skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no coherent rightist opposition ...

A common tactic of any populist group is to paint itself as a persecuted outsider.

The far right and right have possibly never been stronger in the West, in fact. Throughout Europe, right-wing parties run government and far right parties have never had more power since perhaps WWII (and run government themselves in some countries).

In the U.S., there is a large, coherent rightist power structure that dominates government and politics, not an opposition. The rightists control the White House (and thus all regulatory agencies and the rest of the executive branch), both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, 70% of governorships, and a large majority of state houses. Most police are right-wing (AFAIK). The most popular cable news channel (Fox) and the most popular newspaper among the business elite (WSJ) both serve right-wing propaganda as a modus operendi (the WSJ on its editorial page). There are a vast number of other popular right and far-right publications. There are many major funders (Kochs, Adelson, Mercers, etc.); there are major think tanks, such as Heritage, dedicated to generating intellectual cover for the right and far-right agenda. And the power structure works together to a surprising degree; you can see read Heritage talking points in many places, often without realizing the source.

Here's an article I just read talking about the coherent rightist power structure, including a chief advisor to the President:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...

> national religion of progressivism

There is no such thing. Again, see the actual state of affairs, described above (and in this religiously progressive country, Donald Trump won). The far right again tries to portray itself as persecuted and also tries to portray anyone who disagrees as mindless followers of "religion", like the right-wing ideologues, not reasoned supporters of human rights, democracy and freedom.
To play devil's advocate, maybe he was using it for the first time since January and found that it didn't work.
But there are many more people who would love to create things, and get paid for their labor.

The "best" and "most knowledgeable" I know are all either employed or get paid in some way.
Management/Success/Leadership: Mostly Bullshit
You should probably get a threadripper and max out with whatever GPU/ML processor boards you need.

Will you be running Linux?
Isn't that what ArrayBuffers can do for you at nearly the same amortized speed as C unions?
The best way to impress someone with vim is to do "shift+o" and "o"
When pushing for rule changes, you’re pitching to the margin. Worrying about to whom you’re giving a “blessing” while breaking simple laws only your base finds controversial ensures you’ll see no legislative traction. Best case: you squared your problem’s difficulty by twinning your policy exposure and thus political cross-section.

It reminds me of a town hall a freshman state legislator held a few years ago. She wanted to propose an animal welfare law for farms in the state. PETA and Greenpeace showed up. The former wanted to boycott the law (I don’t know what this means) because it didn’t go far enough. The latter was concerned this would encourage meat eating and increase carbon emissions or something. The bill was reconsidered and dropped. Compromise is hard.
> You need to full control over the screen's framebuffer to render an image?

No, but you do need the ability to render in the background, and apps aren't allowed to do any GPU-based rendering in the background (you can't touch an OpenGL context, and while I haven't actually confirmed this I assume you can't touch a Metal one either). This entitlement probably let them skip that restriction to do fast rendering in the background.
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I may be (probably am) missing the reference -- but my first instinct would be to check out TextMeshPro for something like that, especially if you want to keep draw calls low/when performance is a supreme concern.

Apologies if it's just a reference I totally missed though! =)
This was previously submitted using a Gizmodo article. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411533
> a world where the sinners have all the power.

> In such a world, why would there be so many successful witch-hunters?

Because neither group has all the power (and there are many other groups too). The allegory, as someone pointed out, and the reasoning are both stretched past breaking.
I am not google staff member but I am a dev who uses a chromebook pixel at home. This Nov will be 2 years since I first received my chromebook pixel. Here is my set up:
1) I unlocked machine, put it in into dev mode
2) crouton set up to use xfce
3) ssh to remote servers to use things like docker

Here's the repo for crouton. I don't know if they have hardware support for pixelbook yet.
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

I had some hardware/software issues from time to time but they were resolved with OS updates or a powerwash. My set up was ok but not ideal - it would fluctuate between bliss and frustration. Opening your laptop to find half of your led screen dark is not fun. Sometimes the laptop would simply poweroff - though this may have been an issue with regards to overheating. This is the price to pay to go into dev mode.

Other than the points above I think using a chromebook pixel for development has been a ok experience. For simple tasks my experience is very good. My battery life is still very good after 2 years. The screen is perfect. Switching between xfce and my other tabs is a breeze, I would have my xfce instance open in one tab, and have a few chroot instances open in another tab (think of the feel like python's venv).

If google staff is here, please answer my only question: is there any plans to make this set up more friendly for dev set ups?
It's because New Yorkers have a romanticized ideal of bodegas.
I wish there were some experimental evidence that this approach is effective. Would some parental attention and tutoring have the same effect as the "educational sites"?
https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica

OnTopReplica comes close, copying apps (or sub-regions) into an always-on-top window.

