skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find WeChat and its aggressively centralized model fascinating, and something to keep eyes on, but this article falls into the familiar trap of playing a bit loose with the facts when it comes to how the Chinese government surveils its citizens.

For example, this is from article:

>People are regularly arrested for messages they send in supposedly “private” group chats. In 2017, two people were arrested in Nanjing for separate instances of making satirical comments referring the massacre in the city by the Japanese in 1937.5

But if you read the original source:
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001901/more-nanjing-massacre-...

>“Nanjing is a pit,” Wang wrote. “We should let the Japanese come slaughter again.” Local police were alerted to the incident after screenshots of Wang’s messages were circulated on social media, and they arrested him two days later.

Clearly, a bit of a different story than what's implied in this article. I can easily see someone being questioned by police in almost any country if screenshots leaked where they joked about repeating a violent historical atrocity, like 9/11 for example.

It's not clear to me why folks tend to advance the notion that Chinese citizens are under constant 1984-style 24/7 surveillance by their government. That's not quite how it works over there, at least, if people who live and work there are to be trusted.
> If anyone has questions or wants to send me their thoughts, I'm listening.

Ask a company that's using your libraries heavily to hire you full-time and have you do internal consulting for them while still working on the project, mostly. That path comes with its own pitfalls, though.
It's much more likely that serious writers cluster and that serious writers are more prolific.
no way that will happen. huge media campaign against him. the public is mixed. he gets at least 10. i don't know why he waited in the embassy so long, only to allow the US years to build their case and set the public mood.
Could you explain more what you mean, both about what problem you want solved and why this is not useable?
If my product fucks up, someone can't buy something on the internet

If the F35 fucks up, people can die, international relations can be harmed, etc etc etc
Q: If, as a developer, you were asked to implement something like this, would you?

Piracy issues aside, this would be a no-no for me on moral grounds.
TLDR: over time, Apple transitions from one technology/development platform to another. author calls this an "invisible" strategy because... it's done properly and methodically.
Bonus points that most medical offices have only a vague idea what HIPAA actually includes. 80% of the time an office says "we can't do the thing you're asking us to do, it's a HIPAA violation," it's not a HIPAA violation.
> In fact, I'd go as far as to say that this is a new kind of Inductive Programming.

I wouldn't. Traditional NNs are widely called funciton approximators, or function induction. That's because they're not Turing-complete, and in this case don't even have memory. This makes them decidedly not programs, just functions.

Of course, they could be modified with recurrence (a suggestion of future work), or even more complete memory systems (e.g. equipping a neural controller with a tape), making it Turing-complete.

Keep in mind the functional approximation power isn't increased by architecture search alone (there's no restriction from doing weight training). What seems novel here is how significant architecture alone is (I wouldn't guess it being this powerful), and this possibly has implications on the connection with the human brain -- in which my vague impression is that connections themselves are much more tuned than weights; also possibly giving greater emphasis on architecture training.
Feathers Evolved Millions of Years Before Birds, and Maybe Even Before Dinosaurs
Exactly! We just see the price but not the inventions or background technology created as a by product of space research
Superconducting magnet breaks strength world record
In Virgina's Eastern District? Good luck with that!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Virgina%27s+Eastern+District...
You do realize the EU has banned many many things allowed by the FDA because of their studies ?
MacOS apps are mostly made by cross-platform devs, and it's not exactly a great experience. Half the trouble is figuring out how to put something together that makes sense on both Windows and MacOS.
But this is not about clustering. It's about figuring out to what extent a certain subclass of features, namely the 'shapelets', are statistically significantly associated with a pre-defined binary outcome.

The paper you mentioned is interesting, though, because it shows an issue that many algorithms are privy to: if the number of samples/features gets too large, at some point, you are only comparing _means_.

(We are working on a paper to show the issues of this when it comes to time series classification.)
In-depth look at 'Release the Snyder Cut' movement (including $20k crowdfunding)
I've thought about this a lot. The evidence seems pretty strong that as long as you are a reasonably decent parent (IE, maybe anything short of child abuse) your kid will probably turn out as their genetics and the large-scale culture predetermine in a lot of important ways: IQ, income, educational achievement. However, good parenting can make the journey more pleasant for everyone involved, even if the destination is roughly the same. If I let my son watch a ton of TV instead of actively playing with him it might not affect his adult IQ much, but I do think it would make both of us worse off and less satisfied in ways that would be hard to quantify. Of course, that may just be how I justify doing what my culture tells me is good parenting even though there's not much data in support of it.
Here's the original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44097-3
Oh, I see now ! Thanks. That makes much more sense if it's about pronunciation and not some tangible apparatus (I wrongly deduced that).
More info? I tried to google and I can't find any good links - was it that only people that could afford printed copies had access to the Law?
This one's really cool:

https://userstyles.org/styles/114659/hacker-news-terminal
Apple Has Bought Back over a Quarter of Its Shares in Five Years
He tried to brute force password hack with Chelsea Manning. Worked with her directly -- to me, that's pretty much a clear and cut case of "hacking". Regardless of the attempt was successful or not.
>and also was never ignored or left to get over-heated -- what are you implying here?

