skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize that a very small minority of the overall population even watches news or pays much attention to it, right? A well-timed fake video could cause a riot, erode trust in institutions, antagonize relationships, and disrupt the social fabric.

It will become even more apparent when the population is primed to believe it, pick your hot button issue of the day and some significant portion of the population would absolutely believe a fake video depicting the opposing party doing something horrible, without pausing to reflect.

Even seemingly harmless caricatures, like Tina Fey's infamous SNL skit of Sarah Palin ("I can see Russia from my house"), have a long term affect on people's perception of reality: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/59838/1/USAPP_Blog_In_politics_cari...

In that paper a survey found that 7 in 10 Americans believed that Palin actually said that.

The mass production of deep fakes will have a deep and profound impact on society. I'm not keen on where this is heading.
At least through next year, after which it’s EOL.
It's also possible Bloomberg's sources are lying to them. It's not unwarranted for intelligence agencies to leak things to the press deliberately to create a story.
They have a lot in common syntactically, semantically, and philosophically. They are both languages designed to promate safety and robustness. They're both suitable for writing highly concurrent, massively scale-able applications. The future is lots of cores, and the Rust community is on board with this.

I'd also like to point out that at both of my jobs, we used Erlang for uses cases that are most heavily associated with the language, and for which popular open source alternatives in Elixir/Erlang already exist. We have had better success scaling, operating, and hiring for Rust. We've saved man hours, time, and money.

So I am saying that Rust is a replacement for Erlang. It's not a tool for a different problem.
These Gloves Can Touch Virtual Objects
Lots of people tried to tackle this problem before, what's your unique take on it?
If there is one universal truth of human biology, it is that exercise is good. It is good if you do a bit or a lot, if you are young, old, male, female, trans, pregnant, trying to get pregnant, single, married, divorced, depressed, a smoker, have cancer, have heart disease, have dementia, an astronaut, a pure mathematician, a plumber, tall, short, liberal, conservative etc etc. There isn't anyone that doesn't benefit basically. It's almost like breathing.

The message is important, but I think we can just stop doing studies about how exercise is good. Researchers must love these kinds of studies because they are ALWAYS POSITIVE. And the media loves promoting them, I guess because they get a lot of clicks.

Getting people to do more exercise - that is the hard part. More randomised studies of interventions to do that on a society level are needed. There is going to be an extraordinary number of people transitioning from (admittedly unpleasant and impoverished) more active lifestyles to sedentary work in the next 50 years. Reducing the burden of disease in this group is essential.
Shameless plug: https://recompressor.com

Does something very similar, but gives you a full trade off graph and also supports SVG and is free.

(I’m one of the creators of the site)
It used to be common in hard sciences and mathematics for English-speaking doctoral candidates to be required to show some aptitude for German or Russian. Maybe still is, dunno.
I'm trying to lose weight. I am doing approximately 7 hours per week...an hour per day of exercise isn't particularly hard to reach. I apparently fall in the 1%, and I'm not remotely close to being an "elite athlete," nor do I feel like I'm do anything extreme.
I can’t do 10 pull ups but I run 50 miles a week.
https://youtu.be/1GnIVWEAPus?t=38

Ah yes, feature film quality. For values of 'feature film' that approximately equal 'late-night comedy show where moving lips are overlaid on a still image'.
Your logic seems overly simplistic. A's makeup and ideologies aren't necessarily as uniform as B's, unless you're implicitly asserting that they are - but it would be more constructive to make such a point explicitly.
You can switch fun to whatever you find meaningful or whatever you want to optimize for. Optimizing for longevity is one option, but you would never go full in on it (would you kill an innocent child to live one second longer?). So why would it be surprising that weight assigned to it varies among different people?

Btw I agree with him, I think that's what you really want, but you want your fun. Not fun as perceived by other people. It does not necessarily mean pleasure.
A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty
Here you go:

https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vib...

Frequency attenuation + sub-pixel color profiling means you don't even need an expensive camera in a lot of cases.

Get a plastic cup of water or similar object, put it on someone's desk, record video from far away, combine with something like this [0] and you've got a very interesting avenue for corporate espionage. If you could reconstruct typed passwords from the object, it's a really powerful technique.

[0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acou...
The thing is, children don't make economic sense. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have them: it means that you should have them despite it not making economic sense (just as we do many things which don't make economic sense but do make ethical sense).

Folks should just have children. They'll discover that they will make it work, just like their parents made it work, and so on back down the line.

