skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people interested in non-latin methods of writing I would suggest checking out shorthand writing as well as the shavian alphabet.

I find shavian particularly interesting since it is based on phonetic pronuncation with which I've had many issues and embarrassments!
Yes, really. There was a specifc reference to that comment but also the thread in general, which didn't mention shills, and a reply which didn't reference that comment, but the thread in general.

The way stories critical of some, uhm, vaguely important developments in China regularly get flagged off the front page, while utter fluff about China winning some "race" or other being on the front page every second day is quite something. I don't know what the karma threshold is for flagging stories, but it sure isn't 17000. Of course, as that article notes:

> David Wertime of Foreign Policy argued that the narrative where a large army of paid Internet commentators are behind China's poor public dialogue with its critics is "Orwellian, yet strangely comforting". Rather, many of the Chinese netizens spreading nationalist sentiment online are not paid, but often mean what they say.

Either way, shill or useful idiot [1] or just independent nonthinker; it's still poor dialogue, as a result of poor reasoning and/or underdeveloped empathy, in defense of abominable practices -- and if someone can shrug off people being put into camps, they can shrug off being called names. Again, this didn't even happen here, but even if it had happened.. not that I find that constructive, of course it's also destructive and poor, talking about how "the shills are out" is totally useless and more toxic than shitty arguments I can at least disagree with -- but I still reject your claim that that'd be "offensive". Maybe for you, my priorities are vastly different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
And as the 60 Minutes documentary talks about, the US ships a huge amount of recycled plastics across the ocean to countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and until recently, China.

So the plastic you throw in the recycling bin in the US might very well end up in one of those 10 polluted rivers and in the ocean.
Sure, but you could commute from Millbrae to Civic Center in the same time as Park slope to manhattan (depending on the exact stop obviously), and that's uhh, cheaper, than Mission.
The only new signal (which I think isn't actually on a new band, it uses the same frequency as an existing signal) won't be online until 2020something when the new ground station software is ready. It may be a while before cell phones ship with chips that actually use the new signal. The L5 signal has been broadcast since 2010 and I think it took until this year for the first phones to ship with support for it.
That’s the easy part, hard part is the 50-100k needed for influencers
I believe it was an HN thread years ago where I first discovered Dotsies. I spent a very satisfying afternoon learning to read it and write it. I then labelled all sorts of cables and patch boards and such with it around my cubicle for fun. I only kept them up for a few days, but it was a blast learning to read something cryptic and cool looking at a glance with so little effort. If only for that idle distraction Dotsies is a worthy hack. I really think half the fun is in the teaching method.
WordPress Privilege Escalation Through Post Types
It would be great to have a sliding scale

Mean comments allowable:

0 --x--------- 100
15
I dont think Apple employees can do such a thing anyway. Profile of companies and employees are quite different.
Only a few sites support it;

And it doesn’t stop google’s tracking and profiling, just the display ads. Likely also tags you “has spendable income” for ads on sites that don’t participate (and post-shutdown future)
The Practical Guide to Hacking Bluetooth Low Energy
SF really has no low end on anything. There's no $1 pizza slice when you really need a cheap meal and there's nowhere cheap to live without a punishing commute.

The high end of NY is also much higher than SF. NY is where the first $100M apartment is.

NY is as expensive on average but it's an average of a much wider and range.
Keybase Teams—also featuring e2e-encrypted group chat—appears to be proof against the ghost-user-based attack.

It would be interesting to compare its implementation to how Signal does group messaging in TextSecure v2.

[0] https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams#anyway-tea...
For someone fresh out of college or a boot camp that might be useful for me, but when looking at a candidate with a lot of experience (5+ years), I would not really be too interested in languages they used unless they were in large projects at a full time role. Coming from where you are, I would think getting some chops in a more mainstream language would be helpful. If that language were to be JS I would not personally be looking for anything related to React/Angular/Other framework but just general knowledge of the language and, for JS specifically, the web platform and tools.
Lloyd's satellite constellations
> HTTP2 and HTTP3 are decided by committees and it isnt Google who controls it.

That was then, this is now. What happens when Google implements its next protocol in Chromium? With Blink's market share, would they even bother with committees anymore? At this point, they could more or less get what they want out of it without the extra bureaucracy.
Here's a good site for anyone interested, it covers both shavian and dotsies:

https://www.omniglot.com/writing/shavian.htm

https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dotsies.htm
> hey, trillions of humans have collectively decided over a few thousand years that the latin alphabet hits a pretty good sweet spot in human communication. I bet they didn't consider how readable it is, though. I can do better than all of them

I don't know all the fancy names for logical fallacies but this seems to be deliberately misrepresenting the argument. The website clearly states that the problem with the Latin alphabet is that it has to be able to be written efficiently as well as read. Your trillions of humans over a few thousand years have had to both read and write this alphabet. In the past few hundred years we've had technology that allows someone who made a huge investment to produce massive amounts of text without writing, and in the past few decades the ability to produce text without writing has become completely ubiquitous. Does it still make sense for this alphabet to optimize for hand writing? Are you arguing that the constraints that made the Latin (or any handwritten) alphabet have remained unchanged over thousands of years? They want to redesign an alphabet to fit modern constraints. We consume a lot of text on devices that need to have screens that fit in our pockets. Perhaps a two-thousand year old alphabet isn't still the optimal solution?

