skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They rely on Section 230 [1] protection, which only applies to platforms, to not be liable for what is published on their platform. If they have editorial control they are liable like newspapers are liable.

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
“ Amputated the leg in 2 1⁄2 minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient's testicles as well.”

Sounds made up, but I’d it’s not, that’s fucked up. You can’t do that by mistake.
> I didn't have any quantitative estimates then, and still don't now. However, it's likely that a world in which there is one server per household or per street would be more electrically efficient than the current world of billionaire cloud servers.

This is the core of the article and it's basically guesswork. From all I read, I tend to believe the opposite actually. Cloud is a lot greener than home servers.
unifi cloud is public cloud. Unifi cloud key is an on prem/hybrid version.
Looks like pay to play worked for them.
How is that a misunderstanding of the requirements to be a platform to be protected from liability under section 230 [1]?

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
Assuming I remember my high school physics correctly, the socket would be moving ~50mph on impact. Definitely a recipe for a bad day.
Really interesting project. Couple of things:

1. Your Python library (easydbio) doesn't have the correct requirements listed. It depends on 'requests' being installed, add this to the setup.py install_requires call.

2. Make the DB class accept arguments instead of a dictionary. Just do `DB(database, token)`

3. The API is just a really simple CRUD to a single endpoint, why not include curl/httpie samples in the homepage?

4. The repository link for the Python SDK 404's (or is private). People often look at the repositories for dependencies they choose to install, not having it available is not a good signal.
IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment
>"therefore, if you are running a legacy system which had not yet upgraded from RSA to ECC, you should not bother to do so, and instead should save money for the future upgrade to post-quantum protocols." (WTF? Most people thought the threat of quantum computers is serious, but ECC should be good for another ten years, and one should should definitely upgrade to ECC, ...)

The government moves much more slowly than consumer-oriented high-tech companies. Upgrading a large legacy defense system might very well take longer than 10 years. (And the NSA's advice mentioned above is directed toward government and contractors.)
about:config -> devtools.chrome.enabled = true

then you should have additional entries in the tools -> web developer menu.
With all respect, I don't think FussyZeus makes a convincing realpolitik argument for Apple's approach here. Rambo hasn't, AFAICT, even had it confirmed that his account is suspended at all. The argument isn't that Apple is obligated to spend hours of employee time in back-and-forth arguments with people they kick out of the developer program, merely that they should be clear that that's what they're actually doing and offer at least a sentence or two as to why. The argument that this just can't possibly scale is dubious, given that Amazon meets that standard when they take action against seller accounts. Even Twitter and Facebook, which are dealing with far more bad actors, don't just mysteriously disable your login with no explanation.
One might argue that forcing you to use their app store constitutes illegal tying. The iPhone could easily be made to run apps from competing stores (as is possible with Android). Don't think about competitors that do exist on other platforms (like Play Store), but instead think of competitors that were never allowed to exist on iOS.
Wealth continues to concentrate upwards, and if you can’t easily find information on your own, I’d be happy to provide sources that show that social mobility is low, and a good predictor of your class is that of your parents. Please don’t set up this straw man. There’s nothing wrong with leaving things to your kids, but maybe you don’t need $50 billion to be distributed to three or four individuals.
Eventually quantum computing will also be really cheap. I don't think it'll take all that much time, given the amount of money and attention.

Thinking of security in layers, as you've suggested, is the way to go. Secure communications has always been about being "too expensive" to decrypt in a relevant time span.

Just because there's a new kid on the block, we need to keep our old friends around.
RandAugment Explained
I had a terrible experience with the first version of the cloud key. Any time it lost power it would be corrupted and I had to go through the whole ordeal to restore a backup and re-adopt all the APs. A new version of the cloud key is out with a battery, so that would seem to solve the problem. However, like all unifi hardware, it's not cheap.

My current solution, which I am very happy with, is running the controller software in a Docker container on a $5/month vps. It's lightweight enough that it does not use enough resources to affect the other things I had on the vps.
> Suppose the US government conducts mass imprisonment of a certain population

I'd argue that's not hypothetical at all, even with Xinjiang the US has by far the highest rate of imprisonment on the planet both of adults and children.

Most are black. Vast majority are not violent crimes.

It's entirely out of step with the rest of the developed world.
I finished the JPMrogan Chase Software Engineering Virtual Experience program.I love it! It's very helpful for CS students who look for industry experience. I learned a lot of practice coding skills from this program.It's sliently easy than I expected.But I think the idea is absolutely Coo1!!
One of the possible solutions if you want to pre-configure wifi APs for your parents, is to set the APs up for layer 3 management in advance. All an AP needs is:

1) default route out to the internet

2) ability to resolve DNS names

Then you can run your own unifi management controller somewhere offsite, like in a $4/month VM. The APs will find the controller by its hostname and talk to it over https/443.

