skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun thing here:

There's a thriving cottage industry taking real studio masters from original tape (from the era when actual studio engineers would use tape) and making copies for "discerning" audiophiles like you to play on their reel-to-reel machines. Very authentic.

Except of course each time you make such a copy you'd damage the original irreversibly, and these are the real master tapes, when they're gone that's it.

So what they _actually_ do is make a single digital copy and then copy that back to make each of the tapes they sell. So you're getting an analogue copy of a digital copy of the original. By any reasonable thinking that's the worst of both worlds.

But don't worry, paying extra for something that's objectively worse is audiophile tradition. Keep it up.
Reminded me of this entertaining clip:

http://vooza.com/videos/the-5-whys/

I doubt that most people who use the five whys really take it to be as simplistic as the author of this article suggested, but to those that do, it's a good wake up call.

In fact, life is even more complex than the article suggests, when you throw in effects of chaos, feedback loops, missing information, unknown influences - just to mention a few. Still, tracking down the order in processes has got humanity quite far (at least as far as being able to predict and engineer accordingly) so it's obviously effective.
This may be one of those happy situations where changing requirements make a bug fix much easier than before. Now maybe that driving game is realistic and they can close the bug by just saying, oh yeah, these cars have active suspensions.
Why do you think the users are not liable for creating it?
Rain causes people to carry umbrellas. Rain causes puddles. Probabilistically, there's a strong connection between me carrying an umbrella and you seeing puddles (assuming we're both in SF or whatever).

To be a bayesian, you could model this as a conditional probability: p(you see a puddle | I carry an umbrella). It will look like a strong connection, but it isn't a causal one. If it were, then I could stop carrying an umbrella and clear away the puddles. That intervention of me changing my umbrella carrying behavior is what causation is all about. If we change this, does that change?

So then you talk about the probability of you seeing a puddle given some intervention that forces me to carry my umbrella regardless of anything else. We see that if you force me, independent of rain, to carry an umbrella or not to, then the connection between the umbrella and puddles is gone. p(puddles | do(umbrella)) != p(puddles | umbrella). do(X) means to take an intervention and force X regardless of other things.

As contrast, you can talk about the connection between rain and and puddles. If there were some hypothetical weather machine where we could force rain or sunshine, then you'd see that intervening and forcing rain (a.k.a. do(rain)) still keeps the relationship with puddles. p(puddles | do(rain)) still shows a connection. That is a causal connection.

It's all about counterfactual "what if I changed X?" questions. Using that idea, you can get all sorts of cool theory.
> industrial quality VM+JIT

I'll skip over this mostly, just wondering what exactly you mean about this and whether you consider LLVM not to be "industrial quality" seeing as the failed Unladen Swallow project based itself upon that and it didn't seem to get them anywhere.

> it's primary goal is being compatible with the Scipy ecosystem at least

Well... it's not like PyPy isn't "compatible" with the scipy ecosystem. It just has to use a lower-performing object access mode to use cpyext-based extensions, which I suspect is a compromise any JIT-based implementation will need to make to be able to make use of these more old-school extensions.

Ironically on the subject of "industrial quality" JITs, GraalVM is based upon the same meta-tracing interpreter ideas that were largely pioneered by PyPy.
Where did you get the idea that the creator is not liable?
Wikipedia is not a hierarchy. Admins are experienced wikipedians who have a few extra administrative tasks (hence the name). The Admin in question seems to have acted based on their own judgment. (I know because I asked them! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JzG#meatball:ExpandS... ) . You could even talk to the admin yourself, if you would like extra information. Wikipedia has a function to add questions to a talk page, and there is a function to send an email instead/as well, if you have questions.

That said, I went looking around, and there appear to be politicians and russian media involved here. This is not a "Evil admin stomps on poor innocent victim" story, for sure.
There's an object-level point that can be made about referencing an even more partisan source like Rationalwiki as a response in this particular thread, but the more interesting meta-level observation is that the whole Wikipedia sourcing/attribution mechanism is clearly inadequate for an age where even a fairly casual discussion in HN comments can't be completed without relying on sources that one of the two parties to the debate will consider clearly inadmissible (Vox and Rationalwiki for one side, and maybe Craig Murray and Sputnik for the other).
You would think the hospitals would be able to help out here with a determination that even though upon examination there turned out not to be an issue, the symptoms were consistent with a condition that would require treatment in the ER.

If the diagnosis requires a medical degree or equipment not available at the corner store, how is the average patient supposed to know their condition wasn't life threatening or didn't require immediate treatment to avoid permanent disability?
If the problem space was as large as they suggest it is, human brains wouldn’t be capable of handling it either.
This is just factually wrong.

