skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I've been contemplating this for a long time. Actually, I already went back once already - and ended up here again after just two months. My biggest problem is that I've been out of a job for ages and I don't have much in the way of qualifications and skills. The most likely jobs I could get back home are things like delivery or burger flipping. I know, beggars can't be choosers. In the past, I wouldn't have given such jobs a thought. However, recently, I've been seriously considering it. I guess I got way too lazy.
I also found the popups annoying enough that I just closed the tab.

I do not think that it is influenced a bit by one's score on scales of pedantry, internet-familiarity, or nerd-ism.

It's more like people want to get to the information the web designer is presenting, and the designer is sticking all these obstacles in the way. Many people will simply say "Nevermind" at the obstacles.

Yet there will be a few who persist and give their info for whatever reason. Since there are very large numbers, the marketing people who insisted in putting up the obstacles will cheer "look how much customer data we got!". What they won't notice (if they even kept the data), is how many people they lost by simply clicking away. Marketing people seem to have an endless capacity to mistake forcing behaviors that annoy their subjects for creating 'engagement'. And CEOs mistake these CMOs as doing a good job.
> I remember something about Sublime being written in Python?

SublimeText is written in C++ with the "Skia Graphics Library" for the UI.

It exposes an Python API to extend the functionality via 3rd-party packages.

> I care about features the most, not if the app will open in 0.5s or 3s

Opening is not the only performance gain you will get for using a software written with native libraries.

You get faster overall operations in comparison with a program like GitKraken that needs to allocate several chunks of memory to execute simple tasks. It always baffles me when people use the startup time of a program as a mean to explain why they prefer using it over others. Electron-based applications are —overall— not performant. It's impossible to get good performance out of Electron because it sits on top of a web browser that is known to hug significant amount of memory from your entire system.
How do you guarantee a trial by jury, if you don't have to prove to the defendant that the jury exists?
It's not at all the same thing. By "Russia" I mean "Russian state", not "Russian people".
No it's a completely different interest and skillet. Not everything can be boiled down to "datascience can fix it!". Especially when all those NNs will just generate art that's a mashup of the training data and won't have any real inspiration. Unexpected results is not inspiration.
If you don't mind me asking, what were the responses to you committing on projects without asking/authorizing, and what visible change did you make with your better understanding of the fundamentals? Do you have a book suggestion for SE fundamentals?
The Watch has always been that way. Even the 10k edition was the same technology as the basic model.

What changed with Series 4?
Yep. Thanks for quoting that.
There are more people commiting crimes than people investigating crimes. The system is so log jammed that if everyone took a trial rather than a plea deal, no one would ever see a court date for years.

In this condition its easy to see resources allocated to high profile cases which impoverished, uneducated teenagers are not.

So a DA can believe someone is guilty, but also that there is unlikely to get enough resources to investigate and prove it.

Now personally I believe the solution is to be more lax on crime, till the numbers improve but thats another topic.
ok, so do that and then you're only left with the simple problem of terraforming!
I make more than $99 per hour… So I just need to use this software for one hour to justify its price.

If you cannot afford it, then just use the try-out version, which offers unlimited functionality.
Looked at the code in their components section and is it safe to say that we need to use Typescript to use this?
but cross-platform?
"...code collects the user’s longitude and latitude, as well as the user’s browser type, operating system, device type, device identifiers, and full URL clickstreams (including date and time) and aggregates this information into a database."

Aren't all mobile phones browsers collect this data any way? If your location privacy is enabled to be shared by the browser. I am not sure what this student found beyond this which is worth raising brows.

Also, 3 cameras system in each kiosk is indeed creepy.
> As such invalid blocks need to be mined anyway, only those willing to disregard block reward of 12.5BTC ($80,000) could actually do any real damage.

> While this certainly seems unlikely (barring any digital Tyler Durden-types wanting to destroy something beautiful), it does raise eyebrows. The great defence of Bitcoin is that it’s far too decentralized to be brought down by any single entity.

Generic turmoil of the platform could panic selling. $80K to cause mass disruption could pay off considerably for someone shorting either bitcoin or an altcoin.
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I recently read about this in an article [1] about Tesla's ambition to build a level 3 auto-pilot.

The article points out several issues about this project that I didn't think about before reading it. Basically, there's more issues than just "finding the right math", and on different levels, not only the technical one. I'd recommend reading it.

