skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I edited it for clarity and don't really see how the changes were material to your response.

Regardless, if you want to engage in some kind of rational discourse, I'm perfectly willing. My assertion is that your product, based on the scant information I've seen about it has a very limited scope in which it might improve packet loss and latency for gamers.

I hypothesize that most packet loss and latency issues for gamers arise from poor wireless networking. Those aside, the very serious gamers are going to be using wired connections. If they experience packet loss and latency, there are a few other possible culprits. Namely, the shit hardware most folks are forced to use by companies like Arris. Beyond that, there are last mile physical plant issues, and beyond that, edge routing devices which are typically woefully over-provisioned. There is no "private network arbitrage" service that's going to aid in those issues which I suspect comprise something north of 99% of all latency and packet loss related issues that gamers experience.

So, yeah, make some empty promises, extort some game developers and enjoy the same fate that many, many other similar companies before you enjoyed. See: all the BGP optimization companies that came and went in the 2000-2010 timeframe.
Years ago I thought of a poke at anti-evolution types. If you religion falls apart because it turns out men evolved from monkeys then your religion is pretty flimsy.

Probably can say the same about blasphemy.
Horizontal Attack Profile Comparison (Docker vs. GVisor vs. Nabla)
"Those low-grade conflicts aren't what much of the US military is designed for--a large conflict with another capable military force like China, Russia, etc."

Doubt it. The US has basically close to zero experience in such a conflict. Even the 2nd WW was mainly a Russian-German war in Europe. 9 out of 10 German soldiers fell on the Eastern front and the US had already a much larger population and industry then Germany.

In Addition, the Navy would be not very useful to engage an able opponent: http://www.johntreed.net/sittingducks.html
I spent my time in the industry in Dallas, which is pretty close to the optimal balance of salary and metro area. My salary was not at industry averages. I remember, vaguely, Raytheon's salary bands. They weren't anything to write home about, and you were not getting anywhere near the top ends in a low COL location like Dallas.
the problem is owning your content and platform is not enough.

you need much, much better UX (User Experience). Millions of people are now using facebook groups thanks to its easy real-time comments and well thought out threads. Good luck having that on your blog.

Alternative software needs to be vastly improved and centralized(1) for this to work. This is the problem, nobody is incentivized to fix it, so there you go. You get monster proprietary platforms still growing.

(1) Some people think decentralized platforms is the solution - it totally isn't. It is bad UX. They first build it, then find out it doesn't work, and this repeats. Why should everyone take the hassle of hosting their stuff? Plus, syncing everyone in a single feed is not an easy problem. I guess email is the outlier here.
> In a functioning democracy "they" is "us".

That notion is generally not in keeping with the western common-law tradition, which holds a more skeptical view of governments which have the moral authority to operate within any domain and with any powers so long as they can connect those powers to the consent of the governed.

Instead, the tradition of the United States, for example, is that government power is limited and enumerated and does not change no matter what "us" may say about it in the form of political elections.

I suggest that you read (just an example) Federalist 10 by James Madison and consider how thoroughly these guys thought through the argument you are making about democracy and how hard they tried to make something better.

And none of this is to amount to founder worship: we can all see now that there was tremendous hypocrisy in founding a nation which didn't categorically prohibit slavery from the get-go. And in fact, slavery continues to this day in the form of a prison system that "us" has occasionally been happy to endorse, the rights of the incarcerated be damned.

All I'm saying is: don't tout democracy in such simplistic terms without also considering the arguments of its critics.
I _have_ multiple times walked away from a purchase due to reCAPTCHA at the login form (Sony - PSN). It makes me think "You know what, this isn't worth it", and I don't want to help Google out anyway.
Is it simply the case that once AV1 encoding gets done in hardware in most CPUs, all its disadvantages vanish and it becomes the obvious choice?
What Is the FI/Re Movement
I can't imagine gas powered bike lamps were great to ride around with but the ones they replaced (soot!, smoke!, danger!) must've been even more exciting.
Maybe so. But it's a gamble. If species that we depend on go, such as pollinators, we'll be SOL.

On the other hand, I do agree with your practical assessment:

> "cool, we'll fix that in a century or two, if technological civilization still exists by that time".

Because, if for no other reason, it probably won't.

And there's also the fact that it's a human impact that can't likely be mitigated in any other way than collapse of the human population.
I wouldn't frame it as decentralization, more like compartmentalization. You harden your systems to prevent horizontal movement between services.

For example, you could try to put payment credentials in a separate subnet where they are never read out of that enclave. Access to that subnet might require separate authentication credentials that most employees don't have, and API calls might require the calling server to possess a separate type of short-lived certificate. So when the main DB is compromised through an employee, it's still hard to laterally access more sensitive data.
Two things:

1. According to the reddit post the firebase library makes no difference to battery life

2. It is perfectly possible to provide strong guarantees around battery usage and resource consumption with open source code
You can't. On all stock roms the google play services is installed, which gives google full administrator access to the device with no way to disable it. Google has been known to abuse that privilege for things like location tracking without your permission [1].

