skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello,
I'm writing to oppose the 2018 Assistance & Access Bill. Although I recognize the difficulties encryption poses to law enforcement & counter-terrorism, it is not a strong enough reason to compromise the safety, security & privacy of 24 million Australian citizens.
Every Australian has a right to reliable, mathematically guaranteed privacy & security, not compromised/undermined by oppressive legislature.
Neither domestic nor international companies should be required to assist anyone in breaking privacy protections, nor should warrants allow access to protected devices, and nor should existing legislature be strengthened.
Would these changes help law enforcement catch a few criminals? Probably. Will it weaken the safety, security & privacy of millions of respectable, law-abiding Australians? Definitely.
Cheers,
Louise
I had quite good experience with it so far. I have migrated over from Middleman when the updating process become unbearable.

I agree that doing new layouts is quite hit and miss. An extensive example using all possible variables would be quite welcome.
I'm having trouble tying Operation Gladio[0] to election interference. Also, spying is not the same as interfering.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Building an audio app on .NET Core
My phone left the JPG entirely intact when downloading it. I suppose you're talking about iOS devices?
No offense intended (really!), but you're talking about a very complicated situation, which it appears that you don't really understand fully.

> But Israel seems to have forgotten the humanity of the Palestinians, striping them from their human rights, or passing laws that could affect the rights of Israeli minorities [0].

The situation of the Palestinians is terrible, IMO. But there is simply no simple solution that anyone has for how to solve it. Sure, some Israelis are terrible people, and are racist, etc, as are many Americans, Europeans, etc. But as a whole, the reason the Palestinian situation continues is partly because no one really has a good answer to how to solve it! It's probably also partly because Israel has more power right now, and the feeling is that the longer the situation continues, the better for Israel, so why not let it drag out? But if there were a decent solution, many people in Israel would push very hard to implement it. The truth is, most Israelis just don't know what to do anymore (and solutions have been tried before, negotiations have happened).

And btw, the new law that you talk about isn't really going to affect Palestinians so much as minority citizens of Israel (and it probably won't actually affect them either, it's more a symbolic thing I think).

> just pointing out that because the number of dead Palestinian people is relevant enough and the author who fought for and lives in Israel, was speaking of when countries do dehumanize people and was hoping that in this case there would be voices in Israel that could disagree with the current situation.

If you think there aren't voices in Israel who disagree with the current situation, you're very wrong. Unfortunately, as I said, many people have "given up", or at least have no idea what to do anymore.
In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/04/15/...
I remember when Digg was bigger than Reddit and then after a certain Digg site redesign they lost a significant number of their users to Reddit and never really recovered.
file knows...
You don’t see you own bias. Taking the counter point. Tesla has a hugely inflated valuation based primarily on speculation, and even if they manage to become a successful profitable company they might not be worth as much as the current stock prize puts them at.

The shorts are essentially bets saying “All you investors should have put you money into other more productive investments”
And while we can debate whether this is true or not. The shorts might have had it. And if they “win” it just means that a lot of investors wasted a lot of money in Tesla building up a brand and inferior product when they could have instead just backed other companies with similar products like the Nissan Leaf, which by the way out-performs the Tesla model 3 in test scores but doesn’t have the same levels of internet hype.

You can’t unelaterally state that anyone who’s “building something” is in the right and all shorters are working against sociaty. Look at Theranos, the doubters and naysayers had it right. It was a huge waste of time, money and talented people. Even if they did have incredible levels of hype at the peak.

All that said. I hope Tesla succeeds, but I won’t hold it against the shorts if they don’t. Tesla is a huge gamble and overvalued even by Musks own admission.
“Commons Clause” was intended to stop AWS from selling open source as products
SpaceX intends to get costs down to about $10/kg to LEO using BFR, almost as cheap as long haul air cargo. That is 2-3 orders of magnitude improvement and changes a lot of calculations.
You continue to change the subject and skip inconvenient questions. When I ask for data behind your assumptions you just don't answer. When I provide data to support my assumptions you laugh it off basing on anecdotal evidence and start another offtopic. Yet, in the end you confirmed my point:

> Nationalism is what people want

Precisely. And it's because (among other things) government is actively working to make them want it. And it's a very bad idea, which was the whole point of the original article we discuss here. So mentioning Poland was totally justified.

