skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great. Might as well just jack up the consequences to the point that perpetrators realize they have everything to lose and guarantee there is no low-hanging fruit, and that whatever you do end up having to infiltrate will have a "like-your-life-depends-on-it" security posture.

This is how cures become worse than the disease. Life isn't black and white, nor do things tend to be doable without gratuitous unintended consequences.

Encryption is not, nor has it ever been the be all end all to child predation. Effective investigation techniques have been the issue, and awareness have been the problem, because of the ephemerality of any distribution system once its existence is outed to hostiles in the non-pedophilia community at large.

If you want to take these people down, you have to map the logistics. If you want to map the logistics, you have to consume content; once you have the content, you need to analyze the crap out of it for every possible clue you can about how and where it was made in order to try to make some reasonable guesses about how the production industry works, then you have to double down and go deep to figure out what these production rings look like, whether they know each other, and how do they work. I'm talking picking apart the audio for environmental noise that might clue you in, or developing profiles of certain quirks of equipment. Analyzing the medium of exchange to see if you can exploit the financial traceability aspect, etc... All of which can also be sanitized once the opponent knows you look for it by the way. Proper OPSEC on their part will leave as few breadcrumbs as possible for you to find, and the closer you get to the heart of the op, the more heinous the infiltration will likely get.

All of that has zilch to do with e2e encryption. That's all meatspace work. Ugly work, but work that'll need to happen nevertheless.
This is why as a hiring manager I ask my HR department to grant me access to their ATS (ex. RecruiterBox) so I can personally find resumes / cover letters that match my open job requisition. HR uses these kind of questionnaires b/c they get inundated with applicants and want a way to filter most of them out so they only have to read just a few resumes and then work on the next job role to fill for another department.
First, it is unclear how to apply the LGPL’s statement about dynamic linking to a language like Racket, where macro expansion can copy code from libraries to applications, and where applications are typically bundled with the Racket runtime and libraries. Second, some organizations unfortunately are unwilling to use software licensed under any variant of the GPL.

I wonder if this simplifies the Racket-on-Chez effort in any way as well.
I almost listed xmonad. I haven’t heard of the other ones. Doesn’t change my point.
See also that repo with a skinparam for a "not ugly" plantuml style: https://github.com/matthewjosephtaylor/plantuml-style
Key word "much".
Think of the air traffic controller screens in Movies or TV Shows. It shows Delta 1234 from the aircraft’s transponder. Similar to ships, the ones with radars would still see a blip but there wouldn’t be an info on screen. The Automated Identification System (AIS) wouldn’t be broadcasting.
Awesome product and its good to see that price is kept affordable. Many comments here don't seem to appreciate the use case (public toilets) in places with high footfalls and high density (basically every public place in India).
Is this similar to LiquiGlide?
https://www.fastcompany.com/1679878/mits-freaky-non-stick-co...

If not, what are the pros and cons of using LiquiGlide in a toilet vs. yours?
Are we sure this is not a step backwards? We woild benuaing.less water, but filling our lakes with lubricant?
I think the first few are problematic too. Which conspiracy theories? Moon landing, pizzagate, Epstein? No idea where to draw a line there.

Demonstrably inaccurate? I doubt they remove young earth creationists. It seems easy at first, but it doesn't take long to find a lot of gray areas.
Does anyone have any resources for 'Build it Yourself' form of OCR software. I am aware of Python packages like pytesseract that are somewhat customizable, and am curious if other, pre-built platforms are available.
Perhaps, though not really. Commercial aircraft generally accelerate at takeoff at around 2-3m/s. For most people, that is quite enough, and that only gets you to 140kt. By comparison, doing 1g for 5 seconds (being generous) only gets you to 95kt. So you aren't really going to be able to get much flight out of that. More realistically, a gun would have to accelerate you to nearly the speed of sound or more. Mannned rocket ships have a (throttled) peak acceleration of 3G, so that sets a realistic upper bound and probably way over what might be considered reasonable. I've read that the Willis tower elevators accelerate downward at 8m/s and that is uncomfortable and just for a short time. It's likely the case that such acceleration would feel better if one were lying down. It's a curious question.
>The times article is about how the tax cuts did not result in the capital investments promised, by FexEx and others.

Drive by IND on 70, you can see the capital investment that was one of the promises of this. Hub expansion via construction (similar construction at MEM). The construction at IND is so large you can actually see it from the other side of the airport, I know because I see it every weekday when I pull into the parking lot at work.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/01/26/fedex-credits...

800,000 sqft expansion at IND alone

https://bgabuilders.com/fedex-indianapolis-ob4-project/
That's what I was thinking. I had both open in tabs from the front page. I can see someone getting mixed up doing the same.
I suspect that's a product of anything that becomes political: whether it's climate change or border security, the incentives are more towards theater than results, creating an attack surface for economic exploitation.

