skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To receive, just set your interface to monitor mode, set the right channel, dump and filter. tcpdump works fine, though you probably want to read and process the data with a custom application.
This only happened because a team of professional journalists worked on the story for months, despite Facebook denials and stonewalling:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/10/11/pro-trump-outlet-link...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/11/12/bl-fake-profiles/

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/12/13/facebook-bl-cib/

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/12/20/facebook-removes-the-...
Is M-Pesa Kenyan or British? (2017)
No, the median is the 50 percentile. That falls in that 9% that lie between the cold natured people (0 through 45 percentile) and the warm natured people (54 through 99 percentile).

So if there are 100 people, 45 like 65 degrees, and 46 like 75 degrees. Then -- assuming they are truly spread evenly in between as I said -- the other nine would be: One person prefers 66 degrees, one person prefers 67 degrees, one person prefers 68 degrees, one person prefers 69 degrees, one person prefers 70 degrees, one person prefers 71 degrees, one person prefers 72 degrees, one person prefers 73 degrees, and one person prefers 74 degrees.

The median will be 70.5, since the 50 percentile falls between 70 and 71.

Now if I am the 101st person, I can move it to 70 degrees by voting for 70 or less, and move it to 71 degrees by voting for 71 or greater. If I vote for any fractional number between 70 and 71, I will get my exact choice, since I will be the 50 percentile voter.

There is no reason I can get better results by lying, whether or not I am good at guessing how others will vote.
Not on die, but on a separate module on the substrate. Very different thing.

They still use FIVRs on mobile chips, except they managed to put inductors in the substrate now
There was a nice paper on it at woot18: https://www.usenix.org/node/220563
I can't find the source [0], but there was another expose'/interview on the USS John McCain where they interviewed darn near the entire crew. My details are fuzzy, but from what I remember the crew has been severely short staffed for years. To the point where 'normal' days were like 18 hours long and sleep for the captain was 2-4 hours a day for years on end. The internal email system for the ship was so broken that they resorted to just using free Gmail addresses, they had to tape over control knobs to keep them from being disturbed, training was completely abandoned, etc. It paints a hell of a bad picture of the Pacific fleet and it's command.

[0] I think it was propublica as well, but I can't find the article there.
I can see your perspective but I personally do think it matters what the law in question is. While you wouldn't start a venture-backed company around the idea of violating IP, I think it's quite likely that if you do found a venture-capital backed company in any field (i.e. where you think it's okay), you wouldn't instantly wrap it up and close it down at the first whiff that it were let's assume technically against some regulations you disagreed with, but which you could ignore. If you ran an innocuous online forum and found out it's illegal to run any forum, you wouldn't just shut it down. You'd look at why, or how serious those laws against it are, and the consequences of ignoring them.

Now granted Uber is a business, there are certain minimum compliance things such as taxes. But I don't share your view that everyone needs to follow all rules no matter how technical.

In a sense it's clear that uber is "just an app".
Arguably, in a long term, it might be better that the appearance of the person would not matter as much. It actually might be harder to establish a cult of personality and really bad dictatorships, if there are humorous fakes and parodies flying around. But it also might make it more difficult to keep track of real events.
I don't think you're right @nemild, it's not a scary quote and it's also true. Sure, people can be duped temporarily but the best quality ideas last. Information is best distributed when it can be distributed freely. What alternative would you propose, censorship, regulation?

Facebook solved a problem (connecting) but it also created one (fake content, bot farms).

Either Facebook will fix it, or if they don't, new products will pop up to solve the problem to try to provide more reliable content.

Recently, might have seen it on here (I forget where) someone trained an AI to try to detect fake news. Sure the first attempts will be crappy prototypes, but the point is that people are trying to figure the problem out.
UK's grammar rules differ from the United States- they don't capitalize acronyms. i.e. NASA becomes Nasa.
That, and the article, seems like sort of a tangent though. In practice, /dev/urandom advocacy has won for almost all apps. That's what everything uses, and it meets the requirements desired by you and Pornin AFAICT. People who want crypto-backed non-blocking kernel RNGs have a very high quality one in linux. Most of this is just an argument about defaults, whether "/dev/random" should be non-blocking by default and whether it should be renamed to something else.

The more interesting question, and one I think is very poorly served by this article, is whether or not Linux's entropy pool engine is a useful feature or not (and tangentially whether or not we should trust RDRAND). And... I mean, in a world where we have known backdoors in both hardware and crypto algorithms, it seems like having a system that defaults to not trusting them might not be the worst thing...

