skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed and the real costs support major bloat. A friend of a friend who's previous job was a phone salesperson for a small, local sign shop got a job in the sales department for hospital software. Within months she was being flown across the country to the companies headquarters monthly and traveling around selling a product she clearly had no understanding of but was following the pitch which was taught to her. Not that she isn't a great person, but I cannot think of another industry where I've seen so many resources going to an entry level, zero experience position that could be handled locally or even remotely rather than sending this person out and paying for nicer hotel rooms than my friend who is a major airline captain stays in.
It’s coming from a Baidu domain which is one of the biggest sites in the world. That might be a bit difficult...
> It is unlikely these sites will be seriously impacted. Partly due to LIHKG sitting behind an anti-DDoS service, and partly due to some bugs in the malicious Javascript code that we won’t discuss here.

If I get the attack scenario right, valid user IPs from behind the great firewall are driving traffic to the webservers, and so what are some examples of anti-DDoS mitigations that are effective in filtering out the adversarial traffic?
The ensuing civil strife that can occur if this is successful will make a literal, on the ground, bombs in the air, guns shoot war all the easier to attain for hawks that are good at stirring up the masses.

Need I remind you that China has a male surplus, and sadly, military enlistment will become a stronger appeal for single men if they do not have a family nor hope of starting one in the traditional sense.

More and more, war is looking like the nail to China's hammer of surplus men.
The problem with government is accountability. The government apparatus can make all kinds of promises, meanwhile, the citizens are too busy blaming each other - getting into partisan games - while the incompetent people just keep getting re elected without making progress. Exhibit A: Congress. A lot of folks who prefer this seem to believe that the government will make progress on its promises that it won’t just waste away tax payer money.

The problem with private enterprise is accountability too - they generally are accountable to someone, but that someone typically happens to be shareholders who truthfully don’t give a damn about much other than maximizing their returns. A lot of folks who blindly prefer this route are either the ones who have the most to gain (because they already have capital) or folks who just don’t understand the incentive structure.

Saying one side is always inherently better than the other is short sighted and more of a tribal belief in my opinion.

I don’t want FB to have my data and would prefer the government break up internet monopolies. I’m also not saying I want to live under Hugo Chavez. Unfortunately, at least in America, we love to go towards extremes. The civic discourse is lacking.
How do you search through mail in protonmail? Due to the nature of end-to-end encryption, online search features are very limited. You can't build an index if you can't read the data.

Do you download everything and search offline? Or maybe, unlike me, you don't rely on search so much?
> With a single corporate provider of a utility, I have no say at all.

Which is honestly the case in couple instances in my life. I have moved around the US NE quite a bit and multiple places I have lived only offer Verizon or Comcast but only one or the other. The current place I am in is Verizon which is fantastic because dealing with Comcast has always been a massive time sink and emotional/mental strain but I still have no choice in who provides me service.
What I am hearing is it's not right/fair/moral for businesses to compete with personal data as their primary asset. The proposed solution is for a small subsect of the technical elite to walk away. That really, really does not solve anything except an individual's problem.

The solution is to put pressure on legislators to prevent companies like Google and Facebook trading your data to fund their business. This could result in Google/Facebook charging for their services, and maybe that's a really good thing. People would have to think about how much social media means to them and not ignore the hidden cost of their privacy.
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Ask HN: How to sync background music to voice?
I am working on a side project where I am able to combine the voice from one music video to the background music of another video.

i.e Taylor Swift's voice from Last Christmas to the BGM of Van Halen's jump etc.

It is just not working. Are there any techniques to programmatically add the bgm appropriately?

Right now, I am thinking of reducing the BGM audio while the vocals are being played.

What is the right direction I need to take?
@trekhleb: Can you modify the images used in the README.md - they seem to be PNG files with a transparent background and the formula (or whatever is there) in black; on github in "dark mode" (or with a stylus or similar css modifier for a dark mode) the black text becomes unreadable. t/y
Collateral damage aside, that doesn't really solve the issue. The attack goes something like this:

1. non-chinese user visits a chinese site

2. the traffic goes through the gfw, which inserts malicious javascript

3. the user executes the malicious javascript and starts ddosing the victim site

Blocking chinese users won't help, since non-chinese visitors will still ddos your site.
Do browsers and OSes trust Chinese CAs?
Existing satellite ISPs have their satellites stationed in geosynchronous orbit, which is like 35,000 km above sea level. This allows them to send up fewer satellites, since they have a line of sight to more of the Earth's surface. However, that distance that results in those high propagation delays.

