skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was apparently months of internal discussion on this topic [0][1][2][3] (edit: particularly here [1.5] "It's not practical to send all of this metadata with every event, especially since we don't know what metadata we'll need ahead of time. In order to do anything beyond surface-level analysis, we need to be able to join on user_id."). In the end, the folks at the very top overruled the (relative) consensus that had been reached by Engineering, Product [4], and Compliance [5] that the tracking should only be done on an opt-in basis.

Paul Machle, CFO, responding in no uncertain terms that the consensus was not acceptable: "I don’t understand. This should not be an opt in or an opt out. It is a condition of using our product. There is an acceptance of terms and the use of this data should be included in that." [6]

The real juicy discussion seems to be on a private repo [7].
The final implementation plan [8] shows that tracking will be non-optional, including for self-hosted EE instances.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/64341

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/telemetry/issues/57

[1.5]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/telemetry/issues/57#note_19041...

[2]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182

[3]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/telemetry/issues/58

[4]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182#no...

[5]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182#no...

[6]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182#no...

[7]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-security/compliance/complia...

[8]: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1937
Hong Kong officially withdraws extradition bill
Agree :) that would be logical.
They just took a regular B/W CRT and wired it up directly - leaving out all the PAL/NTSC decode circuitry. That allowed for a much sharper picture.
I would honestly be surprised if this kind of link didn't have at least some measurable impact, physiology is hardly decoupled (in the coding sense). It's been well established that poor mental health (loss of will to live) correlates strongly with early mortality, even when controlling for obvious variables. Though establishing the causality on that is challenging.

There are lots of strange physiological links that aren't necessarily logical, due to the imperfect nature of natural selection (it strives for the local optima and "good enough," over the global optima). For instance it's well documented that consciously smiling improves mood, even though the causality is "backwards."
The Senate was a negotiated compromise to get sovereign states to agree to join a federation. Obviously it gives some states more power — that’s the entire reason they agreed to it.

How do you expect to get them to agree to change it? I doubt people in Alaska or Montana think the Senate is a “bug”.

If you don’t think the structure of the federation works for your state, you can try to get your state to secede. That’s more logical, and more likely to succeed, than convincing others to vote against their own interest out of a sense of “fairness”.
I do think we should replace the 2nd Amendment with this clarification:

> Because a well disciplined military is necessary for democracy, the right to join and serve in the military shall not be infringed.

Same meaning as the original, but no bullshit about AR-15 and atom bombs or whatever.
Very happy this has come to the attention of hacker news.

As a regular contributor to SO it has really bothered me with how she was treated, I think with the support of the HN community we can make a difference.
Lol let me guess what’s in the link. Some information about rome, some information comparing it to other Amd processors in some use cases and no sign of dell comparing it to intel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
> Computational photography is basically anything that uses a digital process for a chemical or optical technique.

By that definition, every digital camera/phone is computational photography
Certainly most digital cameras use far more sophisticated sensor-to-image algorithms.

Not to be outdone by in camera processing, photographers will opt to shoot in RAW and have PC's do the conversion/post-processing, which in many cases is even more sophisticated algorithms.
The title is "How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell", covered on HN before at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . (467 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 ).

FWIW, I don't quite think it's an example of SQL injection. That comment links point out similar failures with "NO PLATE", "NO TAGS", and others.
Just means that it is additive to itself / accelerates.
Blizzard was the one who was most recently involved in this decision specifically. So it makes some sense to definitely get mad at them.

If you want to get mad at other studios as well, then go ahead!
> that people may not end up producing content that would infuriate the people directly paying them.

that's no different from the status quo. the only thing that changes is that the people paying directly are readers not advertisers.
The problem is that this is a critical security feature, so the consequences for users are rather severe if you rely on it but their browser doesn't support it.

Instead of your site simply being broken or a certain feature on it not working, you'd instead be opening up all users on older browsers to a CSRF attack against your site.
I've never quite understood how they aren't already liable for what they sell under our normal consumer protection rules here in the UK, at least for anything under FBA. They present themselves as some sort of marketplace, but since they're the ones taking the money, they're the one supplying the products, and they're the ones you communicate with if necessary, I don't see how they aren't also on the hook for all the normal obligations any merchant has under these laws, regardless of any legal weasel words they might include in their terms. Maybe they are and I just haven't come across any relevant examples of legal actions or regulatory interventions yet.
The USA is the United States of America, not the United Persons of America.

Dual sovereignty is a fundamental part of the American experiment. Though I would have no issue with going back to the old way to pick Senators.
AMP-free URL that actually works without javascript:

https://www.iflscience.com/brain/teaching-rats-to-drive-tiny...

sigh.
> It seems the author only has problems with Cloudflare almost completely because he uses Tor.

