skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but dnssec is still going nowhere...

The future seems to be HTTPS with domain-validated certificates over insecure DNS, or even dnssec but doing the http challenge over an insecure network.

Great for state actors to inject malware into any site...
I've been using Luminar and have been mostly happy with it but it's possible that only because I don't know what I'm missing (with regard to Affinity). I'll have to check it out!
As much as I agree with your assessment.

You only get ONE chance to beat AI in real life dogfight. So you better make sure that your strategy to exploit AI is going to work.
This post contains a bunch of information about the question, but it doesn't seem to actually address the question.

The question is: does Chromium send the first word I type to my ISP?

The answer appears to be: yes.
'Data' is quite broad. If you need results in a tabular format I agree with you - without doubt SQL is the API.

But for nested data (XML, JSON, etc.) it really isn't the best language for that. I am talking here specifically about not querying data that is nested, but actually getting query results in a nested format. SQL can do it (almost all major databases have XML and JSON support) but it rally isn't the easiest thing to use.
Very much worth a read:

“as if our own metabolic processes would have an effect 18 kilometers away,”
Will read and come back, maybe I am missing something. Thanks.
Congrats on 1.0.0!!
Yes, I love it. I have tried numerous workflows to keep notes including Evernote, NValt, Devonthink, Bear, Agenda, Moleskine, paper...

This beats them all. Yes, there are software quirks, some huge gaps in the system (cut and paste between notebooks), but it's always available with no friction.
That is exactly the premise behind Kafka and LinkedIn's (creator of Kafka) systems architecture. Here's an excellent article on how that architecture looks in practice:
https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Will look into all of this, thanks.
Neverending lockdowns belong in the dustbin of history besides eugenics and nonconsensual human experimentation. The virus is endemic. The fact that people don’t really understand that is a leadership failure. Let’s all move on.
Yup. The UX guys didn't apreciate how critical the software was and how half-baked it was going to be (and therefore require pilots to need to interact with it requiring good UX). The software guys didn't know that the pilots weren't gonna know how to turn off the software so they didn't know they couldn't half bake it. The engine guys didn't know the software guys were gonna half bake it. The AOA guys retired in the 1990s and had no idea the system was gonna be used for anything more than warning lights.

Everyone did their job as it exists on paper but... https://youtu.be/452XjnaHr1A?t=20
But be sure to put all your brilliant thoughts into writing and send it to a friend, you just might get a whole area of mathematics named after you...
Not trolling, I believe you! The piece is nicely done...

I just thought it's funny how the capability of GPT-3 (and current shock-of-the-new value) has potentially inverted the Turing test :)
Could this be simply solved by having their star rating influenced by % ride drops? Uber can provide its price estimate as just that - a kelly blue book value so that riders can compare and contrast?

Most customers will search for a range of rating + price - so the market can regulate itself. I mean we accept amazon displaying user ratings - so I don't know why this won't work.
Why you should renegotiate your salary and how to do it
We’ve got to 2M YRR with pretty much no sales and no marketing. We do talk to customers but only when they initiate contact. We’re B2B though and the value we provide can be easily communicated in five words.
Dell says you may get as little as three months in storage from an SSD:

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/Solid...

I know someone who had their files vanish off a thumbdrive in the space of a few months of storage.
Uber is the market maker, so it’s a three part contract. Between driver and rider; between driver and uber; between rider and uber.

Part of the market making function is matching prices offered and taken. Theoretically Uber is chopping off all the drivers with too high a price and riders who want too low of a price and “forcing a rate” is really just matching all the compatible rates that fall into a close range (“the algorithm”).

Maybe Uber could do more to show all the incompatible rates. But I think they delist drivers who would ask too high.
In my company, the biggest issue is finding the right data sets in company's vast data landscape, figuring out the exact definition/meaning of each column etc. Then, it's dealing with the data quality issues. Then, it's getting access to it and setting up an ingestion job for the data to be copied to some common storage (e.g. Hadoop). At the very end, it's the actual data science. I suspect a lot of the PhDs we hire start drinking before they reach the data science stage :)
Hey, co-founder here. There's no pricing yet as we've just launched. Our plan is basically a public/private instance model, kind of like GitHub. The public instance will eventually have quotas (definitely for storage, maybe for server-side query execution). But the main product will be private deployments of Splitgraph, for companies that want a catalog for their internal data. Eventually you'll be able to use the web UI to connect arbitrary upstream sources (Snowflake, BigQuery, SaaS, etc.) to the catalog. You'll be able to manage services on top of each source (e.g. caching, snapshotting, access control, query rewriting, firewalling) and share data with colleagues from the web UI. Basically we can provide a sort of aggregation layer on top of your disparate data sources. We think combining the proxy with a catalog is a really powerful combination.

