skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I keep reading about blimps watching us 24/7, license plate readers tracking everywhere we drive.

It's almost as if this "surveillance state" you all imagine doesn't exist. There are checks in place and warrants needed for this. If you see something illegal online you could report it to the FBI perhaps?
What exactly makes 8chan the preferred platform for this kind of stuff, and not other websites? Genuinely curious, is it just because it’s unmoderated?
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The market and economics of search engines are wildly different from those of food delivery.
> The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

The mosquito is a parasite, not a predator.

When the author of the book mislabels the ecological niche occupied by the mosquito in the title of his book it gives little confidence in his rigour or level of insight.
I'm kinda thinking it's time for hard and strict regulations on collecting mass personalized data.
Huh, that’s a bit of a random collection of stuff.
Maybe internal investment being 'impossible' is too strong a word, but practically it's very unlikely after the company has been taken over and is piling debt.

"either way it would be coming out of the cash owned by the PE shops". They don't have to invest you know. After all, the company is now unprofitable. Obviously it's just inefficient. Why give money to an inefficient company from your core profitable business, when you can break the company up and use the profit from looting it in your core profitable business which you're good at?

It makes much more sense for PE finance to siphon funds for use in a field they have expertise in (more finance) than try to manage companies in various fields (like retail) they're so not expert on, especially when the companies are in the debt.
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Haha, what a way to demonstrate the point. And yeah, they’re not wrong.
> It's against Facebook's terms:

> > 8. You must not use or make derivative use of Facebook icons, or use terms for Facebook features and functionality, if such use could confuse users into thinking that the reference is to Facebook features or functionality.

As written, if the reference is to Facebook features or functionality, then there can be no confusion and this clause does not apply. This would seem to be the case here.
Australians do a similar thing. They'll either start a sentence with "yeah, nah" or "nah, yeah" depending on the context of the question. I can't remember which one means yes.
It's sometimes helpful, actually. Virtually any comment critical of Google gets downvote aggressively. I suspect that's a lot of Googlers reading Hacker News (who drank the coolaid) rather than an intentional astroturf campaign, but in either case, I've noticed a comment like that tends to help. It prevents the kneejerk "You criticised my employer/community/ego, so I'll downvote you" reaction, and sometimes leads to a bit more critical thought.
>>>The thing is: being critical of the government is the literal job of journalists

Except the bulk of them aren't even competent journalists. They hardly do any fact-checking or ground-level reporting. They are closer to socialist agitators than journalists. Take the Baltimore rat Tweet situation as a recent example (The "Covington kids" are another good example.) One America News interviewed Baltimore residents [1] and got a completely different vibe from what the MSM has been pushing. Meanwhile CNN's anchor with his forced fake tears about "Trump's racism" is getting savaged by black YTers [2][3][4]

>>and the way Trump regularly attacks all press

"All press" != "CNN/NYT/WaPo/HuffPo/MSNBC". Has Trump attacked Tim Pool? No, he invited Tim Pool to his White House Social Media event, despite Tim constantly calling Trump a crass person of bad character. Tim Pool gets more daily YT views that CNN gets TV viewers, BTW.

>>>And on the other side, the government should be impartial and only look at the financial and technological sides when procuring stuff or enforcing regulations.

Agreed. Or they should pay technical specialists what they're worth and develop and maintain internal government solutions. For some reason that's a bridge too far for us.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8aWfFijOc
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHuTxgN7P7Y
[3]https://youtu.be/Bhcx3erphwU
[4]https://youtu.be/Ui2rEkvqJs0
Just dump it in the great salt lake then
It's always possible that many sites were candidates given their traits. And one in a semi random manner became it.
> Yeah, minimum isn't perfect, but it's at least pretty clear what it says

You’ve lost me. What is the single, obvious meaning of the minimum measurement, and what are you benchmarking against, and what do you intend to get out of the benchmark? Typically the minimum just means “program ran x input as fast as y”, which doesn’t actually help with most questions about performance.

If X is constant, and time is the only thing you care about, then maybe that works.
But it's not the first systems language, so it does need to carve a niche in that space
I upvoted it. It's a good insight.
I completely agree with this, but I often find that not everyone is in the same position to jump ship easily. Your attitude is often espoused by highly talented individual that could basically "work wherever".

A personal anecdote from someone I work with. "Alice" is a technical project manager at a large company. She's been with the company 8 years. While she's been in the role, expectations on her have been unclear, she's been promoted above her skill level due to bureaucratic incompetence and has been poorly mentored and led. Now she wants to leave, but how? She can't pass an interview for the other big companies in the region, and she doesn't have many growth or learning opportunities in her current position. Anywhere else is a huge pay cut. Is she happy? Nope. But digging herself out of the hole is a difficult task.

