skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish the words "Huffman Tree" would go away entirely. Huffman, as used in the past 40 years, actually describes a scheme commonly called "Canonical Huffman"[0] that can be constructed entirely without a tree. ryg recommends reading this paper on it [1], and I wholeheartedly agree. Other than that, great article!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Huffman_code
[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bda3/442cc6b1d10e4b36b574af...
>What would be awesome is if those millions were writing books, doing physics, or creating works of art instead. You'd have machines doing the labor and humans being freed up to focus on new contributions to society.

There is a really easy solution to this that I have never seen suggested. Instead of giving money to everyone for free, why not raise the budgets of research and art institutions? You can get as many people as you want doing physics and making art as you want, all you have to do is give money to CERN.

Now, a pessimist might say that some people can't advance science or art because they lack the capability. I counter with the fact that anyone can do it at some speed, some are just faster than others. If you greatly increased the amount of money the Institute for Advanced Study had, they would be able to bring people on to their staff that were less efficient on a dollars per fundamental insight scale, I.E. you or me.
i've been thinking about your comment for about 12 hours now (over night after reading it last night). i don't quite understand the force of it.

>If a fund earns 80% returns, but has no means to compound the resulting profits through the same mechanism, whoever receives them naturally puts them into something with worse returns, so their wealth still grows slowly over time.

i don't see why this matters at that AUM. treat it as a fixed annuity for the fund members and it's still fantastically successful (if you know of a savings account that i can safely withdraw 80% of 10b from every year for 20 years please let me know).

>Even within the fund structure, most profit is return on labor, not capital.

i think this is just a matter of "levels of abstraction". if i invest in a mutual fund that has portfolio managers and analysts are my returns thereby ROC or returns on labor? obviously according to GAAP they're returns on capital but inside the mutual fund there are people laboring away. if i in-house that mutual fund along with all of that research infrastructure why does it suddenly become return on labor? it's the same economic activity.
Primarily greed but I think one of my group members also mentioned pride and gluttony. This was 18 years ago so details are fuzzy. I probably have the project on an old hard drive or CD-R somewhere...
One important difference is that one thing is currently free and the other is not. There are many other important differences. The original article is a lot of whataboutism and false equivalency but doesn’t grasp the fundamental problem, people being displaced.
The United States slaughters 1M pigs every 3 days
Sure, I remember thinking it was super unfair that I was kicked off the computer even though I was reading content on webdev forums. And I can certainly tell you some positive experiences that were had from making friends with guild members in World of Warcraft or building content in MUDs.

If you, as a parent, understand the difference between four hours of an iPad F2P game vs four hours of interacting with friends in Minecraft with voice-chat, you're surely in a good position to make informed decisions here instead of the frustrating "computer=bad" that a lot of kids have to deal with.

I'm not yet a parent, but I can sympathize with the idea that you want to see your kids develop well-rounded interests. You see your kid on computers and phones all day (just like adults) and don't necessarily have any insight into how they are actually spending that time (especially on their phone). At which point, it might be a relief when they pick up a book for an hour or two.
So far they use the "don't" approach to garbage collection. It would have to be implemented.like the rest of the rts.

I guess parts of the c code could be transpiled but something low-level like the gc relies on details like register pinning.
Doesn't CPython do this with the multiprocessing module?

https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html
Show HN: Quick Filter UI for lists that works like Tinder
fasting creates autophagy which is a real positive benefit.
BreadCrumbHeaders – Breadcrumb-like static headers for iOS used to group screens
KorySchneider/wikit: Wikipedia summaries from the command line
Every damn time.

I really wonder whether that system actually helps prevent theft, or if it was originally put in place because stores suspected that theft would be a problem, and we're just stuck with it now.

Plus, in the couple stores I frequent, there's always an employee standing at the ready to clear out the errors. Which, I imagine, would go a long way toward reducing theft on its own.

Either way, they seem to be universally bad. I can only hope a store tries to buck the trend by turning off the weight check and finds that it causes no problems. Maybe if that happens, the other would follow suit.
Fair point I think. It would also be nice if we truly had free Universities to where you could go and study for free and then apply for one of those CERN jobs you mentioned
I did this for years and learned both from experience and later from reading the works of people who know much more about sleep than I do (highly recommend the book "Why We Sleep" that this kind of catchup is not possible. I found myself being exhausted and sleeping most of the day on weekends and over time this just kept getting worse and worse. I felt fine during the work week getting 3-6 hours of sleep, but on weekends I'd just crash. No, I was not catching up on my sleep debt by passing up for 12-14 hours on weekends instead. Now I make sure to give myself at least an eight-hour sleep opportunity per day. As a result I feel more alert more consistently, and my weekend sleep/wake schedule looks very similar to my normal weekday schedule.
No, I mean that the JVM itself doesn’t have opcodes for storing generics type info. Hence why it was done for backward compatability, they didn’t need to add or change instructions.
There's a reason Airstrip One was the UK.
Up until now, they have mostly been replacing physical labor, which allowed the workforce to shift to service and mental labor.

