skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a startup that uses swift as a server language. The original idea was that both ios and the server would use the same object model which made life easier. Sadly that didn't scale as they started the android app.

We're migrating away from it slowly as we make more microservices but it's been an interesting experience.

It was my first time using swift as I am a server engineer and not an ios engineer.

Its definitely lacking in tooling and libs but it's a really nice language with a good type system (it's not great though but it's easy). It definitely has potential to be a really good server language. I'd be more comfortable using go or python but it's more fun using swift
Which I think is the point.

As a white person the racism part doesn't resonate with me as well (even though I think it is shameful and I agree with what the ACLU is saying and the suggestion of making the FBI more accountable). But what the OP is saying is that most people aren't black. And that to really reel in the FBI -- and other agencies -- we need unilateral support. The messaging in the article won't resonate with right wingers at all. Even though personal liberty and privacy are fundamental rights to the conservative party (even if they don't always vote in that manner. But that's likely lack of knowledge, see several sibling posts pointing this out).

The article resonates with me because I care about my personal liberty and privacy. Because I believe that we are judged by how we treat the lowest of classes. Because they first came for the communists and I'm afraid no one will be left to speak for me. But that isn't directly said in the article. We've been fighting this uphill battle for awhile now and many are getting labeled as conspiracy theorists for suggesting the Orwellian nature of surveillance capitalism -- and how the government uses this to push a more authoritarian agenda (something right wingers are VERY afraid of).

I believe the OP is trying to suggest the latter should be highlighted because it reaches a larger audience and we need bilateral support.
I stay in AirBNBs a couple times a year (used to do more) and I would agree it's mostly "illegal" rentals but interestingly, in the US I found more "company owns a bunch of flats" things and in the EU more "some dude owns this one flat or maybe two." (And in parts of the EU it's totally legal as long as your neighbors in the building have not managed to forbid it, which isn't always possible.)

I even have a friend who owns one flat, AirBNB's it, and rents another flat of about equal quality. In his case it's legal and a kind of interesting way to work the market; however it is ruinous to the rental market for locals.

I'm about to stay in one in Asia that very much seems to be a place someone lives about 1/3 of the time, and the rest of the time they rent it out. Apparently this is allowed there, but I'm curious what the vibe will be in a big luxury apartment building with many AirBNB listings.

I also agree that the AirBNB business model is impossible without shifting liability, but it seems like in many cases you're not so much shifting as removing it. Hotels are subject to all sorts of laws to ensure the safety of guests; these laws have developed over time and usually as the result of bad things happening; outside of maybe the US, nobody is kidding themselves that there is any meaningful liability on the part of a flat owner.
the semicolon ";" for chaining commands

ls -l

the "alias" command in a file for setting up quick-commands
No; not without heating up (since the inside of the sphere can't radiate it back to the star at the center). As the sphere heats up it radiates outwards in increasingly energetic spectra. Since entropy (in this case in the form of unusable heat) always goes up, the sphere couldn't stay dark forever.
anyone who thinks this is ok is inhumane. not surprising to see so many black-and-white people here though. "crime means you forfeit all rights forever and ever no matter how petty" is such a shitty, petty way to live life.
In some places this has happened in the opposite direction.
> Except the 10th guy has more stuff than the other 9 combined.

By that logic, you should be made to give everything you have to the people of Congo. Since when is morality determined by the size of one’s wallet?
Autoland, as used in a capable airliner, is much more limited than this. For an airliner, it's a procedure with lots of configuration and monitoring done by a pilot, in cooperation with air traffic control, which usually concludes with descent on a 3-degree or so path through touchdown and braking. Not to mention things like flaps and landing gear are still usually manually selected.

This is much more impressive, not the least of which because the system itself figures out the best place to land (taking into account operational constraints), how to get there (taking into account weather avoidance), and how to be at the right speed, altitude, configuration, etc. to perform the final approach to landing.

So to use your analogy, getting a bit closer to a self-driving car than just self parking!
Cookie cutter strats or the metagame changes over time. Knowing what strategies you are likely to face influences what strategy you are likely to try. The meta is different across regions. The europeans play differently to the americans who play differently to the koreans. Some people dedicate themselves to different playstyles and your 'cookie cutter' strat will have to grow with everyone else's.
They patch the game often to update the balance.

