skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, Orgzly still only works with Dropbox, which is a shame. I wish I had the programming skill to add that support, since Orgzly is open source.

However, Orgzly can sync with local directories on your Android device, so could Syncthing work via that route?
>Polestar

Comparing vaporware to current Tesla cars makes no sense at all.

And I still have a Volvo. The quality level is astoundingly bad. You don’t want a Volvo.
Honestly, either side of this argument feels like attempts at manipulation to me.

The end result is that it is becoming harder to trust any statement, not really what we want either.
I think the downvote brigaiding on this thread is coming from a particular set of users.

I noticed my karma is jumping down in waves. Unrelated comments are all being downvoted at the same time, suggesting unlikely coincidence or that some users are clicking on my profile and going through downvoting all the comments.
Current deaddrop schemes seem to be working quite well, drones would be much easier to target than just a random person walking around.
Its pretty bad news. I think the most important part of the electric car is the battery. Electric cars were more popular that the gas car car a 100 years ago. The crappy battery is why gas is more popular today.
I find certifications good for really three things:

1.) Having a structured curriculum to learn something new. All my tech skills are self-taught, and it's useful to have a structured learning path.

2.) Validating your skills, especially when you're changing careers. I went from working in call centers to AWS Systems Architect/Linux SysAdmin by virtue of a couple of certs.

3.) Sometimes employers require certain certifications as a condition of employment (or continued employment). This one can be a bit sticky, though. Make sure those certifications make sense for the role. I can't tell you how many job listings I see wanting CompTIA A+. Unless you're applying to work for Geek Squad, you probably don't need an A+ cert (which asks things like 'What is RAM'? 'What is Bluray?').

If you want to get into Linux, getting a couple of certs won't hurt. Red Hat's certs are probably the most well-respected, but of course are centered around Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and by extension CentOS).

If you want a good cert path for Debian, go with the Linux Foundation certs. Linux Foundation's certs are less well-known, but also practical exams.

I would avoid LPIC and CompTIA Linux+ certs (NOTE: I am Linux+ and LPIC-1 certified). They are multiple choice exams and really emphasize based on rote memorization of command flags, which really isn't useful to be an actual Linux SysAdmin. Then's the last time you ran into a bzip2 archive? I can't remember the last time I did, but I still remember that tar xjf will unzip one. But, of course, if I did run into a bzip2 in the wild, I can just as easily read the tar man page. Thanks LPIC!
Beyond the Abstract, can anyone give a TL;DR on novel or interesting things covered in this paper?
thanks for clarifying this
> But I wonder how much is out there that is simply impossible to transform in such a way.

Given transformations are mathematical, the only way "phenomena that are impossible to transform" is not the empty set is if there are non-mathematical phenomena.

So my bet is that the set is empty.
With we you surely mean the US, don't you? I only know about "Martha Stewart" from the famous "Don't talk to the police" video.
(PDF) please?
Eating a lot of protein is definitely necessary but not sufficient to get ripped. You absolutely are what you eat - literally (though it's true not everything is digested and absorbed).
> Because you will go to jail if you won't.

Firstly, please don't put words into other people's mouths, it is very disingenuous.

As to the actual point - I'll also go to jail if I murder someone. But I wouldn't say "the government is using force to stop me from murdering people", "the reason to avoid murdering people is because you will go to jail if you do" - I'm happy to go around not-murdering people of my own free will, because I believe that society is a better place when we don't murder each other.

> Calling at least a third of your earnings "literally zero effort" is a bit disingenuous.

The GOAL is to spend a third of my money, so I'm not counting that as effort - taxes take a third of my earnings in between my employer and my bank account, so by the time my monthly pay reaches my bank account, it has all been taken care of.

