skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are no direct studies about message length and efficiency. You might want to look closer at NLP because most of what you might be looking for is defined within NLP.

For Example: "Efficiency" depends on the sender (who writes) and recipient (who reads). But this is not the end.
1: HOW is something written (Hard to grasp?=> Flesh Analysis)
2: HOW is something written (10 px Font on mobil? => Typography)
3: HOW is something written (light white 20px Font on light grey background?? => Typography and Color Contrast)
... and so on for almost all topics. There are mostly more than one question to be answered ... for both views (sender and receiver).
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People want to see the world in black and white, and absolutes, today more than ever. It's fashionable to topple statues.

But the reality is grey and whatever his flaws might have been he contributed a huge amount to diving technology, to make the public discover the marine environment, and for the protection of oceans.
It's simple: when you want to express any those different meanings in writing, you don't just transliterate what you would say orally. It's as simple at writing "that" instead of "the." Except, obviously, when the ambiguity is deliberate.
I used to live in a bad neighborhood in Philadelphia and everyone I talked to wanted more police. And this included people of every race.
When I visited Vegas a few years ago I tried to find some tech or entrepreneur events. It was strangely barren compared to what I had been used to in Utah. I'm not sure why. Maybe it was just too spread out? Too many other things for people to do? There was a desperate feeling I couldn't shake...

Money, money Everywhere, but not a dime to spend.

Anyway, I've just left Utah forever, and live in Arkansas now.
I mostly agree, with one caveat: The Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy is partially an easter egg and, iirc, doesn't really affect the world in any way. At most, it's a commentary on wealth inequality.

The Phasmid and the Pale are fairly core to the world and story, though.
Counter intuitive, IDEAL is not protecting you but the merchant: you still need something to convince your bank that you are the account holder, and those credentials for sure can be lost for some reason and then ...
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Not unless it's the loop is made out several function calls. For example:

def even(x):
return x == 0 ? True : odd(x - 1)

def odd(x):
return x == 0 ? False : even(x - 1)

print(even(17))

Properly implemented TCO means that the call to 'even(17)' should use only one stack frame.
An A64FX CPU has 48 cores. 1 CPU/node means 96 cores on 2 nodes for $40k and ~6TFLOPS (3 per). Meanwhile the 128 thread Threadripper 3990X costs $3.6k, and benchs put it at 1.5TFLOPS in Linpack, which is less but not 10x less, and I don't know what the benchmark basis for the A64FX value is, so I suspect it's closer, especially since it says theoretical peak performance.

... Am I missing something?
You got it :) simply this company has been receiving advertising on HN that is worth hundreds of dollars since last December. Check it out yourself https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Fake organized upvoting rings, artificial placement on the homepage if the post isn't getting organic upvotes, re-upping, etc... Literally 100% of posts about this company got to the homepage in a website where 99.99999% of posts don't get even 2 upvotes no matter how great they are.

It's corruption that could result in jail but hey, in tech you can get away with this kind of corruption
EMV is good, PIN is NOT
A tool that never let you focus on a task and pull constantly from your flow? That's great! /s
Diplomatic travel is still happening.
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>awful lot of wealthy people might have to start paying tax

I doubt they will. Most likely outcome is their tax consultants will have to get craftyer. Closing loopholes and tax havens is a continuous game of whack a mole where the authorities are always a step behind.
For those (like me) who are wondering why their Firefox still looks the same, "If you live in Europe, you’ll find the update available today, August 25, 2020. If you live in the USA, you’ll see the update on the 27th of August, 2020" [1]

[1] https://www.slashgear.com/firefox-daylight-update-revitalize...
Fitbit making claims about Covid-19 detection using metrics (Premium dashboard)
TOTP can be phished (there is even ready to use proof of concept software for building a TOTP phishing site), so it's a pretty poor choice.

https://breakdev.org/evilginx-2-next-generation-of-phishing-...

Instead banks should use WebAuthn. WebAuthn's credentials are directly bound to the DNS name. So anything that involves fooling the human like a phishing site can't work. The only site your authenticator can give the real-bank.example credentials to is... real-bank.example.
Daniel Shaver did all that and still was murdered by the police. There are many more examples.

You dont have to follow unlawful orders but on the hand the Police can lie to you without any repercussions.
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9/11 was the biggest, you're right.

But I dunno how is it possible to compare this with the long list of terror attacks Israel had between 1989-2008 or the emotional effect on the EU policies of the club terror attacks in Paris.

This is bad and this is bad, and all of these had a major effect on how the world looks nowadays. I wouldn't put the focus only on 9/11.
I believe you can make transactions up to 50 euros with the magnetic strip.
The game is like an episode of Breaking Bad set in New Crobuzon.

