skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First fuzzer I wrote (we didn't call them that, we were just trying to find bugs triggered by bad packets in a cable TV protocol suite) made random bad packets - by making good ones and then mutating them past some random point - it found 3 bugs (which was amazing at the time) but the real problem with all these systems is (in terms of my problem ):

- the number of possible bad packets is literally billions of times larger than good ones
- pretty soon the percentage of those that trigger bad behaviour gets close to 0
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Which might be cut by annoying all their customers. And there might not be value (now) but it might be cheaper to just DDOS any potential threat rather than risk competition.

Of course, that's under the belief one's above the law.
The school district must conduct due diligence on its counter-parties, to an extent determined by the scope of the project and level of risk. If the school officials failed to do basic research on the contractors, or did not hedge against risks, I would blame the officials and not the contractors.

The school officials have a responsibility to the public, while the contractor does not.
This is awesome! It will be interesting to see if a new trend of moonshot project startups emerge, and if their returns can be comparable to software startups.
No, not really, None of these are what I'm talking about when referring to "array languages". I'm talking about APL and its descendants, j, kdb+/q, k, etc.
I wouldn’t and I’ve professionally sourced and brokered PII. It may be the case that you could match up IP’s with other fingerprinting and/or PII but I’m not sure how. I’ve never seen a broker with a PII data product that would even accept an IP as an input, and IP geolocation is famously inaccurate. This strikes me as theoretically possible but totally infeasible unless you have access to some very special data. I’ve always assumed it was possible and that someone was likely doing it but I was never able to determine how with data that could be acquired through the usual channels.
Very sad.

The extraordinary push by firms such as Robinhood to encourage unprepared individuals to participate in day trading is a troubling development. They can call it "investing" all they want, but it is clear that unlimited commission-free trading without any meaningful vetting encourages uninformed day trading.

The markets benefit from having a highly diverse set of entities, each with its own particular area of expertise that gets pooled together.

The markets are damaged by high rates of uninformed trading, which only promote instability and general disfunction. More importantly, these traders have overwhelming odds of getting hurt. The only ones who benefit from such trading are 1) firms like Robinhood who get paid for their unsophisticated order flow, 2) market makers, and 3) informed entities pushing markets back towards efficiency. Speaking as one who benefits, I can say that we would all be better off as a society without this particular order flow.

I think there should be a limit on the rate of commission-free trading until an individual can demonstrate a reasonable level of proficiency. A firm like Robinhood could do some good if they provided a great paper trading environment and tools that allowed users to evaluate expected profit and variance in particular strategies they want to pursue. Once a trader demonstrates profit beyond random noise, commission-free trades could be gradually increased. I think this would encourage people to learn how to provide services of real value to markets through their trading or else recognize they are unable to be profitable. Unfortunately, I doubt Robinhood would ever do this as it would significantly undermine their current business model.
Well, funnily enough, I’m sure America’s opponents are helping to stir the mess. I’m sure roubles or yuans flow in via crypto or whatever to help stir trouble.

Of course not out of support for a noble goal, or a low desire to watch a fight, but to destabilise the situation.

Still, it’s America’s fault for getting to this point...
It is quite amazing that this model is so concise and can be expressed with just a few hundred lines of code. (similar models as well, in general)

Looking at the samples I am amazed by some of the results.
Trading options already requires extra approval with several levels which determine how advanced, how big, and how risky of a trade you can make.

Better verification of a person's financials and trading knowledge before allowing this access would be helpful.
@jonahbenton I think you're missing the bigger picture here. NBC is a giant media monopoly that approached a giant S230 platform monopoly to demonetize a website's ad traffic via that S230 platform's advertising business. The plumbing of the surveillance capitalism advertising world is a detail in a much larger issue. The current siege mentality of starving out dissenting online voices, or merely voices that don't fit establishment narratives, is both undemocratic and harmful to the free speech conventions that define the free world.
Tyler Durden as you probably know is a pseudonym for various writers at ZH and they also republish all sorts of other blog posts. Like most people I have mixed feelings about much of what they publish, have picked up invaluable information from their site and have questions about the Bulgarian owners, but I absolutely defend their right to publish and to not be bullied by much larger players.
I have the Samsung CHG90, which is 3840x1080. It's literally a 4k TV cut in half horizontally. It enables me to very comfortably display three windows side by side. More than anything I have ever bought, this monitor has improved my productivity. They now have a newer version that is 5120x1440.

