skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Privacy is dead simply because privacy is something that other people give you, and the web has very very clearly indicated that it, as a whole, has no interest in giving us privacy.

All that leaves is secrecy, so we'll have to live with running blockers of various kinds, in a shitty arms race with the web people who want all the data they can get their grubby little hands on.

Fuck the web. It was one of the last truly successful open protocols from the early era of the internet, and it's turned out to be one of the worst (not just because of all the tracking, also because of the insane attitude of web people that it should try and compete with native applications).
FB Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions for Advertisers
> It always goes like this.

> The initial solutions may be proprietary, and financed by investors. They have a business model so of course they don’t give everything away for free.

> With time, enough people get together to build an open source alternative. And then like a snowball it eclipses everything proprietary that went before it.

I wish it did. The most obvious counterexamples that come to mind are Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. With maybe the recent exception of Krita for the latter case, there are no known open-source alternatives that don't suck hard compared to the propertiary applications I mentioned.

I'm not really sure why that happens, but open source doesn't seem to scale well when building large end-user applications.
How did you get 1.6%?
There are Jupyter kernels for most languages out there.
https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
Project Archivist had an interview with possible John Titor author Joseph Matheny, and reposted a slightly annotated version when they moved servers:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/project-archivist-project-a...

The whole thing is funny, except for the part that people are still arguing about it. Then it's hilarious.
> it's meant to encourage you to be as skeptical as you feel you need to be to get value out of the retreat.

On the other hand, if you're spotted walking slowly back and forth along a line, you'll be criticized for introducing walking meditation. So while Goenka retreats might encourage skepticism (this has not been my experience), they severely discourage experimentation. They are highly authoritarian environments.
> True, what I meant was exactly this. There's always resources plenty for the things elites consider important, but if there was enough of them and then some, something would have trickled down to computing also.

Or they'd have had more resources towards military or friendly regimes. Those 2 are kinda black holes for money

> Just like in every empire ever, including the U.S. at present, (still no universal healthcare there).

I don't think finances are stopping universal healthcare in US. It's purely ideological.

> > So yes, sending first human to space is sad when you can't provide adequate life to your own citizens.
> Agreed, but how is this different today?

In Russia - it's same old. I wouldn't consider it a democracy or west or whatever either. In the west, people have radically better living standards and they seem to be going to much bigger compromises with their ideals for the sake of comfort. E.g. Nord Stream gas pipe.
May I ask from which school did you finish your MS?
These are supposed to be small, cheap ships. Now they're being criticized for not doing everything. That's... odd.

US military in general goes through cycles where one vehicle is supposed to do everything (that way we can save money, just build one type of vehicle that can go anywhere, survive anything, do anything!) and then when that results in an ungainly, extremely expensive vehicle, they switch to multiple specialized vehicles (that way we can save money, just make each vehicle only do what is needed for a specific role and cut out the unnecessary bits!). Then when that results in vehicles specialized for role A that fail in role B, they switch back to the one-vehicle-does-everything plan.

Apparently we're on a "one vehicle do everything" upswing right now.

The parallels to software development are left as an exercise to the reader.
A number of years ago I figured out the required budget to pay for the entirety of the winning campaigns for the most expensive 51% of senators and representatives. IIRC it came out to a quarter's profits for one of the megacorporations.

That was before SuperPACs were widespread, which make it easy to spread that money around.

The surprising thing used to be how cheaply politicians can be bought, and now it's how that can be done so legally.
If you have things on the deduction side that the government doesn't already know about, you can submit a self-assessment or an amendment. Deductions themselves should be simplified.

You bring deductions up as if it's a problem but many other countries, like the UK, do it this way without problems.

Most people here do not submit tax returns.
I've just filed my taxes yesterday with them since TaxAct decided to jack up the price to $80 for federal + state (used to be $30 back in 2011)

Seemed very straightforward, perhaps not as good on the suggestion front as far as potentially reducing your tax burden though.

