skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one programming paradigm that is very underserved is something in the sorts of filters.

GPU shaders, Signal Processing or a Nginx filter are all on this line of thinking.

We should be more inclined into program things as filters where we manipulate and maybe mutate/transform the data that is passing through that filter, so this could be easily paralelized, cut a lot of expensive CPU branches and where humans and machines could work together making those filters. (It would be much easiar for an AI to infer/learn about how to program like this)

In this perspective how we layout and shape the data is much more important.. so if we could create new standards where we can represent anything as a matrix for instance, we could have state-of-the-art engines who would care about scheduling, compilation and paralelization so we could only focus on manipulate and transform data according to the goals of what we are trying to achieve.
The facts are that these days you just can't discuss some topics "logically" in a public setting. There are forbidden topics that only have one acceptable position. For example, it's not acceptable for anyone to discuss why blackface is offensive and clowns/mimes are not.
"We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals."

Not sure that's obvious. Crime has steadily fallen. Particular practices may not stand up to scrutiny, but I'm guessing a lot of it does kind of work.
> Does this Go snippet compile, and if not, why?

Line 2: `User` is undefined... can't read the rest of the article.
If the question is legal liability for violating sanctions, releasing the $14K could put them on the hook for much more than $14K in liability.
I mean, it seems like any drone cheap enough to be expendable by the millions would probably be lacking enough in range as to need a carrier/mothership of some sort.
I already have potholes destroying my rims, I'm not looking forward to the day a pothole wrecks one of my engines!
Mustelier is Canadian and says she has no idea why a U.S. embargo is affecting her Canadian business.

The article claims her money is going through a US bank.

Not surprised this happened at all.
What happens when it reaches 88mph?
30 seconds on Google suggests Payfirma, Moneris, and TD Merchant Services, all headquartered in Canada.

I haven't deep-dived on any of them, so those specific ones may not be suitable. But Canadian banks exist, and Canadian payment processors exist. This can't be hard.
I was only aware of them being a thing in the DC area, and not being mutually exclusive of insurance.

Anyway, if the loss ratio of an insurance company is more than 85% by law, it seems like you can gain only so much by bypassing them.

And why would you want to eliminate medical records?
Assuming that's correct, and that the "hot ladies" thing happened as she describes, how do you excuse away all the other inappropriate and harassing behavior he's displayed over the years?
Maybe... but isn't this idea worth questioning? There are loads of scenarios where we simply say, as a society, your discomfort with someone doesn't matter on balance, and you must deal with it. Such is the case with all the hot-button "isms" today.

Stigma's wrt. mental disorders haven't really gotten the same kind of love from the social justice movements, that other areas have.
Fantasy football, NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, and maybe finance.yahoo.com is about it.
>In my view, "show your work" means, loosely speaking, to create a fictitious chain of reasoning and present it in a style learned from the textbook and classroom presentations.

This doesn't just arise from students guessing. For any "difficult" problem, most students will end up doing useless steps, or possibly going down rabbit holes before finding the correct path. I don't think I have ever seen a proffesor that appreciated seeing all of this work (unless you couldn't find any path, in which case they often seemed to appreciate seeing what you did try).
But the article states the problem are the funds are going to a US bank.

If believed, she could just have the funds go to a Canadian bank and the problem is solved.

Doesn’t really have anything to do with Square.
I don't understand. vuln seemed to be suggesting Apple would give pre-jailbroken devices to governments to find vulnerabilities with instead of giving them to established white hat researchers.

I don't see how that would help good guys reveal bugs.
Working for Pentagram seems sweet. Huge cool designer cachet despite the fact that all you do is redesign logos and branding for incredibly uncool legacy corporations
Would that not just be something like John Doe?
I don't personally know Charles Manson, but I think he is definitely deserving of vilification.

Now, that doesn't mean that RMS (or anyone else) absolutely certainly deserves being vilified by people who don't know them, but the entire premise is false: knowing someone (personally, I assume is the implication?) is not a necessary condition for condemning their behavior.
TL;DR - the team that evaluated whether Slack would be good for the company also had the most to lose if Slack was selected over their own product.
I liked what the moderators and their teams did to make SO and SE sites interesting to read by keeping away lower quality contributions. But at the same time, I don't think think the sites were very welcoming to newer members/contributors. Recently, I have started visiting some of the microsoft sponsored forums/developer communities. They have no problem if the exact same questions have been asked many many times already. The use of downvotes button should also be minimize. Rather, a short reply to something you disagree is actually quite friendly. Downvotes can sometimes hurt someone feeling because you have no way of knowing why he/she is upset at what you posted.
Not passive RADAR no, that is looking at distortion of a known signal. Picking up ECM is one aspect of ESM or ELINT, which through wide area triangulation can provide approximate location. But it's tricky, ECM can be a lot lower power than a search RADAR, e.g. repeating echos, distorting the return signal to have a different signature, etc. If it is a powerful jammer it's likely to be quite directional so distant receivers might not pick it up well.
TIL Australia, Canada, Germany have no majority religion.

