skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From "Debt, The First 5000 years":

L. Frank Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which appeared in 1900, is widely recognized to be a parable for the Populist campaign of William Jennings Bryan, who twice ran for president on the Free Silver platform – vowing to replace the gold standard with a bimetallic system that would allow the free creation of silver money alongside gold. … [O]ne of the main constituencies for the movement was debtors: particularly, Midwestern farm families such as Dorothy’s, who had been facing a massive wave of foreclosures during the severe recession of the 1890s. According to the Populist reading, the Wicked Witches of the East and West represent the East and West Coast bankers (promoters of and benefactors from the tight money supply), the Scarecrow represented the farmers (who didn’t have the brains to avoid the debt trap), the Tin Woodsman [sic] was the industrial proletariat (who didn’t have the heart to act in solidarity with the farmers), the Cowardly Lion represented the political class (who didn’t have the courage to intervene). The yellow brick road, silver slippers, emerald city, and hapless Wizard presumably speak for themselves. “Oz” is of course the standard abbreviation for “ounce.”
Western psychotherapy has developed a specific ritual for activating this kind of shivering focused on releasing traumatic energy. It's called a TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) and particularly when done in the presence of someone who can help guide through energetic blocks, I've found it to be a transformative experience.

https://traumaprevention.com/
Well, not only the animation, but this is actually a collection of related stories? When I click on "Read More" it takes me back to the same page. When I click "Read More" for the other stories, they are at the top of the page with the same background, and with no additional text.

Am I using this page incorrectly, or is the design just strange?
If anyone is interested, I actually happened to be in Hong Kong and attend the first wave of protests and took some photos: https://500px.com/zensavona/galleries/hong-kong
That quote is from the Bluetooth standardisation group’s response. They are clearly trying to downplay the seriousness with their choice of language here. “All within a narrow time window” is, generally speaking, something computers are capable of handling. I have no idea from that statement how easy/tricky this attack is. Also, is it really necessary to block transmissions, or can the attacker just “get lucky” and have his transmissions received first? (Honest question, I have no idea)
Mother tells me, the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet, that two fates bear me on to the day of death. If I hold out here and lay siege to Troy, my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. If I voyage back to the fatherland I love, my pride, my glory dies…true, but the life that’s left me will be long, the stroke of death will not come on me quickly.

- Achilles, the Iliad IX, 500-506
I'm in this camp - I want to share content with Pocket (and increasingly Notion for personal use, then outward to Twitter/LinkedIn/Automation and all of that is already in my browser.
Aside from a couple of friends in Japan, everybody I talk to regularly uses either iMessage or Telegram. I might have used WhatsApp 3 or 4 times in total since I first got a smartphone in 2009.
I think the person would be kicked out of the store, possibly permanently.

I don’t think you’re going to convince too many people it’s perfectly OK to shout profanities and insults at people.
Our goal is to raise $1m for the eventual Democrat candidate, while getting folks more engaged with what’s happening in national politics. We don’t take a cut, 100% of donations go to the eventual candidate fund.

Why: Everyone has their current favorite Dem candidate, but we can all agree on one thing — we have to defeat Donald Trump. As the candidates spend money to compete, Trump continues to fill his war-chest. We want to help give the eventual candidate a better shot.

In addition to raising money, we’re hoping to also get more people engaged with what’s happening in national politics -- kind of how fantasy sports gets people paying more attention to sports.

There’s still a TON of work to do to make this awesome, but we decided to launch it early to get feedback and ideas. Please let us know any suggestions or questions!
It's good to point out there are many different types of meditation, as some work better than others, depending on the individual. However, this article doesn't seem to be advocating Vipassana, rather, it states: "Meditation is all about being aware of how your body feels and the thoughts that go through your head without judging or getting caught up in them. Often, this is done by focusing on a certain part of your body, like the breath or your feet, legs, arms, hands and chest etc. At the end of the day, what you’re aiming for is to keep bringing your attention back to what you’re focusing on, everytime you notice your mind has drifted off."

The book is called The Mind Illuminated, and is an absolutely fantastic book on meditation. Super cheap too: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati...
Coinbase Custody acquires Xapo’s institutional business
I think they mean the gear (cassette) on the wheel - not the one up at the pedals; there wouldn't be a way to "enclose" that end.

Instead, though - flex might be able to be eliminated by making the "hub" larger, so that the disc (according to the article and renderings, it's a flat and not conical system) has something "solid" on the backside (this isn't shown in the renders from what I could see).

I'm not sure what such a change would do to the performance or handling of the bike, due to the shorter lengths of the spokes to the rim, and the larger mass of the hub, and who knows what else. I haven't been on a bicycle in well over a decade, and even then it was just a cheap Huffy I bought at Walmart for Burning Man use...

