skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Topographical maps present the height and leave the gradient to be interpreted by the reader, if it's possible at all. What this shows is the gradient and is much more useful to me as a cyclist and/or pedestrian, I don't care if I'm ascending 50m but I do care if that's over a 100 meter or 200 meter distance. Depending on how fine grained a topographical map is this information could be hard to impossible to interpret.
I believe it is possible that our universe is not orientable, and so there may exist closed paths which, if followed, reverse orientation upon returning to the starting point. If you were right-handed and traversed such a loop, you would now be left-handed relative to everyone else, everyone would agree your heart was on the "right" side of your body etc.

In fact even Atiyah touches on this idea (though without speculating that it might be a property of our universe). In Mind, Matter and Mathematics, he says:

"When I was a student in Cambridge our mathematical society invited a distinguished professor of philosophy, C.D. Broad, to give us an evening lecture. He chose to talk on a problem which had much exercised Kant, the difference between right-handed gloves and left-handed gloves. After the lecture, over dinner, I diffidently suggested to Broad that, since Kant’s time, we mathematicians had a much better understanding of “handedness”, or chirality as scientists call it. We could even envisage a universe in which a left-handed glove could wander around to distant regions and return to fit your right-hand. "
There have been numerous studies comparing genetic ancestry to self identification of race with an effectively perfect mapping. Here [1] [2] are a couple of papers. The reason there are not more papers is because the data here is not even remotely ambiguous. Your position is a semantic strawman -- it claims race references something other than ancestry, and then goes on to argue that that 'something' does not exist. It is the most classical form of a strawman - set it up and burn it down. Race, both in denotation and connotation, is a reference to genetic ancestry.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/

[2] - https://jmg.bmj.com/content/47/12/835
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I don't think the justification for spying on you is really why they want to spy on you.
> PTSD? from what? reading fan mail? even if it contains death threats you can't get PTSD from that there is no trauma

There is a solid kernal of truth here, PTSD generally relies on clear and obvious trauma... That said, CPTSD has lots of nuanced angles, the original quote was "contribute[s] to" PTSD (not "cause"), and I think the required emotional investment to produce content vs horrendous comment content from YouTube commenters has been overlooked.

Particularly on an IT forum: stress stemming from continuous urgency and unending negativity, a la customer support or helpdesk work, is a major problem and a silent killer. Combined with burnout? That's where you get into serious health issues. Chronic stress combined with feelings of helplessness, being overwhelmed, or being attacked cause trauma by themselves. Socially we are terrible at addressing those burdens on our employees, and it stretches into PTSD-ish territory

Reading fan mail? How about rape and death threats? How about invasive comments about how your nipples have been showing more/less with each video? How about abject racism and brutal sexism and blatant trolling about your appearance? That's before we get to unrelenting shit talking about you and your work...

You may very well be right that PTSD isn't always a precise diagnosis of the issue. But if anyone is getting regular death threats based on something important to them over a long period of time, then the nuanced distinctions between life-destroying stress conditions, PTSD, and CPTSD are something they're gonna spend some time discussing with their therapist. That's how our brains work.
I've unwittingly enjoyed Matt Lee's content on 'Shut Up and Sit Down', a board game review channel. I've always found him, and his colleagues, really good at what they do and find it professional.

I didn't know about Matt's background on Youtube, but a bit of Googling and I found he's had a really rough ride. As well as the stress and health problems others have mentioned, his wife also developed cancer a few years ago and was very close to dying.

All the while he still manages to produce witty, engaging content for a fickle audience. Honestly, the guy deserves a bit more respect for his craft than the comments in this thread are giving.
There is a right to silence under common law apparently.
Similar posting discussed recently: http://blog.systemed.net/post/10 (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632378).
Running a 3rd Gen with Fedora 28. No issues but I could do with more RAM than the 8GB limit.
For years, I've been wanting a book sorting app.

I've wanted a app that I can take a digital picture of my 12' x 8' wall of uncatorgized books, and the program will tell he roughly where the book looking for is physically.

For instance, the "Book you are requesting is located top right, second shelf from the top."

I've thought about building one, but I don't see a market. Maybe, Librarians, and what's left of book stores? For instance, "Hay the computer says we have that book, but someone probably put it in the wrong section? Go use that app?"

App: take picture, hard part (would pull titles on spines of books, and put into database. Don't have a clue if that's even possible, without huge financial resources? Yes-it would be OCR, but what open source program could I fool with?)

