skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool!

I'd like to share another global optimization algorithm 'worth using' that I've recently discovered for myself: Hyperband [0]. It's extremely simple to implement (i.e. a dozen lines of code), is based on successive halving principle and is particularly suitable for iterative machine learning algorithms where early stopping is applicable (i.e. NN, GBM).

[0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kjamieson/hyperband.html
The older I get, and as my family grows, I find it harder and harder to invest time in projects outside of work. If I can rig or find a job that fulfills my need for mastery, it ticks one of my most important needs. I can go home and focus on my family instead of having my attention wander to another task.
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google certainly has some approximation of that, for example
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I have never seen an address on a cheque. Sounds like a really bad idea to me (privacy etc). Since when was that a thing, and what banks should I be avoiding?
npm first needs to fix the issue that by default, if you want to do anything globally, you have to use sudo. Homebrew warns against using sudo, but it's also possible to install things globally without using sudo.
If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven't paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out.

I hear this and I think "You probably don't know what it's like to be in that situation."

It's often temporary, so a little flexibility fixes the problem.

But yes, sometimes you're right. You just phrased it in a bit of an inhumane way.
Personally I'd much rather see a GUI that can help string together snippets of Terraform/CFN and Ansible/Chef/Puppet/Salt/whathaveyou. A visual IDE for infrastructure automation, if you will.
In the Eurozone, SEPA transfers are free. Outside Eurozone, but within EU, there are typically small fees.
I would guess residential connections are more likely to be IPv6 enabled. Corporate networks move slowly. In our organisation they actually removed IPv6, go figure!
I took it as an exaggeration.

This story is not presented in away which is sympathetic at all. We're taking it as a given a person deserves a serious physical assault, and then invited to enjoy the idea of their assault.

It reads as a kind of revenge fantasy.

Whether it is true or not, the preoccupation with the humiliation and defeat of this person; the duty-bound self-justification of what has to be done. The enjoyment of physical violence and the expectation that others will be impressed by this display of physical violence.

Nothing here is very healthy.

Conceivably there are serious predators of people who can be deterred by violence. I don't think this post communicates this point, rather, something more disturbing about its author.

The paralipsis of " While I don't revel in this ..." is revealing.
A talk from CCC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0e9yTD2M8
https://snips.ai/

This was posted on HN the other day. I can't vouch for whether it's any good or not, but at quick glance it looks interesting.
Depends on what you class as a group. It is unlikely that their unfederated server will come close to the number of users on even the 114 public federated servers, much less all the federated private servers.

I noticed something interesting while looking; it appears that at least one public XMPP server has experienced a recent large influx of new users.

>"The number of daily active users has increased more then three-fold in the last year alone." [1]

[1] https://jabber.at/b/temporary-suspension-of-registration/
> Don't you think that by limiting foreign companies' products the local companies would operate less efficiently since there is no competition?

There is no foreign competition but Chinese companies still have competition from other Chinese companies.

Even if the Chinese market is less efficient because competition is limited to China: The goal is to foster a healthy national economy, create knowledge, and most importantly keep total control over technologies and communication channels.
The secret is out now.

You can't deny it anymore. Everyone now knows that 31st of February exists.
It really depends on what you want to do with this product. What you're getting for $49 is hopefully a stable, tested, and well-supported platform which can really help when all you want to do (or can afford to do) is concentrate on the other aspects of your product. Built-in OTA upgrades and pre-built manufacturing tools are very helpful as well. The $49 price point however, assuming a retail product, probably puts your final retail price north of $100 by the time you add in all the other components you're going to need to make this work plus profit. If your product fits into that space then you could save a lot of time going with a solution like this (but I do see a cost-reduction round in your near future).

If you're trying to stay below the magic $99 retail price point though, you may be in for a challenge. Do you need a battery? Is that chip antenna good enough or do you need to have a better one made? Plastics? Power supply? Those DF40-80 connectors alone are going to account for north of $1 in manufacturing quantities. And after all that, you still have to pay for whatever it is your product actually does.

When I'm designing products, I sweat over every dollar, and big ticket items like this really need to be justified. If I don't need 8GB of flash, I don't buy it. Likewise quad core - how big a battery am I going to need to drive that thing for whatever my requierment is? Could I save $5 on the battery by dropping to single core (and save another $1 there too)?

As with anything, I think the use case for this amounts to "It Depends". I think the price point for this puts it out of range of the IOT space, and it is over-spec'd for a basic RF bridge type application (plus all the issues that go with trying to control noise when you don't own the chip layout). Maybe as the driver for a custom touchpad or something like that. Suffice it to say that I think it has a market, but that's probably not competing in the IOT space, and likely not the prototype space either.

