skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As to why the specific teachings of the Catholic church? It literally comes down to "God said so and God wouldn't lie."

How do you know god said so? How do you know there even is a god? How do you know god wouldn't lie?

You assumed it (in one way or another). Blind faith.

BTW, regarding the whole "god doesn't lie" thing:

> O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

Jeremiah 20:7

> And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

Ezekiel 14:9

> And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

2 Thessalonians 2:11

But Bible is full of contradictions, it's not like anybody can be persuaded by pointing them out. Faith doesn't care about contradictions :)

> these have to do with a variety of purely rational, if not always convincing arguments.

Arguments using circular reasoning are indeed not very convincing :)

> that God, the first cause (principium) and last end of all things, can, from created things, be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason

There's no way to deduce anything about the first cause. Not the fact that it would also necessarily be the end of all things. Not that it was something conscious with a free will. Much less again that it was a personal god. Much less still that it was the God as Catholics define him.

And it's perfectly possible that there was no first cause at all (the chain of causes could be infinite for all we know).

> Catholics believe that the existence of God can be proved with reason.

And that's blind faith, because they can't actually prove it, they just declare it's possible. You're arguing my point for me here ;)
He doesn’t. He has always run Facebook as a copy of current trends..

Fb was like Friendster/MySpace then it copied twitter then they bought ig and copied stuff from there. Snapchat.

So just look what the trend is. And currently there is ig and messaging. So you see they’re putting back messaging in the main app bc people have abandoned messenger.
I thought it was the standout quote that would get people interested in this article.
I'd love a tool to make building anki decks easier. I've gone so far as to make plugins to create cards from highlighted sections, but I feel like this is clunky.

I'd love to hear more about your idea

edit: I found it - branches-app.com/theplan. Taking a look now
The past 20 years (along with PATRIOT act and FISA courts) show that we can "discuss" until we're blue in the face and nothing is going to change. This also seems to be remarkably bipartisan, for a change. The only set of actors that can change anything in US congress are corporate donors and PACs, and Microsoft is a donor (through its employees and PACs, don't know about directly).

Reducing the supply of this particular technology is not going to increase its costs, because literally anyone with a recent GPU and some motivation can just download it from GitHub at this point. The most worrisome user of it, the US government and its various three-letter agencies, already have and extensively use this tech. Casinos have been using it for well over a decade to spot people who are "too consistently lucky".

I do buy your point regarding good PR. It's just completely ineffectual wrt its stated goals.
The only bit I disagree with is "get a sense of somebody in an interview", which is likely to lead to unintentional discrimination.
Ask HN: Tutorial for syncing cameras with recorded audio?
There is a method to sync the frames of multiple cameras close together with recorded audio (albeit with a margin of error due to the relatively low speed of sound). Is there any literature on this? I know video editing software probably uses it but I'd like a deep look at the methodology so I can create an algorithm adjusted for my purposes.
It would require doing this for any new/existing code exposing timing information, the current timing fixes/isolation patches are much smaller.
It would make more sense in user code, like browsers/media players/etc to remove influence of branch prediction regardless of host OS, just like GCC does with retpoline insertion.
https://www.foilchat.com/
at least there's always a tldr (you know what exactly you are handing over in a few bullet points), especially when you think of all the contracts/fine prints/ToS you accept in life..
Avocode report 2018 – trends in adoption and use of design tools
But Linux is not better. Android at least has permissions for apps and allows you to deny some of it; on a typical desktop Linux distribution or on Windows every app has full access to all of your data: a calculator can read your browser history. If you install the Slack app from Deb package on Linux, it will add its repository into APT sources list which means that Slack Inc. can now "patch" any program on your system, for example, sshd or Firefox. Also, it will add a daily cron task that checks that added configuration is not commented out (they explain that it is necessary for the case of upgrading a distribution). Such behaviour is simply impossible on Android.

So I think it is the opposite: mobile OS provide better security than desktop OS.
The dataset itself is nice, but if weighting each pack would have been part of the procedure it would have been even more interesting, no?
Anyway, this dataset is already in my favorite examples of illustrating a birthday attack for my crypto lectures ;)
I'm asking for the principle that divides one from the other, not the laws.

What prevents a reasonable claim that these laws you cite are unjust, given that it is just to extradite a foreign national for the transgression of a US law, that occurred on foreign soil?
Not all of it is just targeting the right sites - IIUC the last time we tried gene splicing for this, the splices worked, everything looked great for a little while, but the sites had oncogenes right next to them that got activated by the splicing.

