skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was suspected of going to Syria, and they did not search my electronics (or anything) at all. It wasn't until after all sorts of questioning that they searched me, and they didn't tell me the reasons for their questions until they were done either.

Oddly enough, I had a raspberry pi with me (with no case or packaging), and I thought I'd get accused of making bombs like the girl at Logan airport. However, the kid searching my luggage said "cool, a raspberry pi! What projects do you do with it?"
After the arrest of Marcus Hutchins I have already resolved not to set foot in the USA (unless badly necessary for business :/ ). It is surprising how little international outrage that arrest sparked: if the reasoning of the USA in this case were solid then international travel would halt. You would need to review everything you've done online (the last few years at least but possibly ever) and compare it to the laws of the country you are entering. If the USA believes Hutchins committed a crime according to US laws then they should ask the UK to arrest and extradite him. Let me emphasize: it doesn't matter, at all, what Hutchins have done.

And this was not the first time this was done: Sklyarov was arrested for violating the DMCA while outside the USA as well. That case was one of the primary reasons I excluded the USA as my immigration target and landed in Canada instead (back in 2006 I was in a position where I could choose).

This policy just makes my resolve stronger.
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> Still, the verdict did generate some bad publicity for the bank.

And there goes the Streisand effect. $8B isn't something the bank will take slightly, but the more this case is discussed, more people will hear about it and (probably) avoid hiring this bank in the future.

I don't think this kind of service is a significant insource for the bank, but also think it should be much, much cheaper had the bank taken some care with this case.
Same for me - switching to the wavey tab is instantaneous. However, I do see a ~500-1000ms delay when switching from the wavey tab to any other tab.
We're making a crypto robot for about a dozen devs to pilot
Chinese Bitcoin miners eye sites in Quebec, Manitoba
What about "herbata" in Polish then?
Dell specifically makes a developer line of laptops they distribute with Ubuntu on -- probably a pretty good bet that all the hardware works.
At least you know where you stand with supper, right?!
I guess this inspired Stuart Mcmillen with this strip:
https://therionorteline.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/huxley-v...
> I think they should only retaliate on US officials (elected and who work for DHS). Ask them to reveal passwords to national secrets when they enter the country, then detain them for hours when they refuse.

Unfortunately I don't think this will do what you expect - they'll probably happily hand over their password.
I'd never heard of this before. Growing up in rural Scotland, meals were always "Breakfast", "Dinner" and "Tea". There was sometimes confusion with other people over whether dinner was a midday or evening meal, but I'd never thought much of it until now.
At least in Australia, "chai" is on sale in cafes meaning Masala chai, a mix of leaf tea and Indian spices and herbs. And then you've got the "chai latte", like a regular latte but with "chai" instead of espresso.

Amusing weirding of language - it should really be a "masala"!
I think this is overly snippy. GP just seemed to imply that the words cone from India, not that India has a single language.

Also as far as i can tell "cha" is far more common than "char" in the British Isles.
There's no need to define boundaries that give rise to bazillion exceptions.

Nihilism isn't the ultimate end.

I'd say that if you can choose between eating a fruit, and killing a bird and eating it's flesh, a virtuous agent would eat the fruit.

It's unnecessary to go the utilitarian way of trying to draw the lines and meet every single exception to the rule.

Acting in the world as a virtuous agent is a much more practical approach.

Would you test and experiment on someone who has a nervous system capable of feeling pain and suffering, if it could save thousands or even millions of people? Given the data of the lack of success of a huge percentage of studies, you would, being virtuous, deduce that it's better to seek other means of testing instead of doing a hit and miss approach on animals.

People don't behave as virtuous agents, and they do not act kindly. Especially not to those they deem less worthy than them.

That's why stuff needs rethinking and regulation.
Yes, the bad behaviour is well distributed allover the company. You cant blame a single gear for the functionality provided by the human-meat-grinder 40000.

If you really feel the need, blame the dedicated person for blaming, who gets a fortune for doing the Jesus Christ story as CEO.

Assaulting single persons, might be the only way to squeeze a touch of responsibility from a modern company. Touching a nerve is okay, when it leads to a thoroughly rotten teeth - like the pseudo moral everyone in the software world displays in this endless resultless discussions.

Oh, btw, in the next thread somebody is calling for goverment action against addicting games- and all those "abuse is evil" posters, will take a firm libertarian stand there.

If you systematicall disempower people, until only building a howling medieval mob remains- congrats, you reaached your destination.
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TF has TF Eager in latest version (1.5)

Though when comparing a same model code written in Pytorch, TF Eager imperative code feels verbose and bit cluttered as if it is written in Java.
> ALL THEY DO IS HOST YOUR FRIENDS' PHOTOS

If that's all they do, why do they just show me my friend's political rants and never the photos? I have to click on a specific person to see their entire timeline these days ("Most recent" only shows me a couple things, and then tells me to add more friends), and it's almost always their political rants and links, and rarely their photos.

