skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't deserve that response. Good job on the paper and keep up the good work. Your findings are supported by other research as you already know.
Thank you for the explanation. I wish very much that Pandora offered these (even indirect) feedback options. The music is playing in the background, so the page is never focussed at all, and there's no option to skip, so no way for me to voice my displeasure when the same ad comes on for the 10th time in a few hours (I'm not exaggerating).
I had a pretty underwhelming experience with rsync.net and their cheaper version without snapshots a year ago. Speeds where initially 1MB/s on a gigabit connection between Sweden and their Switzerland location. After complaining they exempted me from traffic shaping and I got 2-4MB/s instead.
How India gave us the zero
Electron is bloated indeed, but it's open source.
It's beyond perplexing that the author of this article is completely aware that putting your key in a foil-lined bag is one option, yet they spend most of the article talking about refrigerators and microwaves, which are infinitely less convenient and even dangerous. I suppose the fridge gets more clicks, though?
> Do you know any other examples

https://youtu.be/lFIYKmos3-s

Where "complex numbers" is Chinese, "imaginary numbers" is German, and "2D numbers" is English in this analogy.
You can't do this here. Please don't do it again.
... and you'd fail this particular test unless you could find an organic market that had just squeezed x gallons of fresh OJ within 5-7AM.
Bash is already quite a dependency in itself. It's nowhere near as universal as a plain Bourne-compatible shell, and some systems come with fairly old versions of Bash that are unable to cope with some of the more complicated code.

If folks are being honest with themselves, they will find it's significantly more sane to rely on a Python interpreter being available than writing Bash scripts. Go binaries have less dependencies than any Bash script, if runtime dependencies are an issue.
I'd like to call attention to what I consider the most informative comment in either of those discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17730681
Yeah fair enough. Having said that, News UK is very much in a completely different landscape. They've for sure made progress in many other ways, but that's significantly in part due to the fact that they're actually much better run businesses (until recently, the last few years have been messy), and not suffering from the kind of competition that they suffer from in the North American market.

I have no personal plans to buy their stock, but I'm not giving investment advice.
You can also try one of the Vulkan Rust libraries (ash, Vulkano). Later you'd have easier time migrating to gfx-hal, or alternatively can just run over gfx-portability.
They've been around for 30 years.
I did not say other tech hubs would be nicer to live in, as I could not compare (apart from London). It's just the experience I had living in Paris. By expensive I meant expensive when adjusted with the relatively-low salaries. In the end the only way to know, as parent comment said, is to try the experience. I just stated what I feel is not an uncommon opinion.
- Being a fresh C++ codebase, god knows what security vulnerabilities and stability issues it has.

- D3D 11 and metal required. Most likely huge compatibility/stability/rendering issues across different graphic cards and driver versions.

- Barrier to entry is one of the most important factors in a framework/library's success. You can't beat the Electron ecosystem where any idiot can make a cross platform app. This is really only useful for C++ developers.
That's such a normal way of thinking in the US's transportation culture. What's chronically absent from it is any sense of common courtesy.

So, inevitably, we end up in an inherently acrimonious situation: Everyone smaller than you is treated as nothing but an obstacle to be avoided, and everyone bigger than you is understood as a threat to your safety, and everyone about your same size is regarded as that asshole who just cut you off, or that asshole who needs to speed up and quit holding up traffic, etc.

We've become such misanthropists when it comes to transportation that it's even common for people to aver that they don't like using public transportation because they don't like how it brings them into regular social contact with people they don't know, and nobody thinks that attitude the least bit strange.

It's really quite odd, when you step back and look at it. Sad, too.
Maybe I can figure out a way to automount a file formatted as ext4 in my home directory using systemd mount units.
My cell phone still gets decent signal sitting down in the center console in the cubby below the entertainment system, enough to stream music at least which is more than it'd need for an SOS function. If your phone can send a text it's got more than enough signal to do the SOS functions.
If you need an origin story to make you eat healthily, your life is probably better if you do tell yourself your heritage is mostly caveman, cavemen had peak fitness, cavemen had peak fitness through their diet, therefore following the same diet will give you peak fitness; and you can prop that up by scanning history for instances of human endurance, where access to carbs may have been restricted. Aha! Paleo diet explains it! Amazing!

If you avoid eating shit, whether you're more healthful with or without a side of steam cooked rice is totally moot.
Comically, they do have their own public support forum that works similarly except someone from google jumps in and says something useless and closes the thread.

I’m sure they’d love to close HN threads where they consider the issue resolved as “closed, won’t fix” and find any further discussion not useful.
CPython vs. PyPy Memory Usage
> Nowhere in any of this is anybody saying "banning shouldn't ever happen".

