skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the truth is that the built-in antimalware protection in Windows is simply horrible (according to various AV comparisons, Microsoft Essentials misses over 20% of in-the-wild malware)

AV comparisons have to be normally taken with a pile of salt. There's rarely an independent one. And even once you start looking at 3rd parties, it turns out they enable attack surface on their own. Then there's a number of 3rd parties which rely on cloud scanning aka "submit it to virustotal".

Here's some more context for why the comparisons are tricky: https://www.mrg-effitas.com/research/stop-using-virustotal-t...
Haha, well, when it starts with "oppressing racial minorities, especially via voter suppression through felony disenfranchisement" ...just follow the data ;)
True, and fair point!

Randomness is a matter of perspective. For any source of randomness there exists an oracle, and in some cases you can actually construct the oracle, and profit thereby.
> I don’t understand why federal legalization has been so difficult.

Look into the history of laws surrounding marijuana in the United States and you'll start to understand the politics behind it.

For example, here's a statement from John Ehrlichman[1], Assistant of Domestic Affairs to former president Richard Nixon.

> “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. is run by a pretty unconventional guy
"Both have done it" is not the same as "both have done it equally". Nor does it mean "we should therefore be okay with it".

If we support the idea of Democracy, we should stop abuses that harm democracy, even if it prevents abuses those we otherwise agree with have taken advantage of.
Aren't you ignoring a whole host of physical design complexities? Power, clock speed, signal integrity, packaging, manufacturability and yield? Yes, implementing the design in an FPGA solves some of those, but not all.

I guess your overall point is that it could be possible to provide people with source code, have them push one button, and get a working bitstream out (just the same as we simple browse to facebook.com and get a working app). That assumes that the designers know the target FPGA and work extra hard to make sure that their design meets timing/power/etc. budgets with any randomized placement and routing for that FPGA. Hmm, yeah, I guess that probably still is easier than creating Facebook's UI, as long as we can assume some constraints.
There are currently 3 trustees of the charity, including myself, and no employees. It’s illegal for trustees to be compensated for work relating to the charity. We’re careful to pick problems (and solutions) that we can make and maintain.

I focus on the engineering, my partner focuses on anything design related, and our third trustee manages finances.

We do it because we’re passionate about it, and the legal structure gives us a lot of weight and ability to negotiate reduced rates with services we depend on. It also sets us up to pay other developers, if/when we decide there’s too much for us to do as a team. Folks might want to donate their time as well, but we will need to be mindful of properly compensating people for their time.
Funny example, every time I've had to do this GitHub refused to take down forks based on a bullshit argument that it's impossible to do even though you can just look for matching SHA hashes. I wonder if someone will dismantle them in court for that someday...
Good to know, thanks for the info! I do have 7-zip too, so I'll try to see if it might be related if it happens again.
You can make some really nice looking games using isometric tiles, Ceasar 3 comes to mind. Which looks much better then Ceasar 4 IMHO, which is 3d AFAIK. And game-play also feels better in C3.
Largely matches my experience. I make infusions and usually have to cut it quite a bit before sharing, otherwise people get entirely too baked too quickly.

I enjoy crafting more than consuming so I tend to have way more than I can consume and give most of it away.
I can't speak to their odbc drivers, but after trying to use their oledb drivers to query excel spreadsheets:

Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here.
I can't find anything in the text to support the unchecked praise for all pre-modern buildings you claim to be there.

The best the text provides is the assertion that "the pre-modern architectural language could be easily learned" and so even those of modest talents could make good buildings. Hardly the claim of inherent pleasure in the pre-modern form you say is there!

The idea that there is anything straightforwardly natural about any building endowed with architecture is not very well thought throught.

That or the sympthom of astonishingly poor comprehension of geology and ecology.
To me it goes like this; I just did it yesterday, there’s nothing there to get out. So I’d forget about it for another week.
Thank you, I had a huge brain fart on that and my EC knowledge got all mingled in with house reps.
> You do not need to be a data scientist. Anybody can do it. That said, a good GPU will help a lot. I'm using two 1080Ti in SLI and they're pretty decent.

You can also use Google colab for a free GPU/TPU
She makes the very specific claim that "85 percent of twenty- to thirty-year-old males think about sex every fifty-two seconds".

Given that she places this statement among others that ARE cited, it should also be cited.
In shogi, the 桂馬 moves like the knight but only the two forward most moves; it can still jump. However, in shogi it can promote (most pieces in shogi can promote).