Compare to the charity approach, where I need to research, make decisions, do bank transfers, keep up-to-date with the changing needs of a changing society... If I want to do a not-half-assed job of it, then I'm going to be spending so much time on it that it cancels out the benefit. A few people organising national spending at scale, even if they are only barely competent, is more efficient than everybody doing it individually.
The Rosenbergs weren't extradited from a country which would require a formal guarantee that the death penalty would not be used, so are not a relevant precedent.
There has to be more than one accusation to prove guilt. Did police get any physical evidence?
This heavily depends on your audience and where you are located. In my experience it has always been mostly to get people to be present consistently: Without constant effort a lot of the regulars can occasionally just drop away for a few weeks and if you don't have a huge amount of people that will dampen the social aspect a lot.
Being able to position the brand as fitting the problems of the market is super important. I like point 2: timing is important to leverage your understanding of your target customers
Which works if you're not looking for a wife!

In the context of Tesla, if the gigafactory is not the endgame.
I think the web is a great target for apps. The other app platforms are either proprietary or have negligible market share. The web as a platform for distributing applications is a better alternative than desktop platforms that are either fragmented or a monopoly.

The abomination is turning web pages into javascript apps when HTML would be a better choice. The browser already has the capability to render text and images. News articles and blogs are better served as static content than as apps that run in the browser.
It seems likely that we're stuck with them unfortunately. They're trendy, less expensive, and the people making the decisions (as well as the people designing the spaces as the article points out) generally don't feel the consequences as severely as developers do.

If it were easier to measure the productivity lost due to open offices they would probably be less popular, but without that I don't have much hope.
The difference is that historically there was some tangible and durable result from that transaction. A house was built, a ship was commissioned, a food was grown. In the last 50 years the intangible transaction has become prevalent so there is no obvious and lasting product of that movement of money from one pocket to another.
It wasn't a photographic image (they're using radio waves, not visible light). This is a visual representation of the radio waves.

And yes, this is one way of representing the data. I'm not sure exactly what your question is though, as actually getting this data is really important to confirm a variety of theories and also to potentially open up new avenues for investigation. And this cost orders of magnitude less than Hubble, whose purpose was also to generate photographs, seeing as how they simply connected together existing radio telescopes.

The point was to demonstrate that this technique is feasible. Now they can use it to image all sorts of other stuff and learn lots more.
Thank you for sharing that video! Incredible.
I've come to the conclusion that everything in "news" has an agenda. You follow it long enough and it's simply obvious.

The way journalism works isn't that they want to find objective facts and truth and go where it leads them. Rather they start with an agenda and then seek out the facts.

The epitome of modern journalism is the Rolling Stone "Rape on Campus" farce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus

There, the journalist had the premise of "mass rape on college campus" and sought out made-up "facts" to defend her premise.

Also, women in traditional fashion or social media ( instagram, etc ) get harrassment ( mostly from other women ) as well. And yet, women flock to these industries and platforms. "Harrassment" doesn't seem to deter women from things they actually want.
BMW, the focus of the article, is also in a lot of danger as a brand. For a very long time they had the position as one of the best driving everyday cars because of their mechanical skill in the engine, chassis, and suspension parts of the car.

There appear to be two problems with that going forward.

First, other makes now have good suspension and chassis. This is a mature area of development, so the gains that BMW can make over their competitors is going to be small and expensive.

Second, what will differentiate one EV from another will be more software than hardware, and it’s not clear to me if companies like BMW will be able to dominate in that area.
So many there are. Starting with basic Probability, this lecture series is a good first intro.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articl...

Or starting from the basics, and learning how to actually do the number crunching, this is unusually good (Stewart, Introduction to numerical solution of Markov Chains):

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5640.html

Robert Gallager's MIT lecture series, very well presented, titled Principles of Digital Communications, takes you on another train based on Markov Chains (Kalman filters, etc).

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
It is possible to exchange for cash and it isn't money laundering to just change BTC to cash.