[1] https://dev.to/bosepchuk/is-it-ethical-to-work-on-the-tesla-...
I think this presentation about never talking to the police is relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Pretty much don't say anything, true or otherwise.
Nitrokeys generally do.
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> Sometimes we see a lot of news articles and news regarding X, Y, Z topic from anonymous sources

Those sources aren't "anonymous sources," they're more accurately called confidential sources.

You may see an story backed by no public sources. You then have to make a decision about whether you trust the publisher to have adequately checked the story using private sources.

If the newspaper gets information from a truly anonymous source (say a classified military memo), they need to verify that it's authentic before they publish. They may do that by checking as much of the memo's content as they can and calling up people in the Pentagon and asking if they've seen that particular memo. Those people may not be willing to confirm the memo publicly (because that may open them up to legal problems), but if if their identity is kept private it's less risk to them so they may be willing to confirm it.
Humans can tell the difference between 1000fps and 2000fps too (with a test signal of a point light source flickering at >500Hz, and viewed with rapid eye movement to produce the phantom array effect. Note that temporal anti-aliasing is needed to avoid cheating with easily visible beat patterns.) This doesn't mean we can process an image in 0.5ms.
The current GamerGater/anti-SJW conspiracy theory is that someone or a group with an agenda "got to" Linus and this is the result of a struggle session that will eventually lead to his ouster from kernel dev, to be replaced with their agents of influence (whoever "they" are).

I don't want to say that they have a convincing case, but just recently Guido stepped down from Python maintenance, and soon after there was a push to excise "master" and "slave" from all documentation. And you know what Ian Fleming said: once is happenstance, twice is coincidence...

Nevertheless, from my standpoint it's a bit heartening to see Linus openly acknowledge his mistakes and take steps to change the Linux culture. We shall see what fruit these steps bear.
The difference between multitasking and cooperative multitasking is that you can yield the CPU in the middle of a long process. You can do that in Javascript but it involves combining multiple asynchrony APIs in complex ways. Ways you probably don’t want to invite your team to use frequently.

You cannot split a large calculation in the middle by chaining promises to allow even other promises to make progress, let alone event loop processing.
In forestry, they teach that as "pipe model". I am unable to track down how long that observation has been known in forestry, but I found this 1964 paper that attempts to build on the observation (already known in 1964) and build a theory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29370362

The modern understanding is that the pipe model holds only approximately.
100% this, I have to switch between multiple editors because the ergonomics of sublime are too good but it's debugger is not

Trying to migrate away using spacemacs but it's not going well
I presume that's what they're for, just like the thing Comcast routers do, where they provide public access points whether you want them to or not.
ReasonML can build for the web as well as native. ReasonReact is slowly gaining steam.
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I'm going to bed now. Thanks again for all the support!
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Hello!

Excited to share the public version of HuggyList, a faster alternative to blogging.

I believe blogging is the best solution to share deep content but it is very time consuming and restricted to people with good writing skills.

Now, you can discover and share content in simple bullet points on HuggyList.

How it works:
1) Start a list
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Looking forward to your feedback!
I hope the Homebrew team merges this soon — https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/52246

That being said, I already downloaded the DMG archive and have been using it for the last hour.
> The total cost of the virus, including consultants, overtime, and productivity loss, saw taxpayers on the hook for just over $250,000.

not bad. perhaps an order of magnitude cheaper than having good security. of course, it's $250k for a single incident ...
To the business interests that sponsor the elections and the general news cycle, it certainly is the goal! What a better way to assure your victory than to make sure people are busy fighting about things that don't affect you?

> Voting isn't like going to the shopping mall to buy something for yourself. It's something you do because politics also affects other people.

You're saying this like the philosophy of acting for a greater good isn't already reflected in my position, and so supports your argument Yet, regarding the issues you've listed, half the people voting are doing it because it negatively affects others? That's clearly nonsensical!

What I'm trying to get across is to ask yourself why these particular issues are so pressing and prominent. Not for yourself (I assume you've already done this). Not for the "others" (although you should do this). But constructively, in the larger scale.
Hah! Utterly delightful. So much for thinking "oh, it absolutely can't be a matter of familiarity"
That is true. I was thinking that morse code or writing would be effective, but my knowledge of these things is not really intelligence but rather things that I learned by participating in human society.
Today's discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18031249
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Here is the version history. As other comments mentioned, last release was 5 days ago: https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/versions/version_history...
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it's interesting that you left off one of the most intelligent species: orcas. they are arguably more intelligent than any of the other species you named.

