skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Would he generally install software if he sees an ad for it, or was that special because it wasn't obvious that it was an ad and therefore had more trust

That's the trick in here. He doesn't install anything else off the internet. It only happened with chrome. And I am positively sure it was due to the very sneaky and underhanded chrome ad on the front page of google itself (a place where it is impossible for anyone else to get a single ad).
How to Effectively Practice Anything - scientific research
I don't know if I failed to explain things correctly or if you just missed it, but that certainly does not seem to help much.

The core issue is not partial feeds, it's — as the first paragraph describes — the ability to collect and collate feeds into persistent offline-available books (for lack of a better word).

Having full-text feeds don't really do anything when the feeds are still ephemeral, mixed together, to be sent to a separate reader for any sort of offline permanence, and basically unavailable for later (also offline) re-reading. The RSS feed of a serial is a way to get update notifications, it's not a feed of articles which become outdated once you've read them.
The closest continuous distribution analogy would be inverse transform sampling - analytically determine the CDF and invert it. Then you have an O(1) function to map a uniform sample into your continuous PDF. Unfortunately, it’s not always possible, lots of continuous functions can’t be integrated & inverted.
Tested it out on an anime episode to see if it could detect accurately when the opening and closing credits play. It seemed to be able to detect the ending of both even with a high threshold, but it didn't really detect the start. And with a low threshold, it gave me like 350 chapters for a 22 minute video, which seemed a bit excessive.
Simpler for simple things, which is great when it works, but more complicated for more complicated work, which is simply unacceptable when it prevents you from controlling the system. Good old bad design that matters more as you scale up. It isn't the point of systemd that is the problem, it is this particular case of horrible design.
Pentagon admits China could outpace US on AI without changes
The browser's JIT engine is tuned for idiomatic javascript. It doesn't work quite as well when JS is used as a target language.

The GC aspect is a real issue though.
executeUserProgram()

Is an abstraction. I made up the name to explain how the behavior might be implemented in the abstract. Implementing the abstraction in a way appropriate for an actual program is software engineering based on the actual program's actual constraints.
Developer’s Toolbox: State Design Pattern
> platform of cutting costs

Costs should be cut, regardless of urban/rural, if we're being overcharged. Not sure what this has to do with killing off rural hospitals though.

> generally pretty hostile to the idea of subsidising rural folks

I have seen no evidence of this...do you care to elaborate or provide some links or something?
Blows my mind that a feature as useful as TTS would be removed. Just screams abuse of market power.
In pictures: A time capsule of Leeds' lost buildings
Thanks, we are not entirely convinced if a 1:1 relationship of process to DOM element is going to be where we land ultimately but it most definitely is a fun and interesting experiment. And it does align well with many of the OTP concepts. It really comes down to performance numbers and further research to know what the best direction a rendering engine should take. Personally, unless a rendering engine in Lumen is doing something OTPish (i.e. supervisor trees) I don't see the reason why people would choose a Lumen solution over existing works. I think I mentioned it in the keynote but the performance is secondary to the architectural perspective that Lumen can bring to client side development.

As Lumen continues to develop we'll continue to experiment with ideas and see what works best. I actually have a dbmon demo built but Hans and Luke were hand compiling the source and the DOM ast was just too much which is why the presentation had a very simple div/p tag. Once the compiler is ready for use I hope to write more about the dbmon demo and show of some crashing table rows. Should be cool!
I mean certainly a bubble in some form is always present and it always causes societal issues. It just happens to be more precise and effective at isolating you thanks to modern tech.

Before the internet, you exhaust the pool of available people pretty fast due to difficilty of communication. If you want to talk to someone you had to know their phone numbet and you may not know much about them outside of hear-say. Your bubble maybe the area you live in and the activities you enage in but discovering new people meant having to spend a significant amount of time in person interacting with someone. You may know they live somewhat within your bubble you don't get to message them for a while and checkout their various social media profiles.

I think of "Sienfeld",even thou they exaggerate a bit on that show,all the people they meet,date,work with are all within the same social bubble. But they still had to go on dates or interact with people in person before getting to write them off. If that was today, George Costanza would hardly get a tinder match and even then he'd write off those women after a message or two. Or he may use a more bubbled app.

I am just saying communication has gotten a lot easier which allowed us to build better bubbles. Loneliness isn't new but the effectiveness of our bubbles are much better than in the past.
FastMail

1Password

iCloud Storage

Netflix, Spotify

NYTimes, Apple News +, local newspaper

Backup software

Linode, AWS
Freshlytics – open-source privacy-friendly analytics
And just because you personally haven't been robbed, and would in fact be just fine with being robbed, doesn't mean we should go without laws against robbery.
A lesson Knight Capital learnt the hard way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
Open book & read it til done then switch. Anything I care about will involve me reading multiple texts on the topic or eventually rereading so I generally don’t worry about figuring everything out. Understanding takes time.
> And if it wont work, it is so complicated and non-transparent that you need a specialist.

