skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then choose a different encoder, or add another layer to shift/correct the texture.
> Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said.

Did the author mean "US", or "UK?

This article seems confused. I don't think the author knows what they are writing about.
Bloomberg already is.

He's pointing to the impact his $400M political donations have made, like getting women elected, stopping homelessness, youth education, etc. whenever asked.

This $2,500/mo for influencers is a drop in the bucket.
Kudos for citing Bloomberg as a source.
I felt like this article was implying that other firms are claiming this is bigger and deeper with impact to their clients. It looks like maybe Citrix being exposed to their internal networks also impacted their customers but wasn't originally disclosed. Maybe they didn't do enough analysis after the breach to discover this themselves?
It's not just the raw size of the image, but also about what the image includes; a smaller image often reduces the potential attack surface because vulnerable things just aren't there.

That's one of the major rationales behind the distroless images. Being space optimized is just a really nice side effect.
We already pay a lot of people in the west to maintain land for ecological reasons, such as farmers, so it's not an unusual thing to do.
Not knowing much about less, are any of these cheap ones just as good as the premium ones? I'd also like a bulb that could be changed to an orangish hue at night to block out blue light. From what I read a lot of them emit little light when changed to orange.
The health system we'd have if economists ran things
This 3 day thread from creator of Ruby on Rails and Founder/CTO of Basecamp is for you then https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1229440501507485696
The picture in the article looks like a 3c509 - three media types and 100Mbs-1. Cor! I have loads of them somewhere. Plus a fair few 905 and 595s.
What breads and cheeses contain palm oil? Don't buy them, bread should have salt water yeast flour and cheese definitely should not have oil. Don't buy margarine either, prefer butter, olive oil, or vegetable oil.

There are loads of kinds of chocolate, including very affordable labels, that do not contain palm oil. Oil is an additive chocolate to cut down on the actual chocolate ingredients. Real chocolate shouldn't have it. Chocolate flavored candy has it.

You don't have to make everything from scratch you just have to avoid the worst of the worst processed junk.
You are bad at hiring good engineers
It's certainly not doing well though. Disney specifically ditched it as part of the Fox takeover.
I am slightly concerned, yes. This is why I chose to host the fonts for my 20-things.com sideproject for as long as I can afford that luxury.
Motorola Razr review: folding flip phone flops
Underrated TV show. They even had one of the media conglomerate kids running for president.
There are power structures being built to counteract the older power structures of predominately white male society. These power structures aim to exclude white men in an attempt to make up for historical discrepancy. Unfortunately, disability is often not taken into account, and so we now have power structures that discriminate against white men whether they are disabled or not. Empowering a healthy, able-bodied woman/black-person/whatever at the expense of a disabled person of any background is not okay, but it is done all the time. I've personally experienced this a lot in the past few years. It never happened pre-2016.

If you don't agree that there are power structures discriminating against white men, then we would have to have a much longer discussion for me to get my point across.
> Julian already stated that Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks.

Which is a blatantly false statement.
What exactly are the EU protections that I don't get as an non EU citizen? I thought most companies applied EU laws like data deletion and data download(at leas Google did afaik) worldwide.
> Paid shills tend to have a strange effect where they polarize people in the other direction than intended since their arguments are not always well founded and honest, and they will always suffer from some form of groupthink.

Another aspect of this is that when one encounters a positive comment about Bloomberg on the Internet, the default assumption for a lot of people is going to be that Bloomberg slipped them a twenty. Even honest supporters of Bloomberg are going to have their statements viewed with extreme skepticism.

> I think it's also pretty easy to spot these days...

Is that really true? Some forms of astroturf are transparently obvious, but just because some of it is easy to spot doesn't mean it all is.

> I don't think this will end well for Bloomberg...

Same here. I'll take him seriously as a candidate once he's defended his ideas and his record in an adversarial setting (such as tonight's debate) and has won some delegates.
> Did the author mean "US", or "UK?

> This article seems confused. I don't think the author knows what they are writing about.

They meant US, and the authors clearly weren't confused:

> If British Google users have their data kept in Ireland, it would be more difficult for British authorities to recover it in criminal investigations.

> The recent Cloud Act in the United States, however, is expected to make it easier for British authorities to obtain data from U.S. companies. Britain and the United States are also on track to negotiate a broader trade agreement.
I saw a similar post recently on a different site. This seems fake to me.

Does anybody have different, perhaps more reliable sources to confirm this?
A new guy was working on a shell script that somehow wound up forking copies of itself. This was in the early 90's on HP workstations that were attached to a cluster server and relied on it for disk and other services, and he was running his script there. All of the connected workstations froze up.