[1]: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/235594-yes-google-play-is...
The whole patent system for audio and video storage is flawed. These "competitors" should be abolished completely.
Interesting to hear an insiders perspective of the ‘Lisp Wars’.

My outsider’s perspective, at the time, was disappointment. I really liked InterLisp-D on my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine. That said, Xerox provided a Common Lisp implementation that still had the UI wonderfulness and I think they still supported DWIM. I now have about 35 years of frequent Common Lisp use/experience, and my latest project/product is written in Common Lisp (http://kgcreator.com).
Sounds like the Gell-Mann amnesia effect[1]. We notice the innacuracies in the fields we are familiar with and then readily believe stories outside of our expertise.

Disclaimer - reporting is critically important and by and large journalists are doing their best to understand and describe incredibly complex and esoteric subjects. It's always good to remember there is a lot more nuance behind just about every story than surface level would indicate.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
But does it slow the bot down in a meaningful way?

If you have one IP, there's a limit on captchas solved that you're going to blow through with or without the delay.

If you have a bunch of IPs, you can multithread the solving.
I'll ask again after a few years then. If you're not retiring anytime in the next decade, the up's and down's of the market are completely useless to be worried about.
Private equity firm buying Shutterfly for $1.74 billion
You mean border control?

You can't, actually. Those passport-scanning, camera-enabled gates are not automated, they are remotely operated.
I think you can assume "acting maliciously" was intended to be a catch-all for something more general, like maybe "acting in a grossly disrespectable manner", regardless of whether the intentions were actually malice or not.
There’s a lot going on here, and I’m no fan of CBP but this is pretty much a low-grade by the book contractor failure here. They receive training on all of these things, and have gone through a lengthy award and due diligence process and then all it takes is one person thinking “hey I think I’ll take a sample dataset back to my Dev laptop to test things.” Could be a newbie or a senior - who knows, but it’s happened before.

Go after CBP for constitutionality of collection, for working outside of borders where they are legally not allowed to work, etc, but in this case I’d say let’s not blow things too out of proportion.

Remember when OMB lost hundreds of thousands of detailed compromising personal background check reports with all the identifying information including biometrics? This sounds like some port of entry data you could get with a camera in public.

Further: they are not absolving themselves. They are probably working their asses off right now to make sure this never happens again but somebody is going to pay for credit protection and insurance, and it should be the contractor that ignored their contract and all sensible security policy. So, there is is in the press release.

Lastly: I don’t think GDPR fixes this. Government (especially intel community and law enforcement) keeps the data as long as their record schedules allow.

Thankfully, laws about breaches required them to reveal this to us within a certain time. Privacy Officers have really hard jobs. To do them well is hard and thankless. Glad this one stuck to the law.
I immediately started sweating when I saw the title of this article as it instantly threw me back to my 3rd year 'Programming Languages and Paradigms' course where we had to do this for an assessment (except it was Jigsaw Soduku).
Well AV1 encoding isn't hardware accelerated on iOS/MacOS devices but then again they probably aren't that big in the games streaming space.
What's the midwest? A dumping ground? Please, there's nevada, it's cheap.
You might think, but that's not how how conformance (of an ISO C implementation to the standard) works.

For an implementation to be deemed conforming, it just has to be demonstrated to successfully translate and execute one program that tests each of the minimum implementation limits.

See 5.2.4.1 in http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf

Only if no such program can be found can we then conclude that the implementation is nonconforming (and if the reason for not finding such a program is this overcommit issue, then we can blame that issue).

Your Linux system is indeed nonconforming if it is so low on memory that, for instance, no C program can allocate a 65535 byte object (that can be actually initialized, and used: a real object). Basically the memory situation has to be so severe that it takes the implementation below the minimum limits, whereby we can clearly demonstrate nonconformance.
Yes, except the government has, in its majestic fairness, carved out exceptions in gdpr for government entities.
NARA Considers Blockchain to Verify Records Amid Rise in Deepfake Videos
Fourth problem: How vague the instructions are. When I'm asked to click the boxes that contain signs, do I include the poles?
There were more serious allegations against the individual, but the gov't dropped those claims. All that was left was the fact this individual had extensive access to Congressional servers.
I legit created this app to cure all of this http://foxie.cool
They don’t- it’s the FSF restricting developers freedom. Not Apple.
I'm in the UK, which is part of Europe, and we do have to build credit here.

Permission to rent, in the nicer places, is contingent on credit ratings, and so is the interest rate you will be charged for a mortgage, as well as getting access to one at all.

