skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia has a surprisingly (or should I be surprised?) extensive collection of articles on road signs.⁰ It’s interesting to observe, e.g., that road signs in Albania seem to be very similar to those in Italy, even though it is unlikely that there were that many standardised road signs during the Italian occupation.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_sign
I've been writing code since 1965 and have been fortunate to have evaded management. I'm still writing code and it's the funnest job there is.
Credit Card for Starter: Using Credit or Debit Card
Don't forget to give your windshield a good wash just as you're moving in front of that middle lane driver!
It depends on your goals and what your modes and means are as a musician. In terms of being helpful, systems which allow the musician a grip on the sound are as good as one another, essentially. Inasmuch as the purpose of advanced technology being applied to synthesis is as much a head game, its also about the ingredients of the jam. Music as a substance benefits from all approaches; even the lowliest of AWM boxes can be masterfully applied, by masters of the art ..

EDIT: Great work, adding your paper to my stack of read-todo's...
Somehow I never knew about these. Seems too good to be true. What's the catch?

If there is no catch I might pick one up next week!
You might as well say

"While obviously people use HackerNews, I just don't get it. Had a account and deleted it years ago. What does it add? I see no value in it."

The same reason anyone does anything social.
To discuss with friends and others topics of mutual interest, to find out about things that have happened to people and orgsnisations I care about. And sometimes to get validation by publicising things relevant to you personally and seeing the reaction.

Quite why HN seems to have such a collective hatred of Facebook specifically, far above all other organisations running social/content sharing platforms I don't understand. It's worse than /. and MS back in the day.
“Why we can't write in air?”
Nobody has yet mentioned HP “InstantInk” plans, where they charge for ink by the page, and send cartridges as they anticipate you’ll need them (so big brother is indeed watching your usage via the internet; the fun advantage of being connected is that you can send print jobs home while you’re on the road).

Works on many of their newer models; we have the OfficeJet Pro 8740. Cheapest plan is $3/month for up to 50 pages; higher volume plans get down to 3 cents per page (side).
I feel the entire post is missing the two main points:

1) No one would bother creating these free services if they could not draw massive revenue streams out of it. If the returns disappear, it'd all be shut down.

2) If you create content on an online platform, you get paid in emotions you feel, the popularity you might get or the money you get through your own advertising if you are popular. If you contribute the data, you also benefit from a better service which is free.

P.S. I am thinking of building an RSS reader app with the built-in discussions. If it sounds interesting, please fill out a survey https://forms.gle/9V85Eb8PZnBXKaFr6
The Anhei tokamak is first in the world to generate 100M degrees Celsius
The story of the Endurance on its own is edge-of-your-seat stuff, but the audiobook is absolutely top notch. The story is woven perfectly and the narration is perfect. It's probably the best audiobook I've listened to.
WebRender is not just a "plan" but a real thing (I'm using it right now), and it's fully retained.

Immediate doesn't mean just redrawing everything on every frame, immediate means what's described in the article — not keeping state. WR aggressively relies on kept state to optimize rendering of each frame as much as possible.
Hi, op here. The game I linked doesn't give 100 percent certainty, just a chance at asking the right questions. E.g. If you see player x talk to y, you might conclude they are collaborating. But then you ask x about it and she says after detailed discussion she worked out y was on the other team.

Meeting places are also rather subject to interception.
That's limiting 'offensive' to terrorism. But in a democracy, all you need to take control are numbers. E.g. see how votes are split along racial lines in the US - few hispanics will vote for limiting further immigration, and even existing immigration laws aren't upheld in sanctuary cities.
This startup is doing something similar

https://metrica-sports.com

(no affiliation except sharing incubator)
Reliance has been used to enforce pledges
> It seems that "living" does not include almost nothing beyond the immediate living requirements and it does not take into account times you cannot work, can't find job, or simply the fact that a person is a little more than her capacity to be a machine for someone.

