skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty interesting comment. Let me see a reputable source which backs up 'anti pm message arrest under national security act'. I googled those and found just one arrest in a state which said

> Asked why Shinde had been suspended, Sharma said, “He has not been suspended just for the message. In the past, too, complaints were received against him for favouring certain political party person and showing political inclination. The WhatsApp message he posted is one of the reasons why he has been suspended.” Asked what exactly did he mean by showing political inclination, Sharma said, “I won’t be able to give all the details. But the past complaints and WhatsApp message are the reasons he has been suspended.”

source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-const...
In the UK you can be arrested for teaching your girlfriend's pug to heil as a joke.
How do you know you can trust your friends?
No, but they could surreptitiously take your photo if they wanted to. I doubt there is much expectation of privacy at an airport gate
>> brands will hire models to appeal to what’s most human; sexy, sexy crazy-making envy

You’re assuming that brands won’t create their own personas that drive that same result.

In fact, this has already happened - the best known one isn’t even a human - he’s a mouse, and millions of people buy t-shirts and other things with his picture on them. The company that owns him is rather large, and very good at appealing to humans with non-human characters: Disney.

This is the beginning of the end for models. Actors are next.
Another amazing advancement that I didn't know much about until hearing of from a friend are PrEP treatments. In terms that I understand it's a class of drugs that can be used as a treatment for HIV that is prescribed to someone who have not contracted HIV. By taking the drug you lower your chance of contracting HIV on exposure.

"Studies have shown that PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90% when used consistently. Among people who inject drugs, PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV by more than 70% when used consistently." [0]

I found this site to be very interesting when reading up on the topic: https://prepfacts.org/prep/the-research/

[0] - "How well does PrEP work" https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html
This makes me think of this Reddit meme I saw in the Gaming section, the gist of it: if you mentioned some specific chinese massacre in a game with chinese players, they would all leave the game.
99pi version: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/
> once?

How fast we forget: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-tr...

Or take your pick of mainstream media openly inciting violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw9kyYEwg2
> And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Your not, what AP thinks is reasonable would be considered rediculous if you frame it under normal satellite office scenarios. Can you imagine Sydney Googlers all catching the late train into the city to work the night shift. Like come on.

Re stripe limiting to NA only I get their concerns but its a failing approach. They're going to build out remote teams and a bunch of practices that rely on this timezone sync.

Swapping out real-time communication to async communication is going to be much, much harder once those practices are ingrained.

They also need to add more than just engineering into this remote hub. Having all your non engineers in offices is going to create a very odd adversarial culture.
It might be just a convenient way to collect photos for the database.
They funded their own study of their own product:

https://www.focusatwill.com/app/pages/science-of-focus-conce...

This “paper” is marketing material, and an advertisement for their service.
I worked for my dad a couple summers when I was a teenager. He was a contractor doing wood frame construction in southern California. I never heard him swear so much as when the plans called for something that was next to impossible to build.

Later on I did some framing work on my own. Ran into several cases where the designer completely ignored the dimensional instability of wood due to changes in humidity. Often that was really hard for the "no education" guys to fix.
> I understand why - early drugs like AZT were even harder on the patient's liver than modern drugs. But at best that seems myopic; at worst, it was negligent from a public health perspective.

Today we have drugs that prevent the initial infection of HIV, they're dubbed pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs. The only drug approved for this use in the US is a formulation called Truvada. It can cause bone and kidney damage, and is contraindicated in patients with renal impairment. Gilead, the drug's manufacturer, has risen the price of the drug from $6 to $1600 a month.

Other formulations, such as Descovy, have less of an impact on the renal system. Gilead has been sued for allegedly withholding the drug in order to time its introduction with the expiration of Truvada's patent in 2021[1].

Truvada's pricing, side-effects, and contraindications keep it from reaching many of those who are at risk of becoming infected with and transmitting HIV. Alleged patent timing is preventing the release of safer drugs that are just as effective. While we've come very far, we still haven't escaped negligence from a public health perspective.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/mass-tort-alleges-...
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It wasn’t a mistake, he did what he did quite deliberately. And yeah, not everyone deserves a second chance.
When they discover that you have stenographic tools on your computer, how will they know when to stop torturing you?
Unfortunately there's already steganography detecting software on the market[0], and it seems they have a branch in China[1]. But that is a little reductionist of me because there are evolving techniques being produced by researchers that are not so easy to detect. For example I recently read about a CNN-based method for hiding data in images that proved much more resilient against detection.