Partly because they use Tor, partly because they use a browser which supports neither Javascript, frames, nor images (i.e, Lynx). What both of these things have in common is that they are problems of the writer's own creation.

Also, Cloudflare's email address munging is optional. Web site operators can (and usually should) disable it.
Yeah, I was wondering that one...
Damn I should have known that. You hear so many deride Tesla over and over I internalized the “they were profitable for one damn quarter” and took it as fact.

March, 2013 - $ 11.5M
September, 2016 - $ 21.88M
September, 2018 - $311M
December, 2018 - $139M
September, 2019 - $143M
Analog TV's required incredibly high bandwidth electronics, which was standardized to meet TV requirements. The early terminals used TV hardware in custom cases they just plugged in directly rather than going through the demodulators used by home PCs once they were invented.
Error/Exception handling using try/catch in powershell in detail
Invisible cities is the only "fictional" book I've read absolutely worth using a highlighter on. It's great to read a few pages here and there
> I think people's sensory experiences vary wildly by nature, but we have no access to them so can't really prove anything.

> ... some people have photographic memories (e.g. Lebron James apparently); some people can factor large numbers in their heads (computation), or recite huge strings of digits (non-episodic memory).

Many of these sensory experiences can be empirically and objectively analyzed. For example, photographic memory is not a real thing. Nobody has ever shown the ability to recall particular details of a scene which they hadn't already focused or been cued on. There's been considerable, sincere effort invested in testing these claims, both in claimants and random individuals. (There are people who remember endless amounts of seemingly non-episodic daily trivia of their everyday life for literally every day of their life, but this isn't photographic memory and definitely doesn't describe LeBron James.)

Large number mental arithmetic and recitation of long strings (or other trivia) is a learnable skill, though many people develop the skill independently, many of whom describe their techniques in a manner that comports with well-known techniques.

Sources: "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything" by an American journalist who became the American Memory Champion as part of his research; "Your memory: how it works and how to improve it" by Kenneth L. Higbee, a professor of psychology who has a personal interest in mnemonics techniques; and "The Art of Memory" by Frances A. Yates who traces the historical practice of the Method of Loci from Ancient Greece and its transformation into esotericism by the time of the Renaissance.

Of course, there's no accounting for people who believe and feel they have a photographic memory[1], just like there can be no accounting for people who believe they're being personally surveilled 24/7 by hidden cameras everywhere. But that doesn't mean I have to accept that there are some people who are actually inexplicably and secretly being surveilled; left to wonder why I'm so lucky/unlucky.

Conversely, there are some people with a real, extraordinary sense, like tetrachromats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Humans), who have a fourth peak in their color spectrum reception. They see the world in much richer color than normal humans, and this has been empirically verified.

[1] Indeed, I'm pretty sure most people (myself included) feel like they can shut their eyes and retain a photographic picture of a scene. I was told I had a photographic memory by many different teachers, going back to at least third grade. But, again, it doesn't stand up to scientific experimentation. And I never believed my teachers as it was always self-evident to me that while I may have remembered more seemingly esoteric facts or events than they did, it was because I had consciously found those things curious, however briefly. (As an adult I was diagnosed with ADHD, which perhaps goes a long way to explaining why so many things caught my attention.)
I disagree, because it is perfectly possible to sort without comparisons. For example, sorting a list of distinct integers is theoretically O(N). (radix sorting)
I worry about Cloudflare, but for different reasons. They are supposedly 10% of Internet traffic now, and probably much higher if you net out video and other things they aren't currently trying to gain marketshare in. Just the general monoculture worry around security, reliability, etc. Especially since they seem to front a lot of the smaller, independent web sites that I like.
No. Terminals did not use TV screens. Monochrome CRTs do not have pixels.
There was at least a test flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1TBWuyKi4

Range and scaling up to be seen though.
Towards More Sample Efficiency InReinforcement Learning with Data Augmentation
I would have thought that was obvious from the context, fair point though.

Although I think carbohydrates is probably more accurate if we’re talking about decaying plant matter.
I've got to wonder why the author blames cloudflare for blocking tor. Site operators have to use cloudflare, and they do because blocking tor is one of the easiest ways to reduce spam. Tor is good for privacy, but not great for the people running the sites. What makes him think that people wouldn't switch to another service? It sounds like he's pushing for tor acceptance, but phrasing it poorly.
As someone who works for a server manufacturer I very much know how dominant both AMD64 and Linux are. But there's literally billions of Android phones out there.
Yeah, I can pull the script down and have something that I know works.

