skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, Beowulf - at least the written records we have of the poem - is decidedly Christian. It was supposedly written by a literate monk several centuries after Norway had been christianised.

It also isn't necessarily about good vs evil but indeed about order vs. chaos. Grendel's misdeed is not that he attacks and slaughters good and righteous men ,it is that while doing so he violates the sacred law of hospitality by attacking the king's great hall. In doing so Grendel flouts the 'natural' order and therefore can be seen as an embodiment of chaos rather than pure evil.
It isn't "built-in" (or not built-in) into the iPad device, but rather in the operating system. Indeed there is no handwriting recognition built into the current release of iOS10, but certain hints are visible in the beta of iOS11 that will be released in a few months (Notes can search handwritten notes) and CoreML presumably can be bent/repurposed for the sake of enabling this kind of capability.

Anyway Apple's lack of emphasis on handwriting as an input method goes back to the (ahead-of-its-time, ultimately unsuccessful) Newton platform of the mid-to-late nineties, whose handwriting recognition was both ahead of its time and ultimately limiting.
Some systems reproduce waveforms with a small delay that varies by frequency--i.e. high frequencies are slightly delayed relative to low ones, or vice versa, so the frequencies are out of phase with each other, relative to the original. Phase isn't intrinsically audible (though the brain does use it in stereo imaging) but it could be indirectly perceivable when it interacts with other aspects of a system, especially nonlinear aspects.
This use of the word "permie" is toxic and annoying.
It's an important point. There is nothing intrinsic about lime that requires carbon release beyond what is naturally released and consumed by the lime cycle itself, which is neutral.

Does the world's industry currently run on mostly hydrocarbons that do have a serious carbon footprint? Absolutely, yes. And it is something that needs to be changed. But that is a separate problem.
Pretending that the US' states were once self-managed communes is simply dishonest.
You seem to be a very unpleasant person all around. Goodbye.
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>In South Africa, untethered goats are illegal, but it doesn't really help.

There's no contradiction. Proper grazing management (of all animals) is necessary, but not sufficient. There are plenty of other ways to destroy the land.
Could you use this for untraceable communication with hidden non-traceable submerged subs? That would be a military advantage.
Genuinly curious: isn't the whole point of cryptographic hash functions that they are slow by design, so that they can't be made faster?
Wait, green means new?
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I suppose you have never worked together with a designer (but maybe those are not normal people).
Was this written in a hurry? There's lot of spelling/grammar errors in the article.
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Being trained in cheerfulness doesn't make the cheerfulness "inauthentic" any more than being trained to make hamburgers makes the hamburger "inauthentic".

Good grief.
Author of the project here. I'll be glad to answer any questions about new GC or Scala Native in general.
> that is because list manipulation was hacked onto the Python language.

No. It's because whoever wrote that doesn't understand what list comprehensions are for.
I am always wondering if "terrorists" really use means of communication that are easy to compromise.
My colleague makes these images-with-commentary emails every week. For when I need to view those, I hit `H` in mutt, which opens the email in my web browser.

It's all quite painless really.

https://github.com/jezen/dotfiles/blob/master/.mutt/muttrc#L...
Terrorism is better than a police state. That said, hopefully "extreme vetting" will make the choice unnecessary.
Also, Atom 1.19 Beta has native text buffer. This should reduce memory usage for large files. Will try it out!
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> It’s Dangerously Insecure (In the Wrong Hands)

Just like any other programmable internet connected device.

> A Mini-PC or Tablet Would Probably Be Better

How does this solve the security problem mentioned above? IMHO it actually makes it worse, because you are now connecting an even more powerful machine.

> Never open your Pi as a public facing server.

What if the purpose of my Pi is to be a public facing server?

> This is true of every website regardless of where it’s hosted, but it’s particularly problematic for the Raspberry Pi, which tends to be set up by hobbyists who aren’t intimately familiar with best security practices.

It is easier to install a web server and misconfigure security on a typical desktop machine than it is on a Raspberry. It feels that the author has a condescending view on raspberry hobbyists that is not backed up by any facts.
No, you're confusing them with password hashing functions (bcrypt, scrypt) and password-based key derivation functions (PBKDF1, PBKDF2). These _are_ cryptographic hash functions, but they are designed to iterate many many times (the exact number is customizable) in order to take a given amount of time.

"Generic" cryptographic hash functions like SHA-1/SHA-2/SHA-3 (or BLAKE, or MD5) don't iterate more times than is necessary for security, and are designed to be as fast as possible. This way, you can hash multi-gigabyte documents in a fraction of a second.
Oh, and the most expensive was ~$5k.
No. Slow is primarily important for password hashes/key stretching, so specialized algorithms exist for those.