I also don't think the authors necessarily expect to disrupt anything. They just made something cool and put it on the internet. I'm happy people like this exist.
Are phone companies and facebook equally regulated?
Is there an open source underlying library as part of your service? Would love to start using it in smaller projects :) great job BTW
More than 70% of Americans are “unhappy, uninspired and disengaged” at work
So tired of people spreading this misinformation. You can look at the code of conduct and verify for yourself this is not true.
> If there's anything the universe is, it's Eventually Consistent.

Please disregard this inconsistency guff! The Universe isn't Eventually Consistent. It's simply consistent. What's really going on, is that some programmers don't understand relativity. Relativity doesn't actually say that everyone gets their own reality. There is a consistent consensual reality. Spacetime intervals are consistent between all observers. The time ordering of events changes depending on the observer's POV and relative motion, but there is an underlying consistent reality that's the same for everybody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAEHKAR5hU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrISfN7jo

The "Spacetime Globe" by Minute Physics is the most helpful thing I've seen, flat out, for understanding relativity.

> Knowledge of events in our universe is like an immutable, append-only database

This is correct. Relativity just says that different users get different results, depending on how they query. The underlying database is the same for everybody. (Some parts of it are forbidden access, of course.)

Programmers have been causing physicists to facepalm since at least the USENET days. I should know. I was one of them!
As has been answered elsewhere in this discussion:

That was over 7 years ago, so not particularly recent. And you can get the auto-promoting behavior with +' instead.
There's also using multiple shades from dark to light. That might actually be easier to read if you can throw in a few light intensities are have less positional variants. 2 shades with 3 positions would be less error prone than 5 positions of only 1 shade.
Lack of accountability pops into my mind. I'm not American but I'm absolutely shocked that this happened over there. Although as time goes on, that shock is becoming less common unfourtanetly.
It is a pity an intellectually curious person's work posted to a forum of presumably intellectually curious people gets a bit beat up.

George Bernard Shaw worked out a new alphabet too. Tolkien built a language for books about goblins and elves. I can't image how they would be greeted. But perhaps it's just a bad day or hour or something.
MIT invents method to shrink objects to nanoscale using basic lab equipment
Yeah yeah, but ultimately this all comes down to whether you think government interception of private messages is ultimately better than the messages staying private. People here obviously don't feel the same way you do about that.

Myself, I'm not quite so convinced as you seem to be of the harm of "absolutist" positions. Maybe the truth isn't always somewhere in the middle
get a quote from carmax, its hassle free and very low friction. That quote should give you a baseline, you can try getting a higher price at other options.
Why didn't the designer select dot positions based on letter frequency or letter pairing frequency in English? This could have yielded a font that would be more likely to make pretty geometric shapes. Even a simple improvement like vowels all having higher dot positions in the font, and consonants having lower positions, could be interesting. It seems that the dot positions are just based on letter position in the alphabet. There is probably a way to come up with dot positions that yield much nicer looking shapes.
I don't agree that this is the best way to categorize folks, but I do think it's a good point: I know at least 3 people teaching public school in situations where literally everyone would be better off if they were allowed to retire now instead of in 5 years.

I don't even think it's about keeping idiots out of the economy. I think that there are a lot of harmful incentives like retirement that keep people doing things they don't like, and then they do poorly at them... they aren't idiots because if they were they would just retire. They have an incentive to stick with a dysfunctional position because there isn't an alternative.
Please save this BS for Faux news .. thanking you in advance :]
Freight Train, Donald Crews
Firefox handles it well, with a barely noticeable bar of grey in between each character.
Which is why I thought this point in the article was a great summation:

> Maybe this explains what’s so galling to people about the Folsom & Co. not-really-scam: It simply lays bare the categorical deception at the heart of all branding and retail. The different watch values are, in the strictest sense, speech acts: the watch is $29.99 because someone said it’s $29.99. It’s $29.99 because a certain person is wearing it on Instagram; it’s $29.99 because it’s photographed next to flannel and a Chemex. While “Bradley” of “Bradley’s men’s shop” may not be the most fleshed-out character, he – and the entire existence of Folsom & Co., Soficoastal, etc. – are examples of the now-household term, “brand storytelling.” And the internet makes it possible for anyone to tell any story, about anything, from anywhere.

