skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, if they don't, then I don't care about their freedoms either.

I was making the comparison because you were comparing the internet to the world. You can't (read: shouldn't) really do that. The internet is an American invention built with selfless American principals and ingenuity. Gifting it to to the world is one thing, but assume it's for the worlds benefit (as you did in your OP) is naive. The internet, as the free world knows it, is an American invention built in an American image using American resources in an American economy with American resources. It isn't compatible with Chinese or Iranian or Russian politics, and they struggle with that. That's their problem.

When I said "they don't care as much as you do" I meant to say "they don't care as much as you do about them." In other words, you're fighting for the rights of a populace that won't fight for it's own rights. Instead they'll stand by and watch you die in vain. There is no martyr-ism in giving the Chinese civil rights. They don't understand it and they don't want it. They want a strong labor market. They want cheap goods. They don't care about being able to call out jews on some insecure gab loaded with technical debt that prevents them from being secure. They simply don't fucking care. So you making any argument on their behalf is wasted. Especially on someone else in the US. Lets talk about the internet we created for ourselves and when the Chinese get off their asses and contribute to it we can worry about them. Banggood and Alibaba doesn't count. They never will. They are B class companies and in the absence of an A class company they would still rather look for another A to shadow than become one themselves. That's their business model and it ensures their survival in an unstable market. We don't worry about those problems because we don't have too.

So worry about us. You're trying to assert your first amendment right as a consumer over mine as a content aggregator. Our rights are equal in the scope of the law. Maybe because Facebook is publicly traded there is recourse for you, but demanding FB "switch off" content moderation for the first amendment is short sighted. You signed a fucking agreement. Period. If you want to post about how jews are awful, do that on your own dime. Not Zuck's, and certainly not mine.

If your shit didn't stink so bad maybe someone with a brain and money would come hang out with you.
>No one is claiming that holding your money as cash is on the efficient frontier.

But it would be in an efficient market. As more investors invest in more profitable assets, the price of those assets rise, which makes the return on those assets fall relative to the initial cost. The Efficient Market Hypothesis, in it's strongest form, implies that every asset is on the efficient frontier.
Your study is based in the States, which has a long history of segregating cultures and even language according to ethnic lines. On the other hand, I mean is that both Switzerland and Germany have a diversity of peoples, cultures and languages (e.g. Switzerland itself has 4 official languages and German has a myriad of dialects) and many citizens of these countries consider themselves pretty diverse in that regard though they are mostly white, but is that what people mean by "diversity" when they talk about "population heterogeneity"? Or is it just "diversity is when people have different skin tones and the more skin tones there are the more diverse it is"?
> We could surely kill humanity but we cannot possibly eliminate complex life from Earth.

Why do you think nuclear war can't do that?
Seems like they are in step with the times.

Brawndo: it's what plants crave.
I'm also curious where people are going - one place is out on the BART extensions. Public schools 9's and 10's, reasonable police response to violent behavior etc (I saw guy spit on old women on BART, she was near tears, she'd asked him to move his feet (he had them out across the handicapped seats). No one even blinks - my guess is he could punch but not kill her without consequence.
I've been at a startup which made (and continues to make) nearly all of these, except for "don't do it with a founder you don't know well" mistake. It remains to be seen if they succeed, but they aren't really hurting either. Business is growing, albeit slower than they (or their investors) would like. Their secret? Two super-deep-pocketed customers that pay them about a million dollars a month each. Because of this steady revenue stream, it's also much easier to raise money. As Eric Schmidt (then the CEO of Google) used to say, "revenue solves all problems". The crazy part about this is, those customers came to _them_ because they knew a couple of prominent dudes who work there, bizdev was not involved.
No they aren't. Not even close.

China gets 65% of its electricity from coal, the US gets 25% from coal. China emits more co2 than the US and India combined, and their co2 emissions are increasing 10% per year.

