skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call it $100 a year then. That's not very much if you're already buying a machine to tinker around with.
I remember reading that the user facing clever bot is really just for training. For competitions, a more robust dataset is used for the conversation and produces better results. [Citation needed]
I wish this comment was higher. Not because it's Boing Boing, but because literally the entire rest of this comment thread focused on the bike part and not the subscription part. What people need to know is that the subscription via the bike is $40/mo, but the iPad/mobile app is only $15/mo. With the app, you get access to all the same training programs, but you miss out on the metrics. But, you also get access to Peloton's running workouts as a positive trade-off.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peloton-digital/id792750948?...
Text of the RFC, which is one of the classic "April Fools" ones that the IETF does every year: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
Does the whole sector thing still make sense for SSDs? Do they still work by sector or can every byte be addressed directly?
What if used bees instead of birds?
Isn't that what Yahoo was trying to do when Google replaced them? Historically, it seems like minimal platforms for content tend to win out over attempts to completely control the user experience.
There is a hierarchy, IMO, best to worst:

1) Private office - I've had this, it was great

2) Shared office - had this too, it's ok if you have a good officemate

3) Team room - had this, larger office/conference room for one team, you have to be able to close the door

4) private cubicle, high walls - had this, pairing was easy

5) private cubicle, low walls - had this, a few more egregious interruptions

6) shared cubicle - haven't had this, still beats open office

7) open plan, big desks - at this now, it still lacks privacy and noise control

8) open plan, benching - had this, 36" of bench space, had to carry my laptop, mouse and office supplies with me

9) open plan, hot desking - IMO, this is just cause for a resignation letter on ergonomic and dehumanization grounds.

TL; DR: Cubicles are better for concentration and privacy than open plan, not as good as offices. Open plan makes me nostalgic for cubicles.
They probably don't pay for it. The hardware is decommissioned after a few years of usage.
Mozilla hasn't "shifted what market it's trying to address". Mozilla has always understood perfectly well that if Firefox isn't fast, stable and secure enough to be used by the masses of "regular users", it will become irrelevant. It just became increasingly clear over the years that the old extension system was hobbling that.
"Apple's recommended setting of 100 ms advertising interval with a coin cell battery provides for 1–3 months of life, which increases to 2–3 years as advertising interval is increased to 900 ms."

iPhone's have about at 10X larger batter than that. So iPhones can do this for ~20-30 years if configured correctly.
This one here is by far the best intro to Bayesian methods I've found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OJEae7Qb_o&t=6s

Very accessible
Surprisingly many posts and surprisingly few discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Avian%20Carriers%22&sort=by...

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531252

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818955

The same was noted 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999813
Unfortunately, even a lot of places that are generally trans-supportive won't admit refugees fleeing anti-trans violence - or when they do, they're not treated much better than the place they left.

https://www.hrc.org/blog/the-precarious-position-of-transgen...

I'm not sure what your first comment is meant to imply, but I suspect you might be suffering from confirmation bias if you think that passing isn't realistic.
Its gone now.
Is YouTube calling simply supporting Trump an extreme view?
Well, I won't argue. If it snapped, bent or RUDded, engineering is the one to blame :) which is typically me.
Aaron Greenspan's Testimony to UK Parliament Regarding Facebook
A lot of people were right in worthwhile ways and wrong in other ways. For example, Newton.

You would be doing yourself a disservice to throw out all of Newton's results because he didn't grasp relativity.
It will remove if you use FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
Just use a random value and store it with the hashed password. The salt is there to prevent an attacker from using a rainbow table to search your whole database for known passwords. Even if they have all your hashes and all your salts the fact the salts are unique forces them to attack each hash individually.

What you're looking for is a pepper [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)
It's done, a full RCE has been created that gives privileged remote access to more than 900,000 exposed endpoints.

Blue Winter is coming.
Yes! This is amazing. The thing I most loathe is the advertising that shows up when my kid is using one of the few apps we allow (and PAID for), in the limited allotted time with the iPad.

Total feeling of powerlessness, especially when the content is not exactly child-friendly: last one she told me about was an ad for a game with somebody tied up, having his head cut-off, inside Cut The Rope.
I meant, don't turn your phone into a beacon. (as a setting is ok)

The idea would be yes -- connect to bluetooth headphones or your car. Connect to wifi in your home. Allow NFC transactions on command.

