skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, quite amusing you gave it a grade of A+. Can you define your scale? What constitutes A+ and is that the highest rating? Is this really the best example of projection you've ever seen?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539779
CNN is terrible. They consistently warp the truth to make things more clickbaity.
If they really want that, they should just get a job in Vancouver with a different employer.
The GPON splitter is entirely passive, it's effectively a very fancy prism, so yes. It's a shared network. So is the road. You could just pour barrels of something nasty across the big road into the village and snarl everything up, but when they catch you I'm guessing the other villagers will be pretty unhappy about that.

In principle the technology might arrange for encryption keys between your endpoint and the smarts at a remote exchange so that it's impossible without physical access to another terminal to interpret messages for other terminals or impersonate them. In practice I doubt this is actually effective.

You should assume that traffic you send may be intercepted by an adversary. If you're confident that you don't have any adversaries then I suppose that needn't concern you, otherwise you should probably put most confidence in security at layers you can actually inspect, like TLS/ HTTPS rather than mysterious proprietary technologies like your FTTP installation.

There are standards for stuff like the encryption of GPON, but those standards aren't for implementing by us, so they leave lots of gaps that could be filled by your service provider with strong, security focused decision making, or could be "Eh, who cares just set the password as 'password' on all the terminals and stop fiddling with it". It doesn't take too much cynicism to assume the latter.
The Mycophile’s Plea
That campus houses maybe 12k people. Apple has well over 2x that amount of workers in the sunnyvale/cupertino area alone.
It is an issue for all platforms - I just mentioned Windows, because I work on Windows. And the issue is: Why do I need a C++ compiler if I would like to develop in Java?
For anyone unsure of what you meant by "The controversy comes in the harsh manner in which DHS has been enforcing those laws in the last few years. It seems like we're not even treating immigrants like human beings" see
https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/new-mcallen-fa...
Reviewers never mention the real tech specs, although I appreciate that this article does mention the number of command queues the device supports. Three things I'd like to know before I buy are 1) how many namespaces are supported, 2) what logical block sizes are supported (the retail 970 supports only 512 bytes) and 3) what is the critical temperature threshold? The output of `nvme id-ctrl` would do the job.
StimulusReflex v3.3 Release and Word from Russ Hanneman
Probably the human rights abuses.
They eventually were, because they died.
HotSpot, under a typical configuration, eats up about 250MB just sitting there doing nothing

Mmmm, I have two projects open in IntelliJ right now, one of which is quite large, quite a few tabs, and it's using 366mb of heap.

You have to watch out though - Java won't collect garbage if it doesn't have to. This fools a lot of people. They look at memory usage and assume it must really be using that much memory, even when it's not. From the perspective of the JVM if the memory is there, it may as well be used, because freeing RAM just to leave it pointlessly empty just wastes CPU time, battery, generates waste heap etc. Why not use it? The only time it matters is if you have something else that wants the memory and it can react to that I believe. Or if you're measuring it against other tools of course.

I guess over time this will go away as a talking point because the JVM is getting more aggressive at collecting memory even when there's RAM spare, partly because of containers and partly because of threads like this one.
Big Data Frameworks
Have you ever wondered how Netflix and YouTube recommend the exact same content that you were hunting? Its Big Data which does the magic. At present many devices all over the internet are streaming millions of bytes of data which we call as Big Data. Processing these heaps of structured and unstructured data is referred to as Big Data Analytics. There are several open-source Big Data Frameworks which are available to perform these analytics. Let’s dive into some of them!
> It's bloat which increases the browser's attack surface.

AFAICT PDF.js is just another JavaScript application and thus as sandboxed as any other website.
The graph database is useful for external analysis of the relationships between your resources. I've built this in the past using just AWS Config and, while incredibly useful, it is extremely limited due to Config's very limited scope.

