skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally unhinged.

>95% of the free users are good users. 5% of the free users are bad users because they are "parasites". Parasite users think they are "entitled" to unlimited free usage. People with "parasite syndrome" are those who are on welfare with free handouts for so long that they expect the free handouts will last for the rest of their lives.

edit: Welfare is bad but redistribution of wealth (server resources) is good?

>Daily quota is very effective to curb abuse so server resources are distributed more fairly to all users. In a zero-sum game, for one to get more, others must get less. Some users think they are special and should get much more than the others, but they do not realize they are just the others.
From experience, in small town's hardware stores you still have that kind of convenience, and when they don't have what you want, they order it for you without any additional cost.

With this kind of service, in addition to being able to touch how the product is and even being able to test it, make the customer to develop a trust with the seller, with more predisposition to buy again in that store over from the Internet.
This used to be a lot more common with Pocket PCs and feature phones. Opera Mini was very popular for devices that couldn't render a page on their own, or wanted to save on bandwidth. I guess there's still a market for this on low-spec devices.
... which is consistent with having sufficient backing. Again: She did not open a criminal prosecution for fraud. Do you think she would just let go of a criminal prosecution?
Realistically it wouldn't be "everyone" it would be perhaps a slight majority of the total population. That way the gov could still mobilize half the population against the other half, respond with violence, and probably still retain power.

But ideas spread quickly. If anything close to 80-90% of a population demands something, that thing is likely to happen.

That's why the fight in the information space is so fierce, that's why the police response in HK was so violent, etc. Authoritarians know the stakes couldn't be hirer, so they fight this battle with everything they got. If a critical mass one day demands freedom their very lives are now at risk.

Keep in mind, the people that ordered the military to fire on Chinese students in Tiananmen square, they are still in power. If the CCP were to fall, I would assume those people wouldn't escape justice. So they will fight like hell to avoid accountability.
Yesterday I learned about the case of Michael P. Fay that left a strain on US-Singapore relations.

Michael Fay was an American who was sentenced to caning by the Singaporean court. The United States felt this practice archaic. One of Singapore's senior ministers responded: "If you like it this way, that is your problem. But, that is not the path we choose"
I have to admit never really dug into Julia.
When it was new I read about it as I was looking for a replacement of python/numpy.
But then I was really repulsed by the fact that array indices don't start at 0.

c.f. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
> nuclear as share of Germany's energy mix went from 17% to 13%

> During the same time, coal went from 45% to 23%

Although it's true, it could go like this:

Nuclear as share went from 17% to 20%; coal from 45% to 20%.
Cool. I used to walk in the dark all the time. Then I got held up at gunpoint. It was not at that point practical for me to avoid walking in the dark, so I continued, though trying to be more aware of my surroundings. But such fear as I felt did not seem unsubstantiated or irrational.
> Large memory consumption [...] 150 MB for hello world.

My personal tests showed similar results. Good to know that I wasn't doing something wrong.
That's more wrong than correct. There's only one minor part of the design where we can see a relation: Latin q resembles Cyrillic ч.
They inject a few tons of water to trap a ton of CO2.

I'm not sure it has any real value opposed to injection into a saline aquifer or old oil field.
The compile time latency is the biggest the biggest show stopper for me.

Yes, you can cope with it by staying in the REPL and they are actively working on it but it is very unfortunate that the "slower" competitors like Python and R feel so much more responsive while developing.

Other than that, Julia is a absolutely beautiful language. Sure, it is not offering the same static safety as Rust or Haskell but I would not hold that against it. There is always some trade offs to be made regarding the dynamic vs static spectrum and the dynamic aspects serve Julia well for the typical use cases.
We! ould also call this: "How the WSJ lost my trust"

After the Murdoch acquisition, WSJ is playing a very interesting game. Writing high-quality news while pushing very partisan op-eds.

Surprisingly, although people swear they can distinguish between opeds and news, more often than not the strategy works and think the opeds have the goal of informing the reader rather than just pushing an incredibly open agenda.
It definitely does if your neighbor decides they need extra money and jacks up the rates and/or doesn’t like you anymore and shuts it off. Then it is whoever has the most self contained power wins.
Coal is 36% of global grid electricity production and falling from a peak of 41% in 2013, excluding home PV installations. Current industry projection is 22% of global grid electricity will come from coal in 2040 based on new power plant construction vs existing power plants decommissioned due to age. But even that is pessimistic as EV’s represent new demand so it’s the ratio of new plants being constructed that’s important.

All of which is largely irrelevant as average coal power plants powering EV’s still favors EV’s over gasoline powering average ICE’s. At the refinery alone almost 3lb’s of CO2 is produced per gallon of gas, distribution from refineries to gas stations again releases CO2 etc etc.
Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages
> I stand by my opinion that any kind of documentation or tutorial should pass a validation step where the author does copy/paste of all their commands into a clean Docker container or VM image. If any error happens, your work is not done yet.

