skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity
I heard good things about it from a sibling, but besides changing the traditionally translated pronouns of the master I don't know much about it TBH. The original Chinese used ambiguous pronouns due to the language itself, most English translations have traditionally made the master male, Mitchell alternates between male and female pronouns, and I think Le Guin is supposed to use either feminine or ambiguous pronouns (I'm forgetting which).
Testing Intel's Unreleased Core I9-9900KS
That is not really docmentation. That's Github Geek Marketing. And sadly nowadays most thing published on Github stop there.
Blizzard is really committing to these blunders. I have a lan coming up and collectively we’ve decided to not play any blizzard titles in the foreseeable future.
WhatsApp tax the final straw as protests erupt
In http://akkartik.name/post/mu-2019-1 if you search for the pattern '/89' you'll find the first two versions.

The 3rd one is here:
https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/apps/factorial.su...

Can you explain in a sentence what rules are used to complete the encoding for the variant:

> 89/<- %ebp 4/r32/esp
Very happy to share - my co-founder and I started a company called Simiotics, where we offer metadata stores for data, preprocessing functions/transforms, machine learning models, and statistics. We also have tools that integrate with these metadata stores to automate work that most data science teams perform manually today - running preprocessing jobs, updating models in production, monitoring the distribution of data and predictions in production models, things like that.

Our pitch is that, instead of having to do complicated things like set up an Airflow cluster, spin up a Kubernetes cluster and build helm charts, manage Spark, etc., a data scientist can just call out to our APIs from their Python programs (which may be running in notebooks), and we take care of the stuff they need to do but don't want to do.

This is our website: http://simiotics.com

These are our docs: http://docs.simiotics.com (They are in a very sorry state, and it embarrasses us to post them here, but we are going to use that embarrassment to push us to make them better!)
California has a earthquake warning system they started just publicizing. http://earthquake.ca.gov/mobile-application/ Its been a few years in the making. Also it will give warnings only if close to your proximity by cellular location.
I remember spending a lot of time playing with a planets-and-gravity simulator on the Mac when i was a kid. I wrote a crappy clone of it as an applet for one of my first jobs!

This is the best web-based equivalent i found with a quick search:

https://hermann.is/gravity/

And this is a rather fine tutorial on writing your own:

https://css-tricks.com/creating-your-own-gravity-and-space-s...
These are rather old though:

musl 1.1.5
uClibc 0.9.33.2 (Buildroot 2015.02)
dietlibc 0.32
glibc 2.19

musl is at 1.1.24 at the time of writing.
Captcha for logging into my phone.. that's a fast track to insanity dont give Google ideas
Construct is great for simple games like this and is pretty intuitive.
> ... it’s a safe bet that intelligence agencies have had it for years.

I'm not so sure; indeed there are examples of that (consider NSA setting the s-box parameters to make DES more secure) but at the same time there are so many "experiments" under way just I the course of everyday business (that happen to apply to dual use tech) that the military often finds itself a generation or so behind COTS / consumer tech.

> However, an advantage like this disappears the moment that evidence of its existence surfaces. [Thus] It wouldn’t be used except in existential scenarios for that country.

We've become more sophisticated since operation mincemeat (http://www.themanwhoneverwas.com). Such tech can be used for parallel construction: I discover via magic snooping that odyssey7 is planning something I don't like, and is doing it with odyssey6 who has poor security. I snoop on odyssey6 and build my case from that. Or I also learn that odyssey7 smokes pot, so break their car's tail light, have a cop stop them, search car, and magically find evidence used to build the real charge. Or whatever. The real breakthrough is hidden.
> To add on to the translation of the idiom, that phrase literally means writing a sign that says "I did NOT bury 300 grand in this spot"

Awesome idiomatic phrase!
The Timberjack walking tree harvester was mostly ready for commercialization.
If coding coffee is hard, coding espresso is really hard. More steps, more precision required... just like making espresso in reality. I like the theme of the article.
https://www.apnews.com/14b14afc5d8647858489a2cf5385c28d
Is there any way to get Slack to provide open source projects with an upgraded account? I have been unable to convince one of my projects to move to something else, but we are at the point where we get less than a month of history on Slack's free account.
The steady state universe, or perhaps a slowly changing universe, is where I am placing my bet. I think scientists have really dropped the ball on supermassive black hole science. It seems logical that instead of a singularity, the core would reach Planck scale and that core could breach at the poles under sufficient conditions, thus generating those massive high energy jets. Isotropy in the universe would be explained by the same physics process governing all SMBH. Then there is no need for a big bang origin.
The blocker being the contingent that considers the forests as nothing more than a potential strip-mine, being that said contingent has the reins currently.
Did I? Or did I say it would be unevenly distributed?

> Really think for a moment about what are saying must be true.