I am not disagreeing with you, but trying to communicate how the other half lives.
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Electricity (energy) is a resource.
With the monthly digital subscription model, you end up paying for all you could possibly ever eat. Most of which you could never eat.

Unless you automated the "eating", and resold what you didn't need. Which is disgusting, and in the case of online media, almost certainly illegal.

But that is an interesting idea. Buy digital subscriptions to every media outlet that you'd ever want to read, and resell page views, using some sort of proxy setup. And yeah, illegal as hell.
Library Genesis has scientific article search (and free and instant download). It finds almost everything I search for, even obscure papers from early 20th C or before.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Also you can click on the journal titles and explore within each issue.
It is double think to call the act of minimizing the state of having achieved the absolute minimum while still using the word to describe corporations which are indeed paying more than the absolute minimum.

You are being dishonest in discourse to use that word with different definitions depending on who you apply it to. Either regular people are minimizing taxes when they use rules to reduce taxes, and thus so are corporations. Or neither regular people nor corporations are minimizing taxes because neither has achieved the absolute minimum.
How the hell do you "fast" in an open plan office environment... I just dont have the stamina and will power to deal with all the people/food etc
OK, I guess. But I was looking for something in TFA.
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uhm, trucking this sludge all the way to Utah seems pretty pointless. Why not just put it in a dump? Why does it need to be put into water?
Owning a house pre-SALT changes? Home ownership rates are in the 60% range.

Have an FSA or HSA?

You can cherry pick my examples.
Mocking is hard really hard, in order to mock something you need to imitate its functionality and interface. This means the mock is inherently tightly-coupled to the implementation, which is now another dependency in your system.

After trying to work with mock databases and file systems, I've personally found that there's no substitute for the real thing. There's much less maintenance and greater reliability in spinning up a test environment with the exact implementation that will be used in the production environment.

There are cases where mocks are the only practical solution, (embedded systems, distributed systems) but mocking is surely the last resort...
It’s extremely problematic that google has no serious competition.
Tell that to my friend who had already been diagnosed with cancer, was in remission, and had his cancer return undetected for months because Kaiser wouldn't run the tests. He thinks it's ridiculous too.
The ability to see something and stop it is not the same as the desire to see something and stop it.
cars are a better proxy than firearms in this case: accidents are not the same as violence, intention counts...
Before reading their stated function I assumed these were being used to reduce shoplifting. Are we sure they are not taking pictures of shoppers?
Oh. I did read your comment before posting mine, and laughed. But just now I see that you suggested the same approach. How embarrassing.
My guess is that it will either come from wireless or satellites. I can't imagine the US building out fiber on a larger scale.
Yeah, nah = No

Nah, yeah = Yes

Kiwi's also do the same..
I always understand it to be missing the word actually:

"yes, actually no"

"no, actually yes"
>Just because it's cliché doesn't mean it isn't specific and thus still useful. I don't like the term either, but that doesn't stop it being the best term to explain a rather particular but difficult-to-illustrate concept with the highest level of unambiguity.

A "particular but difficult-to-illustrate concept"?

Westerners (in particular) or foreigners (in general) both perfectly capture what the Japanese where depicting, without the baggage and obscurantism of "Others".
Give a man a fish..?
It's unfortunate that we are so good at making weapons, and that we expend so many resources and so much brain power to the endeavor.

The space race was military based, but at least it was somewhat wholesome in the outward appearance of trying to better humanity. We need another one of those.
I think it’s because it sounds like “no”, but it’s actually spelled “non”.

/s
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Hy is AWESOME.
The ability to collect something and the ability to see it are two different things. Just because data about this guy may have been snarfed up, doesn’t mean anybody looked at it.
The Green Energy race perhaps? I think its absolutely magical if we can run on 100% renewable energy.
I want ad block for billboards and street ads.
I'm guessing you're a Googler (or similar) who missed the point. Privacy has value even without the threat of being thrown into a camp, and mass surveillance is a human rights violation even without that. But just to get facts straight:

The US government can and does get data from Google through both instruments like national security letters and subpoenas. If it decides you're in need of prison:

* There may be a trial before one gets thrown into a prison camp. That's true. The Justice System is relatively fair to anyone who can afford to spend $300,000 on lawyers without worrying about the cost. That's the top-1-percenter population. If you're a Googler, you're probably at the lower-end of this.

* For most middle-class families, a criminal prosecution is guaranteed bankruptcy. Whether or not you defend yourself successfully depends on how quickly you run out of money.

* For most lower-class families, the outcome is usually a plea bargain, where you do get thrown into a prison without trial.

