skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, looks like that version is in LTS dists now. Perhaps to poster's legacy apps are taking advantage of them.

There were other deficiencies mentioned in Klepmann's book on Designing Data apps, but I don't remember the specifics now.
Technical Description of Critical Vulnerability in MakerDAO Governance
In past I have spent time learning coding, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, php. But I am not very much skilled in any one.

Currently priority is generating more income.
> Can't [do stuff anymore] (without asking a google home device directly)

So what we need is a small piece of text-to-speech hardware that will speak commands to your Google Assistant device.
> Not owning the .com, letting this happen, and then letting your users get fucked for a year is so incompetent that it's less of a reach to assume the Keepass devs are simply in on it.

> If you're buying a .info or adding "Origin" after your name, then it's time for a rebrand. You scrape together pennies in your stubbornness at the massive expense of filling the coffers of the bad actors and screwing your users with confusion. Especially for security software.

So, apparently, according to you, not owning the .com equivalent to your non-.com domain means you're incompetent. Has it ever occurred to you that not everyone is from the USA? If you're supposed to own the .com domain anyway then why ever bother with non-.com domains? All non-.com domains are obsolete according to your reasoning, including .net and .org and CCTLDs.

Also, this is non-commercial, free as in beer, FOSS. Where was your donation to the project?
And don't let PayPal know what you are doing or they may cancel your account.
> You can install Linux on some Chromebooks,

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
Not the test. When you're a PE and you stamp a design, you're affirming the following:

1. I am qualified and able to judge the fitness for purpose and safety of this design.
2. In my estimation it is safe and fit for purpose.
3. I can explain my decision to any of my peers.
4. I am holding myself legally liable for that decision.

I passed the FE too. And I found the civil engineering questions to be pretty easy. But I was only filling up a scantron sheet, not taking charge of human lives.
Even if a point uses polar coordinates internally, we can have syntax "p.x" which gets the Cartesian x.

Information hiding is an important concept in low-level-ish systems programming languages in which p.x implies a piece of machine code that offsets 24 bytes from the base address of p, and fetches a four byte integer.
It is time to tear the Face Book down.
I did not downvote you nor do I know why you are downvoted and I do understand your frustration.

That said, it is against the Hacker News guidelines to comment about voting/down-voting and generally only results in further down-votes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
.NET has the ability to allocate on the stack, using `stackalloc` - does Go have a similar feature?
A permanent, distributed ledger of morals would at least be a nice gift to future historians. Now if only we could establish a correctness proof as well...
That's incredibly dystopian. Sure, some people will end up breaking the law without others noticing but you make it sound like it's incredibly common. I don't think that's actually the case.
The vast majority of the population eats sugar and carbs, so it's not surprisingly the majority of diabetics consume them, too. Moreover, there are plenty of populations which consume very high carb diets who don't suffer from diabetes.
I think it is necessary. If you stop improving then it means that anybody that could've benefitted from the improvements that would've happened don't get those benefits. Furthermore, if some part of society ignores your drive for stability and still keeps trying to improve, then over time they'll simply take over, because they'll be more advanced in many ways.
Root for the Uber IPO to Fail
There is a bit of hubris...

To give them credit he says in the article that the issue is that the SV hippies are all getting older and new people will take it over and criticise and change it.

So he's not without some thought of the actual changes that will occur in the next 50 years. But they aren't thinking more about people not liking their project after they are gone
Of course, you'd have everyone gaming what constitutes an "impression". Everyone might redesign into single-page apps to keep the same ad impression visible for a longer time, for one example.

And the personal tracking side would still exist, it would just happen before showing the impression, to identify you and calculate whether the 1 cent is worth it for you.
I think the problem in general is that near monopoly services are "roach motels" for data. That makes it impossible for a competitor to come along and use the data you put into a service or platform. I am not talking about all data, I am saying the data that users actively entered into a service: pictures, videos, contact information, relationship status. Make a law that said if I upload data to your service, you have to have an API of a open format where I can download all of it again, and I can give permission to someone to download it in a practical format.

IMO that would do a lot to reduce the monopoly power of social networks and platforms like Youtube, and be fundamentally fair.
The legit one is usually squatted upon. It's not extra $12 (typical .com price) but extra $12k+
it is very opinionated/rigid about the manner in which communication should happen

This could be a strong factor in its popularity. If things must happen in a certain order, then the behavior of the system becomes easier to verify. Ease of verification should never be understated in safety-critical systems.
As a teacher's son, you've made a bunch of fairly ageist generalizations that are not true. There are plenty of shitty old and young teachers, and plenty of amazing old and young teachers.
I'm not sure if that's serious, sarcasm, or reducto ad absurdum. Regardless, I've actually looked in to published research on the matter in the past. I don't have links to studies handy, but here's what I remember finding:

Street lighting does not reduce car-car collisions, and in most conditions, does not reduce collisions at all. The major exceptions were pedestrian crossings without traffic lights, and when illuminating curves or obstacles. I don't recall finding a comparison between overhead street lighting and reflectors or marker lights for curves and obstacles, but it seems to me those might provide the same benefit with less glare, energy consumption, and light pollution.
These are just backups, afterall.