But if you're just setting up wifi for your parents, how often do things need to be reconfigured? A unifi AP runs just fine with the absence of the controller, just no settings can be changed. If all they need is the wifi key and to put all their TVs, tablets, xboxes, whatever on the wifi, just give them the key, plug in the AP, and let it go.

If you need to reconfigure it in the future you can run a really small debian-stable VM with the controller inside virtualbox on your laptop.
Not exactly the same thing but GChat used to have a mini drawing UI where you could send a quick doodle and it super useful. No one else seems to have picked up on it.
Just a side note: They never have supported markdown. It just markdown-like or a very limited subset of markdown.

Especially proper list support is missing (ordered and unordered lists), also markdown links.
> The funniest thing is, the guy who was most outspoken about his transformation, about feeling 'the wisdom of the plant spirits', and how all this here was 'a dream reality', after a few years became a cop. Another friend is today a wealthy corporate lawyer.

It's good to be wary of cheap spirituality. Thanks for sharing your story. I've seen similar. It's that whole Steve Jobs taking LSD kinda thing, isn't it?
it used native widgets
Nope, it got kicked out of most of them. It makes money by retailers paying them to push deals.
I wish more smart people like you worked there.
It is infuriatingly terrible. A regression. So many times I've had similar woes with the code block and quote block mechanisms too.

Another truly bizarre feature I noted and sent a bug report about was that when adding an image to an "Action" the _minimum_ size requirement is 512px by 512px. For an image that is never rendered larger than 64x64.
Primitive is like prototype, they clearly communicate that it is meant to be improved.

> Being inflected is a mark of a language that hasn't yet become positional. It is therefore an objective mark of primitiveness in the language.

This assumes that positional languages work better or are more efficient, but that is not clear to me.

"flowery descriptive speech" a la Jane Austen communicates complex ideas. It is just that different subject have different concept of what constitute useful complexity.

Both Terry Tao and Jane Austen could have written their works in almost any language with little impediments.

In particular here one of the scientific advantages of English is not its simple morphology but its permissive lexicon, where creating new word for new concept is a common occurrence.

If by historical accident we happened to speak Latin to this day it is likely that the major loss (compared to English) would be puns.
This is a great and very useful site.
I really really want to read more about the neighbours and their beast.
For a good portion of the population understanding that this blinking light = powered on but not connected to the internet vs that blinking light = powered on and connected to the internet isn't particularly easy, but can still perform some basic levels of troubleshooting. Having a display to show those errors would be useful to them.
The best resource I have found is a fantastic old book - Straight and Crooked Thinking[1]

[1] http://www.neglectedbooks.com/Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking....
There are many ways to trick people into “washing” money for you — criminal organizations that are sophisticated enough to spearphish on this level surely are sophisticated enough to do that laundering too.

I’m convinced that a lot of the money is in fact reversed.
DMT is also naturally released at the time of death. These experiences sound similar to how the afterlife is described by many religions.
>the guy who was most outspoken ... after a few years became a cop. Another friend is today a wealthy corporate lawyer.

Or perhaps people who seek power and aren't afraid to take risks are the sort of people who end up trying ayahuasca.

We'd need more data about people who had ayahuasca to establish a link :-)
By virtue of having a queue of PRs that need to test & merge, you could pipeline this thing out pretty substantially.

The implication here being that a queue must be processed in-order, so you will ultimately have a perfect sequence of future commits to speculate against, and can incrementally build up each hypothetical future master state for a test build on one of any number of parallel build agents. As the queue depth grows, you would see higher and higher throughput.
Assange is a political actor. This is especially clear after his explicit support of Trump during the U.S. 2016 elections. Of course, being a political actor doesn't negate the substance of the revelations he facilitated, but his agenda definitely isn't based out of an objective desire to speak truth to power.
Here is a link for some additional context

https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-format-your-messag...

And

https://api.slack.com/changelog/2019-09-what-they-see-is-wha...
Depends on what they're testing.

Every single one of my electronics prototypes look like shit. About one five of them produce smoke and burn marks. Every twentieth does something dramatically unexpected (usually entertaining).
oops, I sure got my digits wrong
lit-html is no more of a standard than JSX. In fact JSX is better because tools like VSCode is able to validate both HTML and embedded JavaScript.
> I'm wondering if the MESI protocol could be used in a networked database manner?

The short answer is yes, it can, though you tend to use key ranges (or a "predicate range" for generality) rather than cache lines and addresses.

Taken to its extreme it can produce extremely fast and versatile distributed databases to the extent that different nodes are accessing non-overlapping key ranges, or only reading from shared key ranges.

