skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of the cosmological fine-tuning argument : that there are few precisely fine-tuned constants which seeded the universe in it's inception, which lead to complexity (life, planets, galaxies) emerging in the universe.
Yes, we provide service to apartment buildings. However, we need to work with the building mgmt if it has more than a handful of units.
Isn't that kinda what the Windfall game did more or less?
Ibex was born as "Zero-riscy", which had a smaller sibling named "Micro-riscy". https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8106976 gives an indication of power consumption and clock speeds:

"Micro-riscy is 1.6× smaller than Zero-riscy (~11.6 kgates in UMC 65nm), has a power envelope of just 100μW at 160MHz and it is 1.4× more energy efficient than Zero-riscy on pure control code."

Given the renaming, Micro-riscy could well be equivalent to an Ibex with the minimal area "E-extension".

I wish some big name would pick this core and create a line of cheap low-power MCU's from 10 to 100 pins. To my knowledge only Espressif's next chip, after the soon to launch "Chip 7", is known to likely be a RISC-V. Bound to be hugely popular because of low-power, high clocks, code-efficieny, Rust compatibility and a smooth upgrade path. What's not to like?
>the latest flavor of puritanical outrage

For some time I have been searching for ways to express how the worst characteristics of religion people give for leaving persist widely with nonbelievers. This expresses it nicely.
The sad truth is Congress is the biggest offender of poor network security practices. Every time they bring in Equifax, DHS, etc to explain why they didn't practice basic IT security due diligence or due care I am reminded of the time smart people were hired to implement basic network security for Congress. Once they realized Joe in IT (who was hired to keep hackers out) can see Congressman Bob has a foot fetish, fish fetish, whatever, Congress told IT to turn everything off.
Before asking for more of the money spend freely you should stop and ask your elected officials to not spend the money so recklessly.

millions, if not billions, are wasted every day by politicians propping up their political power yet by some miracle if we just took more money they could spend it more wisely.

if is the near impunity and preponderance of so many taxes that has led us into a situation with untold wealth in government hands and near financial accountability for a good portion of it.

Many love to lambast Federal spending but you would be aghast at how much of county, city, and state, funding is now going to pay. California, thirty thousand plus retirees pulling down 100k, nineteen thousand in Illinois. All justified because they were paid a lot working for the government. Twenty billion per year in retirement just from CalPers, twelve billion in Illinois. That is pension numbers, not active employees, which far outnumber them!

anti-tax rhetoric exist because politicians use the public money to grant largess to insured voting bases, the very people working in their jurisdictions and trying to FUD you in going along with it.
I think that’s being overly charitable given what he’s said in the past and that he has a penchant for sledgehammer as hominem attacks and ridicule against people who criticize him as opposed to being precise in his counterpunches.

Taken in context, the sheer volume of his falsehoods weighs against his credibility in terms of giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Even if there is a fee, most of the time there is an option to downgrade the card to a no fee version.
If they took a decent picture, then they could identify something that looks like the license plate and then use OCR to compute the number and store that.
Microsoft Discreetly Deletes Facial Recognition Database
This reminds me of the famous Muhammad drawings in 2005 in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (JP). Back then they were seen as a defence of free speech and our democratic rights, a way of mocking the draconian regimes of the Middle East. Had it happened again today, the Puritan twittersphere would have been all over it and JP would likely have had to follow same route as NYT. Very sad.
I don’t think the pay thing is true in general.
If only someone could have seen this coming, you know, outside of the thousands of people that saw this coming. This is just one of many reasons why mass surveillance is a terrible.
I think it has a very good chance of succeeding, and I think it's a very smart business strategy. I know who you are, and I know what your work means in the game industry. And honestly I've learned a lot from your writing and talks, and if you get filthy rich, well, you've put in the work and if anyone deserves it, sure, great.

It strikes me as odd to describe your actions as "democratizing access" when what you're doing is basically the textbook definition of market making. Markets structure access by capital; democracies are ideally structured to provide equal access that is unrelated to participants' access to capital. By transforming private networks into fungible commodities, you will ideally raise the utilization of said private networks and in turn raise the return on investment of building such networks.

You say you're not creating more private networks, but again, I think this is a useful turn of phrase that is not representative of the consequences of your actions. Even when you're not making more private networks yourself, if you build an efficient market for commodifying access to private networks, shouldn't that create incentives for others to create new private networks? I'm not questioning your motives; I'm questioning what the consequences of your actions will be.

Since the bill here is footed by the game developer (and not the player), the cost barrier that indies face in making multiplayer games is further tilted in the favor of AAA studios. In short: great for AAA studios since it makes it harder for smaller studios to compete, great for private network operators since it provides liquidity, great for gamers that want to play AAA multiplayer games, bad for indie game studios because it will widen the latency gap between public and private networks, bad for gamers that want to play indie multiplayer games.

