skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if there's extensibility yet but the View > Open Quickly palette is a primitive start.

Do you have specific use cases in mind?
yours would best be described as the 'naive' take on the situation, and rests on a false premise.

These minorities need 'help' in that a majority is going to be self-interested and lacking compassion or any sort of integrity at larger scope.

In the U.S. this might take the form of tax loopholes for speedboats and golf memberships eating into funding for basic social services (infrastructure, law enforcement, education resources and such) on the other side of town.

If you can unpack the above and place yourself in the shoes of the people on the bad end of that deal, you might start to get the idea.
The carbon going into bio-kerosene is a good thing (so when it goes back out it balances to zero)
> how does the system recover if that were to happen?

The Ethereum 2.0 consensus layer gracefully falls back to a slightly biasable form of randomness called RANDAO. This is merely a "weakening" of the consensus, not a breakage. Applications built on Ethereum 2.0 (such as lotteries) may indeed break with RANDAO biasability.

> why is it assumed that someone won’t mount a long range attack to break the system by engineering a 100x faster VDF?

One of the things we are doing is trying to prove lower bounds on the circuit depth of modular squaring. (Ryan Williams is working on such lower bounds right now.) On the hardware engineering front, getting a 100x speedup is extremely difficult. Improvements to sequential speeds in traditional ASICs has tapered off at around 5% per year (see for example https://github.com/preshing/analyze-spec-benchmarks). And if possible, being able to increase the speed of multiplication by 100x would be an amazing development for humanity (multiplication is arguably the key basic operation in computing).

> Given the competition is only a ~$15m investment in a group of hobbyists

We can afford a few experts with $15m :)

> we’ve already seen order of magnitude improvements over and over again with proof of work in Bitcoin

Keep in mind that Bitcoin is an energy consumption game, not a latency game. Latency improvements do not follow Moore's law and other related laws.
There is a social penalty. If you try to burn garbage in your yard your neighbours will not allow it. But the price cannot be larger than life, so when it is freezing outside and there is nothing else to burn, they won't mind the smoke, and will come to the warmth of fire instead.

Even if we stopped all unnecessary consumption, and kept only the minimum necessary for life, we would not make significant impact on climate change, because with the current number of people CO2 will still accumulate, and would become problem some time later.

If energy is clean, it simply will not cause global warming, independently of demand, but we do not even need to make it clean, we simply need to use the CO2 (e.g. by creating forests in deserts) or to use some other technology to gain fine grained control over the climate.
>we have not done this, have zero plans to do so

See also:

>Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible ... If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it.

I'm sure you personally are a nice, honest and well-intentioned person. Unfortunately WhatsApp's corporate messaging has zero trustworthiness and should be looked at with suspicion. Even when the person saying it happens to believe it.
an extremely Software Dude take: "This hasn't been systematized the way I'm imagining it so it doesn't exist yet."
Yeah, that is a bit of a stretch, but still, there are a number of problems here. Google trumpets its artificial "intelligence" capabilities as they always do, and it eventually comes out that that its not "just a harmless computer algorithm" thats looking at your email or photos or whatnot, they give access to humans too. Oh, but only in a small tiny negligible, really just forget about this tiny tiny number, of cases.

"[...] confirmed that he worked for a sub-contractor, paid by Google, to transcribe and annotate recordings, including presumptions of the speaker's age and other demographics."[1]

We don't collect any personal data. Its just non-personal stuff to feed into our algorithm. Promise!

Also Google: "We partner with language experts around the world to improve speech technology by transcribing a small set of queries - this work is critical to developing technology that powers products like the Google Assistant"[1]

Seriously? What kind of BS logic is that. Let me just snoop on everyone so that we can improve our products to make more money, after we just made money selling you the product. They should be paying people to sign up for a study where they put in a listening device in their home to train their algorithm. Or purchase voice data from a corpus. Now they can ethically listen in on whatever they want and whenever they want. Instead, they just bury this under some opaque lawyerly language and spy on everyone. Is this the same company that purports to employ the smartest genius level talent?

[1] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3078773/google-ass...
Persistent logging is only there for cases we need to debug something, in other words where it's the only choice. Even so, it writes to a circular buffer so it should be reasonably safe. But it's not intended to be on by default, more like an emergency measure. We do push logs to our server to some degree, and some customers use proper devops platforms to manage their logs, but we definitely want to do more in the future.

