skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can say concretely that this would be stealing. That would be an extremely simplistic view. Remember, I'm talking about "bills that are well known in the culture to be unreasonable". For example, we can firmly say that the price of higher education has been inflated beyond reason and certainly beyond its actual value. Many have said it. Papers, articles, documentaries, and so on have been produced about it. The current popular theory is that the government guaranteeing the loans incentivized the colleges to hike up the fees drastically, screwing an entire generation by gouging them unreasonably. And if you want to say that students didn't have to make the choice to go to college, well, then you're ignoring the fact that people have been drilling it into young people for quite some time that they won't be able to make it in future America if they don't get a higher education degree. I know parents today who are extremely cash-strapped who nonetheless feel they need their kids to go to college so they won't become serfs in the future economy. I even know parents who have gotten divorced purely so that their kid could receive some form of financial aid (only one parent income shown) so they would be able to afford college. So a ton of students and parents felt like they had no choice but to accept these loans if they wanted to make it in America's future economy. And this idea continues today, though it's slowly starting to receive some pushback. On the whole, these people didn't go to college purely because it would be a fun way to study creative writing. Essentially, the colleges rode the wave of fear and hiked up the price, bolstered by the government guaranteeing they would get paid no matter what. One can ultimately argue that the colleges stole from the students who have historically felt like they had to go if they wanted to make it and be able to secure a middle class position in society.

Unreasonable price inflation combined with a sense of necessity or even physical necessity (health care) exists elsewhere in our economy as well. You can argue that our current political situation is due largely to people who are mad as hell over their life being impacted negatively by these things.

As for what life essentials they'll spend the money on, well, we can ask the burgeoning van dwellers movement (people who live in their cars) as well as those people who are running GoFundMe campaigns so they can afford medicine or a medical procedure. You can ask people who are moving out of the country because they can afford a better life in places like India (I just read about this the other day). You can ask the people who just marched to Canada to buy insulin at a reasonable price.
So we're getting rent parties back. Just without the party...
Billions in profits would be verdant proof that the development effort was not wasted (because profit is a measure of value delivered…).
Time Collapsing Photos with OpenCV and Python
"It could be that I’ve never had a religious thought in my life."

The very idea that life has to originate from somewhere/somewhat and cannot just happen sounds like a secular reformulation of a typically religious statement.
On the contrary:

1. Tax the fuel in a plane when it leaves the airport (i.e. including the fuel the plane imports).
2. Airlines will reduce to the amount of fuel planes leaving the EU fly with to dangerously low levels.
3. ICAO prohibits planes from flying with dangerously low levels.

Point 3 entirely deals with the problem of point 2.
The "security" world has an unusually high level of total incompetence. It is scary.
Land value tax and carbon tax!
Regression to the mean works equally in both directions, yes. A tall kid likely has shorter parents (though still above-average), and so on.
With encryption you cannot validate that a transmission is truly an amateur transmission, or one from a commercial, government, or military entity. If anything, proliferation of encryption would kill it.

Leave encryption to the ISM bands, where it belongs.
> is it really that big a problem that the Search Index goes out of sync with the Database?

No. My takeaway is that they should have used an SQL database as the main storage from the beginning, since it was "basically responses to standard forms." Then the ability to search would have been included. Instead they oversimplified their primary storage as something that only handled "get" and "put" --- I imagine something like Berkeley DB.
Thats not what is being said, hes saying that if life evolved twice, it would be almost certainly completely different and "incompatable" at a molecular level.

Consider the design of processor architectures and operating systems, similar design goals but typically one cant run code from the other.
So sad...
Show HN: Journyal – because the full story is worth more than a thousand words
How does it diverge from a conventional circuit diagram?
Curious if China will demand that feature be removed from the Chinese version of iOS now.
This is a pet peeve of mine, but it's ham radio, not HAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio
A 16-bit realmode DOS Hello World is also very simple, being less than 2 dozen bytes (8 bytes of actual machine instructions, and 15 bytes of message...) and something you can enter into DEBUG and run immediately if you have a 32-bit Windows system; on a 64-bit one, DOSBox or similar emulators will work well too:

mov ah, 9
mov dx, 108
int 21
ret
db "Hello world!" 0D 0A "$"
GFW does not block all VPN protocols that are easy to identify. OpenConnect and OpenVPN are both easy to identify, but GFW interferes with the latter but not the former (for now).
Most scientific use cases need CUDA, not just DL ;) Also it is arguable that nvidia high-end GPUs is the best in terms of gaming performance.
Yeah. It's _classical_ inheritance, in particular, that is typically associated with overly-broad criticisms of "OOP".
I think you're the first person I've ever seen who subscribed to Prime for the video instead of the free shipping.
I couldn't get over "add source" and "add destination", set would be a better verb... or just have no verb
Yeah, I was kind of tired when I wrote that. My logic was, if handwringing over Twitter's rules isn't justified then the rules must not matter, because handwringing is justified if and only if the rules matter. If the rules don't matter then they don't need rules beyond basic US law, which would imply that this effort wasn't very profitable.

