skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification. I still have issues understanding the intermediate stage, where the world is entirely and reversibly converted into a temperature differential. I might have to go back to drawing T-S diagrams.
They are both signals. But the prior probability is more important in this case because it is so much more common to say "peanut butter" than "peanut, butter". In other cases the pause might be a more important signal.
I remember those times. Sometimes you had to pay to view them. I remember one case where I discovered it was regular picture files with just the extension changed, so I wrote a GUI to automatically rename all the files to *.jpg.

I also remember having freewares of mine put on those CDs, which was rewarding.
Heh. Seems everyone has decided to shoot the messenger.

You may disagree with the policy, but ryaymercer isn't wrong. Living in startup land where everything is light, you move fast, and things get broken, it's very easy to overlook that there is this 500 lb gorilla in the corner just waiting to smash you into pulp for doing the wrong thing.

My guess is that something internally at Slack has triggered this. It seems likely that they're in the midst of contracting with a Federal agency, or something of the sort. When you do business with the Federal government, all manner of hell is unleashed on you in the form of paperwork and due diligence. "Negotiation" boils down to litigation, and litigation is god damned expensive.

I am not saying what's happening is right. I'm simply pointing out that this is the culmination of decades of policy and momentum within our government. Wagging our collective fingers at Slack isn't going to change a thing. What can Slack do? Let's say they pass on whatever opportunity is driving this ridiculous witch hunt. So then what? Some Federal agency doesn't get to use their messaging platform? Who cares? Nothing changes.

It all starts with asking the right questions, and ryanmercer's post likely contains the answers to a number of questions that few people are asking: what's motivating this change, who is responsible for the policy, and how can our community affect change to prevent it in the future?
/s Exactly. It’s why we never saw two countries going to war.
Justice Dept unseals charges against Chinese hackers who penetrated US networks
It was unclear to users what they consented to when they signed in. Because Facebook doesn't give a damn about proper consent. The fact that Facebook botched it up is not less problematic than Facebook selling data because the outcome for users is more or less the same.

Turns out "move fast and break things" is a shitty policy when it comes to privacy concerns.
Access to history and search

Google SSO/SAML

Threads

But mostly access to history and search. (Note that it's not coincidence that this is what differentiates the free from paid Slack.)
Like all politics, it's not so simple. What qualifies as an ad? Should Walmart and Amazon discontinue their corporate logo (and sometimes produce) on their semi-trucks? Many large companies put a lot of thought into the branding on their vehicles: a law forbidding that will not get passed without a fight.

Here's some real-world examples:

https://news.walmart.com/_download?id=00000141-101d-d62e-a3c...

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/58fe073f0ba0b8ce018b5...

http://newsroom.meijer.com/Media/Default/images/broll%201.JP...
Take that all you people crying "Scala is dead" after Java 8+ comes out. /s

Anyway, I've personally seen (and interviewed for) jobs that were advertising Scala (or plans to move to Scala, or that Scala experience is a plus) but actually meant there was one proof-of-concept project in Scala, 18 months ago, nobody ever touches it nowadays, the person who wrote it is long gone and by the way, our legacy JDK5 application is on fire, do you mind fixing that for the rest of your life?
You'd have a better chance shooting them an email. Contact is at the bottom.
Why Choose Insight If You’re Switching from Glint
10 years is short enough that no one would ever purchase rights to anything copyrighted, they would just wait it out. With 95 year copyright that doesn’t happen and creators would be paid.
Respectfully, I think that would cause a lot more trouble than the problem. Would that mean the license plate ads are illegal? Or the Dealers stickers? Or would branding for cars be ads? And many commercial trucks have ads for their trucks. While I despise seeing those Ad trucks, I think making them illegal would cause more problems than it solves.
Compared to the amount of cash being lost every hour that all of Gatwick stays nonfunctional these don't seem like significant sums.
A) we do not have universal single payer food. Some welfare for the poor yes.

B) that's because food is a free market
To Infinity and Beyond: 5G, the next step in video evolution
With this out, I might've been able to convert couple more vimmers to Emacs :)
I was also quite confused.

I think it's so high because "excel" is also a verb so a lot of job posts will say things like "We are looking for people who excel at what they do" and this was counted in the analysis.

Changing the search to be case sensitive might help here.
There's some evolutionary pressure in the form the selective breeding of animal models of human disease; it just has not been very successful for Alzheimer's. I guess you have to start with what nature gives.
It's been possible to create pairs of colliding PDF files. Taking any two existing PDFs and creating a colliding pair while keeping the same visible rendered output is probably what's new.
Hey, I think you jumped to another conclusion. I'm not a smoker, vaper or toker.

And I did read your links. I'm even reading your quotes, and I don't reach your conclusion. The language used here is defensive and deliberately vague: Using X in adolescence can harm the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.

