skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much this - you have to go from least popular to most popular terms to get accurate results - there is a weightage penalty of how further the word is from the start of the query.

if you search "Javascript issues Rshiny" (this is just an example not the actual query) - you only get javascript results for 4 to 5 pages of results.. when you reverse it to "Rshiny Javascript issues" - the results are better
The people at RenTech are not going to say much about their methods, understandably. What books would you recommend for financial quants interested in trading strategies rather than derivatives pricing (the areas can overlap)? I have worked in this capacity. Here are a few books I like:

Advances in Financial Machine Learning (2018)
by Marcos Lopez de Prado

Non-Linear Time Series Models in Empirical Finance (2000)
by Philip Hans Franses and Dick van Dijk
(covers Markov chains, used by RenTech, among other topics)

A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street (1999)
by Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
It has, but in this case, the family was (by their own account) not so much unfavorable, as clueless -- they say they inquired about getting the books back into print, but asked Ford's former agent, who was in the process of ghosting pretty much everybody and never responded. Meanwhile, the former publishers would have loved to get the books back into print, and privately complained bitterly about the supposedly intransigent family that was preventing this, but it's really not clear how seriously they tried to ever get in touch. Crossed wires all around.

I think the surest sign of everyone's actual intentions is that when the reporter who was investigating this finally had contact information for everybody, they wound up making a deal to get everything the estate had the rights to back in print. (The exceptions to this are things like Ford's utterly brilliant Star Trek tie-ins -- fanfic written by a master at the height of his form -- to which the family never had the rights. Though ironically, for that very reason, they're among the very few Ford works that are still in print!)
Currently doing this for metabolite analysis. Takt time is at 6 hours, not a long way to go :)
Same as the US.
This is where I would either a) create 2 separate DTO representations with adapters to the internal domain object or b) have a trait which the 2 specialized structs implement. This conversion point is also a good place to do your validation that the object is in a consistent state. This isn't quite zero-cost - but it does isolate your external serialization code from your internal logic and it is easier to add even more formats in the future.

And at least in Java-land is much cleaner than stacking lots and lots of annotations on the same struct.
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I would be surprised if they didn't. They want to control the narrative of privacy advocacy in a way that best suits them.
> Try to service large corporations and governments. Our IE11 user share is over 70% for the product

I was excluding this from the "most cases", but thanks for the wake up call anyway. Outch.
Microsoft's actions weren't ruled illegal, they had to pay because they broke a contract.
Crowds consume information. Those who decide what crowds consume create
Having been on the fringes of the SEO industry for many years, my theory is that the spammers and algorithm gamers have slowly but surely won out. This has forced Google to de-emphasize keyword relevancy and instead prioritize content source--large and well known brands with high domain authority have captured increasingly larger numbers of queries over the years.

Someone at Google will probably disagree emphatically, but it seems to me like this represents a bit of an existential threat to web search. There's so much money in being #1 for popular queries that countless actors will throw enormous resources into getting there.
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You are right - the algorithms have always been biased.

The issue is that Google has maintained that they aren’t. Unlike the WSJ, which doesn’t claim to be unbiased.
Exactly. For instance I don’t know of any other company that has access to Apple’s iTunes movie library to add movies that are considered as “purchased” when the movie is purchased from a competitor except for Movies Anywhere. Yet there is a setting for allowing access to your iTunes library for it.
This quote from the article highlights the problem at hand:

> Organizations like the Center for Democracy and Technology, which received at least $960,000 from [Google and Facebook] in 2018, are often quoted in the media as unbiased third parties and influence how policy is developed in Washington as such, despite receiving the tech company funding.

> The group supports allowing tech giants to sell user data to third parties with limited restrictions, a position that is in line with technology companies that profit handsomely from such sales, but not so popular with consumers.

I guess "Privacy Advocacy Groups" does not equal "Pro-Privacy Advocacy Groups".
Good point. I see this behavior mostly on Search but the last example I documented is News.

Richard Grenell has been in the news:
https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+grenell&safe=off&rlz...
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Yes. I've seen an Amtrak train running on time once. They're usually 45min+ late.
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What are you suggesting exactly? I don't quite grasp your point

We shouldn't use bus when they are available for evacuation? Why? If we can get all the bus to be used + add bus from other cities nearby, why should we prevent people from using them? This is scaling much better and people with cars are free to leave with their own cars.

"Cars have the advantage of there are enough of them."
--Surely not the case in many urban cities.
I feel like trolling lawyers is a good way to get schooled for free
> By that definition there is no meaning to the word "now".

Yes, exactly!

