skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in a stroke of irony, would suppress such an insurrection

No one understands better than the US Army that their size and technology was futile in the face of an insurgency. If “the boogaloo” happens they will not be able to suppress it any more than they were able to beat the Taliban. In fact it will be much harder than that.
> EVEN in the extreme that you're right more often than you're wrong if you make that assumption.

And this is actually the rational thing to do. Reason: There are two potential errors involved here: labeling an innocent person a criminal (false positive) and labeling a criminal as innocent (false negative). The key is to realize that the cost of these two errors is not the same. For instance, treating an innocent person as a criminal could be much more expensive for the person and society than not detecting a criminal with a given classifier. For that very reason, we have the presumption of innocence as a principle in law. As a consequence, you don't want to select a classifier based on just the rate of errors overall, but you want to incorporate some kind of loss function that minimizes the cost for individuals and society. Under that loss function, the best classifier may actually be wrong more often than some other classifier.
'as free speech, not as free beer', to explain what is actually meant with 'free software' doesn't cut it for me.

Why not just call it open source and pick the license you prefer? With all respect for Richard Stallman, the label 'free software' is a really poor word choice IMAO.
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> If you're worried about your career... why? What is the point of your career as a scientist if you won't take a stand like that?

Not GP, but 'earning a living' can be quite a compelling reason.
How about the fact that things like IAT might be junk science: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/12/05/psychologys-favourite-t...
Sounds like another 'DRM so strong you can't even boot anymore!'
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Basically you only use GC if you declare something using a GC type.

type
# A `ref` type is GC and will use the heap.
MyGCType = ref object
fieldA: int

# Otherwise ALL types are stack based.
MyStackType = object
fieldA: int

Also GC is deferred, so if you use a GC type in a local scope that doesn't escape, you don't pay for reference counting.

The only other type that use GC is `seq` (equivilent to C++ vectors) IIRC.

The standard library uses seqs in various places so if you fully turn the GC off using the compiler switch --gc:none you'll get warnings for things you use that will leak. There's no GC 'runtime' stuff that you need though.

However in my experience all you need to do is just not use refs, and make your own ptr based seq (there's probably a library for this but its trivial to implement).

Nim's GC is thread-local (so no stop-the-world issues), only triggered on allocate, and has realtime support via enforcing collection periods. Plus you can use other GCs if you wish (eg Boehm).

More info about the GC here: https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
I second this. A firefox plugin that is "on" or "off" would be great. I guess FoxyProxy is close if PiHole can act as a SOCKS proxy to do its blocking. Is that one way it can work?
Why does the Jailbreak need to be untethered? Is the teacher walking around and making every student reboot in front of them? Rebooting takes a solid minute, so in a not-particularly-large class of 20 kids, you’re dedicating a solid 20 minutes to this activity.

Once Jailbroken, I don’t think you’d need a fake app. Just make a very simple patch that overrides whatever is preventing you from returning to the homescreen, and set up the patch to be enabled by a secret Activator action, like pressing the volume buttons in a secret sequence.
What does TFL stand for ?
Okay hacker news, if you think it's a great idea to get tips for your next big product pitch from an article like this it might be time to take a step back and think about that for a sec.
A while ago went through HAZOP (hazard and operability) study, first step for building a safety system, which is electrical or electronic programmable device to protect people from machines.

One hazard that they came up with was literally condensed down to "operator accidentally sits on mouse, kills 20 people".

It was a bit (as in shitloads) of a long bow, but we adjusted design accordingly.
Selam G. builds weapons for US Department of Defense...

That's not really feminist, isn't it?

> • Co-Principle Investigator for a U.S. Department of Defense SBIR Phase II research contract, prototyping autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) with collection system.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/selam-gano-089895ba
Neat software, but I think this is less defensible than other ad blockers.

With web ad blockers you protect against tracking, privacy violations and potentially malware and thus don't see "unacceptable ads".
In contrast this seems to be about blocking ads just for the sake of blocking ads.
Scientist or capitalist, can't be both.
Right now, there's teams of people at companies like Spotify and Stitcher, frantic in front of whiteboards, trying to plan a future for podcasts wherein it will be harder/impossible to skip the ads.

First, they have to control the distribution. Then, they have to build the tech, which will obviously involve some kind of DRM.

To say that I hope they fail is an understatement.

But I know they'll try because in the internet economy, companies simply must fight, kick, and scratch for every last fraction of penny of advertising revenue.

I hope that they are unable to wrest sufficient control over the distribution channels to force this ugly future upon us. Indie podcasts will be safe, but the well-produced, mainstream podcasts will go the way of cable TV and it will be gross. Ads ruin everything.
It Does not have the vpn component but I have been very happy with nextdns for mobile ad blocking
That's why US needs a job protection law.