> Only one example of human-level intelligence

this made me think about the relationship between intelligence and technological development. i think they are related but does technological advancement mean a species is really more intelligent than another species with less technological developments? i am not for sure. for example, i have thought about orca intelligence quite a bit. they are severely limited in their technological development simply due to their environment. the aquatic environment naturally prevents the recording of information and development of tools.
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From the paper: "We use the rasterizer as a potentially-visible set optimization to iterate only over pixels
for which rays might intersect a voxel, and then execute a small ray tracer in the
pixel shader. That is, we “splat” billboards that give coarse visibility and compute
exact visibility in a pixel shader. This works for any pinhole perspective projection,
including eye rays and shadow rays, so we use it for the shadow map rendering pass
as well"

Neat - I used a similar technique [1] in the last iteration of Voxel Quest, but I only rasterized single points/pixels then raytraced them into filled cubes (was not efficient other than on fill rate). However I did not invent the technique (I'm not sure who did, but I first got the idea from talking to Florian Boesch [2])

[1] https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/717265068086308865
[2] http://codeflow.org
US military given more authority to launch preventative cyberattacks
Ubiquitous WiFi kiosks with inbuilt cameras, huh? Ostensibly, they're not allowed to track individual user locations, but the combination of functions present in the devices means it would be trivial to start connecting independent databases and building profiles on users. If you were a malicious actor, how would you go about it?

The PoCs on tracking individuals with MAC addresses are old news (and, in fairness, newer iOS devices use random MAC addresses for WiFi probe requests), let alone the user fingerprinting you could do on browsers when people actually use these things. So you've got a database of devices, and then on top of that you start doing facial recognition and gait analysis to collect another set of individual data points. Then you connect devices to people, and you have a pretty nice system for tracking individuals moving through the city, even those with location services and such disabled.

Paranoia? Maybe, but it wouldn't take much for say, Amazon, to start doing this. And Bezos wouldn't be bound by city regulations on citizen privacy.
I was just about to link to something like this[0] before I read your last sentence.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/911
Matt Keeter's Libfive is a very promising project. Our company has written a Common Lisp binding:

https://common-lisp.net/project/tovero/

and it would be useful to have a constraint solver. We are looking at ways of applying Libfive to mechanical design.

I have also developed a prototype of a Libfive viewer--written in Guile Scheme for use with a REPL/Emacs:

https://github.com/sjm-tl-gh/inspekt3d

Coding 3D models in Lisp has been an amazing experience (even without a constraint solver).

Libfive also has a FFI-friendly C API, so other language bindings (e.g. Python) are very feasible.

One feature Libfive is currently missing is a general sweep of a shape along a curve--which seems to not be so straight forward with F-rep modeling.
Not really. When I was younger, I owned a fast car and was pulled over several times in small southern towns as I drove between university and my parents house. Being young black man in dixie country, you would expect that this would lead to lots of tickets and poor relations with the police?

No.

I was polite, respectful, and the such, but when asked if I knew why I was pulled over I would simply shrug.

I got 2 tickets, but many more warnings, and even the tickets had leniency.

In my view, the police are not out to get you. Sure, they want to make ticket quota, but thats just the job... nothing personal.
Just curious ,are you using the web based UI to look at your data or the CLI? I use the web UI so I'm wondering how something like this might work with that. I'll have to poke around. Thanks for sharing!
Looks cool, and I love the idea of cold emailing Cuban. How's the progress?
You might get an MSc, however :P Half of my master's thesis was based on practical understanding and skills I learned from the first Fast.ai course. It's also inspired me to start a PhD in a more quantitative field to persue probabilistic models in medicine.