I'm hopeful that this is a panacea for this class of problem the likes of which we rarely see, but I will not be surprised if something tragic happens.
This is, unfortunately, what happens when a nation is ideologically divided. When the level of division is low, these things happen infrequently, when a more extreme person comes into power. Once the divisions get bigger, the deliberate provocations become more common, until the culture of each side starts to shift, viewing the other as really an enemy. Then the abuse becomes unconscious and insidious.

From the few years that I lived in the USA, it was already pretty palpable, the disdain and borderline hostility between conservatives and liberals, with some of the strangest stories of outrage flying from each's lips regularly. TBH I had trouble telling the two apart, other than that one kind I saw in California, and the other next door in Arizona.
Well opening the packs is probably not that much of an effort compared to sorting/counting 27,000 skittles. Instead of 3 month you could break it down to one or two days
How would you know, the article is worse then? ;)
I've donee something similar too, with with a script that'd continually poll a website upon user login and findmymac.

The only issue is a firewall on the router side, but, that's a highly targeted attack then.

You also can't set a bootup/EFI password.
What if I _like_ being a pervert?

If I like midget porn, or have a foot fetish, why exactly should I have to suppress that? It's not illegal, and it's not immoral, but I'd still prefer my coworkers not be aware of the specifics of how and why I get my rocks off.
> it was that there was no separation between programs, so that any random program you installed could add toolbars to your browser, steal all your passwords, etc.

And for Linux or Windows this is still true.
I meant your 100x faster claim. If you write stuff like that you should at least link to the study or article.
Can you explain how you use FSTs and REs for Multi-word expression matching and Unknown word-guessing?
Anyone looking into this should consider the TWSBI ECO and Pilot MR as well. They're more expensive than the varsity or preppy but still very affordable.
Someone is trying: https://notational.co/

For what it's worth: I was also heavy nvAlt user and this looked promising but it's half cargo-culting.

They did copy some aspects of nvALT but as a whole it's missing the big picture: nvALT was build to maximize utility.

For whatever strange reason this re-imagining decided to use only 50% of available screen space. Completely missing the spirit of utility.

There might be a business opportunity to build a real re-imagining of nvALT on the web that doesn't just copy few UI ideas but also embodies the spirit and translates it to the web.

I use https://notion.so now.
A collection of little and fun JavaScript exercises
I remember reading a pop-sci article many years ago about a study that found women were better at navigating by landmark and men were better at more abstract directions like maps and compass directions, with gay men being good at both.

So while this is annoying for me it could be great for the other 50% of the population, would be nice if it was optional.
And running a marathon is easier than doing Iron Man, but neither of them is a walk in the park.
I've heard it compared to Walmart in the USA, and having visited both chains, I can see the resemblance, even if it's not obvious at the surface. Walmart's layouts are "big box", designed for automobile users who will carry their purchases to the parking lot. Donki's layouts are compact, for people who will take their purchases(most of them, anyway) onto public transit. Everything else about both stores is built around the premise of a broad selection of low-end goods at low prices.

They are not beautiful, but I am fascinated by these chains as a phenomenon, nonetheless.
With that additional requirement, consider the following naive 2-camera solution flow:

1. load packet contents on transparent substrate
2. short vibration to randomly disperse
3. image capture top and bottom
4. ML processing
5. dispose of load
6. goto step (1)

Cameras for this class of application are cheap, but if 1 camera is an explicit design requirement, then a simple motor with 90-degree camera mount to capture top, rotate 180-deg, capture bottom is simple enough as well (albeit less reliable given the introduction of a precision electromotive element to the system).

If alignment is critical, then error budget can be appreciably extended by marking corners of transparent rectangular platter with distinct color/shape on top and bottom to serve as fiducials in computer-aided skew correction/alignment, compensating for inevitable drift over time; it could also supplement human validation of archived images so orientation is easily determined.
Ask HN: How many customer/user interviews are enough?
When evaluating an idea how does one decide what number of customer interviews are enough to make a decision in favour or against the idea? Does it just depend on duration of the evaluation period or the number of total prospective customers interviewed, or both? How many customers are enough and for how long should the idea evaluation phase last?
One thing that can be important but tricky with some tokenization libraries is to un-tokenize, i.e. recover the offsets of the tokens in the original string. Is this supported in your library? How?
If you have to put the bag in the machine, it's not much more effort to tear it open. If you do that over a large funnel, that should work to get all the skittles into the counter most of the time.

I was thinking that time could be saved by not sorting the skittles so nicely. Just take a picture of the skittles from each bag spread out randomly. You should be able to figure out the color distribution just by counting pixels within each color range.
Part of op's point is that this exercise only works when you "think bigger-picture", but in practice it hasn't been panning out. Things have already been leaked, and what has the material damage been? Doesn't seem like much so far, especially weighed against the benefits.

