skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't obtaining and decrypting classified information what journalists are expected to do in America

Part of the government trying to keep things secret is using the procedures set forth by our laws to enforce secrets. Prosecuting those who leak classified information is one of those procedures...

Obtaining and publishing classified information is permissible if the information is a matter of the public interest, i.e., war crimes, embezzlement, violations of constitutional rights, etc.. Journalists are expected, and required, to use their discretion in determining what information is appropriate to publish. Indiscriminately posting classified information is not protected, especially when releasing that information puts hundreds of lives at risk.
On using zip codes, and nearly masking the Flint water crisis:

http://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-l...
I use Fish. So not an exciting news for me.
The article discusses effects on doctoral students, not masters or undergrads. STEM PhD programs at top schools are a lot less pay-to-play.
This doesn't seem true, can you provide examples?
Would be good to have a calendar client in terminal.

MineTime looks cool, but I got a wrong feeling about the looks and yeah, scrolling down and I saw it: "MineTime is a calendar built on Electron". Nah, I prefer to have just one browser open (and not Chrome/Chromium).
What do you think telemetry is for? Do you think MS is collecting your usage data at an OS level for totally benign reasons?
It Is Expensive to Be Poor (2014)
Poland Flirts with Pluralism Today
The lack of a stable career path accelerates the decline of American science.
> However, for users who rely on services homed in the affected regions, the impact was substantial, particularly for services like YouTube or Google Cloud Storage which use large amounts of network bandwidth to operate.

The post admits that. It clearly says that the impact on users in affected regions was significant but that some regions were barely affected. It would've been nice if they mentioned what regions. But beside that, what's the problem?
TBH the linked update is a pretty accurate summary of the postmortem in my opinion.
But the standard M.2 NVMe interface happens to only have 4 lanes. PCIe4 will double the available bandwidth for these very common SSDs.
Worked with a guy that was fed up with the phone company, so he kept like a $0.11 balance due in his account, knowing that sending him the letters asking for him to pay the bill would cost the phone company more than the total was worth.
Adobe uses a declarative UI system, and what they call a 'property model', which apparently successfully reduced their UI code by a factor of over 500. The system is available here:

https://stlab.adobe.com/group__asl__overview.html
8 gpus and a week is cheap even, there are popular papers that need upwards of 10k GPU hours.
I would phrase this a bit differently:

Binary version changes are a special case of configuration change that we (swes?) are particularly adept at managing reliably and safely.

But there are lots of other config changes that are potentially dangerous, and that we aren't as good at doing safely.
The points I tried to make are (a) Assange has only himself to blame for being stuck there for 7 years and then getting kicked out, and (b) that Sweden had a formal policy, and possibly even a law about not prosecuting non-Swedish individuals who were not physical in Swedish territory.

That article pretty clearly states that the prosecutor believed that Swedish law prevented the investigation from proceeding, and that matches what the prosecutor in the article you cited said to the tabloid.

The policy was changed because of Assange. It's not specially applied to him--the new policy applies to everyone. He's just the only one you here about outside Sweden because he's globally infamous.
Well maintained by a former Apple engineer
This reminds me of the time I wanted to test packet loss for a VoIP app and used `tc` to introduce 95% packet loss on the office gateway and because of the packet loss I could not ssh into the box to turn it off... on Google scale.
I hardly use Twitter lately but I remember them being more real time. I wonder if they added something new similar to how YouTube freezes views after about 300 views? They still record the views but delay updating them while the algorithm validate them as real views.
The status page wasn't up to date, but I don't have any way of backing up that claim. It's certainly isn't tied to any automated system failure reporting -- the status page seems to require manual updates. When minutes turn into hours, and no updates are available on the status page, it certainly doesn't leave me at ease.
Suicide drones are here. Will someone finally listen and try to make a defense?
I've said this time and time again: Someone is going to make suicide drones and attack people with them.

