skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Sure, that explains why the elites fought; what I still don't get was why the average white southern enlisted man fought."

Wars were always fought by average people for the benefit of the elites.

I can't find the exact quote but there is one that pretty much says when a peasant goes to war the best he can hope for is to come back to the same life whereas for the king it's a huge win.
It you think this is dystopian, you probably have good credit. Try setting up home internet with a FICO under 600. Try renting an apartment in Williamsburg with an Experian score under 750. Try getting a civil service job while your gas bill is overdue. America invented this.
The main difference between this and the US is that US citizens are compliant enough not to warrant such explicit measures.

In the US, if a citizen is suspected of getting out of line, all social media data, phone metadata, all bank transactions, etc., for that individual and all of his/her friends or acquaintances, which for most people is tens of thousands of people, is available for review by law enforcement, with no doubt that a warrant will be obtained.

FWIW, in the US, anyone within 100 miles of a border (which is the majority of people) has no 4th amendment right against arbitrary search.

There is most definitely a social credit system in the US to the extent that one is necessary, but due to the success of other social control mechanisms it is not necessary for it to be as overt as China's.

This sort of anti-China propaganda has been building over time and this story has been tested and revised a few times, but per the article below, is not actually true:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/11/19/c...
Bitcoin in essence is not digital. If we could remember as good as hard-drivers, calculate as fast and consistently as CPUs, and perhaps communicate as efficiently as bits travel over the internet, Bitcoin would run in our minds only. And it would run for real.

Therefore, the only actually physical attachment it must have is ourselves, our minds, and (any) communication channels.

Bitcoin being mental before digital (I see digitization as just making it more practical), we surround the "owning question": do we own other peoples bodys or minds? Nope, we don't.

So Bitcoin is not, even remotely, private property.
I recently listened to them and I agree. Also the Butlerian Jihad series would probably make a better movie by today's standards and become a gateway to a dune TV series.
The Five Laws of Library Science
I'm a totally blind developer and have never gotten Linux to work very well. What distro do you use? I'm also curious if you run Linux in VM's with speach? I think part of my problem may be bad audio support in Virtualbox and I may have better luck with VMware.
I use Windows 10 every day with Jaws and Windows subsystem for Linux. WSL has noticeably increased my productivity compared to Cygwin do to the larger volume of software that runs in it and no longer having the need to spend time compiling tools from source.
I find NVDA to be a pretty good screen reader and you could probably use it full time. I've used Jaws for over 20 years though so it's worth paying the $100 a year to keep up to date rather then spending the time getting used to a new screen reader. It's also nice to have a company you can call for support and talk to someone instantly when your entire ability to do your job depends on screen reading software.
It is worth noting that many of the penalties the Chinese government is pushing would be considered a direct violation of inalienable humans rights as recognized by our constitution. Their approach should have you terrified for their citizens.
I see. Well I used to have a tendency to start refactoring something, then see it’ll be easier if I refactor another part and so on.

I would dig myself into a well so deep it might take a month to crawl out of before my code is useable again, but it would be a huge waste to stop.

If you’ve only invested 4 hours it doesn’t seem that bad.
That sure was a lot of words to once again raise the question, "Why hasn't the LHC found what we thought it would?" And I never did get to the point, if there even was any, that the headline about squished rocks led me to click.

The article kind of answers itself, when it talks about dark matter. It's a placeholder for what we don't know. We work off what we do know, and have confirmed through scientific rigor. From this, we have math models that show us where we think things should be. But we haven't found them. And we keep beating our heads into the wall that the LHC hasn't found them, so who do we blame?

I just feel like it doesn't work that way. Eureka moments and scientific breakthroughs have never been a product of budget and man hours. You have a question, you do your research, you come with your answer based on your information, and you test. And with a machine the scale of the LHC, tests aren't as simple as a baking soda volcano in your kitchen. And with the kind of questions we're asking, maybe the LHC isn't the machine that will find the answers, no matter how many people we throw at it and particles we shoot through it.

So, from my (completely amateur and unqualified) understanding, either the question we're asking is wrong, the methods and devices of the test are flawed, or the hypothesis itself is wrong and no one wants to accept what that means to particle physics.

But even if the only thing that comes out of the LHC is confirmation and understanding of the Higgs, that's more than plenty enough to satisfy me. I'm just so exhausted by all of these articles railing against the LHC. I get it, you're mad at progress in the scientific community, but don't take it out on the equipment. It's done more than well enough, so far.
Especially not for those of us with iPhones...
Yeah, well the problem there is that the slaves were not freed until long after the war was started. Hence Lincoln's letter to Greeley http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley...
wherein he writes 'If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.'

