skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds spiffy. Also, I must find time to learn Julia.
One problem with these 'out of a box' cookbook systems is that you only know approximately what you are doing. If it works, that may be fine, but for statistical systems the outcome depends heavily on the formulation, is strongly influence by random or irrational correlations and is more art than science. If you remove the element of experience that animates the "art", you get nonsense. Big box programming tools can make it hard to know what correlations are being established, and this is true with even simple neural networks. By the time they have many layers and filters in them, all hope is fled. You buy the result or you don't: simple as that.
given the expected reaction to apple park by employees and high level VPs (one who reportedly refused to work there), i am sure ive will continue to find “success” in his quest in taking the rectangle and circle to the extreme.
Can't believe this wasn't mentioned sooner!
This is not how I remember it. Default background colour in Netscape Navigator was not white but #c0c0c0 (and IIRC it wast that colour in Mosaic too). And yes, lots of pages relied on the default.

For example, this post has some screenshots: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/whats-changed-in-the-past-17-...
This is great! Could you please provide any instructions on how you achieved it?
Sorry, I did mean the fricative. The stop is indeed not as uncommon.
I don't know the details of how this would work, but I can see rationale in general of compartmentalising and furthermore making each compartment self sufficient.

It can easily happen that a department in a company becomes unprofitable or complacent in the absence of direct market forces.
I use both discord and mumble regularly, mumble is consistently better and it's run on a tiny vps that's doing other reasonably demanding cpu and network tasks at the same time.
Discord can go from great to terrible pretty quickly and the extra latency fluctuates a bit. ymmv.
For most part, I haven’t had a case on my XS since launch. Love the feel. Have yet to drop it. I do put a case on it when I’m doing things like camping or taking photos at amusement parks.
I have a SB2 since ~ half of the year. It's beautiful machine, but I would definitely not buy it if I would have to travel with it pretty often (fortunately, I work remotely).

My story is that I was a linux user, who switched to OSX, then gone back to linux and recently, thanks to WSL (linux subsystem for windows) I can still work comfortably in the environment I like.

Btw. windows surely has changed since I was working on it last time in the long run (for the better!)
Mini USB? I haven't seen new devices with that since like 2004. All phones moved towards Micro USB <-> USB-A. The amount of devices I have which simply have Micro USB <-> USB-A is staggering and almost always are the cables compatible with each other. My main issue with Micro USB is that some of the endpoints on _devices_ are badly soldered, leading to the port coming out. Such occurred on the Nokia N900. I rather have my cable getting broken than the port on the (expensive) device.

What Apple did though with MagSafe was simple yet elegant. It is something I do as well with my Micro USB and USB-C cables (making them magnetic; I'm using TOPK cables for that). USB-C as replacement for MagSafe is a step backwards.
GP wrote DRM is morally evil, not Microsoft. That MS is giving refunds is nice of them, but doesn't invalidate the problems with DRM in general.
I still have my G5 iMac in a corner and its design is just wonderful. The acrylic housing with a white interior holds up just great. It also was possible to open it with a screwdriver or even a penny.
Very exciting; I've found using STAN really hard, I really struggle to model real problems, perhaps this will make it easier - and I far prefer Julia to R in project work (not analytics or episodic data science; but when developing systems I find it hard to structure and decompose).

I wonder if the HN crowd think this system is AI ?
The Importance of Unlearning
He's saying that the average person working Uber/Lyft right now aren't the "competent workers" they would hire if you have to pay a higher salary with benefits.

So yeah if all this stuff changes a Uber/Lyft drivers would be better off the people currently driving for Uber/Lyft wouldn't have a job.
BMW Says European Customers Aren't Demanding EVs
PicoRV32 on an ASIC, Open-Source, Open Silicon
> That's a lot of anecdotal evidence framed as facts.

Anecdotal evidence is, by definition, facts that are gathered in an unstructured manner which limits their probative value when it comes to supporting broader generalizations.

So, it's quite appropriate to frame anecdotal evidence as facts, though one is on weaker ground drawing generalized, conclusions from such evidence, which was the actual problem with the grandparent post.
The Chinese govt is pouring huge amounts of resources into training homegrown chip designers. They're doing it based on RISC-V.
Africa's big skills and technology squeeze
I went to a restaurant that offered free refills last week. I brought a 50 gallon barrel with me, and then took home a whole barrel of soda...