Neither a master nor broadcasts are really needed. (Though avoiding masters is quite complicated to do right; and a little trickle of broadcasting is often used, just for nodes to discover each other, and check they are still up, but not for every cache transaction.)

The general MESI-like pattern is probably used more commonly for coherent network filesystems than databases, though.

Many network filesystems uses "leases" (or "oplocks") on files or ranges, which are similar to the states in MESI if the filesystem is one of the good ones that is coherent.

This bit of Documentation for SMB, the Microsoft network filesystem, might remind you of the S and M/E states in MESI:

· Read-caching lease: allows caching reads and can be *shared* by multiple clients.
· Write-caching lease: allows caching writes and is *exclusive* to only one client.
Haa, the nitpicks, let me be more explicit: through my past (and current, because I still own those routers) experience with Unify, I've come to avoiding them, because of [everything I explained].

I'm glad they offer an on-premise hardware turn-key solution (it wasn't available in the past).

Now, see my other commment[0]: I understand that my user experience might very well be due to Unify not being ideal for my use case.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589894
I'd also say that while there's a basket of broadly applicable skills, there's also a world of difference between high-touch sales like 7-figure services contracts vs low-touch mass market like driving 100k anonymous visitors to your site. And everything in between.
To continue the metaphor, it's like every car has the same crappy transmission.
You can ignore ads, but you can't stop these companies from spying against users, which is a much bigger problem.
We pretty much already have this exact thing with options 66 (hostname) and 67 (filename) for clients booting via TFTP.

Most DoH servers, AIUI, use the same well-known path, so we'd simply need two more DHCP options: one for the DoH server's hostname and another for the path.

There's no reason something like this couldn't easily be added to the DHCP specification and, at some point, I expect it will... everyone will come together to agree on the details and we'll end up with a new/updated RFC.
Sounds like you are moving through spiritual awakening. Congrats!
I guess they reach point where they are trying to improve something that was already good enough.

For me most annoying is that they removed setting that allowed me to configure to have up arrow to repeat the last command (like on IRC) this is very useful if you do ChatOps.
Many people in the USA observed the same thing.

That's what the term 'yuppie' implied for a lot of people.

All these people from the late 1960's and 1970's that spoke about dropping out or how awesome it would be join a short lived commune and so on and so forth only to became intensely materialistic and image obsessed in their 30's.

Which then spoke to the idea that a lot of the 'ultra spiritual' stuff that hippie movement was involved in was nothing more then getting wasted and being fashionable. And when it was fashionable to be materialistic and image-obsessed they turned into that.

This may confuse people who associate hippies with anti-war movement, but the anti-war movement was largely a separate from the hippies.
So why didn't he use a different persona on 9to5Mac.com?

I do understand why Edward Snowden used his real name for his leak. It gave him credibility.

But why do that for stuff like this? I mean, did his reputation on 9to5Mac.com increase sales of his apps? Or get him speaking engagements? Or was it just bragging?
If Gutenberg didn't invent the press, someone else would have soon after, and history would have played out essentially the same.

We ascribe too much meaning to exactly which person invented something first, as if it never would have happened absent that one person.
> In that case are all of the console makers “monopolies” since they have to approve both digital and physical media distributed on their platform?

Personally, I would say that they are monopolies. And people are starting to think about them that way because so many games now have an "always online" component. The problem is that even if I own a game disk, that game that I paid money for is suddenly worthless when Sony or Microsoft pull the plug on the online servers.

The issue is stronger with Google and Apple in that smart phones are almost reaching "necessity" level and you can't opt out. You either have Android, iOS or nothing.

We have been here before. Monopoly laws are not some immutable commandments from on high. Monopoly laws were passed in response to specific abuses in rail, steel, coal, etc. We will create new laws to deal with the current crop of abusers.
It's so bad nowadays that I even get "your browser isn't supported" on Chromium based browsers because detection is "is useragent Chrome?".
Research shows binge drinking in cities increases after Uber’s arrival
All it takes is a few people to flag the article.
Sports are huge on twitter. It is how I primarily use the platform. I have met up with fans of various teams I support when seeing them play. I’d be really sad to lose twitter and the interactions I get from there.
Thiel's talk starts around 10m40s, after the throat-clearing intro.

This is not his most articulate talk, fwiw. Thiel's smart and sometimes very clear, but not here. This feels off the cuff, where he's falling back on pot shots and sound bites.
How is voice chat on Slack working in Ripcord? I'm guessing not at all?
Their misleading ad policy is pretty milquetoast

> making demonstrably false claims that could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process

> we expect that the number of political ads on which we take action will be very limited

From the description, I can't tell if a hypothetical ad buy from AOC claiming Lindsey Graham supports the Green New Deal would be allowed or not, but my sense is it would be
The co-founders will be billionaires. Early employees will be millionaires. The earliest probably high 8 figures.
During prototype tests you don't have to target 6-sigma, obviously, but I hope we get a post-mortem without spin.
Fuel is not cheap. Fuel is heavy and payload reduction is money lost.
Starhopper looked just as "rough and ready" but completed a successful test flight a few months back.
"The cybersecurity community is already hedging its bets against a future when digital secrets are knowable to anyone with the right hacking chops and a couple dozen qubits."

