skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago a friend had a tirade about how schools no longer teach people to recognize propaganda and apply critical reasoning to the arguments being made.

I'm generally not a conspiracy theorist, but it sure seems that having a populace without strong critical thinking skills, and without formal training to recognize propaganda (and marketing) plays into the hands of the elite* by allowing them to maintain and expand their hold on the economy and government.

*noblemen might be more appropriate here than Bourgeoisie, even the 1% term is fairly inaccurate because its more like .01%.
>The problem is that often those communities already have poverty problems. What is the path to employment, permanent shelter, and (if needed) treatment?

Exactly, if you put them far enough away with no economy you will still have to provide the resources for them to survive. At least in a dense city per capita living expense goes down.
And you also make it harder for innocent people to defend themselves.

People act like guns are only useful for committing crimes and mass shootings. Guns are a tool; we have a cultural problem, not a simple gun problem.
I don't have time at the moment to search it out, but in a previous speech-synth thread there's an in depth discussion of this. In short, people were pessimistic on wavenet as audiobook because audiobooks are all about knowing the story and speaking accordingly
Spotify has 30 million songs.

Even if it takes up a small amount of space, it's basically a non-feature.
To increase number of transistors without compromising speed and reduce energy consumption.

Nobody voluntarily transfers cost decreases to customers unless they have to.
Also "horribly written code."

I've been playing around with some code from 1993---the Viola web browser (one of the first graphical web browsers). Ooh boy was it fun when I ran it with "-pedantic -Wall -Wextra". Hundreds, if not thousands of warnings. A ton of unused argumetns, implicit declarations (no prototypes), unused variables, return type not specified, a few "control reaches end of non-void function," some format string mismatches. Pretty much what you would expect from K&R C (the code paid some lip service to ANSI C, but not a whole lot).

Also, the code runs (not well, but it does) on 32-bit systems, but immediately crashes on a 64-bit system. That's because of the whole "int==long==ptr==32 bits" that permeates the code.
That's not a rebuttal. That's finding ways around lazy voters.

The problem is the electorate. No one likes Congress, but everyone who voted voted for someone in Congress.
> Most importantly, they killed the light-bar. Those monsters.

I do love the light bar. Is the kind of details mac used to have (breathing led, magsafe, battery level indicator,...) that make some models special

For me the reasons to switch would be:

- Containers (and a lot of storage to use containers)
- Wayland integration (xiwi is terribly slow, and while now I'm kind of happy witching between gnome/chromeos it would be handy to have everything in the same desktop)
- Pen / tablet mode. coool!

The assistant button I don't care either.
Reads like a fluff piece for Qualcomm, I wonder how much they paid.
Yeah that's what I thought. Well, thanks for the idea! :)
I did get that as well. I'm confused why this is the default. I imagine it's just the learning curve of this feature, I totally understand why they have the need to spin off certain expected-default behavior to further extensions.

So I just told you to always open a site in a specific container, and then you're going to ask me when I next load that site starting from another container whether to open in the container I've asked the site to always be opened in. Why would my choice be anything except 'Open in <Preference> Container' and 'Remember my decision for this site'. Isn't that what I already asked you to do?

Why am I setting the same preference twice? It seems like the opt-out is there by default when I don't want it, and not there when I do.
Why? Why immediately turn this into a racial issue?

You dont think there will be minorities clinging to their guns?

Dont you think your comment is a bit racist?
To expand on this, calling and complaining to the intern at your local reps office is lobbying. Asking your school board member to consider adding more snow days when you see them at church is lobbying. Lobbying is any time anyone seeks to influence an elected official. It is not inherently good nor bad.
Even then, can you guarantee that the person behind the account isn't being paid to say things they wouldn't otherwise say?
This actually got me to signup for Keybase today.
Senators are shocked that Equifax was just awarded a federal contract
What do u think?
it doesn't matter if we buy from google store, i was told the google hardware will send me a replacement 2 months back and i am still mailing for follow ups as i haven't got any response. on top of this every time i discus i get contradicting and time wasting response. i don't think anyone who needs to look at value for money factor would buy a mobile beyond 100$ or if possible 50$ and funny things is they have 80% of the features and definitely more than what we need.
These things are highly nuanced.

The amount of tweaking and finessing that goes on under the hood for specific scenarios can change outcomes quite a lot.

And from a product perspective, it can be taken quite far - for example, most of the 'common' things Siri says are not synthesized, it's literally are recording of the voice over artists. The more arcane stuff is synthesized.

It's always comparing apples to oranges to bananas unless you really know what they're doing, even then it's hard.
Opposite experience here: My 5x started boot-looping for no reason a few weeks ago, also out of warranty. I got a new on in the mail 3 days later, zero hassle.
The margin of victory in an election is often small enough that you need everything. Sure a targeted video is more influential on the total population, but both sides are doing that. If you can get one person to vote your way from some other means that means may well be worth it.

