skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, for scripting you should use something like Planck: it uses clojurescript which is virtually the same language as clojure, but starts up super fast so is great for scripts:
https://github.com/planck-repl/planck
> until someone with standing...

Unfortunately that isn't proven in this case, because proving that a person has standing can be an entire legal fight unto itself.

First, arguably she's a contractor because she's signed a contract with the state of Texas. So she has to argue that protections of the first and fourteenth amendments extend to contractors. That's not necessarily a given.

Second, it's a state issue, not necessarily a federal issue. IOW, she has to prove the federal constitution amendments are applicable to a state contract.

Third, it must be that she was not hired due to the pro-israel loyalty language, and not for any other reason.

That's just the standing.

Then she has to prove that the language actually violates the first and fourteenth amendment, and it's unclear that it does.
If the whistle blowers wanted the prestige there's a way they could have done that: go on-the-record. They chose not to, perhaps fearing retaliation, which is fine. I don't see how that takes away at all from Ryan Gallagher. His stories had multiple sources so it's not like the Edward Snowden situation at all. He got the original scoop, and as far as I can tell, all the follow-up stories as well.

And it's not like the story has concluded anyway. Google's management still seems inclined to launching in China, they just want the heat to go away right now.
Financial crime investigator here - also recommend "Sarawak Report" book by Clare Brown. She was originally researching deforestation and local corruption in Malaysian Borneo and kept running into Jho Low adjacent figures and eventually helped to source the key documents tying the whole scheme together. Had to order it from the UK and it's even longer than the Whale book, but full of crazy stories.
Title seems wrong, it sounds like Dragonfly is still undergoing active development, just with reduced data access (no more access to 265.com search data) but the article references ongoing development, even though some developers were removed. That doesn't sound like it's actually ended. And the title's quote of "Effectively Ended" seems only to be quoting itself, there's no one in the article the said those words.

Pichai's words to congress could easily be read to mean "we don't have a release date at this time" not that it wasn't still an active project.
It would be so awesome if I could something like this at a much smaller scale in a darktable module for cleaning up images and for doing artistic types of portrait editing. Nice work!
Facebook is getting bad press because it allows people to get their news from a source other than the press, and the press hates that they're being made obsolete.
What about trash we send to them to recycle but ends up in the ocean?
It's why I think apps like Revolut, Neat, and N26 might be the next big thing and Robinhood is trying to compete.

https://financeandpurpose.com/easy-ways-open-foreign-digital...
One advantage of regular letters compared to this is that it's pretty easy to tell that even a fairly mangled A is still an A; a word written in dotsies loses a lot of its legibility as soon as it's not displayed in fairly large pixels across a very clear background. Viewing things at an angle? While it moves by? On a dirty or wet piece of paper? Forget about it.

It's a super fun idea, though. I would 100% put this in the background, or even the foreground, of some future scifi scape.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11494645_21 seemingly states ODEs can simulate turing machines. Is the simulation enough proof ofit's turing completeness, and in what sense can PDEs be called a language?
Is this person completely insane? Or am I just not getting something? In which universe is this font remotely useful?
This is great! I was considering building something like this myself, glad to see people building out this infrastructure.
I knew I wouldn't be the only one to try that. It is neat that it will tell you that no people are found in your image.
Blockpad (https://blockpad.net/) has this feature but it’s still in active development.
Ghosts in the Reels
cheap is getting better, but also expensive is getting worse.

i can't tell from the price whether something is of good quality or not.
Moral of the story: never try to be a good guy, because you'll be held to a higher standard than anyone else and crucified while your competitors, who never claimed to be anything other than malignant stains on humanity, fly under the radar and laugh. How disappointing.
At least they skimmed instead of just reading the title. Looks like it did more harm than good though heh
Or people hate that they can't control their facebooking
I like the idea of users being able to choose the font they prefer to read in. It's not very hard to do: you could configure your browser and your code editor and maybe Kindle and be able to read in the new font 90% of the time.