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and that using npm upgrade -g npm ignores the the @latest and @next release channels.
If you make any effort to understand how these bugs work, it's hard to imagine they were designed intentionally.

Though you could make the argument that it's likely some people knew about them and didn't say, but that's a different argument I think.
Is this in the US? In my country you get one envelope and one ballot paper for each party so that wouldn't work.
That's what Spacewalk [0] is (intended) for.

[0]: https://spacewalkproject.github.io/
If you want simplified, convenient voting there's the good old mail service for that. Nailed a decade ago or more in Switzerland. Details may differ by canton, but essentially here is how it works:

About one month before elections, or a referendum (ca. 3 times a year) you get a resealable envelope containing all voting materials.

You cast your votes and put the slips into a sealed envelope (which ensures confidentiality). Then you sign the voter eligibilty card (which also serves as the return address), stick it into the envelope in which you received the materials and drop it into the next letter box.

The materials are checked and the sealed envelopes are stored until voting day, when the votes are counted.

Inconvenience, even if you live out in the total sticks, is really no excuse for not voting in Switzerland.

Can the system be gamed? On a very small scale probably yes if you really, really want to and are really careful. Gaming it on a significant scale? i really don't see how.

Edited for clarity
> it’s not enough for elections to just be safe. They also need to be safe in a way that is obvious to non-cryptographers

Not as much so in nations where people generally trust experts and government officials, and where conspiracy theories are mostly on the fringe (i.e. not the U.S.). Although I agree that it's preferable if non-techies can understand the mechanisms, and the downside of paper ballots plus mail-in is already pretty small.
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Yeah also even if you think you need a linked list, you probably don't. Vectors are faster in nearly every case, even ones that linked lists are designed to solve.
> this is the direction of the entire industry.

But is it really the direction of the industry?

I think you'll agree that that the "industry" exists solely because software it is able to deliver "value" to individuals and companies, irregardless of tools used. Yes, we're on HN, and we're far more likely to be exposed to the latest and most shiny toys and buzzwords, but in the end, you just use the tools that you like, and can get shit done in an efficient way.

One last thing. When I was studying Physics, not a semester passed where a professor wouldn't mention Occam's Razor [1]. Maybe as CS matures with time, people will start thinking in a different way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Yeah. I see a society of uneducated people that want to elect the smartest folks they have to political power. I don't think we are going that route.
Not everyone has a large cattle farm.

Some folks just have a couple pets to care for.
I suppose a problem with that might be if someone who takes your SIM does something illegal with it. Then you are on the hook for it.
There is nothing I can do or say, or not do and not say, that will make you less sure that you are correct. That's the whole extent of the problem.

Fortunately I don't have to. Statistically, at some point you're going to find something that is important in your life, and you will find out that, "Hey, Sweden is actually a pretty neat place to live!"

The goal of the "politically correct people" in the meantime is to call out racist bullshit for what it is, and hope other angry young people don't get caught up in the narrative.
Almost zero customers at any brokerage are aware of this - how many do you think read the fine print? It’s an unethical industry. And zero fee trading is great, except it’s not zero fee. But “stupid people deserve to get fleeced” seems to be enough ethics for most people.
I was commenting on the impression I get from reading comments here, on Twitter, blog posts etc. When the topic used to come up, for example in response to the Florida fiasco in the election of 2000, the response was almost universally negative. That seems to have changed somewhat, with many more people willing to advocate complicated technical solutions.

This report, and others by professional organizations like the EFF still follow the old consensus, possibly because they are run by people socialized in that environment. But I’m worried what such reports will say in 2030 if the arguments I made above are not universally understood.
It goes back to basically any medication that acts on G Protein Coupled Receptors (of which opioid Receptors fall under). If given the same dose for over 10 days, by day 3 you are seeing a significant loss of analgesic effect.
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What most people “do” with their lives is a Job. At face value they do this for pay, but Jobs aren’t free and you also have to make a payment: time and attention. Make sure you are getting a Bargain for what you’re paying.

The article discusses a way to define a Bargain.
Good point but crypto are not only new payment system but also new currencies... No more helicopter money
The data is complex.