An exchange may face political pressure to stop facilitating wikileaks converting BTC to USD/GBP/EUR but thats about the extent of it.
ACLU Comment on Julian Assange Arrest
Developing Taxi App Like Uber- Business Model and Technical Considerations
There are several ways to bypass exchanges. LocalBitcoins and Bisq are two ways. There are more though.
I don't see TEDx anywhere on that.
Snowden is the real hero.
Yes, in a scenario where I'm next to 2 cars on a highway and during that one second that i'm passing them they both immediately turn toward the inner edge of the lane with no warning and within a second are as close to that inner lane as they can each get, I will get hit.

But that scenario is insanely contrived, extremely unlikely, and damn near impossible to happen and also not result in any contact without the motorcycle (if you and another driver both move toward the "inner" edge of your lane at the same time as far as you both can without "leaving" your lane, you will collide).

>You also aren't leaving room for actual emergencies, in which case I may swerve over the line. If you are in the proper position, there will be 4 to 6 feet of safety margin

This brings up another cool point that is really counterintuitive at first! Motorcycles who aren't lane splitting shouldn't be in the center of the lane, it's one of the most dangerous areas for them to be! Generally they want to be on a side closest to other traffic, the rule of thumb is to "act like your bike is the left or right side of a car in that same lane".

When a bike is in the middle of a lane, people often try to merge into it and don't see them until it's too late. By riding the inside edge of the lane, you make yourself visible to drivers that would otherwise not be able to see you. The center of a lane also has the most gravel, oil, and other stuff on it. So no, you wouldn't have 4 to 6 feet of safety margin. Hell according to your logic that entire lane should be mine, so you have zero feet of safety margin.

>You claim that your behavior is safe, but there is a good reason that 98% of the states in the USA do not support it.

And 98% of the rest of the world does. Take Norway for example. Lane splitting is legal, and there are 3 deaths per 100k vehicles there (compared to 13 in the US, and 130 in India). And that's not just one country. All of Europe is safer to drive in (average of 19 deaths per 100k vehicles) than the US, and just about all of Europe allows lane splitting. Even the NHTSA says that lane splitting "slightly reduces" accidents.
If they get the wrong house, there’s always the possibility of them being shot and killed with no recourse. Any lawyer worth their weight in potato chips could get charges lifted from someone who guns down unidentifiable armed intruders entering their home unexpectedly.
Good question: https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extarr2.aspx?memberK...
>which makes smart speakers basically impossible to exist

Aha! Exactly.
However, you could make a smart speaker that doesn't transmit the audio to a server.
Yeah this is the really interesting part - like where does the 'supply provisioned precisely to match demand' thing for self driving cars meet the 'buses/trains are more efficient assuming some % capacity filled', how does that relate to demand changing with hours of the day, where people live, etc.

It's just a fascinating optimisation problem. I think the answer is far from clear, and certainly couldn't be reliably approximated without lots of real world data.
Technically yes, but in reality, no.

Consider “he whom rape charges were brought against” and “the accused rapist”.

Or how about this? “The accused child-murderer Assange”

Words, put certain ways by bad actors towards bad ends because they are inflammatory, are a thing.
Yeah, moments before the arrest, many people in this thread were accusing him of paranoia/manipulative intents:

>He claimed that his reason to do so was to avoid extradition to the US, but Sweden wasn't allowed to extradite him without UK's permission first [0]. He could've gone to Sweden and face the charges, and avoided this whole thing. But he had to make himself look like a victim of a conspiracy instead, and his followers eats it up.

>If this truly was some sort of grand conspiracy to get him extradited to the US, I'd imagine the CIA has more reliable and straightforward methods of arresting/disappearing someone.

>He was before he ran to the embassy, skipping bail, on the pretext that if the UK extradited him to Sweden, Sweden would extradite him to the U.S. That's an invalid pretext.

And beyond HN, journalists have some interesting articles too. The Guardian's James Ball in 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/10/julian...