It’s not a security thing, I don’t trust the business people to avoid changing things in a breaking way.
A fun (or maybe horrifying) bit of trivia is that sizeof in C can end up evaluating its operand in certain cases; namely, when you use it on a VLA: https://godbolt.org/z/-UX2KQ
I understood that. I'm old enough to remember VCR's / game consoles required you to turn to channel 3 or 4. But what were the older, non-personal terminals using? Was there some sort of RF modulated raster pattern optimized for displaying text? Were they drawing everything as vectors? Did they use off the shelf CRT's?
I started a SaaS business with 2 friends maybe 5 years ago, it generates $150,000/mo in profit. Initially we worked on it almost full time for a year but now we spend together maybe 2 hours a month on it now.

We charge SMBs less than $10/mo and have over 80k paying customers. We kind of hit the equilibrium between churn and new users so it may grow a little more but we have likely peaked.

AMA
What are the techniques you've used? Any information available online?
I keep hearing forests are on the rise lately, as the world urbanizes: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-are-making-the-gl...
Terminals like the VT220 were much more expensive because they needed much higher bandwidth analog electronics than conventional TV circuitry (the limit isn't on the B/W tube, it's on the electronics that steer the beam around)
I think it might be this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_stick

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-australia-oce...
Learning Embeddings of Financial Graphs
How to Record Everything You Do in Terminal
Direct manipulation of the beam with analog voltage to a CRT driver for the x and y axis. Same as what the TV does inside.
Hydrogen fuel cells make sense for electric flight scenarios primarily because they have 1/200 the specific weight of lithium ion batteries and 10x the specific energy, which means a lot less weight to pick up of the ground. The challenge of course is safely carrying that volume of compressed hydrogen, and producing it at scale without fossil fuels.

For making the hydrogen, if fossil fuels are being used, the process has to be more efficient than the propulsive efficiency of current aircraft engines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#/medi...

Electrolysis itself is 80% efficient, and a combined cycle gas plant is 60% efficient, so that production efficiency is only 48%, which doesn't beat the 80% peak propulsive efficiency of a fuel powered turboprop. Steam reforming of natural gas to make hydrogen is only 75% efficient.

Therefore renewable electricity based hydrogen production is essential for this to work.
Inspired by a court decision in Pennsylvania that, regardless of what Amazon says, Amazon is the seller and has the responsibilities of the seller.
Grounding, Bonding, and All That

I have been reviewing the Mike Holt NEC video seminars, just listening like background music while I build some workbenches on the weekends.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRNS1x1jcKbEgNJx26RWB...
Almost all other such operations hold the seller and marketplace responsible. I really wonder how Amazon gets away with it.
From their 2018 Q4 report;

“Barring unexpected challenges with Gigafactory Shanghai, we are targeting annualized Model 3 output in excess of 500,000 units sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020.”

Musk later tweeted he thought it would come in at the earlier Q4 side of the guidance.

500k annualized is 9,600/wk. They past 7k/wk with Fremont and want to be at 3k/wk in GF3 by the end of the year.

I think they will guide a range of 600-750k units in 2020. It depends how quickly they can get GF3 up to 5k/wk and how much additional capacity they will bring on for Model Y in Summer 2020.
WIDS or some other spectrum monitoring; or random physical checks. But mostly policy controls and background checks.
Thanks for that, appreciate the honest feedback. I tried putting off the price change as long as possible, and it was time unfortunately.

In any case, the support won’t change anytime soon, and if there’s stuff that can be better I’m definitely all ears
the institute for justice. and they actually care about the first amendment too!
Ridiculous that they're trying to secure cookies but their blog requires you to access at least 6 domains to get more than a title. They push out other ad providers with the comfort of knowing they can use their CDN's to harvest user data.
Counterfeit products do seem to be a real problem. I've also seen an obvious rise in CD/DVD sets where there seem to be slight marks on some of the discs when opened, as if it's a returned item that has just been resealed.

The worst in recent years is their packaging, though. They just don't seem to give any thought at all to putting multiple items of very different sizes in one of their larger boxes with nothing but a bit of tissue paper and a feather to pad it. It turns up having been sliding and bashed all over the place on the journey, with book pages bent, electronic devices potentially damaged internally, discs loose in their boxes after a clip snapped and covered in scratches, etc.

This must be hitting their bottom line by now. I know we stopped using them for anything important, fragile or time-sensitive a while ago. They're still convenient for low cost, sturdy products or for ordering single books or discs/boxes if the order isn't time sensitive and can be returned if they pack it badly, but that's about it these days.
Xfinity Mobile is a Verizon Wireless MVNO and already offers international roaming (at high but not Verizon-levels-of-high) rates. If Comcast chooses to go after the roaming market in a way that Google Fi has, it could.
If uptake capacity is decreasing and CO2 emissions are increasing, which I'm lead to believe is the case, and atmospheric and oceanic CO2 levels are increasing, which I'm also lead to believe the case...

