skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hey, we all love how fast HN loads, not gonna argue!

On the other hand, I don't think it's usable for other crowds. I spend most of my day inside vim, so I'm used to switching windows and going back all the time but I don't think that having to load a submit form in a new page, losing all context of the conversation tree is particularly usable.
> but I feel like there's a majority that has at least respect for the cultural institution, even if we don't wish to participate.

Most of the anti-religious sentiment is expressed by invisible downvotes and flags, so people don't generally see how great it is here.

> (Curiously, this might actually increase as the population becomes less religious, since the negative uses of religious teachings will also decrease proportionally.)

I'm not convinced. People will be even less educated on what our religion teaches, so there'll just be more general confusion. As Fulton Sheen once put it, there aren't 100 people in the whole USA who hate the Catholic Church, but a great many who hate what they believe the Catholic Church to be. Misconception and misrepresentation will only increase over time.

> But frankly, what your post seems to indicate is that you lost the ability to share the joy of the mysteries of _why with the rest of us. I am sorry for your loss, even if you aren't.

That's just the thing. The mysteries of _why were not actual mysteries, they're illusional, for lack of a better word. Whereas the mysteries of Jesus are very real and quite satisfying, intellectually and on every other level.
You can do some form of type checking with stuff like Lint.jl. I mean since Julia uses a bunch of type information and Julia parses code into data structures which are easy to process, you can to a lot of your own type verification before running a program.

However I see Julia not being a statically typed language as a feature. If Julia was statically typed you would pretty much have lost everything that makes Julia a great language.

You cannot do multiple dispatch with a statically typed language efficiently.
I wrote a blog post a few days ago about this.
Here's what answers this question from the Stripe perspective:

Unlike most API companies, specifically payment ones, using Stripe is like travelling in Premier/First class on a 17 hours flight.

Most companies don’t spend nearly enough time documenting and providing developers a great experience, like they do.

Stripe does things the way developers love it:

The documentation is so incredibly accurate and thought-out. It has helped Stripe build a core audience of fanatic customers.
The visual aspect of every thing built by Stripe is flawless. It makes you feel empowered, curious and safe (you know what to expect on every click)
It’s always easy to find whatever documentation you’re looking for.
They provide wrappers/libraries, technical support and a lot of perks to partners.
In the break down it looks like nasa's science and environmental budgets got slashed, the operations budget kept flattish/light cuts, and some of the flashier stuff boosts.
I always assumed the issue was not just finding the servers, but that they are often in countries that are hostile to US law enforcement.

You can do fancy attacks all you want, if the server is in Russia they're probably not going to be honoring any MLATs
I sent this email to comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20@icann.org. Feel free to borrow/edit it:

I oppose Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement. I believe that allowing wholesale prices for .com domains to rise 72% over 12 years, which is far more than the rate of inflation and also far more than Verisign's underlying costs of maintaining the registry could possibly increase by, will dramatically hurt the internet ecosystem. It will especially hurt small website operators, like myself, and will discourage internet users from creating blogs and personal pages, with the end result of reducing democratization of the internet.

Verisign reported a 69.4% operating margin in Q1 2019, so they clearly do not need the extra revenue from this price hike. ICANN has granted a monopoly over .com to Verisign and ICANN has a duty to every internet user on the planet to carefully regulate this monopoly to prevent abuse by Verisign. The only conscionable thing to do right now is to freeze wholesale .com prices and re-evaluate 5-10 years from now. A policy that allows price increases tracking the rate of inflation (but no higher) may make sense in the future, but right now Verisign is already collecting far more from their .com monopoly than any company would be able to in a competitive market [1]. It's simply not right to allow them to raise prices at this time.

- Kerrick

[1] For example, Alphabet, a highly successful player in a very high-margin industry, has an operating margin of around 25%. Verisign's operating margin is over 2.75 times that.
Unexpected? How stupid are you people? Don’t run over children you lazy fucks
other than nouns, what good are they?

after ~30 years of online chatting, they kind of naturally went away for me.
What GPU do I need to train it? Titan Mega RTX with 240GB of RAM?
LeetCode I assume. Similar to Exercism etc
I mean, it's not like he's just some TOR user they were after, he ran a huge dark web hosting service. There's so much traffic and data to work with, it was just a matter of time.
Is this a stylistic choice, or a statement about 'speed of living' or so, or why do you do this?
Let's keep this in context. Are you saying that Cummings did or did not 'apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading' ?

Edit: Or maybe you are saying that we should only presume motive of people who don't write great works?
Don't worry about me specifically. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00526 is more food for thought, if you need it.
How does one seize a firm's assets if a firm has no private property? That implies the firm has nothing to seize because it has nothing.
Is it just me or does the state management / prop-drilling thing sound just like a bog standard dependency injection problem?
An Alzheimer’s Drug Trial Fails: ‘We Don’t Have Anything Now’
Flower Classification with TPU's
> Not unusual at all. 1500 hours is the standard in most places AFAIK.

