skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine
If you have a friend who broke their ankle and is in hospital overnight, you send a basket with soap and socks (or more likely, flowers). If you are the head of a news organisation and have a fellow journalist (who you've worked with in the past and gave you "the biggest scoop in 30 years") and is currently facing political persecution by the most powerful government on earth, you send lawyers to help him get out of the situation and cover it endlessly until something is done about it. As Jacob Appelbaum said in the video I linked, it's an example of not treating such a serious situation seriously.

So yes -- it was a snub in the sense that it was literally the least useful form of "help" they could've given. Julian didn't need symbolic help. He needed actual help, and the Guardian left him out to dry (and then proceeded to publish countless articles smearing him -- including flat-out lying as in the "he met with Manafort" case).

Heck, WikiLeaks sent one of their lawyers to help Snowden in Hong Kong when he got in trouble (and bought him plane tickets and the rest of it -- even trying to rent a private jet to get him out of Russia while he was stuck in the airport) -- and they didn't even have anything to do with publishing the Snowden revelations.
...when the venue has a hearTV device installed and you are connected to their network... But cool nevertheless.
I get the sense that what really matters to winning the kind of counterinsurgency the US repeatedly finds itself in is being able to build and defend working infrastructure faster than the competition. Now there would be a strategic shift most people could get behind, especially given its own infrastructure woes.
America is incredible effective at suppressing protest. Not just as the protest is happening, but before it begins.
You can probably "trace" most cyber attacks to China. Among all countries, it is comparatively easy for hackers to build a large botnet in China and use it to attack third parties because there are many unsophisticated Chinese internet users.

China could be behind this attack, but tracing IP address is really meaningless here.
I'm largely ignorant to the politics involved, but aren't these protests against extradition to mainland China? I imagine there's a social identity at play here that American's don't have.
I mean, it's a legitimate opinion in the sense that everyone is entitled to have opinions, but I can't agree that "unsightly behavior" is a good standard for justifying the use of state violence. just think about how many things your (proverbial) conservative uncle would consider unsightly in public and how many people might agree with him.
this whole election interference thing is egregious because it's the typical crime that's only bad when bad people do it, which is a very ugly and problematic standard when it comes to building a trial.

on the accusation of having extracted information as opposed to having received information I think we really don't have the elements to reach an informed conclusion, albeit I suspect by how the story developed that the trial will not be particularly fair to him.
Ah ok, i thought the author meant FaceID in the passage:

> I have my WeChat linked with the facial recognition scanner on my iPhone

was not aware that WeChat has its own system. They don't get to use the "special" FaceID sensors/scanners though right? Just the camera?
How to Stay Secure on a Public WiFi Network
"Historically, all state actor-sized DDoS (200-400 Gb/s of junk) we experienced coincided in time with protests in Hong Kong (coordinated on @telegram). This case was not an exception."

At a certain point, you have to declare the correlation is actually a causation.

https://twitter.com/durov/status/1138942773430804480?ref_src...
It really depends on the culture of the company. In my company (95% Japanese/non-gaishiki-kei) it’s the norm for people to take a couple months off when there’s a new addition to the family. I took 6 weeks when my son was born and nobody batted an eye. My friend, who also had a child around the same time me, couldn’t take parental leave, but said he’d be working remotely a lot instead.

I’m optimistic it will change, but probably not for another long while.
This [1] may be of interest, and has scientific references (well, Nature) too. I believe there's an associated TED talk.

[1] https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2017/07/02/low-carbohydrate-...
Government creates a monopoly in pharmacy.

Government creates a monopoly in Physician services.

Now that these healthcare monopolies are well established, they lobby for stronger monopolies.

Obamacare was a prime example about how the established can increase their wealth by using the government.
Show HN: Alfred- A friendly framework for beginner CTF players
Lol.Those poor people tracking him on behalf of the CPC on Wechat must be also making the same assumption, but they have bills to pay :D
Depending on how expansive your idea of the model of ‘computation’ is, there is this old paper: http://zero.sci-hub.tw/1814/0efc01f09f718e409481a47ff90e98fc...

TLDR: using optics for sorting
Erjang – A JVM-Based Erlang VM
Incredibly helpful. In the US here, some of these are definitely things I'll need to do, but I don't know the places I need to go yet. Something tells me that registering is easier in the UK, but I'll find out.

How do you keep on top of your accounts for your business?
There's been a decade of smart (at least seeming) people complaining about how badly conceived and pointing out the various issues with the plane are. So at this point distinguishing between people who have the experience to know what they're saying and people who have read a lot about the F-35 program is going to be a bit tough in a vacuum.
> I still wouldn’t call that punishing him, but rather a consequence of his actions.