X could be almost any activity and be true. Without quantification it even applies to water and O2 consumption. Its the sort of languages our scientists at work use when they not ready to make assertions and would like more money to do research.

> These potential harms of nicotine are particularly worrisome in view of soaring rates of e-cigarette use in U.S. teenagers

This is an appeal to demonstrate that the research should happen soon, not a statement that harm is happening now. Its a sales trigger not a statement of fact. They would like money now, to do research on a topic that I agree, should get significant funding.

I am worried about soda and e-cigs. I'm not sure I'm not more worried about soda, than e-cigs and that seems contrary to social norms at the moment. e-cigs _might_ trigger addictive personalities, and the _might_ marginally increase blood pressure. Soda will rot your teeth, and it will put pressure on your insulin system and it does cause obesity - all in very short order, especially given my families genetics.

I'm not sure how you get to the statement "ruin lives" from our interaction at all. Quite the opposite.

New things are inherently risky. We drank milk for generations without research. It literally killed children who couldn't digest lactase, but also saw the average height and muscle mass of adults increase dramatically in adults that could. If we'd have had science, would we have banned milk? Would we have delayed people from enjoying milk until we reached scientific consensus? Should we ban milk now that we know that 85% of the global population is still lactose intolerant and that its strongly linked with heart disease?

If I'd been similarly on the fence about milk 10k years ago, would you have accused me of ruining lives then as well?

Getting dosing right has also been an issue. Even opiods have safe, non addictive dosing levels for the vast majority of humans. JUUL Pods sound like everclear being marketed as shandy. That needs to be addressed, not necessarily banned. There is a reason whisky is sold at 40% and its not because thats how it comes out of the barrel. We probably need legistlation that marks JUUL as different similar to how we split liquor from beer.

I'm also concerned that we're very good at figuring out how to make a product addictive. And whilst I'm happy to point fingers at big tobacco as they engineered tobacco plants that cigarettes more addictive, we should also look at nestle, kraft and coke cola. Ever wondered why, even though you probably don't like it, Kraft Macaroni Cheese is so compelling? Or why Skyrim and WoW feel so compelling even though the rewards are so sparse?
Yes, everybody should have their own "space". I, for example, would have "my space".
Not OC, but for me it's just a real wonder why it's not better embraced at this stage of the game. We have all the tools to accommodate collaboration within remote teams and in (most) places the broadband to handle it. Add to this the continued funneling of companies into these metro areas where COL is high (NYC, SF, Seattle) and thus people may find themselves being forced into higher commute times just to attain a better COL situation.

I personally am commuting close to 2 hours each way, so 4 hours total, because the job market is much stronger in NYC then my immediate (30-45 minute) area. If a job is open around here the salaries are almost 30-40% lower than NYC despite our COL still being high.
It's time screen reader tech moved towards automatic OCR.

It's a losing battle trying to get every technology and web service to put in all the right aria tags - imagine imgur for example - there is no way you could make those all those animated gifs and mspaint memes properly accessible - instead, a neural network should look at the screen like a human does, and describe it.

The screen reader should say "There is a gif of a squirrel falling off a shelf, and it has a share and an upload button"
First Hellboy reboot trailer ups the comedy and violence
Coca Cola I'll give you a maybe, McDonald's? Hardly. It's only in a couple of the 54 countries in Africa.

KFC is in a lot more, but still only a small fraction.
If they changed it would be suicide. Their whole raison d'être is around privacy and no censorship.
You are, of course, expecting a certain level of detail in games to have this kind of limitation. I would expect a game like Rez (PS2) to be easily runnable in super high resolutions. Obviously games like RE7 and Fallout 4 wouldn't run without significant changes and engine optimisations, but I could live with simpler looking games.
Does anyone know if there are any commercial VPN providers that support WireGuard yet? If so any recommendations?
I tried Hyper-V for a while but I found the network configuration really cumbersome. Therefore I went back to Virtualbox but I should probably request my employer to buy a license for Vmware.
8-bit has evolved to mean something else to the masses. Deal with it.
Well agreed, which makes it worse.
The Facebook brand is tainted, but they can still pull an "Alphabet" and rename the company to protect Instagram, Whatsapp, Occulus, and still have a very successful company.

They can even launch a new social network, pretend it's different and make it easy to switch from Facebook...
> Slack is legally obligated to provide Slack accounts to people who pay

Rather, Slack agrees to provide accounts to people who pay and agree to the contract in return.

That little stipulation is exactly what is in effect here. Slack believes the users are in violation of the agreement, and under the legal rules that Slack established and controls, they enforce immediate termination.

> if they are terminating accounts based on ethnicity

This defending of the argument based on wild assumptions that Slack is ethnically profiling is a bad place to start from. That hasn't been shown, nor is it very likely.