Indeed.
We can quibble about the open war vs the entire US on that one, but here conspiracy is also considered sufficient grounds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_conspiracy Though not convicted, that was a question of evidence rather than if conspiracy was sufficient grounds for a conviction.
Grids and flexbox are on par with CSS tables for layout performance. Slow as hell to reflow.
I'm really curious about how the creators of the Wayback machine are working to save modern (perhaps sometimes somewhat unnecessarily overcomplicated) web pages that are using SPA "techniques". Have they implemented a googlebot-like crawler that interprets javascript and spits out.. some predigested final DOM tree? Or.. do you record all web-page-initiated network traffic and just let it replay, sort of? Lot of interesting research opportunities here, btw.

This is where archival meets browser/web tech, in a kinda complicated way. I would hope that people from both of these backgrounds have been working on this stuff together. If not, please start soon.
IMO, the important part is Section 3.3 of the [paper](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174680941...), particularly the image at [https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S17468094193017.... To my eye the difference in shape of the orange and green signals could also be found through more traditional signal processing/statistical means that machine learning.

In a past job I did a combination of manual and machine-learning-based analysis of cardiac signals. We didn't have ECG, but did have PPG (blood flow) and PCG (sound) signals, and a pretty large study group. I recall there being one study participant who's signals were very clearly indicative of heart failure, enough that we raised the issue with our medical advisor about whether the subject should be deanonymized and contacted. In the paper they state that "the CHF subjects used in this study suffer from severe CHF only"; my suspicion is that a simpler, "hand rolled" model based on the features of the ECG could compete very well with this CNN approach for finding the same level of pathology in the ECG signal, without the "black box" of a CNN casting doubt on the technique.
trouble's coming!
Sci-Fi Short: FTL
The more complicated systems either take a 3D scan of your face or use an IR camera (the later can be fooled by an IR photo...)
If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I highly recommend getting into your local Ham Radio club and learning about Fox Hunting events.
I grew up poor with mostly cheap food. And yet things like parental responsibility were still possible.
If it makes you feel better, biologists are often no better. Our equivalent to git commits is labelling tubes and keeping little excel databases of what has gone where. Often databases stop being updated or people give their tubes esoteric labels that are meaningless to those who look at them a year later. As a research assistant in a large lab, I discovered blood tubes with literally no labelling, and often spent hours searching for samples in the labyrinth of freezers in that lab. It is also not uncommon for papers to be retracted because the original authors lost the raw data!
Container Platform Networking at Cruise
Very true. We'll see how things evolve over the next few years!
I'd say he single handedly got HP in it's current non-functional state.

He gutted R&D, slashed important internal departments, tried to outsource everything, etc.

And with all of this, he ended up spending a billion dollars on palm, which was basically a complete waste of money. But hey, they were trendy at the time so investors loved it! (The poor palm employees that basically got shit canned).

Now, HP is a shell of it's former self and collapsing under it's own weight. They don't have the people to innovate, they are actively downsizing (my current employer is hiring a lot of their talent) and all the while they are trying to bridge gaps using underpaid contractors (I got a job offer in linked-in for them at $40k... lol! That was less than I earned there as an intern!)

The only people that praise hurd are those that didn't see the absolute destruction he caused to moral. But hey, he turned profits for a few years, so he must be amazing, right?
Whatever you feel most comfortable with.

As for .NET hosting prices, I don't understand why you need complex hosting. A smallish instance paired with SQL Server RDS (both of which can be hosted on Linux or Windows) should suffice.

Keep in mind that both AWS and Azure offer a free tier when you're starting up:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/startups/

https://aws.amazon.com/free
regarding 1. I think people can be convinced without shaming. Pardon the generic example.
If people do X, then Y happens. Y is a bad thing because A,B and C. versus If you do X, you are bad person and are directly responsible for Y and it's effects A,B and C.

Both offer similar information, but the latter can produce resentment and irrational backlash.

Regarding 2. I confess I am at a loss at how to get government to take useful action. Have you seen a politician successfully shamed lately? It might be happening but it is not making headlines.
Automating Firmware Security with FwAnalyzer
I cut out the five minutes of me trying to figure out Twitch so here's a better link:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/496396478
It should not be possible with iPhones, being that they use a depth sensor for FaceID.
And before that we’ll have people grimacing or laughing into their phones to make “secret expressions”

Actually that’d be a cool idea for an auto wipe feature! If you blink a Morris code SOS it should send out a 911 alert with your location and then permanently lock the phone.
Let's compare how Wikipedia starts the definition of a "monad":

"a monad [...] is an endofunctor (a functor mapping a category to itself), together with two natural transformations required to fulfill certain coherence conditions."

vs. "encapsulation":

"Encapsulation [...] is the bundling of data with the methods that operate on that data, or the restricting of direct access to some of an object's components."

