skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SoftBanker who opposed WeWork deal says throwing cash at founders doesn't work
RE random and packed, the first video on the page (about bacterial flagella) manages to pull out both by exploiting the time domain. First, it shows the usual but misleading view focused on the flagellum, but near the end, it fills in all the other missing activity in the displayed cutout - giving a sense of how it fits into the whole.
Many sites, but money come mainly (70%) for BestWordList.com and ListesDeMots.Net.
I don't feel sorry for them, they can continue to monetize themselves through pay to win lootboxes and pay to win power boosts instead.
As much as I liked to get excited bout these kinds of papers:

"Recomputing the AlphaGo Zero weights will take about 1700 years on commodity hardware."

[1] https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero
The XML version has the dtd which can be used to validate it though. I am not aware of something similar for s-expressions.
Your wife should stop working for NSO. Or rather, never even started working for them.
Recently I switched from Tmux to Kitty, and couple of days ago I realized that I really miss Tmux’s persistence. It’s just so easy to lose a session!

When GUI hangs or crashes (which happens with Kitty sometimes) I really want to be able to start it again and get the same session back. Especially considering that there’s no way to update configuration of running instance and that it loses its remote control socket if you launch another instance on the same socket by accident, hurdles like these can be profoundly inconvenient when you're in the middle of work.

That said, Kitty is really fast and decently scriptable (though perhaps not as flexible and definitely less straightforward than Tmux, primarily due to lack of consistency—some commands are remote-control only, others are internal-only), and with turned off window decorations it can look fantastic and offer all of the screen estate without the inconveniences of native macOS full-screen mode I had to use with Terminal.
It's not, really. Someone needs to make a more accurate version of this saying that's rooted in information theory, to show that video isn't worth 24picturelength in seconds, but picture + whatever is communicated in how it changes over time (which is much, much less than a picture's worth).
Secession movements have a big chance of killing a ton of people and violating the civil rights of many more, so a 15 year sentence is very plausibly appropriate, in comparison to armed robbery.
Yeah! I've been seeing bits and pieces of this project over the last few weeks, and it really does look great.
there is this great discussion about the Nim Language on Julia Discourse: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/version-1-0-released-of-ni...
Disallowing these case/underscore variants from referring to differing values could be quite ok -- even a plus-- if (but only if) an additional rule is added to disallow any variations of the declaration-time casing for a variable within the same scope to prevent the need for bespoke grepping tools and discourage arbitrary variations. If that restriction was added one could argue that this improves code readability (& "listenability") by have fewer variable names available in the same scope which would sound the same but aren't.
Congrats on launching! I'd recommend changing your copy on the site to be as obvious as the description you wrote above (that it's about when you're having trouble picking between two designs). When I read through the site I _thought_ I knew what it was doing but wasn't quite sure until I ready your description above.
>I’m sure your wife is a lovely lady.

I am not so sure. People who knowingly work for organizations that help plots to torture, murder and dismember journalists are not "lovely". She might not have known about it before, but she does now, and yet she still works for them.
More support from a special report in The Economist:

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/11/15/across-t...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/11/20/competit...

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/07/26/like-america-br...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/03/24/corporat...
Indeed that's a weird thing to say, especially since AFAIK AlphaGo is for (very large) discrete search spaces (where Monte Carlo Tree Search would be used), & equity trading doesn't strike me as a discrete search space.. is it ?
> Just attempt to describe to an SVNer what `git checkout` does in one sentence or less.

It checks ou a version of the repository from a specific point in its history?
Even most mercenaries have some code of ethics. And murdering journalists is not in it as acceptable behavior. This is sociopathic thug behavior you'd expect from mafia hitmen.
Why is this clickbait? The story is not what the contaminant was but that a senior executive at the company was alarmed enough with whatever defect there was to raise the issue, fully aware that recalling the product would have huge financial implications given his role in the finance org. That is newsworthy despite not yet knowing what the issue is yet.
Here is an example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfire/as-wi...

A branch broke and landed on a power line, sparking a fire.

I'm curious what PG&E could do different, it sounds like the tree wasn't even very close to the power line, but wind pushed it.

Turning off power like this during wind-storms might be the permanent new normal.
I wrote a Chrome extension that checks websites for best practices:

https://www.checkbot.io/

It acts like a search bot does and gives SEO advice.
Whoops. Time to find my fix some other way.
> Their CFAA claim can only cover unauthorized access to WhatsApp’s servers – but NSO didn’t hack those servers;

Walking into an unlocked building is still breaking and entering. This is why people are tried for recording information but technically accessible but unauthorized-for-access pages.
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I suppose Mercurial’s Phases [1] are another dimension—each commit can have the status of draft, public or secret. This is part of Mercurial’s Changeset evolution feature[2].

