skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A computer program knowingly installed by the owner of the device, functioning to the expected specifications of the owner of the device, is just called software.
Many examples:

Angela Merkel - formidable and respected even by her opponents, but never one to take the easy, populist route. Has called populism "poison"

Tsai Ing-wen (Taiwanese president, running for her second term this weekend) was a law professor. She's not a great public speaker.

Malcolm Turnbull, former Australian Prime Minster. Former investment banker. Had a tendency to have complicated policy positions which most people who worked in whatever field he was forming policy for would consider technically correct, but were hard to explain.

Hillary Clinton - terrible public speaker, overly concerned with polling and unable to read people (in complete contrast to her husband who was very much the populist)

Mario Monti - former Italian Prime Minster and economist.

I've tried to find examples from all sides of politics.
What software do you use to rename PDF files and extract their metadata automatically? I have found this difficult to accomplish, despite trying multiple different tools. PDFs from Arxiv are commonly a problem.
Some of those are fair points (scenarios issues involving external people), although considering the context of this discussion I was referring to ethical concerns between the two parties involved in the relationship. Coercion of various sorts negates consent in my book.
Reading this article makes me very glad that I've been donating to SENS for some time now. They are doing awesome work:

https://www.sens.org/get-involved/donate/
Teenager having seizure saved by online gamer – 5k miles away in Texas
A genuinely enjoyable long-form post I read a while back involved Casper [0]. Not sure how germane it is but perhaps someone will enjoy it.

[0] - https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
Curious about the Hacker News readership demographic?
What are your pronouns?
What city? What age?

I’m he/him, San Francisco, 39
Qualified is not the same as good. Passing the minimum quality bar to be acceptable on some level is very different to having even one success, never mind having multiple, massive successes.

Qualified is what you’re looking for in areas so routinised that everyone is adequate and no one is worth even ten times the average performer.
Why not prepare a petri dish with the topography of the region and let some fungus populate it, copy the pattern as roads and mass transportation and populate the surrounding areas.
The scenarios are obvious and virtually limitless. For example:

This low-income person drives to Langley, VA every night at 11pm. He might be a janitor at the CIA. We already know he's poor because he has this phone. Can we find out more and potentially bribe him to leave this ordinary-looking pen in a conference room?
North-south painful? Haven't you swapped the axes? North-south is the axis which the the Eixão lies on, which is a three lane express way. Meanwhile, every day around both noon and evening all the streets and roads on the east-west axis will be crammed with cars, to the point of blocking the roundabouts, because most of them are single lane roads chockful with roundabouts and pedestrian crossing.

Edit: changed, from "pedestrian way" to "pedestrian crossing."
Zoning can also be a good thing, e.g. for keeping loud factories away from residential areas. The problem is more if your zoning regulations don’t allow for mixed use development.
Not too approximately: Even numbered buildings are to the east of the central grassy plaza (Killian Court), and odd numbered buildings to the west; the numbers tend to increase moving away from the river.

Additionally, buildings outside the main cluster have a cardinal direction prefix (W/NW/N/NE/E) that helps locate them.

<http://whereis.mit.edu>

(I know you know all that; I'm adding context for the readers.)
In Our Time: Coffee
I don't have one. I did use the web interface for Spotify though and it did some JS stuff when I left it for a bit; that's how I noticed.
It's 2020 and we still don't have the bike lane back.
I just don't know how to respond meaningfully when you mix moral and legal concerns. Regarding fairness, I don't see disavowing parental obligation as more legal rights. Women can give their child up for adoption after all.
...for those who don't know anything about the Amiga, AmigaBASIC that came with early systems was a Microsoft implementation and some people's first exposure to programming.
Ben Mezrich, author of the Accidental Billionaires which was later adapted into the Social Network, has a differing opinion: like Liars Poker and Wall Street, the movie made Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg more well known and popular than before.
I read a comment made by meesterdude once, and he gave me an inexplicably uncomfortable feeling.
I mentioned large message performance because that appeared to be what BLAKE3's benchmarks were focusing on.
No, the first two sentences are. You can swap the pronouns and it’d read exactly the same way.

Anyways, it has little to do with the story or the message, which postulates that most humans - even the ones most inclined towards things “natural” - are compatible with, and may even unknowingly desire, a transhumanist future.
So what? This comment is nonsense.
I'm not at all trying to lessen all the stories of alcoholism in the thread. I know everyone's experience is different, and addiction and alcoholism are genuine diseases that become incredibly physiologically difficult to overcome.

But I find it a complicated topic. I've had so many great times drinking - sitting around with friends, late into the night, making real connections, debating things, laughing, and not being in a rush to check my phone or go somewhere else.

