skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Here, y has correct one and three significant digits relative to x, but incorrect 2 significant digits, since the truncation at x_2 and y_2 do not agree even to the first significant digit. "

> This doesn't make sense. Y has the correct one?

I think that's a language issue, like "that x̂ agress to x upto p" in the next section. I think what they're trying to say is the following. If you round x = 0.9949 to 1, 2, or 3 significant digits, you get 1, 0.99, or 0.995 respectively. If you round y = 0.9951 to 1, 2, or 3 significant digits, you get 1, 1.0, or 0.995 respectively. So x and y look equal if you round to 1 or 3 significant digits, but not if you round to 2 significant digits.
I'm your aunty in this pranking game -Bbnaija Vee tells Nengi. – Itootalk
Oh I've already experienced my opinion not mattering at all. I haven't been put off trying to be involved just yet though.

I'm also more interested in understanding and being involved than simply being frustrated and venting.
HPV is a bit different. Its not a vaccine against cancer, its a vaccine against a virus that happens to cause cancer sometimes.
Beeple Buyers Reveal Identities – Purchase “Taking a Stand for People of Color”
You can install MacPorts into a local directory without admin privileges.
> I predict within the next 20 years, having an avatar that is more attractive than your true physical form will become normalized.

That's already pretty normalized looking at how even a lot of older generations are carefully curating their social media presences to make them look as perfect and impressive as possible.
LisaaShull, 89 – Yorfriends-social and business-networking site
You don't seem to understand what "I don’t want websites to be able to send notifications to my phone." means.
Now gogo.duck and go.duck would be nice aliases for DuckDuckGo. (There is ddg.gg of course.)
> and were afraid of the demagogues of Athens

Yet here we are with Nancy Pelosi, who is nothing but a demagogue.
Denmark reports two cases of blood clots after AstraZeneca shot
Apache Kafka vs. Apache Pulsar
Eblocker 2.6 Released
eBlockerOS is a software for Raspberry Pi, which is installed in minutes and turns the small computer into an eBlocker. The eBlocker is then simply connected directly to the router and serves as a gatekeeper to the Internet.
Do we have any evidence people, much less students, adhere to these warnings?
Without reusable rockets, putting tens of thousands of satellites into orbit sounds like a very expensive project. Not to mention the maintenance. The constellation of satellites is never final, you need to lift new ones all the time. SpaceX relies on the fact that reusable Falcons 9 have low marginal cost and on the expectation that Starships will be even cheaper when it comes to $ per kg into LEO.

China so far does not seem to be on the track to a cheap, rapidly reusable launch system.

This means they would have to subsidize the project from its state budget - it can be done, but perhaps at a great cost, and expensive state projects that are suddenly cancelled are a recurring theme in Chinese history - or ask a noncompetitive price from users.
Yes that is the format. Sometimes, there can be two character names. I only know that my grandparents are from shanghai, but I cannot speak shanghainese. I am learning from my dad and aunts because the intonation is more difficult for me as compared to speaking chinese or cantonese.
The Internet is not the Web
It looks like from within an S3 Object Lambda object handler you can do pretty much everything you can in a regular Lambda, including querying other S3 objects or performing any number of HTTP requests. This opens up some interesting use cases, as well as some extreme footgun scenarios.
The relevant bit of section 230 is probably:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

Doing something like throttling your competitor's video streaming traffic while zero-rating your own is pretty hard to cast as a good-faith action, especially if it's done on the basis of where the traffic is originating instead of based on the content. And I'm not sure mere throttling or deprioritization is enough to qualify as an attempt to "restrict access to or availability of material". So I don't see how section 230 can give protection to ISPs that want to discriminate against certain classes of traffic.
Curiously I have never heard of it as Western numerals, but only as Arabic, and that's how I learned at school.
Actual title:

How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?
This is a very strange article. No idea what City of London police has to do with this- there aren't even any universities in City of London (probably a few publishers though). Sci-hub doesn't have any logins barring captchas so why would that be an issue? You could make the same argument for YouTube being a security threat.
How is something like having Google Analytics on your site "shady shit"? I would think counting unique visitors is a legitimate business interest for most businesses. And there is no way to do that without a cookie, or without storing IP address (which is considered personally identifiable info).

The law could have been much better if it simply asked browser makers to provide a single place to configure your preference, and then forced companies to abide by that setting.
This is great. More publicity for sci-hub. Well crafted article from the BBC..
And as a surprise to no one Max Bruce has no qualifications whatsoever beyond further education. Completely clueless.
Discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26517220
I hadn't thought of the state of standards, but that's also true.