It makes you realize that there really are tons of huge cases of products whose value is solely a result of marketing. My favorite current example is how YouTube influencers have completely upended the makeup industry, with each brand trying to convince you that this pallette of brown and red eyeshadow is imminently Superior to some other brown and red eyeshadow, when the input costs of all of them is literally under $1.
Yes, but tests tend to show you need like >64 cores for things like parareal methods to do better than standard serial methods. So they exist, but aren't quite practical yet. Maybe a GPU-based one in specific cases can be interesting, but no one has been able to demonstrate an efficient enough code yet. It's definitely an interesting topic.
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shudder

If you try this on hardware that also supports software single stepping (which x86 does, but MIPS seems not to by default), then you have to be extra creative to guarantee forward progress. The same issue arises if you have data breakpoints. And if the branch loads from MMIO space, you have a problem.
You could, but it doesn't work very well. It's very very slow. We built a package for it in Julia to test it out, but it wasn't competitive against any of our other methods. Our writeup is here:

https://julialang.org/blog/2017/10/gsoc-NeuralNetDiffEq
Thanks! I was trying to decipher it on iMac with a 5k display (? 5120x2880) and an attached LED Cinema Display (2560x1440). MacOS does a good job dealing with the DPI so that they appear the same size (but one is clearer than the other). Using a magnifying glass, I could almost make out the text on the lower DPI screen, though blue was almost invisible, and I could not seen anything other than a colored bar on the high DPI screen :)
Only ISA? I must have missed something, but I cannot see if they are going to open-source its implementation though.
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Elon Musk’s New Boring Co. Faced Questions Over SpaceX Financial Ties
>> I had a theater class in school that regularly included improv exercises like described. In 11 years of it (K-10 or so), I don't think it ever went well.

My anecdote: theater/drama classes in middle and early high school don't count. You're mixed in with a bunch of teenagers who are only taking the class because either a) it's a mandatory class for all students; or b) more than half the class elected to take the class because it's "easy credit". When many/most of the students in a class aren't there because they actually want to explore the art, it ruins the entire dynamic. The same loudmouth bullies who cause trouble elsewhere in the school have an open season on the shy students; every step a socially awkward student tries to take to "open up" simply provides the bullies with more information they need to target the vulnerable.

Every participant must be present because they have a genuine interest to work with their teammates. Acceptance and cooperation are necessary in order to peel back social fear, and that means finding a group of like-minded people who show up to explore themselves and others around them.
The article is really not very much about the concept of a "free lunch" as more of a concept of how these pseudo-watch brands are laying bare the absurdity inherent in all fashion and branding.
Amazing talk for sure, I think I saw a similar presentation a couple of years ago. His older video was called "Molecular Metaprogramming", one of the coolest titles ever.
> I get the impression people want to place blame on something, anything, except themselves.

Human nature. Every way in which people compare well to others is the true measure of merit. Every way in which they compare poorly is a matter of circumstance. If something worked for me it's the One True Way, and if it doesn't work for someone else (even if something else would) it's evidence that they lack my discipline and fortitude. Once you learn to recognize this form of subjectivity, 90% of online discourse (95% on Hacker News) starts to make a lot more sense.
If I was asked to cut the background out of that photo, I also would have been confused about that big circle behind his head.
After suffering through Java early in my career I've completely avoided it since then. What parts of Java/JVM do you find indispensable vs the rest of tech?
Yes but they would have to alter the clients code - this would be reflected in the source and comparing hashes of the binary (as Signal would have to keep that code change out of the public repo). So yes, the design of the system quite effectively prevents a client side backdoor from going unnoticed.

Edit: also, this is a deliberate design choice not an arbitrary one.
I literally did this at a startup. We had eight eight-at-time Netflix accounts (DVD accounts). This was in 2009. We made a search engine for movies. Yeah, like Mr Skin. We ripped them six at a time. Took us about six months to do 4000 films. The DMCA violations would have been in the trillions.
Thanks for doing this! This is an awesome app! I have a lot of pain trying to remove the background.
How long did it take to build this particular app?
Phishing for Cloudflare logins via Google Ads
700 per day. About 30 per hour. Each DVD is what, 4gbytes? Maybe 10 laptops with SSD drives or external hard drives would be enough. And lots of caffeine!
Open source (PCB design) alternatives:

1. PicoEVB (M.2 2230 with XC7A50T): https://picoevb.com

2. NiteFury (M.2 2280 with XC7A200T and 8Gb DDR3): https://www.crowdsupply.com/rhs-research/nitefury
Tìm hiểu về dược sĩ và công việc của người Dược sĩ sau khi ra trường
A VPN is appropriately for your entire connection not your browser.
Would be interesting to see sous vide and torches incorporated into this.

