skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dotcom's troubles pre-date anything involving him with Wikileaks. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2003 (and again to New Zealand in 2009) precisely to shield himself from European and American prosecution, as he was starting Megaupload. He's been in the crosshair of copyright police ever since. Trying to "shake him down" by using charges he was clearly expecting for a decade, would be a pretty silly strategy.

As for anything he says or does, it should all be taken with a massive grain of salt. The facts, even before Mega, show him a lier, a narcissist, and a huge self-promoter. He's fundamentally just a scoundrel with no real ideological background beyond "anything that makes me money should not be illegal". Taking his word at face value is chasing shadows.
I'm sure it does not because modern mobile OSes would alert the user to it, but even if it did, there's an easy fix: don't install the app. For when you do need Facebook, use the mobile website.
+1 ‘That’s Mathematics’: https://youtu.be/y7VQFfusQJk
Plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development
> parody articles with no substantial points

Personally, I found this article super useful. We've had long discussions at my company about what Facebook's announcement about not supporting IDFA opt-in means:
https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848

This article made it much more clear. It's one of the only ones that addressed why Facebook says advertisers have to create a separate advertising account for iOS 14 ads, for example.

What Facebook tells you:
"
To help preserve the fidelity of app install campaign measurement, we will require the creation and usage of a dedicated iOS 14 ad account
"

What the article explains:
"
Unfortunately, however, it will require them to set up a completely new advertising account to run campaigns for iOS users, because it’s not going to apply Apple’s new privacy protection measures any further than it has to
"

Makes sense. Facebook's recommendation to apps showing ads is to implement Facebook login or uploading hashed user information (Advanced Matching). Apple is already cracking down on those approaches, like saying any app that has social login must also support Apple login.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1Y88n1Uog [1] does give the impression of the sort of place where one wishes to avoid the snowmelt line in spring. And that's down in the populated region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Highway says it was first fully paved in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfbbd-8hbWM

Also in the populated part, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family detached from their society and went foraging in the wild, but lost most of their tech tree in doing so.

A former soviet colleague told me during perestroika that they planned their taiga field work for winter, because dealing with snow was much easier than dealing with mud.

[1] This clip has "women, horses, and wide open spaces." For "steam-baths, vodka, accordion, and lox" you'll have to do your own searching.
He should get in touch with Disney’s merchandising department and send them a prototype. Nothing would stop them from just copying the idea without compensation, but doesn’t seem like much downside to trying since he made it for fun for his daughter.
That's grossly inflated. Their source is that 4% of the top million websites are porn. That doesn't mean at least 4% of web use is porn.
They did not slow down the battery “generically over entire models”. They slowed it down when the battery was degraded. Wouldn’t it be much easier for Apple just not to issue OS updates for older phones if they wanted to encourage users to get new phones?
Coordination problems of this size are most effectively solved with government sized units.

Become politically active (not just in the internet).
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> "made in democracy"

Many countries have a fake democracy cover. Even Hitler won an election with like the 99% of the votes (I wonder if the other 1% survived for too long.)

Also, does this label apply to the United Kingdom or Canada?
Disclaimer: I worked on AutoGraph @ google.

Your first two paragraphs describe TF 1 perfectly, and you also correctly point out that TF 2 has eager mode, which executes op by op.

The part you missed is that @tf.function lets users tell TensorFlow that TF should execute the entire function, inspect the graph that it produces, and optimize it. On top of this JIT functionality that tf.function provides, AutoGraph will inspect the source code of your program and see that there's a for loop. If the for loop executes over a Python object, then it acts as a preprocessor macro. If it executes over a tensor, then AutoGraph transforms it into a tf.while_loop. So you can have both Eager-style convenience and graph-style optimizations.

Of course, some caveats apply; check out https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/function for the full guide.
It is public information.
> the Uighurs in China aren't treated worse than blacks in USA

I'm gonna stop you there. At the very least you can speak up in the USA without getting disappeared.
There are situations where precise control over what the machine is doing is very important and a few of the problems that we experience in high-level contexts are caused by the inadequacy of our lower level tools.

