skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every once in a while I pick up "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" (freely downloadable: http://www.dspguide.com/) and it's always so satisfying to see the different relations between domains and how you can think about it. Your example is no different.

But since I never get to actually use that stuff in my just, I always forget the details.
Nope, if I hide cocaine in your house the crime is mine. If person X send person Y unsolicited CP with the intention of calling the police on them I am pretty sure X is committing a crime.

It might be hard for Y to prove this though.
MDB (MongoDB) down by 13% after Amazon announced compatible service
The biggest and most successful hard fork scam was the one moving from what is now called Etherium Classic to what is now called Etherium.
In practice that top 10% is generally the one holding itself accountable to arms treaties, it's normally smaller groups that go for the cheap-and-horrible.
It doesn't burst blood vessels, it covers them up!
First time I've actually clicked through to look at their laptops properly. An absolute dealbreaker for me is the tiny shift key on the right-hand side of the keyboard. My company-supplied laptop has this and everybody I speak to hates it. After a year of using this laptop I still haven't got used to it and keep accidentally pressing the 'up arrow' key which is where the shift key is supposed to be. If you're not careful, you end up typing on the line above where you're supposed to be. I hate it.
Hubble telescope camera is broken and US government shutdown could delay repairs
Radiolab did an episode[0] last year where they talked to Facebook content moderators.

[0]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil
>The second runner-up was South Korean president Moon Jae-in. He was nominated for promoting improved Inter-Korean relations and a renewed dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang on denuclearization and peace that has led to a number of significant steps to decrease tensions, including a North Korean moratorium on long-range missile and nuclear testing, a halt to U.S.-South Korean military exercises, and steps to avoid military incidents along the demilitarized zone that divides North Korea and South Korea.

IMO this is the only one that matters in the list. The Pentagon will get another US Based Tech company to aid them in the pursuit of new weapons because there is just too much money to ignore it. Meanwhile peace talks between South and North Korea actually reduces the chance of a thermonuclear war between two nations. We can only hope that other nations follow suit.
200 euro? That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
You're essentially describing a residue number system, except the different moduli need to be coprime for things to be well-defined.

FFT multiplication is basically a residue number system product on polynomials. Evaluating a polynomial p(x) at a point w_i is the same as computing p(x) modulo (x - w_i), where w_i here is one of the nth roots of unity. So the FFT computes p(x) mod (x - w_0), p(x) mod (x - w_1), ..., multiplies each residue individually, and the inverse FFT recovers the result modulo (x - w_0)(x - w_1)...(x - w_{n-1}) = x^n - 1.
Google is actively helping the Chinese military by opening their AI center in China. Every bit of the IP they develop in China will be in the hands of the government and thus weaponized by the Chinese military. Yet I haven't heard a peep of protest from the same people who criticized project Maven

https://taskandpurpose.com/google-china-artificial-intellige...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/13/alphabets-google-opens-china...
Also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874148

It was the first time that I heard about Purism, and I found it interesting, so I thought it might be interesting to others.
Google does that, some are obvious but even those that seem obvious end up causing problems.

You can't use the word "minor" at all in combination with some terms, even though it's a common last name.

I don't know what the answer is, but it seems like we should be able to do a much better job selectively returning results to "wall off" the things we want to separate and avoid accidentally letting through, rather than simplistically blocking words, which is clearly what's happening in some cases.

You don't necessarily have to identify every single image to know that certain terms should not be returning results from sites and pages that have a high probability of being porn, and certain NSFW terms should not be returning results from sites aimed at, or content known to have been made by, children.

Anecdotally it seems like all we've done is to edge closer to ruining search for legitimate situations without accomplishing much.
One of this books, I forget the exact title, was pointedly written to accompany the online lectures. That one, in particular, I would guess is better read in conjunction with said lectures. Not sure about his other texts.
To those that aren't into gaming: this is huge and unexpected. Destiny and Destiny 2 are extremely popular games that came from a giant 10 year publishing deal between Bungie and Activision and they're ending it 2 years early. Lots of speculation on what this means and why this happened but it throws the future of the game into uncertainty - it could be really good and it could be really, really bad.
A day after an article about fake-news research being retracted and here are people commenting enthusiasticly and gullibly about another piece of fake-news research being promulgated. It's like no one has heard of the social sciences reproducibility crisis. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
"And they bombed Japan because they needed to, or at least felt like they needed"

What a load of crap. That exact same reasoning can be applied to everything the government of China does. They did X because they needed to or they felt they needed to.