Designing a game that is a fun and balanced experience whilst also encouraging true innovation is a difficult problem. Every game ever has this problem, putting thousands of minds on a problem and letting them confer about their results usually solves all the low-hanging fruit in about a week. Creating a game where you only play to share a new idea makes each match feel like a dice roll.
Nowhere in the article is the viewpoint that they’re going to change ICEs conduct mentioned. Inventing opposing viewpoints is one of the lowest rhetorical devices, and I really wish people would post with more care around here.

As for “only being symbolic”, no, it wouldn’t. It would allow workers to be in an environment where their work supports their values. A lot of these workers are going to leave the org to go work for a company that doesn’t so conflict with their values, as is absolutely their prerogative in a free labor market. This is actually a mature way to let GitHub understand the full costs of their actions, so that they can make an informed decision. There’s literally no problem here, this is a functioning labor dynamic.
Quite apparently, education and especially general education of women combined with accessible birth control is what can make people have less kids. No genocide necessary.
Dan Dennet argues this in his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
1. It is - and that's why I chose that example (a less controversial one) here.

And though ELT is a very common standard now - I don't know of a single book that recommends it or explains why that change has happened. Just one of the reasons for writing a new data book.

2. C-Store does largely solve pervious performance and cost issues with denormalization. We also write a bit in this book (more to come) on how to avoid doing all that copying.
Every developer thinks their salary will be dragged down to "the average" -- aka they think they're all above-average.

Libertarianism was the cancer of our generation.
Or rather as Sir Winston Churchill said: "the best argument against democracy is a 5 minutes conversation with the average voter".
A quote that is often at risk of being misunderstood like "soo, if Churchill was against democracy, how come they let him become England PM?". Actually that quote should focus the attention on how the power of democracy needs some level of culture to be used properly. Voters who keep listening to clowns appealing to their bellies during speeches will inevitably put those clowns (actually very clever people acting as such) in power who in return will keep shaping their country as a wonder park for other clowns, ruining it for everyone else.
Therefore, that Churchill's quote should be read between the lines as "you want democracy? Fine, we all do, but that is a powerful tool just like a gun or a car, therefore here are the books, go study them and take some tests, then we talk about democracy".
Energy can't disappear or be consumed - if energy doesn't get released out then it gets absorbed i.e. accumulates; if it accumulates then the Dyson sphere heats up a lot, if it heats up then it glows with blackbody radiation.
Ask HN: why is my question flagged?
Is there any possibility to ban paywalled content from HN like Newyorker Bloomberg et al? It's always so frustrating when they suck away my bandwidth to tell me to pay up. I never did and I never will pay them but it is so annoying being tricked by their click-bait content on my favourite website. ++++++++++++ and why is my first question here flagged and how can one find out who flagged it? How is it possible to unflag content again?
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Exactly. ICE isn't needed.
Adding to this, I see two other elements that make this tough to replicate in Kotlin:

1. Type erasure

2. Using sealed classes requires instantiation, while the Rust version is zero overhead.
There is a rule about inferring the most charitable interpretation IIRC.
> I don't believe that your statement: * If you don't modify the AGPL program, you don't have to offer source. is strictly correct, rather that it's simply the case that if you don't modify it, you're already offering source, you can just point people to my github or whatever.

It's right in section 13:

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network [the source code]

This is simpler than the rules for distributing the binary.
That's in summer, they still get a lot of rainfall in winter. Even then not more than half their water in summer comes from fog
> Conflict escalation is a deliberate choice by those in charge. Such as ICE.

To be fair, the decision on a policy of conflict escalation in ICE’s domain was, quite overtly, made several steps above the head of ICE in the chain of command.
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Even of they implement the Signal protocol, they have additional modifications to support ads, which increases the attack surface.
One of the experiences that stuck with me most going from doing software engineering stuff to data engineering stuff is the very difficult and sometimes complete lack of tooling around testing and debugging issues in SQL and pipelines. As software engineers, we have debuggers, unit testing, mocking frameworks, e2e tools, BDD languages like Cucumber, code quality tools, etc. But when you're working on a pipeline and you're wondering what will happen if you run it, sometimes your best bet is actually to just run it and wait 20 min for it to complete. Or run some portion of it ad hoc. Or if you want to know what a SQL query is going to do in the black box of your query engine, you might try to parse the esoteric language of a query explainer. The best tools seem to be available after deployment such as data quality tests, dashboards and alerts. I think there's a lot of opportunity to improve the ecosystem.
Is this more geared towards educational/business conferences (where the primary motivation is speakers disseminating information to large groups of people) can it do more entertainment conferences or fan cons with booths and a show floor and the like?