So one could say that this technology, even if it were real, would not be targeted at me as a consumer or bike user...
> They called a suicide hotline. They did not want to die.

That's a shame.

> I have attempted suicide before and self harmed many times.

I'm sorry that you failed.
Right, the only true Unix philosophy which ever described reality was "worse is better."

Just look at the GNU coding guidelines, it explicitly mentions that GNU tools are not to use static buffers and silently truncate long lines. Why? Because that's what proprietary Unix implementations were doing at the time! Silent truncation of long input lines! Is that "doing one thing and doing it well" (DOTADIW)? Hell no!

DOTADIW is an ahistorical description of Unix. A humble-brag with little basis in reality.
Another aspect of suburban living that I don't like at all is how it isolates people from each other. I've made the mistake of living in a subdivision with lot sizes > 0.5 acres. Because of the low density, my kids can't have spontaneous interactions with friends that I enjoyed while younger, i.e., walk / cycle to their houses to hang out. Everything becomes scheduled and everything requires a car to shuttle the kids around to their activities.

I've become convinced that density really is the answer to building a more humane way of living.
That sounds like a realistic constraint...but how can that be true? Seaweed seems pretty abundant.
Google has Titan for security but for I/O they have tended to do everything in software, presumably for the flexibility. But the new GVE might be a Nitro-style NIC.
Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis
I'll give you a couple very extreme examples that you can hopefully find parallel in:

Do slave owners get a seat at the table when discussing whether or not and how slaves are oppressed?

Do white people who support Jim Crow laws get a seat at the table when discussing whether or not and how black people are oppressed?

Does a religious majority get a seat at the table when discussing whether or not and how a religious minority is oppressed?

The argument is: those that are not affected by the oppression discussed (who may even be doing the oppressing) simply cannot have an objective discussion on whether or not and how a community is being oppressed. How do you know what that oppression is and feels like to tell someone that they are not being oppressed? Therefore, where a white cis-het male's opinion is productive is only when discussing how they can help-- not when discussing whether or not that oppression exists.

In the same vein, I am male. My opinion is not productive when discussing whether or not and how women are oppressed. Consider this scenario: male politicians are deciding on laws that govern women's bodies; women say they are oppressed; men say no you're not oppressed. Do you see why men's opinion are not productive here? My opinion only matters when discussing how I can help women feel less oppressed.

At the end of the day, you have the freedom and right to discuss all you want. But ask yourself, is your discussion productive or destructive to someone else. Your arguments will never convince an oppressed community that they are not oppressed, that's gaslighting. It will only convince other unaffected people against them-- which is why it's destructive to discuss the existence of oppression when you are not the oppressed.
Tradeoffs of Dependent Types
So..I have couple of services (sentry, logstash and some others) which are running in their own ec2 servers. I am deliberating whether it may make sense to move them to container instances.

I guess what I am asking is that what points should I take care of or give thought to if I decide to migrate from ec2 instances to ec2 instances inside of ecs?

Does it clarify now?
I notice you make a claim then don't give any backup. Could you expand on this, for me as a unix naif? thanks
Not too complex really. The #1 thing is to encourage flexible working so we can work locally more often - shared office spaces (if required) can be a great resource eg. You get to know people who can provide a great painting service etc.

After that, encouraging building energy efficiency so aircon is not needed so often would be beneficial - well designed buildings that promote airflow without heat exchange for instance. Extra insulation and so on.

Promoting more localised towns and cities, with shared waste/water facilities is good - that datacenter heat can drive aircon or hot water for the town.

Lastly, electric cars as you've said, have many problems - care to see how 2 different companies' cars handle parking in a busy car park? ;)

The best transport option might be smartrail (similar to https://openprtspecs.blogspot.com/?m=1 but steel wheel/LIM and faster).

Smartrail and PRT are designed as a point to point separated-grade network carrying on av. 1 person or a pallette of goods. With a hanging rail you don't need heavy batteries, parking for the vehicles, you can run a pod straight into the factory to pickup goods, and large/rich places can pay to have track straight to their door.

You can prefab the rail and as land usage is just poles in the ground it can be rolled out over fields etc quickly. Track is one-way to eliminate junctions. Pods are on-demand ie. No waiting.

Accessibility improves, you can use the top of the rail to generate (solar) power, run highspeed internet cables in the rail to improve comms across a country, and save on distribution center logistics as you're going point to point.

The last mile may possibly be an issue, but forklift drones and bicycles can take most of the load I feel.

Drivers for this are that it would go fast (200mph+ as light pods so little wear), can go overnight (sleeper pods), you could buy track to your door, personal transport (like a cinema room if you want). The main real issue with cars is that there's a large lobby behind what is a legacy transport solution...

By way of example, UltraPRT has been running flawlessly at Heathrow airport for 10 years, was built on time, on budget, and performs exactly as predicted/modelled.

