skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth noting that criminal harassment via the internet is largely a failing of law enforcement, not a failing of the infrastructure of the internet or a sudden arrival of a new species of really mean humans. There are some privacy/free speech issues down this road, but by and large LE have abdicated their responsibilities in this area.

And while it's a different discussion all together, I think examining why conflating criminal harassment and "trolling" has become in vogue would teach us a lot about how power is used in the modern age.
Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop
Headline: Full Feature Parity in Unity8 beside dash
Description: Really full parity! All the indicators, the global menu only the dash is not that important and the new app drawer is really nice and I hope you will remove that renundant app frame :) Keep up the awesome work! You are awesome!
Some of the newbies don't understand that "troll" refers to "trolling" as in "fishing troller": evoking the metaphor of casting a net to collect responses like fish.

They imagine "troll" as a metaphor invoking the humanoid creature from Scandinavian folklore, which, in the Three Billy Goats Gruff story, is a nasty, unpleasant, violent creature who wants to eat everyone who crosses his bridge:

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

Hence the asshole angle.
Happily, pal! It'll be a mix of what I've learned personally and what I've heard.

Forgoing a car will save you 100s of thousands USD. No point in owning one unless you are a banker or you have elderly family to take around who wouldn't do well in crowded transport.

I arranged to live with friends who rent an HDB (decently nice publicly constructed condos that are privately owned by Singaporeans). The property is probably worth 130k to 170k USD. Taxes per year are a few K on it I imagine. I pay $500 USD to rent. Like I said, it's pretty much dirt cheap for how nice it is. Only 45 mins from downtown. It's in the Sembawang/Yishun area. People joke that SG gov't should build a wall to keep us weirdos out of downtown/Sentosa :)

I have yet to go to a country that doesn't have at least one reasonable living situation under 1k a month. Even Switzerland!
NIPS is more math/theory heavy as a conference while ICCV/CVPR/other vision conferences will tolerate less math and more pictures. You have probably been reading mostly vision papers but if you read more papers targeted at NIPS you will find more math. This looks to be an ICCV submission, whereas if you read the original GAN paper (a NIPS paper) there are theorems and proofs. Your observation is correct, you are just comparing different subsets of the field.
Retraining becomes a lot harder when the new bar is "become a big data scientist".

I mean you mentioned the print workers who were hand setting typeface until quite recently.

What did they do after their industry collapsed. Probably a lot of them became taxi drivers or took on other "equivalent" labor centric endeavors.

There might not be a fixed amount of work to go around, but there certainly is a fixed amount of vocations that people are willing to pay money for, and that displaced workers can reasonably be expected to move into... And that bell curve does appear to be being squeezed tremendously.
" When OpenAI launched, it characterized the nature of the risks - and the most appropriate strategies for reducing them - in a way that we disagreed with. In particular, it emphasized the importance of distributing AI broadly; our current view is that this may turn out to be a promising strategy for reducing potential risks, but that the opposite may also turn out to be true (for example, if it ends up being important for institutions to keep some major breakthroughs secure to prevent misuse and/or to prevent accidents). Since then, OpenAI has put out more recent content consistent with the latter view, and we are no longer aware of any clear disagreements. "

Really, really happy to see this being carefully considered. Good job to the Open Philanthropy folks!

EDIT: That Slate Star link is amazing: "Both sides here keep talking about who is going to “use” the superhuman intelligence a billion times more powerful than humanity, as if it were a microwave or something."
2006-2010. 2008/2009 was great - everything was super cheap, and no traffic.
What's the difference between regulating and restricting the supply of authorized (human) workers, and robots? Why is it OK to hire non-citizen robots but it's not OK to hire non-citizen humans?

Whichever political party has the ear of working people disenfranchised in meaningful numbers from their jobs, will absolutely consider regulating robots every bit as much as they regulate immigrant workers. Protectionism is a trap every party has fallen into from time to time.
FPGAs are sexy to many people because they are exotic. Imagine a custom chip designed to do whatever you want and able to be reconfigured on the fly?