The concept of the Pale is utterly horrifying. It pretty much has no involvement with the game at all and I think that’s a brilliant thing.

The concept is there, lurking in the background of various plot lines, but it’s never actually part of a mission. You are left to your own imagination as to, at first, how seemingly horrific it is.

To later learn that the pale is expanding — at an unknown rate you are led to believe is like a rising tide — and will eventually destroy the world and no one really seems to care or talk about it as an issue that much puts all the other noir detective and soap opera plots and subplots in a fascinating light. The citizens of Revechol are a little insane, we get to guess a bit about why and can also deduce they are in denial.

Someone on gamepedia has pieced together this description from expository dialogue in the game:

What does the pale look like? It's acromatic, odourless, featureless. The pale is the enemy of matter and life. It is not like any other — or any thing in the world. It is the transition state of being into nothingness. Where matter borders the pale, the resulting border is an uproar of matter, rising into the pale. Rolling. Evaporating even, a great vision. The area of transition between the world and the pale is called porch collapse: A grey coronal mist, cold vapour, marked by spores of an opportunistic microorganism.

Pale is difficult to describe and measure, as it's something whose fundamental property is the suspension of properties: physical, epistemological, linguistic. The further into pale you travel, the steeper the degree of suspension. Right down to the mathematical — numbers stop working. No one has yet passed the number barrier since the discovery of the pale and it may be impossible.

In fact, one of the few measurable effects of the pale is that it is expanding at an unknown rate.
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Gaming Retain the 30% Cut, as Standard in the Gaming Industry.

Apps and IAP is now down to 15%. And 10% for Subscription.

That also puts Spotify And Amazon Prime or other Streaming Services to the 10% category.

I honestly dont like the idea of an Open Platform where you can side load Apps. If you want that Android is your choice. Apple tries to built an App Platform on its Appliance or Phone. Android tries to built a Pocket Computer that acts like and look like a Phone. These are two fundamentally different sets of trade offs.
Interestingly it is the writer of the article who wrote the headline!

The grandson's NPO is named after himself.

"The founder of the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the planet’s oceans, coastal areas and marine habitats, is building the world’s largest underwater research station."

It would be one thing if people knew Jacques was a bigot and touted his science as being great because it promoted bigotry. I had no idea. But I do think of ocean conservation when I think of him and that is the truly important part.

And, as you point out yourself, its the grandson. Sins of the grandfather?
Anarchy is generally not much fun so yeah I can see that.

Good policing > Bad policing > No policing
You don't need domestic billionaires though, foreign ones can do as well. For example, there are trillions of petrodollars that go through City/Wall Street and fund various initiatives around the world.
Don't use domestic political messaging on platforms with international audience or you might net surprises. Even if the platform is in your jurisdiction. Also "propaganda" from domestic voices will always be under much more scrutiny compared to foreign ones without direct and open conflict. As a citizen I want leaks on my government, not from some random foreign actor.

I believe the behavior of large tech firms that tried to counter false info was counterproductive in almost all cases.

The topic isn't false info or fake news, it still isn't, the topic is large corporations censoring content, promoting voices of their customers while removing those of critics. And those that see this as the larger problem are completely correct on this in my opinion. A term of office in any country is irrelevant in comparison.

Also imagine a smug smile if political actors suddenly understand the importance of having their data protected. Could have run on that issue and it maybe would have brought you much success, but instead mass surveillance was even extended and very likely abused. Hopefully that was just learning the hard way.

Hope the gain of surveillance is worth it for national security. You might want to do an evaluation though.
Those are both pretty condescending. Convincing someone is the same as correcting a math problem, work through the chain of reasoning until you find the error. The problem is you need to establish trust and good will to do this. Building rapport first and agreeing that you will both act in good faith before going through the reasoning. Just saying “you’re right” and “that’s great” are pretty weak attempts and will be seen as patronizing more often than not.
A few people mentioning that a "respected" polling company such as Gallup has methods to correct for potential bias in such polls.

The Gallup Panel is 100,000 members, with weighting being applied "according to gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education and region".

One of those weights is nullified in this headline, and it's also notable that there is no mention of any direct weighting for economic factors.

Education and region could be considered proxies here, but given the sample and the already reduced weighting, this seems like a result on very weak footing.
This is very promise project. I also really want an email with this domain.
So sad about this critical bug.
There's a tendency to optimize for development speed in startups these days, which usually means gluing together lots of dependencies rather than writing things yourself. That pushes developers towards languages with well-established ecosystems.
If one was a writer of English one would write "Missions To, and Sample Returns From, Nearby Interstellar Objects."

A mathematician or experienced computer programmer would, of course, reach for parentheses instead of commas.

