skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, 90% improved to 92%? That's not nothin'...
Did the people who killed IE6 have to convince a promotion committee that killing IE6 would be good for YouTube and Google?
Full title: 3D-printer gun activist Cody Wilson pleads guilty in child sex case, avoids prison
Woodstock's Contradictions, 50 Years Later
Ken Burns' Vietnam is on Netflix.

Watch it and you'll think it was a totally unnecessary war, fought despite the Americans knowing they wouldn't win, escalated repeatedly against all sense, by various administrations that knew nothing about the local political landscape, and ending with the Americans leaving their allies to fend for themselves.

He even talks about how election politics entered the peace negotiations and a variety of other disgraceful episodes, both big (My Lai) and small (the ambassador not wanting to cut down the tree in the embassy for the helicopters).

The saddest parts are maybe the interviews with the soldiers themselves, for the most part pawns in a game they were too young to understand.
Pretty much. It’d be like walking into police station and attempting a crime.
By the time they do something everything about them is known. It’s self defeating.
A Plan to Turn Coal Country into Coding Country
Perhaps we could just use standard steppers if we reduce real life frames per second.

But they do have torque at most frequencies compared to conventional designs, so I think this could work.
Πράγματι όλοι εδώ!

Not to mention the fact that ancient Greek seems like a foreign language to modern Greek speakers. Interestingly ancient Greek is more compact and comprehensive (ie uses fewer words compared to modern) as it uses a richer grammar (tenses, voices, etc)
The truth is that hypothetically we already probably possess enough intelligence to pick out the whack jobs as a class but not which of them is definitively going to actually going to go off.

However we have consistently shown that we are often incapable of competently using that information even when say the family members of a terrorist call us on the telephone and forewarn us let alone when the worrisome info is buried in a mountain of data.

We don't need less privacy or better technology to gather intel. We actually need a smarter system and better tools to sift the mountain of data we actually already possess.
The US Navy had to innovate on carrier operations, because there was nobody to copy it from.
"Ethiopia’s prime minister says that if deadly unrest in the country continues with online incitement, internet in the country could be cut off “forever.”"

this is totally absurd (!), the only good thing about this sentence is that one would imagine that Ethiopian government is not able to control the content of information exchanged (which is a very good thing, no doubt), even if there is only one telephone company (Ethiotel) that has monopoly over the internet.
> Uber could ditch anywhere between 50-90% of their techs tomorrow and it would not impact their operations one iota.

We may yet see this if the share price tanks. A PE firm like TPG can buy a large stake (or even go private), ruthlessly force efficiency, and then sell out.
Welfare-state capitalism is everywhere (at least in Europe).

The economic system in communist countries was generally called socialism, while 'communism' is used for the political movement and its ideology.
I've been using Debian for more than 15 years and it has always been about stability. I use it for desktop use (office, mail, web, games). In the past, the stability concern meant, indeed, sub par desktop software but since the last two releases, the desktop is really good and stable. As I'm getting older I don't want to spend my time administering a system and Debian (and all its packages) have now reached a very good maturity level. Sure it's not bleeding edge, but the stable baseline is really good new.
(and my PC is now ten years old).

So don't judge too fast. Debian does a really good job now, even for desktop usage.
>As of V8 v7.3, --async-stack-traces is enabled by default.
https://v8.dev/blog/fast-async
Definitely!

1/ The up-front costs were $30k for me, and it took about 8 months to make it back. After operating costs, I make anywhere from $1k to $5k/mo. (Once in a while I lose money)

2/ I want to do a real blog post, but high level: $3.5k rent, $2k for a manager, $2k for labor, $1k for other utilities, and then money on things like adwords, etc.

3/ They would come back, except we only have one room! On weekends we get a lot of tourists, on week days we get a lot of team bonding from startups and larger companies. So, while they don't come back, their coworkers tend to. (This is atypical for most escape rooms in the US, though. Most have 3-5 rooms, and very few "company outings".)
That's a bold strategy cotton...I think I would have waited till after DEF CON to run this article haha.
How did you get available booking times for all these rooms?
Kenya’s Pokomo people ask Brits to return what was stolen: Their source of power
Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (2003)
yeah it's great, you also get kind of more a village vibe / forum in the city because there is a real pedestrian heavy city centre instead
> The Rule Of 2 is: Pick no more than 2 of

> * untrustworthy inputs;

> * unsafe implementation language; and

> * high privilege.

> Security engineers in general, very much including Chrome Security Team, would like to advance the state of engineering to where memory safety issues are much more rare. Then, we could focus more attention on the application-semantic vulnerabilities. That would be a big improvement.

> Unsafe implementation languages are languages that lack memory safety, including at least C, C++, and assembly language. Memory-safe languages include Go, Rust, Python, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, and Swift

Very nice. At the end of the process, Google might adopt Rust in Chromium. As much as I use and love Firefox, it's only realist to say that Chrome has higher chances of being around in 10 years.

