skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you point to examples where this was problematically under-specified?

Not really. My comment was about how I interpreted joe_the_user's statement; I can't think of a ML or CV research paper I've read to which this criticism would apply, but I definitely can think of such news articles and startup landing pages/marketing material.
I think, you are right. It looks like governments globally are doing it. It may be a good indicator that encryption actually is hard for them at least on big scale.
Russia also introduced a law year ago that forces companies to help "police" decrypt traffic, it works very selectively now though.
It has of course nothing with criminals or terrorists, there is something more. :)
Thanks, I had no idea, but that was really just an example I made up on the spot. In some cases, you can fight wildfires with fire, but that's also besides the point, which isn't about James Randi or fire but propaganda and deception, and how best to counter it.
> Find an email provider,

Like google perhaps?
I tend to be a bleeding heart and agree that many cases of criminal behavior are mental illness or environment/circumstances, but I still think there is a spectrum of morality out there -- not sure what you mean by "evil" exactly, but certainly a spectrum where people can range from high on empathy and kindness to those who care much less about others and are more amoral or even sociopathic.
My father also sent my cat to a farm when I was young!
Tried it with montserrat (open free font). It gave me “something went wrong!” error.
When I can’t find an error string on google after hours of searching it dawns on me how badly I screwed up.
Comments about downvoting are nearly always downvoted.
he means conversation view
> I'm not sure why transclusion isn't popular. [...]

Perhaps the tool-and-community bootstrap challenge is sufficient explanation?

It was clear for years that USENET news needed comment voting, but its community never really made the attempt. Progress came from moving elsewhere, eg HN.

Consider selective comment display as a limited form of transclusion. Why doesn't HN have more highly personalized views? Sometimes you want quality, but it's obscured by chatter. Sometimes you would like to chat, but that would obscure quality from others. So we're at very not 90% of benefit; not a security issue; and far more effort for both readers and mods. But the better code doesn't exist yet. And community expectations don't demand it -- users might abandon a "no comment voting? - so broken" site, but "I can't even do basic reputation filtering?" isn't an expectation yet.

Or consider the largely unsuccessful effort of the late-80's hypertext community to shape the development of the "that's not right" WWW. Including "this has become funny" multiple Xanadu attempts. Path-dependent local incentives seemed to dominate instead.

But if one bottleneck is ease of exploring non-linear information, perhaps help may come from VR's relaxing of screen real estate constraints, providing more elbow room for low-overhead speculative UI content and associated assistive agents?
if the output is the same but America's cut is greater... doesn't that mean it's a net positive for the US? More US gas = more US profit? Seems like a win to me...
> Why would it succeed where FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Mobile could not?

I think Purism would be satisfied with much less initial adoption on the overall market than somebody like Mozilla/Canonical. In short, they'd probably consider it a success much sooner. Also, both FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Touch were essentially adopting the same philosophy as Android in terms of having a closed-hardware approach and a software stack that while open in principle, was largely restricted on-device to run just the apps available in the respective app-stores, made for the platform specifically, which weren't that many.

Purism is making it so that practically any Linux app can be installed out of the box and with a small amount of work, any GTK3/4 app can be made touch friendly as well. I think this could provide them the app ecosystem head start they'd need.

> Not enough people value openness to make the trade off versus iOS and Android.

I think you're, sadly, right. However if PurismOS becomes a solid choice in its own right and then you have the privacy advantage on top, it might sell.

> Does iOS not provide the privacy you need?

Kind of, that's what I use now, however I have to trust Apple on keeping its word, which may be difficult considering they're moving more and more into "services" == rent seeking. Also, I have serious problems with the war on general purpose computing Apple is involved in and the closed nature of their software, where they have the ultimate say in what I can run on a piece of hardware I paid thousand pounds for to own, not rent.
No clue. Probably just a remnant of the D&D fear of the 80s. This was 1994 or around then. Whenever Warcraft came out.
ClarisWorks/AppleWorks - Thought the integration of all office suite functionality in one pallet was brilliant.
barring its revival, is there a macos tool to open/convert old FrameMaker documents? my PhD thesis and years of notes were archived in that format.
You can find the pricing information on https://www.oresundsbron.com/en/prices , but the TL;DR for cars:

No Pass:

- 52€ at toll station

- 47€ online

With Pass (additional 42€ annual fee):

- 23€

- 14€ on return if within 6hrs, between 5PM to 12AM M-F, on weekends, or during holidays.

- 5€ for trips #17-50 within the month

So yes, steep discounts for frequent travelers.