When my workstation locked up, I stood up and heard a commotion coming from his cube. He was on the phone with one of our sysadmins, desperately trying to kill the processes via his non-functional terminal. I asked for the phone, and told the sysadmin (who still had a functioning terminal) to rename "sh" to something else for a second.

Boom! In just a few seconds all of the processes died out.

I said "Thanks", handed the phone back and went back to my cube while he just stared at me slack-jawed.
Those were the most poorly conceived things in the history of tech legislation. They literally solved nothing.
Social security all over again
I upvoted because it's newsworthy, even if the timing is suspicious.
I don't personally want to make a value judgment about whether or not you could call supersonic air travel sustainable, particularly since it's fairly meaningless to remark on outside of a broader conversation (in much the same way that the "greenness" of electric cars is more complicated than saying they're zero-emissions, since you need to consider the power plants that are ultimately fueling them, plus the batteries, motors, manufacturing...).

But I do want to note that supersonic aerodynamics are extremely complicated, and I think it's just as disingenuous to say that drag always increases with the velocity squared in supersonic regimes. Strictly speaking you're right, but the drag coefficient itself is changing too, and in fact it converges to a value below that of its approximately-constant subsonic value. Also note that airlines are already traveling thoroughly within the transonic region.

I do agree that ultimately, in-atmosphere supersonic flight will consume more fuel than commercial airlines today. However, to say anything more specific than that, I think you really need to start doing a proper aero analysis; once you're transonic (or beyond), you've stepped outside the realm where napkin math is physically valid.

For a brief, okay discussion of drag coefficient changes wrt mach number, here's a link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/978047011785...
Another language that is similar, but with more an ML syntax is MLite (https://www.t3x.org/mlite/index.html). Like this, it's an interpreter with dynamic typing, and probably not that useful, but it is fun to play around with functional programming with.
Don’t assume RAM is upgradable.

Many or even most common MacBook Pro competitors like
The X1 and XPS 13 have a replaceable SSD but not RAM.
>if you have a whole house/apartment electric heating system it is very likely that it is in fact heat pump based

Hmm, where? I have never knowingly been in a house with a heat pump in the UK, and lots of cheaper flats have electric radiators and immersion heaters.
Basic slide rule theory and use (Part 1): C and D scales [video]
I'm curious about what ctypes' supposed inferiorities are. Last time I used it was to implement native printing in Windows (long story short: needed to print to a ZPL printer, and Qt doesn't seem to offer any ability to just send raw data to a printer, so I implemented it myself with the Winspool API), and it was a breeze (comparatively speaking, i.e. as much of a breeze as Windows API programming can be).

If ctypes can handle the Windows APIs, then I'm convinced it can handle just about anything.
This might result in jammed audio for human listeners, but recovering the original audio seems like a fairly mundane signals extraction problem subject to the standard signal/noise ratio issue.
Exiting the jurisdiction of European Court of Justice should be a rather big change in theory as well
As an alternative to an ORM, there is another great abstraction layer that works across a large number of databases. It's called SQL!
RFC 4638 provides a mechanism for this. It relies on the Ethernet devices supporting a ‘baby jumbo’ MTU of 1508 bytes and support for it is still a bit scarce.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4638
I should have clarified in my original post that I'm referring to men with disabilities that are not immediately apparent. I imagine visibly disabled men are not treated as if they are awash with privilege.
Scientist decries ‘chaotic’ conditions on cruise ship after viral outbreak
Slightly curious fact, with tons of advertisement trying to squeeze some money off it.
Archive.is link: https://archive.is/QFoH4
Testosterone also leads to risk taking. Stupid risks and smart ones. Testosterone plus intelligence may be why there are more male cofounders/CEO's...
I went to a bootcamp with an ISA. I'm thankful for the temporary relief it offered, but I'm almost positive most of the students in my cohort don't have coding jobs right now. I'm convinced the low admission standards ("Never code before? Do this module of Ruby.") and the ISA demotivated them to always keep learning and hustle their way into interviews, which is what everyone who learns MVC app development in three months will need to do.

Anecdotally, the older or previously successful students who could keep up went on to succeed, but these people already knew how to hustle. Bootcamp can't teach people how to hustle.

(I learned to hustle after previously participating in an even bigger scam - a state school humanities undergraduate education. ... )
And all messaging tools can be used for assassinations.