But no, don't promiscuously advertise your device. Don't look up every bluetooth beacon you encounter or crowdsource every wifi access point.
Someone implemented it, too

https://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup/

64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
Yeah, I found this to be a weird article. What kind of world does this guy live in? Maybe help out someone you see as very high potential but is coming across in some odd way, but the majority of people I see rejected for these jobs the answers is “we don’t think you are good enough.”
I'm at the point where I don't want to hear about anything that involves (or implies) a vendor prefix.
The Bonnot Gang
But: " A filesystem may place limitations on the granularity of the
operation, in order to ensure efficient implementation. Typically,
offset and len must be a multiple of the filesystem logical block
size, which varies according to the filesystem type and
configuration. If a filesystem has such a requirement, fallocate()
fails with the error EINVAL if this requirement is violated."

Seems it's limited.
This looks like a lot of complexity up front with no foreseeable payoff.

Why are we implementing a whole dynamically allocated stack for states before doing anything domain specific?

How many states could you possibly be expecting to have in a full game? 3? 12? 100? The examples of states were like the menu, action screen, and pause screen. So it sounds like very few. Drop the realloc'ing and free'ing and just statically allocate N states and be done with it. Save this complexity for something that really needs it.

Plus are you going to free the stack any time other than when you quit the app? I doubt it. The OS will free everything for you when you quit so there's no reason to waste time on that either.

The code so far looks like mostly a waste of time.
In order to compete, I think it's important that there is some way to import existing data from competitors (read: Google). I would like to switch to try it out, but I don't want to spend several hours uploading or manually entering data.
There's almost certainly just something broken about that person's system that interacts poorly with Firefox.
Anyone can put video on the internet. How is YouTube a monopoly? It isn't a human right to have a certain number of people stumble on to your video through algorithm recommendations.
Karma Decay – Reverse Image Search of Reddit.com
It looks like the download manager, music player, and gallery are all built to work with the drive.
The other ones that could don't say and don't really require much storage so it's not clear if the raw data is stored on the drive in case you want it.
Does it? It seems to me that there's a lot to it that simply hasn't been researched adequately yet.
Cheap ble tags do NOT use fancy rotated private keys or anything of the like. At best they use BLE privacy mode. That is as private as the spec gets.

Source: worked on Bluetooth for years
I share the same feelings with you and all the people that replied. That's why some days ago I started a set of single-file libraries for opening a window and pushing pixels in the same fashion: by writing directly to memory (to a RGB or Indexed (256 palette) frame buffer).

The goal is to have multiple implementations, in different languages and OSs. For example, right now I wrote (partial or full) support (in C) to:

PNG, windows GDI, linux X11, linux OpenGL, linux Framebuffer and Javascript Canvas

https://github.com/feiss/zero

(I've just started! expect it to be incomplete, broken, faulty and buggy!)
New Yorkers just stop at the gym on their way home from work. The net time difference is close to zero. However you also have the opportunity to actually meet other people at a gym.
So this is what I do not understand about Bell's Theorem: it seems to dismiss in the assumptions the possibility of determinism (I don't understand where the super comes from, as there is no distinction) and then goes on to conclude "Hey, there must be fundamental randomness". Didn't we just assume the conclusion?
recent apple phones have NFC, which cannot be disabled.
> It is only the mash of Hindi-Urdu called Hindustani [1] (popularized in modern day by Bollywood) that's mutually intelligible to both Hindi and Urdu speakers alike, and only in its spoken form.

Hindustani is not a mash of Hindi-Urdu that came into popularity with Bollywood. The distinction between Hindi and Urdu is a modern political division. Hindustani predates that political division.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language
The other part of the story is that I spent over a decade as a part time fitness instructor going around to over a dozen gyms during the course of a year and the energy of being in front of a class and the friendships I made were priceless.

But as $life_happened and I stopped teaching and moved away from my friends, I really started hating everything about the gym and having to work around the gym schedule. There are times I hang out with my wife until she goes to sleep and then work out after 9PM.
One of the fundamental rules of security is that if your adversary has physical access, it's over. This sounds like that but with extra steps. If somebody has access to your equipment and am able to attach arbitrary items to your bag, then it could be any tracker (Tile, cheap GPS tracker, iPhone, etc.), then of course it's over from a security perspective.
How about "Privacy is vegetarianism" instead? Just 20 years ago I'd have trouble going out for a meal in London because there was maybe one (one!) dedicated veggie restaurant in the whole city and lots of places didn't even offer an option on their menu.

Now, everywhere offers a vegetarian option, it's normal. What it took was dedication by fanatics* and to increase mindshare amongst the young. I'd venture that the same conditions would reap the same rewards with privacy.

* that's a wee joke… or is it? :-)
I worked for a very large company that's considered a leader in apps and games for kids. I don't think this is as good as it seems first glance.