That has nothing to do with the morality of it as you keep trying to bring up. So what is it? The ends justify the means or not? You don't get to apply different standards, utilitarian to the US and deontological to China. Scratch that, no you can, it'll just reveal the bias that you have.
> As far as I can tell they've pivoted to taking on Slack & friends with zero-knowledge team-chat, but global.

What? I'm pretty curious what gave you this impression, as I've always seen their chat app as an interesting use built on top of their encrypted file system work, but in no way their primary use-case or business.

We (and everyone else I know that uses Keybase) use it for passing around sensitive information, either through chat, their encrypted Git repos, encrypted messages plopped into emails, etc.

I think Fluidkeys is cool and all, but I definitely wouldn't switch off of Keybase for it, and I think you're doing yourself a disservice by pretending that Keybase is "just another chat app" now and not a direct competitor that also has secure communication built in.
I think it's slightly ambiguous wording "burst blood vessels", where "burst" is an adjective, not a verb. So burst blood vessels are something it covers up, along with age spots and other blemishes.
depends a lot on the character of the dog, one of my dogs was food oriented for reward the Mals I have don't touch food even from anyone until they hear the OK. This can be trained away and is an essential part of French Ring (or Schutzhund) brevet. e.g. the the training police dogs get, and usually can't be enticed with food (at least when well conditioned not to - even in absence of an owner or command).
This is even more problematic when attempting the use the automated filters that would be necessary at this kind of scale, which have no sense of context at all.

A recent demonstration was in Tumblr's attempt to block all pornography. They provided some canonical examples of things that are explicitly allowed. It was then discovered that their automatic porn filters blocked the images they used as the specific examples of things that shouldn't be blocked.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181218/16150941264/filte...
Where do I begin?

1. Life expectancy - getting lower for the first time in generations

2. Suicide rate - at an all-time high

3. Opioid crisis - need I say more

4. Labor participation 63% - the lowest since 1978

5. Stagnant (falling for some) real wages since the Internet bubble crisis (2001)

I could go on for much longer....

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-parti...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...
The burden of proof falls on those who want to believe the claims.

The fact that the dossier is notable (in the public interest to publish) does not mean that the dossier is correct. The court only ruled that the dossier was notable. The fact that presidents were briefed means that the dossier is notable, not that it is correct. The bit about people telling lies... well that is an ad hominem that also doesn't help to satisfy the burden of proof, plus if that were a valid argument then it could be applied to the source of the dossier.
Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?
Children in drag? I don't get it.
At least she had to cut a real newspaper, limiting her forward to one. Lucky you!
The quote from the article is: ...applies tiny amounts of make-up to remove age spots, burst blood vessels and other blemishes.

That "remove" action applies to every item in the list:

- remove age spots

- remove burst blood vessels

- remove other blemishes
IPCC report is pretty significant for raising awareness, I wouldn't go around calling it a joke. Even if it is on the conservative side.
> But perhaps more interesting is the fact that this is directly at odds with most objective metrics.

It's really not. Even the expected lifespan of Americans is declining. The only objective metrics that look good are GDP - and growth in this area is increasingly distributed upwards while the middle class doesn't really see a benefit. A reduction in poverty is good (assuming it's real and not a statistical sleight of hand), but the kids this article is talking about are the middle class - which is in decline[1].

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/11/americas-shrinking...
That is a fairly programmatic, not judicious, interpretation of how the law and morality intersect. Maybe the people involved, law enforcement and the courts are a bit better than mere computers. Just a thought.
I do think we'd be better off with the hot path being a simple append to a read-only file.

All this database-like junk should have been done asynchronously and persisted in ancillary read-write files kept adjacent to the logs.

Features like `systemctl status` that want to show the most recent log entries for a given service could have simply indicated 'potentially stale' when the logs were newer than the ancillary files, and support blocking on a refresh if desired.

I'm not a fan of how it is done today, and I've hacked a bit on journald. It doesn't belong in the critical path. There's a lot of that in the systemd project in general; tightly coupling complexity where it really should be loosely coupled at best. But I believe a lot of that is to be expected from a project aspiring to do too much with too little resources, shortcuts are taken regularly. Everyone experienced knows tightly coupling components eases the development of them.
This is the arms manufacture argument. Sure, smarter, more efficient killing tools may seem like a benefit, but it's always framed in a "us vs. them" argument.

What happens when you're the "them" at the receiving end of these smart weapons? Weapons tech is a pandora's box, once opened, everyone has it and you can't close it.
All other considerations aside IMO the Rex board is aesthetically a beautiful board. For me that was enough to overcome the sticker shock.
> How did 'skilled' programmers recover when a daemon crashed in Sys5 init-based systems?

Maybe the daemons didn't crash so often as now?