Or not, I suppose, if they have some philosophical reason not to have kids. But if they want to have them, they should have them, and adjust their lives accordingly.
> it was also found to break some client software -- in particular, the Go DNS library

The issue for the curious: https://github.com/miekg/dns/issues/234
Well since I've limited to 1 post a day here (very irritating!), this is it!

System dynamics is the name of the field. I studied it outside a CS curriculum as a "high-level" topic, but really I took to it like a duck to water because any good coder, does this. Its the difference between a "green" coder and an "experienced" coder. And it shows up in several of the maths/fields. Anywhere there is complexity, nonlinear feedback, and long delays in feedback, you get "emergent" system behavior.

I try and tell people, you can't oversimplify things, you can only stuff the complexity somewhere else. And when you adopt a framework, its a set of tradeoffs (on where it shoves the complexity). Beware, frameworks that "hide" where they shove the complexity (because it will always bite you in the ass). Sort of like poker, if you can't spot the mark (complexity);)

I hate to tell you this, but most people doing hiring for coders, have NO IDEA about this level of coding. They're just looking for cogs. How many times have you heard, "the system is so complex, no single person at the company understands it?"... inevitably followed by a series out catastrophic failures that are largely, systemic hazards.

Thats why there is such a large "framework adoption" movemen in CS. Not because the companies can't dev the software inhouse; but because they don't understand what they are missing. The mismatch between the "coder" and the "architect" (or worse where they've fetishized the divorce between system requirements and implementation). The whole CI is about trying to close the gap using functional testing and small code updates. But it doesn't work; you can't test for what you don't know (demand-specific instability)... So now you have to instrument the entire codebase just to make it run (or take out the particularization even further ala "containers").

More than anything, this makes the difference in the quality of the coder/codebase. If you have a good grasp of how things change, rather than static targets; you don't have to go through the entire morass. You just code it right the first time.

The other thing that really matters, is domain modeling (separate from system dynamics, which is actually implementation/environment specific). Knowing your problem well, and being able to correctly pin the context boundaries, is super critical.

Last is some control theory; that is, how to auto-remediate the problems as they develop. Believe it or not, you don't need large amounts of instrumentation, in order to do this. Good solutions, automatically trade-off in direct sensing of changes in algo. performance/inputs. They are "ROBUST".
Liberapay status update: no, we’re not dead
One reason is it should not have been there in the first place. Due to it's age, if you google / stackoverflow something, the odds are very high a jQuery response will be among the top hits. And so you end up with some jQuery dependency.

Back in the day when you had to target IE-6 that made sense - the web was so broken you really needed something it jQuery to render it sane. But that time has gone now, and I can't count the number of times the jQuery solution actually used more core than raw js.

Doing this is positively harmful. Not only is it slower and creates clashing dependencies because library A wants jQuery version B, but library Y wants version jQuery Z, it forces the programmers to learn the 10'th different way of doing something (there are always at least 10 libraries that do it). It's unnecessary because there is one thing every javascript programmer should know (and it's not jQuery) - it's modern javascript and the standard library provided by a IE9+ browser. If it can be done with a few lines that then that is how you should do it - because it makes like so much easier for those who follow you.
It was even worse for Lucky Luke after Goscinny.

Iznogood on the other hand, while it did change in character, it went even crazier and funnier when it went 100% Tabary.
China's 'Fake Moons' Could Make Light Pollution Almost Fifty Times Worse
Aircraft parallel landing at San Francisco’s airport
Start paying people like Italy and elsewhere to have kids in order to boost taxes.
Japanese design philosophy.
The second one sounds like what they ought to be able to buy to my ears.

$100k after taxes is $65? Maybe less?

$650 after 20% does is $520 to pay off?

I know there is no magical answer but that feels right to me if I were a homeowner.
"Even if hardcore exercisers do have more calcium buildup, it’s still not clear if that’s damaging the heart..."

First, I'd argue that an hour a day is not "hardcore". Anyone trying to lose weight can easily fall in this category, including me currently. Second, the actual underlying study upon which this article is based seems to indicate that calcium buildup is bad for everyone. Time Magazine went out and found someone who gave a quote contradicting the study, but that was the whole point of my comment.

Different studies and individual researchers have different views on all of this stuff. Some say that lots of exercise is bad, and others say it is great. The point is that nobody knows, but everyone seems to be be publishing studies advocating for a given position.
>I must admit I too feel as tempted as always to go "dense Americans and their superhero comics", but here the reason is probably simply that a big part of the humour is done by poking fun of European national stereotypes, and also regional stereotypes of France. None of that translates really well to an American audience.