I personally don't agree, but I believe that was op's point. I think the low probability dystopian possibilities are severe enough to outweigh the casual benefits.
Well, that's not nice.

it happens automatically once I'm above 80% invested into something, so in order to be safe I don't let myself get any more than 50% invested because I'm worried about disturbing others.

I'm not sure what I can do here, I have to be in an office which has no sound barriers of any kind between anyone.
Curious how people are using SpaCy in production with constant improvement of the model and how that workflow happens from user input & review.
To be fair US president is said to be single most powerful person in the world.

I don’t have any data to back it up but I could see them being no. 1 assassination target globally.

OTOH few years back I was walking and passing near former president of my small European country. Since he is rather charismatic I asked if I can shake his hand and get a photo. He agreed and we did so, however I learned few minutes later from a friend lagging behind, that couple random bystanders twitched and totally focused on our interaction. Obviously personal security. So it’s not like security isn’t there, we might just not see it.
I have also reddit/HN clone running on https://esourcenews.com with code on github (written in python - Flask https://github.com/matoous/newz). Although this one is not federated I added tools such as automatic RSS feed import.
Why would you think so? They already raised money with their stock. And mark, or anyone with enough capital, would rather be in full control than have to report/listen to shareholders.

Apple is buying back stock

Elon is playing some game around taking Tesla private again

And mark, well he does have to, because he’s in control
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Allright, thanks.
Everyone Watching This Is Fired – Mike Acton
Isn't exporting a contact list a violation under GDPR? Contact names and their phone numbers are a personal information and the app must get that person's consent to process their data.
The And160 Job Board List to Hire Remote Workers
The List to End All Lists!
At my company I was looking for remote workers and ended up compiling a huge list of where I would post our jobs to. So we cleaned it up and thought it would be awesome for other people to use it for posting or finding a job. It is us just paying it forward!
Google and Amazon are wasting your time with Interviewing
Google did not hire me because I'm a Black Man. I declined the opportunity with Amazon because they were b#llshitting the interview process. My only response is "My skin color has nothing to do with my ability to do the job. I'm more than qualified to do the f#*ck!ng job!" "TRUST.
Your single datapoint is a great proof of reliability :)

Imagine just how incredibly reliable Samsungs are considering the fact I still have a single running S1!
They do indeed have poor security properties, but sometimes it's the only viable option. For example, you might need to setup a camera in some outdoor spot that's too far for a wired connection to be practical (Ethernet only runs so far, and I ain't aware of very many cameras that use fiber), in which case a wireless connection and a solar panel might very well be the way you'd have to go.

Also, wired connections (especially outdoor ones) have a tendency to be vulnerable to things like wire cutters or fiber-seeking backhoes. I'd imagine a competent security system implementer would find some way to physically secure the cable as best as possible, but given that a wireless jammer is a much more sophisticated attack strategy than, say, some snips or an "accidental" strike by some piece of equipment, going wireless might be a viable tradeoff.
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Also see Cwtch from OpenPrivacy

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2018/06/28/announcing-cwtch/
You’d still have to handle the complete flow for the case where the exemption has been used multiple times since the last authentication though.
It requires just one developer and a couple of reviewers to make poor choices.

Which begs the question, how do you structure your organisation such that a foolish developer that only barely understands the change that they are making can't write code that makes arbitrary queries to particular data sets in unapproved contexts?
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No, that's the completely wrong way to do it. Download the code onto a computer. Ask the candidate to add a feature.

Or, do a screen share.

The moment I'm asked to write code on a whiteboard, I politely ask to use a computer. If they can't accommodate (I bring my own laptop just in case), the interview ends.
From the Readme it appears that it will deliver the same results as NLTK, just much faster. Therefore publishing it won't give away any of the secret sauce that make up Bing's search results.
Your brain isn't working too well today. Try reading the original comment that you replied to. Centralized misallocation of public resources is the root cause. The banks took insane risk only because they knew they would be bailed out by taxpayers money, which is a forced redistribution/misallocation of public resources.
I was going to counsel that you retain your tenure but I guess you've already decided to resign. (If so, why ask?)

The rationale for my recommendation is largely captured in other comments so I'll be brief: Winter is coming (macroeconomically). And it sounds like cocalc lacks: a strong balance sheet, a scalable sales model, and a story that would interest outside investors. As such, I personally would view the company as lifestyle/earnings supplementation and not core sustenance. It is also synergistic with your day job.
That's what I tell myself. If I can travel freely and spend money, don't have anything to worry about.
„Considered acceptable“ by whom?

Why should the user‘s privacy be protected toward the content provider instead of the search provider? The search provider already knows more about me.
> When it loads, the disk is unwritable; you have a choice of
> a Mac executable or a Windows executable.

