skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look forward to using your enhanced tools, once they're ubiquitious and fully-featured.

More seriously I can't imagine what "points" you're trying to score. Yes the shell is good at launching external processes, and yes the built-in facilities for other things are lacking in some ways. On the whole people work around them by using perl, python, and other tools.

It might be, as you say, that people resort to using such external scripts/languages because their shells suck. But I have to ask: So what? They get the job done. A "super-shell" doesn't need to be present, even if people do things the "hard-way".
Would Gentoo not be subject to the effects of dodgy upstream patches too?
You might come up with use-cases after going through a few of the examples. You know that expression, "when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"? Well, I think you can use that to your benefit. Once you learn how to swing the hammer of ML/DL, then you'll start seeing nails everywhere.
What concerns me is not when you and your peers are doing nothing, but when you are doing something.
But you’re assuming that encrypted speech only contains its decrypted meaning or even that its decrypted version means anything. Maybe I want to speak the encrypted text. Maybe an encrypted message is what I want to communicate. Imagine an encryption/coding scheme where the cipher-text looks like normal speech but doesn’t mean what it seems like it means... hopefully you get the idea.
> there will never be an option to disable things like composition or vsync

Wait, is there a coupling between composition and vsync? I do enjoy playing games on linux, and forcing vsync enabled is an absolute non starter for me.
Agree. This is more of a 4th-ammendment "The right of the people to be secure...against unreasonable searches and seizures" issue.

It would be like federally outlawing clothes to make sure no one in America has a gun. Also, and aside from the whole premise being unconstitutional, shallow, & generally kind of silly, enforcement would be just about impossible.
A lot. Even if we start now, it will be a long time before our actions have any effect. And since we don't start now, and probably won't soon, again, a lot I'm afraid.
Maybe they can do some sort of podcast, change the format a bit? Latin students would love this, worldwide!
This is the problem Slack solved, their search is pretty good
yeah, I kinda agree. at least in Ruby, besides the errors bubbling up, if you had to handle the error manually, you could use the truthiness of the language to write just:

do_something if err

I've read the other proposals, and in fact one of them (catch) is similar to what I do when I'm coding just for myself:

value, err := os.Open(filename)
exit_on_error(err)

where the code for exit_on_error is simply something like:

if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Something went wrong!")
os.Exit(1)
}

you could make it a bit more robust:

value, err := os.Open(filename)
handle_error(err, ERROR_FILE_OPEN)

where ERROR_FILE_OPEN could be a simple constant, and in the method we have a switch with constants and messages. not a zero cost abstraction, but if you have to handle an error, it probably wasn't a cheap operation either, so the extra call won't be an issue
Warrants don't work, that's the problem. There have been many instances now where a judge issued a legal warrant that was impossible to enforce, because of encryption. Should that be the case? It's not a simple question.
I think there is some confusion here regarding a right to free speech vs. the right to any speech. The courts routinely recognize the state's right to limit modes of speech, e.g. vandalism, yelling in a theater, etc. Isn't encrypted speech just another "mode"?
A couple counterarguments:

(1) "No way with the cables included in the box" is not the same as "no way." There's a USB-C to Lightning cable in the bag right next to me. That lets me plug a top of the line Apple laptop into a top of the line Apple phone. With no dongle, even.

(2) In practice, there are zero times over the last two years that I've had to plug a phone into a laptop. I can't honestly remember why I bought this cable; I think I wanted to see whether USB tethering to the phone was better than using the mobile hotspot feature (spoiler: kind of a wash). I am sure there are people reading this, possibly including you, raising their fists to the sky and screaming BUT IT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF THE MATTER, and, sure, okay, I guess. But is it?

