skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We cover false and misleading advertising with the same laws here in Australia.

ISPs are required to give estimated primetime speeds you can expect for a given plan.

E.g. for my 100mbs plan, they tell me that in my area, I can expect 82mbs during evening peak.

We also have some ISPs who are being transparent about over provisioning and even go as far as stopping selling into an area until they acquire more bandwidth into a node.

More on topic, this is being caused by companies milking their old networks unwilling to upgrade.

I suspect it is due to execs believing their underlings when they're told their network upgrades were supposed to alleviate capacity problems at a great cost.

Fact is, usage is evolving, go to somewhere like south Korea and YouTube streaming 4k on your phone during your commute is the norm. People have the bandwidth there, and they use it.

Here, people don't have the bandwidth, so they don't, but they would.

ISPs don't seem to realise this and think it's a select few ruining the service for the whole with their pesky streaming. When really it's just changing customer needs and reluctance to serve.
I believe the distinction they’re making is that there is actually no guarantee that the value pointed to by x will remain constant. All this tells you is that you’re not allowed to use x to make the modification.

Consider:

int foo = 42;
const int *x = &foo;
foo = 43;
yes, and many times, it's wrong.
I cam here to say similar, although I'd phrase it as "Encarta was amazing in the 90's, but with Wikipedia you get a much richer and in depth encyclopedia, albeit without the interactive/multimedia type interface that kids might prefer".

I'd also say that a monthly dump of Wikipedia to DVD/BluRay/USB would meet the offline requirements. Or as you say mobile phone internet access (for low bandwidth ... is WAP still a thing?)
Between the Nest cam recording light becoming "always on" and this, it's like they've been brainstorming ways to be "pro-privacy" with the caveat that it can't affect the data they collect.

We'll probably see another one next week.
Depends the CI software obviously but for Azure DevOps/VSTS, they have just what you describe and seem to call it "triggers": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/buil...

I have seen similar things in other CI providers but basically you have two options:

1) Use a monorepo and filter out which steps or when to run the CI based on the conditions you describe using the features of the CI software.
2) Split up the repo and give each repo its own CI which runs when files in the subrepo change. For example the frontend CI would run the frontend tests and compile a static file which could just simply be downloaded by the main build.

Both will speed up your CI process, which one is best depends a lot on your application architecture and build and deployment process.
The same thing exists in the US, we call it "disparate impact".
Do you really not see the liberal bias with pretty much every single mainstream news organization in the US?

We are also no seeing a bias online because many sites will secretly shadow ban inconvenient comments that show disagreement with the current narrative...HN included.
I understand the overall arc of the point you're trying to make, but we have some of the least restrictive firearm laws in the world. If you can't legally buy a firearm in this country then you probably shouldn't own a firearm.
You couldn’t be more wrong (the only ways the models tend to be wrong is that reality tends to be worse), but right on.
Sounds like you your kids organised pretty well.

Just wondering if you have time for them to be bored and having to dibs their own entertainment?
How to get website address from Business name
Hello all,

I am looking for an automated way to get a website url, given the business name. I can write the scrapes and clean the data etc, but which free service or API can I call to get a list of possible web addresses? It was possible to do it using google apis many years ago, but not now. Any alternatives?

If the question is not clear or you need more info, please let me know.
In that case I would try to specialize, at least for marketing purposes.

For example pick Angular/React/Vue instead of typescript/javascript or another specialized stack.

If most of your colleagues are doing c# mvc then don't do the same thing, but complement them. Either pick a frontend technology as I already mentioned or do openapi specs or something else that's useful for your ideal client.

In my experience people prefer hiring specialists and will overlook other missing qualifications if you tick a core skill.

Take care,
Martin
Here's a thought - just mandate that all carriers should have an API that returns true congestion rate and throttling rate of users at a given time. This way we can keep everyone honest and transparent.
That way - If i'm unable to watch my Netflix show in HD without bufferring across LTE, Netflix app can call an API to see if the throttle is limiting them.
CAs are in general CT-logged now, and major sites all monitor the CT logs (hell, even small sites do at this point). If it's so easy to attack DNS to achieve misissuance, why isn't it happening all the time?
AFAICT the Playdate is actually an instantiation of a less powerful abstract machine than even the PICO-8; closer to an Arduboy.
The US mainstream media is bought and paid for by corporations, who don't have the public good in mind, but maximizing profit at the expense of all else including reporting on corruption, oligarchy, and environmental abuse.

The government should not control the media, but neither should advertisers.
The "politically" seems to be implied.
It's because he doesn't silence opposing opinions, he welcomes them. More news organizations and websites should learn from this strategy.
> We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change.

