skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a disadvantage if it turns out that these people make on average a negative contribution to the economy (i.e. if the aid they need and damage they cause via crimes is higher than the surplus created by them aiding others, and producing useful labor, good and services), which would mean that they make the people already there worse off and worser off the more of them are allowed to enter.

I'm not sure whether they are a positive or negative contribution, and this also depends on how good the accepting state is at integration and education.
DNS has always been decentralized. I mean, first sentence on wikipedia:

> The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.
>> It was the first time since the 1990s that anything new entered the public domain

First time that american books entered the american public domain. Other countries use different copyright lengths. Some american books entered public domain in those countries, even while they remain locked down in their home country (ie Gone with the Wind).

And if one really wants to pick nits, there is actually a very steady flow of non-book things. Anything not subject to copyright/patent/trademark goes strait to public domain. A good example would be the constant stream of space-related stuff from nasa.
> If I were Backblaze, I'd design the system to work equally well with 40 drives as with 45, and consider just leaving bad drives in until a handful of them need replacing in a chassis. And the replacement be basically automatic.

They designed their own replication scheme which allows quite a bit of disk to fail. Considering that, using RAID would be absurd so I'm pretty sure they are all configured as JBOD, thus allowing this kind of replacement.
Previous discussion from 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20591071

(Although this one is a proper news article, and that was a blog post.)
Cutting edge CSS3 / HTML5 !

How did they pull this off???
I'm excited to see that it is not only English. There is a large trove of books in Chinese which I have been studying daily for The last 5 years. This is my favorite story on Ycombinator in quite some time.
This is the new version of Western Exceptionalism: Everything - bad - that happens in the world, is always fault of Europe or the US.

The people that live in those countries, the warlords they support, the wars they fight, the human atrocities they commit, their ethnically motivated conflicts, are never their fault, we are supposed to treat them as infants when it comes to all the shortcomings of their actions.
I remember in the early-mid 1990's, we print (yes print) the entire list of register domains and laugh at the big company names NOT in the list.
Supergravity Snags $3M Special Breakthrough Prize
Not all schools are paid for by the public.
Really not the smartest idea when you look at tools like Gryzzly that are doing the time tracking from Slack ! People are better when self accountable, like Maesure makes you feel. Interesting experiment !
I just turn around and go to Google’s reviews.
In certain society what we would call mental illness was often looked at as people being touched by the gods, that they had some special insight. So depending on the society they were born into, they could have be highly regarded indeed.
This seems perfect for a class action suit.
The closest thing there is right now would be ENS - the E stands for Ethereum.

ENS domain names can mainly be used for payment for now, so I'd be sending crypto to [domain].eth where the advantage is having a readable address instead of a random-looking string.

You can also host web pages on it (which I believe is helped by their IPFS) but that has seen limited use as of yet.
UberSat
LyftSat
I get 600Mbit for 12 EUR. Greetings from Latvia! :)
#app {
...
overflow-y: scroll !important;
}

Is causing it and not needed.
From the article:

> While DNS is already fairly decentralized, the centralization exists because of ICANN’s gatekeeper control .... ICANN ultimately has control over what internet names are acceptable – and serves as a singular point of failure.
I think it’s pretty clear that I was referring to reading large files using direct io, and your comment was totally irrelevant
This is a great idea, but where is the privacy? The privacy policy literally says that your personal information will be shared with Google & other third party apps. [0]

This is a great way to collect data on what people do every day.

[0] https://maesure.com/privacy-policy
Eliminate the self-dealing by cleaving the advertising marketplaces from their other businesses. They can still show ads. They just wouldn't be able to run the auctions, exchanges, etc.
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Conservatives have few places to gather. T_D grew large because a displaced group of people finally had a commonly known enough place to gather. T_D was constantly brigaded by other subreddits. Yes T_D members may comment in other subs, but that's there right as users of the site. To my knowledge there was no coordination of all users to brigade.

Liberals have nearly the entire internet as a safe-space. It's nice to have a community with similar views, especially political as people are always just looking for confirmation bias, not really willing to debate, so it's too toxic to try all the time.
EasyOCR for Paperless Office
Homer: "Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield."

Lisa: "Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away!"
Or maybe it works with tapping on the desk too. I can distinguish different noises when typing on my desk.
Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail transcripts and Chrome Extension texting
Here's something to ponder on: What are the proper semantics for copying a thread? What is it you want to express by doing that?

You'll find that usually the copy constructor has been deleted only for those classes where the semantics of a copy are not well defined.

So let's assume you work around that by encapsulating that thread in a std::shared_ptr or a std::weak_ptr. What are the constraints you must work within when using that thread reference?

