skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would an infinite universe necessarily contain infinite matter?
how does this compare to something like fast.ai? I have no experience or knowledge in this field
From the slides it seems that there are still dangling pointers, but the addresses will not be reused for valid allocations? Thus mitigating security vulns from the dangling pointers.
Sure, at a certain point it doesn't mean anything without usage. But I'd argue Mastodon passed that threshold a long time ago. There's a decent community around it at this point, and people seem to enjoy it.

>But the danger with vanity metrics is that a lot of effort can get wasted.

What makes someone's effort "wasted"? IMO, if the developers enjoy working on it, their effort wasn't wasted. Not every project (even if it's a social network!) needs to appeal to everyone in the world, not everyone needs to be out for world domination, and that's okay.
I was complaining about some of the problems in a few HN posts back then.
My Flemisch grandad was in the second WW. Back then all official things in Belgium were in French. Can you imagine a Flemisch farmer getting French instructions? Must have been real chaos I suppose.
Our legal system utilizes “Terms of Art” to eliminate ambiguity in speech. For example, you seem to imply if a conversation is “invite only”, it was not “published”. A quick look at a Term of Art dictionary indicates that in a defamation case, disclosure to a single party may constitute publication.

So the scope of the defamation cause of action is not necessarily limited to a single participant. Anyone who put forth false information may also be liable. It’s like the article says, one of the questions is, what defines publication.

https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/publish.html
This is important. There's a big difference between getting started at 45 and founding your third company at 45.

I don't think there is something biological, or even social that makes it hard to be a late-bloomer in tech entrepreneurship. It's just hard to develop an entirely new skillset and network in later-middle age. I think we'd mostly be skeptical of a doctor who started medical school at 45, and while the stakes for founders aren't as severe, the same principle applies.
My life has been destroyed by a baseless corporate accusation of misconduct. I used the bitch-word toward a woman, and the story morphed into me flying off into a drunken rage while I was out of the office for a funeral. The story stuck and I'm now homeless. By the time I went to legal counsel realizing the extent of the damages, ironically, the statute of limitations of one year had already closed. And on the street I remain, until I can gain employment and credibility again. I'd actually welcome an assault case or anything to shed light onto the situation... because I'm effectively being treated as guilty of assault.
> Other companies may have better fields of view and a more compact device

it's right there in the original review my friend, even the paid-for TC journalist has to admit the hardware is inferior and "janky"
Embedded firmware though has gotten a lot easier (availability of cheap ARM boards with gone of flash and RAM), FOSS tool chains, there is still a mountain to climb wrt understanding the underlying hardware. Timing, keeping things synchronized while being within the power budget and stuff like that. Take a few actual EE courses or better yet if u can afford get a degree and specialize in EE. For starters can't recommend the EDX EE1,EE2 and then thr Embedded course from UTAustin also available on EDx enough. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. My email is in my profile.
this should be the default when linking from npr
Fair, although I feel like with Everest, the fact that it's so risky is part of the point. Like, if hiking up Everest was perfectly safe, would people still treat it as some huge accomplishment?
The idea that, because a single user broke confidence and published a private correspondence, the real identities of each contributor might be exposed is, quite frankly, horrifying to me. While it might, possibly, be reasonable to accuse that member only of defamation, the access requested is far too broad.

If this suit is successful, it will set a chilling precedent: That no conversation on the Internet may be considered legally private, and that any negative conversations may run the risk of a lawsuit-enforced doxxing.
http://photog.created.today/
1998 Subaru gets the shock treatment as a ‘self-charging’ EV
Anywhere else in UK the average is less than a half of your half.
I was really skeptical when I saw Huawei racks/cabinets being sold/promoted at the HK OpenStack Summit years ago.

I'd feel really uncomfortable running my 'private' cloud on that gear.

I wonder what state-benefits Alibaba is providing upstream given their reach these days.
I understand what you are saying but I would argue that few jobs have as much of a long term economic impact as teachers. They serve as child care during the day allowing parents to work. They teach and care for children who then grow up to be wage earners and business starters. The quality of their future work and the direction they take can often be linked directly to the quality of education they had in elementary through high school.

Living in a district with poor quality schools strongly encourages those that can afford it to send their kids to private school (me included). I am very not rich. The money I spend on private school would allow me to start a business, retire early, donate to charity or any number of things. The quality of local teachers and schools has a massive impact on my financial well being. I would gladly pay more in taxes to raise the quality of public education if it allowed me to save on private school. Sadly public education in many areas is very weak and the low teacher pay as well as the general lack of respect causes many people that would make excellent teachers to seek employment in other fields. Our children, economy and nation suffer as a result.
A Radical Map Puts the Oceans–Not Land–at the Center of Planet Earth
I have a Xiaomi Redmi 4G (codename: Dior) that is 3+ years old. It works on T-Mobile.

