skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This approach is prone to priority-inversion

Priority inversion is one of the main things that are addressed by the PREEMPT_RT patchset - without a fix to the priority inversion problem, you don't really have a RT system. Aside from that, I agree that we should move towards having async interfaces as the default whenever slow I/O is a realistic possibility. I'm not sure how many people actually use something like PAM-LDAP, though.
I think most companies internally think of anything that takes a user away from their service or site, even unrelated as competition.

Fortnite is the bogeyman for all entertainment and so forth.

But yeah as for social network, nothing.
DNSCurve is over; DoTLS and DoH provide essentially the same value in essentially the same deployment mode, but with mainstream support.
Disturbing Images of Child Pornography Found in Bitcoin SV Blockchain
If such an island appears outside of any country's territorial waters, who gets to claim ownership of the island?
Fast Autocomplete Search for Your Website (2018)
> “I don’t even think stasis is compatible with liberty,” he told the Washington audience. - Bezos

Suppose one were to attempt to steelman Jeff’s statement. Is there any credible basis for this statement?

Or is it just one of those things that powerful people say because it makes them sound profound and they don’t have to follow it up with substantive supporting evidence.
I view them as conspiracy theory.
They were great for me until we had a kid. Now it's unusable because they will mix 'real' music with annoying kid stuff all over the place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095645
JavaScript. Worst shit.
Why does everything have to come back to borders and national identity? Is it really that hard to believe that bad things might get punished simply because they're bad?
Scientists Discover a New Kind of Magnet
LFE (I think you were the victim of autocorrect):

http://lfe.io/
Ex-Cons Create ‘Instagram for Prisons,’ and Wardens Are Fine with That
I still have my BeBox, and love it.

For the Blinky lights, a magicshifter suffices:

http://magicshifter.net/

(I did the OS)
I have a shortcut on my desktop that toggles Real Time Protection:

Create a file `toggle-defender-real-time-protection.ps1` in a known location with the following content:

$preferences = Get-MpPreference
Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring (!$preferences.DisableRealtimeMonitoring)

Then create a shortcut for this target:

%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "toggle-defender-real-time-protection.ps1"

Make it run as Administrator.

(Source of this nice script: https://superuser.com/a/1287788/25933)

Note that Windows somehow turns the protection on after a random amount of time.
- (linus tech tips) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alhEgNvzv50
Quite a lot, actually.
Most of the modern HTML5 is geared towards web and mobile apps, really.
You can build most sites with old HTML4. Unless peeps are using a big-name CMS, most sites are still running on old HTML standards.
> My theory is that, instead, the brain is a super-duper complex neural network with some differences about how the update of the weights happen

Neural networks were not meant to be accurate analogues to the actual operation of the neurons in the brain. They were known to be poor matches for the actual biology, even back in 1959. The concept of the multilayer neural network was actually inspired from our knowledge of the visual cortex, rather than the lower-level fundamentals of the brain. The brain is most certainly not a neural network, as the term is understood in machine learning.
>many people reach an inference point and stop, but these inferences are often wrong.

Still good enough for us to be top dogs on the planet and even reach space. Where's the AI doing that?
You'll have to explain that one to me.
Andrew Ng once tweeted about a 1-second heuristic:

> Pretty much anything that a normal person can do in <1 sec, we can now automate with AI.

https://twitter.com/andrewyng/status/788548053745569792?lang...

And was summarily derided for it. Read the replies to his tweet to see some of the suggested counter examples.

I sympathize with Ng here because he's making an effort to describe the boundaries and capabilities of ML to non-technical people in a simple way, and the 1-second heuristic is about as good at that as any I've seen. Yet it's incredibly difficult to delinieate what ML is good and bad at because it's so different than human or animal intelligence!

On the one hand, Modern ML is reasonably good at what Daniel Kahneman calls "System 1" thinking - fast, intuitive, stimulus-response stuff. However, for a lot of this stuff, the AI can do it MUCH faster, sometimes millions of times faster.

On the other, There are many tasks that modern ML can do that humans cannot do, such as learn to see digits even after the pixels have been scrambled in a deterministic way. To the human eye, it always looks like static, but (non-CNN) neural nets don't care and still achieve 99% accuracy on MNIST. A very broad category of things where ML is just plain better than humans is nuanced probability estimates. While human intuition into probability appears to be a pile of fallacies and broken rules of thumb, ML algorithms with appropriate loss functions can achieve very high "calibration" in the sense that the probability estimates they produce closely match the empirical conditional probabilities in real-world data.
Yeah, it's bad luck to be superstitious
UK Competitiveness After Brexit [pdf]
Huobi Has Entered into Wall Street Partnerships Agreement
I guess those people could continue to use their old addressing scheme, however sooner or later their mail may no longer be delivered to them.
Yes. Don’t mutate in place :thumbsup:
Unstated (last commit from Summer '18) seems unmaintained. Is there anything more current you would recommend?
Yeah, you can’t power a super computer with a sandwich
If by "hamper" you mean "(generally ineffectually) attempt to curb specific unlawful unethical behaviours by said companies" then, yes, I agree.
The Intel 80386, part 14: Rescuing a stack trace after the debugger gave up
Linux already has an LED interface, it's just that currently you can give an LED a brightness value 0-255.

