skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly only read local news coverage now from my paper of record (LA times), and a couple local magazines with good journalists. I read less of it (as there really is less of it), but what I do read is more impactful and about the area I live in, and the stories are much more likely to have a tangible impact on my life than whatever national gaffe is being talked about currently in every publication and agency at once.

I don't care that I'm out of the loop on a lot of the national soap opera. The loop is pretty dumb usually and not worth wasting much time on. I loooove reading about local transit projects, housing development, and other local matters on the other hand. That stuff I actually use in my life.

I also only use RSS for content, which really saves me time.

I think a lot of people could stand taking a step back from the national drama and studying local issues more closely.
Unable to reply to Illniyar’s comment below. To add to those points on the difficulty (actually practical impossibility), you’d also need to have access to a Mac to do all those things every seven days. That’s a very big ask, along with the technical know how to use Xcode, for so many people in Hong Kong.
Wow, awesome work. I can't believe I haven't heard of gun before now. I'm off to play!
wait until you discover java's interfaces
The implicit context of this argument is that space is limited and we can't indefinitely expand roads. We almost certainly can indefinitely lay more fiber.

That said, the logic does apply to wireless spectrum, which is a limited resource. If we allocate enough spectrum that people can replace wired connections, there will definitely be significant and unsustainable demand for even more bands.
Why would the tax be infinite? At worst it needs to be equal to the cost of removing enough carbon from the atmosphere to offset the emissions.

Planting trees (and removing the carbon they capture from the carbon cycle, e.g. by turning them into biochar) probably doesn't scale to the amount of carbon we release.
Just because an animal can't tell the difference between the real and artificial memory does not mean a human couldn't do the same.

Using animals in research is generally inaccurate.
We can also hand over the streets to Taggart Toll Roads, would that be better?
GDPR:
https://gdpr.eu/article-17-right-to-be-forgotten/

It’s often the easiest way to comply with GDPR just to allow any of your users to rage quit and delete all their stuff. That way you don’t run afoul of the EC if you accidentally mis-identify an EU citizen as not being from the EU.

EC doesn’t care about conversation continuity.
Cardinality Is Key
It will increase load on the bottleneck.
A hack I found is they sell a wooden shelving unit whose shelf boards are sold at Home Depot for less than half the price, just without predrilling or hardware. (If you can buy a cheap corded drill and a hand saw, you can make just about any basic structure from DIY plans online)
Hydrogen fears are overblown.
Network latency! Using Sockets
Average trip distance in the US is not that much longer than in Europe. It certainly doesn't justify driving a truck instead of a smaller car.
I login every day on KDE with a magnetic hard disk (Ubuntu 19.04), and the login time is really short (few seconds).
Perhaps is your setup. Do you config to init a awful quantity of scripts/task at login ?
Lenovo Yoga computers have parts that explode
The Billionaires vs. BrandonM (2018)
Reminded me of Eme-sal, a notable variety or sociolect of Sumerian:

>eme-sal (𒅴𒊩 EME.SAL), possibly to be interpreted as "fine tongue" or "high-pitched voice" ... used exclusively by female characters in some literary texts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language#Dialects
I think China getting that information from Apple is sort of a second-order concern at this point. In a more stable situation, yeah, you don't want the police to have a reason to knock on your door. When you're gearing up to go protest in public and the cops are dropping tear gas on everybody, those sorts of lists are less important. Not saying that it doesn't matter, but there is no such thing as absolute security, it's a series of tradeoffs.
That is interesting actually. You could argue that the tiny amount of leave Americans typically receive contributes to emissions. With people being unable to spare additional time for travel there is a strong disincentive to use any form of transport apart from flying.
This seems less like an artificial memory and more like a real memory of an artificial experience.
A human is just an animal.
You could also have a gradual onboarding process, this should help a bit but might be over the top :

- first: multiple choice. You get 5 good questions and 5 good or bad answers. For each of the questions you have to answer if the answer is good or bad.

- Next: 5 known questions, that might be good or bad. You have to answer if it is good or bad.

- Finally: the moderation queue where the answer is only used as an weak signal to the actual moderators.

Success rate of 100% required for stage 1, 60% for stage 2 and just completion for stage 3.

This would leave a new user with a good understanding of what the site is for before they can spam.

It will also make their account seem somewhat valuable.

And if someone wants to pay someone to take their test, fine with me, at least the account isn't free anymore.
This is more holistic than what you asked, but someone might find it useful

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
-Eric Steven Raymon

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> In LA are these shortcuts worth it?

Nowadays I suspect not. Google has so much telemetry that it probably doesn't miss any real paths anymore.

