skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. Nothing is guaranteed. That's actually what I'm trying to say, too. Normally, 5A covers passwords. But it didn't in this case, because somehow the court was able to decide that this hard drive undeniably has CP on it.

So, it's not incriminating yourself to decrypt something everyone already knows you have. That's kinda weird and concerning, depending on how they proved the hard drive's contents without decrypting it. I mean, if it's just someone saying "I saw it on his computer" then that's problematic in my opinion. Whereas if they have server logs, or logs from a different hard drive of his detailing the contents of the encrypted drive, or something more concrete than hearsay, I don't see an issue.

Edit: I guess the issue is: why do they need the contents of the drive if they can already prove the contents of the drive enough to convict?
> Have you thought about having a linux daemon/agent that runs in the background and keeps the ENV in sync?

Yes, though I think it's also important to give developers control of when their config reloads, since surprises here can be dangerous.
> I was not trying to be confrontational. Sillysaurus said he did not see much merit in perusing the book after professing some experience in language implementation, and I felt an answer based on personal learning was in order as a counterpoint. Good Books, that actually teach something and mean something are exceedingly rare... this quality, is of course often quite personal.

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think sillysaurus was trying to ease anxiety for people (like sillysaurus) who may not get something out of an otherwise highly regarded book. Sillysaurus backed up the statement by saying they had successfully implemented DSLs many times, despite not getting anything from this book. I think this sentiment expressed by sillysaurus is valuable, and in a domain that is often elitist and somewhat hostile, I thought sillysaurus’ position was worth defending for the sake of anybody who might be approaching this with any apprehension. I was advocating for people that might need some encouragement, which is what I saw in sillysaurus’ comment, and that I thought you were tearing down. I appreciate you intended no ill will though.

Cheers.
Why would a renter in the city care about your commute?

The renter's upside to NIMBY behavior is that the neighborhood is more appealing. This is obviously an upside for the renter, as long as there is no way for the landlord to take advantage of the increased value.

The owner only gains if they sell the property or find some way to cause a rent control reset.
> First, you're assuming that Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but it is very difficult to differentiate between 'please go away with your bullshit because it is distracting' agreement, and a 'here is some money so you don't talk' agreement. If you have special insight into this matter that has not been reported on, please do share it.

I'll bet you a dollar he did, happy to negotiate terms.

> Second, you're saying he is 'completely devoid of ethics and morals' because he allegedly cheated on his wife when she was pregnant. Has no one with morals or ethics ever cheated on their wife? Do you lose your ethics and morals by cheating on your wife, or are they just never there?

Equivocation.

> Finally, let's assume this did happen. Do you know the relationship status of Donald and Melania? What if they both agreed to have a sexually open marriage before they got married? It wouldn't be too out of left field - Trump was a known playboy.

Everyone knows it was and remains a business transaction.
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FYI we used redux thunk
I get that democracy is your "team", and dictatorship is bad, but on this issue the form of government seems nearly orthogonal.
I found I had the same problem at university re: VCS.

It's hard to see the benefit of using git when it's for a single assignment over two weeks where you're the only contributor.
Actually, there were also Bay Trail Pentiums and Celerons:

https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/55844/Bay-Trail
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I been to the wiki page before. If anything my question is common enough it is discussed in the wiki page which contains this quote.

>Indeed, invoking an infinity of unseen universes to explain the unusual features of the one we do see is just as ad hoc as invoking an unseen Creator. The multiverse theory may be dressed up in scientific language, but in essence it requires the same leap of faith.

— Paul Davies, The New York Times, "A Brief History of the Multiverse"

So while it may be at the bottom of the list, it very much appears.
But new developments lower rents, since they increase the housing supply.

But a lot of people simply don't understand this and fight development despite it being in their best interest.

Then again, I see that one of the two studies was done in San Francisco, and if the renters are in rent controlled apartments, they don't have much reason to care about housing prices and can oppose development because they don't like change.
My x220 with an i7, 16GB of RAM and a 500GB Samsung SSD. The thing flys. Just upgraded upgraded to the newest Debian release with zero issues. Everything just works.
There is a possibility that the trend we've seen in improvements resulting in high rent prices would bear out even if Chicago did revitalize the whole city and not just select areas. That'd be due to good old fashioned irrationality and greed on the part of local landlords who would see fit to raise their rents on par with the "gilded" neighborhoods that came before them.