The US is pretty lackluster for renewables. But despite all appearances to the contrary, it's not doing nearly as bad as Trump claims to acclaim to. China is the polar opposite: it talks the talk but it's the largest polluter in the world by a huge margin.
That’s actually not true. The Baumol cost disease means that people who are not actually more productive in their current roles (eg orchestral clarinetists) still make more money because of productivity growth elsewhere. You couldn’t possibly pay an orchestral clarinetist as much today as you did in 1800 because they’d just quit and do literally anything else for a living. You have to pay them more.
Given history of JS not being able to call an async function from sync function is a none issue. JS went from callbacks to promises to async/await (sugar on top of promises).
I've been running Hoxly News for a little while. It's a news aggregator that provides a small crowdsourced summary for each story.

https://news.hoxly.com
Isn't it clear to everyone now that HTTP is the new IP and TCP? That all future protocols will subsist on a web tech substrate? Is that such a bad thing? The vocabulary of URLs and cookies is much richer and less centralized than the vocabulary of port numbers and connection tuples.

Why should we keep FTP or other legacy non-HTTP protocols around? What are we buying? Slightly lower connection setup byte counts?
#Script
Prediction: we'll break that record again in the next few years, then again, and again.
We need a protocol for file transfers because having a protocol makes it more standardized and interoperable than if everyone rolls their own solution.

Do we need browser support for it? It still happens now and then that a link will have an ftp target. That could be handled in the browser or it could open a separate url-handling application, as e.g. email or magnet urls do.
For those not initiated, this looks like reverse engineering challenges.

How far have folks gotten? I'm on Challenge 3.
> Shouldn't it be easy for some large firm to replicate your approach and make the alpha disappear

First, I don't think alpha ever fully disappears.

Second, after speaking with twenty or so firms very few are using sentiment directly. Those that do, I suspect don't take the additional steps to build complex NLP based systems and weight insiders/experts. Even if you weight experts, the methods for doing so are also complicated (cross check against LinkedIn should be easy enough, but also limits information).

Anyway, I personally haven't seen much difference in the back testing.
Multi-Task Self-Supervised Learning for Disfluency Detection
Peter Fonda the star of the counter-culture classic 'Easy Rider' dies at 79
You would think that no one would, in 2019. I hope that you never have to witness otherwise.
Leaking future data in would be using t+1 for t, e.g. something like a bi-directional LSTM. I assume he means the actual training dataset had some kind of signal in the data that was also in the test data.
I am really glad that elections choose who leads America and not people who work at Google.
I've read about cordics before, but it reminds me of circle drawing in QuickDraw:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

(There may be a better explanation elsewhere, and probably source code, but the link gives a hint)
Use a proper client like Filezilla for this and go over SFTP, no reason for FTP these days and even less so in a browser.
Seems to work fine. I get gifs and "likes" off messages all the time.
After this change, will Chrome still be able to support FTP through extensions?
Blockchain Platforms: Should I Build on Bitcoin or Ethereum or Cardano Or
Damore's memo isn't 1/10th as disturbing as these comments from his coworkers.

"I will keep hounding you until one of us is fired. Fuck you." - Alex Hidalgo, SRE at Google

And he's still employed. Yeesh.
I get gifs and likes just fine on my Android from iMessage groups I am in. I can't tell anything is missing.
Oh. This is more of that project Veritas BS.