So it affects access to housing, and is quite important.

(Unfortunately the credit reference agencies maintain files with a lot of credit-harming errors in them. Sometimes even fictitious, unpaid/overdue transactions will appear, in fictitious credit accounts. Even obtaining a new phone contract can harm your credit rating temporarily - it affected mine a lot when I took out 3 new data SIM contracts. I think most people don't check their files, but they should, and then correct the harmful errors.)

I think the housing dependency on credit rating in the UK has become considerably more onerous in recent years, since the "credit crunch".

According to a bank I spoke with, it also affects whether you can be a director of a company, because banks want to know the directors of any company that holds a business account with them, and they can decline to provide account services if a director has a sufficiently poor credit record.
Do you have any proof that:

1.) The US is imprisoning people who speak out against bad things happening in the US?
2.) Any proof of citizens being forced into re-education facilities?
> and they certainly don't care as much about decode time as users with their precious battery life do.

Of course they do. Google wouldn't sell many Pixels if you could only watch half as much YouTube or Netflix on a single charge compared to, say, an iPhone. Netflix wouldn't sell many subscriptions if you could only watch half as much on a single charge as Hulu or Prime Video either. Your point about encoding is valid, but Google and Netflix are definitely incentivised towards low decoding complexity on the client.
“Open source is not safer because people won’t read the source”, “having control doesn’t matter”, and trying to raise doubts about the trustworthiness of the people involved... that’s old Microsoft textbook approach.

At least MS wasn’t built on open software, unlike Google.

> And while we're at it, what's your connection if any with the company that sells Purism phones.

None at all. I’ve just heard of this project a few days ago via a DDG search.

Believe it or not, not everyone is a corporate shill.
Thanks for your hard work. I really want to like Prolog, but I often don't know how to fit it into an actual system of use.

My field is power systems which involves solving numerical problems with large sparse matrices and very large scale optimization problems (millions of constraints) using LP and MIP solvers.

The first class of problems can be easily solved with tools like Matlab, Fortran, Python, Julia, C++...etc. The optimization problems can be solved with any language that has a library to talk to a solver.

Prolog is really cool, but I doubt it could solve problems of that size even if given days, much less a few minutes. I'd love to be proven wrong, but it seems like it really excels at these small toy problems. Could you enlighten my ignorance on how it can be used on larger scale problems? Thanks in advance!
Is that actually true? I just searched for [flowers] and [car insurance], two notoriously commercial queries, and the ads were all labeled with "Ad" in a green box, with organic results below the fold.

While you might take issue with all the above-the-fold space being taken up by advertisements and local results, I don't think you can get much clearer than having each advertisement say "Ad". That's a lot more distinction than you get with say TV or print ads.
That's exactly what happens to me on an almost daily basis. But then I decided to change my feeling from rage to revenge. Here's how:

I get the first few selections right, so the algorithm knows I'm trustworthy. Then I purposefully get the last ones wrong. This way, I'm still validated by the captcha and I get to show the middle finger to Google.

Now I smile every time I'm faced with reCaptcha :)

Highly recommend. It does take some time to figure out the patterns (when to get it right and when to get it wrong), but once you do, it just works.
Unless time tracking is used to bill customers. Why have time tracking for employees? Isn’t this just distrust?!?
Secret prisons for citizens in 2019 Chicago? Shocking to hear about, America is truly lost.

What do we do when we hear about citizen torture administered by the state? I expect the news coming out will only get worse from here.
Not sure why you are bringing this up. The point of this thread is the misleading warning or other OS level changes that are forced upon you if you don't use FCM. Changing that behaviour needs changing AOSP.
This sounds bad, but it's a serious question: Was there any poop aboard Snoopy? It sounds silly, but it's at least an issue of comfort and dignity when people first enter the historic craft after recovery.
I have no idea what the exact numbers are. I have tried to illustrate how the temporary increase in the smaller payouts has no bearing on how much the state makes, yet it makes the game temporarily profitable. Obviously this still needs to be profitable for the players after taxes, expenses and whatnot, otherwise it would be a complete non-story: "person does not get richer playing lottery."
How is this different from uber or lyft?
R&D and a small batch size are the only reasons.
Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager – Relay FM
All computer science problems can be reduced to sorting & searching. ;-D
Non-PDF versions:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58444
This is inside of steam's browser
I know people used to do this by buying the $1 coins from the US treasury, and then just take the coins to the bank and depositing them in order to manufacture spending.
This site is ancient (the printer used is from mid 2000s,) which makes this all the more impressive. PCBs with 1 mil traces are still quite expensive to prototype. OTOH, if you need such thin traces, you also probably need multi-layer PCBs.
Ask HN: How is that legal for companies to send spam/ads letters?
Any time I move, create a new business or change company address, I start getting a tone of spam and advertising to my physical address. They know my name, company name, and address etc. Companies like Spectrum act like nothing happened when I complain to them, they just send me a link to some form to unsubscribe. Well, I never subscribed in the first place. How is that legal? How to stop it? It is getting out of hands just like those robocalls.
I stopped for a moment to come back to this thread and say that this was extremely well-written. No words egregiously used or out of place, just the right conciseness and tone. Love it.
The talk is from 1980, but right after that L Peter Deutsch and Allan Shiffman added dynamic compilation to Smalltalk (known as "JIT" these days) and made it a reasonable option on the new 68000 based workstations that were coming out. This technology was spun out as the company ParcPlace in 1987. So Dan's comment "... or make Smalltalk faster!" was actually prophetic.
It'd be completely frozen through. Anyone who has a dog in a cold climate knows frozen poo is infinitely easier to deal with
I've even seen people beat captcha in bulk to get to a payment form. My best guess is something along the lines of mechanical turk or a room full of low wage workers doing it manually. I think the payoff of verifying stolen cards is worth enough to justify some kind of workaround.