This is a whole other issue, which is that once rents go up, they really don't go down, even in the event of a major market crash. I'm not sure if there is a market-based solution for that.
> I like this article but it doesn't go into the positives of a CoC
> you don't see the full picture

While the comment doesn't directly address points by the author it does provide a valid and important perspective.
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Good point, but I would assume that if you're showing id for anything you're being tracked 'for audit purposes'.
Agreed! Version control is not a natural concept that a beginning student would immediately think of. It’s also helping that a beginning student’s programming assignments are typically simple and short enough that doing without VC is tolerable.
I mean, they are paying.. one guy. And god knows he has done a better job than their 10s of in-house developers, but then again this is also an ancient chip and Broadcom doesn't even do graphics silicon anymore.

Curiously Qualcomm have been submitting more and more, big, patches for the MSM subsystem, the Linux in-kernel part of the Freedreno graphics driver. I think someone has finally woken up and told management that Linux doesn't take two drivers for the same hardware, and once that reverse-engineered stuff was in the tree, you are royally fucked because you now have to play by the rules of whoever is maintaining it if you want to have any hope of upstreaming your proprietary driver.

This is pretty much the situation for the Vivante polluters. They have been so ridiculously ungrateful for the Linux stuff that makes the chips run for the SoC companies that want to integrate their silicon that by now there is a reverse-engineered driver (Etnaviv) in the tree. They are shut out. And on a longer timescale, the same is coming up for ARM and it's Mali (Lima project).
They're owned by American capital, they're controlled and influenced by a lot of American interests, sure. They're not domiciled in the US any longer. That's a critical legal aspect for CFIUS as it pertains to national security and jurisdiction.

It'd be like if Yahoo and SoftBank controlled the majority of Alibaba presently (SoftBank for its part still has 29%). That still wouldn't give them control of Alibaba due to the broader context of China. The fact of the matter would be, Alibaba would still a Chinese corporation that operates under Chinese law.
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So, how about "3d printed house frame"?
The crowd tends to speak the truth.

People aren’t dumb. The type of construction common today isn’t in the interest of people who own single or <4 unit property or people who rent.

Developers are absolutely greedy and generally have no interest in the impacts surrounding their work. For most, their job is to gather capital, do a deal and gtfo.
Its not even that really. They just do well overall. Even Renens outside of Lausanne, inconvenient in its location, is a nice place to live with decent public transit links. I guess you could try living farther away, but the train system even makes that viable. There is nowhere to get a good deal, except maybe France, but I doubt Evian is much of a deal, and that ferry ride across Lake Geneva is bound to get old eventually.
Is there a free market argument in favor of the take over? Seems like almost nobody wanted this. How did the market go wrong here?
As a listener, you're in a good position to judge - do you think that the content suffers from being so frequently produced? So they're making $2k per episode on ads - would they make $15k if they made one podcast a week? On that time scale, is there a better monetisation model?

I've never listened to SED and I made no judgements about the quality. I subscribe to a lot of podcasts, but only listen to a few religiously. The others I skim through or just delete.

$2000 a Day is of course not bad - I'm assuming that sales, recording, editing, etc. is a full time job.

I'm going through the Software Engineering Radio podcast now and skipping a lot of them. But I found a few gems from some influential people in software that were relevant then as well as now.

Others, I saved for when I have more time to actually listen to, take notes and maybe blog about.
That greatly depends on the kind of development.
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Yes.

But as impressive as creating this from a single image may be, the people viewing it won't care - the output is uselessly bad.
Thanks for the feedback. A one-liner to import is more consistent with EnvKey's style (this is how it works in all the libraries), but perhaps it makes sense to expose the loader as a separate package so that you can have more granular control when it's necessary.
China’s law enforcement expands use of facial recognition glasses
That's right. Laptops are used to give the option of working from home, and a kind of BCP for when the office is inaccessible. Docks, multiple monitors, and real keyboards and mice to make the setup usable.
We did lots of ways, then.

In the interim, I worked with true volume rendering of CT, MR, PET data for a decade.
Christian Queinniec’s “Lisp in Small Pieces” (LiSP) has always intrigued me: it contains a sequence of interpreters and compilers for scheme-like languages that demonstrate a variety of ways of implementing languages.
I wonder why the lineup of boxy, built-like-a-tank, serviceable laptops with a comfortable keyboard and plenty of room for batteries seems to have dried up. I have trouble finding such a machine with a hi-DPI screen, for instance.

If I could mount a screen from Dell XPS (3840 pixels wide) to a T420, that would be mostly it. A thunderbolt connector would be a mere nice-to-have.

The next best thing is apparently a Thinkpad Carbon, it seems to retain a good keyboard, but apparently bids farewell to the "serviceable" part: e.g. RAM is soldered on.
I think there must be a net increase. In Oakland, parking lots are being replaced with mid-rise apartment complexes. There is an impressive amount of construction under way at the moment.
CIFUS doesn't exist to force US companies to spend money on R&D.
Sure, USA has a lot! That's not at discussion here. The discussion is about dominance. SV dominates the world as everyone uses Google, Facebook & Apple. The military industrial complex has no match, not one even close to that of the USA.