We're actually looking for early customers to beta test the private deployment, more on that here: https://www.splitgraph.com/about/company/private-cloud-beta

p.s. Glad you like our privacy policy at least. :) We hate third party trackers.
Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
I'm not an astrophysicist, not even close (and I haven't read the article) but making a statement like this seems bold. Who can predict how the universe will evolve in the next 1000's of billions of years, there are just too many unknowns, no?
In my experience, yes. They certainly don’t tell people to slow down or ignore findings.
Cannot agree more - I really don't understand the argument the post is trying to make.

At some point, you are doing sales, and you are doing marketing. Heck, even talking to a mate at another company and pitching them on what you're building falls under them.

If you're not thinking about distribution (even, and I wouldn't recommend it, as a sideline item), you're going to be essentially dead in the water.

The article calls out Facebook and Slack as examples of "Product-led Growth" as somehow serperate from Sales and Marketing. I think that's perhaps misrepresenting how their growth worked. Facebook didn't grow because it was just a very good social network that was better than competitors through sheer value, but its marketing and acquisition funnels were baked into the product (friends asking friends to join - some would see that as a product feature, some would see it as an engineered marketing feature).

The Tesla example is just a weird one - once again falling into the common trap of equating advertising with all marketing. You think Tesla wouldn't have spent on advertising had they not had one of the most PR-able men in the world at the helm?
I believe it will go along the lines of a sting. Get enough complaints, send enough undercover cops on said bad rides (short routes / racial differences - whatever the drivers are being accused of) and get em.
Can the remarkable tablet (or 2nd gen) be used as a epaper monitor? I would love to be able to code on an epaper screen, even if only in a simple text editor with minimal visual change/animation.
Right. As the name implies, for structured data. Another way of looking at is, that if we make efforts to structure the data, SQL is pretty good.

We should also consider the capabilities of PostgreSQL to query JSON documents.
There are definitely also boundaries on any aircraft. There are speed limits, acceleration limits, etc.

The AI is just controlling the aircraft, so any simulation where the AI isnt bound by the aircraft's limitations would not be a good setup.

This isn't different from simulation based training of autonomous vehicles. Imagine if in an AV simulation, the AV controller could opt to accelerate 0-60 in 1 second, or if it could suddenly go 300mph to skip an up coming collision, etc.
When war starts someone always gets the jump on someone. Look at the strategic picture. That's one airframe. It's acceptable losses in exchange for not shooting at things you can't see prior to open hostilities.
As a major Open Source contributor, I'd say that advocating the software goes a long way.

For example, in one of my last job (I'm a freelance), I could get paid full time to contribute to open source tools because the guy taking the decision heard about PostgreSQL and open source somewhere. If that guy has only heard about Oracle, the same work would have gone closed source.

If the person responsible for the office solution of a school heard of open office from you, you did help a lot. Because many times, big open source users will invest in open source, in form of support, custom development or just sponsoring.
Why would you need to file a chargeback? They say they'll give you a refund any time. Have you asked for one and been refused?
Ejection is a thing. At this point it’s also about who has better missiles and more of them.

The USAF missiles will make guns obsolete doctrine of the 1960’s was premature not completely wrong.
The researchers used "[...] custom microsensors that detected changes in the mud’s chemistry."

I have been toying with the idea of analysing the composition of soils for house plants etc, but never had the time to actually dig deep enough to get started working on it. My shallow searches for raspberry pi sensors was not super succecssful (they do exist, but most projects seem old and abandoned)

Are there any affordable sensors out there that can be used to analyse soil samples? Alternatively, what knowledge is required to build sensors that can detect chemical composition of soil?
Looks like you have to modify the source code and rebuild from source to get longer identifiers.

“
...

The system uses no more than NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of an identifier; longer names can be written in commands, but they will be truncated. By default, NAMEDATALEN is 64 so the maximum identifier length is 63 bytes. If this limit is problematic, it can be raised by changing the NAMEDATALEN constant in src/include/pg_config_manual.h.

...”