Maybe that fits RedHat's business model.
“but who watched them?”

CIA, and we’ve gone full circle.
I disagree. There is next to no code sharing between the server and client side of email--implementing the server side of the protocol is vastly different than the client side, and even the server-server versus server-client sides of SMTP and NNTP are practically different protocols. Furthermore, Thunderbird already struggles to get enough developers to avoid compounding on its technical debt; such a large undertaking is simply not possible with the current manpower.

I'll also point out:

> - Email encryption standards for key acquisitions

This is basically a standardization problem. I've been involved in at least one failed attempt at standardization here.

> - folders/labels stored as imap keywords

The difficulty here is knowing when you can opt-in to this functionality, which is again basically a standardization process.

> - large file sending protocol using third party services

Thunderbird already supports this, and has for... 7 years or so?

> - msg retrieval when email severs experience outages

If I understand this right, this is basically having your MUA duplicate emails locally... which is what most MUAs do these days (at least on desktop).

> - development in mail list servers.

What development are you talking about? Mailman is pretty actively developed, they even had a GSoC project a few years back to add encrypted mailing list support.
So we now know that drive-by rooting of even "locked-down" and "secure" user devices like the iPhone is possible and in active use by state actors. What are the odds that other governments, even the US (which has the additional advantage of being able to gag Apple and Google), are doing this? Seems like it would become a more important way to do surveillance as more data and networks become encrypted.
That the labor of historians and social scientists is undervalued compared to the benefit they bring to humanity. There is no incentive for a large tech corp to have historians as C-level officers, even though it's a no brainier logically.

This happens because shareholder value is the only thing corporations are optimized for.
It a lot depends on the origin countries. In more "communist" regimes, asking too many questions might get you in trouble.

But as long as you can develop an intellectual dialog based on shared values with the person, I believe it might win you a friend.
That's a wildly uncharitable interpretation of both my comment and the active efforts of village elders to stop the spread of an extremely deadly infection that had no known effective treatment at the time.
I'm in the same boat and keep using Reeder on Mac, iPhone and iPad for now. But I'm sorely missing a Windows client.
It is a personal attack and it is not what I have written so also misrepresent my comments.

Neither of which are acceptable.

> seeing the compounding factors at stake and only in the face of gross negligence assigning blame.

You are entitled to have your views. Claiming that there is no blame to assign until it reaches criminal liability is rather odd, though.
Main downside of Protonmail is you can search email contents or use normal email clients without adapter software. I know its not encrypted but I like Fastmail.
You won't be shipping the entirety of BEAM. That's the point of this announcement and what makes this so exciting and plausible.
Short tests of combine – Part 2: Sharing
Agree. I was driving a 2003 car around until I got a rental for a couple weeks. The new features in cars make it worth it to be current: rear back up camera and “adaptive” cruise control. They have both saved me countless near misses and probably spared me an accident in just the last two years. I’m also able to parallel park comfortably too.
"Chinese officials are concerned that Uighurs hold extremist and separatist ideas, and they view the camps as a way of eliminating threats to China’s territorial integrity, government, and population." [1]

1- https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-crackdown-uighurs-xi...
Beyond Agile: the Studio Model
Because global warming.

It's a small price to pay for saving the entire world.
The author complains about Pocket, but I actually really like it. The quality of articles is good, and it isn’t just full of clickbait like a lot of other news feeds.

The browser does use your browsing history to decide which articles to show you, but they claim that information does not leave your device. The browser downloads the full list of articles onto your device and filters them there.
> I was quite happy without systemd.

Good for you then. I am sure you were happy with X11's rotting core & didn't need Wayland in your life, you also likely weren't the one having to maintain its decades old codebase.

> If you want to write a better init system, go for it.

Am personally happy with systemd, thanks, if you're not, why don't you go ahead and write a better one, instead of complaining every time systemd's name is mentioned?

> This is exactly what systemd does. Rewriting rock solid, CPU efficient code with something shaky and CPU intensive.

That doesn't seem factual. systemd is a system manager, useful even after the system is booted up, I think people need to understand that first, it's not just an init system, because many modern services fit an event driven model these days. It's written in C and can run fine on tiny embedded systems.

> Factually incorrect. There are many init alternatives that got away from the shell script paradigm. Including SMF in Solaris.