That chart is helpful. I would also read the reviews of the phone and check if the phone says "Global Edition" or "Global Version" to also check compatibility.

I use the Mokee ROM. It gets regular updates. But, the Huawei Ascend XT2 feels much faster with a longer-lasting battery.
d == data

requires an exact match of data, doesn't seem right
Same thing happened to Hans Reiser; ReiserFS was at one point pretty popular among Linux users, and would probably still be if he hadn't murdered his wife.
Ask HN: End-to-end encrypted online spreadsheet tool
I'm trying to identify end-to-end encrypted alternatives to the tools used by an NGO I work with that deals with sensitive data.

Tools for cloud storage, email, instant-messaging, collaborative text editing, hard drive encryption abound, they're free, easy to use, secure, and overall amazing (more in first comment). The one obstacle I haven't been able to tackle in several days of searching is an alternative to Google Sheets (spreadsheets and databases are pretty similar for my use case).

My criteria:

- security (E2E encryption, 2-factor authentication, not US-based)

- collaborative real-time editing

- ease-of-use, low maintenance

- small volume (10 sheets, 20 columns and 10k rows each) is sufficient

- simple data analysis (searching, filtering, count)

Optional features: differently-typed cells (dropdown, checkbox), forms to add new data-points.

Spreadsheets are so commonly used that all flavours should exist, but I wasn't able to find a tool that fulfills all criteria (more in first comment). I can think of 3 reasons:

- there is an insurmountable technical difficulty in creating a tool that is both collaborative and encrypted: can't be that though, since encrypted Google Docs/Trello clones are easy to find ([CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr/), [Keybase](https://keybase.io/))

- the need is covered by encryption tools for databases: these require a lot of technical knowledge (renting servers, hosting databases, deploying encryption, etc.), surely a no-code tool would already exist?

- I haven't found the tool: wouldn't it be included in Keybase or the like though?

The second option seems the most likely, in which case I'd be happy if someone could tell me the easiest way to build an encrypted database, as I have never done something like that (I'm familiar with Python, know that SQL exists, and can probably follow instructions to deploy something on a server), but I would really need this tool to be low/no-maintenance

Cheers
> What actually makes them amateur at this point?

That they're hobbyists doing this in their free time? It says:

> We’re an association of 50-60 unpaid, volunteering members and we build our rockets in a workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark. That requires many different skills, so we’re a very diverse group, from blacksmiths to rocket scientist. We all do this in our spare time, working regular day jobs on the side.
A Silicon Valley that counted its value in the amount of happiness it created for people using its products (and perhaps even for people who don't use their products) instead of the amount of financial value it extracted from them would be a very different place indeed.

The older I get the more I feel like capitalism is a system for turning human misery into profits for a lucky few.
These guys are super amazing! I worry that they will run up against the MTCR[1] in their next step between their unmanned and manned version, since driving out to international waters is 'exporting' as is flying above 100km :-) It would be awesome if the Danish government would come out and publicly sanction their efforts to cut off that potential mess.

[1] https://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/missile-techn...
Yan Lianke's "Serve The People!" contained vivid sex scenes, with characters aroused by destroying images and writings of Mao and set during the Cultural revolution, when the punishment would be death by firing squad. The Party responded to the 2005 controversy by halting a magazine's publication of the work. This in turn led to enormous demand for the novel, naturally.

Wikipedia (yes, guilty), citing July 2007's "A pen for the people" in "The Age."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Lianke

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
You've heard that, huh?

HC doesn't pick your job, they decide whether or not to hire you. Hence the name. At Google it's typically trivially simple to switch teams (this article notwithstanding), so teams don't recruit and hire independently like happens in many companies.

So after a hire is approved, they have to be matched up with a team. Teams decide whether or not a hire is appropriate for their team, and candidate decides whether or not team is appropriate for their interests.

If you're approved for hire but you don't like the team you're paired with, say "I'd prefer to work on X", and if X is hiring and their hiring manager thinks you're a good fit, then you can go there instead. That route is more complicated because recruiters specialize in a given area, but the whole point is for you to like your job.
It's in all our interest to have better codecs. Self-interest is called good will when it benefits everyone.
As someone who's helped wheelchair-bound people get around, I can say that the weight of a wheelchair - as well as easy collapsibility - matters a lot when moving people around by car.
Valve under investigation by Brazilian government over violent political game
I've participated in a couple of js31kgames jams, including the very first one. I didn't do it this year, but it's certainly a fun little challenge. My favorite creation was a color matching game; I actually wrote a small post on the Intel Developer Zone blog about all the stuff I learned about color matching, color formats, and perception over the course of making this (it was just beginner knowledge, but much of it was things I hadn't even considered before).
tldr: nope.