I just mean that daycare services (at least the ones I've seen) are not staffed 1:1 so the average wait time for children who say need a diaper change is probably higher than a stay a home parent with a single child.
How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples (2018)
You're essentially asking why Obama, a fairly centrist liberal by many accounts, didn't end racism forever.

There's a very good reason why black people are disproportionately arrested for drug-related crimes, especially Marijuana, despite having similar usage rates as others.

There's also the fact that members of the Nixon administration outright admitted this fact.
Well, I could if I wasn't trying to host a web site on that particular server. ;-)
Not unprecedented. I think Thom himself was in the street handing out promo material for Moon Shaped Pool.

Obviously in this case it's extremely unlikely.
Well... Depends. It might not be a crime in the country "X" where you are. It might be a crime in the USA, but country "X" won't extradict you because it doesn't consider it to be a crime. Even if you are a citzen from country "B", where B and USA consider it a crime.

International crimes depend on a lot of factors.
That story was clearly fake. The Guardian reporter and his source have both proven to be unreliable in the past, no other newspaper could confirm the claims and the Special Council looked into it and found nothing.

And the Guardian has now “re-establish[ed] links” with British military/intelligence after their breakup post-Snowden:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DCKennard/status/1138493594728304...

Much of our media now coordinates and sources stories from national intelligence services. This has been true with some of the biggest stories of the past few years - many of which failed to pan out. So in some important cases our “news” has been literally government propaganda.
I'm reluctant to go into debt unnecessarily (and, tbh, also want the disposable cash to rent a nice apartment, travel, etc, and not just be another starving grad student).
Nidhugg is a bug-finding tool
Warning: Google Researcher Drops Windows 10 Zero-Day Security Bomb
A big reason why casualty rates in wars have steadily declined is BECAUSE modern weaponry is so efficient.
They were the only ones in the market for decades, and now have stiff competition from Nestle, Pepsico and Coke.

Wonder how they'll fare.... they still have a brand but for how long?
A good reading on mindful parenting is [0]:

>>> Mahatma Gandhi’s son Manilal Gandhi moved to South Africa to carry on the work his father had left behind – fight against injustice and discrimination. One day, Manilal had a daylong meeting in Johannesburg and he asked his son, Arun Gandhi, to drive him there.
Arun thought this would be a good opportunity to also get his car serviced. They left for the meeting in the morning. In Arun’s words:
I dropped my father off for his meeting and got the car to the garage by one. Since it was a long time until five o’clock, I figured I could go to the movies, which I did. That day there was a double feature being shown, and when I got out I checked my watch and realized that it was past five o’clock!
I rushed to the corner where my father had said he would be waiting for me, and when I saw him there, standing in the rain, I tried to think of excuses I could make. I rushed up to him and said, ‘Father, you must forgive me. It is taking them longer to repair the automobile than I thought it would take, but if you wait here I will go and get the car. It should be ready by now.’
My father bowed his head and looked downward. He stood for a long moment and then he said, ‘When you were not here at our meeting time I called the garage to see why you were late. They told me that the automobile was ready at three o’clock. Now I have to give some thought as to how I have failed, so as to have a son who would lie to his own father. I will have to think about this, so I am going to walk home and use the time during my walk to meditate on this question.’
I followed my elderly father home that rainy, misty night, watching him stagger along the muddy road. I rode behind him with the headlights of the car flashing ahead of his steps. And as I watched him stumbling towards home, I beat on the steering wheel and said over and over, ‘I will never lie again! I will never lie again! I will never lie again!'
What struck me as particularly interesting in this story was how Manilal didn’t shame his son, he didn’t start shouting at him or telling him how Arun had failed him as a son. Instead, he seemed to have understood one thing clearly: children do love their parents. They may act or behave otherwise but deep down they love their parents and need their parents’ love and presence in their lives. We can never inspire anyone to do anything by creating fear in their minds or by shaming them. We may force a child – or even an adult – to do something and they may do it well temporarily, but to instill in them a lifelong habit or to inspire them, love remains the only potent weapon. And no, by this I don’t mean mollycoddling. I simply mean embracing a sense of acceptance.

