skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand Mitch McConnell's reluctance to passing an election security measure, I would've that assumed that a voter suppression strategy that utilized the new law would be finalized by now.
Project Veritas was created by a known liar and manipulator. Anyone falling for their schtick needs to learn how to be less gullible.
The Beaglebone Blue has an onboard eMMC that comes blank from the factory. You can:

a) write an OS image onto an SD card and just run off that if you want

b) set a flag in /boot. Upon reboot, the LEDs go into Cylon/Knight Rider mode while it copies the OS image from the SD card onto the eMMC. When they're done, pop out the SD card and reboot. Done!
I don't see anything wrong with that :)
1977: One of the first commercials for a personal computer
Using gray, shade, and tint in UI design
The only reason for that is to charge more.
The first approach protects against a global lookup table attack but doesn’t help with the root issue that a 10 digit phone number isn’t enough entropy and you could still brute force the number (depending on the hash algorithm) in seconds to hours.

The second approach isn’t how AirDrop works as a product: when you open the Share dialog, you see a list of eligible recipients (either people with open permissions OR you in their contacts list). The recipient is the one doing the identity check, so their phone number isn’t known upfront.
Keep on mind the top post is recommending we read a Vox media site.
This says more about the rightwingers that say that than it does CNN, NYT, WaPo, Bloomberg, etc. - there is a reason the rightwing in this country has embraced Trumpism, and it isn't because truth is a guiding principle of their movement.
The equivalence is "local only". Meaning that if you take a small volume of space, and measure first order effects, it is equivalent. But over larger volumes of space, there can be second order differences. An example of that is "curvature".

Once you get to experiments involving the geometry of a black hole, you're a long ways away from the local equivalence, and it is no surprise that you can tell that something massive is nearby.
I shopped around quite a bit and eventually decided that s7 scheme[1] would be the best for me. It's been fairly painless to integrate so far, I've just copy-pasted the function prototypes I've needed, as I've needed them. No macros. Engine is closed-source atm so I can't show code, but it's a pretty straight translation from the c examples.

1: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html
As an owner of a TE OP-1 and a more professional Korg Prologue, I can say first hand how awesome these TE devices are. I really want to play with more kinds. The team over at TE does a great job building good interfaces, and making it "fun". I feel like Gene from Bob's Burgers.

That said, I love being able to program my own DSP for my Prologue, and it's 16 voice polyphonic analog sound is just hard to compare that to that of my toy OP-1, even if they are both capable of making music above my pay grade.
National Self-Sufficiency – John Maynard Keynes (1933)
A decent pop-science video about them on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szIcnSIlrDE
There was a serious war going on at the time in Europe[0]. It featured the largest army of all time until then and almost a million casualties, compared to the 5,000 toll of this border skirmish. And incidentally inspired one of the best known classical music pieces.

If anything it's good that American kids don't learn of this trifle in school, allowing them more time to study the events that really shaped the modern world. Right?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
> Google does not curate web results, ever.

Where is the transparency or independent third party oversight to back up this statement?

Or do we just have to take it on faith?
I am a huge fan of Stripe’s design standards but would never go as far as copy pasting their CSS and verbiage!
Ask HN: Do black holes violate the equivalence principle of general relativity?
The equivalence principle in General Relativity says there is no way to devise an experiment to determine if I am in a craft accelerating due to thrust from "engines" of some g or in that same craft on the ground being accelerated by the same g due to gravity. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

But wouldn't this break down inside or at the event horizon of a black hole?

Imagine I fire a beam of light directly at a black hole. It would never be seen to come out on the other side, because it would become trapped in that black hole.

But if I fired that same beam of light normal to the path of my craft, accelerating at the same g as that black hole, wouldn't the beam of light be able to pass right through my craft?

I would then know that I'm not seeing gravity, but I must be under some non-gravity (non-spacetime-curvature) related acceleration.

So doesn't that break the equivalence principle?
If it’s a problem of election fraud then we can fix this in 2020 with all paper ballots and a restoration of the voting rights act.

Unfortunately violence might be necessary if fair elections can’t be guaranteed.
You should take another look at Eliasmith’s work. The neural engineering framework aims to be biologically plausible, with some assumptions made to simplify the math. Cellular processes are not the focus of the model. It however attempts to replicate these dynamics with simplified “components”. It’s one of the only, if not the only, neural models that is consistently supported by experimental data.