A headline writer uses nothing. Brevity and attention capture are their goals, not clarity of content.
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I had exactly the same realization about the same time. And now I strongly push back against it to this day.

Unfortunately, most people don't even realize they're being manipulated. Whenever I get visibly upset at being manipulated, people question it. Almost inevitably, they don't understand the manipulation and think it's fine.
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It has 1 TB/s memory bandwidth via HBM2, and 512 bit vector units. A better comparison would probably be to Xeon Phi (not that it's lighting the world on fire exactly).
> They really screwed up interrail, I'm not sure why.

Railways were a public service in Europe. Profit was not a goal. Trains were not that full often, so carrying a few youth did not make a difference.

Nowadays they all have some kind of business thinking (how successfully is a different story). Long distance trains in France and Germany at least have lots of business travellers. So they don't want backpackers travelling a lot and paying little.

Maybe we should lobby for subsidies in EU context. They even had some free tickets for 18 year olds some years ago, so they might understand the usefulness. Doesn't need to be free, but at least better prices and conditions than currently.
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> zero bullshit

lol
You can go from Porto to Vigo and then with a slow intercity through northern Spain to Irun/Hendaye, very scenic and recommended. Probably need to stay the night in Vigo as those trains go only once or twice per day.

I'm not sure why the article says you can take a normal train from Coimbra to Hendaye, there is only a night train, though it does have seats (not recommended, take at least a couchette or bed). Currently suspended due to corona afaik.
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Completely support this. Grew up loving his father's programs and I think we should invest more in saving our planet than going to Mars.
Do you really believe 9/11 compares to the Yom Kippur war of '73? Lots of people dying on a single day vs. even more people dying in a few weeks. (Although most of the casualties weren't on the Israeli side.)
LOL, I guess their payment processor might be able to handle AMEX but they have no idea that some cards can be 15 digits or 19 digits so... Anyway, that seems to be reasonable some how. You guess what, I encountered some POS machines allow only 5(i typed it right, it's 5, not 4, not 6 or 8) digits of pin and unfortunately, my bank requires 6...
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Leveraging a monopoly into requiring a specific sort of login practice that reinforces the monopoly is an absurd sort of consumer choice.

If Apple was really benevolent here, they'd have an open login platform that could be decentralized and implemented by third parties.

That would be a real beneficial choice to the consumer. Of course, that's not what they're doing because their goal is not to promote consumer choice. It's to reinforce their monopoly by requiring deep integration on the part of the app developer.
I think about Subnautica all the time - I love that game :) - can't wait for below zero to release!
I'm using it since the Preview as the daily driver and it has been a day and night change for me in terms of performance compared to the original 68 version.

I just wish Mozilla had done a better job at rolling out the change to existing users.
Researchers in Germany are giving out scholarships in “idleness”
Part of the issue was how they handled the "application" to be one of the first users. It was quite pretentious. They wanted you to express yourself in some novel, poetic way to convince them you are worthy of testing their golden new service. It was silly. In the end, it was also meaningless, everyone got invites anyway. But, the arrogance lingers.
Many years ago, I would have disagreed with you about the group projects. Today, I'm more in favour of them. The reason for my change of heart is that the moment you step outside acadaemia, be it industry in the same field, a research organisation, or any company, you'll be working on "group projects" as the default way of working. They are group efforts, and learning to work well in a group context is a valuable skill.

One big problem acadaemia has is the individual nature of research, even within research groups. A vast amount of time and effort is wasted on trivia due to working alone, which would be quickly resolved in a group. And while there is value in individual intellectual effort and reward, it can be vastly greater returns in a group context.

None of this is to say that lone investigation of out there ideas is bad. I think that's essential. But not for 100% of your time.

In many research settings, the scale of projects requires being a small part of a larger group. And while groups can squash good ideas, they can also kill bad ideas, and there needs to be a balance.

Not all PhD students are Einsteins, and it's as important to prevent people diving down a rabbit hole which leads nowhere as it is to give them the freedom to explore or else they might find they wasted several years rediscovering something already known or discovering nothing. I saw this happen to one of my fellows as well as myself. A good supervisor should be guiding appropriately. I found to my horror a PubMed search revealed a paper dating back to 1992 which had done several months of my research nearly two decades prior. When there are so many millions of papers, it's all to easy to miss stuff in the noise.
If there is always another loophole and these attempts at closing them don't matter, they wouldn't collectively be spending billions of dollars in lobbying to keep the current status quo. It's pretty clear that legislation can make a substantial dent in the amount of revenue that can be collected via taxes.
Don't operators require pre-installing into a kubernetes cluster? And they usually have extra blobs running inside the cluster so there's added overhead?
Based on my experience, it’s hard if you’ve never done it before but it gets easier when you absorb the learnings.