Usually when you run into "problems" caused by an object not being "move aware" triggered by encapsulating a non-copyable type, this is a red flag that something in your codes architecture is off. Think of it as a weaker variant of the strong typing of functional languages. You probably don't want to have a shared_ptr on a thread inside your object (and the object being copyable), but wrap that object in a shared_ptr (or weak_ptr) and pass those around.
My favorite sushi-restaurant SugarFish was originally a take-away-sushi shop, the sushi is very high quality and somewhat inexpensive for the quality ($40 a meal). Also dine-in lines are consistently super long (they don’t take reservations), so I like to order pick-up / take-out. Except, now they force you to order take-out through Postmates which charges a large 15% fee and a flat service-charge (that I don’t recall but will update here when sugar fish opens). Sucks because I love the restaurant but really don’t appreciate paying Postmates fees when I’m picking it up myself. When you call in an order they auto-direct you to Postmates.
TLDR: Arab armies are ineffective because of the all the internal, external and ethnic politics which hinders all kinds of cooperation and unity at the battalion-level, otherwise on the unit and soldier-level they are comparable to Israeli units.
Immersion at Scale: Siggraph VR Theater 2019
MacBooks haven't had Nvidia GPUs for a few years.
Don't forget about the equip enchanting system, potion brewing, fishing, The End, treasure hunting maps, village raids, and most recently the villager trading system overhaul. The game is so completely different now than it was ten years ago, it's crazy.
A little bit? It does say that many _could_ be committing, e.g., pension fraud, but that the primary issue is with the data, and the reliance on documents as the "source of truth" of these claims, and this seems to accurately sum it up:

> This issue presents a substantial problem for remarkable-age databases, embodied in a deliberately provocative, if seemingly absurd, hypothesis: "Every ‘supercentenarian’ is an accidental or intentional identity thief, who owns real and validated 110+ year-old documents, and is passably good at their job."

> This hypothesis cannot be invalidated by the further scrutiny of documents, or by models calibrated using document-informed ages. Rather, invalidating this hypothesis requires a fundamental shift: it requires the measurement of biological ages from fundamental physical properties, such as amino acid chirality or isotopic decay.

> Until such document-independent validation of remarkable ages occurs, the type I error rate of remarkable human age samples will remain unknown, and the validity of ‘supercentenarian’ data in question.
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I wonder who the “experts” condemning this are, and what they are experts in. I’m an expert, and I support the decision.
That is correct (assuming https isn't compromised). The issue is that once the requests hits your systems, nothing by default treats url paths as sensitive. The end up in you your elb/Apache/nginx/stack trace logs. Making them really accessible to most employees.
I have many complaints about the terrible keyboard in the last few revs of the MBP, but Unshaky has allowed me to ignore them until it's more convenient to deal with them (and thus put off having to replace my laptop/be without it/spend a bunch of time and money dealing with that).
What's the "anti-trust failure"?
How about religious texts? Some of those have inspired a lot more killing than 8chan.
Lona is After Effects -> web / native.

You might be thinking about react-sketchapp[1] or SharpieClassifier [2]

(I built both :P)

[1] https://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/
[2] https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/
Did you look at the impact the buttons have on overall sharing? That is, might simply seeing the share buttons act as a trigger?
Is there a reason you chose to build your own instead of using an off the shelf solution?
From the conclusion:

> With some simple modifications such as a higher resolution webcam (ours was 480p) and a curved mirror that allows the webcam to capture the entire screen, Sistine could become a practical low-cost touchscreen system.
The article and Namebase faq go into some details, but just so I understand, what are the practical effects of this beyond decentralization?

- If I buy a TLD, will I own it in perpetuity, even after I die?

- If we're encouraging people to register their own TLDs, won't we run into the same limited-name/squatter problems as normal domains? I get that names are being released at a trickle, but that seems like it would just put off the problem a bit.

- Is this going to have the same environmental problems as Bitcoin, or will having fewer transactions mean that's less of an issue?

- Is Brave the only browser looking into this, or are we also seeing buy-in from browsers like Firefox and Chrome?

I'll read through whitepaper and learn the details, but if possible I'd like to know if it's worth my time to do so.

I'm not necessarily feeling great about the idea of having separate TLDs for every site, but I'll admit there is something attractive about being able to register 1 TLD as a namespace, one time, and then using subdomains for every other site I ever make. It's just not clear to me how that system would scale.
the devil's advocate's advocate would say that even if that was the case, a private organization being the world police of manufacturers' margin doesn't feel right.
Rype Go – Speak Any Language with Confidence from Day 1 (Without Being Judged)
We just launched Rype GO via a Kickstarter campaign (link: http://bit.ly/2YFZIRb).

The core problem?

The biggest obstacle that every language learner faces when speaking a new language is the fear of feeling judged or embarrassed when you make a mistake.

The problem with most apps out there is that you're using just your fingers to 'speak' a new language. Meaning, they don't focus on solving the biggest hurdle for language learners.