The economy has strong contenders with Europe and China. Yes, it's a strong economy, but the maker-industry has largely been moved to China, which now surely dominates it. Point 6 & 7 include economy.

Hollywood surely tops any other in the western world - don't underestimate the Chinese movie industry and Bollywood. They account for a significant userbase of the world population, combined ~1-2 billion. That's not far off Hollywood's.

The video game business I bundle with Silicon Valley.

What's left is a strong and influential USA but declining slowly but surely. For Silicon Valley as well: India and China have a large population now with more and more skilled workers. It won't be for long until SV will lose is leadership position.
Nuts. We were writing IRC bots in the 1990s when eggdrop bot was around.
Sure. For example, string theory posits the existence of an extra 6 dimensions of space, which need to be wrapped up in something called a Calabi-Yau manifold. The exact properties of this manifold determine some of the basic properties of the universe, such as the values of the fundamental constants and the number of elementary particles. The only problem: there are about 10^500 possible Calabi-Yau manifolds, each of which looks just as valid as another. Early string theorists had hoped all the extra manifolds would somehow be ruled out, leaving only one that would uniquely determine the properties of our universe. However, this avenue is now looking pretty hopeless; it seems we're stuck with all 10^500 possibilities. So, what does one do with all these manifolds?

Well, it turns out that the early universe went through a phase of incredible, extraordinary expansion called inflation. The inflation was boosted by something called an inflaton field, and due to quantum properties the inflaton field could spontaneously destabilize and spawn a bubble universe, each of which with a different Calabi-Yau manifold. It's possible that we are inside such a bubble universe, and outside of us the inflaton field is continuing to expand and producing more bubble universes. If this is the case, then it's not much of a surprise why our universe has the properties it does. Out of the 10^500 possibilities, a bubble universe spawned with the right Calabi-Yau manifold for life, and (unsurprisingly) we find ourselves living in that universe. This is the landscape multiverse theory. (I originally read about this theory in Brian Greene's excellent book The Hidden Reality, which describes many other multiverse theories too.)

Now, something important to note is that all this is still highly conjectural. String theory has many pleasing theoretical properties, but about zero physical evidence to support it. What then is the difference between string theory and deism? The difference is that for string theory (and more generally other multiverse theories) we actually have physical and mathematical theories that describe them. Deism doesn't. For string theory, we have papers, conferences, books, equations, and physicists and mathematicians who study this problem. We have something to work with. What do we have for deism? Well, pretty much nothing. No data, no theories, no anything. Deism is a fall-back theory when nothing else works out, and it has no theoretical roots and makes no predictions. This may change in the future, but as of now, deism is a scientific dead end. Of course, I don't know if string theory or another multiverse theory will pan out (indeed, the failure of the LHC to detect supersymmetry is raising some eyebrows), or even if deism actually turns out to be correct. However, on a scientific basis, string theory has more going for it now.
This is not working in Firefox. Not sure why.
Atheros and Intel are by far the best WiFi options for Linux. However, Atheros lean heavily on a giant closed baseband processor blob that does most of the heavy lifting. I’m not sure how true this is of the Intel chipsets.
I'm personally a fan of PocketCasts but with a small caveat: Syncing feeds goes through their servers, which means smaller feeds aren't updated instantly, even when manually syncing.
Yes. The founders still have some involvement in the company that acquired Broadcom a couple of years ago.
Warmer. _"English dump of Wikipedia that was sentence and word tokenized by NLTK."_ Wikipedia would certainly cover the morphology of a 'space'. I'm curious how the linguistic relations are derived from 'context', which I gather is what word2vec does. Although NLTK does have an interface to WordNet.
Yes, it's practically guaranteed Broadcom will still relocate to the US. For at least two reasons.

1) The domicile issue nearly prevented Broadcom from acquiring Brocade previously. They're going to continue to get blocked, as CFIUS gets more aggressive. There's zero benefit to remaining in Singapore for Broadcom. Their corporate income tax rate is barely lower than the US now as well.

2) Broadcom may want to attempt another shot at acquiring Qualcomm later, or perhaps another large US tech trophy. They won't be able to do that from Singapore.
so far building electronic stuff - Arduino based CW gear, small antennas, just got some BITX stuff, etc.
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This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Uber is banned in Greece, Italy, Finland and a host of other countries. It's also legally banned in London afaik and heavily regulated in a lot of other places.

Actually in Greece 4 drivers have been criminally charged for violating the law by driving for Uber and falsifying documents (as per company instructions).

In the countries of South Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal) in which I have personal experience, although there are some Uber drivers operating illegally or in gray zones, penetration is minimal. You can only get rides in capitals and major cities, and they're not much cheaper.