So, either Twitter isn't right because they took a rough stab into a subtle area, or they aren't right because they took a stab that didn't need to be taken.
Oh hey! This is a favorite topic of mine. I wrote myself a hooking library for a project where I didn’t want to use libc (and it was Win32 by design so I could just use the equivalent Win32 calls). The hardest part was definitely the LDE (length disassembly engine) and in the end I found a small header-only open source library that did it perfectly. The rest was very easy, especially on x86.

API hooking sometimes even works in hostile environments, like on software that tries to guard against patches and modification, simply because it can be challenging to detect, and you can do it early in (like inside a DLL entrypoint). So if you can do all of your work at API boundaries, you can get away with a whole lot, even if an app is packed with a strong VM packer.

Worth noting that for many less difficult use cases on Linux, you can use LD_PRELOAD to somewhat similar effect.
Looks like Elastifile allows users to "mount" cloud buckets to their servers as NFS. This allows them to run old desktop workflows without the need to migrate these workflows to the cloud.

The upside is that Google Cloud is getting serious about the enterprise because most of them still use desktop applications.

The question is how long this will last since the future is the cloud.
Couldn't they offer an app with no in-app "buy a subscription" option and avoid paying that Apple tax? I guess added value for existing subscribers isn't very appealing on its own.
I’m a huge fan of both the human voice and of synthesis, to the point where my ideal musical space to play in tries to smear the lines between the two in various ways.

Combining singing with synthesis is where it’s at. If you’re specifically talking about computer-generated vox then I probably agree with you. But there’s a whole range of things that can be had with a mix of singing and synthesis that is wonderful to behold.

The standout track for me is Imogen Heap’s Hide And Seek: https://youtu.be/UYIAfiVGluk
She can do this live, solo, because all of the harmonies are generated by her voice synth. And the way it reflects her in-the-moment dynamics cannot be matched by a human chorus even if they sank a hundred hours into synchronizing the performance.
Applying a Pre-Trained Language Model to Spanish Twitter Humor Prediction
(Same account, lost original login)

This quote is misleading. It implies that McKinsey consulting partners are the ones making the investment strategies which is false. The large investment unit is run by... surprise surprise... finance professionals. Furthermore 90% of the MIO’s investments are in externally managed funds, the investment decisions of which the MIO does not control.

Spinning off the MIO as a for profit firm would frankly be misaligned with the firm values. It’s also not especially opaque, as it’s fully registered and files documents on its structure and what not. Journalists have simultaneously been using those filings and claiming the structure is opaque.

Again. It’s possible that McKinsey partners engage in insider trading (although it is very difficult as all trades in the firm are required to be approved by compliance). But I really don’t think there’s a logical thread by which partners take enormous risks to circumvent internal controls and provide tips to the MIO just to boost the fund performance. That’s a very high risk, low payoff idea, because even if your secret info is super profitable, it’s diluted across thousands of other partners before benefiting you personally. Claiming that it happens on a massive scale to offset that is just silly and is frankly a huge accusation with no basis. It’s fully possible that the fund was just well managed.
You can't have it all. You don't have to fight traffic, sit in traffic. You don't have to shower, dress up if you don't feel like it. You don't have to worry about your deliveries while away at work, come on, there are pros and cons. Working remote in a company that doesn't have a strong remote support culture sucks, but there are real gains.
I like RJ-45 for this. I can choose between several different cables that are all compatible and pay only for the features/speed I need.
https://faradayrf.com/faraday/

33cm ham band, up to 500kbps, tons of range, especially with yagi/directional antennas, even in a metro area the size of LA. The sad part of this project is that it never took off.
I was about to say that this was one of the most Mozilla-style responses I've read in a while. But I agree with you too. What a sad state of affairs for an organization I once trusted.
Aurora Database + auto-scaling #instances = Serverless??
I felt the author was pretty careful in emphasizing that he's not declaring neither Mizumura nor Murakami is superior over the other, just that translatability can be a factor in how works spread.

BTW, all three works you mention has been translated into Japanese (including Finnegans Wake!) The translation for Neuromancer is also something to behold; Hisashi Kuroma, the translator, invented a literary "cyberpunk style" which can only be done with an Asian language. Words in Kanji are sprinkled with ruby text [1] which, instead of annotating the pronunciation of the word, fills in the romanized equivalent English neologism, eg. "接続" would be annotated not as "せつぞく" but as "ジャック・イン" (jack in).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character
The timeline implies that but experimentation indicates it may not have been that hard.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/momentous-transition...
I would argue that intelligence (as is muscle mass for example) is dependent on the need, and hence, training for it. If your life is simple and repetitive, why focus on getting smarter as it will probably make you bored more easily.

