skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I download instructions on making a nuke, for example, that shouldn't be illegal. It should be illegal to make a nuke, to use a nuke, and to distribute them onward, but not to own them. //

According to your assessment here you're an accessory to a crime - a willing and necessary participant. You said (hypothetically) you downloaded it, but that distribution should be illegal. Distribution and reception are linked, you can't get it without the distribution.

Demand for distribution fuels the supply.

I absolutely would maintain the illegality of ownership of some types of information (mitigations aside) - child pornography, imagery of rape or assault are obvious ones.

Freely allowing the supply and acquisition of details on making nukes is fine, because acquiring the components is difficult and can be controlled.

My quandary is that I want to be liberal to allow curiosity and educational intent to be fulfilled; but realise that there are elements who abuse the free acquisition of information that enables great harm (how to make a fertiliser bomb, how to make ricin).
Ah, was there some news about it or it just that IBM seems less active on Swift http/ssl stuff lately?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number :>

You can literally arbitrarily associate any number to anything and ban it based on that, which they did:

> In 2012, it was reported that the numbers 89, 6, and 4 each became banned search terms on search engines in China, because of the date (1989-06-04) of the June Fourth Massacre in Tiananmen Square.

> Due to the association with gangs, in 2012 a school district in Colorado banned the wearing of jerseys that bore the numbers 18, 14, or 13 (or the reverse, 81, 41, or 31).

> In 2017, far-right Slovak politician Marian Kotleba was criminally charged for donating 1,488 euro to a charity.

It's closely related to hate speech laws where the only requirement is perceived threat. Fun times. :D
Great. Can you show me on the whiteboard what the code for that tool might look like?
I started at the Mexican Border and finished at the Canadian border.

http://pct.adventuresnotvacations.com
I remember reading a writeup a few years ago from the guy who made BSNES, and him mentioning to get cycle exactness requires a crazy amount more CPU power than getting "cycle-good-enough-for-99%-of-things", and that he had to do some elaborate cooperative threading to get decent performance.

Has this been the case for you?

Also, 8088mph is super cool; great job on it!
Ah thanks for the feedback. I understand the free->paid aversion, espec with an emerging product type like paid newsletters. It’s always hard when these monetisation models change.

Hopefully the paid model will give me the ability to add even more value without ads, via additional curated content like deeper dives into relevant subjects, plus some original content. Still early days but going well so far.

But I’m glad you enjoyed the newsletter - worth saying you can still sign up (or stay signed up, in your case) for occasional free updates. Thanks!
> If a Q/A site allowed basic questions then the site would be flooded with them since the population of novices greatly exceeds sophomores or experts.

This is really excusing bad UI/UX (like surfacing existing answers while a user is typing a question) and a bad ranking algorithm. There is no such thing as "being flooded" only bad search algorithms, and bad UX. Google is "flooded" with a result set spanning the entire internet, and they manage to surface answers. Stack Overflow can do the same--they have more tools to rank and influence behavior (rewards, moderation, points) than google has because they control the site, its structure, and how it is gamified.
Hey, I didn't see an email in your profile, want to add it?
This kind of research depends on some degree of frankness that may not always be available due to social stereotypes, religious stereotypes and other traditional 'purity' and shaming constraints operating on women.

It would be healthier to assume both sexes have fully functioning sex drives, perhaps stronger in some individuals and discard the outdated notion that women are not as 'interested' in sex or need to be 'persuaded'.

These outdated notions introduce some problematic concepts, reinforce traditional gender roles and taint a mutually beneficial activity into an unhealthy construct of 'giving' and 'taking'.

There are differences. Testosterone makes makes men more aggressive and this may well show in all range of behaviors including sexual but must be tempered with the fact that human beings do have control. Men are also unlikely to be turned on by social status but many women respond to both physicality and things like status which complicates attractiveness and drive.
They've spent the past several years on a massively expensive project to add ONE lane of traffic in each direction, rather than a high-volume mass transit artery like it needs.
Depends what winning means to you - to me it means having stable partner with whom I connect on almost all possible levels, extreme compatibility in mentality, worldview, future plans, most hobbies (including some extreme sports) are shared. Willingness to do a lot for the other, commitment, decency, good heart, love.

Oh, and good, very good sex.

Apart from last item (in variable quantity), nothing of that can be found on Tinder. I tried, many people I know of both genders tried, it is simply not there. Shallow, mostly uninteresting not really potential 'partners'.