Are you seriously going to argue that those concepts are equally arcane to somebody not familiar with the underlying paradigm?
Maybe I skimmed, but I didn't note anything on this (anything this clear at any rate) in the text.

It certainly is a justification for exposing the different op codes.

I still think symbolic names for symbolic numbers make sense,though. And I'm not sure a table in one place looses out on clarity.

I do think it's good to re-think assembly notation (que gas/masm/nasm/x86/6800 notation wars).

I guess I feel at the level of level 1 - there is some symbolic manipulation and meta programming already (eg loops, labels for computed jumps) - and that "dumb" replacement might even turn out to me more clear.

Comments go away (replace with nothing), jump-to-labels become jump-to-offset, opcode mnemonic become binary numbers, numbers become binary numbers etc.

I confess I wonder at the choice of 32bit as I find amd64 to be both clearer, more sane (better? Calling convention) - and it should be more powerful (eg more registers) - faster and allow addressing more memory (if/when that becomes and issue - say mapping an entiere 6tb drive into contiguous memory?).
Parent meant that the protection fails (the device unlocks)
Probably more important would be with my glasses off - none of my Face ID devices can handle that (though they're okay when I'm wearing sunglasses)
I'm a doctor, but maybe not in the same country as you. I'd be surprised if doctors in your country put people on permanent anticoagulation just because of a DVT with a known trigger of a long flight.
A rice cooker at goodwill is maybe $10.00. A slow cooker let’s say another $10.00. Throw another 20 at a bag of rice and dried beans then you have a minimal effort super cheap “won’t make you fat” meal.

I think its that people don’t know how to cook even these basic staples anymore. And when you work a shit job, a large soda is a welcomed mini vacation
Germans generally hold their leaders to a higher standard as well as everyone generally respecting norms. Ignoring norms is a defining quality of Americans.
> The short answer to almost all these kinds of questions is "it's never treason".

Fine, but is it RICO?
I think statements about theoretical limits on compression are ignoring emergent properties. We know you can "compress" certain things infinitely; for example, the Mandelbrot set.

Compressing arbitrary inputs using emergent properties may never be practical, but in it seems reasonable that you could trade computation for compression to an arbitrary extent (searching an emergent series for chunks of data that match your input).
> So I could be receptive to single-payer if there was some clear idea of how it would get our costs in line with European systems.

This here.
Global Game Oasis Hackathon – Where Game Industry Meets Blockchain
f-strings were introduced in Python 3.6, fyi:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-pep49...
But Twitter has objectively proven themselves to be "celebrity vampires" by selectively applying different sets of rules to celebrities than to common people.

For example, it is against Twitter's official rules (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules) for a user to use their platform to say hateful or racist things, and they regularly ban people for violating those conditions, but they they regularly allow famous people (like the President of the USA) to get away with violating many of those rules.

Why does Twitter let Trump (and many other famous people) get away with breaking the rules? Because Twitter directly benefits from the viewers and the outrage.

Acknowledging that fact (and yes, it is a provable fact) hardly means someone has a personal vendetta against Twitter.
If the state of Benjiovia waged war on the US, would that be treason? Because that's what you seem to be saying. And why would congress issue a declaration allowing me to do that???
Research says: “League of Legends enables sexism” and I say: “Not ”
It feels like this whole wave of "face unlock" is just a dumb side effect of Apple not being able to get the in-display TouchID to work well enough for the iPhone X.

Maybe it's slightly better than a fingerprint unlock. Maybe it's slightly worse. Who cares. It feels like smartphones have moved firmly into the realm of silly marketing features (at the cost of security, apparently) and we've left behind any kind of substantial, interesting advancements. I mean, we now have a radar that let's us skip a song by waving (sometimes, if it works)? The future of smartphones is increasingly dumb.
No one is on "one or none" "axis of disadvantage". Everyone is born with many advantages and many disadvantages. Intersectionality is concerned exclusively with the the advantages held by white men in Western democracies. Women have many advantages that men don't have, but intersectionalists don't care about those.

Western society has a long history of producing ideologies centered on guilt and sexual propriety, and intersectionality is just the latest iteration. It's a descendant of puritanism.
bio-metrics is really just not a good security measure, it is an extension of number 2 (You have fingerprints, your face, etc).

You'd be in just about the same place if instead of saying "you need biometrics" you said "You need 2 devices".

Even number 2 can be done wrong. 2 Doesn't work if the thing you have is a knowledge based thing. 2 only works if in the case that it responds correctly to a stimulus. Think things like RSA.
I bet it would work on a printed color picture wrapped around a melon, football, etc.
Banks (and businesses) should absolutely not clutter up actual real important information by including irrelevant useless marketing garbage.
There is no framework that can match the feature set and the development speed of RoR.

