skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they did actually pitch the social good use case of helping law enforcement find and arrest criminals involved in child prostitution rings.

That's sort of the crux of it - ICE wasn't supposed to be bad guys.

In fact, ICE could be heroes - they really could be, when they were breaking up trafficking and rescuing people out of criminal control.

Instead, they are tasked with tearing children away from parents and making orphans by deporting parents away.

I suspect there are people in ICE-HSI, who probably hate being lumped in together with the ICE-ERO.

The point is that the tide of public opinion on ICE would be different if the primary visible effect of them would be pulling women out of shipping containers and sending them to hospitals.

Justice might be blind, but justice without mercy has another name.
Everyone needs more sex. End of discussion. Who cares about github
Your typical open source "serverless" systems that run on Kubernetes has a security story that's "trusted code only". If your application involves routinely running hostile code e.g. something like Cloudflare Workers. Your usual put-it-in-a-container story just won't cut it. You need on-demand, rapidly deployed containers, that is capable of providing VM level of security and isolation with the spawn time and resource consumption of a container. This isn't new technology, AWS, Google etc. have had some variant of it from day 1. Heroku and a lot of the secondary PaaS all run on the big players' underneath, they don't do it themselves. It is only recently that the technologies involved were open sourced and standardized.
I thought it was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figma
Maybe you're mistaking that for "only criminals would use a VPN [to disguise the true origin of their web requests]" approach.

Still not an absolute one should be unequivocally confident in, but risk management types for a major bank... probably don't care.
The alternative is of course no government. That is what the word anarchy means, no rulers. Larken Rose has a mini book out with nice illustrations, which discusses how we might live without government. Free download in pdf format: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd18waixbva1jae/WhatAnarchyIsnt-FR...
Not trimming the tree also affects sight lines, because trees are living things that grow.
Outlook for Windows has alt-S and control-Return mapped to ‘Send’. The Mac version ‘betters’ that by using command-S and command-Return. Luckily, one can change that.
> What a weird comment. The guy says he likes the style of his games, and that they make a profitable business for him. Why do you insist there's a "problem"?

The author believes there's a problem, or they wouldn't have written an article about it. I agree with the grandparent comment. The tone of the article isn't "yes, the graphics are bad but it's fine", it's "you just don't appreciate the style". The author lists four things they believe to be the cause of the complaints:

> 1. Queen's Wish has a very retro square-tile top-down view, reminiscent of old Ultima games, old Pokemon games, Spiderweb's first games, tabletop D&D, that sort of thing. For some, that old style is really unfamiliar and/or alienating.

> 2. Queen's Wish uses art made by a lot of different artists. That means that the style is not quite consistent. We've done our best to make it blend well, but it's a little off.

> 3. All the characters only look in diagonal directions. I made this choice because I once thought all the art would be hand-drawn, and I desperately needed to reduce the number of icons I needed. This was a mistake, and I'll probably try to fix it in Queen's Wish 2.

> 4. It's not in 3-D. Some people will only ever be happy with 3-D.

Of these four, two are "you don't like the style" (1 and 4), and one is a technical complaint that the author agrees with (3). But in this comment section, the focus is clearly on point 2 (lack of art direction).

The author has an explanation for point 2 (cost), which most commenters find reasonable (some disagree of course, which is to be expected). But it's the large amount of text spent debating point 1 and 4 (which are unrelated to cost) that people take issue with.

To me, the inclusion of point 1 and 4 come off as deflection from point 2, the point that most complainants actually have an issue with.
The implications are more practical, rather than theoretical. As others have said, the theoretical implications are mostly for continuous spaces, which strings are not.

From the practical side, there are a lot of algorithms designed to work on vectors that can work on sets of strings. It depends on whether the algorithm really needs to use the underlying vector, or whether it just uses distances.

For example: Clustering! By using string metrics, you can group sets of strings into clusters using standard algorithms. Some algorithms like K-means won't work (in general, you can't find the string half-way in-between two strings), but some algorithms can apply, especially hierarchical clustering.

I think you could apply MDS to sets of strings the same way, but I'm a little less familiar with the guts of that algorithm.
Similar to the other commenters, I find this comparison to be a bit unfair since TS is not a completely new programming language.

Apart from that, Elm is a great language! I've been dabbling around with it in the past and I especially liked its great DX and that it's purely functional. Comparing it to ReasonML would be very interesting, too :)
That's great! Thanks for sharing :)
One of the curses of games is that they start to feel “old” quickly; the faster you can develop new content, the better. It is a lot faster to add content with simpler art (and cheaper, with better consistency, etc. as article says).