COPPA compliance isn't new. There are some third party analytics tools that are COPPA compliant, and any responsible company is already taking COPPA seriously. What's new here is saying you can't farm responsibility for your data collection to COPPA-compliant third party SDKs. My guess is because there have been too many watchdogs raising concerns, and it's much easier to review apps for compliance if you blanket ban third party SDKs with this purpose.

That said, this isn't going to change the business need. You'll just seem more first party code hitting a first party wrapper to a third party service. It will also encourage more small companies to try rolling their own, which invites bad security practices and greater risk what the data that is collected. I'm not sure that really helps kids or parents overall.
(1) Currently not really, we have a (self made) HTTP API, and S3 API support for blob storage. We don not support (and do not have yet examined things like WebDAV...)

(2) You can see current Bloom as an Unikernel, So yes the music player and the gallery lets you play files directly from your Drive :)

One things like oauth will be implemented I see no constraint to use third party implementations (planned for Q4 2019).

(3) Totally, Better self hosting documentation is planned for next version: https://gitlab.com/groups/bloom42/-/epics/5
Rationally this is correct. But when you talk to people and all inner alarm bells go off it's really hard to stay relaxed. That's how it is for me. I know pretty well that people mostly don't think badly of me but the thought is still there.
Where did you get this 80%/20% figures from?
How suitable is actix-web for serving static files? I'd love a programmable server for this, as opposed to dealing with nginx.
A volunteer, state-registered nonprofit Neighborhood Association that I handle the technology side of things for was recently flat out denied by Google and I've been looking for meaningful alternatives so the association can manage its affairs without dipping into their meager savings. I'm encouraged by your project. It's missing a key apps, but I'll keep an eye on it moving forward!
> Not about how a language can be misused. The misuse of language is secondary.

Again, use of language as a way to signal group identity and block out others is not "misuse" of a language. It is an inherent part of the human language faculty, it is normal usage. I know that in a venue like this who many participants are developers or sympathetic to the software community, there is a tendency to think of human language like a programming language, as solely a means of communication, purely a matter of "utility", but as I said, that is not how human communities actually work.

As for “irrational hatred”: considering the danger that large languages supported by a central government can pose to regional languages – a danger illustrated by numerous case studies all over the world – the desire of certain South Indians to avoid Hindi is not irrational at all.
If Youtube deems your content inappropriate for whatever reason then they remove you. This is a problem when they control the channel for the vast majority of content. You can't apply the simple ideology to it anymore. It is its own government at this point.
The "native" sector size of an SSD is the erasure block size, typically 64KiB.
current SSDs are page/block oriented, but that's likely to change. (See intel's relatively recent Optane).
So you are suggesting there is two types of electricity markets: one for green electricity and another for say black electricity. Let's say their prices are in equilibrium.

So you increase your green electricity demand, and green power generation capacity is increased and more green electricity is made.

However the demand for black electricity hasn't decreased.

But you have created an arbitrage opportunity e.g. someone decreases their green electricity usage, and increases their black electricity usage.

Your fallacy is that you think it is possible to create two separate electricity markets (maybe separate grids, or strong regulation) for a good that is quite fungible.
Yes, "working class" is offensive. Like just about any other classification criteria is. Are you not woke enough to see this?

Your two self-contradictions are

1. "you can make an reasonable argument that prohibiting such arrangements would not cause much harm" vs "Anytime you implement a minimum wage that’s higher than the market value of somebody’s labor, you’re restricting their ability to find employment"

2. "People won’t enter into an employment arrangement that doesn’t benefit them" vs "I don’t think a minimum wage in general is entirely unreasonable"
Plenty of software has reinvented something that was done prior. Even if the outcome hasn’t improved significantly, how the outcome was achieved still has plenty of value. Just as we’ve seen in software, repeatedly finding better and efficient processes to achieve largely the same technical outcome.

Throwing the machine learning label into the mix always pushes the expected results to a higher standard.
Safari got grid support within 3 weeks of Chrome, so there’s reason to be optimistic.
Reading this, I couldn't help but try to find the rhythm of a poem to match the formatting.
Can NFC be used by iOS applications, e.g. SSH authentication via smartcard, where the private key never leaves the card?
No, the time to complete one transition is the inverse of Rabi frequency, which is actually determined by strength of external field and nature of the transition (its dipole moment matrix elements), see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi_frequency
Part of personal agency is being free enough to opt out of rationality. It isn’t the purview of second parties to assume what we may or may not want in the future.

If I sign a DNR, it isn’t the place of anyone else to say “but he didn’t mean it like that”. Same for (what are assumed by observers to be temporary) suicidal ideations.

This strikes at the very core of personal autonomy.
I've worked in profitable companies that had that, but then Wall Street started demanding more profit, so the work environment (and headcount) was easiest to cut, but has the worst long term impact on the company.
The unix filesystem api doesn't provide a way to interact with sectors. The primitives are files and the methods available are writing more data, or truncating.

