skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1918, they hardly did understand what they were preferring. By 1939, they did (after land reforms and many other policies that improved the lives of the losing side of civil war).

In 1939 Finland was Anglophilic rather than Nazi-aligned, but it's not a good setup when friends are far away and weak, and enemies are close and strong.
A key difference is that the governments of the British colonies in North America were officially installed by, and reported to, Britain.

cf. the Taiwanese government, the KMT, which at one point controlled the mainland, but was pushed into exile on Taiwan by the communists. The existence of a free Taiwan threatens the legitimacy of the communist government on the mainland: the PRC, like most propaganda-fueled authoritarian regimes, does not like anything that suggests there's an alternative to their system.
I thought this was going to be a polemic relating to the debates going on about banning smacking in Wales and Scotland at the moment!
Nice try, CPS
The paper ends with "The total computation used approximately 23 core-years over one month of real time.", so yes, I think running this on your 8-core desktop is not going to cut it.
Perhaps try a Hilbert curve instead?
As someone about to use Hetzner for vps hosting. If my company is based elsewhere, but my product is hosted by a provider within the EU, am I still subjected to this utter nonsense? How about if I use OVH on their Canadian datacenter? It's a French based company but the product would be hosted outside EU.
Yep, polluting the code with multiple execution paths is a good thing.
I think it should be more interesting to create a formular that sounds nice. In effect, that's what's done when creating structures "organically". Hence a lot of music is formulaic, but the problem with that is that the formular is predictable on purpose. It's not strictly simple, not everyone can do it freely, but the more complexity, the harder it is to stay within any given constraint. Vice versa, adding a lot of complexity just to satisfy a weird constrained, instead of relaxing the constraint can seem overloaded. The latter notion may be a meta constrained, so you get a dynamical system. The dynamics of a Markoc Chain are either limited or hard to control as far as I can tell, as its a random process. But the expressiveness is king. The way I imagine controling that would involve human interpretation in a trial and error loop, and therefore a lot of bad music. This, and the imitation of prior art is a given for unplugged music, too, of course, but the material to draw from is so diverse that a markov chain is more likely to pick up all the bad parts, too.

I mean, most music is terribly dull and meaningless in the grand picture of things. The selection of input would be more like the job of a DJ. I don't know how much creativity can be fit into programming the chain, what features to pickup. It would probably just be a part of a bigger workflow, starting small, creating short samples, arranging those, and cetera.

For the story it helps that Aphex Twin is rather random to begin with (e.g. having created a song by reverse fourier syntheses over a gray scale picture, creating the sound to a desired spectrogramm). The irony is appreciable, though comendable if someone likes the result.
Thanks for reminding me about inertial frame
People observe different things and even then, weight the memories of those observations differently. There are many who employ a barrage of "factual" observations. These are unavoidably biased even as the speaker attempts to pan the feelings out.

Often a speaker doing this feels that the sheer number of data points makes their strategy (that they will argue for shortly after finishing their list of observations) all but inevitable. People who have interacted with such arguers get understandably defensive when shown a barrage of facts painting them a certain way.

In the presence of a pattern of behavior, one example followed by every means necessary of keeping the offender on your side while building a strategy should be enough if the pattern is real and the offender has good intentions.
Using .Net PInvoke for Linux System Functions
The only issue I've ever had with it was that friends couldn't seem to connect to my self-hosted server when I shared the URL in Steam chat. Turns out that when you copy/paste from Steam's chat interface (on the old one at least) it automatically prepended "http://" to the URL which Mumble was upset about.

These were engineers too, and they didn't realize that pasting an http://URL to an IP/Port entry might not jive. So take anecdotes with the grain of salt they deserve because his "engineers", my "engineers" and your "engineers" are all vastly different people.
I remember our transition from ventrilo to mumble. Everyone kept talking over each other because of the low latency, we were used to start talking before others finished. Jumped the ship to discord on day 1 though, mostly for the chat features but also different communities you find there and easily can keep track of.
> To my ears, 2010-era Skype had lower latency than any of the modern VOIP systems in use today (including Skype).

Yeah! What happened?
> Our customer is the game developer not the player. They are free to pass the cost on to the player if they wish

That's exactly what I was referring to. In this situation, you would be sort of like a transaction processor.

> I think it’s much more enlightened to simply sponsor your player’s connection and help them have as much fun as possible.

I'm not sure I would use "enlightened" to describe anything to do with the majority of games that use microtransactions, at least when it's a constant barrage of "special deals that last for a limited time and you'll only ever be able to get this digital item right now and if you miss out it will never be back."