0: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Tomorrow-Monks-Mindful-Paren...
you mean working with the FSB in order to interfere (successfully i might add) in the US election?

fyi i’ve got no problem with leaking emails or whatnot. but i do have a problem when the FSB uses your org in order to further their interests.
Am I alone in finding it amusing that this article is on Medium, a site designed for reading, yet decides to cover valuable screen space with fixed headers and footers?
Stateless model checking of the Linux kernel's read-copy update (RCU)
>Almost nothing is an emergency situation requiring your elevated tone of voice or physically rushing towards them.

Those are of course situations where immediate action IS necessary. It's a judgement call, but the point seems to be that if it's not a mortal danger, then don't overreact.
Ah, yes, the tyranny of structurelessness and shifting the burden of the answer on the employee.

By giving a vague answer the allow themselves the option of pretending like the workload and projects did not allow it at the time you were going to take your vacation.

It's dishonest at best and a devious dark pattern at worst.
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We want to turn the sales process on its head. Instead of acquiring cheap / unreliable leads, and relying on an army of salespeople to prospect and qualify those targets, clients can use our software to set prospecting parameters from the start. That way, sales professionals can find the exact leads they want, and never prospect again.

We are hiring a front end dev to rebuild an outdated, existing front end for our new back end. We have repositioned our web scraper from a price comparison chrome plugin (linked above) to serve a more robust function as a lead generation tool. You would be integral in redesigning the front end for our new product!

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Laundry startup FlyCleaners confirms major layoffs
Yes, it is several hundred people per day entering permanently or semipermanently.
Using secure chat is a moral imperative, and iMessage is my best option
> Could drugs approved by European regulators be allowed without FDA approval?

Why should they be? It's not like European regulators have a better track record than the FDA here.
I’m an iOS developer and I use AppCode as my primary IDE. It does have a dependency on Xcode, so it has to be installed.
I agree that the legislative concern is more serious, but think you are underestimating the harm of ad-hoc use.

When I want to reference an official specification, it is gennerally not a need. I can normally satisfy my own usecase by hacking together enough knowledge from reverse engineering and public sources (often with less effort then actually reading the spec requires), but I view it as my responsabilty to be spec compliant wherever possible.

A spec is only as good as it is followed. By not making the spec free, it is less valuable to me even if I pay for it, because there are now even more noncompliant systems out there I might need to interlop with.
> Aaron Schwartz was looking at 35 years prison time for what basically amounted to a wget loop, or he could give the state its prosecutorial pound of flesh and plead guilty for six months house arrest. Faced with this he took his own life in 2013.

Aaron Swartz was charged for his disrespect for other people's private property. He was banned from their network for violating TOS, and he immediately turned right around and got back on and continued doing the same exact thing that got him banned the first time.

I'm okay with making an example out of people who show such flagrant disrespect for other people's property.
That is the nature of most of my consulting work (it's generally related to wlroots or Wayland in general). But it doesn't work for any of my end-user software, makes it hard to work on several unrelated projects like I do, and sets up an unhealthy power dynamic that makes you subsurvient to authorities who care more about a bottom line than the project (see Redis for an example of this gone wrong). Those pitfalls you mentioned are numerous and difficult pills to swallow, too.
It's hard to see this headline as something other than a result of The Irreproducibility Crisis.
what bad things was Hillary doing? or are you referring to the deaths of US agents by the no-filter leaks of wikileaks?
The search bar in Firefox always assumes you're attempting to visit a URL if you type two words separated by a dot. It's incredibly frustrating trying to search things like "table.sort" and being redirected to a URL that doesn't resolve to anything and will almost certainly not for a while. Chrome doesn't have the same behavior (it ships with a list of valid TLDs). I get that you can work around it easily by typing a space, but the habit is ingrained for me due to switching from Chrome and this alone makes me want to switch back, if not for the desire for Mozilla to succeed. There is a bug for this issue[0] which has been open for 5 years.

For FF mobile the UI is less convenient than Brave. In Brave the icons for adding a new tab and switching tabs are at the bottom of the screen, while in FF they're in a menu at the top. Because I use my phone in portrait mode I have to reach my thumb up to the menu every time to create or switch tabs. It's really tiresome and I use Brave instead due to this. Also, the URL bar on mobile FF has the 'X', but its behavior is completely different from Brave. It closes the bar entirely rather than clearing it. I also get that it's a thing to get used to after switching, but why not just delegate cancellation to the Android back button? (Could it be due to iOS?)