General cryptographic hash functions should not be slow, since in many scenarios they are used on a lot of data and slowness has no security benefits.
For passwords, yes. You want your hash function to be as slow as possible to reduce the impact of brute force attacks.

But for all other cryptographic purposes like message integrity checking, file verification, signing, or fingerprinting speed is extremely important.

In these cases, the input to the hash is generally public, so there is no reason to even try bruteforcing. And even if you did, these inputs are much longer than passwords.
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> I mean, nobody who decries polarization ever seems to volunteer to switch their personal beliefs that I've seen.

Yes totally agree.

I view it as everyone has their own inner religion.

I'm wondering in which millenia it will be when the Pope stands up and says that Buddha was right all along.
I'll have to ask him again. He's a bit tech illiterate, so that might be it. Plus, being there as an ESL teacher you don't want to jeopardize your career with anyone finding out you torrent.
In the counter speech section, where the answer is to promote messages from credible people they say that terrorists live a "Hate filled violent life."

Is this accurate or just another easy way of saying "these people are not human they are just evil"

Is it both more accurate and more frightening to allow yourself to think that terrorists live a generally peaceful and happy life within a family? Aren't the worse monsters the ones who live amongst us and not the ugly other?

I suspect it is and that makes the solution harder on some ways but also easier in others. If your brother can fall into thinking one way then he can change his thinking and move into another way.
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> Normal people don't put images in emails.

I am not sure of your definition of normal. ;-)

Part of my duties at work include help desk and maintenance of a few pieces of software. I get eMail with screen shots of error messages on a fairly regular basis.

(Personally, I have made my peace with HTML eMail, what I really dislike are those humongous email signatures with corporate logos and silly disclaimers that often dwarf the email body itself.)
As long as you have a fiber between them..
Fair enough. The process definitely is a major pain in the arse. However, founding a company shouldn't be something done lightly. After all, it'll be a major factor in your life for the next few years at least. On that timescale the complexity of founding the company doesn't matter all that much.

Moreover, yes in the UK you can register an Ltd. entirely online. However, you still need to complete the required legal paperwork and register with Her Majesty's.
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MSX (z-80 based) unix; https://github.com/marioaugustorama/uzix-kernel

Much cooler (imho) is http://symbos.de/ though, also for z80 machines.
> ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’
I agree, it's a losing battle. Such a shame. I have one or two friends who quote inline, and I love getting emails from them. They look so clean and readable. But it's pointless trying to do it with most people because most people don't reply with inline quotes and just top post and it ends up as a godawful mess. So I barely even bother any more myself. I die a little every time.
Don't panic. This is unlikely. IF FB goes in China, yes it will partner with censors. But why would FB permit flagrant abuse of its anti-terror policies for censorship? Doesn't make sense. It already has other mechanisms to censor. Anyway, China takes terrorism as seriously as the US and has the same things to lose. China would likely not misues "terrorism" to censor. Unlike the West, China doesn't have to pretend something is "terrorism" to censor it. It's bolder on suppressing ideas it doesn't like across the board to design harmony in its society. Maybe its bolder stance is why it doesn't have such issues with terrorism as the US, despite being active in parts of the world that have large disadvantage Islamic populations and having its own large disadvantaged Islamic population in the NW.
I used mu4e in Emacs. For HTML and images there is a view in browser function.

Now I use Claws Mail with Emacs as the editor. This solution lacks integration with Org-Mode so I may end up going back to Emacs.
This post makes it seem like Facebook subscribes to the theory that hiding unpleasant content prevents terrorism, and that there is universal global agreement on what counts as terrorism.

Is there any scientific literature that supports this? The post seems to treat it as a foregone conclusion and declares war on that basis, but I would love to see the research before deciding whether I agree with what they're doing.
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Annoying? Perhaps. But toxic? I don't see how..
Not the person you asked, but I believe he is referring to the lack of arbitrary modulation mapping in Ableton, where modulation is typically one parameter on a synthesizer, effect or other device being changed over time by an external source such as a Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO).

Many Ableton devices have features such as this on specific parameters like filter frequency but, without Max for Live, you can't map custom modulations from arbitrary sources.

Here is an example on one such Max for Live device, pitched as a 'general purpose' LFO: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/lfo-20-free-max-live-device-...
Communicate.

Really, "terrorists" usually have the same goals as "we" do: peace, respect, safety, prosperity. If we stopped pretending that "we" are right and "they" are wrong, the problem might go away in the long run.

