skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Either they were sold a dream by a company making bogus claims, or they just don't give a shit about false postives in the slightest and they use it as justification to randomly stop and search people.

You hit the nail on the head. Any system that hinders law enforcement’s assumptions and hunches will be touted as defective, anything that confirms those assumptions will be exalted.

This is why narcotics dogs are used. Studies show that dogs will signal upon trainer instruction, and that dogs aren’t accurate nor precise in practice. Such dogs exist to establish probable cause, not to determine whether or not a suspect possesses narcotics.
Ads where you target a small number of people are of course cheap, making pranks like [1] possible for next to no cost. The interesting thing is can you cheaply run campaigns on influential people such a CEOs and politicians. I think you probably could!

[1] https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
Hypertaste: An AI-assisted e-tongue for fast fingerprinting of complex liquids
Police Investigate Death Threats to Movie Theater Owners Screening Pro-Life Film
We really need more signing support in language specific packaging.
As a Common Lisper (among others) interested in language design, I've just started reading up on Go, after I've been told it's "simple, robust, safe, well-designed".

Purely subjectively, alot of what I'm seeing in Go so far looks to me like a "2nd system design" for C programmers. I'm hoping that the concurrency model is where it shines through with some good new ideas and implementations because I've been relatively unimpressed with the rest of it so far. That's not to say it's bad per se, but I've seen nothing in it that makes it stand out from other languages design-wise, and it feels rather warty to me so far...

Purely my own subjective opinion.
Greece forced to swallow austerity, German economic domination of the continent, resurgence of right-wing nationalism.
Video games are like a 43 billion dollar industry, and that's just a small slice of software that has real time requirements. Real time is very much a mainstream need. Hacker news just tends to be a bit of a bubble because people focus so much on web development and business logic here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_debt_crisis

The root cause is widely agreed to be that putting vastly different economies like Germany and Greece on the same currency without have a unified economic policy etc, made the whole construct a disaster waiting to happen.
There are good reasons CDNs don't support http/2 push. It’s hard to load balance and hard to operate, since it requires a persistent TCP connection with the client for the entire duration of the stream, which can be hours. It has consequences that echo almost everywhere in the architecture.
Because you sound like a fool with a point to push talking about a continent they know little about.
Facebook as a threat to Africa? What the hell?

Maybe it is a threat to the African states. Not to the people, though.

Africa is poor thanks to statism. Not due to some "evil american corporates".
No, you've still completely missed the point. I give up.
Ah you are right, I didn't know that about Python. Since it can compile to IR on the fly though, I think it gets more tricky as well. Probably fair to consider that interpreted or compiled both. Like they say in their doc:

> Python is an interpreted language, as opposed to a compiled one, though the distinction can be blurry because of the presence of the bytecode compiler. This means that source files can be run directly without explicitly creating an executable which is then run.

OpenJDK can't do that. You need to pre-compile the source to byte code first.
We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier.

Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch.

[1] https://aerc-mail.org/
why no german version?
The climate over time has not been stable and has affected history. The decline of the Roman Empire under the Emperor Justinian May have been due to a colder climate. (There is evidence for a large volcanic eruption too) Also some fairly bad climatic conditions didn’t help the lead up to the French Revolution.
> no one goes around calling that one OS a "giant, existential, ecosystem-fragmenting threat to the open-source community."

we did do that, and they were, but for the most part, for the moment (at least) we've won - so it's no longer on the tip of our tongue
That is how we got the internet this bad. For educational purposes only.
As a library author that’s well within your rights to determine what you’re willing to support or not.

Django has a very big user base. There are many users working on “very large sites” where the cost of “churn” is dramatic. There are threads on Django-developers right now complaining that the current model is too aggressive. Striking that balance is difficult for a heavily used framework.
And yet all of those bypass the hard part of validating the sender. These again trust the service.

PGP is more than simply encryption. It provides a means of trusted identity.

End to End encryption is pointless if you have no way to validate that a message came sender. Relying on automated systems for key exchange will always suffer from this problem.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Because Science Matters
Thanks for downvoting, everybody.

You aren't supposed to downvote because you disagree, you're supposed to downvote because I'm not contributing to the discussion.