I've started using Instagram, ironically also owned by facebook, because it's photos and not weird political rants.
This reminds me of a man in the UK, or African ancestry, but who had never been to Africa (or to the US). Americans repeatedly insisted on calling him an "African American".
I don’t think this is a trend at all. Just go to a baseball game and you’ll see plenty of people yelling invectives at the umpire and players. That’s not new at all.

Road rage is another related symptom. There’s something special about pseudo-anonymity than enables a small percentage of people to act like jerks.

The horrible comments are just a function of anonymity at scale.
How much does it cost to build an Augmented Reality app like IKEA
Which is pronounced basically the same. Only the 't' at the end is dropped. Same goes for other Slavic languages.
I've learned a lot from:

* Reading lots of books on writing. Probably this (https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Web-Creating-Compelling-Pictu...), definitely this (https://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-12th/dp/0...). Got both from local library.

* Reading lots of other books I got from library (on writing and marketing).

* Practice, coupled with observing results on google analytics.

* https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht... for basic design.

* Free content on https://stackingthebricks.com/ (there's a lot, although it's mostly lead-in to paid content).

The last one in particular motivated me to write based on research, which resulted in massively improved results.
Arithmetic coding is also mentioned in the text:

> The optimality of the Huffman code must have seemed at the time to leave little room for further work in fixed-to- variable source coding.[11] That, however, proved not to be the case, because of two major difficulties: 1) the distribution of the source may not be known [12] when the code is designed (Section II-E), and 2) although the Huffman algorithm need
not operate symbol by symbol, its complexity grows very
rapidly with the length of the source block. ... The second shortcoming is circumvented by the arithmetic coding method of J. Rissanen [60]
(generalized in [61] and [62] and popularized in [63]), whose
philosophy is related to that of the Shannon–Fano code.

I made two assumption in my comment. 1) s-c-h knows nothing about compression, so would like to start with the easiest code developed along information-theoretical lines, and 2) the author of the IEEE paper knows enough about the topic that I could quote the text directly.

To clarify, the author is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Verd%C3%BA and is "the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group."

I do not have enough knowledge of the field to tell if he included the correct qualifiers. The Huffman code is a "variable-length source code that minimizes average length" while arithmetic codes appear after mentioning the goal of "minimum average length in terms of the distribution of the source."

That appears correct to me.
To trust information given by someone I trust is probably in my hard wiring. I don't feel dumber because I reacted to shared information. However, more than ever, I try to question the validity of the content and won't go beyond a sensational title if the source is questionable. I used to trust content, but now I take deliberate, mindful steps to question it. At the least, social media has become more exhausting because of this.

If I could wave a magic wand, I would introduce friction to sharing media. It is far too easy to share false information. Further, information that bubbles to the top is rife with bias and fortifies a bubble.

Ideas worth experimenting:

1. Make the decision to share more salient. Prompt the sharer with a question that forces a moment of reflection. For instance, "if we replaced the author's name with your own and your reputation were at risk, would you share this?".

2. Replace the crude upvote/downvote mechanism with something more nuanced. Separate upvotes from downvotes. Prompt the voter with a list of reasons why he/she voted accordingly. Make voting history public.
There might be a loose standard, but if you've ever tried to reliably convert text with emojis to a static image or print media (with proper licensing), you've probably experienced how much of a pain they can be. The fact that new emojis keep getting added to the standard means that at any point in time, your implementation (font/code/assets) might be out out-of-date and sprinkled with tofu. It's a constant battle — one that even Apple can't seem to keep up with on their own platforms (I'm looking at you, Messages app in MacOS Sierra).
>You can't just

Why not?
(Serious Question, I want to learn.)
Oh wow. I had been thinking about such a device for a couple of years now, great to see one in action.

The main problem is refueling, because the combustion chamber has a higher pressure. With a liquid fuel, you just spray it in at pressure, but with wood that isn't possible.
Wrong thread?

Also, it may be true where you are, but it's not universally true. I know the cycle and timing of the lights near my home, and I keep getting frustrated by people who don't press the button and now I need to press it, and wait an extra cycle.
> In the Christian tradition, it isn't how good you are that gives you redemption after death, it's a free gift from God that you can never be good enough to deserve.

Isn't this the protestant view ("sola gratia")?
I'd think one's actions are very much accounted for in catholicism, which is also why there is a big stress on confession/repenting and penitence.
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Smilies on the old phpBB [0] forum software etc. must've been around for longer than emoji. This[1] particular set gives me a lot of nostalgia, but I can't remember what forum software it was packaged with. Things got pretty extravagant, I can't really imagine these[2] being useful in everyday conversation (potentially slightly NSFW)! Hell, even MSN Messenger had them.

