skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fun `kindlegen` story from my past:

When the Kindle Fire was being launched, part of the out-of-the-box experience was that a) it already knew what account it was associated with and b) if you weren't already a Prime member, it phoned home and automatically gave you a non-renewing 1-month free "preview" (not a "trial", since those automatically converted into paid memberships) of Prime so you could watch Prime video, use Kindle lending library, etc. on your brand new device. As secret projects go, the Prime team was brought in very late and given a very short integration window (2-ish weeks, maybe) to determine if that feature would make the cut for launch.

Part of the user experience was getting a "personalized" letter delivered through the Kindle delivery mechanism that included the Prime logo and JeffB's signature. This letter was effectively a Mobi ebook dynamically generated before being pushed to the device. This functionality previously existed and was how notes indicating that lent items had expired were generated, however, those were plaintext and used a custom templating system that the Kindle team (justifiably) didn't want to expose to external teams. The Kindle team wanted us to generate a Mobi that they would pass along, which would have required a bunch of new infrastructure and technology we had no experience with. A former teammate who was now in Kindle made the case for us continuing to use the extensive HTML custom messaging infrastructure we had, but the Kindle team's capability limited them to hitting a single endpoint and we didn't have a nice way to bundle all of our resources (images, content, etc.) into a single file (e.g. zip, tarball). On a call one afternoon I suggested adding data URL support so we could continue to leverage our infrastructure, they could continue to leverage their's and only this small tool they shelled out to would need to change.

Of course, the kindlegen team was not involved in the discussion initially, their code did not use the tools the rest of the company used, for whatever reason they were unwilling to accept code contributions, and they wanted several months to implement the feature.

Being young and without kids at the time, I went home, knocked out a wrapper that would convert data URLs to external resources and replace the references, and then call out to kindlegen to generate the mobi, and had a working tool the next morning. The whole thing went (almost¹) flawlessly, allowed Prime to test and debug with the tools they knew, allowed the Kindle distribution team to swap out one piece transparently, and the Fire launched with that implementation in place. And like most stop-gap solutions, it was in place for several years before kindlegen finally supported data URLs natively.

This was all running on Linux hosts, and that was many many years ago now. It's a good reminder that code is like a sandcastle. It will be gone tomorrow, but the tide will continue.

¹ sure, there may have been a small bug or two, but I stabilized a bunch of their tests in the process, so I consider it a win.
cVDPV is the one that's the big problem. You can see how many cases are occurring here:

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It’s because DDG = Bing, and Bing is known[0] to be really bad at filtering out this crap from they image search.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-c...
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I often see citations of Bill Gates charity being downvoted to oblivion on HN and I can never figure out why.

Would appreciate if someone could enlighten me. Surely there must be a good reason.
To save money they could come with LoRA radios and sync when the opportunity arrises to a LoRA gateway, including meshing with each other to aggregate data to increase the likeliness of encountering a gateway. LoRA modules are pretty cheap.

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/
Also hot/cold partitioning. Keeping cold code code away from hot code can help L1I cache utilization, iTLB utilization, Operating system page-out, etc.
I've used both at times but kindlegen sometimes failed to convert books correctly whereas calibre did not, so at least anecdotally calibre seemed better.
I know their first "profitable" quarter was basically on the back of California's energy credit subsidy & 1-time sales thereof, but that program is over. I don't know if GP is referring to something more recent or ongoing.
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The oral vaccine is not only cheaper it also works better. This means if you have endemic Polio it can make good sense to deploy OPV even knowing that there is risk of it reverting. The rich industrialised countries that switched to the boring inactivated vaccine don't have endemic Polio so the risk structure is different (as well as being able to afford the more expensive product).

It's not entirely clear why OPV is more effective, but perhaps it matters that you eat it (when I was a child it was administered as a sugar lump) and so the attenuated virus is entering the body via the gut, exactly where a real working polio virus infects people. The more expensive killed vaccine is injected into a muscle instead.
The coronavirus vaccine is unlikely to be a live attenuated one, or if it is it will most likely be one that cannot cause the disease.
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I watched it this evening (stopped watching the other night as it was so good I wanted to watch the whole thing with my wife) and it was very entertaining.