Very much this. We often write scientific software with (command-line) instructions for nontechnical or sort-of-technical users and have learned from experience to not assume anything about the user's environment, or background knowledge, and to try to replicate our documentation's instructions line-by-line!
That's interesting to hear! I guess it matters how many people are struggling whether they might allow such things. (The group protects itself more than it protects low-status individuals in the group?)
28 Years of Life
This feels like a sand mandala: build an app, get users, then destroy it all.
It's potentially quite dangerous since it means that rendering servers can see everything.

Seems also time limited and with ads.
Trump clearly is inconsistent on this front, since the entire IC was warning him about russian interference and that Putin specifically was doing everything in his power(while still maintaining plausible deniability) to get him into office.

I think we can safely discard the notion that Trump would be reporting on anything the IC tells him.
Ok, but it was lucky
Olympics is already on thin ice. Everyone involved is losing big money on it this time around, and the locals are in revolt. If they can't find more cities foolish enough to host, Olympics will be toast. Future host cities will demand more money from networks up-front. At some point they're just going to drop the whole thing and fill the airtime with minor league women's soccer or rollerblade lacrosse or something.

Sure, Olympics started without television networks and it could continue without them, broadcasting over YouTube or whatever. However the show would be very different. We'd still have track and field, but basketball would be played without pros, many fewer "weird" sports and many fewer events in some of the overdone sports like swimming. Which could be OK...
Used to use some of these browsers on my ipod touch to bypass middle school web filtering.
Indeed, they are crazy expensive...

Will begin with Absolute FreeBSD and take a look at recent forum / blog posts for now.

Maybe I will send an email to the author, asking if he plans to release the ebooks (who knows)...
Depends on the level of observation. This is pretty detailed, we’re looking at pheromones and what not. I’d think the equivalent for humans would be looking closely at the communication between them, through the day. I think that would make it obvious there’s a central coordination.
It's not that they care for you 24/7 - it's that they are keeping an eye on you, auditing that your care is truly what was agreed and paid for, the quality, etc. And if an issue arises, that it is dealt with. This is not a significant burden for children to help their parents, but a duty that should be performed. Without family, an unrelated third-party may care enough to do this, especially if you set up a paid trustee with third-party verification. But even then, no one ultimately cares about you but your family, and failing that very solid friends, assuming they are also healthy and not in similar age and circumstances as you yourself.
> When I hear other people get common but foreign names […] wrong, I grimace too.

To be honest, this seems as one of the worst ways to handle such situations. Feeling distraught over an imprecise pronunciation feels like something to get rid of rather than accepting as a norm.

And I am saying this as someone with a slight speech impediment using one of the more consonant cluster-rich languages on the continent. I would have to be delusional to expect someone from an English-speaking country to pronounce names such as Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz on first or even second try.

Also, how do you decide which names are common? Not trying to be rude, but this can easily depend on from where someone is coming from and their age/generation. Names popular in the generation of my grandparents sometimes are completely absent from my own and rarely written down.

This all also comes with the prerequisite that a person in question still uses the original pronunciation and not one adapted to the dominant language in the region.
It might be inheritance.
>Not sure how much of that is older people just being happier in general.

That's the vibe I've been getting which did come as a surprise. I think the movies I watched (both Hollywood and Japanese) do a disservice to them - especially the ojiisan's.
In b4 blakecoin
I'd say QNX isn't quite "niche". It continues to be very successful in automotive, with most modern cars sold probably running at least a few instances on different computers throughout the in-vehicle network. Also other industries.

It has safety certifications that are so far difficult to achieve with anything else able to support the required use cases.
Aren't namespace collisions the feature that makes multiple dispatch so composable? I think this is what allows to replace the built in Arrays by GPUArrays and most of the code should still work because all the major operators and functions have GPU implementations
> The NY Times actually does a lot of good journalism these days. At least the level of the individual story and/or writer.

And what about the level above that? The level of giving readers an accurate picture of the world, not distorted by selective editing?

The most effective misinformation tells the truth, but not the whole truth.
DeFi, generally on Ethereum, would be severely impacted from a Tether fallout. Curve’s largest pool, which is the basis for a lot of yield in other services, can be drained to zero if Tether has even a minor sustained depeg. Tether backed loans at a variety of services would likely default sending liquidation events across all the major tokens on Uniswap and Sushi. Bitcoin wouldn’t do great but it is insulated from a DeFi ecosystem collapse that would undermine Ethereum’s value.

