skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this might not be the best place to hash this out due to the format but I feel compelled to respond. I just encourage you personally to think about this matter holistically. That is, people dont do, say, and think things in a vacuum. They _inherit_ their notions and behaviors from their environment, and that's all I meant by "ideology." You can rest assured that when I use the word ideology I use it advisedly and after much thought.

No matter what you believe, or what he believed, evil is only ever done by human hands and in this case those hands were moved by a world view and belief system that were outlined in a (absurd) 78+ page "manifesto." We can not afford to ignore this fact. Nor can we afford to ignore that as with any line of thinking about the world there are many other people who have adjacent and related beliefs. Yes, it might be the case that what makes people who think that way into killers is "nihilistic sociopath[y]" but the unfeeling among them are raised and encouraged by a whole community. That's the real reason why I think it's important to look past the incident in isolation and remember:

This man has a community.

We can't undo what happened but we can each individually make an effort to understand why people end up in that community, how to identify them, and hopefully how to keep our sons from ending up there in order to keep another such atrocity from happening again. Part of that is, as you say, by "wholesale-reject that outrageous, inhumane way of thinking". It just seems clear to me that it must be actively rejected. We must actively deplatform and remove people who parrot what he did from our community. To that end we must understand why it is and has been for hundreds of years so alluring to people that it leads a subset of them to some of the worst violence humanity perpetrates.

The oppressed can never afford to ignore the beliefs and, yes, ideologies of their oppressors.
the brexit is hitting them hard!!
Numbers from 2015, 46% of prisoners have literacy issues that they are at the level of an 11-year-old. 52% have numeracy issues, a third self-reported having a learning difficulty or disability. Ref https://www.prisonerseducation.org.uk/media-press/new-govern...

"carefully vetted" prisoners as described in the article is likely to mean prisoners with literacy/numeracy skills.

No issues with people being able to learn and better themselves, a bit of a nonstory it's just another training course on offer for people incarcerated. The only bit that concerns me is "prisoners will work on real-world projects with external clients" I hope they are not just being used as cheap labor.
Does Twilio not operate in Australia?
Can they simulate their sensors input pretty well? Do they use car driving simulators (video-game like) to see what would happen in similar scenarios?

Of course, real world testing would still be necessary.
Congrats on the launch and on the UX/UI of the editor. There are so many great features and yet it feels simple and not overwhelming at first.
How does one of the Fira variants compare to Consolas?

I never thought about my font slowing me down. Although with the ubuntu.exe terminal, Consolas was blazing fast while wsltty has a noticeable amount of delay.

But there's a new releasing coming out that should remove 30ms of input latency. That might put it on par with ubuntu.exe. We'll see.
I love the story that lobsters used to be peasant food before they became rare, and that it was limited in how frequently it could be fed to prisoners except as a "cruel and unusual" punishment.
That is an interesting idea.

However, remailers are vulnerable. For example: https://riseup.net/en/about-us/press/fbi-seizes-anonymous-re...
In the next 10 years or so the use of AEAD modes like AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 will come back to bite people. As per usual, the culprit will be really smart people convinced they can get away with compromises made for the benefit of speed and message size overhead, and who feel absolved from responsibility when application developers don't read the fine print.

This vicious cycle won't stop until we simply use a minimum of 256-bit block sizes at all stages. IOW, until it's literally impossible to reuse or overrun nonce and IV space without being willful about it. Anything beyond "initialize X to 0 and initialize Y to 128 bits of random data" will come back to bite people, and the only way to make things that simple is to increase block sizes.

Another way to look at it is that every aspect of the system should provide a minimum of 128 bits of security, irrespective of context--message size, number of messages, birthday attack, etc. Anything less is not future proof, and the future always comes much faster than you think. Again, the only way to get that is 256-bit or 512-bit block sizes.

Alas, even AES-256 still has 128-bit output blocks, which makes AES-256-GCM less than fail-safe when you need to worry about multi-gigabyte streams. Yes, technically doable; trivial, even. But if you have to think about it--if the scheme's characteristics change between a single, 1-byte message and billions of multi-gigabyte messages--you've already lost. On the network and in the cloud systems that are contingent on magnitude are dangerous. I think the future will be in approaches like STROBE. SHA-3 will seem less like it's over engineered and more like it's the final solution.
I don't know why this is being downvoted as much as it is.