That's ridiculous. How do they justify that?
Meanwhile, a trick to discover bad products anyway: Only read negative reviews.

This works somewhat because disgruntled consumers aren't prevented from posting negative reviews. However sometimes even negative reviews aren't reliable, I think because of two things: first there are just bad-tempered people out there and second perhaps unethical competition posts fake negative reviews of competitive products.
Simple is always a relative term.

Off the shelf computers have so many layers of complexity in them that are just not visible to you, sometimes even if you sign NDA blood pacts to ask.

But since they work 99.9% of the time for many new components after the first month or so, and you can just treat them as opaque building blocks to swap on failure, you don't have to care about the complexity, because it behaves as expected and can be replaced if it ceases.

Then the more complicated systems you build on top of this, the less reliable they can be, because they're all lower-bounded by the 99.9 of each computer in the system's part, and each thing you build out of all of them can be no more than, say, 95%.

So then you build a bunch of the 95 things and cleverly arrange it so you can distribute among them to not care if some go away, and get a reliability that's a function of the thing you're using to do the distributing and those 95s, let's say 99.9.

Your org is probably on a line between these three - just be sure to watch and be wary that at some point, you will likely see things going more toward 95% or less from human error or other factors, and be aware that you'll be ticking toward the cost of outsourcing your stack to a provider being less than the cost of running it yourself.

(Work for elgooG, not on anything related to any of this, opinions my own.)
(Was hoping someone else may answer your question, but as it appears that no one has…)

Firstly, just in case it wasn't clear already, note that the algorithm is not intended for mental or manual arithmetic; its gains become apparent only when multiplying very large numbers (which is why I used 200 digits as an example). In particular, it wouldn't make sense to use it other than in cases where an addition and two subtractions are together faster than one multiplication at least — e.g. it wouldn't make sense to use it for numbers that can fit in a couple of machine words (say about 128 bits, or about 40 digits). If using it to multiply numbers by hand, I might use it for multiplying two 10-digit numbers but not anything smaller.

So assuming you understand all that and are asking about the 103 * 1022 example just to see concretely what the idea is, then read on. With 1022 being a 4-digit number, we can take X=100, and write 103 as aX+b with a=1 and b=3, and similarly 1022 as cX+d with c=10 and d=22. Then just compute a+b, c+d, and the three products ac, bd, and (a+b)(c+d):

a b a+b
1 03 4
10 22 32
c d c+d

ac bd (a+b)(c+d)
10 66 128

(Each number in the last row above was computed by multiplying the two numbers directly above it.)

Finally it only remains to compute (ad+bc) as a subtraction (here's where the savings come from; we don't have to multiply a with d, nor b with c — though in this example they'd be quite trivial anyway):

52 (a+b)(c+d)-ac-bd = 128-66-10

So we have the three quantities ac=10, (ad+bc)=52, and bd=66, giving the product to be (ac)X^2 + (ad+bc)X + bd (recall that X=100), which is 105266.

Again, it's quite pointless to use this for such tiny examples, and in fact we haven't even used the recursive nature of the algorithm. If you write some code to multiply large integers (implementing the method), you can appreciate it better.
My impression was that in Japan, retail establishments are typically expected to be elegant, cute, neat, etc. How did Don Quijote become so popular while going so heavily against this trend?

Or perhaps my impression was completely wrong?
Haha. So this ingenious method started with packet number 1 and examined thank you to the Patreon supporters John Jim and Richard now onto Packet number 456 where the color red was found. Thank you and please subscribe like and share.
Ask HN: Is A-Fest Worth It?
Quick rundown: -A-Fest is an invite-only community of 2000+ extraordinary people from 50+ countries who come together to connect, grow and learn from the
What was your experience (if any) like?
If you go to an supermarket or any department store in japan you will see that’s not the case. Maybe the touristy stores are neat (that’s the case everywhere) but the stores people use in their daily lives are more or less just filled with stuff from top to bottom.
Which was part of my point, above. Birds are incapable of tasting capsaicin at all. So they'd have to be hit with a dose thereof unrealistically larger than anything they'd ever encounter in their natural environment before it begins to cause problems for them, and at that point, other compounds in the peppers probably would've started causing problems long ago. And so, they happily eat the tasty seed pods which the plant so helpfully color-coded as edible, and then poop the seeds around their environment, thereby helping those tasty plants become more numerous.
"not aligned" or "unaligned"
Even five year olds are taught not to talk to strangers and not to tell them anything.

But somehow there seems to be a cognitive dissonance, where people are more than happy to share absolutely everything to anyone, just because it's happening in comfort and privacy of their home, while typing into a device they own.
I started https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent.vim but my vimscript is terrible and I will take all help I can get :)