skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s fine, but then the MP should hire an assistant to manage their email if it detracts from their deep work. Donald Knuth does not have a sworn duty to represent people; he could go and live in the woods for all it would matter
Google will charge for law enforcement record requests
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I had the same interaction but one day their algorithm flubbed and sent me a question that had very obvious Avengers: Endgame spoilers in the title. I had to unsubscribe after that.
Such upstanding member of the community!
Bandwidth in South America is approximately 8x the cost of North America or Europe. There are almost no carrier neutral datacenters or peering where you can exchange traffic with other in-country networks without paying for transit. Most countries will strong arm you in to buying "local" for your hardware - which means using in country re-sellers that drastically mark up prices for foreign businesses.

Next to Moscow it is one of the most difficult places I've tried to put servers.
Do you publish metrics on “attacks prevented” (or access to logging and monitoring) for customers?
The thing is, this isn't unique to tech companies. In every industry, people ignore best practices or even regulations, prefer politics over information, familiar over innovative, have fiefdoms and feuds, and basically everything that happens in society at large where there are power vacuums or opportunities.

It's a double-edged sword that is both a source of innovation and stagnation, and it is called being human. We do our best to keep the detrimental effects to a minimum, and have done a pretty decent job of it over the past few hundred years. Not perfect, but better.
> Obviously the final amount could be stored as an integer in cents, but I'm talking about the tax rate and the calculations of it.

The tax rate (like most things associated with money) should be stored as an exact decimal (fixed point decimal, decimal floating point, or arbitrary precision decimal all work.)

> I guess you need to calculate the tax for each item, round it to cents (and I assume the rules on how you round can vary by jurisdiction, so it's not just calling your language's round function), multiply that by the quantity of that item (good luck if the quantity can be a decimal value), then sum each line item.

Usually taxes are required to be calculated by summing the pre-tax cost of all line items, applying the tax rate, rounding by the applicable rules, and then adding that to the pre-tax subtotal to get the final total. But having decimal unit prices (even decimal cents, e.g., gas is usually priced in mils, not cents), decimal quantities, and decimal tax rates are all non-problems (so no "good luck" needed) as long as you are using an exact decimal representation rather than binary floating point.
This is exactly the type of response that keeps me reading HN daily. I love it.

Apologies for the unsubstantive comment of my own here. I felt like an upvote wasn't enough to show my appreciation.
I get I'm probably not representative, but the obit actually made it feel really human and endeared me somewhat.

Realistically, I think it doesn't matter that much? (Not that you ever want to throw users away, but in terms of "sink or swim") Their initial user-base is all the people who have been watching vine collections for years, and that gives the platform a strong start.
Reminds me of Sandy Island (Isla Arenosa), an island which was "discovered" in the 19th century, but as late as 2012 was "undiscovered" as the island didn't actually exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia

Maybe there is still time to become an explorer, which I dreamed of as a child.
What is the best case scenario on how to get this under control?
Its even bigger than that. You can book an appointment through the google.com search results if the company (lets say a barber shop) has connected their booking system with the Google My Business page. No need to visit the website at all. How long until a percentage is automatically taken for every booking?
Pro: You don't have to deal with the security hassle that is storing user secrets. While it is something where the best practices are very well described at this point, it's also something people consistently got wrong for a long time.

Not saying it is enough to counterbalance or a good excuse for a company with resources, but I think it's a valid pro.
Arbitrary precision rationals are the general solution for when some aspects of the calculation work better are in binary (power-of-two denominator) fractions and some are in decimal fractions.
> In between, mapmakers figure, the error is swamped by the imprecision of mapping and GPS equipment. Future maps may be updated at a rate closer to real-time. “We have the technology now with GPS to be able to make those slight adjustments on a more frequent basis,” Craun said.

A French startup operates an impressive technical solution in this direction:

> new GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) augmentation services based on the PPP-CNES technology (Precise Point Positioning).

> Absolute positioning accuracy of 4 cm (2D-95%), everywhere in the world, on the ground, on the sea and in the air, all the time, with only one receiver, without any nearby GNSS reference station: Precision, Availability and Integrity

> Depending on the level of service subscribed: Absolute positioning precision of 2, 4, 10, 50 or 80 cm (2D-95%)

> Compatible with GPS, GLONASS, BEIDOU and GALILEO constellations and mono and multi-frequencies receivers

I attended a meetup were they explained part of it. They have models for each of the aspects that can deteriorate precision and update all the parameters of all models in real time based on continuous measurements.