Basically, this argument seems really fragile to me. All it takes is one paper showing a likely backdoor in RDRAND and everyone is going to be laughing like crazy at what-in-hindsight-would-seem the ridiculous naivete in this article.
That's super interesting. How was your experience working with the government? I had reached out a long while back to some people formerly in the govt to ask if I could volunteer some months of my time on e-gov stuff and the main response I got was along the lines of "we need to focus on agriculture and basic needs, digital isn't relevant yet."
With lisp you stop thinking about syntax rules anymore (because the program is in a very simple form) so you can focus purely on semantics. Some things, like you say, are too overloaded in Clisp, for example:

(defun averagenum
(n1 n2 n3 n4)
(/ ( + n1 n2 n3 n4) 4))

Clojure recognizes this goo problem and expresses the parameters in a vector instead of how Clisp does it in a list

(defn averagenum
[n1 n2 n3 n4]
(/ ( + n1 n2 n3 n4) 4))

Helps a lot.
Thinking off the top of my head, how about a language that only had interfaces (ala COM)? Implemented by non-inheritable objects, using delegation instead of inheritance to share code.

I imagine some syntax sugar to help with the delegation to make it less cumbersome.
Insider Trading [0] is a crime in the US.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading
How does it compare to Chronon DVR[0] for Java. Seems similar functionality wise

[0] http://chrononsystems.com/
I was wondering how long it would take for the HN experts to show up.
SQL is how you create Excel messes, at least in my world.
Equifax followed all laws on the settlement.

Also, when that statement is ever made, it really highlights flaws in our system when the rich/corporations/layers write the laws in their favor... So much for "for the people" right?
As someone who has been on both sides of the systemd debate, I heartily guffawed at this. Thanks.

As for the topic at hand, at a 30k ft view, having seen the inside of DoD stuff from a ground troop level, and later from DC itself, I mostly blame the good-old-boy network from being too established and greedy. I figure it's always been this way and technology complicating things has just pulled the curtain back, but essentially they do DC/Virginia back-room dealing to get bids and then under-perform in the delivery but don't really care because DoD's budget is massive and they keep throwing money at them. This matters much less while we engage countries that can't engage back like Iraq and Afghanistan, but as we shift more towards the return of the tri-polar world and DoD has to start planning for more peer level agitation, these problems need to be fixed ASAP or people are going to die.

There is a reason a handful of counties in Virginia had the highest growth of millionares in America post-9/11. I'm tired of contractors wasting money while the real military gets shite, and while maybe some of that is bias from my Marine Corps days (The Corps was notorious for "hand-me" down equipment and small budgets compared to Army, etc), I still say it's about time we financially body checked the good old boys and gave our boots on the ground better treatment.

Hell, how about just not having boots on the ground in the first place in unconstitutional bullshit wars, but I digress.
I find I need to quote myself from 2013, as I can't really add anything further to it:

> Wow. I honestly wasn't expecting to ever see this on the front page of HN again, given the current ubiquity of 64-bit Linux. (And yes, before anyone asks, I've played around with minimizing 64-bit executables. Unfortunately they are both larger and less forgiving of tomfoolery. The smallest 64-bit ELF I've created is 84 bytes.)

> Since it is here, though, I want to take the opportunity to say thanks to everyone who's expressed their appreciation of my essay. And I should note here that writing that essay, so many years ago now, is one of the better thing I've done for my career. Share what you have to learn the hard way; the effort won't be wasted.
The measurement for success isn't "a lot of users", the measurement is "a lot of real users". Bots do not click on ads and make users more distrustful of the content on the platform. Even the most ill-informed person adds more to a group than an automated propaganda machine.

I don't have a way for Facebook to counter the rise of AI and other technology trends short of all new accounts submitting a vial of blood to guarantee they are a unique human being. I'm being facetious here... but Zuck would probably love this dystopia. If Facebook devoted their near-infinite resources to solving this modern problem of technology, they would be in a much better shape today. The internet, privacy activists, and humanity as a whole may not be better off, but FBs value would be.
This is a weird tangent, and "effectively atheist" is an ill-defined umbrella, but if we take that to mean "no religion / unaffiliated / atheist / agnostic" then it doesn't seem too far off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_Sta...
Yeah, I've used a few services but so far Transferwise is the best for me as well
Do ubers use those bus lanes you mention? Or do they just behave like rideshares, or if you give your friend a lift.
Sit outside that place with a 4G connected phone and just send it up to a website called VancouverCostalData.com and I bet you someone will care.
IBM and the University of Tokyo team up for quantum computing education project
Discard Studies
Doesn't look like this is ARM's project, but imec's. They just used an ARM for their demonstrator. Could just as well have been a MIPS, except imec is probably well committed to ARM designs.
How to De-Risk Your Startup and Become ‘Definitely Fundable’
My solution is to just hang out in meatspace, and assume everything I can't physically observe doesn't exist. This has been a surprisingly effective solution.
I like Ember.js, been using it since version 1.12, through to 2.x and now 3.x. Had been playing with the beta builds of Octane on the side, glad to see it all coming over to the main build!
From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_in_English#Capi...):

>Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS." Sometimes a minor word such as a preposition is not within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In British English, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Unesco."
There are ML models that are so computationally intensive that they can't reasonably run on the edge. AI accelerator chips obviously help move the line, but AI accelerators benefit the cloud, too. Furthermore, Models can be tens to hundreds of megabytes in size. Okay for the cloud, not okay for wasm running in the browser.
I promise you... they’re not doing it on pornhub.... :eyes:
That's like saying "if a car manufacturer is really large, the only way to make it work is to outsource its car manufacturing". I guess so, if they forgot how their core business works. Seems like Flickr forgot how to website.
touch screens are a horrible idea for this type of system. I also think they're a bad idea in cars. there is no muscle-memory with a touch screen.
> Edit: The metric they use for that may be slightly different as they put US commutes at 48.8 minutes per day. At which point 2 EU countries have worse commutes. Hungary and Romania. If the daily average for the US was 27x2 = 54 minutes that’s worse than very EU country.

It's the same method, the CNBC article is just using the more recent survey, so their number is 10 years newer than the one in that report. This, comparing to the non-US numbers in it is not fair.

> That’s terrible by EU standards or Canadian (24 minutes each way) standards

I don't agree with your definition of "terrible" in the relative sense. Daily, the US number in that report is only 2 minutes higher than the Netherlands, 6 minutes higher than Germany, and 7 minutes higher than Belgium. All three are over 40 minutes per day, so IMO if the US time is "terrible" so are theirs. Ditto the Canadian number, which is only 6 minutes per day less.
Yeah, I actually agree with you especially for ES6. Because it requires you to transpile, and because promises/async/await break the control flow model, it is extremely difficult, often impossible to place breakpoints. With await in particular, you can forget to await a promise and then your app just stops working, mysteriously, and there’s no way to find out what’s happening except to one by one disable parts of the app until the situation becomes clear.

Transpilation as a norm means it’s kind of 50/50 whether the source code you encounter while debugging will even be readable.

Actually what I see most often, professionally, is that JavaScript developers stop believing they can inspect their application at all, and when something is wrong immediately just try to guess what’s happening. Then see if their imagined fix helps, if not try again. Basically guess and check. Which is a fine technique but it’s pretty bad if that’s your only way to debug problems.

I am able to code in ES5 sometimes on independent projects (without Webpack) and it’s a joy. The debugger works everywhere, in a consistent way. I have callbacks everywhere so asynchronous code is simple to trace and easy to understand. It’s great.

I am working slowly towards a fork of NPM/Node ecosystem that starts over before ES6. I think early JavaScript is actually a wonderful, fast, elegant language.

I would say that ES6 is so bad in terms of debuggability that you almost have to use TypeScript to make coding in ES6 bearable.

The other aspect of what you’re saying: that you have no static analysis tools so you HAVE to debug, is spot on. I think to build a great JS application you have to put an equal amount of effort into designing the test harness. Basically all the time you would have spent wrangling the type system you have to put into the tests.

And you can’t just half- ass the tests. They need to really accurately mirror your business needs, and really model the relationship between your app and your tests, in order to provide an equivalent static analysis value to what a type system would give you.

However one final point, which is that the fact that ES5 is so impoverished in terms of control flow and data modeling, I think actually helps solve all of these problems. If you limit yourselves to basically just functions and literals, you are forced to write really strong clean interfaces. I find myself being able to focus almost entirely on separation of concerns. Because I’m not dealing with fancy language features, and because I literally can’t afford to build giant complex modules and applications, it forces me to build small, simple modules that have very clear responsibilities.

That might seem like a limitation to many, but I actually find it helps me to avoid headaches before they happen.
Concur. For whacking out a quick analysis like that, it's hard to beat a spreadsheet. (I do like Excel, but no longer think it's all that far ahead of LibreOffice for most things I tend to use it for.)

It's also good for creating what amounts to a quick interactive form.

