skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grids of dots can be slightly morphed to resemble curves and slashes. Notice how some of the morphed versions of Dotsies appear visually similar to Asian scripts:

http://dotsies.org/script.html

Interestingly, when you read Dotsies quickly and at a smaller font size, the scripted versions appear indistinguishable from the square (unmodified) versions. Because of this I didn't end up pursuing this aspect.
https://teamrubiconusa.org/
$10 per serving is egregious. Take a blue apron recipe with you to a grocery store, and I bet you can buy all the ingredients for $2.5 a meal.
>I would be very happy to live in a society where messing in/around a person's dwelling is understood to be a serious risk.

Then move to a state with liberal firearm laws. Seriously, It's amazing how much an intangible line on a map affects the behavior of people seeking to commit property crime in the state I live vs the adjacent state I used to live in.
I can't add pictures on the mobile version, is that supposed to be like that?
If you're having stuff delivered by USPS, you can also use General Delivery service [0][1] to have items held for you at the post office. It doesn't seem like something that should be used too frequently, though, and not all post offices will do it, and some might charge for it. [1][2]

[0]: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28c2_033.htm
[1]: https://www.techjunkie.com/how-to-use-usps-general-delivery-...
[2]: https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/508.htm#ep1052038
> I've spoken to a couple recruiters today who say it's uncommon for companies to reimburse applicants for travel

I've literally never paid out of pocket to travel more than an hour for an interview.
>Families make the costly perishable ingredients go further by utilizing carbohydrates like pastas and breads as fillers.

As do many restaurants. I've (not very originally) joked that Tapas is Spanish for expensive and appetizers generally often seem pricey for the size of the portion. There are various reasons for this including the fact that there's a certain overhead to an individual order.

But it's also the case that typical main dishes tend to have a fair bit of "filler" that tapas/appetizers do not. At good restaurants, the rice or potatoes (or vegetables) may be nicely and even somewhat exotically prepared but the raw ingredients cost very little compared to the protein.
>What happens next?

Well let me tell you of another event that occurred to me in 08/17.

I was kidnapped at gunpoint from a gas station, forced to drive my attacker with a gun on my for 30 minutes, eventually after getting off the highway I jumped out of my own car in gear, escaped and called the police.

First words out of the sergeants mouth responding, “cut the shit what really happened.” Despite my insistence I’m an officer of the court myself (attorney at Law) that there will be video from the gas station to prove my version of events, I was even told, “we aren’t even sure if you own a car and if you are just calling police for a free ride.”

In that case, in 24 hours I located my car and the gunman and called the police and had him arrested. That’s not to say I did this voluntarily, luckily the gunman connected my WiFi only iPad to the internet and I got the location, of course I called the police first, who told me “they heard about my ‘story’ yesterday, and wouldn’t be going to the address until I drove to the station and showed them the Apple email”. I did just that and after keeping me in the parking lot for an hour and laughing at me 2 officers came out to me (this station was closed on Sunday) and took down the address, drive away and called my cellphone and told me go home they don’t see my car. Unsatisfied I went to the address myself, found my car and the gunman, called the police yet again and they finally came and arrested him.

He bonded out Monday at 8AM. He has since been rearrested, bonded out yet again, rearrested yet again for violation of his bond vis—Avis his GPS tracker I insisted on.

His trial is still ongoing. Someone stole my keys and ID, I should be entitled to know what they look like when 2 videos are available, crimes against me are ongoing, and the cost of the officers time (since you are so concerned about their $150/hour rates...which seem entirely made up, no offense) is a 1 minute reply to an email I forwarded him from foot locker loss prevention.

Edit: I forgot my conclusion, which is, people who engage in these activities in many cases will even have friends and family who turn them in (i.e. the unibomber). But even if they don’t a public platform would be very helpful in deterring these activities, which is the ultimate goal.
Those recruiters are incorrect - if a company doesn't want to pay for travel, they will/should do a hirevue/skype interview remotely instead. If they want you to be there in person, they'll pay for you to be there.
How many radical muslim attacks have there been in the last year in the UK?
Or to be even mooooooore pedantic the fsharp functions would probably be written to be seq<'a> -> seq<'a>, so that would be Func<IEnumerable<T>, IEnumerable<T>> where T : IComparable<T> :)
It's not bizarre. There's a concept of proportionality. Also of latent cruelty. I don't want someone to steal my packages, but I would feel bad if they were blinded or maimed stealing something that ultimately I can afford to lose. People > Property.

EDIT> I think part of why the glitter fart bomb works so well is that it has a sense of humour, and that the designer doesn't come off as cruel.
It's for both really. That's the best one can come up with given the circumstances.
How to roll your own backup solution with BorgBackup, Rclone, and Wasabi (2017)
I have been disturbed by the flippant HN response to these findings (especially in a related thread yesterday). I listened to a radio program this week (KPFA or KQED can't remember) with one of the researchers whose findings were in the Senate report.