On the other hand, Slack is legally obligated to block traffic to Iran, and it's within reason to assume an account that ever had any traffic in Iran broke the law. It's certainly possible that Amir forgot that he used an Iran proxy, or traveled there. It's possible that someone on his team broke the rule without his knowledge. It's also possible that Slack made a mistake, which can and does happen from time to time at many companies when trying to enforce international laws using only IP traffic logs. None of that points at Slack intentionally terminating accounts based on ethnicity.
setting up, just getting started with IRC for a non-tech person is basically way too hard bordering on impossible from their perspective.

We can talk about all the other issues around persistence and UX but just getting started is something beyond the vast majority of computer users.

It’s really hard for us to remember and empathize with this.
I appreciate you finding that. Here's the direct store link verbatim for anyone interested:

https://shop.oracle.com/apex/f?p=dstore:product:257141221156...
The Max Planck Digital Library has already set in place mechanisms to address the content needs of its researchers when Elsevier shuts off access at the beginning of January.

What is it? Sci-Hub?
Sounds like we need another Facebook apology tour.
Keep in mind, HN will mostly have startup jobs, so you're more likely to see languages like Scala represented here than in the job market at large, where I would expect Java, PHP, C++ etc. To dominate.
The 'fundamental freedoms' are dogmatic and ideological, they need to be brought into question, or at least the interpretation of them, just as a start.

The entire EU political landscape has been turned upside down and yet still the EU is not reacting.
In general Windows is no worse than Mac and vice versa. Your argument reads in the same way.
I'm sure there are more useful changes but honestly I'm just happy that it finally supports my HiDPI screen.
Cabal [1] might be of interest.

[1]: https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal
I wonder if some of the "scala" hits are actually from the word "scalable"...
I guess it depends on the sat image source which leads to costs.

I'm sure you can use the newest/best data for your company because you can pass on the costs to your clients.
You are not the norm ... the very fact that you are on this website puts you in a very small cabal of users. I can guarantee you that "normal" people do not read these things, and it is disingenuous to expect that they ever will.
As much as I like Scala I find that hard to believe. I actually look for Scala in the job listings and I never felt it came up that much, compared to say Python or Javascript. A dumb search on the page for scala mostly turns up scalable ...
A simpler possible explanation is that physical phenomena like the two slit experiment look like waves interfering the the simplest way to represent that stuff is with complex numbers. The fact that that's the simplest way to do the math doesn't necessarily mean reality is fundamentally that way - you can use the same math for interfering water waves and similar.
Remember yesterday’s thread from the guy who lost his MailChimp account suddenly? Nobody learns, and we’re going to keep reading these articles over and over while “cloud” is still a thing.
One of America’s Most Valuable Exports: Business Consultants
Interesting, I haven't put much thought into the environmental impact of resistance to remote work. I would disagree with your second point however, I believe that you lose something when work is performed remote, regardless of your role. That benefit certainly isn't worth destroying the planet.
>It was unclear to users what they consented to when they signed in.

I highly doubt anyone would consent to allowing third party companies to read their private messages if that was actually made clear to them.
Facebook tries to explain why companies could erase your messages
I suspect there's false positives from "scalability" and "scalable"...
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I think there are some flaws in this analysis that can be confirmed when the code is released.

I think the reason Scala seems surprisingly popular is that is was simple string matching so a post that said "We are looking for someone who can build scalable infrastructure" would count as one mention of "scala".

Could be wrong though.

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18725655&goto=item%3Fi...
[Google Translate] Slack bans Crimean user due to U.S. sanctions
> Zuckerberg assured lawmakers that “we don't sell data to anyone.”

So he lied to Congress and now he's busted. I was wondering whether there exists an audience that wouldn't buy his bullshit wholesale.
The main issue seems to be that they are not only blocking people actually in embargoed countries, and furthermore not only nationals of that country, but everyone who has ever used the service from an IP geolocated - or otherwise - associated with embargoed countries.

If former nationals are more likely to have visited an embargoed country, it could conceivably fall under discrimination laws.

But it is probably even more problematic if using a service from an country specific IP actually should triggers the embargo from a legal point of view?

Then we have a problem, because suddenly you won't be able to use your phone, even turn it on at all while traveling an embargoed country if this starts to be applied broadly.

Furthermore, it would imply that things like a single BGP route hijack could kill all of a company's accounts on any US service, without recourse.

If this would be the case, using any service from a country interpreting embargoes this way becomes an impossibly risky proposition. Which was probably not the intent of the embargo.
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Yes, and look at who you are. You are a (presumably) developer, tech literate at a minimum but more likely with a strong command of how technology works and how companies like Facebook operate. You're not my dad, you're not a child, you're not someone who uses the internet to talk to their family and that's about it. You're such a small percent of the group affected by Facebook's actions that thinking everyone operates like you is disingenuous.
Why do you say that? I haven't seen a lot of photos like that on womens' profiles; in fact, I don't think I've seen any.

