skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An unforeseen complication of meeting so many wang hong at once is that it is hard to remember who is who. They tend to bear only an impression­istic resemblance to their Meitu-enhanced profile pictures. But whenever I take out my iPhone 6 to take a selfie with someone, I am rebuffed. People will suspiciously ask what kind of camera I am using before walking away with expres­sions ranging from offended to pity. “I can’t allow you to take a picture of me with that camera – it’ll be too ugly,” a woman from Chongqing tells me. I assure her that I am not a wang hong and will not be posting it, and we reach a compromise: she will take a selfie of us on her Meitu phone, edit her face and then send the photo to me.
https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-...

Photo editing has been used pretty much since the beginning of mainstream photography. You should never "trust" pictures for anything serious if you don't have absolute trust in the source.
USMC Commandant's 2020 Reading List.

This year I am finishing up the Harvard Classics and am looking for a new view point. https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1

Unfortunately, the military only publish on New Years Day (traditionally as a sort of holiday gift to those under command), so the 2020 list is not out yet. Every title is free via either the base library or the Navy Digital Library. Most have free audio book narration. There are discussion guides also provided for free. The website is very easy to use and poke around in, I'd suggest looking at it from a Dev standpoint alone. That said, the 2019 list is here: https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list

There are a LOT of titles so here are the Poolee through PFC levels:

Poolee:

BATTLE CRY by Leon Uris

CORPS VALUES by Zell Miller

GATES OF FIRE: AN EPIC NOVEL OF THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE by Steven Pressfield

GRIT: THE POWER OF PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heinlein

PFC through Lance Corporal:

CHESTY by Jon T. Hoffman

ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card

THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY: A TRUE STORY OF U.S. MARINES IN COMBAT by Bob Drury

THE MARINES OF MONTFORD POINT: AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK MARINES by Melton Alonza McLaurin

ON CALL IN HELL by Richard Jadick; Thomas Hayden

READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline

RIFLEMAN DODD: A NOVEL OF THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN by C. S. Forester

THE WARRIOR ETHOS by Steven Pressfield

The 2020 list should have some froth in it (Greitens likely won't stay, but who knows, judge the art not the artist). I think it'll be a good look into a Corps that has been punched for a long time in Afghanistan. Still, some great titles in there.
All those little couple hundred dollars a year here and there add up. And some people just don't care to make friends with the people they work with.
> Sorry, but walk into any once a week church AA meetings and you will find many wealthy alcoholics there.

This type of anecdata is meaningless for assessing anything. Not only is your sample size tiny and biased based on where you live, but there's selection bias due to the fact that some types of alcoholics don't go to church AA meetings.

> The difference is that…

As usual, there are likely many differences, rather than just one. Studies have shown that wealthy people drink more, likely because they can afford to drink more. They're also more likely to seek and afford healthcare, therapy, gyms, healthy food, etc., not just lawyers.
Because life is depressing and alcohol is an accessible, legal escape.
Firefox and Safari version will be coming soon :)
All my laptops have 32GB of RAM. And if I had no other options I probably could've been stuck with CLion. However as I've already mention CodeLite and QtCreator are multiplatform, very responsive, work just fine as an IDE and eat very little memory comparatively to CLion. I often have to test big in memory datasets so I have way better ways of wasting RAM.
There's a lot of rural America that's not in agriculture[0]. I mean yes many of the other rural folks provide services to farmers but I wouldn't say the assistant manager of a McDonalds in Small Town America is involved in farming just as I wouldn't say the assistant manager of a Starbucks on Wall Street is involved in investment banking.

I can't find data on it but I would not be surprised if public sector (all levels) employment and employment with companies that mostly contract for government, as a percentage of total employment, is pretty high in rural areas and small towns, actually.

[0] Looks like that's around 1.41% of the US population from World Bank data, fairly flat since the early '00s; stat includes forestry, fishing, and hunting jobs, so is likely more inclusive than what most people usually think of as "agriculture" as in mass food production, though I can't suss out whether it includes stuff like farm equipment sales & servicing, or people running grain elevators, stuff like that.
If by "sex imbalance" you mean the ratio differential currently exhibited in the workplace, the last piece of the reasoning doesn't follow from the first.

"Both sexes are interchangeable for most jobs" doesn't imply "there's no such thing as a sex imbalance" if people have historically believed both sexes aren't interchangeable for most jobs and workforce gender distribution reflects that history.
Elements of Clojure - Zachary Tellman

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin

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Stormlight Book 4 - Brandon Sanderson

The Doors of Stone - Patrick Rothfuss (fingers crossed?)

Culture series - Iain Banks
Is one cigarette a day, dosage low enough for the body to benefit from it, or atleast not be damaged by it?

Is a pack of cigarettes high enough to kill you if you smoke it all at once ? I know quite a few friends who get through a pack a day.