Edit: Formatting
Ooh. In the language puzzles subgenre, I’d add the stranger encounter from „The Edifice,” by Lucian Paul Smith (1997). One of the most memorable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edifice
Get the proper hosting
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch when the sketch artist police admit society is to blame and proceed to arrest everyone.
> everyone is different

Very true. I added your disclaimer.
It is a plain language term, pseudoscience most often alludes to science by misrepresenting scientific terms. In this context "wholesome" plainly refers to foods which provide broad but not necessarily complete nutrition, so they can be eaten perfectly safely in bulk like potatoes and rice (note the objective of this thread).

Small amounts of almost anything can be synthesized at great expense, but you should have provided an example of a wholesome food which would not be completely uneconomical to synthesize (and purify) in bulk, to support a claim that there exists such a potential economic possibility. Even how much for example, it costs to synthesize food grade sugars would be a start on showing your advice on this subject is grounded in reality.
Lotus Improv
I’m concerned that this is partly due to selection bias. Blind is an app where people go to complain about their work.
She is facing multiple charges each with maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.

If the prosecutors think there is risk she flees to country with no extradition treaty with US (Mainland China), nabbing her may be justified.
Would it be easier to use rational beziers (NURBS) rather than just beziers?
Perhaps its overkill, but I've always wanted to see more UI's re-purposing midi controllers (which certainly reproduce chorded functionality!):

https://www.amazon.com/Korg-NANOKEY2BK-Slim-Line-Keyboard-Bl...

https://www.amazon.com/Korg-nanoKEY-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Contr...
Do you consider sociopathy and psychopathy to be sicknesses?
Looks like one just has to retry when that happens. It took me three tries but it did come back with a pointer to that font.
Have a feature phone and call a cab? I guess I don’t use Uber/Lyft much but then I don’t live in a city though I travel to them frequently.
> soured my view of him forever. He’s revealed himself to be a man of no principles.

I don't have a strong opinion of Shorten one way or the other, but I've read a lot of people express a similar POV and it strikes me as extremely naive.

If you went into politics with a view to die on your sword rather than compromise any of your values you'd have a very short career. Losing the battle to win the war is the only way to achieve anything.

I mean, be realistic. If the ALP had blocked the bill it would be political suicide for them. For now some nerds (us) are debating the issue on an obscure forum. The alternative would be for every man and his dog having our corrupt media ram the "Labor has made it easier for terrorists to kill you" story down their throat for the next few months.
Considering this, ban of Huawei looks ridiculous.
More profit for US oil companies, but as a massive consumer of oil and oil derived products it means higher prices than necessary across many large sectors of the economy.
From an economic perspective, using a service like Pivotal feels like placing a bet that the pricing difference between cloud providers will be higher that the cost of paying for Pivotal's support plan (I know, open source, but if you reach a scale where these things matter enough that you care about the cost to switch clouds you are probably at the scale where you find yourself paying for Redhat and etc support plans).

As cool as "cloud agnostic" sounds, paying any real tax to achieve it probably exceeds the long term price differential between major cloud providers. The major clouds sell commodities, recognize that they sell commodities, and they operate as low margin large scale providers. Over time the pricing differences have to average out to about zero, otherwise the market would abandon the always-more-TCO-costly provider (which would cause them to lower their margins to recapture the higher total earnings).
I completely agree it's ungainly - maybe this is better:

"host-sociability-enhancing variants replicated more"
He did not alone make them, but he made them they were. He was the one who decided from all the possibilities what will be implemented, how it will look like, how is going to be sold. We can talk about each of the items from the list, and his fundamental influence is provable for each. Without Jobs, all the things from the list would not even happen in the form they happened.
Human-realistic 3D in HMD VR
AOL. No, seriously.
One of the major parties' state election campaigns just a couple of weeks ago was running off the promise to curb violence in Melbourne (almost entirely baseless hysteria of African gangs). We had a mostly foiled terrorist attack the week of the election, and it was quite disgusting to see the leader of that party "pay tribute" to the victims even while having some sort of glee for the timing.

If you live in a number of places in the US you would likely find the levels of violent crime hilariously low here in comparison, yet there was attempt to play on the fears and "make Melbourne safe again". Luckily it was one of the least successful major party election campaigns in recent years.
Awful site. Won't even load if cookies are blocked. Summary, after stripping all markup:

The internet is for porn, goes the song from musical Avenue Q. Since Tumblr announced this week that it will no longer be part of that internet, many users are mounting an exodus to existing networks like still-freewheeling Twitter, as well as efforts to build a new kind of Tumblr, the kind of Tumblr that Tumblr had been until now. There were people sharing their discovery of their sexuality. There were people sharing the journey of themselves going through hard times, says LolaBohemia, a professional dominatrix from Florida. ...

