skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latvia being my second home country, I found one photo [0] from the article particularly interesting. It depicts a communist rally on (at the time) Brīvibas bulvaris, one of the main boulevards of Riga.

The picture can be dated between July 5th 1940, the announcement of Soviet rigged elections, and the elections themselves on July 14 and 15, 1940 [1].

The slogans are only half readable, but say something like:

* "Long live our agricultural labourers, farmers and worker intelligentsia!"

* "On July 14-15, at the election, vote for ?our? Latvian labourer bloc"

Very notable in the photo are at least four Latvian flags on the buildings.

For those interested, there's a fairly good wikipedia article [2] about the first Soviet occupation of Latvia.

[0] https://en.historylapse.org/l/be4WoPyQxGOv6enG5lVYznV305LlAm...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Latvian_parliamentary_ele...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Latvia_in...
I'd be interested in this, but every Chinese person that I've spoken to (they haven't been back to China in awhile), seems to think it is either just like the American credit system or that the government already knows everything about them and that there's security through obscurity. Is this common?

Not considering politics for a second, I just couldn't imagine the impact of an Equifax like event with that amount of information.
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I'm not talking an Obamacare plan... I'm talking a generalized plan. Also, there is no way the US Government (Congress) could pass a universal healthcare without the kind of crap that was in Obamacare.
> It's at the stage that you meet people who love to hate it without even knowing why that hate it

I don't love to hate it. I just hate it, and I can tell you why -- it's a one-two punch of AMP pages being generally inferior to the real pages, and Google interposing itself between me and the website.
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it's not a chattering mob

I'm going to need a number crunch on that.

More seriously, my point was not (heaven help me) that Eve players are disorganized but that 'massive raid requiring structured multi-party voice comms' is not a common problem gamers in the current market find themselves needing to solve.
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Nice sentiment but I must correct you: I am definitely shit. And an impostor.
Thanks! I joined and I'm glad I did :)
For those interested but needing a little help deciphering Thomas Lackner has a handy repo:

https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded
I'm familiar with such results. TAOCP has quite a few I've fiddled with over the years. It has an O(n) multiply, for example.

Most (all?) algorithms can be made O(log n) by throwing hardware at it. The hardware is basically a lookup table, and you can inspect each bit of a length n problem in O(log n) time, and output the answer.

Papers like this use problem structure to reduce the general exponential circuit growth to (usually) ~linear growth. But all I've seen require unbounded circuit growth, as does this one, which is O(n log n) circuit size.

By allowing hardware to grow at unbounded rate, it's not really solving the same problem.
There are people who speak Chinese outside of China to make up for it, for 910 million native speakers and an additional 200 million L2 fluent speakers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese
>Determining what you can and can't change is an (almost) impossible task on its own.

What? No it's not. You can't change the weather, you can't bring the dead back to life, you can't force other people to think a certain way.

You can control your own thoughts and actions. These things seem very obvious to me. What is difficult about this?
The way of Testivus – Less unit testing dogma, more unit testing karma [pdf]
iOS 12.2 fixes bug that granted apps hidden access to the microphone
Why is this polite request for transparency being downvoted?
I realize you're arguing in the opposite direction, but removing mutable web history is one of the biggest justifications behind the push for IPFS and DAT.
There is still the vote in the European Council on the 9th of April, so it might still make sense to contact your MEPs or anyone who can pressure the heads of state in your country.

For anyone in Denmark, here are contact details for the Danish MEPs:

- Margrete Auken - +4561625450 - margrete.auken@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/MargreteAuken

- Bendt Bendtsen - bb@bendt.dk - https://twitter.com/BendtEU

- Ole Christensen - +4522200830 - ole.christensen@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/oleeu

- Jørn Dohrmann - +4561623349 - jorn.dohrmann@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/mepdohrmann

- Rina Ronja Kari - +4526701816 - rina@folkebevaegelsen.dk - https://twitter.com/rinakari

- Rikke-Louise Karlsson - rikke-louise.karlsson@europarl.europa.eu

- Jeppe Kofod - +3222837463 - Jeppe.Kofod@ep.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/jeppekofod

- Morten Løkkegaard - +4521608001 - morten.lokkegaard@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/loekkegaard_mep

- Morten Messerschmidt - +4561624232 - Morten.Messerschmidt@ft.dk - https://twitter.com/MrMesserschmidt

- Morten Helveg Petersen - mortenhelveg.petersen@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/mortenhelveg

- Jens Rohde - jens.rohde@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/rohde_jens

- Christel Schaldemose - +4540768626 - christel.schaldemose@ep.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/schaldemosemep

- Anders Primdahl Vistisen - +4553860080 - anders.vistisen@europarl.europa.eu - https://twitter.com/AndersVistisen
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> there's a technical commitee, but your input will not be heard.