At this point, I think the most efficient (and least corruptible) solution is a carbon tax + dividend [0], AKA a Pigovian tax [1]. It's not as though markets don't work; the problem is that externalities, ecological ones in particular, are not priced into the system, meaning we're just passing the bill to our descendants, at a phenomenally high interest rate.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
That is a very, very broad piece of data that could just as easily be found with a simple survey or by buying the flat statistics from ISPs.
This is not common at all, except in a few fringe groups. Also, if you don't find that hard to believe, maybe you should check out your information sources.
Just do the following search on google and see what the auto complete shows you:

Men can... (you get things like: men can have periods, men can have babies, men can get pregnant, etc)

Then look at what women can do:
Women can...(do it, fly, do anything, can vote, can work, etc)

There's a very particular agenda that seems to be present. it's kinda scary how strongly biased their search results are.
If Apple has to open their infrastructure then there needs to be reciprocity. I want Apple Pay. I don’t want Wal-Mart pay, Starbucks pay, CurrentC, ...
Sounds promising but I personally need more info or at least certification on new products safety characteristics. I wont go into an alarmist list, but some materials "based on silicone" are problematic and some are flat out hazardous. Probably this one is not, but more info is due.
IQ has a bad rap (rightfully so, thus no disagreement there). In the cited works they use tests that in the past were called IQ tests - though here all are called cognitive-scores.

Why wouldn't IQ tests be great for studying short term cognitive effects? I would trust their values for these type of studies the most: how does lack of sleep, being drunk, after exercise, etc affect your ability to solve abstract problems.

It has far fewer variables to account for than predicting someone's long term success.
3. I don't think Uber is less complex, just complex in different areas. Uber's sole purpose is to make its owners more money, currently that means providing a upheaval in the industry and providing easy ride access to humans. When those humans are no long the best (or most obvious way) to make money the capital and investors will move on.
Incredible. Intel offers a voluntary program that you want to turn into a mandatory program for employees' families.
Just my two cents...

I think they're using this data to help guide how they should compete with AMD and ARM.

They also say they're saving the RAM used and software applications you use... To me that's about figuring out what's more important to end users; incredibly powerful (multi-core) machines or incredibly efficient (fastest single threaded speed per watt) ones.

Right now Intel is getting hammered on both fronts with ARM chips dangerously fast for single threaded applications (A13) and AMD totally slaughtering their desktop/server market... They have no modem business, and if I was Intel, I'd be pretty fucking scared right now. The weight of the rest of the industry might be large enough now to truly make 'em irrelevant.

As a result, they need to be very, very careful about where they invest resources as the future could be very dim for them...

P.S. I do think: sure they could sell it, but is that data really going to make up for the dip in their actual business? Nah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoreboarding - the easiest method (and one of earliest ones).

You keep a list (bitmap) of registers (hazards, really - MMU exceptions are hazards too) to be computed, you issue instructions whenever their hazards are cleared (will be cleared just before they read operands).

It is quite on par with the renaming machinery used in contemporary CPUs and is much, much easier to implement.
Eladio Dieste made some very interesting brick buildings using similar techniques in the 20th C:
https://www.archdaily.com/890362/the-intricate-undulating-br...

https://morphocode.com/eladio-dieste-reverence-to-the-laws-o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eladio_Dieste
But the blog post does not specify how the original article is factually incorrect. So why should anyone pay attention to it? If there are specific errors, let Fedex point them out and ask for specific corrections.
> Why would they lower prices? Wal-Mart could lower prices now for cash or debit card purchases but they don’t.

That’s a good point, and I can see two options for it. One is that it’s more costly to maintain two sets of prices, or that it’s better for retailers to encourage purchases with credit cards as people using credit cards are likelier to spend more.

> When someone creates Venmo you want to legislate the prices they can charge per-transaction?

No, I’d rather the government already have setup a system. It’s the reason why payments and transferring money still involves paper in the US. Northern Europe has been able to enjoy the convenience of instant, secure, and cheap money transfers for decades that people in the US are just starting to get.

Certain types of infrastructure in society is best handled as a society. Roads, water, energy, payment networks. I don’t see the point in duplicating them.
The actual malice standard was first defined in a case involving media (the NYT, as it happens), but it applies to anyone, including you.
I'll frequently wear my noise cancelling headphones at work without even playing anything, just to damped the ambient noise. Noises distract and startle me easily.
Wouldn't this argument also apply to cars?