So a RGB LED would have to be represented by three entries in /sys/class/leds/

That's kind of inconvenient when those three LEDs are actually one RGB LED.

This is only how the LEDs are represented to user space, you still need a driver for the chips the LEDs are connected to.
Very cool to see knot theory on HN! I studied it in undergrad and wrote a paper about it as a class project.
I think you should question your own biases if you're this emotionally invested in a technology.
Ask HN: How is your company storing secrets in EC2?
What services/encryption/etc is your company using to store things like API keys and other secrets (strings that cant be hashed)? I see services like these:

https://aws.amazon.com/kms/

https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/

https://medium.com/@nqbao/how-to-use-aws-ssm-parameter-store-easily-in-python-94fda04fea84

Just wondering what the best practices is in 2019
> It's incredibly parallel, few operations happen linearly. Even modern GPUs don't really match that.

Modern GPUs aren't even close: neither in terms of degree or in kind. A GPU does a lot of linear operations in parallel, but in the brain all the "compute units" are interacting with each-other in real time.
Show HN: Ts-player: Flexible terminal recorder
I wonder how much time until the ocean dumps some plastic waste on those beaches
>The core of this essay is indisputable that the comparison is Apples and Oranges. A computer puts in more effort and gets a better result. However when choosing between more efficient or better results, I'd prefer better results.

Not really. If we waited for better results humanity wouldn't exist.
As mentioned elsewhere, the original debates around "open source", as both a term and movement, centered around "free" vs. "open", or the value, benefits, ethics, etc. of copyleft/reciprocal licenses vs. permissive licensing. Interestingly, while there is no trademark protection (i.e. ownership) of the term "free software", the founders of the OSI, recognized and honored that label's definition as described by RMS, GNU, and FSF--as well as their authority as stewards--and created another label, "open source software". There are many, many contemporaneous documents that reflect this debate.

Today, I believe those issues have been resolved (i.e. clearly understood), with both the free software and open source communities agreeing that both labels and communities support software freedom: to study, use, modify, and redistribute.

I personally feel, and in my experience as General Manager at the OSI, there is an increase of people/organizations raising issues over the open source label, it's definition, and the OSI's role as steward. My sense is, as open source software and communities that create it--both non-profit foundations and businesses--realize the benefits of collaborative co-creation, and see greater success, more people/organizations are enticed. You can see this in other "open" initiatives like "Open Content", "Open Source Hardware", "Open Data", "Open Educational Resources", etc. Clearly there is value in communities of practice collaborating around shared interests, and indeed these communities can operate in a variety of ways to generate artifacts defined by those communities, e.g. what is "open content"?

As a corollary, success has raised the profile of open source projects and developers, so there are simply more discussions happening now across more communities. When free and open source software was less popular (with the debate focused on, how can this be good if it is developed by non-professionals, is unsecured, poor quality, etc.), there simply may have been fewer discussions.

Now that "open source has won", many may be debating what about open source makes it a winner, and thus, what is open source.
I remember some big tech company had sabaticals available for everyone, but cancelled it because most people were just using them to train for a different job, so quit straight after.
First one to plant a flag in it. As always.
Whoever gets there first? finders keepers.
(I apologize if I'll be glossing over something; I've just read the slides and haven't gotten around to the presentation yet. These issues might actually be addressed in the talk.)

Some of the problems that invariably crops up with libraries that hide implementation details:

a. If the algorithms ever need swapping, you might not even find out because your code compiles cleanly (assuming you don't obsessively read changelogs for libraries); only when you go live after the update you see that suddenly all data is garbled and spend a few hours debugging in your own code. How do you replace what's inside something like crypto_box while also breaking existing implementations so that they don't even build?

b. Interoperability across programming languages becomes difficult. AES-256-CTR with HMAC-SHA256 authentication is something you can scramble to get algorithms together because you know them. But crypto_box is just opaque; you'll be stuck reading source code and shoddily porting it to $language_that_you_must_use because policy or technical requirements or whatever dictate you must not use native extensions to bind to your library of choice. If your library of choice is also not written in C (though libsodium, which is what the presented library wraps, is), but rather in Java or some other even higher level language, you'll be completely locked in a monoculture and dependent on that particular library.