What makes you think input won't be heard?
> what if you need a car for/to reach work?

This is America. So the answer is almost certainly: "Yes, you need your car to reach work."
It's a horrible idea. Lots of people get laid off or lose their jobs for various reasons. Taking away their transportation is a psychotic approach to debt collection.

In many areas, cities are cutting bus service to poor areas. The city I used to live in removed all but one route which left stranded or made transportation very difficult for a lot of people. The city I live in now simply cancelled their entire bus program.

The war on poverty doesn't mean what a lot of administrators think it means.
21 will suspend your driver's license? What's the source on that? I'm getting that some states will block renewal of professional licenses, not driver's licenses. Still horrible, still a terrible situation, but not the same kind of gut check a driver's license suspension would be.

EDIT: I'm somewhat heartened to see some movement against this practice: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/03/04/student-...
Say what you want about Facebook, but at least they put an incredible amount of resources into hiring humans to deal with their problems that require good human judgment. They can of course do this because they basically print money. What about companies who operate on thin margins like Uber and Airbnb? (Uber at some point had been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on customer support, to their credit.)

It seems that regulation is the only way to force investment into mitigating these externalities for their customers.
Spot the Surveillance
Two words: plausible deniability.

Those techniques used in Huawei's driver are pretty unusual. I wonder if there's a chain of vulnerabilities from other components, including those that see network data.

Disclaimer: My dayjob includes writing Windows kernel drivers.
Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?
>if most people you know don't have active email accounts

You and I are living in very different worlds if that's the case.

A lot of my friends are not using Messenger or anything FB-owned. Nobody I know actively uses Slack off-work.

Everyone has an email. For quite a few of my friends, that's the primary way of reaching them.
> At least one very important benefit of joining a big, reputable company is that the technical skill level will be good, the career coaching will be good and they probably will even have some sort of education pipeline set up for younger engineers to learn.

This hasn't been my experience, at all. The worst code I have work on has been at the biggest, most prestigious tech company that has employed me.

And the best learning environment was at a startup that could only afford bootcamp grads.
Apparently this upstanding moral armchair-lawyer on Hacker News wants to comment on an IP theft case by stealing intellectual property! (I'm with you. I pay for my WSJ and don't complain about commercial news sources I don't pay for.)
It was also an outlier, in the sense that it had a valuable exit.

You've only got one lifetime to pull the equity slot machine, hoping that the reels come up all sixes.
On a possibly unhelpful tangent, I'm expecting it to look something like this: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
Hello World; Ignore This
just doing a quick setup for a .io integration,
Abuse of position goes hand in hand with government granted monopolies. How can a business abuse their position when people voluntarily agree to buy from them? You're defending crony capitalism and then declaring that capitalism is broken.
But do you deny that felons have the same issue? How many felons do we have today that were punished by non-violent drug crimes, by design as far as I can tell.

As a US citizen, I don't believe that pointing out my own faults is "whataboutism". It is self-criticism. "Whataboutism" is a defense. I am not defending China, what they are doing is awful, and we should work to make sure that the systems that we have in our country don't replicate it whatsoever.

Basically, I am taking "Appeal to Hypocrisy" and flipping it on its head. For the most part, I do not have the ability, power, or vote to alter the course of Chinese politics. However, most people on here have the opportunity to do so in the US.
This was an enlightening article about how the standards set by the EPA don’t seem to be safe standard according to Harvard scientists:
https://www.ehn.org/when-safe-may-not-really-be-safe-2621578...

It seems there are different classes of pesticides: some really unsafe pesticides that should be banned but aren’t.

What can we possibly do in this case? Grow our own food?
A monopoly itself is partly a feature though too. How many copies of each piece of infrastructure do you want in your jurisdiction? The mono- in monopoly means one copy of x cluttering up the landscape, where x might be

construction project

lane closure

fiber vault with a manhole you get to test your shocks on

trench, with its somehow always shitty pavement repair

ugly pole

even-uglier tower

etc.