I usually "sous vide" at a lower temp and then finish with a weed burning torch (aka flame thrower). I find using a large and very hot flame is necessary to get that crisp outside without overcooking it. The handheld chef torches don't get enough searing to cooking ratio.

Fat and connective tissue is another factor that makes things interesting. What's the best technique to soften up the fat and connective tissue without denaturing the protein?
Yeah security is not really "proveable" in any software system.

However, a few points to consider:

1. The signal server can't "see" the group. Clients are just sending N messages to everyone in the group with some encrypted metadata that says it's a group message.

2. The client app is open source. You can go look for a ghost user or backdoor mechanism yourself.

3. The build is reproduceable. You can build it yourself and sideload your own APK, or compare it to the APK coming from the play store.

I don't think it's impossible to put a backdoor in, but I think it at least makes vigilance a good defense. Smart serious people are paying attention.
I mean, it's MIPS so it's a load/store architecture anyway. Between the pair you're only going to have one memory reference at most, and it's going to be the delay slot.
Something I've been wondering lately, watching FPGAs become more accessible: How hard would it be to implement new codecs (ex. AV1) on a FPGA, and thereby get support for new codecs in "hardware" by buying such a card once, plugging it in, and then reflashing it when new (FOSS) codecs come out? Especially since some of these cards at least claim to support being left inside a laptop. I assume there's some work to implement the codec in verilog (or whatever they use these days), and some effort to pass the audio/video streams to the card and then back to the system for output, but I have no idea how terrible that is; somewhere between "it would take a team of engineers years" and "download these 2 existing FOSS components and run `make install`" I assume:)
You need DVD readers, storage, and the ability to rip to disk images (try to not reencode or modify the bits on disk for archival purposes).

Maybe put out a call to Jason Scott/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveCorps to saddle up. ArchiveCorps (run by Jason) has a Slack team for such Call To Arms.

OP: Have you attempted to renew your research card with the National Archive to get more time?
You're presenting this from the perspective of the author's selection of MA(3), but I think what you're really getting at is yes, MA(3) happened to be comparable to the ML model in this case, but the beauty of the ML model was that it knew to nearly replicate MA(3) out of a great many common indicators. Is that essentially what you're saying? If so, I'm curious how things like longer period moving averages or an exponential moving average perform relative to both MA(3) and the ML model in this case.
How will the accused know about the search when they aren’t told about it?
Well yes, if you don't want to make basic concessions, you have to pay more money.

I find generally fiscal rationality trumps not having a roommate.
My guess is that if we increase our lifespan by a lot then long travel won't be that bad. Let's say your life expectancy is 1000 years your perspective totally changes and a 200 year trip isn't that bad.
I disagree with you, but to really understand why you will need to read my book. It may sound like a lot of effort, but I can assure you that my disagreement is as intricate as the celestial orbits, as deep as the darkest ocean, and as as divine as the heavens themselves.

The scholars and holy men have spent years studying why I disagree with you, and they will confirm that, once you too have spent years studying, you will not only disagree with your former self, but understand, with the first true clarity of your adult life, that the sacred knowledge cannot be grasped by the clumsy hands of a dilettante.

"Please, sir", I hear you ask, "can you not spare some crumb of wisdom from the table of your enlightenment? Some small morsel to nourish me on my journey?" I am afraid not. Summaries are nothing but fornications of the mind: easy pleasures to tempt you away from the righteous path of long and laborious study to an uncertain end. The truly wise know that it is better to know nothing than to know a little.

And if, in some fit of insouciance, you begin to think it is not worth your time to engage with the entire depth (as the ocean, recall) of my argument before knowing if it is true, or useful, or relevant to you? Then I can offer nothing but pity. Do you not understand that it is you who must prove yourself worthy of my ideas? You who must justify your relevance to me?

The ego of students these days is astonishing. It's no wonder they never learn anything.
I would imagine that the bigger problem is increased resolution. Less so on the desktop, but even there 4K displays are far more common than they used to be.
Source?

EDIT: Surprising its not closer to 90%
I think they are using image segmentation with Deep Learning. The technique should be similar to this. Of course, there will be some traditional CV techniques as well.

https://github.com/anish9/Fashion-AI-segmentation

Impressive idea and execution! How could I never thought about this? :)
Do not ask for the source pictures please. :(
I got the same error

I wonder if it's because "-273 C = 0 kelvin = absolute zero" which was coded as a simple check on the field > -273 without units
How would the ability to intercept everyone’s communications have mitigated that incident?
The key words in this quote are "product decisions." In no way does this quote imply that Beaumont can bypass a legitimate security or legal issue.