skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most likely only a small fraction of the people who were going to make a purchase heard this news

This is the part I was referring to as "not actually true". Fact: the site itself, which was loading although not working entirely, displayed a big banner saying this during the problem periods. It was hard to miss.

The rest is indeed just speculation either way. I doubt the losses are as high as estimated, but there's no way to say without inside data.
Drink and stay up too late.

Kids and wife go to bed. Have a drink catch up on a few things. Should just stop there. Next thing you know I’ve had 3-4 strong beers and it’s 2am.
Let me recommend scaling equations down to fit the viewport width instead of scrolling.

If you shrink equations, then if someone wants a closer look they can zoom in/out. But if you have them scroll off the side of the view, it is impossible to see the whole equation at once.
Insightful comment. Similarly, competitive people prefer and create highly structured environments and situations, where it is clear what to min-max for and where they stand on the highscore list. Nuance and soft qualities go out the window that way, but others can balance that out at some cost.
Oh, that. I've used it, and didn't find it very impressive, certainly not what I'd expect from top UI/UX talent. Schwab's site isn't terrible, just very old-fashioned (and a little buggy).
If Coca-Cola sells remotely, I would imagine that would be through a local importer, and it would fall on him to follow the local regulation, or through a local subsidiary, and the same would apply. So yes, Singapore should have to separate from the internet if it wants to enforce its laws imo.
Personally, I don't trust the government to do food regulation (FDA is reactionary and IMO corruptible), social safety net (Social Security has serious issues), and defense (our military seems to be used more for offense, not defense).

In general, I find public institutions to be worse than their private alternatives. I prefer UPS/FedEx to the Postal Service and I send my child to a charter school rather than the local public school. Public institutions have shown that they don't need to be good, just good enough.

The key is making sure the incentives are right. Google and Facebook are bad because they profit from violating people's privacy, and they've developed a business model based around trading personal information for services. I don't know what the answer is necessarily, but nationalising it just turns them into surveillance networks, which is arguably worse than advertising networks.

I think we need to decide what the end goal is and define the incentives needed to get us there, and ideally we'd avoid too much use of government to get there. For Google/Facebook, I doubt advertising will go away, so we need to find a way to make privacy-preserving ads a thing while still allowing advertisers to show relevant ads to customers. Perhaps the Brave model is better than Google's model, or perhaps Google's model is acceptable with transparency and oversight. But having government deeply involved in personally identifiable activity is a bit too Orwellian for me.
It's easier to just read couple of lines of text than go through this, it feels like watching some long video explaining a very simple concept which could be reduced to one minute. Also comics is not that popular in many parts of the world and even where it is common many people are not into it and don't have the patience for it.
No worries. That is written for passersby as much as anything else.
Negative. Private equity has billions to pay with. Everyone has a price.
Thanks for the tip about the online implementations. As you suggest a great resource while you're doing your own implementation.
I'm just going to say that the sentencing guidelines capture 50 USC 1705 directly and are written in such a way as to suggest that North Korea is exactly what they were thinking of.
>GIMP's interface is so thoughtfully laid out

Many good ideas have been used in the interface but it ended up being complex and inconsistent. I haven't seen anyone else praising GIMP's interface. From comments I've read not even the people actually using GIMP professionally.
they should also be qualified to interpret the law

The problem with this is that our system is built on literally centuries of case law, in addition to all the legislation. Fools off the street don't know any of that stuff. Are we going to wait around while they spend weeks doing the research for every case?

We already let any fool off the street write the law

Foolish legislators often have their laws struck down for being unconstitutional. If we're going to let fools also be judges, then the inmates are running the asylum and we might as well not have a constitution at all.
Only if it's harmful enough to kill you. There's plenty of negative traits in nature that only exist because they weren't bad enough to stop reproduction.
What the man missed, is an absolutely humongous chunk of supply chain dedicated to recycling and remarketing that exists completely out of sight fo

. This is what you don't see nearly at all while living in the West, thanks to efforts of big brands.

Back 12 years ago, Malaysia was a global centre for refurbishment and recycling of electronics, before the crown went to China.

I still have a prehistoric Sony Ericsson w880i, that I bought from a refurbisher in Malaysia for a third of a retail price in the West back in 2007.

I was amazed how quickly goods go through the cycle. That phone was just a 6 months old model, and it being sold for a third of original price meant that somebody in the West must've bought, used, and threw it away in that time...

This is the way how most high value goods are reaching the global south, and big brands are trying hard to keep that side of supply chain out of your (people in the West) sight.

Apple for example wages an unending holy war against refurbishers of Apple laptops and phones, using every trick available. Apple effectively bribed Alibaba to delist their refurbished laptops back in 2010. Sony was also very big on that too.