As for regulatory risk, I think privacy coins are the biggest target.
From a response to a user review complaining by the developer (CloudMosa Inc):

"95% of the free users are good users. 5% of the free users are bad users because they are ‘parasites’. Parasite users think they are ‘entitled’ to unlimited free usage. People with ‘parasite syndrome’ are those who are on welfare with free handouts for so long that they expect the free handouts will last for the rest of their lives."

Well... that escalated quickly.
He had three daughters, the youngest was "only" an IM, but one of her tournament results was so astonishing people still refer to it as "the sack of Rome". ( https://www.chess.com/blog/damafe/the-sack-of-rome-magistral...).
> But if people have a negative opinion of the Haiku community based on how Haiku enthusiasts have treated handelaar, that's Haiku's problem.

Absolutely a fair point.
It's not impossible for a foreigner to become a Chinese citizen but for most people it's not particularly attractive because you have to renounce your original citizenship. Since the passport isn't particularly strong at the moment that would mean you most likely need to go through an annoying visa process just to visit your home country.
Sure but let's look at a few.

NBA - just finished season, many players, even those that played in the playoffs have made the trip to Toyoko. So seems like the NBA could continue to supply players for the Olympics.

Golf - they could continue to play at the Olympics since an event could easily be scheduled for a Thursday-Sunday as usual.

MLB - no event

NHL - winter event that has supplied players, but it is an issue as the Olympics occur right in the middle of their season.

NFL - no event

Tennis/ATP - super long season normally, could make it a Grand Slam event, or a 1000 event and schedule into season every 4 years. One difficult thing is that doubles teams aren't always from same country. So they would need to mix and therefore affect rankings.

I think it could easily be done for most leagues. The issue is money. The NBA/NHL/PGA/ATP have no immediate financial motivation for sending their players but carry risk in that players can get injured. However, if they see the Olympics as a new source of fans (and therefore income) it could be a win-win.
As someone who felt the same way, trust me. You'll hit it twice, and then start using eachindex/ begin,end and then you'll not notice it anymore.
Perhaps my perspective is skewed as a Canadian consistently exposed to multiple languages in media and in casual conversation.

Italy shares borders with two German majority speaking countries (Switzerland and Austria) and is close to Germany itself. Wouldn't Northern Italians especially have good exposure to them?

As for the Italian 'gli', that was probably the hardest for me to pick up.
Well, "renewable energy in California" was at 52.7% in 2017, and California's 40mil people seem to own EVs at a world-high per-capita rate from my anecdata, therefore the most dense populous flock of EVs in the world is using ~52.7% renewables as their power source
For context, it looks like Puffin web browser's architecture is to run on the server side and render in a virtual appliance -- something like a "remote desktop". This would be a category of apps called "DaaS" or "Desktop as a Service":
https://www.google.com/search?q=daas+%22desktop+as+a+service...

So, resource limits like cpu would be inevitable because Puffin's servers are the ones running Javascript, etc. The remaining question is how Puffin is communicating those limits to potential users. Instead of being hidden, you have to be transparent about it to discourage unreasonable users from signing up and leaving complaints.

Interesting that the blurb on the app's description says: "* Users can pay a subscription for unlimited use."

With dangling that "unlimited" feature to encourage people to pay, Puffin set themselves up for so-called "abusers". Companies never seem to learn their lesson on advertising "unlimited" features.
How about secure data outsourcing?

We have cloud databases, but they are fundamentally insecure. They don't let clients verify the integrity and completeness of query results (correctness), they don't support the data to be queried and updated without decrypting it on the server (confidentiality) and even if they would encryption is not enough because of the leakage-abuse attacks (access privacy).

https://www.vldb.org/conf/2007/papers/tutorials/p1431-sion.p...

Currently this is an open problem. The state-of-the-art is structured encryption with forward and backward privacy and leakage perturbation for the encrypted index (but not the encrypted data). A persistent adversary with (known-data, known-query) or without (statistical inference) auxiliary information can recover data with the search pattern (frequency and co-occurrence of queried keywords), the access pattern (queried keyword to files), or only the response length (queried keyword to number of files).

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) can make storage accesses indistinguishable, but it doesn't hide the response length and can't be used trivially for searchable encryption because the ORAM accesses are not indistinguishable. More importantly ORAM has a non-trivial logarithmic overhead, even with differential privacy. A constant loss in efficiency can be only had with a logarithmic loss in privacy and the other way around.

Secret-sharing and trusted hardware-based techniques are similarly either inefficient or insecure. They support non-interactivity (queries and updates in one communication round), but make correctness, confidentiality and access privacy harder to achieve.

I'm working on a privacy-preserving cloud database that uses volume-hiding encrypted multi-maps and query smoothing techniques (fake queries, prefetching or buffering) for a practical double logarithmic overhead on range queries and meaningful privacy, as long as the client has persistent storage, which can be used offline too. Basically client storage let's you increase privacy without compromising efficiency.