This place is an echo chamber that favors cliques and follows its own arbitrary rules while being hostile to others. lobste.rs is so much better.
SpaceNet: A Successor to the Internet (2013)
This sounds like an excellent solution and perhaps I should let someone know at my local Kroger. Maybe its just something I've overlooked while shopping. Either way, I have a young child now so we mostly just use ClickList.
Rule of law is another one though that no one really has. The best you can say is that there is a spectrum. And on that spectrum you have a place like, say, Norway, where only a very few people will get preferential treatment. And on the other end you have places like EG, where arbitrary treatment is essentially enshrined in law in the personage of the head élite.

You could argue we don't even have rule of law in the US ourselves, since we definitely live in a place where laws will be enforced against some but not others. At least we have the democracy we've been trying to sell them on. So in the case of slinging democracy, regardless of what you think of the health of our own democracy, we're able to give a message consistent with deed.
> More than 50 percent of people still can’t differentiate between an ad (redirect or not) and an organic result on Google.

Just wow.
A couple times in a hurry when I can't get any help, I've cut it myself and taken a picture of the sku on the shelf. That seemed to get me through checkout.
Simple examples can be constructed showing that nonlinearity is required for certain problems.

There do exist non-linear optical components, so I assume that could be used for a piece of followup work...
If Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece or Spain had retained their own currencies they’d have depreciated substantially, raising the competitiveness of their exports compared to the Northern European countries with sound fiscal policies and integrated trade for whom the Euro made more sense. Joining the Euro was a disastrous decision for Greece. They got under a decade of low borrowing costs and lost huge amounts of autonomy. Spain, Portugal and Italy lost access to their traditional means of dealing with the fact that they’ve grown too expensive to be competitive, devaluation, and they’re not politically capable of labour market reform so their levels of growth are probably permanently lower because they can’t give the whole country a pay cut every ten to twenty years by making imports more expensive, while boosting exports as well.

More generally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_debt_crisis

> The European debt crisis (often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis) is a multi-year debt crisis that has been taking place in the European Union since the end of 2009. Several eurozone member states (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus) were unable to repay or refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks under their national supervision without the assistance of third parties like other eurozone countries, the European Central Bank (ECB), or the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
As usual, Apple pushes NIH, instead of supporting DASH which is the common standard. And they also tried to sabotage adoption of the later by refusing to support MSE on the client side that's needed for handling DASH.
The short answer: Nonlinearity isn't just important for deep neural networks - nonlinearity is deep neural networks. Without a nonlinear element in between linear layers, the "deep" is meaningless - a "deep linear network" is precisely equivalent in power to a simple, one-layer linear classifier[1]. (Because if all you're doing is a bunch of linear transformations, you can't do anything you couldn't do with a single linear transformation.)

As far as I can tell, your understanding that this is just a linear function is precisely correct - which means it can't do anything that a simple linear classifier can't.

[1] I suspect that the reason this has multiple layers is because of the physical constraints of the system that prevent a single layer from being an arbitrary linear function of the inputs. The light from a specific pixel can only get effectively diffracted so far, so they need to cascade multiple layers to make sure that all the inputs can contribute to all the outputs. It still ends up being equivalent to a single linear transformation.
Searching for the product by name is the exact same UI/UX at the self checkout and it becomes an exercise in frustration IMHO. The typical staples quickly come up but for apples for example there's such variety that you're often paging through a page or two. Meanwhile, the human powered checkout the operator usually just knows the 4 digit code and away they go.
Looks like as far back as 2014 research has pointed to some big gains using HTTP/2 push: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2578277
If you find these ideas interesting, check out the latest developments of this project here: https://github.com/breck7/jtree

"Space" is now called "Tree Notation".

We are now referring to this "SpaceNet" idea internally as "The World Wide Tree".

This month we will be announcing the Tree Notation Lab, and funding to make this idea a reality.

Only took 6 years to finally start to see that this may be doable!
I've been using my S9 for over a year without having a Samsung account, and I don't intend to create one. What basic functionality requires an account?
Deep Saliency Models: The Quest for the Loss Function
no, no blockhain. Just OAuth2.0 decentralized with DNS, as the authorization server and the resource server can be behind 2 different domains.
The problem is not whether there is global warming or cooling per se, the problem is in the RATE of warming or cooling.

Changes that would normally take hundreds of years and allow enough time for gentle, imperceptible migrations are taking mere decades and causing problems with thousands wanting to migrate daily.