Luxury brands, and such go even further. Some of them sneakily run operations to scour second hand markets off their goods, and some even destroy them after.
What about atheletics , or crime. Achievers have a talent and a will. Intelligence is one path to alpha status.
This is really nice, and it runs on Termux. And your code is like poetry.
Average is fine in a normal distribution. In the power law distribution the world is increasingly moving towards, average may not be so good.
I wonder how much engineering effort went into building that queuing system, versus what it would have cost them to just fix their site so it could scale properly...
Sure thing! Thanks for the kind words!
Question: How do I get involved in contributing to these types of projects, I wish there were mentorship programs focused on helping software professionals get involved in open source/libre contributions. Any thoughts?
Oh, Airmash, fun as ever. It was our go-to office game for months after initial HN release. When it disappeared, I ended up switching to surviv.io (another thing I think was announced on HN). Now with Airmash back, I don't know what to play anymore :(.
... he said, while his comment posted correctly, in the moment he wanted, because the tech behind the posting ability was Right.
FWIW that is an excellent process (Googling the jury instructions), thanks for that!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/europe-s-last-soviet...
$11 million based on what metric, they can't exactly quantify all the people who tried to shop when the site was down, then simply came back later to make the same order
Isn't a compile-time analyzer that can detect when an object will go out of memory precisely what Rust (and C++ RAII) does? It's just a form of escape analysis.

Imagine creating a Rust program entirely with `Rc`. It's basically a GC'd program at the point where the "roots" are managed by the reference counter. The "list of roots" is only ever messed with whenever a `Rc` is dropped/created, and one can optimize functions to take `&Rc` to reduce "GC" pressure. I do not believe it's possible to automate this process in general because if you could, I have a hunch the solution can be used to decide the Halting Problem.

So sure, in general a GC can perform some heuristics to predict the lifetime of an object, but usually the point of using a GC is that one does NOT know the lifetime or it is insanely complex.
1. Long division uses a similar idea to Euclid's algorithm for GCD. Are you familiar with that? Regardless, both algorithms are divide and conquer algorithms.

6240 / 5

= divide(6240, 5)

= divide(1240, 5) + 1000

= divide(240, 5) + 1000 + 200

= divide(40, 5) + 1000 + 200 + 40

= 1000 + 200 + 40 + 8

= 1248

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2. Regarding standard deviation, one of these bullets might help:

- The normal distribution has exactly one shape, centered at x=0. But it's useful to apply two transformations to it: translation and horizontal stretch. To translate a distribution left/right, change its mean. To horizontally stretch a normal distribution, change its standard deviation.

- Mean has units of length. Standard deviation has units of length. They tell you where the normal distribution is offset, and how wide it is. Mean and standard deviation are just measuring sticks/rulers for normal distributions.

- When people talk about the standard deviation with any arbitrary data, they're usually assuming the data is normally distributed. If the data is not normally distributed, standard deviation no longer refers to the width of the normal distribution, so we lose that visualization.

- With non-normally distributed data, the standard deviation is still useful as an analytical tool because taking the (sqrt of the) summed squares still gives us a number that grows as the data spreads further apart or if the distribution grows wider. There's a center point for the data (the mean), so to ensure you're measuring the overall spread of the data, you subtract the center point off each data point before squaring them. In other words, you're squaring deviations from the mean. And unlike the sum of absolute differences, the sum of squared differences (variance) is differentiable. Differentiability is a great property, so this is the standard way to compute a sum of deviations from the center.
Sherlocked :-)
Oh how I wished online forums supported QWK or OLX for offline reading. Most online forum software are an abomination of animations, clicks and excessive waiting for crap to load.
Technically Belarus and Russia form the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

Some speculate that Putin might want to turn this paper union into reality before his term ends and become president of the union. He would avoid neatly term limits for Russian president.

https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-rejects-putins-call-for-unific...
I’ve seen queue-it.com a few times. It’s a managed system that’s like Cloudflare: it sits in front of your site so you don’t need to integrate.
Joel Martin first presented about Mal in 2014 and his presentation was written in Mal. Awesome!

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/examples/clojurewe...
Win 3.1x had 11 diskettes. So while OS/2 was worse, it wasn't an order of magnitude worse. And after you were done, you were less likely to have to do a clean reinstall.
Almost makes me glad to be getting older and my vision isn’t going to notice anything better than 2K no matter what.
It matters because the startup hasn't chosen their name yet (and presumably will check available domains before choosing a name because they're not fools). It's pretty much the same as land speculation. Don't found a business and claim your address is an empty lot you saw downtown under the assumption that this is freely available land.
Thanks.

So far, using the stock openvpn package in Debian, it doesn't look like the Disney+ circumvention is happening for NordVPN's US servers.

I'm guessing that the NordVPN client must do it.