The pricing model is along the lines of "essentials is for people looking for a better OTA solution whereas microservices is for people who consider their devices mini-servers". So it's more a difference of perspective of the customer that allows us to group features and give more to the one crowd without alienating the other crowd with high prices. Not sure if that makes sense.
Fingerprints were collected with their permission. There was a lot of stranger-danger anxiety back then.

I guess it’d be good if I had been kidnapped and they could find my fingerprints at the kidnappers house, or prove that I am “me” if I was kidnapped and escaped years later.

My parents bought it as did many others.
No way anyone google or Mozilla can compete with a potential sale of 30 cents a user. So if that’s truly they case they might was well expect the sales to happen and start to limit the power of extensions or put them behind expert-only gates, like Chrome flags.
Magic is a rather culturally specific idea.

Africa and Europe had a lot of cultural exchange, but Australian Aborigines and Native Americans had wildly different views. That’s not to say similarities did not exist, but the more universal the idea the more vague it must be.

Aka, Evil people with power is more universal than the ability to cast a persistent curse.
player1: how do I change weapons?

player2: ALT+F4

player1 has disconnected

This regular exchange is the most concise and hands-on tutorial on life ever conceived.

On another note, this is a pretty damn good tutorial for learning how to write shaders in opengl: https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Shaders
As mindfulgeek mentions, doing some sort of extract method refactor to slop a name onto it can be a good first step. Then do some sleuthing thru other number name pairings, inserting names in place of the numbers, until you have a solid grasp of what the names should actually be. Feathers in Working Effectively With Legacy Code brings up a concept called seams... u can insert a seam to map to objects and then do object manipulations with polymorphism.

Iirc that particular bit of code is the power logic. You can file an issue on my fork if ys like me to write more on this when im not on a broken phone.
What companies are offering pair programming these days?
Delivery is not really an option where I live. Curb side pick up is but

1. I do not trust them to pick out produce for me

2. They do use plastic bags, we have no taxes or prohibition on the bags here

3. I am not willing to pay the Delivery Fee + Tip. Food prices are high enough as it is
Also, from that article:

> The result, said lawmakers, judges and public defenders, are court delays that might violate defendants’ rights to speedy trials and could lead to the dismissal of criminal cases.

That does imply that the system is close to overload.
But squaring numbers is paralellizable. You pick an exponent you want and take a modulus only later. Iterative squaring is also trivial if exponent is a power of two. Calculating x^(2^t) mod n should take no time on any computer.

I think the rest of the puzzle is fairly hard to guess.
I don't get it either. They're considerably more expensive than Postmates, and have consistently acted shady in my dealings with them.
Wondering this as well
The best quote is at, "Anti-encryption software will help “deter theft and protects riders from potentially malicious hacks.”"

...you know all those thieves and their sinister encryption
Give refactoring this code a go! Its sublimely fun!!!
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You could have a tibetan sky burial and be cut into pieces of meat to feed the vultures. It’s probably pretty cheap too.
Now likely, well based on the number of false convictions we seem to get in the US legal system, I can tell you that the probability is non-zero.

Especially since there may be a genetic component of people looking the same. Chasing down all the Smiths in your neighborhood can increase the rates of false detection.
>> As easy as someone picking up a coffee or a sandwich every day for lunch.

I do not do either of those things either. I get Drinks at work, and bring my lunch (if I eat Lunch)
Did you even click on one of the "cities" on that page? The size of Guttenberg is 0.196 sq. miles. It's a tiny part of a city in a small state. You're comparing apples to oranges. A more reasonable comparison would be all of New York City or all of Los Angeles to Shanghai which would be more interesting.
DoorDash offers a lot of coupons and promotions and allows as many accounts as you care to make.
The fund is not distributing to citizens like that.
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Nice, good idea. I've tried similar things (saved layouts for a project) using Tmuxinator[1], but since I don't normally use Tmux it didn't stick.