B2 isn't "just backups", it's meant as on-demand storage like S3. But durability is important for backups too.

Have there been any B2 outages, or at least publicized ones?

I hope companies don't base storage infrastructure decisions on anecdotal evidence. Yes, science is hard, so coming up with realistic data durability numbers is also hard, but I'd expect a little more rigor than "Science is hard, blue keys on calculators are tricky, and we don’t have years to study things before doing them".

If a storage provider doesn't have years to study their own durability guarantees, who does?

They claim:

The Vault architecture is designed for 99.999999999% (11 x 9s) annual durability.

But does this number include the chance of all of the Vaults in the datacenter baking in the heat after a lightning induced power failure knocks out cooling?
Since when does running Linux in a VM make a machine a Linux machine?

This same charade is being done by Microsoft with WSL2.

In both cases it serves to usurp future Linux-on-metal users by giving them a convenient virtualized Linux environment, and we all suffer as a result while Linux's hardware support rots away.

It will only be a matter of time before nobody can run Linux directly on consumer machines, and there will always be a proprietary hypervisor in control and your privacy and security compromised.

Resist this and insist continuing to run Linux on bare metal, retain control over your general purpose computing.
Yup, 404. Even manually going to their blog I can't find the entry anymore. Bookmarked because it was supposed to be an ongoing series with multiple parts. Weird provider. Probably best to avoid.
Google has spectacular user focus on the users that pay them (i.e. advertisers).
Libraries appear to be pretty durable - as an idea.
Given the rate of climate change and how little we're doing, trying to make 10000 year institutions seems foolish. We can't even manage the institutions we have now.
Major trade partners of Ukraine in 2018 are: EU(import ~55%/export 45,1%), RF(import 14.3%, export: 7,3%), China(import 12.2%, export 4.3%), USA(import 5.4%/export 2.2%), and so on.

> It clearly contradicts your statement that Russia and the Ukraine are at war.

No, it displays inertia of two big and complex systems.

> I quoted the sentence that needs factual proofs.

You got them. The whole site is created by EU and dedicated to disproof Russian propaganda, with links to propaganda narratives and factual materials.

For example: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/figure-of-the-week-136000/
What are you getting at here? Do you want the government to restrict free association in order to provide access to payment platforms for spammers?
Package of Privacy Bills Advances in California Legislature
imo you solve these problems by segregating the ownership logic and relationship logic of the data structure.

In other words the DAG would never be traversed to allocate or free memory, each vertex would be held by a vector or other container and the edges represented by an adjacency list/matrix.

It's faster and safer than pointer chasing.
Obviously the environment is different now, but me and a few friends called in a bomb scare to our high school, got a day off while cops came and everyone was evacced to sports fields.

Got caught, suspended, and given a stern talking to by the cops, but no records or permanent consequences.

We’re all functional adults now, contributing to society, some in upper management roles, some heading up charities. A punitive approach would have made those stories impossible.
Harper Lee's Lost True Crime Book
I'm sure being mentioned on HN has now pushed the phishing site higher in Google rankings
For those who don't want to read the actual interesting story about chumbox advertising:

"Anyway, seems like the vegetable is corn."
I'm not sure the analogy is accurate though. People doing extreme sports are (usually) aware of the risks and take them consciously. Even those who suffer severe injuries usually say it was worth it and they knew it was something that could happen. On the other hand, the uninsured person is just gambling, and regrets not being insured the day they needs hospitalization.
>Our discussion and experiments establish adversarial examples as a purely human-centric phenomenon.

Can someone explain to me the difference between this statement and the notion that AI performance in general is completely subjective?

We're trying to train models to do certain things. It doesn't matter if you call them human-centric or not. The important thing is that we have a goal for training. Adversarial examples force models to do other things, i.e. behave in a way that defies the original goal. How is saying "no, misclassifying those bad examples is okay" different from moving the goalposts?

Their process of retraining doesn't make any sense to me either. So what if the model trained on mislabeled data has some degree of accuracy on real data? This just shows that there is some internal symmetry involved.
And that is awesome feature that I miss a lot in other operating systems.
Hiring on Empathy: Increasingly Harder to Do
The problem is that Facebook controlled access to the API, not users. Given me the ability to control access to my social network information could be a good idea.
Only if it's true, which seems unlikely given that this was two years ago.
I've found that 'sqlalchemy.sql.text' works well for complex queries that don't need to be built up incrementally, and the fluent sql interface is great otherwise. Also, reflection can be really useful when working with existing databases, and for maintenance scripts that might not need to be tied directly to your model.