Yeah, and launchd on macOS, by which systemd was literally inspired by, we're talking about Linux here, since that's where systemd runs, at least I was.
ConsoleKit was a Gnome project which was abandoned when they decided to switch to logind. There was actually a fork of it called ConsoleKit2 for a few years but because everyone had to support logind anyway in order to support Gnome and systemd it was a second-class citizen that slowly died out. The distros shipped systemd+logind as default because that was the only option Gnome supported, and the other desktop environments did their testing with logind and let the ConsoleKit2 code bitrot because that's what all the distros used, and gradually it became less and less usable.
In addition to the other comments about what is meant by “hard”, there is a crucial omission in this article: the failure mode of e-mail deliverability can be both hard to detect, and extremely costly. I wouldn’t mind hosting a blog, because worst case scenario I’m offline for a few minutes, pingdom alerts me, and we’re back. Total cost: some lost blog readers.

If I fail my outbound email setup, it can be months before I realise that most of my emails have been getting dropped. Total cost: I depend on email for work and family, so very high.

I used to host my own email. Tested with gmail: delivery was fine. Half a year later it turns out Hotmail was silently dropping my mails. I felt betrayed, and learned my lesson: email is hard.
I have grown accustomed to systemd by now, however... is journalctl really needed?
I find it interesting that a culture is being described here where Senior Engineers are considered lower level, with multiple higher levels above that. It just goes to show that titles mean different things at different companies, and you cannot generalize across this industry. I've had the "Staff Software Engineer" title once in my career. It was at IBM, in the 90s, where it was a was a title given to anyone who was not junior. I had it in my first ever coding role, while I was still learning to code. How the title changed from meaning "Generic Staff Member" in the 90s to "Above Senior" today, I have no idea.

In any case, the job described does mesh well with what I see most "Senior Engineers" doing. So the article in general is a good idea of where long-term growth as an engineer will take you.
What does "medicated" mean? (There is no "heavily" in the original tweet.)

Is he suggesting he is being drugged? Because "medicated" generally has positive qualities.
Google and Amazon use smart speakers for 'surveillance,' top tech investor says
Brave is trying that approach. It feels like an uphill battle, but time will tell.
> Why do you believe it's a composite image?

Because it is common to reconstruct a signal by taking multiple measurements, instead of a single sample. The field of compressed sensing broke ground on effective sampling. If (some) error is random noise, then you can remove this by majority vote. It is ineffective not to re-use that high-resolution secret drone fly-over footage, when composing satellite imagery at a later date. Inpainting, upscaling, de-oldifying, automatic coloring, 3D modeling, composition (see black hole photo process) etc. have become common usage in the ML community, and so I have reason to assume these techniques are also used to enhance and improve the resolution and unobserved guesstimates of satellite imagery.

> how are you going to connect the coloured blob that is the car with an image taken by a traffic cam at a different time in a country that doesn't give you access to its traffic cams?

Install road-side pointing camera's inside rented housing / contracted freedom fighter homes? Hack the traffic cams?

Didn't the NSA track mobiles in foreign countries by installing similar beacons / hacking sensors in bigger cities? That would theoretically allow them to view through the car roof and "see" who is in the backseat.

> The spy agency is said to be tracking the movements of “at least hundreds of millions of devices” in what amounts to a staggeringly powerful surveillance tool. It means the NSA can, through mobile phones, track individuals anywhere they travel – including into private homes – or retrace previously traveled journeys.

> The NSA provided some input into the report, with one senior collection manager, granted permission to speak to the newspaper, admitting the agency is “getting vast volumes” of location data from around the planet by tapping into cables that connect mobile networks globally.

> According to the Post, the NSA is applying sophisticated mathematical techniques to map cell phone owners’ relationships, overlapping their patterns of movement with thousands or millions of other users who cross their paths.
> Hence it's pointless because it doesn't make things any simpler.

That is exactly my opinion too. Systemd managed to replace the nasty cruft pile that was SysV init with something even less transparent, more confusing, clunkier to use, and with a steeper learning curve to do simple things like add or change a system service.

There is too much to list, but let's start with the beginning: why name one of the most commonly used commands (for admins) on the system 'systemctl', which is even harder to type fast than 'service'?

That kind of total disregard for UX pervades the whole design. Its like no thought was paid to it at all. Everything is obtuse and clunky with long non-memorable names that give you carpal tunnel syndrome to type.

I loathe stuff like that.
It is rather odd, indeed, but usual. Their often seems to be an "incorrect" opinion.

It seems that one of the commenters work for the National Grid or related so might be a bit partial...
I enjoyed this. A quick read and a message I needed to hear today. Thanks!
You don’t need multiple to get improvement in one dimension: it’s moving.

For something that will hold very still, you can wait for the next pass and synthesize.
> How the title changed from meaning "Generic Staff Member" in the 90s to "Above Senior" today, I have no idea.

Indeed. I'm also curious about the change in identification over time.
Or you can install brave and not deal with anything
Preparing for Hurricane Dorian: Storm trackers and other survival tools
It might not increase taxes.
My feeling exactly !