That's fair. I absolutely acknowledge that my emotional response is making me get ahead of myself (I have an axe to grind with linguistic and moral relativism in general) and my apologies for not crafting the most reasonable arguments, here.

And don't get me wrong, I don't think the service is at all a bad idea. I just think that it could have been presented without falling back on the "Someone will always find something offensive and hate your label" comment.
Is there a video lecture version of this paper that someone can recommend?

This is a great paper. But I burn so much mental energy trying to focus when I read something vs. when I listen to a video lecture. So I end up retaining more watching stuff and every more taking some notes.
That is surprising, the early 2000's there was a huge uproar over all of the selenium runoff going into the San Francisco bay. At the time I wondered if there was an economic use for selenium and if extracting it from water was economically feasible.
> People who freak out about the insecurity of voting machines worry about the first two kinds of issues, and generally ignore the latter part.

No, they don't, IME; many of the people most vocal about the vulnerability of voting machines are the exact same people active against voter intimidation and suppression.

Conversely, many of the people who have historically most backed moves to vulnerable voting machines are also the same people practicing voter intimidation and suppression.
Can sound save a dwindling elephant population? Scientists using AI think so
Picked my curiousity, care to elaborate for me and others?
If your DB load is consistent and the cost of serverless outweights standard instance then yes go for a standard instance.

However if your DB load is very spiky then serverless Aurora might be cheaper than running an over provisioned instance.
Not that I know of, but since Chrome supports loading extensions from a local directory it shouldn't be too hard to make an app store based on github (and other source code repositories).

Using Firefox seems easier though. It also helps to prevent a future where a handful of global platforms have a veto on what software we are allowed to use.
Technically there is WebDAV. Yeah I know, but it's there and it's a spec. Another de-facto spec is rsync, iirc tarsnap was basically built on that. At some point there might have been even a business or two that offered rsync access.
> Have you seen these voting machines?

It's a fairly safe assumption that a person from India, where EVMs have been in widespread use since the late 1990s, with the first fully-EVM general election almost a decade and a half ago in 2004, has seen an electronic voting machine. (-:

Ironically, the argument that you make about how hard it is to rig a paper election is exactly the same as the argument that the supporters of EVMs and the ECI make about how hard it is to rig the EVM system. It claims that there are roughly 1.5 million machines that one would have to tamper with, randomly assigned to voting stations (which one would have to predict ahead of time), and monitored by canditates' electoral agents and the police all of whom you would have to threaten/bribe. You're both making the same argument.
And then you'll have two problems...
The King who thought he was made of glass
I've often wondered how much preparation/study of the local laws does one need when driving in another country?

If you lived in country A and were planning a holiday in country B, then yes I'd spend a bit of time googling their laws. But on a 2 week "coast to coast" road trip travelling through a dozen countries? I probably wouldn't bother.

However, if I knew nothing about the UK "bike box" and was driving as a guest, something tells me it would be blindingly obvious what it was for. No? I mean, it's a symbol a bike surrounded by thick white lines. https://goo.gl/maps/zz1TvLM6fcv
That's great news Brian. I tell every developer I meet to use DigitalOcean for servers, iwantmyname for domains, and Backblaze for backups and other bulk storage. I know DO has an offering, but it seems wiser to me to have a completely separate company for backups.

Keep up the good work!
Probably wouldn't be wise to host a dataset like this with "example" images embedded or linked where a search engine could find them.
Definitely yes on an OpenGL GPUDriver implementation (it's done), Vulkan is still being explored.
> Otherwise the sign would say use-your-judgment-and-decide-what-to-do.

Huge numbers of stop signs are found in North America, but they're not so common elsewhere. In Europe, most smaller junctions in residential areas will have a "yield" sign, or no sign at all. Busier ones might have a mini-roundabout (give way to the left).

In the UK, installing a stop sign requires the permission of the central government. This is to keep the sign special — if you see one, there really is some risky road layout that means you can't see safely until you're stopped at the sign. There was only one example anywhere near where I grew up: next to an junction by an ancient castle where parts of the building overhung the road, meaning large vehicles might be on the wrong side of the road to pass by.
Not in tech. The difference it tech salary is bigger than for other fields. It's unusually low in France, and usually big in the US.
No stacked encryption on top of ext4. LUKS+ext4 should still work (since it's visible to Dropbox as just ext4 with cryptsetup/LUKS handling the underling container).
More importantly, being lower-level reduces opportunities for driver bugs and inconsistencies — aren't they the main reason GL(&ES) and D3D(<12) are bad?
All bets are off because that's how they were designed. Just look at a modern iPhone, which is designed with security in mind. It's far harder to get the same kind of access.
The rules are definitely not there for my benefit, the bearing they have on my safety is incidental. I've got more important things to look out for than the traffic signs. The roads were designed for cars and any attention given to cyclists, the rules they shod obey, or design features to accomodate them is largely an afterthought.