Any area on Earth can cope with one or two families leaving or arriving every year. But very few places can cope with hundreds of thousands of people arriving or departing every year.
Compare it to the Java standard lib: concurrent data structures, proper generic structures (tries, priority queues, etc.), GUI libraries, annotations (JPA, nullability, etc.), management, sound, etc. and you'll see what's missing.
"How I deprogrammed thousands of Trump supporters with this one weird trick."
I'm actually more than happy to consider any substantive contrary argument, but I didn't detect one in there. Even pretending to advocate for the mindset you describe is unproductive and even destructive. People reconsider viewpoints all the time.
Americans need data centers and data centers need air conditioning.

Funny story: I once was paged to be part of a shut down exercise of services in a backup data center in the middle of an ice storm where the whole city was shut down. The chillers stopped working and the DC was overheated. They had security open doors etc but they couldn’t get enough chilled air into the building. The first thought was that the AC units had somehow frozen over. The postmortem found that the AC units had not been programmed for temperatures lower than 28 degrees and had just shut themselves off.
1 UI thread !== only 1 thread

Firefox and chrome use a half-dozen or so threads parsing and compiling JS code so it loads quickly. Firefox's Quantum work adds a lot of threads for rendering as well. In addition, service workers, web workers, and Wasm all spawn additional processes which serve the same purpose if you aren't sharing memory directly.

That said, the Phoronix Selenium tests show AMD ahead by quite a bit. (source)[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-37...]
If you prefer to stay within PHP, Lumen is similar to Flask and Sinatra (BTW Flask is Python and Sinatra is Ruby).
This title is unnecessarily inflammatory with intent to gain our sympathy to the position presented.

The technical writeup of this post are spot-on, though. I prefer less drama with my bias but I’m very glad I read this.
This is what Africa always needed. Large federation or empire. If they had large empires hundreds of years earlier, they’d have large sectors that would speak the same language, stop tribal warfare, invest in the common defense, and lots of that money would go towards science centers and dissemination of information. Instead, other empires ran roughshod over them over the years.
Any chance some of this is related to patent avoidance?
If you think about the rules of our current system, your conclusion makes perfect sense. I and others don't think the rules of the current system are very good if they're preventing us from giving people better quality of life.
Do these groups include, in their core beliefs, the idea that others should have no rights or worse?

No?

Nazi do. They aren't going to extend the same olive branch to talk things out if they have the power, but will hide behind "but your tolerance! DEBATE ME!!!" when they don't.

The only thing I'd extend to them is the right to due process and innocent until proven guilty - but walk around with Nazi paraphernalia or slogans and you're getting punched.
How to earn Bitcoin with Inscrypt? (The smart way)
Russia is irreverent. No strong economy, little innovation and corrupted political system mentally in soviet era. Whole heartland theory is silly, population centres are moving to coastal, technology and innovation is more important than total land area and most importantly there is nothing interesting in Siberia.
Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex
Ads work. In other news, water is wet. Brought to you by the NYTimes (TM)

NYtimes seems hellbent on convincing people that any information that is not vetted by other humans of authority (preferably themselves) is a danger to society that must be banned. Fits the purpose of a medium that wants control over society. Then again most of us know that the internet is a wild west and thats why we loved it. I know that HN loves them, but this path and the logic behind it is sinister and backwards.
IIRC, `set -o nounset` is the bash equivalent for `set -u` in sh.
One way for you to learn is to teach your kids new stuff. Keep in mind that you'll need lots of patience - never yell, act disappointed or rushed. Yes, it's hard but you'll be very surprised how quickly they catch on. Kids may seem like they are spacing out but they are constantly learning, even the 4 month old. You hear about the 12 year old computer geniuses. They don't just appear. The parents have had a lot to do with that in many cases. If you start now there will be a time when you won't be able to keep up with the kids. Just set some time every day. It's a win win situation. They win. You win.
For nations with lower GDP’s there is significant overhead to using their own currency. It’s often more harmful than beneficial.
That's why Xonsh exists !
The brute force method is the force flag (eg: `rm -f`). `set -e` is error handling. Force flag was constantly used in the post which is what I disagree with.
CFA Franc countries can't leave because 1) France holds their foreign reserves so France holds the upper hand, 2) France actively works against countries trying to leave.
More than 20% of highly engaged employees is at risk of burnout
Task Management Strategies
"how I saved many babies with my $100 ad campaign near my local Planned Parenthood."
As a parent of three 3 and under, and interested in this, can you share some of the practicals?