Looking at these brings back all kinds of memories from the BBs I frequented a decade or so ago.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/LuZeOn7.png

[1] https://4.img-dpreview.com/files/p/E~forums/58700537/8eea8bf...

[2] https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilie...
Specifically, the oldest generation they tested (Skylake) is the first to have the PCID feature that avoids the complete TLB flush on every syscall.

Continuing with their strategy of full transparency..
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Here's a link to the YouTube channel for the conference. Some videos for this year are already up:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQiIRDBmp3pfTdRJ99EeDEw
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Because you need the files to do proof of proof-of-storage and get your coins (back).

But as the OP said there's currently no proof-of-will-to-distribute-storage so you can save money by just sending the proof-of-storages to the network and never actually provide bandwidth for the distribution of the stored data.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Looking at the map, there are 6 dots over Vietnam. The 2 in the middle of Vietnam (around Hue and Danang I guess) are pink, for "te" as opposed to the other one which are blue, for "cha".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131090
Weird, I do have exactly the opposite experience, incl. a bay for a second SDD (on a gaming laptop/workstation one). Ability to replace an old HDD with SDD on a 6y old laptop... and then replace the optical drive with another HDD (just for the storage)

Perhaps nowadays it's the norm to have it all soldered in but I'd just not buy such.
I'm no Chinese expert, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I've found that the Chinese word 茶 (cha) doesn't always necessarily mean tea, but can refer generically to a number of different brewed drinks. e.g. barley tea (大麥茶), ginger tea (薑茶), golden oats tea (燕麥茶), etc. all of which translate to tea, but often contain no tea leaves. It may seem like a nitpick, but when you're in China and order what you expect to be a ginger flavored tea, only to receive a cup of hot water with chopped ginger at the bottom, the distinction can be important. That isn't to say you can't simply order 茶 in China and receive what you would expect, as long as you're expecting green tea. Likewise, if you simply order tea in England, you'll likely receive what the Chinese call 紅茶 (red tea). So in my mind, the words aren't exactly equivalent and I wonder how much the different variations of tea and cha relate to themselves and each other.

Edit: Applied jpatokal's correction.
Great more stuff to read. Thanks.

The Solomon quote reminds me a little of Morty's speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qvy82U4RE
maybe qutebrowser?
http://qutebrowser.org/
Serious question, it looks like the image under 'washable' is a man's head on a woman's body.
I just wish they would stop tracking me and everyone I interact with whenever and wherever
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More Is Less: End-To-End Security of Group Chats In,Signal, WhatsApp and Threema [pdf]
it wouldn't be the best record if it would have 10 critical CVE's since its release
Not to my knowledge. One is subject to search within 100 miles of the border, not just at the border. You might want to search around Arstechnica for some of their past stories on this issue. They've been writing about this for years.
I'm missing my right hand, on my first visit to the US since 1994 (as a child) I was asked to scan my hand. I politely tried to tell the agent that I'd have to scan my left hand and he started shouting at me without looking at me.

Each time I uttered anything he'd just randomly shout for me to comply, after about the fourth time he looked up and ordered me to use my left hand.

Absolutely bizarre experience.
The view more or less described by the article probably has its (most recent, at least) origin in Descartes. Cartesian metaphysics posits two kinds of things in the universe, namely, mind and matter. Mind is associated with thought, desire, emotion, sensation, consciousness, etc. Matter, of course, is not. Of all life on earth, only man is a composite of mind and matter. Non-human animals are therefore mindless which is to say devoid of emotions, desires, sensations, consciousness, etc. This view, I claim, goes against common sense. Try telling anyone who owns a dog that Spot is merely a machine devoid of emotions, desires or consciousness.

In the context of intellectual history, this Cartesian view is rather recent. Aristotle, for example, describes plants, animals and human beings quite differently in De Anima. In his analysis, human beings entail all faculties that are essentially proper to animals, and non-human animals entail all faculties that are essentially proper to plants; the entailment is transitive so that the faculties essentially proper to plants are entailed by human animals. For Aristotle, animals are living things that possess the faculties of locomotion. The only faculties that essentially differentiate human beings from other animals are the intellectual faculties. So in this sense, human beings are "exceptional" in the sense that among the animals, they alone are known to possess intellectual faculties, but it is not so extreme as the Cartesian position. Still, it is an important difference with important consequences.
Are there really Americans calling for Oprah though, really?... I mean, who of your friends or family actually said that Oprah should become president? All I'm familiar with is the media that keeps talking about how not Oprah, but 'insiders' keep saying she should run. It's an absolute joke. To me it seems obvious that Oprah wants to run, and that there wasn't anyone calling for that until she started a media campaign of anonymous-insiders talking about her run for presidency.