This is not true, according to the CIA Factbook that was, ironically enough, cited by the infographic:

- Australia: 52.1% Christian. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/..., see also https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject...)

- Canada: 67.2% Christian. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)

- Germany: 57.2% Christian. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)
The updated Yahoo Finance app is really slick, actually.

It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Charts just show up at the top of the results page but there's no dedicated site anymore.
I had a YouTube employee login to my account, defaced my video titles and description. And Google wouldn’t do a thing about it. Don’t trust FAANGs and other ‘wangs’ with your private content !
FBI: Over 5 Times More Killed with Knives Than Rifles
If his logic didnt matter, shouldnt he be condemned for only being inappropriate or hostile? Yet it seems that his current reputation among the public at large is that of an actual paedophilia/rape apologist. Whether he actually was or not, this lack of concern for subtleties is the very reason why "societal censure" should only be the authority on matters relating to politeness and not criminality.
Cross-platform compatibility, and being able to use the same graphics APIs and libraries as the rest of the computer industry.
> We are, sadly, entering a new age of conformity

We have always been in an "age of conformity". For example, Obergefell v. Hodges was decided less than 5 years ago. There are still children who are homeless because they aren't sexually conformant.

What is changing is not the degree to which society demands conformity. All that is change is who has to conform, and the standards to which they have to conform.

Conformity is not bad. Abstaining from wanton murder and theft is conforming to social norms. What matters is whether the norms are good ones.

> The Hacker culture from which everything we have today in tech arose.

This is a nice origin fantasy, but it's really not true.

The uniforms at DoD and the suits at IBM/Intel/AT&T/Xerox/etc. played a huge role in envisioning, organizing, and bankrolling all that work.

Also, that work was done by of hundreds of thousands of white-collar and blue-collar professionals. Many of those engineers and technicians were not self-described "hackers" or "nerds". A lot of them contributed by digging ditches and climbing polls. A lot of them were brilliant engineers who at 5pm turned off the computer screen, went home to their families, and didn't think about work until 9am the next day.

> The culture which makes this site "Hacker" news, is one in which doing something interesting is more important than anything else... why aren't you doing something interesting?

Because some times boring things are important to help society function or to make money. Examples: Attending city council/school board meetings. Being a middle man. Running warehouses. Selling advertisements. Giving away vaccines and moz nets. And honestly 99% of other work done by companies, nonprofits, and active citizens. Including software companies. Boring, not interesting, and yet to varying degrees important. In fact, some of those things are super interesting (ad auctions, for example, are wonderful fun for math nerds) but not nearly as important as the boring things (passing out vaccines or setting up moz nets or taking minutes at a city council meeting -- seriously, not fun).

> But maybe it's this fear that leads us rushing back to deep moral systems likes religious fantastics when their faith is questioned.

We all have our convictions and stories in which we find meaning.

We're all unreasonable defensive about those stories we tell ourselves.

...In fact, on that note, one more thing to add to the list of boring things that we for some reason feel the need to do: political arguments on a news forum that financially benefits VC by tapping into a fantastical ethos about the origin of modern computing.

Now, tell me no one here is going to get unreasonably defensive about that ;-)
> And who, if I may ask, is this person

"This person" is Thomas Bushnell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bushnell

> who is so eagerly ventilating his opinions to feed the wolves? To me it sounds more like he's upset

This is just my reading, but "A reflection on the departure of RMS" does not have the tone of someone who is upset nor someone who is eager. It has the tone of someone who feels like they have a unique perspective that ought to be shared on a difficult subject.
I don't think it's just one thing.

I would:

-Define a business plan. A plan is better than no plan

-Plan a marketing strategy. You have to make sure there's demand for your product.

-Make sure it's available on Amazon so there's an easy way to order it.

- Repeat until there's a steady demand

- Continue by executing your business plan

FYI, going retail is expensive and very resource-intensive. You should wait until after you've gone as far as you can go online.
You can start by reading something about the condition, instead of assuming and insinuating, and making inacurate similies.
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Might work out if it’s paired with active suspension.