The trade off is this monitor is very low res, about 100ppi. I don't know anything about how the various OSes render text. But I have found that by far, Ubuntu renders the text the best. Text in both OSX and Windows looks absolutely dreadful on this monitor, but Ubuntu is really quite pleasant. Which is not at all what I was expecting.
You don't have to do such hypothetical backflips when you can see that the entire response of a huge group of people to Roe v. Wade has been to force the judiciary to legislate from the bench (with varying success).
Thank you all for good advice and kind words :)
> So how about stopping with the voracious data collection feeding into a permanent profile? You know, like the web used to work?

You're asking Google to stop making most of their money. Their whole business is built around selling advertisers a targeted advertising platform.

- Advertising revenue of Google for 2019 (in billion U.S. dollars): 134.81 [1]
- Annual revenue of Google for 2019 (in billion U.S. dollars): 160.74 [2]

Sure, they should stop, people should not get fingerprinted across sites, these companies should not track us, but good luck getting them to comply with just asking.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-revenue-of-google/
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-global-revenue/
You must have not been paying attention to financial news over last decade.

> When the Federal Open Market Committee wishes to reduce interest rates they will increase the supply of money by buying government securities. When additional supply is added and everything else remains constant, the price of borrowed funds – the federal funds rate – falls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate#Explanation...
Out of curiosity, how many conservatives have made someone lose their job this week for having an incorrect opinion?
It's not a piece of software my dude.

The responsibility would legally have rested with the well operator, but the well operator went bankrupt.

If you read the article, you will see that abandoned wells often end up in limbo between the bankrupt operator and its creditors. Meanwhile, the landowner is facing the negative externalities of the well (seepage, gas leaks, etc), and often has no choice but to pay to resolve the problems caused by the well being poorly terminated. There are supposed to be bonds in place to pay for these processes, but in practice those bonds only cover a fraction of the cost.
I think Tesla has more mature battery management software that prolongs the life of the battery but that may no longer be true or exclusive.
This is cherry-picked, emotional, and an anecdote.

How about some happy stories of all the 20-year-olds who became millionaires from unregulated bitcoin trading to show the other side of the coin?

I guess I have a rather libertarian view on this, that it's worse to outlaw the knife than for a fraction of knife users to accidentally cut themselves. That said, I'm entirely in support of more educational resources on the topic, but don't hold anybody accountable for that.
How aren't games so lucrative? did you any of your guys did try D before rust?
I have to try that. I haven't done much with video both because I lack a good place to record and because I am more used to writing. Worth trying it though.
Yeah, come for the cheap compute, stay for the expensive network costs... forever.
I posted it twice. And I will go line by line:

Corporate action in 10 years by a company that encourages the disuse of public transport.

News cycle: Uber/Lyft volume is very low. Get in the news and get folks to start using Lyft as restrictions end. "we are good, we are saving the climate"

What's the meaning? Is it binding? Is it legal? Or is it just words that they can walk back at any moment for any reason or just forget the made this claim.

It's not name calling; I'm pointing out this is fluff and pretty much does not mean anything.

Thanks for your input and vote.
Using Google BigQuery to identify the most popular commit message in Git
Except that in Go, you always return the error alongside the value, like this:

return 0, errors.New("unable to get price")

It's less elegant than Options but still, very common practice. GP's company clearly hasn't bought into Go if they're using a library that doesn't follow well-known conventions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

`DNT=1` would have done the job. Unfortunately, the standard was not widely adopted and subsequently abandoned.
Yes, but you're missing the forest for the trees. A government entity (TSA) had a thing built specifically for their needs ("secure" locks for luggage) and promised they would be the only ones capable of unlocking it. Then somehow the "secret" they promised to protect (physical keys) got leaked out somehow and now the entire thing is security theater.

Also I think they used these locks on handgun / firearm containers that were declared when travelers with a CPL or LEO people traveled. Those are typically put into a hard container that is difficult to open unless you unlock the lock.

EDIT: last paragraph is wrong, please ignore that. Thanks guys.
I'd examine Chesterton's Fence before using that example.
So what you're saying is as Microsoft (as an example) does not let you signup/pay for Outlook Premium within the Outlook iOS app Apple do not get a cut?

If so why is this approach being denied to Hey.com? Reading David's tweet it seems Apple are saying Hey.com have to add an option to subscribe and pay for the Hey service within the app and give Apple a 30% cut. Or am I not reading things right?

Edit: further reading shows Apple are comparing "business services" and "consumer" products as being the difference.

As in a "business service" can charge externally to the App Store and provide an app for said service without Apple getting a cut but as a "consumer" that exception is void.

Not really sure how that makes any difference though as Microsoft (again as an example) allow anyone to buy their services be it a business or a consumer. I don't see how this is any different for Hey.com.
Yes, I've checked out what they do. I might go in that direction with some visual representation of what I write, thanks.
Sadly, the CRT manufacturers back then when it was still obviously superior to LCD and Plasma, decided to kill it early, SONY was still selling CRTs faster than flat panels when they shut down their factories.