What specifically about FB Dating yields itself to sex work? That seemed to be the implication by the person I responded to.
Sure - more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0

>The U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that some of the genuine leaks from "Guccifer 2.0" were part of a series of cyberattacks on the DNC committed by two Russian military intelligence groups, and that "Guccifer 2.0" is actually a persona created by Russian intelligence services to cover for their interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This conclusion is based on analyses conducted by various private sector cybersecurity individuals and firms, including CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, FireEye's Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, Trend Micro, and the security editor for Ars Technica.
They did also crack down on erotica a couple years back, but I thought they'd walked that back in some fashion. I do agree that the comment you're replying to is likely to be a dog-whistle for cracking down on racists.

Anyway, there is news from the last day about Patreon setting up "Patreon Capital" where they offer loans to creators. I suppose the extrapolation is that they're doing this because their existing (useful-to-the-world) business isn't profitable enough for their VCs.
Does anyone have an estimate of how small an AI-compressed image will be compared to an image compressed using traditional compression algorithms? On average of course, and controlling for image quality.
Open-source, minimalistic Android Launcher focused on privacy
The federal government is far more comparable to the first situation than the second. And most of the departments are extremely effective when they have leadership that believes in the mission of the agency.

Michael Lewis' the Fifth Risk highlights this pretty well.
ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring – help make APIs better for everyone
That seems like a giant omission. 5 years is nothing compared to student loans. There are people in their 40s still paying back loans they took when they were 18
Some websites don't use third party cookies or trackers so they don't have to show the popup. Like mine
Debian discusses how to handle 2038
The punchline hits hard..

"Such an unprecedented takeover of the EU’s institutional powers by external, international organizations, of which the Unitary Patent system consists, is dangerous and can undermine permanently democratic governance and with it, economic development and sustainability in entire states in Europe."
The GDPR applies to residents, not citizens.
I was referring to his current party. He was in Republican party when he was a mayor and only changed his party affiliation in 2018 (most likely after noticing 2018 election results)
Having worked at employers that, uhm, are "active" on Glassdoor, I don't want to deal with that company at all.

> Perhaps there can be a list on GitHub that updates with self-reported incidents

THAT'S a fantastic idea. I will do a ASK HN on this I think. I will credit you of course. Love the feedback
Many sites geocode them. If you are outside the EU (+ "close enough" countries like Switzerland, Norway, ...) and think you're getting a lot, you'd be getting a lot more in the EU.
Personally I have nowhere to use this, but I could totally see it saving time, contacts, and energy. Do it. Just be prepared to chase protocols for the foreseeable future as those sources morph and change unpredictably.
On this scale it's absolutely unprecedented. Certainly worthy of a news story.
Device Generates Electricity Out of Air Moisture
Algal oil is a potential substitute. There was a laundry detergent manufactured from algal oil instead of palm oil however there was pushback from consumers because the algae were genetically modified.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/sep/29...

Scaling algal oil production is a problem that is currently being worked on.
weather.com
I can totally believe that. There are a lot of smart, well-meaning people who believe they couldn't possibly be entangled in a problematic system, let alone benefiting from it or even responsible for it.

It has been a long time since I worked in a factory or a restaurant. But in both those environments there was a straightforwardness, a bluntness that I miss. It was often obvious that things were fucked up, and people could be quite frank about it. In tech we build things out of words to match visions. It's not shocking at all to me that it's often easier to see the vision than the reality.
Okay, so what would a secure email alternative look like?

Can we design a system such that sending a message from alice@foo.com to bob@bar.com is reasonably secure and private? How does Signal/NOISE solve this? Why can those not be applied to non-messaging systems (or, at least more traditionally structured messaging systems - which is itself a questionable definition since email threads are a hack, its mostly just independent blobs)?

I guess I'm off to read the whitepapers for NOISE and Signal tonight to see how the models differs.
DeepSqueak, an algorithm built to decode ultrasonic rat squeaks
I strongly disagree with your Nike / sportswear comparison. Maybe I didn't communicate my point clearly here. I'm specifically talking about governance / political science vs. popcorn politics. There are plenty of real issues to be discussed in the world of political philosophy, public administration and government that don't involve stage shows and rabble rousing.

Starting with local politics first, then regional, THEN national - the question of who will govern us and set rules and make laws is of critical importance. What good does it do to solve the world's problems if our representatives are robbing the coffers and crashing the plane into the mountain?
Would it? I'm not aware of any laws about sound that wouldn't bother the human ear. The closest thing I can think of is laws about RF jamming but this clearly isn't a radio frequency.
With the support of so many unions[1] and willingness to use that support to push his agenda [unlike his predecessor 2], that might actually be a card in his pocket.

1. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/24/bernie-sanders-labo...

2. https://newrepublic.com/article/140245/obamas-lost-army-insi...
Cool.