Rype GO: Speak from day 1 (without being judged)

With Rype GO, we're redefining the way we learn a new language by using AI-powered speaking lessons to help you speak confidently, without feeling judged.
We wanted to modernize the journey of learning a new language that today's generation of learners can relate to.

Here's how we're doing this.

1. Watch beautiful, bite-sized video lessons

Instead of learning how to spell pineapple, you'll start your joureny by learning fun, relevant, and relatable topics for today's generation of learners. Topics include how to ask someone out, ordering at a restaurant, and making small talk at parties.
Each video is 3–5 minutes long shot in 4K quality at our studio.

2. AI-powered real-life conversation lessons
We've designed our speaking lessons to feel like real-life conversations you'll have with a friend, co-worker, or a native speaker you just met. This allows you to practice real scenarios that you would experience in your everyday conversations.

3. Judgement-free learning experience.
This may be one of the most important benefits of Rype GO. Every language learner has the ability to become a fluent speaker. But most never make it past day 30 because of their fear of feeling judged.

Support us on Kickstarter: http://bit.ly/2YFZIRb

With appreciation,

Sean & the team at Rype
I wonder about similar future change in imagination. Almost certainly possible since there's precedent for it happening, but the hard part is imagining what sort of thought it would enable.
Remind | Backend, Fullstack | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE or REMOTE

Remind is building a communications platform for education, to help every student succeed.

We are a mission-driven startup with lots of passion, lots of integrity, and lots of users — 31 million MAU!

As a team of < 30 engineers serving those millions of users (the whole company is about 85 people), each of us makes a huge impact on the business — and on the lives of the teachers, students, and parents using our platform!

Do you:

- like to move fast (but try not to break things)?

- want to drive engineering quality and rigor?

- thrive in the complexity, ambiguity, and rapid change of a startup environment?

- collaborate cross-functionally to get stuff done?

- want to regularly see heartwarming messages from teachers about the difference your product is making in the lives of kids?

Please consider applying:

Backend: https://boards.greenhouse.io/remind/jobs/496462?gh_jid=49646...

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Remote work is fine, within 3 hours of Pacific Time.
The personal backup product and B2 aren't the same thing and weren't developed with the same principles.
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It's not just people's heads that need protection. Roads, traffic lights, cars, power lines, windows... people can die in lots of ways other than having a drone fall directly on their head.
Wouldn't it be smarter to be the customer yourself, basically develop something for your own (business) progress or job to be done, and then sell it optionally to those in a similar situation?

The market first approach (developing a product for demand) only seems to really work with more generic products without high development cost, where the product advantages that result from deeper customer insights can't really play out. Where you don't run the risk of being outcompeted by a company that has those insights and customer trust from "wearing the same shoes" as their customers.

Market first could also work if you anticipate a future demand and it's a completely new market without any players yet, where you'd become the trusted choice over time because you're then seen as the original brand. But without funding it could be impossible to sustain to the point until you have enough customers.
I don't think that comparison does make sense. B2 is much more of a pro offering.
You don’t need to store the zone on chain - you can actually simply include NS records and have your authoritative server elsewhere - just like DNS today!
boomerllennial belief seems to be that a monopoly is defined as “a company that should not be allowed to make offers that stoke my generations’s utter lack of impulse control”
If this gains traction, you will be able to pay a service provider a fee to update DNS entries for you. This is like the current system used by registrars. You don't need to care if it is powered by a blockchain in the background if you don't want to.

I think it is great to have an alternative DNS system that is more censorship resistant.
Political History: How a Democratic Organization Leaked 6M Email Addresses
I had a similar experience growing up in the mostly white suburbs of Baltimore. We read Beloved junior year and it was absolutely devastating. It opened my eyes to the deep, unhealed wounds of slavery and that sort of tumultuous, all-consuming pain. It was a difficult book to read at that age—I can't imagine any age when it would be easy to read—and I appreciate that we were asked to sit with it.

Another book that had a similar effect on me was Yukio Mishima's "Confessions of a Mask" about a boy growing up gay in 1930–50s Japan. I don't know that he ever actually says he's gay and you get this feeling that he doesn't even have the language to describe himself, let alone any kind of framework or support network. It was described to me by the friend who recommended it as "devastatingly sad" and I agree. He was absolutely, completely, and utterly fucked from the moment he was born and there's nothing he could do about it. The book threw me off for weeks. I highly recommend it.
> inexpensive ... ($40 a meal)

What a wonderful world we live in.
"location as the fastest transfer hub"