It's read all over Europe (and other places, including Canada and Latin America), in countries who are not familiar with the "regional stereotypes of France" (nor do they have to be to appreciate it).

As for the references to "European national stereotypes", I don't see why they should pose a pose to Americans (if them being dense wasn't the problem). They are quite basic (doesn't require any intimate familiarity with the countries besides a basic knowledge), so if they weren't mostly ignorant when it comes to foreign cultures, they would have recognized those too.
First Bose-Einstein Condensate Created in Space
I worry about my health and often I have a really good try and making a habit. But crap is it hard. It's not the money or the time. There's something else about willpower and boredom. I wish I could get on an exercise bike, stare at a brainwashing device, and "wake up" an hour later having remembered none of it.
Andy Warhol was a legend.
I rarely have an excuse to say it out loud, but my default would be 'Super Nintendo'. Not sure if that's standard here (Australia), but it's what I remember hearing as a kid.
But it was a sick blog post, right?
The ‘Home’ version is just feature-hobbled to induce others to upgrade. The underlying architecture is no different.
Similar experience here. I've proposed a few changes to the language and none have been accepted. Rejecting convenience features with no downside like concise object literals is unfortunate. It literally took over four years to finally get arrow functions into Haxe, which had overwhelming community support.

Change proposals are subjective, so people can have different opinions on whether a change should be accepted or whether it was well-formulated enough. What bugs me though is that the Haxe team has a documented process for considering and voting on these proposals, which they don't follow. If Nicolas doesn't like a feature, it's essentially vetoed. If he changes his mind later, it'll be implemented without any further discussion. Most discussion happens in an internal Slack channel so there's no transparency. It's essentially a BDFL masquerading as a democracy, and it can be frustrating to try to contribute as an outsider if you don't realize that. See inline XML for example (https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-evolution/pull/26) - a lot of discussion, open questions remaining, seemed like Nicolas was generally resistant. Then suddenly, there's a PR and it's merged, and it will be in the next version of Haxe.

IMO, this is not the way to run an open source project. And in my experience, the team is resistant to feedback and takes things personally, so I've lost confidence that it will change.
That's not much of a reason. Why don't we convince them to kill themselves too.

/s
The software my uni uses for recording lectures does this. I have to get the playlist link from the dev tools in firefox and then give that to a script that downloads and decrypts it all, and saves it for prosterity.
Wow, what a story. This is quite amazing - I could not stop reading it.
SnapEDA is hiring engineers to improve electronics design efficiency
”If there is one universal truth of human biology, it is that exercise is good”

I don’t see the need to mention biology. I think every reasonable definition of “exercise” automatically implies that exercise is good. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise says: ”Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness”
If you're treating that as their primary function, you're just throwing away money, tons of money.

If you decide you want to work out and eat right, take responsibility for it and truly make the personal choice. Or buy a couple of self-help books to learn some techniques. E.g. The Power of Habit. It'll be orders of magnitude cheaper.
It also sort of looks like heavenly internet, where heavenly or celestial has a lot of associations in Chinese that resist easy translation.
Yep; I bought a Myo arm band and it's completely useless; I spend a few hours trying to change its location over my arm guessing there was something wrong about how I was using it and unable to do even trigger the most basic demo gestures.
Induction stoves are unpleasant and ineffective to cook on, not to mention inefficient. And if you want to use a wok, well, you can't.

They are definitely better in appealing to first time buyers who may not know or care about their shortcomings. They look great and are easy to clean. But if you are into cooking, gas wins.
I'm saying, Windows does it like Ubuntu LTS (and has to do it that way, for pros and businesses like it to not change under them unless they explicitly switch version which can happen after many years), not like a rolling release.
A look into Chihuahua, Mexico’s developing startup scene
High-end chips like Ryzen and Tegra are not manufactured in the People's Republic of China actually.
I do nearly exactly that on my phone playing Predynastic Egypt, but on the elliptical instead of on a bike. Sometimes my legs start to hurt after 90 minutes, but I want to play just... one... more... turn.
Sounds like bullshit.
So the old "moon is a liberal myth" created to spy on people at night comes true?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/71ff39/the_moon_...
While t Hooft is a genius, this particular work of his is not taken very seriously by most researchers.
“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, necessary, kind?”
Samsung Shows Off 256 GB DDR4 RDIMM
Same, I was thinking they’d put them on google plus.
It is all a matter of scaling vs transportation, quality, and other costs really for if it makes sense to centralize or decentralize. If a specialized factory making only very specific parts enmasse and shipping them is far more efficient than a more general purpose localized manufacturing set up.
Why would I bother? These are the DNSSEC true believers, and in some cases the authors of the standard.
> From my perspective, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, et al are close minded companies ran by intellectually weak and close minded people with a myopic world view and it's going to fracture things further, not help it.