At a point during the development of the solution they had an unexplained discrepancy and tracked it down to some satellites of a common network being classifiable into two clusters of two different latencies (like, in the nanosecond range or even smaller). They contacted the network owners, listing the two clusters and asked "what is the difference between these and those satellites?".

The owners were a little confused. Something like "Well, inside each satellite, the cable from the antenna to the processing unit is a high performance transmission cable of tightly controlled specification, one inside each satellite. They happened to have been supplied in two batches with supposedly strictly identical behaviour up to the precision available at the time. And you sent us the exact listing of satellites matching batches A and B. But how on earth have you got this list? Were you spying into our internal archives?"

Answer: "no, we just have a model so precise that we could calibrate difference in transmission delays in your satellites from our receptor network on the ground".

Here's the startup Web site :
http://www.geoflex.fr/?lang=en
When I broke my talus (ankle bone) in the middle of the snowy forest I couldn't walk. I hadn't seen anyone all day and thought I was screwed. Then a few minutes later a guy shows up on a snowmobile.

I guess angels ride snowmobiles.
TikTok has succeeded not because it has unique features. It simply started its strategy to take on the world with the freshest possible generation of users, children aged 11-14.

Look at the beginnings, it was disgusting, but they were there patiently spending money to convince the generation that now with 18-21 already believes that Instagram is just a stronghold of retirees and no community.

They now feel part of something unique because getting on Instagram meant competing against those who were already established. Every social network must be focused in this way. Today TikTok attracted all the big stars, and the Instagram generation is really asking themselves, what is going on? (same question snapchat users did back then), the truth is TikTok is eating Instagram at some big pace and it will take it over completely soon.

Do you want to create a new social network? Aim for the 11-15 year old population and in 3-4 years you will have the strongest, most faithful and active community.
This approach doesn't work.

The sentinel elephant you place has to be closer to Algiers than Cairo, or you risk false negatives.
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The experiment specifically selected for behaviour, though. And the fur-farm foxes seem to have been quite tame already before the start of the experiment. Therefore, I don't find the changes in behaviour very interesting on their own [1]:

"The Farm-Fox Experiment selected for a behavioral trait that already existed in the population (Figure 3), essentially recapitulating a selection experiment performed on numerous occasions with dog breeds. [...] The change in the critical period of socialization in the selected foxes is more like the difference between more and less easily socialized dog breeds than between dogs and wolves."

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011
Yes.

For HTTP customers there are full SIEM logs under Firewall > Overview on our dashboard, and for paid tiers there are drill-down analytics in addition to the full SIEM logs. There is also log push to receive near real-time full HTTP logs into Google or AWS for your own analysis and these show if a firewall feature touched the request or if it was served from cache.

In addition for HTTP customers we show graphs of SYN floods, etc for the IPs your web properties are advertised on.

For L4 customers via Magic Transit we also have Network Analytics showing what we received at our edge network and a log of attacks detected and mitigated.

There is still lots of room for improvement... that's really what I'm asking, what does the ideal system look like for someone where they see and understand the data and trust it.

For example, is it valuable to see the attack landscape and what is happening across our systems even when you are not the target? Would that help give perspective to attacks that do target you, and also increase faith that this system exists and is stopping attacks when attacks do not target you?
Mathematicians have solved traffic jams, and they’re begging cities to listen
Try taking a break and sitting down for 10 minutes. It changes the atmosphere of the ride afterwards. Not in a major way, but it's good.
US startups chase $55B boom fuelled by privacy law
This has happened before with other IOS games (Monkey Island comes to mind) and is the main reason I never buy anything from the App Store. A number of titles never got updates for 64bit either (lost treasures of infocom) or when they did asked you to pay again (GoodReader 3) so I said fuck you to that whole ecosystem a long time ago.

I use my iOS devices to read books I side-load (libgen and Calibre), read comics and listen to music I download from private trackers and to browse the web.
There's no such Bluetooth device that I know of, but KDE Connect used to allow cross-device copy and paste between Android and desktop over WiFi until Google killed that feature off by disabling the clipboard access it needed.
When I click this link, it redirects me to

https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=...

Which is blocked by umatrix.

The Verge seems to cover it with less dirty tricks:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/24/21080424
I mean, I'm not trying to be rude, but you're pretty fucking stupid.

OVH's cheapest VPS is just over $3 per month.
Pedantically that is true, but you should still word it as "at least one of them" to avoid being misunderstood.
Yes, Cycle.js [1] taught me that lesson and it's been useful ever since.

