skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike this common usage as well because of the weird properties it has too (if "decrease by two thirds" and "decrease by three" is the same, the "decrease by" function has a rather weird shape, also, 66% faster = 200% faster?), but at this point, seeing someone use the term the way I think is "correct" is the exception that I notice rather than the rule. This fight is lost. When speaking myself I tend to just use an unambiguous construct (e.g., "the code takes only 1/3rd as long to run") and let everybody else do their own thing. It's rare for it to be a real problem.

Honestly, doing any sort of math with percentages in particular is just silly and should be avoided. Schools try to teach an official interpretation of "56 + 34%", but it's clear it doesn't stick and the adult world uses it fairly inconsistently in general. (In specific cases it is used unambiguously, for example, the accounting world, but in general, it's very sloppy.)
I live in a developing country where cash is king. In my experience in cash cultures, stores offering credit is extremely common.

Your sweeping generalization is not just wrong but unnecessary. We're talking specifically about Zimbabwe, so all that matters is what is common in Zimbabwe and not what other countries do or do not do.
Famous actors could license their face for use. This could even last past their death, allowing them to star in movies decades after their flesh death.

If an actor dies while filming a movie, it can be required in the contract that they allow their face to be generated for scenes that haven't been filmed yet.

They could also use this to use a younger face as they age.
nice clean presentation. Where are you sourcing your images from? Also, based on the samples I looked at, it would be nice to have larger images.
People in this thread downvoted comments that express unpopular opinions. Even factually wrong posts should not be suppressed but corrected/challenged in a reply. As the rules state, assume good faith.

Downvotes should be reserved for trolls and low effort posts.

I agree that HN is much nicer than SO or Reddit, but that is largely due to the moderators here.
Generally speaking, we don't know. The financial sector has never had been in this situation before.

> While the ECB wants to spur people to invest, there’s concern that the banks will face mass withdrawals if they introduce negative interest rates for retail clients.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-25/germany-i...

> Jyske Bank A/S this week said it will charge Danish depositors with 7.5 million kroner ($1.1 million) or more in their accounts; earlier this month, UBS Group AG halved the level at which its annual 0.6% fee kicks in to 500,000 euros ($560,000).

* https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/negative-rates-coming-savi...
I work in the industry, can confirm, the tactics used to dissuade people for aggregating horse racing data so we can sell $2 PDFs are extremely counter-productive and reflect the age of the industry.

Several orgs, including Equibase (US-based, the gate keeper of a good portion of handicapping data) will regularly send cease and desist orders to people who attempt to automate aggregation of data even with free, publicly available content. That's at least half the reason PDFs are used when customers purchase data access, to make aggregation harder (you should see some of the white space, character encoding fuckery they use to throw off aggregators).

I suppose some of this often depends the quality of the data as well. Most data entry happens at the track during the race by a human, none of the data collection about races or the horse stats are collected by a computer, it's 95% hand entered. That also goes for pedigree information and other statistics including medications, weights, etc. And 100% of that is usually self-reported.

Much of the current handicapping in the industry is everyone trying to protect their personal mountains of data. Tech-minded people would love to provide open, controlled, API services so that people can do what they will with our mountains of data. But "giving it away for free" is a non-starter for the good ole boys at the top..
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Residential streets are not designed for heavy through traffic.

It comes back to “why we can’t have nice things”. Abuse. Many systems work when they are not abused but break down when they are abused.
> I believe this because I also believe there used to be two terms open source, and free, that these were distinct, and that all things that were open source were not necessarily free or vice versa.

There are certainly ideological differences between the two; but I think it's primarily in terms of focus. The FSF primarily aims at promoting "software freedom" as an end in itself; RMS claims that it is unethical to give people software but prevent them from sharing or modifying it. As such, they much prefer to use copyright law to promote "software freedom", by things like the GPL and AGPL. But (as I understand it), since more permissive licenses like BSD or MIT licenses do allow the "four freedoms", they consider them "free software" (albeit second-class, because unlike copyleft licenses, they don't fight to keep derivatives "free").

"Open source" was meant to focus more on the benefits of the open, collaborative software development model, without denigrating proprietary software; and, in particular, to be more palatable to large companies. As such, permissive licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache, &c) are considered just as valid as copyleft licenses (GPL, APL, &c).

But saying, "You're not allowed to run a service using our software because it might compete with us" is Right Out.
> The basic problem is that people don't by and large scientifically assess their memories for accuracy

But wouldn't any practice of assessing one's own memories intermediately depend on memory faculties? I can quickly think of two dependencies:

1. Working memory (maybe this is tangential and not really on topic for long-term memory)
2. Semantic memories required to assess the legitimacy of a memory. E.g. if we were to shoot for "scientific assessments" like you said, then said assessment would rely on memories that allow for scientific assessment. I'm no scientist and don't know quite what such "scientific assessment" would look like in practice, but if you have an assessment framework you're deliberately working within, it seems like you'd have to at least have semantic memory/existing knowledge of that same framework.