Can anyone who uses https://www.dyslexiefont.com/ comment on how hard it is to have it everywhere?

But Dotsies seems to be solving the wrong problem: using the fewest pixels. I think the right problem is being able to skim large amounts of text quickly, for which typical fonts are pretty good. You can find whether there are any numbers on a page, for instance, in well under a second.
Most small companies don't reserve for 3 years. The on-demand monthly cost is 388 (GCP) vs 562 (AWS) per instance for the instances in the report (omitting SSD costs).
If category theory is your first exposure to proofs and logic it can benefit you a lot, although number theory might be a more fun and more concrete way to get the same result. If you know a lot about more than one field of math, as a great big generalization over everything category theory can also help.

I should warn you that there is a social bias towards saying that you found a lot of insight in studying something, and a bias against saying that studying it was a waste of time, irrespective of whether or not the thing is actually helpful. Aristotle could stare at a rock and end up with some insight, so anyone who stares at a rock and admits it hasn't helped them has to publicly admit they are not as smart as Aristotle. They say this is how geology got started. ;)
> We process them, and temporarily store the results so you can download them. After that (about an hour later) we delete your files. We do not share your images or use them for any other purpose than removing the background and letting you download the result.

Glad they respect your rights on the image and delete their temp files after a reasonable amount of time.
The group's behind the Panama Papers, Cum-Ex Scandals, LuxLeaks etc.
The solution is to legislate bottled water companies out of existence, and keep our public water systems in good shape.

But that's not what anyone working for a company founded on laying dubious legal claims to water that should be public, and selling it for a profit, wants to hear.
This is one of the best investments I've made. It's simple and cheap. However, I've heard that it's quite wasteful in terms of water. When you're living in a place where water isn't abundant (SoCal), you have to also be conscious of this too. Everything has a trade-off and there are people with differing opinions on nearly everything.
Interesting, I wonder if it would also work for itchiness.
With the spread of misinformation and rage using messaging apps that have literally resulted in people getting killed by mobs (see for example https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/technology/wh...) maybe we should re-evaluate our belief that making it impossible for governments to see what is spreading through messaging apps is an unmitigated good?
2 courts have ruled against this already: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/laws...
I think the key difference is in how truthful the marketing stories are. Apple/microsoft sell you a hypothetical future, while these watch "brands" sell a made-up past. Neither are 100% facts but one is clearly less savory than the other.
Do you have a citation for this?

I see bonuses for meeting financial targets, but not for exiting bankruptcy. And they didn't publish how easy/hard hitting the financial targets would be.
Register windows were copied by MMIX.
There's also bq for BigQuery stuff.

If they did merge... it would be "gcloud bq..." or "gcloud storage...", my fingers protest :)
> * Bias against Oracle and Java

It's always fascinating when I encounter people with opposite biases to my own. While I'm no fan of Oracle, I seek out technologies that are based on the JVM and try to avoid things based on many other technologies because I intrinsically trust certain behaviors and features of the JVM that other ecosystems lack.
About time for an update, no?

No.

Once again, Silicon Valley "discovers" something that was already invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
Same with civil engineering. They're building a new mass transit and it's 5 years late. Oh well.
its good for decreasing environmental harm. I won't be eating it though
UCSD's RIFFA [1][2] open-source PCIe framework includes Windows 7 & Linux drivers and their 2015 paper [3] claims support for Xilinx 7-series FPGAs.

[1] https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog-Archived/Need-...