But now the machines are replacing service and mental labor. There is no where for a human to shift to this time.
Considering that the yearly cost of a first-world sysadmin is north of $200k (it's not just salary), finding someone to tend to the database for under $10k is a pretty good deal.

Worth remembering: you need to have a team of ~10 people in order for the on-call schedule to be anything other than brutal.
I did this too! Was a great learning experience.
Or maybe 'leadership' actually means 'leadership'?

And 'athletic' means 'athletic'?

They are unless you have a heap of evidence to suggest they are not.

And yes, Universities should definitely be considering all of those qualities, most of them do to the extent they can.
"...Every. Freaking. 30. Seconds."
Absolutely frickin true. I was at a 09.10AM session at building [UB 5.*] where the doors are right beside where the speaker stands. One person per 30S was hopping in, till the end of the talk.

In the "Observability Track" the Fosdem staff member was totally pissed that no single person listened to his repeated continued pleas to stay back till the Q&A finishes and the talk concludes.

Everyone attending Fosdem must have some level of courtesy towards those who speak and those who are attending.
Talking about India for a moment, if you ask any Indian living in India (or a recent emigrant) about "bending rules", it's certain that they will say it happens all the time, everywhere, in every industry, in every government department/ministry, and that that's how things are and have been. It's an accepted sense of resignation in the mindset of people. This also triggers a mindset to "just get things done at any cost", as the article describes (usually this kind of corruption starts at the top levels of a company).

If you get goods made in China, I doubt if you can be sure of the quality unless you go there, stay there, live there, and work there to make sure that those companies understand what you need and are doing the right things in the right way and not cutting corners.

IMO, all this is the price you pay for getting "cheap stuff" from a remote place with a different culture and history. I'm not implying that everything (or even the majority of things) made in the U.S. automatically comes at a better level of quality — there is no denying that fraud and "bending rules" are universal. What matters is how much can be controlled and what compromises one is willing to make. It just so happens that large markets with higher costs that need cheaper stuff on one hand, and countries that want higher exports and have weaker systems (policies, laws, law enforcement) on the other hand make this issue much larger and difficult to deal with. I personally don't think there are any easy or quick solutions here that can retain the costs at current levels while achieving everything else. Something must give.
I agree that environmental costs of beef production are quite high.

For me, personally, what also matters is the relative ranking of impacts. I did some research into this and here are the top personal contributors to GHG emissions (presumably for a person living in a developed country).

(All figures in tons CO2 per year)

Have one fewer child: 58.6

Live car free: 2.4

One less transatlantic flight: 1.6

Buy green energy: 1.47

EV to car free: 1.15

Plant-based diet: 0.82

etc...

The interesting thing is that based on this analysis, on average our transportation usage far dominates the plant-based diet aspect.

Popular press (with some interesting follow-on thoughts about how most of the emissions are produced by the wealthy).
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/7/14/1596354...

original paper here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/...
Aldous Huxley on Technodictators
Home Remodelling Website Houzz Suffers a Data Breach
You do understand that what you're asking for is literally impossible, not just "easier said than done"? Blocking bots until proven human is exactly the same as allowing humans until proven bot.

They already are forcing "bots" to prove they're human, to the best of their abilities. At some point their measures dictate that traffic from VPN = bot, until that "bot" can prove otherwise. If you're blocking whatever mechanisms they use to identify "human" then it shouldn't be a surprise that they can't differentiate you. Their only interface is whatever traffic happens between you and them, not any intention or motivation behind your actions.

They have a negative interest in blocking people from accessing anything, since pageviews = ad views = dollars. The only time they have an incentive to block anyone is for click fraud, or for any similar reputational damage from a person / bot / IP.
I'm spoiled by SCOTUSblog's case analysis in terms of legal tea leaf reading, which ArsTechnica is most definitely not, but I'll try to do it anyways. If I understand the case properly, there's a few different moving pieces going on here.

On the first, whether or not broadband can be classified as information service... I expect the ruling to be that it can be. The fact is that the FCC had classified it as such in the past, and only very recently changed that classification. We can sit here and laugh about how minimal the support is (the only information service that the FCC can find to cite is DNS, after all), but this amounts to (from a legal perspective) challenging the technical definition of the agency providing said technical definition, which is generally destined to fail (see Chevron).

There is a wrinkle, of course, that the FCC's process for making this determination is flawed, so it's possible that the court could rule that, while the decision per se isn't wrong, the process is wrong, so the FCC would have to go back and redo that. This article doesn't give much of a clue as to how the court would rule here.