Not sure what this means. How is Helsinki better suited for this than Moscow to serve Asia<>Europe? Aeroflot is one of the most underrated airlines.
How do you use Yelp when you know that a business can bribe Yelp with advertizing and they will suppress negative reviews? and vice versa -- if a business refuses to advertise, they will suppress positive reviews .
Here's an interesting article looking at net decreases in yield of most of the top 10 staple food crops in the world. It includes sorghum and wheat and more, and has a bit more discussion of geographic shifts, for instance. https://www.minnpost.com/environment/2019/07/climate-change-...
Well to me it reeks of Orientalism in that most of these countries are run by tribal syndicates which are more or less a result of social engineering and destruction of Arab nationalism. So obviously there are no stable power structures which would lead to some sort of successful organization of a military. And that's all by design. After you have created a disaster you can go in there point your finger at their culture and say see, this is why the native is stupid. And all the bigots buy it... because that's the situation you have created.
I had a laptop with a touchscreen and the only time I ever used it was when the linux mouse drivers were playing up. So I guess that would be one use.
IMO first party session cookies aren't too big of a concern for the HN crowd - Being a web dev myself I know it's essentially a requirement.

It's those analytic services that we despise.
Along with the other replies, you're right. I will say though, when we're talking about car culture, white suburban middle class types are ones to mostly support it.
I also have been thinking of ways that I can extend my life. I'm not sure this is what I'm looking for. Perhaps a therapy animal such as a dog or a cat... It seems like the probability of an accident occurring with an elephant in the room would be very high, and only a small percentage of people would live past a hundred.
Zen 2 compute chiplets are 8 cores, the 12/16-core desktop parts have two of them. Right now the Ryzen 3000 APU's are still using the classic Zen(+) cores with Vega graphics on the same chiplet, hence the limit. The next-gen APU's will likely feature the Zen 2 core chiplet plus a Navi GPU and give you 8 cores on mobile.
I live in Sardinia. We have both birth certificates and supercentenarians.
> Mostly because there is no Arab or Muslim empire left after Europeans killed off the Ottoman empire

Can you describe the Ottoman's as Arabs? Without resorting to sources I seem to recall their origins were in Scythia. In any case, I do think there is some value in looking back at the history, even though it is pretty orthogonal to the analysis in the post (there may be some cultural touch points). Also, isn't it more accurate to say that the Ottomans chose the wrong (German) side in a war, and that this is the cause of their final dissolution?
Never ever use HireVue for recruiting
Roughly, geek culture has always been toxic masculinity by the back door.

You can get perhaps the clearest insight into this by looking at geeky films from the 80s before they started to bury the unpalatable stuff. "The girl" is the reward. The geeky hero (a boy/teen/manboy) gets to win by virtue of geeky skills. Often, humiliating one dimensional "jock" bullies through gained abilities is a payoff too (cf: the Neverending Story, scaring the bullies into a dumpster with a dragon).

Geek culture more broadly, including the adult programmer-gamer culture, has long believed of itself "we see ability, not appearance" but (1) this has always been untrue in reality, it was racist and sexist and still is, and (2) the things the culture has valued as "winning" have never been different in fundamentals from the mainstream of toxic masculinity - money, women, possessions and power all seen as more or less fungible commodities.

What you're seeing now is the reaction of angry white men who are profoundly frustrated at receiving "less than their due". They blame women, they blame minorities, because they should be winning - are they not the very pattern of a hero, a young white man with geeky interests? And yet inexplicably they are not. (It's very explicable, geeky skills aren't special.)

Anger turns to attempts to put things "right" with terroristic murder.
lol yeah sure that's why youve never applied to FAANG
Totally. The SharpieClassifier we built at Airbnb was super simple because we had a relatively fixed set of components that could be declaratively rendered with React or react-sketchapp as simply as <Marquee /> etc. I can't imagine how much more complex UIzard & Zecoda are - mad respect to the developers and for being able to commercialize these ideas.

Aside: I actually built react-sketchapp as a roundabout way of being able to build more interesting AI plugins for Sketch.
Let's just hope this doesn't spurriously cause that same sticky key to all of a sudden fire uncontrollably, hanging your machine.
Italy had no interest to destabilize Libya, in fact it had a good relationship with Gaddafi.
It intervened only after US and France started, as a sort of damage control, since France was set to replace the Italian-friendly government with a France-friendly one.
(I will add that US, France and Egypt are _still_ making a mess in Libya by providing weapons to the opposition to the UN-recognized government).

In any case, I don't think it would change too much, since most of the migrants are not Libyans running away from the civil war.
Ask HN: What methods are used to detect Data/Concept Drift?
I'm curious what industry methods are used to detect concept/data drift. I've been through most of the Google Scholar selection, but am curious what methods in industry are used today.
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Not every physical die is running security sensitive code. In fact, most aren't.
IDK... a referral fee on a phone order just seems absurd.
You have a very good and valid point that I completely missed as I was fooled by the category it resides in.