There is no function provided for shifting the byte offset of data in a file.

You can write an entirely new file, of course, but the question has an implicit goal of doing this efficiently.
Envious, nay jealous of a room of that size.
Like I said above, what’s wrong with the simple idea of getting people to pay for apps and avoid any ads?
That's trivially easy to guess -- and game.

You want something that is sufficiently random that it can't be easily guessed or gamed, but can be quickly and easily determined on your side.

Salted cryptographic hashes might be a good place to start.
> Good joke. First of all, this site actively tries to ban political discussion

Yet here we are. Are you banned yet? YouTube also bans certain types of political discussion as you are well aware... so what?

> . Second, it's tiny in comparison to YouTube.

So you think the uninformed conversations occurring in a video entertainment cesspool are more impactful than the discourse between the engineers, founders and investors that actually built, maintain, understand and operate these platforms on a day to day basis? That's totally absurd. You're so hung up on popularity that you seem to have lost sight of relevance.

> ...

So in summary, if the site isn't a top 10 alexa ranking you regard it as politically unimportant. Popularity != political relevance. League of Legends is the most popular online game in the world, there are millions of people having political discussions on that platform every day, should Riot be prohibited from banning people?

> You keep suggesting that the amount of non-political content on YouTube somehow reduces the effect of the political content on YouTube.

No, I'm demonstrating that YouTube is primarily and overwhelmingly an entertainment platform and your attempts to suggest that it's so important to the fabric of political discourse that YouTube should not be allowed to ban people is not supported by the evidence of the activity on the platform.
The filesystem just needs a concept of a file start offset.

The initial value is 0, if you wanted to support truncating at the head, you just add to this offset the amount truncated.

In a sector-based filesystem, whenever this offset goes far enough into the file that crosses sector boundaries, you reclaim those sectors as free space. When it lands within a sector somewhere, that sector is pinned and you waste some space.

The problem is more that the userspace APIs don't expose well-supported mechanisms for doing this. Implementing it at the filesystem level is trivial.
So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io (https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en)

And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997.

Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing.

Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around.

Who would you choose?
I just stumbled over this gem:

Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode

> This new 128-bit Unicode code point space can be leveraged by the
IETF to address one of the lingering issues with IPv6: there's not
much left to standardize. With the changes described in this
document, the IETF will be kept busy for decades to come. It also
enables new features and market opportunities, to help the global
economy. This in turn will increase tax revenues for governments,
which eventually may lead to increased funds for combating global
warming. Therefore, the ultimate goal of this document is to reduce
global warming.
I can tell you from experience that academia is as cliquey as it gets. Depending on the field even having a good university affiliation may not see you getting through the submission and review process if you don't have one of the clique-members as a co-author. Reviewers will often find a reason to reject your submission (it's all too easy citing 'insufficient validation' or characterising the topic as 'outlandish').

I feel dirty for even saying this but the best way to get your work published in a good journal is to let a member of said clique, typically a professor with a good amount of publications on the topic, piggy-back on your article. Their presence on the author-list will lend credence to your work.

If you choose not to go the above route, and power to you for not playing their game, things get tricky. You can try applying to some well-known conferences and best-case you can get your work presented and published as proceedings (very common in the IEEE world). Depending on the topic you can try and submit to a decent journal with a strong impact-factor but depending on the editor you may not even get to the review process.

Lastly, it's mentioned elsewhere here, do not publish to rando journals that expect a fee. Even if your work is fantastic publishing in one of those will cast doubt on every single one of your words cause they're seen as completely predatory and lacking in credibility.
Do you have the source code to Amplitude? If not, you don’t know what the binary blob you’re including in your code does.
Correct, my bad. Did some tests and AFAICT neither EXT4, XFS nor BTRFS allows arbitrary byte ranges here.
I am fairly certain they mean gaming as in gambling. Would be a bit weird to ban video game ads, surely?
Glysophate is one of the most researched chemicals in the world. 99.9% of substances in food are less researched than glysophate and many exist in concentrations at least as high.
The old quantum theory was developed in non-relativistic setting, so this was not a concern. But you are right, relativity complicates lots of things in quantum theory, including the idea of "instantaneous" quantum jumps. In relativity, if some event is to be universally instantaneous, then it has to happen at a single point of space. Which is possible with point particles, but then you get the problem how those point particles can find each other to interact at a single point so often as measured cross sections indicate... perhaps they are not exactly points, but waves, but then we can't have instantaneous events, the event has to happen to the wave in big region of space where simultaneity is relative.