Before making comments like yours, you might want to read a book like "The New Jim Crow," and look up statistics on what your own power structures are doing (and specifically, both statistics on the number of people in prison and anecdotes for how they got there).
The banks who agreed to lend so much debt that they were barely able to make payments get off relatively free in these cases. There are plenty of instances where PE levers up and the companies do well but we don’t discuss those. Plus PE makes way more growth oriented investments then LBO type investments because there are more smaller companies than larger ones.
Dear HNers, when kids study Cold War as part of the history lessons in schools of your country, is Tsar Bomba mentioned?
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State provided lawyers only for criminal cases.

Furthermore, in the US, the victor pays their own legal fees, unless the case was clearly malicious.
Isn’t the story that all this crap was on 4chan, and then 8chan was created because 4chan started cracking down on this kinda stuff.

It may be argued that 4chan’s existence gave a home to this crap, or that it created it. Hard to know one way or another.
"Yeah, nah" means one of two things. Most frequently it means "I agree with you that the answer is no", but it can also be used to say "yes I can see how that point is valid, but I disagree with the conclusion". Tone and context are used to differentiate between the two uses, particularly how one says the "nah" (in agreement or not). So for example: "it doesn't look like it's going to rain today aye" could be answered with a "yeah, nah" to indicate that one agrees that it won't rain today, or a "yeah, nah" to indicate that, while it may look like it won't rain, the respondent still believes it could rain.

I believe "nah, yeah" is used in an analogous way, but in my experience it's less commonly said than "yeah, nah".
Satellite internet is more interesting for truly remote locations, like ships, islands, and, at least for the time being, rural Africa. Fiber + cell solves a staggering number of problems. My daughter was streaming movies an hour into the mountains outside Chang Mai. Source: the uncomfortably warm phone in my pocket serving as the family hotspot.
It made me change to linux. I'm glad for it.
I imagine so for most classes would that go into nuclear weapons, it's an easy fun/interesting fact to throw in to keep people interested.
So you're telling me we are finally going to get both shiny silver vertical landing rockets (SpaceX) and jetpacks!?!?!
Note that he doesn't have anything specific to point to - that's because he's merely trying to justify Erdogan. He must know that Turkey is going to get very few tech transfers:

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3409158
Whose hat did the paper fall out of?
the python mock module is one of those modules i would like to see rewritten from scratch. you won't get it right by first principles. you always need to go to the documentation. that's a sign that something is not right imo.
The more I study history, the more grateful I am that we invented these weapons. I look at the polarization in the United States today, for example, and I wonder what it would be like if we could kill each other less extremely. The fact that any real warfare is liable to escalate into the wholesale destruction of the species seems to be the only thing that keeps some of us from committing murder. Sad, but I'll take it.
re: ASLR, there's probably no need to disable it globally, since you can do that on a per-process basis with `setarch -R`
Mine did in passing.
Read a paper: Dynamo – a transparent dynamic optimization system
> Do you know how many things can be falsy in Javascript? Six. In Clojure - only two.

In Lisp, one.
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This is excellent. We should all try to do something like this.

The only time I've stopped an interview and told them "good luck but I'm out" is when I realised they're a hot-desking joint. I mean, sure there's is a price point at which I'll hot-desk, but strangely (since hot-desking is always about saving money no matter what other bollocks they dress it in), nobody's met it.
This is a neat calculator[1]which made the rounds. It has presets like the Tsar Bomba amongst the choices.

[1]https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
It's an insulin pump and the company isn't addressing huge security flaws so security researchers made an Android app. Saved you a clickbait click.
Wasn't 8chan sort of an Anime board originally like 4chan?

I still can't wrap my head around this utterly bizarre anime / fascism link. Every time I see an anime avatar on Twitter or elsewhere there seems to be like a 3/4 chance the person is alt-right / fascist unless they are Japanese. I have never gotten into Anime but I've seen a bit and nothing jumps out at me about the material that would explain this.
I've always wondered what evidence remains at the test site. Has nature completely covered up what happened once there? Or is the destruction too indelible? Has any reporter gone and explored that site?
Especially if you're punjabi
Yes, the correct amount is definitely at least whatever the settlement that they agreed to, where blizzard has effectively admitted that they were wrong and broke the law.

They broke the law. They lost. That's what the courts determined.

What, do you not believe in the law or something? Because this is what the courts did. They said that blizzard was guilty, and therefore I judge them as such.
Out of those two I don't think it's always 100% clear when people mean yes or no. It's usually spoken, not written, so I think it requires context.

"Yeah, nah" would typically be in agreeance of a negated question e.g. "You don't like Game of Thrones either?"

Edit: Heck, even if someone responds simply "Nah" to that question it's not clear what they mean without a further followup sentence or the tone in their voice.