You're fixating on a number rather than the meaning behind the number.

The US ATP certificate is 1,500 hours, and has been for a long time, but now an ATP is required for US airliner operations. (There is also an R-ATP, starting at 1,000 hours.)

Before 2010 (ie. before Colgan), a commercial multi (about 250 hours) was sufficient for Second-in-command" (SIC) globally. Only the US requires ATP for all stations, and it's because of Congressional "we have to do something."

As a result, all US "regional airlines" (aka union-busting pricks) have either stopped operating, or are in the process of shutting down, since there's no qualified cheap airline pilots.

Having said that, there is a cutout if you attend a Part 141 school: "If you complete a degree in an aviation field from a qualified university, you can get a Restricted ATP certificate, or R-ATP, once you've accumulated as little as 1,000 hours of flight time and are at least 21 years old."

Sadly, the "aviation degree" is a poor choice for most students, as they need a degree in another field like accounting in case they fail their FAA medical, thus instantly ending their pilot career.

https://www.flyingmag.com/story/training/atp-certificate-req...

"Although it did nothing to address the specific causes of the crash – improper stall recovery technique and pilot fatigue"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407

The above pilot training scenario is bad, but the airline mechanics situation is far worse. Thanks to our lawyer-driven political system, we've hollowed out the leader in aviation into something resembling a failed African state.

Source: commercially-rated pilot with some ATP training
just because it’s predicted by economic theory doesn’t make it harmless.

Take your idea one step further, and they should start individually assessing each domain name, and charging the maximum possible. Google.com would cost a billion the first year. Then, it suddenly starts redirecting to Bing because MS outbid Google.

This hasn’t happened yet, but, as far as I can tell, there are no rules preventing such behaviour, only the ever-changing power dynamics.

This scenario has been a reason for me to avoid all these new TLDs. Because those are run by smaller organizations less susceptible to bad PR, I expected them to pioneer the shakedown.

Which leads to the question: which registrar would you trust most? Are there any that are contractually or, better yet, bound by law to limit increases to what’s reasonable? Absent such guarantees, maybe something like .eu is the safest? Despite common cynicism about politicians and money, I tend to expect them to shy away from controversial schemes to get rich quick, and to be far more susceptible to public pressure.
“I Exist”
With sandboxing, macOS is now forcing devs to use their file selection dialog because it will grant access to the selected files - a custom dialog box has no such blessing.

It's nice, actually; it's finally making the file selection process feel uniform. Too many Java apps are still using random Swing dialogs though...
It does, but it's not at all related to what they're talking about here, at least as far as the text describes.

The issue is that large aircraft require an aircraft model specific training program called a type rating which is rather involved and expensive. Both Boeing and Airbus have common type ratings across multiple aircraft models and sub-models to save on training costs for airlines. To do this, they need to maintain a high degree of controls and systems commonality between the types and in this case, they fudged these limitations by adding a system which was a significant departure from the older 737 type and type rating training programs without requiring additional training on the MAX sub-model.
How do you learn writing?

In Germany, as far as I know, everyone learns writing with foundation pens. You can search for images with „Schreiblernfüller“ to get an idea how they look.
Just because the proverbial armored car company and/or driver was negligent, doesn't mean the thief is innocent.
Tor has made some improvements that would reduce the threat of deanonymizing an onion service, but none affect the above analysis (or rather, the above analysis has taken them into account). The main improvements, in my opinion, have been:

1. The biggest improvement is that (in 2014 or 2015?) they reduced the number of entry guards from 3 to 1 [0], reducing the risk of a malicious guard by a factor of 3.

2. The time until a guard choice expires was increased from 2–3 months to 3–4 [1] (this maybe happened 3 years ago?). This increases by ~40% the expected time an adversary would need to passively wait to have his relay selected as a guard by a victim.

3. The bandwidth threshold to become a guard relay was raised from 250KB/s to 2000KB/s [2] (looks like in 2014). However, 2000KB/s=16Mbit/s is still a very low bar, and, moreover, for an adversary that can run relays above the threshold, this change increases the adversarial guard fraction as there are fewer guards above the threshold to compete with.

4. A new guard-selection algorithm was implemented that prevents a denial-of-service attack from forcing a large number of guards (i.e. > 20) from being selected in a short period of time [3]. I believe this merged in 2017. If an adversary can force guard reselection by an attack, you are still extremely vulnerable, though, as a limit of 20 still provides a 20x risk multiple.

[0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12688

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8240

[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12690

[3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19877
She subverted the nomination of a more popular candidate (Bernie Sanders), called anyone who didn't support her (her potential voters) "deplorable" then dared the country to vote for Trump, and the country called her bluff. She still might have won without Russian interference, but, if there were no illegal e-mail servers to hack, she wouldn't have been in that situation.
Yes, I agree on the MVC part.