Wife works in a related field of neuro-sci, and regularly laments this difference, especially how it's played up in both in reporting and in assuming consistency in treatment and response. To the best of my knowledge there's not even consensus that plaques are the "root cause" we should be focusing on, so this sort of model may be multiple steps removed from applicability. (Similar problems exist even in 'more well understood' neurological systems, e.g. early vision pipeline)

It's an unfortunate but very real limitation to the current research that I think is important to understand so as to be realistic about the progress and directions of study. To be very precise, I say this as someone who, both of of scientific interest, and selfish interest (Alzheimers in my family) loves that this research is happening.
Sorry, I just saw this. Thank you for pointing that out, I've fixed it ;)
Any object with methods is always waiting on messages. Those methods represent pattern matches on any input message.
So they’ll continue selling actual cigarettes, and ban these. Fantastic.
your info is somewhat put of daye. aside from #1, these are all bugs that have been fixed. #2 was only before the feature was officially launched. #3 was fixed within a few days. #4 wasn't a bug, serving artistic nudity was intentional and part of tumblrs brand (just like an art museum would). #5 was a bug for a while and it sucked. I've never heard of #6 being an issue—its true that they use a link tracking system but I've never heard of it causing "bot traffic" issues, respectfully, that sounds like bullshit—while I hate it for privacy reasons, lots of sites use link tracking, like Google and Facebook.
I think their point was that free speech is more nuanced than the "You're either for free speech or you're not" dichotomy, and that was just one example. Even the philosophers behind free speech said that speech should be curtailed when the expression itself causes harm, and they were certainly proponents for free speech.
A game I love to play with people who think I should just calculate the correlation between two series is to tell them to plot cos(x) and sin(x) with sufficient samples to have a smooth chart with many periods. The two curves look kind of identical. Then calculate the correlation between these two series...
> That's how understanding works. In science this process is called peer review.

Who are you trying to fool here, really? Your comments have been tendentious and definitely not on the neutral or inquisitive side. Your agenda is quite clear, despite the perfunctory attempts of proving the opposite.

> Nah, anything, that person did not know/think before would be good.

Fine. Quoting from a friend below, of course...

What effects you get deeply depends on what substance you ingest, and your mileage may vary, but generally speaking, your thoughts get a whole new dimension to them, a dimension that you never knew existed. You are not necessarily smarter, but you can quite literally _see_ avenues of reasoning stemming from your biases, opinions, thoughts. While sober thoughts are somewhat garbled up, without a clear beginning or end, on psychedelics they become like flipping through stack of books - visual, clear, compartmentalized, distinct. You can take an idea and dissect it by means that are just not available while sober.

There are many nuances to this and a text will never capture them all.

On mushrooms, as an example, I become objective to a fault. I know the notion of good and bad, but nothing is intrinsically so because my biases and preconceived ideas have gone out the window. I can think of a topic as if I became aware of it for the first time. I also get this state of constant awe at the beauty and the complexity of everyday life - be it a ladybug, a plane, a tree, a painting. This is not a state I want permanently, it doesn't necessarily _feel good_ by definition and it can be overwhelming.

Now, as for examples of what I "did not know/think before", there are plenty. Some of them too personal to post here, but I guess I can give one example.

My childhood was a happy one, but I never realized how much school has shaped me and affected me in negative ways. Since I was not brought up in a Western country, the school system was absurd in many ways, most obviously in terms of the authority issues I got from it. I always saw my school years as a given, an immutable part of my existence, and never once pondered the question of "how much different would I have been as a person in different circumstances?".

Think of this what you will, I have tried my best to convey a very complex experience that I myself have forgotten a lot about. The realness of the experience tends to fade away with abstinence.
If they really didn't want to be a monopoly - they'd figure out a way to classify spammers as such and provide a worse selection of ads for them.

Rather, they are specifically locking everyone on their platform.

I do not completely understand your "de facto" vs "de jure" distinction. Unless of course you don't see any other ways of dealing with your clients but a binary yes/no.
I am complaining, yes, that the battery wore out much faster than I expected, but other than the battery life I love them. The new one is supposed to have much better battery life, and it's only $160 for something that I said I use every day, so it will be worth it if they are better.

Even if they aren't, and I had to buy a pair every year, that's like 50 cents a day for something that I enjoy using (until the battery dies)
Any HN reader who has not read Gall's book Systemantics (whose latest printing is under the title The Systems Bible: https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide-Large/d...) really ought to rectify that. It's not perfect, but it will give you lots of things to think about, and Gall's witty writing style makes it a fun, easy read.

(I pulled my copy out just a few weeks ago so I could quote a different Gallism that was relevant to an HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18859680)
This seems a bit niche...
I guess at the end of the day, becoming a household name with a mediocre to shitty reputation, like craigslist or ebay, is still the kind of success most people dream about.
I was going to make that point too, but the idea of randomly providing cannabis and placebo was too implausible.
This resonates with common social problems we're all familiar with: People like stereotyping because it's a way to categorize humans without having to think too hard about their differences.