Their website is https://nengo.ai and I am not affiliated with them just an alum that took his course.
Americans have been hacking other countries' elections for decades. But now it has happened to America, it will cause the collapse of democracy. What, really?
Wow. Such manichaeanism. Highlighting the extremes of inequality reached in just a few societies (notably the US, Brazil, etc) at some periods (notably the 1920s and now) is synonymous with 'hating everything', 'perpetual guilt', 'tearing everything down', 'living in caves', 'dying at 30'. No recognition of the huge range of differences between real societies, today and throughout history. No recognition of the ecological (ie. real physical world) collapses happening right now. Just a waving of around of abstract ahistorical ideological gestures.

This is exactly what I would expect to hear any from any religious fundamentalist in response to criticisms of their fixed and final ideology. No wonder we are where we are.
Was it cooked the same as lobster now is done?
USB is also designed so that data disconnects before power.

I'm not sure if that's enough by itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-ha...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-w...
very likely because it's more convenient/cheaper/transportable for the distributors than other options.

Different countries have different advantages/disadvantages. In Australia, cardboard cartons are only used for specialty milk products or ordinary milk in less than one litre packs, with very, very few collapsible bags.

Most customers buy plastic bottles of 1,2 3, or 4 litres. The ones larger than 1 litre have a handle.

https://static.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/931/003/602...
The title was the best clickbait that they could get, based on an offhand comment that the theory has to break down inside the black hole.

But if the title was, "General Relativity succeeds again", who would have read the article?
> These attacks are acts of war

They're no different than what lobbyists do. Just that the beneficiary is another country instead of a corporation. The oval office (and Congress) are for sale. They have been this whole time. Hillary Clinton amassed $1.4 bn in campaign funds. That kind of money doesn't come from everyday working class people.

As an American citizen, I see nothing worse about Russia buying a candidate than any corporate lobby. Either way my vote doesn't matter, my voice doesn't count, and the only thing politicians will do in our name is throw us a bone now and then with "win-win" legislation like banning robocalls. Anything else immediately becomes a "partisan issue" subject to whatever lobby paid them the most to do (and will cost them reelection if they vote otherwise). Meanwhile my health insurance is still going up 10% per year, a college degree means a lifetime of indentured servitude, and corporations are getting away with whatever they want. Please, any country: hack us. I don't fucking care.
The trillions of viruses that make up your virome (Oct 2018)
I guess then New Vector is actually our best sponsor: they always give us those very important things to write about, like a personal data breach that has a federation-wide scope.

They certainly are generous! I'll ask them to renew our contract!
In my case I basically just transliterated RFC XXXX grammars from ABNF to code. I ended up really enjoying it.

I have seen problems that probably do merit a special DSL or language, though I find it somewhat unfortunate if you need such a thing.

One example that comes to mind, Soul lang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19791154
This is my first Medium article, but hopefully not my last.
“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”
I don't think the timing makes sense for that. The Laki eruption was eight months long. Three months isn't enough time for Britain to have felt economic pressure from crop failures and related impacts and then for that pressure to build into political change.
That's one of the things that disappoints me most about the Pi, to be honest. Not the power situation, but the "no way to remix it" situation.

While it's not quite as beefy as the Pi (especially the Pi 4), nor as cheap, the Beaglebone family of boards are awesome. They come with schematics, and you can order the processor in qty 1 from Digikey. I haven't yet remixed one yet (a 400-BGA is going to be stretching my abilities...), but I have leaned on the schematic quite a bit to figure out some clever things I can do with it.
Since when is the government good at anything, says somebody using government created computer network.
This is triggering my phobia of dying of a stupid death. Wow this story is so sad.
It seems like you are contorting the blame to "well you should just do more work!" Bureaucratic regulations have costs in implementation, enforcement and non-compliance. Those costs are naturally easy for corporations to absorb because they can hire people to do it full time or whatever the case may be. Maybe several hours or $1000 for a lawyer or whatever to review some regulation are a bridge too far for someone already devoting time and dealing with whatever negatives the side project is coupled with like less free time, negative users/customers/competition, and other opportunity cost.

So yes, taking on new and unknown (to the creator) legal liability from some regulation is a great reason to shut down a side project.
One day SWE3's are going to be taking home 7 figs in their first year.
Neal Stephenson saw this coming nearly 20 years ago, in his essay In the Beginning... Was the Command Line (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_...)

From the section titled “The Interface Culture”:

We are free and prosperous because we have inherited political and values systems fabricated by a particular set of eighteenth-century intellectuals who happened to get it right. But we have lost touch with those intellectuals, and with anything like intellectualism, even to the point of not reading books any more, though we are literate. We seem much more comfortable with propagating those values to future generations nonverbally, through a process of being steeped in media. Apparently this actually works to some degree, for police in many lands are now complaining that local arrestees are insisting on having their Miranda rights read to them, just like perps in American TV cop shows. When it’s explained to them that they are in a different country, where those rights do not exist, they become outraged. Starsky and Hutch reruns, dubbed into diverse languages, may turn out, in the long run, to be a greater force for human rights than the Declaration of Independence.