In xiangqi, the 馬 moves like the knight, in any direction, but it can be blocked (it is considered to go one orthogonal and then one diagonally outward); it is possible that one 馬s threatens the other, but not other way around because the opponent's one is blocked. (The rule that the kings are not allowed to look at each other can also have this non-mutual attacking effect, but 馬 does it even independently of that rule, and of the river.)
I do prefer vaping to burning, but still enters your lungs to questionable effect and also makes me cough, though not as much. I'd far rather just have a shot of infused tequila.
The website actually recommends using SICP accompanied by Brian Harvey's CS61A lectures. Highly recommended and then read The Little Schemer to get a strong grasp on recursion.
Re: The Ecosystem Is Moving
Nah, there's no way to get around that entry level criticism, abandon the plan
Beyond Physicalism
I thought something was awry with your link until I realized that from overhead they’re basically invisible; that’s how efficiently the land is also being used for farming. Point well made.
Is “Silence unknown callers” released to the public already, under Settings > Phone?

EDIT: The help text says:

Calls from unknown numbers will be silenced, sent to voicemail, and displayed on the Recents list.

Incoming calls will continue to ring from people in your contacts, recent outgoing calls, and Siri Suggestions.
Marijuana legal states are rich or have been gentrified so they use less opioid.
I think it depends on what you want to focus on. If you want to do deep learning, fast.ai is probably the best resource available. Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas (the two founders) have poured quite a lot into fostering a positive, supportive community around fast.ai which really does add quite a lot of value.

If you want to really understand the fundamentals of machine learning (deep learning is just one subset of ML!), there is no substitute for picking up one of the classic texts like: Elements of Statistical Learning (https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/), Machine Learning: A Probabalistic Approach (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/) and going through it slowly.

I'd recommend a two pronged approach: dig into fast.ai while reading a chapter a week (or at w/e pace matches your schedule) of w/e ML textbook you end up choosing. Despite all of the hype of deep learning, you really can do some pretty sweet things (ex: classify images/text) with neural nets within a day or two of getting started. Machine learning is a broad field, and you'll find that you will never know as much as you think you should, and that's okay. The most important thing is to stick to a schedule and be consistent with your learning. Good luck on this journey :)
> Do you have any numbers for this? It doesn't match my experiences at all.

Sorry, no, purely "anecdata", mainly based on a variety of personal and family laptops and desktop computers. There have been occasional IT department-managed update nightmares, but I don't count these.
Public key authenticated encryption and why you want it (Part I)
Very interesting article; well worth reading the whole thing. Exciting to see startups in the "hard tech" space!

Also, complete transcription of the conversation with George Church: https://bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/users/20939-laura...

Some choice excerpts:

> Shendure feels the inflection point came in 2010, with the founding of AbVitro by Church and his then-postdoc Francois Vigneault. AbVitro may to this day hold a special place in the annals of startups from the Church lab. After starting from only a little over $3 million in startup funding from a single VC firm, Sante Ventures, in 2012, the company was snapped up by Juno for $125 million four years later. That was followed by Celgene’s purchase of Juno, and more importantly led to several cell therapies now in the investigational new drug (IND) phase, according to Vigneault. “[Church] never had a really big success until we decided to do AbVitro and that one ended up knocking it out of the ball park. That triggered a lot of people to start companies because it looks easy from the outside,” he says. “It’s not,” he adds. [...] Whether or not AbVitro was the bellwether, the pace began picking up around 2015, and reached a fevered pitch in 2018.

> [...] biggest change from the past is that lab members are stepping up to take the role of CEO, rather than chief scientific officer (CSO) or chief technology officer (CTO). He sees an upswing in entrepreneurial verve across the university, but especially coming out of the Church lab. “They really have a desire to take on that business challenge of managing the company and growing the opportunity, seeking out the financing, seeking out the collaborations, and really focusing on the business aspect [...]

> [...] the current startup environment is different from that of the past in several significant ways. There is a very rich ecosystem of infrastructure for startups to launch into. “Places like LabCentral or Alexandria LaunchLabs are where you have a full BSL2 [biosafety level 2] lab ready to go and you can rent a bench on and have access to equipment for relatively small amounts of money,” he says. Access to capital is high for these kinds of ventures, he says, adding that a new breed of scientific founder is also emerging. “They have grown up in the era of startups, and have technology, multidisciplinary backgrounds across biology, computer science and engineering,” [...]

> In addition, the technology may now be catching up with some of the Church “crazy” ideas of years past. Cain McCleary, of KdT Ventures, which has invested in two from this cohort and one a few years back, says, “I feel like he’s consistently been ahead of his time in creating tool sets, but all of a sudden, our analysis and manufacturing has caught up to it, so it’s a particularly special time for folks in his lab,” he says.
> Nonsense.