With that settled I'm done with this discussion. I dislike talking with people jumping on 1000 tangentially related points when they can't answer it. It's a cheap and timewasting tactic.
Well, to turn matter into light is basically the same as turning matter into energy.. which will, of course, produce a lot of it: E=mc^2

That's really hard though, unless you use antimatter+matter. And then you'll have to produce the antimatter first, of course. And you're back to square one.
Our findings on how does SEO works in JavaScript based sites like PWA work
Coming from Jekyll, Hugo theming was extremely daunting.
Same here, Although I have yet to see a deliberate comparison between the two.
From exploiting loopholes to committing fraud, grifters are having a moment
I think you can seperate these two aspects of Kandinsky or Ernst's works. On one side the skill and aesthetics of the artwork, and on the other side the reflection of their times and circumstances.

We've established that Naon, Kandinsky and Ernst make beautiful artworks. So it makes sense to compare them on their aesthetics if they have similarities.

When it comes to the 'depth' you are speaking of, the modernists are pushing back against their environments and their history, struggling and competing with their contemporaries. This makes the art 'live' and gives it uniqueness. Never again can someone have the exact same circumstances and history of Kandinsky, those times are simply over.

Naon has his own history and his own circumstances. Maybe now they may seem shallow, but time will tell if his time and experience was unique, and his artwork a reflection of it. As you say he is young, maybe there is still more inside of him to grow and come out. But I have to say I have not seen generative art that good before.

If nothing else, it might be the best we've got to challenge the next generation of generative AI art with.
Building an alexa skill
Let your product go viral among their organization and then get an inside sales rep to call them and offer to "meet" with them.

If the account is big enough, then send in someone to go wine and dine them.

That's how the traditional pointy-hair/tan suit sales guys do it
Thanks for going trough the issue for us.

Something about the hypothesis itself:

The variability hypothesis seems plausible, but there seems to be little evidence linking it to biological differences.

Variability differences undoubtedly exist, but not universally and not with same degree across cultures. As the measured variance is very culture dependent and even disappears, existing data does not support the hypothesis linking it to biological differences.

There is also strong negative correlation between variance ratio (VR) and mathematical performance. (r = -0.640, p < 0.001). VR = (variance in male scores) / (variance in female scores). The variance is higher where math scores are lower.

source:

Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance
http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf
Smash smashing it again with the first one...

BTW - your realtime synth engine (https://github.com/monadgroup/axiom) looks great. Any ETA for a Mac build of the VST?
> The “pacifists” of World War II were the traitors and collaborators who stood by and did nothing, other than surrender their armies and homelands and offer aid and comfort, as Hitler butchered an entire continent and murdered tens of millions of innocents.

You know, the Germans said something similar about jewish "traitors" who supposedly caused their defeat in WW1, and this contributed to the build up to the atrocities of WW2.

"That war is never a good option" is precisely the lesson of war, forget about who are supposedly the good guys vs the bad guys. The countries that comprised the allied forces in WW2 have waged aggressive, unjustified wars themselves since then. Are you saying such aggression is the result of them having learned the right lessons from WW2? (i.e., to not be pacifist?)
WE WUZ ELAPHANTS!!1!

Maybe that Yakub was a foreign exchange student to IIT back in the day.
Show HN: ProDecide – Making Life Decisions Using Human Resources and AI
Eh, a big part of that has to do with unlikely scenarios. Garbage in, garbage out.

I cut my teeth building the scenario response models. I think the best improvements resulting from these exercises have been structural. Many banks have used it as an opportunity to improve their data and reporting infrastructures, which were often stuck in spreadsheets.
Themes was the least important issue for me, easy of use was much higher in my list of priorities.
I think the most irritating thing about this is right-clicking on the image and selecting "View image", just to be confronted with the very same page as before, since the browser continues to interpret it as HTML.
If the differences between sexes are less impactful than differences between individuals, why is virtually every olympic sport segregated by gender, with significant deltas in performance at every part of the performance distribution? Why are purely intellectual competitions like chess also segregated by gender due to a performance disparity?
How to Generate (Almost) Anything
It seems pretty clear that Knuth was not talking about instruction-level optimization, but about those activities/features that came to be known as metaprogramming, reflection, refactoring etc.

I imagine he was thinking about human-directed program transformations that are almost language and machine-independent, implicitly high-level, whole-program stuff, rather than aimed at writing "idiomatic" fast machine code. So I guess not the kind of optimization you have in mind.

What sounds more applicable for your use case would be profile-directed optimization, maybe based on mutating an initial fragment of assembler in ways that preserve its semantics but might improve performance. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization. But unless you wanted to create an instruction set that included reflection as a feature, this would most conveniently be written in another language.