SpaceX (et al) have a different strategy. They are instead sending satellites to Low Earth Orbit, so they'll be about 500 km above sea level. As a result, the propagation delay will not be nearly as bad. Perhaps under 50 ms, compared to the 600 ms I've seen on geosynchronous satellite internet.

At that low altitude, you need a lot more satellites (because each satellite can only "see" a small-ish area of the earth), so they need to send a swarm of those satellites. This is now possible because satellites are much smaller and cheaper than they used to be.

Will fiber blow it out of the water? Yes. Will The phone company run a fiber line out to my house for less than thousands of dollars? No. Would they do it if there's some competition from above? Maybe so.
You can probably execute an anonymous plsql block, and postgres will detect for you if has already parsed that block. No need to do that hash thing yourself.
That's easy to disprove. A calculator isn't sophisticated enough to simulate itself, but a modern computer can perfectly simulate itself.
Doesn't the US have a free trade agreement with Mexico? Then surely such free trade would be covered, no? It couldn't possibly be limited to just corporations?
Why would you sum it up instead of looking at percentages?[1] AT&T’s profit margin is under 10%. For wireline, Verizon’s is under 5%. Eliminating the profits isn’t going to change

[1] I know why Sanders does it, because he is catering to people who are outraged at the thought of “billions in profit” even if that only represents a single-digit percent of revenue. Indeed, if you go read Sanders’ proposal, he makes a point of stating how AT&T’s CEO made $33 million, as if that isn’t a drop in the bucket for a company that spends $140 billion a year on opex.
This needs an upvote.
I'm very proud of Spanish healthcare at this moment. We have a terrific team here.

Another recent example of one of our rock star doctors involving the successful reattachment of a severed hand without blood flow for 10 hours.

https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/30483/super-surgeon-dr...
Minifying JavaScript is as destructive as compiling from any language to WASM. The original source are also lost when minifying JS. The fact that the transpilation/compilation target is the same langage doesn't mean its any less destructive.
The premise of your argument falls apart if you really think about it for a minute. Switching to a single-payer model doesn't mean healthcare jobs disappear. It would kill off the insurance companies, but it would not reduce the demand for skilled healthcare workers. It seems like you are arguing that 'socializing' medicine requires that we get rid of hospitals entirely. We could still have for-profit hospitals if we drastically reduced the size of the private insurance market.

I feel like you are making a lot of assumptions about how we would fix our health care system that are unfounded.
AliExpress and TikTok.
My parents have no access to high speed internet, except over 4G. Which I find unacceptable. Even DSL would be fine...but ISPs have discontinued that and are expanding fiber. So that basically adds maybe 5-10 more years before they'd ever get it?

I generally don't agree with Bernie's whole premise here, but I do think he has the right idea. We should up high speed requirements, but also OTA should not count. The reason wireless (5G, 4G, Satellite) shouldn't count is...well the data caps are so limiting that you can't possibly do anything with the service. Or the equipment and setup is so expensive you'd have to be a company to afford it. I don't agree that high speed is a "human right," I really think such statements add nothing of value and make such proposals easy to mock. The argument should simply be to treat high speed land lines as a public utility and requirement, like electricity.
See

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

I used that technology a few years back to scan "Who's hiring?" and got a job. I haven't updated it since, but I am thinking of getting back to it.

Note the first article did pretty well on HN because of it's snarky town.

The second article has never done well on HN partially because it is too positive and partly because it gets drowned out with all the groupthink about BERT, Ernie and other tech that almost works.
The worrying truth behind China’s digital currency
Those are both written by women about their experiences.

Any examples of men successfully dating after starting to lose their eyesight? Or other disabilities?

I think I've read other articles in the past about women with disabilities having a relatively easy time dating, but men with disabilities having a lot more difficulty.
what you are able to do in your body is affected by your brain, even what you are able to calculate. consciousness has a far greater scope than human abilities.
consciousness disembodied is still intelligent and aware but becomes infinite, undifferentiated, whole.
Satellite internet like Starlink will actually be lower latency than fiber, since light travels faster in a vacuum and unlike fiber the constellation will be point to point rather then zig zagging between cities on the ground.
Yes. The way I think about it, to be conscious, one has to be conscious of something. The only way to do that is to have a representation of that thing in memory. When the representation matches incoming sense data we then perceive the relevant thing.