Politicians do not want money, they want votes. Some votes can be bought by a video, others by a fake opinion on some news aggregator.
Finally, we abuse Intel SGX to hide the attack entirely from the user and the operating system, making any inspection or detection of the attack infeasible

It's unfortunate that academics feel OK about making misleading statements in this space. SGX enclaves must be signed by Intel to work, so I doubt very much that they abused SGX in this way. What they mean is that they could have done, if they had got Intel to approve their attack, which is a pretty freaking huge caveat.
When I broke my Nexus 4 or whatever it was called in 2012 or so, they wanted me to ship them my phone first to repair and give them a credit card authorization in case they had to send a new one, and then after they fixed it, I would get it back, maybe after 10 business days. This was all purchased from google’s own website.

After that I went with iPhone, simply because I know I can get it replaced or fixed within 2 days, but I have walked out of the store with a brand new one in 20 min before.
Because the loss of some of your social life is a small price to pay for the joy of family life.
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Decentralised and open scientific publishing on blockchain
We actually have a lot of tools to address this issue, we just haven't deployed them (yet).

I can't say too much publicly about it, but many of the methods used elsewhere for security, for summarization, and for content generation have applications in this field -- ones that are being actively researched to defend against these sorts of abuses without destroying our ideals (such as free speech).

Part of the problem is that many of us pulled away into our own little worlds following 9/11, the Patriot Act, Snowden's leaks, etc. (I did! I worked in adtech making this all worse instead of engaging with, eg non-profits, government, etc to make it better.) So we weren't actively engaged in developing these solutions earlier and we left a gap in the national infrastructure.

If you'd like, I could reach out to you privately to discuss some ideas in a little more detail...?
I actually had the same issue for the first 21 years of my life as well. Doctors gave me all of those those things, fluticasone, zyrtec, etc.

I cut gluten out of my life, and basically everything changed. I no longer get 10 sinus infections a year, I don't have to take any allergy medicines, my depression went away, and I can sleep less.

All of my doctors told me to take drugs to solve it, but it turns out I am gluten intolerant, and cutting it out has changed my life forever.
My first read of the headline was all wrong: Reddit fires first hobbyists.
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> *noblemen might be more appropriate here than Bourgeoisie

Nobleman are the land-bound pre-capitalist elite; other than a handful tolerated for symbolic purposes, those that remain elites have done so by joining the capitalist elite, the bourgeoisie. So, no, bourgeoisie is the more accurate term.
Oh for fuck's sake. It's not like the candidates' rhetoric towards each other is any more accurate. Since most people seem to be incapable of scrutinizing information they receive, I guess we need politicians to save us by legislating away the problem!
Get a bluetooth adapter for the car. Save yourself from ever having to plug it in (or even pull it out of your pocket) unless you need to charge it. I did this pre-donglegate and plugging my phone in has only been an inconvenience ever since.
The answer on all of that is more effective moderation and community norms.

I've got some work in progress that has been very successful innoculating communities against these things.

People are looking for technical and legal solutions to human problems. It won't end well.
>Does the 90-minute cycle mean that so-called power naps are worthless? “They can take the edge off basic sleepiness. But you need 90 minutes to get to deep sleep, and one cycle isn’t enough to do all the work. You need four or five cycles to get all the benefit.

Notice, my sleep pattern contains 3 full cycles a day. And less time between cycles.

I'm not just subsisting on short naps.

The second link simply confirms what I initially said, that sleep is a cleaning cycle for the brain.
That guarantee isn't required for better online discourse, which is good, because it's not something we can reasonably guarantee.
Well, we have to have some ideals, so we can work towards them.

Public Money, Public Code should also extend to Public Data, Public Code.
> I don't believe that is inherently true about wireless headphones.

I believe it is. Wireless headphones are subject to interference while wired ones are not. Physical connections are much less likely to fail. Wired headphones also lack batteries.

> Re: tradeoffs, you can say that about any set of alternatives, and there can still be one option that in the long term is best for most people. Eg horses vs cars as means for personal transport.

It's true that whether a product is superior to another is a subjective decision but I think there's a threshold to be met in terms of numbers.

Horses vs. cars is easy: Cars today are cheaper, faster, safer, require less space and require less maintenance than horses. The number of people who'd prefer a horse to a car is insignificant.

Wired vs. wireless is much closer. I think at best 50% of people would prefer wireless after trying them for a week or two.