Give it a few years and everybody is going to benefit from better implemented "lower-level" applications, thanks to Zig and other languages attempting to do the same.
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Fwiw on several occasions I've had packages delivered to the wrong address (e.g. 200 East Main not 200 West Main) that were obviously "redelivered" by whoever lives at that address. This could explain your findings perhaps?
Considering the commercial pressure, regulatory agencies are likely to just reduce the collision avoidance margins. (I remember reading that this is already happening, just don't have a reference). It's easier to keep government agencies in line compared to conglomerates. But it would be fun when the Kessler syndrome starts. You could imagine that the probability increases when there are more satellites in one layer - especially LEO. I wonder how much all the recent launches affected that probability.
In practice, unregulated online gambling is much closer to fraud than porn.
Vice also went undercover last year to get footage of Xinjiang in-person: https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ
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Uhm, how would he prove that? He probably didn’t take a photo of the occurrence.
I love reading stories about good people who step up and do what’s right. It seems most of today’s media is slanted to highlight those people who make the immoral, self-serving choice. Thank you, Tesla employee. Thank you for doing the right thing.
There's a cool project that uses an FPGA to allow several implementations of BBC Micro Co Processors (65C02, Z80, 6809, 68000, x86, ARM2, PDP-11, 32016).

And not just vanilla ones. They have a "monster Z80" that does more per clock cycle and a very fast clock, for example.

https://github.com/hoglet67/CoPro6502
If you can't tell that quote is about trying to understand Hitler's mindset, I don't know what to tell you. It's important we don't forget these things.
I see what you’re saying. I generally agree with implementing designs and standards along the lines of their intent.

On this particular issue, I’ve pretty much decided for myself that individually tailored advertising, net-wide implicit tracking and surveillance capitalism in general need to be banned, or owned by the commons and walled with fine grained permissions. I’m waiting for the tech world to catch up.
Of course, plenty of people here would toss a fit if someone were to call their phone. It's also worth noting that your perceived crisis may not be my crisis.
i think they mean a normal archive of physical materials. archivist have been working with collections like these long before the internet archive existed.
Thanks for your remarks. Few things come to mind: First I'd never charge by hour but have (at least) daily rates and I'd suggest every other independent software contractor to follow the same principle.

Second, there is no correlation between the amount of ASCII chars outputted per hour and the productivity/net gain for the client (at least for the type of work I'm doing for whatever that matters). Sometimes I do have to think hard about a problem for a longer period of time, maybe executing on a few ideas before finally presenting and motivating a solution I came up with for a given problem. That doesn't mean my computer desktop looked _productive_ the whole time. In fact much of the important work maybe even done on a sheet of paper.
I think the general consensus is that unless you own an OLED (in which case you want to stay in the native environment for the features that will help preserve the display's longevity), it's better to grab an Android TV box and run everything through that. If you have a Z9D, I'd say it's getting old enough that that would be a decent route to take (since otherwise it's still a better TV than pretty much anything out today).
You still need consumables in that example that you probably don't produce unless somehow you inherited a farm and the labor and management required to maintain it. By spending money on clean water, food, electric and whatever else you might value, you contribute to humanity in that sense, IMO.
Thanks for this!

It's almost a rite of passage for a startup to say that they're "revolutionising the world of blahblah"
I don't understand how you think you can get a new number for each transaction without any extra step getting in the way? How does your card issuer know you want a new number and how much to set the limit?

Do you go to an app? That's a separate step. Consumers demonstrably don't want extra steps.

Do you integrate it with the merchant and do it automatically? Then it's no safer as there's no authorisation.
I think that biopic misrepresented her. Assuming you're talking of the recent one starring Vidya Balan.
That is the same approach used in many C++ projects
> I do not agree that Apple has an obligation to develop this functionality for me.

The issue isn't they should have to do it for you, it's that they've taken purposeful action to prevent anyone else from doing it.

> I think iOS is a better consumer product because it has never allowed ad hoc app installs.

But this doesn't require the store to be glued to the device. You could get the same experience by using only Apple's store, or some other store you trust, even if others were available.

Linux package managers are a fine example of this. The large majority of Linux software is installed through them, and doing what the packagers require to get included is enough of a benefit that developers do it, but there is nothing at all preventing there from being multiple independent packaging systems or preventing people from installing software from the internet. They just don't, in general, because they prefer to get it from the package manager.

> Mobile platform mobility is very high. People do it all the time!

People move house all the time too, that doesn't mean the cost is low.

You're essentially arguing that it's possible for it to be low. If you're about to buy a new phone anyway and you don't have many apps and none of your apps only run on iOS, then all you have is the retraining cost of learning a different operating system and the differences between the hardware of different platforms and so on.

But this is just arguing that if you're about to move house anyway then the cost of switching away from Comcast isn't as high. For one thing it's still high, because the differences between different houses/platforms is still quite significant and decisions are made based on a multitude of considerations in addition to app stores. But for another, what happens to the people in the opposite circumstances? They're not halfway through their contract and have many expensive iOS-specific apps with a network effect, and then they want to buy your app. No way they can switch just for that.