Two points:

1. The post presents no evidence that this is a "state-backed" operation.

2. Censorship seems like a wonderful tool when applied to your opponents. That support dries up pretty quickly when the censor targets you.
Why not? Even within HK there are thousands pro-police anti-protest supporters.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/17/oppose-violence-save-h...

Our opinions are shaped by what media are fed into our brains. I saw my friends divided into two camps because of the different media articles they read.

How do you make sure you are not biased and only read what you believe? Rad more and find the opposing articles!
As a business analyst I have two pain points:

1. Lack of a data dictionary

2. Lack of a good sql editor that can easily connect to different cloud and is highly customizable.
I see FB, Twitter, and YouTube accused frequently of not doing enough to take down pedophilia.
Did you make any connections from your jobs in the past with people who are now at a decent company? You may reach out to them to ask for an introduction. Hopefully you can get past the filter with a referral. Best of luck.
if you want a share of the success, then you should also share the failure. Would devs agree to a salary clawback or loss of an equity buy-in?
200mb? what?? :3
To be fair I have Comcast and pay for "up to 1Gbit" but on the weekend late at night when everyone is asleep I get 1.5Gbit.

Of course during the day when people actually use the network it's down to 0.5Gbit, down to 0.3Gbit during prime Netflix hours.
> >The system incorporates a purely electronic transmission

> A what? Not possible: a transmission is a mechanical item that converts rotary motion into rotary motion at a different speed and torque level

Other articles about this company explain what this electronic "transmission" is: variable windings. So they can switch from 6 phase to 4 to 3, which will change the RPM per volt. I think.

https://insideevs.com/news/364852/linear-labs-hunstable-elec...
From a cynical point of view, the biggest problem with life extension is that you usually end up extending the worst years of life rather than the best. The article somewhat covers this, but if anti aging treatments only manage to keep people alive who are barely functional, you've actually made things worse for society as a whole instead of better. We need ways to extend productive years of life and potentially keep people in the workforce (or at least the socially contributing force) longer. I'm hopeful for some of the treatments mentioned, but I think a lot of them are going to fall into the "we managed to keep people in a hospital bed for an extra year" category.

On a side note - has anyone heard anything from Calico recently? I seem to remember a lot of hopeful statements when they started up years ago with the intent of doing a lot of the research mentioned in this article, and then they went silent.
Good way to get nipped when she's nearly due for another anti-inflamatory injection. She'll accept a day long head massage though.
"Operation Outward was a British World War II program to attack Germany by means of free-flying balloons. It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen. They carried either a trailing steel wire intended to damage high voltage power lines by producing a short circuit..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outward
Match Charting Project for Tennis
Yes, it is half-baked but still carries a kernel of truth. Most people don't need to transfer two billion dollars, but they still have issues with smaller amounts. It is possible to use alternative means, but they will often be more expensive and less flexible.

It is true that you need to own BTC to send X dollars, but that is true with regards to any other means - you have to own bank dollars to wire dollars, to get them you have to convert from your local currency or to deposit your "real", cash dollar notes to your bank. And depend on where you are, this may be faster or slower process than converting cash to BTC. Perhaps you are an American and used to have USD available in the banks, consider then having to transfer CHF. There are lots of places where you can buy BTC with cash pretty much immediately. Transferring cash to bank dollars or converting local currency will often take longer and will be more of a hassle. And if you think 1% is bad, try converting currencies at the bank, your credit card or street change places.
Please don't.

If you're worried about losing potentially important personal information or useful work then take good notes. Barring that just remind yourself that you solved that problem once and can do it again.

That said, maybe your browsing history (stripped of intra-net links) might be useful for later?
Thank you so much for the context here!! And yeah: a big terminology clash is that many of the libraries for C++ come from a common lineage (almost entirely from Lewis Baker, who has been involved in the STL abstractions, wrote cppcoro, and then got allocated by Facebook to work on Folly) and use the term "task" to essentially mean "a future that you can efficiently co_await". What I'm seeing so far seems reasonably sane and arguably similar to the abstraction I have been building up using lower-level components in C++; which all makes me very happy, as I'm anticipating eventually wanting to rewrite what I have done so far in Rust.
Is anyone using a 2004 era CTB100 at home?

I love the extra buttons and that it comes with a speaker for voice chat.

I'm considering using one for programming, with the extra buttons remapped.
Apple splashes $6bn on new shows in streaming wars
Yeah, time to get Julian Assange and Snowden back to America (gitmo)! The land of the free (for non-natives)!
> But I don't really understand why there needs to be some "interpreter."

More than there needing to be, it's just all we have.

It's impossible for us to know what the universe without us is like. All of our knowledge has been gathered and interpreted by us.

Maybe there is a reality that doesn't depend on us, but how could we ever know that?