And if that's the case, it may merely route traffic directly through the residential proxy, and not first through a NordVPN server. Which wouldn't be good, because someone investigating the residential proxy would see the users IP address, rather than the exit IP address of the VPN server.
Interesting that a few big examples of hype driven articles came from OpenAI. This is dangerous and will lead to additional misinformation and public backlash. Scientists should be unbiased and not market driven, but when OpenAI has these releases I shook my head along with a couple others.

Hype lasts the next quarter but is replaced with distrust. Science is a long game of incremental discoveries. Breakthroughs usually are an understanding of some interesting outcome that needed more interpretation.
Step by Step Instructions to Make Money Online Without Paying Anything
The current law regarding North Korea forbids providing technical training that would support their money laundering or evasion of sanctions, and they've apparently got Griffith talking about sanctions evasion directly, so they've got what seem to be multiple predicates to pursue this on.
I had this happen to a .com domain I own, also at Namecheap.

In my case it was actually a trademark infringement legal action. My domain got listed as hosting a site that sold knock-off sunglasses[1] . The plaintiff in the case got a court order to transfer all the suspected domains to them, a list of about 1,000 domains. I got no notice, my domain just suddenly disappeared.

I had my lawyer contact the plaintiff, in which we apologized, told them we had no idea this had happened, and promised to up the security (in reality I just nuked the WP site.) About a week or so later they transferred the domain back. For me this was annoying and cost a few hundred bucks in legal fees, but not that big a deal. Obviously not the case for Susam.

[1] My (largely abandoned) self-promotion Wordpress site got hacked, and was used to host an e-commerce site. Weirdly the domain was ${my_real_name}.com, hardly an obvious choice for selling knock off sunglasses.
I have to correct myself: with the presence of AMD, Intel has been innovating less than it would if the market were a monopoly.
Silicon Valley Adjusts to New Reality as $100B Evaporates
Lean UXmas 2019
The article talks about Belarus’ low levels of economic inequality, its Soviet past and the continuing heavy hand of the state and the KGB but it fails to connect them. I would be shocked if government employees don’t have a far higher standard of living than their pay packages would suggest. This is a less severe case of the problem with using Communist era statistics on income to track inequality as if they’re equivalent to the “same” measurements in the post Communist era. If access is more important than money and you measure money things can be very unequal and you’ll have no idea by looking at the statistics.
send them email.
A bird in the hand is worth three in the bush. If I could give someone from a non-mathematician background, e.g. programmer, who sincerely wants to get a peek behind the curtain and know what calculus really IS without diluting anything in an unacceptable way I'd show them I. Gelfand et al "Sequences, Combinations, Limits". Once you have the idea of a limit of a sequence down it isn't hard to learn the limit of a function (epsilon, delta) and move on from there. A good second step is Apostol's calculus vol. 1 just the first chapter where he calculates an integral from scratch with no "fluff" (details you don't need just yet). (Yes, learning integration first actually makes more sense than learning derivates.) Once you do that you can continue with Apostol (highly recommended.) or use Spivak's calculus (tougher but even more highly recommended).

To wrap up Gelfand is one bird in the hand, Apostol chapter 1? with integration from stratch is another bird in the hand. That would be a good first two steps to get a sense of what calculus is really about.
> Even though transport encryption is increasingly being deployed on the Internet, it still reveals data that can threaten democracy: the identities of senders and receivers, the times, frequency and the volume of communication are all still revealed.

Can threaten democracy? What a weird wording... Typically where these informations are used to block people from accessing the internet, aren’t democratic countries to begin with.
I'm a working mathematician and would need a non-trivial amount of thought to get any of these problems.

I was also pretty poor at this kind of thing in high school and college, but fortunately the skills involved are almost but not quite disjoint from what is needed to do research on math.
"Life of author + 3,000 years. Sure np, get right on that"

-- Disney lawyer
Royalty are special and weird, and a drop in the bucket. Overall the ban was pretty successful, it created a world where a few Hapsburgs behaved this way, instead of every guy in a village with three cows to his name.

Their family trees are weird and alien to us because we live in this new world. Whereas I don't think many of his subjects thought that Saddam Hussein's family tree was freak-show material.
Apologies, but I see a lot of “trash” published in arxiv (also some real good stuff) Peer review could fix some things but would also show some other things down
The neocortex is only 2-4mm thick, so it kinda is 2D — I’ve seen it suggested that our brains have so many bumps in them just to provide more surface area.

(Technically birds don’t have a neocortex, but apparently they have something that allows them to do many of the things that our neocortexes do).
I don't know what you're trying to say here, but according to the complaint, Griffith asked the State Department if he could present at this conference without breaking the law, and they told him he could not. He then went and presented anyways. He probably could have presented nothing but slides of cute baby otters and still been charged.