This is very much what the US mentality on social care is like, so at least it's consistent.
Charming CEO. I'm hoping this was the 90s.
A less-discussed issue with capitalism and socialism - it is completely possible for a clever and motivated person to work out what 'should' be in a specific or even a general instance.

The issue is that there is no before-the-damage-is-done mechanism to determine if a given person's assertions are correct or not, so any system that uses those assertions axiomatically will likely fail.

It isn't socialism for this Professor to point out what the living wage would be. If an employee (or employer for that matter) wants to use these figures when negotiating a wage that is hopefully good for everyone.

If the government is going to mandate minimum wages based on what Amy Glasmeier thinks is fair, it will turn out that she isn't very good at adapting to changing circumstances and the huge variety of personal circumstance that appears in practice. Mid-range case is she would become inaccurate (or corrupt!) after a few months or years and start setting wages too low or high. That would also be socialism and would also lead to bad outcomes vs. just letting people do what looks like a good idea to them.
Paywalled link =/
Looks like it. Google translate does this:

"The term Islamophobia fulfills several functions: to deny, in order to better legitimize the reality of a fundamentalist offensive in Europe, to attack secularism by likening it to a new fundamentalism."

Also, not that it should matter, the site is/was part of Perlentaucher.de, a well-known and not at all right-wing etc. culture magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlentaucher
Is this a curve fitting exercise?

Ie does the paper argue that a polygenic score can be created using population IQ and gnome data that then correlates very well with population IQ?

Would anyone in the field care to comment on the fidelity of the study? In particular, is it data snooping?
This is based on Germany's current energy mix, which produces a lot of CO2 because Germany still relies heavily on coal and gas.
How do we know when we’ve fallen in love? (2016)
This guy, looks like: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Davide_Piffer — and he has in fact published in Mankind Quarterly, a racist journal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly).
The usability / security trade-off is difficult.

Another example where Chrome prefers usability over security is autofill, where a user can accidentally share more personal information than he/she wishes:

https://medium.com/@stabbles/why-you-should-disable-autofill...
I've read and recorded books for fun in my free time for friends and the best I could manage (on my own) was about 2 to 4 hours per hour of completed recording. From sentences I had to re-record over and over again (either due to me not being able to get it right, or the cat intervening) then cutting, re-listening whether the pauses are okay, etc. For a professional recording six hours sounds about right.
> 1) No one would bother creating these free services if they could not draw massive revenue streams out of it. If the returns disappear, it'd all be shut down.

You may have missed all the free forums on the Internet, financed by hobbyists or a few unobtrusive banner ads. It used to be the norm. Surely most of the development efforts of FB go into maximizing revenue through use(misuse?) of private data, but this is a "free service" nobody asked for.
Criticisms of ideologies is fair game.

Especially ideologies that are the source of illiberal thought and which legitimatize violence as a defensive tactic.

Islamophobia tends to get equated with discrimination towards people, however. Something which obviously should be condemned.
Not the op but I used to do that. Now I buy fake cartridges on aliexpress or ebay. Toner can make such a mess that is hard to clean up. Just not worth the hassle.
There should be no such thing as moderated free speech.
Because then it is just controlled speech.
Plain text is eternal. If you’re worried about prose formats, use that.

I can’t help quibbling with the lead:

> Open source has won the present, but what about the future?

Open source has only “won” for programmers. With rare, beautiful exception, open stops just shy of end users, at the point where they have to pull out their credit cards. And GDPR notwithstanding, it’s still impractical for most end users to get most data about them in any practical, continuous fashion.

Great time to be a software producer. Not such a great time to be a software consumer. Unless you’re willing to trade nearly everything off for convenience and more freemium.
We have 30 people across 9 countries and several teams who have very limited real time cross over.
We don't send internal emails.
We use:
Slack for asynchronous discussion. If someone posts something in Slack they should expect a response within 1-2 days.
Salesforce chatter for operational discussion. Comments on here should get answered within 1 work day.
Skype chat for real time chat. This should get answered asap (let's say 15 minutes).
Zoom for all meetings.
Hi, Jane here! I hope you like this profile of me :)

It has been delightful to watch different approaches companies take to enrich, optimize and harden their web and mobile apps.