> Better in an action than sprinkled into components

Totally.
Pads and tampons. Some argue these are environmentally unfriendly and produce too much waste, but you have to think, not everyone is privileged enough to own a washing machine in their own home, particularly those in 2nd and 3rd world countries. I genuinely believed pads and tampons allowed women to be more productive in the work force and eventually lead to more equality, just hearing my mom and grandma's story of having to hand wash your own bloody (literally) period bands gives me nightmares, that was in the 70s, not that long ago.
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people have been trying to make linkage forks a thing since forever ago, and it never pans out. For all the claims that telescoping suspension isn't very good, there's still nothing better.
It's a check against systemic entropy.
I love to hate on U-net. It works but it's just so inelegant. That is not a true convolution and only works for particular 'patch' sizes bothers me to no end.

I am not super up to date with the field, but has anyone caught on to using 'wavenet' like architectures yet? That is, dialated convolutions.

You have to be a little clever to get residual connections to work properly, but it's a true convolution that works for any patch size, is super-parameter efficient, and captures the same multi-scale features U-net was designed for.

Anecdotally, I used such an arch for some (unfortunately proprietary) 3D imaging work and achieved some nice results.
"she should be thrown in jail for up to 14 years for an accident."

This is such an American-centric view of the world. If you don't want to abide by the moral standards of another country, maybe... uh... don't go there?
I've read different translations, I've have been part of a prestigious Lacanian psychoanalytic society that's a direct descendant of his original - physical - school in France. At its best Lacan's works is an interesting form of literature, at it's worse it's indistinguishable from pseudo-science and charlatanism. His followers are basically mystics and cultists.

If you read Aleister Crowley you will get to the same point: "this is so incomprehensible that it must have meaning. And after years of decyphering, there it is, actual meaning!".

Human beings are genetically formed to see patterns. If I generated a list of grammatically correct phrases combining random words, people would find meaning there too.
They also drive on the wrong side of the road. Coincidence? I think not.
Of course it's a criminal matter! When a bank is negligent and leaves the doors unlocked, they're on the hook for massive civil liability if people's deposit boxes are robbed. The thief is still going to jail if caught, though.
This seems like a strange example since being able to book flights in your web browser predates any Javascript "frontend framework".
Crime is, fundamentally, crime. Particularly for these cut and dried historical elements like "theft". It's breaking both law and ancient custom.

SF needs to address this crime situation. So does, for that matter, Seattle. Short, medium, and long term solutions need to be developed, promoted, and delivered.
No, you are wrong here. §5.2 StVo[0] says (my bad translation) "You may only overtake if your speed is significantly higher than the one being overtaken."

So let's assume the one you're overtaking is going with a solid 100. What's significant? Let's say 150? +50%. The one approaching with 240 is still the perceived rocket ship.

Also, just for completeness, here's a blog post about some case[1] where the speed was being judged, 10km/h is barely enough. So let's be generous and change my example to 100+120.

[0]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__5.html

[1]: https://www.deubner-recht.de/news/verkehrsrecht/details/arti...
Yeah I think he is wrong there. More people would work in farming than now but only like 1% of the population are farmers right now. 2% farmers covering atleast if not more than double the land area is not crazy.

Not to mention relying on natural processes and top soil health and would be extremely sustainable long term and be a huge carbon sink.
Well, I'm not a mathematician, but it seems like if it's really trivial, it shouldn't be hard to formalize on a high level why it's true, like almost in natural language and then compile that high-level expression into a lower level argument. And if it's hard to even do that, then is the statement really trivial, or is it perhaps something that seems intuitive, but may not be sure (perhaps some pathological edge case may apply)?
Is it possible to repair the phone?
Yup. Ego massage. Here clickbait.

Paul Graham wrote: never do things for money or ego, but techcrunch clickbaiters writing about facebook employees, sorry, founders, supposedly dont agree.

P.S. this whole title reads like from git manpage generator.
Because user-first nym systems would solve the problem for consumers, not the surveillance stakeholders. Once again, if you're not the customer, you're the product.
Yes. Forks are used frequently. Some people use knives. Most people don't ever use spoons.
Distribution is "real work". Artists can publish under their own label, but finding and reaching an audience is hard work.
There have been accusations however

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/29/protonmail_dismisse...
Data protection complaints filed against Facebook and Google in Serbia
> OTOH if these techniques and vulnerabilities were made public it would benefit cybercriminals as they could defend themselves better.

That same logic applies to any sort of forensic technique, but it's a basic precept of the US justice system that an accused can see and respond to the evidence against them, including questioning the scientific validity of how that evidence was gathered.