[1] https://cycle.js.org/
Wondering if the downvote came because of someone thinking xsel is inferior to xclip, or if there is a misunderstanding what AJAX really is... Would be great if people say something more than "I DIDNT LIKE THAT"
I find it's helpful to treat app store purchases as a convenient way to temporarily get access to something. I don't mind paying a few bucks here and there for a game - you just have to assume you're renting it.
And here: https://twitter.com/DoctorYasmin/status/1220953291279831040
> I would argue that financial math by definition needs to be accurate to the penny.

It sometimes needs to be accurate beyond the penny; pennies may be the smallest unit of settlement, but they aren't the smallest tracked quantity in all financial matters.
No, do not do financial calculations in binary floating point. Converting between base 2 and base 10 fractions can do funny things (including during the rounding step, which is also 99% guaranteed to be inaccurate because base 10 fractions can't be exactly represented as base 2 fractions).

Most professional financial packages use fixed point decimal, which can easily be implemented by specifying a fractional unit (such as thousandths of cents). The computations will be faster (because they're ints) and at 64 bits you get a min/max value of +- 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 units (90 quadrillion if you're using thousandths of cents), and rounding functions will always be exact (provided you have enough digits of scratch precision).

There's also the 2008 addition of decimal floating point types to ieee754 [1], which have been implemented in gcc and clang (software emulation only).

So no, don't use binary floats for financial calculations. You're 99.9% guaranteed to get it wrong and introduce bugs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_forma...
Now I have worked at any FANG company, or even larger than 200+ employees, but I've never heard "lower level dev" to mean they have "low level access". Is this a common label to give people who have access to production database for example?
The WTF moments come when you don’t yet have credibility. Would you want to hear a stranger with an empty commit history use the wrong keywords to tell you how to do your job?

Start your campaign to change a place after demonstrating ability to work within it.
Yes you can but that's how you get bugs.

I used to work in the online gambling industry for 15 years and there are a large number of use cases on a gambling front end where you do financial arithmetic.

I have seen equality between 2 floats being used as setting the end condition for a count up win animation. I don't think I have to explain what horrible thing that lead to.
For anyone with an interest in this field, I would highly recommend Vehicles by Valentino Braiteberg. [1]

A very nice intro into how these structures could give rise to actual behaviours.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/483485.Vehicles
I don't think it's a conspiracy --

If you can't go to expedia.com as easily as you can Google search Expedia, you'll probably do the later. And if you Google search Expedia, the first result is usually an ad for Expedia. Now Google makes money on you in a way they hadn't before. The more people expect Google to deal with all of the silly "web domain stuff" for them, the more money Google makes.

It's all about the incentives, and in the end there's only one incentive -- money.

I don't think anyone working at Google is being intentionally bad at all, but I do think their incentive structure ultimately results in prioritizing feeding people ads as much a possible. The A/B tests show that doing things a certain way results in more revenue, and that's what drives the decisions. There are likely no ethics meetings on the implications on society for each small change, but the collective result of many small harmless changes (aimed at increasing profit) is bad for society in the end. Not due to any conspiracy or "evil".
The only thing they would have to change to make Getty happy is that when you click on the image, it takes you to the place where the image was used, instead of the direct url of the image.

All the rest of the design choices was Google's, and we rightly blame them for purposefully degrading the experience of using Google Image search.
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Defuse, wait, continue.
Which Are You? Programmer or Coder
You’d be amazed just how much is still out there, unknown or forgotten. I’ve got around a fair bit over the years, and I’ve seen some incredible things that exist on no map, no online resource, in some cases not even in the minds of locals. I’m currently living in northern Portugal, which, as part of Western Europe, you’d think would be pretty well explored - but no. The local medieval castle, which is shockingly obvious sat atop a volcanic plug, was not recognised or documented until 1979 - and only in the 1990s did someone realise that this place was that place referred to in various historical documents. The locals knew about it, of course, but it was unremarkable to them. When we moved here, we wanted an old building to restore, somewhere surrounded by nature. We talked to realtors, to locals, young and old, nobody knew of such a place. I pored over satellite imagery, chose some spots to go for a ramble. Discovered a medieval watermill - a series of them, in fact. Talked to locals again, to the council -
nobody had a clue they existed, and the land was public land - and they agreed to sell me one of them. Since we started work we’ve had a little trickle of people wandering down to say hello, and unanimously they’ve all lived there all of their lives, and they’re all agog when they see that this place exists. Exploring the land around the mill has been a blast - mines, from prehistoric to medieval, various ruins, water management channels, terraces, roads, all sorts - and nobody knew any of it was there - and the wildlife is like living in a zoo. Tortoises, snakes, foxes, deer, big damn lizards, eagles, you name it - and every time I wander up a random track I find something new, even if I’ve walked that way before.