The main reasons are 2: people hate Uber because they know they're exploiting workers, and taxi drivers have strong unions. Uber IMHO is the only entity that managed to become more hated than taxi drivers.

The reason Uber is banned everywhere can be summed up by the European Court of Justice: Uber needs to stop pretending to be just an app. It's a transport company, and it's using the app as an excuse to operate illegally, bypassing regulations, responsibility and avoiding tax.
This is awesome, and a depressingly large factor better than any blog post I’ll ever write.

I totally identify with the need for this. I also want to archive images of notes and whiteboards, and they must be kept small as so far my life fits in google drive and github.

Currently I use Evernote to do this. I don’t use any other functionality in Evernote but the “take photo” action does processing and size reduction very like the blog post.
i remember every time i went on line 3 for several stops, i thought to myself "damn, this is a long tunnel"
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A bit off-topic but a while ago someone posted a similar tool here on HN that allows one to produce diagrams - they looked pretty much hand-drawn. Does anyone have a link?
Can I trust them? I have trust issues with Chinese (botnets, backdoor in bios etc.)
This is anecdotal, but I'm also in San Antonio and have generally had better experiences with rides from Lyft, even without considering the issues you mentioned. Even wait times have been pretty similar for both. I know someone who drove for both Lyft and Uber, and that person only received any sort of in-person training with Lyft.

I do see the appeal with using Uber internationally that others mentioned in this thread, though.
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Not really, as long as the housing isn't going literally empty because of absent Chinese investors or the like.
> Why are manhole covers round?

Manhole covers exist in several shapes, as illustrated on the Wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover
I think the commenters point is that with even a few tens of millions of dollars you could buy any 3rd party off.
Preface: I understand what you're saying and am no expert.

Is there not also a gap before the new production? I live in a city that's been through some serious gentrification and gone from an afforable southern city to something...else. What I've, anecdotally, noticed is that the prices start before the rents.

1) Area is priced well below an adjacent or similarly positioned area but missing the amenities

2) A handful of developers build/renovate and put in something that's way above (50%?) current rate in the area

3) Marketing and salesmanship move the houses.

4) More developers/flippers enter the market, this time their marging shrinks a little or the price goes up.

5) Repeat until profits are less than moving to somewhere else in step 1

What I'm getting at is the gap in prices where the developers are looking to make several fold what they would in more established areas. That being possible shows it's still more affordable. Additionally, if it's not already more affordable, where are the people worried about getting pushed out living?
I bought their book on "Deep Learning with Keras "and found it very useful. Lots of hands on examples, little to no theory. Since there is a dearth of books on Keras, this served my needs perfectly.
Just like the (carcinogenic) dye companies did with their nagging externalities, after moving them out of Europe to the U.S. back in mid-20th-century.
I think he’s including the octave.
That's just inflation, though. Everything goes up over the long term. The important part is if rents go up slower than income does.
Which both can be put in a larger "collaboration" category. Categories have fuzzy boundaries.
Hidden volumes, though, enable you to place what theoretically appears to be a big bunch of random noise (unless you know the key) in an even bigger bunch of random noise with a legitimate, demonstrable purpose (an encrypted volume.)
Which is totally nonsensical, mostly fed off of nonsense news perpetuated through the general public. I don't like Windows 10 because someone on the internet said it was bad. It's a great OS.
The market is made of fallible humans with their individual goals, agendas, egos, whatever. It's not an organism of its own.

There's nothing about market systems that typically prevent stupid decisions. The market system, in theory and often in practice, delivers consequences from stupid decisions (see: IBM's current weakened condition and recent 23 straight quarters of contracting sales, while they blow all their profit on share buybacks and further concede the cloud biz - which they were early on - to AWS/Azure/Google).

There are no systems that do not consist of fallible humans. Whether we're talking traditional Socialism, Communism, Fascism, mixed systems, quasi free market, laissez faire.
> You can easily put a square or a rectangular utility cover into the hole

Then why do rectangular (including square) and triangular manhole covers exist? Rectangular ones are quite common, triangular less so.

Grandparent is correct, lips are what, in practice, prevents manhole covers from falling in, not being circular (which many are not.)
> Not every household makes enough money to afford a home. I don't think home ownership is a universal human right so I don't really see the problem with this.

I think this is a sad step backwards in the development of human society. It's downright dystopian.

The average household should be able to own an average home (or condo/apartment, for cities). For the same reason that the average person should be able to own a toothbrush, cell phone, some clothing, and so on.

This idea that it's just 100% OK that no real person could/should ever afford any housing, and every poor-middle-class person should always be beholden to renting from a private for-profit corporation forever is incredibly destructive to public finances and the ability of regular people to generate any meaningful savings or financial stability.