(Or, in other words, somehow all sense of fair play and decorum go out the window once we're anonymous on the internet. And this is why we can't have nice things.)
The Challenges of Teaching Tolerance and Respect in the Digital Age
I'd say this is not entirely correct. There is no sect of Sikhism that shuns the turban to the best of my knowledge. And, I think there is this gross misunderstanding that you have to wear the turban to be a Sikh. As a Khalsa, you have to have unshorn hair, and turban is a practical way to cover it up. In fact, turban isn't mandatory when looking at the technicalities (there are a lot of Sikhs who might disagree with me on this). The Kes (unshorn hair) are. And, that too is a requirement only for Khalsa. I'm a Sikh (not Khalsa), but I keep unshorn hair and wear a turban because I like it. And, there are a lot of people like myself. A lot of non-Khalsa Sikhs wear turbans as a step towards the path to becoming a Khalsa.
The email operator.
Is the fix here really just, lets build more infrastructure? If so, who is going to fund it? AI/ML is already mostly a marketing term at this stage, it's all just people who want results now now now. Maybe this is the reason that AI winters have occured: Companies expect all this stuff to be plug and play, but it really isn't. You've got to put in the hard yards, and that means the dollars.
Do you have a link to the device? I'm curious about the specs.
Congratulations to the reporter who found reCAPTCHA after 10 years
Security through obscurity should never be your only line of defense, but it's a good thing to layer upon the other defenses.

Hercules is a great teaching tool, but it will limit the kind of exploits you can develop (the most interesting being hardware based ones anyway).

On top of that, mainframes are very observable machines. Because a lot of companies rented out extra capacity and billed it by usage (70's AWS), everything is audited, logged, measured, traced and, unless the intrusion went really deep, you'll have detailed information on how it happened.

There is a course I never took ("Hack the mainframe") by a couple nice folks I know from Twitter that teaches a lot about vulnerabilities in default settings and how to secure mainframe based services.
Slightly off topic, but Google is also discontinuing Google photos and google drive syncing feature. This is currently the only way to access your Google photos with Rclone.
The argument here is not about quality. It is about relevance. Specifically, these old works have largely determined our current culture. If you want to understand the current culture, it pays to have some knowledge of what it was based on.
That's an interesting explanation, thank you.
I’m surprised they even confirm this kind of stuff. they could easily cover it up. who even polices the NSA?
Doesn't work for me in China
> The title of this post is a real headline from the Berkeley Barb (many years ago).

He's right about that: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lot-12-underground-ne....
ROFL. Actually click through and read this document: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/nsa-foia-documents-quart.... The title is super misleading. It has the NSA being the subject of the sentence, the entity doing the verb. If you read the document, it's clear that the NSA followed the law in how they sent requests over to the phone companies, and a couple companies made errors in what they sent back. When NSA discovered this, they reported it through the proper channels. This is like, the opposite of nefarious action, guys. A better title would have the phone companies as the subject of the sentence. "Phone companies improperly sent data to the NSA for a second time, documents reveal." Of course, being honest in the title wouldn't misinform and scare people...
Thats like saying that breathing is mandatory. If you toss a child into a body of water, the child continuing to breathe is definitely optional.

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If someone starts beating you with a rubber hose until you recite Jabberwocky, that doesn’t actually cause you to recite jabberwocky unless you have some means of finding the words to that poem that you can see. The last part, access to how to do the action, is crucial to doing the action.

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For another example: suppose a 5-year-old child is crying and his grandfather pinches him and tells him to stop crying. But the 5-year-old has not yet learned the emotional self-regulation skills to stop himself from crying. So while the grandfather is forcing compliance, he won’t actually achieve compliance. He’ll just inflict pain.

Likewise, if you have an engineering student drowning under a firehose of work and trying to learn time management. The poorly-managed pile of work is forcing him to learn good time management and punishing him for not learning it. But unless he has access to a known source of guidence on time-management, he’ll continue to suffer. Not only that, but sleep deprivation, as makes this harder.
I'm also confused why it's even a problem if China has top class fabs. There'll be more competition, so it's better for us. Are we worried about Intel's profit margins?
Something like this:
https://www.blackbook.com/solutions/data-as-a-service/data/
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I ride a road bike for 200-300km each week. Sometimes I don't know where I am and need to use Google maps. I use it only for finding out where I am, and then navigate myself. I have zero trust in the recommended routes.

I always choose "Car" as a vehicle so that Google Maps only shows me roads, but you wouldn't believe the number of times that Google maps has recommend me short cuts through 5km long dirt roads or longer. It happens a couple of times per month. With a car those shortcuts might have worked, but with a road bike 5km dirt road is a no go.

Every time I choose "Bicycle" I essentially get recommended 100km of dirt roads. The app is completely useless for road cycling.

Earlier this year I had to travel 1400km with the car each week. I always used Google Maps in an advisory role only - listening to the radio was always a better advisor than Google Maps. Its fastest route algorithm was always reliably wrong. I had the feeling it was always getting stuck in local minima, and it had zero foresight for how traffic works. Just because there is a 10 min traffic jam near to a big city at 5pm when I am still 300 km away does not meant that the jam will still be there in 2-3 hours (7-8pm), and that taking a completely different route that's 50km longer and has a much lower speed limit is going to be faster. No human would make that mistake, but Google maps reliably does.