I get that you don’t like the Democrats, but if you can’t distinguish between the GOP and conspiracy peddlers like Alex Jones, then I think you hate your own party more than the Democrats do.
Either they're so dumb that they never thought of this, or there's a complex and multi-faceted reason for the way updates are delivered.

Considering that Microsoft still does have a lot of really bright engineers, I'm leaning towards the latter.
This is beautiful. The passion that drives him to differentiate, rooted in his past and in his daydreams. I recognize he succeeded where many in a similar situation would have failed (myself included). Kudos.
Dictionary Objects in JavaScript and TypeScript (2017)
> much more money available to speculate than available surface area

Doubtful, some of the biggest cities on earth have tiny geographic areas.

Build more and let them keep buying, a clear government policy that targets rezoning to keep price rises in-step with inflation would certainly make empty home investors think twice.

Real estate speculation is a gamble that governments won't accommodate growing populations and politically benefit from rising house prices. In many places on Earth they are likely right.
I noticed this yesterday when building a custom machine, was very odd, it was like it stole in then was programmed to intentially put it back.
67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months
Chris Hedges, the reporter who was booed, drowned out and pushed off stage for opposing the Iraq invasion, his latest book America: The Farewell Tour is a must read. America is headed to bread and circuses, violent cognitive dissonance, troglodyte populist fascists and the rich aristocracy strip-mining the foundations of civilization one rust-belt city system and bridge at a time until cities collapse.
You seem to be telling someone who lives in London how British slang is used because you read about it a few minutes before on Wikipedia.
Lessons on exec from 4:40pm on a friday
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Why would a new storage medium require a new method of cryptography? These problems seem orthogonal.
This is more of a hardware implementation choice than anything else. On top of such hardware we are still going to implement "digital" systems of qubits (or qudits).

I work at the Yale Quantum Institute, and people here are some of the bigger proponents of continuous variable quantum hardware. It is a fascinating design choice, but the final goal is the same: make something error corrected and qubit-like.

The reason for this is that you need to switch to digital if you want to be able to scalably correct errors (there is no such thing as scalable analog error correction).
The jury is still out. Somebody still will have to make cars. Uber and Lyft are just information. Look at Tesla. It ain't easy. And especially now with the additional software.
That's a wonderful response. It would be grossly negligent to pass over this opportunity to mention the Marx Brothers' legendary response to Warner Brothers concerning use of the name Casablanca: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/i-had-no-idea-that-city...
I think the point being stated is that exercising shouldn't be seen as a means to an end for living-the-longest-life.
Daycare is 300 dollars a week, everybody's got a massive mortgage payment, not to mention the college loans.. why would you expect a lot of babies being born? Of course the fertility rate is falling. Society puts all its greatest costs squarely on young people of child rearing age. I mean, duh.

Edit: originally said 160 not 300, was incorrect
> Induction stoves are unpleasant and ineffective to cook on, not to mention inefficient. And if you want to use a wok, well, you can't.

With induction, ~90% of the energy from the electricity is used for cooking while only 40% of energy is used using a gas cooktop. Induction is more efficient, and you can use a wok if one is purchased that is designed for use with induction. Induction units can also regulate themselves based on feedback from the cooking device on the receiving end.

Induction is arguably superior to cooking with gas.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electric-induction-ranges/pr...

https://www.reviewed.com/ovens/features/induction-101-better...

> On almost all counts, induction is faster, safer, cleaner, and more efficient than either gas or electric. And yes, we've done exhaustive oven testing in our labs to support that claim.
and eating habits are only the hardest habits for a culture to change, after all..
Ask HN: Are food delivery apps in saturation mode or still booming?
I am thinking of building a small app in the food delivery space.

Do you guys think people (ie you/friends) are using food delivery apps more and more the past few months? or is it already past the wide adoption phase and even leveling off?
Facebook Turns to U.K. Politician to Help Repair Its Image
Go-ethereum is really hard to run. Constant problems that require you to reboot it. Not sure about the parity implementation.
"...You don't have to strongly convince or persuade team players. They don't have tidbits of antagonism, or 'special needs'.

Yeah, and this is exactly the kind of person that gets laid off first. You have to be a little bit of an asshole to survive. Have an "edge", even if it works against the company, so you are perceived as a "badass".