In Italy you can't be fired for your opinions.

Never!
This might be an alternative for people who are too lazy for setting up a pi-hole or desire things to be a couple of ms faster: https://simplednscrypt.org/
> it's clear that army units were sent in and simply murdered a large number of people who were carrying out an unarmed protest

Which is utterly puzzling because the technique of priming the slaughter with agents provocateurs amongst the protesters is neither new nor particularly difficult. Were the leaders involved just incredibly incompetent at tyranny or was there something else going on?
Who threw it away? BJ wanted an election then for his own political purposes, it isn't the duty of parliament to just go along with that. Once an extension has been requested, then an election can be held, and BJ probably won't have much say in the timing.
People in public positions have always had to be careful about what they say. It really lowers the quality of discussion to talk about "thought crime" in this context. Stallman isn't being thrown into prison for expressing his political views. He's being fired from his job (to the extent that it is a job) for making ill-judged and offensive comments.

> It seems the real reason he was fired was because he expressed a difference of opinion over the nature of Marvin Minksy's guilt as a result of his association with Epstein.

No, thats not it. The inflammatory comment was the following:

>“It is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17".

This statement is as clear as mud, but it certainly seems to suggest that age shouldn't be considered as a factor in determining consent.
I'm not sure tbh, Aramex typically charges inbound shipments around $9 per 500 grams. However I must note that I'm not getting the best price. If I take a short trip to villages I can buy in bulk which is way, way cheaper. And these soap bars last very long.
I'm familiar with the holocaust.

I'm not following how normal (census, social security etc) government people registries are connected to the detention centers, much less to the holocaust.

My question was: isn't registries of people normal in most countries? There must be something about these registries that is bad, in the way they are created or (ab)used.
Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game
I was about to say that Tivo has offered this in a limited capacity for a while. Unfortunately it looks like they're actually forcing people to watch ads on recordings now.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/21/20876976/tivo-pre-roll-ad...
An interesting thought experiment is to look at all the "for-fun" online communities that you've been a part of. For instance, game forums, enthusiast subreddits, etc., and see how the discussion there varies from discussion on political things. Of course it will be different, but I think I have started to see factionization in the larger online communities that I am a part of. However, it's hard to know whether this is human nature, or something learned from other sources. (For example, a user who visits political subreddits and then takes that attitude to the Hearthstone subreddit.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_for_London
I wonder how many times someone has said that to realise it was them.
One word: Taleb
Two words: long tail

Then to go on. The response from Oxitec is abysmal. Your GMO experiment promises NO release of altered genes. There is a release of genes by cross-breefing. Then the researchers publishing the release mentioning the risk of having created a hardened species is unscientific? It's the poorest of poor behaviors.
This is what happens when people abuse those conventions.
Yeah that's the point. Fuck ads.
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>>well-to-do educated class have simply stopped looking at the country as a whole

To put it bluntly they don't care. They don't care until they lose their jobs, until they can't pay their kids school fees, until they lose their home/car when they default on their loans, and more importantly they don't care for the social problems until its their kids or family whose life is on the line.

They outsource their hate to political parties who do the work for them, they wake in the morning read headlines in the news papers, and if it fits in their political world view they just carry on.

To put it frankly not a single person from the current working generation will likely face much issues from these socio economic problem. Mostly a few problems. The coming generation are screwed, they will inherit a dead economy and impossible to fix social conditions.
That is true but be careful with the terminology! A system trained using aggregate data to probabilistically infer characteristics isn't artificial intelligence. If the system could find causations, then there would be grounds for calling it intelligent. But finding correlations, that's just number crunching.
A Knowledge Sharing Platform Positively Impacts Your Organization
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-36204011
Bitcoin Is Not Threatened by Claimed Google’s Quantum Supremacy
Tibetan Groups Targeted with 1-Click Mobile Exploits
you deserve your "fuck you"

You came looking for it.
Some might have found it funny, others might have found it tacky. It's the way jokes work. Important here is that his is not the first time it happened or where it was used disproportionally against him:

https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

From the above, from someone at TI he met later who was amused by his joke:

"The plant incident, which I found rather humorous, provided a reason for people in the later camp to become offended. This was convenient as they had been looking for one. They were subsequently able to blow it to suitable proportions to gain the attention of management. "

Stallman will always offend people because he speaks about their unethical behaviour. Those offended will use whatever he does as an excuse.
the good side about social media is you can totally ignore it, cigarettes on the other side it's not easy as soon as you're among other people
Transport for London. They run (among other things) the Tube and the London buses. A "statutory corporation" run by the government at arm's length.
Brexiters would argue he is fighting the remainer parliament to implement the will of the people as represented by the 2016 referendum result. It's all a bit of a mess.