You have to leave the source app up on the desktop (behind whatever else) and the experimental mouse pass-through is sketchy; I use it mostly for read-only stuff (video).
Semiotic: data viz React.js framework from Netflex
Reshaping the Xingu River
But I could replace your “pizzagate, Benghazi, emails” with “pissgate, Russia, tax returns”. This is a non partisan issue.
We were one of their first advertisers! If I recall, we traded them some RAM and maybe a server case as part of the deal.
You can run your program with a testing set of users, where all potential receivers of your mock messages are your own emails. Is it not enough?
I think this thread needs to be less nebulous and more concrete.
This is ripe for an easter egg if you request a file:// URL PDFs support compression, right? I wonder how hardened they are to zip bombs...
In such a world, why would there be so many successful witch-hunters?

Jon Ronson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9G6L4ZNuWk

Evergreen State College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1RoBi5HKWc
this looks pretty cool, reminiscent of the "shake" compositing application for video
I've been using a Thinkpad for years and never noticed the placement of the B key until reading this.
Yes; as we all know, superoptimizers were revolutionary and now form the core of compilers.

Also, superoptimizers are stochastic search algorithms, which are only tangentially related to ML, which is again only tangentially related to AI. The relation between AI and superoptimization is close to nil.
I do wonder why they execlusively got it, and others (who must have had similar rendering issues) did not.
You need the destination address to not run dkim spf or dmarc on the forwarded emails with rewritten destinations.

I came across this when forwarding everything to gmail. Gmail is smart enough to accept this for mail originally destined for an address you enabled as "send from". However, mail sent to e.g. retailName@domain.com will fail the checks and never be delivered.
> Both sides have their frame and mythology. ... it's narratives and semiotics all the way down.

That's an old propaganda standby - both sides are the same, it's all just opinion. Nothing distinguishes U.S. policy from Stalin's, they would say in the Cold War.

But there is good and evil in the world, and if we don't distinguish between them then we are accomplices for the latter. Furthering hate is not the same as opposing it; oppressing people is not the same as fighting for their freedom.
> There are a vast number of other popular right and far-right publications. There are many major funders (Kochs, Adelson, Mercers, etc.);

The Kochs fund far-right publications? Which ones? They seem explicitly not far right, or even really right at all.
> Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible.

-- George Orwell, letter to Noel Willmett (1944)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwe...
And CockroachDB, TiDB, etc...
It's been surprisingly easy to avoid. Facebook doesn't know me, so random strangers uploading a photo with me in the background can never associate it with my identity. And people who know me don't post my photo.

The concern is not so much with people finding me, it's with the unknown data processing they could be performing.

I just wonder if those random photos where I make an appearance without being tagged are getting cataloged and a profile for this 'unknown individual' is being built so that it can be linked with my identity if there is a slip someday.

I don't quite have the nerve to ask relatives for photographs of people who died in the 20th century to put up as my own photo to confuse their sensors, though, so I suppose it will eventually be unavoidable to be correctly cataloged and tracked.
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Yeah, there are fresh food vending machines around in a few places... notably in government offices like city hall or ward offices where you might have to wait for a while.
Wirecutter has a fairly recent review:
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-bookshelf-speakers/
See also http://www.nohello.com/
For folks who like this kind of stuff but aren't audiophiles, may I suggest the history of the LS3/5a loudspeaker as a fun read. The LS3/5a was chosen as the reference small monitor by the BBC then the design was licensed out to various OEMs over the course of its time as the standard. Modern high-end clones are still available.

I'm a big fan of ATC loudspeakers (a UK firm, btw), which are quite popular in studios and performance halls¹. Example: The Walt Disney Concert Hall — that wavy, stainless Frank Gehry building here in LA — is outfitted with custom ATC cabinets as the house PA (last I know of, at least).

ATC's powered monitors are freakishly overbuilt and can play to stupendous SPLs. I've got dreams of someday having my own set of the active SCM20, which are the perfect size for small living spaces, but they make powered units as big as 150 litres per cabinet². Whoa.

My last set of high-end speakers is their SCM11, about the same size. Key house feature: they design(make?) their own bass/mid drivers which are rugged af, and feature monster magnets for their size.

Back to TFA; I've never heard the NS-10, but I have always heard they kind of suck. And the reasoning never held water IMHO; it stands to reason that you'd end up EQing the mix to make it sound good on the NS-10, but that would in turn make the mix all out of whack on proper equipment.