The idea with motors at the wheel seems to be that the moving parts are all concentrated there. No mechanical distribution. Compartmentalization. But that is not incompatible with active suspension systems.
I have done that, repeatedly over many decades, and most of them have made me worse to the point nothing can be done IF you find a good one. You can't be an expert in everything and often learn someone is bad too late. Since I live in a country where healthcare is a profit driven business I have been priced out of "trying another" as a result of the damage done and loss of life and income. I cannot afford to keep trying new ones until I find an honest and competent one in most cases. Not at the US prices.

I also went through that with dentists years back and had several in a row insisting I needed lots of expensive work but I kept spending on more opinions as it was out of line with my historical dental health. I lucked into one that confirmed I did not need any of that, proved why to my satisfaction, and said its a real problem in the business and I have been with them ever since.
It is my personal belief that in many fields patents last too long already. Copyrights are just beyond insane.

I like the idea of initial automatic copyright (like it currently is); though I think the duration on that might be better as 5 or 10 years.

Lets go with 10 years for the first initial, automatic copyright, just as a starting point. Also add in one additional year to allow for paperwork filing; so 11 years. Past that point in time I'd like to see a requirement for continued registration (and a filing fee that increases exponentially); I also would like compulsory rates per type of work. Those should be set by the library of congress (and contestable by lawsuit). The compulsory rate also requires furnishing, for a reasonable fee, a unit of the work that is unencumbered by technological restrictions preventing the study and modification of the work in question.
Wigner's paper (discussed in the current article) can be found here: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...

Various discussions of Wigner's paper on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19588971

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13954804

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8520610
Here is a video of one in operation with some techno music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGu7XDapR58
https://i.postimg.cc/HW8q1j1s/Screenshot-2019-10-01-at-3-00-...
I was always told by my teachers the main reason was for practicing taking exams. If you can show the workings, but you made a simple mistake somewhere, you could still be awarded points for getting the process correct, even if the final answer is wrong. Say a trigonometry question that was worth three marks, and you messed up a decimal, you could still get one or two marks for correctly identifying the problem and solving it – albeit with the wrong number.
It never ceases to amaze me that we allow our FCC to sell leases for so little. Instead of demanding companies share revenue or provide basic services for all for free, we allow this type of theft under colour of "fair governmental auction".

Remember, in the US, the FCC is only the current custodian of this shared property called the EM spectrum.

US citizens can and should take it back as their property, and demand all citizens profit equally from these auctions.

Other countries have declared internet access a basic human right... At a minimum that should be included in all future leases.
No excuse. This is Square Canada. They made a promise to this client and it's not like they stopped taking money on her behalf as soon as they realized there was a problem. Whatever backend problems they have are their own problem and their own liability.

If they aren't able to do that then maybe this company should not be operating in Canada in the first place.

[edit: oops, I meant Square not Stripe!]
I once bought cigars at the Duty Free on my way into the US. Spent the next 2 hours dealing with an agent who'd clearly just been transferred from the southern boarder since the receipt said "Havana Style". I really hope the US is able to normalize relations with Cuba some day.
That's one of the very few devices in that space ever to be produced in volume. Small volume, but a real product.
Post on Machine Learning, 5G, Internet of Things and Data Science
I will give you a clue, or rather a framework for thinking. Then you can elaborate more.

So the imbalance today exists because the search engine uses AI against humans.

The next phase will be (or should be) AI against AI.

The human UI of the search engine will not be used by humans but by an AI representing the human.

If you follow this paradigm, you can see how powerless the centerl search engine becomes.
Those are not mutually exclusive and actually a good idea. You want to fix this specific issue, but also ensure that whatever process took down one DC doesn't affect other DCs. That's scaling and redundancy 101 - not sure why it would be something wrong.
> Almost like having a second device

Especially when you have a dual-sim phone
Chainsaw Drone [video]
You could make the same arguments to say that these devices should be speaking HTTP instead of HTTPS for the purposes of allowing the use of a proxy to inspect, redirect, and provide custom responses for requests.

Ultimately if a device in your network is your adversary and you’re giving it an open connection the internet then it’s game over. If there was actually a significant portion of people who blocked ads with DNS vendors would have implemented DoT with certificate pinning a long time ago.
Podcast: Steven Kinzer on the CIA's 'Mengele'
The blackface discussion isn't taboo, it's just been discussed to death and there's only one reasonable position. Google minstrel shows. The history of blackface is one of mocking black people. There is no way to "logically" argue that it isn't offensive because there are no facts to back up that claim.
Canberra's green machines: ACT reaches 100% renewable electricity target
I use RDP pretty heavily in low-bandwidth and high-latency scenarios. In the last couple years I've seen a lot more software and websites using "fade in/out" effects that are utterly excruciating. Aside from those the performance is great.
Imagine the world if Stallman had been excommunicated from tech after the first awkward/offensive interaction he had with someone.