When aimed at a very young audience, this is anything but enlightened. I don't mind my kids paying for the content they use. I do mind them investing in digital content locked to a single platform that they both don't own, and which becomes useless when they stop playing. At least if they collected cards for a collectible card game in real life, they could look at a collection, pass it on, or sell it.

Basically, I'm advocating for revenue streams that don't require hiring specialists in promoting addictive behavior linked to spending for games where a large part of the audience includes adolescents.
I still prefer to use Mumble over Discord for its low latency, low system requirements, simplicity, free software license, and voice activity options / wizard. I created a Discord server to fill the void of a Slack-like chat for our group, but even after we had created the Discord, we still preferred Mumble for VoIP.

We ended up replacing the Discord chat with Riot.im eventually anyway.
Don't fret; memes are safe:

"The Copyright Directive protects freedom of expression, a core value of the European Union. It sets strong safeguards for users, making clear that everywhere in Europe the use of existing works for purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature as well as parody are explicitly allowed. This means that memes and similar parody creations can be used freely. The interests of the users are also preserved through effective mechanisms to swiftly contest any unjustified removal of their content by the platforms."[0]

[0] From the final press release: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-19-1839_en.ht....
If this is the situation, I would not be so hard on yourself. It seems like there's a lot of history and emotional trauma that would need to be resolved before any progress would be feasible. If this is indeed the situation, getting your wife involved in the process could make it worse, not better. Imagine all the fights they'd have with so much on the line, when they'd have so many fights before when there wasn't much on the line. You just walked into an impossible situation and did your best. You probably would have done better if you were a sympathetic complete stranger with whom your brother-in-law had zero emotional history (and even if he had zero emotional history with you, he certainly had a lot with your wife and probably subconsciously viewed you as her proxy).

edit: Thinking about it, I think the only thing I'd be able to say in that situation is something like this, just be supporting, not judgmental, not trying to convince him about anything: "Hey man. I'm really sorry this is happening. I know that things are hard right now. If there's anything I can do to help you or the situation, let me know, and I'll do it. How are you yourself? Do you need to talk with anyone about how you're feeling? Let me know if I can help, I'll be right here, OK?"
I don't write Java, but support an application written in Java that gets null pointer issues and aborts all the time. It's also annoying that there is precious little information for me to go on.
I've suggested before that users could post bonds to have publishing access to a platform. Large organizations, like Disney, would have no trouble posting a bond to allow publication to Youtube. Smaller "social influencers" could post under some sort of syndicated organization. That organization would take a cut of all of the ad revenue / promo deals, whatever makes sense up to a point.

This would also cut back on the amount of content being published to an extent someone like Google could have very robust and thorough moderating teams.

Cashflow being in the black isn't enough. The risks have to be offset. It isn't particularly clear that can be done without offloading financial risk to the parties who are posting content on the platform. Having very high financial penalties combined with legal requirements that are probably impossible to implement could just mean the "cashflow in the black" will be that way until it inevitably isn't.
Warming oceans cast a chill over New England’s sea turtles
Growing Drone Industry Spawns a Growing Antidrone Industry
Has the minimum size been taken out of A13? Earlier drafts I'm pretty sure had minimum turnover/staff counts which were far above small community scale (tens of millions/year).
Thank you for the link. I will check it out!
Would a high-quality pre-registration via precise coordinates and orientation yield better (and faster) results though? If the algorithm did not have to guess the camera parameters I would imagine a benefit.
Except if you were unhappy with the game, couldn't you just return it?
The misconception that somehow the old internet is gone is so widespread mainly due to big brands pushing their content in everyone's face, the old internet is alive and well it's just that the people who operate at that level can't be bothered to market what they do. Want to hack on Linux kernel? There is more vibrancy in that community than there has ever been. Want to find CVE and learn how to hack binaries? There are fascinating tools to do that today that no one dreamt of just a decade ago. Want to build a robot? Now we have open source robot operating systems like Ros that you can just write your python modules in and have a computer vision model tell where your robot should go. There are millions of other examples of how internet has gotten richer and more internet-y than ever! I don't buy the argument that the old internet is gone for a second, it's here alive and well, you just have to stop watching youtube videos, listen to idealogical podcasts, refresh HN/FB and not get distracted by reading random blogs to see the good stuff again:)
I still use mumble with friends for general voice chat.

I really wish more games implemented its MumbleLink API for positional audio between clients.
https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Link

For example, GW2 implements so people sound relative to where your characters are if they are on the same map.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:MumbleLink

The API has also allowed for other tools such at GW2 Tactical Overlay (http://www.gw2taco.com/) to present additional positional information.
If investors were putting more capital into short term bonds, wouldn't the yield of short term bonds drop, not rise?
The questions that should follow now that the rest of the family is now available are "Who had the authority to grant this to him, do they have the authority to revoke it, has the rest of the family spoken with this outside authority, and what else can be done?"