Those 1-night standers are definitely real life losers - no balanced personality wants this lifestyle long term and even short term is too much for most. But those riddled with childhood (daddy) issues, inferiority complexes, or otherwise deeply broken human beings have a place to have fun. If you're not one of them, don't expect anything but emotional harm from it
Just to add to that, these are the rules I follow. Needless to say, I am 50+

1. Don't include graduation dates in your resume, just the University/School name and Major(s)
2. Truncate your resume to just slightly over the required years of experience. e.g., include past 12 years experience for a job which requires 10+ years
3. Keep your resume to under 3 pages (max). Nobody has the time to wade through an 8 page resume, even if you have worked on the most awesome projects at the start of your career

Seemed to work for me
And you'd be right, of course. Edited.
Except in the case of Trump it’s not an act. He truly is unstable and has surrounded himself with sycophants and knaves. This magnifies the potential for something truly unpredictable happening.
> It's the man's job to try, and it's the woman's job to choose.

Is that a descriptive or prescriptive statement?

Or put another way: Are you observing and remarking on cultural norms, or stating "This is how things should be?"

I only ask because when someone says "It's X's job to [whatever]" the connotation is "X should [whatever]" but the context surrounding this made it ambiguous.
in south asia it's much more specific, because there is the unspoken requirement that whoever they match with has to be of suitable ethnic group, religion, caste, etc to be acceptable to the parents.

also language, because between the three largest south asian countries there's something like 25 languages spoken...
You're part of the problem you know. By judging people based on their success or failure in the sexual market, you're helping to build the mentality that causes people to do things like get in a van and drive down the sidewalk for a while.
This is just data compression. Most strings can’t be compressed, and nearly all strings can’t be compressed by more than a small amount.
Easy? Fine. But it's still a huge waste of time on a global scale compared to phonetic languages, when you consider how many people have to learn French, English, etc.
It's impossible to know for certain, but perhaps having invested so much in nuclear weapons and finding that it only made the US more belligerent, they realized that they had to shift their strategy? Or maybe they've been waiting for the opportune moment to extend the olive branch? Become a nuclear power so that they could negotiate from a position of power and get better terms?
It solved the practical “80%” use case: single HiDPI monitor. That’s strictly better than the current, utterly busted state of things.
I haven't gone quite as far as that, but I agree with the principle.

As much as reasonably possible, I keep facilities like personal banking, personal credit cards (always at least two), any mortgage or other secured loan, and any business financial services with different organisations that aren't part of the same group. There's often small print in bank terms and conditions about being allowed to grab money from anything of yours they have access to if there is a problem with anything else, and frankly I don't trust them not to abuse that, particularly if they've already made a mistake that caused a serious problem in the first place. Also, the FSCS compensation limits tend to be per person per firm, so dividing assets can sometimes increase the amount covered if anything really bad happens to the financial firms.

And yes, I do also have some emergency cash hidden in safe places. I don't get crazy paranoid about it, but it's a substantial amount, certainly enough to fill my tank and buy essential provisions for a while. I would be concerned about becoming a truly cashless society as well, for this among other reasons.
I don't see what's wrong in being upfront about what you want and facilitating that. It keeps the process simple and works as a pretty good initial filter.

While you're talking about the melting pot in the western world, it just so happens that eventually most whites end up with just whites, and blacks just blacks. Most beautiful women end up with rich men, and religious people end up with religious people. Long term "melting pot" relationships aren't as common as you think. If sexual selection eventually filters all but those common traits, why not be blunt about them?

E.g., while the Indian dating sites you talk about bluntly list salary, western sites use complicated proxies (like interests == international tourism, or your profile photo with a tesla you own).

That dating has to be complicated and subtle and what you need has to only be "hinted" isn't any better than being blunt about what you're looking for, and being blunt about what value you think you'll provide to the other. At the least, you'll have saved time and heartbreaks.
Samsung's upcoming Galaxy phone might have three screens. Yes, three
The issue as I understand it, is with the broadness of the search, and that the data in question is personal and private. The search did not query for a particular subject. As an analogy, if the police thought the suspect had diabetes, would they be able to subpoena a hospital to list all the diabetics, then consider them all potential perpetrators?
> The only significant thing to change was American policy.

Sure, if you ignore the fact that South Korea had a massive political scandal resulting in impeachment of the President and switch in ruling party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye
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> As you've specified a weapon must be a thing, then trivially no

"Information" is a noun, hence it is a "thing".

Furthermore, the 'physical damage' it can inflict is the destruction or manipulation of physical memory cell states.
Metropolitan Police Arrange Football Tournament with London Youths
Its not like they just found a statistically matching DNA sample and went "Lock him up, boys!". They found that not only does his DNA match, but he also lived in all of the areas where the crimes were committed, and the crime sprees in a particular area would change around the time that he relocated. He also had experience in the Navy and as a Police officer, which have been long suspected by investigators before this due to some of the behaviors exhibited by the killer. He also apparently has a unique biomarker in his sperm that matches the killer's DNA, futher reducing the chances of a random person matching.
Code for "hookup that sleeps over, repeatedly"
That's more about counterbalancing Iran in the region and is an "enemy-of-my-enemy" alliance of convenience. The ability to play Iraq and Iran against each other that used to exist went by the wayside when Saddam was toppled and got replaced with nothing.
Don't live in California or those other states.