(Here's that's master's thesis if you're interested :) Warning, big PDF ahead: https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jszymb/thesis/260528685_Szymborski...)
How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)
If you want to build a non-blocking Clos network of 2N ports with switches with N ports you need to take 4 switches in the front with N/2 ports and 2 switches in the back interconnecting all the ports to the back for a total of 6 switches, so not even including cables a modular switch providing 2N ports is worth 6x per port than a fixed switch... The number are a little better for bigger but approach at a cost per port of 3x per port not including cables. In my experience modular switches are more in the ball park of 2.5-3x per port. I am not including other possible benefits that modular switches can have non-blocking fabrics.
Well, you need to have a fairly large codebase with a fair amount of in-house infrastructure and interdependencies before you have both the need to find code that you're not working on and have a dense enough source tree where search makes more sense than just learning the organization and navigating to where you need to go.
I was amused that the article didn’t actually answer the title question directly. The implication seemed to follow Betteridge’s law of headlines though. [1]

The article does rightly note that people don’t care — “the moral and environmental costs of meat register as real, yet ignorable; snowflake static on the radar” — but this is not an American issue alone by any measure. I’ve seen people from other countries with a similar mindset.

I also don’t think humankind will ever stop, wholesale or on an absolute basis, doing anything that’s considered harmful in any way to anyone.

In the current scheme of things, it would probably be a combination of capitalism, consumerism, and some environmental catastrophes that would create some kind of a significant dent in animal meat consumption. That’s quite unfortunate at many levels while having a significant negative impact on those who’re usually helpless (human or nonhuman).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Sounds like another "job" for Elon Musk...
Windows is not free.
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You can tell the difference between 144hz and 60hz, especially if user input is involved (eg: using mouse to look around). The resolution of human skill depends heavily on the exact scenario as the body is complex. Even with eyes you have high density in the center of vision, low density outside, and they have different light sensitivities which makes them hard hard to model. To further complicate matters is the brain that does further processing that can result in hyperacuity.

A good example of hyperacuity is in reading Vernier scales where you can see differences much below the angular resolution of the eye.
That would be when some asshole invented artificial lighting, surely.
[Citation needed.]

Come on, let's see some examples. Should be easy to find at least a few, since there are "tons" of them.
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Journalists are complementary to government agencies. Complicit journalist looking for access can leak anonymous scoops that can then be used as a pretext to launch a FISA request.
My point was that it's not clear to me that Dixon was really a victim in all this, even if there were problems with the case that justify vacating his conviction. I didn't suggest that the state is unquestionable -- but I don't think this case is a cut & dry illustration of the wrongs that the Innocence Project can help to right.

As far as what the appropriate punishment would be, I would think an appropriate punishment for driving your body guard to a crime scene and giving them a murder weapon should be the same as the punishment for murder. I'm no lawyer though, that's just my intuitive assessment.
It depends what you use it for, and how you set it up. Aside from the Heads/Librem specific features, this is basically the same as a NitroKey/YubiKey. So:

- For use as a key storage device / GPG smartcard, you should have the usual contingencies in place (e.g. backups of decryption keys, alternative signing/auth keys). Only GPG nerds are likely to use this feature.

- For MFA use, you can list an additional device as another acceptable factor. E.g. a second key, or an authenticatior app on your phone.

The Heads boot validation stuff is non-blocking; you can still boot into a system without verifying the boot partition/BIOS. Alternatively, there’s no reason you couldn’t fall back to TOTP on a phone, though I’m not sure if the interface supports that currently.

Source: I put everything on a YubiKey, then lost it.
A top Cornell food researcher has had 13 studies retracted. That’s a lot
I could see the current government implementing strong privacy controls to protect your personal data from bad actors who doesn't donate enough to reelection campaigns.

Not a right or left thing either; I believe both sides sell themselves shamelessly.
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In my experience "do both" on any big decision is a recipe for disaster. Very hard to avoid tho. I've known this and still pushed for it just because choosing one of two hard options is itself so hard.
Were people really that affected by code? They EOL'ed with quite a lenient time schedule, and provided migration tools.
Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining
The development of the Saturn V rocket in reality took much longer than 10 years if you factor in previous research. Many of the principles that made that rocket fly were hashed out by Nazi German engineers working on the V2 rocket, specifically concepts developed by Werner Von Braun. After the war, he was integrated into what would eventually become NASA, and after helping develop the Jupiter line of rockets which the Saturn line was based on, ended up being appointed as the project chief behind the Saturn V.

It's quite morbid that the technology that put man on the moon was originally intended to destroy life (developed by a particularly odious political regime no less), but that's how it turned out.
But does "we partnered with Nitrokey" mean it is a Nitrokey that does? I couldn't tell.
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