The've arrived in the shops in Norway. One row of three cans are glued at both bottom and top. The two rows are glued only at the bottom. The handle keeps the rows securely together. The glue is some sort of hot glue used in liberal amounts. If anything, the boxes are harder than before to get loose.
It's also filled with many more startups that lost $20M, mostly in engineer wages, and died unsung deaths.

Bad engineers do bring negative productivity to a team. Hard to say how common they are.
We had a Doula, and she recommended that we ask a bunch of questions on our initial visit. It wasn't a separate interview. We knew we'd move on to the next on the list, should we not like some of the answers (the c section one was the primary issue).
https://learnyousomeerlang.com
https://learnyousomeerlang.com/supervisors

This book is imho a fantastic read that helped me understand Erlang a lot.
Belgium was bristling with defenses in WW2. In the same way France, Poland and the Western front of Russia were. They had networks of expensive forts with numerous gun turrets on them.

eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Eben-Emael

Wars tend to expose obsolete military doctrines. Big fortresses on land and sea (battleships) that can bombard targets many miles away are great if the enemy doesn't just fly in.
I don't think anything happened to innocent until proven guilty. Bill Cosby for example, was guilty, which by your argument justifies the media circus. I'm not surprised a defense attorney had a hard time defending a rapist.

As a mild media observer, the last few false accusations that cropped up seemed to be summarily dismissed, with a total drop of credibility for the accusers. Remember "Hugh Mungus?" Or Aziz Ansari's awkward date where he recommended a wine choice? Last I checked Aziz still has a career, and Hugh turned out fine.

Basically, I disagree with the premise that people's lives are being ruined by false accusations. Considering that they're so rare already, and that the media-participant world moves on quickly when an accusation turns out to be false (or even "punishes" the false accuser), the current (much repeated by right wing media) narrative of "innocent until proven guilty is dead" and "#metoo is destroying honest men's families" is a false narrative.

Edit: I'm very happy to have a majority disagree with me, but I could learn a lot more about why my take is unpopular if someone could spare a few sentences as to why they disagree, alongside their downvote.
...and due process...
Only one I didn't see there that I read commonly is Bloomberg. But they (like NYT and so many others) can be easily worked around by using an Incognito window - use up all your "free articles", close the window, open another one, here's 10 more...

Which makes me inclined to believe that, knowing it is relatively easy to work around their pay wall, they are more concerned with total eye balls than total subscriptions.

As another data point, while you can read the main Bloomberg this way, you can't read their Bloomberg Terminal Online without a horrendously expensive subscription - which I suspect reflects what the true cost of news is...
Yes, because the world's direction should obviously be decided by the folks who won the startup lotteries.
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During some voluntary work, I had erased the ex- of some fellow from an old photo 15 years ago. It was cool, and every body lined up to get a lot of stuff erased. Yet soon it will become trivial!
Populism is just the antipode to elitism. Too much elitism (e.g. pre-revolution France, gilded-age America or any kleptocracy of which there are numerous examples) is problematic too. A dose of populism can be a useful solution to that problem. For example, the New Deal seems to have worked out pretty well.

Just like anything else, populist policies need to be considered carefully and applied judiciously to work out well. To hold that all populist policies are simply to give out free money is a straw man argument.

A knee jerk response to any populist policy is a low-effort way to implicitly support elitist systems. These policies should at least be fairly considered on their own merits in the context of the actual economic system.

I'm not making an argument for any specific policy here, but I've seen far too many policy proposals waved away as "populist" and therefore not serious.
I thought the disaster for legal credibility in the Cosby case was that it took so long for the legal system to identify and stop a rapist, even as the weight of evidence mounted against him?
Roubini Senate Testimony “Exploring the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Ecosystem” [pdf]
I feel like variational inference has never been described very well to an intro audience even having statistical basics.

Is it a graduate level topic or is there an intuitive course that teaches it to beginners?
Tools for cloud storage ([Tresorit](https://tresorit.com/)), email ([Protonmail](https://protonmail.com/)), instant-messaging ([Signal](https://signal.org/)), collaborative text documents ([CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr/)), hard drive encryption ([VeraCrypt](https://veracrypt.fr/))

What I was able to find to replace Google Sheets:

- Google Sheets clones with a few additional collaborative features ([Zoho](https://www.zoho.eu/sheet/))

- ways to encrypt spreadsheets

- online databases ([Airtable](https://airtable.com/))

- ways to encrypt databases on servers ([Acra](https://github.com/cossacklabs/acra))

- kinda secure databases ([KoBo](http://kobotoolbox.org/) not actually encrypted but at least managed by UNHCR)
Last I checked, every virtualization driver ignored Intel's overcomplicated design choice. They don't keep things going; if they did then they would clash with each other. Instead, they fully shut down virtualization when the VM isn't running code.

