skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mother is a teacher, and the stories she tells me make me really doubt our public education system.

Administrators only care about 'passing' students so that they can 'graduate'. Helping students during standardized exams? Happens. Passing students with a 14% score in the class so they can graduate? Was forced to do that. Teachers that don't teach, but try to be 'cool' and play phone games with the kids? Ok. Admins implementing shitty policies because they read a paper by some idiot phD? Yup. Tons of busywork for teachers, designed to wear them out and get them to just play along with the 'pass everyone' game? A stack of that.

And this is supposedly the best school in the county...many houses in the $mills$ nearby.
Is it supposed to compete against Slack?
The capacity of pipe buffer is important for doing serious producer|consumer work;
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What we know and don't know about the NBA's return to play
> I actually find that in general the very smart people I know are good at them and most of the people who “don’t test well” aren’t.

Man I need to get the hell away from this field
Love the shameMap idea!
$800 billion based on what? China spends $175 billion on their military. Compared to us, they get multiples in terms of manpower and infrastructure per dollar spent. Then there is Russia.

As a percentage of GDP, we spend less on defense than France did in 1994, and half of what France spent in 1960.
Soviet Union existed, and literally failed to put some bread on the table

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/amp/When-Bor...
Ironically, much of our "national defense" can't be deployed near our borders at short notice because they're 2 days away (by air)(weeks by sea)
It really is pretty great. Getting automated out of a job sucks, but it beats being a slave forced to do that same job by a country mile.

It's interesting that as machines have become more powerful, slavery has become less and less profitable---but so has employment!
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Yeah, I don't think we need to say, all education will now be done by AIs, but I am a little surprised how under developed a lot of the software was we encountered in our home schooling adventure.
You could have said the same thing about Linux twenty years ago.
I would ditch WhatsApp in a heartbeat if Signal had a browser client.
What about when it is the government taking down a domain for hosting illegal or copyrighted content? What happens when you give the government enough power to take down a domain for political dissent? The problem you mention isn't with Google, it is with how TLDs and domain registrars work in the first place.
It's not mobile friendly.
You get voice, video, chat, stickers, files. What more do you want?
Not in the browser, but it does have pretty decent desktop applications for most operating systems.
Why? Are the landlords currently colluding to increase prices? I think there are too many landlords for them all to collude.
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> However, if its regular operation includes a period where there is no operator in the position to override it (eg the drone(s) keep doing their thing while the operator is away from the controls), it would then count as fully autonomous.

Whelp, I guess artillery and grenades are fully autonomous.
They can still pull off an MITM attack by sending the MITM’s keys (pretending to be the other user’s keys) because they control they key exchange.

It’s an active attack and can’t apply retroactively but within these constraints they can still do it.
Support who? Government has power to take down any domain, especially TLDs and registrars in the US. People should be supporting decentralized DNS and name servers if they want to be safe from takedowns.
Trade war then the pandemic Now Chinese manufacturers are turning inward
How about mixing the two? Buy your domain at the cheapest registrar you can find. Pay for 9 years. Then as soon as you can transfer to some registrar you have more long term confidence in. You might have to purchase another year there to do this.

Net result: You get the domain at your preferred registrar, but you get 90% of the savings you would have got if you had it at the cheap register.
This wasn't poetry.
That's exactly my point. The station owners mostly aren't stupid.

If it were a great deal (measuring by NPV), you'd see companies formed to raised capital and install charging stations at gas stations in some sort of revenue sharing / land leasing arrangement. In fact, there are such companies, and they are slowly marching down the path.

Again, if the government wants to make this happen, there's an easy solution: provide the capital.
Jason Rohrer on “Should I pursue a career in game making?”
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Quick tip: for the client-side, large dataset case, if you want to get fancy it's possible to create a worker thread and perform the sort there, which makes it somewhat faster but more importantly stops it from freezing up the tab while it operates. We did this to great success at my last company when we needed to sort ~200,000 items client-side. The UI thread remained perfectly responsive during the operation and we were able to present the user with a loading spinner while it worked.
> It's a shame how our industry is the only highly-paid professional industry where this kind of sophomoric "intellectual hazing" is not only accepted, but also encouraged.