The end result of this appears to be a system whose consequence will be to create market forces that encourage the centralization of capital and the creation of new private networks, while also adversely affecting the landscape of which game developers are capable of creating latency-sensitive multiplayer games. That is what I find concerning.
I guess that the US AG has that power. Or maybe some tame judges. I suppose that it could go to the Supreme Court.

However, many cases have been quashed, based on national security grounds. For criminal cases, charges against suspects have been dropped. But about SAMs, that would likely leave the status unchanged. IANAL, though.
I understand how numbers work, so I don't usually play the lottery. But I do play when the jackpot cracks $1B. Not because I expect to win, but for the thrill of playing.

That thrill is only there when the jackpot is at $1B.
Exactly. Don't listen to what people say they will do, watch what they actually do.
That's probably true. They should try to educate people that if there are 250 times as many winners that your chances of winning a significant amount of money is much higher.
RISC-V is open source rather libre. It's an ISA which anyone can use, and in a sense cannot be stopped. I myself believe it will be a juggernaut everyone will throw their efforts behind.
The Recaptcha 3 is even worse. For example go to truecaller.com and enter a phone number to lookup in Firefox (android). You won't be able to, it will say Recaptcha had failed. Now do the same in chrome on Android and it works. It's because on ff it gives a low score (i. e user is a bot) while on chrome it passes without a hitch.

Funny thing is I haven't used chrome in months so it should be the other way round!
And my point is that a large part of the reason for that is that experience with the terminals that originally supported this functionality, and modern attempts to resurrect it, is that even when you do have programs that takes advantage, the benefit is smaller than you might think.

I still want to do more with it. I grew up with an Amiga where the terminal was a system service that could be trivially embedded in a window and co-mingled with gui elements. I still think parts of that design are ahead of modern gui's. But it's also an ecosystem thing. It's more important to have software that works together than to get those gains that individually are quite minor. You first get the full benefits when things start coalescing into a greater whole.
It's not clear to me if the whole database was downloaded and leaked or just part of it. Anyone know?
>In the absence of said democratically controlled police force I think the USA military is not the worst substitute. It's not a good one, but it's better than having no counter to other forces.

I dunno, WWII aside, the worst offenders of meddling with other countries, toppling governments, invading, plundering, and promoting their own interests, etc, in the 20th and 21st century, globally, were the US and USSR.

Not some "rogue states", especially not the small ones, who can't seriously do much to anybody outside their immediate borders anyway...
This is incorrect. I assure you they get a large porition of their traffic from referrals and Google search results (and Google News). They were literally just complaining about this yesterday:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/business/media/google-new...
The types of expenditures you give as examples are not what make the American credit system strange and questionable.

Yes, it makes sense to take on debt if you want to buy a house and you have a steady paycheck.

However, it's not obvious that it makes sense to take on debt to pay for things you already have money in the bank to afford. Why do I borrow $100 to buy groceries every week? I have more than $100 in my bank account at any given moment. Why do I borrow $3.50 to buy a coffee at Starbucks? I'm constantly borrowing money that I don't need, and then paying it back within a few weeks, just so that I can prove that I'm a responsible debtor.

This really becomes a problem when people use credit to pay for things they can't afford, of course. Still, the whole system of taking on debt for every minor purchase, just to prove that you'll pay it back, is sort of absurd.
Rule #1 about databases: It will be hacked.
Rule #2: see rule #1
A few weeks before that event, he was on Swiss TV (he lives in Geneva) saying that he never felt pressure and did not care... Sad...
It's just a terminology thing, so not terribly important, but these types of cards are called "store cards" or "retail cards", and they are usually considered to be credit cards, despite having some differences from regular credit cards.

This card seems to allow you carry a balance from one month to the next, so that means it isn't a "charge card" which must be paid in full every month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_card
Driverless cars will disrupt airlines
I see that stuff too. Not American.
Sounds like Perceptics.
To expand, this still goes on, it's just a lot more convoluted and has become quite the cat and mouse game. It's been very interesting watching how manufactured spending has evolved.
Video might mean adaptive bitrate I suppose.
Stanford Professor Creates Kindness Class to Help Students Find Empathy
> that you cannot control network exfiltration from apps

GrapheneOS has a Network permission toggle, which is one of the features already restored from the past work on the project. There are many other privacy and security features that still need to be ported to the latest release, although a lot of them have become standard features especially in Android Q. https://gist.github.com/thestinger/e4bb344dcc545d2ee00dcc22f... is an overview of the Android Q privacy improvements(not security improvements, just privacy) in the context of GrapheneOS. To conserve development resources, the past features that are becoming standard aren't going to be ported over rather than just waiting for the standard implementations being released around August. Some of them will need to be adjusted to make them a bit more aggressive when it comes to apps targeting the legacy API level, but that's a lot less work than maintaining downstream implementations of all of this.