Armstrong's portrayal of Sinclair seemed rather cruel, but then I don't know how accurate it might have been.
Semantically it is atomic, because if the seq lock is implemented as a separate abstraction, the caller never observes a partially written value (no tearing). Retrying a broken read is just an implementation detail.
Very interesting. I had a battered metal toolbox when I was a kid, it had been my dad's. My favorite feature was a cut through the lid where he must not have been paying attention while using it to hold some lumber off the ground. Inside were old rusty wrenches for me to play with. That way he never got mad at me for leaving tools in the rain - they are already as bad as they can get.
Not sure if also related or you meant to touch on this point. But reading that made me think the following; this means real evidence will be discounted as well since we perceive those in power to be able to conjure fake evidence. thus eroding trust wholly.
Epic already does provide source code for the engine. It's on GitHub and access is essentially provided under the terms for shipping any UE based product.
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this looks quite interesting, but if I have my system defined in a docker-compose file which is effectively multiple containers, will this support that?
It's complicated to get buy-in on actual sanctions within the anglosphere and Europe, but it's not as though the U.S. is not pushing for them. [0]

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/fcaf0a57-ac0f-4695-af0f-82a44e6ae...

The UK and Australia are willing to flap their mouths a bit [1] over it at least, and the UK is much closer to actual sanctions (Australia has, for the time being, not terminated their special trade arrangements with Hong Kong).

[1]: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/05/us-uk-canada-and-au...

Ultimately only the U.S. has taken any leadership on this matter, even if I think it will be inadequate. There is more to be done; but with the U.S. Presidential election looming, one thing that would steel the resolve and buff the resources of PRC assets in American politics would be a major announcement.

Nothing is as simple as the free world bullying the nominally-free world to condemn the only major state in the world conducting a holocaust; because apparently those "allies" don't give a toss.
With all due respect, the US Gov doesn't have to depend on TI for defense/national security chips. They could cut a deal with Intel as soon as the ink is dry on the security clearances.
Given PGO and branch prediction, has anyone tested whether turning off MOZ_LIKELY/MOZ_UNLIKELY makes any difference?
So what do you think about the privacy concerns raised in the article, which seem like the more important point?
If I recall correctly, DHL (Germany's largest delivery company, part of the former state post system) charges Amazon ~2 euros, while the end user price is between 5 and 6 euros.

It's common wisdom that most of the cost for delivery is in the last mile. Amazon has great leverage, because DHL certainly isn't making money on their deliveries - the intake scales with Amazon's large quantities, but the individual delivery does not.

It's a race to the bottom between the delivery companies, fueled mostly by sub-sub-contractors with very low wages, long hours and bad conditions. DHL has seen giant growth, but profits are falling apart.
Speaking of Grandmothers-- my Grandmother didn't bother with the peanut butter. Instead we had banana and mayonnaise sandwiches. I remember loving them as a kid, but I haven't had the guts to try them again as an adult.
That doesn't really make sense to me.
They turned on DNS over HTTPs by default and send your queries to Cloudflare:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/02/25/firefox-continues-p...
Chrome M64 was the first shipping version built with Clang on Windows: http://web.archive.org/web/20200125010517/http://blog.llvm.o...
Ironically, it seems that things not being valued is one of the major forces that imparts value upon them in the long run. You can drive up a thing's price by reducing supply, just like how you can do it by increasing demand. Once that's happened sufficiently, it becomes a Veblen good, and then the price takes off.

I've got a family member who, being somewhat aware of this phenomenon, has decided to hold on to everything that they think might become valuable in the future. I suspect that, over the years, the cost of warehousing all this stuff has easily outstripped any potential profits. Let alone any actual profits.
People who become managers, directors and eventually VPs usually have one thing in common. They know how to get people to become better people. It's not about being the best at the specific job that they did before getting promoted...it's about how they encourage others to do their best.

Another possibility is moving to a startup...in a medium term businesses (think 10-20 years) the upper echelon is filled with people that were part of the start up phase.
> it's all the more important that you go into grad school with some strength of opinion and position on what you want to achieve

Indeed.

I stayed on to do a PhD at the same institution where I did my undergraduate degree, with hindsight I think this might be a poor choice. There was very much a feeling of prospective grad students competing (indeed begging) for PhD places, with not much in the way of due diligence...
Maybe there needs to be created a "Witness Coin" ledger, where events happened if enough people say they did.
What you are describing is market making, and has existed pretty much as long as there are markets. Before computers rendered guys in the pits extinct, the spreads were much wider and those guys were known to literally front run you on occasion. You had legions of brokers and floor traders all taking home fat six figure paychecks each year and your trading costs were in the tens of dollars, not pennies. Those legions of traders have been replaced by a much smaller number of programmers who take home comfortable six figure paychecks.

They take on obligations as market makers to always buy and sell no matter what the market is doing.