Your commits are in the Draft phase, which means they can be changed at any time. By default (this is configurable) when you push to your team’s repo, those changes become Public, which means they won't change and it’s safe to code or rebase on top of them.

[1]: https://medium.com/@a_baez/mercurial-phases-introduction-4ee...
[2]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
During the first wave of outages for winds up North, PG&E shut off Moraga's power. We had very little winds aloft, but a few hours into the outage, some idiot started a fire with a vape (that's the story) which caused a mini evacuation from our neighborhood at 3AM....IN THE DARK.

Today, while Orinda and Lafayette had no power, we did. Extremely windy today!

The reason our outages are backwards appears to be due to the fact we're a tiny branch off a main line that runs well North of here. They can't turn us down unless they turn all those people down as well.

By my guess our chances of fire are pretty were pretty much a guarantee from this whole thing.

Thanks PG&E.
That is typical apple.

I felt EXACTLY like that using my first mac coming from unix. Apple hides things and I never quite knew what was going on under the hood.

But now it is like 1000x that. Run "ps -ef" on the command line from macos and wonder. I have 311 processes running. What is dprivacyd or com.apple.geod or photoanalysisd or ProtectedCloudKeySyncing?

With photography I feel your pain. Everything is amazing, but at the same time really dumbed down. You don't need to know how Ansel Adams zone system, but... you don't know exactly what is going on and you have little control. Sometimes you need white balance or manual exposure or manual focus or control over the shutter speed, or a real shutter button.

sigh.
GDPR is very clear, there are no multiple interpretations: the responsibility of telling me how they are using data about me is on the server side.

It's impossible for people in the EU to track all the time how different services use their data, so what you are suggesting is not practical.

As an example if you go with 200km/h on the German highway the responsibility of the road not ending is not yours. When I was going with a car in Albania and this happened to me, I (and my car) was quite shocked, but there are differences between countries.
Also done legally under British law. With hilariously lopsided results!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...
Exactly, it's like that over here too and that's the best part! They get discounted all the time because people think they only run a web browser and google docs, so you can get them for a pittance.

If you're willing to pretend like it's 2000 and tinker a bit, they make fantastic general-purpose Linux laptops. I like the $200 10" Asus ones with 360-degree hinges; the ARM ones have amazing battery life. And some of the ones that are designed for schools are almost indestructible.
Are Nanoservices a Thing? (2018)
I wrote a paid Chrome extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and security best practices:

https://www.checkbot.io/

It currently has 30K active users of the free version and 100s of paid users.
The objective function is the entire function the network is training toward, i.e. in a classification task it's the correct mapping of images to labels. The idea here is that real brains also optimize their weights to compute certain useful objective functions.
Amazon pumps in more than $600M into India units
It’s not just this administration. The Lois Lerner fiasco happened during the previous administration. I think the IRS has been corrupt for a long time without any help. Ken Corbin, the person in charge of this filing nonsense, is a 27 year employee of the IRS.
There’s a direct relationship between Jared Kushner and the current administration giving Israel freedom to do as they please.

There’s no planet on which the DOJ pursue legal action against an Israeli state sponsored actor like NSO.
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Can Machines Learn to Smell: Researchers May Have Cracked the Code
> Permission to read from or write to another process is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS check

I presume that is necessary for this in addition to belonging to the same UID?

> As far as I know process_vm_readv isn't even detectable if the agent process is more privileged than the examinee process—so you're free to manipulate your private copy of the application in the comfort of your own address space.

Interesting. This would be really useful in debugging. Many issues don't reproduce except for in specific configurations. Having access to the memory dump of the live process "streamed" to the debugger would be great!
Surge Robots: Holiday Hiring Finds Automation
Lobbying is not the problem, money changing hands is. In its current form, lobbying works through campaign contributions (and potentially other favors). These are not “worst examples”, it’s standard practice. Why do you think a politician would listen to someone representing Comcast’s interests? Prohibit campaign contributions and you will have politicians listen to what regular people want a lot more.
Your previous post:

> Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede?