For example, Facebook has been dogfooding a new approach to improve the overhead in their mobile apps since last year. I speculate (or hope) they will announce it during F8 2019 in coming days.
I think that this is a valid initial reaction, but there is a useful point here, which unfortunately has been expressed in the middle of a combination of potential bigotry as you note, bad translation (possibly) and poor phrasing.

A reasonable attack on something then begins to use a word (“Islamophobia”). It is then used by those who seek to render Islam “inviolate”. Clearly some people exist who think this, if not particularly many. Because Islamophobia can be construed as referring to any attack on Islam, there is a risk that one then incorrectly concludes from the fact that many things described as Islamophobic are bad that everything potentially Islamophobic (using the word in the broadest possible sense) is bad. Unfortunately this useful point is obscured by lots of other at least unhelpful material.
Does this not imply that your "way" is the "correct way"? As frustrating as teams, peers, and different stakeholders are, they make the thing we are building better. Yes, group think doesn't produce the best results but it is no worse than someone building something in solitude without outside input.
So before diagnosing the problem you made the customer spend huge amounts of money based on a guess. Not the least bit surprised.
Whenever this topic comes up, I'm always reminded of James T. Kirk after his promotion to admiral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9Dl0i1Ef8
Nope, just set the pointer back to where it started from. You do need to be super careful doing this though, as anything that relies on RAII (in c++ land) will be busted. You could manually call the destructor on the object in that case, but kind of defeats the purpose of the "no allocation" goals
The catch is that you don't get the printer for $50 bucks. You pay the actual price for the printer, since it isn't subsidized by ink sales.
Here is an animation of part of the poem (3min), for those who are too busy lifting Moloch to the sky to read a whole essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nonab6djMAA
> clutters google search results

let's not forget Pinterest, the image aggregator slash image search destroyer
Perhaps you're right. As you can probably tell from my prior comment, I don't really subscribe to the 'MOAR' philosophy.
"V97.33XA: Sucked into jet engine, initial encounter"

There's a fairly well known incident where a sailor was sucked into the intake of an A6 Intruder, and lived: https://youtu.be/AF55oyAJDBk
“Le terme d’islamophobie remplit plusieurs fonctions : nier pour mieux la légitimer la réalité d’une offensive intégriste en Europe, attaquer la laïcité en l’assimilant à un nouveau fondamentalisme.”

I think that Google Translate is probably correct here on “en l’assimilant”,⁰ but it could also be “to attack laïcité by assimilating it into a new fundamentalism”: I suppose the argument is then that one has radically altered laïcité into some neutered form that cannot recognise any problem with Islam.

⁰ assimiler means both “liken” and “assimilate” according to my memory and Wiktionary
Versioned, Temporal Database Storage Reconsidered
Just as a point of interest around 4G/LTE, it's worth noting that (many/most) LTE networks don't support calling natively over LTE. At least not for a lot of the handsets in the hands of their customers. Unless your handset implements the all-IP Voice-over-LTE spec (which was an after-thought to original 4G), all calls are handled by the circuit-switched fallback (CSFB) process, where calls go over the legacy 2G or 3G networks.

Since many networks don't actually have VoLTE fully implemented and working yet (and many popular Android handsets have quirks/bugs/issues around it, coupled with MNOs trying to "pitch" VoLTE as an exclusive feature when you buy the handset direct on their own MNO-modified firmware), a 2G catcher should still work in many scenarios. If 3G is switched off, that (ironically) means that many people's calls will end up going over original 2G networks, where the handset doesn't authenticate the network at all! 3G handsets at least do a mutual authentication of the network.

