skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the first thing that strikes you about ~juan-ramirez/financial-aid is that something is wrong because you are not Juan Ramirez

User studies indicate that the first thing a user notices is... Nothing. The gobbledygook in the path is so much noise for the average user that they don't notice if the path seems off. In fact, it makes sense to hide it from a security standpoint to decrease the odds that users go information blind to the domain, because we already know that improper domain routing to lookalike domains is, by far, the most common vector for credential theft.

There isn't even a guarantee that showing the path to address the 7% case (which really looks like more 0.07%) will on average cause the incidence of users being compromised to go down, if it means users are less likely to notice that the subdomain and domain are off.

I'm sure that for the people who really care, it won't take long to hack together a chrome extension that drops the full URL into the page title or a pop-up box on the page itself.
The monopoly started breaking up decades ago, and is currently at 35%.
There is nothing wrong with using a non-linear model, though; x^2 or x^3 regressions make sense on many datasets.

Non-continuous is also not the perfect terminology, but I argue that it is more precise than non-linear: the chief idea being that the model "changes unpredictably."
I guarantee a cottage industry of YouTubers would pop up digesting and rewrapping that content. Today, it's probably too inaccessible for them to do so.
On a related note (Yes crypto, sorry) Filecoin is encouraging people to help backup certain large data sets: https://filecoin.io/blog/intro-filecoin-discover/
While still quite recent this is from May 28th, so its not an update in the ongoing saga.
Yeah ... they still manage to kill a fair 250K people a year by mistake. [0]

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
I'm also posting GIF's on twitter, like this one where I use vertex shader to make a cool wind animation on the forest

https://twitter.com/victorqribeiro/status/127232279068793651...
> I really enjoy them. Install it, forget about it, let it update automatically.

This is the same thing that happens when installing from the distribution's package manager? I install it, forget about it, and run the update command whenever I remember, once every few weeks.

The amount of available software depends on your distribution, but on Arch practically everything is available in the official repositories or the user repositories.

And when security issues are fixed, updating my system fixes them for all applications instead of just the ones which update their flatpaks (and from the article, it seems like many don't).
Well, there are gradations to "the wider world". I don't know about you, but I read a lot of stuff that's way outside my area. That's why I hang out here. There's a huge gulf between "suitable for mainstream TV" and the opaque and overly compacted research paper. Places like New Scientist and Ars Technica fill this gap to some extent, but they tend to oversimplify to appeal to a wider audience. I'd rather hear it from the authors in an only slightly dumbed down form.
Wickr is another alternative with really tight security throughout it's app to stack.
> The applications are not only limitless

You cannot imagine how many times I've heard this line over my career. What it actually means is "we do not yet understand the limitations of this technology".

If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody talking about unlimited growth in the dot-com era, I'd have a lot more money than my options ended up being worth.
> Maemo/Meego was their previous replacement candidate, based on Linux and Qt. Personally I liked this one.

Meego—and the Nokia N9 it ran on—was so damn good. I can still remember the feeling of using it; it felt so good!

I am still pissed off that they killed it. For Windows Phone, of all things!
TiKV Performance Tuning with Regions
I'm genuinely curious if there are black or African American programmers who actually use git who are offended by the term. Speaking for myself (white programmer) it just seems to be an obvious use of the adjective form of the word as either the principal branch (like master bath) or the branch from which other branches are copied (as in the initial, pristine version). If there are such comments I haven't come across them yet.

There are several comments by other white people who see this as a highly commendable act. Does anyone actually subject to racism see this move as a positive step that addresses a real problem?
Empire building by democratising access to tech
What's wrong with wanting to paint and sculpt clay?
We've added a few more features:

- Each location shows the last availability of a Click and Collect opening. For example: Emeryville, CA last was 11:29 AM today.
- Auto refresh of the website so you don't have to click refresh.
- An iOS app so you can get mobile alerts on available time slots: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1517900726
> I'm already right on the edge of deciding to move due to having lived most of my life in sunny regions and really disliking the gloomy weather here.

I'd say that's valid enough reason to move on its own. I've lived in Seattle for forever and the weather is one of the things that has kept me here through economic ups and downs.

The cost of living is only "low" here for people like us who are already doing very well for ourselves and I'm not at all enjoying the yawing inequity becoming increasingly wider. I'm not someone who pines for the "better days" of yesteryear or wants to cling tightly to some treasured local watering hole. We need a sane tax policy and a sane housing policy otherwise this all comes to a crashing halt.
Could even just be that night owls are "people with more inertia".
The thing is, if we could write a specific, closed-end, prescriptive definition of "meaningful" or "understanding" or whatever, then we'd be able to program it. And we can't, so we have to settle for something else, usually how a thing fails to be what we (indeed subjectively) consider meaningful. Still, it's not arbitrary.