Note that I do not approve of the terrorist approach to communication but, maybe, they just have no other way of making themselves heard, so if we listened, they might start talking instead of bombing.
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Not an American (I'm a भारतीय) but as "anti-India" as Trump may be, I actually like this platform of Trump's (extreme vetting that is). I wish to return to the time when flight check-in was much faster. If 9/11 hadn't happened, we'll have more concordes and economy would be at a different place today (I know this wasn't the only reason for their demise but surely it helped)

I wish our country could do something similar but Pakistan doesn't send terrorists by plane :|
I don't get it, I'm an immigrant, and I enjoy people asking about questions about where I'm from and my culture, it feels flattering, it feels they want to get to know me. I don't understand why people take offence to this. I'm fairly certain the natives ask each other similar questions if they are from different regions.
Idris is one of those languages that when I learned it felt like it was offering me a glimpse into a possible future.

I love it when that happens.
How can you even promote that? Even taken at face value...on the one hand, you have illegal violence carried out by non-state actors. On the other hand legal violence carried out by the state. Unless I totally misunderstood you, you are saying being subject to illegal violence carried out by non-state actors is better than police violence? No. Way. Societies worldwide would also disagree with you. The State has a monopoly on violence. And this form of social organization is the majority in the world today, not your "terrorism is better" alternative. Deal with it.
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No their not. There is just a lot of buzz around them and ads shouted by big podcasters but they are not so good. They are just re branded Chinese laptops with Linux distros slapped on in. The build quality is poor (plastics, poor touchpads, screens, batteries) and they don't keep their value pretty well. If you want Linux laptop you should really look in to something like Lenovo Thinkpad series or Dell XPS.
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The article doesn't imply that the chip production processes should be avoided.

It lists two options. First, there are alternative chemicals that are more safe but significantly more expensive, and thus will get used only if the legal system pressures the company do so, either by regulation or by punitive payments to the injured workers.

Second, handling of the carcinogenic chemicals can be moved from people to machines. This is already happening with increased automation purely for cost/efficiency reasons, but can be accelerated if the companies treat it seriously enough.
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Do you believe the propagation of narratives that try to justify illegal terrorist violence help support terrorists? I agree with that idea. And following from that basis, suppressing and/or countering such narratives is correct.
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One criticism I have of this policy doc is this quote from the "Counterspeech" section.

> But counterspeech is only effective if it comes from credible speakers.

No it isn't. It's also effective if the background noise of conversation in your life is countering the "terrorism supporting narratives". Credible people are important. But not the only pillar. If you have a lot of voices countering the terrorists' narratives then you can get somewhere too.

Overall tho I'm a fan of this post as a step in the right direction, not just for FB realizing it can do something to counter t, but also awakening to its wider role in the world.
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Please point us to these lots of cases
Tax cuts to the rich increase investable capital, as I said. Trump also proposed tax cuts for everyone else, too, which would increase consumer spending.
I don't know. Since it's basically build upon ECMAScript, HTML and Webkit already, why not also wasm?
I'm afraid you've misunderstood me again--I usually leave the webs in and around my house, I appreciate their beauty and their utility. I am not a hunter of spiders, for sport or otherwise. I offered the example only to show how in some contexts I might destroy something even though I appreciate it.

I believe we may each be using the word "appreciate" with subtly different definitions. I believe it's possible to appreciate aspects of a thing without necessarily collapsing them all into some sort of comparison of perceived total value. I think it's possible that someone who hunts for sustenance might also come to treat the activity as somewhat of a sport, or an art, and so come to appreciate aspects of the activity including the intelligent behaviours of the prey.
I will argue that for most cases (at least mine) 1 USB-C port would be enough. I would just revert back to the way I was using my old Thinkpad T23 back in the days - with docking station. Just use one beefy USB-C hub/dock and Bluetooth mouse if I need it on the go. The only drawback at the moment is lack of USB-C flash drives which is changing but not fast enough, so there would have to be just one USB adaptor in my bag for those rare cases when I need to plug someones flash drive.
Actually the opterons were pretty competitive for many years, but of course stalled with the opteron 63xx series. They still scaled better than intel, but often lost on single thread performance. But if you were looking at performance per node on parallel tasks they often won by a substantial amount on price/performance.

However since 2012 (the opteron 63xx announce) AMD dropped the ball. First they were non-competitive on the dual sockets, and then a year or so later they were non-competitive on quad sockets.