Now compare something ultra-realistic like FFXV. Undoubtedly cool. Took them 10 years though, and even then they almost released it too soon. Gamers still blew through all available content in no time. Except now, the developers can’t just add a bunch of new stuff in no time: every change has an absurdly-high quality bar to meet. That means extremely high cost, and probably more time spent than they’d like.
If people trucked more, nothing would be a problem. Nothing would look like a nail or a hammer. Truck it up. Truck github. You trucking beanbag cellar pieces of grits. Trucking makes the world go around. <3
Sure you can:

<ad>
<adsrc href="/ad/car" src="car.png" keyword="automobile">
<adsrc href="/ad/pet" src="pet.png" keyword="cat dog pets">
...
</ad>

Of course this "allows" ad blocking, so Google will come up with some reason to reject it, but it's a perfectly workable system.
It is possible to skip the iframe if you use a compiler. This was used by OpenSocial implementations more than a decade ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project
You would still need the polyfill for quite a while. Just not forever.
What would we do with that data if we had it? Would we force the ISPs to build out unprofitable infrastructure? Would we direct some funding to the ISPs to do that? Would we incentivize rural folks to move to better served areas?

It just seems like more politics to yell at the FCC to gather this data - why do we want it?
I like the word, fuddy lie. Never heard it before. Here's a new motto for Goog in light of the current article: "Don't be fuddy".

This Google piece somehow tops Mark Zuckerberg's 3000 word drabby drivel: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-foc...
> I had a bank with a password limit of 6 characters

Clearly information security is their forte /s
On that topic: why isn't there a way to connect headphones via A2DP and the microphone with HSP? It's rather disappointing that I have headphones with a built in mic, but I can't use the mic while using them as headphones.
That's false, and can be trivially shown to be so with a simple hypothetical counterexample:

Imagine a system where ad servers sent 10 ads to your browser instead of one, and then your browser decided which ad to show you based on some settings you previously selected in your browser settings page. There you have it: personalization without privacy invasion. Easy.

Google's system will undoubtedly be a bit more complex than that, but there's no reason why it would necessarily have to invade your privacy just because it allows ad customization.
> I would have shared that guess, but clearly that's not how we humans operate.

What are you basing that on? I mean, the article is about as far as you can possibly get from "all else equal".
Lmao, this is just so absolutely ridiculous. Nobody needs to spend that long outside of work keeping yourself current... it's much more effective to just try to transition your actual work-work to being current and maybe spend a few hours here and there working on something interesting.

If your current job isn't keeping your skills up to date, you need to switch ASAP. But even if it's not and you can't switch... jesus, it doesn't take 20hr/week to learn some new stuff
Wired is essentially calling for a Do-Not-Hit registry where vulnerable citizens might also declare things like mental disability.

Wired does not even ask if police are too deadly.
Yes, Japanese society is bound by rules. But the rules are many, complex, and often obscure, and ordinary Japanese are expected to infer many of them. What's worse, one of the biggest overarching rules is "it is better to preserve social harmony and/or not risk embarrassment than to engage in honest discussion". Which means compared to Westerners, Japanese people rarely talk about their true feelings. Which means the feelings of everyone around you, the very basis of your social status which itself determines which book of rules you apply, must also be inferred.

This makes ordinary life a considerable struggle for socially deficient people. The much greater difficulty finding your social bearings in Japanese society and successfully putting on an appropriate performance may itself explain why otaku and hikikomori are such a huge phenomenon in Japan. In fact the 80s, when fans met at cons and such, they would always address each other in the most formal terms possible -- with the polite pronoun "otaku" -- to avoid offense, because it was difficult to see where the dividing lines were to stop being so formal. But this behavior was still considered weird and idiosyncratic enough among mainstream Japanese to give them the distinct name of "otaku".

Japan is lovely, but being Japanese is hard.
To think that AIM could've been Slack.
In the 90's and 2000's, we used it just like people use Slack today.
Well it's more the fact that government exists by the use of force and coercion, which makes it a violent and basically terrorist organization. And that is so dispite having laws. Laws != morality.
> North Korea objected, claiming any landscaping work required permission from both parties.