One can make that argument that Apple should include both cables in the boxes, or a USB-A to USB-C dongle, or something. But in practice, just how many people need the USB-C cable for their phone, even if they have a USB-C laptop? The vast majority of people are probably only using Lightning cables to charge their phone from a charger, in which case it doesn't matter, or to plug into their car, which means they need USB-A anyway. (People may also be using Lightning-to-not-USB dongles, like headphone ports and HDMI output, but that's irrelevant to this.)
We have to let the government install thought reading chips into our brains, because the government regularly runs into the roadblock of people knowing things but not saying them during their investigations
I just did a quick visual scan of the PDF. Some parts have to be fabricated. Custom parts of the microscope were designed with Autodesk Inventor Professional and
451 fabricated by Protolabs and 3D Hubs...
I do not think this is open source. At least I do not find a link to the file.

The measurement results were
465 saved as CSV files and processed with MATLAB There are open source MATLAB alternatives.

Great project. With effort it could be reverse engineered, but links to all the required files would make it far easier.
Apple and Samsung already exploit slave labor indirectly throughout the entire supply chain from sulphur mining, rare earth elements mining in the ocean and final assembly. Depending on China might be a stupid move if it suddenly decides to enact sanctions to harm the US economically... it would be a huge hit domestically but it might be necessary for a pretext to war (if foreign relations policies change).
It would be a wise strategic move to take 75% of your military spending and put it into education, infrastructure, health and reducing social inequality.

I am not an expert, but my feeling is that overwhelming military power is not the only thing that contributes to the survival of an empire (which the US de facto is).
Once upon a time, people did not carry devices around that logged their every move, and police work was still regularly conducted. Currently, there does not exist any technology to read minds. If there were, do you think that the government should be allowed to surveil our thoughts? Do you, umvi, draw the line at encryption, or do you feel there should be no limit to government access to our personal lives?
> How does the percentage of LGBT folks change whether I should have equal rights?

I'm not making this argument at all, but apparently some people are; they seem to be saying that we should be extremely careful not to underestimate LGBT percentages, or they might be mistakenly regarded as "too small" of a minority to have legitimate "rights".

Which strikes me as deeply weird, given that this whole range of notions of "rights", "agency" and so on and so forth are meant to apply to the individual first and foremost; who is, by definition, the smallest and most vulnerable - and, all too often, the most heavily oppressed minority of them all!
London Bridge attack: MI5 and police cleared of failing to prevent atrocity
Agreed. There is no other context where this type of argument works. If I have a right to privacy, that's obviously dangerous because it means I can privately do bad things without easily being seen or caught. That was always the trade off with giving citizens rights and liberty. You can't simply eliminate our rights just because they are a barrier between law enforcement and public welfare. That decision was already made long ago and the choice was to take the risk because the alternative, where those in power can violate the privacy of anyone they choose, turned out to be a pretty terrible thing. Those barriers are a feature, not a bug.
I noticed you avoided mentioning at all Xi's power grab and now dictatorial status.
I grew in the area (Provence) and we didn't have air-con at home and in cars and we managed fine at 35C in summer.

The thing is that traditional recipes are being lost. Like you mention, old houses have thick stone walls and shutter on windows: In summer you close the shutters and open the windows to create airflow and it's fresh.

These days it's all glass patio doors and you cook... And then people install air con to compensate.
I'm unable to square why the CEO says on Wednesday of this week at Aspen Ideas Conference that the MAX will return to service later this summer, and the Boeing 8-K filing also on Wednesday of this week which describes a materially significant event that could only add months of mitigation testing and recertification.
I agree that it is super painful and confusing to implement RNNs in TensorFlow and had a similar experience starting out. You should take a look at https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/scan, that is one of the easier ways of implementing one I think. Other than that Pytorch is also great for experimentation and even has a nice example https://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/cpp_extension.html of implementing a variant of an LSTM.

Contributing to this problem is that there is a ton of low quality blog posts on all of these topics.
Language support for exceptions are the better way.
Just do it. Even if things don't get any worse, gunsmithing still qualifies as a bona fide hardware-hacker hobby.