For more info checkout http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/ in particular Swedetrack

The last thing to mention, and the elephant in the room, is overpopulation. Looking at the stats it seems that birthrates for developed countries is in decline, so the obvious solution is to give everyone a good quality of life.

The issue here is actually at the heart of economics - how do we run an economy with an ageing demographic? Japan is the leader here and they are placing a bet on robotics. What happens though when robots consume 80% of jobs? That may be the issue we need to solve, and as you can effectively tie energy to economic prosperity on a macro scale, a solution presents itself - create more (environmentally friendly) energy sources to raise global wealth.
Ask HN: Has anyone trained a ResNet that I can use to classify my porn stash?
After about 20 years of hoarding adult images, it'd be nice if there was a resnet out there that could apply labels. Google comes up empty. Who wants to help train one?
I was amused at how quickly sprinklr picked up my tweet with the word amazon in it, I got a canned response in minutes & actual human contact within a day.

https://twitter.com/ahmedrezat/status/1162081845170671616?s=...

Update: FYI, my qualm wasn’t about AmazonFCs, but seeing the business end of Amazon try to put a distressed driver back on the road immediately after a very serious accident. The person who contacted me from Amazon told me that the driver was not put back on driving duty that day (so at least someone paid attention). So it’s not all negative.
I think we should do this. When writing a tiny, trivial utility, it doesn't make sense to bring in a ton of dependencies. Disk space, memory usage, and download size all matter, especially to those of us who use old hardware on rural satellite connections.

Your final paragraph had a good point, though. It's not just cowsay.
China’s first bank failure in 20 years still holding back small banks
You can see my (lengthy) post here about my experience with belt drive, but I was CONSTANTLY getting flats on my Ghost; tried the tires it came with, added tire liners, added slime tubes, nothing worked well until I got the (heavy as a tank) Schwalbe Marathons. Now I want to get the slime tubes out but don't want to remove the tire to do so. But yeah, another vote for "not changing your own tires isn't really an option". Even though its virtually impossible to change tires 'in the field' on my ghost.
> why are they losing money?

I don't know for sure, but I would guess it's their aggressive expansion efforts. Those might cost more than they've returned so far. If that is the case, and since their GM is so high, they should be profitable once buildout costs start to plateau.
I think what made me more gullible is all the modern claims of machine learning... maybe, I thought, LaTeX was now using RNN's...
White Supremacists Want a Dirty Bomb
The real purpose of the justice system is to make people believe in it so they avoid settling their own disputes. Anything else is incidental. Actually punishing criminals and not punishing innocent people helps, but is by no means necessary.

It’s like democracy: the primary advantage is that people think they can effect change so they will refrain from violent revolution. Whether voters can actually effect change is largely irrelevant as long as people believe it.
This, along with classism, along with a now worse user experience in mixed company, is what leads to people to just isolating themselves from people with "green bubbles".

And to top it off, the "green bubble" person is mostly oblivious to that happening too.
Their "rebuttal" almost seems like a taunt to other security researchers to prove them wrong. Calling the researchers irresponsible and their tools rudimentary was a dick move.
Seems that the cross platform GUI toolkit with least memory footprint is FLTK...
Is it though? There are a hundred different interpretations of Hotel California too, but in the end it was about the excesses on the music industry.
When you're at early stages of development you don't have steel factories. When you reach later stages you build nuclear. To the extent that an intermediate stage even exists, it's very short, because once you have roads and ports and a stable government you get foreign investment.

To get the first aluminum smelter the first world had to invent it. To get one now you just have to build it -- or have someone else build it for you. Then you power it with a ton of cheap solar panels and only run it during daylight hours.

So why would waste money building a bunch of coal fired power plants that you won't even need in a couple of years?

And why would it be uncompetitive on cost globally if everyone else stops burning coal too?
DefCon sets up its own wifi networks, it doesn't use the hotel's wifi
> switching to electric cars isn't enough

It's not enough it's worse : basically by buying an electric car you're outsourcing your pollution to China and Africa.
Bait and switch is a good reason for animosity, agreed.
I don't think he means that you have to follow your "passion" per se, but just to put effort into whatever you're doing, make big leaps, compromise yourself, and fail a lot.
> when you have a monopoly over a communication medium

Twitter does not have a monopoly over internet communication.
Granted, it came from there, but that was back in the days of map=eval(json) and they're gone. There is nothing in json the format (as opposed to json the language construct) to impose the unordered behavior.(Or, for that matters, the 'no comments' bit).
As someone in this space, I think that most people vastly underestimate the actual practical considerations in converting a neat CNN or ML algorithm into a usable product. It's trivial to use the newest flavor of ML to write an academic paper and hold up a new high score for a particular problem. It is very hard to make that a usable commercial product, because often 95% accuracy is not good enough, or it's better to have a deterministic failure mode than to have a semi-random one.
Most interesting, thanks.
I mean that if Uber provides the same service, but the pricing model is such that you pay for the software instead of the car ride directly, it's suddenly a 'tech company'?