It's like trying to design the next Corvette with the prototypes running on 175/70R13 tires; how you could tune the system under test (here: the music being mastered/mixed) with such a floppy foundation is beyond me.

--
¹—http://atcloudspeakers.co.uk/studios-soundstages
²—http://atcloudspeakers.co.uk/professional/loudspeakers/scm11...
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I am serious, though I was just going through a stack of old floppies to see what was on them. I just decided to try to format one for fun!
That would create an information vacuum for the people who get their news regularly from FB and they would likely turn to the thousand less responsible companies trying to fill that vacuum. At least FB attempts to address the issue.
Very much agree.

The less I read the news and the more I read books, the happy and more informed I've felt. Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death talks about "news without context," how the Queen of England having a cold does not in any way impact my life and there is nothing I can do about it.

In a way the news lately seems more exciting and terrible, and I definitely don't make light of it, but ultimately I can't really do anything directly to affect it other than voting and donating to causes I believe in. And so I try to do that and feel that that is enough. Humans are not capable of handling a world's worth of information.

Nassim Taleb argues in the book Fooled by Randomness that day to day, the behavior of things like the news and stock market prices are almost completely random. Only when you look at it from a monthly or yearly view do you actually see signal in the noise.
The Simulation Hypothesis has not been falsified; remains unfalsifiable
"violent" is not the total subset of "dangerous".
How do you know the proposal was real!? :)
Thank you. Looks like all the codes have been redeemed as of 4:50pm PDT
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/916041186124500992 (excerpts) and https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart... (full article) have some interesting facts about him and his connections to Breitbart news.

Also in that article: Dan Lyons is a Milo Yiannopoulos pen pal, who seemed to be obsessed with the gender of GamerGate harrasment victims. He just deleted his Twitter account in reaction to the publication of the article.
I got my pricing from AliBaba - commercial rates seem to be $0.3/Watt to $0.4/Watt - so roughly $100USD for a 250W panel
Hi there. Some of you know me from HN - this is where the bulk of my effort has gone for most of the last year. The team we’re building at Steemit is downright amazing, and the community around it is what keeps me going.

Think reddit, but on a blockchain (the posts, comments, and votes are actually in the merkle tree in consensus), and the upvotes are real money - that’s where the majority of the token’s inflation (~9% per year, decreasing further over time) goes.

It’s sort of like a censorship-resistant, distributed pastebin. You can put arbitrary json into the blockchain, which gets mirrored to hundreds of nodes, permanently, in three seconds. The Shadow Brokers have taken up blogging on Steemit.

We call it censorship-resistant, but I can’t think of a way to meaningfully redact content already posted to this blockchain that anyone on Earth could practically implement.

Our second annual Steemfest is in Lisbon 1-5 November and hopefully I will meet some of you there.
Yes. There are at least a dozen (just as there are at least a dozen high-quality headphone options). The worst of the mid-range products today is probably better than the best of the mid-range products in 1990, as long as you limit it to respected brands. And, the differences between the best and the worst is pretty small.

I paid $1200 for my home studio monitoring setup back in 1995. It was a set of Tannoy System 600 speakers (about $700) and a Hafler amplifier (about $500). I still own and use the speakers today, but if I were doing any real work, I'd go pick up something new in the $500-$1000 range, and it would be better than my setup from two decades ago.

My point is that there's been a revolution in the quality:price ratio for audio equipment. It's not built as reliably as it used to be, but the quality of sound you can get at a mid-range price, even in transducers like speakers and microphones (which don't follow the same innovation rules as digital tech), is astonishing.

You can safely search any major online music retailer, select your price range, sort by rating, and buy the top-rated thing in your price range, and you'll almost certainly be happy with the result. The product will sound really good for the price (no matter what that price is, though there's a law of rapidly diminishing returns on the high end).
If there is only one worker the requests can flow directly to that one worker. If there are two workers, something would need to sit in the middle and determine how to distribute the requests. That extra hop is where the extra complexity comes from.
I don't really understand the appeal of a friend/foe system. If I don't like a person, I typically try to avoid interacting with them unless/until I find a way to reevaluate them or myself so that I can find something positive, a way to like them. Pretty much the last thing I want is a computer to remind me that I don't like someone. In fact, I wish frequently that I could suppress my own internal feelings of dislike for people. When reading comments on sites like this I try not to read who posted them until I've evaluated the post on its own merit. The times I find myself pre-judging a post when I see who made it, I kick myself and struggle to evaluate its claims as objectively as I otherwise might.

I do understand that not everyone interacts with every site in the same way, and I personally do not approach every online community in the same way. So, I say, to each their own. The use of a friend/foe system seems to impose a bit of centralized structure, however, and I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the idea of enumerating to some website exactly whom I prefer as people, when I'm constantly trying to reevaluate and expand that in myself.