[1] https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
It would not be about detecting the change of hands but about detecting the (malicious) monetization.
Depending on the type of extension this might still be hard to do, but I could well imagine heuristics triggering a manual check from the extension store providers.
Since 2017? It's only 2019. Am I missing something?
The game did not work for me under Chrome (it does work on desktop Safari). Is it available in English, or in German only? Thanks!
I'd recommend reading up on the Microsoft antitrust case. That's where most of us learned about antitrust law.
Seriously though. If you honestly think a bot can enter a contract, I'll set up a honeypot right now with a TOS saying that by using this website you agree to pay me $300,000, and then I'll send Google a bill when they index me. You can't have your cake and eat it too -- either it works that way, and we all should set up honeypots right now, or it doesn't work that way, and any bot I write can scrape anything I want as long as it is fully unattended and I never agree to the TOS myself.
Trying to get small African farmers to grow monocrops with seeds from giant Ag companies and making it harder for them to do ecologically sensitive farming.
It would be great if Julia were to take a page from the Rust playbook and have some focused initiatives around making the language more accessible to its potential audience. I've been impressed with how introspective and constructively self-critical the Rust stewardship has been. I don't get the same sense from Julia, but maybe I'm missing things.

The "time to first plot" issue bothers me far less than the weak documentation and low-friendliness error messages. I'm not sure where this documentation style comes from that the official Julia docs use, where the left side of the page is permanently taken up with a low information density TOC and the detailed discussion in any real content section is either terse or somewhat superficial, but that imbalance is very frustrating. Try for example to find where in the Multi-Dimensional Array section the eachrow() iterator is introduced. There doesn't seem to be an attempt to develop something equivalent to the Klabnik & Nichols Rust book.

There are some awesome packages in the Julia ecosystem, but the "slap something onto GitHub in one night" style of documentation definitely hurts.

Making error messages more approachable will also help driving toward Julia as the technical computing lingua franca for engineering students.
Aaaah, yea, that does make sense. The loop pinches both ends, so a loose end doesn't matter as much. Sorta requires the knot to be pressed against something, but that's probably frequent enough in practice / can be designed for (e.g. a knot that's bigger than the gap between things it's wrapping).

Thanks!
In an ideal world, the sizes of medical equipment be standardized, and have bays in the bed that they plug into, with the bed providing power. This would keep the tube and cable lengths short, and you could have a guard around the bed to keep people from accidentally leaning on the tubes or pulling them out. The control consoles would have to be external to the module though, as you don't want visiting kids (or knees) pushing shinny buttons under grandmas bed. Having the control panels be remote would help reduce the number of people needed to be next to the person, giving the people who are directly operating on the patient more room. This would also make patent transport easier, as you would no longer need a army of people to help move all the equipment keeping the patient alive or the possible errors that can be introduced by disconnecting and reconnecting the equipment.
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> It's almost like everywhere in the world has both positive and negative traits

Exactly.
Old people suffer muscular and joint pain. They are prescribed drugs like Voltaren. Voltaren is diclofenac.

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Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband
https://github.com/polytomous/TerrariaClone/issues/6 gives an example of how i work thru this sort of question, but its also spoiler laden so view at your own risk.
> It's related to an option you have to share video from your doorbell back to the cops if it caught any activity on camera.

Very cool feature IMO.

On at least three occasions I've given video footage to the police. Just this week a cop rang my (Nest) doorbell and said one of my neighbors reported that someone had ransacked his car overnight.

I looked through footage and was able to find a car driving up the street checking everyone's door handles and searching the one's that were open. I was very happy to share it with police and as long as the choice remains with me about how and when to do so I will be very happy to provide them with footage in the future.
To clarify why I like it: wave forms, filters, envelope and LFO are things with which you'll need to do Lotsa Fiddling, all at once, to get some decent sound. To a beginner, it's rather overwhelming and difficult to see if they want to do all of that and why. So, instead of frantically getting through the definitions in ten minutes and twenty seconds, Dean keeps turning knobs and explaining what he does, letting you hear the change. He actually takes almost ten minutes to make one string sound at the end of the first part.

And the, uh, pace of the vid lets you think about what you hear.

If there were a “Tweaking Synth Knobs” series by this dude in 26 episodes, I might've watched it.
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Very interesting ... thanks for pointing to py65 as well
You could say the same about any interest or income producing asset.
USD, real estate, etc.
I have no love for Google (nor should anyone.. :) ), but I agree with the parent that it was a bit misleading because the implication from that statement is that google just turns on the mic and records everything.
Nothing wrong with choosing GMO seeds.

