skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China says it's their territory, the US says it is international waters. And so we "prove" it by regularly traveling through it with US warships for no other purpose then to prove we can.

Suppose the US claimed that the entire Gulf of Mexico was US territory. Would people be as sympathetic to that as they appear to be to China claiming that the entire South China Sea is Chinese territory? (Note that the South China Sea is more than twice as large as the Gulf of Mexico, and less of its coastline is part of China as compared with the amount of Gulf of Mexico coastline that is part of the US.)
Well, having both tinnitus and floaters in both eyes is certainly not a great experience.
Sometimes I just hope my nose won’t start smelling bacon all the time.
You could always redirect Forbes, etc to the localhost, thereby blocking them out completely.

In the /etc/hosts (or wherever it is on your system) file,

127.0.0.1 www.forbes.com
My Wife Is a Carnivore and I’m Vegan. Now What?
Satellite stock Intelsat drops 40% after FCC 5G decision
Los Angeles to become 2nd best in public transportation by 2028 Olympics
Nicely written and easy to follow. Also more proof that you don't need a specialized library / dependency for every thing - sometimes you can get most of the way there with a few lines of your own code.
I worked at a larger services marketplace, helping data scientists get their models into production as A/B experiments. We had an interesting and related challenge in our search ranking algorithms: we wanted to rank order results by the predicted lifetime value of establishing a relationship between searcher and each potential service provider. In our case, a 1% increase in LTV from one of these experiments would be...big. Really big.

Improving performance of these ranking models was notoriously difficult. 50% of the experiments we'd run would show no statistically significant change, or would even decrease performance. Another 40% or so would improve one funnel KPI, but decrease another, leading to no net improvement in $$. Only 10% or so of experiments would actually show a marginal improvement to cohort LTV.

I'm not sure how much of this is actually "there's very little marginal value to be gained here" versus lack of rigor and a cohesive approach to modeling. The data scientists were very good at what they do, but ownership of models frequently changed hands, and documentation and reporting about what experiments had previously been tried was almost non-existent.

All that to say, productizing ML/AI is very time- and resource-intensive, and it's not always clear why something did/didn't work. It also requires a lot of supporting infrastructure and a data platform that most startups would balk at the cost of.
It's not hyperbole, this is directly from Congressional Republicans. They believe that "executive immunity" means the President can commit whatever crimes he wants in office, and is immune from prosecution until his term is over.
> You need to be able to reliably hide ~100-200ms of latency for any number of reasons. If you're talking about something that runs over wifi you're fighting against the laws of physics and no back-end infrastructure is going to save you.

There's margin no? I mean, right now I get 3ms ping to Google from my wired computer, and 10~15ms from my phone on wifi. Wifi doesn't add that much.

And I'm in a large European city, not in Silicon Valley.
Lone Echo is a great VR game. Makes having something on your face 100% worth it.
Why not? Software that hardcodes DNS servers usually fallback to DHCP, so you can simply block all requests to well known DNS servers, and they will automatically go through the DNS server you've served using DHCP.
Establishing Effective Agile Teams
The terms "supervised machine learning" and "unsupervised machine learning", by their ordinary English meaning, make it sound like all machine learning is partitioned into one or the other. But a lot of the literature in machine learning considers reinforcement learning to be neither 'supervised learning' nor 'unsupervised learning'. See, e.g., section 1.1 of [1].

[1] Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, second edition. MIT press, 2018.
Yeah when you drive down some beach resort with the $5m+ homes you have to wonder how many people actually worked for it. With the fraud, corruption and the inheritances it can't be many.
Stadia isn't going to give you the visual quality of a high-end gaming machine so that's a bad comparison. 4k at 60 FPS doesn't mean anything if there is lag and compression artifacting.
Do you believe that no people are evil? If it's just that no child is evil, does the evil pop into existence at age 18 exactly?

Unless you have a better solution, how can you justify saying that we screwed up or that our society has failed? Maybe you are asking for the impossible.

Other societies simply do not attempt to keep crazy evil kids in classrooms with normal kids. That works. Many societies manage to save a portion of the bad ones via various forms of discipline that the USA has mostly abandoned.

Schools in the USA are set up to fail. They have an impossible job. They have no authority to provide effective punishment, and they have no right to reject the crazy evil kids. Of course that doesn't work.
I think that is actually plenty of countries. Most countries do not have an ISP oligopoly like the US, Canada or Australia.
This is an analogy to what happened to Skytrain in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.
I've been running my own email since about 8 months ago. I have Google's MX (that I used before) on backup (with a lower priority). Will not help me with every sort of fuckup possible, but it will at least deliver the mail if my server is down.
Billing Personnel to Doctors seems to ignore the squads of Nurses and maybe it also ignores the Doctors in Residency?
I use kdeconnect extensively and it's by far the best solution I have seen.
Not only does it allow for sending files but you can even browse the storage on your phone from your computer wirelessly, plus it does notifications syncing, remote commands and a whole lot more.
It's actually available now for linux as well as mac and windows and runs great.
But nobody is funding research in to actuation

Festo is.[1] Over the last decade, they've built a robotic bird, a robotic fish, a robotic kangaroo, and a robotic hand. Many are pneumatic, and their technology for precision pneumatic control is available for industrial applications.