They mean well, but the interoperability problem seems to a very unsolved problem. The modern non-FIPS world appears to slowly be gravitating towards de-facto standardizing libsodium, though.
Apple ramping a new iPhone chip business that could limit partnership with Intel
Having a system that organises the knowledge/info available should of course be comprehensive. If not everything is in there, there is no point having it.

But it's a good point you make. Now that I write it like this, it makes it more clear for myself how the system would work. It wouldn't just be another separate system, it would be the index for all the systems and whenever someone writes a new page where-ever, they should be required to link it into this graph (or whatever form it takes).
Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge (the last in his Orange County trilogy) springs to mind.
Microsoft Aims to Connect Patient Health Records in the Cloud
Those poor US companies, violating the laws of the countries in which they operate.
Isn't most software on Haiku a Linux port anyway?
The way that I have seen it is that cheaper launches and the widespread rideshare options have definitely changed how accessible space is. The cheaper launches made it so people/companies didn't have to worry as much about reducing risk before launching it in to space. Planet is a good example, their production line of satellites is not typically what you see in the aerospace industry. But with the cheaper launches you don't care as much if only 80% (this is just an example, I don't have any actual data Planet keeps that pretty close to the chest) of your satellites survive.

This has also led to a lot more university level science projects too. And the increased economies of scale for cubesat components have driven priced down low enough that there are high school classes launching cubesats.
Really missing the point of the article here my dude
So if a neuron fires or not (I guess that's what you mean by action potential) can simply be translated to 1 or 0 hence it's digital?
> The brain is most certainly not a neural network, as the term is understood in machine learning.

The brain is most certainly a neural network. It is literally a network of neurons. But you're right insofar that artificial neural networks are not very similar to the brain.
Containers have no access to virtio, so they can't use this. It's that simple.

Containers are not virtual machines.
There has been no corresponding action in the US regarding the vendors' ability to sell phones without google play services. Which is a shame because I doubt if EU alone is a big enough market for vendors to create new products without google play services. At least there haven't been any such announcements about new products since the ruling. Is EFF or any other body putting pressure in the US ?
Red language is, to an extent, a declarative programming language - especially for the UI.
One glaring problem with private prisons is that it creates an incentive to put more people in jail and keep them there longer.
And soon we'll be top dogs on a smoldering rock. We're doing really well.
Filling documents here:
https://www.sedar.com/DisplayCompanyDocuments.do?lang=EN&iss...
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They'll get their turn, don't worry.
I worked from this book extensively during my undergraduate thesis, and it was an absolute joy to read and learn from. Compared to Lickorish ("An Introduction To Knot Theory"), the explanations were easy even if you hadn't had 3 semesters of graduate abstract algebra.

If you want a fun application of where knot theory can be used "in the real world" there are some interesting applications to DNA untangling and the function of DNA Topoisomerase - e.g.:

https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/untangling-dna-with-kno...

http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/bcp/bcp42/bcp4216.pdf
Whataboutism is a rhetorical tactic employing logical fallacy. It seeks to shut down discussion by creating an equivalence between two situations and implying that one is justified by not having gone after the other. It imposes a recursive loop of inaction where you can't change anything unless you change everything at the same time.

You want to fix Facebook; well, what about Google? You want to fix Google; what about Facebook?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Facebook has right to block hate speech – but why it shouldn't
No,

with transaction.atomic():
for user in db.users.all():
user.do()

is not the same as

for user in db.users.all():
with transaction.atomic():
user.do()

If the first fails, the entire data rolls back, if the second fails, half your db might be in an inconsistent state.
This letter takes on new dimensions of horror, in light of recent news that faith wasn't the only thing John was putting in the younger generation of cartoonists. The fact that he was a bitter jerk known for working poorly with others and missing deadlines, who thought only he was the rightful heir to the secrets of cartooning and animation, and who grew increasingly resentful that good work was being produced, on time, by people who weren't influenced by Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Ralph Bakshi, or himself doesn't help his case.

I get that you were linking to the letter only as an example of handwriting, but the story behind the letter has since taken on a much darker turn.
That's awesome. Did you submit it in HEX? :)
Very little of anything that uses JavaScript. IE6 doesn't support ES5, so huge amounts of very trivial code today would simply not run. IE6 also supports very little (no?) CSS2, so you'd be lucky if anything rendered sensibly even if the JavaScript was fine.
And to think energy storage as a core competency for EV manufacturing might be important /s
same in death race 2000! :)
(phoronix) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-v...
> Is there much of a practical difference here?

