skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you're taking a very one sided perspective in evaluating this. The story is pretty clear - a black kid stole product, the owner tried to protect his product, the kid cried racism, the college called racism, the college encouraged and orchestrated protests, the college financially intervened by removing contracts with the business, etc.

Since when is someone not entitled to protecting their property? He didn't come out shooting a gun, he came out and got jumped. The school said it was racial profiling - even though no one denied it was theft. What side of the story is missing here? More personal testimony that the intervention was racially based? There's just nothing more to the story that could make this balance out.

I think your reluctance to take the facts at face value and instead say "well what if this really was racist" is exactly the indoctrination that schools like this have fostered. It's like back in the day when people did this kind of crap to ruin black businesses and thinking "well what if we don't know the full story behind their behavior?" Sure maybe there was a valid justification for the hateful behavior, but apply the logical razor.

Racism seemed to be getting a lot better about 10 years ago and since then it seems to have taken a turn. Now it's seemingly in vogue to hate on whites. Don't doubt that there are people out there who think that's a good thing, but consider that the next time the pendulum swings it won't still be the same race being targeted. Do we want to have another Jim Crow era in 2030 where we collectively hate blacks like is so popular to do to whites now?
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Yes, which is why my arxiv target in my Makefiles strips comments in addition to putting all files in the same dir etc.
Wouldn't it still be possible to guess a lot about the design and find potentially exploitable mistakes? Or to build defects into the traces so that they fail in use due to vibration, temperature, or poor mutual inductance? Transmitters do seem far too difficult to get working in a shielded environment and prone to discovery.
It got a software penalty, probably correctly, because this topic is unfortunately more likely to lead nationalistic flamewar than thoughtful discussion. But let's try taking the penalty off and seeing.

By the way, you can't derive story rank from points and submission time—HN's system is more complex than that. That's all that "WTF" means here.
Facebook can't read through your phone messages unless you give them permission to read through your phone messages.
Here is the latest PIOMAS data:

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger...

2012 was the worst year, but 2016 and 2017 were pretty close.

The PIOMAS project has been analyzing Arctic ice density and area via satellite since 1979.

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volum...

Here is the trend of all their data since 1979. It's not looking good:

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger...
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Probably not what you want to hear, but putting a matplotlib REST service inside of a container would be a pretty good start. Apps can talk over a local IP, the interface should be usable from curl.
An article solely about Oberlin college, at best, only shows that Oberlin college is losing their way.
When I see things like this, I just wish HN had a superupvote button. Definitely adding this to my "favorite, underappreciated articles that everyone should read" list. I think a solution to the problems outlined in the article is sneakily smuggling privacy with something else (Apple sort of does that) or making government resistant solutions. I mean systems that you don't even run, that you release to the world and you have no control over. Solutions that communicate in ways hard to detect, and have no central points of failure. Solutions that are hard to shut down, that never die unless the last two computers using them die. They must be tampering and censorship resistant, no matter if you call the censorship censorship, protection against terrorism or preventing copyright infringement. Yes, it is hard, especially that, for any hope of success, the solutions must be as good (or better) than centralized ones. If they are not (if their UX is not), people won't flock to them. That is our only hope of winning in this war. The fight will be hard. It laready is, but that's the only way forward, if we don't want to live in an Orwellian state in twenty years.
some real content for a change.
There wasn't just a demonstration (tho even that would be overdone considering the kid was shoplifting wine - which is a crime and it's not like he was just trying to get some food to survive.) This was deliberate and repeated attempts to libel a store owner out of business or into inane submission. Imagine if your family owned and operated a business for over 100 years, only for it to be dismantled because you rightfully tried to protect your property from theft.

Sounds like you have been indoctrinated by the same hate these colleges are peddling. No not all colleges do this, but 1/10 is too much. These are institutions which should be educating and enlightening, not promoting ignorance of circumstance and leading witch hunts.
This isn't reasonable at all, because the end result will be a withdrawal into privatized spaces because absolutely nobody thinks it is reasonable that their communal activity is automatically broadcasted to the entire world.

And we can already see this happening, with younger people moving to more and more personal spaces (like say Fortnite chats) instead of using facebook.

The goal of facebook, or anybody else who aims to be a digital public space, must be to give users granular control and transparent expectations about who they broadcast to, because if that isn't the case communities will not exist and the only thing that's left is highly curated, generic blogspam.