Expect every inadvisable piece of analysis or research ever downloaded by a low-level Google sales rep to be presented as a exclusive leak of what the company has been secretly planning.
Armoured Commander: The WWII Tank Commander Roguelike
UI frameworks have contrast issues – WCAG
I work at a bank (opinions my own) and nearly everything we do (including modernization, but especially partnership communications) is FTP-based. It's just about the only real standard available when the code is older than most of the devs. We do use modern encryption and mutual TLS to authenticate and encrypt everything, including before password transmission when that's even an option, but FTP is still the backbone of a ton of big older businesses.
Yeah, Dallas has been cooler this year than pasts. But we're just two data points in the world average.
chrome is a joke
Mistakes, rewrites, late nights, firefights, and deadlines.
Core dumps, memory leaks, hardware faults, and plain bad luck.
Big O, data flow, always learning -- or out you go.
Manager metrics, schedules hectic, methodology hegelian dialectic.
Taking the heat, feature creep, open office, uncomfortable seat.
Holy wars, revolving doors, carpal tunnel, all you can take? There's always more.
Fucking suits, random reboots, and the ever present "thousand language stare".
Oh yeah, pressure -- lots of pressure. And time, time, time.
Metric shitloads of time.
Time, man. You gotta do your fucking time.

- all credit to stray https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341567
here is a more sympathetic account, which crucially does not dispute the facts of the case:

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/education/2019/06/15/oberl...

i think you will have a hard time finding anything besides letters to alumni that make them sound like 'good guys', though
Whatsapp is free to download and works on cheap phones. Most of my friends do not have an iphone.
That's true, but not what they mean by that saying. It's distinguishing between the two common usages of "free" to clarify that free and open-source software isn't about price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre#%22Free_be...
“Life is a cancer”
> Without exception, every major bank’s ATM screen design is top-notch, impeccably professional looking.

Ah, my friend, I see you have yet to do business with SunTrust!
Carla – a fully-featured audio plugin host
Ask HN: Going back to VC'S after rejection?
Will keep this brief. Rejected by various VC's about a month ago due to long term business model concerns. We've since pivoted our strategy completely – would it be inappropriate to message them detailing the shift and asking for a second look?
You'd think it's outmoded, but when the systems you're integrating with provide and expect multi-gigabyte files, the ability to append to a single file in a straightforward way and get some posix-ish APIs becomes a real life saver.
Many (most in some countries) immigrants are citizens, so I don't think that's the distinction you meant to make.
> Most of the time the password to that FTP server is just "guest" and the same file can also be retrieved by HTTP without authentication.
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So...no reason for FTP in the browser, since it already supports HTTP?
yes, the locals just blame it on procedurally generated things which are totally hotswappable with the things people in another city blame. "I'm mad at those people with money (but would buy here at market rate if I could afford it)"

Marginally fascinating.

The irony being that if you get to travel enough to notice this, you are practically already exempt and privileged in some way.
I saw a 6th grader using filezilla to update his website the other day. 99% of people didnt know what ftp was 10 years ago, that hasn't changed. Every generation loves to trash the one below it, that certainly will never change.
What would be nice is if the servers supported using client side certificates as an authentication factor. It's possible to configure postfix and dovecot to support this [1], but I haven't looked into whether it's possible to require both the certificate and the username and password to authenticate.

[1] https://blog.mortis.eu/blog/2017/06/dovecot-and-postfix-with...
The cost to mitigate global warming is much less than the cost that humanity will bear if it isn't mitigated. This is often argued as binary: 0) doing something will destroy the economy, 1) doing nothing will destroy the world. But in reality, there is quite a bit that can be done that doesn't cost that much. The innovators require the price signal. Externalities need to be internalized before the market can solve the problem at the least-cost.
> In reality, most companies will have datasets that could be ETL'd on my iPhone and a Spark cluster is just overkill.

I like that you said this and I've seen a similar sentiment before. I was first exposed to it watching an ElixirConf keynote from José Valim[1] about the Flow framework they built in Elixir where he summarized it as "For between 40-80% of the jobs submitted to MapReduce systems, you'd be better off running them on a single machine." which referenced the paper Musketeer: all for one, one for all in data processing systems [2].

While I'm no Data Engineer myself, I do often wonder if distributing the workload is always better? The anecdote above indicates that a powerful single multicore machine may be right solution for many.