But strangely, I actually have a photo just like that on my profile! It was taken at the NYC Natural History museum.

For women's profiles, the stereotypical photos are:
1) Macchu Picchu
2) at a bar with an alcoholic drink in-hand, frequently looking drunk
3) at a beach
4) in bed, cuddling with a big smelly dog
5) at a gun range
These are pretty typical of 30+ white women in the DC area, though they're never seen all in the same profile (the women who like guns don't go to Macchu Picchu).

Also, you say that in your experience on Bumble, women are more emotionally mature. In my experience there, I'd say there seem to be more professional women there, but if you're not a big bar-goer and drinker, you're not going to do well there, at least in this city. Also, the women there seem to be almost all white and black; all the Asians seem to be on CMB, which is where I get the vast majority of my dates.
The "expectation of privacy" really is quite settled. It's about marketing, not reality. Thinking FB will treat your "private data" as yours rather than theirs is about as realistic as watching a beer commercial and thinking that if you drink that brand of beer, beautiful women will find you more attractive.

It's about as "isn't nearly as settled" as the question of whether Santa Claus is real. Just because there's a guy in a red suit at the mall and you got presents every year doesn't mean there's an actual jolly elf flying around in his sleigh handing the best presents to the richest kids. So yes, there's an illusion of "privacy". Your private data is private from your peers, who are just as much a product as you are. But it is never going to be private from Facebook's actual customers.

Market forces are relentless and amoral. This doesn't mean they're immoral, that they're evil. It just means they will not make an effort to be good, either. Facebook doesn't exist to facilitate communication and share cat videos. It facilitates communication in order to serve its actual purpose, which is to collect large amounts of valuable personal data from as many individuals as possible, in order to sell that data to companies that want to sell products to targeted individuals.
Ditto with Rust, most of the matches are part of the word "trust" when using ctrl+f in Chrome.
I'd call my "space" AOL because I'm never around.
AMD ROCm 2.0 released (TensorFlow v1.12, FP16 support, OpenCL 2.0, Kubernetes, )
I thought it was 38! Whoops!
> So, Menon asks, “If machines are going to be seeing these images and video more than humans, then why don’t we think about redesigning the cameras purely for machines? Take the human out of the loop entirely, and think of cameras purely from a non-human perspective.”

From a technical perspective, this is neat.

From a societal perspective, I want the images an AI sees and the AI's decision-making process to be auditable by humans.
> I hope people continue migrating to http://MeWe.com

LOL, no. From company to another company, because this time, it will be different! (Hey there, https://ello.co ! )

Get your own thing. WordPess with webmentions, Mastodon, Gnusocial, SSBC, anything, but it really, really shouldn't be a single unit controlled thing.
In rural or small cities yes, in urban settings (where most of the population lives) no.
Developing tools for news organizations
Scala seems suspiciously high compared to the data on Hacker News Hiring Trends: https://www.hntrends.com/
To be fair, for every 1000 claimed energy breakthroughs, 1 succeeds. Being skeptical of any claim before it scales in the market is somewhat rational.
Elsevier willing to compensate editors to prevent them ‘flipping’ to Open Access
Add-Ons, Extensions and CSP – Troy Hunt
> I'm simply suggesting it is far easier to get cycle accuracy and correctness in an FPGA than through software emulation.

This is the line I would disagree with. What about an FPGA makes cycle accuracy and correctness easier than with an emulator written in software?

Make no mistake, Kevtris is immensely talented. But he also had the advantage of additional research going in (such as byuu's), and, well, I truly don't think the accuracy is comparable as of right now. The difference in effort required to get between 99% and 100% compatibility is immense, and the Super NT is clearly at 99% right now.
That does not include a request to approve the read_mailbox permission, which I think should be required to query a user's private messages. This permission was deprecated in 2015. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/11/facebook_admits_use...

On the other hand, Facebook is known to make a lot of one-off arrangements with specific preferred partners such as Spotify to grant permissions and access normal apps can't use. I suspect that money changes hands for some of these special arrangements, or if not outright cash then intangibles with significant value, hence the "selling data" accusations.
Myabe the regex pattern is checking for the pattern but not as a separte word?

"scalable solution"

"excellent benefits"
I’ve honestly never found an IRC client with a sane UI. If it’s tedious for technical folks, why do you expect it to be preferable to slack?
Sapphires and rubies in the sky
I told you we don't sell data, but I didn't say we won't sell data on TUESDAY! Checkmate, lawmakers!
zlib is standard in my field, so being compatible is a big plus. I should do some testing with the zstd API, though. Thanks for the performance discrepancy heads-up!
It's hard not to suspect that there is at least some personal vendetta involved here from the media. Facebook destroyed a lot of the business models which were already reeling in the internet age.