Wireless and wired aren't mutually exclusive either. There's no reason a phone can't support both wired and wireless headphones and let people choose. That's what we've had for years now and unsurprisingly, wireless headphones haven't really taken off.
How do you get started with GUI programming? I can't seem to find anything on this for Pharo6...and barely anything for earlier versions (which I'm assuming are now obsolete).
> you could literally measure expenses

I haven't worked for a company, Fortune 50 to small startup, in the past 20 years that provided medical insurance and didn't provide the employer covered cost data in an easy place for access on demand.
Re-read what you wrote, mentally find/replace the right with the left, and see if you think that might be a bit red-scare-ish.
I've used it for a couple of days now. I've seen some issues with the Simulator but I think that's not strictly related to the IDE. As far as Xcode and the editor is concerned - it's extremely quick now. Functionally also better in terms of the code editor.
Yes, so one of the core libraries within the DL4J project is datavec which is ETL-focused. One key problem that we discovered - and fixed - was that reading and transforming data for training could bottleneck a multi-GPU process. You spend a lot of $$$ on a deep learning computer, but making the library performant enough so that you could load data at the same rate the GPUs could consume it was challenging. This scales to about 4+ GPUs (depending on datatype) and we're building a datavec server so this can scale much larger. There are still good returns if you clean and transform your data and presave to disk, which helps with large machines such as a DGX. However, other bottlenecks still apply (which we are solving right now).

I hope that answers your question. I consider the process of extracting records, transforming them, and loading them for training to be "ETL". I understand ETL also applies to other data consumption.

*I should also note that if you wanted to use datavec for ETL and do not wish to train a deep learning model, it is quite useful for columnar data.
Silicon Valley’s Next Target for Disruption Is Socks
What did you mean by this?
Hey,

cloudflare suspend now coinhive websites:
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very bad :/
I feel like the author assumes that what's true for him will be true for everyone, - it lacks some valuable perspective.

I agree with communication - it's the only day-to-day contact you have with co-workers and if you aren't a good communicator, it's not going to work.

If your entire team works remotely then it takes more planning, and it may require some sacrifices regarding your schedule. However, if part of your team works in an office then remote workers likely need to be available during similar hours.

I agree with learning to ignore "work" when you're off-hours and ignoring "home" when you're working, and how this is done depends on the individual. Traveling to a local coffee shop or wifi hotspot defeats the purpose for me. I don't want to trade one noisy place with people for another, at least regularly.

One big issue he doesn't mention is how other people you live with handle your work. They need to understand that whenever you're working, you need to be working. Not helping with laundry or chores, not babysitting, etc. It's a difficult thing to teach, but it's critical. For those married with kids it's a big problem, but for those single it's not.

I disagree that it effects motivation. There are always temptations at home but if you enjoy doing the work it shouldn't be a battle of will power.
> What I had in mind was UB changing over time

I don't want to keep posting this[1] in every C discussion, but when it's relevant, it's relevant. TL;DR A particular version of a compiler interpreted undefined behavior in such a way as to elide code that specifically tested for an error case to exit early because the error implied undefined behavior, so the test could never be reached without undefined behavior. If that sounds like circular logic, that's because it is.

The error happened to exist in a fairly specific version of clang shipped by apple, but not in any of the major release versions:

I was not able to reproduce this bug on other platforms, perhaps because the compiler optimization is not applied by other compilers. On Linux, I tested GCC 4.9, 5.4, and 6.3, as well as Clang 3.6, 3.8, and 4.0. None were affected. Nevertheless, the compiler behavior is technically allowed, thus it should be assumed that it can happen on other platforms as well.

The specific compiler version which was observed to be affected is:

$ clang++ --version

Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.41)

Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.5.0

Thread model: posix

InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

(Note: Despite being Clang-based, Apple's compiler version numbers have no apparent relationship to Clang version numbers.)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163111
nice looking tool, the article extract keywords is handy but still not much of an improvement on Wordcounter.net - maybe you could show stop words lower down like they do? some find that useful
they have infinite data may be they have classified users and have a preferred set of customers who they love so much and take so much care of, do u buy lot of google products or have u subscribed to any google services. looks biased as still majority are having trouble based on the forums.
That is not a contradiction.

Most people like their congressman, even while hating congress in general. There are 432 of them in the house, you vote for exactly one of them (assuming you are not committing fraud). In Red states the majority likes the republicans in congress and hate the democrats, in blue states the majority likes the democrats and hate the republicans.
You got cucked!
Yeah, that was the unstated subtext of my post.
What about updates?

I've purchased my Nexus 5x just a couple of months ago. Since it's a two-year-old model, you can also get it for a fraction of a flagship model (~$200), and, well, since I've purchased it brand new, I still have a year of security updates + a warranty that lasts exactly that. And on top of that, pure vanilla Android experience + whatever Google comes up with in the meanwhile (for example, I have Google Fi, Pixel camera app, Android Oreo, fingerprint reader at the same spot as this $1000 phone).