There are always new things about secure data outsourcing that are not or barely covered by existing research, like maliciously secure access control or how to protect encrypted and non-encrypted indexes and data when accessed together. Or horizontal scalability (replication) without privacy loss. Or how to provide post-compromise security like history independence, secure deletion without privacy loss.
Exactly. This is sensationalism. QR is merely a barcode capable of encoding rich data. It would be trivial, as you noted, to simply decode the QR code and use an alternate method of browsing. Furthermore, in the USA the ADA protects alternative methods of ordering, so you won’t starve to death because of “QR tracking”.

As long as unscrupulous businesses (not the restaurants in this case) abuse personal privacy, a market will exist that protects it.
In a long run, are you guys going to be HQ-ed in Pakistan?
This has to be bait to some extent, but we're going to fight disinformation might as well start in the HN comments section.

To that end, two brief things. Journalists doing investigative reporting have ZERO interaction with advertising, so the idea that an individual ad bank would have any influence on the work you see from reporters in the paper is really out there. Editors at big papers like that are looking for stories that go hard... the crimes of autocratic regimes are pretty high on the list of shit you want to cover.

You might not believe that! But the other thing is that even if ads directed coverage and could buy press silence (they don't) NYT makes the lion's share of its revenue through subscriptions. Their ad business is cratering. So on an economic level it also makes zero sense.
You can also just whitelist it. It's how I maintain my LTSC variant
I'm curious how well this works for evaluating physicians
Parent firm Comcast sets the bar for abject trash customer care; given NBC was never well managed for at least the last 15-20 years, its surviving on a back catalog of content, and periodic strangle holds on stuff like the Olympics, which it strip-mines for ad rev.
Back in the days following the OG dotcom bust there was a website called Fucked Company that detailed all the tech startups that either had failed or were in the process of failing. Sadly long since defunct but the front page at least is still available via the wayback machine:

https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20060603194832/http://www...
> People have to help you here no matter what even if you're being very rude.

Not at all. It is entirely possible to simply ignore them. We even have a system of downvoting and flagging for people being overly hostile.

> if someone could just not leave other people with a negative opinion of him/her/themselves lol

That's their problem to deal with on their own. When you represent the Haiku community badly, that's everyone in the Haiku community's problem.

> seriously? lmfao, that phrase goes for you too, shut up and get your shit together.

I deleted that part when I read back to find what you were referencing because I realized it didn't at all mean what I suspected it meant. Although my opinion of you as a person is lowering for other reasons.
Is there also something about timing?

Given that R and Python are so mature and active, this really leaves not much space for Julia. Yes, Julia is faster than R and Python (just the language, not packages), but R and Python can easily integrate with C/C++ and many R and Python packages are in fact internally C/C++. This really leaves not much advantage for Julia against R and Python.

If Julia had appeared earlier, it may have had better position in the data analytics programing ecosystem, and gain more attention and opportunity to grow. Now, the whole data industry is booming, but people would rather contribute to the matured R and Python for real work, instead of waiting for Julia to grow.
It's up there with Espressif's Skainet [1]

1. https://www.espressif.com/en/solutions/audio-solutions/esp-s...
I would think so. No one watches either one without being cognizant which team they're shilling for.
Given that the UK decided not to make itself subject to REACH, that presumably means it wants to diverge, which introduces uncertainty. Now, it's _possible_ that having its own copy of REACH was just political posturing (if you're taking the cynical approach, you might assume that this is even likely), but I can't imagine anyone would want to depend on that.
I was competitive because my self-image was wrapped up in being the best in an unhealthy way. Don't cultivate that.

You don't need to be more competitive. You do need to value yourself well enough that you expect (and insist on) fair treatment for yourself - that you also deserve success, or at least that you deserve recognition and reward for the success that you helped cause.
> It's a fundamental problem of having a dynamic, compiled language. It's not possible to actually solve.

There are plenty of Common Lisp implementations that allow you to redefine functions or add methods to multi-dispatch functions without requiring you to recompile every use-site. There are other trade-offs here, but it’s not “impossible” to precompile and optimize code in a dynamically-typed language.
>(the same people who own Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange own Tether, and yet did not disclose that until it was found out)

I thought Tether & BitFinex were the two partners? Am I wrong?
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Norway accounted for half of EVs sold in Europe at one point, and is 100% renewable.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1025497/distribution-of-...

They’re also popular in the Netherlands, but looks like renewables is a much smaller share there unfortunately (~15% it seems)

Should be easy to check countries with highest share of EVs and their electricity sources on Wikipedia

But renewables are growing everywhere and these EVs hopefully have a decade or two lifetime ahead of them