The platform's ban on visuals of adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions), which officially begins on December 17, has already flooded bloggers inboxes with automated alerts about suspect images, videos, and GIFs. ... In addition to flagging visuals, Tumblr seems to have filtered its searches. Hashtags like BDSM now return no results at all. No erotica or other text appears either, despite Tumblr's assurance that the new content rules don't apply to text posts.

There is an appeals process for flagged items, and its unclear how much content will ultimately be blocked although straight-up porn certainly will be. Many adult bloggers get the sense that they are no longer wanted. There are [sic] no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content, wrote Tumblr's CEO.

Tribe and Experience Project also went sex-free. They're both gone now.
> Australia did away with its guns.

No it didn't. Saying it did helps prevent the US implement similar measures.
I just created a repl.it account and tried the multiplayer feature. In fact, not every participant requires an account, just the host. So not as bad I as I expected and kinda reasonable. I am confident I will try that feature with some friends in the future.
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments.
In the countryside in Russia dogs are usually on the chain and don't run outside the yard, but cats have always been free and nobody would even think of locking them in the house. How is it going to catch mice and birds that destroy crops?
Kudos to Microsoft. This can also open up new opportunities for AI simulations, especially reinforcement learning. Similar to OpenAI. It should unleash a new playground for progress.
Easily collect thousands of tweets for text analysis
The Windows desktop is "mostly broken"? That's news to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633211
For anyone else outside of machine learning who was wondering what all of this is, here is my best explanation:

The inferencing phase of a neural network attempts to minimize error or loss as defined by the user. This is done by iteratively applying gradient descent to the error function. Thus, the error function must have a known derivative, which can be difficult if the function has loops and conditionals.

Autograd is a software package that produces derivatives of a function automatically. It creates a computation graph of the user-defined code from which it can determine the derivative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation

XLA is a JIT from TensorFlow that compiles common array functions. The JAX project from this GitHub page brings JIT optimizations to Autograd's automatic differentiation. That will speed-up the error function when inferring a neural network. Neat!

(I would be grateful for any corrections to my above explanation as I am not an expert in ML.)
Actually they voted on the promise from the Libs that the amendments they proposed would be revisited in 2019, just to make Australia safe over Christmas. Which is somehow even more boneheaded than unanimously agreeing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/bill-shorten-says-con...
I posted a link about ZZT a while ago, and I learned some stuff from people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656822

And a friendly person emailed me this link: https://github.com/jdque/char
> Think AWS Lambda but in a CDN.

So, AWS Lambda@Edge
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633211
2 Guys “Of Color” Fighting at the Airport
It's good news environmentally. The more expensive gas is the less we burn.
The same implication as unicycles.
Some loan words are, some aren't. Certainly a lot of them do get properly translated, and it's always fun to see what sticks.
But if you set foot inside the EU... you are in the EUs jurisdiction.

Extradition treaties are usually subject to 'dual criminality' - so you would have to be breaking the country you are in as well to be extradited for violation of that same law to the EU.

And be realistic. The US hasn't even successfully managed to extradite Kim Dotcom from mighty New Zealand.
"Server internal error" from the API on any search request, even when retrying
No funding for uncomfortable results
Papers with Code: The Latest in Machine Learning
And what if all of the progress is undone by cripplying drought, flooding, intense storms, crop shortages?

There is no denying that fossil fuels have brought an unprecedented level of wealth and prosperity. But what we need to do is face up to the fact that we will lose all of those gains if we arent willing to sacrifice some if them to avoid disaster. Sharing renewable tech with developing countries, ending fossil fuel subsidies, taxing emissions, legislating with a healthy environment as a first priority - they will make many a little bit worse off, but are utterly crucial for any hope of a prosperous future.
A hearty second on Twitch. It’s very easy to go down the rabbit hole in getting a mod working on your kid’s computer (what 3rd party API are they using, what version, what mods do they build on, what version of Minecraft does it work with, etc.).
sigscans are how nearly all third-party modding APIs work. It's a lot better to hardcode what behavior you're trying to find than hardcoring binary offsets, and then having to update them manually once the program updates.
It worked for me. So does it basically search GitHub for the font and gives you a GitHub link?
21 Realistic Passive Income Stream Ideas
>Where did I state it like that? You acknowledge that it could be argued that some people are justified betrayed and angry, now you knock down this straw man, while saying I have fallen "prey" to populist propaganda.

And then society has literally no response for 2 years and counting than to turn its nose up some more, while sweeping under the rug how insane it was to let Clinton instead of Sanders run against Trump, without skipping a beat

Here, you claim that "society" has had no response to Trump's supporters, or their issues, other than to "turn its nose up some more." This implicitly defines two groups, "society" and "them", the latter being Trump supporters, and ascribes the quality to the former of an inability to respond to the latter with anything but a snobbish gesture of elitist contempt.