Anything attempting to reroute me to save less than 5 minutes certainly isn't worth the grief of the odd turns, streets, etc. that I will have to navigate for the first time.
For power users (as one of the other child posts states) the extra space afforded by HDDs did have a use case a couple years ago.

As an application drive, or a drive in a device where the only other moving parts are input keys and fans, SSDs are completely the way to go. Even if dropped weirdly at least the data is probably recoverable.

Unless it's cheep bulk or high-write turn over spinning rust makes less and less sense. Though the cost for bulk storage still favors it. (Given the write endurance, I'd also prefer SSDs to be at least half as expensive.)
Wow, that meme is spicy. Another reason to dodge soap opera politics. I've been focusing my news reading on local issues from my local paper and local magazines, things that actually affect me and my neighbors lives. Local reporting is a lot more genuine (but maybe I just have a great local paper).

Following these story lines inspires a lot more hope and respect for my community than any national headline that probably won't affect my life at all.
Considering what others have described here to skip verification, you have used a dark pattern to force users to resort to SMS verification, endangering all those thousands of users you/your company claimed have downloaded the app in Hong Kong. This dark pattern would also inhibit or reduce usage during natural disasters unless you place a “Skip Verification” button that’s as prominent as the one for SMS verification. You could explain to the user the benefits or disadvantages of both on the same screen.

Having seen FireChat, another closed source mesh network app that allows people to sign up without giving a phone number, there’s no reason for me to recommend your app or even for me to try it.
The next most interesting direction the researchers could go would be if deletion is possible. I’m assuming the question of deletion being even possible would be amazing to find certainty. I’m speculating for an existing memory to be deleted, it has to be rewritten and thus typical deletion is impossible without rewriting. Once all this is perfected, the future technology of brain interface for humans will have even more potential. We’re going to be able to interact with our minds as we do everyday with computers. Very exciting!
What are the features of a good GDPR compliance software?
For millions plus rows, the queries get crazy slow. If your jsonb field contains lot of data, JOINs on toast storage tables takes chunk of the query times.

My 2 cents: Best to keep data normalized and in separate columns. If you gotta keep data in jsonb, keep only the data that you don't need to query on. Anything you need to query, you better put it as a column. You'll thank me later.
Ironically, I did the reverse commute for several months, which wasn't bad at all, provided I timed my trip thru JBLM correctly.
This is a really good analogy that i haven't come across before. thanks
One of the most iconic photos of American workers is not what it seems
Modern Indian Wedding Invitations – Unique Wedding Invites
Want a webpage like mine? (1999)
It was more than 90 seconds for me. I'm not going back to HDD for $HOME for sure ;) Nothing special was configured. I also suspect, that splash screen was bugged. I always disable it now.
The nonce would only be available if you scrape the page while logged in and extract the logout URL, which is impossible with iframes.
Yes you can - this is an article crated in 2017 https://www.idalko.com/crud-operations-postgres-jsonb/
Given that we know for decades about falsified or inaccurate human memories for decades, I am not quite so sure.
Shows how simple a web page can be and look OK (background image excepted!). Comes with responsive CSS:

body {
max-width: 1024px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I think the author has not yet encountered C++ vtables, they should take a read of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_method_table
Large annoying Speed bumps are a better solution for the first one, the app will route people even if it's marked as not thru.

The second one is unethical at best, and would certainly require changes to state law - in addition to being somewhat unenforceable.
The only way to disprove the argument is to have evidence that the sanctions block access to machinery or services that Venezuela could not obtain elsewhere.

Which is improbable since both Iran and North Korea bypass sanctions to the extent they both have nuclear programs.
If the Starlink satellite is moving (I don't mean actively moving, just that it's changed its orbit in the last few days), the measurements of its orbit are going to be less precise. So even if expected closest distance is greater, the error bars are wider. Which would give a larger probability of a conjunction.
I am being informed, but with the amount of stuff happening every day you need to be selective in the information that you are consuming out of the fire hose.

I read local news from the local paper on local issues, because I'd rather be informed about what happens in my city than the gritty details of the constant horrors that I am personally powerless to affect on the other side of the world.

How do I stop Exxon? How do I stop Raytheon? I already vote straight D. But reading local news taught me about how some of my neighbors are actively helping people in crisis in one of the wealthiest cities on earth. It taught me about how my community leaders are combating climate change. It also taught me how I could get involved in driving local change.

Local news presents issues that I actually have agency to affect. There are pressing issues all over the world at once, so why not focus on the issues in your back yard?
Depends on your definition of “more” and also who you are as a user.

Just for arguments’ sake, I could argue that Fastmail’s privacy stance and policy don’t matter much compared to Posteo because of what’s written on their websites as well as which jurisdictions these are located in, and hence Posteo is better for privacy. I could also argue that for non-technical people, having a custom domain and managing it is a pain, compared to just choosing some domain from a list of predefined domains in a drop down and not having to worry about domain renewals, MX records, etc.