Edit: The parent poster edited his comment, making this seem off.
I moved to the Midwest last summer for a Tech job in Urbana/Champaign Illinois. I also worked in Mountain View (silicon valley) while contracting at Google. I find the tech scene in Urbana/Champaign to be much more vibrant: lots of good technical meet ups, lots of university/industry interactions and conferences, etc.

And the cost of living here is very low. Perfect place for a startup.
No, your comment is not common sense, only a lazy way to stir up drama on the Internet.
Sheesh, I'm not exactly obsessed with internet points but I am kinda curious why I got so downvoted. I wasn't really trying to be condescending, but the article kinda does answer this concern (regarding U being reserved) in a couple ways.
Accept/I hate saving money and having a good life
I was careful not to judge their way of life except to state that we shouldn't idealize it. You're the one turning my exhortation into a moral determination.

If you want my moral determination, I would guess that the average Amish person has far superior morals to the average American. If I had to guess how many times the average American Christian has cracked open their Bible, well, let's just say it's not a pretty number.

That said, I wouldn't trade my way of life for theirs, crappy unexamined American morality and all. The Internet just brings more to the table when you get right down to it.
Looking for patterns that might disclose the watchers that follow diplomats / intelligence officers I assume.
I found years ago that (at least with older versions) VC++ implemented templates essentially as internally generated macros. All the non-standard behaviour they had could be explainined by considering how they would act if they were macros. This bug strikes me as being consistent with that. T is leaking across structs because it is internally #defined and seen by another struct.

I think Microsoft has managed to prop up this massive template-as-macro hack all the way through VS 2017.
Yes. I understand that lots of people on HN hate that, but, yes. Wikipedia is an incredibly complicated and intricate project with its own objectives and norms. It has been manifestly successful; it is one of the great achievements of the Internet to date. People arguing to override those norms have a heavy burden to meet.

One of the reasons for those norms is that on controversial issues, everybody can marshal a plausible argument. WP's processes try to make sure that admins can make procedural rather than substantive decisions to resolve conflicts. It's reasonable to have a couple thousand people who understand a process. It's not reasonable to expect a couple thousand people to be authoritative for all the substantive controversies litigated on the encyclopedia.

Another reason is that the norms are interdependent. For instance: many of the rest of WP's processes don't work without the "no canvassing" rule. Admins and 'crats can't evaluate an argument if it's flooded with partisan complaints. Admin decisions aren't votes.
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>Imagine if a country like Russia makes an orchestrated effort to achieve similar goals

This article is citing references from RT and Sputnik to defend a guys who broadcast on RT and Sputnik.

It cites several fairly normal edits as outrageous. For example Snopes has it's founders names listed but the article implies listing Media Len's founders is an attack.

Likewise removing an un-cited assertions are called attacks.

And the article apparently believes offering a £1000 for doxing information is acceptable.

And remarkably expanding on all this to imply that all of wikipedia is suspect.

I would really take this article with a big grain of salt.
Intel has been producing low-end, low-power Cyclone FPGAs for a while -- the Cyclone 10 is their newest entry in this product line, which is what this device comes with. To my knowledge this is the first one directly paired with a microcontroller. They normally come with heavier-duty Linux-capable ARM devices, if anything. Microsemi are the only other vendor I know who offer uC/FPGA combos like this.

Anyway, they probably didn't get some kind of direct subsidy on this, but they surely got volume discounts like any other major buyer -- it's a completely, totally different class of devices than what you'll see strapped on a Xeon, low cost, and they've been selling these kinda chips for a while now, overall (Cyclone 10 LP is fairly recent, tho)
Hosting every dependency should be the norm, that some sites pull in multiple megs of dependencies from random third parties is just asking for trouble long term.

On the topic of proprietary fonts, why do some websites seem to think using a questionably legible, licensed font is a good idea? It isn't adding value for the end user.
Semantically wrong or not, it's all the HN developers have chosen to give us for blockquoting. That's not the users' fault.

For mobile, it helps if you manually truncate lines, like so:

One puzzling feature of the shift register
is that there is no wiring between the stages!
How do bits get from one stage to the next?
Did the chip have another layer of wiring that
wasn't in the photos? Was there some sort of
hidden connection? Eventually I noticed that
there wasn't an isolation ring between the
stages—a silicon barrier that separated most
I2L circuits. Without this isolation ring,
an "invisible" PNP transistor exists between

The site is called "Hacker News," after all. Apparently that's because we're expected to, well, hack.
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This is an excellent article -- not just technically, but tonewise as well; kudos to the author.
There are no easy definitions for everything, the world is complex, deal with it. It is the same, for example, with pornography. One and the same image might either be pornography or a work of art, one and the same image might either be a holiday picture from the beach or child pornography, and you would be unable to tell the difference just from looking at the images.