Weird aside, but sometimes when my wife and I have a conflict, I may go for a walk to clear my head, and I’m typically not interested in being intimate for a while after the conflict. She refers to this as "punishment", which seems like an odd way to describe me needing some space for a bit.
Pipeline Operator in Ruby
Most active bands do. It doesn’t say much other than “we’d like to reach our audience.”
Never underestimate the power of the NaNo forums, or subreddits, or general forums that open a NaNo board. It's not just about pacing, it's about communication.
The thing is that nobody just buys a weapon in isolation. You buy into a weapons system, which includes not just the weapon itself but a whole universe of concerns that surround it: logistical concerns like spare parts, fuel and ammunition, operational concerns like tactical doctrines that work well with the weapon, and so forth. Without that stuff, the weapon by itself is pretty close to useless.

All of which means that it's more or less impossible to buy a weapon from a foreign power without opening yourself up wide to that power. You have to let their military advisors onto your bases, to train your troops on the doctrines that go with the weapon. You have to let their logistical specialists into your inventory systems, so they can hook you into the pipelines through which the spare parts and ammo flow. Any of these people could be using their access to snoop on you or worse, but there's not much you can do about that because without them all you've bought is a $100 million paperweight.

If you're the buyer, yes, that absolutely sucks. But, unless you're willing to spend vast amounts of money you don't have to build up your own domestic military-industrial complex, you don't have a lot of alternatives. You either buy into one of the existing ecosystems (American, Russian, European or Chinese), or get curb-stomped by a neighbor who did. Once you're bought into one of those ecosystems you're effectively at the mercy of the state that operates it, of course, but hey, you do what you've gotta do. As the saying goes, the strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.
There's no `/usr/local/Brew` (or whatever directory it uses) either, but it creates it, and it changes the ownership of `/usr/local/bin` to make it writable without a sudo prompt - which is more egregious than creating a `~/bin` directory, any day of the week.

If they didn't insist on using `/usr/local/bin` (which is in the default $PATH) the permissions issue would be much less of an issue IMO (not a non-issue, but less of an issue than it is currently)
No, the problem is that it is literally the least useful form of "help" they could've given someone who is facing political persecution from the most powerful government on Earth. It's basically a really underhanded way of saying "you're on your own on this one".
In the interest of being fair and balanced, I often account for the imbalance of power, or else we wouldn't be seeing any conflict at all. Often the threat of violence is enough to coerce, and that doesn't get coverage. So when there is violent protests, I'm going to give more lenience to the group with far less power and force.
This was an inevitable conclusion, I grew up in Hong Kong and we left in 1996 during the handover along with many other ex-pats. We saw the writing on the wall as did many others based on how horrible the handover was going. It is a true shame what is happening to Hong Kong now but I don't see China relenting to pressure as that would only embolden other cities to do similar protests. I worry for my friends who are still there as the only way this is going to end is in a continued escalation of violence. As someone who visited Tiananmen Square in the early 90s, it was amazing how quickly the country moved on and refused to discuss it. I worry that is what is going to happen in HK.
He's not even a US citizen. Why should he face our laws? Should American woman be extradited to Saudi Arabia for not following their laws? Should American citizens be extradited to North Korea, or China, for exposing their government secrets? It's extremely authoritarian for the United States to do this. It's not only an attack on free speech, it's the United States applying it's laws to everyone in the world.

Also, it doesn't matter if he's a journalist or not. It's an attack on freedom of the press or freedom of speech either way.
what about Wechat tracking you even though when not using its features?
I don't think CPC would patiently wait until you launch the app to start logging your behavior.
I think you are right. I only used a foreign card for Taobao. I don't think it works for normal purchase...

I'll try it tomorrow and see if it works.
I skimmed through the article. It's very accessible and well-written, compared to my experience with some of the other literature in ML.

As a bit of an outsider I'd like to ask, how does this compare to the traditional analogue? In what scenarios is this superior to the classic BP NNs?

I understand that the point of the paper is to show that shared-weight training is possible, but the results look promising, hence the question.

There was a mention that one of the test cases achieved results competitive with current state of the art, but using 10 times less connections. That's pretty impressive.
We just have to make sure we are not swapping super processed meats with super processed plant-based foods. Avoiding processed foods is what makes up for most of this difference.
Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?
Or, why are they not free?

Many times during my professional career I've wanted to read the underlying standard for a product or a system, and I can't ever be bothered to cough up the ~100 CHF they seem to demand. As a result I've never actually read a standard.
Anyone who doesn't recognize that saving the world requires ZERO growth, and probably NEGATIVE growth at this point is a dangerous fucking lunatic and ought to be deprived of the opportunity of making decisions.

WE. LIVE. IN. A. FINITE. ENVIRONMENT.

