skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got downvoted for making essentially the same point (elsewhere in this same discussion). I think you are 100% correct, but are not likely to win the argument. People don't like having it pointed out that what is convenient for them is not actually ethical, even if that isn't how you are framing it. They will defend to their death their right to claim "well, it is in the best interest of (the child, employee, whomever)" and ignore the larger point.

The irony is this is being suggested by an article that posits we should be nicer to our kids and not punish them. But deception and manipulation, that's apparently totes okay! It is so much nicer!

I don't believe in a punishment model. I also did not lie to my kids, nor deceive them nor manipulate them. I have a great relationship with my now adult sons who know they can trust me because I don't pull any of that bullshit. And that's what really matters to me. I sometimes wish I could figure out to share that information effectively to help other parents, but people who justify their shitty behavior don't actually want to be helped. They want the rest of the world to be nicer to benefit themselves, but they don't want to have to deal with the man in the mirror. He's fine. It's everyone else that is bad.

And it is usually fruitless to try to debate it.

Best.
Has the cutting edge techniques for implementing Notepad changed that much since 2005?
I suppose what you'd end up copyrighting is the final effect, not how it's achieved. Which is, I guess, the point.
Wow, in a happy coincidence syntect is exactly what I was looking for all last week! Now I just need to figure out Rust.
Well, the one I posted above includes a lot of tools which can be used for free by startups, so I think that qualifies :) Other than that, I could not find one in a quick search...
Cool, email me if you need any help with it. In fact, email me regardless of if you need help telling me what your project is and how syntect might help.
Basecamp is valued at 100 B$: https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...
Get feedback from your customers. Anything else is probably noise.
Or the classic The Craft of Text Editing from 1999:

http://www.finseth.com/craft/
Even if it's sometimes confusing I think that's a subtle but powerful thing. Even when you're moderating you're not set apart from us and it feels more like a discussion and less adversarial. Not sure if that's what you intended but I appreciate it.
Stripe vs. Paypal
Sorry I was just thinking about microcodes and you are talking about ME. Scary stuff indeed[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...
And plenty of people don't live in the USA. :)
> rural areas actually receive more in federal funding than they pay in taxes

Citation needed. Inner cities consistently have higher poverty rates than rural or suburban areas.
There is a good post about this here http://blog.ycombinator.com/minimum-viable-product-process/
I was more interested in Windows but thanks.
Do Synapses Really Store Memories?
But... quote marks are grammatically correct. They're the only way to mention words and phrases you're not actually using them.

Yes, the things we write are subject to misinterpretation, particularly when stripped of the their context. But asking people to avoid correct use of punctuation isn't going to make that less likely. Quite the opposite, in fact.
"Essentially" might fit better. Fitting "distilled" in there might work too.
>PHP-into-C null string terminator vulnerabilities

They should still be fixed, but I believe these bugs are no longer an issue in PHP after 5.3.
To be fair, the fully loaded cost of a couple statisticians (ones who can code, or combined with an engineer assistant) might be half a million or more annually.
Chinese Mole Uncovered Inside the FBI
I'm interested in PouchDB to make my JavaScript app easily sync to the server, but I don't want to switch my server's database from Postgres to CouchDB. Surely I'm not the only one in this situation?
There is one big difference between US and Canada in that regard.

In Canada, the constitution enumerates the powers that the provinces have, and that the federal government cannot encroach on. However, any power that is not enumerated, belongs to the federal government.

In US, it is the other way around - the constitution enumerates the powers that the federal government has, and everything that is not on the list is up to the states. And the constitution even has a specific clause (10th Amendment) that reinforces that arrangement.
...You can totally listen in to HAMs using RTL-SDR. 10m, 6m, 2m, 1.25m, 70cm, 33cm, and 23cm all fall within the ranges mentioned.

As much as the HAM radio is traditionally an HF affair, the easiest to obtain licence (Technician class) actually pretty much only allows for VHF and UHF transmission. Not only that, but even among Generals and Extras, 10, 6, and 2 are very popular, especially for local communication (usually through a repeater), whereas HF is more commonly used for DXing.

You can even listen in to APRS, which is message stream that carries a lot of interesting data (mostly GPS stuff, but you'll catch a few text, email, or general messages through it every once in a while).
4-5 hours total, sure, but it's actually a 17-18 hour difference if you care about weekdays vs weekend!
Guessing 100 numbers, there's a chance to produce 2 or more hits, of course.

..to the point that the expected value should converge to the same amount, right?
On Ebay+Amazon, It looks like the front-load consoles are going for $75 and top-load ones are going for about 30% more. When I bought mine (front load) a couple of years ago, I think I spent $20-$30 on it, so those numbers are a little bit of a shock to me.
>> One-shot learning, or learning from a few examples, is a field where we're making rapid progress, which means that in the near future, we'll obtain much higher accuracy on smaller datasets.