Similarly, if you do physical work all day your muscles are bound to adapt.
You are right, the 700kW was wrong. The calculation I did was as follows (and I will point out the mistake I made):

1.4 kg is 1.4e9 micrograms and as per [1] "one microgram emits 170 million neutrons per minute" will emit 1.4e9 * 1.7e8 / 60 = 4e15 neutrons per second. Decays of Cf-252 have a high neutron multiplicity, about 3.7 per decay, so the neutron came from 1.1e15 decays per second. Most of those (> 95%) came from the decat Cf-252 -> Cm-248. The masses of those two isotopes is 252.081626 and 248.072349 atomic mass units respectively, as per [2] and [3]. An alpha nucleus of 4.001506179127 u is also produced. (If forgot about that one, vaastly overestimating the decay heat.) A mass loss of 7.77e-3 u is equivalent to the release of 7.77e-3 * 0.9314941 GeV / u = 7.2 MeV. Each MeV is 1.60e-13 J. So in total we get 1.1e15 decays per second * 7.2 MeV per decay * 1.60e-13 J / MeV = 1.2 J/s = 1.2 kW. If you forget that the alpha nucleus exists you over estimate the mass loss by a factor 500 and get a decay power of 700kW...

[1] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq6.html#nfaq6.2
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_californium
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_curium
> Well today you can. As you have been able to do since the info-Mac archives since before the World Wide Web existed. So unless you can bring back some proof from either your time machine or visiting some other world in the multiverse, I would rather talks about facts as they exist today.

Watch WWDC 2019 Session 701, you'll learn something.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/701/

> And code signing still won’t stop you from being able to run code that runs on top of a VM or scripting languages without them being signed and you won’t have to do the ctrl-click bypass.

It is easy to do this? No, in many cases I'd expect it to be a serious P.I.T.A, but it's unquestionably the right move going forward.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/17/notarizing-command-line-t...
It seems horrendous that we would give antibiotics to any livestock in an across-the-board way.

Livestock should only get antibiotics if they come down with an infection and are diagnosed and treated by a veterinarian. If a bunch of the livestock would get sick without preemptive antibiotics then I probably don't think that method of farming should be legal, and I would be glad to pay whatever higher prices would be necessary to abolish it.
I like the thoughts you're exploring here.

But I would be cautious calling a billion years or so "shortly" even in the context of a four-something billion year old planet. A billion is a very big number, especially when you multiply it by how many trillions of little potential multi-dimensional petri dish situations were around for each second of each year of those billion years.

And it could have happened only once because once established, it tends, on a timescale orders of magnitude shorter than a billion years, to squelch the appearance of other forms, at a minimum by guiding them along with its template, or alternatively by smothering them.

But this all says nothing about whether it happened on Earth or elsewhere. Either one could still be true.
I just discovered Ben Eater!!
I experienced this with Lambdas behind a VPC, and yeah it's completely crazy. This is true with the DB offerings as well?

I don't see what the use case is then. Intermittent background jobs or something?
On Linux (and probably other Unices), another way to hook is via the interesting default behaviour of the dynamic linker to only use symbol names instead of qualifying them with the library's filename from which they are to be imported and prefer symbols in already-loaded libraries; I suspect that more often than not, this happens by accident instead of deliberation.
Someone showing up at a hospital with massive radiation injuries is going to raise some red flags.
Awesome article, thanks for sharing.
The Nexus 5X isn't supported (yet?) by the latest version of LineageOS (16).
There's a preference "Touch Bar Shows" -- change it to "Expanded Control Strip". That makes them work like the actual keys used to. I barely notice its a touchbar and not the old keys now (absurd of course, I'd prefer to have an actual choice).
I have always wanted to build an RV, but I have a car that's sitting to be remodeled, so I know that I shouldn't undertake the plane. How long have you been working on yours? What's your progress rate?
It's a lot for a single developer. But not a lot for a product that has a lot of mind share and receives a lot of free publicity via outlets like this.
I mentioned LD_PRELOAD separately in my other comment, but I believe this same behavior is what enables LD_PRELOAD to work.

(I wonder how this interacts with glibc symbol versioning, now that I think about it.)
I've run into quite a few people who denounce amazon and then say they shop at abebooks.

I will add, it gets really annoying having to use different sign ins. I collect old rare cookbooks. So sometimes I'm on the italian, french and other euro stores. You'd think amazon would just link it to the regular store and have the listed abebooks under the used merchants. That's not always the case. For login, same goes with the other amazon euro stores.
>The sort of folk who run rsync is a niche clique.