I couldn't find anyone willing to put time or money into a method to defend ourselves against them.
Will someone freaking listen to me now? damnation.

https://www.defenseworld.net/news/24744/China_Unveils_New_Armoured_Vehicle_Capable_Of_Launching_12_Suicide_Drones#.XPYGuy17FE4
I had the same frustrations, and found a way to control monitor brightness with the brightness keys:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/6kj0oh/use_the_real_br...
Grab a makey-makey, some aluminium foil, some cardboard boxes and a laptop running Stepmania. It takes about 15 minutes for kids to hands-on make their own DDR machine. (Dance dance revolution). I've done this multiple times with upper primary and lower secondary, and it's always gone down really well.
Related to w2v, the proof is in the vectors. They work. And, by the way, w2v has had a whole family of variants which were built on top of the original implementation (such as Doc2Vec, Doc2VecC and others).

Related to most ML code, it's not written in C but in Python frameworks that implement whole layers as building blocks. So it's not as hard to read/change. You can take something complex like the transformer and understand it in a few minutes. The most puzzling part with framework code is figuring out the shape of tensors and, sometimes, what each dimension means.

Regarding reproducibility - it's hard to achieve on account of parallelisation. You see, neural nets use floats, and floats are not real numbers. Half the float numbers lie between [-1, 1] and the rest outside. If you do 1e-10+1e10 you get 1e10. So if you add 1000 times 1e-10 to 1e+10 you still get 1e+10, but if you add them up together first, the result is different. So float summation is not commutative. Depending on race conditions the order in which summation occurs could change and the result change as well, even if you use the same random seeds. And if we give up parallelism then we can't run the experiments any more.
I giggled at;

>how do I make it stop?
I have a couple of questions about their methodology.

How are they accounting for multiple comparisons in their tests for statistical significance? The answer had better be really good because they are making a /lot/ of significance tests at once.

How come it is reasonable to estimate the average household wealth as the median multiplied by the total number of households? This is novel to me and intuitively it seems dubious.
I can confirm that certain prominent Midwestern schools have been dealing with espionage issues for 10+ years. This particular matter isn't just veiled right-wing racism.
But it's not a post mortem? Since the article states:

> Next Steps

> With all services restored to normal operation, Google’s engineering teams are now conducting a thorough post-mortem to ensure we understand all the contributing factors
10,000 combinations aren't required. The child stops when the answer is right. And if they've ever noticed one or two digits when watching the parent unlock the iPad for them to use, it drops to 1,000 or 100 max.
Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro Starts Receiving Android Pie Update
Yeah, I was expecting it to be either significantly more powerful than the iMac Pro or to have a lower cost for the base model. Neither of those things happened. I was willing to go out of my way to get hardware that's not quite ideal for my use case and still pay extra for it just to have macOS, but $6k is just too much. It might be expandable but each generation of Intel CPUs is incompatible with the last generations motherboards. If you care about single-core performance then it just doesn't make sense.
Uh oh, I see a lot of Chinese names on academic papers describing breakthrough research.
> You could very easily reach 100 GByte/s read which no network will match.

High end networking gear already has higher throughput:

http://www.mellanox.com/page/ethernet_cards_overview

https://www.servethehome.com/mellanox-connectx-6-brings-200g...

A SAN/NAS using the same PCIe 4.0 SSD's you mention could probably fill the pipes too.

... and it would probably need a bunch of network stack tuning. ;)
> I never understood why it was impossible to have any kind of multithreading in emacs.

There are various ways to do multithreading in emacs now, but the answer to your question is usually “there’s a lot of existing elisp that isn’t thread-safe”, and that’s still kind of a problem.
They are the packard bell of firearms.. I don't miss that desktop company.
Yeah, you're paraphrasing what I wrote. It is not consumer. It was called a Mac Pro and it's half the cost of the new Mac Pro, accounting for inflation
People who drive on intuition will feel this way. In my experience, typically drivers who are not trained well / lack experience with the culture & finesse that fast & safe driving requires.

I have done Amsterdam to Bern (Holland > Germany > Switzerland) and back once every weekend for 5 years: the difference in driving culture is extreme. When the Germans will:

1: Check left mirror for coming traffic

2: Stay on their lane for 5 seconds

3: Check left mirror AGAIN to see if that far away car suddenly is dangerously close

The Swiss and Dutch will check once, if the car in the mirror looks "tiny" just yank over the the next lane.

Not strange, since both these nations allow for a maximum speed of 120kmh. Everyone is going the same slow.