[2] https://github.com/KastnerRG/riffa

> RIFFA (Reusable Integration Framework for FPGA Accelerators) is a simple framework for communicating data from a host CPU to a FPGA via a PCI Express bus. The framework requires a PCIe enabled workstation and a FPGA on a board with a PCIe connector. RIFFA supports Windows and Linux, Altera and Xilinx, with bindings for C/C++, Python, MATLAB and Java .. Users can communicate with FPGA IP cores by writing only a few lines of code ... No knowledge of bus addresses, buffer sizes, or PCIe packet formats is required. Simply send data on a FIFO interface and receive data on a FIFO interface. RIFFA does not rely on a PCIe Bridge and therefore is not subject to the limitations of a bridge implementation. Instead, RIFFA works directly with the PCIe Endpoint and can run fast enough to saturate the PCIe link.

[3] https://87c7e184-a-d06fb7e1-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/eng.u...
Google Cloud Vision – AutoML Vision API
you are probably being downvoted because you seem to suggest that illegal or imoral actions should somehow be acceptable just because you need to save money.
that's a great link, cheers
> I wonder how noisy it will be at the start.

I don't expect that Google will find it difficult to procure some large training sets. The article's author seem to think that Google is likely to be leveraging the VirusTotal malware repositories.
Nice work! Just curious, any reason that the output image is constrained to a lower resolution?

Also, any thought to handling video in the future?
For what? There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot and https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/PMON_2000
I bet "Das U-Boot" is more of an "ecosystem" than coreboot when you zoom far out and see the installed base of embedded devices. Coreboot unfortunately not so much in comparison.
I think these days just find out what your direct manager and one aboves favorite metric is and pitch it as upping that. Faster performance improves user experience almost directly.
Madison has one good school. How many CS graduates are there that still want to live in Madison after they graduate?

Pittsburgh I can somewhat agree.
Hearing news like this I wonder, what happened to Transmeta's processor architectures?
I mean... A quick search would show you that masks can work. But I’ll bite.

It’s really precise 3D with a greyscale non-thermal IR image.
Could be inaccurate masks? Missing details around the eyes and mouth and other important areas? Do masks have eyes with a discernable gaze direction? Do they have microexpressions or natural facial deformation? Do the eyes move?

There’s a buttload of stuff they could be measuring that is insanely hard to replicate with a mask. Besides, a thermal map would be pretty much useless even if the hardware was capable of thermal imaging. Skin temperature varies a lot (and not always uniformly) based on ambient conditions, physical exertion, being sick, sitting in direct sunlight, etc, etc.
Being able to simulate a Turing machine is the definition of being Turing complete. So that proof is sufficient.

In mathematics (and computer science) a language is just a set of strings, and a machine is just a language attached to a semantics. I.e. whatever symbols you need to represent PDEs, inductively generated by the axioms and inference rules of mathematics and theoretical physics (like for lambda-calculus: lambda, x0,x1,... '(', ')' and reduction and construction rules)
Seems like a whole lot of drama and pain could've been avoided if that Tobin guy replaced his entire message with "Hey, so using system libraries instead of our own libraries for a 'Pale Moon'-branded distribution of our software is in violation of our trademark license (except in certain circumstances, but it doesn't look like your porting project is applicable to those exemptions). Please use the 'New Moon' unofficial branding instead until/unless we explicitly authorize the use of 'Pale Moon' branding with your customized build (which we can do provided you submit your changes to 'www/palemoon/patches')."
This is impressively good!
I love the way it teaches you, but the other comments are correct.

It doesn't really make sense to optimize for screen space like this.

However, the teaching style along with a symbol alphabet that IS trying to solve for better legibility (without necessarily any allegiance to dyslexic fonts), could be pretty interesting.

In middle school when bored once I made my own symbolic alphabet, I found it really is extremely easy to learn a new symbol set for language you already know, so, changing away from the traditional symbols isn't even that massive of an endeavor.

I think they did do an OK job with using screen space well, but at the cost of legibility to a degree. That said, the more I think on it, maybe the author did too. Sure, individual letters aren't as legible, but the point is almost more that words become single characters, more like Mandarin. If those characters are legible, than it doesn't matter that the individual letters are not. If you don't know a word, you're already going to be individually inspecting the letters. (of course, it will still be mildly more difficult with dotsies)
I heard that nowadays search engine quality is largely determined by traffic that's used to infer relevance from user behavior. Less traffic - less quality. Bing, for example, has decent engineers, but since Google is already ahead it will stay ahead if only just for that reason. So I was told.