[0] https://www.wetstonetech.com/products/stegohunt/

[1] https://www.wetstonetech.com/corporate/channel-partners/
There is a large copy-paste block with English and Chinese spellings of “Tibet, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989” that also frequently gets posted on sites like 4chan and YouTube to ward off Chinese commenters. I imagine it’s not very effective, however, since these sites are blocked on the Chinese Internet, so any Chinese users would by default be posting via an encrypted VPN.
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No worries. Yes, ultimately down the road in couple years, if there is some agreed upon way of extending Fortran to handle GPU well, the best way is to get it into the Fortran standard itself, that way all compilers will eventually support it. I recently became the Fortran Standard Committee member, so when the time is right, I will try to help on this front. Right now it's too early, first we need to implement the new capabilities in some compilers and get some experience and agreement among users. My own first goal is to get LFortran polished enough to get first users.
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Steganography can be trivially detectable though if someone actually starts looking for it. The problem is that making it accessible makes it stand out.
As long as you don’t share it in a picture of Winnie the Pooh! LOL!
They say but they could store photos by mistake. Especially if those are high-quality photos suitable for face recognition.
In the USA a very large geographical subsection can lose many GW of instantaneous wind generation across an hour, which can be concerning if the system is currently running pretty economic (not a whole lot of excess reserves).

The way dispatch is done is completely different than the way it was done 10 years ago and also completely different than the way it was designed in so many ways.
Why IKEA Uses 3D Renders vs. Photography for Their Furniture Catalog
It's the future, and always will be :)
Unless you're literally writing for elementary school kids, speaking to an adult or even teenager as if they are that young is an insult.

The lack of belief in climate change isn't a a problem of a lack of education, its a problem of a lack of trust in the institutions which say it is a problem. You can understand the greenhouse effect, radiative forcing, the relative effects of methane and CO2, ice core samples, tree ring proxies, solar cycles, IPCC reports, cloud albedo, heat island effects, ocean heat sink effects, etc., and know how these scientific theories factor into climate science, but still be skeptical about whether anthropogenic climate change is a drastically harmful phenomenon. Understanding scientists think about climate science doesn't mean their predictions and theories will hold out.

The fact that IPCC predictions from 20 years ago didn't anticipate the flat line in global temperature over recent years suggest a science that isn't fully matured. The fact that there is so much paranoia coming from politicians and global governing bodies, inconsistent with what IPCC reports claim, suggests something fishy. Even observers who are largely ignorant about the specifics of the issue can sense that there is an amount of zealotry involved in confirming climate change's apocalyptic predictions. It's easy to believe significant bias is affecting climate science results.
Netflix also arbitrages compute and encode across all major clouds depending on spot pricing. They treat the commodity...like a commodity.
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Statistics Ph.D., Caltech BSCS, 10 year Microsoft (Windows Server dev then Senior Quantitative Manager). I teach University of Washington's intro Statistical Software class (R, Python, SAS, etc.)

Specialties within stats/machine learning: finanical risk (I'm a CFA and was on the FRM committee); bioinformatics (thesis and publications on statistical genetics); forecasting/optimization (current consulting work on long term adaptive capacity planning). Very into Bayesian computing and MCMC methods.

Consulting page: RedmondAnalytics.com Resume: https://sergeredmondanalytics.github.io/ra-public/Serge.pdf

serge@redmondanalytics.com
Forgive my naivety, but aren’t Whatsapp messages encrypted? If so, how can the authorities see what’s written in them?
USENET was the equivalent of a public square on the Internet. It was overwhelmed by spam.

These networks have been curated from the get-go, for no reason other than to control spam. Then, to keep people hooked, they emphasized virality and controversy. These aspects make them quite unlike a town square.
The best open source implementation is GFortran. Just make sure you use a recent version, as others mentioned.

Regarding commercial implementations, I only have experience with Intel and NAG, both of which are very good.
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Statistics Ph.D., Caltech BSCS, 10 year Microsoft (Windows Server dev then Senior Quantitative Manager). I teach University of Washington's intro Statistical Software class (R, Python, SAS, etc.)

Specialties within stats/machine learning: finanical risk (I'm a CFA and was on the FRM committee); bioinformatics (thesis and publications on statistical genetics); forecasting/optimization (current consulting work on long term adaptive capacity planning). Very into Bayesian computing and MCMC methods.

Would like to build/lead a data science team; plenty of experience translating between business and numbers, keeping fellow nerds from over-complicating data science problems.