The South went to war not because the slaves were going to be freed, but because Lincoln did not agree with Slavery as a moral good.

As per the Cooper Union address: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper....
where he said 'what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.'
Drawings That Capture the Brain’s Mysteries
China's Social Credit Score Isn't Real (Brookings)
>> or assume the southerner was just... evil (the average white southern man fought so that there would at least be something below him.)

You have a very idealistic view of human nature if you don't think this banal evil is more common historically than not.
This is an easy-to-implement approach, with a great explanation.
If I make a XOR circuit with 4 NAND gates it says I can do better. My 3 gate solution is to use an AND, OR, and NAND gate which would have been 6 NAND gates. However it gives me full marks for my 3 gate solution.
>The North was willing to let the South keep slaves

Source?
Absolute Vibration Level and Damage Factors for Machinery Health Monitoring
Code without online help
People have told me similar about other topics and I learned from it. I interpreted it as a fact about how just claiming something is wrong appears to some people. The doomsday aspect definately accentuates it though.
A “samurai” swordsmith is designing a space probe
Nine tenths of the developer jobs I've moved through in the past 5 years, I have jumped ship seemingly on coin flip to external observers and colleagues, and the key factor underlying those decisions has been the office environment.

Crowds vary, and environments differ, from luxury, appeal and cost, to interpersonal variations.

But for sure, the open environment put all of them in the crosshairs. The noise? It's less about noise, and more about the content of conversations.

You hear half a conversation, and when your paycheck is on the line, hearing the wrong part of a conversation leaves you wondering if they were talking about you, and whether or not anyone intended you to hear it. You hear people judging new hire candidates after a round of interviews. You hear people gossiping. You hear people talking about raises and reviews. Who's fucking who.

Worst of all, you hear sideways remarks from people in a mocking tone, clearly within earshot. Passive aggression, hostility. But all work related. None of it discriminatory. It all targets the impostor syndrome of holding down what amounts to a bullshit job to begin with.

Every word crystal clear. The whole conversation, unmistakably audible to you, but you are not a participant. Is it a taunt? Are there more people agreeing with what they said, and chiming in with additional sarcasm? Are they ganging up on you? And you have to sit at your desk, quietly uninvolved, minding your own business, and focus on stepping through some useless convenience widget in a debugger.

Sure thing. Where's the door?
"The raw data from a vibration transducer mounted on a test structure is obtained in time domain. The vibration signal in time domain is useful to the extent of finding out the overall vibration level. The overall vibration level may not exactly indicate the impending defect that is growing in the system. The frequency that is responsible for a particular defect is to be identified rather than the overall vibratory level. For this the vibratory signal in time domain is to be converted to frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transforms and the vibration analyzers (FFT Analyzers) do this job [2]. Special analysis techniques like envelope spectrum analysis, cepstrum analysis, spike energy method, shock pulse method, waterfall diagram etc., are used when the spectrum analysis does not give much information about the defect, or when the technique suits the system to be monitored than spectrum analysis."

Might be interesting for anybody working with e.g. server or equipment logs. If you have such a volume of logs that identifying recurring events is impossible and counting absolute numbers of errors is not useful, could throwing the log into an FFT and examining the frequency spectrum of errors help?
They Never Went to the Moon
I have seen the same with rakes. Done the same, truthfully.

Used even remotely competently, a blower beats a rake. Hands down.

Now, there is a solid argument that for small yards, a rake and broom are fine. And indeed, that is what I use when doing my yard. With a large yard, though, blower with bagging lawn mower could accomplish in one day and ten bags what would take three days and forty bags. Easy.
What happens in these cases?
You'd have to download each of the public hack dumps and check for your email in them.
I found an article about the ongoing Six4Three case in CA [1]. From the article:

> David Godkin, Six4Three’s lead counsel said: “We believe the public has a right to see the evidence and are confident the evidence clearly demonstrates the truth of our allegations, and much more.”

I have little-to-no legal understanding, but it seems to me that it was in Six4Three's interest to have these documents seized and perhaps released to the public? I see others here talking of how bold of a move this was for Parliament and that it wouldn't have worked if Six4Three simply refused. However, if Six4Three was trying to get the documents released anyways, was this really that bold of a move? Seems to me its more just giving Six4Three an excuse to leak the documents.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/mark-zuck...
Most writing pays very little or nothing. The Stephen Kings and JK Rowlings of the world are very much the exception, not the rule.