And everybody needs one of those, right? Yet another perfect excuse to spend a lot of money on CNC machines.
Drivers are often bad and nvidia's especially so but at this point if it's been years and you can't get a desktop window manager compositing on top of a GPU stack the problem seems increasingly likely to be you and not them. Blitting quads is not THAT hard. We've got vendors like Mozilla out there rasterizing entire webpages on NVIDIA (and AMD now, I think?) GPUs but Wayland can't reliably composite window bitmaps for some reason?
I'd love that picture text search to come back, sounds like a fantastic feature
>If you provide an open source package for free, there's no real transaction so you can't claim responsibility from anyone.

In the US and UK (and I expect most countries) you don't need to charge for a product to be sued when it fails.
That's why my proposed system doesn't rely on the difficulty of reading write-only chips alone... You need both:

1. Physical access to the device

2. Physical access to the vendor's key storage (this could be extremely difficult if not impossible if the company were responsible - consider an air gapped storage vault)

I still think my system could work if implemented by, say, Apple. You have only shown weaknesses of individual parts, not weaknesses of the entire system.
You have to have a “reasonable belief that you’re in danger.” and "the level of force needs to be reasonable given the circumstances. "

In practice, prosecutors in Canada are quite likely to charge you with a crime no matter what to let the court decide rather than making that decision themselves. Once it hits court, juries are usually quite sympathetic to the self defense argument.

(Not a lawyer, this is all heresay).
1) If I'm selling lemonade and my terms and conditions are that you have to jump 10 times before paying me, and I only accept payment in rocks with 10% ferrous oxide, you are free to laugh and ignore me. Please also remember that we're talking about games, movies, music... not exactly life-critical products.

2) I agree. I avoid DRM and other BS as much as possible. I went out and purchased affinity photo when photoshop went to a subscription model. I'm going to cling on to my CS6 for as many years as I can. Yes, I'm going to lose out eventually when plugins stop working or when I buy a new camera whose RAW files cannot be opened by CS6, but thems the breaks.

3) Yes, that sucks! I don't know what else to say. You can either be principled and avoid DRM, or be a realist and accept DRM in as few places as possible. I'm objecting to the "I'm entitled to pirate it because they didn't sell it or stream it without DRM" mindset.
I don't think you need to be "much" better read than someone to pull this off. I think I could lead a much better and smarter programmer than me through -- for example -- monads, and stretch their brain a bit if they hadn't encountered them before, as part of an examination
Hey thanks, I'm not the author, but I did contribute a bit by fixing up some of the README based on my experience, I'm friends with the author and have relayed your message. I'll see if he can join HN and comment.

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, I will get you answers.
I can't read the article due to paywall, but why does a note-taking app need to be a unicorn in the first place? It just seems so excessive.

Like couldn't 80% of the value of Evernote be written as a simple, intuitive piece of software that a middle-aged programmer in Boise could maintain in his free time?
" "Dribbble" is good because you can tell people "the name is 'dribble' with three b's" and people will immediately know how to spell it and their first instinct will be "dribbble.com" and if they search for it, it will be the top search result. "

Totally agree with that. great point. I asked his question cause I am considering 3 letters in my startups name and I often use Dribbble as a reference that it can be done. I've done for the exact reason you mentioned. In 2019, getting a .com domain + instagram + twitter handles is really difficult.
Holy shit, this guy is having a legit schizophrenic episode and everyone around him thinks "I don't understand this, it must be brilliant".

From his site: http://dwmlc.com/dwm/pages/page.php?page=10

> FOR THE COURT OF THE WRITTEN-MOTION IS WITH THE FICTION BY THE MODIFICATION OF THE WRITTEN-WORD. FOR THE AFFIRMATION(OUTSIDE OF THE NOW-TIME-QUANTUM) OF THE PERJURY(FICTION OF THE LANGUAGE-CLAIMS) OF THIS PARLIAMENTARY(KINGS)-MOTION-PLEADINGS AGAINST THE PARTY.