Personally I think Blair's suggestion of another referendum on no deal vs remain would be the way forward as those are the most popular options with the voters. Everyone seems to hate the withdrawal agreement.
Can someone try Clifford Wolf's tiny risc-v on this fpga?

I'm mainly interested in size and speed for this specific chip and speed grade.
Wonderful article, exposing some of the oddities of this non-Indo-European language in the middle of Europe, without becoming too technical.

If you're interested in an entertaining overview of all of the world's languages, I can recommend the course Language Families of the World by The Great Courses - 34 byte-sized (half hour) lectures.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/language-families-of...
Great to see you pop on the homepage of HN man !
"there are politicians, who previously campaigned on the losing side of the referendum, bent on hampering negotiations by making the UK accept any deal the EU offers"

Like what? Mays deal that MPs rejected?
Why address such a comment to someone who has made clear they believe in the existence of God? There is no reason to provoke peoples' religious beliefs.
100% agreed. The initial buffering time on them is ridiculous. I've started uploading to streamable and just posting that link rather than upload video straight to reddit.
Check out https://nextdns.io/. Free now, but I do worry about their eventual monetization.
The fact that we have a machine learning algorithm that labels _humans_ as smashers, prostitutes, or convicts is a problem, irrespective of whatever technical justification can be made for it.
Probably the only service where I got more than my money's worth...
Labour and other party members knew this was a trap. But the real reason they abstained is they wanted to truly rule out a no-deal brexit plan and also to further scrutinize the government.

Boris is now forced to ask Brussels for an extension due to parliament taking over the brexit process. Only then a general election can happen.
I dont have an opinion on that, i m not from the UK. But it's how things look from the EU. Perhaps the shock of a no-deal brexit will actually inspire some more unity in the UK.
> “Free software.” “Open source.” If it's the same software (or nearly so), does it matter which name you use? Yes, because different words convey different ideas.

Even though i support FOSS over OSS, I've always found this particular argument a bit uselessly pedantic. Both of these term are almost always used casually not legally, when we want to do that (i.e when releasing software) we must use the highly specific language of a particular license anyway... which leaves only the following argument:

> establishing freedom in a lasting way depends above all on teaching people to value freedom.

For non-enterprise uses, how much OSS is not also FOSS? most people assume they are equal because the free part is implied, so do we really need to teach it? most software vendors understand this because they know the majority of people will just use it for free if the source is available regardless of whether it is explicitly given as free. It's too hard to enforce payment in any area except for enterprise... When this market force already exists, does it really help to create a social force to differentiate FOSS from OSS? I'm not sure, I think you just end up pissing off new FOSS enthusiasts.
Or maybe provide the ability to run it locally. Is it open source and does it have deployment instructions?
I believe the OP means that the people who are demoted/reassigned blame it on “asshole managers,” not that the managers are in fact asshole. The reality is, in any organization, you’ll have people who are incompetent, and people who are simply unwilling to do their jobs.
Precisely because of what RMS keeps saying - the thing is about software freedom, not software price.

Software freedoms and Free Software came first. "Open Source" came later, as a "free just as in beer" spin-off.
Why would anyone have to defend blocking ads? It’s a personal choice that doesn’t negatively impact anyone. You could argue that if enough people did it, it could effect the potential advertising revenue, but if that were the case then the end result is not that “people are bad for blocking ads” but rather that the current state of advertising is incompatible with user needs and desires.
Around the time that Parse (mentioned by sibling) was killed and open sourced, a lot of open source Firebase-like solutions had sprung up, some of which are listed here: https://github.com/relatedcode/ParseAlternatives#open-source...
> What's the root cause of this?

It is stems 100% from the terminal emulator. Just install a better one. Test your keys with https://metacpan.org/source/PEVANS/Tickit-0.67/examples/demo...

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JfHjJXy.png

The only key combos marked not ok are global/taken by the window manager, so they don't arrive at the application.
Cutting connectivity to a neighborhood to prevent through traffic is good for the neighborhood on the net, bad for everyone else... and the law is quite permissive at allowing it.

Our roads are designed so that some are arterial, some are access. The designs of these different kinds of roads are strikingly different, the costs to construct them are strikingly different, as is its durability to traffic. The impact on the surrounding properties are strikingly different as well.

Treating each kind of road according to its designed purpose is not a failure to treat the public equally.

Would you also argue that prohibiting drivers from traveling southbound in the northbound lanes is not treating them equally under the law? -- I suppose not.