I dreaded the 1 hour in these two countries more then the 5 hours spend in the Autobahn.
I think the problem is the most potent mechanism against corruption is the pension. No sane public servant, no matter how morally bankrupt, will take a small bribe that risks a large pension. Unfortunately, pensions are extremely expensive.
Well in some ways it is 'their fault' in that there's split development between many competing designs, which means lots of wheel reinvention that increases overall fiction, as well as burnout.

It's too bad -- if things were easier and more advanced I would expect people like UX professionals to want to contribute to build up their portfolio.
From Tinder, I’d say height is the primary factor and shyness secondary. Let’s see when the first shy short guy gets the girl in a Hollywood movie. I’d like to stop Hollywoods gangster glorification also but...

Plenty of short famous actors so it’s just a matter of not trick filming. Maybe less makeup when we are at it?

I’ll stop because I both sound like an incel and as my parents at the same time.

I’m not even affected by this in any way. Now that I think about it, it works to my advantage. But it doesn’t feel right.
I work 5 hours per day, with 4 hours on Fridays. We did it so I can work on a side-project (writing a book) and so our boy don't have too long days at kindergarten.

We do live in a small village where our cost of living is quite low. I also work remotely and keep a fairly good salary comparatively, so it all works out well.
Coinbase Says Chief Operating Officer Has Left Crypto Exchange
This sounds like it makes sense, but falls apart when you start to scratch the surface.

ML practitioners can - by and large - build affordable GPU rigs. That’s why Google is heavily pushing cloud TPUs instead - they significantly outperform GPUs and you can’t buy them (retail or wholesale). You might get some spillover but I can’t see them making an investment as large as Stadia purely to soak up extra ML GPU capacity. If anything, it would be the other way around.
Hum, I'm not an expert on Google cloud, but for AWS, regions are completely independent and run their own networking infrastructure. So if you really wanted to tolerate a region infrastructure failure, you could design your app to fail over to another region. There shouldn't be any single point of failure between the regions, at least as far as I know.
"100%" CPU utilization means very little with modern Intel CPUs and TurboBoost. Intel CPUs have the headroom to clock much faster than base clocks but often can't sustain due to thermal constraints.

Using a desktop processor with more thermal headroom (with adequate cooling) would presumably be much better bang for your buck than increasing core counts in an already thermally-challenged laptop.
There is: many configuration changes are, by nature, global.

Code changes can be isolated and unit tested. Config changes often can't be.

You can still canary them, usually, but you lose some protection.
You seem to be bringing up the danger and uncertainty around liability as an obstacle for the adoption of self driving vehicles, thus making them "far from a reality" / "complete hype", right?

As sad as it is, I'm not so sure that the economic incentives around automating truck drivers won't win over a few lives in the end. I'd be curious what vegas odds would be on self driving cars. I wouldn't bet against it.
Why is project zero hosted on blogspot?
Ken died like 15+ years ago. Contact John Mellor-Crummey instead: he still does compiler/language work there AFAIK.
Yes, the original definition of monopoly that created the Sherman act was all about control of the supply chain. In the late 1800s, the railroads pretty much controlled everything from the coal mine to the hotels at every station. Completed control of the supply chain, this is what Google, Facebook and Amazon are doing right now on the internet. A monopoly isn't about consumer it's about market control. We need to move off the "harm to the consumer" metric as it is in this case too slow to identify the problem.
Pretty much. The charset (e.g. Unicode) just maps numbers to characters, and the encoding (e.g. UTF-8) translates sequences of numbers to bytes (and vice versa).

Unfortunately, there's a lot of blurred lines and loose usage of terminology due to misunderstandings and historical baggage (e.g. ambiguous usage of "charset", Microsoft's usage of "Unicode", "ASCII" used to refer to both charset and encoding, etc.) which contributes to the confusion.
Well-intentioned, actually the exposition it the best part. The book list - well are mostly about “beating the system.”

The Frankl book is excellent for readers from any century, it will be a future classic on the scale of Epictetus, unless suffering is someday conquered by future people.

My top book for young minds: Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
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We work only remote, anywhere in the world. No coding interview. 20+ hours/week. We look for independent and self-organized people. Angular knowledge is necessary. Full Stack would be a plus, as well as other skills in operations, native development or game design.