SQLAlchemy provides more than just the ORM... I actually wish the docs were structured differently to better emphasize that in search results, etc.
I'd argue it's easier to over-consume fats (in the context of a mixed diet). 30g of sugar is less calories than a tablespoon of oil.
Big Pharma is the only party who wins under a universal healthcare system or private insurance based system.

It’s not like ACA or even Medicare covers all Rx...hence Medicare Part D (ie drug coverage) which was done under GW Bush, at the time the GOP distanced themselves and later Obama tried to dismantle Medicare part D, but the dems has to pull him back (politically dems couldn’t gut drug coverage for Medicare patients).
As someone who does teach tutorials as a side gig, I would argue that implementing matrix operations in a tutorial on neural networks is overkill. No matter what the level of the tutorial you always need to draw a line and assume a certain amount of background knowledge and knowing how to use standard tools isn't too much to ask. (yes, I know numpy isn't part of python's standard library, but it comes with pretty much any Python distribution as many other libraries depend on it.)

If we're talking about a longer format, such as a book, then we might consider digging deeper and implementing as much as possible using the barest of Python requirements. Indeed, Joel Grus does implement everything from scratch in his great (although a bit dated) book https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho....

EDIT: This is still a work in progress (and relies on numpy and matplotlib), but here is my version: https://github.com/DataForScience/DeepLearning These notebooks are meant as support for a webinar so they might not be the clearest as standalone, but you also have the slides there.
More details would probably be helpful for all parties involved. :)
California's Assembly Privacy Committee Will Consider Only Industry Bills
If it's old news, it often helps to just type the URL into Wayback Machine and click back a few years. I do it all the time. That got us this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160310165634/https://www.azul....
Yeah, I think they'll struggle with adoption over the existing docker ecosystem and they should not be introducing such barriers just yet.
The Facebook haters are driving social network data into a silo; how else are you going to "keep control of your data"?

The implicit assumption here is that the only people who can control your data are big, centralized organizations. Instead of big companies making little people subject to DRM, what if we turned it on its head and gave control to the people? What if we made big companies subject to Digital Human Rights Management? Basically, we legislate that social media, tech companies, and government organizations use Trusted Execution engines to handle private/personal data, and the user gets the keys and gets to revoke access from those organizations.
Personally it's not the UX that I'm afraid of but when random drivers don't work or updates break things. Once upon a time I enjoyed learning and doing that kind of thing but nowadays I just don't have the time.

Admittedly I haven't installed Linux for a few years and don't even have my own computer now so maybe the situation has improved.
That, and in some cases highly-correlated risks get dismissed altogether.

If your neighborhood floods, that's a bunch of insurance claims, but if your city floods, that's potentially a bailout, bankruptcy, or contract exemption for the insurer. (In some cases, like sea level rise in Florida, there's already an understanding that the state is subsidizing insurance that wouldn't be available otherwise.)

So I could definitely imagine some value for a buyer-focused service that carries information about all known risk, not just covered/unsubsidized risk.
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> (crypto shouldn't be used to mean cryptography either if it's possible to mix it up with cryptocurrencies)

> The English language is ever changing, we re-purpose and come up with new words all the time.

Except that my argument isn't that the old meaning is older (ie. no appeal to tradition, nor is appeal to novelty valid); it is that the older meaning is:

1) Far more important than the new one, and

2) Far broader, widely available and adopted (NOT a niche)

3) Is a dependency for the new one.

Those are 3 very good reasons why using crypto for cryptocurrency doesn't make sense, except perhaps if you're talking within the circles of that niche (hint: not here).

> In daily use "cryptocurrencies" is long to type and say, so when the context is clear it's easier to just use "crypto".

Use an autocomplete to make 'crypto' change to 'cryptocurrency'.
Alan Turing Institute Releases ML Framework Written in Julia
Twilio is hiring Java developers in Madrid
I believe the are changes coming in .NET Core 3.0 to fix the OOTB server-GC situation.

Of course for now you always have the option of enabling desktop GC instead
Fundamental Canons of Engineers Code of Ethics
Mindmeld – Going Open Source
Which is very often a good thing. I have tuned more than one query by moving a sub-query/derived table into a CTE.