"Now" is an extremely useful concept on Earth, when we're all in approximately the same space going approximately the same speed. Now gets a lot done for us.

Now is not really a concept on the universal scale. "There is no meaning to now" is a great take-away from general relativity!
Sounds a lot like "register for a chance to win..."
Here's a recent short documentary about Hokusai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnZN08CQdI
>"[We] finally rebuilt a lot of it through what people had at their homes," Erich Schaefer said. "I had a big chunk of it. Went home, pulled out the hard drive or whatever we did back then. Spent a few days reconstructing it, which ended up working fine, except that we lost all the history. We lost a lot of the assets, art assets. It would make it very difficult for Blizzard to do a Diablo 2 Remaster because all the assets we used are pretty much gone. They'd have to make them from scratch."

Wouldn't the assets be present in the shipped games?
I don’t think everything about you should be recorded without your consent. Privacy in your OWN person and documents is a major thing.

However, when you engage with another party and make promises, and then break them, the other party should have a way to prove what you said in a dispute. I think the default mode should not be “off the record”. Because most parties aren’t savvy enough to demand that you go “on the record” right before you talk. Instead, you can ask to go “off the record” so that will be the alert that none of your promises will matter during that period.

If being “on the record” is the default for all conversations, that’s what I’m talking about. The concept of “privacy” still applies to non-participants in the interaction.

The main question is, can we extend this expectation to other interactions not just conversations online? What if one of the participants had been carrying tiny body cameras and microphones, which has become more and more feasible to do?

You know how many rape crimes could be solved? Or police altercations? Imagine if everyone KNEW they were being recorded.

What if the cameras were not on the person’s body, but in the room? Surely we wouldn’t know, so the laws have to allow for it. But suppose we COULD legislate what these cameras did. One is to outlaw all cameras. The other is what if the video footage was always encrypted and it would require two keys:

1) M of N of the participants

2) a judge saying this is an active dispute / trial

It is in the interest of both parties to unlock the video once there is a court case, to help resolve what happened. Refusing to do so may be seen as an admission of guilt. The main reason for 1) is to allow people the option to be presumed guilty / held in contempt of court but not reveal the evidence against them. The problem is that they may be protecting some mob boss etc. so we may have to relax the condition 1) to just one of the parties. But recording entrapment still won’t be legal in two-party states.
If it's kept over three years, you have to believe that there are backups of the data made, and that the backups are retained forever. So ANY persistent mapping from the data to a specific computer is effectively permanent the moment it hits their backend (maybe someone has to load a tape, so it's not instantaneous, but still available to a warrant or subpoena or shenanigans).

If there is any "risk that any data ... can be traced to a particular computer" on day 1 that the stuff is stored, then that risk never goes away.
Related to a), Clojure is just more popular than CL, and has a lot of momentum pushing it into the browser.
Sorry, my response was a little short. I should have said that people like your ISP and cloud hosting are/can already spying on us. If Intel wanted this data solely for the purposes of improving drivers, they could buy it from internet connectivity companies. We don't also need them tracking everything we do.
Right or wrong is relative. Sure for you encryption by itself is not wrong, but not for Interpol. The same argument is used by Interpol, encryption cause harm for society, at least from their perspective.
I don't think this is accurate. I'm fairly sure Apple Pay uses tokenization, so the merchant/merchant bank never sees the actual card details. The only party in the transaction who knows the actual card details is the issuing bank.
I'm not asking for support. If I have a problem, I don't expect to be able to call Intel and ask for help. All I'm asking is for some way to update the BIOS without hunting down unofficial download links from shady websites.

As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter if the hardware is 15, 30, or 70 years old. These are not large files. Keeping up some old downloads should not be too much to ask of Intel.

If Intel would like to release all copyright claims to their old BIOS's and officially (!) designate the Internet Archive or a similar organization as their new caretaker, I'd be fine with that, because I'd know where to go if I ever needed an old BIOS. What I do not want is to have start hunting down links from malware-infested file-hosting sites.
So is it the case that it brings the cost of the wall down from

2N (two brick depth for strength) to

sqrt(2)N (for a hypothetical 45 degree angle)

?
You're probably looking at it too systematically. I bet it was just made by some tattooist with pen and paper before the days of the mass adoption of encoding standards.
There is BeagleIM (https://beagle.im/, macOS) and SiskinIM (https://siskin.im/, iOS) - fully open-source, with OMEMO, carbons, MAM, file upload and audio-video calls using Jingle.
Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool?
Hi HN,

I've been going back to UML to try to tame some of my design/notes for my projects. Is there something that generates some more modern looking UML diagrams out there?
Glad I actually read the actual article. I saw the headline and thought to myself "hmmm, that's weird. I thought they wanted to basically destroy privacy, why would they be donating to things that try to preserve it?"