> Apps which are platform-exclusive (Apple Messages) are a different kettle of wax, and I don't think germane here. Complicated product/ecosystems inevitably fan out to imperfect sets of compromises. Sure, this contributes to intangible switching costs, but that's hardly Apple's responsibility to mitigate on my behalf.

They don't have to mitigate it but then it's a significant component of switching costs. Eat your cake or have it.
IMO dev.to is what will replace Medium for tech posts. It has a better audience and platform for it than Medium.
If you spend your time looking for ways to insist that the status quo is easiest, then yes, you'll find ways to insist that the status quo is easiest.

Like I said, I'm only now coming around on this, but I think a $2T company with total control of both hardware and software can probably work out a way to support additional stores without requiring a full-time battery-draining malware checker. In fact, I suspect most of us could figure out how to avoid that if we tried, rather than trying the opposite.

Sandboxing and limited APIs already exist, Apple doesn't need to review apps that don't appear in their App Store. As I've said, I suspect a very small percentage of people would be willing to install additional stores, and they can hardly complain if it turns out apps purchased there overshare PII.
I’ve consistently seems this exact behavior on every package delivered by usps lately. It shows up typically the next day but twice it took multiple days to find its way to my mailbox.
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I believe Torvalds still needs to build the Linux kernel regularly, even if he doesn't technically "write" the code, and this CPU allows him to do it in 24 seconds, according to this test:

https://techgage.com/article/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3990x-64...
Personally I experience this way more with Fedex - literally its nearly every time. I haven't had this happen except for a couple of times with USPS over the last 2-3 years (been in the same apartment for about that long).
I appreciate apps that provide a universal keyboard shortcut like Zoom that works even if I’m focused on another app. Next best is Google Meet but it only works when you’re focused on the same tab. Worst is Teams, WebEx etc that don’t provide any keyboard shortcut

My mute preference in videoconference tools:

Universal keyboard shortcut > app focused keyboard shortcut > no keyboard shortcut
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No you can't. That's beyond the biological capabilities of the human eye, even if you have absolutely perfect vision.
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This will go all the way upto AGI.
Cortex-M only runs Thumb instructions, not the original instruction set.
Well, I don't expect starts to move (relative to each other), and angular velocity is harder to compare with a moving plane that may not be passing directly overhead and so appears slower, but yes, faster than a plane.
Thanks for the explanation. I always thought YTS and YIFY-TORRENTS were the same operation.
> Your tax dollars at work

...creating high-tech well-paying jobs in the local area. Is that a problem?
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Definitely didn't just sing Let It Go :) Awesome stuff!
I'd similarly prefer a low-headroom bunk bed. I think the problem is bracing for take-off and landing and evacuations.
Then I guess the obvious question is: has it worked well for those projects?
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I honestly thought of doing a blog post where I take these words and replace email with Slack. I have issues with email that my PM is trying hard to get me to delegate more to her and others so I can focus on the higher value work. Slack I actually am on the verge of hating. Especially when every client wants to communicate via their private Slack instead of much saner email and GitHub issues. The worst thing about Slack is the non-federated nature of it. It is practically impossible when you work with more than a dozen startups and other organizations all who have their own.
Nit pick: On modern systems malloc isn't a syscall, it's implemented in userspace. (Sorry, I couldn't help it)

That's not to say you're safe to call other syscalls, many of them either require memory allocations in-kernel (see ENOMEM) or can block indefinitely.
This is a very misunderstood article. The money they "create", i.e loaned or paid out, has to be funded by a deposit or similar borrowing. Making sure they can fund all their commitments is what liquidity managers and treasury departments do, it's why regulators subject banks to annual ILAAPs (Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process), it's why banks have liquidity risk and modelling teams to manage any "gap" risk banks are running in this respect.

If banks could simply create money then they'd never go bust. The only exception is the Central Bank, which can create new money that is it uses to buy assets of the same value, supporting prices and improving liquidity in the financial system.
And I saw someone else’s note about it being redlivered by an individual; we use locked boxes here that the mail carrier has a master key to the back, they are the only one getting in easily.
Great article! Short read and proves his point excellently by calling out big sites that are making the mistake he points out. The Snapchat example is the best, looks terrible on my Windows machine on Firefox.
> being data-driven is not an alien thing, it quite simple actually

No it is not always simple. As a beginning you need to know some basic principles which are not always intuitive, for example the need to design a test in advance and never stop it until you have reached the designed limits.