I agree for the most part, but in fairness, most other high paying fields rely solely on credentials that can often be pay-to-play (at least in the US)
http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/index.html
> It is one hell of a bizzare systemic perverse incentive

Not to worry... Drones are corporate property and corporations are people, therefore destroying the drone is murder. Don't agree? Take it up with these heavily armed protection drones we built for the delivery drones.
They can go to military school. One nation, one mission, one thought! Wouldn't even have so much to unlearn then.

Ye olde new deal...

Oorah!

edit: notice to self: need to rewatch Starship Troopers
I think it's offensive. I thought surely the m was supposed to be a b. But nope, the $12B gorilla in VC launched a tiny $2.2m fund. Not even enough to fund a single round in a single company at the levels they usually fund. I hate to down a good idea. But at least make an effort. Is this all that one of the biggest VC firms on the planet can muster?
The USA is a very USA kind of place.

No clue on how their pensions are run, my comments are of the armchair variety. All I know is that the system is broken and money is the key lever in the system.
Not sure I said that right. I have some friends on signal. Of the other platforms out there, I've only seen 1 sign up.

I'm saying anidotically, I'm not seeing a massive wave of people sign on to signal.
This just looks like a simple web app wrapper around First Order Model:

https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

The license for the code specifically states "Non-Commercial".

Is your code something else? Also seems like you've double posted it.

Edit: Your other posts also have a similar look - are you testing the waters for a viable biz model by adding web-app wrappers around ML papers who have published their code on Github? Not being accusatory or anything, just trying to understand.
> there will be ten developers writing nested for loops.

Ain't that the forever truth =/

nested for loops go brrrrrr
>I believe this is a bad tactics to gain support in a movement.

That depends on the size of the movement. "Support us or lose all your friends" is a valid tactic that has been successfully used since long before written history. Requiring members to perform an action (unfriend people, post harsh messages, etc.) also induces deeper commitment (psychologically and materially) then merely someone saying they support a movement.
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We’re talking about the forest, and you mention... one of the trees?
For countering subverted compilers you can use diverse double-compiling (DDC), see https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
MetaGer: Meta search engine with a number of specialized crawlers and indexers
This just looks like a simple web app wrapper around First Order Model:
https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

The license for the code specifically states "Non-Commercial".

Is your code something else? Also seems like you've double posted it.

Edit: Your other posts also have a similar look - are you testing the waters for a viable biz model by adding web-app wrappers around ML papers who have published their code on Github? Not being accusatory or anything, just trying to understand.
Its how you launch (execute) a new program.

Such programs typically don’t have any interaction so the v and the e parts refer to the two ways you can control what the program does.

v: a vector (list) of input parameters (aka arguments)

e: an environment of key-value pairs

The executed program can interpret these two in any way it wishes to, though there are many conventions that are followed (and bucked by the contrarians!) like using “-“ to prefix flags/options.

This is in addition to any data sent to the program’s standard input — hence the original discussion about using pipes to send the output of one command to the input of another.
A lot of issues centred around persistent immutable data structures that Clojure uses for just about everything. Yes those data structures are faster than any previous attempts at language level immutability constructs but are still much slower than their mutable counterparts. Yes, you can use in Clojure Java Collections through the interop interface but that mostly defeats the point of Clojure.

In the end I retreated back to Java but even that is wrought with a number of performance issues due to its lack of contiguous arrays of complex types. I’m toying with Go as it’s a simple language that has far fewer performance surprises than most other popular high level languages. If that turns out disappointing I’m going back to where I started 24 years ago which was C++.
As far as I am aware E2E only works on mobile and I think Mac for Telegram, although there may be third-party apps that support it. As long as you use E2E then I believe it has a lot more active users and probably has received an equal amount of security validation, so you should be fine.
With electron microscopes of course!