"NAH, LETS INTERVENE AND DO IT OUR WAY RIGHT NOW!!!!!"
We don't need unikernels. The technology for running containers securely has existed for years. The only problem is that few mainstream/major cloud providers support them, it requires nested virtualization among other things. And your traditional companies like AWS and GCE make you pay out of the nose for it because if it becomes widely available, then the whole "Serverless", elastic container service etc. industry may be eroded. Right now you have two choices: run your own co-location bare metal server with all the complexity that comes with it, or pay for a VPS with nested virtualization support that is a magnitude more expensive.
parking lot and hashbrown moved their internals, replacing ones that already existed. This is probably a distinction that doesn’t actually matter but in my head it’s different for some reason, thanks for pointing it out :)
Publicly visible outages on "pro" internet properties are actually a good thing because they help correct the views so commonly held by low-information executives about 5-nines and uptime. The more ammo people have, in aggregate, that "XXX never goes down" is a lie, the better off we will be as an industry.
No, but it only takes a minute to turn on if you're going to be sharing unsupervised access to a computer.
OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too 1.5B Model Weights Released
You can avoid this dance all together by using `unknown` with more recent versions of TS. Think of `unknown` as a type-safe `any`.
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>Maybe I didn’t do as well as I thought I did on the tech, or maybe Palantir recruiting is selecting for people who don’t ask questions.

My money is on the latter.

In "Winners Take All" Anand Giridharadas has a really good sentence where he points out how major employers usually try to find entry level hires who possess an ideal degree of intelligence and impressionability. The latter is just as important for them as the former. They want people they can mold to think and behave according to the values of the company.

In my personal experience, this is also why companies and industries that tend to have a lot of "lifers" are also often fairly toxic places to work. The people who came up and through the norms of the organization don't actually learn how to interact with normal people who don't buy into their idiosyncratic nonsense, don't seem to understand the concept of "standards" or "best practices," and often the idea that people might leave if they don't like how things are being done just doesn't cross their minds. So they take liberties with each other they shouldn't and do a poor job of forming consensus, actually caring about morale, or treating each other with professionalism or respect.

When people do leave, the narrative is usually framed as if they were too weak or soft to handle the rigorous and exacting standards of the company/team/manager rather than thinking that maybe thing are being run badly.
ICE isnt a war criminal. They're a law enforcement agency
All 50 States Are Preparing to Tackle Robocalls in Telecom Deal
You're probably being facetious, but I have heard some version of this argument before. It's akin to saying "give us what we want or we'll hold the country hostage."

In reality, free markets being a thing, this wouldn't happen. We can import from other countries and they need to sell their goods to live.
Privacy Budget seems like a repackaged DNT. It is going to be better before it gets worse.
Ask HN: How did you find your sales staff?
I've identified a great niche, but have no network to spread the word.

I can hit the road and sell (and have been successfully), but would prefer to be able to focus on my product/consulting with new customers found/managing the new company.

How did you find people to spread the word about your product?

(Especially interested in high-commission options, due to beginning stages/lack of capital.)
Ah okay, that's where our misunderstanding stems from:
to me JV is some guy who wrote a blog post and my statement was not meant as a response specifically to him, but as general advice to not choose a art style that is hard to implement given your existing means of production (be it your own time, skill or the money you have for hiring people).

For you it was specifically about that one guy whose games you like as they are and I didn't mean to critizise them. The relativizations uttered by me like "depending on the genre" or "necessarily" were meant to act as hints, that I was talking in a more general sense here. Maybe what he wrote is great advice for other devs who create ultima-alikes, I can't really judge that.
> Does HSI have to not exist in order to prevent reprehensible treatment of migrant families?

It sure seems that way. And people often forget that we didn't have these agencies at all before 9/11, and we did just fine. Metal detectors and stronger cockpit doors are well and good, but what we have are agencies that were created in a time of extreme fear, and have held on to fear as their guiding ethos.

> Wouldn't the abuses just pop up elsewhere, given the agenda of the current administration?

Maybe, I don't know. But the problem right now is they have an excuse. We're giving people license to commit whatever thuggish, nationalistic fantasies they want, all sanctioned under some vague "rule of law" argument where the letter has far, far outstripped the spirit. And what we end up with are goon squads harassing and imprisoning innocents based on technicalities. I don't think that sort of thing could persist at this scale without the pretense that these agencies provide.

I'll put it this way: I live in southern Texas. I'm who they're allegedly protecting. And if ICE were abolished overnight, I would throw a party.
My wife is a user of Illustrator and Photoshop. A high cadence routine of SaveAs and Command-S on a regular basis has saved her from having to re-do hours of work so, so many times in 2019 alone.
As for the donation, who is going to disagree with the idea of getting money out of bad hands and into good ones. What do you want to do otherwise, burn it? And that's got nothing to do with removing the Escobars of this world.
It's hard to grok until you've gone into business for yourself.
Different programming languages exist for many reasons, only one of which is syntax. Many of these reasons relate to data structures and runtime control flow. WASM won't be able to "solve" these issue any better than the JVM, Parrot, or CLR did. (Spoiler: they didn't, and WASM won't.)

I endorse this point of view, from hard-won experience.