>The WikiLeaks founder is unlikely to face prosecution in the US, charges in Sweden have been dropped – and for the embassy, he’s lost his value as an icon

>Assange does not want to be trapped in Ecuador’s embassy, and his hosts do not want him there. Their problem is that what’s keeping him trapped there is not so much the iniquitous actions of world powers, but pride. Perhaps it’s not Ecuador and the UK that need a mediator, but rather Ecuador and Assange.
Fake job recruiters try to scam job seekers
Already happening here in the UK, especially in prisons where external dealers can drop packages over using a drone
Matrix.org Is Down
matrix.org and riot.im are down for "emergency security maintenance", "to address issues with http://Matrix.org 's production infrastructure. This is not a Synapse issue."
For me started learning lexx and yacc (and the red dragon)
> if I need an rvalue and it's legal to convert the lvalue I have into an rvalue, the compiler should do it automatically

What you just said makes no sense. Effectively, you're saying "#yolo, just let the caller function destroy my variables if it feels like it".

> than with the the interests and self-image of those creating the standards

Yeah, you're totes correct, it's a giant conspiracy of smart people to make stupid people feel stupid.
Oooh, thanks for the heads up - I've been playing around with HA but hadn't seen this component. I'll check it out.
One needs to restock these dead drops, right? Maybe a distributor can bypass all the small time street dealers and create an empire whose only distribution channel is drones.
OECD Child Vaccination Rates Mapped
This is true, but at the end of the day most wealth created in the US at least is first generational. It's not uncommon for a family fortune to be lost in 2-3 generations.
The original from an advertisement reading:

“Centipedes? In my vagina?”

It's more likely than you think.
I can envisage a future where you have huge drones with landing pads that fly between hubs in a set amount of times.

This will then allow individuals to request a drone from a 3rd party. Load up the package and program the drone for the final destination. The drone flies to the LZ drone where it lands and waits until its main destination and then resumes flight until it delivers the package.

The drone could have a wallet where it takes the initial payment from the customer. Which a % goes to the drone operator, when the drone lands a % goes to the LZ operator and any other stops.

Having essentially P2P delivery system will be a total game changer!
Ai is so pnambic right now.¹

We are flooded with hype about AI, but they seldom mention the armies of people it takes to get it working and to keep it working.

Even members f the public are recruited to train AI system without their knowledge, i.e.: captcha google translate suggestions.

Sounds more like a smokescreen for normal human intelligence to me.

1: http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/p/pnambic.html
Minimal concurrent OS written in C++17/20
About all the Lisp you need to know for that is Python/Javascript/C code that looks like:

myFunc(3, "odd", myOtherFunc(7, 4, 8));

In a Lisp might look like:

(myFunc 3 'odd (myOtherFunc 7 4 8))

Essentially the parentheses move, the commas go away, and strings that are used for dispatch are passed as symbols ('odd in Lisp instead of "odd"). On the one hand, that's really about it.

On the other hand...there's a lot more to learning Lisp than that. It's just like any other programming language...it takes a non-trivial number of months.

But you can use Emacs without knowing any Lisp at all. And the basic syntax of (func arg1 arg2 ... argN) gets you a long way. If you get the basic idea of quoting, you can probably parse all the code in just about any .emacs file.

The hard part of Lisp is understanding all the implications and possibilities of quoting and applying them to abstract away complexity in a problem domain...your .emacs file won't need to do that because the relevant complexities are already abstracted away by the Emacs system as shipped.
There’s a line between taking the version of the accused and the version of the accuser. In any crime situation. Many factors, including evidence, determine where this line lies.

In sex crimes where the victims are women, current mores bias it toward “believing the victims”. Whether this is not appropriate is a digression I don’t want to entertain here. Everywhere there are baseline scenarios and sex crimes with female victims have that element. For the effects of this discussion I’m willing to take that as a given.

That said, there are other variables at play. Parent comment was questioning the legitimacy of the entire process, including the reopening by top-down orders of a case that had been already dismissed.