Now that isn't to discount what Prophecy is trying to do, my company just went through a huge re-platforming moving from on on premises to the cloud and it is not easy; any company trying to tackle that space is on the right track. But I just wonder if its overkill for most use cases?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtMWzyqdp8
[2] - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ncrooks/2015-eurosys-musketee...
That's pretty funny, since a trivial analysis of the flows of real goods and services will show that your kids are going to almost entirely consume the real goods and services that they produce.

No, what excessive deficit spending does is generate an excess of financial assets that lay claim to the same pile of goods and services. This makes the financial assets less valuable, reducing the ability for current savers to trade their assets for today's real goods and services. This is through a combination of an increase in interest rates (reducing the value of bonds) or through outright inflation.

Another way of thinking about it: the supply of real goods and services is relatively fixed, so what happens when the government consumes more today? Somehow this needs to reduce the real goods and services consumed by society, and that can only happen in a few ways: involuntarily through taxation, involuntarily through loss of purchasing power due to inflation, or voluntarily through selling more attractive financial assets.
One cannot conclude an "ought" from an "is" without further assumptions.
Yes, but as someone who's been around when FTP was a big thing, and HTTP only just came into fruition... what, really, is the benefit of FTP? In fact, FTP is actually a horrible protocol, that caused me much pain even back then:

It uses separate "command" and "data" channels. The data channel is usually in the other direction, i.e. the client listens to a connection from the server when downloading a file. Passive mode, and an extra command for that, had to be implemented, and if the stars don't align right, it still ends up being a pain.

FTP also used to default to 7bit. If you did not explicitly switch to 8bit mode, you got corrupted downloads. This maybe made sense in a world with fundamentally different encodings, line endings, and where connection speeds were slow enough that downloading text files was a big task, but now?

Then, if I remember correctly, the file listing you got was not actually standardized, it could just be the output of the "ls" command on the server! FTP clients used to be dumb and just passed that output through to you, so it did not matter much. For smarter clients later, it did start to matter.

Finally, what does FTP actually offer that, in most cases, HTTP, and, in niche cases, rsync, scp or sftp do not offer?
I do something similar, though I use git's built-in aliasing so that I keep everything namespaced under "git". Mine are, for example, "git st" (status), "git ci" (commit), "git co" (checkout), "git dfc" (diff --cached), etc.

That said, my best advice for folks new to git, or folks who find themselves doing destructive actions often, is to embrace WIP commits. I "checkpoint" work somewhat frequently with "git add -A; git ci -m wip". They can be cleaned up later with soft resets, rebases, or similar. Once a commit is created, it's in the reflog, and it's quite rare to lose that set of work, even if a rebase or reset goes "wrong".
Does that... ever happen? As a casual iPhone user, I don't remember ever signing into or out of iCloud for anything. I assume I'm probably signed in at all times?
if you loose your 150K house in Houston, maybe you have a bit of a financial setback. If you loose your house in SF, you'll face financial bankrupcy because your losses are so much higher. Earthquaker insurance will cost you a huge amount.
Technical reason was mechanical exchanges (Strowger etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUOh9fCSgqw

implementing logic/timers with cogs is impractical.
now do mandarin please :)
And it's not a great protocol.
An interesting assertion, but the article is both vacuous and confusing. It doesn’t link to the underlying study, combines what one tends to think of as kanji (single characters) with more complex juku-kanji (multiple characters) with straight up whole dictionary words. Some of those words are presented with English definitions to the side, but most aren’t. Some of the kanji are presented with pronunciations, but most aren’t. There’s no support for the thesis statement.

I have no particular reason to disbelieve the headline, it sounds reasonable enough, but this page in specific is doing nothing to persuade me of its main point.
Never heard of this incident before, very interesting.