I never understood this new approach, which consists of writing a server process in a half assed way so that it crashes frequently, then solving that by putting a restarter service in front of it, done!
What is "BCash"? That doesn't seem to be the name of any existing crypto project.
Every couple months I stop keeping my home spic and span and simply let it go: newspapers, empty cans, Amazon boxes, sunflower seed shells, unwanted mail, etc. all over the place, clothes strewn everywhere, cords/connectors/cables/chargers both plugged and unplugged festooning every available surface.... I like living amongst the chaos for about a week, before it starts to annoy me and I spiff the place up. Both the fall into disorder and its anti-entropic counterpart are soothing, in their place.
If this is a true, undoctored video, future looks promising
I wish more OSHW boards featuring the imx6 gained momentum. It's a lovely processor to work with, and NXP's documentation puts most vendors' manuals to shame.

Plus, if you ever ship at scale, it's pretty easy to get your hands on a large quantity of them!
Additionally, the one time I actually needed coredumps, they didn't fit in 768MB and so I had to turn off systemd's coredump interceptor. It's probably useful in certain scenarios, but I really don't see why you would enable coredumpctl on a desktop system. Or why the limit would be hardcoded. Or why you wouldn't intelligently try to write the coredump to disk if it's too big to fit in the log.
Going on Coinmarketcap and clicking any coin's website in the top 50 will take you to basically the same type of site.

- Featuring voice-over video explaining why _this_ coin is the most decentralized and secure.

- A team page showcasing an absurdly large number of team members with stockphoto-like profiles photos.

- A roadmap, of which they're all on stage one.

- Whitepaper linked from primary navigation.
If a phone could be reasonably docked on a daily basis with the desktop functionality and performance of a last gen MacBook air, there will be a lot of interest.

Devices are fast enough today where previous attempts to do this were not. This is only a software problem needing solving now.

A litmus test for any phone's success including this will be whether it can deliver a great (not good, not excellent) camera experience. The Essential was a great phone, minus the camera. While librem may not be a mainstream play it will be able to capture some power users.

I have a pixel instead of another andoird phone for ease of updates and excellent photos. I may not take the most photos but take far more than I used to... And imagine those who take lots of photos (social, family, etc) would value it.
Systemd is not widely adopted at all, only a handful of distros adopted it. That's like a few friends level of adoption. And adoption of something by a small group of people doesn't imply that it's a good or a bad thing. But it does suggest that this group shares something that influences their decision making.

Users of those distros did not adopt systemd, they were forced to deal with distros that adopted systemd after upgrades. Just like they were forced to deal with new gnome and wayland. All of this is not without consequences of course. There are forks, brokenness, fragmentation, fatigue and general unattractiveness of linux desktop. Ecosystem is in a very sad state. I hope it's not on purpose, but it's definitely possible there is some "extend extinguish" strategy at play too.
I agree with your statement that a desktop should Just Work, and the Linux desktop experience is not perfect, but you seem to have had a harder experience than most would.

I don't expect you to get back on Linux or anything, but paying for known supported hardware (e.g. Dell XPS 13) goes a long way to have a 'no-tinkering-needed' experience (pretty much like OSX run better on its own hardware).

For the record, HiDPI works flawlessly and responsively with a Dell Precision 5510, including when using projectors with different resolutions. Never had an issue with my Bluetooth headphones, and the system does include a braindead, just-works backup-and-restore system : deja-dup, which works with Google Drive out of the box after inputing your credentials.

Applications that don't have a Linux version can be a pain, but most have perfectly good alternative (Google Docs, Flux, Zeal for Dash).

Some of them don't really, or require a big change (typically, Photoshop/Gimp), and those can indeed require one to stay on a specific OS
Regarding astronomy, the more amazing things are what we've been able to predict by mathematical inference before we had the technology to validate the predictions.
Good. All empires fall.
Not if you run Linux :-)
You can now set your status on GitHub
I realized I could never be sure about this kind of stuff, so I made my own. Took me about 5 hours to write a wpf app, it's very crude, but it even flips pages like a book, looks like a book and stores the content encrypted with a huge password which if I ever forget means the entries are lost until someone can bruteforce it.

Gives me much joy and I add features to it from time to time.
I decided to deal with all issues raised here, in one big Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/aeo39h/hermes_m...
The pre-seed diligence framework
Right, the same technology that would be used to block CP and abuse could probably be easily reconfigured to block any topic of choice.

...and more deviously, no one would want to be seen arguing for CP, so it makes for an effective "memory hole" to censor anything.