Yes you can do this stuff without drinking, and we should probably make more of an effort to as a society just to be more inclusive of those who don't drink. But in my own experience and own social circles, these kinds of interactions seems to happen less or at least in different ways without drinking. When I've hung out with groups of friends that don't drink, maybe they'll play a board game, or have a bbq, usually something that's a bit more of an activity than just sitting there doing nothing. And then when the activity's over people leave. There's something kind of unique about sitting around drinking, it can bring such an intense emphasis on the act of just being present and connecting with the people you're with.

Another aspect is always having somewhere to go. If you're out in a big city with friends there's basically a limitless number of bars you can go to, with fun and inspiring ambiances. I don't think there's really any equivalent without drinking. You can go out to eat but it only lasts an hour or two. Go to coffee shops, but they close at 9 or 10pm.

Obviously you can always do all of this stuff and be the person in the group who's not drinking, and that's totally cool. But once nobody in the group is drinking, the dynamic is a little different. And it's frowned upon to go to a bar with a group and not buy any drinks.

Anyway, not sure what my point is. I still drink regularly, though now I try to limit it to 2-3 drinks at a time and only 1 or 2 days a week. I don't think I have a problem with alcohol, but of course the confusing part about it all is that's exactly what someone who has a problem with alcohol would say. Maybe I should stop drinking just to be safe. But in the right circumstances, having a few drinks can really be a beautiful way to connect with your fellow human beings, and one that I've gotten a lot of genuine enjoyment out of over the years.
It was popular in Europe when people had mostly lost interest in the US. I remember when the magazines I read were withering away, but there were these imported ones from I think the UK that were huge, with ultra-glossy paper and full color.
Google Ventures’ Bill Maris Blasts Outgoing Chief Legal Officer David Drummond
How to Get Good at Anything
This is why my number 1 fear for the destruction of humanity is not climate change, plague, asteroids, or super volcanoes.

It’s nuclear weapons. One wrong “Oops!” by the military and the entire world self-destructs in mutually assured annihilation. Absolutely depressing.
As if there was any doubt about this conclusion.
Apps like Google authenticator, or more conveniently, a Google voice number. The Google voice solution works well since it can't be Sim swapped, and can be accessed via email (admittedly, a potential downside).
But Apple's CPUs are so powerful because they have lots and lots of cache compared to most ARM SoCs. I'm not saying they can't release a Mac with ARM under the hood (they probably will), but I don't see it setting a trend for ARM desktops elsewhere.

Apple can use a lot of cache in their CPU designs because they can charge a lot for their hardware (L1/L2 cache is very expensive). But the rest of the market can't since they're mostly selling commodity hardware — with commodity chips — and price is a very sensitive point there.

So Apple could in theory make and sell plenty of Premium ARM laptops with performant x86 compatibility for older software while being fast and cool for native apps while the Windows/Linux competitors will be still lagging way behind with a poor user experience.
> I want my things protected by a human with a process to unlock/reset/.. given some kind of proof of identity.

Anytime you have a human in the loop you have the risk of human failings. I.e., that human forgets to follow critical step X in the protocol. Or that human falls for the attackers emotional sob story and takes pity on the attacker and lets the attacker unlock your account. Or that particular human is amenable to bribery to obtain the outcome the attacker wants.

In fact, many sim swaps have been reported to have occurred because of "human at cell phone store did not follow protocol" or "human at cell phone store was taking bribes".

So having a human in the loop is not an absolute solution to solving the problem.
> we now see that the donations totaled $850,000

Why would Epstein donate $850k to MIT?
Why the scare quotes? I think we can be pretty confident that Iran did not do this on purpose.
Wow, it's worse than I thought, and of course still ongoing - that is crazy.
That’s not an exception; that’s the norm. Talent in every field is wildly unequally distributed. Messi makes the average international player look kind of ok. The average international player makes club players look like a weekend hobby player. The hobby player can run rings around people who don’t care about football.

Satya Nadella has what? Quintupled Microsoft’s market capitalization during his tenure? Steve Ballmer was so bad the stock jumped ~20% on the news he was resigning.
It looks like requests is now owned by PSF. https://github.com/psf/requests

But IDK why requests3 wasn't transferred as well, and why issues appear to be disabled on the repo now.

The docs reference a timeout arg (that appears to default to the socket default timeout) for connect and/or read
https://3.python-requests.org/user/advanced/#timeouts

And the tests reference a timeout argument. If that doesn't work, I wonder how much work it would be to send a PR (instead of just talking s to Ken and not contributing any code)
Hi Erik, I realize that I'm posting on a political topic about politicians. But do you really think this kind of blunt personal argument is necessary? I have to tell you it comes across as rude to me.

And no I don't think it is necessarily newsworthy. A lie about the number of people in some crowd is still just a dog wagging its tail.
Walk into a store and provide a government ID and the original SIM card. If customer doesn’t have the sim/phone, send a recovery code to the billing address on file in lieu of the SIM card.
Yes, those were the ones I meant, although from that page it's not clear whether the fires were above the Arctic circle or not. I thought they were but may have misremembered.
Yeah, I probably misunderstood you.