Then I don't understand where you're coming from?
Or at least with a filtered tag that's fairly reliable. All around a pretty risky site for this use case along other considerations.
The article mentioned adopting Swift for core algo would tie you into Apple eco, as Swift is not "cross-platform". Swift however is open source and cross platform, just not well supported in other platform. Wondering if adopting Flutter and Dart will end you up in the same boat? Well Flutter is cross platform, but that cross platform support is dependent on how Google wants to support it. You cant just port it into let say a new watch platform or Raspberry Pi or Huawei's HongMengOS. Maybe the best route, as in the article, is to use a really cross platform languages C, C++, Rust for product core, and then layer it with the native UI code. Anyone has any idea if this is how Adobe develop their products?
Are these videos newsworthy? If so, why isn't NYT hosting them?
Only about 2.5 for me (at my font size on a 1920×1080 screen), but it's a productivity win regardless, and it's a massive productivity sink when I have to work with code written without that constraint.

An 80+ character line is also a code smell for me; if a statement is so complex that it pushes past the 80 character mark and it can't be split into smaller chunks on their own lines, then I know for sure that something needs refactored (whether it be the statement itself or the nested control structures around it).
pretty much what we use at zcash foundation https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zfnd/tree/master/about
Curious what your current discovery mechanism is.

I get by on recommendations from friends and internet comments, but I'm just a commute listener. Is your listening throughput on the high side?
I’ve seen this thrown around as well, and would love to hear more. I’m interested in helping the project since it’s about the only one that has stood up to any scrutiny that I’ve seen
Withdrawal took way too long. It is unfortunate that Hong Kong legislators believe their purpose is to rule and manage Hong Kong people on Beijing's behalf instead of legislating according to Basic Law.

Two Systems or unsuppressible civil unrest: make a choice.
The lesson here is not to sue AT&T. The lesson here is to stop investing in cryptocurrency.
I recall the old reputation was that Time and Newsweek were considered centrist publications, with Time a hair to the right and Newsweek about two hairs to the left. This was a reputation, based on 0 hard evidence, but if I recall a commonly held one among news magazine readers of the late 90s.

I have been consciously subscribing to my local newspapers (I live in the Northeast, so there are excellent ones like the Boston Globe and Providence Journal) and just reading them and what gets recorded there and nowhere else it is horrifying to think of a world without them.

If the mayor of your city is a supervillain terrorizing the town by night, who's going to tell you? The police chief he hired? The social media site who got a huge incentive package to set up shop there?

We're very lucky to have the tradition of journalism, with all its flaws past and present. I think we all need to take responsibility for preserving it.
I don't see much in the way of recommendations or best practices in this article, so here is what I can offer:

1. As mentioned already, get custom-molded in-ear monitors. They're wonderful. I dropped like $1500 on mine but someone below mentions much cheaper models. Mine are great, hopefully his are too. But this only works if everybody is playing direct or miked and you can get a reliable mix. Oh, and be careful working with inexperienced engineers because if you take a blast of shrieking feedback from one of these it's probably even worse than not wearing ears at all.

2. For bigger stuff, playing in an orchestra or whatever, where no mix is available, just go with earplugs. I find Etymotics uncomfortable for more than an hour or so, but some people like them. With about ten seconds of googling you can find some huge sample packs of disposable foam earplugs online, so you can try out lots of different varieties and find what works for you. And if you're new to playing with an orchestra, do not underestimate how loud they are. A brass section can absolutely compete with the loudest of guitar amps or drummers.

3. If at all possible, just don't play crazy loud gigs. If you end up with guitars, drums, bass, brass, whatever, all competing with each other for volume the overall mix will be a mess. I find few things less enjoyable than concerts where no one can control their stage volume and you just hear a poorly-mixed muddle of sound. If you've spent time honing your craft and learning the parts, why play in such a sub-par environment?

And in general, just take care of your ears. I'll wear earplugs on a motorcycle, in one especially loud datacenter I used to spend time in, at concerts, when using powertools (or even hammers), on aircraft, etc. I keep a huge pack of disposable earplugs I bought at Home Depot for like six bucks in my car and I use them regularly and hand them out to people as well.
I think the author's point is not that you can't RiiR, it is that one should think twice if the resultant code is not supported. If there is a Rust community around it, great! But if it is just doing it just to RiiR, then (C) holds.
A lot of magazines have become more advertising than content, and survive on that and a small base of subscribers. I look at Wired magazine, comparing to what it was 20 years ago, it’s vastly more advertising now.
Care to share the URL?