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.h...
Hey, I recognize Offensi from the Liveoverflow video! [1]

I've been reading some Google VRP writeups [2] in order to inspire me in my bug bounty journey. There are a few by Ezequiel Pereira and Offensi. There's some really cool stuff, that go beyond XSS.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P9USG6kLs
[2] https://github.com/xdavidhu/awesome-google-vrp-writeups
i heard it is over 150k now
Co-founder here. The 63-char limit still applies (we didn't recompile Postgres!) but we have some code in front, embedded in a layer of PgBouncers, that intercepts the query, parses it and rewrites it into a shorter dataset ID hash that we then "mount" on the database on the fly using Postgres FDWs before forwarding it.

We also use this to drop unwanted queries and rewrite clients' introspection queries (e.g. information_schema.tables) to give them a list of featured datasets instead of normal Postgres schema names.
But governments everywhere are rejoicing at the prospect of tightly controlling their citizens' movements and decisions on a daily basis.

First everyone's trained to wear a mask "to save lives". Anyone dissenting from this party line is labeled "a horrible person", a "murderer", or - in a cruel twist of irony - perhaps even the cancel culture's catch-all slur: "oppressor".

Second, movements are routinely restricted "to save lives". Third, citizens are suckered into voluntarily signing up for pervasive surveillance that tracks where each person goes and who he or she talks to.

Finally, surveillance is no longer voluntary because an active surveillance (sorry, "contact tracing") subscription is required to access basic goods and services.

Welcome to 1984!
While I understand that is true, sassafras is essential to a good root beer, and I will continue to brew mine that way. I've found no good substitute.
Classical dog fighting is all about energy management, something which an AI can outperform humans in considerably since it doesn’t uses intuition and experience but real time data.
I justed tested this myself via logging the DNS queries, and yes, this is true.
It would be interesting to check if M class stars actually can support habitable planets. Could significantly increase the lifespan of planets like earth.

The article hints at problems in the process of early planetary creation. Although there was this Chinese sci-fi movie that I actually liked about putting giant boosters on the planet... don't remember the name, but I believe it was on Netflix.

Aren't class G stars quite common? Not as common as class M perhaps, but I always though about the sun as being quite "normal".
Henry o' sullivan is a key player in this too. Wonder how long before people start looking at him much more closely.
> there are no supernova candidates near enough to have that strong an effect.

Don't we have blind spots though? Like in the direction of the center of the galaxy or behind bright stars?
Bezos sells of few billions of AMZN every year.
Was it just me that became nauseous at the description of the lavish party where all these powerful people get to live like aristocrats? Disgusting.
> Well, that is a single addons and only one of 9 currenly allowed on Android Firefox (!!). All the other addons not on the list - bad luck!

What are you talking about? When I go to the store on Firefox for Android right now, it shows me a list of 11 "featured" extensions (so 9 is already wrong). To test whether that list is exhaustive, I searched for an extension not in the list (Old Reddit Redirect). I successfully installed it and confirmed that it works. So as far as I can see, both of your claims are completely wrong.
Waited so long!
How do software engineering teams document decisions? (2018)
See, there are weird war stories that if we turned into a movie, people would think it's Hollywood embellishing.
yep, but you either have to let it coexist with the main tab bar or go further and further to manually disable that.
The planned capacity is however only 4400 people per hour for the CES tunnel so about 14s spacing (some other projects even lower).
One train every 90s has a capacity of more than 10000 people (and that's not even rush hour with any people standing).

Sub-2 second spacing is quite unlikely to be used, since stopping distance (with 0 reaction time, which is not too unreasonable with LIDAR/RADAR) dictates around 2s spacing between vehicles (1.9s at 100km/h for teslas I believe). And while humans might be fine with ignoring safety aspects computers can't and shouldn't.

Nevermind that building a subway-light vehicles (more similar to a people mover) is not really the same thing as using slightly-modified Teslas as subway replacement (which is what it seems they will be using for now)..
> I wish they would've tested more distances.

Bluetooth is 31 years old. What is there to test?

> No one is touting these apps <snip> it's all just things we can do to reduce the risk.

The app does not reduce risk, even if it worked. It's for contact tracing. This is importantly different.

You seem confused, which I might guess is because the app was touted incorrectly in many countries. Masks and social distancing do reduce risk. Although most Western countries told you otherwise to begin with on masks. And told you incorrectly how to wash hands, and also incorrectly said it reduces risk (considered unlikely). I'll add being outdoors also probably reduces risk, not sure this is commonly touted yet.
I really get sad seeing wishfull thinking like this. In mice, it has been demonstrated that parkinsons is linked to damaged neurons - the cells are damaged for the lifetime of the animal and the symptoms appear only later in life. I have parkisons on both sides of my family tree, I've watched people die from it , I'm watching close loved ones wither away even now. I despise these feel good articles that offer false hope to the aflicted...
You would need to learn about automation resources a cloud provider has to deploy something. Think about a typical LAMP server: instead of you manually building the LAMP server: picking a Linux distro, installing Apache, PHP, MySQL, cPanel, etc. you will have scripts to build the LAMP from scratch and deploy your code. Minus the MySQL part of LAMP, your database would be running on a separate host, always on and available for any number of web servers to connect. That is a key concept that cloud typically requires a multi-tier architecture: a db server, multiple web servers behind a load balancer and the domain points to the load balancer.