I have on a few occasions been searching for some highly obscure and technical subjects with Google, using search terms that have basically no connection to porn nor children whatsoever, and saw the ominous "some results have been removed from this page because they contain suspected images of child abuse" message. It really makes one wonder, especially since the word "suspected" is somewhat unsettling: was it actual CP that was removed, or something else entirely for a different reason? The fact that mere possession of CP is illegal makes for a chilling effect ("how dare you even question it --- are you a pedophile? You would not have gotten that warning if you weren't searching for 'bad things', right?"), and an extremely powerful censorship tactic.
Off-topic: this is the first I've heard of neocities.org but I went there with high expectations and I'm positively impressed. I guess having been online for 20+ years makes me relatively "old" (many of those much older than my generation were not so keen to get online way back when) and by God do I miss the "old internet".

Neocities' description truly resonates with me:

> Neocities is a social network of 216,300 web sites that are
> bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. We
> offer free static web hosting and tools that allow you to
> create your own web site. Join us!
Ask HN: Can I just open source a new technology or should I write a paper?
I'm a master's student working on Bio-inspired AI. I'm making some progress on a new, online architecture that can do some cool things.

Is it advisable to write a paper before open sourcing it? Why can't I just share my code, and if people care to they can tear it apart or support it?

Why would this be any less effective than spending that time writing a paper to submit to a conference?
Show HN: Simulating Galaxies in 2D
Hm, perhaps you're right, it was some time ago I used a Mac, sorry for the confusion. There was something with Emacs also which was weird on the mac with modifier keys but I don't exactly remember what.
It's a pretty cool device. The title would be even cooler if it'd say "make-up printer" because it's a bit clickbaity.
I was not quite sure if I could watch Schooling the World off their site.

I chose to send my 5 year old child to Montessori school.

This seemed to match my approach to learning.

What was your biggest takeaway from Peter Gray's book?
Here's the argument I think you're trying to make: Financial security is, at least, spending below your income. Also: people are different and enjoy different things.

I agree with those basic ideas! You're not disagreeing with me there. In fact, I already made a similar remark in my concluding sentence:

> You can have money and be unhappy, and you can be evicted because you can't meet rent and be happy, but it's probably easier to be happy when you aren't worried about paying the bills.

The piece you're either not considering or ignoring — which my comment spoke to — is that, controlling for local cost of living, the higher your income is, the easier it is to spend below your income. Necessities don't scale with income. Lifestyle choices can, but by definition, they are choices and can be reigned in. It's hard to choose between rent and food, though.

So I think your response, "money doesn't buy financial security," mostly comes from inaccurately interpreting an intentionally simplistic subclause of a larger argument and taking it too literally and without context.
I believe in many places it is illegal to distribute even a novel with explicit CP.

A relevant note is the distinction between production, distribution and possession (both directly or indirectly) when talking about corner cases.

A 14 years old should not be incriminated of producing or possessing photos of his/her naked body, he or she could be incriminated of distribution in extreme cases (the cited case should not be one of these cases)
> Is there any source to back up this claim that life is getting more difficult for Americans?

I'd posit that life hasn't been getting more difficult, but that it feels like it has become more difficult, largely because it's harder to advance your current socioeconomic status than it used to be (ie, "the hill is getting steeper"). This is also what makes the analogy particularly strong.

When you're used to accelerating growth, no growth or even constant growth feels like a downgrade.
How does this work when ANI information is spoofed from a landline?
That was true until the Spiegel affair. I laughed hard when I read he described as fact fictional acounts of older American women who would travel the country to watch executions. Ha!
Woah there, careful with that opinion.
That summarizes really well the core economic problem faced in the US.

I think almost all of our economic anxieties revolve around the hyperinflation of education and health care costs.
You do realize Larry and Sergey's initial funding to create a search engine came from DARPA, a military program, right?
more like makeup printer. wake me up when we can fix age spots and other broken cells and imperfections.
One of my favorite features of Racket[1] is that each file declares its dialect on the top line with `#lang language-name`. Different dialects, such as custom embedded DSLs, can have slight syntax modifications or even their own custom lexer and parser. In the end Racket modules all boil down to a smaller core language and interoperate beautifully.

[1]: https://racket-lang.org
Sexism isn't "the explanation", it's the background structure that makes it easier for stuff like this to happen. Trying to isolate sexism as a discrete causal component would be like trying to isolate the causal role of capitalism, or American culture. If your landlord evicts you for not paying the rent, they're probably not thinking "I must follow the principles of capitalism" while they're doing it. But it's still something that happens in the context of a particular economic structure.
Woot! We'll be able to work past age 35 in tech!
"Even though colleges say the SAT is not important I would argue it still is."\

If it wasn't important, they wouldn't include it in applications.