There’s a huge amount around, everywhere, to explore - you just have to go where people aren’t, and observe.
HN feels like such a sanctuary: a high quality space not (yet?) perverted by the pressures of a purely profit motive.

It’d be interesting to study how does HN thrives; more deeply understand the incentives that sustain the HN ecosystem.
as someone who could be described as a "psychonaut" ive tried many many things including kratom and i found it to be barely effective and even when it is you have to consume very large amounts of the stuff for a rather disappointing result. maybe if youve never been exposed to any sort of drug before you may find something in it but itll certainly be weaker than even a basic over the counter co-codamol tablet, i dont really see how someone who has experienced even the mildest of other opioids would get anything from it

i am curious about what the substance the article calls "too legally compromising to name" im guessing it may be something like fentanyl but im not aware why they cant mention it
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Yes, i3 drastically improved my ability to be productive and not get lost in my windows.

I sorely miss it when I am using windows or MacOS.
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I think it'd be helpful to highlight the impact on YOUR infrastructure for an attack i am facing.

Will help add perspective to how disruptive the attacks are.
> No, do not do financial calculations in floating point.

Floating point is fine, so long as it is big enough for the application and decimal (not binary) floating point. Fixed point decimal is easier to get right, and, really, arbitrary precision decimal (or, for even more generality, arbitrary precision rational) is even easier to get right.
You can be in favor of the search engine making the best guess to what you wanted, but still consider ads worse than search results. The reason is that ads aren't optimized only for relevancy, but for relevancy multiplied by commission. When an advertiser pays more per click, their ads will show on less relevant searches. If that effect didn't exist, I think people would be more ok with ads.
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About time after everything was down for weeks in 2015.
Totalitarian governments routinely arrest journalists for all kinds of reasons.
Yes, up-front pricing is very essential. I don't want any surprises. If there's a chance for that, I won't be using the service at all.
Does the angular momentum affect gameplay or is it just for show? I never saw the direction change to clockwise.
There is some really good content on Quora (by which I mean good writers, and even some war criminals...) but they need beating into shape.
I remember that, and I am a still a tiny bit salty about how it impacted me as a user. Ever since, it has been so unnecessarily tedious get the raw image link from Google. Half the time, I end up with a data url, sometimes I get taken to the backing website, who usually don't know anything about accessibility, sometimes I get the image. It's all just so much worse now.

That said, it is absolutely theft for Google to source data from your site, then use that to add value to their site, without giving you any click-through traffic.

Tangentially, it would be great if Google sent like $1 (edit: or < $1; the amount isn't my point) per 1000 clicks out to websites whose search results get clicked. They already have an ad-engine that does all of this. This would mean that you would get paid to have good SEO, or to be a central hub. The websites that comprise the entire web should negotiate better terms with central data brokers like Google.
Not sure why this is being continuously downvoted. But thank you for everyone else that took the time to answer the question.
Because of the recent reports that Bezos’ phone may have been hacked by a WhatsApp message sent by the Saudi crown prince 5 months before the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. I read the forensics report and it is far from conclusive, the mistress is a much more plausible explanation of how the tabloid got his dick pics. What kind of low-life shares her boyfriend’s intimate photos with her brother?

An expensive ($25B) mistake for Bezos. As Benjamin Franklin said “experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other”.
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Updated my comment, thanks. I meant binary float. Decimal float is rather unknown (unfortunately), so most people imply binary when they say "float", and most languages don't even have decimal float, so the warning is necessary.

PSA: If your favorite language doesn't support ieee754 decimal float, start badgering them to add it! This has gone on long enough, and the inertia against change is strong.
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I agree. Benchmark not good
I agree, benchmarks not good.
I didn't notice that. I never used exact dimension searches because more often than not, they eliminate all of the interesting results which I would have been able to crop/resize to my desired dimensions manually. It's better to have some results you can transform than to have no results.
This is definitely because of paid questions - if you take a look at the most revenue generating questions they are all pretty dumb - I spent some time trying to think of some good questions to see whether it was possible to make money, but soon realised I couldn't bring myself to participate in such stupidity - if a good question is worth nothing from a financial perspective, why bother?

They need to start incentivising answers in someway soon otherwise it's going to go even further downhill.