They also managed to import my prior tax PDF from TaxAct flawlessly, so that's a plus.
> Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., offered a bill last year that would have actually allowed the government to start offering prefill tax returns.

Ironically, just last year, Massachusetts got rid of its own simple, free online tool for filing state taxes, and instead directs residents to commercial offerings.
When was the last time a hostile .50 cal round struck a US Navy ship (any)?

Vietnam? shrug
The existence of writing like this is why analytics (and attention) are not good ways of deciding if style and subject are "working". Clearly many people hate it - like Garlic - many people hate Garlic; Garlic fails the attention / analytics test. Pop Tarts pass!

And yet a world of Pop Tarts is sooooooo boring... And no one makes heart stoppingly good fish stew using Pop Tarts.

This fella may not have written the best piece of the week, we may not remember this piece tomorrow - but I think that the fact that he's attempting to create something gives him a chance of actually getting there. Looking at a dashboard completely kills that in my opinion.

Screw the stats! Make what you think is good !
I somewhat agree with you. The US does have a great system in place, and I believe that in the US we're most likely to catch bribery when it occurs, if not close. However, the fact that catching bribery is common means that bribery is even more common than that. You just can't get around the fact that politicians are people and people are vulnerable to bribery.
Since we're in this topic: I'm curious, is there any "Google Fonts" for Chinese fonts? That is, a high quality free font repository.
I write either plaintext or Markdown files and save them to Dropbox.

When I need to write from my phone or tablet, I use the Editorial app for iOS, which can read and write these files and sync with Dropbox as well.
It would be misleading if there weren't so many cases of corporate officers acting as bagmen for their political causes.
It's a personal preference I guess. I'd rather hit up stack overflow and find a common English answer to a similar problem that usually includes an example. Django suffers from the same thing... excellent docs, that just seem unapproachable day to day.

Basically when I Google something, I'm skipping the first 2-3 official links that in fact contains the info I need, but instead clicking the one that summarized it more plainly
This issue was always taken very seriously in other circles, including recognizing that virtualization is no cure-all.

Physical separation of the resource pools into equivalence classes or trust zones is just about the only sane way to recycle equipment. You might shelve and reuse equipment for the same customer or set of customers bound by mutually-covering legal agreements and mutual existential risks. You really have to think twice before putting non-trusting tenants together and consider the worst case. A proper service offering for sensitive workloads should involve decommissioning plans.

Promoting or demoting hardware between classes is difficult. You have to be very confident in scrubbing writable storage to demote hardware to a less trusted class, so you don't leak privileged information. But you have to be even more confident to go the other way, so you don't allow injection of malware as postulated in the blog post.

There was a time when the provider might be able to strip a machine to its bare bones, re-flashing firmware and replacing peripherals which couldn't be sanely verified, to reinitialize it as a new trusted machine. But, there are so many bits of writable firmware storage and different embedded controllers in modern machines, so it becomes futile to imagine scrubbing it all.
I'm always amazed at what "rachelbythebay" writes. I've gone from occasionally reading one of her posts to wanting to read them. The topics are always so interesting and about things I don't ever find myself thinking about.

I wonder if the company I work for could use such a "smart cookie"...
The Tricky Trope of Time Travel (2009)
Colloquially known as the 80/20 rule, although those percentages aren't fixed, but it's the same idea.
Actually making things happen with the technologies is alot different than being able to spout general principles on how they work on the internet.

Your trivialization of these technologies makes me think you're possibly a first/second year computer science student who's never actually worked with any of them and mainly read a modern javascript overview page on the web or a rundown in a textbook. Or just a troll!
This kind of lobbying doesn't happen in the UK, and is very much illegal - money doesn't change hands (at least not publicly!)
On HEDT (and mainstream desktop) you can actually adjust AVX offset manually. With 0 offset and 5GHz clock, you can consume 500W (in Prime95 AVX) :D
Yes, Anaconda + Jupyter is an environment and org mode is not. That’s a big reason Jupyter is so popular.