Thus, a single atom cannot be conscious. It could at a stretch be regarded as a miniature body, perhaps, but could it contain a memory system? Presumably not.
> bunch of MoreFire Fraudbatteries in the box with genuine Duracells and labeled them as genuine Duracells and then they burned my house down,

I don't think the analogy is matching what has been claimed to have happened. Which elements of the real story correspond to the fake product having been partially mixed by the retailer with "genuine" then mislabeled as "genuine" by the retailer?

The analogy is more like: your hometown grocer sells fresh lettuce that they buy from a distributor. One week a small fraction of these turn out to be contaminated with E-Coli leading to various hospitalizations. The grocer pulls the product from the shelf. Is your grocer still liable for negligence?

This is my interpretation of what happened.
You made your points well and I thank you for it. But my questions are behind the motivations of these alarmists mentally damaging our kids.

How are movements like the Extinction Rebellion, Great Thunberg, being funded ? How is she getting all the money to do her travel ? How did she go from doing strikes by herself at the school to the UN in less than a year ? I have heard of fairytales, but please don't tell me that she got there because of organic, viral support from people. There is BIG MONEY behind this. And how did she get so many celebrities to endorse her and have so many meeting arragned ?

I just don't see the people behind these protests and that makes me super skeptical of how "organic" these movements are.

Before someone accuses me of conspiracy theories. James Cameron produced a movie on How Vegan athletes are rewriting nutrition science (haven't watched it).
Applying my "follow the money" universal rule, I came across an article that points out tothe fact that James Cameron has invested a lot of money in Vegan food corps

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/-avatar-d...

This is the kind of propaganda hiding real intentions that irks me to no end.
Correct. The internet is a requirement for modern life and should be treated as an important utility.
Broadband rollout costs suffer horribly with 80/20 rule, with rolling out broadband to the last 5% being extremely expensive.

I’d like to see something like fiber to 80% of the country, and then alternatives (like low-attitude satellite internet) for the last 20%.

Give companies huge tax breaks if they’re doing this work.
>"Qualia is not a scientific concept"

That is true.

>"And really needs to be dismissed"

I would agree with you if it weren't for these darn images and sounds and thoughts that flood my mind every time I wake up from the un-consciousness of sleep.

It seems to me that you're recognizing the impossibility of scientific study of qualia itself (rather than correlates of it) but you are then taking the radical step of dismissing it simply because it cannot be studied scientifically. That's where we differ.
I recently bought a Ford transit connect, which is the compact version of the transit van they described. I’ve been converting it into a weekend camper and having so much fun in the process. DIY resources for van conversions are abundant (the vanual, YouTube, etc) and I ended up designing a system of hinges and moving panels to hold a bed (actually two large Purple pet mattresses joined together) and organize my climbing/camping gear.

I still wanted a home in SF, but was disillusioned by how much I was willing to pay for a glamorous apartment in a Soma high rise. I first used the van to move out and sell the things I didn’t need, which turned out to be almost everything. I’m renting a small room in a cheaper part of town now that only has a mattress on the floor, and I drive the van to work on weekdays and to Yosemite on the weekends. I’ve become a much stronger climber and rediscovered simple joys of life. I didn’t need to save the money but I certainly did need to save my health and happiness.
> Could we ever lose the HTML centered model?

This is what people should be worried about, not replacing JS. It became a kind of popular hot-take for a while to say that separation of concerns was a mistake, and that's not how apps get built in the real world, and what we really need is a way to encapsulate all of our DOM and CSS in JS. We need to start pushing back against that idea and keep emphasizing that separation of concerns is really important for end users.

HTML is the interface you write to. It's not a document layout language for authoring, it is a render target that is understandable and manipulable by the end-user. It's a fantastic idea that enables a lot of user-land innovation, and it's one of the biggest reasons why the web is still a relatively good platform to interact with as an end-user.

A lot of architecture decisions on the web haven't aged well, but separating content, styling, and logic was a fantastic architecture decision that is still as relevant today as it ever was. And the rise of the web as an application platform has only made it more important, not less.
I think that's fair. But in terms of where a potential investigator should focus their attention, i.e. attempt to develop a physicalist theory or explore other options, I think the totality of evidence points towards a physicalist theory being more likely.
Idk, Americans also spend a lot of time on things that are necessary like that:

Cleaning, paying taxes, commuting, exercise (because most workers don't get it at work anymore), buying and cooking food, taking care of house and car, laundry, etc.

I huge amount of time is spent on those things and that wasn't included in the 40 hours.
Survey after survey shows that the US beats most large European countries for internet speeds. So how does the meme that ISPs barely keep the service up to date survive?
I know, the only thing in the back of my mind that makes me less nervous is well, this is probably only the nth time this year that my private information has been leaked onto the internet. And the others would have been explicitly to dump the data for identity theft in a corporate breach.