Edit: I should clarify, obviously self-modifying code written in assembler is in some sense reflective, but it's hard work.
Sextortion scum armed with leaked credentials are persistent pests
Since the majority of the FED members are the largest US banks, it is not really surprising that the stress tests they devised gives those banks a favorable result.
Toddlers prefer winners–but avoid those who win by force
SpaceX dodges lightning while storms keep Japan earthbound
That's a deflection and avoiding an answer. You say that you do not know what is happening under the hood. There's a published archive of program source code to read. So what is stopping you from reading it and finding out what the program does under the hood? Difficulty with tar? Or with xz?
Gitlab production architecture
An architecture to build a YouTube / Netflix service
Automotive Financing Market Is Expected to Huge Growth
I used to find some comfort in the fact that Indian politicians were in some ways better than the types of Michelle Bachman. They knew enough not to flaunt their ignorance and knew when they were out of their depth. Apparently no more.
I thought that scientists had just devised a way to determine fluid intelligence at least from an fMRI scan?

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-scan-intelligence-9477/

It's not especially accurate but it does work.
X86 marks the spot: Dell reports upswing, keeps mum on going public
The "managed state" is important, though. For example I deal with cases where I'm doing some big expensive operations upfront (eg, processing a bunch of data coming in over a network share— ROS bag files, which are also bzipped, adding more upfront processing cost), and I'm interesting in tweaking the plots and analysis coming out the other end without having to re-run the processing each time.

Even as a relatively experienced developer, I've found it hard to reason about what exactly it is that Jupyter is doing under the hood; basically things will break in weird ways, and rerunning everything will mysteriously fix it, or I have to use hacks to force it to re-import certain modules in order to get things the way I expect.

Basically, it ends up being easier to just manage this myself, like doing the processing and pickling the result, then using other, standalone notebooks to load and render the pickle. But this shouldn't be necessary.
It's nick-picking - 25 million citizens. As of last month or whatever.

Also +1 for a good template.
The main reason I like Vivaldi is because I can use a lot of the functionality which I could get in the old Opera (ver 12 and earlier).

The keyboard controls (especially the single key shortcuts) save a huge amount of time. An example would be to navigate across tabs, or close all the tabs on the right (or left) are a huge timesaver.

Additionally, viewing pages in the reader view (again with a single key shortcut) gets rid of all the unnecessary stuff on the web page.

People who remember the power of the old Opera browser should give this a shot.
I found this a good introduction to variables and context in Hugo: https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2018/02/hugo-the-scope-the-c...
US government releases post-mortem report on Equifax hack
This seems neat, but also a bit strange.
Are Jupyter notebooks so prevalent that it makes sense to ghave an exporter that makes them into markdown and back again? I mean, I always thought this workflow was neat, but isn't one of the selling points of jupyter the WYSIWYG Interface? And if you like working in code, would it not be easier to create a markdown extension for embedded code (Or does something like this already exist?) and create editor plugins or command line tools to render said document or provide a live preview?

Personally, I totally want that functionality but don't want to mess with running jupyter kernels or using my browser to work in my notebook. So where is my markdown with embedded code WYSIWYG editor that saves into plain text files? ;-)
Maybe 12M articles / self posts, 2B comments?
I remember reading "The Third Industrial Revolution" [0] in my childhood, which was a paean to all the different industrial processes that would be possible in space. One that I remember was alloys of metals with vastly different weights (lithium and lead, for example). In gravity it's hard to mix them perfectly because the heavier metal sinks, but that is not an issue in space.

Would be fun to read it again and see what predictions, if any, came true.

0: https://www.amazon.com/third-industrial-revolution-Harry-Sti...
Why not use SQLite directly instead of this extra layer?
Nice! similar to https://github.com/minodes/pynb , that converts Jupyter Notebooks to Python scripts you can run and back, preserving Markdown cells.
Especially if you consider how much of a lead apple had over ARM and the custom designs of SoC vendors like qualcom then you will realize that the easy growth is already gone. 2 years for a 50% increase in performance just to catch up with the strongest competitor is very far away from doubling performance every year.
Not the OP, but personally I'd like to be able to use python for all the things that people say "just don't use python for".

Including things like modifying every pixel of an image, and other things that need to be fast-ish.
Feds Charge a Russian with Hack of 80M JP Morgan Customers
Hmm, you may be underestimating the moderating effect women commonly have on men.

>The results showed that married people had lower cortisol levels overall than single or divorced people, and also that they had faster cortisol declines

So, there are measurable effects occurring.
Experimentally such a topology for the universe has already been ruled out below some insanely large scale. Otherwise when we look at the stars we would see repeating patterns.
There’s that, but some of the research I’ve read says that humans are really bad at predicting how future events will affect their emotional state, regardless of age.
British Airways breach: How did hackers get in?
Thanks for that. I hadn't heard of it before. Will give it a shot as well.
iOS Apps Packed with Location Data Monetization Code
Problem in Europe is that there’s always a chase against rich people, too. One could not build Apple in France, they would get mugged – at best you get laws against the concentration of money.