Much as you can opt out of the Second Amendment protection of firearm ownership by moving out of the US.
Yeah, that's what happens when you threaten them to deprive them of their freedom, to torture, and to murder them. Perhaps you are so civilized you resort to fines first, but what if they decide to not pay said fine? Are you going to put them in prison? What if they resist being mugged and kidnapped? How are you going to get them to prison if they resist? I suggest you search for many instances of the IRS shooting innocent people, they literally have armed squads for that purpose, they flashbang babies, etc.

Are you really surprised that most of them comply? What other choice do they have?
The new thing with this is hiring offshored clickfarm workers (basically the same recruit pool of people who would be farming gold in WoW for $1.25/hour in a developing nation, or working in an IRS-scam call center), who multitask and use a set of pre-prepared scripts and their own customizations to have a few lines of back and forth chat with the (mostly male) rubes, then send them an affiliate link to get them to click on. This has the advantage of putting a human in the loop to solve captchas, and enough randomness from the human's behavior that the bot-like behavior is not immediately apparent.
You're talking about authentication and integrity: can you confirm that the statement really came from your bank and has not been modified?

The GP was talking about encryption: can anyone else involved with any system your email passed through read your intimate financial details?
The new logo is more serious than the gopher.
UK mass surveillance regime dealt another blow in court
Right, but the issues with using geneology-resolution DNA to match a specific individual are already understood---you yourself have highlighted them.

A defendant is one expert witness away from undermining a case that relies on that low of a resolution of matching alone. In this case, that data was only used as a pointer to suggest to police that deeper scrutiny of the identified suspect was warranted.
I didn't say that it's wrong, just that it's weird and different from American cultural norms. Things americans do are weird and different to Indians. I think one of the main differences, and this is a gross overgeneralization, is that south asian dating sites and apps are much more aimed at people who are looking for marriage. Whereas Americans enjoy "casual dating" - good luck getting a casual dating app to take off in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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People should try to live they lives without facebook or google.

They lie, cheat and steal your private information.
Ask HN: What should I practice programming if I need to be Offline?
I have spare time that I'm encouraged to improve my abilities.

The problem I'm running into, my network blocks fetch/post requests(through a complicated proxy). I cannot run a node.js server for the same reason.

I really enjoyed playing with python, but it seems most usecase is crawling which I cannot do. I can play with excel macros, python, and probably most software. The problem comes into accessing the internet.

Any suggestions how I can spend my time practicing?
If anything, I'd expect people to have more concern about the fact that the police in California are allowed to steal your stuff and grab DNA off of it than the risks from them being allowed to submit your DNA to a privately-owned database full of voluntary DNA submissions.
I dont think this motif brings anything spooky/special to the fore. DNA is swarmed by proteins, ribocomplexes, acetyl/methyl histone mods, etc. all of its own making. Whatever special computation one might speculate this motif could perform- that computation or fidelity check or whatever else is probably a known and well-documented function of some DNA-associating complex. While it's fun to speculate how this might 'change the game', in all likelihood, this finding is a very small drop in a very large bucket.

But if we are speculating...
That a motif forms by a single strand of DNA or RNA is expected (given certain properties or symmetries). What the image in the article depicts and given the quote that this is often seen at start codons, to me, suggests this motif forms whenever transcription machinery has opened the helix creating two single strands. And instead of hanging out as single strands (a very vulnerable state, to DNase degradation, etc) they coil unto themselves. This might also suggest this segment of DNA is relatively easy to unzip, and has built-in degredation protection, making for ideal consensus sequences as start codons.
I do agree with you on their silly "directions", But,

Let just say marking DRAM isn't rocket science. The key really is yield. And there is going to be some learning curve involves. UniIC actually posted a picture last year in December about their success on DDR4, but it was quickly deleted because the yield was only in single digit, i.e really bad, the info was shared on Weibo and known internally within the industry but it was deleted.

In Feb when Anandtech posted the news, I thought it was hoax again. Turns out UniIC actually did post a PR and yield is now 30%+. Which to be honest is still crap, but at least in today's market value, they could still break even. The more trial and error they do, the quicker they will be to up its yield. Something the market has allow them to do, if it was any previous years, the lost would be too great no one will be willing to "shoulder" this lost and lots of work will be needed to save faces.

I don't think Unigroup will mess up again, unless they decide to focus on something like HBM or LPDDR4, otherwise I think there is going to be sizeable low end market within China using UniC. I don't expect them to complete in the high end, but their entry I hope will put a stop in the memory pricing. Which is like at a ridiculous level.