Perhaps manipulation of episodic memory doesn't clearly pose such problems, but I expect that's neither here nor there.
It wasn't Linus; it was RedHat, SuSE, and the rest of the early commercial Linux endeavours.
I'm a keyboard enthusiast, I have a collection of ~15 mechanical keyboards with various switches, hand lubed, modded (spring swapped, stem swapped) various materials and sizes from the plastic HHKB to the monstrous TX1800 (fits the keys you'd find in a full size keyboard into the frame of a TKL).

I'm happy the writer has found a keyboard that works for them. Although I think that they'd be able to get a better typing experience by building a custom keyboard, it would cost easily $300+ and take a lot of time/research/etc.

Even though keyboards is one of my biggest hobbies, I still have a lot of respect for OEM keyboards that maintain a good typing feel at a relatively low cost.

I especially like the Apple Magic Keyboard, although many of my mechanical keyboard-using friends may not agree with me.

Anyone interested in typing, I strongly encourage to check out /r/MechanicalKeyboards on reddit.

You can customise anything!

- Switch feel/tactility/sound

- Case material, colour, size

- Keycaps, feel, sound, look, legends

- Custom software, macro keys

- Talk to friendly people who love keyboards
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It still is a possibility. The Linux community is becoming a mess of things stuck together in and its getting to be really interesting to support.
The emphasis on flight's CO2 emissions confuses me and has me wondering if I am missing something. While fully loaded trains and buses are better it is still better in per person miles than single occupant car road trips or even some loaded carpools.

It strikes me as a "symbolically motivated" meme as opposed to a practical issue since air traffic is seen more as a luxury.
> Iirc OpenBSD actively disabled it for you, making it the default.

They have, as of this commit[1] on 2018-06-19.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152943660103446&w=2
I tried it after the comments in a previous HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20850135).

My results were very positive when idle (I can finally start FF and have it in the background without fans blasting).

However, just scrolling up and down in the default mozilla website increases power usage brutally (macOs activity monitor showed the energy impact as 200).

I'm still glad to see that fixes are finally coming, even though it's not usable for me yet.

If we get to a point of having it fixed and being able to use webrenderer on macbooks to have the gpu drawing, it could be a 180 for firefox's usability on macOs

I would really like an ETA for the rest of the changes.
Maybe the wires just go in thru the door seals. I did this once for a project, and was surprised how the seal just filled around the wires.

Check out my kickstarter:
https://youtu.be/uAkJjJEljks
This would be a problem with any keyboard that's resting on the same surface as your microphone stand.

So in your case, it's not because the keyboard is loud. It's because you have huge rumble vibrations getting through to your mic, and this is masked with your laptop's keyboard since it's absorbing some of that.

If you look at the link in the post it has a sample of what the keyboard sounds in a typical screencast scenario when you have a proper microphone stand.

No standalone keyboard is going to prevent rumbles if you have it sitting on the same surface as your mic. Especially if your desk or microphone stand is wobbly (but it would still happen on a heavy stable desk too).
I will not be destroyed by a recession.
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Without trying to sound facetious: "marketing". By that I mean the BSDs aren't trying to capture $$$ but seem to be focusing on good craft and sound engineering first etc and service markets where that matters more than other concerns. Turns out that market isn't as big as others.
Drivers don't pay for the roads - any more than smokers, drinkers, or anyone else that opts into a 'sin tax' pays for the roads. Vehicle duty & fuel tax both go into "general revenue", and roads are paid by local councils.

"[road tax] was formally ended in 1936 after Winston Churchill asserted the following:

[I]t is a monstrous assertion that any important body of taxpayers should claim proprietary rights over the particular quota of taxation which they contribute, and that all should not be brought into an area freely justiciable by the House of Commons."

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/infrastructure-funding/englanda...

(aisde; a driver claiming to have more rights to roads because they pay extra tax on fuel, would be like a smoker claiming to have more rights to healthcare because they pay extra tax on tobacco products. I can imagine that wouldn't be popular. "General revenue" is supposed to disconnect source from sink to avoid exactly this.)
That sounds pretty level-headed to me. Acknowledging one's own fallibility/being humble in the face of one's own ignorance is broadly helpful. It seems it only becomes a problem when you start deeply distrusting yourself; you can never get away with wholly doubting yourself.
The striking thing to me about this is that is is purportedly a "mechanical keyboard" and yet it failed after only 5 years.

I have purchased, or somehow gotten, at least 15 mechanical keyboards (and 10+ membrane-or-whatever keyboards) over the past 25 years.