And even more importantly, the system must be designed in a way to stay at human-scale and to reign in the virality that destroys privacy expectations.
Show HN: Maildown – easy transactional email sending – now supports SendGrid
Hi,

A few weeks ago, I posted about my open source project, Maildown (a Python API that massively simplifies the process of sending emails with Markdown syntax):

https://github.com/chris104957/maildown

Originally, Maildown only offered integrations with AWS. However, I've now just added support for SendGrid, with plans to add more providers in the near future

Thanks for looking,
Chris
It's downweighted like most politicized sites. But what matters on HN is article quality. If an article is substantive and interesting, and there's a hope that it can be discussed thoughtfully, it doesn't matter what site it comes from. I haven't looked at this article, but that's the reason the site isn't banned. The same is true for sites with the opposite politics.
Serious deadline art criticism.
That was a nice wiki rabbit hole!
>> But if general AI is physically impossible, how does the human brain "compute" general intelligence at all?

Who says that the brain "computes" general intelligence? We don't know enough about the brain to know what it is, but it's certainly nothing like a computer. Only by analogy is intelligence something that can be computed and the only reason we have this analogy in the first place is because we have computers. But isn't the accuracy of the analogy what we would like to know with some certainty, in the first place?

This is just another big assumption that is taken for granted: that the brain is a computational device. It seems an easy assumption to make, given all we know about computation. And yet, like you say, several generations of AI researchers have failed to reproduce intelligence with computers. Perhaps the reason for this is that the brain is not a computer, intelligence is not a program, and that's why we do not BSOD when confronted with paradoxical statements like "this statement is false".
In this case 'people' does not mean 'every single person' but rather 'a significantly large enough amount of people as to represent a valid business model in many cases'.
Not true, since the entire point of a social network like this is to browse a playground of publicly-visible conversations involving your friends, and the people conversing are quite aware they're doing so in public. What would be "disrespectful" is if Facebook told you what your friends were saying in private messages between each other.
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There's no law preventing him from resigning.
Reminds me of that article about the embassy bug that was posted here last week - in theory you could design a passive signal amplifier into the pcb, which only lights up when beeing iluminated at a key frequency. Doesent even have to be energy supplied or otherwise active.
Many people are surprised by how hunters are natural allies of conservationists. In Africa, hunters bring in precious money to the thousands of community run conservancies. And the North American Model of wildlife conservation considers the rights and cooperation of hunters to be an essential component in it's successful defense of conservation.
I have the exact opposite experience with LaTeX. Looking at a few example documents and trying them out will get nearly anyone started on writing LaTeX documents. For very sophisticated effects (tables, complicated graphics that interacts with the text in a nontrivial way, etc) the time investment is much more substantial but those same effects are just as difficult (if not impossible) to achieve with Word or other WYSIWYG editors. Automatic referencing, bibliography maintenance are quite unique to LaTeX and are easy to use. Tables may be hard but some specialized tools (like Lyx) might help.

Word documents can be edited by people who have access to an appropriate version of Word (I do not, admittedly by choice) but the documents themselves are binary (ok, xml) mess, whereas LaTeX ones are greppable, searcheable, etc. They also 'age' much better. I can still LaTeX most documents from 20 years ago (sometimes with minor changes).

As a disclaimer, I am one of those people who uses (La)TeX for everything. I know TeX intimately to the point that I messed with the source code several times and wrote tens of thousands of TeX macros (this is not an exaggeration). I may be biased but I still feel that learning LaTeX is well worth the modest effort it takes to start writing LaTeX documents. And the typesetting TeX is capable of is still unsurpassed.
Show HN: Easy Way to Secure Serverless Application with AWS Cognito User Pools
Or if they take leave, they don't take too long. I've noticed that father's tend to return in one month. They all say they got bored but what I think is they are afraid of reprisal.
It may be an unpopular opinion, but I have yet to see a Wardley map that doesn't look like incomprehensible gibberish. I think describing these as 'maps' is bit of a misnomer, I generally view a map as something that a layperson can understand (with some exceptions, etc aviation maps are mind-boggling).