A huge, rich, nuclear-tipped culture that propagates its core values through media steepage seems like a bad idea. There is an obvious risk of running astray here. Words are the only immutable medium we have, which is why they are the vehicle of choice for extremely important concepts like the Ten Commandments, the Koran, and the Bill of Rights. Unless the messages conveyed by our media are somehow pegged to a fixed, written set of precepts, they can wander all over the place and possibly dump loads of crap into people’s minds.

Orlando used to have a military installation called McCoy Air Force Base, with long runways from which B-52s could take off and reach Cuba, or just about anywhere else, with loads of nukes. But now McCoy has been scrapped and repurposed. It has been absorbed into Orlando’s civilian airport. The long runways are being used to land 747-loads of tourists from Brazil, Italy, Russia and Japan, so that they can come to Disney World and steep in our media for a while.

To traditional cultures, especially word-based ones such as Islam, this is infinitely more threatening than the B-52s ever were.
WSL is fair, MSYS2 isn't. That's why I took out MSYS2 as I was revising my comment. The timings I have now are just WSL and plain, native Windows.

And the number of interpreters you spawn isn't a function of cores either. It depends entirely what you're doing, and nobody was talking about parallel execution. If you run a bunch of Python scripts in sequence you'll multiply the startup overhead...

I guess we'll just have to disagree on 10ms being ridiculous for a program that does nothing. To me it is. And half a second is orders of magnitude more so.

P.S. All of this is my timing on a pretty darn fast CPU. Try running on a more typical laptop CPU, switching to battery, and you'll get even worse timing.
Gabbard doesn't believe in identity politics, thinks we should avoid making Syria a quagmire, was a soldier, and has a homophobic Dad. The first makes her the enemy to the hard left, so she is criticized for the later.
Pixel is a perfect name for a Google brand
It's worse than that in my opinion, because Apple's prices have the effect of sort of "giving permission" to other flag ships to also jack up prices significantly. The Galaxy S7 edge was retailed at $779 on release. The comparably positioned s10 plus starts at $999. More with more storage space, though I don't recall if the s7 edge had additional internal storage upgrades like that (it did have user expandable storage though)
Get Off My Lawn Homeowners Ward Off Drivers Misled by GPS
I agree. BEVs are, I think, inevitable, and one person or company can only do very little to shift the timeline one way or another.

Which impact Tesla has had, if any, is impossible to measure. It's not even entirely clear that the impact was positive.

(Imagine that a large car company or well funded startup was contemplating a massive investment in BEVs to try and get a first mover advantage, but Tesla got there first, so they decided to invest in hybrids or a new range of SUVs instead. In this word, "but for" Tesla, BEVs might be even more widely adopted. Of course, we have no reason to think that's true, but then, we have no reason to think that, "but for" Tesla, nobody would have done anything with EVs for another 10 years either, and that doesn't stop people from wildly speculating...)
I'm not suggesting that we should fund schools because better education will create a better society. I'm suggesting we should fund schools so that people don't have to live far from their jobs in order to send their kids to public school. Fixing the housing crisis implies higher density and higher population in the city, which implies more need for public infrastructure including schools and transit.
It gets crazier still.

Nothing ever gets into a black hole! If something is falling into a black hole, you can wait a million years and then rescue it. Or a billion. You see, time slows in a gravitational well. The bigger the gravitational well, the more it slows. From our point of view outside, time literally stops at the event horizon.
You would have to know more about the proposals he blocked to have an informed opinion. This is such a surface level strife of McConnell that it’s close to “why won’t he think of the children?” The article should have linked to a previous story specifically about that proposed legislation.
Rising stock price is helpful for retaining high value employees that are compensated with stock
I do this using a cron that rips videos off an unlisted youtube playlist and syncs them over to my plex server. Its great for having a group of videos to shuffle in the background while im at home.
Not true how substantiated this is, but I heard one of the reasons for moving Turkey away from the traditional script is to make it so people can't read texts about the Armenian genocide. Truly chilling stuff :(
Wanderland: A journey through Iran’s wild west
The Future of AI Is Entertainment
VISA is pretty interesting too.
My anecdotal evidence of the contrary:
I was hired to replace a junior developer at my employer about 2 years ago. When my teammate left (team of two), I was basically handed over the entire mobile app. I even built and deployed an entirely new tv app by myself.

Our dev lead, hired months after me, has been promoted to CTO and even our sole graphic designer, hired many months after me, went from "Graphic Designer" to "Lead Graphic Designer."