I wonder why the list doesn't include their wuffs language.
How Can a Company Lose $5.2B on $3.2B in Revenue? Uber Shows How
Solve real problems, provide real solutions (2016)
But the missing torque necessitates a transmission as the article mentions that will also have a limited degree of efficiency.
Physical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extension and enhancement of the bodies of their operators. (So the perennial fear of robots 'taking over' amounts to saying that bodies will somehow take over.)

It's not about being free from physical work, it's about choosing what problems to work on -- before other problems choose you! In most cases people who work a job are having their problems chosen for them. So they are still, in this sense, slaves.

And this is itself a problem. We haven't found the solution yet. But we may...
Why are you so emotionally invested in defending an evil megacorp?
Vivid, nostalgic photos show what Tokyo looked like in the 1970s
1. Look into thorium-based nuclear power. Also, I think each country should have its own nuclear waste facilities, not a single barrel of nuclear waste should leave the border. Nuclear power kills fewer people than solar per unit of electricity.

2. Tricky. Educate kids. But of course, I am not delusional about human nature.

Checkout this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak
In base 8 (if we'd had 8 fingers), an "order of magnitude" would have been defined as "times 8" instead of "times 10", so it would also be adding another 0. Same with base 12. Base 16 would have the further advantage that we could easily halve, quarter, eighth, or 16th any number ending in 0 to a whole integer (in base 10, we can only halve, fifth, or tenth).
This past week a woman yelled loudly about stabbing Mitch mcconnell in the neck outside his house as part of a large crowd. It became a hot-button topic but no one fell out of an 8th story apartment window.

The NSA does not have a mandate to do what you’re describing, they face extensive civilian oversight and programs like their metadata collection were extensively debated in public. Are there exceptions? Yes; but they don’t have the same mandate or the same powers of control as some of these other nations, so the effect is vastly different.
I think the answers you've gotten are looking at it the wrong way! For bowling alleys, checking availability is a good way to see if there's room for another one. Since Escape Rooms have 0 replay-ability, you're not really competing for "regulars". There's likely hundreds of people who have already done all ~5, and would be eager to do a 6th.

If those 5 have gotten enough people to come, most of their patrons will happily come do yours, too. You're not really "competing". In a way, you're more like a movie than a movie theater.
Could well be. It's been a couple of decades since I read it, and a fair bit of education in between.
Not sure if that's an argument for or against rereading.

But what Tara C. Smith presents in that Gizmodo post is hardly devastating criticism. As she notes, Preston recognized that it was a a dramatized description of the symptoms, and I don't see that it's "utterly wrong" for a bad case, though I'm sure it's frustrating as an epidemiology professor to repeatedly have people believe it's the only case.

As I recall it the Reston strain is never described as definitely airborne, and an airborne Zaire strain is never mentioned except as a horrifying possibility if one should acquire the ability (not entirely out of character in a fictional thriller one might think).

The criticism for some sort of feminism-deficiency I don't give much for even today, but it seems particularly unfair against a novel which was written decades before today's charged ideological climate on that matter, and I disagree that poor work-life balance and dysfunctional relationships is particularly unrealistic when it comes to career scientists.

Remains then relatively low infectivity, but I think Preston might be forgiven for not emphasizing that in work of fiction built around the fear of Ebola infection.

Thanks for the remark anyway, because it bears noting that the novel should still not be taken to be a biology textbook.
I would say the title should be a longer description that tells people what they are clicking on instead of a few words that look like gibberish to most people and nothing else.
According to TIOBE index, Clojure is not a thing outside HN bubble, is it?
Base 10 is intuitive because we are taught to work in base 10. If we worked in base 7, then multiplication by seven would be just another 0. (And if we worked in base 7, we would probably have defined “an order of magnitude” to be a multiplication by 7, rather than 10).
Basically every web developer hated IE6 so they have personal reasons to kill it, I don't know of anyone who hate Firefox.
Yes, they use the official definition of the term "mass shooting", as it was adopted after 2013 by the US congress, which defines it as a shooting with 3 or more victims. Moreover, they mention in the very first paragraph that the definition is controversial and problematic, and they mention all alternative official definitions (e.g. before 2013) explicitly in the following paragraphs.

You probably have another definition in mind, since in your mind "mass shooting" is somehow associated with classic amok runs and terrorism. But how is that a counter-argument to using the official definitions and terms, as they are defined by US congress and used by police and the US judicial system? Why on earth would it be disingenuous for them to base their statistics on the official definitions?