So Yandex doesn't have that much hope outside of Russia. Unless a dramatic breakthrough is made, of course.
Idk probably knew they weren’t breaking any laws and also wanted to hit an aggressive deadline.

That is if any of his engineers had qualms about what they were doing they’d be checked at the door because again it’s all legal according to the law and they had to hit a deadline.

Especially because there’s nothing here that’s technically exceptional other than it runs counter to what we Americans considered ethical.

Glad the PR fallout tipped whatever cost-benefit analysis they did by severely damaging the Google brand. Crazy they didn’t consider it up front.

The fallout feels similar to them the release of the Boston Dynamics video. They don’t want to be associated with “job automating” robots.
I think the goal is "hey that's neat!"
Thanks for the encouragement, will do!
A-Frame: Web framework for virtual reality experiences (WebVR with HTML)
1. Plugins are risky in the long run, each one is maintained at varying levels of security and upkeep. I would recommend sticking with plugins that have a large community and have been recently updated.

2. There is nothing that you can't achieve with Wordpress with the right amount of time and investment. For a site like Drexel.edu there is possibly dozens of people working on design, coding, photography, testing, etc. Being able to make a fully custom WordPress site relies upon skill in HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP, as well as WordPress internals. With those skills, some of the largest companies in the world have used WordPress to power their blogs or entire sites: https://humanmade.com/ has some great examples.

There is no easy solution to having a highly-customized WordPress site- either find a theme that can customize everything for you without code, or find an experienced developer that can help realize your vision (perhaps for free, probably not!), or become an experienced WordPress developer, which is not an easy road but a rewarding one.
The Riverdale is not manhattan...but yes you're correct.
I suppose I'd better start writing, then.
Clearly you don't understand the concept of social signalling.

If they keep the money (even if they donate to a good cause), it allows adversarial PACs and organizations to make claims like "NAACP is a hypocritical organization for taking this money from Facebook". These will be more costly in PR to counter than the $1mm donation, and ultimately harm their cause.

In this situation, the only appropriate action is to give the money back, or not accept it in the first place.
Too bad there are so many people like Manafort who are happy to take on that job for a quick buck. Sure people are being hunted down but check out the ostrich jacket!
My father used to say: "We're not rich enough to buy cheap things."
I don’t know what is going on, no factual basic for this, but I have a gut feeling that this is more likely economic warfare to try to contain China. No matter where telecom equipment is manufactured it should be tested for security flaws.
Their patents ended up getting bought up by a patent troll. I assume that was the end of their architectures.
> There is a moral difference between doing and not doing that you seem to be glossing over.

Sure, I'm glossing over it, because it's not really a useful distinction for me to make in this case.

The difference between doing and not doing is that one is a deliberate criminal action, the other is negligence. Both of these things are, in various ways and in various situations, considered immoral and illegal.

The harshness of the punishment may vary, but the fact of punishment does not.
> The caveat is that the sample has to be under huge pressure: 170 gigapascals, or about half the pressure at the center of the Earth.

This is common in recent material, so it's not unexpected. Anyway, it's important to notice this because otherwise it looks like the conditions that you can get inside a freezer.
It'd definitely be a tragedy for any company with an ad-based revenue stream.
I can't be the only one concluding that we're near the end of a nice run for tech, with all these expensive real estate moves. I don't know, maybe we've been there for a while now.

What better way to spend piles of cash you have no idea what to do with than extort local governments for billions in tax breaks and park that money in a some commercial real estate you can depreciate? I'm not judging these companies for doing this per se (Amazon, Apple, and Google have all recently done this as far as I can tell - haven't noticed anything from Microsoft), but I do consider it a bit ominous that they've all picked expensive places that certainly seem like good picks.