It really doesn't matter how cyclists behave, the anger will still be there, because cyclists are part of the wrong tribe, their presence on the roads in any capacity is viewed as a violation of the natural moral order.

When I'm cycling, whether or not I'm obeying the rules has little material effect on a driver's ability to get from A to B, I'm courteous, but their blood pressure still goes up. My advice to them is to see a doctor and get it fixed.
> But nowhere do they suggest playing opaque games

My point was that it doesn't have to be an opaque game, the story just makes it seem that way. That's why I mentioned people reading too much into the story and not getting the point.

> They all have sections or a chapter on "OK, now that you've got the deal, how are you going to ensure the counterpart follows through?"

Sure, that's a valid way to approach this type of thing. It just means that in stead of spending most time on the actual project, you might be spending your time on managing the your supplier. If you can get around this by picking a supplier that makes a realistic bid, including a mention of possible issues, that might save a lot of headaches.

This is a choice in management strategy and I've experienced both types. I've also experienced that customers that do something like 'the orange juice test' are often better to work with and end up happier with the end result.

There's actually a huge issue in the Netherlands currently, where major consultancy firms make bids on projects the can't deliver. Multiple 8-9 figure government projects have ended that way and are now in litigation stages. This problem is both caused by the customer not knowing what they want and the supplier abusing that to get more hours in. Gotta make that sales target somehow!
> I’ve been able to keep my gym attendance regular by starting pretty slow and gradually building up to more intense workouts.

People start way too intense, spending hours in the gym, and burn out all their enthusiasm in the first weeks or two before they realize that their efforts are unsustainable. Really, start with a plan on what do to, go in and do it. If it's a half hour that's perfectly fine. My sessions, depending on the day, last anywhere from half an hour to 3 based upon my mood and the workload for that particular session - but you gotta keep the mandatory work to a reasonable amount - everything else should be treated as icing on the fitness cake.

I'm sure to go with the 11 kg there has been significant body composition changes to make it count for more as well.
I've got a blanket rejection for my page regarding instant articles. Apparently I violated the monetization agreement at some point (though I collected no money at all, and didn't even have ads); and when I go to the page to appeal it, it's so broken it doesn't let me even submit my page to the appeal process. There's no other way I have to contact them at this point.
The WebCore module of Ultralight is open-source: https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight-webcore
I don't think so.. it's definitely implied that you ask for something more than you need and then walk back from it. Like he says "“Oh you don’t really intend to have the breakfast. It’s just part of the test."
I feel like it's possible to write secure voting software to the same level as NASA's software is bug free [1] following a similar rigorous development and testing process. It's just not worth it for any commercial profit-driven company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=421555
100 Days of ML Coding
I've been meaning to try git-annex as well. Anyone have any experience/opinions on it?
Terrel Miedaner's story The Soul of the Mark III Beast (1977) republished in 'The Mind's I' describes this situation exactly.

https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Fantasies-Reflections-Self-Soul...
Harvard Study: Open Offices Decrease Collaboration
> ... people have come to expect the freedoms that cars bring them

this idea has some truth, but ... with higher population densities and traffic, the amount of freedom a private car offers diminishes significantly.

if the rules of the road were changed in California -- if taxes, fees, insurance and fuel costs went high enough, if metered lanes on freeways charged enough, individual car ownership would become much less desirable, even to Americans.

people, even US people, would adapt and the whole system might finally be arranged so that commuters could arrive at work on a reliable time schedule.
10 Price Predictions for 10 Top Cryptocurrencies – Aug 2018
Are there similar frameworks for ZSH?
I don’t know if I agree with this reasoning. Bridges are at risk of being destroyed by any attacker with a truck full of dynamite. Do they defend against this in their designs? Do we blame the bridge engineer if someone destroys it? Do we blame the airplane builder when someone shoots a missile at it and it blows up? Software is one of those few practices where we blame the builder for being careless when the product is deliberately and maliciously attacked.
> bread is sugary and dense in calories

I don't buy a lot of bread, but when I do, fresh baked real bread is readily available here always.

> restaurant food is in two salty-oily servings

That depends on the restaurant, but you can find good and bad food in any country. I easily get 2 or 3 meals out of a restaurant portion, so it's very economical sometimes (even more so than fast food options).

> the snacks your peers bring in are donuts and cupcakes.

Don't forget the abundance of home-made snacks that are common in US workplaces, depending on the individual workplace and the people in it, of course.