So unfortunately it might not even matter.

Still super frustrating that after everything they've been trough, fb does not have a meaningful way to report abuse.
Querying a Terabyte with BlazingSQL on GPUs
I do a small amount of editing the text that goes in and out of the model (saving the last 8-10 actions and results, cutting off hanging sentences, adding "You " to the beginning of actions" but the only world model is the actions and text that's been generated, nothing else.
Thinking about events to me is a sign that you are probably concerned with the wrong level of abstraction. Instead, you should be thinking about building protocols, of which events may be part. To me at least, a protocol combines notions of both the means of communication, as well as the semantics of that communication.

In this context of this article, I would prefer to version a protocol. That version subsumes the particular schema of the events used for that version of the protocol. If your protocol is well-designed then many of the assumptions of semantic versioning can be applied and relied on, so that parts of your system can speak an older version compatibly with a parts that speak a slightly newer version.

I really wish there was more support in the major ecosystems for creating protocols and a less obsessive focus on message encodings. Oh well.
This is a valid concern. Among many things it is much easier to audit higher level code than bytecode.
Hobbes would say this is backwards, since the state of nature is a state of war.

"Peace" is built from war's stalemates. As the most violent (and therefore effective) means become ineffective, combatants shift towards less effective means, to the point that the war (which is still ongoing) continues through diplomacy and trade.

Hence, "war is diplomacy by other means."

Diplomacy and trade are means of gaining an advantage in the underlying (now "cold") warfare. They're maneuvers to defeat the existing stalemate. If either side is able to obtain an economic (or other advantage) sufficient to defeat their opponent in a more violent form of warfare, then they will return to violence because that is the basal state of nature.

The worst thing you could ever have in trade / diplomacy is a good working relationship that isn't balanced and equal. A trade failure is itself a stalemate which can strengthen peace, so long as it occurs before too great of an advantage is gained any group.
42,000 satellites × 21 gbps per satellite for first gen satellites × (2,959,064.44 miles squared in continental us ÷ 196,900,000 miles squared on earth) = 13,254 gbps over continental us assuming they are evenly orbiting around the planet (they won't be and instead most will cluster around continents but let's make it easy). 2% of the US population are farmers * 325,000,000 Americans = about 6 million people. At an over subscription ratio of 5:1 (Google search gave many different answers for this so no idea on what wireless networks actually use) gives users 10 mbps which isn't too bad and you can multiple that by 15 if you want to match Bernies planned cost by launching 15 times more satellites.
This would not actually stop anything, just create a bunch of lawsuits.
Indeed. Back in 1999 the AMD K7 was a full 3 times faster than Intel on microbenchmarks measuring the performance of ROR/ROL instructions, because the throughput per clock of these rotate instructions was exactly 3 times higher than on Intel. Obviously this did not mean that AMD was 3 times faster than Intel.

Picking 1 or 2 random microbenchmarks like the blog post author did is not useful to categorize overall performance across all real-world workloads. If he had picked different ones, they might have shown AMD twice faster than Intel.
Says a brand new account....
"An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea"

I think of an estuary as that partially enclosed area, which is neither the river or the sea. But really all you need are those two things: the freshwater river, and the saltwater sea.
WASM is a binary and a text format. You can turn any WASM binary to the text format and have a readable version of the blob. Firefox can automatically show you the text version of a WASM blob.
So no, there is no difference with a minified JS. Just because there are in a text format don't make them any more easy to reverse engineer.
Either someone hacked the root Baidu servers, Baidu is involved, or the network requests are being manipulated by Chinese controlled entities.

There’s a high probability this is state run. There’s probably tons of offensive cyber teams in China and these are hitting sites like Greatfire.org which documents Chinese censorship (which was also why Github was hit if I’m not mistaken).

It’s not surprising that the organs of censorship would be used to target attempts to expose said censorship.
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The people in the article seem to be entrepreneurs. They mention that the website is paying them enough to continue full time.
Also anesthesia. The few times I've been under it I can definitively say I wasn't conscious - it was a light switch being flipped. I existed, I ceased, I resumed. No passage of time, no half-remembered dreams, nothing in the middle at all. An entirely chemically induced unconscious state.
The “battery included” approach worked well for python. Yeah sure, you can always create your own dlls and load a bunch of nuget packages every time. But it’s cumbersome for small projects and it makes code snippets non shareable.