In fact, there's always some inherent risk that the item you're buying is damaged in an unnoticeable way, even if it is new. What if your car seat has a manufacturing defect? What if it was dropped during shopping? What if the store attendant dropped it while sticking the shelves? What if it was purchased, opened, and then returned to the store? Even if the store has a policy of not putting open box items back on the shelf, there are people who will go to great lengths to make it look unopened.

All this stuff is possible, I don't think there practical risk to buying a used car seat is all that much higher. Besides, what if you drop it. Are you going to buy a new one, just to be sure it isn't damaged?
Not exactly to the question, but for reference in an office environment (where the noise is more intermittent): several years ago my Bose headphones weren't helping me for that, and I found the best combo for me was industrial earmuffs (like 3M, blocking maybe 30 decibels), combined with foam (or noise-blocking) ear buds placed underneath, and a white noise or similar app (like chroma doze off the f-droid.org app store). If there is better general noise blocking for offices, I'd like to know.
Thanks for the information. That part about disallowing third-party code interpreting is particularly painful to hear. They shut down any possibility of another browser. Could see that they do this for security reasons because a badly implemented interpreter could open up holes, but I'd imagine the sandbox is sufficient to allow at least interpreters.
relevant:

Factual explanation of the 3 body problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem

And the 1st book of an (excellent) si-fi triology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
Modest – development of an open source HTML renderer in C
>*Field R2

Under the table is definition of R^2

>The coefficient of determination (R2) is a statistical parameter measuring the degree of relation between two variables. ....

The more - the better. Range [0; 1)

More device in your area === better quality of measurement
I'm not sure what _VERY_ polluted means, but you might consider taking up more physical activity. On GCN youtube cycling channel they argued (including interviews with some health professionals) that even if you live in a city with considerable pollution, the positive effects of commuting on a bicycle outweigh the negative effects of air pollution. They were primarily talking about Britain-scale pollution of course. The principle might change if transfered to a more extreme environment. Something to look into.
The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, Or, Downward Mobility
“ how tech #sanctions helped Iranian government to shut down the internet.”

https://twitter.com/ammir/status/1196388376661970950?s=21
Check out blockdiag tools, http://blockdiag.com/en/
Probably due to things like the movie "The Quick and the Dead" about fast vs slow gunfighters.
Maybe people are more negative because of traffic, noise and frustrated about getting to work later. I find it hard to imagine a way to control for this short of making people breathe these substances separately and seeing if they actually do have lower IQs. You can then control for the other factors. These all seem to be epidemiological studies that we can't show the pollution is for sure the root cause. It could, for example, be that pollution is 25% of the result for example with more noise, traffic, irritation etc. being the other 75%.
A little more context for those who aren't familiar with how sound works:

Every note an instrument makes is composed of a sine wave at the fundamental frequency of the note plus a number of sine waves at integer multiples of the note, called overtones. The amplitudes of those overtones determine the timbre or sound of a particular instrument. The difference between a guitar playing A2 at 110Hz and clarinet playing A2 is in the relative loudnesses of their different overtones.

So an A2 will be composed of sine waves at 110Hz, 220Hz, 330Hz, 440Hz, 550Hz, 660Hz, 770Hz, and so on. The amplitudes diminish as the overtones go up in frequency and it eventually peters out.

Notes an octave apart are also integer multiples. An A3 is at 220Hz with overtones at 440Hz, 660Hz, 880Hz, etc. As you can see, there are a lot of overlapping overtones. So it seems like you shouldn't be able to fake a lower note by shaving off the fundamental. If you take an A2 and remove the 110Hz fundamental, you're left with 220Hz, 330Hz, 440Hz, 550Hz, 660Hz, 770Hz. That looks quite a lot like an A3.

However, our brains are smart enough to note that there are extra overtones in there that are not integer multiples of A3's fundamental 220Hz. The presence of 330Hz, 550Hz, 770Hz, etc. are enough for our brain to realize there must be a lower fundamental that we aren't hearing that leads to all of these extra overtones. Another great example of how our brains that fill in missing data by perceiving patterns in the data it receives.

This is an important technique in dance music production. On a good sound system, especially in a club, you want the bass to have a deep low fundamental that users can feel in their chest, lower than 100Hz even. But listeners are often using earbuds, in their car, or in other places with smaller speakers that can't reproduce that fundamental. So when doing sound design for the bass, you ensure the note has some overtones above that will still be preserved.

In practice, the user experience in many synthesizers goes in the other direction where they pick a fundamental that is in the reliably audible range and then add in a "sub" oscillator that makes a clean sine tone an octave below.
Local Linux User Tries FreeBSD
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This (Jeff Goldblum)
Dry marker on paper along with styrofoam rubbing together for me.
For blocking sounds, related current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21563355
There was Electrino a couple of years ago but it looks dead.
https://github.com/pojala/electrino
Yes, the perverse incentive of the oil lobby is transparently staggering. Even if one is charitable, that the lobbyists believe their own talking points, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".