I'm really not convinced by one-shot learning, or rather I really don't see how it is possible to show that any technique used generalises well to unseen data, when you're supposed to have access to only very little data during development.

Even with very thorough cross-validation, if your development (training, test and validation) set are altogether, say, 0.1 of the unseen data you hope to predict, your validation results are going to be completely meaningless.
Yeah, it's full of cool stuff. Like old guys talking about emergency systems over VHF/UHF repeaters. And younger people, too.
Canada, like the US, is a federation.

States and provinces are both unitary states. Lower level divisions of those are creations of the state. County and city governments only exist because the state says they can.
It's the house style to add the year to titles from previous years.
No, but if a billion other people joined you in a similar fashion then yes.

It's kind of like the Architect scene in the Matrix. To paraphrase, "ignorance is the most predictable of all human responses, but rest assured. This is the sixth time we have valued a unicorn, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."

Look into the efficient-market hypothesis. Basically, the potential for profit motivates the members of financial markets to always seek the most accurate valuation of a stock as possible. This means that if there was a discrepancy in the perceived value (in this case $9 billion) and the "actual" value (in your imagination something close to $0), then the price of the stock would be more-or-less automatically corrected because an enterprising individual such as your self would be able to capitalize on this gross negligence on the part of all other financiers.

If we generalize this notion, we can conclude that the price of a public stock already includes all available information because if it didn't the potential to profit would see a shift in its price by people either shorting or longing it.

So you are kind of right. Kind of.
That's the problem with one-size-fits-all methods. Kids are just different and what worked for one child doesn't necessarily work for another child. Even if you do exactly the same thing.

My girlfriend used to train dogs for a living. She always said "it's the owner's fault, not the dog's". Now we have a Chihuahua who won't listen, doesn't respond to rewards, doesn't respond to punishment. She just does her own thing. My girlfriend is much more humble now. I wish a lot of these child psychologists would have to deal with a difficult child day in and day out, not just once a week. Maybe they would also lose some of the confidence in their advice.
I wouldn't consider "running an update where it pulls new code" to be "phoning home", any more than my car is "phoning home" when I drive it to the dealership for repairs.

The implication the comment I was replying to gave was that the device sent unexpected network traffic back to Intel HQ, with the connotation that it was doing so to leak information about my system.
ThinkPad Keyboard Encoder
I think I wrote a sober reply to an over-dramatic point. You reply with more drama:

> Get off your high horse.

Sorry, but I'm not interested in your drama.
> By choosing to opt out, you're showing Microsoft that there are people that genuinely care about being able to not be tracked, making it more likely for them to keep this option for the future.

How is Microsoft supposed to know you disabled telemetry? VSCode can't tell them you did, that would be a form of telemetry :P
The degree of sovereignty that US states is much more significant than any of the examples that you have listed. So yes, it is actually somewhat special.
Five insects from hell
Pretty much. There's a lot of people doing cool stuff over the radio, but the conventional wisdom is that if it wouldn't work in an emergency, you can't rely on it. So while you can rely on computers somewhat, be prepared to jump on SSB/CW/FM in the worst cases (ie, you only have power for your radio, nothing else).

And relying on the internet for anything is an absolute no-no, at least among the emergency people.
I love it when they show on TV how brave some superstar is who manages to raise children while having a busy career. They never show the nannies, cooks and cleaning personnel.
It will make sense to you some day - hopefully :-)

Logic is just one of the ways humans think. And often enough not the most powerful, because it is based on abstractions that are arbitrary artefacts of our minds.
I never thought of it from their perspective, thank you for the links.

I suppose I see it as a structural problem. That is, the company positioned their business lines to put them in the unique position to bundle in a way that gave them distinct market advantages. Owning the highway and distributing goods on that same highway. In the past it didn't matter so we never saw the conflict of interest. However, technology progressed and now the conflict is obvious.

I wonder what do other markets do? E.g. power comes to mind. Are the transmission lines owned by the folks that produce the power? If I understand my local market the power producer is a separate company from the transmission company. That was how we choose to privatize the industry. It seems telco got a better deal during their privatization as they own both sides. The solution, strikes me as simple (split the company into transmission and content businesses). Obviously there is no political will to do that.
That's where the money and expertise is, I'm guessing.

And it's one of those fields where you have to invest a truckload of time and energy in advance learning about everything, but once you've done that keeping up is (provided you're on a focused team) not that hard and it's easy to be productive. But webdev and enterprise IT are so thoroughly vertically integrated (especially when developing LoB apps) moving away basically means facing a nontrivial period of downtime.