We cannot remove ourselves from our experiences, so how could we ever know what those experiences/reality would be like without us?

How could you ever know what truth is, if there is no you to know it (or approximate it)?
It's funny when people try to associate him with whoever he brings on the show. One day he will be a neo-nazi and the next he will be part of Antifa.
Is there another actor than the state in China that can get unfiltered mainland IPs ?
> Brick and mortar banks will be gone entirely. I certainly haven't set foot in one over a decade.

Don't have a safety deposit box with precious metals and jewels inside?

Many, many people do - among other items (guns, cash, drugs, etc).

While "brick and mortar" banks may not exist, something of the same nature will - some kind of high-security place to store stuff like that, away from home. Maybe it will also be combined with some kind of networked backup storage for data as well...

To an extent, places like this do exist - private vault companies; always have.

I guess my point is that physical banks offer other services which can't be replicated virtually.
From what I saw, `constant monitoring and systems like "social credit"` won't buy loyalty. Ordinary people do that more out of patriotism, an emotion against those who spread misinformation against their country. It's sort of like someone talking shit about your hometown, and you feel the urge to defend. Not a state-sponsored thing.
Maybe but then we’re no longer making an argument about performance, which is what I was responding to in your initial claim about “everything counts” and numpy shuffle being slow. That’s a straw man argument that has zero bearing on actual engineering decisions.

EDIT: clarification in first sentence
Strava heatmaps? I seem to recall the problem that came up there was exposure of military bases?

Google could totally do this properly if it really wanted to.
That's a William Gibson quote.
Don't confuse the terrain with the map. The formal systems which underly mathematics describing the universe are incomplete (containing true but unprovable statements), but that is not a statement about the universe.
missing:

rockers (1978)

it might get loud (2008)
Don't get him a Chromebook. Why give your son a computer built by a company that knowingly collects data on its users.

If anything, you install Linux, or another open-source OS, and make sure your son's activity isn't being tracked.
>He disputed the notion that abandoning the INF treaty will spark an arms race.

>“I don’t see an arms race happening here,” he told reporters on the day Washington and Moscow withdrew from the treaty. “Russia has been racing, if anybody, to develop these systems in violation of the treaty, not us.”

Umm, that sounds exactly like an arms race.
Do you have an example? I don't think I've ever needed to generate a config automatically (except in niche cases like generating configs for services in chef), and if I'm understanding correctly, nothing proposed in this thread would help with that scenario.

I suspect you're front-loading a lot of logic from the app bootup into the config file, and I'm not sure what you stand to gain conflating those two things.

Like—what's the execution order of a config file? Can you refer to a value later in the file? If so, how does it determine which value is executed before the next? If not, how do you setup circular dependencies—can you redefine config values halfway through a file? If not, you're gonna have to fall back on at-boot pre-processing anyway with sufficient complexity, so just treat a config like dumb data to begin with and do all your logic in the bootup and put all the values/whatever in the config file. And god knows, I would be strongly tempted to murder an engineer that introduced a config file capable of rewriting itself—that engineer has clearly never needed to debug another person's shitty code before.
> The tone of the poster announcing the event is diametrically opposite to the topic set to take centre-stage because instead of the Grim Reaper, it features the colourful characters of the popular animated sitcom, BoJack Horseman, chatting about what seems to be, well, death.

Um, Bojack Horseman is dark. We moved on from “animation is funny happy shows for kids” a long time ago.
More like 'without paying us first'.
It just has to detect damage and route around it. It is just an orchestration scheme in miniature.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1737/
Rust has shared references where you can trust the pointer is actually immutable.
FTC chief says breaking up Facebook would be hard to do
>there's the goodwill of the owner of Squad who had the foresight to invest in his employee and his employee's skillset

Sure if you ignore the whole once Squad realized they had a cash cow they treated the developers like shit until they all left.

Companies investing in skill sets generally try to keep their cash cow men around.
> vector::operator[] does not check bounds

vector::at does check bounds, is your argument that programmers shouldn't have a choice there or do you just not know the standard library that well?
Google expects you to have a TTFB of <=200ms. You've used up 100% of your allocation just on cold boot time with serverless lambdas, FaaS, whatever you want to call them.
Indeed, but cores are only responsible for small fragments of the network, so don't need huge amounts of memory.
Wake me up when this starts on Day 1:

Health Insurance
401k (even non-match)
PTO
touchscreen widgets
> It's an inherent property of the world that bandwidth is expensive, so it's always going to be limited.

Which is about as vague as it can get.

To make things more concrete: What would a gigabyte of mobile traffic cost if network operators were to optimize for low per-GB cost?