I was blown away by the magnitude and the tactics used, starting years before the elections laying groundwork.

The researcher did not pull punches, calling it straight up espionage. Unwitting Americans were personally contacted by the IRA, an agency whose funding is closely tied to Russian intelligence and whose members have been indicted by the Special Counsel. Groups on both sides were bolstered with IRA funding, organizing, propaganda, and social media support. Once a movement or fb page or protest gained enough momentum, the IRA then sabotaged the movement by reframing them as violent, stupid, liberal, racist, or whatever buzzword they co-opted for effect. They would also frame the protest as artificial, fake, funded by outsiders, etc - anything to poison the well or co-opt an originally well meaning or organic group.

One end goal was to disillusion support for protests in general. The severity, indsidiousness, and sophistication cannot be overstated. The fact that people still claim it had no effect is a PRODUCT of their efforts.
IIt limits the ability of python to reap the benefits of better hardware

GIL sucks conceptually but I don't think it's massively limiting in terms of future hardware. E. G. I just discovered you can throw a bit of python into colab and do ML on Google provided K80 GPUs for free.

Two completely different things I know but to me that is a better indication of future proofness in a way.
I'm not a student so I can't look!
Even if you despise python to the core, it's hard to shrug off the massive number of well documented, mature libraries. Usually there are 2 or more choices with at least one of them being fairly mature and maintained. Not to mention the wealth of examples showing how you can do something.

So despite all the things I dislike about python, it's still my go to for a proof of concept or getting something done quickly.
> I've spoken to a couple recruiters today who say it's uncommon for companies to reimburse applicants for travel

I mean, that’s just a lie.

Even before you consider whether they do it or not, everyone else in this industry does so they’re just lying.

If they company won’t do something as simple as cover your travel costs, and the recruiters are lying to your face, then unless you have no other option I would block these people and forget they exist.
Developers in the US have no choice; the city/county won't permit a subdivision without an HOA.
Automating Generation of Low Precision Deep Learning Operators
It's definitely a possibility but:

+ I think it's hard to guess what the reaction of a thief will be

+ The only indication that there were phones inside appeared to be the tiny holes for the cameras

+ It appears he had a trace of GPS signals over time so that he would be able to deduce it ended up in garage if it stopped transmitting there

I would say the "fearless approach to the crime scene" is probably the most suspect bit.
I would pay a third party opt-out enforcement service, but I would not give a single thin dime to actual advertising companies in exchange for an opt-out, nor would I pay a third party service if they're going to pay such advertisers.
If it makes you feel better, the JVM and dotnet communities agree and have been working on strategies to reduce the bloat a lot. They also offer a ton of other resources to help tune things to your liking.

I'm sure you can hand write a piece of C or Common Lisp that is very fast. But I'm sure you would also acknowledge that people that are good at JVM/Dotnet could probably write a pretty fast piece of code in them as well. So at a certain point you have to start weighing other things, like productivity, safety, tooling, libraries, etc.

I find if I really dislike something, I try learning it, and at the end I find that I may not prefer it, but I always learn something from the experience. Think of it as an exercise in sharpening your debate arguments against proponents of these platforms.
Why do police refuse to look into it? More important cases? Not as easy to find them guilty as it seems?
I opened the article hoping that it will be graphical dictionary of gestures. It is not.
The capitalist doesn't believe he singlehandedly knows what is best for society. In fact, the capitalist believes he alone can only maximize value to shareholders – but in doing so maximizes value for all since he creates economic prosperity through growth.

He simply genuinely believes allowing the market to operate as close to freely as possible is what generates the greatest amount of prosperity for everyone. The fact that the U.S. is the world's strongest economy by far should be proof enough, but apparently people still prefer to hate success
Yes, everything he said was racially charged and confrontational. But that doesn't necessarily make it hate speech.

Let's assume for a moment that the target of these pejoratives was an alt-right troll who directed those exact slurs at Sargon of Akkad. Let's say they made it obvious they were homophobic white supremacists by attacking Sargon's mixed heritage as 'racial impurity'.

When I steelman Sargon's emotional response, what I get is: "don't you alt-right trolls realise that you behave exactly the same way as you claim the [nasty black people] do? You are not living up to the false standard you have set for the polite and respectful white 'master' race, so your claim to superiority amazes me. If you are going to behave like the [nasty black people] and [nasty gay people] you despise so much, then don't expect me to bother wasting my time debating you."

Do you find this interpretation implausible for some reason? Can anyone offer a better one?
I used to work in goods in and I would have done everything in my power to get that stopped.