If you're valued enough and don't have a primarily liquid lifestyle (relative to cost of living etc) then living off savings could probably work for long enough to study and line up a job somewhere else, but that doesn't discount the added cost/toll of the extra stress it will inevitably impose.
The time has come to listen to Ethernet cables
>I always cringe when I hear software execs talk of being a leader in their home country.

Yeah, because making millions (or billions) in one's home country is cringe-worthy.
Thanks. Lots of stories are mash-ups or retellings. Sometimes a great production of a classic, well-known tale is a critical success. Is your criticism that it's not wholly original? Did you enjoy the film?
> Screenplay is a tool, a blueprint that serves various departments throughout pre-production, production and post-production. That blueprint is also in flux as others are using it. I guess, well I believe one could modernise the whole screenplay pipeline. Trouble is you would have to make a significant advance in order for people to start using it. Every dept. except acting/blocking could start using new system(s) right away. Acting and blocking would still prefer paper.

I think the key insight that's missing is that the content of the screenplay is separate from the presentation. It sounds like there's no reason why a screenplay couldn't be edited as plain text in a font more readable than Courier with changes tracked by an off the shelf version control system. The editor shouldn't have to pay heed to concerns of pagination or paper coloring or version numbering, because all of that can be rather trivially automated by inspecting the version history and rendering a printable PDF as needed. Some actors may prefer looking at an archaic presentation of the information, but that requirement doesn't need to influence how anybody else interacts with the information.
This presumes that MS tracks the fact that you've opted out of tracking, which is not obviously the case.
WikiLeaks and NSA committee: document could reveal informants
Sure! But folks don't always use NaCl; they can have all sorts of stuff currently in play.
Even the worst plane on here could take out the the NZ air force :-(

luckily nothing has the range to get here :-)
> On some processors, the addressing of a member is more efficient if its distance from the beginning of the structure is less than 128 bytes.

> In the first example, to address the d and i fields using a pointer to the beginning of the structure, an offset of at least 400 bytes is required.

> Instead, in the second example, containing the same fields in a different order, the offsets to address d and i are of few bytes, and this allows to use more compact instructions.
"Running an update where it pulls new code" is definitely an example of phoning home, and it opens the door to all sorts of vulnerabilities, such as the one featured in the Apple vs the FBI case.
Investor Chris Sacca calls 15-year old founder working 130h/week 'pure hustle'
Yes I second that!
> One difference that does exist is military, where EU states can have a military (as far I know), but US states can not.

Not so. US states cannot have a standing army without consent of Congress. The Congress has given such consent in the form of the Militia Act a century ago, which enabled the states to create the National Guard and the State Defense Forces / State Guard.

And while NG can be federalized (i.e. put under the federal chain of command, with the president as commander as chief), SDF are not - their chain of command terminates with the governor, and they cannot be used outside of state boundaries.

Most people in US know about the National Guard, but not about SDF. It's largely because the latter is rather small and obscure, and mostly used as a sort of civil defense agency with a military chain of command (many states don't even arm their units). But it's an interesting system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force
You sound like you may be a schizoid.
In less that 24 hours since the post, you've managed to shoehorn jq in (looks like about 6 hours of work from commits). Nice work! Really shows the power of OSS.
This is also a very effective technique when brushing a toddler's teeth. "Top or bottom teeth first?"

My other tactics for routines are "Which animal should we brush teeth like tonight?", "OK, we're going to brush your ears. Teeth!? No. No, maybe your eyebrows. OK, teeth then." and "Close your eyes and I'll choose your clothes and get you dressed so it will be a surprise."
The Calculus of Caffeine Consumption (2007)
Had something like this debate with manager at last job. Came to a head in my annual review.

Manager: "As senior developer, you lack sufficient knowledge of our most important application."

Me: "Wait. I am the one who wrote most the documentation that is in our knowledge base for that application. I am the one who set up the knowledge base."

Manager: "That is not knowledge. Knowledge is what is in your head."

Me: blinks incredulously

I departed the company shortly after this exchange.

But I think you're right. It was certainly the manager's idea that if knowledge was visibly scarce and hard to obtain, his position would be treated (and generally was, among his superiors) with the respect he felt it deserved. But I'd have to assert that this secret society dedicated to hoarding knowledge was a self-delusional sect.

That's generally been my experience.
Hmm. Is this a sign of the publicly available stock dwindling? I guess we could see the market for these original systems start to really dry up and prices increase dramatically.
I structured my comment to be as close to an obvious paid-for advertising comment as possible.