I didn't say 365 cigarettes at once. Everyone knows its too high a dosage that might actually kill a person, just like a high enough dose of caffeine or alcohol.

I don't think a cigarette a day is low dosage. While you might not die of a heart attack or get lung cancer directly from smoking, it might still increase the risk of serious diseases given other environmental conditions, your fitness level, diet, etc.
The 2 drinks a day has to be seen in a similar light.
Yeah, I actually like the way Microsoft and Google do it when it just displays notification or number on my phone. Recently I logged in to a new Windows 10 computer and I didn't even have to type a password anywhere.

Unfortunately I don't see the need to actually fill and type passwords going away any time soon.

I'm mostly complaining about having to either:

1) Install the password manager on a computer to fill in passwords. You end up typing the password manager's password into the computer which could compromise the entire database as well as give the computer other information about your accounts and website usage.

2) Otherwise you have a password manager on your phone. You have to view the password and type it into a keyboard. Typing complex passwords is a pain in the butt. It would be nice if the password manager on my phone could just somehow type it for me. Then the only thing that goes into the computer is the exact password I'm trying to use.
I read of a study once which said smokers who wait until after breakfast are less likely to develop cancer. Which makes me think maybe it’s the length of time between, in which case you might be better off smoking seven on Sunday than one a day.
Since piracy isn't quite the most uncommon criminal activity, I supposed people only care weak about those two and I would bet most people care more about 2 than 1 because people don't see it as criminal activity.
Glad to hear that! More features will come soon! :)
Interesting that the currrent CEO is buying Uber stock while founders are dumping it.

It's unclear whether the stock Dara Khosrowshahi is buying comes at a discount, though.
That's a given yearly re-read for me, honestly.
Why there are no women over 40 in your office
Probably for the same reason you get that response when you tell a vegan to eat meat, or a meat eater to stop eating meat.
That's right ! Thanks for this accuracy and for sharing.
Maybe you can create your own tool which takes good from both architectures ? ;)
Could you imagine how great these services would be if copyrighted works fell into the public domain after 28 years instead of the nearly 100 years they are now?
I am currently building a personal journal app will become what I calling a "quiet social network" [0]. The idea seems similar of this calm tech, although they are talking more about hardware.

I am on the fence about notifications though. They can be very useful for the user. I am planning to add notifications, but probably all off by default, and the user decides very granularly what they want on. Does it seem the right approach? I would appreciate any opinion

[0] https://www.quidsentio.com
LiveCode is the modern (and vastly more powerful) version of HyperCard, and it has a free community version: https://livecode.com/
The article doesn't mention POST. It says "the first time we call it the VM is created. The second time it is called the system detects that the VM already exists and simply returns without error". Makes more sense to assume it means PUT, defined as "The HTTP PUT request method creates a new resource or replaces a representation of the target resource with the request payload"
Although technical innovations can enable design. If our future ends up where we spend most of our day in VR, I'd want my garden to look like my grade school Trapper Keeper https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/4c/c3/354cc33523812bd516c1...
I'm not sure how everyone else feels about this, but a nice interactive graph created with D3.js really increases my enjoyment of visualising data.
Moderate drinking may not be "safe", but binge drinking is a lot worse. For one thing, wealthy people who drink alcohol out of tradition do not generally become alcoholic, or even go "black out drunk" and get into all sorts of social dangers and/or grossly antisocial behavior as a result.
People like to have control over their investment?
Quite so. After our delightfully flawed FPTP election results, I can't conceive of Brexit not happening with the ERG majority of 60. Seems we may end up throwing the BBC and NHS out with that particular bathwater too.

Scarfolk's Watch out, there's a politician about: https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/05/watch-out-theres-polit...
I feel like what makes this one so good is how subtle it is. It took me a moment to go from, “wow, Hader really nailed the facial expressions,” to realizing what was going on.

In this case, the body is being entirely ignored by the autoencoder. The way it works is by first doing a machine vision pass to isolate just faces and process on that region for both sets of source imagery.
There are studies that show not this level of extreme, but that there is what is called “wasted harm” - the harm done by 3 packs a day is not 3x the harm done by 1 pack a day, and 1 pack a day for 5 years is thus worse than 5 packs a day for 1 year.
From a practical point of view, the increase in reported finds is a pretty good indicator of success. After all we're balancing the interests of detectorists, land owners and the public. Success isn't necessarily about completely satisfying any of them.
The liver is a rather forgiving organ. High blood pressure and whatever-sclerosis are not so forgiving. Alcohol seems to help on the second ones.
SHA3 is designed to be quite fast in hardware, there just isn't much hardware that accelerates it yet. Blake2 is faster in software, but that software is (as you note) much slower than SHA2's hardware implementations. So for existing systems SHA2 is the best option. Eventually SHA3 will probably be widespread and SHAKE128 with appropriately chosen output size will be the best choice.
> Advertisement providers should deliver a usable product for their client where usable doesn't refer to ease of implementation for the news agency. They should make an effort to promote in stead of bothering people.