The problem is that many aspiring learners want to approach it like a software problem. That can be a valid approach as long as they are willing to learn new abstractions. Many are not and then get frustrated and blame the tool ecosystem. Granted, the tool ecosystem does suck, but people (like me and others) are doing real work with these tools. Even if you scoff at FPGA tool quality, you have to remember that almost every ASIC out there was developed with similar (maybe slightly better) quality tools.

There has to be flexibility on all sides. Tool vendors have to adapt to changing times (more open ecosystems) and software developers branching out into FPGAs have to be willing to learn how hardware works.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Larger or adjustable window resizer hot spots

DESCRIPTION: Attempting to grab window corners or edges for resizing using the touchpad frequently becomes an exercise in patience for me (Ubuntu 15.04 Unity on Dell XPS 13)
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: full feature parity in Unity8
DESCRIPTION: please get all the indicators and the global menu in there. The dash is not so important and the app drawer is really cool so no need for that renundant scope window =) Keep up the good work you are awesome1!!!111
I've seen similar approaches used to enforce rate limit checks on APIs that get lots of traffic and are distributed amongst many different servers.
That's a little exaggerated I think. I don't have a blog, an active GitHub account, and don't use Facebook or Twitter at all. Yet, by some miracle, I have a robust social life and am gainfully employed. I think people overstate the importance of these services (most of which, by the way, did not even exist 15 years ago). I choose to post here but could stop tomorrow and it would have zero effect on my personal or professional life.
98% is some serious coverage of your calendar. Here's an example of someone else who does some serious documentation of their time via Sunsama currently. Thought you might find that interesting: https://workfutures.io/journaling-calendar-centric-work-mana...
The problem with services like Facebook is they give everyone equal footing on any topic no matter the person's expertise on the subject, their relationship to the matter at hand, or their overall attitude towards discussions in general.

This means a black person who's been repeatedly victimized by police has no more credibility than some white dude who thinks everyone's making it up and it's a bunch of cry-babies going on about nothing.

It means a cryptography expert can get shouted down by some idiot that's just parroting something they read on CNN that's dangerously misinformed.

There's a lot of factors in play here but the "like" button skews the conversations towards things that earn votes which are not necessarily things that are true, accurate, or meaningful.

Sometimes the truth is ugly and painful and that's hard to like.
I hope that this is an April fools joke... I'm not sure that it's even funny in any light.
> In these cases, given enough time, the end result will be a monopsonist employer.[0] This results in lower employment, lower wages and, ultimately, the replacement of labour with additional accumulated capital (e.g. ML algos) and/or cheaper substitute labour (e.g. imported foreign workers).

Unions that have closed-shop contracts with employers are, by definition, monopsonies on labor. Employees are required to be union members in order to be employed, and the union is the sole purchaser of the employee's labor (before reselling it to the employer).

Some of the earliest and most successful unions formed in industries in which there already was a single, monopsony employer for an unionized market (think: "company towns" in the Rust Belt). But that's a very different situation from taking a competitive market and turning it into a monopsony.
Is that a certified lightning connector? I'd be curious about that process or, if it isn't, the decision to forgo it and whether or not you did any user testing around it.
Harassment or corsets. Pick your poison!
But a fully open-source, verified implementation - could be the basis for a structured asic, that improves performance and cost with volume, and production may start to happen at kickstarter scale.

Altough still, manufacturers and governments could create bugs, if they want.

But what will the big difference be between a minimal set of "golden" commercial chips, that have fully open-source drivers and a comprehensive test suite ? not much, it seems.

Maybe the way to attack this is seek the places where an FPGA implementation(over say a desktop/laptop? card) would be superior and offer that. One such place could noise cancelling algorithms - such high quality headphones are very expensive(and highly proprietary), need very low-latency compute, and offer an interesting challenge/competition for open-source designers.
The modular approach seems interesting. Call by meaning?
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Make the GUI stop hanging all the time?