Not sure why it's taken them 5 years to bring out something newer, but surprisingly the ryzen/naples/epyc looks surprisingly competitive.
More specifically it sends SIGQUIT.
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I just bought a refurbished T430 for my sister. These things are built like tanks. Because of the enterprise usage patterns there are many good refurbished laptops available for sale.
Ecommerce will probably play an even bigger role there. The demand for paper packaging has been increasing constantly over the last decade. Amazon probably uses more paper than even a major newspaper.
Maybe I'm not understanding your objection clearly, but what they wrote was "...prevent people from pursuing a hate-filled, violent life or convincing them to abandon such a life"

I think this is pretty careful sentence structure on their part to suggest that it's normal people who enter into such a life, not that they are at their core hate filled and violent. The section seems to agree with what you're suggestion, and maybe it's just awkwardly worded, but as a native speaker, to me it sounds like the usual deescalation tactic of affirming the goodness in people. "Life" may be causing some misunderstanding or changing the scope slightly, but it still fits.
> The longest chain is always the most valuable.

Only the longest chain that users consider legitimate. If users reach consensus on using rules that have lower transaction costs, it won't matter how long miners mine their higher transaction cost chain.

The big question is: can users achieve such consensus politically, or in practice do the miners lead the users because they need less organization to do so?
Maybe you are right if you talk about "terrorists"—in quotes.
However, if you talk about terrorists, or do be precises—jihadists, you are very far off base. Pretending that "they" and "we" share the same worldview won't cause the problem go away for sure. Because the problem is that they do think their way is the right way to live and what's worse—that all others, even those, who do not subscribe to their worldview still have to follow that way.
That does sound like a possible work-around, I might try moving to mutt again. But what about when you want to create one of those yourself? Or to reply inline to parts of theirs? How is that handled, do you write HTML?

One of the few reasons I have to mess around with NoMachine etc is for email, if I could get it in a terminal over ssh that'd be great. I did try a few years ago and after wasting a lot of time sorting the config, the lack of good reading experience for rich content emails was enough for me to dump the whole thing.
And relevant to a classic contradiction in the startup community: idea vs (execution and capital). What you (say or think) matters a lot less than what you do.
But what will the arrangement window look like. That is where I get most of my issues from when using Ableton (and I use it a lot). Really Glad to see that newer plug-in setup though - very similar to one of the things I love in ProTools.
The only reason I still open Outlook regularly is to deal with calendar invites. Otherwise, gnus actually works just fine for email. Better, in many ways.
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I believe it means "throwaway"
Not a physicist either, but as I understand it, entanglement is not useful for communication on its own, but allows for tamper-proof key exchange.

Basically, you generate a pair of entangled particles. Keep one of the pair and send the other away. Now both you and your partner randomly select a basis to measure the particle in.

After a few repetitions, you tell each other (over a classic channel) how you measured and discard measurements made in different bases. The remaining results will be strongly correlated, depending on the quality of the entanglement. By comparing a small part, you can find out exactly how much.

If the correlation is lower than expected, you might have some dust in your measurement apparatus, or an eavesdropper has intercepted a few quanta. If the correlation is good enough, you now both have a value that is secret to anyone who did not measure the particles.

The secret value can then be used as a key to encrypt your communication over the classic channel.

If this description is not satisfying, maybe the Wikipedia article explains it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
I think we should try to stop terrorism, but not "at any cost".

Using AI model's to monitor all 1-1 conversations in the world is too dangerous of a power - it increases the risk for tyrany much more than it decreases the risk of terrorism.
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ok so don't answer "whatarespaces?", got it.
I have a mac, and my default settings are a ulimit of zero. Makes sense, because macOS has its own way of creating crash reports with the CrashReporter daemon
I am rocking X230 after two years with MBP and it is excellent, but I have soft spot for Thinkpads as my first laptop was good old IBM T23. Great laptops, very well build, supports Linux out of the box and fantastic upgradability. Battery life is also very good, plus since X240 it is possible to change external battery without turning off the laptop which is handy.
Using gnus, Outlook sees my quotes correctly. You can also "wash" messages from others so they look right.
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I actually consider myself to be pretty good at writing. I think it's mostly that it costs a lot of time and energy for me to articulate properly, to maintain social cues, etc., which leaves little for properly structuring a story. I hope/expect this to get better over time, but it definitely doesn't come naturally unfortunately.
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The answer is easy - rank the activities by money made or saved. The really hard problem is the ranking as you don't normally have the perfect information that allows you to calculate the exact dollar value of any change.

More usefully I use two rules.

1. Fix all bugs now. The software should do what it claims to do. If I can't fix a bug (rare) then stop claiming the software does whatever the bug prevents working as a feature.

2. Once 1 is taken care of then work on those things that will bring in the greatest long term value first. I have to say that I mostly do this by feel as I have no good way to get accurate information out of my customers - they often don't know what they want until they see it.