P.S - UniGroup also has a change a direction and new objective under Xi, no longer are they acting mindlessly. Which is both a good and bad thing.
Yes, you're literally the only one.
We have been in competition with the animals on this planet since we arrived. Commercialization has certainly caused some avoidable consequences to animal populations, and I agree we ought to take care of the earth as well as we can, but I just can’t get worked up on the animals’ behalf over our ancient ancestors killing them and using basically every part of the carcass in an effort to survive.
> You also need to increase voltage if you want to increase clock speed.

Or use lower VT cells (they turn "on" quicker), at the expense of increased leakage power. But at these geometries, faster clock speeds is getting less feasible and you need to find increased performance in other ways.

No logic signal needs to cross the entire die in one clock cycle, there is always an alternate design. For that reason, only registers 'talking' to each other need to see a clock at the same time, and even then there is a window. Clock routing is a consideration that takes resources but it's not a problem. Realistically, a logical signal won't be going anywhere remotely near 50mm at 3GHz in 10nm, so the clock doesn't need to either.

Max die size is also limited by the vendor's tooling i.e. what their machines can literally handle. And also physical issues such as warpage. If you make a massive die and it heats up in a non-uniform manner (different bits of it get hot at different times), it expands in a non-uniform manner. This can lead to all kinds of problems.

Chips stuffed full of memory will yield better than a logic-heavy chip since large SRAMs always now include redundancy. So this too has an impact on how big you can go for a given cost. You can however get registers that are built of multiple storage elements, the output value of which is the consensus. Don't know how much these get used.
Dropbox pushes the state of the art for file sync. They added sync status icons on Mac OS X before Apple had an API for it, later Apple added an API. Those icons are part of what makes the product so usable.

The kernel extension is another example. AFAIK it was added for Smart Sync[1] (née Infinite[2]). Infinite is amazing, truly amazing, and the only way to implement it is via a kernel extension. Microsoft tried to implement it via the GUI with OneDrive's "smart files" (aka placeholders), they removed it because the files didn't work in too many places, like via syscalls and from command line.

Dropbox Infinite is kind of like the source control systems Google and Microsoft created to handle their huge repos. Microsoft's GVFS uses a file system filter driver (kernel extension) called GvFlt (or ProjFS)[3]. From what I understand, Google's Piper uses FUSE[4], which would be a third-party kernel extension on macOS.

My point is, these are technical achievements that provide seamless and intuitive user experiences, they aren't betrayal of trust.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/smartsync

[2] https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/going-deeper-with-pro...

[3] https://www.visualstudio.com/learn/gvfs-architecture/

[4] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/does-perpetuity-...

Yes, it might be a little more complex than that:

> On 29 December 1915, a law was passed creating a right to a perpetual resting place on French soil to any soldier in the French army or Allied army who had died for France. The land that contains the UK's war cemeteries abroad is held "in perpetuity" by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Flask does what it was intended to do. To add more stuff to it would defeat the purpose, and turn it from a micro-framework into a regular framework.

If a micro-framework adds a "web forms abstraction", honestly, run the other way.
> completely unusable for data manipulation (cleaning, filtering, discovering/exploration, tinkering)

Surely you aren't serious. Data manipulation is one of the areas in which R is vastly superior to Python.
2012 is Sandy-Ivy Bridge era, x201 is older than that
They've probably got your finger prints too as a bonus.
Quite a few leaders are giving Trump credit.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
I think, unfortunately, all of this is just a show put on by NK because and Iran has paid them to do it. In the first week of May lifting US sanctions off Iran has to be renewed and Trump was 99% expected not to renew lifting those sanctions (a process started by Obama). Now by making this move NK is going to make US look like an unreliable peacemaker if Trump decides not to extend sanctions lifting off Iran.
The entire reason why trio is proposed as useful is because of bad control flow leading to unpredictable state.

That's what was discussed in the example about file handles. The problem isn't bad concurrent control flow itself, the problem is that bad concurrent control flow enables unpredictable (or difficult to predict) changes in the apparent expected state all over your program. That's the same situation as with 'goto': spaghetti jumps are bad largely because they make it hard to think about "what is true when the flow of execution gets here here" at a given point in the program.
That ended sometime in the late 90s or early 00s when the DRAM Lords began the annual ceremonial sacrifices to Sherman.

I'm referring to the DRAM fixing scandal. All of the DRAM makers colluded to fix prices. We had one DRAM maker a year for like 6 or 7 years plead guilty to collusion and price fixing under the Sherman Anti Trust Act.

Since then prices haven't been very volatile, they just sort of steadily rise year on.
Such thinking work as a quick filter so you don't get to get committed a lot.