Compare to the example in the wiki article on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad
If you are smart then you are smart enough to ignore that.
There is no country on the planet that stands for individual freedom more than the US; we were founded on the idea. The idea that Canada has stronger free speech protection is laughable. There is zero chance this idea goes anywhere. Look at the sources for the article, that should give some indication of its credibility.
You'd have to do it the old way, find habitations with think walls, ventilate during the night and keep the air relatively cool during the day. That's mostly how we still do it in many parts of southern Europe where were AC still isn't very popular in individual homes.

Of course Dubai's skyscrapers wouldn't be very well suited to this method so yeah, they'd have a problem in this situation. I've been there during summer and merely standing outside is very tough on the system. Of course as a wealthy European that was only a mild inconvenience as you move between the overcooled mall and the SUV. Now if you're one of these modern slave workers coming from poorer countries and tasked with digging a ditch outside or something like that, it's probably a different story...
I would define it simply as a buzz word that silly people use to try to express a unique awareness and deeper understanding that no-one else can have of more liberal issues (racial, LBGTQ, social condition, etc...)
Chips are different because it costs more to reverse/reengineer them, but once engineered (or copied) for manufacturing, it's trivial to make more. Software and physical design is more difficult to control.
Yeah god forbid a bunch of people who happened to be born in the desert want to enjoy the fruits of civiliation.
Why is “r/the_donald” removed from Google search results?
I agree with you. But I also see the possibility of a little bit of wink, wink, nod, nod. Someone makes a phone call and says "can you change that where clause a little bit?" Should be serious repercussions whenever data like this is shared improperly, and we should expect nothing less from NSA than we do others.
I don't have anything against a subscription if:

- I use it regularly. (Which means I'll probably be upgrading to new versions anyway.)

- The price is reasonable for the value

- I can export my data in a form that's still useful/accessible once I cancel my subscription.

The problem is that all those conditions are frequently not met.
If Go ever corrects all its mediocre design decisions it would end up being merely a Rust rip-off with GC. Therefore I appreciate that Go designers adamantly stick to their mediocre decisions and never listen to the community.
>but companies like Apple who try to be "woke" have no buisness advocating for equality at home while doing buisness with a nation that has imprisoned thousands of religious minorities in re-education camps.

How is that worse than doing business in a nation that has imprisoned thousands of impoverished migrants in concentration camps and has forcibly separated children from their families, to the point where many of them have never been reunited?

At least in China, the facilities for large-scale manufacturing all exist there. You need some tiny screws to build your laptop? No problem, there's a company in the same city that makes them by the millions; in America, you have to contract with some machine shop to make them for a fortune and you can't get the quantity you need for large-scale manufacturing.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...
Sometimes it is useful to make useless things. It will build experience while being fun and making you more able to come up with "useful" things. Tried this with a friend of mine. Our plan was.

1. Take webcam at desk.
2. Build model that detects whether he himself is sitting at his desk.
3. If it is not him, you've detected an intruder, so spray the intruder with a squirt gun or something.

We only got as far as a model that distinguished between him and other people, even deploying it according to this guide. https://course.fast.ai/deployment_render.html

Also the material is just really interesting. If you want to know how a lot of products work, this is one of the most fun ways to learn.
YMMV? I have the last generation blade laptop, and granted Ive only had two tickets opened with support but they were (at least in my experience) surprisingly fast and on the money with both experiences.

I didn’t want to speak for everyone so that’s why I posited the italicized “Maybe” because PC support is like throwing darts at a dart board.

From ten miles away.

With headwind.
A new and improved Zillow Zestimate algorithm
Internet Routing and Traffic Engineering (2014)
I always hit my 100%, as long as I'm allowed to (Product Owners, I'm looking at you :P)
Red Hat is going to keep maintaining X11 for at least the next 10 years (RHEL8 life cycle), I will be surprised if GTK2 hasn't already bitrotted into oblivion from other causes by then.
It feels like a common idea that the worse you felt you did in Oxbridge entrance interviews, the better you probably did because the interviewers were trying to stretch you.
Those cheap Amazon keys are still not legal, so you might as well pirate Windows
Good artists are also not obsessed with form though. Great artists usually have very specific functional goals for their work.