DESCRIPTION:

This has been happening to me across multiple computers running Ubuntu for years. Even on a fairly current one, the Intel NUC5i7RYH, I'll be doing really trivial stuff and the entire system just hangs.

Like, I pick up an icon in nautilus and the system hangs before I've even given it an instruction. 10 seconds later, the window ungreys and I can do stuff like move the file.

Or I might click and hold on an email in Evolution to move it to a folder, and evolution entirely hangs for a long time before it lets me complete the action.

It's really weird, and has been with me over two different computers and at least 4 years worth of Ubuntu distributions. I feel like I'm crazy and the only person who this seems to affect, because no one else ever seems to know what I'm talking about.

Even weirder to me is that this never happened on older versions, on older hardware, yet no one else seems to have an issue. It's super frustrating.
Keeping David MacKay's 'Sustainable Energy – without the hot air' up-to-date
If I were to specify further, I don't mean to insult anyone who lives in the Bay Area and is enjoying it. These problems are common across many cities.

But I would say, to think there are no profitable and enjoyable alternatives to the Bay would be incorrect!
aw hell, it's international internet stupid day again. Has it really been a year, seems like just yesterday I was being irritated by some unnecessary 'joke'
I understand your point. Mine is bias does not matter when it comes to this stuff. As long as the leak is factually accurate (and it seems like Wikileaks mostly jump dump the data they get) I want to know if a government is doing something shady and I don't care whether information is also getting leaked at the same rate about another government. Maybe they're not doing anything shady, or maybe they're just doing a better job with information security. Either way it doesn't take away from the fact I should know the information I can as long as it's factual.

As an analogy when the US/UK/other western gov criticises Assad or Kim Jong Un over human rights abuses we don't generally complain that it's unfair because the US/UK also have plenty of human rights abuses under their belt. Yes that's a problem but it doesn't take away from the original complaint which is still valid.
Excuse the ignorance, but are we safe in Europe..? Are we only talking about American ISPs?

What if an American ISP had a branch in Europe, could they sell our data, or the history must have been generated on American soil, or something like that?
Because even an offhand mention that I'm thinking of considering to ponder changing jobs results in an avalanche of contact.
One man's answers to your question:

> Why would you want to live in a crowded, VERY expensive, a bit smoggy, overly regulated city with a long daily commute

I like people, and I like living in dense areas. I find it inspiring. Going home to Georgia and looking out my window to see nothing but trees is peaceful for a while, but loneliness and mild existential dread (if such a thing can be mild) start to set in before long.

SF's high density also makes it a destination for all sorts of shows, concerts, festivals, events, stores and shops, restaurants, etc. that wouldn't bother going to other places.

It's expensive because lots of people want to live here, because some of the most exciting stuff in the world is going on here. Not only do I want to be a part of that exciting stuff, but I also want to be around all the smart people who flock here to work on it. The density helps with this. Thousands of inspirational people are always just a few blocks away. I routinely meet awesome people online who I can then grab coffee with.

Provided you're doing the "right" job in the "right" industry, the companies here pay well enough to afford the cost of living. And they often throw in excellent perks like free lunches/dinners/snacks. Obviously this doesn't totally offset the costs, however. It sucks that a more diverse group of people can't afford to live here comfortably, including many of my friends. But it's not like I could convince them all to move to <insert cheap location here>, either.

The commute is negligible for those who work in the city. You can walk to pretty much any office in 10-60 minutes, and listen to an audio book on the way. Or take a Lyft/Uber/cab. Or, often, work from home. I really enjoy the exercise, scenery, and reading time that walking provides.
I don't disagree. I'm reasonably optimistic that current and near-future FPGAs are overkill enough for the job of motherboard chipset and basic peripherals that that some basic portability abstractions can be put in place (e.g. ASM -> C) without causing such a performance hit that it's not viable any more.
That's not right either. I just imagine the innocent people jailed for nothing. I can't even stomach hitting the link. Hopefully, I'm missing something? China shocks me. I don't understand a lot about that country, and the more I learn; the less I like it.