Now it makes perfect sense.
I recently developed a new vegan dish that addresses some of the practical problems with veganism as a whole by using bugs as a substitute protein source. Very promising, but these critics keep on attacking me, claiming I can't call my product vegan because "technically" it uses animal by-products.

And I think this shows why the vegan community organizers and primary advocates are actually anti-innovation. If the vegan movement wants to actually achieve its ideals, we need to reject the old guard that ideologically insists that no vegan dishes can contain meat.
At which airports? I've seen short precheck lines but I've also seen 1h+ lines.
How do they extract the site category data from browsers? What side effects on browser behavior, if any, does the methodology have?
> The above simplified version of copyleft would likely work fine, although I suspect every lawyer on the globe would hate it.

I’m familiar with several who do not!
Age catches up with us all, eventually. A lot of the "be strong" advice is great, for what it's worth, but your body starts to fail as you age.

I feel like regular resistance training has helped me avoid some RSI - probably - but after 40 the injuries just come quicker and the recovery time keeps increasing no matter who you are or what your routine is.

As you get older, you learn the value of these little PT exercises as mentioned in the article. I can't vouch for them all but I do several, as suggested by my physical therapist. And this isn't just for computer use; the "be strong" advocates, as they age, will likely find they need to embrace physical therapy and targeted work on muscles throughout their body if they want to keep up their regular routine, too.
They're the least bad guy in that case, but that doesn't make them the good guy by default.
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Yes. The semi-sad partial victory of the large quest arcs was what I loved about F1,2. There's definitely less in 3+, (wont rehash exceptions elsewhere in comments).
How does that change anything? If you have a dictator control a thousand computers or a thousand humans, the result is that the dictator has the power.

The post office is obviously not a central component of the government, it simply was operated by the government in the past because it was useful to have as a basic service to serve the economy.
Thank you for this! You really explained that well and clearly.
Exactly. This allows them to control the narrative and even fight for small pro-privacy laws that don't affect their advertising.
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Pretty sure I've seen Amex and other Visa cards with contactless.
That's how active opt-out starts.
It's hard to see that perspective when you have never seen it. It's funny because I would think that for someone with some knowledge of IT could understand the argument that it just doesn't scale.

For most people, the ideal life is having your yard and be able to drive everywhere with enough lanes on the street to be sure you never hit traffic. Except that ideal situation rarely exists, all the roads are clogged (induced demand!) and having a large house for every person means a big desirable city to work can't scale. Even LA has understood they couldn't keep building highways and needed to densify, it just doesn't scale.
Generally cheaper than the train. Might or might not be faster depending on how many stops they have to make where you don't want to be. (they have to leave the freeway and travel to their stop which can eat a lot of time going places you don't care to be) Also depends on specific conditions of traffic, though in most cases the bus can detour around problems easier than the train.
I wonder what happens if you throw in the amount of money people spend on cars, insurance, and gas. You're counting maintenance and fuel for Amtrak, but not for roads.

What is the total spent per person-mile of travel?
They are in the UK. It is very common to have a decorative weatherproof facade of brick, with a cavity (often filled with insulation) between the bricks and an inside skin of insulating block, or more often now, a prefab timber frame.
> the deepest wisdom we got so far in distributed may be the "PHP + MySQL" model of statelessness, short live isolated processes and business-valuable state kept in specialized storage systems

PHP + MySQL was necessitated for a class of computer programs that process durable, broadly distributed information.

And the "deepest wisdom" is to ignore the distributed nature as much as possible. Yes there is a primitive actor-like model but that is because we more or less have to meet business requirements. If it were possible to scrap the distributed nature of it, we would.
No one cares because there was maliciously fake news about how he's a bad house guest and didn't scoop his cat's poop and two women in Sweden wanted to contact him to tell him to take an STD test and then the police took it upon themselves to want to question him (not even charge him) about sexual assault.

Assange is going to get Epstein'd
> (testing taxonomy is bad)

So true, it is terrible!

What I say is:

Unit tests - small tests that show the intent of one line of code or small set of lines, what the developer thought it was meant to do - can't prove correctness of an entire process

Integration tests - test one specific process works (login success, login fail, etc.) starts to prove correctness of one part of an application

Acceptance tests - larger, test that processes interact together and prove that multiple processes work

Production tests - (roll out to x users and monitor or something similar) - prove that the entire application works, in production.