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While I know Santa Monica used to have a huge gang population about 10 years ago in the neighborhoods between Santa Monica College and Santa Monica High School and generally south of the 10 freeway, that area has since gentrified quite heavily and LAPD maps shows insignificant gang activity in those neighborhoods.

I would be very surprised to see that there ever was any significant street gang activity in Beverly Hills, since that municipality spends a significant amount of money on street patrols to keep criminal activity low. Moreover, Beverly Hills is a fairly racially homogenous city...
You seem to think that every highly developed country is insane (other than the US)...

http://factmyth.com/factoids/the-us-is-the-only-very-highly-...
This does certainly not extend to Germany. And I wonder in which European country this could be the case, as it sounds like a really bad idea.

There is the general rule of right-before-left on intersections in Germany and some other European countries. But this does NOT apply on highways, after all an on-ramp is no intersection.
Its seems people are more willing to give up freedom for privacy.
Denmark, but that’s another discussion around lunch in the office. I personally don’t take it as a benefit.
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My vehicles have all been in WA. I haven't looked into it to closely, but I imagine they'd be the same. You're right, it's probably the insurance side of things that increases it.
Did you see how big that monitor is? It's going to be a permanent fixture on your desk. It's as much a part of your room and your life as anything else.

In any case, the only issue here is how they presented the pricing. They should have just said that they're selling a $6k display but if you don't want the stand, they'll sell it separately for $5k. If they framed it like that then no one would complain.
It's harder to get into the top university in China than at MIT and Harvard. To think otherwise suggests a myopic view of the world.

Corollary: it's more prestigious to have done your bachelor's education at Tsinghua University than at MIT or Harvard. The top students in China do their Bachelor's degree in China. The ones who don't get into the top universities and have money are sent overseas.
>There is no such thing as modern Chinese meritocracy.

Is closer to then original coinage than you might think. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792606.The_Rise_of_the_M...
> The description is vague about what devices ("servers") were misconfigured.

"servers" when said by Googlers usually means processes that serve requests, not machines. Hopefully a future postmortem will provide more details.

> How would restricted bandwidth utilization on servers cause network congestion...

This is a common problem with load balancing if you ever use non-trivial configuration. Imagine you split 100 qps of traffic between equally sized pods A and B. If each pod has an actual capacity of 60 qps and received 50 qps, then everything is fine. However, if you configure your load balancer not to send more than 10 qps to A, then it has to send the remaining 90 qps to B. Now B is actually overloaded by 50%. Using automatic utilization based load balancing can prevent this in some cases, but it can also cause it if utilization isn't reported accurately.

> Someone forgot to classify management traffic as high-priority? Oops.

I have some sympathy. During normal operations, you usually want administrative traffic (e.g. config or executable updates) to be low-priority so it doesn't disrupt production traffic. If you have extreme foresight, maybe you ignored that temptation or built in an escape hatch for emergencies. However, with a complicated layered infrastructure, it's very difficult to be sure that all network communication has the appropriate network priority, and you usually don't find out until a situation like this.
Arguably it could be nullified if the payment isn't legal due to being for zero value. Under UCC §3-104, a check is only a negotiable instrument if it's an unconditional order.

UCC §3-103 defines an order as "a written instruction to pay money signed by the person giving the instruction."

So, to answer the original question - I don't think a zero-amount check is legally a check because it's not a written instruction to pay any money.

http://www.ckfraud.org/UCC_provisions.html
There is space for improvement. I tried the neo-layout for a while which is optimized for German and it certainly feels good. However:

1. you have a hard time with every single set of default shortcuts there is

2. as soon as you switch languages it falls apart

3. as soon as you are using someone elses Computer it falls apart

I started to use the English layout with some custom mappings (for Umlauts) entirely and never looked back. The gap towards the default German one is not too big to slow you down too much, yet programming doesn’t feel like a total pain.
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Nope! On ramps do not have right of way speaking for Germany Austria and Italy here. By any means move over for merging traffic if you can but don't endanger yourself or others by jumping out of your lane for merging traffic.
Is there any reason why Python isn't supported?
As MacOS is a certified Unix, like the workstations of days gone by, they should've gone all out enterprise and switched to ksh.

Heck, the new Mac Pro is even priced like a SGI/AIdX box.