I’m not saying that custom domains are bad (they do allow you to switch to another provider easily), but there are trade offs to consider in both cases, and hence what may be “more” for one may be “less” for another.

Also consider the price difference when multiple mailboxes are required. Fastmail becomes quite expensive very soon compared to the others.
Beautifully done. Thank you. Also, Durer was a genius.
Wikipedia claims that the Chinese character with the most strokes translates to the English word 'verbose' [0, 1].

Whoever came up with that one must have been a wicked deadpan humourist. I live with regret that I will never appreciate good Chinese (written) poetry.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Rare_and_co...
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%AA%9A%A5
Very cool, thank you. It seems like the original AGPL license should have worked for companies like MongoDB. But, their company, they can do what they like and lose users.
A post about that was discussed on Hacker News a while ago:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGoo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19978200
The material forms certain crystal structures at those pressures which were predicted to be superconducting.
The mere possibility of tampering with memory is indeed the most dangerous thing that could happen to humanity. Imagine not being able to believe your own memory.

In fact we don't have to imagine, I believe I've been subjected to "mass gaslighting" on multiple occasions recently on the internet : some piece of information I'm sure I saw on the internet suddenly completely disappears. Google + Facebook + "right to be forgotten" type of policy, make for a very dangerous power never experienced before by humanity.
I've always found these kinds of tricks fascinating. There's all sorts of crazy things you can do to save some bytes here and there. One of my personal favorites is the XOR linked list[0]. It's a doubly linked list that uses as much memory as a singly linked list. It works by XORing the previous pointer with the next pointer. As you're doing a traversal you can compute the next pointer by making use of next = prev XOR (prev XOR next) giving you the address of the next node in the list.

Anyways, I did some digging into TAOCP. In section 2.3.1 Knuth mentions threaded binary trees[1]. They are trees that you can traverse without a stack and do not use more memory than a regular binary tree. This is compared to the method used in the post which requires you to store the parent pointers. The trick is that in a binary tree, lots of pointers are going to be null. Instead of storing null there, you can store a special value that provides information on how to traverse the tree. Indicating the difference between a regular pointer and one of these special values requires only a single bit. You can often store that bit within the pointer itself, requiring no additional space over a regular binary tree.

For a threaded binary tree, if the left child is null, you instead store the predecessor node. If the right child is null, you store the successor node. Finding the successor now becomes:

1) Check if the right child is null. If so the right child pointer points to the successor. We are done.
2) Follow the right child pointer. Then keep following the left child pointer until the left child is null. This gives us the smallest value greater than the current value.

One small advantage of threaded binary trees is you traverse the tree slightly less. If the right child is null, instead of traversing back up the tree as in the post, you can jump straight to the successor node.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_binary_tree
Signal is really three things with the same name (four or five, if you count the foundation and/or the LLC):

1) The Signal protocol, which can have multiple implementations (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype all use it),
2) The Signal client and server, which are open source, and
3) The Signal service operated by Signal Messenger, LLC.

You can use either 1 or 2 to implement a system that doesn't require a phone number to use. Wire, for instance, is a messenger that has adopted parts of the Signal protocol and the Signal source code. [https://github.com/wireapp/proteus/blob/develop/src/internal...]

What you can't do is change how the Signal servers operated by Signal Messenger are operated, or refer to your own client/server using Signal trademarks.
I think the Trump tweet from the other day confirms that this speculation is not at all unfounded. I think 20cm resolution from satellite images is even better than most people speculated.
A wall calendar helped me as well with a meditation habit. My longest streak was 100+ days of at least 20mins sitting. I tried with apps later on, but nothing matches a huge calendar and marking the box with a big X.

I'm glad to hear someone else had the same experience. I wonder what it is that causes one to work better than the other...
About Invite Codes
It seems like Waze should be smarter by slowly shunting a portion of traffic to alternative routes, and seeing how much it can support.
We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too
I've had similar experiences with Waze. These sorts of things drive me insane. All of this sort of maneuvering around and jockeying for position... For what? If I'm lucky I can save myself 5 minutes? No, thank you. I wish these apps had options to turn that stuff off.

Having said that, I'm not a SoCal native but I've been here for over a decade now. It drives some of my SoCal native friends up the wall that I won't get in the freeway for only one or two exits, etc... I just don't operate at that pace of life.
Traffic is a liquid in the short term, but becomes like a gas in the long term as the larger container caused routings to change.
>The SpaceX satellite is for all intents and purposes inert, since it is incapable of significantly adjusting its orbit.