If this covers a reasonable percentage of AWS services it would be more than cost justified at $1-2k/mo for our environment.
Randomized response can help collect sensitive information responsibly
I was surprised how many things for Java just works in VSCode. Just few more features and I can see people leaving IntelliJ for that.
ISPs are a natural monopoly [1]. Deregulation is unlikely to fix the issue. Creating (or regulating) a common infrastructure, e.g. poles and/or cable tunnels looks like a better way to induce competition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Try "Xenonauts", a recent remake of X-com using the original mechanics. It isn't a direct port, they have added a couple mechanics in areas like air combat, but it is 95% x-com with better graphics.

My want: Xenonauts + TFTD. TFTD was the pinnacle of the x-com franchise imho. That opening sequence, and all the sound, was amazing. I still hear TFTD sounds being reused in modern scifi.
My wife is from Sichuan which is bordering Tibet. It is a bit more complicated than that. Over the years the development has been fast but still far behind the majority of China. The polices to 'encourage' and harness the great overall economic growth were uniquely shaped and had an element of 'outdated' fashion (or USSR style if that's your opinion). And the flags and posters you saw is probably a chicken and egg problem: the gov sees misinformation (or propaganda from west depends on your view) and wants more territorial control (against the largely available chinese language free Tibet tabloids) and people who actually wants to use it as a way to get more support from the gov. It was nothing like that a decade ago, the social media amplification definitely accelerated that as well.
For all my purposes it's feature complete.

"The most important feature of Sublime Text […is that it doesn’t change.]" https://tonsky.me/blog/sublime/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24553279)
Sounds like a problem for them specifically. Apple lists jobs in Vancouver.
> You can pause and play audio or video in Firefox right from your keyboard

Doesn't seem to work for me on Windows 7 (while working on Chrome on Youtube, Soundcloud and a side project of mine).

Basically navigator.mediaSession still returns undefined.

edit: it's win8.1 and above.
Localization. Think US zip code, for example.
First, I was a little vague. When I said OS makers, I was referring only to iOS and Android, Mac, Linux and Windows apps are always active when in the background.

As for how they receive notifications while in the background. On iOS (and I'm sure Android is similar), apps register notification events with the OS and the OS sends a notification to the app for that specific event. For example you can register a specific number geographical areas and get notified when a user enters or leaves those areas. Your app is still in the background, but you can perform some small task in response to that event[1].

Your app can also get push notifications over the network or timed notification while in the background. For example a podcast app might get signaled that a new episode is ready and download that episode.

Backgrounded apps can also pop notifications which put alerts up and trigger a sound/ vibration. That's how most notifications get done.

The type of notifications you can get is pretty limited though and the accelerometer is not one of the things you can listen for.

There are also a few specific things apps can do while in the background[2] which generally prevents them from being killed. Media playback is the big one. But again, access to notifications and events like the accelerometer data is quite limited. I believe fitness apps might have access to accelerometer data while in the background, but I'm not sure.

[1] This has been abused and it's been a big game of cat and mouse.

[2] This has also been abused.
Reuters appears to be Pastejacking on iOS 14
> The u.s. should tell China, hey you hid your concentration camps really well, we totally just found out like today, but the thing is we can't let this go on so you have to free all your concentration camps in 18 months or we come invade.

The US isn't going to invade China; I mean, it fought North Korea to a draw and could stomach Vietnam, and you think it's going to make a credible threat to invade China over internal policy?

And, if it did make such a threat and China believed it, that would just drive things into high gear. When someone's already doing a plan that is basically forcibly assimilate or exterminate, a timeline just pushes it to expedite the latter.
>From our Western perspective it feels so wrong that they're essentially trying to extinguish an entire culture and 'fitting' it into China.

Yeah, kinda like Hawaii. (Not to mention Native Americans' lands, civilization, and culture). Or, well, Mexico.

