skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually addition is reversible, as long as you do it inline. The inverse of `a += b` is `a -= b`.

An example of an action that's not reversible is masking: `a &= b`. But if you dig deep enough into the physics, you find that these kinds of irreversible actions are actually always implemented in a way analogous to the following:

// a &= b
acquire zero'd register z from environment
z ^= a & b
z ^= a
a ^= z
z ^= a
discard z into environment

Which can be reversed if you're able to get the discarded `z` register back.
> In school did you learn writing with pressure-and-release strokes? I'm referring to how hard you press on the nib to control the ink flow, using a dip pen.

Yes. That was actually the part on which you got your grades for. Tough days.

> E.g. writing the Copperplate lowercase 'k' requires you to lift your pen three times.

Some letters have variants. There are variants of 'k' I know of with only two or one lifts and at least one that doesn't need a lift at all, albeit not looking as good but still considered Copperplate.
I remember reading Politco's "Hillary Clinton’s ‘Invisible Guiding Hand’" [1] back in mid 2016. I thought, "wow, the Democratic party is way ahead of the game in data analytics", seeing as how successfully they've applied it in Obama's campaign. Here are some choice excerpts:

> Kriegel’s anodyne title is Clinton’s director of analytics, but it’s a job that makes him, and his team of more than 60 mathematicians and analysts, something of the central nervous system for the campaign: charged with sensing, even predicting, the first tinglings of electoral trouble and then sending instructions to everyone on how to respond.

> When Clinton operatives talk about their “data-based” campaign, it’s invariably Kriegel’s data, and perhaps more importantly his models interpreting that data, they are talking about. It was an algorithm from Kriegel’s shop — unreported until now — that determined, after the opening states, where almost every dollar of Clinton’s more than $60 million in television ads was spent during the primary.

> Now, with Donald Trump investing virtually nothing in data analytics during the primary and little since, Kriegel’s work isn’t just powering Clinton’s campaign, it is providing her a crucial tactical advantage in the campaign’s final stretch. It’s one of the reasons her team is confident that, even if the race tightens as November approaches, they hold a distinctive edge. As millions of phone calls are made, doors knocked and ads aired in the next nine weeks, it is far likelier the Democratic voter contacts will reach the best and most receptive audiences than the Republican ones.

When this Cambridge Analytica stuff started coming out, I thought, "huh? what's the big fuss?" It seemed like people were upset with the Republican party for doing the same kind of targeted campaigning that the Democratic party had spent more money on, had more mathematicians on the payroll, and had more and higher quality data from the Obama presidency.

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/hillary-clin...
Beyond Meat is fairly widely available in Canada. A&W sells a beyond meat burger, and patties are available in several national grocery chains.
Many who used to have a PC now have just a smartphone but the problem is that phones are modeled to be consumption devices, not for production. Even pro/highend mobile devices lack the ability to compete head-to-head with an actual laptop/macbook because the underlying OS is limited in scope by design.

TL;DR: you were never meant to do work on a phone, just watch stuff
No, I agree that if the "your call may be monitored" is played before every monitored call centre phone call, then Siri should also remind people, at least once every other day. I'm not sure how often people reboot their iPhones, but I don't think doing it just on boot is enough, either.

It would drive the point home if Siri just said, every N queries, "anything you say to me can and will be sent to Apple's servers for analysis purposes".
A few highlights:

> unclebucknasty - Wow. Sounds like a huge shell game that Musk has set up among his companies. It's betting big, which should be expected from Musk, but it seems a bit odd to be so personally intertwined with public companies and making decisions accordingly. It also seems unduly burdensome to the companies in the "portfolio" which might otherwise perform well.

> a13n - Some people think SolarCity is doing terribly because they're losing so much money. Actually them losing money is an incredibly great sign for the long run (assuming they don't run out of money - which Elon won't let happen).

> partiallypro - The CEO is his cousin, but he has recused himself of voting on the deal. I doubt the SEC & FTC will care; Wall Street on the other hand, I think they all see what this is about.
I'm not talking about media, I'm talking about actual actions in the world.

I go outside and look for food, pretty much anywhere in the Western world, and anything that actually resembles a real meal is fast food bollocks. Sugar/salt/chemical laden perfectly formed crap is pretty much everywhere and crowds out alternatives.

Like, I want a bowl of mashed potatoes with some boiled chicken or whatever. Doesn't exist. The only time I've seen close is in Poland in the old milk bars.

Even in say, a pub, it's hard to find a meal that isn't trying to be "fancy" or "luxurious" in some way, ends up being fatty or salty or whatever because for whatever reason people wouldn't buy home cooked stuff.
I just read your "TerminusDB — what’s in a name?" blog post, love it! The tie-in to Asimov's Foundation, you folks seem pretty serious about that, yes?

