skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are multiple ways to interpret quantum phenomena, and some of our sensory organs (e.g. smell, taste, vision) seem to operate at the quantum level, so why should we assume that our sensing is in some global sense authoritative rather than simply being evolutionarily optimised for macro behaviour that's useful to us?

Although at the ground level the universe appears to be quantized (at least below the Planck limit, at our macro scale it's mostly continuous. In fact in most things, if not all real world things, integers live only in some platonic universe. Perhaps we do a disservice to children by starting them with discrete arithmetic.

> From my perspective Mathematics is at bottom a game of string manipulation.

I think this really can only be true of basic arithmetic. Even in arithmetic we can reason about strings too long to be constructed in your our universe.

> None of us are concerned that dogs don't understand math. Why we be concerned about the minds of aliens and what they find intuitive?

They don't? Leaping to catch a frisbee is pretty advanced mathematics. I do doubt that dogs understand integers. But these fundamental questions about alien species whether dogs or some extraterrestrial intelligence are pretty important epistemological inquiries.
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Lua is a much better embedded language.
Isn't this what the author is trying to do? Mark seems to be a superset of JSON.
Also that line is a little inaccurate, since there's one more (that I know of) smart speaker system that offers apple music: Sonos.
When the resolution of the source material differs or lossy compression was involved, it can be possible to differentiate between the parts. In it's easiest form you subject suspected forgeries to lossy compression and check with a visual diff whether the loss was uniform. Search for "jpeg artifacts forgery" to get an impression.

In this case there is no question.
> Pretty hard to use it for porn.

It's not hard, it's an innate characteristic of porn. It's the inverse of rule 36 - as long as a communication channel exists, it will be used for porn, no matter how inconvenient it might be. Also, playing it straight, someone will have a fetish for porn over that channel, no way around it.
What's worse: Be a hater or be a bot ?
@Pinboard has done a huge amount of work here for people like you and me. https://techsolidarity.org/resources/great_slate.html

First-time progressive candidates that are running in districts the Democratic party hasn't bothered contesting, and outraising the incumbents with just grassroots support.

There is a wave. We'll see how big it gets.
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/13/democrat-beto-orourke-ta...

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The argument here is that the Bolt shouldn't be a specialty, low-production vehicle. It has won major car awards, and priced right in a market sweet spot. Dealerships should have them front-and-center and should be talking up how awesome they are.

It might not be a "conspiracy" that sales people aren't hyping what is likely still a low margin, hard to sell car, but they should at least know what it is if people ask.
My experience is with OT, so I can't speak for CRDT, but I can imagine it's similar.

With OT, you send a na[1] (number add) operation, so this would work fine. Indeed, if you treat the number as a string, then you have a problem.

[1]: https://github.com/ottypes/json0#summary-of-operations
Ask HN: Is Daily Skrum on an infrastructure team a bit excessive?
So, on our infrastructure team, all of our infrastructure lives on aws and is managed by code. It's a team of 6(including our manager). We cross collaborate on a lot of projects. Our boss is a super micro manager. Am I wrong to feel that its just flat out annoying & waste of time for us to be having a daily standup? We have to review each other's pull requests every other day and we cross collaborate on most projects anyway. I mean gosh, its just infrastructure and no one on the team is junior level. I've only been on the team for a couple of months now. My boss literally walks over to each of us individually all the time to know what we're working on, so I feel like these skrums are overkill.
Lets make a big database of the popular usernames and passwords as of this moment. Has no one done this?
Absolutely, but that's not negative revenue.
10 short surrealist reflections about code
In that model the bank is selling you a coin for USD. It takes your $100 and issues you 100 coins. That $100 is no longer yours--you have the coins instead, though the bank promises that it will buy them back at a $1 per coin.

On their books they have a liability of $100 (the repurchase obligation) and they have $100 in cash. You're right that it doesn't affect their reserves, but it also doesn't act as a multiplier. The liabilities and assets balance. In order for there to be a multiplier the bank would have to issue coins and still allow the customer to access the cash as a deposit. Thus the coins would be being lent as opposed to sold.
My favorite theory is that they're currently solvent if you take their cryptocurrency assets at current fiat prices into account.

In this theory, the regulatory suppression of their banking relationships forced them to hold the crypto assets they were taking in return for USDT, and they have made out like bandits -- on paper, for now -- from the crazy demand for cryptocurrency over the last 6 months.

If that's the case, it might be possible to estimate how far the current crash would have to go for them to hit insolvency, from the history of USDT releases.