Edit: I just realized that I meant to say "conventions" for the second part, and also that there's a lot more crossover than I would have originally thought.
C-store's 1) improve aggregation performance since values are continuous on disk/memory for the same column and 2) benefit from bitmap indices when not doing range queries. Why do you think c-stores make a difference for the T stage? Because the performance overhead makes views viable?
Yeah, if it is me and my wife we go hotel 90% of the time at least now. If it is more family members coming, like my parents or her parents, we will book an airbnb so everyone can get their own room and we can eat together etc.
You were talking about x86 segments. x86 segments overlapped. Therefore, this is not a reimplementation of the kind of segments you were talking about.
As in the neural pathways of the brain degrade to the point that no longer resembles human intelligence?

I don't think most people here are going to believe in a spark of consciousness that breaths life into the brain.
Mr Robot season 5
Elections? There hasn't been a democratic election in China since 1912.
No harm intended to the GP's feelings, but glad someone got a chuckle.

I feel really bad for the poor (insert variety of) biologists on here.
M600 has onboard radar (it's the pod on the right wing).
It's interesting to take note of the actual Rust `File` object: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/struct.File.html

`open` is a static function on the `File` object and an instance of `File` does not have a `close` method at all. So, as in this article, an instance of `File` can only be created if `open` succeeded and the file will be closed when dropped (either implicitly or explicitly). For example:

fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
// a file object is only created if File::create is successful
// otherwise main returns an error
let mut file = File::create("foo.txt")?;
file.write_all(b"Hello, world!")?;
Ok(())
} // file closed here, no close method needed.

This contrasts with many other languages where a class instance can be in an invalid state. This is something the typestate pattern helps to avoid.
Until StarLink has proper coverage.
The way a lot of non tech employees vented their anger was by electing Trump. Just as ICE is an injustice to you, Trump's targets (corrupt media, lax immigration enforcement...) are seen as injustices by his supporters.

He is not the cause but the proposed solution to existing injustices. You may not agree he's a good one but that's how his supporters see him.
Ask HN: Chrome activating my microphone on OS X
Hi all,

I have OverSight installed on my macbook (https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html), which lets me see which apps activate the microphone.

Up until now, everything was quiet and expected.

As of today though, Chrome (Version 78.0.3904.70) tried on several occasions to activate the microphone. It crashed when I denied the request. I have not been on any website requiring microphone use and no website is allowed microphone access.

This seems to happen in particular when I reopen the lid of my macbook and it is taken out of sleep.

This is the log entry from OverSight:

2019-10-31 19:27:22 +0000: Audio Device became active (Built-in Microphone, process: Chrome Helper, /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Frameworks/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/78.0.3904.70/Helpers/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Helper)

Any of you noticed a similar behavior?
It’s especially weird to me when taken together with the fact that one or the other of our last three presidents was literally the reincarnation of Hitler according to about 75% of all the people I know... but everyone simultaneously seems to think that the government is by nature the same as whichever party they do like.
Interesting concept. I think to get over initial fear of joining a room of strangers. You may have to seed the net with some "names" in the world of trading and finance. Best of luck ;)
> What's questionable about it? It seems that they use modern AEAD ciphers in a reasonable way.

No, using one key per repository and a persistent message counter is not a reasonable design.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals/securi...
pay back ???
it's a dog-whistle
Considering "weakly interacting" is already a very stuck name.
By most accounts these are typical black holes, which do not interact weakly, let alone not at all. I don't think this name will stick.
My understanding was that the parent's parent was saying that the expectation of returns in a mutual fund is predicated on continued economic growth, predicated on there being more people in the future to enact all that growth. Society has switched from pensions to individual retirement investment. The expectation of there being more money in the future remains the same.
When corporations stop using stock buybacks as a tax free mechanism to return value to shareholders
Flag it whenever you see it.

Post a comment protesting it whenever you see it.

Use a browser extension to disable all the links.
Genuine question, but are there many examples from the labour movement where there were labour actions directed at the company's general business practices rather than the rights of the workers working in those companies? It feels like the obvious difference here is that GitHub employees aren't arguing for their own rights so much as the rights of people outside of GitHub.
I believe it is more focused on educational conferences. the CCC uses this for all its conferences, including Congress and Camp.
> Population growth is vital for the world economy

Is the world economy just a pyramid scheme?
> Should we keep religion out of politics? Should we keep politics out of work? I doubt there are any clear answers.

Sure we should probably keep politics out of work.

Human rights abuses are not politics though.