Money is not the only reason to do something. I'm a freelance writer and blogger. I would love to be financially better off than I am, but the reality is life is much more complicated than just what pays money and what doesn't.

Even when you do make money at something, there are things that you have to do that aren't per se monetized, yet are necessary parts of the process. If you try to excise them in the name of profit, it can kill the goose that is laying the golden eggs.
I'm a blind developer and my job is all back-end database and REST api development. I have done UI development on internal applications where function mattered more then looks. It's pretty easy to create basic UI's using HTML since everything is in code. Specifically I used Grails to generate UI scaffolding as a starting point that I was then able to modify. Once I got everything working another developer spent a day adding some CSS and fixing a few rough edges.
Url changed from http://nautil.us/blog/worlds-oldest-fossils-now-appear-to-be..., which points to this.
You mean http://openswr.org
As usual, here come the comments claiming that the US is just as bad. Had HN been around at the end of WWII, I’m sure the news of millions of Jews being killed in concentration camps would have been met with “Yeah, well we put Japanese people in internment camps. We do it differently, but we still oppress people, so who are we to judge.”

You’re wrong about there being no doubt that a warrant can be obtained to examine the records of tens of thousands of people because one person “got out of line”, except in the most extreme cases. Well, depending on how you define “getting out of line”, maybe extreme national security but that’s relatively rare. I’d like to see a source showing that such warrants are widespread.

And that’s not how the 100 miles from the border / 4th amendment thing works either. Not that it’s not a complete clusterfuck, but it’s not as simple as you describe: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Edit: to clarify for the dead comment in response to mine: America does all kinds of terrible shit. We always have. Internment camps are a stain on this country. And the stuff we do in the name of national security spits on the spirit of the constitution. But that doesn’t mean it’s on the same level as all atrocities by other governments, or that we’re robbed of our moral authority to condemn human rights violations because we’re imperfect. And the lazy whataboutism that’s dragged out every time there’s a story about a truly horrific authoritarian regime trampling on its citizens is galling. It’s ignorant and useless.
you are not in the system. So you do not partake.

no lease, no credit card, no nothing. America gave it to the corporations. So what difference does it make if an all mighty corp does it or the gov't?
We have different definitions of beauty. :)

That said, I definitely have a push broom I use to finish off the sidewalk. Have to first rake, though, as i am moving a lot of leaves over it.
I was also thinking the same thing about the "secret deal" thing since 643 had previously fought Facebook in court and there might be some bad blood there. But the guy is a US citizen so it'd be very risky to intentionally pull a stunt like that when a US court ordered him to keep the documents sealed.

I agree it seems this was a pretty major incident and people are letting their hatred of Zuckerberg blind them to it.

In essence the 643 guy was threatened with UK jail if he didn't produce the documents. And threatened with US jail if he did. Over something that he did not own or had any part in creating. I'm no expert but it seems like a rights violation. He didn't do anything illegal.

Do embassies really step in in this case? If not, what would be the correct process to untangle oneself.
What Computational Physics Is Really About
The article is quite informative about the ongoing work on fossils and (unless I missed it?) doesn't mention the LHC, so this comment seems somehow off topic.

Edit: ah, I think I see. There was an article about the LHC underneath the fossil article on the originally submitted page (http://nautil.us/blog/worlds-oldest-fossils-now-appear-to-be...).
wow I can't think of a thing to say. Just wow.
Give me a break. I rent to tenants with horrible credit all the time. And unless you’re handling handling money or sensitive info or getting a security clearance, bad credit won’t stop you from getting a job. You people need to stop reading the internet echo chamber and go talk to some actual people in the world. Tens of millions of people have bad credit. You think they’re all homeless and unemployed?
Historically in the US, it has been those in power pitting group against group like poor whites against slaves in this case (or one ethnic group versus another in other struggles with labor in the North during the same time period and afterwards), for the purpose of keeping those at the bottom occupied with an easily identified other, versus those with a lot more power and harder to reach. There were likely some familial ties from the average southern white laborer with some who owned slaves or were in the system as overseers.
I also don't see how evil is unlikely, the daily brutality of slavery required a large standing militia to suppress the constant threat of active rebellion of the slaves against the owners, and it's likely the average white adult male would have been a part of said militia. It seems to me that living with that one has to make the moral choice to accept it - for the alternative there was only one John Brown and family and maybe one Free State of Jones situation, for almost everyone else, they either did not see it as evil we see it today and commonplace (so not perhaps evil in their own eyes) or not willing to make the ultimate commitment against it. On the other hand, the United States being probably the last country to outlaw slavery does not speak too well of our country. The poor did not start the war, only serve as foot soldiers and there was a draft on both sides - the elite class served as officers, this notion that the war was initiated by the average person seems counterfactual, most of the time it's elites who want to start war and waging a propaganda campaign to get the populace behind starting a war.