However, mid-90's games that did do 640x480 generally did that in 256 colours, so they already had to deal with going above standard VGA one way or another. Very few games that I can think of used the VGA mode of 640x480 in 16 colours, and they certainly weren't first-person shooters.
> Guess what, the only requirement for the job was "sexy voice" not actually being all that sexy.

As I remember it, not even that was a requirement. In Germany a lot of these services ran the ads in a dual way: The big number advertised was for men to call and cost money, and then somewhere in the corner was a number that was free to call for women.

They didn't really screen that women number, teenage boy me had no problems at all getting connected to poor guys paying per minute, anybody could just call there as long as their voice sounded high-pitched/female enough.
The word "smart" is so overloaded with definitions as to be nearly useless in such discussions. I like this set of definitions:

- Intelligence is being able to observe systems [1] and understand how they work. Both Hawking and Machiavelli objectively have this.

- Smartness is being able to use one's understanding of a system [1] to achieve one's own goals. Both Hawking and Machiavelli objectively have this.

- Wisdom is being able to choose the right goals. This is where there is a clear distinction between Hawking and Machiavelli, and since it requires moral judgment to deliberate whom of them chooses "the right goals", this cannot have an objective answer.

By the way, it's easy to see with these systems that existing machines that are supposedly "intelligent" and "smart" are in fact neither.

[1] "System" shall be interpreted in the broadest way possible, i.e. "any network of interconnected actors", e.g. a machine or the financial system or any society of people.
The EU is working on legislation to make Do Not Track enforced by law, which should get rid of a lot of the popups.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/proposal-epriv...
Julia core developers are at the forefront of trying to push for a better unicode standard:

https://github.com/stevengj/subsuper-proposal
> My understanding is that if we had net neutrality then there wouldn't be any such discrimination and I would have to buy just some universal "Internet" and the price of that would have to be averaged between me and the avid YouTube and Instagram users.

Of course not. Net Neutrality does not prevent ISPs from charging per GB. It does prevent them from offering an "unlimited video" option that only actually covers their hand-picked selection of video providers, most of whom will have been extorted to be included on the approved list.
As Persian as CHELO KABAB KOOBIDEH.

The original Persian holiday even if others have tried to appropriate it.
With pihole I keep getting playback error when video starts basically cause the ad can't play. If I refresh then it plays normally cause YouTube doesn't show the ad the 2nd time being tricked it was already watched.
Quite the contrary, I suspect that telling the details would be illegal. The ME engine predates Snowden and is widely believed in the security community to be subject to NSA meddling. It may be that Intel is the recipient of a NSL preventing them from disclosing too many details.

But for whatever reason they have been very tight-lipped.
Is it a commercial done right? I mean, can it break even financially?
Except students have already learned that misusing personal data is ok and if you are large enough company you can do it with total impunity even if you get caught (Facebook, etc.)

Having to stay online is a must for most people and being constantly conned or abused practically everywhere makes people used to that new normal. People learn to ignore signs of dishonesty and extract value from services despite.

Better tell tell people to never reuse credentials and assume that every company may have malicious intent. Tell people there is always price attached to services. If you don't pay for it explicitly it most likely means the company extracts it some other way -- ask yourselves how exactly.
For Android blockada seems to fail to block them
This is the one! Thanks
That's not at all what he's saying. He's saying that this creates the incentive of not working hard at all, let's just wait until the government bails us out. Yeah, lets create a society where nobody has to work and we just all magically have it easy!
> Are you aware there is an extreme left bias online?

Evidence please.

I am aware that 'left bias' is a consistent lie perpetuated by right-wing media, which contradicts at least twenty years of research on the subject, e.g.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/twitters-not-shadow-bannin...

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/platform-bias.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20031230091158/http://www.whatli...

> Knowing that, and today’s extreme cancel culture...

I would highly recommend taking a course on logic and critical thinking. In particular regarding the "principle of explostion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

> Even here on HN these posts have support, until dems downvote it beyond the upvotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

> Meanwhile in actual face to face conversations people can’t stop talking about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
~47% [0].

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/236550/percentage-of-us-...
Business Software Faces Pressure to Update Its User Experience
I'm in northern/western Europe, a not that large country, some small health care providers here.

(I guess you're in the US?)
From the link:

As we detailed in October, with the increased CPU, GPU and memory from our new consoles, all of your existing games look and play better. With certain titles, we can make the experience even better, all with no work required by the developer, and no update needed by the gamer. To that end, the backward compatibility team has developed FPS Boost, which employs a variety of new methods for nearly doubling (and in a few instances, quadrupling) the original framerate on select titles. ... And while not applicable to all games, these new techniques can push game engines to render more quickly for a buttery smooth experience beyond what the original game might have delivered due to the capabilities of the hardware at the time.