In some situations it is just more practical to leave things vague and deal with the facts on a case by case basis once the need arises instead of trying forever - and probably failing - to come up with an airtight definitions covering each and every edge case.
From what I've seen, V8 is extremely wed to the javascript language model. I don't think it even has a concept of numbers that aren't javascript "numbers". Unless of course you go towards wasm territory, which I don't think is a territory particularly fun for dynamic languages.
Italics are more readable.
Your browser is drugged and forcefully robbed, at this point - not asked nicely. Something like uBlock/Easyprivacy is your browser saying no and refusing, but now I see providers trying everything possible to identify you and try to bypass everything on this.

I've seen providers attempt to access your GPU info, fingerprint you via 3D rendering, all sorts of disgusting stuff. They attempt to enumerate megabytes worth of plugin names and mimetypes, load Flash, Shockwave, Java, Silverlight, Windows Media, anything to exfil as much data as they can about you.

They buy thousands or tens of thousands of random domains, subdomains, and attempt all of them if they fail. They act like malware.

They serve fake sourcemaps that try to track the fact that you attempted to investigate them, and use this against you.

I've seen ads _port scan you and your LAN via websocket_ after using RTCPeerConnection and enumerating your local IPs.

I can think of many companies that do this immediately on first page load, silently, before you get a chance to read their ToS or opt out. There is no opt out. They serve this code with CNAMEs and via reverse proxies for first-party cookie access and adblock bypassing.
Why don’t I see more “native” applications just running through a locally hosted web server? It’s the best of both worlds: file system access with your server, and a great environment for developing a UI (any browser).
I get that, but the problem is the way data is stored today it is stored on a single volume. That is many customers are stored on a single volume. When backed up there is normally one key per volume.

I guess the real issue is who will be responsible ensuring backups are stored in a way that different clients are isolated.

As somebody who makes backup software I know the burden will at some point be on my plate.

That being said, if people stored data differently, and did actually have a key per customer then the backup software won't matter, because like the parent and you said, just delete the key. But nothing really works like that today, and it will require a massive amount of software to be rewritten to handle this sort of stuff. So until then either you can't backup your data, or you make the backup provider figure it out.
I would. Better to be overly cautious if you're serious about protecting user data and privacy.

IPs specifically are quite likely to reveal some identifying info, and it's obvious how trivial it is to find that info. Even the company itself isn't looking that info up, losing that info could expose their users.
Overview published in English[0] and Russian[1].

Software part hosted on Github.[2]

The only question is licensing on it's software & hardware.[3]

P.S.: Another one similar badge was released year ago for SHA2017 Conference as open-hardware + open-source software project.[4]

[0] https://hackaday.com/2018/05/15/retro-computer-badge-for-hac...

[1] https://geektimes.com/post/301009/

[2] https://github.com/Hack-a-Day/basic-badge

[3] https://github.com/Hack-a-Day/basic-badge/issues/36

[4] https://github.com/SHA2017-badge/
I found this example exceptionally difficult to read and comprehend.

I recognise that this is known as the "Stable Marriage Problem", yet I still feel an aversion to marriage being defined as between a man and a woman (and further, than a man must propose to a woman). So, this scenario cranked my unhappiness up to 11. I was not able to follow it at all beyond "male unhappiness".

Surely it is possible to write this example in a way which recognises diversity of sexuality and does not need to play up to sexist stereotypes - employees looking for work and employers should work fine.
It's simpler to have hundreds of thousands of small businesses, from all walks of life, sign up for a high tech appointment scheduling software?
The active suspension systems I have seen let you switch suspension profiles on the fly. Some are advertised with "millisecond" response time implying automatic tuning based on force sensors. This demo shows aggressive predictive tuning.
This is exactly right. It was meant for people with (a) a high school education to (b) fix problems in a repetitive manufacturing process where if you don't fix the problem on this car, it will appear again on the next car, and the one after that.

If your damn boat is sinking, you should just get to safety ASAP, but if you're in the boat making business, it may be of some interest to know why your hulls are cracking.
That's certainly the sort of thing that can happen, but as far as I can tell the COIN report was within Wikipedia norms, and closing the report two minutes later with "Zero evidence of COI. Galloway has picked a fight with Cross, not the other way around." was not.

(Unless "don't criticise a top-1000 user" counts as a Wikipedia norm, I suppose.)

I disbelieve that that the admin in question is both a neutral arbiter and capable of determining within two minutes that Cross is not an "avowed rival" of Galloway (see WP:BLPCOI), particularly given the "And being attacked by RT and George Galloway is a reasonably reliable indicator that you are doing something right" bit on his talk page.