For what it's worth, this was Adsense back in the 2000s. At a time where banner ads were characterized by obnoxious "smack the monkey" flash games, Google's ads were clean, fast-loading, and un-obtrusive. They looked different enough from normal text to be clearly recognizable as an ad, but otherwise plain and tasteful.

However the sad truth is that, to some extent, bothering people is the desired goal of advertisers. Their goal is to get the attention of a customer and if they annoy some others in the process, it doesn't matter because the one customer they did get is worth it.
I’m surprised it took so long for a replacement to catch on. I really don’t understand how slack managed to build such an awful client.
I am strongly sceptical about Agile bringing about software development to be the highly paid and somewhat prestigious profession it is today. I think it was more like the pressure to have software do much more than it did before.

Agile is very likely to have played a role but I don't feel the correlation between it and the current state of programming is that strong. There are other factors that mixed with it.

What I will always agree with is that Agile / Extreme Programming brought about much needed pressure to stop the waterfall approach in every single area of engineering, programming included. That's the historical role I attribute to it and for that I am very grateful.

Anything beyond that, I am fairly sceptical. Agile didn't really do that much in the grand scheme of things.
Kalanick was ousted, shouldn't come as a shock that he's selling. One would hope that the current CEO believes in the future of the company so that shouldn't be entirely surprising either.
Reality is temporal and inconsistent. Reality changes as our perception of it changes, and we report on what we know today as reality. We don't report on what we think the reality has shifted from and to, just like we don't report on "our current flawed understanding of this subject leaves us with the following assumptions which we can only surmise are probably false based on our limited understanding of the world and how said understanding will change in the future". We assume that whatever we know today is a fact, because we don't yet know different, and everything that we knew yesterday wasn't a fact, because our understanding of reality has changed.

Yesterday the alcohol was safe, because that's what we knew it was. Today the alcohol isn't safe, because that's what we know it is. That's how a human's understanding of reality works. So we report things in the same way.
I honestly don't know what a "deep" question sounds like. Is there a list of topics that fall into that category somewhere?
Seems pretty reasonable. Travis is no longer steering the ship, so he gets his money out. Dara is in charge and presumably has confidence in his own abilities, so he buys shares at what are probably a low (given all the controversies and hiccups in the past two years), assuming Uber can actually get to profitability.
Sorry, the first link was meant to be:

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
A lot of the doctors I know seem to agree on something: more than anything you can do, decrease stress to improve your health. Alcohol does that.

Sitting and having drinks, even sitting and having a LOT of drinks occasionally, with your close friends, is good for you because it helps decrease your stress.
And voting machines made by domestic suppliers have also had suspicious malfunctions. If only there was a way to vote without machines...
I'm far from an expert, but I can share a thought or two. I think all of the you examples you cited would fall into the overall umbrella of "discrete event simulation"[1]. This would be discrete as opposed to something like fluid dynamics or weather modeling, which would be closer to
"continuous simulation"[6].

Anyway, within the realm of discrete event simulation, there are a lot of different techniques and tools. You can always code up a simulation using any standard programming language: your Java, Python, C++, Go, etc. But there are also purpose built tools and libraries for this as well. As you might expect, a lot of tools[2] in this space are F/OSS.

Not on that list, but also a possible option, is NetLogo[3]. It's advertised as a "Multi-agent system" simulation environment, but can absolutely be used for various kinds of DES. Once nice thing about NetLogo is that it's very popular and has a vibrant community, and a lot of pre-existing models you can use to learn from, or as a base for your own models.

If you're a Python person, Simpy[4] is very popular as well.

Here's a super simple simulation[5] involving a traffic light, using Simpy.

Also, a technique that might not be specifically useful in your domain, but which is widely used for many kinds of simulation, and which is probably worth knowing about, is Monte Carlo simulation[7].

See also: the Wikipedia page[8] on "traffic simulation".

You may also find that this starts to overlap some with "queuing theory"[9] in places.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_simulation

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_discrete_event_simulat...

[3]: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml

[4]: https://simpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[5]: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/basics-of-discrete-event-simul...

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_simulation

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_simulation

[9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory
Eating apricots does cause cancer if there is enough remaining pesticide residue that hasn't been washed off.

I also agree that most of the scare is media neglecting their public interest responsibilities in the name of sensationalism.
I couldn't tell it was Data from Star Trek until I read the story.
I've read over 38 books till now, so, it will be about 40 by the year-end. I have a long list of Book Wishlist on Amazon. I try to buy (both physical and Kindle) about 5 books ahead. Twitter has become a very good source of my Books to Read.