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You're releasing TerminusDB under the GPL! Bless your hearts! I can't wait to see it!

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Did you know that the Applied Category Theory folks (https://www.appliedcategorytheory.org/) have something they call CQL, Categorical Query Language, https://www.categoricaldata.net/ ? They have a book out that talks about it, "Seven Sketches in Compositionality:An Invitation to Applied Category Theory", specifically Chapter 3 "Databases: Categories, functors, and universal constructions" https://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/7Sketches.pdf
I think it is a rather toxic movement that we are continuing to label things that which they are not.

"fried plant-based ‘chicken’" it makes no sense at all

A lot of it is egged on by the vegan/vegetarians and is the definition of false advertising.

I saw "vegan" mince in the meat section the other day. I feel sorry for the elderly or learning impaired who might be accidentally buying soy substitutes when their bodies are craving meat.
I think a big issue is that plant based foods are considered boring and ummarketable. You can’t upsell anyone on broccoli and carrots. People who want to “hyper optimize” are falling into a trap of marketing themselves, in a sense being told that they can’t really be healthy unless they optimize the nutrition of everything they eat.

As a datapoint of one my diet consists mostly of pasta, salads, and whole vegetables, and I would consider myself to be wildly healthy by any metric upon which health could be judged. When I bring in lunches my coworkers look at me like I’m crazy because my meals seem boring, and in a real sense compared to flaming hot Cheetos and guacamole chorizo fritatas they are boring. But there is a certain zen which comes from enjoying the simple things; unfortunately this will never be a popular thing to do.
Someone's political beliefs are not a federally protected class[1] and therefore it is legal to ban them if you want.

https://content.next.westlaw.com/5-501-5857
> why not brutally enforce cut down of sugar in sweet items (including softdrinks, ice cream, chocolates, cakes, etc.) by 50%? To he11 with the taste

A lot of the processed stuff sold in the US would actually taste better with less sugar in it, I bet. I found the taste of sugar pretty much overpowering in a lot of sweets.
RFC 5952: A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation

says "The characters "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", and "f" in an IPv6 address MUST be represented in lowercase "[1]

One Reason for this, is that it can avoid redundancy if you submit a hexdecimal nummber by phone.

"However, when a letter is spelled uppercase,people tend to specify that it is uppercase, which is unnecessary information."[2]

If you care about typography and think mixing lower-case letters with upper-case numbers, you could argue, that oldstyle numbners aka. lower-case numbers could be a better fit.

[1]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-4.3

[2]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-3.3.3
> Why, I do not know

In Czech language even names of cities have genders. So the endings of the words are based on the gender. And Lednice - "do Lednice" is singular, while Valtice - "do Valtic" is plural. There are even some cities where locals use it as singular while the rest of Czechs use it as plural and they tease each other at parties.
Coca-Cola is gonna do a counter study with findings that shows health benefits of drinking Coke™
A JPEG is also sorta kinda a derivative work in the abstract. It learns the common patterns in an image and makes a new image with those patterns. A neural network that is hugely overfitting will do the same. The legal (and in this case maybe moral?) line isn't drawn based on the algorithm. The line is drawn based on the output. Is the output sufficiently original and transformative?
I have dealt with remote issues both as a founder (since ~2003) and for the last few years as an employee for a startup. There are differences in expectations depending on the size of the startup and the funding etc. But I'll assume a very early startup with minimal funding.

1. Hire as a Contractor. An international employee adds significant difficulties to your company in terms of tax compliance and wages, even an employee in another state can increase costs, reporting and compliance. You should also pay slightly more to the contractor because the contractor is also accepting tax liability when you do this. However that is easily acceptable because it will still be far cheaper than if you tried to setup an employee relationship, especially in another Country.

2. Benefits for contractors are usually very few if any, but in the case you want/need to provide health care; I would suggest you provide a slightly higher pay and have Joanne source health care locally. Not quite sure for Canada as they also have nationalized healthcare so you'd have to research the expense there some. But IMO, it is always good to provide some small addition to cover local health care. In the U.S. it is not uncommon to have them pick up a local plan and the company pays for it, or at least a portion of it ($200-500/month is fairly common for single people depending on health, age and plan details).

3. As I suggest you hire as a contractor any/all benefits should be spelled out in the contract. Your standard equity agreement can be used likely but I'd check with an attorney real quick to see if you should also put it in the agreement. As a contractor I'd want it in the agreement as well, just so it was clear. Essentially I'd want a basic statement that says XYZ is being offered 2% equity as defined in the "equity contract document title".