[1] https://www.festo.com/group/en/cms/10156.htm
My left ear is perceptibly worse than my right. The only explanation I know is that I play violin, and that's the ear closest to the instrument. Acoustic instruments can be surprisingly loud!
For default/mandatory options, sure, but for inventory? Roles? Plays? I completely get having a sane default /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, but sticking your inventory under /etc seems like a terrible mismatch. I guess to me, it's that ansible {inventory,roles,playbooks} aren't "configuration" files so much as they are, in a sense, "documents", and as such they should live in my home directory like all other "documents".
if you have ever tried k8s on AWS you will know why its not often used, but why would AWS want something a customer could pick up and move to Azure, DO, or any other k8s implementor. Their interests are better served by fargate.
I bring a Nintendo Switch with me when I travel because it helps cut down the boredom on flights, especially international. Books are great, movies are great, but sometimes I just wanna play some indie game on a halfway decent screen with real thumbsticks.

Could I do that with my laptop? Maybe, but I'd rather carry just my work laptop (heavy XPS 15, has everything on it, but can't/shouldn't install games) or a personal ultraportable that might not be powerful enough
Would you mind answering my questions? I would appreciate it.
Article starts like this:

"THE MOVING VAN from Sacramento chokes its way through Miami's thick August air"

What is it with want-to-be novelists and journalism? Who has time for all that? It's a plague lately in media. Just tell the simple story.
Yes I know it can "chainload" edk, people have done similar things with uboot in the past. The point being that the low level init code could conform to the PE spec, which would be a lot cleaner implementation.
vscode is based on Electron. So even if you run it locally, it runs on "browser". So Remote Desktop is not needed.

Also there's some other features for remote development. You can for example develop inside Docker while running the UI on your desktop [1]. Or you can connect via ssh [2]. A bit like IDE split between client and server components. All the intelligence runs remotely, just UI runs locally.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
Bandwidth has nothing to do with latency. A low-Earth orbit satellite connection could have 20 Mb/s bandwidth, but the latency on the round-trip for the packets could be 800ms, technically still under a second...but completely unplayable.
I think Ultra settings aren't meant to be the "goto settings" to use. A lot of things ultra settings include usually eat up a ton of needless performance. The way some games deal with it is by just degrading the quality of ultra settings.
I'm a casual gamer that likes PC/console games. You don't have to be a serious gamer to like something else than Candy Crush.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking for here, so please forgive me if my answer misses the mark -- which I think it does, since my answer is essentially repeating myself.

I was referring to the ability of code to use HTTPS to do DNS lookups even in the absence of DoH, which is what I thought you were talking about.

"Speed bump" is the right term, because while doing something like that has always been possible, it was more expensive (in terms of development costs and server time) and brittle before the DoH RFC, which limited the number of entities that do it.

With the DoH RFC, those limitations are removed, so we can expect this to be widely done.

By "this", I mean using DoH in order to intentionally evade attempts to block lookups in order to help protect against telemetry, user tracking, and other malware communications.
We are about to make that much easier and also allow true infrastructure federation -- you won't have to have your nodes contact our roots directly. We came up with something very interesting.

As for crypto: we plan some improvements in 2.0, but note that these days easily >90% of the traffic over ZeroTier networks (or any other VPN / overlay) tends to be already encrypted via SSH, SSL, etc. Another layer of encryption in the overlay just provides some additional defense in depth. We're rapidly moving to a world where everything layer 3 and above encrypts everything. That's why we have not prioritized sexier crypto for our L2 overlay tech. It's a bit redundant.
right, but now you're talking about in-network vs out-of-network rates. I believe should disappear with price transparency...
I just add . in arbitrary places to distinguish sources. Since there's no telling what dots a gmail user thinks are a significant part of their address.. (plus I have seen fail and late enough to be a pain, but due to http parameter escaping, etc, rather than intentional fitering.)
Curious as to what you find so bad about GCP support.