Sure, some people think that e.g. gang-related gun violence shouldn't count as a mass shooting even if many victims are involved, but the US congress chose otherwise and the page makes it crystal clear that the definition is problematic.
and Ethiotelecom is the sole and state-owned telecom service provider in Ethiopia
Requiring manufacturers to include back doors to be used only pursuant to a valid warrant would not be a “search.” (There might be a commerce clause issue, though.) Many types of surveillance typically does not involve a search (because it relies on data that either can be gleaned from public activity or through cooperating third parties).
Key Fact as Pivot: A Two-Stage Model for Low Resource Table-to-Text Generation
"Only thuggish regimes and failed dictatorships demand for things like removal of encryption."
Marijuana Accidentally Legalized in Ohio
Something I’ve always wondered about corporate America: on Apple rumour sites and so on it’s often breathlessly reported that all staff leave has been cancelled for whatever dates. What happens if eg you’d promised to take your kids to Disneyland and had everything booked? Do you just have to lose the booking deposit and let down your kids? Why do people put up with that?
Scientists Find Out How Leaping Maggots Leap
Yes they are although I'm pretty sure cab driver wasn't a great work experience for most either.
I haven't been in a single US escape room where you couldn't just... walk out. Most creators in the US are aware of this, and don't take the "Escape" part too seriously. And of course, in the US, this is heavily enforced.
South Korean companies undoubtedly have greater legal recourse to challenge the government, but I am unpersuaded that the chaebol exercise that right particularly often. The impeachment of president Park does indicate an appetite for change, but South Korea has a long history of corruption, cronyism and state-sanctioned monopoly abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol#Criticism
I don't necessarily like it, but a lot of people make their living on LinkedIn. This is quite an ignorant statement.
Porsche Taycan [video]
If the studios had the will to get together and do this, it absolutely would be possible.
> DEF CON 27, arguably the world’s best known hacker convention.

I would say that the CCC hacker conventions (esp the CCC congress always in December) are somewhat more famous (but that probably depends on cultural background), of a similar size, and "better" (depending on what aspects you want to compare it). But it's not really a competition anyway.

Related to that, there is the CCC camp 2019 (https://events.ccc.de/camp/2019/) (in Berlin) starting very soon. Probably there will be live streams. And btw, a while ago, you could buy a combi-ticket for both DEFCON and CCC camp, including the flight ticket, for either 1337$ or 1337€.

If you have never been to such an event, I can really recommend to go to it. Actually I can only speak for the CCC and the Dutch events; I heard that the community and mood is much more friendly and open on CCC-like events, compared to DEFCON, and also the focus is much more widespread, e.g. it's also kind of an art event, similar to Burning Man.

That trends shown in the traffic graphics are really interesting. It seems JavaScript are less interesting to hackers, and Python is more. What hackers are using today is often what the remaining technical world will use tomorrow. In a similar way, I observed that around 10 years ago, Apple hardware became very dominant on such hacker events (I feel like maybe 80% of the computers (of course I don't have exact numbers on that)). But in the recent years, that totally vanished. It's very clearly the minority now. Apple does not produce the preferred hardware for hackers anymore.
Funnily enough, the word "barbarian" for uncivilized people comes all the way from Ancient Greek slang, proverbially meaning "people who speak in these 'bar bar bar' noises".[0] It's all bar bar bar to me. :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian
this was the size of my ruler: 12 inch ≈ 30 cm. therefore,

2 inch ≈ 5 cm
Social media is adding pressure to share your travels
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/24/apple-moves-to-store-icloud-...

* Nearly all iPhone users use iCloud.

* If obeying 'local laws' is enough for Apple to allow external access to iCloud, the same logic must apply to the iPhone.

* Note that Apple refused similar requests by American courts.
Why is this even an FBI case? What exactly makes this an FBI case? Why we want this to be an FBI case?

I don't know much about American law. I was under impression that things are reserved to states unless important reason for them to be handled on federal level.
I suspect there are a variety of reasons for respecting or promoting military (including some cynical ones), but I'd like to say a few you might agree are positive:

* Especially in some areas, there's a positive idea of service and duty, and wanting to do good, and some people join up to the military for that reason, and others support it for that reason. (Even if you disagree with some military actions or practices, you can still understand that people might be motivated to join by admirable ideas.)

* I've heard that, as US people returned from the Vietnam War, some were met with animosity and condemnation. I can't fully imagine what it was like to experience horrors of war, and then also be rejected when you come back home. Separate from all the other questions of wars, I think we realize that treatment of people returning home was very wrong, and don't want to do that to anyone.

* The US generally values some kinds of heroism. For example, firefighters have been revered since before 9/11, and not for any cynical reasons I can think of. I don't know how this compares to other countries, but I speculate there might be some overlap of reasons between US respect for firefighters and warfighters.
Using neato instead of dot to layout the graph is nice. I'll do that later if I get time, but I'm not in a position to do it just now.