I hate these self prophesying stories. You can hardly not respond to this nonsense, but responding to it doesn't seem to help either.
We sort of have that, though it’s like the age of development before revision control. Old versions of code are still lying around and are sometime activated via epigenetic triggers if they can be found.

This is why I was so annoyed when “the” genome was first sequenced: they saved time by disregarding the “junk dna” — cargo cultism at its finest!

This mechanism isn’t terrible btw — your environment is likely to be quite similar to recent environments; how often do you really go back and extract a git revision from a year ago?

Also humans have an additional more powerful mechanism, memes, to supplement genes.
Facebook is already a ghost town, it's too late to change direction. Unfortunately because of Zuck people got feed up of social network sites.
A hack they used in a recent update (I believe for the equation editor) suggests that's probably not the case.
Thanks for that pointer, all I could find was a vague wikipedia article. Obviously soldering was well established. The specifics of what was available weren't clear.
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At low efficiency.
Even the Museum of Natural History in New York is a good attraction. There is no need to consider the US horrid or anything alike based on the ridiculous border policy.
I also use this method. Thanks to it I usually can check if e-mail was automated and also I am not disturbed by e-mails with social media notification, shop promos or marketing spam during work. Also some e-mail providers allow to create many e-mail aliases which shares the same inbox.
They said it would take 2 hours. It's been more than 24 hours.
Nit: Western (black) tea is 紅茶 hongcha, lit. "red tea". Chinese black tea refers to fermented teas like pu-erh, which are not the same thing.
In a case study like this I was hoping for an understanding of how we on the left contribute to a climate where it is ok to be non-factual, as it is much easier to change yourself than others and NY Times audience is clearly the left. Especially since it concludes that everyone "rushes for the safety of their ideological battlements". What are those embattlements? What are the factual nature on each side? My question if it is just taking one example in an ongoing tit-for-tat fight.

Maybe I should just accept that this a case study and every case study does not present a balanced analysis. It will seek to provide one example of a problem and it is up to you to generalize.
I forgot about chè, thank you for reminding me. this word is also a desert according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A8
This is really bad. I hope they can handle everyone withdrawing their funds as soon as they are back online.

Edit: current status: https://status.kraken.com/incidents/nswthr1lyx72
I'm at RWC this year, the last session begins in 45 minutes.
What would likely happen: detained at the border regardless your claims, send back on the next flight, denied Visa next time.
> All models are wrong, some are less wrong than others.

All models are wrong, some are useful
Every ethical argument ultimately follows from premises you can gum up the whole thing by rejecting. That's just the nature of the discipline. For instance, all the stuff you're writing doesn't really move someone if they don't accept the libertarian arguments about how taxation is theft or is evil.

If you want to start dragging historical examples into the discussion, the Hoover years pretty well discredited the idea that voluntarism and charity were sufficient means to deal with privation.
Four Judges of Indian Supreme Court Vocal about 'Selective Assingment of Cases'
I'm pretty sure there are pre-WW2 trees in Japan.
Judges Chelameswar, Gogoi, Lokur, Joseph are also holding a press conference. Link: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/live-four-supreme-cour...

Reddit /r/india megathread - https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/7pv5r2/megathread_pr...
At least they are communicating. Hopefully there will be a postmortem.
I meant that only in the “I’m not sure all code at Google has been rebuilt and had retpoline enabled” sense. We said in the article:

> By December, all Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services had protections in place for all known variants of the vulnerability.

which means all the bits of the stacks across all our GCP products (i.e., not just our host kernels and GCE’s hypervisor but also say App Engine sandboxes).

KPTI for kernels plus recompiling any sensitive thing (kernel, hypervisor, etc.) with a retpoline capable compiler. We’re not holding back secrets. Just trying to get the patches out while keeping blog posts relatively parseable by the general public.

Note that no matter how disruptive kernel or other changes are, live migration always makes them “zero downtime migration”. The key here is that using retpoline to protect systems software against Variant 2 results in much lower overhead than other proposed mitigation strategies, particularly on older hardware but even a bit on Skylake.
> I’ve switched to using ‘h’ as an alias of ‘createElement’ instead of jsx.

Why just alias and not go full hyperscript?

> For example I made a version using X instead of h that will parse the tag for “#id.class1.class2” tokens and add them to the props as appropriate saving a pretty decent amount of space. This is very similar to emmet so it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

That reads a lot like hyperscript. You really should take a look.
Peter Thiel does not earn his money "in the exact same fashion" as me since my income, like most people, is almost entirely constituted of wages.