Many people today think that noone make CRT because noone buy it, but is the opposite, you couldn't buy CRTs anymore because manufacturers intentionally killed them.

There was even research ongoing at the time to make a slim flat panel CRT, but they cancelled that too.

CRT due to being analog, doesn't support DRM, thus this contributed a lot to its rapid death. (among other reasons).

People still use CRT in some arcade machines, medical industry (for example to diagnose certain visual disorders, and a plasticity research I know, require zero update lag, thus only possible with CRT), industrial applications where flat panels are too fragile and whatnot, but all of these are basically buying existing CRTs, driving up the price.

There was some people trying to restart production, but... the companies that have the patents refuse to sell them, the companies that know how to make them also refuse to sell the machinery and whatnot, and the few independent attempts failed often due to regulations.

Also in USA someone invented a machine to recycle CRTs, and ended being shut down due to regulations too, so in USA because of regulation instead of safely melting glass and lead, the law basically says to dump it all in landfills.
I'm genuinely curious why some of you think they wouldn't try? They're a company with a product to sell to few industries, even fewer where it can be leveraged as completely as in law enforcement.. so why wouldn't they?
At https://team.video instead of lying to you and saying we do end to end encryption, we tell you that we do point to point encryption: https://team.video/pages/security

This allows us to identify the active speaker, keep some statistics on who spoke in the meeting, and rely on mediasoup's fantastic media router ("e.g. hey, we missed a keyframe there, can you give one to me?")

(edit: omit needless words)
It would also be fast, right? You would only need to worry about transistor switching speed, not decoding microcode...

Disclaimer: just a software engineer, I've only ever heard of microcode, never seen it or written it.
Dropbox does suck though.
I can't wait for the quarantine to be over. I'm tired of this Zoom-mania.
Depends what your product is, I think. If you are using SDL, then it won't be too difficult to support Linux. But some things will work fine using some sort of VM code anyways, such as emulation of old game systems, or text-adventure VMs such as Z-machine and Glulx, or HTML. For some products, just ensure it is fully documented; if it isn't available on Linux, some users may then reimplement it on Linux, supporting the same protocol.
> As I understand it knowing that someone is using Tor is usually trivial

Yeah, Facebook almost certainly receives a lot of attempted traffic from those relatively few TOR exit node IPs, so I'm sure part of their system is aware that they are effectively proxy IPs.
Of course you're the expert here, but isn't this a little nitpicking? The decode logic of the Z80 (from your site[1]) works in much the same way as microcode by stepping through a set of fixed "instructions".

[1] http://static.righto.com/images/z80/z80_labeled_bus_addr.png
Kepler Telescope Reveals as Many as 6B Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy
Totally! I really think there's an opportunity for a CRT company to start. All of the modern flat panel displays have not measured up in many ways. Which CRTs do you use? The Sony FW900 is basically where the technology left off - and that's where we should pick it up. I used that and I also loved the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 514 too. Unfortunately, I moved across the world several times and was not able to bring them. I'd like the next wave of CRTs to have better tools to fix & refine the geometry - hate it when the outer lines get bent over time.

I don't think it is just you, but that most people are sheep and really don't have any taste or sense of their own.
Keep in mind, the Obama EPA removed the tax reimbursement for maintaining dry holes and other "Intangible Drilling Costs" This was done as a measure to encourage divestment in oil based resources, but it of course backfired.
Thanks for that! Well, that changes things doesn't it? mens my plan H for a company is still valid then!
With a 4:3 ratio, probably a T60 or a T61.
Casinos were some of the earliest users.
> but the hardware being used is far from that philosophy (Although Purism team seem to have taken great effort in choosing vendors).

Far from that philosophy? How so? Unless we're talking about them not being entirely open hardware with downloadable KiCAD files for reproducing the devices ourselves, I don't get the impression they're significantly worse than your average Linux-supported laptop, outside the baseband.

The Mnt Reform is the only machine on my radar that strives to be completely open, is the FairPhone on that level?

https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straigh...
If the landowners didn't want to accept the risks related to resource exploitation, they could have:

- Not allowed the development, and avoided the risks.

- Insured against the risks.

- Sold the land, along with all the risks.

They did none of these, and effectively self-insured; now they expect pity, which they do not deserve.
Perhaps put a list of check boxes for political topics and let people choose. Labeling topics by activity in news sources (say, in combination with other known political terms or authors) can help discover the list mechanically.
I'm in the IoT space and interestingly had a lot of contact in the last 6 months with firms doing contract work for the oil companies, or providing private services to monitor methane for working wells. The regulatory structures have been changing a lot lately, and now the old methods like flying over a field of wells and measuring aggregate methane levels is no longer sufficient. There now is a lot of interest and energy behind doing per-well monitoring.