It really does seem like these companies have no idea what to do with their money. Buying up land and taking the next 3-5 years to build billion dollar campuses seems so boring to me.
Jon Skeet reads C# 6 Draft Spec by the fire
Multiple-shooting methods [1] for ODEs are amenable to parallelism in time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_multiple_shooting_metho...
Facebook blocked multiple National Weather Service sites during winter storm
According to Wikipedia, PAR1 suffered from:

> The recovery algorithm had a bug, due to a flaw[1] in the academic paper[2] on which it was based.

I remember that the same bug was cited by ZFS[3].
Amazing. Of all algorithm descriptions, one with a bug seems to have been picked up the most.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with Vandermonde encoding itself, just don't use that paper any more.

Cauchy is equivalent to Vandermonde, so it should allow for error correction to the same extent but I couldn't find any algorithm description/implementation.

[1] Plank, James S.; Ding, Ying (April 2003). "Note: Correction to the 1997 Tutorial on Reed-Solomon Coding"

[2] Plank, James S. (September 1997). "A Tutorial on Reed-Solomon Coding for Fault-Tolerance in RAID-like Systems"

[3] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
The role of Facebook and other social media in swaying politics is almost presented as if it began in 2016.

In reality what the U.S. saw was more like version 3 of a society manipulation tool.

Looking at the events in France recently, the 2016 election, Brexit, the Arab Spring and to some degree the 2008 election. We can see traces of targeted information inflaming a populace for political goals if we look back a decade.

This is not about Facebook specifically, it's more an observation on the kinds of social media manipulation that can happen with these tools. The question becomes, how much of this was an intended consequence of building these tools? A cynical view could make a strong case that it was intentional.
Have the same thoughts but I wouldn't start a project where you can get it hosted by a cloud provider, uptime and backup is more important than features at the start, where scaling doesn't matter as much.
Yes, discrimination against whites exists.

I got pulled over by Chicago Housing Authority close to 20 years ago. Austensibly for not using my turn signal while changing lanes, after I watched the same CHA vehicle run a red light without signals.

White kid, out of state plates on his way to cram & take a final his senior year at a Southside university. Only time I've been written a ticket by one officer while the 2 other in the CHA van apologized. I was threatened with arrest on campus! Why? For refusing to answer where I work, which they have business knowing, anyway, and certainly not pertittent to a minor traffic violation.

Also, when they pulled me over...yeah, my signal was still on.
Not quite. If they're all equally likely, then yes you need 6 bits for 64, and 7 bits for 128 chars.

But you can get that number down significantly if your characters are not all equally likely, then you don't need as many bits. The actual theoretical lower bound is the Shannon entropy, for English text you typically need only 0.6-1.3 bits per character, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
> How many sites put invisible DOM elements over the videos?

A lot of them? Vimeo, for instance, has a number of opacity: 0 and hidden divs over the video. Twitch has at least a couple of opacity: 0 divs on top.

Maybe we're interpreting the phrase

> hidden empty div over YouTube videos

differently? That's the structure I assume they were talking about.
I agree. There’s often an extreme point of view here with respect to this.
I'm not trying to go out of my way to be snarky... BUT I find it funny that someone writing about why a technology sucks; can't manage to keep their blog online.

REST is simple, simple is good. It's not perfect for everything, but it has served my purposes well for many years.
I don't think the performance claiming is really the important part here; it's doing something that lacks any real reason but which hurts Edge.

And while I agree that video overlays are common, I also think it's reasonable for such overlays to revert to a slightly less efficient path.
How easy it would be to "read" Braille visually, like Dotsies? I imagine they are optimized for different uses, no?
There is sc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator)
This worked surprisingly well on a picture of a fursuiter with several people (no suits) in the background. I didn't expect it to work at all.