But I've lost count of how many times I've run across a spreadsheet being misused as a shitty, ad-hoc database where it'd be less work (and less error-prone) to just use sqlite (or even postgres, honestly), so I have some empathy for GP's perspective.
The /r/HackerNews bot is broken and has stopped posting
As static images, though? Not interactive?
Also, I'm not so certain about your atheism argument. The decline of religion in the world has people thinking more rationally about some problems (LGBT Rights, a woman's right to choose, censorship based on lewd/unfit behavior, etc.). We may not be a utopia, but I wouldn't say "people stayed the same".
Bigger parade, bigger cleanup.
2017: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/technology/arm-no-...
To be clear - I’m not saying that misinformation bots and such exist. I absolutely think they do. They probably use this tactic as well.

But I’m trying to offer an alternative viewpoint. Just like bots who spread misinformation exist and try to blend in with actual people. Actual people who don’t want to be found try to blend in with the noise.
Definitely for the growth phrase. And could be before product-market fit, depending on many factors. If you know a particular niche and you know you are going to serve that niche, then I’d start content marketing early. If you might switch niches (for example your background is not in a niche you’re trying and your technology could serve other niches), then I wouldn’t go all in on content marketing with that niche until you know you’re sticking with it.

The content you’re publishing doesn’t need to relate directly to your product. Of course, you want to show expertise in that area. But so long as the content is useful for your niche, you can go more broad with it. For example, you might do an interview with someone who produces another technology for your niche.

Generally people do create a page for the brand; but this can be just a repository for content. Personal accounts are – of course – more personable; but also they have much more organic reach on some networks – notably Linkedin. If you post something from your personal account and the same thing on your company page, more people will see the personal post (assuming zero sponsored post spend).
Hi, JT from PaperKarma here. It takes about 6-12 weeks (1.5-3 months) for mail to stop once you submit an opt-out request. This is due to in progress campaigns and the fact mailers print several waves of a campaign upfront. Rest assured you are no longer on the lists the next time they go to print!
>In a sense, whether a given mechanism provides entropy is a matter of “this or that expert said that it does”; impossibility of accurate simulation comes from physics, specifically quantum mechanics, so the entropy pool estimator is based on a fair amount of trust in physicists such as Feynman or Bohr (but not Einstein, for that matter). But the entropy depletion is an assertion that cryptographers such as Shamir cannot be equally trusted.

Well yeah, we have much more reason to believe our physical laws represent something about reality than to think our cryptographic primitives are unbreakable. Where's the analogue of Bell's theorem for cryptography?
I’d say infix syntax and somewhat asymmetric method lookup/overloading rules are the bigger factor. Notwithstanding that it matches the implementation of virtual dispatch.
> "When everyone has a printing press [i.e., Facebook], the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to."

Should be:

"When everyone has a printing press, the most persuasive ones are the ones people listen to"
At the end of the day, they are all individuals with their own biases, ambitions or plain irrationality. You just have to take that into account in all you read and hear.
> it sure looks like we have a gun problem

We have a gun problem in certain particular areas; if you remove those areas from the data the rest of the US looks more like Switzerland in terms of gun violence. And all of those areas where there is a gun problem already have gun control laws that are among the toughest in the country. That does not seem like evidence that gun control is the way to solve a gun problem.

> America has gang/drug/poverty problems that fuel violent crimes.

Which is further evidence that the way to solve the gun problem in the areas that have it is to fix the gang/drug/poverty problem, not gun control. Just ending the war on drugs, all by itself, would be a huge win since it would remove the major incentive for violence associated with drugs.
If you set up a HackRF in Chicago, you can hear police dispatch. It's pretty nifty.
try setting your twitter to chronological, see if it makes a difference (hint: it doesnt)

you re totally right about people not finding excuses to interact. this is a real need , and cities have not been adapted for that. many people make deliberate effort to meet people, but these are mostly extroverts. the "old way" used to force such interactions on everyone indiscriminately
What's your response to Pornin's criticism of 5.3 changes?

> Linux 5.3 will turn back getrandom() into /dev/urandom with its never-blocking behavior, because, quite frankly, Linus’s opinions on his own mastery of RNG theory exceed his actual abilities. The reasoning seems to be that if there is “not enough entropy”, then the application should make an interpretative dance of some kind to promote the appearance of new hardware events from which the entropy can be gathered. How the application does that, or why the kernel should not do it despite being much closer to the hardware, is not said
The more I deal with it, the more I hate React, and the very idea that websites must require Javascript to just show HTML.
That's a tautology!