I think Symbiote was using Scotland as an example to prove that this wasn’t out of the question.
Add a point about your company culture and team communication. This may not apply if you are working by yourself as a contractor or sole developer. But if there's a "home office" (poor choice of words sorry) where all of your other coworkers are face to face, then you need to develop a culture of writing everything down. Build internal documentation of decisions and meetings. If your company is mostly remote or has several locations then it should have this culture anyway (if they're any good).
You're talking about the output of a deep network predicting the solution to a problem it was trained on. They're talking about something completely different: the properties of the whole network (opening up the "black box") correlating with/predicting properties of brain regions while they perform similar tasks.
My impression is that they have failed miserably.
> you probably shouldn't use a second-hand phone that has known exploits, where second-hand means touched by basically anyone

Clearly unpublished exploits are also bad, meaning this essentially applies to every phone. That's a pitfall of the closed security paradigm - even if you are willing to trust the manufacturer, you still can't be sure that their control has not actually been usurped by some unknown third party.

So you either need to double down and choose the closed system that receives the highest scrutiny (Apple), or opt for a device that has been opened by the community for long enough that any stateful hiding places are known.
Apart from the theft angle it's also knowingly and maliciously circumventing access control systems. That's usually covered under anti-hacking laws
I've always worked from home a few days a week and my productivity has always been above the average. Fast forward 2 years, and I am surrounded by 2 little babies and a cute toddler that likes to have her dad around. Unless I go to the office or work on night shifts, it's quite difficult to concentrate for too long. I felt that I needed to change habits to keep things on track.

I've got an intern to help me conduct some experiments that would demand too much time from me otherwise, and started to go to the office more often than before.

The nice side effect of going to the office is that I get to workout more (commuting by bike) and to conduct more side projects with colleagues. I keep choosing at least one day in the week to work from home, though.

Interestingly enough, there is a coffee shop right next door and yet I never worked from there. Sipping a coffee without bringing work with me has been pleasant so far, but maybe it is worth trying to find for how many hours I will be able to stay there focused on business related activities.
I disagree. In order to make real scientific Breakthrough it is necessary to take a leap in thinking.

Think special theory of relativity or quantum mechanics kind.

On the other hand:

> The problem is when people have been wasting time on big leaps of progress and then feel pressured to deliver something when they haven’t been pursuing incremental progress all along.

That’s why the most upvoted comment with Thompson’s quote is so true. You need to pay gifted people to do simple, predictably realisable things but give them lots of leisure time to pursue big leaps.

Many problems with the universities and academic system comes from the fact that granting system etc. sweats the small stuff not leaving enough leisure time to pursue big ideas.
I use vim and have Caps Lock mapped to Ctrl. I type C-[ to exit insert mode.
> doubt it will last
Yeah it won't. It's just too good to be true
It wasn't for me. Individual anecdotal stories aren't evidence but without consistent feedback it's easy to get back into poor habits. When I eat a Twizzler and see my blood glucose spike at 180-200 FOR 1 TWIZZLER then it's the feedback I need.

It's no different to me than frequent weighings. I'm sure some people don't need or want the feedback but for me it's essential.

And using a CGM (I use 14 day Lifestyle) I can get readings whenever I want and also get data like trends that I can't get from finger sticks. I can see my blood glucose overnight for example which helps me tailor my meds and food to avoid the common overnight glucose rise that's pretty common.

So sorry NYTimes article but I'm going to disagree. I don't think enough people are encouraged to use CGM for example so that some real data can be extracted on diet compliance.
I wonder if digital recording and processing has made music cleaner leading to less harmonic garbage.

Also... What if the poetry is better, and someone is singing acapella? How do you capture that?
> Contextualising this within Trump's ugly rhetoric is another thing entirely and this part subject to interpretation.

A different administration could have implemented a policy that limited travel from certain countries without backlash.

This one started by -- without warning -- revoking the right to re-enter the country for all legal visa holders from these countries on 1/27/2017, a week after the inauguration, INCLUDING GREEN CARDS.[1] That's a permanent residency visa. People were stranded away from their jobs, homes, families.

I was a green card holder not so long ago, and had family in the states on green cards. I felt real fear after the Muslim ban was announced on 1/27/2017.

The action seemed calculated to cause as much harm to ordinary people as it could.

Policy can be debated, but it's not the policy that is at issue here. It's the disregard bordering on malice. This was just one of many examples, from pardoning Joe Arpaio[2] and separating asylum-seeking families with no plan for re-uniting them,[3] to going looking for decades old citizenships to revoke[4].

I understand that we're too politically weak for anger to work, but I'm only human. It's galling to be told we're the intolerant ones in this situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769#Green-ca...
[2] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Joe_Arpaio#Backgroun... . Today, some Latinios in Texas feel compelled to carry around proof of citizenship: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/us/immigration-citizens-carry...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/us/family-separation-trum...
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/magazine/naturalized-citi...
> Yes Amazon could discontinue its library. No, I'm not worried about it. The chances of a trillion dollar company exiting one of its primary business lines is definitely lower than the chances of me misplacing my DVDs.