We’re either willing or unwilling to lend credence to the narrative that something about this whole situation is manipulated toward getting Assange, a notorious fly in the soup of major powers with the capacity to pull a bogus extradition off. Skepticism of this narrative is not unwarranted; it has certain elements typical of conspiracy theories.

But: if we do co-sign this narrative, then as of this very moment Assange is about to face unjust trial in the US. In the face of that, we have to consider the character judgments his accusers will be able to sell to the courts.

OTOH the “random girls” have much less to lose in this whole situation if we bias our understanding of the original sex accusations in favor of Assange, considering that the case had already been dismissed and they’ve been kept anonymous enough that they’re unlikely to experience any ongoing life disruption.

The whole matter is made of uncertainties. To bias one’s subjective assessment in one direction is not to believe it wholesale. But overall the shades of gray matter dramatically.
I am curious, why doesn't Android allow apps to get their own tombstone files? This is ridiculous. Can anyone tell me why?
Wondering why they didn't throw "quantum" in there too
Internet of Things Devices as a DDoS Vector
Reading the Writing in the Dirt
Publications like those you named are tuned to your particular brand of "bs" but they have just as much bias as publications you find distasteful. That is the state of our news these days. I can't think of a mainstream news org on that level that is without significant bias.
He hasn't strongly denied it. He said in 2011 that he would sue them for reporting the quote. He hasn't. Anyone can say "it's not true" on twitter. I don't call that a strong denial.

In any case, the names of informants were published. He did it. That's all you need to know about the man.
> non-realism is an extraneous assumption

Realism is as much an assumption as non-realism. It doesn't feel that way, because realism fits the common sense of some evolved monkeys. Common sense sometimes is correct, sometimes is not. It doesn't really mean anything when we deal with these matters.

In fact, I would argue that Occam's Razor advises us to prefer non-realism. With non-realism, we are restricted to something we know to exist, by virtue of our human experience: our first-person perception of things. The independent reality, or third-person perspective, is undoubtedly a useful model, but we have no empirical data to suggest it is real. In fact, I would argue that quantum mechanic does raise some serious issues w.r.t. the this model.

Btw, this debate is almost as old as human culture. It was already present in Aristotle (materalism) vs. Plato (idealism). You can also find many traces of it in Eastern thought, e.g. the idea of Maya, or the question of: how can you really know if you are dreaming right now?

> not somehow a proven component of reality

There are no proven components of reality. Proof is something possible in the domain of mathematics, if one accepts certain axioms. Science is not in the business of proving things, it is an empirical endeavor. It gives us theories that resist falsification (until seen) + eternal doubt. Once you abandon doubt, you abandon science.
Lookup the Queen of Australia.
No, it's not, nor is it related.
Yes, quite a number of big academic, scientific or industry figures have had stories about their achievements without any major reference to their (obviously necessary) team. No-one felt moved to point out there were contributions from the graduate students and staff that worked with Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio in the HN story about the latter three's Turing Award.

I don't think I've ever seen so many people suddenly desperately concerned that the Little People get a mention, and I'm at least part-way convinced that gender (and maybe youth? she's 29...) has a good deal to do with it (apparently the other thing that triggers the "harrumph, what about the team" crowd are stories about child prodigies, according to another thread).
it’s not exactly news because it’s “rawstory” propaganda.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Raw_Story
What does the alternative look like?
MySQL8 and InnoDB Cluster from Existing DB
That article is a month old——so, unlikely.
is copying and pasting working ?
"We hire only the best, so we can sabotage them!" An honest job ad.
She’s literally standing in front of a sign on the stage that says TEDxBeaconStreet.
Professional Gambler James Holzhauer Broke 'Jeopardy '
That's not cache, friend - that's main system memory =)

(and 640KB by the time of the 486)

(though, speaking of cache, the 486 was the first chip in the family to have L1 cache - a whole 8KB of it!)