So the takeaway here is classic:
As an employee you are seen as a cost, and your boss will gladly let you take on the responsibilities of "Lead XYZ" and pay you as "Junior XYZ" if you let them. I unfortunately let them, so I'll cut my losses and chalk it up to things I learned in my early 20s. Could be worse.
That's the beauty of working in a tech company compared to a non-tech company. Every single manager in my org is a former engineer. Every single manager above them is a former engineer. Heavy majority of directors in the org are former engineers.
You're not wrong. "Data laundering" is a thing. There's a lot of industry concern around the quality/accuracy of 3rd party data segments from various brokers, DMPs and DSPs, but often times they are complete black boxes in terms of their source data.
Will Durant puts this very succinctly in "Lessons of History" [1]:

"History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all."

In my experience, a management role has typically come with 10-20% more compensation versus a comparable individual contributor role, but 100% more responsibility and accountability. I wouldn't worry too much about parity between the two tracks, focus on what you truly enjoy doing. Besides, the money guys can fire us all ;-)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-History-Will-Durant/dp/143914...
cool, thanks for sharing!
As a layperson, I found this article about protecting spaceships from cosmic rays, from many years ago, to be very informative. I had seen the interview with Eugene Parker from the BBC "The Planets" not long before finding this article, so I was quite excited to find something written by him!

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~sshepherd/research/Shielding/docs...
If you drug looks inferior to competitor's ad, you will get better return by hiring a better ad agency, not a researching a better drug (that's a crap shot at best times).
One of them may even be writing a thesis on HN comments (and commenting on HN rather than writing their thesis).
Rolex, Ferrari, and even Corvette probably all have high prices in part because they're niche items that don't really leverage economies of scale, not as much as lower priced mainstream cars. But I take your point. Though in terms of cars, I probably point to Volvo, their excellent safety features etc., that increase price as a good comparison to the Apple Tax.
...practically impossible.

Germany had taken the entire continent. The British only held on as long as they did because we were happy to lose so many cargo ships to U-boats. Without our massive support they would have followed the French example, and that would have been the right decision. The war would have been over much sooner. In that case FDR probably wouldn't have baited Japan into their calamitous mistake either.

Would that have been a bad result? Probably! The Holocaust alone disqualified the German polity from any authority whatsoever, and they got up to all sorts of other evil shit besides. The point is that this hypothetical Big European War would have lasted less time than WWII and therefore it's possible that fewer people would have died.

Unless you're talking about...

I meant the election promises, but I suppose the Republicans at the time also wanted war because money. These things aren't decided by the plebes...
No it's not? There is a venerable plethora of pirated content. There are less than 2 dozen presidential candidates. If there is some override table which was manually updated, then the person who updated it, at minimum, did not perform due diligence to ensure that all candidates were listed.
Great stuff! It was quite exciting to play! I figured I'd attempt to go long when above the trend line, and get out when the price fell below the trend line. Only in the world of crypto trading would an annualized return of 640% over 3.75 years be described as "Better than nothing" and "At least you came out ahead". I guess those lackluster assessments are deserved when you consider that my net return of around 25K was only about ten percent better than just buying and holding. Did you use some kind of javascript framework to create this?
Well that's unfortunate, I tend to be rather militant about switching my syslog to something resembling rfc 3339.

linux /etc/rsyslog.conf
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_FileFormat

openbsd /etc/rc.conf.local
syslogd_flags="-Z"
Where I went to school (in the US, but there weren’t unified standards at the time), US and European history were taught separately, in alternate years. So we got both the war of 1812, and the Napoleonic Wars, but there was little to connect them to each other except for the dates.
I'm not against modeling aspects of the brain based on what we know, just don't call that "whole brain" simulation/model.
Trump's proposal to make pharmaceutical pricing transparent is the biggest step in the right direction in a very long time. But I get it, 'orange man bad' and all that.
Assuming the "fair market value" clause is honored (to the extent such a thing is possible!), it's not quite as bad as explicit theft. Nonetheless, I take your point. While I can imagine a number of public works projects that are painfully difficult to achieve through only voluntary coordination[0], it's also clearly an easily corruptible mechanism.

That said, I can actually imagine such a practice being more valid for intellectual property, given that IP law is a purely artificial construct of the state (as opposed to natural law governing land and physical property).

Perhaps the "eminent" part is unnecessary, and the government could simply negotiate a price for certain IP and/or data to be bought and put into the public domain?

Just spitballing. The trend to consolidation based on Metcalfe's Law[1] represents a very real conundrum for vibrant competition of products and services whose primary value is the network itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_anticommons

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
The current administration is restoring human rights. In the future we will look back on human trafficking the same way we look back on slavery now.