There has to be some sort of provision for dealing with situations like this, because this is far from the worst possible outcome. (e.g. "Great, $social_worker, you've now granted power of attorney to the person who lives with dad because dad was the only person able to get him to remain in treatment and on his medications, but who hates the rest of the family.")
Does anyone have any experience with the ZED camera? They claim they can generate 3d maps down to 1cm resolution without LIDAR using these kinds of methods.
For the last 11 years I’ve been listening to autechre exclusively. Maybe that’s weird, but it’s all the sounds I need :)
The usual: clicks and impressions (which I check daily) to see if pages are receiving the expected traffic, be sure to keep an eye on your budget and the cost per clicks and you be just fine :)
The CLR gives you all that information. It's not just an IDE thing.
The Dunbar Number (the number of relationships any individual can maintain) is typically considered to be around 150-200. So there's a pretty good reason for that 200 number.

The number of individual channels of communication in a company hits 100 just past a dozen, which often makes it an inflection point for company culture and might affect why your acquaintance tends to leave at that point.
Realistically, the only plants which rely on honeybee pollination are from eastern europe, since that's where honeybees lived before the indo-european expansion.

So any plant that's say native to the new world (corn, beans, squash, tomatoes) must not rely on honeybees for pollination.

This is not to say that there's not a bee problem: non-honey bees suffer from habitat loss (and a lack of investment keeping them around).
It's strange the focus is on a speculative project that is not near happening from a company not very cooperative with China when there are lots of companies who are doing business as usual in China
In retrospect, surely that seems foolish. The Soviet union was effectively renting the country to the Finnish people. The Nazi political dream failed rapidly, and the Finns were granted an otherwise-unlikely generation of prosperity without the failing Soviets' noose around their necks.

There was no practical way for them to align themselves with anyone but the Nazis or the Soviets, so whether you like what the political class became in that context or not, it's not as though the people had a choice between liberal democracy and state socialism, and picked the latter.

That people with uncertain, unpleasant lives were taken in by Soviet propaganda is no surprise. Some people still believe the things they learned from Soviet propagandists to this day.
Setting up the automatic transmission is notoriously causing problems. The lack of echo cancellation and no normalization of audio levels are interfering with discussions as well.
Not entirely https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3071114/oracle-cloud-gr...
Speech-Conditioned Face Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks
That is such a sad situation. I can tell from the language you used that you and your wife must be quite upset with your brother-in-law. And he is clearly very upset and expressing it in a way that's making a difficult time even more difficult. He also had to take on a terrible responsibility when he was the only person available.

It might be that there's nothing you can do right now to get him to see things through your eyes. Maybe all you can do at the moment is work on self-kindness, forgiveness and patience on your own and prepare for how to mend the relationship in the future. I have seen these rifts in my own family never heal, so I hope that they will in your family.
Well, it seems to me that XX:HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError is only useful if you run out of memory, not for other errors such as NPE. The other one XX:OnError I am not really sure how to use with the JVM.. I mean can probably get the dump of the process on certain systems but I am not clear how to then proceed to get the actual dump of Java heap out of that. (And also, it's not clear what kind of cleanup happens inside JVM between the error and the execution of the command.)
Solar noon and local noon are different things, unfortunately.

Changing an offset isn't quite the same thing as changing the measure of a unit. Seconds, minutes and hours are not being adjusted as part of this. It would be more like starting to count from 1 metre instead of 0 metres to adjust the length of your commute.

> Business hours are almost entirely arbitrary anyway. Change them instead.

As it happens, a sibling comment has already pointed out that people have effectively done this. The time of day you eat lunch is arbitrary. So the lunch hour in Spain is 14:00 instead of 13:00, effectively resolving the 'wrong hour' issue.
True, but people posting comments could post copyright-infringing material. Then again, they don't get money from that (unless it's spam, I suppose).
You may be right, but don't ignore the fact that nonviolent communication has been around for more than 50 years. Power posing was discredited within a decade.
> after the UK leaves, not a single native English speaking country in there

Oi! Ireland and Malta would have a word with you, mate.

> I can just block that region (not the biggest one anyway

Not the biggest, but the richest.
This is surfacing now with relevance to the debate about fake news, but it's really more about what we would call reconstructions today presented without disclaimer at a time when it wasn't necessarily assumed that everything you saw was real (or maybe the accepted ethics on doing this hadn't quite settled down yet...)