To me the issue stems from an even deeper fear of uncertainty. It takes a rock-solid psyche to be comfortable with the idea that we know little and a lot of our science would have a tough time standing up to statistical analyses.
Also, the forces influencing the society are not statistical, at least not in this sense. A small minority in a group is definitely capable of challenging old norms and installing new ones. In fact, that is how it usually happens.
Is giving a criminal the skills to write Malware really a smart move?
The problem with most “truffle oil” is that it’s truly vile, and if you put it next to actual truffle infused oil no one would confuse the two. The problem is that so few people have actually had truffles, never mind truffle infused oil to know. To a greater or lesser extent the same is true for vanilla, although far more people have had the real deal as a reference point.

Still vanillin is artificial, but hardly a terrible thing in its own right. As you said there are recipes where the flatter note of vanillin works better than the more subtle and complex floral notes of true vanilla. I’d argue however that truffle oil is always disgusting, and the issue of it being somehow fake or fraudulent is secondary to how nasty it is.

Still, in an application like ice cream real vanilla in generous amounts is so much nicer than artificial. Of course ice cream producers figured out that most people aren’t able to tell the difference, lacking experience with a reference point. They realized that black flecks in the mix were what people really looked for, so a market emerged. After vanilla extract is made the bean is totally devoid of flavor, but it’s now ground into flecks and sold as an additive and can be legally listed as “vanilla bean” in the ingredients.

On a semi-related note a friend recently told me that “most cinnamon is fake!” It turns out he learned that a lot of cinnamon used is cassia cinnamon, not Ceylon cinnamon. I had to explain to him that they’re both cinnamon, and both great in different applications. If you want bright, spicy cinnamon then cassia is the way to go. If you want floral cinnamon then cinnamomum verum is the way, and if you want something in between with a natural sweetness, Vietnamese cinnamon is it.
> I didn't invoke any strawman.

Except in the degenerative state that you talked about. No reasonable person has said that the censoring of this one case would lead to censorship of everything, but that's exactly what you decided on for the degenerative state.

> no one and nothing is going to stop them from banning everything else

Try to backpedal harder.
It's extremely dangerous to believe that its possible to not have an ideology. The idea that this is possible tends to come from whatever lets people think there's such a thing as "unbiased" or, indeed, that not applying ones biases is somehow a good goal.
Ever hear of the statistician who drown in a river an average of 1 foot deep?
I watched an NBA game on the NextVR app and it was amazing. "Courtside" view is pretty useless, but the default view predominantly used the basket stanchion cameras, switching from end to end whenever the ball crossed half court.

Getting a three-dimensional sense of the game was amazing. Looking around and seeing and hearing things you don't see and hear on TV was also great. FOV is still the main limiting factor, but mostly, the behind-the-basket camera angle lets you look around and get a much better sense of what's actually happening on the court--with the downside of actually having to look around.
>A big problem with truffle oil is that it's too easy to overdo it

A bit of a shock when a steak sandwich came slathered in it, and the menu made no mention of this

Fortunately the person who ordered it didn't mind, but I would've sent it back
I remember taking tests in middle/high school to try to match students to suggested career paths, but they were just job titles in a book, and maybe also descriptions. They never showed the work environment. Nobody ever had a clue where these people would work, or what it would look like, or what their day-to-day tasks would be. At best they had scales like "abstract thinking" or "work with your hands".

I might have been interested in following my dad's line of work (EE), had I had any clue what it involved. In hindsight, he seemed to have a much nicer office than any I've worked in. Unfortunately, even if I'd wanted to, the company shut down that division 20 years ago, and then spun off that whole sector of the business.

That's how it is with technology: easy come, easy go. We may never have a "9th generation" software engineer, short of the point where everyone in the world is a software engineer.
Thanks (for question and response) I had been wondering about this.. guess I'll wait for the next generation.
I am absolutely confident that despite Uber being an ultra shady company, this news is even more nonsensical. The "surfcam" is more of a lead generation program for Uber and it even did this against Lyft. Infact Uber people would use the free credits of Lyft to take a ride and then market Uber.

Any driver worth his salt has all the car sharing apps installed and switches between them.

In this case it's pretty obvious the drivers saw no obvious advantage of being a gocatch driver and switched to Uber. Also here in Melbourne gocatch were just advertising as app for taxi service, not like ride sharing that Uber did.I never used them even if I had free credits from them.

Bad marketing, wrong targeting, crappy advertising but hey they got to blame someone else for their failure
The EU started as a union to promote freedom of movement, peace and trade inside Europe. Since then, it has grown to be an oversized bureaucracy that restricts the freedoms of European citizens. Everyone who criticize it is immediately labelled as a right winger.
> You also can't just white list things in the Youtube Kids app. There's straight up no option to be able to affirmatively choose what your kids get to pick from.