> I don’t get your point.

My point was Jupyter inflicts far less technical burden and debt on other people. There’s a huge downside to custom environments. If that’s not obvious, that explains why it’s hard to understand jupyter’s popularity.

> it requires a minimum of computer literacy

I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way, but this borders on white tower programmer centric dismissiveness.

Personally I know how to install all the things an org mode notebook might require, but I don’t want to. It takes too much of my time and energy. Expecting other people to adopt your choice of tools and environment by arguing that your tools are basic literacy is presumptuous. Use org mode, I’m wildly in favor of people using tools that they like, and you like it. Just don’t claim it’s objectively better on all axes when it’s not.
If you define bankruptcy as the literal inability to pay employees, vendors, and creditors, then states certainly can go bankrupt.

A Federal bailout of state pension obligations becomes a political (not financial) problem. Why would states that are 80%+ funded agree to bail out states that are only 50% funded? Do the states that are 100% funded receive a credit to use in other ways? There's also substantial moral hazard; if the Feds backstop state pensions as-is, they would be rewarding numerous instances of local self-dealing. This would be an order of magnitude more expensive and more contentious than TARP, which barely passed even as the economy was (supposedly) near death.

I think it's more likely that we see what happened in Greece: significant property tax hikes. You can siphon a huge amount of value out of the real estate markets through gradual but steady increases in taxes and fees, if you're willing to sacrifice appreciation (see Chicago). Ironically this may be a great way to promote affordable housing too, as residential real estate becomes a less attractive investment.
Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind
Maybe jobs shouldn't suck too?
IC design can still pay very well in Silicon Valley. So you are on right track with that, if that's what you really enjoy. Also, people who can wear both hardware and software hats are extremely valuable (aka highly paid), but for very specialized jobs. For instance, embedded programming for high-end chips.
High frequency trading is largely done in hardware these days. It's a constantly moving target, dealing in nanoseconds. It's not my area of expertise, but last I heard, ASICs directly in the switch is where it's at these days.

Compensation-wise, if you have the right skills and can find the right place, it can make software engineering look like bagging groceries. Mostly concentrated around financial centres, so more New York and London, less so CA.
If the notebook is something you can share publicly, then https://mybinder.org/ makes sharing even easier. You send a link, and the only thing the recipient needs is a modern browser.

If they want to actually work on the notebook and keep their changes, they'll probably need to install it (or switch to a platform like Cocalc). But Binder is enough to let them view, run it and make experimental changes, without installing anything or creating any new account.
To extend this a bit further, I once was tasked with "re-purposing" an old EMC Clariion and found that none of the data had ever been wiped. Completely left intact.
Funny enough whenever I see a tattoo on a westerner's body, not only is it usually wrong in the grammar/spelling sense. But it is ugly as hell. Would you let a 5 year old tattoo the word, "Strength" onto your body? That's akin to what I see when I see the typography/style of the tattoo. "Sir, not only does it not say Superman, the characters are backwards and missing strokes"

Any Chinese person who tells you the truth about what your tattoo says is being very kind to you, but most Chinese won't say anything bad since they have no reason to embarrass the person.

One time when I was still in college my family took a trip out to Mexico. I forgot what store we went into but the cashier asked my dad to write down the cashier's name (sorry forgot that too) into Chinese. My dad spent a decent amount of time to think of the proper characters, wrote it down and we were on our way. I still think about that incident a lot, like what if my dad was a jerk and wrote something stupid for this guy to get tattooed (he wouldn't). but even then he's essentially trusting my dad is not messing up his name in Chinese (it definitely wasn't something like Mark).
Explaining it in terms of a mathematical formula is probably not the most effective. You probably don't mean to be, but it comes off condescending.
Hi, president of SourceForge here. This issue affected a very small number of projects (.03%) and they were contacted directly. It is very unfortunate but we are not "hiding it".