Meanwhile you get benefits if your startup is in one of the approved sectors and employing doctorates. You don’t get money if you are just reusing proven tech like Apple does; You have to do research. That means we fund research a lot, while we tax implementation. I guess it’s mostly great for competing countries.

And thus, the economy is mostly guided in Europe, as opposed to innovative.
Only build it yourself if you can really afford it. Usually it's faster to use a third party tool
"High school" is the universally-accepted term in the US, and means four years before university. "Junior" high school is not a universal term, though exists in some areas. "Senior high school" is a term I've never heard before, appears uncited on that wikipedia page, and were I to say it to anyone I know they would look at me funny.
Hacker Camp Makes DIY Phones, Is Bombarded by DIY IMSI Catcher
"The new survey finds that around one-in-ten Facebook users (9%) have downloaded the personal data about them available on Facebook. But despite their relatively small size as a share of the Facebook population, these users are highly privacy-conscious."

9% of a huge number is... a huge number.
Another thing to think about with LE at scale, especially if you plan to renew your certs around the same time (rather than staggering them), is to make sure you don't run into rate-limiting problems. In fact, if you have a REALLY major deployment (probably more than the 3,000 domains discussed here) you should work directly with the LE team to make sure that their infra is ready for you and to work out a reasonable rate of API usage between you. I know this was the experience of at least one major web hosting provider when they began offering automated LE certs for customer sites and the LE team was very accommodating.
Finally, that particular sci-fi trope is becoming real.
I built something similar years ago when I had a laptop with a really tiny hard drive. I would move a bunch of files to a cloud server, and left a bunch of files with no data on the hard drive. Then I wrote a file system filter driver which would watch for the files opening, catch the open request, and quickly download.

It was better than walking around with an external drive. But it was super slow. After I upgraded the laptop, I had no further use for it.
see: https://databeta.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/anna-kvs/
I disagree with most of your post, which I don't think accurately portrays the behavior of Israel. I mean, Israel does a lot of bad things, as do many countries, but it is by no means the standard. And a lot of times, things are reported inaccurately, by e.g. talking about unarmed civilians being shot, when it later turns out that most of the people shot were in fact armed (or among armed protesters).

> Finally, while the Palestinian minority is essentially just tolerated in Israel, what makes Israel an apartheid state is their treatment of both populations outside its borders: citizens if they are Jews, people without any right if they are Palestinians

I mean, this is literally what every country does though - US citizens have rights in the US, and everyone else doesn't. English citizens have rights in England, and everyone else doesn't. (And to prevent other people being pedantic - of course other people do have rights and I'm not being literal, but Palestinians also have rights in Israel, so you're not being literal here either).

If your concern is with Israel singling out Jews as the only ones that are automatically citizens of Israel, that's a valid concern, but it does not make Israel an apartheid state, any more than if England decided that anyone who can prove that in the last 5 generations had English ancestors, was automatically an English citizen.

And I'd argue that it's a completely valid and moral thing to do to create a state that automatically makes all Jews citizens - considering the reasoning for the existence of such a state in the first place. Hell, I'd rather live in a world in which the fact that I am Jewish doesn't mean that I have to protect myself from other people - I'd rather an ethnicity-blind world. But unfortunately, I don't live in that world, so I think it's very valid for me to want to be part of a country in which I will not be discriminated against.
If you use the Latin name for sodium, it flows much more clearly:

ZBLAN: Zirconium, Barium, Lanthanum, Aluminium, Natrium.

My grandmother, who was a pharmacist, prefers to call it natrium rather than sodium. I don’t know if there are any industries or similar where it’s commonly called natrium.

The sentence would have read better if the aside had instead been rendered “(sodium is also known as natrium)” or similar.
Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port
This kind of visualization can be really useful for impaired people. I can guess that street steepness is an important concern for people in wheelchair, a few degrees more and it become impossible to move. And even if topographic contours may be considered as the gold standard, it is often barely readable for big cities: I consider myself good as reading map, but being able to see steepness of street in cities is hard and requires a lot of mental work. Providing this kind of easily readable map for tourists would then be useful for mentally impaired people, which is even more useful as mental and physical impairments frequently come together. I would go further and compare this with metro maps: if they are not represented on traditional topographic maps it is for a reason: readability. And the proposed method offers a good readability of steepness for people needing this information.

So yes, having this kind information available is nothing new. But no, it's not reinventing the wheel as other people may have suggested here.
I have a super-beta build working, if you'd like to try it out/help bugfix shoot me an email at "copodt at the google email" and I'll send it to you :)
Sagittarius A* swarm: Black hole bounty captured in the Milky Way center