(I work in GCP enterprise support)
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Announces That the “New” PubMed Is Now Live
Consul Connect is under MPLv2, which is a perfectly reasonable license unless you want to do shady things. There may be other differentiators, but this is not one.
Paul Vixie experienced chromecast ultra not using DHCP-supplied values:

* https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2R...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
This article reads like a fever dream for me
test2 (ignore: trying to pick an old enough comment to see if replying makes hnnotify.xyz email me a reply notice, per
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070949 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845842 and maybe
https://github.com/alexyorke/hn-sonar and more discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172406.)
JAMstack? More Like SHAMstack
https://www.slideshare.net/macanbet88/agen-sbobet-terpercaya...
https://www.scribd.com/document/435656590/Agen-Sbobet-Macanb...
http://www.lulu.com/shop/sisil-natalia/agen-sbobet/ebook/pro...
https://app.box.com/s/4fkt9dgtqrcxyc12cxl4mrnjkpidexfy
https://www.4shared.com/web/preview/pdf/Ngf12-MPiq
https://show.zohopublic.com/publish/hj9wp501bfe9f5d294545b9f...
yes, exactly. he covered his tracks pretty well otherwise, but he apparently lacked a fundamental understanding of how corporate computing assets are managed.

it's good that he was caught and punished, especially since white-collar crimes are relatively under-prosecuted. i'm more mixed about the severity of punishment--restitution plus 7 years in prison. on one hand, it seems fair relative to the sentence lengths of other crimes, but prison terms seem onerous and overly-punitive overall to me.
I've worked on data related to healthcare and security (and sometimes both) for quite a while now, and I think there are a couple of general contextual themes, where, if present, means that you have to be extremely careful about applying "AI" (some kind of ML in most cases):
(a) where there's a high cost for incorrect predictions (e.g. criminal recidivism, educational attainment, terrorist attacks, etc)
(b) where causation is important (e.g. drug efficacy and safety, educational attainment, almost all of healthcare)
(c) where you're in an adversarial domain (e.g. fraud, cybersecurity, security in general)
(d) where high technical performance (precision/recall/F1/etc) isn't correlated with predictiveness of what you're actually looking for (much of healthcare)

In healthcare and security, there's starting to be an awareness of the snake-oil that's out there, but I still run into people regularly who ask for a magic algorithm that predicts patient outcomes or a security breach.
What does a batsman see? [long read]
> We’re making Visual Studio Code the default development environment at Facebook

IDE choice is a highly personal thing. This sounds awful.
Until HTTP/3 gets popular, and then 443/udp becomes a things as well. :)
"Moons" are being deprecated in favor of true federation:

https://www.zerotier.com/zerotier-2-0-status/

https://www.zerotier.com/lf-announcement/

The moon terminology will also go away since there will no longer be a difference between these and our core roots. They'll all just be roots and will be interchangeable. The use of a common underlying key/value store will allow ZeroTier to keep its unified namespace and easy ability to join anyone's network or communicate with anyone regardless of what roots they're using (as long as their roots are on the same global network as you... obviously you can't hop air gaps).
Ask HN: What are our marketing channels?
We're a very small team (3) building a startup in Egypt that makes money transfer as easy and fast as WhatsApp.

Basically, this done by connecting your bank account to our app, and then choose one of your contacts list to send them any amount of money, we charge 1% with a max cap of EGP 100.
Later, the recipient chooses the account they would like to receive the money to. That easily.

While I'm working on this product, I'm also a full-time software engineer in another company. I see this as a marketing channel to market the app. I tell people about it every day when they need to split their food bill, or when they want to transfer money at the start of a month.

The only problem I see is that I can't directly find our targeted users to talk to them about the app, and I'm writing here to discuss your suggestions.

Note: I'm not sure if I can post our company URL, but here it's if you wanna know more (https://getdayra.com)
Gmail has never been a problem for me, even when I only had SPF, sending from my server hosted at Rackspace. But I've had my domain for 20+ years, and Gmail since 2004, so they have had plenty of time to figure out its not a spam source, so this might not have been a fair test.

I just gave Yahoo a try, and that did go to spam, even though it was happy with both SPF and DKIM. I marked it as not spam, and then went and sent another. That went through fine.

I also tried Live. It says my SPF and DKIM are fine, but sends it to the spam box. I marked it as not spam. Nope. Next one still went to spam. Marked that as not spam and tried again. Still spam. Marked that as not spam, but didn't try sending another one yet. I'm going to wait a while, to allow for the possibility that it takes them a while to apply feedback.

I also tried comcast.net. Went through fine.
This is also a side effect of how much medical education costs in the US, though. Education is so expensive that medical professionals have to have eye-watering salaries to have any hope of paying it off.

Of course, this is partially the fault of the AMA restricting medical school slots, but also is part of the general trend of tertiary education in the US being ridiculously expensive.
Vegans Sue Burger King over ‘Contaminated’ Fake Meat in Impossible Burger
It's probably plasma gasification plant which produces slag which in turn is used in paving roads, etc.