It clearly distinguishes "with the increased CPU, GPU and memory from our new consoles, all of your existing games look and play better" from "FPS Boost, which employs a variety of new methods for nearly doubling (and in a few instances, quadrupling) the original framerate on select titles". Further, FPS Boost has to be manually

IANAL but it seems like offering a feature and blatantly lying about it is fraud and that everyone who participated at Microsoft is guilty of both fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud. Do you have evidence of this?

Here's more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89L-3U2egKw
My first laptop had OS 7 I think and it was a bit of a nightmare of UX crashing totally daily or so. High Sierra that I'm now on is rock solid in comparison. The one thing I miss was the find feature. You could do find and start typing a filename and the thing would pop up in a fraction of a second. The modern experience of that isn't nearly so good.
The way you are describing your situation reveals some immaturity on your part in relation to your leadership role. As a project manager, it is your job to make things work and to deal with "difficult" coworkers. Remember that people aren't "difficult" per se, most want to do a good job and they may have rational reason for acting in certain ways.

You should talk to your coworker. And you should realize that perhaps you have contributed to your work-relationship having deteriorated. It may not be all on them.
Those cookie warnings are a classic ill-conceived solution. No user reads it, everyone is just clicking "Accept". So what privacy gain do we get?
While Gustavus was a brave soldier, he was known to be a bit foolhardy. Besided getting himself killed in the battle of Lützen 1632, the story of the Vasa ship may have been what Oxenstjärna had in mind. Against the advice of his engineers, the king ordered his new flagship to be loaded with so many guns that she capsized and sunk outside of the Stockholm harbour on her maiden voyage only having sailed a short while.
From overview vantage point, YAML-files seems to be stepping stone to even better abstractions. Operators maybe? The orchestration is complex work in itself, and to build up to more advanced setups you need incremental work, or simplifications. In orgs K8s tends to require a separate team.
It is not easy to find a team that wants to be "empowered" by a 10x engineer. Usually the 1x engineers focus on irrelevant or counterproductive issues, inundate the 10x with non-feasible suggestions and play office politics.

Upon which the 10x moves to inner emigration and gets work done. For which the "team" gets the credit.

Where are those teams that you speak of? At which companies?
What about 1) false negatives (when they receive it poorly), 2) various consequences of priming, 3) false positives (where they receive it well and everyone in main group wrongly assumes they are alone in their doubts)?

You can totally run things in authoritarian manner, gathering consent in instrumental way and use outside sources (like sales) for validation. But downsides/side effects/intentional features not said out loud are well known and researched to the point where one has to intentionally choose to remain ignorant of them to sustain a different narrative.
LIL Is a Language
Definitely do not link to it!

https://sci-hub.se/
I am so interested in seeing the source code. The voiceover dialogues are so apt.
Was this article made by a machine learning algorithm? It created a false narrative with false characters. Published by the BBC, nonetheless?
Which is exactly why you can continue emailing your users, while others like me would like an option to use notifications and other PWA features.
The City of London Police are often involved in nationwide fraud issues, consulting with other regional police forces, etc. They're a leading UK center for it just because they deal with it so often.

This is all a bit "you wouldn't download a car" of course, but it's not that unusual for them to comment on these things.
The reason GDPR doesn't standardise a consent mechanism is because GDPR isn't about websites, its about data protection. It applies to offline companies just as much as it applies to online companies. GDPR has nothing to do with cookies (that's a separate directive), but is about personal data, personally identifiable data, the use of this data and user rights over their data.
I’m sorry you can’t have it both ways, you can’t blithely say there’s no proof the barriers are effective and then also claim that they’re horrendous impositions of kids making it impossible for the children to make connections to their class mates. It’s plexiglass, get a grip. If our kids are so highly strung that sitting next to a peice of plexiglass is a problem then I’m worried about more than just corona. This is the sort of “I can’t breathe through this thin piece of cloth” logic that would be mercilessly mocked if it appeared on Facebook let alone NyMag.

It also perplexes me the author shifts claims the barriers aren’t effective when people wear masks whilst not acknowledging that these are kids, you cannot trust them to be great about masks. This is like an article claiming we shouldn’t teach kids to look both ways 3 times before crossing the road because 2 times is more than enough! Well yeah, but understandably, we’re cautious when it comes to safety.

Give no aid to those who moan about the smallest inconvenience during a pandemic.
> Why is this supposed to be beneficial?

Because it means that a new video hosting or photo stream service has the same network access as the established players.

It's already insanely difficult to beat the network effect of an existing social media website, now imagine if Newstagram counted against your 4GB limit but Instagram didn't...

If the discrimination was based on content, eg by MIME type, that would be fair, but it wouldn't be technically enforceable under HTTPS (and easily bypassed anyway).