Think of it like a bunch of web servers running and you define when to scale up another one (say 75% CPU utilized), it runs the scripts to create a new web server and add it behind a load balancer when that web server responds positively to a health check. This is where containers help, you define your web server build and an image is created of that build. Then cloud provider just creates a new pod/container running that image.

I tried to keep this generic, cloud providers have their own terminology on how this all works. Reading up on kubernetes will help.

The decision to use cloud computing should really be based on the number of requests. You can probably safely serve hundreds to low thousands of requests per minute on a standalone LAMP server (depending on its size).

A brochure website, say for a local restaurant, will not get a lot of traffic so cloud computing is overkill and will be too expensive compared with a $5/mo LAMP server somewhere.

Hosting 1000 brochure websites could be a good use of cloud since a lot of them will have low traffic but if something gets a lot of attention it could be mostly hands-off to let the cloud scale up appropriately, to some $ threshold.
Because that’s what it’s called in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance):

“Factoring is a financial transaction and a type of debtor finance in which a business sells its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount“
> Some program that self learned a (admittedly impressive) number of reactions based on seeing/playing a huge number of simulations is not intelligence so not AI.

Is this really that different than what humans do?

After watching dozens of AlphaStar commentary videos [1] over the last few months, I was more or less thinking the same thing: the AI has basically evolved a massive ruleset: "Do X. If you see Y, do Z."

Nonetheless, I decided to start playing again myself. Poking around, I saw a recommendation to go through one guy's sort of "training course" [2], and guess what? A lot of it comes down to the same kind of thing. "Send your first overlord to scout their natural. If they haven't expanded to their natural, build one -- ONE -- spine crawler in your natural."

How much of our "intelligence" is really anything more than pattern matching + search? And during the actual dogfight, how much of what the human pilot was doing was anything more than simply pattern matching from their own vast experience racked up in a simulator?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVRQoOk_ltE3Fr1ofRE0Y...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeZeom2b4Dlt63qmkPO8...
I would pay a silly sum of money for an eInk laptop so I can code outside in the sun. We get so little sun here in the UK that my side project productivity plummets in good weather because I was to sit out and enjoy it. It doesn’t need to have a high refresh rate, it just has to be able to display text and browser the internet in some semblance of reasonable.
Many governments have been built in ways to try to mitigate this. For example, in the US we have the electoral college and the Senate (where each state has an equal vote). Not saying I support the electoral college (I don't), but at least there's some thought behind it...

Another example is the parliamentary system where each party gets some type of representation in the government and where absolute majorities are rare.

Point being that governments, while democratic in flavor, have implemented some safeguards against this type of tyrany of the majority.
Yes and no. If James Damore had worked for the NY Times, the Newspaper Guild leadership might have loathed him, but it would have fought for his job.
According to he article, modelling shows that lockdowns are unnecessary if mask and hand washing compliance is > 70% and contact tracing effectiveness is > 80%.
Yeah, MUDs were very much the spiritual precursors to the modern MMORPG. Both have the same extremely addictive property.
What’s the difference between running iOS apps on Macs and Android apps badly on Windows.

50% of users in the US own iPhones.
This is why people train. Once AI piloted planes are prevalent on the battlefield, there will be a huge effort to capture enemy systems and develop tactics against them. The USA has been doing it for decades (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Doughnut), I’m sure that China and Russia have as well.
True, and just imagine if the reviewer were a PhD candidate who would be seeking a job in a few years.
I can see the scary part being what happens when you network a bunch of these. At least until the EWAR guys figure out how to ruin it's day.
I think the "nautil.us" domain name on the end usually suggests that.
Comparison and tear down of all USB chargers
>like, an irrational amount given the risk.

The risk that 300 Peoples at once can die? I think that's very rational.
Why should I trust this random nobody who doesn't have even a single commit in their GitHub profile page's activity list?

Also, the comment you describe is from May 2019, so their timeline of "within the next year" is already refuted by reality.
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