Intel seems to have accepted this state of affairs. On newer chips, it is much faster to enable and disable virtualization.
I’d also posit it would be helpful for larger tech firms and most accelerators to have an ethecist on staff, to help with the “could we vs should we” evaluation.
I did not know this. I guess this is much more relevant in the era of the internet, where conversations are both permanent and third-party hosted - previously, any similar discussion would take place either in person (and be infeasible to publish, given it would be only an account of a talk) or via mail, which, while I suppose would have the same risks, I imagine would still be difficult to sue for - before the advent of copying machines any letters would be a handmade copy of the original, very disposable, document.
Thanks. Which phones are your personal favorites in the sub-$200 range?
Or stories like the one about the TUI Airways pilot who managed to land a Boeing 757-200 at Bristol airport on October 12 with a 40kt crosswind:

https://videos.metro.co.uk/video/met/2018/10/14/876690853828...
In 2014 Google paid a guy named Neal Mohan $100 to refuse the head of product job at Twitter.[0]

[0]https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/neal-mo...
I'm sorry you're homeless, that sucks.

Can you help me better understand what happened here, though? Because it sounds like you called a coworker a bitch and was fired over it, and now can't get a recommendation from that job... In which case, can you understand why people might have a hard time sympathizing with your situation? Seems the results would be the same whether or not the story morphed.
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> It is not sensible for a teacher to make the same as someone who works fifty weeks a year.

This is a dumb way to value things.
Young founder ages are mentioned specifically because they are unusual. Unfortunately, because many people only see ‘newsworthy’ information they get a very distorted view of reality.
Meanwhile in the plastic rings factory...

Pointy-haired boss: "Carlsberg just cancelled the order for the 10 million plastic rings we produced, they're gonna glue the cans together instead!"

Mid-level manager: "Oh, that's bad. What should we now do with all the rings?"

Pointy-haired boss: "This sucks! Might as well dump them in the ocean!"

Mid-level manager: "Ok!"
Do you know which contest?
Not-so-southern Italy here, only to add a data point I just got (for free) two crates of fruit (small apples) from a farmer nearby because they were too small (below "standard") to be sold to the usual wholesaler.

These apples (besides their small size) are simply delicious, but they wouldn't be sold in a supermarket as they are not "pretty" and do not represent the "ideal" apple that people expect.
Same here. I once got laid off when I was really young (like 16) from a shelf stocking job because well ... honestly I was not doing my job and was spending more time socialising, so yeah. Anyway, I was escorted out and said goodbye to everyone (I loved my co-workers).

Years later someone comes up to me and says "wow are you the guy that went completely nuts when he got fired and tore the store up?!" and this one little story of me just saying goodbye to everyone and walking through the store got blown up into this monstrosity through word-of-mouth. I was really surprised.
No, I'm not suggesting a conspiracy theory. If you think about it, there is no need for people to conspire to produce the effect. There is simply the clear psychological reaction that people tend to reject what contradicts the things they are deeply involved in and have already accepted. Does that mean all scientists who learn about and believe they understand the Standard Model have closed minds? No. But it does mean that individual scientists' judgement will tend to be influenced to give a lower priority to the things they think are less important. Please don't misrepresent my comment. As a side note if something is true then it has 100% chance of happening. If you don't know it's not true then you don't know about the enormity of its chances.
The US already spends more than almost all other countries on education: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/020915/what-country.... Infrastructure costs are significantly higher as well: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne.... And of course our deranged health care system delivers worse results at higher costs by capturing exactly the worst aspects of both free markets and central planning. Flinging more money at these institutions is unlikely to do anything useful unless we can figure out why they're performing so poorly.
But it’s worth noting that the most important branch of the physical science today, quantum theory, is manifestly non-Bayesian.
There are hardly any kebab shops in London.
What evidence are you referring to which supports antimatter obeying "normal rules of gravity", by which I am presuming you mean gravitating in the same direction as matter?
Italy and Information, deficit, and the markets
That’s amusing - would it be possible to link the thread? I must have missed it.
I think the stream-of-consciousness might be partially the fault of the format. The article is a long series of tweets, Threader is just a website that compiles them into an article.
This cheats frequentist because in the game the frequentist isn't allowed to change the distribution.

With frequentist the trick is always in choosing a distribution. You can't update it according to a rule, but there is no reason why you simply can't pick a different populatuon distribution to operate under
I tried following https://pl.smuglo.li/users/roka (an anti-Semite who posts porn) and got a nondescript error. How can I tell if this is due to a blacklist, and if so, if it's on my instance or theirs?
This isn't true at all. The vast majority of these PHP 5.x installs are from vendor provided security supported Linux distributions - including those without cost such as CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu.
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