I "whitelist" YouTube for my kids by using youtube-dl to scrape the few good channels for them (Lah Lah, Peppa Pig, etc). I pay for YouTube Premium already, and I only scrape from official channels, so I'm not pirating anything but rather directly accessing channels I paid to view, without having to go through YouTube's horrible interface which constantly (and purposely) pushes crap into my kids view that I never asked for.

Other than that, my kids aren't allowed on YouTube. They can watch scraped videos from our NAS or ABC Kids (Australian Gov-Curated kids TV).
Could you narrow it down for me? There's some shady looking text in the State-owned Enterprise section, but the legalese is difficult to pierce.
I'm in your target audience - ping me for a chat (see profile for the email).
If you read philosophy you'll find (happily, i think) that you're not alone in your thoughts and beliefs. Your whole mind is intertwined with thousands of years of development of those beliefs and the physical structures they created that then reinforce them.

And in any case, you can't really do anything interesting alone so it's better, in my opinion, to believe in others.
I disagree. Build a system too simple, and you'll end up with technical debt and can't scale, build it too complex, and it probably won't ever take off.

The first does give you a product that runs the risk of becoming obsolete once it's deployed, the second never reaches that stage. Survivorship bias is what makes Gall's Law even a thing.

I believe there's a sweet spot of simplicity/complexity for a successful system. But on the downside, finding this can lead to whatever scientific name this [1] phenomena has...

[1] https://xkcd.com/1908/
Several years ago I tried finding some reasonable software tools for music and was not at all impressed with what I could find. Great that you decided to make a better one!

A long time ago I ran across ABC music notation, typically associated with old time or traditional music. I wonder if there could be an import filter that works with ABC notation?
It's a real shame I can't directly embed a gif of Zizek sniffing here.
YouTube doesn't allow aggregator sites. You can embed a video in a blog post or page but you aren't allowed to provide an alternate method of "browsing" YouTube.
It will rebuild the hashtable when that happens. As long as the load factor remains below 50%, (for the most basic implementation) insertions will remain constant anyways. You don't need to allocate new tables.
My Model 3 suddenly changed lanes today for no discernible reason. I think it considered my lane to jump over into the next lane, for some reason. I should have hit 'Record' to save the footage from TeslaCam.

(Notably, AutoPilot is not supposed to change lanes without explicit confirmation from the driver, which is clearly illustrated on the dashboard/panel.)

It's a stretch of road on which I have previously used AutoPilot many times.
Very interesting, congrats on shipping it!
Scientists Say Apple AirPods Could Cause Cancer
Actually, this explains a feeling I've been having lately. In various occasions where I have to randomly pick between some things, I choose X but I can somehow feel that the actual choice happened a tiny fraction of a second before I was actually aware of it (kind of a contradiction, but I can't explain it better).

Basically, it feels like the decision was made a tiny bit earlier than "I" made it.
Not forming a belief when you dont have evidence for the existence of something? Sounds like good metaphysics to me.
Apple AirPods H1 chip (SoCs) has the processing power of an iPhone 4–in each ear
I'm not sure 'free-time' is what I'd call it. More like trapped-time.
For anyone how needs to get to the content, reader mode on safari will give you the article
Actually, not forming a belief in something, i.e., not positing the existence of an entity without evidence is a sound practice. And that is actually exactly what we do in science.

E.g., Russell's teapot
Confidence intervals can be applied to point estimates, estimates of means, and estimates of other things, including higher order moments.

The difference is hugely important, the central limit theorem and the implication of a normal distribution commonly applies to sample means.

You can calculate confidence intervals for most (not all) other statistics, like point estimates, but the distributions might not be normal.
I find it amusing that the NYT is reporting on its own business decisions.
Isn't that easily explained by the time it takes to decide to speak after deciding to act?
What does it mean when scientists disagree?
this is the point I see getting lost. This isn't someone overstating the how good a pair of pants make me look. It's more like selling a flame thrower as a weeding tool.

I know that sometimes these lines are objective, but acting like you can't tell okay and not okay apart because the line is gray in some cases just seems to be bad faith.

If you are okay with Tesla misleading selling a prototype feature in the name of disruption, own your argument. If this level of risk is just okay to you because of the potential long term upsides...I disagree but I respect your willingness to say it. Just don't make a different one because you are afraid of the social consequences of your actual point.
Sounds like a dystopian nightmare where VR goggles becomes the new ass-in-seat.
Agreed.

This person essentially behaved like a child who couldn't even be bothered to notify his implicit hosts beforehand of his arrival and extended stay.

Then he writes as if he's doing them a favor not wanting to inconvenience them. The reality is he's being a lazy selfish jerk.

They literally had to monitor his hydration for him and coddle him like an invalid.