(Also: memory model. Always memory model.)
That thread is orthogonal, but what's there supports exactly what I'm saying: prefetch improves effective bandwidth to SDRAM at all layers.

A second, successive streamed fetch is basically free from a latency perspective. If you're missing, and have to go to memory, there's a very high chance that L2 is going to prefetch the next line into a stream buffer, and you won't miss to SDRAM next time.

It's reached the point that now that the stream prefetchers hint to the memory controller that a queued access is prefetch, so the memory controller can choose based on contention whether to service the prefetch or not.

Most of what you seem to talk about is L1 prefetch; I agree if L1 prefetch misses all the way to RAM you are probably screwed. The fancy strategies you mention, etc, are mostly L1 prefetch strategies. But L2 has its own prefetcher, and it's there to get rid of memory latency and increase effective use of memory bandwidth...

While we're talking about it... even the SDRAM itself has a prefetcher for burst access ;) Though it's kinda an abuse that it's called as such.
Interesting. So are these the projects you came across or did you establish some way to find them?
> what exactly did they think they were signing up for?

It appears they're having an "Are we the Baddies?" moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
> I suspect there are people in ICE-HSI, who probably hate being lumped in together with the ICE-ERO.

This is definitely a real issue:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/29/17517870/i...
Usually, it's hard to mix materials in an integrated circuit.

Adding graphene to silicon is the kind of thing that looks a lot like it can be done. But it wouldn't be cheap, so I doubt people will ever do that just for capacitors. (But I imagine everybody would jump at it if it means better transistors.)
I nowhere said that it did.
I can imagine it being problematic that crypto-currencies like Bitcoin don't require the recipient's consent to make them party to a transaction. Additionally, interaction with payment channel networks like Lightning may implicate innocent users in money laundering.
Expat Chinese Embrace Freedom–Marching Against Hong Kong Protests
> This argument concerns me, it's not like ads can take over your mind.

Advertising's main goal is to take over your mind.

They want you to think of something and immediately put a brand on it, to spend your money on them above anything else, to think you need something that you don't, to feel inadequate for not having something and a lot more.

The fact you (and many others) think ads aren't that bad means you've conformed to what they want. To think that "it has to be this way and it's not that bad"
Doesn't matter though, they are still not breaking the law.

There are a lot of factors involved in those numbers. For starters, immigration court does not provide public defenders. If you can't afford a lawyer, and can't find a lawyer willing to work pro bono, you have to represent yourself. Yes, even if you are a minor. And having an attorney, according to your article, makes it 5x more likely for your claim to be accepted.

There's also the fact that standards for being granted asylum can be arbitrary and not subject to proper review. Immigration judges work for the DOJ, not the judicial system, and are appointed by the Attorney General. The Attorney General also has fairly broad powers to increase the burden of proof for asylum cases, and limiting the circumstances in which an asylum claim is valid. The AG can also directly override the decisions of judges and deny asylum. For example: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ag-barr-using-u...
I admit I don’t understand what you’re talking about. Some corporation pays to put an advertisement for a politician on the corporation’s boat. Citizens United says the corporation is allowed to do so.

How does that translate into the politician getting the boat?
I haven't really heard of it being used for audio streaming, I think it's more suited for creating mesh networks meant for IoT purposes.
This distinction seems to escape a lot of people - not just the shills! Customers != users. Thanks for pointing it out.
I didn't ask for your opinion about the protests, because you've already made it quite obvious. It is complete bullshit to use them as an example to say that the freedom of speech of the average Chinese citizen isn't restricted.
Stand Out as a Speaker
Interesting, but who is responsible for the compilation? The plugin developer? The app developer? The realms approach feels a bit cleaner to me... I would think it's also easier to debug than trying to debug compiled code.
Browsers have gotten past it. The versions of current major browsers are 11, 12, 18, 62, 68, 76.
Be careful. The attack uses a directional RF booster to allow that fob (while in your house!) to communicate with your car while in the driveway.
I've really enjoyed watching him develop over the years. His earlier comics, while good, are just so mediocre compared to how good he is today. While he's obviously always been funny, I guess 10+ years of grinding have really helped him hone his craft. He's probably my favorite comic - and his books are excellent as well.
FYI, you might be shadow banned.
I just bought a new car with BlueTooth integration, my first such car. I listen to Pandora when I drive.

I notice that the connection is not reliable, even when the phone is in a holder on the dash. I end up using the AUX input through the headphone jack.

I'm wondering if this is a common problem in cars, or if I should have my car looked at.
Unless of course you're state-of-the-art neural net. Oh the irony...
"Not much of" does not seem to significantly conflict with your single anecdote.