We can disagree on corporate regulation, taxes, transportation policy, zoning laws, bike lanes whatever. Hell we can disagree on gun control, abortion, climate change, whether the earth is flat or round.

But if there is a government organization within our control (e.g. we vote for the people who vote on controlling it) that is killing people, is torturing people (raping thousands of kids), is oppressing reporting on it, that's not politics any more.
there's a ton of chicom types like carl_zha still on twitter that you can check out as it's obvious you haven't looked into this issue at all
You're missing my point.

How much would the Japanese have cared about what Rome thought?

Vs now.
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The name matters to you?
there's also waste burn pits which have been investigated in particular in relation to pulmonary diseases, but it wouldn't surprise me if it exposes people to carcinogens.
For anyone interested in columnar compression and columnar databases I highly recommend reading Vertica's Technical Overview White Paper [1]. I don't know how Vertica is doing now, but it's a beautifully designed columnar database with many interesting concepts which influenced a lot the product I'm currently working on.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0cb4/d21ca5198819a85adae8ea...
> I imagine bc is using some sort of power series to compute arctan

It uses the Taylor series for the function, as many calculators do.
The predecessor, INS has an interesting history too. I'd experience some kind of small joy if a new INS were re-established "merging these previously separate areas of administration."

>INS, the agency ceased to exist under that name on March 1, 2003, when most of its functions were transferred to three new entities – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – within the newly created Department of Homeland Security, as part of a major government reorganization following the September 11 attacks of 2001.

>Prior to 1933, there were separate offices administering immigration and naturalization matters, known as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization, respectively. The INS was established on June 10, 1933, merging these previously separate areas of administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Naturalization...
Or an Architect role, if you can see the "bigger picture" aspect of the problems you are solving -- which is far less common than one might think.
You are saying that Airbus is close to the limits. It is immensely different than Boeing being the certifier of its own planes, and having two major failures already on record with hundreds dead (the Duncommon airframes and the MAX).
I think if your work is to construct the machines sent to the Nazi's to help perpetrate the Holocaust, you should probably not compartmentalize.

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

The clear answer is that one should never just be following orders and if your company is doing something that you personally feel uncomfortable with, you should try to stop it. And failing that, quit.
The bad guys will find out first.

Back when I first heard that, the bad guys were bored and/or hyperactive teenagers who understood how computers work. Today we are talking nation-state actors and nation-state-sponsored actors with practically unlimited resources.

Keeping your code secret will not stop them, cf. WhatsApp. "Responsible disclosure" will not stop them either, and sets up all the wrong kinds of incentives for vendors to sit on problems until just before the "responsible" disclosure window closes. And FFS, there are still grown adults that believe building backdoors into E2E won't be exploited by the bad guys first, insofar as they are not the bad guys themselves.

I only have questions, not answers, and I don't know what we do from here.
My suggestion is in these rare cases, it should be on AirBnB to relocate you. You already paid them plenty in the booking fee, some basic assurance that you will have a room to sleep in when you arrive should be part of that. Scammers will scam, but they will at least scam a victim (AirBnB) with the resources and incentives to root out the scam. In the current system, renters are stuck with such information asymmetry that they don't even know if they're being scammed or a pipe really did burst.
I’m surprised you did not comment on the fact that my version of EM routing also achieves SOTA on another domain, natural language. Same code.

Here are the answers to your questions:

1. The final, published version is stamped “ICLR 2018,” so I used that year.

2. I don’t know if a conventional CNN can do this with 10x fewer parameters, while also learning to do a form of “reverse graphics” without explicitly optimizing for it. (I wouldn’t know how to get a CNN to do that without explicitly making it a training objective.)

3. IIRC, the convnet model from 2011 accepts 96x96 images. As to why Hinton et al. downsample images to 9x smaller, I suspect (but don’t know for sure) they had no choice to conserve memory and computation using their version of EM routing. I was able to reduce memory and computation with my variant of EM routing (by between one and two orders of magnitude) by setting the first routing layer to accept a variable number of inputs, without regard to location in image.

4. Me too. But you asked me about work other than Hinton’s, and that’s all I could find!

5. CIFAR10 is on the to-do list (work permitting!) :-)
No, I never said Facebook is justified to do whatever they want because of their desire to reap more profits. Slight tangent: I don't disagree with your comments about regulation. Back to my earlier point, FB stands to lose more if they don't run political ads so expecting them to change their position in light Twitter's recent announcement is just not going to happen. Cloaking their position as promoting Freedom of Speech is complete rubbish.
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