That said, it didn't help the politicization of the climate for Al Gore to have become its face, thus associating its brand with Democrats, for all his pleading that "this issue is moral, not political". He meant well, but it was painfully naive.
Exactly. Why do they need to know categories of websites? They should be collecting the things your computer is doing from a technical standpoint. Then I could be convinced that they were trying to learn how to improve their products from an engineering perspective. As it stands CIP looks like a way to use the large installed base of their products to improve the marketing/partnership side of their business.
See also Gaussian curvature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_curvature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
It's an interesting example of the recent shift in public discourse from being focused on truth to being focused on power.

All speech has both subjective emotive content ("power") and objective factual content ("truth"), and the interplay between them is part of what makes speech effective. In times of hegemony, though, the "power" content of speech is downplayed. Power relations within society are taken for granted, and it's pointless to challenge them, because the best case is that your words will be discounted as crazy and the worst case is that that power will be exercised against you, potentially with life-ending consequences. Think about speaking out against a totalitarian government, or being a communist during the McCarthy era.

In times of multipolarity, the "truth" aspect of speech is downplayed, and discourse is all about power. Think of nationalism in the 1870s, or yellow journalism in the early 1900s (right as British hegemony was collapsing into the multipolar world that led up to WW1). Papers would publish plenty of stories that simply weren't true, but the point wasn't truth: it was to boost their circulation numbers and amass more power and influence in a world that was rapidly collapsing into a system of warring powers.

Trump, SJWs, white nationalists, MRAs, cryptocurrency advocates, anti-vaxxers, Russian cyber-trolls, and Democratic Socialists are all other instances of this phenomena: they are small splinter groups vying for mindshare because they see that the existing power structure is collapsing and will leave behind a vacuum, and they all distort the "truth" (which was always distorted before by power relations, but not to this extent) in a bid to gain more followers. Some corporations are catching on, and this FedEx statement is an example of this: note that they posted it as an open letter, on their own company blog, rather than as a press release. They don't care whether the NYTimes actually accepts their debate or not, they want to make the public statement to undermine the legitimacy of the NYTimes as a source of truth itself.
Honestly, that was the one part of 4 that I thought was a worthwhile addition. The main story was just incredibly bland to me.
Golang and Dart didn't exist at the time. And Google knows all too well how large Python projects break down, that's why they made Golang.
I’ve heard that newer houses (this was over 15 years ago though) here in Germany often use shower/bath water for the toilet.
Chomsky actually did measure things by looking at how many times certain stories were reported across all major news agencies. But yes you can’t “measure” it.

It would be a very valuable trove, I look forward to seeing the documentary about it.
Trump’s Retribution Against Bezos Is His Gravest Abuse of Power
I am curious about this. Do people who work in the open plan office, feel bothered by clicky mechanical keyboard sounds (cherry mx blue, greeen etc)?
This is one of these interesting issues that you can use to tell conservatives from progressive types. In some cases, there might indeed be some valid reason behind some old rule that currently seems elusive, but in many cases it's just superstition, and in any case you often can't find it out unless you challenge the rule.
We've moved it to the noise thread from the air pollution thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565624, where it was originally posted.
Isn't the table sorted alphabetically?
I think the anecdotal comment was actually meant for a different discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565841).
Ok this is now the fourth day in a row this is getting pushed to the front page. The first three times it was the WSJ article over and over again, now we get recycled articles about the exact same report.

It’s debunked thoroughly in the comments and pops up day after day. Almost as if there’s some kind of concerted agenda to get it on the front page of HN.
I agree, it has to do with their opinions rather than deeds. Just FYI - I don't believe either is Russian agent and I do believe they both are fundamentally right (in the sense of moral values rather than correctness). I was just answering the question in the title, I wasn't saying that to diss on them.

But they are different characters. Assange is much more revolutionary at heart than Snowden (in the Cyberspace Manifesto sense). And it hurts him more, in my opinion, because the society is not ready (if it's ever gonna be).

On the other hand, Snowden's opinions are pretty moderate. He doesn't want a revolutionary society where all information wants to be free. He just wants a better oversight of secret services. So he's more relatable as a result.
Can we change this URL to the original post at https://blog.lookingglassfactory.com/announcements/colossal-...
>It's because the average American doesn't value education like they once use to. American's IMO value entertainment far more.

This isn't quite true. You're claiming that America used to value education, and this part isn't true at all. America has long been considered an anti-intellectual country. Various thinkers made fun of the country in this way a century ago. There's a famous quote, normally attributed to H.L. Mencken (though it's not sure that he said it): "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people".