Edit: Here:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/DifficultyDiGraph.png
The reason I shared it is because Chrome popped up with a warning bar today, saying "Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020" and suggesting I turn it off now. The linked article on the bar was to this content.
I found the studies that this video (17:15) uses to establis a real world DRAM BER.

https://tezzaron.com/media/soft_errors_1_1_secure.pdf

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

You’ll note that the papers were published in 2004 and 2009, respectively.

Here is a paper from 2015 that paints a more accurate picture of hardware used today.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gurumurthi/papers/asplos15.pdf

Apparently these studies have strange ways to present data and do not give straight “BER per bit per second”, which I would think is the most useful metric. Without spending all day learning the jargon of this specific field, I think I can conclude, at a glance, that DDR4 has a lower BER than DDR3. The numbers matter, and I don’t know how serious of an issue it is currently. Without that knowledge its impossible to speak on the efficacy of more proliferated ECC in DRAM.
Just one of the first links in a Google search: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/molecular-astrophysics/hig... It looks like some people is studding H2, so it is false that (now) everyone is ignoring H2. I think they don't think that H2 is so abundant that it explain most/all the dark matter.
>What would go wrong if Uber India only handled one timezone and didn't really support French?

People travel.

That aside, you'd have 100+ different deployments that need to be independently updated, debugged, managed, etc. That takes people and effort and is still going to cause issues. For example, each country speaking French might have a different deployment so updating language files needs to take into account every single version running live.
And none of this is true.
The fact that degree is the same means that energetically 1 degree C is equal to 1K.
So when doing scientific calculations, for example to calculate energy needed to change the temp by X, they are the same.
The fact that the scale is based on water properties seem to be just so values are easier to relate to. We are water based, after all.

Can anyone provide any reason to use Fahrenheit scale, apart from historical ones? Legit question.
It'd be interesting to compare the costs of production, sale prices, and work/life conditions of the people who produced an adidos vs an adidas.
It took me a second to parse what you were saying. Essentially since it’s 2.2LBS per kg the first divide gets you the number on both sides of the decimal. Very cool
Can you explain why you think that is necessary and not eg Social Democracy? Industrialization and automation has gone most of the way already (from working 7x16 to working 5x8 because of it), and socialism hasn’t even worked briefly while social democracy has done a lot better. What is it about this final small push of automation that requires public ownership?
The fluid nature of the future evolution of the English language is hardly an excuse not to communicate according to a reasonable set of standards now much less a reason to deny any standards exist.
For the youngsters out there, don't elaborate when you say "No". That is, don't mention your FOF. That weakens your position.

It is sufficient to look the manager/executive threatening you square in the eye, and state your position with deliberateness. Keep it professional, no raised voices, and be willing to walk away without hesitation if the other side gets abusive.

The really bad ones are those who tell you that if you step through that door don't bother coming back or similar, so be absolutely ready to commit. If you do the main event behind closed doors one-on-one and get that threat as you walk out, sometimes they'll come back with sugar suggesting a do-over. Generally Admiral Ackbar is right in this context, but it's your call.

The negotiation leverage that comes from the FOF is most powerfully communicated non-verbally and in a face-to-face setting, also through body language. The difference is very noticeable between those who have an FOF and those who don't, if you have enough experience. It can be faked, but it takes exceptional practice to fake. The tell starts with how fast and confident the "No" comes back.

This is the nuclear option of course. Exhaust all other avenues of reasonable negotiation first. Like an email with witnesses you pick for deliberately violating departmental policy, for example.
Shame they didn’t include traffic to security.stackexchange.com . I would have thought that would show a more noticeable change. Also would be interesting to see what tags there show the biggest increases
Yes, and it always has been. The murder rate per capita in the US has consistently been 5-10x higher than in Europe for the entire 20th century. Long before gun control, social safety nets, the drug war, or any other difference you might want to blame. The US is a low cohesion, high violence society.
YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech... '
How to come up with the pricing?
Rulebooks only work perfectly when everything is static. Even then they only work when you also know all failure cases perfectly which you almost surely don't. Uber is in a competitive market and can't freeze features for years at a time. Furthermore, it in a growing market which means scale alone will cause new failure points to come up.
Dog funerals may sound self-indulgent, but there should be no shame in pet grief
Language Difficulty Ranking
Chart and discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/7kacaz/la...
I'd be hesitant to draw broader trends from the experience of devs and other exempt employees at large tech firms. Anecdotally, I tend to agree. When I took multi-week vacations earlier in my career, that seemed to be something of an outlier. I'm not sure that's as true today.

One factor may be that, for better or worse, people can stay at least somewhat connected while on vacation. It used to be that traveling meant that it took a real effort to reach you. And if you were on vacation, you were pretty much incommunicado for the period.

On the other hand, I'd be very hesitant to draw broader conclusions about the adult working population.