This means more to people in some jurisdictions than others.
Manipulation by Feel
> Email is actively dying

Not as far as I can tell. But even if it is, this sounds more like a killing blow than something that would keep it alive.
I'm also a cyclist, and spent most of my life biking exclusively, but not everyone is in a position to replace their car. If your car commute is 45 minutes on the highway, a bicycle is not going to help you when you lose your license.
An industry standard can be started by one company and doesn't even need to be open source. All that's required as that some people or companies agree to do it the same way.
Still not working for me.
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I know what you mean and I don't find it discouraging at all. Your analogy is perfect. The way the original piece evolves and builds on its phrases over time is very noticeably lacking in the generative version. In my version, any emotional buildup from one phrase to the next can only happen in short spurts at best, and it happens completely by accident. Of course, if I was putting on music that I wanted to really focus on and enjoy, the original would always be my choice. For me, the appeal of an endless version was that I could turn the music into ignorable ambience for my environment. Since we're making analogies, to me it's a bit like seeing a painting you like and saying "Gosh I like that color," then painting your walls that color. It can't compare to the painting but it might remind you of it.
I'm glad you like to bike. Bikes don't go 60 miles an hour, which is necessary for some individuals who work an hour or more from their residence. And no, people don't do that sort of thing because they enjoy it. They do it because they have to. Please don't ruin people's lives with your ideas.
Singularity isn't a scheduler. It's generally invoked by traditional hpc schedulers like moab or slurm.

edit: clearly I'm thinking of a different Singularity than you.
I'd say 1-2. I spend about an hour socializing with my work friends which is always great, but this week two of them are away and I'm realizing how unfulfilling my work is. I usually get about 1 hour of "in the zone" time in vim, which is where I get most of my work done. The rest of the time is 1-on-1 meetings with my two supervisors who are just arguing through me and about my time like divorced parents.

I need to get out. Software engineering really takes your soul away.
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Don't doctors in the US have massive malpractice insurance to pay? I heard it was 6 figures. Got family who are docs there.
> if most people you know don't have active email accounts, that doesn't matter, and it's the direction that we're headed.

I think some evidence is required to support this claim.
Apple probably had access to nearly all of Intel's IP on the matter, software source, RTL, etc
CHI->LAX is 2000 miles in about 45 hours, so still about 40% slower than even US rail travel. I did appreciate the quip though.
> Because HTML in emails is a notoriously painful process to get working even remotely well.

> Not all email providers support HTML in the same way.

What will make AMP support different?
We are already ruled by “private governments,” and they suck
The ISPs colluded with one another so that they don't overlap territories and keep their exclusivity in given areas.
I got 226 with the trackpad on my Dell Precision 5520 in Arch Linux under libinput.

I'm all for improvement, but it doesn't seem that bad.
What's the US's social credit system? I mean the social part.
> Christianity on the other hand is all about virtue in suffering, with Christ having the opportunity to avoid suffering on the cross, but refusing that opportunity

The purpose was virtuous, and consequently so was resisting the temptation to abandon it because of the suffering, but suffering in and of itself is not virtuous.
Imho just beat him: imho again if it's my father, and laws are specific so dumb, there are no questions denying me to talk to my father, would it be a brother in law or natural brother.
It is not a matter of choice that he has to take by himself (other than think he "has the possibility to feel responsible", but that's also not a question and not an option, imo). I would make him understood that it is not a choice, nor me that I'm asking him if he will allow me, he has to understand (imho) within goods or bads: if it's for my father, he will come after, on a different level of importance. Really to me allowing him to take responsability as to "help" himself, or make him to feel this experience, is something that might even be silly, like what: "have a solace try?", whitin the life of another person? Because hospital's laws are dumb? Imho no way, and no no fight if needed (you also older).
You’re arguing against someone’s subjective lived experience. Stop that. You could, instead, ask about exactly what part of the “next” clicks and sliders were difficult, but you can’t argue with what someone think they have experienced.
> The social credit score in China is far more invasive and penalizes you for associating yourself with individuals who have low scores.

The US is toying with going in that direction.

https://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-...

> One such company, Lenddo, determines if you're friends on Facebook (FB) with someone who was late paying back a loan to Lenddo. If so, that's bad news for you. It's even worse news if the delinquent friend is someone you frequently interact with.

Fully expect to see this sort of thing incorporated in credit scores barring legislation to restrict it. We've got even less ability as individuals to stop Equifax from doing this sort of stuff than we would versus a government.
folks, I'm doing a integration with keybase app; just need help from the community for an upvote on this for 2 or greater karma to kick it off. Sorry for the bother.
> not everyone is in a position to replace their car

I agree, which is why I said taking away someone's license is net counterproductive.

Also, I'm not suggesting that people should become cyclists, just that driving is expensive.
And the primary issue behind that is that a second wire run through the same neighborhood costs the same as the first, and has the effect of splitting users and so cutting profits in half. Therefore it is a natural monopoly.