Oh yea, I understand you need to eat animals. You don't need to mistreat them? That dog thing still hants me, and I didn't even click on the link a few weeks ago. I know I'm suspose to love everyone? I'm basically talking about the political system, but there's some things that are just not right in the culture, or certain sectors?
So Daytona compiles and runs a new binary for each query, not just for each connection, and does all its coordination through files + pipes + shared memory. Query binaries even fork themselves for parallelism(!). My understanding is that the cost of switching between kernel and user space is pretty overwhelming. Maybe STM would help that someday but now you’ve implemented an actual database in the kernel...

PostgreSQL’s process per user model makes way more sense but as you say still has upper limits on concurrency.
Ask HN: What are soma Data Catalog Services out there similar to AWS Glue?
I would like to know if there are any data catalog services already out there similar to what AWS Glue is promising. Also interested in learning any open source projects that solve this problem.
Why not just choose a small set of "golden" chips, create high quality drivers that abstract away incompatibilities if possible, and verify the heck out of that ?
I'm pretty sure we already have.
Here are two projects to look at:

Citadel, (http://www.citadel.org) -- A lot of features, but the UI is somewhat dated. It would be interesting to see a revival.

OpenXchange, (https://www.open-xchange.com) -- Commercial project with an open source core. Much nicer UI, I'd be worried about long term support if/when the original company stops developing it.
An architecture is a structural design made to achieve certain goals. They just happen to have another goal to achieve.
YC does fund nonprofits.

Also open source does not necessarily mean non profit.
> We absolutely must have democracy and freedom of speech.

You're conflating "Freedom of speech" with "The right to be listened to" and "The right to have a platform". The government isn't going to hunt these people down because they have expressed Foo views, nor is, for example, Google. Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc. as private companies are allowed to decide what they do and do not want on their platform (Excluding certain illegal materials, of course). When they do this, they are not violating the freedom of speech of the individuals whose views they remove.

EDIT:
"anti-establishment rednecks, patriots, anti-immigrationitsts and right wingers who got Trump into power."

Would you really call those people anti-establishment? They voted in favour of the corruption of the political system and the succumbing of the tattered remains of it to the forces of lobbying and large businesses. That certainly doesn't sound "anti-establishment" to me. Usually the term "anti-establishment" is used to refer to people who are opposed to large corporations, rather than the demographic who voted the CEO of several of them into office.
Phil 176: Death (Open Yale Courses)
Lol, it's interesting that fake takedown pages are better engineered than real ones.
MantisVPN – Logless VPN Service
Not sure how to read that. Isn't simply 1 process per connection?
I know it's not necessarily something you can build on but we use teamup (teamup.com). Set up properly for our needs, it's pretty awesome.
It integrates with other tools like slack, etc.
Hope that helps.
Also note that "speed" includes latency, and not just low latency but also deterministic. You can do things like adjust a timestamp or tweak a control equation knowing that a sample has been delayed through an N-stage pipeline/filter that advances at M hertz.
> I know Vim is what I should use for "lean" but it's not easy to use.

It's easy to use, but it's not easy to learn.
"arch-rivals"? That's overly dramatic. Go and Dart are hardly competing with each other, as are ChromeOS and Android.
If you use online password management for anything security-critical then you're a fool. It pains me to see Lastpass so readily trusted even by the HN community.
I don't know what they teach investigative journalists, but showing that you are deeply unsympathetic to how harassment affects victims' families does not tend to get people to reveal information to you. And who asks for private information on a public forum? The web hasn't killed email yet.

I don't know the answer to most of your questions. I have purposely avoided most information about the shooting. All I know is that one of the victims was a real person.