Personally I've looked what is slag consist of as it doesn't seem like it could be very green, but so far looks like good idea.
Back in early 90's, a friend had a 20Mb hard drive with stiction problems that wouldn't spin up. We wound up putting it on a radiator, and that warmed it up enough that it would spin up and be a working hard drive. Didn't store anything important on it after that, but it did stay running for a couple of months in that state.
1000 euros sounds so incredibly low that it might as well not exist. I'm actually amazed how poorly that's thought out.
I can, mostly because my main computer has the first-gen butterfly keyboard - the worst I've ever had the displeasure to type on.

I'm not even used to typing on the MBP2015 anymore, but every time I pick it up (which is every few weeks in general) it's just great.

The Magic Keyboard (both the external ones and the MBP16's) is good, just not as good.
You can read AP wire stories if you prefer those: https://www.si.com/nba/2019/01/23/kings-executive-jeffrey-da...

> Former executive Jeffrey David pleaded guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and identity theft.

Just the facts.
I don't understand people who try and cook 3 star michelin food at home. I would rather buy a kebab. But for any competent pro setting up a mail server is ridiculously easy. After the first few you have a recipe. Changes are incremental and relatively infrequent. It is much easier than keeping up with any programming ecosystem or framework.

I don't know that I like some of the deskilling I see. It seems like many people would rather learn a proprietary cloud api or use a prebuilt container than learn the fundamentals of setting up their own services.

A personal mail server, tested and refined over decades serves as a template that can be applied to other projects. If I have a web server backend that needs to send emails I have a pre-built and tested low maintenance solution I can deploy very quickly.

The main issue people will encounter is that you are at the mercy of a much bigger ecosystem where high volume senders have all the power and your good work implementing best practices is rarely rewarded. In the end your mail delivery is at the mercy of some shody unmaintained commercial abandonware spam solution maintained by someone who failed up and doesn't give a shit and has never read an RFC.
Oh wow, thanks to this post I learned that SQL has "order by <number>", the index of the column in the select list. That after 30 years of SQL...
It's the _default_, as they say in the article:

> There is no mandated development environment. Some developers use vim. Some use Emacs. And even more engineers use our internal, unified development environment called Nuclide.
I wonder if a similar approach can be used for a classification task where one or more classes have only few training examples (those would be similar to "anomalies", I suppose).
+1 about the opaqueness of gmails spam filters. I once had an email from a google recruiter (@google address) go to spam in gmail so at least it's somewhat egalitarian (that was 5+ years ago).
That's pushing the analogy way too far.

Cars are already made of recycled materials, especially steel and aluminum. But metals in old cars are melted down in foundries and reconstituted to the proper alloys before being used in new cars; they're just used-as is.

To go back to this analogy, that's basically like completely eliminating the government and creating an all-new one from a blank slate. I don't think you were thinking of doing anything that extreme.

And historically speaking, the only time this happens is usually after a major war when a country loses and becomes occupied by another power (Germany & Japan, WWII), or after a bloody revolution (Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, French Revolution in France). #1 is pretty much impossible here, and #2 is not something I want to be around to witness. The most likely outcome is something much more like #3: the fall of Rome, but on a much shorter timescale. That isn't something I want to witness either.
This is what concerns me - either a tragedy of the commons as multiple companies and countries rush to be players in this market, or a monopoly for the first mover.

I would prefer some sort of global co-operative effort with standards and oversight so satellites are interchangeable, and supplied/deployed under a contract which shares the revenue.
Having a recommended/default IDE is not the same thing as forcing everyone to use it.
Site links to the official SVG spec.
Does anyone else find it disturbing, that on the official W3C SVG website there is an announcement for a conference in 2016?
It's hard to verbalize this, most of it is "intuition" but I think it boils down to "supervised learning is BS."

Humans are smarter than computers. How can a human teach a computer how to do something when the human itself can't teach another human that something?

We haven't solved that problem. The snake is eating its tail.

You can't teach a human how to do something when the methodology to do that is the student trying something and the teacher saying "Yes" or "No".

Well.... why? Why is it yes or why is it no? What is the difference between what the human or the computer, or in general, the student, did and what is good or correct? And then you still have to define "good" and many times that means waiting, in the case of the PDF linked to above, perhaps many years to determine if the employee the AI picked, turned out to be a good employee or not.

And how do you determine that? How do you know if an employee is good or not? We haven't even figured that out yet.

How can we create an AI to pick good employees if human beings don't know how to do that?

Supervised learning isn't going to solve any problem, if that problem isn't solved or perhaps even solvable at all.

In other words, over the years, my heuristic has turned into, "Has a human being solved this problem?" If not, then AI software that claims to is BS.
I think he's saying something like the following:

1/ the team implemeted a naive baseline

2/ they implemeted a more sophisticated model that depended on some parameter p

3/ for 100 different values of p, they examined its performance, and picked the model with the best performance

Now they're not quite subject to the multiple comparisons problem there, since the models with different values of p aren't independent from one another. But they're not not suffering from it either. It mostly depends on the model. But it's a very easy mistake to make. I'd say many many academic papers make the same mistake.