And then you need to know what to test and avoid reinforcing popular usage, you'll also need to be patient since changes sometimes takes a while to stabilize themselves in the eyes of the users.

It's and art and a discipline, there's a lot to learn and a lot is done by "feeling" or experience.
An interesting legal argument. The crux of this would be if the emotions on display were sufficiently similar - and idiosyncratic - to count as a derived work. Emotions are a human universal, so it probably doesn't fly to claim that any emotions are inspired by Doyle's later Holmes work. Take, by analogy, eating; if Doyle had simply omitted to mention Holmes eating until a later work, I don't think it could be argued that any depiction of him eating is derivative of that work. If on the other hand he had specifically made a point of describing Holmes as enjoying frankfurters, which he stashed in his pocket to be consumed while on the case, then this unusual behaviour could still be under copyright.

Since emotions are far more slippery than a frankfurter, this case - while likely weak - hinges on a point of literary interpretation.

Disclaimer: IANAL
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> providing yields for no inherent value due to lack of use case, appears more like a Ponzi scheme than investment in a nascent technology.

I think people are trying to assign a narrative to DeFi and its use cases, when buy and large it's nothing more than a new financial instrument. Calling it a Ponzi scheme or trying to attribute its longterm benefits are both, in my opinion, meaningless because for the time being there is a purpose (being a financial instrument) that it's serving.
I'm in Italy, 15km from the province capital, 7km from a major turistic village, in a village of 3000 souls. I'm waiting for 2Mbps ADSL since 2007.
The US probably has a more complete map of China than China itself, thanks to things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845111
Maybe it’s not at full capacity? I mean they are just testing it after all. Lots of fine tuning to do.
Something easy can suddenly be impossible when you're anxious or under pressure.

If someone can't do fizzbuzz, they won't be able to do things that are actual signals of ability (like finish a side project or a take-home project).
Yes! Far too many developers now only check that the page renders nicely on Chrome on their expensive macbook. While most of their users may be having a less than stellar screen and don't see the contrasts, run old hardware and a different OS+browser combo.
I loved the article and it got me thinking about the extent to which AR glasses would be locked down software and hardware wise. I'm somewhat thankful for the existence of old electronics giants of Korea and Japan, as I'd expect of them to put some semblance of a competition to American data giants. The electronics corps still would want to be consumer and privacy hostile, but at least seem to be less competent about it.

And then there is hope for small hacker projects of open user-owned hardware, as in the attempts we've seen with laptops and smartphones. I also wonder how much such hardware would be commoditized at least locally, as in no-name parts being available to buy in some kiosks in Shenzhen (like with smartphones). Especially given the movements in geopolitics.

This of course assuming the AR glasses future. But e.g. walking around with a camera is now more normalized than it was in the early 2010s.

So yeah, cyberpunky stuff. But I don't feel expert in my musings and predictions, so I don't feel pressed to publish them.
I agree with you except for

> There is a tacit understanding between employer and employee about this, so any steps by the employer to monitor daytime computer usage is understandably seen as breaching this understanding in a misguided attempt to get employees to work more hours - or exposing the employee to arbitrary punishment if management wants to selectively undermine them for breaking rules that everyone breaks.

I think employee monitoring is a lot more common than you think. Especially so outside of tech but I know of some very big tech companies we're all intimately familiar with that record basically everything that happens on their employees computers. Do they actively monitor everyone to see that they're putting in 40 hours a week? Not really. Does HR take a looksie when a manager comes and asks for help firing an employee? What do you think?
Interestingly (another empirical result that's poorly understood), with stochastic gradient descent, convergence often only requires one pass through the data, if not it might take a small number.

And yes this field only exists because we are presuming a really large amount of data, which often can't even fit on the same hard drive. And a really complex model.

Older kernel methods basically do what you want for tractable datasets. They can do very high-order polynomials, and also add the ability to regularize the solution various ways. Though again, I would be interested in seeing those methods compared to a simple least-squares fit as you propose, which people often didn't do even back when kernel methods were all the rage.
Can you share some tips on how you achieved this? What did you do if you got stuck on a question you just couldn't solve? Did you look at the answer and memorized it? How many questions did you solve? Were they mostly mediums or hards? What about system design, any specific resources you used?.

I keep coming back to leetcode every few months but I always get stuck on mediums so I'd appreciate any tips you can share!.
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I'll believe it when I see it. This law will be applied arbitrarily. Try critising Xi and see how far you get.
I like how this page also has four levels of scrollbars, and the title has two. It's an interesting sort of border effect.