I also tend to and try to re-read quite a few books from before. I never have any specific books lined up for a year but I'm sure, I won't be able to finish my current wishlist.

The comment thread on this post is going to be another good source for my book wishlist.

I wish to be rich enough to have all the time to read so many books. :-)
Part of the problem is that alcohol is very easy to manufacture. It's hard to enforce a law on manufacturing something if anyone with a very small amount of knowledge can easily make it in their bedroom closet out of legal materials.
> I felt bad

This isn't the same as being unsafe though, is it?
This AP7 (work package 7) document seemed the most relevant, although most of it reads like generic test results and conceptual stuff. Not sure why they would try to hold that back. A non-malicious view would be that they simply are a part of German bureaucracy and subsequently slow.

Non-Google translation of the summary (AP7, page 70) for those interested:

"5 Summary

This work package first describes the basic building blocks that are utilized to secure the start [boot?] process, as well as ones that might be necessary and helpful to realize hard dism encryption via full-disk-encryption .

Beyond that existing attacks are described and investigated if the solutions presented here mitigate against them or not.

In chapter 4 several possible solutions are presented, both online (meaning with network connectivity) as well as offline.

The most promising solutions use the new Trusted-Computing functionality based on a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and a Boot of Trust (CRTM/SRTM/DRTM).

The most desirable solutions are the Secure Boot procedure from chapters 4.4 and 4.5. These do however require either the development of new hardware or need to be based on special hardware extensions, e.g. Intel's TXT technology.

A large-scale deployment in an existing, heterogenous area is therefore improbable.

At the moment solutions that combine Trusted Boot with the attestation functionality seem to be the most sensible. This solution can be combined with:
- Sealing: Storing a secret on the platform configuration.
- NVRAM: Storing a secret in an area of the Trusted Storage, inside the TPM, that is only readable/writable given a valid configuration.
- Attestation: Proof of platform integrity towards an external party.
As "external parties", multiple counterparts could be realized:
- Online, e.g. a central server.
- Offline: e.g. a smart card or a smart phone application that takes on the verification for the server.
All three variants (sealing, NVRAM, attestation) are reliant on the correctness of the PCRs."

The rest is potential use cases and an impact matrix of the attacks described in the document.
Manufacturing Content by Chomsky. I don't know why Americans are so enamored with French philosophers while they have decent ones at home

Because we’re talking about the academy of the humanities. This is an institution built on obscuring and gatekeeping ideas rather than sharing them. Why do they do this when their mandate is to create and share knowledge? These scholars are in a constant struggle to remain relevant, both individually and as departments in their schools.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) these scholars collectively decide what is and isn’t relevant. This process takes the form of fashion trends, because there are no objective measures of validity the way there are in math and science. Fashion itself is a never-ending ladder climb.
You're not helping your recommendation by starting it with a condemnation.

What makes you think I want to read this book at all? Or that I'm reading Nietzsche for practical ethical advice? I have no idea who would do such a thing.
New Year’s Eve by Boat: From Paradisiacal Islands to Party Hot-Spots
I run sshd on termux, and log in from my laptop.
IANAL but I don't think that is how trademark works. I believe you're allowed to use any trademark as long as it is being used to describe the thing that it is registered for, you don't infer that you're associated.

For example I'm pretty sure anyone could recreate the Pepsi challenge without asking Pepsi or Coke for permission, as long as it was actually Pepsi and Coke in the cans, and they made it clear that they are not affiliated.
Radiolab has a great episode on Cities from a while back. https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/radiolab/cities

Among other things, you can predict the average walking speed in a city with some accuracy.
If you're going to comment, it's highly preferable that you read the article where all of this is explained.
State anything without context an it will sound weird.

Imagine a sci fi story where people stare into a glowing rectangular box for hours on end per day. There are whole industries surrounding the production of these glowing rectangles, and the people who are particularly good at changing the colors get paid far more than anybody else. Major efforts by the academic and altruistic class have been made to provide glowing squares to people who are starving to death, thinking that the inedible glowing squares might cause them to grow food.
BHive: A Benchmark Suite and Measurement Framework for Validating x86-64 BB Perf [pdf]
It depends on a lot of factors. Unless you extremely lack social skills or are new to a language or culture, a conversation is a continual data gathering, feedback loop for both parties.

Here are some examples:

1. How close are you with this person? An issue of trust.

2. What is the context? Friends, coworker, interview, etc.

3. What is the goal? Friendship, small-talk, debate, etc.

4. Who is the audience? student, foreigner, church, etc.

I suspect your wife asks these questions to the religious ("theology"), which is a subset (bias). It is risky to ask controversial issues today to people not with your value system, so I also suspect she became more sensitive after trial and error. The best way is to ask her directly.

Please confirm/refute my hypotheses.