Yes, because an app provider can know a dozen different ways what they're showing you already, but nothing else on your system. There is a world of difference between Tinder knowing i dismissed an incoming text alert because I swiped up at the top of the screen and knowing what the content of that text message was, to use your example. Tinder can already log the content of the messages you send in their platform,
As a dumpster currently on fire that should be stoked with napalm.
You have a missing capital letter in your opening paragraph.

> Not sure about a call? decline to forward it to Callhero.
Optimism may be passe in TV and film right now, but there's plenty of those in written sci-fi. Off the top of my head, I recently read John Scalzi's Interdependency series (the two books of it that are out, anyway).
Is that example code elixir?
I use Python as a prototyping tool only, and I mean prototyping in the sense that the code will always be thrown away and rewritten in a more suitable language.

Python sacrifices so much in the way of efficiency, safety, and maintainability that it's hard to justify the wins in expressiveness. Easily checked errors that should have never made it to production manifest at runtime even after rigorous testing. Increasing performance requires moving to asyncio which drastically reduces readability and limits the code reuse from non-async libraries. Eventually code bases grow so large mypy becomes a must, and we have to contend with interfacing untyped libraries and refactoring all of our existing code with annotations.

Python has its place, but in line with how scary modern software practices are to me, it's crazy that Python has become such a mainstay in production software.
That does not solve the halting problem. The halting problem is entirely framed around making a program that can specifically compute whether another arbitrary program will return.

Tests work because they are arranged by humans to verify the system under test for validity, but only for one specific system at a time.

The halting problem is basically an admission that one is unable to write a test to verify arbitrary programs on arbitrary, Turing complete hardware. You must be 10% smarter than the piece of equipment in short.

Killing something for taking too long or eating too much memory makes no substantive judgement on whether the computation at hand is ready to return or not, You (or your OS) just unilaterally made the decision that the computation wasn't worth continuing.
A deep dive in to what has changed in venture capital
That may be 'Look To Winward', where a war retired Mind is having a lot of philosophical conversations with the local human music composer. Actually this Mind is not actually captaining a moving ship, he's retired into nursing a static orbital and its organic living forms :)
Hey, dev here. It's a json document of resources and perspectives that reference them... not trivial per se but you don't have to do any manual layout. If you check the source you can find this example (though it is minified).

I hope to have in-line editing for the beta, but that's a little ways away.
It's amazing that people can still fake it til they make it when it's so easy to check people's claims. Confidence will take you far even when you've got an Instagram account.
Is Google’s $57M GDPR fine a wakeup call for every IT professional?
This is classic AMD... medium performance for medium pricing.
Yeah I totally get that.

Conceptually Hooks are modeled as "algebraic effects" feature from languages like Eff and Koka. Those are essentially like resumable exceptions.

With that conceptual model, `useState` is like a `throw` that goes back into React "up the stack", and then goes back into your code.

Of course that's not how it works for perf and other reasons (there's no resumable exceptions in JS). But this may help the conceptual model around how we know which component it is.
Increased pricing for Google's business email service (G Suite)
> So no, its not auto-driving cars that make winter-driving skills atrophy. Its summer that does that.

My point was that summer already makes winter driving skills atrophy, but self-driving cars will make general driving skills atrophy at the same time, so the problem would be magnified.
Because they seem very insincere about essentially given other scandals and policies. If you want to be considered principled you need to do so when it isn't just convenient. Otherwise it will be rightfully called out as a pretext.

Given their own spying, Airbus illegal subsidy scandal combined with fierce protectionism of the most stupidly provincial things like what cheese and wine can be called and openly "How can we tear US tech down?" statements it is no wonder they are getting taken seriously as J. Jamison on Spiderman.
Netflix had the same problem before they added profiles.
I use Haskell outside of work, and absolutely love it. (And in its case, too, I'm holding my breath for dependent types, which I believe are expected around summer of 2020.)
it's an opinion, that's why he says ' i don't even -think-'. it carries no value or credibility than that of his opinions- which you can choose to value or not. besides that what liberty is is also opinion.
Preach. I have been to Burkina Faso, it is a beautiful country.

I have come to terms with the fact that, at least at my age, I will probably never go back to Bangui, Central African Republic again. I always imagined I would walk by the Peace Corps office and the central market one last time.
Isn't the point of fines to punish past bad behaviour? Why aren't there escalating fines if a company continues to not comply with rulings? I mean it is not a one time thing that can't be changed.

Sorry for asking, I know next to nothing about how these laws work.
Most companies still want people with a four-year degree. Until that's no longer the case, talent will continue to go to waste.
Poland’s Forgotten Bohemian War Hero