I don't know if it's just Australians or other English speakers, but we definitely have really confusing spoken semantics around affirmation of negated (or even negative outcome) questions.
>>>It's unfortunate that we are so good at making weapons

How else do you think we became apex predators? We sure as hell didn't keep packs of wolves at bay with our fists. Security is a key requirement to enable all the eggheads to do egghead stuff without getting eaten.
I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, but wanted to throw out (https://regexr.com/) as a decent resource into writing regular expressions. I think I haven't needed to use a tutorial because of how easy it makes writing them.
You mean the one which (still) runs Gitmo?

Or perhaps we should get our law enforcement to help out. But then who would we have to do the very important work of putting kids in cages on the border?

I think you're making the mistake of viewing Google and the US military as autonomous entities. We have 7 billion people in the world. Organizational structures, whether governmental, corporate, or otherwise are abstractions generally designed to keep people happy, healthy, organized, and productive. Systems define how those abstractions interact.

Most bad systemic behaviors come from those interactions.

It makes sense to understand good and bad behavior on an individual level (e.g. an person who spends 3 years at Google and then moves on to Facebook for 6 months, finds it doesn't work out, and gets a job at Apple). It makes sense to understand how organizational structures interact to cause healthy behavior or oppressive behavior at an overall level. It usually makes very little sense to look at individual organizations without looking at the overall systems they operate in.

At this point, Google seems to do a lot of bad in the world. That's not a criticism of Google the organization. It legally can't do otherwise. The CEO of Google has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value, while the regulatory regime makes the behavior it's engaging in do exactly that. The trick is to fix the ecosystem around Google so it can do good. That's actually a place where Googlers and similar could do a lot of good, if they can get past the ego issues which lead to defensiveness like from the post like yours.
50 megatons of TNT? When fat man and little boy were 15 and 20 kilotons respectively? This was really 3,000 times as big? I guess I didn't realize there was such a difference.
We bought some GAT traps to thin the swarms of tiger mosquitos we have in DC and it seems to be working:

https://us.biogents.com/bg-gat/

What I really want to mature is the photonic fence but that’s been slow going: https://photonicsentry.com/
An anecdote from Indonesia. One of the large on-demand companies moved into food delivery a few years back. Originally, the only cost was the (subsidised) price of transport borne by the consumer. There was no contract with restaurants. A driver pulled up and ordered a takeaway just like a consumer would.

However after awhile, most businesses began to see a good proportion of their sales (& a lot of new customers) from these drivers. When the on-demand company started contracting restaurants with a mandetory 20% markup to the price of food, it was a no-brainer for the restaurants to go along with it. As a result, this food delivery business now subsidises the core rideshare business.

At the end of the day it's eyeballs that matter, to both the restaurant and the on-demand company. And this is where the great divide between the super-apps and the delivery startups come into play. Trying to compete with one of these big apps is like trying to compete with Amazon with some niche e-comm site. Its possible, its just very, very difficult. And of course doesn't have anywhere near the same potential value.
backrub/pagerank is a specific kind of link-based search ranking. Link-based ranking was well-know before e.g. citation count. Was Robin Li's the same kind?

What were the "several times" backrub had been implemented before?

A "mining application" is a very general concept, and does not imply a specific algorithm.

I was not assuming but requesting information; and not "again" but once.

FWIW I'm intrigued by the school of thought that Google's success was largely due to just giving people what they want. Instead of crowded portals, just search, fast search, and search that's relevant. When I tested it at the time, I found competing search pretty similar for relevance. But google was faster.
"Sadly… or not so sadly… the world has moved to HTTPS and to stronger protocols than what lowly Pocket Explorer supports. Thus, most of the web is entirely inaccessible on the device."

This is what proxies are for. Assuming it supports proxies. It would of course be wholly untrustworthy as it's likely vulnerable to a whole host of functional middling exploits.
Looks like it, albeit, it's so remote nothing was really there before it was used [0].

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tsar+Bomba+hypocenter/@73....
Oh man this is an interesting grey area. If the data was “encrypted” then they aren’t required to notify unless the encryption key is reasonably believed to have been acquired by the hacker.

I don’t know anything about MD5 or what makes it vulnerable but if StockX has no reason to believe the hacker acquired the key they could certainly make the argument they had no notice obligation.

Reading the statute (and assuming MD5 is as weak as everyone here says) I would say it falls outside the definition of “encrypted” but it really kind of depends on how honest the security engineers were with the lawyers.

I’ve never thought to ask “how encrypted?” when dealing with a breach but I definitely will now.
I think it would genuinely take magic, but I'll be happy if they can prove me wrong.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
I think you should be wary of doing this - it may do weird things with a cache
That would be a very unusual performance distribution. I've seen a lot of distributions, and they included a load of right-skewed distributions, some normal distributions, but I honestly can't think of any case with a left-skewed distribution like this one.
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