It is a truly weird set of circumstances. If he could plausibly have claimed not to know about the sanctions, this would be a harder case for the DOJ, because the statute requires willful violation. But if the complaint is accurate, Griffith did essentially everything he could to wreck his defense. We'll see, though.
I like your argument. I'll offer a different view, but I want to emphasize upfront that I'm not disagreeing with you.

American football has many rules. Tens of millions of people follow it, and if asked, most will tell you that they know the rules. But, being a game with more than 100 years of history, it accrued plenty of obscure rules that come up infrequently. Referees are expected to know all these rules, and react in a split of a second to uphold the rules.

A few years ago there was a labor dispute between the NFL and the referees, and it resulted in substitute referees for a few weeks. I think most people remember that period as a period of great frustration. It's very likely the substitutes knew the rules too, but not having the experience and the proper training/reflexes, the way they upheld the rules was a bit lacking.

Football players are too familiar with the rules, are expected to follow them, and they generally do. But if you try to ask a player to be a referee, he will probably suck just as much as one of those substitutes.
I deduced it based on all the people I know who moved from CA to TX, I can tell you there are quite a lot of them. The pattern is quite obvious to me. Over time I adapted to it somehow by reminding myself to stay absolutely politically correct when I communicate with them, which also means, there is no way to develop any friendship at all when you have to act like a politician.
Net209 - those were the days. Of course having a local call to the Western Star didn't hurt either ;-)

Sysop meetings at Shakey's Pizza - nothing beats in person meet ups!

EDIT: It just dawned on me - how amazing is it that now that long distance calls are generally free (at least here in the US) that lots of people don't get the significance of "local call". What at time.
This Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-netflix/iakp...) adds a button to the video overlay that will show some things:

https://i.imgur.com/1SvTQny.png
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>Typically where these informations are used to block people from accessing the internet, aren’t democratic countries to begin with.

Blocking people from accessing the internet is crude. Tracking people accessing the internet is even better, and that also happens in so-called "democratic" countries (that is, countries than once in 4 years allow the masses to vote for a party or candidate between 2-3 pre-selected options).
I prefer much to lean on the evidence than the potential of trust. Where govt is effective at regulation as a result of public and private agreed upon standards, I have a hard time extending this beyond that (apart from areas where govt has proven to be better at funneling resources to the right places, to a fault), it is not the same as arguing wholesale for blanket trust. One example is not evidence that one should be blind fully trustful of an entity (who at plenty of occasions) has also broken that trust with mass warrantless surveillance (issue of broken trust) Or in other cases where the welfare system itself has produced artificial disincentives to get higher paying work (issue of trust due to inefficiencies or failure of common goods)

Thoughtful discussions aside, the people most suited to both care about and solve the problem set are the ones I would most likely lean on. This isn’t necessarily an anarchist position, it’s one of cautious skepticism over blanket trust without industry specific evidence to prove that the govt is in fact better at handling time, money, and increasingly efficient gains. I haven’t seen a lot of evidence to prove that the govt is particularly good at handling the first two.

That all being said, I don’t see it as an all or nothing. Follow the evidence and the data.
I know, it's been one of my secret tricks for HN legal debates for years. :)
The GnuNet people have an entire page detailing ways to get involved: https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html

But in general, just ask! Whenever someone posts a thoughtful comment, question or patch to one of my open source projects, I'm very appreciative.

Do you have a particular project you'd like to contribute to? If not, is there a particular area that's interesting to you?
You can't talk of Belarus now, and keep China out of the picture.

If people says that East Africa is China's 24th province, than Belarus would be double of that.
There's no "paper trail" on workers when they can't legally work. They're paid in cash, under the table. Shoddy work often results.

In Berkeley in 2015, 6 Irish students died when a shoddily-built balcony collapsed. No workers could be identified or interviewed because they were all "day labor".

This is common in California. Search "slavery towers" for a current case in San Jose using all-illegal labor at "slavery" wages.
The first sign of lousy journalism is the chart of poverty with the $5.5/day limit, like the cost of life is measured in dollars and it is the same across the board. No, it is not, in some places $1 is the equivalent of more than $10 in other countries.
Is there a texting application built on GnuNet's SCTP-like technology?
>Bits can't rot in ... SSD

This is not correct. All forms of Flash memory lose data (charge in cells) over time. Even glass window EPROMs are only rated at tens of years. Every new generation of SSDs uses smaller Cells that lose charge faster. Wear and tear accelerates this. Samsung 840 with 300TB wear will lose data when unplugged for a week. https://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experi...

Its much worse in enterprise settings: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-d...
What did you think of the Amiga? Early 90's Amiga OS was contemporary with OS/2 2.x. It had preemptive multitasking, but lacked memory protection.