On the other hand, hopefully they've been diversifying the holdings they're prevented from liquidating into other price-stable commodities like gold and oil, via in- kind trades.

If any of this is true, I can see how it would make them shy about an audit. It's very precarious, even if there's no theft intended by it.
Whatever the truth is, this is a terrible write-up. I'm surprised it's getting such traction because the "evidence" against her is pretty flimsy or non-existent.

> I used a spare iPhone to get the app, and then used https://github.com/BishopFox/bfdecrypt and https://github.com/BishopFox/bfinject to decrypt the app .

>Here are a few things I found :

>No, she did not code the app as she claims. In her defense, she has help from a few people, but I would call that bluff, given that help construed of over ~~50%~~ 90% of git commits.

What? You can't get the git history by decrypting an app binary.

The post shows a screenshot of a private git repo's commit history but no explanation of how it was obtained.

The 16-year old girl claims (https://i.imgur.com/TQzc6TW.png) that the other author has a high number of commits because he was committing code on her behalf because she didn't have a Github subscription for private repos. Fishy because that's a weird workflow, but not beyond a reasonable doubt.

>There is no storyboard, lol. For any iOS dev who is just starting out, making an application without storyboards is just unbelievable.

Maybe this is lost on me because I'm not an iOS developer, but is the author just accusing the girl of poor technique? That seems to support the case that she's an amateur developer.

>So we did a grep for `com` on strings in the decrypted app, you will notice that on line 929 there is a mention of library which does not exist, and so I’m inclined to believe, this is who probably the author of original code is.

A non-existent library created the app? What is this evidence of?

>Upon reaching out to the the dev in question, he went to the extent of saying that he “allowed her” to call the app hers, given certain “circumstances”. Fair enough, we don’t see him bagging MIT scholarships, or all the accolades the girl is receiving for her app. Let’s pass on some appreciation to the so-called-mentor?

Why are we not seeing proof that this conversation occurred?

>Such kind of people give Women in Code a really, really bad name, because ~~sweetie~~, it takes tonnes of hardwork, cutting through competition, persistent dealing with sexism and lot of patience to make place for yourself in this male-dominant coveted industry.

Addressing another developer as "sweetie" is deeply unprofessional. This whole sentence was dripping with obnoxious arrogance. This is the "investigator" we're taking at their word?

In case the author changes the post, this is the version that I'm commenting on: https://archive.fo/9Jw4R
Amusingly, the other comments in this thread point out that the last budget request for this agency was for $0. So it's more like not-tax-dollars not being at work.
As noted in the Wired article, Replika released their emotional dialog system at https://github.com/lukalabs/cakechat
Having same regime 3-5 times/week.

F*ck lunch break, I'll take a good workout any day and I am more than happy eating behind my desk to compensate that. Most lunch breaks anyway consist of empty chat about shallow things, no real long term added value.

That way I can end up at 6 (waking up 8:30, starting +-9:00) and have whole evening for myself, while keeping in good shape for weekends and adventures.

Edit: it helps to live&work in culture which has long tradition in massive lunch breaks (French/swiss-French in my case). It's vanishing, but still present. Or if your employer is not an idiot and supports regular workouts and staff that isn't just present but also performs.
PS: Answering myself - the leading data format might actually be the humble Comma-separated values (CSV) format! Love it really :-) Let's make it better and improve it - let's welcome csv,version: 1.1 -> https://csvalues.github.io
- capitalism, inequality and desperation... A toxic combination.
Can you imagine how much they would charge for the "ink" on these things?
There were 30 million Tether stolen in November.... I would speculate that this revocation is to make it so the stolen tokens are unable to be used.

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-claims-30-million-stable-tok...
This sounds like an exaggeration. Facebook didn't rise that quickly. The FB IPO was in 2012, and it didn't get into the 150's until 2017.

There was plenty of time in between to get back in after seeing the uptrend. (Full disclosure: I've been holding since 31.)
The 12 Do’s and Don’ts of Web Design
Data-driven empathy is better.
In a low-fi "turn based" game like SC, it'd be pretty tolerable as long as the cursor still moves at a normal speed.

Anything with more animation or especially real-time input like in a first person game, if run at < 60FPS is immediately noticeable, and below 30FPS quickly becomes entirely unplayable.

Additionally, in the past I didn't think 24FPS movies were jerky, but now that I've started looking, there are lots of scenes that definitely look stuttery to me. In particular, watch for "smooth" panning shots and see how the farther background elements will jump and stutter across the screen. Excessive motion blur helps to hide some of the problem, but there's a limit to what the filmmakers can really do. There's a lot of cinematography rules to reduce or hide the problem, but that comes with cutting yourself off from lots of things you might otherwise want to do with the camera.
Open the iPod bay doors, Siri.
Get involved. It feels a lot better than doing nothing. It won't be easy, and it'll take time, but things will happen. Get a friend involved, too.