What I found the most interesting was the fact that the original arrests happen the day after the election of Trump. That actually explained a lot to me about why a young man who was the student treasurer of the college would do something like this and why the campus would react they way they did. (though college students tend to shoplift a lot more than you'd expect in my experience)

Unfortunately, people have a way of acting out their anger and fear about things that are to big or to far away for them to touch on their local communities. Sometimes twisting parts of them them into mistaken effigies of larger events or people they truefully have no connection to.
> The bay area has cultural diversity beyond what most cities aside from New York can offer

Wat. I specifically think SF is the opposite of diversity. Far left ideology is the norm, with no room for dissent... and racially, it's just whites and asians. If that's your idea of diversity, no thank you. Places like Atlanta, Houston, and Tampa are much more diverse.
If this is Veritas, I've been led to believe that epithet is an accurate description of them.
Yes, I have been studying Chinese for about five years now and I can recognize about 2700 characters. Looking at this Japanese character set, I'm guessing I know 80% or so. I always act like charts like this.
While the Github text is clearer, there are videos on the official page: https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla
You realize all of the larger cultures on Earth are melting pots, right? Sweden, France and Germany each by themselves are cultural mutts, for example. To deny this is to deny history and archeology.
I know for a fact that HP distributes software and drivers over FTP files that they link to on their website.

FTP isn't used much anymore, but IMO/IME, it's still nice to have for those rare times when you come across a file that you need to download and it's served over FTP.
in sf bay area specifically it is dropping. as the title says.

in california (which i am sure you know is different from the sf bay area) house prices are slightly up.
Religion? Thought you'd just sneak that past huh? How did India deny the right of religion? A temporary shutdown of communication, movement for public safety can be argued as justified for an area that's historically prone to violence resulting in loss of life and property. Kashmiri's themselves have lost the most in this Pakistan inspired violence.
We can all do our part! Even though it is hard to actively contribute to fighting climate change every day, by becoming carbon neutral, we can grow a community to make a difference!

The average American has a carbon footprint that can be offset with a $20 per month subscription. We need more money to flow into fighting climate change!

I personally use Project Wren to offset my carbon footprint specifically through a tree planting projects!

https://projectwren.com/
How much would they need to raise wages to make it livable?

At 650k employees, $1 an hour raise, assuming no overtime, equates to about $1.3B plus some for payroll taxes.

So it might not be exactly a drop in the bucket, even for Amazon.
Wouldn't this just make a ftp:// url fallthrough to the ftp client in Dolphin/Finder/Explorer/xdg?

Like, worst-case ChromeOS loses ftp?
I was thinking about this. I'm lazy and not very talented, so is there any decent code existing and open sourced that could be adapted to spider only sites without advertising?
Wake me up when they pool their armies.
Napoleon: A Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick [pdf]
Michigan has not seemed so bad. Granted I run AC all the time anyway.
I have never been frustrated by a gas pump interface until they started playing ads.
I really hope VMware VIC works out. It seems like a great idea. A mix between Swarm and Kubernetes. https://github.com/vmware/vic/blob/master/README.md
As you may already know, supervised training of a neural network (or Residual Learning, to be specific) requires a lot of dataset, of which I am deficit of. If you send me your data by uploading to a cloud, I can get started.
Sensible move. I'm sure they have data showing it's used by an absolutely tiny number of users, and getting rid of it removes a source of potential security issues down the line.
FTP is basically useful as a single-use protocol: file transfer only. File transfer only allows a more stripped-down, dedicated server with better security. Vsftpd and others have excellent security specifically tailored to permission-based file transfers with access control lists etc. You will rarely find a comparable http option. It's not perfect, but there are also good partes and reasons why it's still around. Secure FTP is still a good option for some cases.
Which situations?
> What does iMessage do to get to all cell phone users?

SMS fallback. iMessage is the default SMS app. You send a message to a phone number. That’s it, you’re already using it. If they have an iPhone too you get extra features.

From an onboarding and UX perspective it’s genius/obvious.
It is definitely a product of its time. Even FTPS isn't very good. SFTP is though (poorly named, it is based on SSH rather than the FTP protocol), but no web browser that I know of supports SFTP.