The last question is if the rules here preempt local rules. I've always thought this argument had a tough time, because the argument of the FCC is (in effect) that it doesn't have the authority to regulate broadband as an information service but its non-authority to regulate them preempts states' authority to regulate them. For federal deregulation to preempt potential state regulation, it has to be fairly explicit in law, not just an agency decision. It looks like there is some pushback here in that the judges think that the FCC's deregulatory claims here are too broadly scoped.

Given Ars's editorial slant, I'm assuming that we're getting most of the pro-net-neutrality segments of the argument cherry picked, which would lead me to conclude that this is not going to be a ruling that net neutrality advocates are hoping for.
I'm a rails dev too, last year I was making a mobile web app where I was concerned about frontend, so I started making a SPA in mithril.js and using Rails as the API.

Later I abandoned the SPA and went back to rails views, using turbolinks to make it fast. In reality rails + turbolinks is fast enough for most cases, and then I can sprinkle in extra javascript or use SPA on one or two pages as needed.

The reason I think it's almost better to avoid SPA + API approach is to keep the codebase simple and easier for one person to maintain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA
http://masilotti.com/beermenus-and-turbolinks/
No, that's not how it happened. ContentID is a proactive system that goes well beyond what the DMCA requires and skirts around the DMCA penalties for false claims.
Where is this 'public'? Is this the same group of people who keep expressing opinions that my rights should be curtailed?

Officer, arrest them! They are intimidating me by their refusal to respect my human rights!

It's kind of a slippery slope once you start trying to carve the troublemakers out from the public. That action can even be said to be incitory by it's nature.

Perhaps the police should arrest themselves for being a walking intimidation tool for the majority?

Dirty business that. If you're not interfering in a clearly criminal act, you are just acting as an intimidation force. Unjustified weaponization of suspicion can be just as harmful to a Law Enforcement Organiztion's legitimacy as unjustified use of lethal force.

The criminals you avoid creating through mounting I'll will and despair from the inevitable taint of interacting with the legal system will be a net gain for society.

I'm not saying without Leo's there would be no criminals; rather that continual nuisance and intrusion of the Systems in law abiding citizen's lives only serves to push more of the population toward unrest.
Hopefully it doesn't cost $1000 like that did.
So the current MacBook is going to seem like a good deal over at the Apple office, where most developers dread to have one of the new ones assigned to them and hope for an older one without the touchpad.

Did you ever try to use Idea or IntelliJ with the new one? Fuck those function keys! ..
That isn't true at all in this circumstance. He isn't disrupting traffic, on private property, or breaking any law. It's not illegal to disobey police except under special circumstances.
Nobody in tech ever thought the DMCA was a good thing.
>But monetary “incentives” are in general quite a terrible system for eliciting good work.

I'm glad I don't work for you.
I still remember the early days of Grid, interesting to see how the infrastructure evolved.
This is actually an amazing idea, I like it! Instead of a UBI, take all that UBI money and give it to people who pay people to think. Spread it around to science and art and everything in between. Make it so those institutions must spend all the money they get on salaries. It's basically a jobs program for creatives.
"it’s more of a way to enhance interaction by creating dynamic buttons that are application dependent." But this is fundamentally touch-typist unfriendly. And most serious professionals, most people who actually try to maximize their productivity, will be at some level of touch typing - not having to look at the keyboard while they type. So this makes much more sense for non-professional use cases - where the iPad might already be a winner anyway.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a defensive patent that never makes it into a product.
Any impact on your body? I mostly switched because almond milk is lower calories and I used to drink a ton of milk so it seemed healthier. Now milk smells and tastes gross to me. But I've switched back and forth a few times, so I know that would go away if I went back.
Or, racial differences are statistically real, and equality is the distortion.

Fat people need larger clothes.

Should only manufacture clothing according to one standard of comfort, and force slim people to wear loose baggy clothes, to accomodate an awkard truth, and whitewash and paper over a few holes punched into the gypsum board?
Strikes me you'd want to stop private companies tracking you first, before attempting to cripple police operations.

Yes, fascists have taken power. Similarly fascists use guns, so "police shouldn't have guns because with changes in the State this guns can be used against us"? All databases make fascist authoritarianism easier, so no databases? Computers, cars, ...

If you think that's all too much, let's step in the mid-ground -- ANPR, a good economical, efficient tool v for law enforcement or a potential fascist instrument that must be outlawed?
Is it just me or does it look like the top touchscreen layer would wear out fast, constantly being "inverted"/bent for every keystroke.
> A simple captcha from the 2000's (the ones with lines over a word or number of letters and numbers), should be good enough to hold off basic script kiddies

The problem is that while the kiddies may not be sophisticated their scripts can be - the solutions will work its way in the scripts sooner than later.
With all these good recommendations on this thread, I have decided to create a privacy.com account for my family. I have given privacy.com our address, my cell phone number, my email, and our bank information (they require the actual username and the password). All very vanilla, US, SF Bay Area, never had any problems with any other financial websites.