Consulting page: RedmondAnalytics.com Resume: https://sergeredmondanalytics.github.io/ra-public/Serge.pdf

serge@redmondanalytics.com
Your comment is slander, but people of your ideological persuasion are habitual liars.

Look at the repeated slander of rightwing figures, particularly by those from Silicon Valley companies.

The "multiple accounts" are tied to different devices, because it's annoying to transfer credentials -- and I think you know that, if you've reviewed the server logs.

Again, you've engaged in nothing but political discrimination here, because I was referencing a factual thing: Microsoft was recently called out for their racist policies, and this response is laden with corporate speak for retribution against that. It's not a flamewar, because it's discussing a recent and on topic event -- you just don't like that discussing the racism from Microsoft is topical.

You simply don't want to talk about it, and are use propriety as an excuse to shut down the discussion.

You allow this kind of rhetoric, except when it would actually motivate people to critically examine their beliefs about certain issues.

You're nothing but a political censor.
i think it sucks that people celebrate the bans. like loving big brother.
Windmills do have controversy surrounding them, and whatever the case may be, I would neither want to live by a coal plant nor a wind turbine.

Adverse health effects of industrial wind turbines

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653647/

Does living near wind turbines negatively impact human health?

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-turbines-negatively-impact-hum...

Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/can-wind-turbines-make...

Vermont Sets New Noise Rules for Wind Turbines

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/vermont-sets-ne...
Pretty sure you need analysis to get far with Numerical PDEs or Calculus of Variations.
babycastles is awesome, pumped for you guys!
Udacity and Facebook Announce Secure and Private AI Scholarship
Hell let’s aim for six. I doubt I’d get anything less done.
Sounds like this guy was overqualified for the position. (Probably asked too much money, too.)

The fact that the candidate went on to a non-programming position confirms.

In any case, it was the strings you pulled that let the guy get promoted.
Do you have examples of open source software in a similar situation (one company providing coordination and final approval in the previous project; similar complexity level to Gitlab, whatever that is), where that happened successfully?

I'm not challenging necessarily, I legitimately am interested in examples.
I'd think that would correspond to EAI_AGAIN or EAI_FAIL, whereas I'm pretty sure we're getting a EAI_NONAME.
Show HN: Atomic Database: A deductive database with a natural language interface
Hello HN!

I've been working on Atomic Database[1] for almost exactly a month now, having restarted from an earlier Hackathon prototype version. Atomic Database is a deductive database like Datalog that has a useful GUI interface, a natural language query system, smart metadata storage, and gradual typing capabilities. The actual database backend of all this is based on Entity Attribute Value triples currently (I don't forsee changing it, as yet!). This is still very much a prototype, but I feel like I'm at the stage in its evolution where I need some outside input and, possibly, help.

To reproduce a little of what's in the README[1], Atomic Database's goal is to become a useful tool for managing and understanding data, and drawing conclusions about it, especially with a focus on having a smooth transition for users from simply using the GUI to writing entire declarative programs. I'm aiming at something a lot like Excel in that respect, except focused on symbolic data like personnel sheets, instead of primarily numeric data. One of the important ways that I try to make this "smooth" learning curve is by providing what I'm trying to make a very powerful and intuitive GUI and also by having a natural language interface to the logic programming engine. So far, the NL interface can allow simple rules to be written without a lot of domain and syntax knowledge. So far this NL interface isn't very smart, but hopefully, I'll be able to make it ready to deal with fairly sophisticated rules in the future.

Since I'm still in high school, I have honestly no experience with actually making good software that people can use, so any suggestions on usability, documentation, interface or program design would be more than welcome! Also, you know, go easy when you see my code (:

[1]: https://github.com/christopherdumas/atomicdatabase
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Someone in the group chat is a snitch.
You can find the documentation on the github wiki page: https://github.com/christopherdumas/atomicdatabase/wiki.
To be nitpicky, but if there is a vaccine in the future, antigen testing will likely show that you are HIV antibody positive.
Maybe someone snitched?
I'm still waiting for one of these "cultural thought leaders" to put their money on the table and build a group that blows everybody's doors off.

I view them like those peddling "investment secrets"--if they were actually that valuable, they sure wouldn't be sharing.
I think the difference is that you can still read Trump's tweets if you're banned from Twitter, but you cannot read Trump's tweets if you're blocked by Trump on Twitter.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCNIGiUUIAALZrR.jpg
If people in the chat want him suspended, I guess it is those people with the complaint making a recording/listing of the chats and then passing the evidence onto authorities.
That’s very interesting to read, thanks for sharing your professional perspective.