Even today there's no popular campaign today to go to war against Iran or North Korea, but it sure is popular in some conservative think tanks and with our current NSA, John Bolton, it's been his obsession for the last 20 years it feels like.
I love slit-scan effects, it's such a simple but powerful concept.

They're actually really easy to do now in post, After Effects has an effect called time displacement that allows you to displace time on a per pixel level. So to recreate a standard slit scan you'd just supply it with a gradient from black to white, but you can also create even more bizarre effects by mapping the pixels differently.

A few months ago I did all the effects for some music videos, and I created multiple effects based on slit-screen. Things like, having the video smoothly break apart into slices where the time moves at different speeds and then smoothly splice itself back together.

Another cool effect I figured out: using a blurred copy of the video as the time displacement mapping. This makes everything that's colored similarly move together in time, but out of sync with everything else.

I did that effect for a video that was just one long shot, and then I rotoscoped out the performers so they move in regular time and match the music:
https://youtu.be/-0zO7Fnqnvs

I really love old school effects work, they're a constant source of inspiration.
I’m not sure why you find this unlikely. There’s explicit racism by the whites, which could be termed “loss of status”. In-group/out-group has been a long historic motivator.

As far as as why the poor would die for the elites, well that’s also existed from the beginning of time. Pretty much every war is like that.

The War Of The Roses was a family feud that lasted 32 years, and cost lives of somewhere between 35,000 and 50,000, all to decide which inbred guy gets to sit on a chair and boss everyone else around. Almost no one that died in that war, had anything to gain, or lose.

Do you really think anyone on the street really had anything to gain or lose from World War I, a war that cost between 8 and 21 million lives, all because of some piece of paper after some idiot born into a “special” family took a wrong turn and couldn’t escape perhaps the most incompetent assination squad in history[0]?

People go off an die determine which religious bureaucracy will collect a monetary tax from a group. There’s no benefit or harm to any individual about this.

[0] http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article592199.html
Goodbye phone spam
Soft wheat flour is easy to find. It is available as cake flour in any grocery store.
Huh, what? The LICENSE file clearly says the project is under GPL. Copyright notice doesn't conflict with that. In fact, the whole idea of "copyleft" used in the GPL is based on traditional copyright.

What exactly are you trying to say?
Crest factor
Oh, I have an example for you:

One of my neighbors used a leaf blower just hours before the expected arrival of a hurricane.

Explain that one.
Ricky Jay's Magical Secrets
There is a few options, such as using AWS Cognito, or signed requests. I personally use signed requests which allows you to specify where and what type of files are allowed to be uploaded. First the user asks my server for a policy and signature, then uploads directly to S3, then sends another request to my server when done. My server will then verify and process uploaded files.

Likewise requests can also be signed so you can implement rate limiting on you side, and just allow S3 to serve the payload. Or you can do thing like use Cloudfront to server the objects which can use various methods of authentication such as signed cookies, or Lambda functions.

Headers can be set in the S3 object metadata.
Have not read beyond the headline, so apologies if (as is likely) I missed a critical point. However:

This seems likely to cause those who don't want or can't fit into the rated society China is building to emigrate.

The more creative, the misfits, those square pegs who don't fit in round holes... Send them our way.
I'm not entirely sure that's the case. The guy is the CEO.

So let's say he can't access it from the UK. The UK guys tell him "give us the documents or you go to jail". Well then he could ask an employee who is currently in the US to unlock them for him, maybe even give them his password. Basically, there is usually a way to get things done if there is a threat of jail pending.

The greater issue is how the UK was allowed to even do something like this to a person who hadn't done anything illegal.
Switched now.
To reduce cutting edge nuclear weapons tests, at a time when the USA and USSR were neck deep in an arms race and at each other's throats, to a nothingburger about space radiation is... fantastic. How great is it that today we can live so ignorant of one of the scariest times in human civilization?

The everythingburger had to do with the orbital EMP, not the radiation or even the secret tests. If the US had developed an effective way to neutralize Soviet ICBMs with atmospheric detonations, it would have been the end of MAD and would have forced the Soviet Union into all out war in a race to beat the US before a full defense system could be built - at a time when they were first starting to come to the table.
Can you expound on this? I’m not sure I follow but I’m interested.