Not enough! My account activation is incomplete until I link my privacy.com account to my Facebook account!!! I thought this is so funny in the context of this privacy/Facebook spying thread.

Quote from my privacy.com account page:
"Sometimes, the information provided at signup isn’t enough to verify someone’s identity, and activate their Privacy account. Connecting your Facebook account is a quick and easy way to provide extra identity verification. Okay"

P.S. I am now feeling uneasy about the whole thing. I have changed my bank login password and I am trying to cancel/delete the privacy.com account -- but there is no such option in the website menus.
Another 'Haskell to WebAssembly' project:

https://github.com/dfinity/dhc
You're doing it right. Google is gaslighting you; lying and telling you you've failed challenges when you actually solved them correctly. They do this to punish users who opt out of the google 'ecosystem' by not having a google account, not using chrome, using adblockers, etc.

The proof of this assertion comes when you manage to enable the noscript version of reCAPTCHA (which is only available on sites that have opted to use the lowest security setting). Once you start using noscript reCAPTCHA, you discover that your correct answers are accepted the first time every time. The challenges have the same format; click the cars, click the traffic lights, etc. There are two differences: the tiles don't fade in slowly, and the correct answers are always accepted.

Presumably when google implemented their dark patterns in reCAPTCHA, they couldn't be bothered to implement them when javascript wasn't available. I hesitate to draw attention to this since Google might correct their error, but I'd like for people to become more aware of their anti-social business practices.

(By the way, the noscript version will accept either sort of answer. Only the bulbs, or the entire enclosure. Both answers are accepted.)
From the country thatbroughus crop circles.

No one knows where they come from!
Not sure if there is anything progressive about this but it's small, has a manifest so it will supposedly get cached, and is installable I think. Wrote it for similar reasons, sick of ads.

https://greggman.github.io/interval-timer/
It's also not at all clear that the authors of this piece chose to put any "trackers and ad platform pixels" on the site or are empowered to remove anything like that. The NYT is not a self-hosted blog run by a techie.
People would just get their cars registered as delivery vehicles.

NYC already has rampant abuse of placards and literal "get out of jail" cards. A ban on personal vehicles wouldn't go any differently than those.
Actually, in the late 19th and even going into earlier 20th centuries, reading books to avoid boredom did count (unless it was the Bible) in many families. Then they were afraid of radio and moving pictures, then TV, video games, etc...now its screen time on mobile devices, tomorrow we won’t worry about that anymore, but start instead worry about our kids being addicted to virtual realities....and so on.
> Anyone who can really program is horrified by idiots...

I think you should take a broader look at the world.

> these defective programmers can't even use Google properly.

Try searching "how to exit vim" in google... see what the first result is... .

If everyone around you looks like an idiot, you can probably figure out who the real idiot is. Or maybe not.

But hey, maybe you're a natural talent who knows by instinct how to exit VIM.
I agree that the talks at FOSDEM are great but I also stopped going for the same reason. Some smaller, less-crowded annual events that are I often attend instead are:

FROSCON in Bonn,
Chemnitz Linuxtage,
Maker Faires
I think a build system should always allow to convert its build description to a bash file that contains a more or less linear account of all actions needed (without support for incremental builds). Now if every library were distributed with such linear script, the user is guaranteed not to get stuck in obscure build problems. And of course, they can first try the official incremental route (cmake in this case) if they like.
I think people realize that, but is it much worse than proof of work that is helpful to nobody? It's easy to take a position against Google and Recaptcha. It's easy to take a position against something that inconveniences you.

What people actually don't seem to realize ITT is that abuse is becoming so easy and such a problem that we are becoming increasingly reliant on centralized services like Cloudflare and Google.

You used to be able to just generate your own captcha on the server with simple libraries, but Xrumer (mass website-spamming software) could crack those 10 years ago.

I'd like to see more comments addressing the ever-lowering barrier of online spam/abuse instead of opting for the low hanging fruit of condemning people for trying to save their websites/platforms from it.
... and this is the reason we can’t have nice things. Source: In 8th grade our class had to do a book report ‘project’. I selected an ebook on intro to processing (it’s an environment build on Java that lets you create graphics applications easily). I wrote an application that drove a (self built) 6-wheel drive robot wirelessly around our school for the project.

Needless to say, there’s was little literary analysis done, but the class enjoyed the wireless video stream.

Future me came to get annoyed by overachievers that raised the bar for ‘A’ grades.