I recently saw a car with a light flashing the license plate periodically, I wonder if the driver was going for that effect.
There is a candidate saying the rules are messed up, but its not Bloomberg, its Sanders.

Bloomberg is the guy the rules were written to benefit. He doesn't want them changed.

That's why he chose to run against Sanders, when it appeared Sanders could win.
This response has to be the most aggressive misreading of privilege I've encountered in a while. Privilege IS NOT a system where everyone in a group gets better outcomes than another group. It IS NOT a system in which everyone in a group even receives all of the benefits of privilege. Yet it does describe systematic power imbalances that cause the majority of members in a group to receive benefits or the lack of oppression.

In any case, anec-data is not useful for argumentation.
It’s a great idea and I’m working on something similar, but Raft or any other quorum-based consensus protocol is a poor fit for the data plane.
Wouldn't `mv` in `mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old` fail due to pidspace exhaustion from the fork bomb?
>Equifax was fined $700 million.

The equivalent of a regular person having to give up the coins they found in their couch cushions.
Somwething seems wrong if your non-cheap LEDs are dying that quickly. I have an entire house of LEDs, many going on 5-6 years old, and I only ever recall replacing two (and they were a pair, used outdoors -- only one failed, but I replaced both so they would match).
I’m pretty sure they implemented a lot of this censorship because Visa got uncomfortable. Patreon would have had to kick them off anyways, or build it own payment network.
This has a hypothesis as to why: http://awesci.com/the-great-pyramid-is-not-your-average-squa...
I tried to do something similar, but more as a mentoring program. I’ve been thinking about trying to do that with my company (having us mentor people outside the company—as a recruiting tool).

One thing I suggest is focus on code reviews for your students. I think that’s the best way to tech programming. They’ve already taken a stab at something, so writing comments on how it can be done better and why that way is better is much more useful than a lecture about something abstract.
Some bad LED bulbs flicker so slowly you don't even need to video it, you can just tell when you walk into the room
Making something illegal does not stop people for continuing to perpetuate that something. We have this conversation here all the time, and I think we can all agree that legality is not the beginning nor the end of equity.

Put another way: making something illegal does not solve the problem, and asserting that does does makes it harder to solve problems.
The issue is how do you define "eight sides."

It's a four sided pyramid, where each side has a concave bend in the middle, only really visible from a top down perspective. The article contains enhanced, but completely valid photos of it.

It is unknown if this was an intentional design aspect. It does not seem to be a feature of any occult purpose. Sneferu's Bent Pyramid does "not" have 8 sides, but was incorrectly completed at a later date at the wrong angle, thus often used as a (useless) comparison.

All other pyramids in Egypt seem to just be normally 4 sides with no concave outer walls.

tl;dr The Pyramid of Giza is only 8 sides on a technicality. It approximates the usual, and expected, tetrahedral shape.
Ah! That's why vi's letter-named registers are written to with the q command.
This is true. GDPR has proved to be completely toothless. Flagrant offenders flaunt it brazenly. The much-vaunted 4%-of-turnover fines have never once been enforced.
In my experience you 100 unique images might still have different base images. So you end up with too many layers. Especially with interpreted languages those python, ruby or node runtimes add up quickly

Also depending on usecase (e.g running a CI system) you might end up with high storage costs (caching) or high bandwidth costs (no caching)

Depending where your datacenter is, coworkers with slow connections might suffer as well. Hey, let’s just download 12GB of my everylanguage-and-Tex:latest every workday.

But I agree, docker golfing to have minimal images is not always needed, but don’t let your images grow like a wildfire. They are part of your architecture.
Damn we're taking back control already
> But x2 fuel consumption is a hard lower bound.

Can't you gain a bit of that back by flying higher than a subsonic design could?
The real villain here is coal-powered planes!

Ok, in all seriousness, the efficiency story for air travel is... complicated. So you claim planes account for 2.5% of CO2 emissions but air travel and transport is still a relative luxury enjoyed by a privileged few so that's not necessary accurate.

I found this [1] that shows planes to be much worse than automobiles (per passenger per km) but again, it's complicated.

Personally I don't mind the investment in supersonic travel. After all, it's hard to know what fruit this will ultimately bear. Some people have asked what's the difference between crossing the Atlantic in 4 hours instead of 8? It's the difference between able to go for the day or not.

[1]: https://youmatter.world/en/plane-or-cars-which-means-of-tran...
For my business website, I downloaded the webfont files and host them with the other website assets. Google made it difficult to do this. Of course Google made it very easy to just use their hosted version and send my users' data to them.

See https://www.cozydate.com/style.css