It's still relevant though as reconstructions or animations can easily be used to mislead even if they are clearly not original footage.
I was shocked when I saw that Krishnamurti quote.

J Krishnamurti's talks are some of the most insightful and clear-headed that I've ever encountered. And yet it's very rare to encounter references to him in the wild.

Sounds trite to say but some of "his" teachings (he hated that phrasing) got me through some very difficult times in my life. There was a time when I realized that my relationship with my parents was twisted; that they were hurting me by being oppressive/overbearing/controlling. Hearing his thoughts on love and the relationship between perception and action (namely, that perceiving a problem without running away from it _is_ the act of fixing the problem) gave me the insight and clarity I needed to cut my parents off [ASTERISK], pay my way through college and build a life that I was happy with.

[ASTERISK] This sounds weird or callous when you have to say it "out loud", but to be clear, I had very good reasons to do so. I did it to protect myself, not to hurt them.

edit: how the hell do I escape an asterisk? I tried single asterisk, triple asterisk, backslash asterisk before giving up and just putting [ASTERISK]
Skype went from point to point systems to routing through a server backend.
For Skype specifically, I noticed latency get worse around the same time Microsoft switched from P2P to dedicated servers.
I think the PRC is less bothered about taking extreme measures than the UK was also less incompetent.

If George III had had as big a bee in his bonnet about reclaiming the colonies as the PRC has about Taiwan I doubt that America would have remained independent - compare the Uk Army of 1770's vs Wellingtons Army circa 1812.
I lived in Taiwan for a couple of years. The cost of living is also extremely low, which will benefit Google and many other companies that open offices there.

A nice apartment in a great part of town was only around $350/month USD. I also had the benefit of making US wages contracting at the time.
That moment when you step out of your safe Scala world just to realize that people still face NPEs.
Seems people are talking past each other.

The world "relicensing" doesn't exist in copyright, nor in the linked article. Instead there are some similar situation being bunched together and faulty used interchangeably.

A copyright author can redistribute a work they own under new terms. This would be the case when they have offered a work under say MIT and change the copyright license for any future offer under the GPL. It is similar to a merchant changing the price, ie in the past the product cost X but now it cost Y. Naturally past customers don't suddenly have to pay more for something they already paid for, but buying more (or getting updates) applies the new price.

The copyright author can also dual license it. In this case they would offer the work but under two different licenses at the same time. This would be like a merchant offering a product under two payment plans, one where you pay up front and an other more expensive method where you pay a small amount each month for a bigger total. In both cases the product is the same but the condition of sale is different.

The MIT license itself also allows for something similar to resellers, ie people who take a copy and apply their own additional set of conditions when they distribute it. This doesn't change the original offer, but those getting a copy from the reseller has to honor the resellers term and condition in addition to the original conditions of the author. This is similar to going to a store where you pay both the product original price and the margin of the reseller. You can always go to the original manufacturer and only pay the original price, but you may miss out on features that the reseller include in their package.
Very poor where? In the US?

The "very poor" in the US are rich in most of the developing world.
200 is on the order of Dunbar's number, the theoretical maximum number of individuals a human can keep track of. The most commonly cited value for Dunbar's number is about 150, but there's a range between 100 and 250. Dunbar's number is thus a theoretical upper bound for the size of a startup a single person can comfortably relate to every employee of, but some people just aren't comfortable even with a company that size; presumably they want to leave plenty of headroom in their social network for family, friends, church, bowling league, etc.
Google launches AMP for email
We are measuring significant latency reductions for real players to google data centers right now. You seem to be overestimating how perfectly anycast finds the best PoP to get on the private network. You also assume that google’s private network is optimal from every point on the USA to their own data centers. This is not true. What’s better that google’s network? Everybody else’s, and google’s network, evaluated once every 10 seconds.
Note 3 can’t get to Android 5? I have one too. But the battery expanded and I haven’t used it in a while. But even back then it was getting pretty bad being on Android 4.
I've managed to keep a group of friends using Mumble instead of Discord, and I think we've all benefited from it. My privacy-focused friend appreciates the encryption and everyone else appreciates the ability to locally mute people if they walk away with their headset hot-mic'ed. We use discord for text communication, but when people are online for games or just to chat, we use Mumble.
> what does lockbox bring to the table because my passwords I already shared between mobile and desktop through sync ?

Lockbox makes those passwords accessible outside of Firefox. It implements Android's autofill API, so you can, for example, use it to log into native apps on Android. You can also use it to access your passwords when you're using other browsers, which is especially important with the rise of in-app browsers.
As if western countries weren't censoring conservative centrist views.
It uses the same account as Firefox's Sync, and the sync feature has been reliable for me.