If you host a payment form that informs the user about whether payment was accepted, you're a target.
"stopping attempted murder is apparently not part of their job requirements."

Or rather, not doing your job requirements is not illegal.
The NYT summary sounds accurate to me.

> > Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent.

> That sounds horrible, but it is actually a claim about variation across municipalities, not a claim about the absolute importance of the internet.

That's why they used the word "wherever," to emphasis that it was based on locality.

That seems to form the bulk of Mr Cowen's objection. The remainder appears to be recitation of the stock phrase "correlation is not causation," mock horror and snark about the methods the study used (Nutella! heaven forbid!), and expressing his general confusion about parts of the study he doesn't understand.

To my eyes, this doesn't appear to be a "comically erroneous study," unless, as Mr. Cowen does, you find great intrinsic humor in the concept of Nutella. Nor does the NYT reporting on it seem to misrepresent the study any more than articles for the layperson usually do.
Paul Vixie: I Want a New Drug
That final 7x increase to the odds is the one that makes it not worth your while?
It is technically better and license wise infinitely better.
Hahaha! So damn funny you said that. Right after I commented, I realized, huh, I forgot Slowdive and didn't bother editing it.

It's so good to see them back together. I've seen them in Boston and Austin TX and can't wait to see them again... such an incredible show...

Their new album is great but to me, you can't beat Souvlaki.

I also own some of Rachel Goswell's glassware. Hahaha!
Been following this guy for a while now too. And you're absolutely right. It's been fun watching his evolution. Glad to see this series of articles posted here. I've been sharing this series with my coworkers and we've since gotten into Haskell, Elm, and just taking more functional approaches in general in our primary stack.
Trump did wear one, when he became the first US president to visit the Western Wall: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-becomes-the-first-s...
I'm scared to ask but why have I never heard about locust plagues in the USA?
Skepticism by definition requires no amount of work. What you are describing is the action of taking a position, or wanting to take a position be it for or against.

> Not easy for a data journalist to standup and get a new set of data when there's a time constraint.

Doing that is actively trying not to be a skeptic. A skeptic would wait for the party making the claim to present the set of data validating the position.

Now, I do not now if the default position in the media should be skepticism, but your misrepresentation of it makes me wonder if you are confusing what being a skeptic means and maybe that is why you find it so troublesome?
It is clear from the tenor of some of the posts here that more of you need to work for some non-zero time in the government so you can have some empathy / appreciation here. They’re hiring.
Buzzfeed initially hired a set of respected journalists and started with the intent of creating a serious news org.

That has not proven to hold and now they have become very click-bait heavy, misleading and dramatically under-sourcing their articles.
* Expected value of the lottery tickets is normally negative. (You pay $1, you expect on average to get back less than $1).

* At a certain point, if the jackpot grows too large, the game switches to a new "windfall" mode where the expected value is actually _positive_ to bleed off the jackpot. (You pay $1, you expect on average to get back more than $1).

* The couple and the MIT students only played during the positive expected value times.

Overall the game still makes money for the state, it's just it has two distinct regimes, and the people playing during negative-EV essentially bankroll both the state and the positive-EV players.
I used to call every company that sent me spam mail (I got them from target, sephora, ulta, safeway, yellow pages, ISPs, citi, etc... pretty much everywhere) and I never once had a single company stop. Like you, I never signed up for any of them, I just started getting them. As far as I can tell, there is literally nothing you can do to stop them. Some companies will pretend to take you off their list but don't be fooled, another letter is coming soon...

One thing I've heard is that if you mail back junk in the prepaid letters they'll stop since they have to pay for it, but I never bothered trying so I can't confirm that.