When it come to gang criminality, the biggest change was seen between 1990 and topping during 2010 (2015 was the immigration crisis). The government department for crime statistics (BRÅ) links the increase in blackmail and protection rackets to an increase in gang criminality, resulting in a report 2012 which describing a increase from 500 cases during 1990 to 2500 cases in 2010. [1]

BRÅ do not have data over explosives, but the raw data from the police gives 8 reported cases with hand grenades during 2014 and 52 for 2016. This is a large increase that did happen during the immigration crisis and is speculated to be connected, and the weapons themselves is tracked to Yugoslavia. [2]

For the anecdotal cases in the parent post, violence has both gone up and down in the last 10 years but it did go up between 2014 and 2016 by 28%, which is the highest point since 2007. There is a potential link here for immigration, but 2007 is not that long time ago so it could also be variation.[3]

Threats and harassment did also go up between 2014 and 2016 by 36% and is currently at the highest it ever been for the reported dataset. [4]

The clearing rate for sexual crimes has gone down and is at the lowest it ever been at 11% for rape, but this is a long lasting trend since 2009 where it was as high as 31%. The cause of this is a bit complicated since the number of charged criminals has remained the same and the number of reported cases has increased by almost 50%. There is no correlation to 2015 immigration crisis. [5]

[1] https://www.bra.se/download/18.1ff479c3135e8540b2980007523/1...

[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/halland/handgranatsattacke...

[3] https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...

[4] https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...

[5] https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...
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Good summary. The video is mostly about electronic voting machines up but also talks about online voting from home toward the end.

The additional problem with online elections, not covered in the video, is loss of anonymity (or deniability).
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Weird, so manufacturers just haven't implemented uncompressed 6-channel optical audio? Is it bandwidth?
That's not "biometric." I assumed the OP had something in mind more specific.
Contact permission is only required to associate a name with a number. All you would need to do is type in a phone number and Signal would have worked.

I agree that it would be nice to have another root artifact for using signal (screen name, email, etc). The one frustrating piece about Signal is not being able to use it across mobile devices.

However it needs to be considered Signal was originally securing texts via TextSecure. It didn't, fundamentally, come up as a Slack or Telegram competitor. So that design decision may make it feel "behind" in comparison. However, I'll again state that I don't trust the others. There's no way you could force me to use FB Messenger or Google (product here). Most complaints here are fundamentally still UI/UX, not privacy. And useable privacy was the original intent. Signal has that in spades.
I've tried to read this week an (unfinished) fantasy novel on a forum, which has been there for a few years. I had already read a few chapters and it was very well-written. Except the author decided last month to remove all his content from the place (10000+ forum posts), which included this unfinished novel and two others. I tried to find back-ups (on the internet archive), but only the first page of each thread was saved. I only found a few chapters using google cache. And I don't think the mods will agree to restore the content. So yeah, I can relate with the idea that internet isn't forever.
Would be nice if this was in a docker container I could just run.
Reads like an ad.
There's no need for such an item, much less this specific one.
> Many of those CS degrees outside of first and second tier universities are not very good, however.

Sure, but even if half the total degrees are substandard that's still twice the output of the United States. It's a wave that will only pay more dividends over time.

> When every foreign language unverisity and teacher’s college (there called normal universities) has a CS department, there is definitely something going on.

The same could be said for every liberal arts college in the United States which suddenly has a brand new science/math/CS center plopped onto campus.

Anyway, I'd recommend giving the study a read. The authors discuss these issues as well as a few others. Problems aside, there's a clear trend developing.
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chaining together the outputs of these very different problems is the same problem, and should be solved the same way. The implementation details are within the monads themselves, not the do block.
SEPA is made free by a law, not by good technical design. It means it is not free because the banks would like to charge us and can't, so maybe the whole bank account fees are superior in some way we can't see.

It's the same with the EU law for mobile roaming data. It looks like laws made for the riches cosmopolitan against the poor that don't travel much in Europe
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I think expansion of software / tools into non-English markets is mostly driven by the availability of native language documentation, tutorials, blog posts, etc. The more translated documentation exists, the more the software is used, the more is written about it, the more it is used, etc.
But the issue is lack of competition

And cryptos brings competition back in the financial space
Two features I miss from pip-tools:

1. `pip-sync`, An easy way to ensure my local environment actually matches my defined requirements. I guess the pipenv version of this would be `pipenv uninstall --all && pipenv install` which isn't quite as elegant, but perhaps good enough.