Tests go from: Small to large, fast to slow, no risk to complete risk
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Every one of those drivers creates traffic on local streets at the start and end of their journey
I havent! Im about 150 hours into my first playthough of Fo4 (which is possibly why I'm ok with less replay for that game)
> And web is the biggest platform you have imo.

I thought we are in "mobile first" era already...
John Kornblum, former US ambassador in Germany, is often present in German media when they need somebody to "explain" the USA or stories from cold war era. So in Germany media he can be found, how much then finds the way back in English speaking media I haven't checked.
There are additional privacy layers in the system, such that every time you make a purchase, a temporary card number is generated and used, rather than your actual card number. This is beneficial as it prevents the retailer from tracking your purchases, but requires interactive participation from the bank, which needs to map that number to your actual card number in real time. As part of the onboarding process when you enroll a card, your bank must confirm the enrollment to ensure this process can take place.

It seems to be part of a multi-step key exchange mechanism [0] mediated by Apple but stored locally at either end, ensuring that Apple does not retain your card details at any step of the process. Of course, without bank participation, there aren't two parties to actually mediate between.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027
> Streets arranged in grids, people waiting in clean lines, cars running at the same speed…

Grids make it easier to navigate for humans, to plan for public transport, and improves the city's connectivity.

Waiting in clean lines reduces the chances of fighting in the queue.

Cars running at the same speed dramatically reduces the chances of a lethal impact.

And what exactly is the cost of these things? Is a grid that much harder to make? Does anyone want to cancel the dedicated highway, or let cars stop in the middle of it?

I think this author just doesn't understand the concept of efficiency at all.

> “Please clean up your room,” asks the mother. “Fool,” retorts the three-year-old with an eerily deep voice. “Can’t you see the beauty in my glorious chaos?”

Sounds like he's still upset about that..
Do you have any reason to believe it is? The article contains interviews from spokespersons of some of the charities in question and Bloomberg asked Facebook/Google for comment. Surely if it was simply matching donations, someone in PR for one of these organizations would have derailed this entire article by pointing that out?
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Data is the new oil, they say. Did someone convinced Intel to prepare for pivot as a data company? Well, they are in a good position for it actually.
It's not just you. I find myself increasingly encapsulating words in my queries with quotes because Google outright ignores relevant words in my searches. In some cases it has even lead to queries looking like this:

"us" "ambassador" "germany"
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

Edit: A closer reading seems to indicate these groups may not be enemies.
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What if the vendor would prefer not to disclose source code? All drivers cannot be included into the kernel, even if they were, this would be a lot of code and who is going to maintain it?

This document shows how unfriendly is Linux to third-party code. Either you contribute into giant monolitic kernel, or your device won't work with next major kernel release.

> Depending on the version of the C compiler you use, different kernel

> data structures will contain different alignment of structures

That doesn't make sense. How does Microsoft use structures in their API then?

Furthermore, unlike Windows software, you cannot compile Linux kernel with any compiler except for GCC [1]. It doesn't comply with C standards.

> Depending on what kernel build options you select, a wide range of

> different things can be assumed by the kernel

> - different structures can contain different fields

That looks like poor design. Why care about non-standard configuration? Let those who use it solve the problems themselves which would be the true open source way.

> Linux runs on a wide range of different processor architectures.

> There is no way that binary drivers from one architecture will run

> on another architecture properly.

Supporting i386 is enough. Nobody is going to insert a PCI device into a smartphone. If there will be new CPU architectures, one can use i386 emulator.

> As a specific examples of this, the in-kernel USB interfaces have

> undergone at least three different reworks over the lifetime of this

> subsystem

They could make 3 versions of API and adapters that would support drivers written against older versions of API.

I think the real reason is that designing API is hard, and Linux developers have no interest in this. They care only about server platforms and those platforms have open-source drivers because they need Linux. Nobody cares that your USB webcam doesn't work because you don't connect webcam to a server.

I think that Linux could also rely on existing Windows drivers that exist for almost every device. Linux could provide an environment similar to Windows kernel, and run those drivers in a sandbox. For many devices, this is the only sane way to have them working with Linux.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20600497/which-c-version...
I recently called tech support for a lighting console from the mid-1990's. They were perfectly willing to have me bring it in for service.

Just peek into the electrical closet in any building you're in. They don't tear out all the electrics and reinstall the latest version every 15 years.
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Promises are used most prominently in current-generation JavaScript where they lack a proper interface. Instead promises are standardized using language constructs. Promises have the well-known disadvantage that promises are contagious, i.e, once a promise is used then everything that continues must be promises.

On the other hand, a Future [Baker and Hewitt 1977] has the following well defined interface:

Future<t> *interface* resolve[] ↦ t