I’m guessing we need to find the sweet spot on the continuum between dangerously slow regulatory bureaucracy and dangerously regulation free snake oil?

I would hope that the selling of medical hope includes some control measures to help shift decision making from the emotional to the logical.

If it’s immediate and transactional, I fear emotion will trump logic based on human behaviour under stress.

I’m a big supporter of experimental therapies, as long as the process is robust and logical.
Does this mean we’ll get a PHEV toyota or BEV anytime soon?
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They probably can't share their cost analysis.

I would expect that most companies that both a) are big enough for the cloud providers to bother talking to and b) have proven they have the ability to run their workloads on multiple clouds are getting discounts from whatever cloud provider they end up using. One condition of these discounts might be that they can't publish exactly the prices they are getting, or any information that would let you infer the price.
>Most kube focused customers move to GKE.

Do you have some sort of citations to back this up? Out of the 20-ish or so fortune 500s I work with directly and indirectly, not a single one has a gcp presence and every one of them uses kube somewhere in the business.
Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Personally, I think complex analysis is important. I really like Serge Lang's book "Complex Analysis." It is supposedly a graduate level text, but the first half of it covers the basics at a level suitable for upper division undergrad class. Ahlfor's book is also really really good, but a little harder to read in my opinion.

I didn't like either Royden or Rudin. I really like Folland's book "Real analysis: modern techniques and their applications." His Fourier analysis book is also pretty good IMO.
That is exactly what happened.
You probably shouldn't be using React
What is the difference between viewing Trump's tweets while logged out because Trump blocked you, and viewing Trump's tweets while logged out because Twitter banned you?
Money is just paper but the resources it’s exchanged for are real. Not wasting money is a proxy for not wasting stuff.
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> Where did they go?

On welfare.
Sure, but to say that just because Burns works at Microsoft now is a good reason to think that MS is a containerization leader is a total non-sequitur. Google, however, is _the_ containerization leader, having created CGroups and having run everything in containers for a decade before they became "cool".
I would expect EAI_FAIL or EAI_AGAIN, but I'm pretty sure we're getting EAI_NONAME.

But, the stuff that hits this problem the most often is of the quality level that I wouldn't find that terribly surprising. Seems AWS "documents" this as,

> The number of DNS queries per second supported by the Amazon-provided DNS server varies by the type of query, the size of response, and the protocol in use.

How specific.
> The glibc people literally think that nobody should be using signals. That's their objection, not anything you've talked about.

I don't believe, that everyone holds that opinion. Even if they did, the world does not revolve around Red Hat's team, — there are still kernel mail lists and other venues for discussion. But if proposed improvements aren't well thought-out, would anyone there back them up?

In my opinion, async-signal safety in itself is much bigger problem than robust registration of signals. The later is mostly solved by chaining signal handlers, while former is mostly unsolved (and keeps getting worse). Proliferation of new libraries and async-signal unsafe conventions. People keep using printf() in signal handlers. Occurrences of fork() in multi-threaded apps. Still no async-signal safe malloc() (some Googlers tried, but the idea didn't get much traction). And then you come and propose new interface for registering signals handlers, and say that "It’s okay for two functions can be async-signal-unsafe". If your proposed API is async-signal unsafe, how would it deal with signals arriving during dispatch of signal handler list?
This is false statement without no supporting source. This is the problem with social media. Someone posts fake news/propaganda and everyone starts believing or starts forwarding (whatsapp), which is causing Govts to take certain action against them/regulate them
They can say that the photos were stored by mistake and were supposed to be deleted.
I'm much younger than you :-)

I've mostly heard horror stories from my dad about how some of his neighbors didn't know how to take care of their cars.

> In fact back then car owners probably had more awareness of how oil changes worked since tasks such as oil changes, spark plug replacement, tune ups, brake drum/pad replacement were much more commonly done by the car owner than they are today.

On that point, I think I can agree, at least based on the stories I've heard of that time. But the question is: what about all the car owners who didn't know how to do those things? The car owners who weren't in the know?

It wasn't like today where you could easily look this stuff up, you had to have been brought up correctly in the correct car culture to know those sorts of facts.

Only when cars broke down, they would come around to the "car guy" in the neighborhood to ask for help. And that's when you hear the crazy stories about how many people didn't know how to handle their cars.
Landlords have been taking cash from the pockets of people who actually labor for millennia. Stealing? More like emancipating.