I wish the App would allow you to select the fastest route independently of traffic, and I wish it would give you the reason for the traffic jams (was there an accident? did they close the highway? etc.).

What I don't understand is how the Navigation apps of other manufacturers (Daimler, VW, BMW, ...) do not have these problems. While driving, I'd see the navigation device in the car telling me a meaningful route, and Google maps telling me to do something completely absurd.

At the end of the day, you are the driver. It's your job to pick up your information sources, and weight them accordingly.
used to be being the relevant metric.

Linux and UNIX used to be installed using stacks of diskettes and piles of patience.
Enhancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 1
But if you click on it, it will have access to all your data? There is no in between: either no access until you click or full access when you click.

This can be done already:

javascript:location.href='https://comntr.github.io/#'+location.href
Really great to see some activity. I thought the project was dead, no offense. Are the problems around an excellent MS Word and PDF versions intractable? Just asking since I don't know node.js/json world well.
How many time a month do you go to the city ?
Slightly off-topic, but the users who use Tor regularly, how do you do that? For me, it has been terribly slow every time I tried to use it.
This guy stuck his head in the sand back in 99.

Every shop I worked in has decent change management, builds handled automatically by CI, restricted access to production db's. His particular point of "anyone being allowed to pop in a CD" has never been true. Even back in 2002 you would at least have machines in a locked room.

DBA as a job is dead because modern db's don't need dedicated employees to maintain.

Super high reliability is not needed for servers because everyone load balances several instances. Often in different data centers. DB's are an exception but often have hot standbys for the same purpose.

Mainframes are dead. At least 10x cost for the same performance. The world has moved on
Yes, I believe Charles Dickens was the first to near simultaneously publish in both the UK and US.

Cant imagine the US letting other countries get away with that now.
I used to read Gruber religiously. But no longer. He's still every bit the eloquent writer that he used to be. But I no longer respect his integrity.

If he "don’t think Ive ever should have been put in control of software design", presumably he doesn't like the iOS 7 redesign either. But I've not heard a bad word from him before today.
Very cool indeed, but I wish the blog post would go more in detail about how the program works instead of just that it exists.
Biomass or biofuel being renewable or good for the environment is debatable at best, especially when considering unintended consequences (like Brazilian rainforests getting slashed for biofuel crops).
Looking at comments for example.com, I understand why they want human moderators.
Is there an easy way to integrate that with ansible style scripts (where it needs to ssh to many instances at once)? Or is it planned?
> spend their whole days in emacs or tmux+vim

It could be argued that a MBP is the wrong tool for the job then and they would be better served with a Linux-powered laptop.

> We’re a company of super-efficient touch typists, and the 2015 MacBook pros with their scissor switches are coveted and traded.

If you want a REALLY good keyboard nothing beats the old ThinkPads before they went chiclet. Those would be even more coveted.
Maybe you're talking about a different phenomenon.

> which creates pressure on others to join in on appearing like they care and emotionally invest in their work

I don't see this pressure coming from people who care. I mean, they want others to care, but they certainly don't want them to be pretending it.

So if anything, this pressure comes from within you, and then it also can be considered an issue of emotional control, but it is a different issue than caring too much about your work.

In other words, it seems like there are problems on both ends of the spectrum. I care more than average person in the group => potentially an emotional problem for me (that's my explanation of burnout). I care less than average person in the group => potentially an emotional problem for me (that's your explanation of burnout).
That still wouldn't guarantee that the package contents isn't malicious
Software this popular doesn't even run a test that installs, upgrades, then uninstalls before deployment? Isn't that the most important thing the software needs to be able to do? Does NPM test anything at all before they release? Another reason to switch to yarn.
> The Chinese govt is pouring huge amounts of resources into training homegrown chip designers. They're doing it based on RISC-V.

Frankly both of those statements are true of all major industrial nations.
Different things to care about.
I have worked on stats in research, start ups and at large banks. A lot of production/infrastructure related things certainly profit from the points you mention.

But 99% of statistical applications I have seen differ.
For someone using math, "programmability" and the other aspects you mention are certainly higher in a language that emulates how we think about the problems. While indeed Clojure may work well for some areas in math, Julia is certainly appropriate for statistics and probability - in my opinion the best -, and finally, Python isn't very good for either.

Everything else is almost always secondary. I would also argue that Julia is absolutely fine for developing large, scalable programs, not worse than Python.

Since Clojure has no statistics / ML ecosystem afaik, I am not sure why you mention it. This is absolutely crucial to even being considered in my point. That is why R dominates statistics still, by a large margin.
Mainframe security (or mainframe era security) was stronger simply because of access. Introducing media required access to a connected peripheral and console (or TSO, at least) access, both of which were probably in a secure, raised-floor computer center. You couldn't rely on leaving a tape sitting on a bench and expect an operator to just load it, a la Stuxnet.
Unfortunately schools often fail to teach the message behind the works we view as classics.