May you fare well in finding the truth.
Adding to that - all the cool kids these days are saying "baiting" instead of "trolling". The concept (and metaphor) hasn't been lost.
Following is an update to the above comment since I'm unable to edit it and copy-and-pasted from another comment by me:

"in case it's not clear, this would be a control for moderation, posting it as a comment for non-moderators to view would be optional."
I prefer to be ruthlessly censored and have my narrative controlled by dang. Is he available?
No worries, thanks for the article!

I would say that if you are trying to recreate an American lifestyle with a car, house, designer shopping, dining out, etc. Yes, Singapore is the most expensive city in the world.

But there is extremely little crime here (to the point where Singaporeans are a bit lacking in caution like a galapagos iguana in my opinion).

HDBs are absurdly cheap for how nice they are. I pay $500 a month to live here.

And while the downtown core and Tampines are very crowded, traffic is decently efficient during a variety of commuting methods.

And my bike rides through Lim Chu Kang are practically deserted :)
> The problem is that many aspiring learners want to approach it like a software problem.

That is precisely why I made Blinklight - it's an educational platform for starting at the very bottom.
There are plenty of "mid-range" editors and IDEs: mousepad, gedit, geany, kate..
I need to make much more research before I will convince anyone, but as a start I like the philosophy of Devuan very much.

I have moved many many servers from Debian to FreeBSD after the announcement of systemd, and this has been great, but I must agree with you that on the desktop it can be a little inadequate.
Flavour: Ubuntu Server

Headline: Dump ZFS on Linux

Affiliation: Containers @ Netflix

Description: ZFS On Linux is poorly integrated mess through the SPL. Memory management is an active detractor from performance, stability, and operations. It's unlikely that it's ever going to be "native" on Linux. Even more unlikely is its integration into upstream.

Unfortunately, ZoL, unlike other out of tree additions Canonical has added, such as proprietary drivers and codecs, ZoL has real alternatives, like BtrFS, and BCacheFS. I think it would make more sense to throw your weight behind these projects where there will be long term benefit to the community as opposed to short term benefit to y'all.

Whoever seems to be singing the praises of ZFS on Linux hasn't put it through its paces in modern, multi-tenant container workloads. It requires active awareness of its existence unlike ZFS, and EXT4. To me, this is a fundamental regression.

Do not fall privy to the sunk cost fallacy, instead continue to actively weigh your choices, and as soon as the opportunity cost for !ZoL or !SPL becomes reasonable, jump.
The Dark Side of Antioxidants
Just the threat of a ban or tax on automation - much less the reality - will cause manufacturers to plan new facilities outside the US. This sort of scaremongering ...

> 'Why Are We Doing This to Ourselves?’ Readers Respond to the Threat of Automation

should be discouraged if the US desires to have any manufacturing capability at all.
In my country is possible to withdraw money from most ATMs by typing 6 digit code from mobile banking app (generated randomly). The withdrawal then is confirmed in the app (you see the detailed address of the ATM). The only downside is that you need internet access but that's usually not a problem.

Another option that's starting to be widely available in ATMs is just using NFC payments (HCE, Android Pay).
Submitted ten hours ago, one comment. Pretty much goes to show how much people care about these types of jokes nowadays.
Both of those issue cannot be solved by throwing money at them, especially the first. It requires political forces.

Then again, the money could be used to buy politicians' votes in favor of environment-friendly policies. It's so blatant in the U.S. these days.
I don't know what happened and I can only make conclusions based on the data I have access to.
Digital Ocean's Updated Privacy Policy [diff]
The processes used for FPGA are VERY competitive with GPUs. Stratix 10 is at 14nm, for example. Stratix V was built using 28 nm process and that was at least 5 years ago - on par or exceed NVidia.

You can fuse more operations into DSP using FPGA and/or you can perform less operations per FLOP. One example is to avoid rounding and packing/unpacking when creating deep pipelines for floating point processes.
As a foreigner this witchunt for Assange is pathetic, suddenly when you support bad boys he's no good.

Who said advertising doesn't work? Especially political.