This is not a description of reality, this hyperbole and stereotype of a kind only invoked by Trump supporters before wallowing in their persecution complex and lecturing everyone else about why Trump's election is their fault.

And as an aside, it's odd how often Trump supporters seem to invoke their own chosen candidate's election in the pejorative like that. As if the only reason they voted for him was to punish society with his execrable presence.

>So where does the correct feeling of having been betrayed fit in? I guess that just falls between the cracks, once again. Who wants to talk about that when you can scold me for a claim I never made, right?

That's just it - plenty of people feel betrayed. Liberals and Democrats feel betrayed, but Trump supporters see them as the enemy. City dwellers and people who don't work in the steel mills and coal plants feel betrayed, but Trump supporters see them as part of the elitist establishment. Immigrants and the children of immigrants feel betrayed, but Trump supporters see them as the horde storming the walls of Rome, stealing their jobs and their culture.

>Can you give examples? And why did you start your comment with basically explaining how society owes them no response other than an exclusionary one, then?

I don't need to give examples to counter obvious hyperbole, and I never said society owes them no response other than an exclusionary one, I said society's response to their exclusionary ideals is justified.
I assumed, I guess incorrectly, that Racket was more than a 1-2 person team. Also was perturbed that they were only at a v0.4. Not sure how things like SAP and Oracle are valid in a conversation about Racket...
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I got this too. There's zero incentive for startups to protect data privacy of their users when the repercussions are just that they have to shoot out a broadcast email to their old users asking them to spend hours resetting passwords.
> Critical thinking is good, but we have a system that only applies it to ideas that it doesn't like and a culture of hostility towards applying it to it's own sacred ideals.

Yes, and it makes it all the more damning, because it kinda shows we know how logic works, what standards or principles are, but for "social reasons" we can suspend that.

> Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. [..] Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.

-- George Orwell

This now split up into more echo chambers, little "orthodoxies", but the sum of that is not truth either.
The Grail Project (An Experiment in Man-Machine Communications)
That whole system is really a mess, and I speak from experience as a modder. All the changes between MC releases makes updating an enormous pain in the butt, so there's still mods stuck at version 1.6.4 and every version in between.

I think most modders would be ecstatic at some kind of official mod support, assuming it offers at least what forge does already.
The article talks about the difficulties of mental treatment of prominent politicians.
Would it be possible with decades of mission creep for the US to seriously consider disengagement from the Middle East?
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Every hour you're at the computer, click "publish" or reach out to push your piece, or email someone to ask to guest post. Any outward action that has you reach out in some way.
I recently had some electrician, plumbing and gas work done and the bill was around my contractor rate here in NZ.

Given the politics and bs around the big corps and govt ministries my skillsets fit into (business analyst/pm) a trade has been something I've been considering seriously for a while now. The peace of mind and lack of toxic office cultures is really appealing. They're apprenticeships too, so you're paid as you learn.
“The Texas Vampires” by Rare Earth: a story about DNA ownership (8.5 minutes)
> Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which “runs on serotonin” (a brain chemical often associated with feelings of happiness). According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way – we are wired to live in them.

It's easy to find many competent biologists who will point out the quite glaring differences between lobsters and humans, especially when it comes to brain chemistry.
is "the earth is flat" a subjective wrong?

No.

is "climate changes unless you change" a subjective wrong?

Yes. Define "change". Also, climate changes without individual change. Also, individual change isn't going to impact climate change.

is "poverty" a subjective wrong?

Do you mean the source of poverty or how to deal with it? Either way, yes both of those are subjective.

is "education is important" a subjective right?

Yes, this is subjective. Many people have massive student debt and education that doesn't offer them any sort value in the employment marketplace.

is "rules of law" a subjective wrong?

Yes, how it's carried out very much so.

is "same gender, same pay" a subjective right?

Yes, because a lot of people would say we've already achieved that in the west and a lot of people feel the opposite.

I think you've picked some of the most subjective issues of modern times as your examples of things that are objective in nature.
"High-performance lightweight desktop email clients"

https://www.claws-mail.org/

Don't dismiss it because of the lack of bells and whistles on its web page, it runs circles around everything else. Outlook mail folders also can be imported through an external utility.
Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and reportedly can be built on MacOSX.
I agree that you shouldn't be constantly reacting to incoming email, but what about your own outreach? Same caution?
That seems to be what's happening - a hard division between no-sex sites and porn sites, with nothing in between. Apple and Google seem to be driving this, with their no-sex policies.

Verizon, having acquired Tumblr, had a problem. Their own "Verizon Smart Family"[1] censoring system would now be blocking their own site.

[1] https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/verizon-smart-family...