Sure, it's, "whataboutism". Which is an improvement on the our-shit-doesn't-smell-besides-that-was-back-a-while-ago-so-we-get-to-keep-it-now "Western perspective". Or the "sure-we-can-get-to-our-shady-stuff-but-at-some-other-time-now-let's-talk-as-if-only-those-bad-countries-do-such-things".

>Plus, China isn't going to be impressed when the old Imperial continent with 140 ex-colonies and the current imperial top-dog with 800 foreign military bases are going to lecture them about occupying a territory.

Yeah, that's the problem I'm talking about.

>For China Tibet is a buffer between India and them and it is where most of their water comes from, so they're never going to let any foreign entity control it. Seems out of the question.

Yes. Plus they have old claims to the area (as valid as a claim can be). Populations whose countries have wars and bases and proxy states and/or colonies all over the world (where they have absolutely no place to be), are in a "glass house" place to throw stones at what China does in its immediate borders...
It cool to create a "Area 120" space for new ideas. But what's the point of funding underfunded clones of old ideas instead of aquiring them?

What is the most successful or longest lived Area 120 product?
> In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head of global affairs, said it had drawn up plans for how to handle a range of outcomes, including widespread civic unrest or “the political dilemmas” of having in-person votes counted more rapidly than mail-in ballots, which will play a larger role in this election due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Interesting definition of "chaos" there. Wouldn't one expect in-person votes (along with early ballots and absentee ballots) to be counted more rapidly than mail-in ballots, since the former are well-established systems and the mail-in ballots are something new and unprecedented?
It would be a benefit to have dev teams in the Toronto/NYC time zone.

We’ve worked with the Cupertino devs since the start of Apple News and there’s a bit of a disconnect there because of the time difference. Apple has had other teams here but few devs. (In Toronto anyway)
I keep hoping to see "font rendering looks better on Windows" in one of these releases. I don't think it'll ever happen though.
Absent from this list: the shader editor.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Shader_Editor

I really enjoyed using this.
How many work trackers do we need? At my last job we a number of them doing small pieces. ServiceNow for ticketing, bastardized JIRA for bug tracking and agile tracking, planview for tracking hours to projects/initiatives, and another 2 Visual Task Boards that my team didn’t have the displeasure of using thankfully. Sharepoint and Workday were mixed in for tracking edge case organizational stuff.
I live about 3 miles from my office (suburbs with 25 mile per hour speed limits the whole way), but because of restrictions on eating at my desk, for the past few years I had been driving home for lunch every day -- in other words, spending 40 minutes a day commuting because the 10-minute drive was repeated 4 times. (I used to occasionally walk into the office & skip lunch, but that was very dependent on the weather, & I couldn't manage that more than twice in a week because I'd get blisters.)

Since the work-from-home order came down, I've gone from driving 40 minutes every weekday to driving perhaps three minutes a week, and rather than refilling my gas tank every two weeks, I haven't had to fill it in about a month and a half.

I've had to go into the office a few times since the coronavirus began -- due to power outages, VPN problems, etc. Most of those times, I walked in.
> "At Area 120, we work on 20% projects 100% of the time."

I laughed at that, at first, thinking it were a joke.

No, no that's a quote from https://area120.google.com/
I'm still sad to this day that FirefoxOS got axed. Doubly so now since I'm trying to find a new phone after my Nexus 5X stopped getting official builds of LineageOS.

I really hope that there's some diabolical plan within Mozilla to bring it back once the wasm world is more established and makes having a fully browser based OS less of a performance hit.
interesting that it's a review for a "consumer" drive and contains purely synthetic results and no real world discussion whatsoever. just shut up and buy it kids! does it make any perceptible difference in your life at all? well you can tell the kids with 970s that youre cooler than them
It did get slightly comical when one of them died (or you started another game from the beginning) and you had the second or third guy with the exact same name down the road, though.

But it's true, you did grow attached.