Perhaps you should. Amazon isn't likely to discontinue the whole service overnight, but individual videos are another story. See also Netflix, on which most of what was interesting has already disappeared.

> And that's because throwing a little bit of extra money at a third party to simplify our already overly messy and disorganized lives is worth the tradeoff.

I sometimes wonder if that's really true. It definitely is if you have a stable cash flow, and the services aren't really that important. But in general, there are costs of choosing a service over a product you own that are non-obvious, or delayed over time. You can't change, adapt, or improve a service yourself. You can't use it outside of its ToS. A service can raise its prices, or go out of business, or otherwise become useless to you - and there's nothing you can do about it, except hoping that a competitor exists and that there's a migration path.
> because she will order a new copy to be put on the shelf.

Calling git checkout is a request to check out a specific version of the repository (or individual files) from a specific point in the repository's history.

If you ask the librarian "hello, I'd like to checkout this May 23rd issue of this magazine" then you can't act surprised that the librarian returns from the library's repository with the issue of the magazine released in May 23.
Visualizing Music with GANs
http://archive.is/Fhlt9

Since diabetes are heart diseases are tightly coupled it's prudent to monitor blood pressure everyday
Not like shipped cigarettes that come full of completely non-contaminated nicotine... this society is just a big f* joke.
Every guide I’ve seen recommends replacing caps with control. It’s the first thing I’ve done for nearly a decade
on every new OS install.
Where's the evidence of this statement? It's well known that blood glucose monitors get a wide latitude for accuracy from the FDA anyways so real accuracy would be very difficult to determine.
> how do you build a new country when half of the population feels strongly about it

this is exactly the current situation with spain! About half of catalans feel very strongly against the spanish state. This is obviously not sustainable. But the spaniards prefer to bully the catalans, to earn votes elsewhere, than to solve the problem once and for all by holding a binding independence referendum.

I for one couldn't care less anymore about the spanish position. I do not consider spain a legitimate state, and we will have to free ourselves from it by any means necessary.
> Having access to the memory dump of the live process "streamed" to the debugger would be great!

This is also possible with standard debuggers, such as GDB: It can attach to a running process and not only examine the memory, but also debug (stop, pause, skip, ...) the stack trace and control flow. Usage is as simple as gdb -p $(pidof my_running_program)
No. Why would you think that?
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Right. But the difference is modifying any memory under GDB will be seen by the process. It's not copy-on-write
I put some AdSense in my blog then earning like less than 100 bucks, but I left the money untouched, after a couple of years of inactive use of the account, Google sent an email and took my money. I was like WTF
I do similar but with an RV. Most of the time I work from my house, but I built out a network suitable for work and can effectively work from anywhere I choose to go. Sometimes I’m on cellular, other times I’m on satellite. No campground has ever had usable WiFi, sadly. Having some variation in location and scenery is helpful.
There are plenty of other nicotine delivery systems besides JUUL.
Funding from the Vic government has made lots of cool indies possible. I'm pretty used to seeing their logo pop up at the beginning of a game now. It's really good to see such a successful arts funding program, and the thriving community that it's helped make in Melbourne.
Armando Hasudungan's hand illustrated biology and medicine videos are also excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/user/armandohasudungan/videos
Oh, that was not even my point. You are talking about the possibility of passing data after having paid. I think there is no way to prevent people from doing so -- the industry has decades of years experience with pirated licensed software. So you better don't waste your time for implementing "preventing forks" on your platform --- if I pay on your platform for getting access to a repo which I can clone on my computer, I will push my copy to some other remote, of course.
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No, some third party maliciously clicked on some ads and a purchased asset had some prohibited/adult user submitted content that together wound up getting me a lifetime ban.
Sent as a connection request.
Yep. But the key issue is that patients need to be helped into diets that will be lower in carbs and provide more effective A1C control. I think the fact that you can see what happens to your glucose after every bite of food you take is a powerful incentive to improve your diet.

No meds are going to reduct A1C of 10 or higher to even moderately high levels of 8 or so without serious dietary changes.

I personally got my A1C down from 11 to 5.4 in 5 months with diet, exercise and meds but from my doctors own comments and my research the meds (Metformin and Victoza) really only contribute maybe 1.5 point reduction. If I have an A1C of 9.5 instead of 11 it's not going to make much difference. But at 5.4 I'm essentially normal.
That's why we need proper whistleblower protection laws.
No shame or anything — cool project. But this title sounds like a neural net was trained on satirical HN submission titles.
Underground the power distribution like in France.

It’s expensive but probably less costly in the long run.