Wherever you live, there's probably an Indivisible group, and a group of Democrats. Those are decent starting points; both are big groups with room for policy differences within them.

This book isn't bad, either: http://amzn.to/2E4mQze
"Ninety three per cent of its complex structure was said to consist of the element “wet wipe”."

It's made of something meant to be stored for very long periods in water without losing cohesion.
Didn't know that MetArt is so old...
I cannot wait for my fruit trees to rain a glut onto me. On a serious note, I planted my apple trees close together hoping to stunt their growth and create more of a hedge then an orchard.

"harvesting potential is not without effort" - I love this, it's all about balancing inputs and outputs. Once you have an established tree, it will produce apples as an output with little human input. The harvest and preservation of this output requires a lot of human input.

The thing is you can use the apples in other ways, "the problem is the solution". Instead of trying to eat an apple a day and bake pies and make cider which are all human intensive tasks, you could allow something else to work on the extra apple output. For examples, pigs and goats love apples and could make short work over excess. They in turn they produce values outputs (meat, milk, poop). Don't want to be bothered owning animals.
Maybe my understanding of "Reinvent the wheel" is wrong, but I always took it as "spend time inventing something that already exists", basically wasting your time. Didn't think it was a positive term you want to put on your landing page.
Well, so much for "no changes are lost", instead it should be "one of the change is lost, and you can't know which one until it's done ! Suprise !!!"
> an image that was, at that point, a reality.

Then they got to work in the darkroom.

There were as many tricks in the darkroom as there are filters in Photoshop. Perhaps it's because the current generations of digital-only photographers don't realise so that they think old-school photography was absolutely 'honest'.

For great example, search for the famous 'Concorde eclipse' photo. It was a 1974 composite of two original but separate photos.
>Would you love that camera if it was pointed at you?

I'm pretty sure humanity is already past the point where this question is timely. We have many cameras watching us all day long and ten years from now there will be even more.
For what it's worth, maybe this will finally teach people to thing before they act.
>Best we've got is "resign in protest."

How does that help anything? They'll get replaced with cheerleaders.
And this is why I listen to car people about cars, not techies. I drove a Bolt, I like the Bolt, but it's no sports car. To put this into perspective, do you make your SW/HW decisions based on the suggested content from Twitter/Facebook?
I'll give you my one (1) tip:

First thing every morning, eat a live frog. Nothing worse will happen to you all day.[1]

How much attention do you think anyone is going to pay?

[1] Or to the frog.
This statement makes no sense unless you consider every action in the world to be deterministic
Tragic death, but sounds potentially unrelated to his ivory work.

Aren't there startups working on producing fake ivory? Especially with animal products (meat, skins, bone, etc.) flooding the market with ethically man-made products seems far healthier to people and animals in the long run.
Restaurant reviews, recipes, shopping lists. Yeah, I'll wait for something more compelling I guess.
Upvoted because smug dismissiveness of the other side's POV is not only extremely annoying, but counterproductive.

There is no doubt that substantial political and social upheavals, even those which we acknowledge as highly positive in the aggregate, will have some negative effects for some people.

Society develops meticulous legal and social processes for political change to ensure that these balances have been well-considered, despite being forced to acknowledge that we don't have a magic wand that will make the world a place of unanimous equity and unlimited cotton candy.

We dismiss the concerns and sentiments of others at our own peril. Concern and sentiment generally arise from legitimate issues. We can't solve every problem or fix every complaint, but smugly discounting the counter-discourse as the ramblings of idiots and yokels generates a massive liability which always come back to bite. "Those morons are too dumb to not vote against their own best interests" is no different than "those morons are just too dumb to learn the right way to use my program."

If some people believe that their personal balance of plusses and minuses was better under the old order, who are we to tell them that they're just too stupid or naive to understand their own generalized quality of life?
You should have listened to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
This isn't for a banking system, this is for building collaborative apps. If you press "A" and your friend press "B" into a Google Docs document at the same time, you also don't know if the document is going to read "AB" or "BA". In practice, this is not an issue.
That'd be quite the technological feat considering they don't currently have cameras built in.
Again - Downvoted within a minute of posting... No replies to challenge the idea.