If SpaceX is actively deorbiting the satellite, it's not inert.
The first question is what do you constitute as a feature?

Surely the scope of work is going to vary massively that is would make it really hard to answer your question accurately.

Do you have an example of what you consider a feature and how long it has taken you?

In my case, I work in online mapping, and developing a feature which allows people to convert between projected coordinate systems when they download data took about 5 days to complete and sat in dev and uat whilst the entire project was being worked on.
It also complicates the legal system as it exists today. The fact that artificial memory can be induced in someone's brain makes believing a witness a lot harder. So in addition to social and ethical concerns, it also upends the legal system.
Life in an Internet Shutdown
One of the regulations must be that hacking someone’s brain, as in deleting or inserting memories into someone without consent, is a crime akin to rape and torture. You are violating someone’s sense of self and identity in ways the person can’t reverse (the offender merely has to insert a memory of the person consenting, or delete the experience entirely) and you reduce the person’s agency by treating them like an object to achieve your goals.

We can’t wait for this technology to be abused, we need regulations and International treaties way ahead of time.
BM25 Cheatsheet
This is a function of living in an unlivable city -- not technology.

It is physically impossible for there to be enough roads to move 14 million SUVs to and from home each day.
I have said it before and I will say it again - the problem is that humans are MORE than just pattern recognizers. We build models that we are trying to make logically consistent; while the function that provides pattern recognition doesn't have to be.

To see that better, consider what I call "simplified Chinese room". It's a variation on a traditional Chinese room, where inside the room, there is only a pattern recognizer, which basically will match the input to arbitrarily many inputs (but not all possible) it learned before and chooses the output for the best match.

Now imagine I want to train this "simplified Chinese room" on solving satisfiability problem. Because in that problem, an arbitrarily small change in the input (introducing a contradictory clause) can completely change the output. It is therefore impossible, I believe, to learn the concept of satisfiability by just using pattern recognition (storing and comparing, according to some metric, previously seen inputs and corresponding correct outputs). Instead, you need to build a mental model which is internally self-consistent with these example pairs.
> legally obtained

As an aside, you and I both know how easy it is to get an activated sim card... But I agree with you comment; this article is not really "news".
That the NSA and GCHQ were illegally collecting phone records and internet browsing details of anyone they wanted.

The fact that the UK government recently passed a law[0] to make this legal makes it pretty clear that this is real.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/snoopers-chart...
I think high speed rail is great, but it doesn't seem to work well on routes longer then 3-500 miles, if for no other reason than the construction cost is too high.
Not sure I am looking forward to experience a blue screen like, in my brain.
Well, apparently I'm not "people" in that sense.
There is always going to be value on something that gets eyes pointed in a direction, whether it's a billboard, an influencer, a news story, or a blog post. If you want to really know what's going on, find a relevant academic journal.
I interview designers, here are things I look for
Which tweet?
Tribadism
From the paper discussed in the article:

> Our main finding is that these results are not meaningful and should be discarded.

As often happens, ML found a way to exploit a trivial bias in the dataset. Tip of my hat to the researchers for actually doing a good job! Also really enjoyed this read.
I strongly doubt they spliced the cables. From the article it sounds like they got a court order (probably unconstitutional), allowing them to intercept the data. So they probably just needed to install a couple of big servers at the landing sites.
I see from the MTCNN code that this repo (like all others I've seen) is still bouncing tensors between GPU and CPU while passing between the P/R/ONets.

So many ML repos make this mistake in pre/post-processing and end up bottlenecked on CPU.

Anyone know of an MTCNN that's been ported to run more or less fully on GPU? (Or even that does batching instead of an image-by-image approach?)
It's the "modern" WinRT applications for sure. When you're running a 5400 RPM HDD and the calculator application needs several seconds to cold start, you know they must have made some pretty terrible design decisions.
Not really. At least not in the way that blog post has been presented. Normally you’ll be told as you install things if there is any manual amendments to configure files required. So it’s all quite discoverable.

That said, if you’re used to Linux and Windows where you can just start services then daemons on FreeBSD might catch you out because you need to (or rather, get “told” to) manually edit the rc.conf file for any services you want. It only takes a few seconds to do but I can see why some people might find it an annoyance if they’re not used to manually editing system files (personally I don’t mind but I’ve been using UNIX for decades).
> study that esoteric subject

Where does this come from? The major one had was game design, another was for IT.

I'm not implying anything. I know people from states who don't have great schools (or programs) available to them and choose to go out of state.

The whole instate/out of state system needs an overhaul as well. Some students want to resettle out of their state and intend to stay after getting their education. That's a net plus for the state, why make it so difficult for them to get an education here if they are academically qualified?