However, I do think it's useful to know the narratives which are being spun out of the facts. Then when you have a discussion with someone, you understand how they arrived to whatever crazy beliefs they might have.
Not exactly unhappy but why vanilla? By using transpiler and bundler, you get to,

- Use better JS (TypeScript) to be sent as ES5 (down to IE6 supoort) without waiting for people to upgrade their browsers to the latest, which is forever.

- Upgrade to latest specified version of libraries without having have to check every site and download the min.js or change the script tag url manually and dependencies are resolved automatically.

- Get to use stuff like stylus which is already far better than CSS 3 syntax and again, no need to wait for people to upgrade their browsers.

- Bundle all JS and CSS as a single file (and place all the other assets like images at a specified location automatically), which can be cached for instant load from second page, unless your frontend code is so fat, a single file becomes too huge for it.

- If your server side is node.js, you get to use a completely same language (TypeScript) for backend and frontend.
Could you check the page? Neither 204 of the PDF nor 204 in red at the top seems to be a deposition text page.

I'm not imagining that Giuffre made anything up. I'm just trying to work out whether, after she propositioned Minsky as she was directed to by Maxwell (from the deposition, as well as Minsky's own account to other attendees), he accepted.
Oops, my bad. North-south is the good flow, east-west is the shitty one indeed!
https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/wp-conte...

(Portuguese)
Poverty clusters. Its quite possible (likely even) there’s no friend with a phone to give.
Gene Therapy Arrives
Can't these people just go to facebook and get like a 300k salary for a few years?
I can’t for the life of me figure it out.
PS: Swap east-west and north-south. North-south is the good flow, east-west is the shitty one.
Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement
Would be interesting to see of there are newer examples of these weird chips. After all, the post is only from 2005(from copyright info at bottom of page).
Ancient Romans had a ritual of visiting the baths daily. Doing so helped them reduce the spread of diseases. I remember learning in highschool latin class that Greek medicine focused on curing diseases while Roman medicine focused on avoiding diseases. If you were able to go back to Roman times you would find that people were realitively clean and well fed, even the plebian class.
Today's consoles have web browsers. So if it runs javascript, spectre and meltdown are a concern.
Nemiver, the hidden gem for C++ debugging in gnome
It’s a quote. They’re not scare quotes.
Banks here used to support client digital certificates well, but have switched to this mess because of poor browser support (removing things like KEYGEN without viable alternatives).
Ah, fair, I completely agree.
Sorry, “the institute” is MIT slang for MIT. The media lab is called the media lab and indeed many people at the institute view it with scorn and/or envy. The document under discussion was about the institute.

Several interesting things came out of the media lab including mindstorms OTOH. Not in proportion perhaps to the amount of press, but the media lab was not funded from government grants by and large.

Media lab emphasized demos, true, but in some ways I admired it, as the rest of the institute (a part from Architecture, wher the ML sits) but you know, everywhere else was good at burying things or assuming the technical detail was all that mattered.
m/seattle/21
Seems like a stretch. If you really want to find the CIA's janitor just drive a passive cellular monitor near it and grab everyone's IMEI and cross-check it. Plus if someone has a full time job with security clearance working for the USG they likely aren't getting a free phone anyway.
Its Not Capitalism, Its Crony Capitalism
I'm sure trump is happy that not 1 american _citizen_ was on that plane. And I'm sure he's not learned anything from this.
Casper should buy calm.com
It’s not that much of a racket to say that the 2nd most expensive thing a person will likely buy in their lives outside of a home should match the personality of the buyer. I mean, cmon.
Every time a BBC link is posted this comes up. BBC does not use scare quotes but BBC prefers (requires?) important/central descriptive or modifiers to be directly quoted, even when they’re single words.
See https://github.com/jolibrain/deepdetect/pull/641 that uses FAISS as a backend alternative to annoy (annoy supported as well). Deletion can be implemented by removing entries from the listing db while the vector remains within the index.

Tests show that FAISS is bit better than annoy on retrieval of both small and million items indexes. It also includes ind x compression techniques that in our tests do fair very well, with very low loss on mid size 500k image indexes.
My experience with recovering btrfs is that you get back most of your files, but with the content replaced with random gibberish. Which is not too useful.