(I'm also considering getting rid of most of my books. It's kinda tough. I've spend a lifetime collecting reference books, and 1st editions. To get a idea of the used book market, I have had over 100 pretty current computer/programming books on CL for $500, and one person was interested, and that was a scam.)
Thank you :-)

It is weird that Anna is in the fluent project and the author doesn't mention where the source code is. :sob:

I used Google to find Anna here https://github.com/ucbrise/anna, but seems it is out of date.
Quirks of C
from the very first paragraph:

"we offer a product that allows customers to host a private website using this stock, under their own domain. We wanted to provide HTTPS support to all of these websites."
Living alien recovered from 1969 – UFO landing site – USSR
Great idea. Even if it's not fair use (as amelius suggests below), I can imagine a lot of publishers would get on board, especially for technical books. It would increase the value of books that you buy, and if you search books you didn't own, point you to books you might want to buy.
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Open your eyes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-rights/mus...
Can you study something if you can't talk about it openly? Or, if one and only one conclusion is acceptable to be reached? I'll admit that OP didn't directly make this claim, but it seems like a reasonable conclusion from their post that they believe this is a dangerous topic to study because of the possibility of bad people using science badly.
Sounds fair.

I imagine "Black Magic" probably originated from a term describing African traditions and cultures.
Found the guy with a shitty rent-seeking website that hates adblockers.
If it is a success in Australia, it will be rolled out across the rest of the commonwealth
In computing and computer science it is regularly appalling, even on basic topics.

The article on wait() et al., for example, is significantly wrong, some of which is called out on its talk page.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_(system_call)

There are similar errors in its article on MAC times.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MAC_times

Its article on pax, a standard Unix utility for a fairly long while, is very misleading too.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pax_(Unix)

Its article on CubeHash in 2013 did not include information from 2009.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CubeHash#This_article_is_....

I've pointed out errors in its article on systemd, one of which was called out by one of the systemd authors.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=723240462&oldid=72...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=631112520&oldid=63...

The irony of this edit to the NFS article is that in fact the problems and limitation of NFS with respect to full Unix filesystem semantics were called out by its authors when they first wrote about it, and are the widespread view.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Network_File_Syst...

Wikipedia people actually tried to delete articles on "Is" functions, C++ placement syntax, and the Process Environment Block.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Is_functions&diff...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Process_Environme...

They in contrast kept an article about a purported computer science concept that was invented within Wikipedia based upon a vague phrase in a book that did not in fact describe the Wikipedia concept.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/legacy-encoding-has-no-definition.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
After reading about your personal experience, I felt some nagging doubt. I went back to my database to see how much my food would weigh if I set the protein ratio of my diet to 1.4g/kg body mass by increasing the protein-rich bean and grain meals. The total mass of food eaten per day would come to 2840g. That would be sufficient protein for hard weightlifting, and it sounds doable.

But my experience was different. At 1.1g/kg I found it too hard to eat the amount of food my diet prescribed. I would just stop salivating.

Then maybe the underlying problem isn't the amount of food but my lame-ass cooking.
Muslim Minority in China Face Political Indoctrination
While I am entirely in favor of non-racist terminology and not offending anyone, let alone minorities, I don't quite get how master/slave and "killer app" may offend anyone and haven't heard of anyone feeling offended. If this is a big deal, please tell me and others.

Same goes for "blacklist/whitelist". i'm not sure this ever referred to skin color...
There have been unsuccessful experiments to interbreed humans and apes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

So getting human DNA back into apes doesn't seem possible.
Well, humour is the best defence against tyranny.
Given the problems between human races, I'd say the latter.
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breit%E2%80%93Wheeler_process
Too much talk of prestige and reputation, perhaps unsurprising since it's from a professional organization.
As long as it is not fueling more criminal stuff, it is better for that money to be circulating around. At least a part of that money is being redistributed around to people working the casino, making it possible for them to do other things. The bad part is not these people, it is people who are going into debt and stealing from their children to fuel their gambling addiction. I don't mind the Singapore model where you have to have an income above a certain level to gamble in the country.
>They can tap phones, and should be able to tap phones, along with VoIP, video calls, and mail. But while privacy isn't absolute, their ability to wiretap communications with a court order has never been absolute either, merely opportunistic.

No it was never opportunistic, it was always by design and mandated by law as telecommunication providers must provide LEI capabilities this affects how they design and implement their networks and the equipment they use which is why LEI capabilities appear even in CPE equipment such as your modem and the FCC and other regulatory bodies enforce this as part of their certification process.

The case here is that that now the telecommunication providers aren't actually that useful for LEI or at least it's that WhatsApp/Facebook isn't classified as one because if it was it would be required to provide LEI capabilities by law.

>People, including whistleblowers and political dissidents, even in the U.S., will be harassed, threatened, blackmailed, or even killed as a result of their tampering, and the government itself will misuse those expanded access powers, just like all the others they've publicly or secretly obtained.