Since in some sense the nature of the game is also that your soldiers will die -- and sometimes a lot of them -- because of a small mistake or just due bad luck, that creates a weird dichotomy where you're tempted to care on one hand and to see them as expendable and replaceable on the other hand at the same time.

Also, the atmosphere of night missions in particular where shots might come out of the dark at any point, and you might not really even see where they came from, made for a surprisingly engaging and even scary experience.

The weird, ominous music was probably a part of that.

I've heard others not find it that way, though, so maybe it's a matter of imagination and how prone to getting immersed you are.
Didn't downvote, but outside of the internet this just doesn't correspond to my reality. Combine that with the perception of pushing a "both sides are bad" narrative makes it seem like a partisan statement used to justify any hatred towards the other side of the aisle.
Given the amount of PDF exploits over the years and the habit of browsers to automatically invoke your PDF viewer of choice either as a plug-in or call out, they're an easy target.

Having a sandboxed PDF viewer that works 95% of the time is great. For those 5% circumstances where I am actively trying to view a PDF and it won't work in browser, I'll gladly go through the minimal effort to open it in an external viewer.
“I believe the perception caused by civilian casualties is one of the most dangerous enemies we face.” U.S. General Stanley A. McCrystal in his inaugural speech as ISAF Commander in June 2009.
The built-in PDF reader on Windows is literally to open the PDF in Edge.. so not very good UX for Firefox and also a good argument that browsers are expected to have PDF readers.
Arm Announces Neoverse V1 and N2 Infrastructure CPUs: +50% IPC, SVE Server Cores
CheerpX for Flash, a solution to extend the life of Flash applications post-2020
Ultra-Secret Battery Startup Hints That It’s Blown Past Tesla
Wow, why was the TBW halved? New NAND process?

I remember SSD lifespan going down between the Samsung 470 (32nm flash) and its successor the 830 (20nm flash), and going down even further with TLC flash.

Doesn't seem to affect the average lifespan (it's more data than most people will write) but still, it would be nice if they lasted longer instead of being ultrafast.
These sequential write numbers are for small writes. For large writes both 970 Pro and 980 Pro have a performance drop (don't know how Optane behaves here). The 970 Pro dropped to around 2000 MB/s, for the new 980 Pro the performance drop will be even larger due to using TLC (3 bit MLC in marketing materials) instead of MLC.

This and the durability were the main reasons to pay the premium on the Pro line. Not sure what will be the value compared to the competition once the new Phison controller is out (or even Evo when there is a model for PCIe4.
The following is a sarcastic joke. Probably prescient.

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Kafka Connect JDBC Source Connector
we call out all our own flaws from the past and now reject colonialism

additionally, our country was founded by people escaping religious persecution

why are not right to call out others currently making our mistakes from the past?
Tesla Battery Day Reveal Event Live
A good argument for being careful adding new products.
"But we also can't say anything because China makes all our stuff."

20 years ago we were. Tibet was a little bit like BLM, all over Hollywood, in pop culture. The Dalai Lama was somewhat of a figure.

Then China told Americans to 'shut their mouths' and they did.

This is a tiny example of the tremendous power of that machine, it really cannot be ignored but I think we probably will.

Edit: some notes [1] [2]

[1] https://psmag.com/news/what-ever-happened-to-hollywoods-free...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/cause-hollywood-forgot-f...

I'll put money that the next pres. will probably be Joe Biden and he will never say the word 'Tibet' publicly. And who's 'free'?
I remember when everyone said remote work as the default was impossible but then it happened and now it's as if it was the same and rational option all the time...
Do you have a list of supported services? I've built a very similar solution using AWS Config to feed Neo4j and it has been incredibly useful, but Config's coverage is so anemic that we are left with just a tiny portion of our infrastructure visible.
970 Pro was MLC, 980 Pro is TLC (they call it 3 bit MLC)
There was a slashdot post many years ago that spoke of a 100,000x general/global algorithmic improvement over the decades. The point was that it absolutely dwarfed the hardware improvements over the same time span.