Pharmaceutical companies have donated millions to preventing legalization[0], and yet you’re invoking a rare genetic condition as evidence that pharma supports legalization? They’re literally some of the largest donors to anti-legalization efforts.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/22...
update - here's the original calendar design challenge:

http://www.elzr.com/blag/infodesign-challenge/
> Primarily authentication, authorization, and accounting[0]. Setting up a new user account on every single computer that an employee may at some point sit at gets very expensive

Why are people using more than one machine?

> Many businesses (if not immediately then eventually) have security concerns that require Administrators have the ability to immediately lock users out of the system or be able to audit recent activity.

Why are the network services tied to login sessions on my machine? I mean, login token invalidation is an interesting problem in general, but every place I’ve worked in the past 10 years, my desktop is not the place where secure things are stored, the services I access are. (And those services are increasingly SaaS and use something like SAML with the directory server for the company.) None of which needs a login token associated in any way with my desktop login.

Perhaps a better phrasing of the question is, why is the demarcation line between the untrusted world and the things you’re protecting on the desktop? And not at the services themselves?

> It can also automate standard settings like network drives, screen lockout settings, homepages, and all sorts of other settings.

Sounds like a bunch of solutions to problems you’re creating for yourselves. Why even do any of these things?

Perhaps an analogy would be helpful:

Say you required all your employees to have smart phones so they could (for instance) get email, log into the timecard/accounting service, etc. You’d need a pretty huge justification to require all of the phones to be managed centrally by your company. Why are desktops different?

(Or perhaps you’d defend even the central management of my iPhone too, in which case I think our perspectives are so far off, I don’t think there’s much convincing either of us can do at this point.)

I used to be an AD administrator for a university and had to manage hundreds of lab machines (maintaining a central hardware-independent image, group policy, tons of settings), so I’m aware of what tools are available for Administration, I’m just saying 9 times out of 10, the best way to administer lots of systems is to not administer them at all.
> There are lots of finicky details when transcribing speech as well, but it's apparently not AI complete. You do need a large corpus so the algorithm knows what's typical.

Speech is dramatically easier. The reason is that language is meant to communicate and consequently carries a lot of redundant information that you can bring to bear.

Music often has no such redundancy. It may have themes that differ slightly each time, so nothing to lock onto.

> Recognizing chords seems like a useful thing to solve

Except that a single C note (especially on stringed instruments) may have many harmonics that also look like a C chord. The problem isn't straightforward.
My understanding is Google will tell you that info as well as publish it to the Lumen database. If not, you can always subpoena Google for the exact info in court, it only adds a step.
Google will finally stop using controversial tax loopholes in EU
Looks like it, thanks I'll update the top of the article. The basic and disruptive full-screen UI is still the only option for receiving calls
Thanks for sharing, I'll try it out this year!
I definitely agree that you don't need to go deep into theory to be able to do useful things. But I think the bias-variance tradeoff is a very bad example of "useless theory". It's essentially just another name for overfitting/underfitting, which are approximately the most important ML concepts there are.
A good way to have a great annual return in year y+1 is to have a 21% decline during December of year y.
The Air Canada near miss in San Francisco is another one.. but the other planes were on the ground. Apparently they missed by ~20 feet and it would have likely been the most deadly accident in aviation history as 4 planes were in the path with something like 1,000 passengers in total.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGQlQFn0euI

Wiki article with the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759
Found in a recent presentation by Jacopo Mondi of the libcamera team (PDF): https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu19/21/libcamera.p...

- Intel IPU3
- Rockchip RK3399

In progress:

- RaspberryPi 3 and 4
- UVC cameras
- VIMC test driver
Anecdotally, I just got out of the hospital after some serious surgery on Christmas (maybe not “emergency”, but if they did it on 12/25 it obviously couldn’t wait). I’ve got a Vicodin subscription, my wife filled it, but I don’t plan on using it unless I have to. I live in WA, which legalized weed, and I plan to just smoke (well, vape) up. OTC meds aren’t quite enough, but yeesh, the next step is Vicodin? Nah, way too much, I think the weed will tide me over.

But if cannabis weren’t legal in WA, I’d probably just take the Vicodin because OTC isn’t enough. So for my current situation, cannabis falls right in that happy middle I need, and to bring it back on topic, keeps me off the hard stuff.
There is so much demand that the filtering down is not happening, or going downwards quickly enough.

This is what I mean when I say:

> But talking past people and basically ignoring their concerns is not going to get people on board.

Is what you're saying valid? Yes. But if you just act dismissive of other people don't be surprised if they're not rushing to your defense, or even against you.
Just because some Linux users do that does not mean it is a requirement. If it were, Linux could never have achieved server the server dominance it has. Fiddling is a side effect of Linux being too flexible, so you always have the nagging feeling you could be better with a different distro/window manager/shell/editor/file manager.