Do you people fucking understand that, you crazy fucks? Do you understand what the word "finite" means? It means that you can't have however many children you want. You can have two, and that presumes that they don't consume like the average North American.

Anyone who uses the phrase "economic growth" in a positive sense needs to be placed in a hospital for the criminally insane.
I tried this recently (Algo with wireguard) and it was probably the most reliable way, but still blocked very quickly on some ISPs, for example it never worked through my China Telecom phone.
Don’t understand why countries don’t keep it simple. If you are drunk you can’t operate any type of machinery or work, wait better can’t run a country as president or prime minister. Also, I forgot, you can’t vote in any parliament. Just one law.
Cheap? That's over 4600 dollar...
Advice from Alan Kazdin from Yale has influenced my parenting of my 4 young boys more than any other single source. His recommendations against punishment are based on the fact that research shows they are not effective for long-term behavior change in children. It is challenging to use the methods in heated moments, but even without perfect application, they have been helpful.

Here is an article that introduces the ideas:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/no-spanki...

Here is his book, that has full details and many examples:

https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Parenting-Toolkit-Step-Step-...
Another way to look at this is something analogous to a Fourier transform. Given a function, try a frequency and see what you get. So maybe some of the things that conceptually make that nicer might also have an analogue here?

This paper really is a breath of fresh air, for mine
Stop trying to invent the next Facebook or Amazon
The <toast> element should be implemented this way as well.
Yes, I felt something in tune with that. I sympathize with people protesting the China machine taking over. But storming a parliament rarely ends well, and I respect substantial efforts to prevent that, especially in a somewhat functioning democracy such as Hong Kong still is.
> it's not "constant time" in the sense of having O(1) time complexity with regards to the size of the inputs

Yes it is. The presented algorithm is constant time in the exponent, i.e. 2 + O(1), where this exponent is not impacted by the size of the inputs n and c. Much like any other complexity analysis, an algorithm is O(1) as long as O(1) is asymptotically the "largest part" of the running time. As the size of n increases, the exponent 2+O(1) increasingly dominates execution time.
They just need to do like me! Start seeing their wife as the boss!
Checkpoint inhibitors (PD-1 hunters like keytruda) and CAR-T therapies are brand new, extremely exciting, they work, and they’re shockingly new.
Keynesian economics was not supposed to be taught during the McCarthy era, and it didn't doom the West. We didn't understand economics very well before the 20th century, and it didn't doom the West. I seriously doubt that one class being taught at Harvard is going to doom the West.
Well, thanks to Trump exposing Israeli intelligence and requiring immediate extraction of an agent. Most countries are extremely wary to share shit while the dementia filled man is in the white house.
Major browser dev teams rewriting components over year-long periods of carefully planned integration points (with Mozilla even introducing a new programming language along the way) is hardly telling anything about the viability of developing a browser from scratch. Given the powers-that-be in so-called "web standards", by the time you've got anything to show odds are it'll be obsolete.

What would be helpful is if the whole web stack could be organized into profiles (eg. things working without JavaScript, without CSS "4" features, etc.), but WHATWG dismissed the idea of HTML/CSS versions or device profiles proposed by MS (hell they even can't be bothered to version their "living standard" specs). And W3C could start to give formal semantics for CSS (which is kindof "implementing" and verifying the spec) rather than prose about dozens of layout models in an untyped ad-hoc syntax. That is the role of standard bodies, not to lead us into a way-of-no-return for the benefit of very, very few people.
All these results (re 'shown to be carcinogenic') are based on surveys as opposed to experiments. In other words, unlike randomized, double-blind studies, they cannot be said to demonstrate causation, but at best may point to interesting hypotheses.

As for eggs and cholesterol, about 80% + of cholesterol is produced in the liver, and increasing dietary cholesterol by HUGE amounts at best changes blood cholesterol by 2-4%

Sorry I can't dig up the study right now, but perhaps searching pubmed may find it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=laws+and+journalism&rlz=1C1G...
If there's a <toast> shouldn't there be a <dropdown> first? Or a <menu>? These are ancient and ubiquitous UI elements that people need to code themselves.

I have not thought about it much but my feeling is why do we need any of these? Can't we just use web components?

And another thing, there's a lot of traffic to CDNs serving popular JS frameworks, when are CDNs serving libraries of UI components (such as web components) going to become commonplace?
“According to industry watchdogs, reducing clinical trial costs will not help curb list prices because those prices are not determined by investment costs; they’re determined by what the makers think the market can bear, which helps explain why profit margins are so high.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/opinion/drug-approval-cut...
So you're saying that a 6-finger person has a larger change of having children than the person with 5 fingers?