It’s fetishists who are obsessed with objects and their shape.

I agree, many bad designers would rather be bad artists. But it’s harder to make money as a bad artist than a bad designer.
Announcing the YouTube-8M Segments Dataset
This isn’t surprising. The US military has 1.3 million people that are engaging in a lot of transportation.

If we look at list of countries by population, 140 countries have less that 10m people (90 have more than 10 million). So on a per capita basis, the US pollutes maybe 7x as much per capita but again, because the military is using so much transportation it’s not surprising. I would bet CEOs have a bigger per capita carbon footprint.
...said one person (who is generally believed to be a compulsive liar), not his entire team.

While we lack the ability to articulate a defense or substantiation of our religion, we more than make up for it with the vigor to downvote, on a platform that censors those with dissenting opinions.
In the specific case of the new Mac Pro, I don’t really think there’s much IP to “rip off”: it’s a fairly ordinary PC in an unusual case running a pro portray OS that has been made to run on non-proprietary hardware for more than a decadeS. There’s not much that can be ‘ripped off’ that couldn’t be inferred from the year down of a single unit, and not much of value, honestly. They’re almost all off-the-shelf components and those that aren’t are already incorporated in other SKUs already produced on the mainland (such as the iMac Pro).
> China is led by a fairly Leninist party structure in nominal terms

China's party structure was fine and decidedly non-dictatorial. Deng was not a dictator and neither was Hu Jintao. They did not, like Xi has, ensconce themselves as leaders for life [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/26/xi-jinping-chi...
Well, yes. I’m responding to someone who was complaining about the quality of his USB-C dongle for HDMI output.

My suggestion obviously wasn’t intended to cover your bizarro workplace’s 1980s VGA needs. Because I’m not psychic and have no idea who you are.
Canada is part of Five Eyes with close cooperation with NSA. They probably won't bother anyone unless their software is blocker they encounter when gathering intelligence or maybe something with lots of press. Whatever happened with the Cryptocat dude, if true, might be an example:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/10/3972272/cryptocat-spies-a...
- D: lightning fast dev time; fast compile times; performance directly comparable to C and C++; metaprogramming capabilities second only to Lisp.
Investors want another Google, some people are perfectly happy with niche boutique product, and when all that investor money comes in it obscures what made that original product great. It's a shame that some great products only failed because of inflated expectations. If they had just stayed the course, they would've been fine.
They were discussing this on the radio yesterday. Celebrities and public figures are no longer excluded from flagging as adult material. Now people that follow will get a notification saying the message may contain adult material (or something along that line) and they must click a button to see the message.
It's tough, because you are a pain in the ass, and not even realize it? (especially if coupled by arrogance).
In general you're right but that only works well in the long term if the temperature drops during the night to be able to keep the inside temperature cool enough for the day.

Last summer in Provence when we had the heat wave that lasted for weeks you had to live in a grotto to get a fresh atmosphere.
Feds hunt alleged East Bay Apple, H-P counterfeiter
> What are the chances that Cellebrite requires clients to supply a warrant for each device they unlock?

Why would they need to?

They supply devices to clients that can be reasonably expected to have access to warrants at need. The US legal system, at least, does not consider it reasonable for Cellbrite to actively monitor and police every use of its products by its legal customers to ensure full adherence to surrounding legal requirements.
I see no ads/upsells on my free account. Maybe that was one of the things they got rid of after the CEO (new?) announced the new direction.
Genuinely curious - equipment-wise how much beyond the photolithography gear that ASML will sell you do you need to set up a cutting edge fab? Or are the ASML offerings pretty much one-stop shopping?