The way that something like GPT-3 tends to fail basically is that you 2-3 paragraphs where paragraph 3 will containment statements that subtly contradict the semantics of paragraph 1. Things like seeing things inside closed drawers and other cues that the thing has no fixed world-model. That's what gives an impression of "meaningless" or "no understanding". (admittedly, I've only played with GPT-2 but this is a description of how texts written by these models at first seem plausible and then implausible as you read more).

It's not some philosophical objection akin to "nothing but a human brain can think".
That's definitely true, America is leading the charge in the "mask off" era.

That is a good point. Canada and Europe have the same problems mostly, not as bad (sometimes not nearly as bad), but hide it much more carefully. And there is a lot of misplaced pride in being "better than the US" for things where that is the lowest bar.
Which is the most expensive country in the world?
You can certainly vocalize something willfully. But the people who don't have to do any vocalization at all and are generating megabytes to gigabytes of data on how the application is used by their mere use of it are going to always have a default stronger voice than people who bother to show up on message boards to voice specific concerns.
"picom" or "compton" is all it takes
I haven't seen any either. The pop ups just say "cookies exist and we use them". There is no option to say no: the only way to dismiss the pop up is to click the accept button.

So not only do they not inform the user about the risks associated with this invasion of privacy which is a prerequisite for informed consent, they also take away the option to explicitly say no.

Even though opting out of tracking is the default, sites are probably placing cookies and fingerprinting the user's browser on their first visit anyway before they even see the consent pop up. So ignoring the pop up is probably not a real option either.
This comment gives me hope that there are at least some decent people on Hacker News.

Every time I read an article here I am put off from participating further because the comments are usually filled with toxic spew from peacock fan boys Who think they know better.

You have my up vote.
"a lot of the confusion is going to come down to the fact that you're not an American who is getting dragged into socio political issues"

That's partly my point though. That if you are bombarded with 'racism' as a topic daily, and want to do something about it, you are tempted to do something, at least something, and once you are actively looking for problems, you will find them. Once you are convinced that it's everywhere and has to go, there is next to no limit where your quest might lead you. It having lead to this right here is the perfect example.

'Master/Slave is in fact a pretty terrible description'

'primary/secondary' is nice, master/slave is just extremely ingrained, let's agree on that, so you know what is meant by it. I deeply hope we won't have 500 various naming conventions for what used to be called master/slave.

"But who would see black and white as a description of skin color? Pretty much every American."

Then let's discuss THE CAUSE FOR THIS. Because it's wrong, it's wrong to invoke race everywhere those two colors are mentioned in some specific context. Is renaming everything maybe just putting a shade over something that Americans should confront themselves with more honestly, more deeply, because I know via my upbringing, that I never would have thought about whitelist/blacklist as skin color, it would have been so far away from my radar... maybe you think renaming master/slave here will somehow have a ripple effect, or is part of something bigger and a warranted change. I think it will do exactly nothing, and is just blind activism that breaks decades of convention.

'That is a pretty poor explanation of the phenomena at hand.'

I was over simplifying on purpose, because what I wanted to portray was 'someone outside of it' I guess.

'software is probably the absolutely smallest portion of a massive change.'

I think it's just something to make people feel better, 'we've done something about it now', it's the 'smallest portion' of massive change, it's also the most non-impactful, which is why I find the case for it to be weak.
I heard of this stuff before, sounds insane companies try to claim everything you make as their own even if working on it at home using your own funds and equipment. As much I don't like the politics of California, I feel like this is something they got right.

Wonder if maybe this is why some companies are expanding in other places like Austin, Texas or Salt Lake City? Like for example Apple is going to the largest employer in Austin, yet Texas doesn't offer as many employment protections... Maybe as things grow, Texas and other states will look into the issue more... I do think in general tech spreading throughout the country instead of being centralized in California is a pro though.
I haven't tested but, as far as I'm aware unlock origin never sends anything back to a site, it just blocks content so I expect that it would just remove the element with no feedback.
This looks incredible! I come across people who are trying to use our service (speech synthesis) and are looking for a complementary services like this all the time. The closest thing I've come to recommend is https://talktablet.com/.
One way (an old way) is for, say a newspaper or magazine, to publish a novel as a serial. The newspaper pays the author for a few pages at a time, and the newspaper gets subscription fees and ad revenue.
> And when security issues are fixed, updating my system fixes them for all applications instead of just the ones which update their flatpaks (and from the article, it seems like many don't).

That is an ideal, the reality is somewhat different. It takes constant effort to ensure this. See https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCopies for details.
Are there examples in history where things requiring great time and effort were built then abandoned?