I'm open to someone changing my mind though, since I feel like I am missing out on something!
This should be part of authorization, as I've said before. ANy provider proved of commutting fraud in that aspect would need to be banned, immediately. THis wouldn't even need to be a law, simple, app Store like guidelines would suffice.
China has a lot of vague laws and a history of making up accusations to fit the occasion, with no way for HK judges to examine evidence, and trial with presumption of guilt. This excellent comment on reddit by IosueYu answers the question better than I ever could: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/bvux0z/hong_kong_...
I never understood clearly why Joey left the Debian Project. It was right after the SystemD Wars, but I didn't get the impression it was over the switch to systemd itself. Maybe, the level of acrimony displayed by people he used to, or would like to continue to, respect?
Couldn't that be fixed though? Would be a shame to have to give up on the Tex language because pdftex is out of date.
Both present once-through fuel cycles and "burner" reactor concepts produce fission products in proportion to energy generated. The short and medium lived fission products are the most intensely radioactive and dangerous byproduct of nuclear fission for the first few centuries of waste storage. The advantage of a burner reactor from a waste perspective is that it can consume longer lived actinide waste products like neptunium, plutonium, and americium. A burner reactor converts these actinide wastes into more intensely radioactive but less-long-lived fission products. (Additionally, some much longer lived and less intensely radioactive fission products like technetium 99 are also formed in burners and conventional reactors.)

This is to say that even if you place a high premium on avoiding environmental releases of radioactive materials, there is no appreciable benefit from burner reactors on a human time scale. The overall radiotoxicity inventory that needs ongoing management is nearly the same for both burners and once-through reactors for 200+ years after the fuel is done with. Further, fuel reprocessing facilities are themselves more likely to leak fission products into the environment than dry cask storage is.
Ah, I've been doing a lot of plumbing with PEX lately as well. It's really a pretty nice material to work with. As a total amateur I've done hundreds of crimps with zero leaks. The 3/4" stuff is much tougher on the arms than 1/2". Heartily recommend if you have any interest in DIY home plumbing, or, say, legos.

Another link on the subject: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/11/23/how-to-become-a-k...
Nyt lives in a bubble
Come work with us at Plex Research. A huge problem our founder ran into while doing drug discovery research was that there's tons of data in the world, but no one is using it because it's all in thousands of different places. As a programming, it was crazy to me that even the most advanced organizations in industry (Novartis, Sanofi) or academia (Harvard, Stanford, ...) are still keeping many important datasets in Excel.

We're pulling together all of the world's biomedical research data, structuring it as a graph, and allowing research access all of it as easily as Google does the web:

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While still an early project, I am keeping my eye on the Tectonic(https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) project. A re-write of the core Xetex engine in Rust with a focus on many quality of life improvements - useful error messages, UTF8 always, less line noise during build, eliminating the intermediate files, etc.
Yup, it is just an empty page, I will fix it now.
This is a simplistic assessment of the situation, given the UK's attempts in the 1940s/1950s (The Young Plan) and prior to the handoff to do exactly what you claim they had no interest in.
How do you know all those things about the physical world? For example- you say that "all of the physical laws of the universe are defined by computable maths". Do you really know what all the physical laws of the univese are?
You might be interested in OpenReview, which is doing something like this, mainly in the ML/AI academic community.

(Disclaimer: I’m one of the developers)

https://openreview.net
We need a program to extract an accessible representation from PDFs produced by LaTeX.
There's probably a macro level filter (dirt and maybe silt) sitting in front of the pump. (Something like that would not filter microbial pests, which I assume is your concern.) I hope the water is filtered or treated in some way.
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Don't be "that guy". It doesn't work any it only makes you less fun to be around. Nobody wants to get lectured about how they're doing something bad or stupid. People are well aware of the problems with Facebook. Maybe they'll change, maybe they won't. If they do, please don't assume it was because of you.
Two things that might be of use

1. SQLite can easily import multiple GB of CSV data, process it in memory, or persisted to disk, a great tool for analyzing datasets up to the low 10s of gigs.

2. XSV, https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Exactly right. I improved the most in Fortnite by just landing in a corner (pre creative mode) and practicing building, editing, build-shooting, the same way I would work on combos in fighting games.
The parent commenter is being naive. Of course you can make good guesses at which components fit where, and from there, which lines carry which signals.

Most boards in the plane are probably designed to have as little RF sensitivity as possible, and are also shielded.