Shakespeare wrote not just to entertain, but to inform and comment on what was happening at the time. Unfortunately many teachers don't do a good job, or don't have the time, to explain the background of the works. Students often don't know or understand that his works were often directed at specific royalty or other influential people. And so when we first read his works, we don't get the insults, slights, and compliments that would have been obvious to people back then.

Other classics speak about what it is to be human, and evoke imagery that most works never manage. What we consider to be the classics are only a small percentage of novels, poetry, and essays created in their time. There are works being written today that will become classics, but they have to be shown to be meaningful to future generations, just like the current classics have.

There are some games telling wonderful stories, and maybe they'll come to be regarded as classics in their own right. But the Super Marios, Warcrafts, and even Assassin's Creeds are not going to be among them. They're pioneers in their own right, but they don't actually have anything to teach us about the human condition, politics of their day, or have a timelessness that help towards enlightenment.
Surveys I found:

"Is the Touch Bar a gimmick?" Among those who own it, 72% say "yes". https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/19/touch-bar-a-gimmick/

"Does the new MacBook Pro's Touch Bar improve your workflow?" 38% say "No, I only use it for function keys it replaced", 23% say "Waiting for more app/function support", 21% say "Yes, it improves my workflow", 16% say "Other". https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/24/macbook-pro-touch-bar-poll/

Twitter poll: "Just out of interest, with @marcoarment in mind, does anybody actually like the Touch Bar of the new MacBook Pro?" "With over 1,000 responses, the results were effectively 50-50." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/03/twitter-poll-to...
I'd agree that there are plenty of one off cases (And I rip for fun as well, I put hobby there for a reason), I'm just not a believer that for the vast majority of people its a useful use of one's time. (heck, its probably not the most useful use of my own time...)

And as an aside, I also like Walker Texas Ranger and not many libraries have it (or in non damaged condition ;) took me a while to complete it)
You might be thinking of Langar [0]. It's a practice from Sikhism where "a free meal is served to all the visitors, without distinction of religion, caste, gender, economic status or ethnicity. The free meal is always vegetarian". In many ways, Sikhism is a pretty great culture. One of my dreams is to run a Langar one day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langar_(Sikhism)
The BIOS does it for you.
If you have a phone without GApps, you're either in China (which has its own app store ecosystems) or not Mozilla's target audience for their binaries.

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/68.0b13/ has the APKs plus signed hashes though.

(But more generally speaking: Why don't you build Firefox from source if you're so concerned with middlemen messing with the code?)
Many European Countries Record Highest-Ever June Temperatures
Surely then you want them in the public domain sooner to prevent that. Sourcing a 28 year old pc to read some 'ancient' format is workable. Finding a 100+ year old pc to do the same seems less workable.
How many of those data centers were already there for their advertising business?
The interesting thing about semi-decentralized technologies is that every issue seems like a clusterfuck but it actually gets fixed fairly quickly and nobody in the future has to think about it at all
"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. I've been meaning to read it since I read "The Stranger" by the same author, which is my all-time favourite book.

If I finish it early, I'll read "The Universe in a nutshell" by Stephen Hawking
The number of people willing to download movies and TV shows is going to only get higher now that the movie streaming space is getting balkanized, and Netflix in particular is shedding its catalogue faster than my cat sheds its fur.

I pay for Netflix. I'm probably going to reduce my plan in the next month or two, to buy a subscription to HBO. Sure. But there's no way in hell I'm going to pay for Netflix and HBO and Hulu and Disney and CBS and whatever other fly-by-night streaming service that happened to inherit rights to the particular show I wanted to watch. Not even because it's too much money (though frankly, it is), but because it's a hassle. Hassle with managing accounts and subscriptions. Hassle with dealing with everyone's bullshit web UI that's different from everyone else's bullshit web UI. Hassle with dealing with VPN and getting a US CC somehow, because I'm willing to bet region restrictions are only going to get worse.

Compared to all that, BitTorrent just works. And between PopcornTime and Radarrr/Sonarrr, I hear it even works better than the streaming services now. I might need to look into it.
Christ. So much for the API economy.
> What happens in the Utopian future of fully autonomous cars (level 5) which heavily rely on GPS for route mapping and positioning?

Those won't use Google Maps.
Another competitor to this is hashicorp vault, which does both certificate based ssh and AWS authentication. (I find the certificate based approach better though)
Google only wants you to use that storage for things it can index (to sell ads)
All of these are technical aspects that need to adapt to electric buses. They are not the cause of the absence of electric buses.

The root cause is indeed political.