If you want to look at a real LTE catcher, take a look at this paper [1]. Worth noting this is not passive however, and requires transmitting in licensed spectrum, which defeats the point of this passive one.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.04434.pdf
What's "INTP"?
So basically, there is a middleman, taking auction bids which are a lot higher than .com renewal fees...
> Imagine for a moment I'm a recommendation engine

I wish there were one like that. If only we had some companies with big silos of our data, ML tech and server capacities.
Very interesting. I didn't realise the IMSI number was ever sent in the clear.
Who really cares?

The US plundered everyone and everything to get to where it is.

I'm 100% ok with the world getting some "take-back". A shame it won't be evenly distributed.
Because playing the violin is hard and emulating the thing is a different challenge. Of course, sequencing a violin track with just note on/off and velocity (i.e. with a keyboard) is a poor-approximation. Better controls and using automation can be transfered back to other sounds for example. It's serious fun at least. We say to play music, after all.
There are plenty of sub-$2k 2-BR apartments to be found in NYC. I’m not sure where you’d find one in Manhattan (New York County), though. They’re mostly in the less desirable (whether because of crime or commute time to Manhattan) outer-borough neighborhoods.
>I'm always wary of "tell me one reason you're gonna use it for" type arguments, where the asker then goes on to treat the answer as an exhaustive list of use-cases.

Sounds like an "On the spot fallacy" - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/On_the_spot_fallacy
How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)
The idea of a modular synths is to have the potential to create all of that, FM, AM, Sub and more. Isn't it?
Facebook is in the ad business. If you pay, you can post ads. Its "free tier" gives the ability to exchange your time and personal network into visibility.
Funnily enough, it was four years ago, somewhere in continental Europe. Things were a bit freer there. I didn't stay there long. I have a lot more interesting stories from that place.
I have implemented a bunch of UIs for games. Immediate mode sounds good, but each time the thing that has bit me has been layout.

Sometimes you need to traverse the hierarchy to figure out where things will be placed. Before traversing it for render. If your hierarchy is implicit in a call graph, you have to either duplicate your calls, or implement some kind of backend retained system so you can defer rendering until after layout.

Beyond the absolute simplest of toy UIs, immediate mode doesn't work in my opinion.
You can’t destroy Facebook. My entire life is on Facebook, my friends are on facebook, and all my social life is organized on Facebook.

I wouldn’t know what to do with my life if Facebook suddenly disappeared.

/s
it sounds exhausting.

Titus Welliver has started performing the Harry Bosch novels from Michael Connelly. The first half of his first performance was pretty rough and sounded like an in-store reading. Over the course of that book and the first bit of the second he really found his groove.

With this in mind, I never would have guessed that it took this long for the full process, but once its broken down into pieces, it makes sense and doesn't seem like a lot of time at all.

A little off-topic -- years ago This American Life had a short piece about an audiobook performer who used a closet in her hotel with a bunch of pillows as a booth... and she found herself locked in.. alone.

>Carin Gilfry explains how she once accidentally locked herself in a hotel closet, and because today’s show is being broadcast from an opera house stage, Ira is able to take the story to a place he never usually can. (18 minutes)

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/528/the-radio-drama-episode...
This already exists. Try https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...

Prices go as low as $1.23. A .com is under $8.
“she faced a Twitter storm of comments saying that she was purposefully manipulating the market for her own profit.”

If they were fabricated screenshots or leaked press releases then they might have a case. But if these companies really didnt want these features to be leaked, then they should have done a better job of securing them. Is it really that hard? It wasnt like this was a rogue employee!
Bayer’s management board suffers vote of no confidence over glyphosate
There's only been a couple times recently that I've bought an online ticket for something, but in each case I'd have the gate agent at the venue just scan the QR code on my phone. Are online tickets that must be printed a common thing, and I just haven't run across it yet?
I would certainly like Facebook the company to completely fail, but the WagesforFacebook website is probably the most idiotic thing I have seen in a long time.