> you cannot update or modify the OS pieces at will

Having a well-defined base OS with verified boot and proper atomic updates with automatic rollback on failure is a strength, not a weakness. It's the same update system (update_engine) as ChromeOS. The update system is not the problem with the broader Android ecosystem with lack of updates to vendor forks. The migration towards everything being apk components that can be separated updated rather than moving more towards the ChromeOS design is a negative thing in terms of GrapheneOS and it's one of the things that has to be changed downstream to improve verified boot.

> Librem will answer these.

That's nonsense. First of all, that's hardware, and also moving to a far less secure software stack with non-existent privacy and security, an inferior update system and no verified boot is not a solution to these problems. The solution to privacy and security problems is not completely throwing away privacy and security...
Somewhat related(okay, not really, but still fun) - awesome talks about modern procedural generation techniques(with AI, Houdini, etc):

How AI will change 3D industry

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FlgLxSLsYWQ

Procedural world generation for Far Cry

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NfizT369g60

Procedurally generating Manhattan for Spider Man

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4aw9uyj9MAE

Mindblowing talks by Anastasia Opara (using cool math, deep learning, and a lot of creativity to create crazy cool stuff)

https://www.anastasiaopara.com/talks

Procedurally generating 3D landscape in Houdini (a little tutorial I have made, can't resist sharing)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o3mbIRZhv20
Great, maybe it can fine itself for the breach. And by that, meaning it can return my tax money to me.
10 000 years is also 2x more than entire recorded history, and about the time since humans stopped being subject to biological evolution as the main driver of development.

10 000 years is a lot of time. Compared to other climate issues, with consequences expected in decades, this deserves at best a "cool, we'll fix that in a century or two, if technological civilization still exists by that time".
Oh I see. Yeah I recommend going back to that version if you don't have a particular reason to stick with the later one. Or maybe to 9.50.1 if you want the ability to add Favorites and Want To Go (as opposed to just Starred Locations). The later versions have way too much crap in them -- over fifty (!) notifications (and redundant ones at that, I'm guessing because people kept turning off the old ones) as of the latest version I tried, with the screen constantly trying to get you to look at it and tap stuff. They're trying to get your attention all the time like they're Facebook or something. They can't just show you a darn map and navigate you anymore. (Though even these versions aren't great, but they're usable.) They made the changes rather gradually though (sometimes even the same version behaves differently depending on whether you upgraded or not) so I'm guessing that's why you didn't notice.
Not having the second half of the solution yet doesn't make the first half not a victory. Especially when the second half is making clear and rapid progress (rapid enough, probably not, but still...)
Waze is often better, I do the same thing. GM doesn't seem to account for lights or left turns as well as Waze.
Sorry it wasn't clear...

Because in some countries your "credit" is only the bad things (unpaid debt) whereas in America (and other places) your "credit" includes both the bad things and the good things too. So its in your best interest to add good things.

In other words, you're able to prove you're conscientious to entities who will give you some benefit for being conscientious.
This article smacks of corporate apologia. A lot of jobs just genuinely suck, and no amount of cognitive dissonance will change that.
Hey! Signal dev here. We've actually seen delayed notification both before and after the switch to FCM. My guess is that newer Android versions are just becoming more and more aggressive with their battery optimizations.

We send high-priority FCM messages, but the device will still bundle them together in order to deliver them in batches. Even worse, there are times we are delivered an FCM message but network access will be invisibly restricted, further delaying our ability to retrieve the actual message content (for obvious reasons, we can't include the message content in the FCM message itself). We're continuing to try new things, but it'd be nice if there was some official guidelines on how to avoid these FCM pitfalls.
That's pretty specious reasoning though. Google, Wikipedia, and Youtube are the highest trafficked sites and I'd argue have a bit more visual cohesion.

Just because successful companies do a thing doesn't mean everything they do is a success.
The CBINSIGHTS research report (WeWork strategy teardown) is an interesting read...

"WeWork’s $47 Billion Dream: The Lavishly Funded Startup That Could Disrupt Commercial Real Estate"

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/wework-strategy-t...
Build your own MobX-like state management library in 40 lines of code
I think app.net (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net) tried that approach and failed to get traction.

I view it kind of like Craigslist. If I put something there for free tons of people are interested. If I charge even a dollar the interest drops by a magnitude.
SEC Provides Analytical Tools for Assessing Digital Assets
To answer the question shortly: Yes

But I actually think you are mis-portraying the situation is because I don't think the average adult has the ability to comprehend these things. It's not the difference between adults and children, but adults and expert adults.