If we turn back the clock even only 5 years ago where essentially nothing was encrypted in a manner that would invalidate LEI this wasn't an issue, nor does it grant the government any new powers.
I think this is a mischaracterisation of Lisp and the history of mathematics.

Saying that lisp is all about writing (function arguments...) misses the point. One can write function application in ML in this way too. The key things are approximately that all syntax could be written as sexps, including things like let and lambda which in other languages require special syntax; and that the semantics (somewhat) corresponds to the lambda-calculus and so includes lambdas.

I would not say that Lisp is fantastically succinct. There are many ways to express things and the main advantage of lisp is that you can choose how to do this, so long as you express things in sexps.

Yes the (very) ancient Egyptians sort-of knew about Pythagoras’ theorem, although I would perhaps say that the babylonians knew it better. I don’t know whether it is known if they knew that it held for right triangles both ways or just that one could make a right triangle from a^2+b^2=c^2. However I wouldn’t say that Pythagoras made it succinct. For one thing he likely didn’t exist. Also the main contribution of the Greeks to this would be the notion and formalisation of proof (which evolved over time in Greece), rather than the theorem itself. Indeed I would say that the modern expression of the theorem is more succinct than the one one will find in eg Elements
Blacklisting doesn’t come from anything race related, apparently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
Are we all going to pretend that an ancient mythological fairy tale text is the evidence of talking apes?
Art is an investment and if it's worth $1 million now, it's guaranteed to be worth a lot more in 10 years. Same with exclusive cars - although the gaudy gold plated ones probably won't appreciate as much as the 60 year old Ferrari mentioned elsewhere.
No, I'm fully aware it's not the US, I simply used a principle that's popular enough (from movies) that many people could relate. It's the principle that matters. I edited the original comment a little to highlight this.

I'm sure that there must be something in the Australian constitution that guarantees a right for the citizens. Should it be taken away just to make someone job a little easier?
Oh dear, what's next? Gender neutral electrical connectors?
Yes that is semantic.

And not real distinguishing, given that most languages have bytecodes. This is true even of many "scripting" languages such as Python, PHP, and Ruby.

> as a tremendous amount of optimisation can actually be done by that compile step.

Not really. Look at something like Proguard which (among other things) is the #1 JVM bytecode optimizer. And yet the runtime performance differs very little before and after optimization. As long as you deliver reasonable bytecode, the JIT will capture every optimization and more that you could make to it.

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At the end of the day, machine code is thing that actually moves the needle on performance, whether JIT machine code or AOT machine code.
Is this a joke-issue? I honestly can't tell. I would say yes, but there is an actual commit.
Scripting: Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century [pdf]
It really depends on whether law enforcement is able to barge in there and do a bust. I wouldn't be surprised if the local government keeps an eye closed, given how much the high rollers contribute to local businesses. Don't know if the local government makes much money off of the casinos though (e.g. taxes).
15 years ago is a long time ago.
Well, it always strikes me how well educated people with a lot of Knowledge in their domain (assuming that point is valid for the majority on Hacker News) have the tendency to totaly over-simplify other scientific fields. In this case evolution, biology and statistics. So what actually happened to humility, scientific literacy and honest curiosity?

Not sure if it was intended, but your second post comes across as Sexist and trying to reason this with bad science.
I see Go (also) occupying that niche. Maybe that's because of my (cloud technology) bubble, but 90%+ of the interesting new projects are in Go (not just web services or container runtimes, also CLI tools).
It goes to the casino, owned by yet another member of the 1%-of-the-1%. There is some trickle down in the form of big tips, but $500 when tens of millions have passed hands is just loose change.
The person you are talking about could simply have bad biomechanics, or pushed themselves beyond what they should have and not allowed for sufficient recovery.
Like tomatoes, instead of like watery cardboard.
This isn't some guy with a few thousand followers. He's literally a celebrity. He would need to delete all his publicly accessible social media, stop reading emails, and have the will-power not to go down the rabbit hole of reading the online discussion about him.

You act as if just disappearing as a celebrity is some easy job. Especially one in this area (Twitch), where the audience is more pervasive. There's plenty of celebrities out there who try to filter out criticism online but can't help themselves but get consumed by it. Kevin Durant is a great example. The guy has no reason to care about what some kids say about him on social media, but he still gets sucked into conversations about him online.