Most of the cheap rubber-membrane-or-whatever keyboards failed within a few years, although there are some that kept on working.

But none of the mechanical ones did: Apple Extended Keyboard II (two of them) lasted 20+ years, IBM Model M, Unicomp Model M clone, Das Keyboard somethin something with Cherry MX blue/brown, 3 or 4 chinese knockoffs with cherry knockoff switches, two or three Mattias mechanical keyboards, 4 Filcos, 3 Code Keyboards (the WASM + Jeff Atwood venture) a couple Japanese hackety hacker boards... plus like 5-10 more at least.

None of them ever failed. I gave them away or whatever eventually but probably the average time span of which I was aware of them being in use is 15+ years.

So what Amazon may have innovated here is a mechanical keyboard that can fail as fast as the new rubber membrane inferior crap that came later?
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DC power would be great in most households. Nearly everything plugged into the walls are DC now, just vacuums, hair dryers, anything else?
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In fact, cache p3 timing attack was known as "theoretically possible" back in nineties, but was booed out of the conversation by "big name security analysts"
Both downvotes and close votes should open a discussion, not be presented as a verdict. It should always be phrased as a question, e. g. "Have you seen this question over there, does the provided answer help you?" And the default assumption should be that no, the other question is significantly different, and the asker has good reason to post another question.
Software is only free to infinitely distribute so long as people are willing and able to make it. That's where the money comes in. There is zero marginal cost of production but there is very real upfront cost that must be recouped. It's not magic. You'll notice that quite a lot of software has historically been sold for actual money, and still is. So I think the mug comparison is quite apt, even if we'd rather it weren't.

MongoDBs use of Linux is not adversarial to Google and does not make it impossible (or even slightly difficult) for Google to benefit. In that situation, it definitely feels like the "rising tide lifts all boats" situation that OSS was intended to create. If MongoDB's use of Linux was somehow adversarial and somehow significantly affected Google's bottom line, you can bet your ass Google would change how it uses and contributes to Linux.
Seems like the history of science and technology is littered with crackpots (alchemists, egotists, etc) who made amazing discoveries.
On fullsize keyboards, Num Lock is less useful than Scroll Lock.
Because the large companies that deploy hundreds of thousands of servers need to hire lots and lots of people to make or maintain local enhancements, at all levels from the OS to libraries and utilities. In that environment it's not hard to make a local change that saves a million dollars in running-hardware costs, and it's also not hard to find Linux developers to make those changes. OpenBSD developers? Not so much. Then smaller companies do what the big ones are doing even when the potential for million-dollar enhancements isn't there, often because their founders and/or most of their personnel came from those big companies. It's the "rich get richer" effect familiar from social networks, but for software platforms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaam

You mean this movie?
It is if you know where to look or who to talk to.

That is the exact same question I was asked ~20 years ago regarding Linux vs Windows.

The barrier to entry is higher on *BSD then it is on Linux. But with the appropriate skills/time/energy it is very much worth the effort.

ALL of my edge devices run OpenBSD(since 2011). Most of my Internal servers run FreeBSD (90+%), with the remainder on OpenBSD. I made the decision to migrate away from Linux when SystemD was made default in Debian. In my mind they make more sense. I can grok the config files and Init process. MAN pages are much easier to understand. Network config is brain-dead simple and powerful; that's a combination that shouldn't be overlooked.

I freely admit that I'm an old-fart. My manager thinks I'm a hippy, and my co-workers think I'm a Unix-greybeard. In reality it's just this simple:
It does what I want, and gets out of the way.
At some level that's true. But it's also true it significantly constrains your life choices. I've had one job in my life that I could maybe have reasonably held without being able to drive. (Business travel would still have been somewhat of an issue.) And my entire personal lifestyle would have to have been totally different.

Also, a lot of people just aren't in a position to realistically say "no" to any job that involves a need to drive.
The data set relevant to HK comprised of 112 accounts and 1600 tweets, only significantly active during mid June to mid July before activity stopped.

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2019-09/chiT...?

Very anemic effort, but I think Twitter also proactively suspended 200,000 accounts as well. The operation probably pivoted following the crackdown. Still it's a little difficult reconciling how low effort this is with the Chinese influence everywhere narrative.

>The ICPC’s preliminary research indicates that the information operation targeting the Hong Kong protests, as reflected in this dataset, was relatively small hastily constructed, and relatively unsophisticated. This suggests that the operation, which Twitter has identified as linked to state-backed actors, is likely to have been a rapid response to the unanticipated size and power of the Hong Kong protests rather than a campaign planned well in advance. The unsophisticated nature of the campaign suggests a crude understanding of information operations and rudimentary tradecraft that is a long way from the skill level demonstrated by other state actors. This may be because the campaigns were outsourced to a contractor, or may reflect a lack of familiarity on the part of Chinese state-backed actors when it comes to information operations on open social media platforms such as Twitter, as opposed to the highly proficient levels of control demonstrated by the Chinese government over heavily censored platforms such as WeChat or Weibo.