> you all just have to stop eating so much

It's true, and it's not that hard. You just have to want to be healthy and make the choices to achieve that goal. I lost 50 pounds doing strictly portion control and cutting out processed foods (unless I'm hung over - then hot pockets are my bestest friend). I choose not to eat my entire meal in a restaurant, and I choose to not to order salty meals (oily, yes, but olive oil is so good and good for you), and I choose not to buy bread full of preservatives, and I choose not to eat the processed snacks that my co-workers bring, and I choose to limit sugary drinks, and I choose to eat a scoop of ice cream every night (because it's healthy as long as I'm not overeating). I love living in the US because I get to make those choices for myself (i.e., not legislated), including "stop eating so much".

That being said, none of the things you mentioned are exclusive to the US.

And for the record, I agree with the article that it's easy to become obese, but it's more because of the choices people make and not the options they have.
"Embedding" is often the term used to describe using a scripting language runtime within a larger app, for example embedding a Lua runtime in a game or a Javascript engine in a database. I'd imagine that was the context for using that term here.
It's impossible to secure without giving up the secrecy of the ballot or having a fully redundant paper system with on-premise checks by humans with observers: In which case, why bother?
I haven't run it, but previous HN threads often have comments of ownCloud randomly deleting files, along with other weird bugs.
There is absolutely weird entitlement problem in the US with regards to drivers, and motorcycle riders feel it, too. It becomes clear when a common response to supporting filtering (motorcycles being allowed to move to the front at intersections for visibility reasons) is, "Why should they get to go first?"

Which, of course, is completely irrelevant complaint regardless of ones views on filtering. There's this notion that a driver is entitled to both their place on the road and some sort of ill-defined spot in a queue that isn't there.
> Users have to be able to input when they're eating carbs

I’m not diabetic, so I’m probably missing something, but why? I would have expected the CGM to detect the extra glucose quickly enough without any extra input from the user. Kind of like how people with pacemakers don’t have to tell the pacemaker before they start jogging.
Is it weird the article is full of outright lies, qualified only by the weaseliest of hedges?

They did not make waves; they did not confront the students who were raging about cultural appropriation and violent speech; in fact, they forged close friendships with many of them. These people sound... hypothetcal, to be as kind as possible.

What they were getting from these lectures and discussions... perhaps the only sustained argument against identity politics they had heard in their lives. Perhaps? Yeah probably not though, and it's disingenuous to throw that in there with nothing to back it up.

That might seem like a small thing, but it’s not. With identity politics off the table, it was possible to talk about all kinds of things—religion, philosophy, history, myth—in a different way. They could have a direct experience with ideas, not one mediated by ideology. Pure bullshit. At best they would be switching one ideology for another. A very old mistake is to assume that you don't have a limited perspective and can see things with an "objective" God's-eye view.

campus free-speech zones where it could be monitored, shouted down, and reported to the appropriate authorities I'm not necessarily saying this doesn't happen, but putting it this way makes it sound like a big problem when it's just not that common.

As with Peterson’s podcasts and videos, the audience is made up of people who are busy with their lives—folding laundry, driving commercial trucks on long hauls, sitting in traffic from cubicle to home, exercising. More fiction.

The left has an obvious and pressing need to unperson him I'm sure that's not what that word means.

There are plenty of reasons for individual readers to dislike Jordan Peterson. The following paragraph is a convenient little bundle of straw men.

And in all this, not a single reason given why identity politics is bad or even what it is.
The latter creates Heisenbugs if you change the type of x and don't track down every malloc to update the type. It is better to avoid using sizeof(typename) if possible.

Now the profligate use of leading underscores. That is an issue.
As a layman, it is a personal aspiration to be able to understand this precise paper. It's very appealing to be able to express and reason about the related problems of complexity and edit distances using a generative(?) notation like lambda calculus that you can hack on in accessible languages like Haskell.

I also like that the citations include Emperor's New Mind; Godel, Escher, Bach; the Brainfuck homepage, and Haskell. The effects of these ideas on a couple generations of young minds is bearing fruit.

It feels like we're on the brink of gamifying a lot of important math.
same in any major high density city. london is worse. ny is worse. sf is worse.
You joke, but I suspect this is part of the changes Google is being forced to make into order to launch the censored China versions.

There are more publicly visible examples [0] of how China pressures Hollywood to make changes to movies in order to release films in China. Even changes to films not released (eg, Change A in order to release B).

I don’t see why they wouldn’t make similar demands to Google, but there’s no way for me to confirm or deny this. Technically it’s pretty hard for Google to prove they don’t censor stuff because of China unless they go fully open data, open source. And they can’t do that.

There are few tech companies that can be trusted. I hope Apache doesn’t break down.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/18/407619652/...
WHY COMPANIES SHOULD CONSIDER SELF-SERVE SOLUTIONS
This makes much more sense now thanks :)

Last 2 questions just related to just formatting cards

Does that render with inline-Latex on each card (e.g. are you using a latex anki plugin?)

Do you use powerformat pack plugin https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/162313389