The JIT enhancement and the new language features which shipped in various JS engines in last 3 years is commendable.
It's not just Uyghur Muslims, it's also Tibetans & the Falun Gong. I'm sure there's other groups as well.

It seems to mostly be about ensuring there's no competing power structures, the strongest of which usually revolve around religion.

Effectively, China really doesn't want another Taiping Rebellion.
TMAP: Visualizing High-Dimensional Data Sets as MSTs
> the value of the text at that point is pretty low

For you. But for your children or some future historian it may not be.
How we made DNS both fast and private with a hybrid EDNS Client Subnet
Show HN: Measure Latency Using TCP
We were looking for faster, better ways to create interactive visualizations of subsets of the chemical space (large chemical databases). Here's the result.
We need a tech recycling law and oversight. Many valuable materials are put into phones never to be seen again nor properly disposed. Standardized components would help. There will never be market pressure to recycle nor standardize without a mandate.
may god help us all
Any proof on this ? Are you talking about any specific JIT engines or all ?
I personally knew the chap auditing SCADA in power distribution back in 2001, so I'm fairly confident the level of competence and what governmental bodies handle such issues.

But nothing is perfect, and whilst an edge case, space weather can and does wondrous things to pylons. It's planning for such outages and the layers of vulnerability in systems that such an event can expose in which you want top people on the case and planning around such exposures. After all, you don't want your fallback site all secure but nobody put the electric security doors on their own redundant power. Might end up with such doors opening automaticly and allowing anybody in, or not oipening and preventing access to the big red switch to failover onto some backup system. Things like that you just can't overlook.

But with power-grid distribution systems, their will always be a few weak points, case of if these three transformers suddenly went offline the cascade effect would be horrific. It's those cases you need to plan for. After all, 3 lorry accidents crashing into those transformers, whilst not very likely to happen at the same time - people win the lottery every week with much higher odds.
The tweet also says he is isolated, not that he is held in isolation. Anybody in prison could be considered isolated from society, but held in isolation means something much harsher.
Rural voters already have mostly government-run healthcare and broadly support medicare and medicaid. They just don't vote like they want to keep it.
It didn't have to be someone at Project Zero. Anyone with a bunch of network logs could have searched for some of the fingerprints or URLs that were publicly available and deduced the target from associated traffic.
Would like to know more on how its a good fit for database schemas? Does anybody here use any DSLs for database schemas? If yes, what and why?
You have it backwards, the drinking culture was even worse before the restrictions. They’d even pay workers in vodka rather than cash.
There but for the grace of God...
Likewise. Sadly not many people in this thread seem to be aware of this method.
Try google with "PDF" as part of the search term, there seem to be a couple of stragglers on the web.
As far as I can see they meet only one of the described conditions? (E.g. working when disconnected from the internet)
The reason why I stopped using Firefox and switched was their clear and complete disregard of their users. I had enough during the recent addon pocalypse. It was clear that they were just simply FORCING their users hands to follow what THEY want. I started using Firefox BECAUSE of the freedom it gave me to make my browser the way I want it, whether using addons or CSS styles. But now, go to the addon page and make a search and most of the results I find are themes!!!

Call it a conspiracy or whatever you like, but I hope all the money Firefox leaders are getting from Google is not just to help them kill firefox for the benefit of Google.
My ex lifted weights and also spent a lot of time at a computer. He began having pain when he stopped lifting for a time. He saw a doctor and the conclusion was that he was in pain because he hadn't been lifting. He resumed lifting and it went away.

But, yeah, generally speaking, I'm pretty frustrated with how common it is for doctors to not tell patients about simple fixes that don't involve drugs or surgeries. Sometimes you get generic handouts with information about, for example, how cleaning can serve as a first line of defense with allergies and respiratory problems, but we don't really promote such approaches in earnest. Interventions that don't involve drugs or surgery are often treated like they don't really count in some sense.
Crickets...
Show HN: After three years and leaving my job, I launched my app/extension on PH
As a Christian, I’m bummed that’s what you heard as a defense for God. Suffice it to say, not all defenses are logical fallacies.
Or there’s just not enough volume in rural hospitals and reimbursement rates have to be higher than in denser areas to break even.
Do they teach that sabotage was not the cause?
Breaking the HDFS Speed Barrier: A First for Object Storage
someone figured out that windmills dont turn all the time, so turned a coal power plant back on.
True, when I was contracting I did attend less meetings although it always felt like too many and the pay was good (not so much now).

But I always found it a little bit of a lie when the idea of a contractor coming in and working on a problem from day 2 or 3.

Granted this usually was because the problem was poorly defined and/or limited but even when I joined teams that had really good project managers it still was not as simple as "work on this in isolation".

I have since ditched contracting in UK, too much of a mess with the taxman.