If you haven't been in the situation before, I think it's pretty unfair to just say "ignore it".
Indeed, and this is my point: such tools cannot be generic ("works with any file") and also transparent ("plug & play").
Closed tools like Signal, Snapchat, Slack, Whatsapp, iMessage, Messenger, Hangouts etc will all make the promises about privacy you want to hear, but at the end of the day they are closed source and updates or commands can be sent to your handset to send plaintext to their servers at any time.

The question is under what criteria this will happen. Insider abuse? Government order? To make money?

Trying to make it illegal for companies to do this sort of thing on a country by country basis is worth pursuing, but it is not a real solution. We need to stop trying to use the law to enforce security.

The solution is to use tools that take court ordered backdoors off the table. Support open and federated communications networks where anyone can build their own clients or servers where pressuring of any entity can't put community built clients at risk.

There are a range of clients/protocols that meet this criteria such IRC with OTR, XMPP, IRCv3, Silence, Matrix.org.

Take your pick, and convince your contacts to use that instead of companies where you have to just take their word for it they won't backdoor you as it suits them.
There's a marginal difference between searching the contents of all the books on earth and the indexes/glossaries of the books you have on your shelf. The latter is a great productivity boost, while the prior is most likely infuriatingly pointless.

"Oh great, I found this exact algorithm I need in this obscure book which has been out of print since 1986."
my mind says conceptual thing, my body does not
Future of OMEMO
The colors black and white representing bad/good, darkness/light crosses cultural boundaries and predate racial tensions by centuries. Fear of the night and worshiping the light are universal. The idea that someone is being racist just by using words that refer to this concept is absurd, and so is choosing to not use these words for this reason.

These misguided attempts to control people's speech do not resolve anyones struggles in any meaningful way and if anything only introduces political fatigue for your cause.
I think it's the user that makes a connection with racism. I always thought blacklist and whitelist was based on color absorption, black absorbs and therefore doesn't let through anything. White was simply the color opposite to black.

I assumed master/slave was adopted from the idea of a master record. The main thing that came to mind is audio mastering, not people. Am I missing something about the origin?

It's nice to see changes that make things more clear, however I wish political correctness was not a factor.

Are orphan processes and brainfuck next?
You’re right, but the problem is not with those apps.
Before that, all that garbage was forwarded through e-mails.

My dad used to drive me crazy forwarding hoaxes. But in his case, it was because he knew it will, and found it amusing. As he told me « I only forward you a 10th of what I receive ! »
Thats the problem with gyms though, they offer nothing of human value.

I switched to doing BJJ instead and I am addicted because I have training, discipline and a social aspect.

I never got any of that pounding on the treadmill or struggling to lift 16kg dumb bells
Anectodes are bad samples, just saying...
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> we offer a product that allows customers to host a private website using this stock, under their own domain. We wanted to provide HTTPS support to all of these websites.

Please do not use codeblocks for quotes. Just put a > in front of each paragraph.
Doubting your competence is not a personal attack/ad hominem, so don’t try to twist my words.
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The entire greater male variability theory (which is what is under discussion here)

It claims that while averages for men and women are the same, you get more men at the high IQ end of the spectrum and also more men at the lower end of the IQ spectrum (which balance out the average).

The whole argument is predicated on what happens at the edges of the normal distribution, not what happens at the center.
Yes, but in this case your PC is doing something. It has a purpose. 24/7 without doing anything is a waste of energy.
Please do a benchmark and feature comparison against aerospike and foundationdb, those are your main open source competitors as far as I can tell. Maybe I live in a different world but to me it really doesn't matter how good Anna is versus some closed source cloud database.
It's not a question of science. It's a question of math. Math is a model which allows you to over-simplify other scientific fields in the first place, and then devise solutions which turn out to be useful even in their over-simplified form.

This is the reason for the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. However, here I'm not pushing any direct resemblance between model and any society anywhere. You're doing that, not me.
Same answer: Yes, but in this case your PC is doing something. It has a purpose. 24/7 without doing anything is a waste of energy.
I'm afraid not. I plan to monetize it, but not in an annoying way.
So who cares? Just adapt the TCP timeouts (resend timeouts) to 10 minutes.

We’ll end up with the same, TCP-based system, except it’s going to be somewhat different, as time scales are not invariant for us humans.
Yes, there were a couple of talks at Go UK 2018 about that.
> While I am entirely in favor of non-racist terminology and not offending anyone

And you can't even comment on it without giving this explanation first because people will assume that you're racist if you don't do this first.

This makes me sad since we have so much do to and we can achieve a lot yet we're focusing these so-called problems.
Etymology is sketchy, but most likely that isn't that case. Using light and dark to mean good and evil goes back millennia and is almost certainly unrelated to race. There are records of the term nigromancy (literally black magic) being used to refer to communicating with the dead, summing demons etc. since the middle ages.