What a bunch of journalistic bunk. All QC researchers I know say it will take at least thousands of logical qubits to break RSA. Given the large number of physical qubits required to produce one logical qubit using quantum error correction, this might entail millions of physical qubits, well beyond our current technology - and way more than "a couple dozen qubits".
You may call them "slaves" using a more modern lens, sure, but of course different times and places require a relativistic shift in order to understand things as a local living in the time would have understood them. You are right that we can't ask someone living in that time/place if they thought themselves a slave, or whether they thought it was good or bad to be one. However, we do know enough about ancient Egypt to at least fill in some context that minimally casts doubt on the notion that they saw themselves as unwilling slave laborers.

A good thought exercise is to consider: What are some things you are compelled to do today by your own government or economic limitations? How many of those things could you imagine a different and presumably more wealthy/capable future society would consider abhorrent enough to think you a "slave" or something like one?
Their stock has been decimated. Tempted to still short it at this price. Very clear it’s not much more than a feature that has quickly been commoditized.
What was the application for? Just curious
As someone who owns an iPhone and recommends iPhones to older family members with a wide spectrum of computer literacy, I'm very glad about that.

If you want freedom buy an Android.
Oddly, I don't see those issues with Firefox.

If I type an inline `foo()` it converts to WYSIWG as soon as I type the closing back-tic and everything I type after is back in normal text mode. If I left-arrow to have the cursor inside the formatted div but before "f" and type "bar." I wind up with the expected effect `bar.foo()`.

It takes one extra arrow press to move the cursor beyond the invisible back-tic to shift from the inline code to plain text regions before or after the block.

I preferred the old input just because I don't like having content jump around while typing. I'd still rather hit the preview tab to see it rearrange itself.
Boy flow
Success is simply accomplishing things you set out to accomplish, I guess.
my thought as well, particularly the bit about following amphetamine use and the death of their mother, assuming it wasn't figurative or an arbitrary example. as someone who has experienced mania it reminded me strongly of the way i've felt in the midst of it -- the sense of mastery, the paranoia, and feeling like i had some kind of conceptual or philosophical breakthrough.
Hey all, I'm one of the authors of the environment. I'm excited to see what researchers will come up with to tackle the furniture assembly problem. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Bad actor who posts in the public, has his name both public and on his account. Yes. Must have taken Apple's engineering team months to find him.
Fuel is very cheap. SpaceX has built their whole business around the idea that it's worth trading payload for re-usability.
I'm sort of surprised they haven't spun off the defence and space divisions as separate companies yet.
According to Matthew Walker (Berkeley researcher on sleep), it does affect sleep. See this small clip, starting at 2:14.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lRp5AC9W_F8
The end of the computer age – Peter Thiel
I have a feeling that they could blow up another dozen of these and still be spending less than doing it the "traditional" way of in cleanrooms and the VFAB building.

This was a prototype that they've publicly said was most likely never to reach orbit, they are building this stuff right now to learn, test, and prove that their design works and find improvements that can be made.
GDPR enforcement is just beginning. The cases again the big guys have started to be made, but haven't actually made it yet. When they do, things will get interesting...right now we're in limbo...or more precisely in a Wile E. Coyote moment.

I am keeping my popcorn ready.
> you can hire web devs to make a desktop product

This is a bug, not a feature.
Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
Well, it's not like this is rocket science. Oh, wait...
Not an explicit rule, but Jesus is alleged to have said some stuff about how you're committing adultery in you're heart if you so much as look at an attractive person and lust after them.
tried it out myself, seems much more useful than other options.

https://help.kite.com/article/73-using-the-vim-plugin
Is it a "whim" for Apple to act in accordance with their stated policy?
It's probably important to remember that most people aren't this rigorous about drug use, in general. If one is not precisely monitoring dosages, let alone trying to compare roughly equivalent doses and effects among a variety of drugs, DMT is waaay easier to ingest a high dose of, accidentally or otherwise, compared to most other psychedelics.
That's helpful. Thanks. Would still like for it to be in the context menu, though, but this will do in a pinch.
Well, the Beowulf-era English is not changing either.
we are all talking about this at work. this is the worst forced update!
That's not exactly like this, this and other "tricks" are described in great details in Stephen LaBerge's books on Lucid Dreaming