If pricing model is how we categorise a company as a 'tech company' or not then I don't see that it's a useful category.
This is not true. Deleted data is indeed deleted. Making sure deleted data is actually deleted is super important to Google and any other company because of GDPR compliance.

This is the kind of thing that you go over laborious detail in over privacy design docs at Google to make sure you have it covered.

Source: I'm a Xoogler.
Remember that in the end they will send you a bill for this entire circus, so unless it's an acute emergency you do not actually want any of this.
I think people overindex on this. It really isn’t surprising. People are protesting what they perceive as their government betraying them. That’s a huge claim and people are really angry. People are people. And angry people do angry things. If the government doesn’t cooperate with the people, they will get angrier and it will get worse. That is just what happens. The social contract takes both sides, and yes, it’s often random people who don’t deserve the fallout who get hurt as a result of not abiding by the social contract.

But it’s extremely myopic to think that protestors are the ones accountable for all the trouble. To people not immediately affected by the governments decision, it is far too easy to miss the fact that it’s the government throwing not just the first punch but many many more before you see this kind of thing happen
Aren't a lot of electric cars (e.g. Tesla, Nissan Leaf) made in the US from batteries made in the US?
> I wonder if consumer VR would have faired better if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.

I don't think VR changed the GPU demand landscape at all. Most of that market has high overlap to those already doing PC gaming. And if you're already doing PC gaming, you probably already have a GPU perfectly capable of doing VR.

Consumer VR would fair better if there was a halo game to justify the investment. Entry-level VR still starts at $400, and there's not a lot of games where you go "yes I must try this", and fewer still that are then also VR exclusive to really force you into the VR experience.
I interpreted the analogy very differently.

Let's say someone ran a service which spun up Windows Virtual Machines, of any model, which were not genuine licenses, for the sake of "security research." Legal?

Here, I see "someone" as a security researcher, not someone who is reselling the VMs. The OP may have meant someone spinning them up to resell them to security researchers, but, given the ambiguity, I do think it's important to point out that you can spin up free Windows VMs for research purposes--you are explicitly licensed to do so.

If the analogy is taken literally, then the answer is: yes, it's legal as long as you're not reselling them.
I didn’t want to be condescending although my comment sounds like that. Usually I give people the benefit of doubt but I just see a lot of people who are really not interested in the job. This seems to happen a lot when a lot of stuff is outsourced so no one is owning anything. People who want to solve problems usually leave and you are left with paper pushers who schedule a lot of meetings and offshore developers who don’t know anything about the history of the project.
A recession will come. How bad will it be?
Similar but different I think is also walking away, if it is just a situation you don't want to be in or negative I think it is effective to just cut it off hard and come back later
Another way of saying it is that you believe by not having kids, you can ethically consume the energy that your offspring (and their offspring) would have consumed.
I think that should be "wall of sheep".
I think it’s on purpose. One of the authors is from Oxford after all...
Art Spiegelman's Marvel Essay 'Refused Publication for Orange Skull Trump Dig'
In case anyone else is wondering: I believe this doesn't affect Bluetooth LE Secure connections, though the authors don't state that explicitly.
It's Defcon, so yes.
Ah, so people have delusions of grandeur and think they stand with demigods of ages past? That's neat.
I didn’t mean that all our troubles are based on external factors but it does impact our day to day.
Memories of a talk in grad school where we had a guest from Google (also an alum of the school) presenting. He had been with Google from early days and had a hand in their biggest products, including Gmail. It was a very good talk, and I don't mean to disparage it, but someone from the audience asked him a question about user privacy and he answered it by describing how good Google's security is. Like, he didn't quite see the difference between privacy and security. It was illuminating.
They get the upgrade for free, I'd hope? Kind of like they seem to feel the need to do regarding their new chip [0].

Less optimistic, people will probably be less eager to upgrade once those cars are several generations old by the point FSD will actually be available.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/8/20685873/tesla-fsd-chip-up...
Wow, thanks for the response - that actually looks like Haskell and if its performance is not that abysmal (let's say slower than Python), that is pretty cool.

This actually looks quite reasonable - usage string included, I like it. Hats off to you, I will try to compile it to a binary now and do some benchmarking.
> I can pay 'experts' to testify in court without revealing I'm paying?

I feel like it's generally understood that when expert witnesses get called to the stand, they're being compensated for their time by whoever is calling them.
A 'living lab' for connected vehicles
Cashierless Stores Make Inroads in U.S.
Brood War API – The Comprehensive Guide – Distances, High Ground, Unit Behavior