If you are not familiar with ruby, go with a language you are familiar with. There is a clone in every major language. It’s just that RoR is the “original”.
Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought
Usually, I cannot finish what I have started because of debating over which shiny new framework/stack I need to use. I overoptimize things and always try to code for worst case. I cannot resist to think about hundreds of users, peak performance, hn traffic of death etc. Eventually it never finishes or I loose interest.

Best thing you can do is to make something that just works in fastest way possible. Anything that can print out text will work. You will always have a chance to make it better once it starts to get some traction.
> Does pixel 4 have squeeze-for-assistant

Yes. They brand it as "Active Edge" if you want a better google keyword.
One of the many ways you can tell how much passion went into this beautiful piece
I want this but for projects and retros.

A sort of way to explain what lead to the current state of things.

For instance maybe times when we first get a task ie. "build this feature that calculates these obscure taxes" we start by doing tons of leg work and asking specialists and trying to pin point decision makers and making them make decisions. Then we draw on the board and come up with even more questions and the process starts anew.

Normally questions and decisions would be recorded in jira as comments to epics or stories and their solutions but it kinda sucks to look through if you're trying to find what the hell lead to the current state of things (for some definition of thing).

Something like this could be a cool way to record paths of the project took and how we got there. Because the format makes sense - I want to do X -> I asked Y -> he told me to do Z -> technical limitations make Z not possible -> we are now doing Z` which is ugleir but works.
Project Trident Moves to Void Linux from FreeBSD
Maybe, but it looks like it has a shadow and follows the contour of the ground?
It's not different. The current state of the browser extension ecosystem can cause and has caused massive data privacy violations; browser vendors are locking down previously open APIs to try and remediate that, breaking some functionality that developers want. Context:

https://securitywithsam.com/2019/07/dataspii-leak-via-browse...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-...
They also denied there was a problem with thrust reversers until Niki Lauda forced the issue and they were found to have obfuscated.

There are serious questions to be answered about the corporate governance.
The iPhone uses the blaster IR + the camera to tell if you're looking at the phone to avoid this. Android should be able to implement this though because it really just looks for the IR reflecting off the back of your eyes which only happens when you're looking right at the light source. It's the same thing that causes(ed) red eye in photos.
Thanks for your explanations! 2&4 make a lot of sense. 1, and even more so 3, lead to more questions than they answer, in my opinion. Monads appear to be an absolutely indispensible aspect of most substantial Haskell programs, but to me, they just look incomprehensible. I understand the advantages of a pure programming model for formal reasoning about programs, but in terms of communicating an intent with a program, I can't help thinking that the cure offered by Monads is far worse than the disease of mutable state.
The Supreme Court cases that clarified this matter occurred after the Burr affair.
I was actually thinking more about natural languages than fractals. Maybe human thought is so utterly derivative you can just generate a random stream of words and it will contain most of the text that humanity will ever produce.

Then it can be compressed down to an index into the libraryofbabel
We don’t have to go that far, the chaos computer club circumvented TouchID in 2013.

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid
There is a famous Zen saying (which) describes nothing-yet-everything about this:

“Before Enlightenment,
chop wood and carry water.

After Enlightenment,
chop wood and carry water.”
"or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort"

What is an enemy of the United States?
50 USCS § 2204 says that enemy of the United States means any country, government, group, or person that has been engaged in hostilities, whether or not lawfully authorized, with the United States [https://definitions.uslegal.com/e/enemy-of-the-united-states...].

I don't know how much case law there is about that.

It's certainly the case that if there was a declared war, then aiding the declared enemy would be treason, and only Congress can declare war.

In the case of adherence to an opponent in hostilities w/o a declared war, my guess is no court would sustain a treason charge. But that's a guess. In any case, it'd be strange if the President's say-so alone (tweeted or otherwise) could cause someone to be guilty of treason!

In any case, the paucity of treason charges (none since WWII) and convictions, together with the large number of lesser charges available, means that it's extremely unlikely that we'll see a treason charge in any event not connected to a formal declaration of war by Congress.
I still regret that I was never able to finish any of those games. Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest and others. I poured hours into them and never got to the end. The worst was Kings Quest V. I really wanted to get that one, but I'm still left with not much more than regret, guilt and anger.
I disagree. Machine learning education almost always involves a lot of focus on design of experiments, causal inference, A/B testing and related topics.

I could agree with your claim if you meant bootcamp programs or data science sorts of coursework, but machine learning is generally grounded in both measure theoretic probability theory and a robust understanding of applied statistics before moving on. After that will be the basics of pattern classification, clustering, regression and dimensionality reduction. Last of all will be very domain-specific tools for NLP, computer vision, audio processing involving e.g. deep neural networks.