I'm hoping that this means wells 50 years from now will be safer, but unfortunately it doesn't address a lot of the old wells that are a problem today...
> One thing that has changed is that their userbase broadened.

Their userbase changed in the two weeks since they announced their policy?
This is a fascinating article!

I remember back in my early CS courses where the teacher explained "microcode is this or that" and it sounded so dry. He could have explained microcode was magical goblins for all I cared. It didn't help that I knew nothing (and still don't) about circuitry.

But actually seeing registers and microcode there in the photo is amazing. All this stuff I was taught about actually has a physical form that can be seen!

The lowly 8086 really went a long way from its humble origins.
Tragic, and worse due to the misunderstanding.

Related: https://www.amazon.com/Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology/dp...
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That's the problem, an amateur who doesn't understand the trades they're making and how to read their positions should not be trading.

People already sign disclaimers stating they understand how to trade and potential risks. Perhaps a more intensive testing process can help to enforce that, but they're still adults making their own decisions and I don't want to add even more regulations for market access.
Actually, Camry is better because it is a car that you can actually drive where I live, unlike Ferrari.

However, car metaphors aside, my work requires apps that maintain persistent connection with server. When I carry a supercomputer in my pocket that can totally outperform my PC from 1993 by a factor of 500x or more, I kinda expect it to be able perform basic computing tasks that it is perfectly capable of, hardware-wise. And the only reason I can't is because Apple forbids me, styling it as 'care' about my battery life.
Guess I was missing the words "even more".
Things like this encourage irresponsible lending.

Credit card companies created a bunch of services designed to "help" you get out of debt without declaring bankruptcy. Which is really just a way to keep debtors tied up paying on a debt they can never pay back for as long as possible. To the point where the total interest payments and arbitration fees exceed the interest and principal on the initial loan.

Bankruptcy is an important part of capital markets. It's there to make clear the risks of lending to people who don't have the ability to pay back the loans. The more difficult it becomes to declare bankruptcy, the more predatory lending becomes.

If you knew it was impossible for someone to declare bankruptcy, why wouldn't you loan as much as possible to them? This is exactly how we got into a student loan crisis. If debtors could declare bankruptcy, then lenders would be much more judicious with their money. But as it stands, there's no real risk to giving an 18 year old hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans because it's practically a guarantee of 7% interest payments for 20+ years.
The Web Has Got Me
As a user, knowing that by buying from IAP there is a hidden tax of 30% I would always avoid giving them money.

People never realized that if company is being charged transaction fee, they will always forward that to you in one way or the other.
Test Your Python Code Using Hypothesis – Blog – Florian Dahlitz
Would you build a castle with a back-door?
If text is not marked up properly, then the user should be allowed to override that setting, but when it is marked up properly, such overriding should not be necessary.

As long as it is user configurable which fonts to use for which language, I think that it does not break compatibility to do that. Actually, I think it is a bit good idea. The document should only specify the language and the style (e.g. bold, emphasis, normal, fix pitch, heading, etc) and then that combination is mapped to a font in the browser. (If the user has enabled use of CSS fonts, and such fonts are specified, then they would override those specified by the user. If the user has not enabled use of CSS fonts, then the user's fonts are always used.) This would be needed anyways due to the Han unification that Unicode does, anyways (and Unicode is very messy, anyways). (I mentioned before that Unicode can be good for searching, and if that is what you are doing with Unicode rather than for writing and displaying documents, then Han unification is probably desirable, although again the Duocode that I mentioned before may help even more.)
Actually, yes. I don't have the source on me right now (so you can take what I say with a grain of salt), but I recall a story of someone whose router had been caught in a botnet. This person was visited by the police in much the same way, with their router being confiscated and eventually returned to them.
Capitalism itself can't get rid of zoning restrictions, only government can.
Have you looked at https://curlie.org/ (successor to DMOZ)?

What problem do you think directory websites solve that search doesn't?
Mulit FX was always something too expensive for me. When I was young I had second hand Korg A5 Multi Effects Pedal and it was nice. I will definitely buy what you recommended when I decide to expand the range of effects. Thanks!
Empirical is statically typed. I can run a backtest overnight knowing it won't crash because of a type error or misspelled column name.

I'm currently in the (long) process of adding streaming computation. Once that's ready, Empirical will be able to handle everything from gargantuan CSV files to real-time data using the same language primitives.

I talked about some of these goals when I launched on HN last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969390