> There are two types of protocols: those that adjust the quantity of data sent depending on conditions, and those that don't. Streaming video does -- if throughput drops, it changes video encoding to send fewer bytes. Most other protocols don't -- they just get slow but they still need to send all the bytes eventually. There's a solid argument for throttling the first kind when congestion hits.

Except: There really is not, especially not between customers, which is what this discussion is about.

It is not some random accident that video streaming happens to be the thing
that adapts to available bandwidth: That is precisely because it eats so much bandwidth compared to everything else. Which also means that throttling it in favor of other applications between different customers is actually not really useful. If you have one customer that watches a video stream and one (comparable, end-user) customer sending emails, then the email user will pretty much always have lower bandwidth requirements than their fair share anyway.

Also, it simply is not up to you to decide what a customer should value. If you sell a customer a contract that promises a certain bandwidth that is sufficient for high quality video streaming, then it is your job to provide that bandwidth at any time, except for rare occasions when/where unexpected demand hits you. It is not up to you to decide that a low-quality stream ought to be good enough, or that someone else's emails are more important than their high-quality video stream, if they are paying you for the same level of service. If the customer thought that that would be good enough, they would have bought a lower-bandwidth plan. If you don't offer a lower-bandwidth plan, then that is your fault.

Congestion should never be a standard condition in your network, if it is, what you are doing is essentially fraud by selling people a service that you don't intend to perform. The fact that it might be technically impossible to perform the service doesn't change that, it's still your fault if you know that you can't perform the service, but you enter into contracts anyway. Congestion should be an exceptional condition, and as such should never be so massive as to have any advantage from using application-dependent throttling between customers.
> Shouldn't the compiler be able to notice that a variable isn't changed in it's lifetime?

The compiler can, I can't (efficiently). const spam also occasionally catches when I modify the wrong variable.
I have a general algebra textbook that uses category theory as a foundation, and although I haven't gotten very far into it, my impression is that either category theory or ZFC can be used to derive the other one. As a result, it doesn't matter a whole lot where you start since you get both eventually anyway. If category theory adds tools that make it easier to prove theorems, that's great and useful, but no one really cares if it was foundational or derived.
I was about to suggest this, because anonymised data is often not-so-anonymous in aggregate. AT&T's recent disclosure of selling this information to bounty hunters[0] shows that sharing across companies isn't always done with the end goal of user privacy. Examples of over sharing can set precedents in court cases showing that such sensitive data can be treated as a liability rather than an appreciating asset in the wrong hands.

[0] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-att-data-aggrega...
Didn't that contribute to the following leadership churn? Seems hard to pat them on the back for backing down when the leadership who decided to do that were shuffled out.
Do they make no distinction between the government and their country? Perhaps their country would be even better with a different government, one that isn't constantly bringing itself into disrepute with lack of openness and bullying.
They do not. They have "developed [a] custom connector to connect wafer to PCB": https://imgur.com/a/sXxGbiD
Another skill not taught today - how to use a library card catalog.

Looking up things in the card catalog, and on microfiche at my local library, was as much fun as locating the book itself. Sometimes, in the course of searching the catalog, I'd come across other books that sounded interesting, so I would write down those call numbers, too.

Or browsing microfiche roll magazines and newspapers - high speed fast forward and reverse, then for 10 cents a page (!) pop off a copy to take home.

That is one part I don't miss - having to pay for photocopies...
If you're a carrier then you can do coarse-grained detection of everyone's location by timing-based triangulation - modern cell phone standards require knowing your distance from the cell tower (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_advance for example) so it's measured (and thus can be recorded if the carrier wants) as part of every keepalive connection and if you're in range for more than one tower, which is almost always, you can do triangulation.

Of course, getting GPS data will be more accurate, but you should assume that it's unavoidable that the carrier can know roughly where all the phones are right now.
Could this not be about privacy, but have anything to do with Google preparing to launch its own wireless service (no not Google Fi, but maybe Dish Network)?
It’s a common figure of speech. He/she is exaggerating.
Btw despite the brief lifespan of the product, Encarta gave Microsoft reasonable return on investment. And arguably more importantly, it helped to quickly entrench the Multimedia PC standard, especially in homes. Which helped reduce Cost Of Goods Sold for all of the company's products, which netted a very nice return in cost savings.
> These guys have definitely spent some money on PR

And wasted it. Jalopnik? InsideDevs.com? CNET? Seriously?
Cite examples, please.
So happy to see other 2600 subscribers in here. This is the only print magazine I subscribe to. I also don't read the entire thing but it's always a combination of interesting perspectives, articles by true enthusiasts hacking around for fun/exploration, and nostalgia.

Fun fact: they published an article I wrote on hacking AIM profiles + away messages back when I was in high school.
Maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy and IQ scores in offspring