Also, I see a lot of comments here not realizing SourceForge has been under new ownership since 2016. Since we took over we immediately eliminated all bundled adware, we also now scan all projects for malware, all downloads are now over https, & more. Big redesign just rolled out too https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...

We've taken steps to ensure we never lose any commits again.
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The MALT of Programming Languages
Unlocking the JavaScript Code Interview (an Interviewer Perspective)
And yet TurboTax exists.

Why did no one pass a law against "robot accountants"?
>And yet this theory cannot answer some simple questions, like, why there are people who actually get off opioids? How is it possible, if opioid is the "ultimate goal" of the brain and it "literally done trying to do anything", how does anyone ever get off it?

Through huge pain and with huge effort, and often substantial help from others. Besides, it's few who do.

Not to mention that even getting off those opioids doesn't mean that your life is NOT "controlled by chemicals." Other chemicals played a role in getting you off.
I guess that's why all high performance CPUs of the last twenty years have something like this.
Not so sure that claim is right : http://www.artificialbrains.com/blue-brain-project

Seems like they managed a honeybee (but I am not sure that it ran in real time or how they validated that) but were hoping for a rat brain.

I'm quite sceptical - I don't believe that there is a good understanding of how a single neuron functions, or agreement on the taxonomy of neurons or an understanding or agreement on their interactions and arrangement apart from in a part of the vision system where there do seem to be some good models.
IRS Says Fewer Than 100 People Have Reported Bitcoin Holdings So Far
Book author interview: mad scientist
I've tried several morse keyboards for android, but all of them seem to be more fun than useful. if only I could get a cross between the hackers keyboard and morse, I could stop finger fucking these tiny screens and actually type what I want
Firefox on one of my older/slower computers was borderline unusable on some sites before I installed uMatrix.
I’ll add that many closed sourced developers will show you sections of the source code if you sign an NDA. I’ve done that on several occasions when I needed to see how a model was implemented. As long as you are not a competitor, it’s usually not an issue. I sign NDAs often to see IP.
There are always better people around who want neither fame nor money.
Offline version:

https://github.com/Const-me/IntelIntrinsics
Your mentality is dangerous because it's pretext for control.
Not to mention performance and usability.

I never bothered with uMatrix until I picked up a cheap computer to use while traveling. Firefox was borderline unusable without it.
Jupyter isn’t competing with emacs, it’s not an editor. It’s competing with the python shell. And it’s editing capabilities are way better than the python shell.

Adding git as a dependency to sharing is too much in general, that would prevent sharing.
Are there any Unicode experts here?

I've been exchanging emails with Richard Cook (the Unihan maintainer) about getting some "rare" Taiwanese characters added to Unicode. I say "rare" because they're in the Bible, which I think should be covered as a basic text (it's the most-read book in the world!)

My research into word spacing, font issues, and more is covered on the blog at https://pingtype.github.io (click the Docs or Blog header). Practical suggestions for better web design are also welcome.

Regarding fonts, this is my specific rant that made me move from Heiti to Pingfang. Unfortunately forcing users to download 13 MB of Pingfang font was too slow for mobile, so I decided to disable it for the web version of Pingtype.

https://pingtype.github.io/docs/glyphErrors.html

Edit: These are the IDS codes of the missing characters.
Photo evidence from a paper Bible:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150180606@N08/sets/72157693398...

⿱髟煮	chhang.jpg Job 39:19, Job 4:15

	⿸疒粒not𤷟	liap.jpg 1Sa 5:6, 1Sa 5:9, 1Sa 5:12 ... (17 found) - also see WikiSource.

	⿱⿳亠口冖足 37106亮足	lo-.jpg Deu 1:28, Deu 2:10, Deu 9:2

⿰牜周	tiau.jpg 1Ch 17:7, 1Sa 24:3, 2Ch 14:15 (25 found, although 2Ch 14:15 uses 牧 in the paper version)
The G.O.A.T. May Be a Zebra
Bodak Yellow Queen 'Cardi B' is a mom-to-be
Or pre-fund the pensions at the time the employee is working. I believe there are laws now requiring this, which is getting the US postal service upset because they suddenly have to pay a lot into pension funds now instead of later.
Reducing the barriers for doing reproduction studies will likely increase how often they happen.