How that worked was that he got a phone call saying "buy me 50k IBM" from a broker. Guy on the floor thinking smart money is behind this, or even not thinking there is smart money behind this, he just knows an order like that is going to move the market- will place his own order ahead of it and likely exit the trade immediately after. The advent of electronic trading, even when people were still on the floor, made this much harder to do since it became easier to slice and dice that order up to a bunch of different people, and there were now much better paper and electronic trails of the activity. Now its all computers talking to one another and this is not possible.
> whereas Slackware used tape archives

Pardon?
Do they?

If what is being said is actually true, then amazon doesn't have any leverage at all. (again if what is being argued is true) These last mile providers might be taking a small hit to deliver amazon packages, so why deliver them at all?

If you answer is: "if they don't deliver these they won't get amazon's business." It would appear they are not getting any of amazon's profitable business (2/3 of delivers), so who cares about getting amazon's crap business?
There's a scifi book where AGI arises from the ever escalating battle between spam bots and spam detectors, sometimes it feels like we're not too far away from that :)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/environmen...

it's not a direct answer, but it seems like the answer is that it's essentially never more environmentally friendly to order online, because the odds that it actually eliminates a trip in your car are so tiny.
I like robots but bullshit.

There is no Robotics revolution and won't be until the Paradoxes are broken. We have toys until then.
> One way around this is to make surveillance records available to the public through due process like other public government records.

I would agree that a person ought to be able to see whatever surveillance records exist on themselves.

However, allowing any member of the public to see all surveillance records, on anyone, strikes me as just compounding the problem--now my private information isn't just seen by the government, it's seen by everybody.
Lots of effort to arrive at the wrong answer!

An optimal pb + b sandwich must contain not just circle pieces, but pie slices of circular slices at well. All those gaps left by the circles could be filled with little fractions of circles.
No, it didn't. Verizon is modern Bell Atlantic and also went about buying up RBOCs. Your point is valid, they did just remonopolize, but it's not like AT&T is just AT&T again.
Lacking end-to-end encryption is a valid complain, but note that encrypted bookmarks still exist in Firefox, and Firefox's capabilities are still better than Chrome's. For example Firefox's bookmarks can be tagged, and you can easily search them from the AwesomeBar.

Pocket does not replace bookmarks, and if you try using Pocket for bookmarking, you're going to have a terrible experience.

As a disclaimer, I am a Pocket user.
>offering different files for different size devices, the result will look better than the reflowable AZW format.

[[CITATION NEEDED]]

PDFs still don't reflow when changing the text size.
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Such beautiful animals. It's a shame we haven't found a way to fish them responsibly.
Aluminum and corked bats also become a player safety issue in the majors. It's already a problem at all levels honestly, but the balance would be far more dangerous increasing already high major league exit velocities.
GTD is specifically designed to reduce cognitive load and it is adaptable to most people's needs.

I like Things on macOS and iOS, as well as the multi-platform Todoist.
> how can we work against this on a technical level?

As the saying goes, you can't use a technical solution to fix a social problem.

One way to fix the social problem is to vote politicians out of office when they make bad decisions--not just about surveillance, but in general. People who don't have to pay a cost for bad decisions have no incentive to make better decisions.

Another way is to not give powers like this to governments in the first place. If politicians don't have decision making power at all over something, they can't harm the rest of us by making a bad decision.
See also KubeForm - https://kubeform.com/ which will do a lot of this already, via Terraform.
Do they monitor the battery usage and resource consumption of alternative mapping or communication applications? These offer a superior experience over the Apple default, and alternative browsers like Firefox offer a superior experience over the default on Android, but Apple prevents these superior experiences on its devices, leaving its customers vulnerable to security issues like this one with no recourse.
Thanks for sharing the project. I learned a few nice patterns like returning a specialized handler module from a dispatcher function.
I think you misread (I did too at first) it to mean the cookie consent was on privacytools.io. However, I think they're referring to the Belgium link under the "Key disclosure laws may apply" which links to https://tweakers.net/nieuws/163116/belgische-rechter-verdach...
The articles I read came across more as someone trying to phonetically describe a Scottish accent rather than using what I would recognise as Scots dialect.

I don't think that approach will get you from "How are you?" to "Fit like?".
Mathematicians are expected to publish their proofs. Not so that people can do the proof again independently, but so that other mathematicians can find and point out if they have a tangible error in their proof that tangibly invalidates the result.

Sure, some people might point out spurious bugs and "design issues" or whatever, boo hoo. But others might actually find flaws in the code that meaningfully affect science itself: true bugs.