[The relevant part of BLPCOI is:

« Therefore, an editor who is involved in a significant controversy or dispute with another individual—whether on- or off-wiki—or who is an avowed rival of that individual, should not edit that person's biography or other material about that person »
]
How to design relevant products and services for this connected age
Control of 'manufacturing' was never going to happen. They would literally have to prohibit the sale of high-speed DACs and ADCs to civilians. If you think the War on Drugs was an expensive boondoggle, try keeping LTC2216s out of my hands. :-P

However, it is the responsibility of the FCC to not throw up their hands and say "Duh, we don't know how to find 'em." They have one job -- regulating the use of the RF spectrum -- and that's it.
I did a pretty simple teeth whitening treatment. The chemicals penetrate some micropores in the tooth and "explode" there, causing pain on very small disturbances like breathing cold air trough the mouth. It was gone after one day but it was enough to make all aspects of life miserable well before I had to endure the next session. Just kept thinking "what about people that have chronic pain for months or years?!"
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What are you suggesting with your last comment? Did you read the story posted here and the changes Philip Cross has made?

"I went looking around, and there appear to be politicians and russian media involved here." - Is that the level of evidence needed to do whatever you want on Wikipedia?
A biased point of view isn't a conflict of interest. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest...?

We all have biases. But we have conflicts when we have direct relationships with topics.

Similarly: edits are supposed to have NPOV. But editors almost always have a POV.
The protocol should have required enough authentication to make it impossible to manufacture these devices without also having a blessed, revocable key from the carrier you're snooping on.

The FCC could have easily had their police exemption without also providing access to your average HAM, any reasonably competent hobbyist, and the security services of every other nation on the planet.

Security on cellular networks is even more of a joke than on consumer-grade wifi... it's basically a pinky promise not to look at stuff you're not supposed to look at. No fucking wonder there's a mountain of stingray clones in DC. Are they planning to fix this on 5g networks? Because there's no reason to be so concerned over backdoors in Chinese cellular modems as long as we're happily letting them in through the front door.
So would this mean Encyclopedia Brittanica becomes relevant again?
Pretty much, but its a tad complex.

Microsoft hosts for example in Ireland (part of the EU), but is an American company.

A subreddit has its own moderators and rules, but has to also adhere the global Reddit policy.

FOSS is developed by people all over the world.

One solution is to lay low and be low profile. For example, an invite-only system, or E2EE. Another is to host in a more liberal country. But if the website is in Russian, it is assumed that its being served for Russians (people in Russia).
That's a resource, not a WP page. It has no talk page. I'm trying to get a sense of what the actual argument was.

It's not a good diagram, and its author is clearly trying to attach it in as many prominent places as they can, which is not great. But I still don't know what the actual controversy is.
This stuff is happening everywhere on Wikipedia, sometimes obviously, and sometimes with more subtlety.
I've been conducting a similar campaign, on WikiWikiWeb, against anyone that maligns functional programming. No one seems to mind though.
Hm, it wasn't listed as functional in whatever list I looked at recently. I'll have to check it out again!
The author of that article has one massive chip on their shoulder. Claims about how diverse the US is while criticising open European borders are a bit strange. Ranting at economic and social stagnation in Europe are also odd given how the US is faring. It’s amusing to criticise how European leaders look given current leadership in US - hell, half the photos in the paper this week of political events involving the US show actual family members rather than similar looking people.

That source is not good and doesn’t make a point, never mind the nauseating style.
And semantically just as broken.

Would it be that hard for the '1337 h4x04s at YC to support '>' blockquote markup like so many other forums?
because google does not control both mobile and landline phones (at least not yet).
Visual C++ has the best C++ among commercial C++ compilers.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

And the table lacks most embedded compilers.
you mention state actors but overlook the bogeyman in our own backyard, whether it be the CIA, FBI, or even PACs. Yes Political Action Committees have people whose job is to maintain their view. PACs do it through mailing lists that combine specific people to maintain control over what is presented. with regards to sites like reddit you have those assigned to post and the list to rally those to vote up particular posts and downvote others to even mass report.

I know that many want to blame the other guy but sometimes that other guy is someone we know and their intentions are no better
> A value system is necessary for emotion

I think a value system is mostly a post hoc justification of our emotional states. I view emotions as primarily a tight biochemical feedback loop. Think more of the four “f”s than, say, platonic feelings of love.
English judges do have to adhere to the sentencing council guidelines.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/about-us/

> The primary role of the Council is to issue guidelines on sentencing which the courts must follow unless it is in the interests of justice not to do so.

> The Sentencing Council is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Ministry of Justice and replaced the Sentencing Guidelines Council and the Sentencing Advisory Panel in April 2010.