Just because a technique is "cyber" doesn't mean an accused magically doesn't have a right to know the chain of custody, techniques used etc.
Light travels 31% slower in fiber optic cables than it does in a vacuum. (Speed of light is only constant in a vacuum, not in arbitrary media).

It can be faster to send the signal into space and bounce it off a satellite, than it would be through a perfect "great circle" surface fiber cable. This is the plan for SpaceX's Starlink constellation. Mark Handley makes an excellent series of YouTube videos explaining some of the high level engineering behind this with incredible visualizations[0]

I like the napkin idea of a "great chord" optic cable as you seem to be suggesting (it's novel at least!) but temperatures get pretty hot very quickly when drilling down. At 5km depth you're already hitting 170C/340F, otherwise 10km is 375C and definitely a hard limit. Most fiber optic cable has a melting point of 70C, way under this.

Keeping a maximum 6km depth (already way past the melting point of fiber cable), you can drill a perfectly straight line connecting two points on the surface of the earth that are 555.89 km apart. The horizontal tunnel will be 555.71 km long. Mainly this is because the earth is ~13,000 km diameter, so 6km depth is truly negligible.

This tunnel would cost ~$1.2 Trillion for a 0.32% distance savings.

Additionally, the speed of light in fiber slows down as the fiber increases in temperature. So you'll actually probably get significantly long ping, even though the signal is traveling an insignificantly shorter distance. [1]

Lastly, Rayleigh scattering (primarily, as well as Raman and Brillouin scattering) increases with respect to temperature. This means the signal won't go as far as it does at surface conditions.

0: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-k1j7M2-hBfXeECd9YAQ_g/vid...

1: https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/d09/papers/tupb35.pd...
For thousands of years, Egypt controlled the Nile. A new dam threatens that.
I agree it's better if the implementation of, say, the API is not done in actions.

Although I do not agree actions should be responsible for triggering application logic. It is a very popular pattern indeed, and I've used myself a number of times, but my code makes a lot more sense now that store(s) are only responsible for state management.
> In general, his ideal end-goal world would include smaller states with more direct control by the populace

That's certainly not Anarchism, in which there are no states and no commercial corporations. And of course - no markets.

Now, as for what Chomsky supports personally - that's more difficult to say, since he's been known to support Democrats in US politics, to support a two-state arrangement in Palestine etc.
To be clear, I don't think it will come to this. But right now, ICANN believes that they can get away with anything, and have started to act on that belief.

We should begin the process of scaring them back on track. Start brainstorming. Start writing IETF proposals that prominently feature removing ICANN from the loop. Come up with ideas for migrating current domain owners to the new system. Build prototypes. Start putting those prototypes into web browsers behind feature flags.

Show them what the internet could look like if it starts to fragment at the DNS level.

Show them that we're serious.
How does wayland work?
I'm in China and it's astonishing how different out lives changed with less than 10 days.

Quarantine and lockdown came so quick a lot of people still haven't got used to it.

I've made a video about it and you can see it for yourself: https://youtu.be/uxW7k5462Ms

This is something I've never experienced before.
The assumption that unenmployed causes all sorts of trouble, and thus should rather be in jail... Sure doesn't sound like a country that values freedom.
Amoeba is almost as far away from humans as you can get.

It's like a Z80 Spectrum virus infecting a Windows computer.
Not to mention Norman Borlaug's development of dwarf wheat which kicked off the green revolution and saved billions from starvation.
Pencils mostly. It's not really common for kids to use pens outside of maybe drawing until later on at least not in the US.
Heck, I still think of variables as boxes with labels.
unlike my dog for example!

A more relevant analogy might be a talking parrot :)
Not OP, but it is common in India for schools to ask kids to not use ball-points and use fountains instead.
Turn off your JS and upvote something. It becomes substantially less pleasant.
If leaving the guy alone means stopping wondering why he did what he did, I don't think you can expect that of people. If it means don't harass him, what am I saying that makes you think I need to be told?

I think it's quite rational to believe that someone making a flamboyant exit does so because they want people to notice and talk about it. That's just basic human behavior. You're asking people to believe that someone who successfully connected with a large audience for years, artistically, pedagogically, and as a persona, suddenly forgot the basics of human interaction in his grand finale and accidentally focused an entire community's attention on his absence. Maybe you're right, but on the face of it, can you see why people might find that unlikely?
I'd say, if it makes sense as a system and you can make sense by it and in it, it must be a system, at least. If we may further make predictions, which prove to hold (compare the FMRI findings mentioned above), and/or add explanation to what was previously unexplained, there may be even some value to it. :-)
After $479M round on $12.4B valuation, Snowflake CEO says IPO is next step
I agree with pads & tampons being a great invention. Can we however please finally stop referring to "2nd and 3rd world" countries. Get on a plane - things are more similar than different in most parts of the world, stop perpetuating dated notions.