I sure wouldn’t.

Tangentially: I better not see anyone here lionize Steve Jobs ever again, because he inflicted actual physical trauma on people. He didn’t just piss them off with his failure to recognize social cues.
I'm copy-pasting a comment from earlier on because I got late to that discussion and it's doubly relevant when the standard here has gone down from "hindered the work of MIT/FSF" to "made XX-class people uncomfortable".

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I think the most interesting part of this gotterdamerung is the claim in “Remove Stallman appendix A” that if the work of a Great Genius hinders The work of some number of talented skilled folk, then society is ultimately at a loss.
I’m not certain that this is necessarily true. Or false for that matter. I have an intuition, possibly colored by an overall culture of hero worship, that it is false.

This is the rationale: the dynamics large groups of people inevitably approaches that of a committee. Committees are averaging devices that smooth potentially groundbreaking ideas out of serious consideration. Genius on the other hand is not only extraordinarily capable of such groundbreaking ideas but is able to insist on them doggedly.

OTOH it means that one true genius (and maybe Stallman isn’t one, but true geniuses have very very often been assholes) is worth almost an infinite number of merely talented folk.

The ultimate question: what lifted us from mere animal status 10-15K years ago? A handful of geniuses or a general society awakening?

But also; how may “young talented physicists” it takes to change a lightbulb?
While this is true, if players weren't benefiting from college, more would declare early for the draft, after 3 college seasons. I don't know what the percentages are, but there are more players getting drafted after 4 years of college than those drafted after 3.

Which implies that players not only seem to value the training and experience of college athletics, but that they value all 4 years of it. Arguably red-shirting extends this to 5 years.
I have launched this few years ago. Robotic process automation browser. Idea is to bring RPA to small-medium sized businesses for easy, fast and inexpensive setup and deployment.
If he had the capacity to comprehend any of this he wouldn't be the sort of person who talked about the Knight of Hot Ladies at work. Unless Garrett somehow turned out to be a some kind of medical expert, his opinion on Stallman is about valid as Stallman's on anyone else.
I use "soft" to mean that the measurements are more subjective, contextual, or open to interpetation.

Chemical changes are "hard", but "power pose" and "improvements to your abilities" may be "soft".
The CIA Factbook? I'm making the observation that the creator of the infographic has made some errors when translating the data into graphics.
Not in the context of Abrahamic religions.
To be fair, banks do an OK job of that. (Well, it's hard to take over an account purely by remote social engineering, some of mine still blindly use SMS as an authentication thing...)

Telcos do not secure phone numbers to banking grade security, because they never agreed to be part of anyone's critical security posture, and their own incentives are to make it as easy and quick as possible for customers to move their phone numbers around. It's in the telco's interest for you to be able to walk into a $TelcoBrand store and walk out with a functioning device with your old number. (Or to call up their support line and do the same thing.) They never offered to make that more difficult than it needs to be just because companies like PayPal wanted to outsource security to be somebody else's expense. They've been actively recommending against it since forever:

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telcos-declare-sms-unsafe-for...
Yes there is a benefit to radical thinking and nonconformity, but "do it without hurting others" is a reasonable line to draw. Stallman was viewed as a toxic individual who caused harm, and this is what our society is trying to weed out.

I still believe, perhaps naively, that it's possible to maintain not-normal opinions without causing pain to the people around you. And this is something that everyone needs to do, whether you're in the majority or the minority.
> The Hacker culture from which everything we have today in tech arose. Which is the culture that Stallman arguably helped create. The culture whic h makes this site "Hacker" news, is one in which doing something interesting is more important than anything else.

Doing something interesting has never been more important than doing "anything else" in hacker culture as I have understood it, RMS's own motivation has always been grounded in a moral and ethical roots.

One should honour his commitment to freedom above all else.
There's a lot of neuroatypical people who don't defend pedophilia or harass people. Don't make it an excuse, it ends up making you sound like you're saying all autistic people are harassing assholes who can't help being assholes. Which is patently untrue.
Square, not stripe.
It would have been air to air refuelled, the F-35 isn't certified for any type of external tank, though it gets mooted occasionally when someone wants more endurance.
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