It was a shitty minimum wage job and my responsibilities definitely didn't stretch to doing unpaid work for multiple people on top of my shitty job.

EDIT: Maybe this is just a lack of understanding of what happens in goods-in? Or working some place where your deliveries don't add much burden?
This kind of org seems cheap enough to setup.

So I am just wondering why can't the same model be used (secretly or openly) to hack minds to do good? What would it take?

It feels like Bill Gates web presence is a fledgling example of it. There was this Cass Sunstein/Obama admin "nudge" attempt which probably was a little too ahead of its time(?).

What would such an org look like in 10 years and what would you like to see them achieve in terms of hacking society (positively)?
I've had bad experiences with packages that require signatures. UPS drivers consistently leave the package on the porch without a signature even if one is required. DHL tries to deliver 3 times then returns the package to sender, ignoring the online form you can submit to request they deliver on a specific day or hold at warehouse. Haven't tried Fedex. USPS is pretty good about about getting signatures or holding at the post office, and have more convenient locations compared to the private services.
What is your take on "single topic" investigative journalism books? Like "The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks"[0] or Bob Woodward's "All the president's men"

I'd love to recommend "Abusado", by brazilian journalist Caco Barcellos, but unfortunately it does not seem to be available in English

[0](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henriet...)
> anyone or any company which has dealings with anyone inside the European Union

That is incorrect and was the subject of the last paragraph of my previous message.
not AFAICT

they held a webinar a few months ago. the invitation and view system sucked -- couldn't remember my invite and other problems. didn't work with tracking disabled on the browser. and so on. at that time i decided to ignore for another year.

maybe there's a recording of it somewhere.
I think people just stopped using the buzzword IoT/Internet of Things even though there are many more devices in use now than before. Just a few years ago Amazon echo was just a curiosity, and now connected speakers are everywhere. I have 70+ smart switches and outlets in my house, and even my hot tub has internet connected sensors measuring water quality. Nearly all of my neighbors have a smart doorbell, internet camera, or smart lock. And these are just the obvious examples. Self driving cars are loaded with sensors that send data back to the mothership all day long. I'm not sure of the dollar amount to put on all of that, but IoT is alive and kicking.
I'm currently reading Nick Lane's excellent book, The Vital Question, which explores what we know about the split between archaea and eukaryotes, so this was an exciting article. This discovery is still one level below that split, within the eukaryotes, but the ongoing discoveries of more and more ancient branches suggests the tantalising possibility that we may one day find something even more ancient still swimming around somewhere --- a missing link from billions of years ago.

What strikes me about both this article and Nick Lane's book is that when I was in school the tree of life was presented as this thing that people had pretty much figured out. Since then it's been altered almost beyond recognition using genomics. I hope there are people still in school who read articles like this one and get inspired to get into this amazing area of research.
The police officially crowd source investigations all the time. That's what a wanted poster is.

We've been doing that for hundreds of years, so if there is a rabbit hole, we're at the bottom of it.
>Noah had the idea to start recording all audio from his life, 24/7

Want this as a product. :)
In your opinion what does a good jenkins deployment setup look like? Do you have any examples? Our Jenkins looks like it's about to blow up from all those plugin warnings.
On the Challenges of Open-Sourcing Proprietary Software Projects
Huh, I haven't heard of shipping companies that allow you to designate a neighbor. That's cool.

I've not shipped to myself using an Amazon locker since I've never had an issue with package theft, but if a package is worth more than $500 or $1000 I'll often have it sent to my office, which I suspect is what most people do if possible.
Why does libraries like this insist of using a query language similar to SQL rather then map, reduce, filter that are more like JavaScript!? Or is SQL so much better ?
The horizontal scroll actually isn't that bad, but what killed it was using italics for the entire text. What the hell???
Hopefully you don't keep your wallet and keys in your car anymore! If thieves broke into my car, they'd get some old CDs, leather gloves, and a skateboard I have no emotional attachment to.

Seriously people: your car is not secure storage.
Sort of. Maybe. When python was gaining momentum in university settings though, the one main argument I read from a professor more than a decade ago, is that the python implementation was near identical to their pseudocode. So they stopped using whatever language they were using in their textbooks, and started using python, since it made it easier to convey the knowledge they were trying to convey (and probably greatly decreased the amount of editing and typos).

Basically, don't discount a text book where every algorithm is executable code, without first having to translate it into some other language.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet:
https://xkcd.com/724/
and an implementation here: https://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris
Ok, so you already realized that the police aren't useless - they are far worse than that. When are you going to take responsibility for solving your problems?
> An aside: This site has lovely design.