Of just consider peer review. How often does a reviewer today actually review the code and data used in a study? As far as I know this is essentially never done. That would involve seeing the code, running it, maybe messing a bit with it.
In our college we used orkut. I have even built an web proxy to make orkut work within our campus. PS: I am from India
Pure gasoline -- jk.

Probabily wise mdma
>More so, if you really feel the mind is entirely the product of chemicals, can you describe what is happening when someone faces a tough choice, one which, up to the last second, could go either way? Are you suggesting probabilistic outcomes for normally deterministic chemical processes?

Huh? You're seem to be the one to suggest "probabilistic outcomes for normally deterministic chemical processes".

If personal choice is not an illusion/rationalization (as the parent suggests), then it's real.

By which means such a real agent would come into play in an otherwise deterministic universe?

Or are you saying the universe is not deterministic?
It’s funny because even in Chinese there’s widespread disharmony with respect to “complicated” (繁體字/繁体字) or “regular” (正體字/正体字) script, as opposed to “simplified” script (簡體字/简体字). (Left-hand side phrase is in traditional/complicated script, while right-hand side is in simplified, for comparison).

Even many of the “regular” characters have been simplified. Consider 吃 and 喫—they both mean to eat, but the one with fewer strokes became really the only modern choice to use (however, Japanese still uses the old variant). Another common one is a simplification of the first symbol for Taiwan (臺灣). 台 is often in used of place of 臺.
Muttrc Builder
1st transhumanist music? [video]
A nice application oriented book is the 'Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang' by Gene I. Sher, from Springer. It has the code and a model for distributed agents (for neural networks in biology)
dc/priv cloud seems more like IT and infrastructure and less electrical engineering though right?
Ask HN: Do you do code review?
Do you do Code Review? Any good tool or suggestion?
Aside from the other answers; because "being on-call 24/7 and having the ability to safely drive through town at high speed" is a capability just as important as paramedical training, for that role, and who else has it?
Same for RISC: https://developer.arm.com/technologies/neon/intrinsics
It wouldn't be all that surprising if they managed to make them just the wrong size.

(too big to really be cheap and too small to really do anything)
It's almost like having people be responsible for their own healthcare doesn't actually work in the real world.
Sorry, Fernando as well as all the contributors are included in the "we, the Jupyter team". I did not start to mention individuals otherwise the list would be really long. I would encourage people to look at (at minimum) the steering council on Jupyter.org for a list of key people in the project.

We are also striving to make contributing to Jupyter / open source recognized in Academia - for people like Fernando to get proper recognition, and future generations of scientists to have incentives to do this kind of work.
See http://hanzismatter.blogspot.de/?m=1
What's the first thing you grab when taking on a crab?
Sure it's a little risky, but if you bootstrap from a stable, frozen version, it serves as a good integration test.

There are still bugs, but if it compiles itself and the compiled version still passes all the tests, how bad can the bug be?
I don't think the W3C DOM document has anything the developers haven't agreed to. The problem is that it's an incomplete, intrinsically out of date, and often buggy subset of the the WHATWG living standard.

I agree that the W3C value proposition COULD be to publish a snapshot that describes what's actually implemnted. That might be a way forward here, but it requires a lot of work to define what "actually implemented" means in a useful way, and to check the test results and update the document (or build an automated way to harvest resources such as https://wpt.fyi/dom ).
Indeed:

https://www.amazon.com/Engraving-Sportsman-Spartan-Foot-Race...

http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Ancient/en/Athletes.htm...
Fun fact, as far as the Jupyter team can tell, there are more full time Dev on Jupyter than CPython. Also pretty excited that bumpy recently got funding for 2 full time Dev that will work at UC BIDS!