In a way, I would rather it bomb out and declare a total loss than to keep sinking more time into it as it leads you along.
You'll have to give Gumby the courtesy of responding to what he wrote, first. He is clearly talking about "the institute". In the sentence you quoted, "I think it's been and continues to be a net positive for the planet", the pronoun "it" refers to "the institute (i.e. the faculty and staff)" in the previous sentence, consistent with "The Institute doesn't deserve your love" in the parent posting and "I love the institute" in the grandparent posting. It's 100% unambiguous that "the institute" he's talking about is "MIT" (that's what the middle "I" stands for: "institute"), not Media Lab, which didn't even exist when he joined MIT in 1982.
the need for offense is strong with this one, yes?
What’s like to be fired from an SV company
I looked up nuclear close calls because I thought false positive almost-launches only happened once or twice in the past. I had no idea the last one was in 1995 or that there were much more close calls than I expected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
> Not going to lie; taking advantage of others can be a great short-term business strategy. Long-term, not so much. People tend to remember shitty behavior.

Vinod Khosla. Robert Bolton. Samantha Power. Practically every dictator bar Lee Kuan Yew.
Thanks.

Anything in London?
I usually just deploy "GKE clusters, node pools, AWS route 53, S3 buckets, etc" in terraform. Then take the terraform output and convert it to command line options that I pass to helm when deploying a kubernetes cluster.

I'd be very tempted to just use terraform. But helm, with our forked charts, extensive values.yaml files, etc. has permiated the deployment.

So... rather than try to break up the helm beast; I leave it and keep the separation of concerns (infrastructure vs k8s) as described at the beginning. It works pretty well to be honest is rarely the source of problems.
Wasn’t one of the early findings of the investigation that Reif had signed a thank you note to Epstein for his donations, and had sat in the meeting where the institute decided faculty could take Epstein’s money as long as he donated anonymously?
Spent a year doing R&D into storing a "abstract syntax DAG" consisting of extremely rich syntax nodes (effectively entire programs/modules). That overhead you mentioned is why we decided that failure was a good result.
> I know I would be able to do it.

Freudian slip?
It's interesting that for once, the immediate rumor take within an hour of the event (e.g. in the HN thread about the video) was simply correct.
I love how you defended not trying to make the world better because HN has a ToS.
It seems very difficult to get reliable information about what constitutes problem drinking.

I think the best answer might be “if it’s interfering with your life in ways that bother you, you have a problem.”

I am what my doctor would term a “heavy drinker” since I probably average 20 units (10g by weight) per week.

That’s two cocktails, or half a bottle of wine, or three beers, every night.

I would say maybe once every two months I will have an additional drink, so I am very consistent at that level. The last time I recall being drunk is probably 18 years ago. I’ve never enjoyed having an excess of alcohol in my system.

Some doctors respond to this level of drinking with shock and horror. Others act as if it’s slightly too much and suggest maybe two nights a week without drinking would solve the problem. Others seem to think that problem drinking is when you get most of your calories from alcohol. I literally had a doctor tell me that this is the definition of alcoholism, and that it always goes hand-in-hand with malnutrition.

The only thing I am certain about from what I have read is that the healthiest quantity of alcohol you can drink is zero. That’s right. The studies that say one glass a wine a day improves your health and longevity - well, they all seem to be flawed in one way or another.

Here’s the thing - I really don’t like feeling very tipsy - that’s why it’s so rare I have more than two cocktails. What I do like is the taste. Of beer, wine, cocktails, straight whisky. I only drink when I eat, and I find it hard to eat dinner without a drink because I like the bitter or sweet taste of the alcohol with the food.

If I need to stop for some reason, eg because of oral surgery, etc, I don’t find it difficult.

But I still wonder whether I am slowly pickling my liver and just need to cut back.

Can anyone relate?
Sure plenty of the ideas in Java were invented before, standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. The JIT came from Self, the Object system from Smalltalk, but Java was the first implementation that put all those together into a coherent platform.
We've had many presidents who were not great people, it turns out that's never been a requirement for the job.
live and let live
I don't know the brand, I got it from a local mattress store in town and it wasn't branded beyond the name of the store (not a chain). But neither was it made locally, I think they're mostly made in SE Asia. I assume there must be online retailers but can't recommend one, sorry.
It's the number of parity disks, pretty simple. There has been occasional talk of making the number arbitrary, though presently only raidz1, raidz2, and raidz3 exist.
A large defense contractor in Massachusetts conducted research for the CIA in support of its post-9/11 enhanced interrogation program. Stephen Kosslyn, formerly affiliated with the Harvard psychology department, helped this defense contractor win the contract and served as an academic advisor to the program for the CIA.

Kosslyn was also responsible for creating a position for Jeffrey Epstein at Harvard in the psychology department, according to a recent report published by Harvard's president Lawrence Bacow.

Given Epstein's alleged connection to CIA, one wonders what role it played in helping land this disgraceful $20 million program in in this defense contractor's lap?
C.C. Meyers does not mess around
Even security fixes run the Nightly -> Beta -> Release gauntlet, so yes, Beta is fixed.
Actually, an option to refuse to access the local network is worthless if the program does not already have the ability to cross domains. But if such a thing is added in future, then for security purposes the user might not want to allow crossing the domain from the internet to the local network.