To be clear, this was a post, not a comment. So it wasn't just some rando spouting off. Nevertheless, I was never able to find any backing for the claim. But it's always fascinated me.

It reminds me of something from a Frank McSherry comment about scaling down (algorithmically) being a third option, in addition to up (bigger server) and out (more servers).
Western culture seems to suffer from collective ADHD. People expect small morsels of information/experience to give them much and people eschew deeper, longer, more meaningful experiences. I could go on.
It's the reverse: GSuite products have a mandatory minimum level of support (and integrate with the Suite). Area 120 is for standalone products that have zero promise of support.
I had to handle action buttons for a PDF once. I swam out from America a long long ways before turning back. Might have spotted you middle of the ocean.
A few days ago[0]:

> New York City Police Department Officer Charged with Acting As an Illegal Agent of the People’s Republic of China

> The Defendant Reported to Officials with the PRC Consulate About the Activities of Chinese Citizens in the New York Area and Assessed Potential Intelligence Sources for the PRC Within the Tibetan Community in New York and Elsewhere

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-city-police-departme...
Why do you care? The critical temperature on a retail 970 Pro is, IIRC, 84C, and is almost impossible to hit.
While coconut looks very cool, does it include a Hindley-Milner type system and type classes?

Those are big features of Haskell that I see implemented in this repo that I couldn't see in Coconut.

But I could be mistaken. I don't know much about Coconut.
It means that the PM cares less about the users than the PM for a 100% time Google product cares the users, which is already very little.
They don't care. They're revenue is from ads. If they get a bump in revenue from gleaning information off of Tables (tm) to display relevant ads to you for the year this will be active, then maybe it was worth it.
Gotcha. I'll engage an attorney to better scope, improve my understanding of the problem space, and possible workarounds for public decimation via a blog post or similar. Appreciate the replies.
Who else is excited, and do you think that event is going to justify P/E ratio of more than 1100 and growth of 500% in last 6 months of pandemic?
Goal-Oriented Side Event Ideas for Technical Meetups
Operating "an illegal radiator" maybe - that I believe is the technical term.

I think from a comment on the El Reg version of the story its the BBC that has jurisdiction - id have thought it was Ofcom my self.
That's some feisty old philosophical language....

To put it in more poetic terms (Leonard Cohen's), I think free will is overrated. We very often act because because we are compelled to act, or not to act.

Back to the original topic or bird warfare... What I mean is that whatever compels (or maybe convinces) woodpeckers to warfare may be similar to what compels or convinces humans to do the same thing. If not birds, chimps.

The debate about free will are poetic in nature, imo. It's a matter of what we call things and how feel about them. Less so about what things are.
We’re all in some kind of bubble. One way of mitigating that is to assume it to be true, and then take other people’s reports as if they are samples from other bubbles. You can then use these samples to expand your own view.

I have a friend who has one foot in very liberal circles and one in very conservative circles. In his experience people on both sides are going to accept the election result if their side loses.

I have another friend who works at an elite liberal university. The people around them understand it’s close race, and that Trump might actually win.

I personally know a democratic media strategist who disbelieves the polls and is expecting Trump to win.

People close to me who are centrist independents are going to vote for Biden, because they are worried about Trump undermining institutions and think the US needs allies, but are worried that the Democrats domestic policies might be so harmful that this. Ugh this end up being a mistake.
>the additional performance is not always worth the additional price per GB

There are factors besides performance. Samsung is not known for particularly high quality firmware (the 830 Evo performance fuck-up, multiple queued TRIM bugs, etc.), but after reading a disproportionate amount of horror stories of silent data corruption and data loss for most of their competition, I'd rather spend the extra bucks.
Sadly, the new PDF viewer still doesn’t support smooth two-finger zooming on macOS. The new theme is kind of neat though.
How many years of training does it take to aquire this skill?