What bothers me more, that a CTE prevents parallel execution, but I think that too is fixed with Postgres 12
Any useful links? What are the terms I should search for?
The World’s Only Homemade Spacesuit Is About to Get Its First Life-or-Death Test
> frowns upon writing C because of arrays

Do you mean horrifying security flaws?
I'm curious if you have a particular language/microcontroller/microwave/badger you have in mind? Depending on which, YMMV.
Spy Files Russia [1]

> “These are tricks that the Russians were willing to give up,” says James Andrew Lewis, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who formerly worked as a Foreign Service officer and an information security rapporteur for the United Nations. “I actually thought it was a bit slow and belated. They probably had to get FSB clearance to release anything and that may have taken a while. Think of it as vaudeville for leakers.”

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-spy-files-russia/
Probably because there are so few reasons to use it.
Why is PayPal not yet regulated as the bank that it is?
People don't like puns?
13,440 pacemakers recalled due to software error (February 2019)
I think it should be straightforward to install CentOS packages instead.
I think you are taking an example of a very dark pattern to say that we can't come up with reasonable rules.
What the long term impact on psychic economies will be is unknown, of course, but we can hazard guesses.

Buddhism has a 2500 year old interest in boredom and sees it as pivotal to the process of enlightenment.

Artists and inventors, famously, benefit from idle moments, when there is no crush of expectation or obligation to keep up with the herd.

What does a world without boredom look like? Possibly, a lot more boring.
My favorite feature of PostgreSQL 12 except perhaps REINDEX CONCURRENTLY, but I am very biased since I was involved in both patches (both were large projects involving many devs and reviewers). It is awesome to finally see both land.
Because of short term thinking. Nobody cares about what will happen beyond the next election cycle, the next quarter, the next iPhone release. A bit more long-term thinking would not hurt anybody.
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Gotta ask. Any relationship here with the global declining sperm counts?
This is a good response and I see your point. I don't fully agree though. If someone is making decisions based on their finances, I think it's unhelpful to frame it as "politics" just because there may be some tax implications (the shared resources in your example). If people are moving to a lower tax state to save money, that's not a political decision in my opinion. It's a totally logical financial decision an individual is making.

Now, why I say that this article is political (and unjust imo) is because that very personal and logical decision is being placed by someone else into the realm of politics.
+1

Thank you for such a detailed, informed and relevant comment. Merits tons of upvotes.
>Spending millions burying a clock isn't helping anyone

You will be happy to hear that, according to policy, the millions they spent buying the clock were taken away from them as punishment for using resources and causing so many people to labor. Presently, I believe the fine for causing other people to do $1M worth of unnecessary work is a little over $1M (due to taxes).
From my understanding, it's more that the personalities of certain powerful individuals in the Church didn't rub well with the personalities of certain influential citizen-scientists (@Galileo, principally), and the former individuals abused their power to torment the latter. The actual results were much less important to the people involved than the prestige of "being right".

For context, these inquisitions happened at a time when the printing press was democratizing ownership of authoritative information (i.e. the Church) – not too dissimilar to today, where the web's information is upending traditional news sources. The inquisitions were a reaction to a perceived loss of power.

From that POV, it was less an ideological, Church vs Science thing (although this conflict is real today, though it seemed to be less real in the past), and more a butting of egos. Many people today experience zero dissonance between their religion and their scientific beliefs, and this observation is an old one (see the writings of any number of religious scientists throughout history). Anyways, just my 2¢! :)
The worrying future of Greece’s most Instagrammable island
One option for automated health monitoring and failover is pglookout: https://github.com/aiven/pglookout
Matrix math is easy peasy. Freshman level programming. Just lookup algorithms on Wikipedia and you're all set.

The problem is it's extremely hard to make it efficient. Dozens of men-years are spent trying to optimize linear algebra libraries. There are handful linalg libraries that have competitive performance. It was my college project to make a fast linalg library, and boy it is fast. There are some things like matrix multiplication that if you implement in C with the trivial algorithm, takes >2 mins but with some tricks you can make it as fast as <second (vectorization, OpenMP, handwritten assembly, automatically optimized code, various optimizations, better algorithm.....).

So, if you want to implement linalg in some language and compile it, go ahead, more power to you. But it's basically impossible to do it efficiently. My opinion is: this is fine and we should do this. There should be linalg libraries written in pure python (and are 1000x slower than lapack) but just understand that it's impossible to satisfy all use cases of numpy this way (at least currently).
Big usecase for me is a linux platform with a functional version of Onenote: the android version. The web version doesn't take handwritten notes well at all on any convertible device I've tried it on, the android version works perfectly.
Raiding is underselling it. It's significantly coordinated and thoroughly planned, long running campaigns to further radicalize the younger people who thought they were just getting "Edgy memes" on 4chan and haven't learned/realized yet that maybe, just maybe, making jokes about hanging black people because they are black isn't cool.

/pol/ is a shitshow