4. You should also be very specific in your contracting agreement about the relationship, there are some very specific rules the IRS uses to determine if you are just misclassifying someone to avoid paying taxes. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr... is a good start to see what they look at. The fact the person is in another Country is in your favor here where you could likely violate some of the guidance and still be on safe grounds for classification as a contractor (an attorney is best to answer in specific).
French fries top this list, are processed, and contain no sugar. https://www.ibtimes.com/what-causes-obesity-10-food-items-ca...

It is strange that bread has sugar in it now but it's typically a small amount like one gram per serving: https://saraleebread.com/our-breads/classic-100-whole-wheat-... It does make snacking more harmful though, as a blood sugar spike can be added where not expected.
I tried a few different varieties of chick'n nuggets, 90% of the taste is just breading and whatever the sauce so its really not a difficult as you'd imagine to have a substitute
Fascinating article! A couple of times I've been wondering what happens to old books that libraries inevitably have to dispose of. I wonder how often a diamond in the rough is uncovered in this process and how many books are "lost" because of some scanning fault. So much of our past culture only exist in old books.
This makes me wonder which company made this "Social Credit Drone Strike List" [1]

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

1. rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/
The Magic of Underpromising
> For far too long the greedy, unethical food corporations have been profiting off our health.

Nonsense. As knowledge of nutrition has advanced, companies have adapted to demands from consumers to produce healthier food options. See: salads at McDonalds.

This idea that there was some magical past where food was healthy and abundant is not supported by fact. My parents grew up on farms in Canada in the 40s/50s, and food security was still very much a big issue - the amount of time they spent just to ensure everyone had adequate food was staggering vs. the ease with which anyone can buy inexpensive, high-quality food at the supermarket today.

Yes, many products have far too much sugar in them. The right approach is to stop buying those products and force manufacturers to reformulate them as they realize their market is drying up, and you already see this happening at a huge scale.
Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
Honest discussions and reporting around anything involving China is quite difficult to come by these days. I would very much recommend everyone take any Western reporting with a grain of salt, especially from obvious pro-U.S. sources. Much of the coverage of the situation in HK can be seen as evidence of this. On this topic specifically, Wired's recent article over this was a breath of fresh air[1] for the overall state of news reporting when it comes to China.

Some clarification: First, when I talk about this slant in reporting Chinese affairs, it's not from a pro-CCP or pro-China position. Discussions about Chinese media and bias are still essential to have, but has nothing to do with the point I'm making here. Next, this issue isn't limited to just US media. There is arguably an observable bias even when it comes to Western academics that study or cover China in some capacity.

I'm sure aspects of this system in China earns a healthy dose of criticism and skepticism. However, it's important to consider the way this may be reported in the West, especially as tensions heat up between China and the US. Just think, for example, that it would not be very difficult to cover the US's credit score system as authoritarian, racist, or Orwellian. In fact, such cases have been made in the past and have some weight to them.

Just a thought.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system...
> my answer to that is that the government should not be paying for people's health care. It enables bad behaviors and it forces people who make good choices to subsidize people who make bad choices. Which is legitimately bullshit.

Bullshit. The government is not "paying for people's health care". In most of the civilized world, you pay a percentage of your income to the national health care system, and then the national health care system takes care of you if you need something.

Why? Because you can be suddenly diagnosed with all sorts of diseases that could not be prevented by having "good behavior". That is puritanical bullshit to blame those who need help and compassion the most. People have life-threatening diseases because of genetic factors, environmental factors that are out of their control, receiving a cosmic radiation at the wrong moment, etc etc.

Also: people get old. The older you get, the more shit starts to happen.

Not having a national health care system leads to a nasty and cruel society.
> and several Congressional reps are from" makes it sound like they have disproportionate representation in Congress

They do, specifically in the upper house of Congress: Iowa has about one Senator per 1.55 million people; the US as a whole has about 1 per 3.3 million, California has less than one per 19 million.

> Iowa has 4 reps. California, for comparison, has 48.

Actually, California has 53 seats in the House, but the House is approximately proportional to population; while there is a pretty big range in representation ratios for the songle-district states because of the limits of whole representatives, the real ddisproportion in Congress is in the Senate.
This is also why it's absolutely terrifying that all the press in the US is controlled by like 5 people, and the rest of the information one gets is controlled by Google, Facebook and Twitter. Anyone who thinks this is not being used for nefarious purposes is incredibly naive. There are trillions of dollars at stake.
>Where did Jim Keller go after Zen? Intel.

He didn't went straight to Intel, You missed Tesla in between. And anything he is doing will be 2022+ at the earliest. Intel already has a roadmap of Chips that were delayed by Fabs, and that is at least up to 2022 / 2023.