While that may be true, I think:

"The sort of folk who would benefit from being able to run rsync" is a much, much broader group.

(And even the existing group of rsync users can benefit from a tool to help construct a command line, that they then copy out and use. Usability matters!)

Ashley's target market are Archivists. They may or may not use rsync already, but you can see why they'd all benefit from it.
The Trib is a fantastic newspaper what are you talking about.
Lets not delve into the RF Purge, and instead let the research into Cognitive Radio lead us to this kind of free-for-all future, in a managed, automated, non-chaotic kind of way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_radio
> gas money to give to your mother to go see your undocumented step-father in another state because he was drink driving and is likely to be deported or remain incarcerated... [...] is not a valid use of such sites/methods.

Why not?
Why should not they mix ? I now mostly work on high level code (C++, Python, Delphi/FreePascal/Javascript/etc ). But every once in a while fun project comes in. For example I had no problem creating 4 quadrant torque driven 3 phase AC motor controller using AT90USB1286 microcontroller from Atmel. Granted I did not use assembly for programming as plain C was good enough. Or police light flashing pattern controller on PIC32MX795. Fun fun fun ;)
Maybe not in the same category (i.e. electronic design), but the other guy that I admire the hell outof is Adam Savage. The guy is just bloody brilliant at D-I-Y and, like Woz, a down-to-earth-nice-guy. I've had the great pleasure of meeting both men and they dispelled the myth about meeting your heroes.
He was great until he shifted his focus to 98% politics. Most of his posts used to be funny, now they're depressing.
Some people simply refuse to use anything else, for example, in a job interview situation. Power dynamics call the shots sometimes!
It had been a long time since I looked at Amazon Prime and it's no better now.

The interface is total garbage. It's a bizarre mix of Netflix and amazon's regular website. Search is useless. You can't get an A-Z list of everything. You're forced to sort by either "featured" (aka what they are advertising) or "new". Content they want more money for (in addition to what you already pay them for Prime) is mixed in with everything else. It's basically full of ads.

I keep prime for shipping but anything I can't get on Netflix I can find online without dealing with Amazon's terrible interface.
Yeah, lots of programs do that. The problem is (1) what kind of things the daemon did, (2) how they reacted to the disclosure with PR bullshit
What makes it clear to me is a fuller quote from Eric Raymond:

"Even the simplest procedural logic is hard for humans to verify, but quite complex data structures are fairly easy to model and reason about. To see this, compare the expressiveness and explanatory power of a diagram of (say) a fifty-node pointer tree with a flowchart of a fifty-line program. . . .

"Data is more tractable than program logic. It follows that where you see a choice between complexity in data structures and complexity in code, choose the former. More: in evolving a design, you should actively seek ways to shift complexity from code to data."

--- http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

To paraphrase with a modern example, imagine a thousand lines of JSON, with deep nesting and all kinds of fields. It would still be easy to understand. Even a nonprogrammer could read it and find the part he's looking for (say, someone's address).

Compare that to a thousand lines of procedural C code, or even a thousand lines of Python. That would be much harder, and your nonprogrammer friend would throw up his hands and walk away.

The thing you hopefully learn after years of programming is that you can trade the length of one for the other. That is to say, you could simplify the JSON into half its length, if you make the code that processes it more complicated. Or you could simplify your procedural code by storing more complexity in your JSON data structure. The advice is to do the second thing, "to shift complexity from code to data."

Also, from another chapter:

"Data-driven programming is sometimes confused with object orientation, another style in which data organization is supposed to be central. There are at least two differences. One is that in data-driven programming, the data is not merely the state of some object, but actually defines the control flow of the program. Where the primary concern in OO is encapsulation, the primary concern in data-driven programming is writing as little fixed code as possible. Unix has a stronger tradition of data-driven programming than of OO."

--- http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch09s01.html
I use prime for the movies too!
That has nothing to do with distributing the programs that run on top of VMs/runtimes. The operating system only sees the JVM/CLR as an executable. Even if that has to be signed, there is no way of enforcing the programs that run on top of them to be signed.
If the seller produced it, then they would presumably charge a hefty premium over the cost of production. If it "fell off the back of a truck", the seller would probably sell it for a huge discount to the real value because, after all, there won't be that very many buyers, and what buyers the seller can find might not be able to muster the real value (or at least they'll try hard to pay much less).
This is hardly unique to young people. People have been panhandling on the internet for decades. Here's an example from 10 years ago mentioning some of the sites that people used: https://web.archive.org/web/20091101005717/http://www.boston...
But having to start exchanging root certs is not trivial in mesh environments, it's also insecure if you have to accept someone else's root.
One use case is protecting against non malicious but unexpected use of the camera. For example when you want to join a call with voice only but the app defaults to video and voice. You can have your camera off and mic on and you know for sure you won't be unexpectedly streaming video.