But then why do you consider directing transit traffic via non-arterial roads, causing unplanned wear to the road, risk the the surrounding properties, and congestion at interconnection points to be materially different than driving the wrong way? The road is designed to be used a particular way, using in a manner contrary to the design can cause serious problems.

The law does not currently have carveouts for prohibiting transit traffic on public roads, as they weren't generally needed in the past and no doubt their enforcement would have their own costs (e.g. police stopping people to ask where they are going)... but such laws could certainly be created, and will be created if mapping companies continue to insist that they can ignore the harms they are creating by directing drivers to drive in ways contrary to the design of the road network so long as the law doesn't outright prohibit them from doing so.

With automatic plate number recognition cameras it would be relatively straight forward to automate ticketing of through traffic in posted no-through roadways...
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I can't be the only one who literally can't stand the sound of radio advertising. They make a point of using as many annoying and attention-grabbing sounds as possible, not to mention the cheap and cheesy jingles.

I'll often find myself turning the radio down to the second-lowest volume it goes, so I can turn it back up when there's actual music. Equally often I turn it down and then forget about it for the rest of the trip. Honestly, a trip in silence is sometimes preferable to one where I have to micro-manage the volume knob, let alone one where I have to listen to radio ads.
Which effected only American and Canadian embassy workers.

No other embassies.

No other expats.

No Cubans.

Not the people spraying it.

No other South Americans.

But affects American embassy workers in China, but no Chinese......

Or it's hysteria,

with the fake news machine pushing alternative confusing narratives, since it gets them clicks with the USA agencies control since their interests are pushed - https://www.state.gov/required-departure-of-cuban-diplomats-...

The brain injuries are not real, but whateves - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/23/brain-scans-...
A lack of balance is why we can't have nice things.
There has to be a middle ground where publishers make money to keep publishing and consumers of those publishing keep consuming the content without being annoyed to the point of wanting to abolish all ads.

The result of extremism here is that it wouldn't be viable financially to produce content. Paid subscription models don't seem to work leaving advertising the only revenue stream publishers have.

I'm saying all this from a content consumer point of view, not a publishing one.
The video is a 2008 9/11 truth conspiracy theory video from a guy called Justin Keogh.

Imho it's neither worth the download nor the time.
Sensitive features should not be collected or used in applications where they introduce bias.

For example, a medical screening NN may find race to be a valuable feature for the prediction of illness; but a health insurance assessor should not.
Hi, creator of CycleNotes here!

We currently only have an Evernote integration (Sandbox-only right now as Evernote is taking their time). You can, however, paste in your notes as we offer markdown support :)
Thanks for the reference and your great insights. On reading the new Google paper more closely, they do FM the readout.
Oil is a fascinating project. I really hope it gains some traction once it is stable.
Yeah I listen to a somewhat niche podcast from the UK, and recently I've been getting ads in my native German in it.
Sorry, I’m not understanding. Is inappropriate actions a thoughtcrime? Like. I thought thoughtcrime and actions are separate- you can think about how women are just pieces of meat all you like, once you start treating them as pieces of meat then you’ve moved from thinking (thoughtcrime) to action (serial killer)?

(Edit; to be clear, since this was a point of confusion, I do not believe anyone I am responding to thinks women are meat! This is a rhetorical tactic to use as an example.)
> This is indeed astounding and unprecidented - the court ruling, that is

Not sure I'm convinced of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Civil_Service_Union... , the first case to hold that prerogative powers were subject to normal principles of judicial review, may have been that -- but that was 35 years ago, the principle's been accepted for a long time
We launched on ProductHunt yesterday :)

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cycle-notes
When Young George Washington Started a War
We also need to start seeing advertising as a way for publishers/performers/makers to cut a slice of benefit from corporate profits. If we remove advertising everywhere, corporates are just going to seek non-media ways to market , and the whole mediascape will lose.
Isn't it easier to set it up with wireguard? I’ve recently set up my turris running “adblock” (openwrt) natively with only wireguard open, connecting from my laptop, ipad and iPhone, which seems to me to be a far lighter and easier setup ....
Problem is the same brand of PC is being exported to places without that history, because of the power shift it causes.

Also see: invoking emergency military powers during peacetime (as reaction to overblown external threats) to suppress political dissent.
you can only win a winnable war, obviously. the USA could turn afghanistan into glass if they posed an existential threat, but we keep entering conflicts with no criteria for exit with stateless foes.
It takes a thief to catch a thief
> There is no business case for silicon vendor to open source anything

There is no good business case for the smaller vendors to develop and maintain a full set of very complex software either.
Great idea by the way. Of course skipping commercials in any kind of media was always a thing to do and was not invented for web ads only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping
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