Slashdot is interesting in that it is one of the remaining bastions of (at least superficially) anonymous discussion. There are apparently several strata of users: some don't read anything by anonymous cowards, some don't read posts by their foes, and some only use the site anonymously. It makes me curious about how these different self-selected filter bubbles might give different perceptions of the discussion to different participants. Personally I have great difficulty engaging in public discussion without trying to read and understand as many diverse opinions as possible - I feel as though otherwise I'd be speaking out of ignorance.

EDIT: On occasion (at least speaking for myself) we don't like someone because they remind us of something about ourselves we try not to acknowledge or think about. Blocking their posts en masse can deprive us of an opportunity to explore this and grow.
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Wow I wasn't aware this was so directly available.

Thanks!
Well, yeah, no shit. We're obviously just looking at the "observable universe", which means light-as-it-is-arriving-now.
Russians have alledgedly been involved with the Catalonian independence movement

Lol, here we go ahead. And where's the evidence of that?

I mean damn, those darn Ruskies! Trump, Brexit and Catalonia too! Is there anything happening in western politics that isn't their fault?

Wait, I thought the reason Russia allegedly did something to support Leave in the Brexit referendum was because they wanted countries to leave the EU, but the Catalonian independence movement wants to remain in the EU. So what's the logic there?
“Not updating correctly” naturally indicates he was on an older version of his phone’s OS.

Remember, only recently we saw fixes released for some pretty serious Wi-Fi vulnerabilities. A close-access attack on a bigh value target like him is not out of the realm of possibility.
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The trending page is not an accurate representation of the depth of the articles on the platform; we’re working on a number of features to allow people to better tailor their reading to their preferences (beyond a simple “follow”).

If you’re logged out, the trending page is across the whole of the network; that’s of course going to skew toward cryptocurrencies at the moment because, well, Steem itself is also a blockchain and cryptocurrency.

That’s like complaining that HN is about “internet stuff”. Duh. :)
Looks like a very nice find! I'll definitely be having a look at it, thank you.
> What a bunch of senseless FUD.

inb4 strawman arguments and other funzies.

Perhaps you should argue with me on my actual assertion, which is that 'we should use crypto that has stood the test and scrutiny of time'. Do not interpret my criticism as a personal attack.

> already used in production by millions of devices all around the world inside of WhatsApp.

Cool. This is good because that means we have a lot of eyes looking at it.

> formal verification that the crypto is correct in the symbolic model.

This is great and we need more of this kind of work. I don't think its good enough however; most practical attacks rely on side channels, implementation mistakes (formal verification helps in catching these but don't get you all the way), and other obscurities. I stand by my assertion that we should use crypto that has stood the test of time.

> The WireGuard paper itself [3] was presented to the academic community at NDSS

Congrats I guess? relevance?

> not the hastily-made nonsense you imply it is with the phrase "rolled our own crypto"

I made no such implication. 'Roll your own crypto' is a common phrase (at least in my circles) meaning to do it yourself instead of depend on someone else's implementation. Again, I don't see what this has to do with my assertion to use old and battle tested crypto.

> "subnet", tunnels TCP over TCP, which is well known for having pathologically bad performance characteristics

Correct, have a gold star. What does this have to do with crypto?

As you could tell if you scrolled down and read the other discussions around TCP-in-TCP, I am fully aware of the implication of my design decision, and stand by it is the right balance of simplicity, security, and speed (well, thats relative, but for what I was intending it for).

> It also has no binding between certificates and the IP addresses that a certificate is allowed to be inside the tunnel, and, unless I've misread, it allows different peers to hijack each others' IP addresses simply by asking

Correct, I am making the assumption that if posess a private key and cert minted by the server you are trusted. This could be fixed at the cost of additional complexity, loosing the ability for a client to change his address, and less alcohol-time on the developers part. That said, if someone asked me to network together hostile entities, I would have given him some coolaid instead of Go code. But I'm digressing, lets get back on topic.

> But please don't spread FUD about other projects without first understanding them.

I have done no such thing. I stand by my assertion that we should use Crypto that has stood the test of time. Am I not allowed to raise such assertions and discuss them on merit?
I think what he is trying to say is there isn’t a lot of DDR4 out there at 3200mhz with tight timings like there is with non-ECC memory, not just that ECC vs non-ECC at the same specs is 10-30% slower.
The reqiurement of an ID to buy a ticket or board a train might be also used to prevent buying out and reselling tickets later. And of course to prevent people who are wanted by the police from travelling.