Here's a reality check: 6-finger people also have a much higher probability to be bullied at school and thus never reproduce than the others.
The accessibility of the ecosystem is just not good enough for more junior engineers. This used to be a real strong suit of web development, but it has degraded over the years. My believe is that ES modules could reverse the trend, and simplify web development.

ES modules could also bring sanity to dependency management within the ecosystem. It is interesting to see the approach Deno JS is taking here as well.
Any American "standards" for what a journalist is or isn't isn't really applicable to an international defendent, which Assange is, yeah?

If so, then you must admit that America is imposing it's own (subjective and ever-changing, depending on the parties in power) view on the international theatre and that's where the concern starts to get exacerbated.
Probably because these are not "historical facts". I mean, genocide? Harvard University tried to exterminate the Russian people? Who knew a bunch of academics had that kind of power...

Of course, this also neatly ignores the responsibility of Russian politicians for their own country, which was hardly under foreign occupation at the time.
I'm sorry, but your web site seems like a bit of nonsense veiled in a guise that it's out to present "the truth".

Many of the linked tweets don't resolve, and the rest of the web site appears to be purely a Greenwald support group in his seeming vendetta against his former employer.

The site also proclaims [paraphrasing] "do not trust the Guardian—read our write-ups of the same subjects instead".

I can't take that any more seriously than "corporate-state media".

I should add, if corporate-sponsored journalism outlets is a problem for your group, then I suggest you also drop The Intercept:

Financial backing for The Intercept was provided by Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald
I wrote a bit about the process here: https://medium.com/@mactuitui

As for the coding train, there's a few examples where I actually got directly inspired: the fluid simulation was a great one as I was always afraid that this might be too much work; this showed me I could actually do it in a day (but be vary that that his particular implementation has a few bugs).

If I look at one recent example, maybe raycasting is interesting. How would I make that look nice? Maybe I'll start by having a simple scene with a few regular walls but a circle of point sources that would rotate in a loop. Maybe I'll find a way to make the walls move in an interesting fashion. Or have the rays propagate through time and have a contest of flashing lights.

But what Daniel is good at is explaining some of the techniques used behind this type of work, it is not about the "how to make it look cool".

Now that I think of it, there's one thing that might be fun to do is to work though Casey Reas's Process series (linked here: http://reas.com/text ). It's a set of "elements" that have predefined behavior (but described as text) and a set of "rules" to represent how those elements interact. There's a lot of freeway since it's text; you might find something interesting by yourself here.

The point is that there is no right or wrong way to do things here, it's mostly a matter of "does it look good". That requires to think about all the points that make art look good, so you'll have to think about contrast, balance, composition and everything. But having something to show is half the battle/

The particular example in the PR is indeed based on the previous days before, there is a lot of overlap in the techniques used and it can be pretty opaque to understand but at its core it's a system that generates a tree by making elements grow/branch out according to some "energy" that is coming from the root (iirc). The other half of the issue is how to make this process look good.
Operating from rough airstrips looks great when touted by the AF, but it usually ignores the problems associated with it. First you need to provide physical security for the strip, facilities for aircrew and maintainers, and finally the two most important things, fuel and weapons.
I’m not saying your opinion is wrong because you are in the minority. I’m saying if $x number of engineers who work at the target company and are producing code everyday can’t understand your code, it is more likely that your code was obfuscated than that they were incompetent.

But if it was code that didn’t follow a process - especially C code - it could have had all sorts of security vulnerabilities. What if their process was never to use the “unsafe” variants of the C string and memory standard library functions?
Avoiding unnecessary suffering is sometimes used as the basis for whole ethics systems. It's inherently good and doesn't need to be deduced from anything.
A "toast" means a few words of salutation. That's the purpose of the Toast UI element. A user requests an action, the action returns a successful response, the user receives a message consisting of a few words announcing the success.

Just because you are oblivious to the concept it doesn't mean it's bad. It just means you need to learn something before blindly asserting that stuff you don't know and are not familiar with is for some reason comparable to dog shit.
This is simply incorrect. Dietary cholesterol intake isn't even correlated with blood cholesterol.
This is the whole thesis of the (very good) book by Bryan Caplan, "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids."
It's good that we should think that journalists should be non partisan and just report on the facts. The reality appears that almost all of the media outlets are partisan and that journalists appear to be biased. Would it be better if we spread the idea that no journalism is impartial and spread facts of such bias and influence where we encounter them or would it be better to put our effort into (what I assume is the current strategy) of promoting the idea that it's only the other side that is partisan and our side sees clearly?
> My thoughts exactly. It's been a while since I last saw a company with an actual IT department and even longer where they had an actual clue

Let me guess: most of your recent experience is with relatively new and/or small companies, probably in the tech industry.