However, if you control the copper traces, you can definitely influence characteristics of the circuit. Presumably, those would be picked up in testing, because they are looking for those kinds of defects.

But a semi-passive component underneath a trace, constructed to act a resistor/capacitor/inductor once every million pulses might not be.
> Sometimes kids do not understand their own feelings and telling them helps them cope better.

I'm twenty five and I still have this. Someone suggesting what I might feel a still helps sometimes. Not sure if that's just me, though.
> Goedel proved logically that any axiomatic system of information exchange can have truths that are not provable.

No, that is a misrepresentation of Goedel's results. A theorem that is undecidable (neither provable nor refutable) from a set of axioms cannot be 'truth' in the logical sense (because there are models of that set of axioms in which the theorem is true, and other models in which the theorem is false) - see Goedel's completeness theorem, which says that every truth is provable (and vice versa).

Goedel's incompleteness theorems can be understood on the semantic level as the mathematical structure of natural numbers cannot be characterized by a sane set of axioms, so any such attempt (e.g. peano axioms) that describes natural numbers also describes a different mathematical structure (a nonstandard model of arithmetic) and there exists a theorem that is true in one and false in the other model (so that theorem is undecidable).
The internet gives a disproportionate weight to contrarian opinions.

The thing about climate change online debate is that a nexus seems to have formed between corporate interests, trolls and contrarians, and politicians who don’t understand the nature of the disinformation beast, and allow themselves to be influenced by it.

Climate change may well bring some regional benefits, but a good way of dealing with climate trolls is to point out that they, personally, would probably lose out, once the regional impacts are clearer, while the rich would be able to buy themselves safety, their self-appointed internet footsoldiers would be left to fend for themselves.
Well if someone says this and actually provides supporting evidence then what's the problem?
They could've hired more people and got the same work cranked out in similar time, long hours != popular. Plenty of companies have cracked the whip, but it doesn't always lead to success.
How hard would it be to do some kind of OCR (maybe combined with machine learning) to “scan” anything that looks like a table into a more accessible format? It seems like there’s a lot of room for ML to improve various aspects of screen readers and other assistive technology.
Markdown filtered through pandoc to PDF looks as great as native LaTeX, but is overwhelmingly nicer to work with in source form.

I should note that the reason it looks great is that pandoc translates to LaTeX on the way there; and you can embed LaTeX in the markdown where needed.

EDIT: I see that many others below have already said it. But it was worth repeating.
Worked for her company I expect, and sounds like she wan't one of the ones to receive the stock grant mentioned :)
Well, although I personally use LaTeX for almost everything I write (I also use markdown for simple things sometimes), It is clear for me that (1) not everyone who has to write documents has the time to learn LaTeX and (2) that there are some documents for which you can use whatever text editor you can find.

My comment was targeted mostly at the academic writing, where things like references, placing of figures and tables, and formatting are relevant. I really think that formatting documents is kind of a solved problem, and it slightly annoys me when I hear people complaining about the headaches they have when formatting their papers in word.

At the end the problem is that _word_-like porgrams is all that is taught at school and so, LaTeX looks super complex and frightening to a lot of people, even when it actually is very simple in its essence. Maybe the most complicated thing in LaTeX is to start a document, because you basically have to configure how it will look and what packages you will use. Then it is all about \section, \ref and \cite. At the beginning this is certainly a bit confusing, but solutions like Overleaf, which offers different templates at a click distance, are good ways to overcome this problem. I personally don't use it, and prefer the vimtex plugin plus a lot of snippets (certainly not for the beginners).

But just to clarify again, it is clear to me that not everyone have the time to learn it, nor is it always the best tool for a given task.
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It's probably not too surprising they're not as good at this as Chaplin but at the same time, it does seem to work.

Tptacek's "It's hard to have too much sympathy for people who casually evoke "Kek" and then are shocked to learn people believe them to be white supremacists." made my brain spin in my skull and had me reading sewage-filled Wikipedia pages on a Saturday (of Souls, no less).
The best bit about LyX is using it to format LaTeX tables nicely.

When writing my thesis I used LyX but found myself creating more and more ERT (what LyX calls raw LaTeX code). I eventually just started using a text editor. However, I still do tables in LyX and copy them over -- such a pain to insert a column otherwise...