In recent times, due to a relative dearth of high yield investment opportunities, there is a lot of money with nowhere to go. Some believe much of it is "dumb" money. Overfunded startups are one possible symptom. Heavily-funded "AI" may be another.

This is before we even consider the moral and ethical issues of using "AI" as a substitute for human judgment. It may "work" but that in itself may not be an adequate justification for its use.
The government doesn't enforce cookie banners. They enforce that there shouldn't be tracking. It's the tech companies who think it's worth while to annoy the users with coockie banners in order to be able to do more tracking (my assumption is that some make the banners extra painful as a way to steer anger towards legislature ...)
Your daughter sounds awesome, is there a problem with her being an artist?
Ask HN: What are some good videos on real implementations of distributed systems
I recently watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ and really liked the video. I am wondering if there are other videos on some large scale distributed software used at enormous scale, and how they work.
The only significant contributors to calories and mass of any food item are water, proteins, carbs, and fat. They are respectively 0, 4, 4, and 9 calories per gram. So, foods that are waterlogged (fruits and veggies) are very low calories per gram and foods that are fattier will be denser.

Honestly curious: Is there more discussion to be had than that?
I agree with this! I prefer reading Axler's 2nd edition because it is a lot less distracting.
Seems so.

There is https://ipfs-search.com/ [https://github.com/ipfs-search/ipfs-search].
Disliking the politics of the US doesn't mean you become pro-China or pro-Russia obviously, that's absurd.

"we've only been fighting these oppressive forces on your behalf for a very, very long time."

Gross. That's as polite as I can be there and it's difficult.

"Pinochet" Are you trolling or do you not know which nearby superpower is responsible for installing him. Perfect example though, of the kind of fighting being done on "my behalf"
Great stuff! it's great to see people building their own WebGL engines instead of using the default option (Three.js)

Enjoy, good luck!
By my count, every new built-in app which Apple has introduced in the past two years has been a Catalyst app. It's possible I'm forgetting one, but the trend is pretty clear.

Stock apps set the example for how third party apps should use your platform. IMO, Apple is setting a pretty clear example.
That manual is great! I highly recommend reading through it for anyone interested in computing history - and anyone interested in how to communicate clearly in technical writing.

Here's a fun report from someone who had the 205 as their first personal computer:

https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2017/10/09/my-first-comput...

I loved this story at the end:

> Skip on Minus

> One of the programs that I wrote during the summer at the University of Utah involved a loop that was exactly 20 instructions long. That meant the entire loop could be loaded into the high speed memory. It didn't even need the jump instruction from the end of the loop back to the beginning. It would just continue execution from the duplicate of the code in the next block on the drum. The trouble was there was no way to exit the loop.

> I needed a "Skip on Minus" instruction. There was a "Skip on Plus", but no "Skip on Minus". The EE grad student who maintained the machine was a guy named Joe. I wish I could remember his last name. Anyway, I told him I needed a "Skip on Minus" instruction. He said, "I'll put one in". He disappeared behind the cabinets with circuit diagrams and a soldering iron. He called out, "the op code will be 51".

> I wrote my program with a "51" instruction. It worked perfectly. And so the University of Utah had the only Burroughs 205 Datatron in the world with a "Skip on Minus" instruction.
I'm confused. I agree that overfitting can lead to very bad models.

But, what I don't understand is that I thought that "linear" in ML contexts was normally used in the sense of 'linear transformations', which is a sense of linear that 'line-fit' from excel isn't -- it's affine.

Is a linear model with thousands/millions of weights/parameters (like deep learning models) really substantially simpler to understand? Can it do anything useful?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_map
Taylor must have some pretty deep insight now into average costs for Vapor hosted apps. Has he shared that anywhere?
PowerPC was far from a dead-end technology when it was announced. They had a very ambitious road map and were responsive to customer needs.
> My first schema designs didn’t even have relations.

I'm pretty sure your first schema designs had relations (tables). I can't speak for relationSHIPS (foreign keys) though...

;)
My guess would be because everyone's doing SEO, and since everyone's competing to be on the top of people's Google searches, they're often inadequate
Another "I did x extremely random thing with a Raspberry Pi" post
Sure, operated manually by a bunch of people with PhDs.
How to create a video call application with WebRTC
Took some time over the weeks to play and figure out WebRTC. Made a simple app out of it. Do check it out!
Thanks, I'm learning a lot.
Respectfully, I think you're both right. Certainly recumbent bikes are aerodynamically efficient, but it's worth considering that in a bike race one also needs to ride uphill, and the instability of a recumbent at slow speeds would be a disadvantage here. I haven't checked, but I suspect most hill climb records would be held by traditional bike frames.
FB won't censor Trump's posts, but it will censor an account repeating them
In communication, meaning is a collaboration between writer and reader. The writer does their best to convey something; the reader does their best to understand.