It is like turning into a penniless bum by spending all your money partying, and then blaming all the party hosts for your predicament and asking them to pay you money for each visit so you can keep partying forever into the future.

Why not stop attending the parties?

Why not a) remove the mobile app and use it only on a desktop/laptop to reduce the amount of time you spend on Facebook b) monitor how much time you spend on FB and slowly cut it down c) pick up the phone and pay a few damn dollars to talk to close friends - in case you don't have a way to call for free d) meet people in real life and put your mobile phone away and actually pay attention to the other person e) spend your time educating everyone you know about the problem of FB addiction f) volunteer for some community service where you actually get to meet your friends and neighbors?

But NO! "I want to bum around on Facebook, I want my minute-by-minute dopamine hit, and I want to distort the issue so no one figures out that my FB addiction is actually my fault in the first place"
Why isn't 1 a prime number?
> Islam isn’t homogeneous

From the text: "Above all, however, it wants to silence all those Muslims who question the Koran, who demand equality of the sexes, who claim the right to renounce religion, and who want to practice their faith freely and without submitting to the dictates of the bearded and doctrinaire."
Nice employer.
Have you done any analysis of job ads to see whether they give you insights into the product strategy of a company? I know you can’t uncover specific features from them, but it might offer clues into their priorities or roadmap. Just a thought.
Seems that dockerhub is using the github oauth permissions to do three things:

- retrieve a list of all repos to display in the autobuild setup page

- setup webhooks for the gh repo that should be built via dockerhub autobuild

- setup a deploy key for said repo, so that it can be cloned

I removed the dockerhub oauth on github side, after setting up autobuild. My builds on push to master and tag are still working. So it seems possible to remove dockerhubs write access to your github repos after the autobuild setup, which really seems to be a good idea.
I wasn't quite clear: I'm not talking about refilling used cartridges, but printers that have tanks and are designed for that. Those aren't that messy in my experience.
A.I. and Education: The Reality and the Potential
This could be a source of plausible deniability.

"I didn't search for that. My friend said it as a joke!"
Yes, we figured it out. The ROI question is complicated (and I'm a techie, not an MBA). At some point, old product line management appeared and took over everything about the new product line, bringing in much/most of the company's engineers and managers. I stayed on for this new phase. I later had a rapport with some people who'd had executive-level visibility, who confided a few bits of why some things happened, but I don't have enough information (nor MBA qualifications) to distill useful lessons from that here. I'll just say my sense is that the original team performed well for the organization, and then organization things changed outside the team.

My personal ROI: moving to that group might've been the best decision I ever made. I learned a tremendous amount, got to work with great people, and afterwards it catapulted my career in the direction I wanted to go. Had I not been determined to go to grad school, I would've followed the original team lead anywhere.
I see. The not-for-profit has grown from 8 people to over a hundred, and wants to become another corrupt, POS not-for-profit focused on executive fiefdoms and headcount, rather than doing any good.

They have a monopoly position on .org, and so are able to do so if they choose.

Seems like the right response is to cap price increases to 0%, or at most inflation, rather than the current 10%.
Platform warfare indeed, and this is completely overlooked as a concept. Bratton (2015) described this new geopolitical architecture in detail, and we ignore it at our peril.
Up until Swift 4, compilation took longer than with Objective-C according to my experience. Not sure how much Swift 5 has changed things.
The pilfering has been happening since the 90s and the bureaucrats just woke up to it. W88 anyone ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Cox_Report_con...
We're well beyond the era of "poorly approximated" virtual instrumentals. Most orchestration you hear nowadays is virtual and developers like Sample Modelling make stuff indistinguishable from the real thing

I'd much rather be able to just plug MIDI into a plug-in to get say a saxophone line for a song than having to buy a top tier saxophone, learn to play it in a perfectly soundproofed room with great microphone, DAC, ect.