Then again, why is that even needed? Why does the premium package have to be "unlimited video" and not "unlimited gigabytes [wherever you download it from]"? Does it cost your ISP any less to transport hours of 4K Netflix than hours of 4K illegal streaming sites?

Your cheap 4GB package would be unaffected anyway, net neutrality determines what you can buy at the higher tiers.
Its a law that's hard to enforce. How'd you verify that a company isn't tracking you without auditing their whole codebase and infrastructure at multiple points in time?
Ask HN: Allocation of Company Stock
Hi HN!

As a first-time startup founder I have a rosy picture of what I'd like to happen with my company stock, which I know is naive but also "feels right". I'm sure you must have seen other founders with similarly naive ideas, so I'd be grateful for your input.

Here's what I'd like to do:

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Allocate 1/16th of my shares to friends and family. 1/64th each to my parents for incubating me. 1/192th to each of 6 friends and siblings for business acumen or counsel.

Have an initial valuation of £192 million.

Intend to take investment by selling 1/16th of my remaining 15/16th shares at a time to the best fit investor at a time, without changing the valuation. So I could hypothetically sell 1/16th to Andreessen Horowitz for £1, and/or 1/16th to my 2nd cousin for £10 million. This assumes I have runway to take investment in good time (as PG says, when investors are chasing you, not the other way around).

No change to valuation, no intention to go public.

Hire employees with a fixed 1/192th each (while looking for the "right" hire, use contractors instead).

No intention to bring on a co-founder.

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What are your thoughts? Is this actual malpractice? Workable but inadvisable? Do you know a specific resource that I should use to learn this topic properly?

(I'm keen to hear the "why's" and counter-examples, not only "I can tell this is the least of your worries" :-)

Do you know of any other companies that have taken alternative/different approaches in the past?

Thanks!
It really isn't that easy. Something like an IP address is considered personally identifiable information, and most web servers and frameworks log that by default. If you really want to comply it takes quite a bit of effort you are not accidentally logging IP addresses somewhere. You can argue you need that info for the operation of your site, but it's been established that you would still need to ask permission in that case, did you do that?

Of course, they are unlikely to come after a startup for an infringement like that, but the point is that they could if they wanted to.
Tencent files for patent on handheld PC for games
A cancer vaccine would work by priming the immune system to target the proteins that is mutated in the tumor cells, and killing the cells producing them.

In fact, the body does this regularly. Cells frequently mutate to divide uncontrollably in the body, but are nearly always suppressed by the immune system. It is only when the tumor somehow manage to bypass the immune system or the immune system is sufficiently weakened that cancers can spread.
16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows
What we should have instead of custom cookie banners is the browser asking. As it's being done with other APIs too.
The parent comment didn’t say their PWA stops working on Safari, only that it doesn’t have a full set of features on it. For some applications, features like push notifications are essential.
Many websites are not compliant though, so while its illegal, they're still doing it. For example, GDPR requires opt-in, many websites have opt-out. Its illegal, but if its not being enforced, then...
And trust the same chemical processes that eventually resulted in the mess we’re in? Start a new universe.
> Sorry, but what is that even supposed to mean?

I usually frame it as: if something is within reach of our technological capabilities and there's a way to make money on it, someone will eventually do it, no matter how evil that thing is.

Technology is mostly a ratchet - once something becomes possible, it usually never stops being. So if you want to stop or prevent some wrong behavior, you have to address the economics of it: make it not profitable to pursue.

In this particular case: adtech scoundrels find it profitable to know your core count. Explicit API for this information doesn't change much for them, as it's easy to reliably infer that information with a bit of clever code. That clever code, however, will tax your CPU and battery. They don't care, because they're not paying for your electricity. The solution to this problem isn't to oppose the API (that, beyond saving you battery life, has many beneficial applications). It's to make fingerprinting unprofitable.

To make fingerprinting unprofitable, you can make it harder to perform (removing this API doesn't achieve that). But that's pretty much impossible without completely lobotomizing the browser, or without technologies that don't exist yet. So the best avenue of attack is changing (widely understood) social norms to make adtech fingerprinting unprofitable. In case of as widespread practice as this, pretty much the only effective way is regulatory - try to get your government to make this stuff illegal.
The Wikipedia page for Libgen keeps an updated list of working URLs, just in case this site should go down:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
CoLP has a national responsibility for fraud, so it has several teams that are nothing really to do with the City, the Intellectual Property Crime Unit is one of them.

As for the article they are clearly scraping the bottom of barrel trying to come up with ways to dissuade users. If they have grounds to enforce it as an IP crime, they should enforce a block. Either way they should stop this embarrassing nonsense trying to spin it as a cyber threat.