-what if it’s cold (40f) and rainy? Do they still go out? What do you dress your kid in?

-what about fights with sticks?

-what about all the stuff in the woods that may or may not be edible (eg mushrooms)?

Just interested as these are some of the “how would that part work?” That come to mind for me.
These are newer results[1]

golang ranks 108 and 121 in the plaintext and JSON benchmarks, which is quite abysmal.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=b...
Yes, but that scenario has a few issues in my mind:

1) the people running the fed are not particularly rich. If there is some grand economic engineering scheme, these people would be 100x more wealthy.

2) if these things are predictable, where are the predictions? Besides one lucky guy who nobody knew of beforehand, nobody publicly predicted the 2008 crisis. Why aren't these qualified individuals stepping forward? The Big Short guy has gotten tons of fame and money from his prediction. If people could reliably predict these things, they would do so much more often.

3) I don't see any obvious way that a financial crisis benefits the fed or politicians or whatever shadow governments you're alluding to.

4) if such sophisticated economic engineering was possible, surely the benefactors would go about it in a much more subtle way.

I think you get the point. Believing your version takes a lot more leaps of faith than accepting that an incredibly complicated and sometimes irrational system is hard to predict.
Vanilla PHP isn’t any “safer” in this regard. There’s lots of old PHP code out there that stopped working when PHP 7 removed a bunch of old, long-deprecated legacy cruft. That was good for the platform overall, but if you wrote a vanilla PHP app in 2008 and haven’t touched it since, odds are it complicated your life.

TFA is asking for a platform that never moves. The problem is that the only platforms that never move are ones that have died.
It's going to be free software, yeah. I think it's nice to have something to work towards, and it allows myself to be messy with the project or start over without having any ties. At the same time, I do generally believe that software should at some point be Finished (aside from compatibilty updates and maybe one or two ease of life features), so I have the aim of crushing all or most of the bugs I encounter before releasing to the public, even though the public release is technically 0.0 :)

I guess a fun way of saying it would be, software is an artisanal craft so out of respect for what I'm building and for the users, I don't really want them to see something that is obviously imperfect, until I've smoothed those over.

The less fun way is that I don't want the responsibility of someone running it in production, then for things to go belly-up, haha
I have peeps who visit my webserver often, and they cant get to it with samsung internet over mobile, but as soon as they get on a hotspot its not a problem. there seems to be some intervention when samsng apps are used, instead of FF on a hotspot. There is probably something about my page samsng finds offending but the solution is quick and easy. i can only imagine what bixby might do, as it never gone that far yet.
I wish them and amazon go all the best in the world but this will not fly at all to be the common situation. It will always remain a novelty used by a few locations in cities and that's all. And you wanna know why? Simple, who's stopping the theft? Once this will go mainstream the theft will eat the profit margins and they will revert to current situation.
In P6 culture, the word "spec" is considered an ambiguous word that can mean several very different things including:

* Specification. The P6 language is specified by a test suite called Roast. There are "release" tags, for example 6.c, 6.c.errata, and 6.d. If a program passes the suite it's "officially" entitled to call itself a P6 compiler for the language versions it passes.

* Speculation. Discussion, ideas, RFCs, a large range of design documents written in English that were once called "specification" documents but were never intended to be a substitute for the binary precision and decision of a test suite, multiple compiler prototypes, etc.

Thus:

> the first iteration of the language spec hasn't even been fully implemented yet.

Rakudo fully implemented 6.c, the first iteration of the electronic language spec, 3 years ago.

> I'm way more interested in "Clang/VC++ is now C++20 compliant", because then I can actually use it.

Exactly. P6 has focused on having a digital specification.

If someone wants to know if a compiler is compliant, they can run a test and know within minutes.

If you prefer a specification written in natural language, and claims of compliance to be relative to that natural language specification, and consider tests secondary, well, all I can say is that the P6 view is the other way around.

If your point is that a couple hundred thousand tests isn't enough, then yes, you have a very good point, one can never have too few tests, but one has to start somewhere.

(There's also Toast, which is like Roast, but applied to the entire ecosystem, running compilers against the test suites of all publicly available modules. cf cpantesters.)
You should probably focus on your own health and little one for now. He will eventually grow up, then, waking up an hour earlier than your family will make up 7 hours per week for you to train.