2. The ability to create more than two requirement sets. For my projects it's often handy to three sets of requirements:

• Normal production requirements end users will need to run the app

• CI requirements needed for testing, but not running the app in production (Selenium, Flake8, etc)

• Local debugging tools (ipython, ipdb)

I could include my local debugging tools in the `--dev` requirements, but then I'm unnecessarily making my CI builds slower by adding requirements for packages that should never actually be referenced in committed code. Alternatively, I could leave them out of my dependencies entirely, but then I have to remember to reinstall them every time I sync my local env to ensure it matches the piplock file.
SSH has a lot of neat features that mitigate MITM, Eavesdropping, Bruteforcing etc.

Where a Web-based Admin Interface should have SSL and maybe some protection against bruteforcing.

Plus, you get all the vulns that come with the modern web
> Whilst I agree, such conviction of argument does raise my alarm bells.

Believing something that is true shouldn't be counted against oneself.
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Shouldn't these startups be referred to as public surveillance, rather than AI, startups?
Although I trust experts and, for the most part, the government, I see that sort of trust breaking in the society I live in (Germany), as well as others I follow (the US, Britain). The power of taking a conspiracy-minded neighbor to witness a transparent process to count the votes is breathtaking, and even a description of the process is a powerful argument.

It’s a really easy call in this debate, because the downsides of the process are neglible: the paper and pen process in my country produces results just as fast as what I see in the US.

Among the only substantive arguments I can think of is that US elections have a lot more items up for vote (ballot initiatives and the proverbial dog catchers), which makes hand-counting more cumbersome.
No, I did not. Nobody I know did.

I agree it's a farce. Save from speculators, nobody is going to buy Petro as nobody trust the Venezuelan goverment. It's probably a money laundering scheme.

Maybe the government will try to force it on the population (By making certain things only payable in Petro), but nobody has any reason to invest in Petro as it is now. The next goverment will surely not recognize it and it's value will drop to zero (Maybe even before a new government steps in)
Doesn't Ansible Tower do this (At least for ansible)?
>"Switzerland does not 'embrace' digital currencies per se. We (or rather: our politicians and ecosystem shovel-sellers) are looking desperately for a new focus area after having lost most of the historical wealth management appeal and since some of the early crypto companies settled here they kind of ran with it."

I'm guessing you are referring to the end of Swiss banking secrecy here? [1]

I agree that this seems like a very successful marketing juggernaut so far with Zug. Do you or anyone else know why Ethereum ended up being based in Zug? Is Zug that much cheaper than Zurich which is only 30 minutes or so by train?

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/tax-evasion_swiss-say-...
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In the past, when I needed websockets in a Flask app I used Faye (backed by Redis) for the websocket back-end.

It was really easy to set up with Docker as it just becomes another container in your Compose file.

Nowadays I would just use Pusher.
When a population has already lost faith in their authorities, and they think that their single vote counts for nothing and the results are probably rigged anyway, then most of them probably can’t be bothered to make the additional effort you describe.
Reddit doesn’t have a moat, IMO, because they don’t have a social graph. It’s like Facebook for strangers. Someone could wipe them out over night because users don’t really have any connection to each other.
... you mean like async / await?
Uncompressed stereo 16 bit 44.1khz sample rate (cd quality) is <150 KBps so it's definitely not bandwidth.
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category/hierarchy/graph/rules are important but I suspect only our conscious/social minds works in that abstraction.
and in what context did you make that suggestion?

You were sitting around with your friends at the dinner table and suddenly you said I think everyone should be treated equally regardless of race? Or maybe you were in a discussion regarding reparations or the equal opportunity act and you suggested everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, meaning that you didn't think abuses of the past should be fixed (on edit: fixed in that particular way at least)?

I mean it just seems a weird statement for you to make and censured for without some context.
You don’t seem to be interpreting what I write favorably. My main point is that there is a balance to strike between privacy and control. One of the main issues in developing nations is that opening a small business legally is overly complicated (in some cases literally years of administrative work for the applicant), so people are forced to keep everything out of the books, which prevents them from ever gaining wealth needed to reinvest. An ideal system IMO would achieve full transparency for the money of larger organisations (including governments) while giving privacy to private people and small businesses. The Swiss system is very good at achieving the latter but rather poor at at former (for which instead direct democratic processes are intended to achieve the necessary checks). I don’t have a perfect solution for this problem, but IMO it’s worth thinking about - and crypto seems to be promising. Maybe a combination of Monero and Ethereum where privacy is optional, with regulations for what kind of transactions transparence is required?
They might try to crack it down. It will probably go the same way as the crack down of the dollar. Won't work. And is even easier to hide bitcoin that to hide USD cash.

The downside of dealing with local currency is too great, so people are willing to risk being caught dealing with USD or BTC.