Definitely something wrong with trying to force farmers to use them.
As long as the geriatrics in Congress remain in Congress, no change will happen. We need new people so we can actually make progress.
GC licensing isn't some new regulation. It's been around for a lot longer than 30 years in most states. In Colorado, carpenters and other general contractor's are licensed at the municipal/county level, not the state level. All counties in Colorado require general contractors to be licensed except the most rural counties.

It's one thing to build a chimney that accidentally traps fumes. It's another to do so deliberately. This sort of stunt in CA would be (and 30 years ago, still would have been) a criminal act.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure your friend is either outright lying or exaggerating the truth to ridiculous extremes.

It's more common to die from CO when the whole house is burning, but it isn't a sure thing even then.

I have no idea where you got this statistic from, but the primary cause of death from fires is smoke inhalation, not CO inhalation. CO inhalation deaths are greatest in the winters when people run their fireplaces with the chimney flues closed or faulty internal heaters.
It's getting much hotter every year and the likely hood of breaking a record increases. So don't be surprised to see the same story in 2020.
That was as the market was growing. Once it saturated (late 90s?), Apple's held a fairly small, but also reasonably constant proportion IIRC.

We're seeing the same thing happen in phones; the developed world's market is saturated now and the rate of turnover is slowing, and Apple doesn't have pricing that competes in the developing world.

The point I'd disagree with in your comment is that you say "larger, more profitable" when those two don't necessarily go together. Samsung and Chinese vendors are not making more profit than Apple anytime soon.
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14.05% is perfectly reasonable considering they are giving people hope for a better quality of life.

Profiting off someone's misery would be when you cause the problem and provide the solution. If you merely recognize an existing problem and provide a solution where there previously was none or where the previous solution was inadequate/inferior.

Attitudes like yours makes me not want to continue using my talent to create on solutions to problems that qualitatively and quantitatively improve people's lives. If people are going to look at it as profiting off misery and deny me the opportunity to increase my wealth, I and others will just take our talents elsewhere. There is no lack of other industries and problems where those capable of contributing solutions can make money and not be subject to your shitty attitude towards how they make a living.

Lastly, I say all this as someone who takes an orphan drug myself that would not exist at all if the US didn't have a legal framework that gives pharmaceutical companies the incentive to bring drugs to market. The drug I take is available in only one other country and only because a US pharmaceutical company brought it to market.
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They just announced they plan on changing the policy. It has not changed yet.

Also they announced they were "investigating the issue" for 4 months before, and then didn't make a change. So let's not congratulate them until its been confirmed to be actually working as drivers and customers expect.
Obviously none of us expect to be paid the black market value of extensions. The point is for browser vendors to offer better tools for sponsoring developers, because it benefits everyone.

And no, the reaction to security issues should not be to further limit the extension API and declare war on the concept of general computing.
Great one!

A wonderful intro/tutorial to synths that was recently posted -- https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
There's a Twitter thread critiquing Progress Studies from a similar angle.
This reply in particular caught my eye:

https://twitter.com/WordsByBennett/status/115630161497577063...

It compares the proposed approach to WW2 Abraham Wald airplane bullet pattern analysis [1] and Survivor Bias.

[1] https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
>one day hope to have a camera that can manage more than pinpoints/streaks/black noise

You can build an arduino-powered "barn-door tracker" for ~$40 that will significantly help with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hqXqqTtWzU

If you're hoping to hook up a DSLR to a telescope this won't help though, not big enough. Plus, this style of tracker only tracks through one axis, limiting exposure time to ~10seconds before stuff gets blurry & drift destroys the image... but that's still better than the ~2seconds or so that you get without it.
The modern word "witch-hunt" is used in reference to the way people were treated during the witch trials, rather than a direct reference to the word "witch" itself. I have never heard of anybody using the word "witch" to describe the subject of a witch-hunt. In fact, the entire point of the word is to express doubt that the subject being 'hunted' is actually guilty of whatever they were accused.
Those European windows look quite good. I think face seal with triple pane. I wish window replacement were not so overpriced in the US. Even the basic ones can get expensive. And some of that stuff is getting into newer homes here but sadly will be quite expensive to retrofit into our older homes.
Ah very cool. Do you link to your other docs here? Stuff like support tickets (JIRA, ZenDesk), design files, spreadsheets, etc.?