I installed Linux Mint on my parents' computer and it's been running rock solid for three years. And they appreciate not being tricked into updates they don't want.
Part II: https://neilmadden.blog/2018/11/26/public-key-authenticated-...

Part III: https://neilmadden.blog/2018/12/14/public-key-authenticated-...
The wax/parchment paper used by butchers in wrapping meats - does that contain plastic?
1) Do they want you to fix their problem, or do they just want you to be aware of their problem? (wait until they ask a direct question) Ex:

Them: My foot is broken

You: Have you considered not walking on it? Have you considered putting a cast on it?

vs

You: That sucks. (mentally: don't ask them to walk on it until it heals)

2) Do you have enough information yet to make a reasonable suggestion? (Smile and nod, shut up)

Them: I don't like my boss and yesterday I ...

You: Why don't you quit?

3) Your suggestion will fix their problem, but what are the consequences of your solution?

Them: I can't walk upstairs to get my medicine (they are on crutches)

You: Let me help you up the stairs (they then need to find you every time they go upstairs. Instead, make sure everything they need is downstairs)

Contrary to GP, I don't think "wait until they ask a direct question" is a perfect strategy; though it's a great strategy compared to shooting your mouth off. Waiting until they ask a direct question is a shortcut to make sure you don't imply that they were too dumb to think of your half-baked solution.
wrt limping...

It's interesting that Tesla says this about the dual-motor version:

> Tesla All-Wheel Drive has two independent motors.

...

> Your car can drive on either motor, so you never need to worry about getting stuck on the road. If one motor stops working, you can safely continue to your destination with the second.
> "If linux phones are going to be a thing (pinephone, librem) they'll need great cameras and excellent image processing software t be even somewhat competitive with Google Pixels and iPhones and Samsungs."

Couldn't they just find another niche? I think relatively few consumers know anything about photography. Even a proper professional DSLR would be useless to me because I know next to nothing about photography and tools don't make the artist. No picture I've ever taken has any artistic merit or technical merit.

Of course, good camera software is a good thing and for the segment of society that's enthused about photography it's going to be essential. I'm just not convinced it's the secret sauce to mass appeal.

Edit for response:

> Well, okay, what problem would you rather see them tackle?

I don't have such a preference. I expect volunteer developers will work on matters they find personally compelling. Those that find photography software compelling should pursue their passion.
Except the Portuguese model, which I’m in favour of, does not ‘decriminalise drugs’. It decriminalises drug use, while still keeping hard drugs illegal to sell or exchange for a profit. What this does is keep users out if prisons and protects medical and social services professionals that help them with e.g. clean needles.

I do think the decriminalisation of the sale of marijuana is a reasonable step, but it’s fundamentally got nothing to do with the Portuguese model.

Norway seems to be taking the same route, so hopefully we’ll see more data to back up the success of this model in future.
Note that's basically what happened to Ghosn after he paid bail the first time. Let's remember this: he had to pay bail to be released to be reincarcerated. After which he paid bail again...
Yeah they could also allow temporary session like discord does.
Discord lets you join and chat on a server without having to permanently make an account via invite link.
> But not instantly. And not all of it in time for April 15th. Sometimes those details don't make it to the IRS for years.

And yet it has to get there by tax time so I’m having trouble believing it takes some tax forms literally years to make it to DC. Especially when you go to jail if they don’t.

> We don't yet live in a world of instantaneous information transfer about every American citizen to the government.

Buuuut it all has to get there by April 15th (actually February right) so I’m having trouble following this line of reasoning.

> Some people also see that as a good thing.

Why would information arriving quarterly (bi-weekly even) instead of annually be a bad thing when that information is legally bound to arrive at its destination anyways?

The only thing you're arguing is that the government shouldn't run their program a few months before you submit the documents, then send it to you for review, instead of afterwards and sending it to a tax judge. That's madness.
Revisiting the Big Market Delusion
The most wizardly of the wizards I work with (FAANG, though that correlates less with shell wizardry than people might think) does a lot of his ~scripting in a Vim buffer in tmux and just enters text over one chunk at a time. This is a nice approach because a lot of the time he's starting from bare bones, and always has his basic building blocks very evident so he knows them well. But, when he needs to build up a more complicated script for review, he can clean up whatever he's got.
If you ask me, I'd say don't worry too much about memorizing stuff you don't use often (viva la man page), but it's great to have your common commands memorized rather than aliased for when you're helping someone else out or explaining how something works.