Firstly, it starts with identifying a problem/frustration that your customers will value. You’ll need to be very specific because what does selling “software” really mean? Focus on what your users can do with your software and how you can help them.

As others have pointed out, B2C is also different than B2B but within B2B, there are many sub groups within it. For example, company size and industry.

To find customers, it helps by knowing who your users are? Are they developers, analysts, etc.? Then you’ll also need to know how your users can purchase software - is it their own decision? Their boss’ decision? IT’s decision?

To be able to sell to enterprises, your product needs to be incredibly valuable (order of magnitude better than their existing process). However, that’s just the beginning for enterprise sales. You’ll need to demonstrate and prove your product and in most cases, business stability before getting the sale. However, the average contract values could be $100k+ to over a million in enterprise. You also have the option to expand to other teams within the same enterprise.

To be able to sell to smaller companies or startups, it’s an easier journey but nonetheless, in most cases, you still need to prove the value of your product.
The HackRF One can do 1MHz-6GHz, but also indicates "8-Bit I and 8-Bit Q".

On the one hand I'm like, it's basically just dumping wideband spectrum into the air, right?

On the other hand the OpenOFDM reference talks quite a bit about much larger I/Q values, so maybe "8-bit quadrature samples" is exactly why nobody uses it for Wi-Fi. :(

(Yup, am RF noob)
This is pretty much the only way you can read the last poll in the article. Not sure why you're being down voted.
Mobile Firefox 79 is the worst update Firefox has ever had since it used to be called 'Mozilla Suite'. That includes removal of xul and what not.

I recall updating on the July 31st, it crashed 4 times in less than 70mins on random pages. It lost all its bookmarks, virtually all add-ons, 'home' page, tab thumbnails, removed/reset search engines, etc. Instead, it added totally useless collections. Ah yeah - added Facebook there too, since I just have it disabled on all levels, incl. DNS.

>A small but vocal number of users

Downplaying it like that, insulting long-time users just to score points on HN is weird and unneeded. Look at the latest version reviews on Play Store.

I've downgraded to 68 and I'll keep using until it becomes totally unusable (likely in couple of years or so). The process of finding proper downgrade/compatible version, setup and all took couple of hours as it's necessary to uninstall and wipe it all, else 68 installation would fail.
What is up with the price? 40k for only 2 x 48 cores and a mediocre 2 ghz clock rate. Modern processors are way more efficient than older processors but I simply can't imagine the efficiency adds up to (simplistically) $416 per core...

Very interesting memory bus though... 1 TB / s? That is cool, but I would still much rather get a crap load more cores at a reasonable price then be able to send around data that efficiently. Granted, I am definitely not the target audience for this.
My main problem is that the clients themselves should be able to self-host their product, without my intervention, and without them having any technical knowledge.

I am now doing this by teaching the clients how to use DigitalOcean + cloud-init to create a new server that automatically installs the software required: https://docs.usertrack.net/dedicated-usertrack-server

In a perfect world, all those steps mentioned in the link above (create droplet, copy userTrack cloud-init code, add domain, generate certificate) would be done through a single button click by the client, on any hosting platform they would chose.
Spot on with cold calls/emails but on the contrary, all events are online and it’s easier at times to start conversations.

2020 could also be a good year because while not people are buying, there’s more time to explore and have conversations.
Ah fair, I think the 3990x only gets 100GB/s at quad DDR4 3200, if I'm interpreting the Google results right. That could be a killer. And there's no AVX512 support either (though it does have -256).

Would be good to have some actual benchmarks to compare.
There is nothing "secret" or "other thing" about it. You seem to think that "defund" secretly means "abolish". It doesn't. It means defund.
> screening new contacts by default

A client could certainly handle this, but it may not translate to other instances of the client.

> merging/renaming threads only for you

An advertised feature that did not even work on their release. Maybe they fixed it by now, I don't know, I did not end up buying the product. The initial release was quite buggy.
I use .NET Core with F# on Linux because you get a reasonably good functional language with access to a vast ecosystem and first class support on all clouds. Thanks to Fable and Feliz, you can use it to write React applications as well.
In many letters written during WWII Cousteau wishes to get rid of "youtres" which is a derogatory word for Jews much worse than the N word in English.

The defense of Commandant Cousteau's anti-Semite private writings usually goes along the lines of "okay, but everybody did the same at the time". But this is not true. Most people did not actively call for the physical extermination of Jews in occupied France. They did nothing to prevent it -- but rejoicing and calling for more is on another level.

His brother was a frequent contributor to "Je suis partout" during WWII and was sentenced to death for his writings at the end of the war (later commuted to life in prison).

And yes, Cousteau is not his brother. Yet -- not a good family.