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080682
Citation, please? Card's matching analysis has been repeated many times (e.g., Dube, et al), and each time, they have found little demand elasticity for labor at the extremely low end.
That works fine if you are the only significant contributor to the project.

If you start getting significant contributions from people using the GPL version, dealing with the dual license can become problematic. Best for you is if you can convince the contributors to assign they copyright to you. That lets you then fold their contributions, and continue dual licensing the result.

You'll first have to make sure that the contributors own the copyright on all the code they contribute, because they cannot assign copyright of something that isn't theirs. Remember, your contributors are working on the GPL version, so they might copy/paste useful things from other GPL projects into their contribution without thinking about it, because that is fine under GPL. They might not stop and think, "wait a minute...this is going to a dual licensed project that requires copyright assignment, so I can't bring in outside GPL code!".

That's in the best case, where your contributors are OK with copyright assignment.

You might also start getting contributions from people who are not willing to have their code go into the commercial version. There are two ways you can deal with that.

1. Maintain two branches in your project, one for a GPL-only version, and one for a dual license version. If you want some feature in the dual license version that is in the GPL-only version via a contributor who won't assign copyright, you'll have to implement it yourself. You can use the implementation on the GPL-only side for guidance for things such as algorithm selection, as long as you are careful to not do anything that would infringe the copyright on the GPL code.

2. Reject those contributions.

The risk with that approach is that if those contributions are useful enough, your GPL version might get forked, and people who don't need the commercial version will choose the forked GPL version over yours, because it has better features.

Probably best to go with the branch approach. That way you are more likely to remain the primary source (no pun intended) for the GPL version. There will be some contributors who are OK with dual licensing, and with the branch approach you get their contributions and can ask make your pitch to them for dual licensing. If some fork becomes the primary source, you are out of the loop, and will likely never find out what contributions to that are from people who would dual license to you.
Sure, in the artificial construct of "work" you have accountability. You don't have a "boss" of your life though, you are solely responsible for yourself.

> I do not understand how you expect to have a functional, just, and free society based solely on individual accountability if you can just externalize human suffering and stash it elsewhere

You must accept that there will be some level of human suffering (quite a lot of it actually). It's quixotic to believe this will ever go away. All humans die eventually after all. Other than that, empathy at the individual level will bubble up in aggregate. This will vary from person to person. Some people want to go volunteer their time for charity, some won't. Again, this is all an immutable feature of living creatures.
Fall Armyworms from China Invade Taiwan
I find the Criticism of Github and Microsoft unwarranted; They contribute significantly to both the open source and startup business ecosystems;

Importantly; Free Public Github repositories; these aren't free to provide, they require storage and bandwidth. And not just for major projects, but any project. @ 28 million open source repositories, if you attribute that to the equivalent of $1/year; that is 10x what the author is calling for

Microsoft does a lot more too, whether it's "protecting" patents for Linux, or providing Visual Studio, Atom, sponsoring meetups and hackathons, and much more.

Disclaimer; Guest of Azure Incubation Week, had Microsoft sponsor BarCamps, and hackathons; And I host open source projects on github for free.
the energy mix of electric grids everywhere is changing rapidly to include more renewable technologies, and especially so on islands.

puerto rico's grid was in quite bad shape, but it was also originally designed around importing most of its fuel and operating a single (or few) large generator supplying the island. this setup created concentrated points of failure in the event of a natural disaster and also now makes little economic sense given recent advancements in PV and battery technology.
We have BINGO. WikiLeaks is a GRU agent that's been in business to gain the trust and confidence of the United States citizen.. they did this for years. Then once they got the trust and confidence, they turned into an Anti-US democracy propaganda machine. If you don't believe that. Please show me where the Putin information is to disparage HIS opponent in the elections in Russia? Or better, just find me any WikiLeaks dumps or information that's negative towards the GRU or Putin (in a way in which is as damaging as what happened to our elections).

Assange was a useful idiot that got played OR he was willing and just good at acting. Either way, WikiLeaks is not our friend.
Link here has some info about it:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181019/12232640876/appea...
Another caveat of that app, even though the website hides it pretty far in the T&C, is that it appears to be owned by "Verivox GmbH" : https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verivox

Translated to English the Wikipedia page says: "Verivox is a company that compares tariffs for telecom, electricity, gas, insurance, finance, vehicles, and commission-free real estate and brokers contracts for these services"

So they're using consumers to do their jobs, which probably harms consumers in long run by preventing a healthy competition amongst those services.