I am pretty sure AMD has many competent people too. And as far as I could tell, I don't ever see engineering talent as a problem in any big tech companies. There are lots of insanely great engineers from Microsoft and even Oracle that most have not heard of, but most of the talents are hampered by cooperate politics and culture. And so far AMD seems to have a far better culture under Dr Lisa Su than Intel.
I’d argue it has more to do with the fat/salt/fried factor than just the carbs.
Foods with a combo of fat, salt and certain textures make you both thirsty and more likely to crave more.
I’m working on it.
Any chance the domain is Japanese? haha
Indonesia will relocate its capital city as Jakarta sinks into the sea
They have a lot of saturated fat (beef and cheese) and simple carbs (bun), but sugary drinks are probably worse.

I’m sure excessive saturated fat consumption from a cheeseburger addiction has killed someone by way of heart disease.
This is a distinction I don't understand.

If I run a local speech-to-text client on my computer for my own use, that's pretty established fair use.

If I run the same software on a Raspberry Pi and transmit the results over my LAN for my own use, I assume that's also fair use.

If I provision an AWS VM and run the same software there, and then transmit the results back to my device for my own use, is that fair use?

If I get my best friend to provision the AWS VM and run the same software there, and then transmit the results back to my device for my own use, is that fair use?

If Amazon provisions the AWS VM for me, and runs the same software there, and then transmits the results back to my device for my own use, is that fair use?

People are drawing a line here that I genuinely don't see. The whole thing feels incredibly arbitrary to me. The agency of action is that the user is asking a computer to perform a task. The means of action is a piece of software running on a computer, computing results on the fly.
Those of us into graphics programming, UI/UX are better served with macOS/Windows tooling, development enviroments and SDKs.

That's been my observation and occasional experience. I'm more of a technical writer these days, but I've done light graphics and UX work at various points over the years and prefer what's available on the Mac. (My experience on Windows is pretty limited.)
Is it down or just you? Check from 5 locations
There were multiple links in the article. 30 seconds on google scholar will show you as many additional ones as you want, ex. [1][2]. Asking for links here is not really appropriate.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/beyond-bls/millennials-aft...

[2] http://www.frbatlanta.org/documents/pubs/econsouth/14q1.pdf
> If I buy a paperback book, there is nothing stopping me from building a machine I can insert the book into that scans the page, OCRs it to text, and then converts the text to audio.

Nothing except the extreme hassle of doing so.

Digital is different, because it’s so much easier and cheaper to perform such transformative operations.
FWIW, sVirt is the "code name" for Libvirt's SELinux labeling scheme. It uses SELinux multi-category security to ensure that each QEMU can only access resources destined to one VM.
basecamp manages it. They charge a flat fee, no matter how many users: https://basecamp.com/pricing

They blogged (alas can't find the link now) they did that deliberately in order not to be beholden to larger customers, they wanted to treat all customers equally.
Appliances which use universal power supplies tend to be low power. The highest-power device with a universal PSU that I can think of that the "average" person would have would be a computer, but even high-end gaming computers tend to top out around 500 Watts when running full-bore. Even large TVs don't usually draw more than 100 Watts at most. The rest of the devices with universal power supplies tend to be things like phone chargers which draw almost no power. None of these devices draw enough energy for the increased efficiency to matter. Devices where it would matter tend to have large motors or heaters that run directly off line voltage.
Processed food doesn't, by definition, have to be poison. We've set up this race to the bottom between competing food brands where the brand with the most sodium, fat, or high glycemic index sugar wins. The "free market" has an unfortunate tendency to select local maxima in the form of addictive substances.

I don't know how to get there, but I can conceive of a reality where we could eat healthy and also not have to cook everything from scratch. It would require a shift of incentive from maximizing consumption to maximizing consumer health.
Antifa is literally about opposing fascism, which in America is a violent white supremacist and misogynist movement. When you say that they are "associated with the Dayton Ohio shooter" you mean that alt-right propagandists have found tweets from him that express negative sentiment toward fascists. I am now seeing that an armed man actually associated with a local antifa group recently got himself killed after he "tossed lit objects at vehicles and buildings, causing one car fire, and unsuccessfully tried to ignite a propane tank," so yes, you're absolutely right, they've escalated from milkshakes to mild property damage. Definitely an equal threat to the specific rightwing movement responsible for the vast majority of domestic terrorism in this century.
But why would you want anyone to have to pay anything? Google is one of the richest companies. This should be simply the cost of doing business. Google wants to make money by removing humans completely. They should have to pony up the expenses for when their system fails...
Hi, I'd love to look into that and fix that for you. Could you possibly tell me what browser you're using and what country you're located in? Thanks!