There's also the kind of meaning that scientists and researchers talk about when they extract knowledge from data. That's pretty different from communication; it's more a process of internal generation of notions and explanations that could later be conveyed in communication.

And then there's the meaning that is even more internal. E.g., reading tarot cards or tea leaves, people generate meaning out of nothing. And then there's Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

If you're saying machine-generated text is meaning in the sense of that last category then sure, it's something we loosely call meaning. But it's fundamentally the same as other sorts of cleromancy [1], just more elaborate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy
That's the whole point of the subsidy program SpaceX is applying for.

> If SpaceX and similar companies are rejected from the low-latency category, they will be at a disadvantage in a reverse auction that will distribute $16 billion—$1.6 billion yearly, over ten years—from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). The auction, scheduled to begin on October 29, will give ISPs funding to deploy broadband in census blocks where no provider offers home-Internet speeds of at least 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream.
The demand would not be too high if it were not priced at that virtually requires extreme cruelty to both animals and workers.

Americans also eat far more protein than reasonable. There is no reason the inhumane farms can’t be drastically reduced, except that people are accustomed to dirt cheap excess meat.
The point of terrorism is not the immediate killing and destruction. The point is the terror, the state of fright and panic, which makes the victim lose their mind and do stupid, self-destructive things. This is the real, large-scale, lasting impact.

By this metric, 9/11 is the single biggest and most resounding victory of terrorists since August 1914 when a terrorist attack provoked WWI.

So it goes :(
xelxebar was asking about this historical background of the x86 architecture, not a historical background of Linux. Knowing how the x86 architecture evolved over time helps explain the oddities.
Exactly. It took me a long time to piece together that modern wheat was making me sick. I don't think I ever would have if I hadn't been so intrigued by the gluten free diet trend and started researching it. I am able to eat whole grain spelt without problems.
Always assume an organization is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. The managerial elite will cater to their own personal interests, not those of idealists who give away stuff for free.
I think this is a nice theoretical fiction. In my experience and colleagues I’ve talked to about it, those that go into it knowing the system to be a nonsensical game and train defensively for it interview at 10 places and get 9 offers. Those that approach it organically, casually, get no offers and eventually after months go back and train aggressively and try again.

Interviewing isn’t fun, if you find it fun then you probably find casually engaging in leetcode competitions fun, which is totally fine, great even that you enjoy that. But let’s not pretend that it’s not a game with particular rules.
Agreed, that's what /opt is for.
tldr; uBlock Origin removing the html element containing the "we use cookies" banner is effectively the same as clicking "OK" or "Accept", even without notifying the site/server. If there are any exceptions, they are extremely rare.

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Long answer:

The vast majority of sites that show the GDPR "we use cookies" banner remember you clicked "OK" or "Accept" by setting a boolean value, either in its own cookie or as a key-value in your session cookie's storage (whether stored client-side or server-side). The ONLY thing the boolean does is determine whether or not to show the banner. That's it. I've never known of a company or site that changes the privacy/retention behavior of its features based on clicking "OK" or "Accept".

As I understand it this solution doesn't follow the law, as users are supposed to be able to decline cookies and somehow still maintain state; the lawmakers don't understand a session is necessary for things like logins, so of course companies compromise with a simple banner that you need to accept/dismiss to "grant permission". When was the last time you saw a "Decline Cookies" button? If you click it, does the site work as expected? Answer: probably not, or the site uses the same cookie/session strategy anyway without telling you.

Source: I've seen dozens of such implementations, and they're all the same. If the cookie/session value indicates not to show banner, then the layout/view simply skips outputting the banner. No other line in the entire code base ever reads the value of that cookie/session.
This is head-per-track drum/disk (none of this new fangled seeking stuff) - probably the slow tracks has a single set of R/W heads per track while the fast tracks had multiple heads spaced around the drum.

When I was a B6700 systems hack, mid 70s, we still had head-per-track disks for system files (and paging/swapping) and slower seeking (removeable) disk packs for system files
Fisherian Runaway
I agree the Froome position is awful.
This was my argument for why Apple shouldn't have killed Aperture. Sure, it was a tiny percentage of Apple's business, but it was beloved by customers and independently profitable—more profitable than plenty of entire businesses.

Apple still killed it.
I guess you’ve never been in a country with (hyper)inflation or with stock market dropping 90%, and when all of your private retirement money goes up in smoke in a year. the closer you are to retirement age the more interesting it gets.
dang: just for context, I've posted this here for discussion... Don't know why it was flagged.