The secondary issue is that all of the broadband providers have a bad habit of "accidentally" cutting the other provider's wires. It happens enough by real accident that it is impossible to prove in any particular case. But it also happens enough that providers have a pretty legitimate reason to ask that the next provider not be allowed to install wires.
Using Tensorflow to generate Verilog to run Tensorflow? That’s s flywheel that could destroy the universe.

In all seriousness, this is cool. Are there any writeups about the state of ASICs for ML? I understand Google TPUs to be the same thing but I have no clue what’s going on under the hood.
I don't agree that's the direction we're headed. But if it is, and if something like AMP is what's needed to "save" it, that result is the same as it being dead for me, personally.
Okay, but to be fair I said "close to" and the person that told me that was not offering me a job.
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Topology seems like a really cool field. Can I jump into this book without any topology knowledge?

I have not taken differential equations yet and wonder is that is a prerequisite.
OK, that's it. I'm not paying for this crap anymore. Which email providers do you guys recommend? Zoho? Rackspace?
I used mumble with friends years ago. Mumble was a pretty nice experience for gaming with friends back when I could do that kind of thing more often.

I see that there is a mumble client for iOS. Has anyone here used it? If so, is it any good?
Emails only support a subset of AMP, so iframes and any form of JavaScript (other than the whitelisted AMP components) are not allowed.
Or Swift's ? And !
This is why the license matters.

Even if the commercial/AGPL/GPL ones "win" for a few years, they won't be able to compete with these more Open licensed DBs when they catch up.

So at any given moment, too many DBs may be annoying, but for the long term and long game it is important there is this type of competition & research going on.

Although, I absolutely agree, when it comes to Master-Slave based systems (I've been very vocal in criticizing them) that market is drying up to some very limited use cases (banking, etc.). 99%+ of use cases will be Strong Eventual Consistency and CRDT with distributed or decentralized/P2P tools.

Some really old, yet very relevant, thoughts on this subject:

https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...
Well there is an JVM optimization (OmitStackTraceInFastThrow, which is on by default) which optimizes "built in" exceptions that are thrown frequently enough to be cached and have to stack trace. So somebody at one point thought that was a worthwhile optimization and allocated engineering resources to it.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/relnotes-1391...
The government didn't collude, the government was taken for a ride, and doesn't have the balls to now go after their $400mil.
Do you know what the word monopoly means? It comes from mono- meaning one. So if there are alternatives, there isn’t one option, therefore, it isn’t a monopoly
Why does the makefile need to run $(CC) under sudo?
🛶 as Terrance McKenna said “Build your own damn boat.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton I would guess
> Bikes don't go 60 miles an hour, which is necessary for some individuals who work an hour or more from their residence. And no, people don't do that sort of thing because they enjoy it. They do it because they have to. Please don't ruin people's lives with your ideas.

Reread my post, as I don't think you're responding to what I wrote. I don't advocate taking away someone's license because of debts, which I believe I made clear in the last paragraph.
I searched on google, a "peloton" is "the main field or group of cyclists in a race".
Not because it's easy, but because it's hard. And because it's there.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKjtZy87iI0

Not seen that, watching now (about half way thru) and nice to retouch upon a feild I've not working in for many years and seeing how not much has changed. Equally a little depressing, to see the same types of problems 10 years on.
The solution being to differentiate the core infrastructure provider from the services provider. i.e. force the company installing the infrastructure to hire it out at a fair price to all service providers
Your hand being cut off is maybe just a convenient abstraction, imparted on us socially or genetically. We agree that it was because we roughly agree on what the essence of a hand is and what it means for it to be cut off, but that's not all there is to what happened. Similarly, that I can scrawl a few crude lines in a particular shape and have everyone agree that it looks like a face doesn't mean that it's an accurate representation or that everyone perceives the same thing. It may embody the shared essence of a face, but people will still disagree on what exactly it represents. Is it smiling or smirking? Tired or just squinting? Old or young? The devil is in the details.

Perception is as far as I know only partially based on sensory stimuli. Also important are the abstract concepts we use to make sense of the world and memories of past impressions. We might easily agree that your hand was cut off because we agree on a pretty fundamental level what these things mean, but that's not a very fine-grained description of what happened. Ask people how long it took and you'd probably find some interesting differences in perception.
I guess that the HTML fallback is not cost free to create. I bet that some of them will be links to the website, like the "read this message on the web" links that are almost the only fallback we have from complex layouts now.
The setting is called "Dynamic Email" and will be rolled out over the next few weeks to all users.
The UK is small enough and with good railways so newspapers in the 19th century were (I think) printed in London and distributed by rail.

How did that work in the USA, before fast electronic communications? Or was it not possible to read the New York Times in, say, Texas?