Took me over a minute to figure out that JavaScript was mandatory. This nullifies any amount of loveliness for me. JavaScript shouldn't be required to read text, dammit.
This guy showed up on bloomberg businessweek wearing a blazer and track pants. usually a recipe for losing that sum of money as a boomer....
Siri has been behind Google and Alexa basically since the beginning and shows little sign of catching up.
This is correct. To add to this, you will sometimes see companies attempt to avoid delisting by reverse stock splits (e.g., 10 old shares become 1 new share).
Remember recruiters work for the employer. That said, do you live in a place where you are likely to find a job? I ask because there is possibly some nuance here. In general I would interpret this signal as others here are saying and agree with their reasoning. Well not 100% as I would think it would be a stupid company that spends excessively traveling candidates they haven’t interviewed via video conference first. But say I chose to live in the sticks several states away, I would not then expect every employer to cover travel for my interviews.
> I buy the family size of Blue Apron for myself (12 meals at $8.99 per serving). There is no food in NYC of any considerable size/quality/taste that is a quarter of that price for that amount of calories. Ramen noodles and tuna maybe..

I live in midtown Manhattan, and I could easily purchase 12 prepared meals per week of good quality for $9/meal.

In fact, that's one of the reasons I stopped using Blue Apron when I tried it - even before I factored in the cost of my time, it was slightly more expensive per meal than ordering delivery on Seamless. Once I factored in 15-30 minutes per meal (30-60 minutes divided by two servings), it was clearly way more expensive.

The other reason, though, was that I didn't live in a building with a doorman, and the last delivery window they had on weekdays was 6-8PM. I couldn't guarantee I'd be home by 6PM, and I wasn't thrilled with the idea of them just dumping a box of food on the stoop where anyone could take it.
You can find fresh (not frozen), raw, already prepared meals that can be thrown in the oven, a pot, or on a grill at Kroger, Publix, Fresh Market, Costco and others. Those are great for when you're in a hurry and you don't want to waste time with the ceremony of putting together a meal kit. Meal kits are a weird compromise between a prepared meal and just following a recipe yourself.
All of these AI's are not actually even AI. They are client-server voice commands. True AI requires zero internet connection which no commercially included AI on any smartphone or tablet can offer today.
Mathematician who helped develop GPS tech inducted into Air Force hall of fame
It looks like when the script fed the titles into the Goodreads API, it picks the most common (popular?) book with that title. Since the subtitles were stripped out it got confused.

In the original thread, the two books were:
-Linear Algebra, A First Course by Kutler
-A Concise Introduction to Linear Algebra by Schay
both in JabavuAdams' post.

Then there was a mention of the Linear B language elsewhere
The primary reason is $1 is the delisting threshold.
Small business owner. I would use it since it would save me a ton of time and money on my own stuff.
This is called "learned helplessness". It's the result of decades of state education teaching you that your only recourse is the nanny state. Funny how that works out.
The User activation properties should have been added when they first started restricting apis to user initiated actions.

I said such in the mailing list for the framebusting change to require activation.
Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Flouting Chinese Injunction
> There is probably a way to come up with dot positions that yield much nicer looking shapes.

Try it yourself!

http://dotsies.org/design-your-own

Hit the "random" link a few times and you'll get an idea of the possible variations. In the Dotsies pattern, vowels are at the tops and bottoms of words. The variations can look grainy, chunky, loopy, checker-board-ish (you'll see what I mean if you try it). The version I picked is a balance that leans toward being sparse and loopy, and is one of the many variations that has an intuitive letter ordering. Here's a decent one, but with a crappy ordering.

http://dotsies.org/design-your-own/#comeyhangrxdtwqpsfubzljv...

Surprisingly, none of them jump out as significantly better than the others (the overly dense ones being exceptions).

[from another comment]
> I am pretty sceptical that an "optimized" alphabet glyph would be one dot for a b c d e, two adjacent dots for f g h i, etc.

There are other mappings that looked marginally better to me, but I deemed picking one with a nice ordering was worth doing. A and E happen to be the 1st and 3rd most common letters, which works out if you want to lean toward the sparse end. Also O (the 4th), A, and E all stick to the top and bottom edges of words, so if you want your words to tend to have holes in the middle they are a good fit. Getting a decent mapping for the commonest letters seems to be key, but by all means, try the above link and post an alternative that you think is better.
> If we as a society are OK with qualified law enforcement looking the other way, then we're OK with passing the buck to the unqualified.

You're excluding the admittedly somewhat bleak but still quite plausible third alternative: we as a society are in practice OK with this class of crime going largely unprosecuted.

The legitimate authorities are resource constrained, the political process isn't prepared to allocate sufficient resources to change that, and the societal costs of allowing vigilanteism and extrajudicial punishment are broadly believed to outstrip the scope of the problem they would ostensibly be solving. This leads to an equilibrium where a lot of petty theft goes unpunished and we, as a society, are in practice content to accept it that way.