I'm really curious how Twitter attributed the campaign was state backed, something Facebook and Google did not claim. Were these accounts transparently VPNing from the mainland or was there something more sophisticated happening.
How exactly does the Windows design here prevent writing compilers? The API is stable, it just isn't on the syscall level.

Please educate yourself about the Windows architecture.
In the US it was released as "Pirate radio". A great movie under either title but my american friends didnt get the dunkirk reference in the final act.
> Replacing faces with stubs is a nice alternative, as long as the target face is from a person with a consent.

Why use a real face? You could generate a fake one using a GAN. You may even be able to build a fully automatic anonymize tool that can identify the broad characteristics of each face present (skin tone, age, male/female etc) then use that to generate replacement faces.
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You could do that, theoretically, from several days of driving, with false positives and false negatives galore. Or you could ask the user...I know, not data driven, boooriiiing, and requires one more interaction.
Even prior to RedHat and SuSE for some reason System V-based systems were deemed more suitable to business, at least by Sun Microsystems. I stand corrected based on beef's comment below: they migrated from BSD to Sys V as part of Solaris aka SunOS V. I was misremembering their adding streams support to SunOS 4 as the big switch but I was wrong about that.
> We are already engaged with many of the largest consumers of Open Source JavaScript. Most of them want to do the right thing, and we can help them understand what that is.

Heh... "father knows best." I'm sure they didn't intend to come off as being this condescending.
You can do this with seccomp, but of course not by default like pledge and OpenBSD.
Can you please not make these ridiculous comments? The laptops that you need to manually tweak things on to get your Ubuntu or FreeBSD setup to work won't even run macOS. In fact, it's illegal to install that operating system on anything besides the ~10 pieces of hardware that Apple supports. I would offer to fix your issues with VMware Fusion, but couldn't even patch it to support HiDPI even if I wanted to because it's a proprietary closed-source application.
What I'm imagining is a true mesh network where there is no "home", only distributed data. You take down one transmitter, another one takes up the slack. It seems prudent in this case to learn know more about tracing, and thereby avoiding tracing, the source of a Wifi transmitter.
That tweet is downright cringey. It's incredibly myopic to tell people you don't know that they're wasting their time working at one company vs another. You basically need to think you know the meaning of life... everyone's, not just your own.

Read the replies to get a dose of reality.
You could block it's network access with network namespaces: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/unshare.1.html

I'm sure you could engineering something to kill it also with currently kernel functionality - though I would need to do more research to say what.
Nothing in the article indicated that this is a mechanical keyboard.

This is some generic rubber-dome over membrane keyboard.
Generally people prefer stuff that works over stuff that is nebulously "more secure".
I love that publication and how the register makes fun of the big tech companies, like calling google "the chocolate factory".
USBAnywhere vulnerabilities leave Supermicro server BMCs open to remote attack
Greg is a very important man, many bet he will be the one to take over the Linux development after Linus
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Same issue as protecting environment from garbage and toxic substances or replacing our use of oil and gas with renewables. It costs huge, nobody had incentive starting it, but it is worth it.

The tax would have to be slowly introduced over period of many years. It is necessary for economy and various industries to adjust. New industry of scrubbing co2 needs funds and time to develop.
nah, its quite common here even in Southeast Asia
Smaller pension funds should be doing the same thing us 'retail' investors are doing: using passive index funds. Perhaps a 60/40 equities-bond balance.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund#Pension_investment_...

A part of the fixed-income ("bond") component should be in money market account or term deposits to meet short-term needs.

During/after the Great Recession it took markets about five years to claw back to the same level they were at their peak, but that is an extreme case. Most recessions and bear markets last less than two years before they're back to the same level. Trying 'advanced' techniques generally does not work out well:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/02/how-to-wreck-a-pens...

Unless you're a fairly large pension, and are able to throw a decent about of money around to buy "real" assets (pipelines, utilities, airports, marine ports, toll highways), then it's best to stick with passive indexing AFAICT:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Teachers%27_Pension_Pl...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPP_Investment_Board#Investmen...
No safer for the people smuggling the data. Getting caught with an encrypted usb drive can land you in a world of hurt.
If you want to experience some culture shock, read about some Westerners who have spent significant time living with Africans. Not just "living in Africa" in some expat enclave, but living with the people.

I don't feel I have enough of a grasp to summarize it. And I'm not saying it's bad or good in particular. I'm just saying, expect serious culture shock in this area of culture. You'll come away with a greater understanding of why attempted Western interventions have been less successful than expected, if nothing else.