Here are some analogies to other parts of society that we don't have a problem with:

Seat belt laws
Hard hat required construction area
Safety guideline in Handling of hazardous materials

We basically said society doesn't trust you to decide for yourself about your safety - you just have to follow the rule.
>and everything in the database was just a protocol message.

This is interesting. Do you have any more information on it?
seems very likely, wapo journo broke this and it's alluded to: https://wapo.st/2ItjHfW
Actually yes, another country should "lead" the transition. It's a global issue. Doing a good thing for your own population while continuing to export fossil fuel is hypocritical.
1) Yes, and (when there is only one unique solution) it can apparently be found in Prolog without doing an search at all by using constraint logic programming. Check the video in the sudoku article.

2) I'm not the best at answering this as I'm quite new to Prolog, but I'll try. I'd say a) anything you'd use a general purpose programming languge for, b) anything you'd use SQL for, and c) anything that's too difficult to do in either of those.

SWI Prolog[0] has a large standard library and feels very "batteries included".

Perhaps what I wouldn't use it for is mobile apps..? (But then again, there's Tau Prolog[1] which could probably work in a Cordova app).

[0]: http://www.swi-prolog.org/

[1]: http://tau-prolog.org/
DependencyCheck 5.0.0
Sure, but stupid people don't understand the concept of scientific legitimacy. That's a large part of the problem with modern politics.
Nasa's long lost Apollo 10 “Snoopy” lunar module may have been found – SlashGear
And not everyone can "take the optimum" route. It would no longer be optimum. I don't want maximum efficiency to be a proxy for the fastest for me, I'd rather smooth and predicable traffic for everyone.
What is confusing? Even if you yourself log out of Twitter, other people are still looking at it. In that sense, they don't cease to exist when you put your phone down, because other people are still paying attention to them.

Sure, as long as they don't know who you are, then it's not such a big deal. An online mob that's mad at you but doesn't know who you are is easy enough to ignore - just log out, as you said. But increasingly it feels like it is less and less likely that the mob does not know who you are. A Twitter mob knows that its outrage is for naught unless it can cause lasting harm to its target, and so it goes to great efforts to dox those targets. Almost always, it seems, the target is doxxed and then their life is ripped to shreds.
I think we're still talking past each other.

My point is: these services may require identity, but they don't truly need it, could work without it, and it's only a bad design that they do ask for it.
In relating to religion as it seems to have some parallels of missing "context" for me. Religions have amazingly very great advice in many things but I cannot accept the rationale behind them and have discarded them missing the good parts of the advice so I end up "discovering" things later in life that are actually good practices because I understood them from a framework that made sense to me. Some examples would be fasting and being thankful for what you have. Advice I would never take if I didn't have my own frame of reference.
No, we live in Eurasia, remember?
I assume you are talking about the US. Seems like a pretty reasonable investment if you cut some military funding or put a small tax on the richest Americans?
anyone ? Why is a 3rd party given the ability to store such a large database to conduct such business ?
They should at most store the last 3 months border documents, nothing older than this.
That's the disconnect. Each draw's odds are independent, but each draw's winnings aren't.

So there's a collectivism that goes into a growing pot. This is the only thing that really makes a "rollover" enticing to players. If each draw was an isolated incident, the "windfall" mechanic the article describes would be in place for every draw. So a collective pitches in, and the pot is distributed amongst the collective's members (the players) according to how successful each ticket is. So if there's no 6-number winners, there's more left in the pot for the 5-number winners. If there's 5-number winners, there's more left in the pot for the 4-number winners, etc.

(Either that, or the house makes out like bandits. State lotteries are usually regulated to keep a distinction between the pot and the profit, hence such pot-emptying mechanisms.)

But if the pot rolls over - it's not distributed, but added to the pot for the next draw - you now have more than one collective. One collective that's contributed to the pot (over n draws), and one collective that participates in the winning game (over 1 draw). And if there's a significant disconnect between the two, then yes - as one commenter put it, sour grapes. It's the difference between feeling like you've lost a fair game, and feeling like you've been hustled.

Technically it makes zero difference. But if it makes people less inclined to play in future, then it's bad for the long-term health of the game.
Facebook Turned Off Search Features Used To Catch Bad Actors
> It does confuse me that these mobs have such power on decision makers at companies and media outlets like this. The interesting thing about Twitter "mobs" is that if you look away from the computer screen or hit the button on the side of your phone, they are suddenly silent and may as well not exist.

If you are a company then bad stories on Twitter could cause a significant drop in business. So if you just choose to ignore Twitter, that does not mean that it may as well not exist.
Facebook Quietly Changes Search Tool Used by Investigators, Abused by Companies