Sure, they could do this by doing a full replication in a lab and then custom coding everything from scratch. But even then, all you have is two conflicting results, with no good way yet to determine which one is more right or why they disagree. Technically, you can use the scientific progress to eventually find bugs in the scientific process, but why waste so much time when publishing the code will allow for reviews to find bugs so much faster. Its pure benefit to science to not obscure its proofs and rigor.
This paper might be useful [0]. It measures the thickness of a tissue. If you do that over time you can detect the parts that aren't moving. I studied under Yezzi for a while. Cool dude.

[0] http://iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~prince/pubs/2003-TMI-Yezzi-Thicknes...
HFT specifically is a form of largely zero-sums arms races. Is it really useful to society if there are entities that issue orders with microsecond (or less) response times rather than on the order of seconds or minutes? Yet a significant amount of brainpower and resources is essentially wasted on this problem.

The story about lower spreads is also rather dubious. I can believe that going to sub-second HFT reduces spreads slightly, but what's the point? By how much, exactly, is the spread reduced by going to the extremes that HFT goes to, and how does it compare to just your regular intra-day swings?

What's useful to society at large is long-term capital allocation. Regular people don't do day-trading, they place orders "at market" maybe a few times per year at most (or perhaps monthly as part of an automatic plan). The loss from intra-day variations will dwarf the measly reduction in spread that is achieved using sub-second HFT.

So in that light, it's good to see that apparently HFT is becoming less profitable.
This also applies to UPS and Fedex, actually. In rural areas they just hand the packages off to USPS. It's also why the recent debate about how profitable or otherwise USPS is misses the point: it isn't designed to be a profitable business, it's designed to deliver mail to everyone in the country.
The main accusation is this:

> Since brands pay ad networks for successful mobile app installs, the Mintegral SDK would then quickly send out a fake click and “claim credit” for the app install, Grander says.

Basically, they are faking clicks if users installed an app after seeing the ad but not clicking on it. Looks like a gray area and will be interesting to see what the ad networks and Apple will do about this.
Interesting problem
One can't help but wonder what kind of a person would tweet their "apology" for unintentionally defacing the entirety of Scots Wikipedia in more broken Scots. Seems... Insensitive, no?
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I did the same. It's great for booting everything and the fact it identifies as an ODD makes for better compatibility with a bunch of older gear. It really is a great piece of equipment.
Thanks for the tip! I currently don't have many tabs open, but was surprised to see every one of my work Office365 tabs (mail, calendar, etc.) at 100+ MB each...
The earliest code executed on a computer is part of the TCB, especially as a meta-installer, so it has long-term strategic value. Same reasons why lower-level access is valuable.

Plus everyone has experienced the pain of USB boot, making free usable tools attractive.
One of the problems with ad "view" blocking is that the problematic code still downloads and loads, so you lose much of the benefits of content blocking making your page lighter and only get the benefit of removing mental overhead/distractions (I say "only", but I'm not trying to say it's not a huge gain). Ideally this AI would work at the network level, but the fundamental problem is that a URL doesn't have to tell you anything about what is on the other end, and we haven't tried "browser antivirus" software yet that blocks JavaScript by matching it against (say) an ad network's "fingerprint"…
> Delivering a package in rural areas where houses are a quarter mile apart is a lot more expensive than when a carrier can load up a handcart and deliver 10 addresses.

And yet Amazon does their own deliveries in my parents' rural area where the houses are indeed about a quarter mile apart and several miles from the nearest town. Perhaps the business model isn't quite so one-sided as you thought? USPS has issues with managing their pricing, true, but UPS and FedEx are under no obligation to deliver packages below cost.
Neither the Military nor FEMA charge for services and also collect tax payer funds. How could either be "profitable"?

Amtrak and USPS both charge for services. It's reasonable to expect them to not hemorrhage billions of dollars annually as well.

Further, it can be argued a private business could operate on USPS or Amtrak scale with greater efficiency, cost much much less, and even turn a profit (see SpaceX).
I think the rules of the game have more affect on how skaters play ice hockey than the equipment. Look at all the rule changes coming out of the lockout just to defeat the trap. The trap still would've been the problem it was if these sticks were around 15+ years ago.
The assertion was that it's demonstrably useful for national security. Without such a demonstration, I submit that it is not, and that terrorists are caught using normal police work.

"It's too secret to tell the public in broad terms a decade after the investigation is over" strikes me as incompatible with democracy. Questionably-legal surveillance also strikes me as incompatible with democracy outside of short-term use in exceptional emergency conditions, which should be disclosed to the public once the emergency is over.
The linked study was published in 2016, and has nothing to do with covid-19.

And it also flies in the face of the physician comments at the head of this discussion, where a few doses of 5000-10000iu see harmful effects, this study was of a half million iu over 5 days!