I'm gratified that you thought it was a bona fide comment. I've never actually watched Bill Hicks.
Except for everything that didn't involve a crash (which was everything in that list except the first thing)
I think they can be same, but they always > 99 (at least I never saw a card with CVV starting with 0)
You aren't, its mentioned in our faq - https://pouchdb.com/faq.html#sync_non_couchdb.

A lot of people would like their current data to just be able to sync, but it almost always needs changes in the way data is stored and complementary changes to the application code
yeah right. I'm sure musk thinks, hmmm today instead of working all day on a fun project I think I'll parent! You can't have it both ways. I'm sure musk sacrificed father/kid relationships for work success in a major way. It's not possible to have it all.
Interesting. I didnt realize more bike lanes made the traffic so much worse.
Honestly very good article - are anyone aware of a similar type of tutorial for OSX that covers small to huge text file editing?
No, I'm 20 and from the US, and never would've dreamed of calling my parents a word like this. I mean never. We may of had disagreements but this was one line I would never cross.
> but I think those adapters will run you $20 on Amazon

proper lag free upscaling isn't that cheap.
Then what? What do you do with a log of OpenGL calls? Replay them to get screen captures? Send in really long game bug reports? Insert ads into games?
Airline pilots can commute from Phoenix to Minneapolis regularly.
Demand increase. Retro gaming is big right now.
I should have been more specific.

Radio signals below 50 kHz are capable of penetrating ocean depths to approximately 200 metres, the longer the wavelength, the deeper. The British, German, Indian, Russian, Swedish, United States [3] and possibly other navies communicate with submarines on these frequencies.

->That requires min 100khz sample rate.
You're simply wrong if you think the modern notion of those terms is the same as even their recent historic meaning, much less their old meanings. Much of the meanong you're probably familiar with is their co-opting to fiction rather than honest worldview. It would be like if I insisted scientists don't mean anything because scifi abuses the same language terms!

I would argue that my definition is perfectly in line with the historic view of those terms and how they're used by people who model their worldview with them.

Similarly, what part of my definition do you not feel is fair -- they're not any more real than protons, another ficticious entity, but they're not any less useful as a conceptual entity. Ill note you only claimed I was confused, but didn't actually explain how and have demonstrated zero knowledge of the idea Im trying to convey. Have you considered you're simply confused, not me?

Again, you seem genuinely unwilling to consider that maybe people have a more nuanced and sophisticated view than your pop-culture based caricature, and insisting that we can only mean that nonsense by the words, despite the several millennia of them being used the way Im using them.
I wasn't picking on linux, I was using it as an example of what people consider stable and pointing long term uptime bugs like the airliner is suffering from.
TextEdit, the actual editor that ships on macOS, is open source.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/samplecode/TextE...

Nearly all of the load is shouldered by the Cocoa text system.
Given the desire for syntax highlighting and other demanding features in modern editors, it would be fun to see a comparison of "piece chains" or "the rope" with a gap buffer, which is the data structure historically used by Emacs. Sure, it's easy to see how different editing itself fares with these various data structures, but what about syntax highlighting?
The feds can take over the National Guard, but they cannot take over the State Guard / State Defense Force, if a state chooses to have such a thing.

The latter also require Congress authorization, in a sense that the state is not allowed to create them without Congress "consenting" (e.g. via legislation):

"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

But the Congress only has the power to grant or withhold such authorization; control still remains with the state. And, of course, the states can still have their militias - so long as the state does not explicitly organize them, it's not "keeping troops".
Interesting read. seems suprising similar to the unabombers manifesto https://archive.org/stream/IndustrialSocietyAndItsFuture-The...
We can argue back and forth about whether it amounts to a subsidy or something else. But if you just look at aggregate cash flows the largest flows from Washington out to rural areas are social security and government paid for medical care (medicare, medicaid, va, ppaca subsidies). The largest flows from the rural areas to Washington are the individual income tax and payroll taxes.

If those are significantly out of line with each other, then the net offset is going to swamp relatively piddly flows like the Connect America Fund or the Rural Utilities Service.
I meant were they doing the more advanced printing methods like a stratasys or the light based ones or the simple extruder type ones? Or TI sintering or what?
thanks appreciate the reality check.
For now, it seems they've reached a temporary solution.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/201...
Is the project sponsored by Couchbase? If not, have you thought about publishing a storage API that the replication protocol calls so that it could be adapted to work with any backend db? What about P2P sync - (eg. serverless) has anyone thought of making PouchDB do that?
"No negative reinforcement" is what gives us kids that run screaming around in restaurants and stores. Sorry, I disagree with an absolute ban.

As a parent, I think that there is something far more important than positive or negative reinforcement. In my opinion, the fact that the child should believe at a very deep level that you are far more stubborn than they are is the single most important thing.

Without that, the child knows they can avoid the consequences altogether.