Dang, you really need to do something about this immature behavior.
We should never forget that Equifax first tried to charge consumers for a freeze until consumers complained so loudly that they were forced to give it for free. They clearly have no respect for their consumers and show/flaunt it. Legislators have failed to deal with this issue in a modern way. We need to assume that every American is compromised and freeze accounts by default.
Wouldn’t the last be toxic regardless of the economic system in play?
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Maybe an education pyramid scheme? You receive training in useful skills, but only if you keep teaching your newly acquired knowledge to multiple other people.
Apart - Why they use the url with the "www8." name instead of "www."?
Many graduates earn 'paltry returns' for their degree
Do you feel this has changed at all with the way games are broadcast? I feel like with the advent of HD and SkyCam, I spend more time analyzing the play calling and keeping track of what's going on in the trenches.
You have described the exact use case the Google Clips [0] camera seems to have been designed for.

[0] https://store.google.com/us/product/google_clips
It is hard to say; for a hard-cover that's at least as big as an octavo (larger would be better though), I'd pay up to $120, but that might completely eat their costs if they do print-on-demand.

They would have to do an actual print run to actually make any money on it, which means crowd-funding, and I'd only put the odds at 50-50 that it gets funded.
My thoughts exactly. And since it's for corporations, it will also feature a display and have a really slow and buggy Java UI. It will randomly crash and have badly translated error messages for a premium price of 130'000 USD.

And of course, you will only be able to use HP filaments!
What saddens me is that the details of the pervasiveness of this administration’s failures will likely be lost when the stories are retold decades from now. The big sweeping failures will be the focus, and people still won’t quite grasp how living in this time actually feels.
Money is free speech bro. Should have donated to the GOP. I guarantee you Equifax did.
The Chinese have quite the problem with exactly that. Eating something pulled out of a sewer tends to have health effects and gutter oil is sometimes made from grease from a sewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
Free and open source ANSI C to Verilog tool based on GCC compiler
FUNNY
> I'm not entirely clear on what that statement is, but that's kind of what I love about it.

That summarises the current state of social media way too well. I miss meaningful manifestos, people actually standing up for a belief, instead of candy coloured mist of vague promises that can be retrofitted when needed.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding 'AdmiralAsshat, but I think the assertion is that Mulvaney, Pai, Perry, Pruitt, and DeVos are committing mutiny, by refusing to do the jobs they're supposed to do and instead injecting their personal opinions, and the question is whether this has ever happened before.

Most mutinies are from a crew against their captains, yes, but I think that a captain of a ship can commit mutiny by saying "I don't care what my countries' objectives are, this is my objective and I'm taking the ship."
you mean decentralized?

(i'm kidding, sort of)
Key to the Wells Fargo-Fed Deal: Holding Directors Accountable
You guys should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights these poachers. The founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.
There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of them are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular animal and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little fella [5][6].

[0] http://www.iapf.org/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp...

[6] http://instagram.com/p/sigT3IAUKb
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And you should be glad that the governing system is still working, because Equifax is still facing mountains of troubles with the judiciary system and hundreds of class-action lawsuits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/09...
Maybe but this is a mathematician's blog, so perhaps you are not the intended audience.
You're right, that does work, but you're having to declare every type everywhere. Each time I add another operation to your example, the type declarations get worse and worse. My point is, return type polymorphism and ad-hoc polymorphism make a whole bunch of things ergonomic. The fact that C# can do the same thing in a way that no-one would use is kind of the point.
Ask HN: What is your favorite web scraping tool?
It would be nice if you share tutorials as well.
Gui.cs – Terminal UI Toolkit for .NET
> HP Jet Fusion 3D 4210 Printing Solution average printing cost-per-part is 65% lower versus the average cost of comparable FDM and SLS printer solutions from $100,000 USD to $300,000 USD on market as of April, 2016

Depends on how much you believe that statement I suppose?
The notch creates a distinctive silhouette for iconography, it vanishes during use. It's certainly not a net loss.
As a society, we can't trust the hands-off investors who own publicly-held companies to prevent unethical or even criminal behavior. For all those who divest themselves from a rapacious company like Wells Fargo, there will always be other investors who will happily pay a slightly lower price and who will ask no questions.

I'm not at all convinced that oversight of directors by the Fed is an effective way to bring rampaging corporate monsters under control.

Instead, companies should not be treated as people, and they should not have the same rights as people. (For instance, their ability to engage in political activities and lobbying should be more constrained.). They are not people, they are soulless beasts single-mindedly devoted to the bottom line.

That's all we should ever ask them to be. They have great use in driving our economy, but we need to understand their nature.
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