after you made your first in-site search, which you were probably already going to do
> Ultimately I suppose you’d be able to zoom out to the world and see its Google review score.

“Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website.” [1]

[1] https://entertainment.theonion.com/pitchfork-gives-music-6-8...
The problem with terrorism is that if left unrestrained, they may accomplish their political goals. Those goals are generally to let them have free reign in the region they're in.

For example, ISIS was busy setting up their caliphate, and if we had not defeated them militarily, they'd have their own little hellhole nation to run.

The amount of death such regimes can inflict on their own people is pretty significant.

It doesn't even require death squads or anything like that; I was at one of Sadam's palaces and remarked to an Iraqi that the pools were empty. Well, it turns out, once Sadam fell, the water was redirected back to the local tribes.

Because to punish recalcitrant tribes, Sadam would just cut off their water.

(None of this means major powers necessarily ought to be getting involved in all these areas; the point is that terrorists aren't just killing people for kicks, they have a reason for the things they do and there are consequences when they're successful.)
What does NIST have to say about passwords like CorrectHorseBatteryStaple [0] that can be easily cracked by brute-forcing concatenations of dictionary words?

[0] https://xkcd.com/936/
Very cool! Let us know if there's any way we can help
Huh, it looks like the author of that older map might not have realized that "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is about the telephone number of a hotel in New York City (whose telephone exchange was named after Pennsylvania Station, which was named after the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was named after the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_6-5000_(song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsylvania_6-5000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Pennsylvania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(1910%E2%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad
Thank you very much for taking the time!
I didn't cherry pick Larry Nassar to make MSU look bad, it was just the first news story from Google when I googled Michigan State University.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/29/fears-about-a...
If that's what's being referred to, it sounds like dual_base meant to reply to aaronharnly? As mentioned, my setup isn't based on working directory.
> If you mean Apple owns and runs an App Store, then yes, but that’s not a monopoly.

They also refuse to permit their customers to run apps not approved by Apple on the phones they have bought. That's the monopoly.
I think people are more concerned with the invasive data collection that happens during day to day, casual internet/cell phone use. They are wondering why Company X would need to know your blood type, prescription history and your political preferences to make a smart phone that opens snapchat .3 seconds faster.
In United States v. Microsoft Corp.[0] it was determined that Microsoft abused monopoly it's power by simply preventing OEMs from removing internet explorer.

Apple demands that all web browsing is done via Safari on IOS as I understand it.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
Easy to remember high-entropy pass phrases still makes the most sense to me, with maybe a number or symbol thrown in somewhere for added extra oomph.

correct horse 19 battery staple

https://xkcd.com/936/
I haven't seen that yet, but Meet just started working for me. Previously it didn't.

Very happy with my Edge switch so far! And I did it before the ad blocking really reared its ugly head too.

Google needs to faceplant hard on this one.
Well, not everyone even lives in an incorporated city or town. Rural areas are usually not part of them, for example. So I don't think there are any federal forms that would ask you that. As far as I know they just ask for your address.

For example, the form to apply for a passport is here: https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds11.pdf . The only place it asks for city is as part of the mailing address.

In general, the ways individual states decide to divide up their local administration are just not something the federal government cares about. Arizona could decide tomorrow to abolish all its cities and counties and just administer everything centrally, and they'd be perfectly allowed to do that under federal law.

Another example of federal institutions not matching local ones is court districts. The Southern District of New York (i.e., of New York State) contains part of NYC. The Eastern District contains a different part, and also land that is not part of NYC.
The supreme court didn't say Apple was a monopoly it said that people could sue them to see if they were.