Next year I might buy the Pixel (original, not 2). My point is, if that I continue with what I've started this year, I'll upgrade to the next two-year-old Google phone, receive the latest and greatest features (that non-Google-made flagship models still don't have at the time) and I'll receive upgrades constantly.
I’ve been trying for 10 years and still haven’t made any meaningful progress; I’ve always struggled with language, even in immersive environments for several months. TBH I do prioritize spending the few hours I have during evenings/weekends with my children.
I sure would like to know how ECC fails to alleviate this. People forget that the standard single bit correction, double bit detection really means, guaranteed single bit correction, and guaranteed double bit detection with a probability of detecting > 2 bits depending on how/where they flip.
Well, the senator also has a large staff for drafting legislation.
That's interesting, because I had a friend who had the 6p, and when he ran into problems they replaced his phone with a brand new Pixel. Which is worth way more then a 6p new.
I love how the Russia discussion moved the blame from "voters being turned off by shady practices of the party" to "giving voters truthful information is bad".
The most valuable space is the blank space on Singapore - the catchment areas are fabulous places to go hike and the island would be a nightmare without them.
What could go wrong? That's not creepy at all. This is fine.
Google is the chief lobbying party in this space[0]. You can see their recent campaigning against the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), because it makes it possible for state and local governments to sue or criminally charge online platforms for their content, whereas currently only the federal government can.

[0] Google Transparency Project[1] claims that Google has funded 34 different groups opposing SESTA. http://www.googletransparencyproject.org/articles/google-fun...

[1] Google Transparency Project ironically is not transparent about their donors, and has been occasionally questioned as to their motives and backing.
There's tons of information out there about this idea, which is called ICM by poker enthusiasts.
While VSCode is great, it's also useless as $EDITOR.

It's very slow to start (when it's already running), and while you'd think you could speed this up by making it open a new tab in your current window and and return control the parent process when you close that tab ("code -r -w", I believe), that's not possible. It can open the new tab, but it never relinquishes control, at least not for me.

Wouldn't be an issue if startup was super fast with "code -w", but creating new windows, even when VSCode is running, takes several seconds.

So I still use "joe" as $EDITOR.
"It's the same old theme, since nineteen-sixteen..."

First of all, this is not definitely a case of "violence against proletariat". You can find lots of Catalonian people in this group that neither want the independence nor probably felt particularly oppressed when the police came to protect their rights as spanish citizens.

And there is also the "repression and violence", lets see:

Let suppose that a group of people, men, women, elders and children, enter in a public school in a saturday night, with the intention to doing something illegal like, dunno, selling endangered parrots. The police came the next day with the direct order from a jury, to just remove the materials needed for the illegal trade, dislodge the public building, close and custody it for the entire sunday.

But when they were asked by the autorities to end the party and go home, the people instead decide to sit in the soil, start singing "kumbaya" and refuse to move. And when policemen try to remove the ofending material they make a wall of interlaced bodies to deliberately obstruct their orders. So the police starts picking up one person at a time and moving them out. One to one.

This happens in the same week that groups of the same people assaulted and damaged some police cars, throw heavy objects to the police, and even chased some policemen in the streets with a rain of rocks (sending some of they to the hospital).

And other people harassed police in their hotels making loud noises that annoy all the clients of the hotel, that probably couldn't sleep in the entire night and didn't deserved this treatment.

What do you think would happen in USA if you decide starting to spit literally and repeatedly in the face of the local sheriff after hours of defying the autorities and showing a stubborn, irrational and totally unreasonable behaviour? Would you gain a ticket to deservely enter the draw of a couple of bruises?

Taking in mind the situation and the 2 millions of people involved it was practically a miracle that nobody were killed, only two people got seriously injured (unfortunately of course, one claimed as an accident when some policemen cornered started shooting rubber balls to clear a way out, and the other was the old woman hit in the head I think, but I could be wrong). The immense majority among the eight thousands of the people classified as 'injured' got away probably with only a few scratches and maybe a panick attack.

And this is "the first war on internet", so don't trust in all that you see in the social networks. There was for example a very moving photo from a boy with some blood running by his cheek... the problem is that the photo was taken in 2012, not in 2017 as claimed.

There is one thing that was particularly brutal in this history, and it was the patience of the spanish policemen and policewomen
I found -Weverything seriously annoying. Declare a structure, and clang warns about padding bytes being added. Make it a packed structure, and clang warns about the lack of padding bytes. Useless! Okay, I can see the warning on packed structures, as that's usually a compiler extension, but a plain struct?

Seriously?
Yes, it is saying the car uses more power for the bluetooth connection, than receiving the AUX in from the phone. Not that the phone uses less power.