Cartesian doubt becomes pointless at some point. If you're worried that the deep state has implanted microchips in your brain to prevent you from analyzing signal, it probably doesn't matter because at that point they wouldn't need to hack signal to get to you.

A less snarky and more realistic answer is: threat models and risk assesment. (Non-divine) adversaries generally have limited resources. The limit may be high, but its still there. You can realistically worry about a government coercing a service to hand over keys, because that's easily within their power. On the other hand, having a giant conspiracy-trusting trust style-where every compiler & microchip has a backdoor that is inserted into every tool ever compiled, is a bit unrealistic. It would take thousands of people to be in on it to pull it off, spread across many countries (who hate each other) over at least 50 years. Having that many people, especially academics, keep that type of secret for that long is basically impossible. If they could do that, it would be child's play to have most of the protestors be gov agents, so if you think this is realistic, worry about that first. Anyways, in my judgement governments don't have that kind of power, so its probably not something to worry about.

So, to conclude, estimate the level of power and influence you think your enemies have, and then take steps to rule out the possibilities that your enemies have done the things that are theoretically in their power to do. Start with the possibilities that are most likely multiplied by how bad it would be for you (liklihood*severity = risk)
Yes, this is more difficult than it sounds - but GP linked to the reproducible builds project which has gotten there already for a lot of software.

See also Guix, which provides tools to challenge servers providing binary packages to see if they match a locally-built version: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...
Looking at the recent videos, albeit not knowing the original videos used as source, I'd assume this needs a lot of work still to be of any practical use, even if you just aim at making funny memes with this.

Also some manual filtering would probably be very appropriate, as there were some including racial slurs and NSFW audio and visuals.
Paraphrase Model – Google’s T5 Model
It’s a draft for the blog post the author never wrote.
FUCK COMMIES!
Hybrid positioning with CSS variables and max()
filenames are variable names. Choosing good filenames is the first step in writing a nice shell script in a situation that you control.
Does it tho? It changed a lot during the last years and for most stuff I do with my friends (videocalls, textmessages, recorded speechmessages, pictures, videos, groupstuff, desktop app) it just works fine.
That has nothing to do with school funding. Your coworkers were looking for neighborhoods where they don’t have to send their kids to school alongside black or Hispanic kids. Here in Maryland, my exurban county spends $14,400 per student per year. Baltimore spends $17,500, despite having substantially lower cost of living. (Even excluding federal funding, Baltimore spends $2,000 more.) The rich suburbs around DC spend $16,900. The rich Virginia county where I grew up, on the other side of DC, spends $15,300. DC itself spends $21,000 per student. DC also has some of the highest teacher salaries in the country. It has brand new, beautiful LEED Gold high schools your coworkers would never send their kids to because those schools are 99% black. Inside DC itself, schools are funded equally, but houses in neighborhoods districts to majority white schools cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

(When we talk about “systemic racism” in this country, that’s what it means. It means that, even in blue states that are willing to provide ample funding to majority-minority schools, white and Asian parents would rather spend hundreds of thousands more on housing to avoid sending their kids to those well funded schools.)
Depends on how cost sensitive you are. Currently the LimeSDR[1] is the best value (even at $300 and no case) because it is not only full duplex, it also supports MIMO operation. While the latter is intended to support things like 4G LTE it also gives one the ability to do direction finding as multiple receivers clocked by a phase locked LO allows you to do phase analysis of incoming signals.

The Ettus USRP B-series[2] is very well supported for about $1000.

The ADALM-PLUTO[3] at $150 is a bargain for a full duplex SDR but a range of 325 MHz to 3.8GHz leaves a lot of interesting spectrum out. That is less of a problem if you get a mixer and RF signal generator because you can up/down convert the HF/VHF/UHF bands up to 1 GHz as an IF and play with them there. There are some off the shelf solutions for this like the 'Ham it Up'[4] but you are at the mercy of their TXCO.

I have all of these solutions except for the USRP and find that when I reach for a radio to look at a signal I usually grab the LimeSDR.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr

[2] https://www.ettus.com/product-categories/usrp-bus-series/

[3] https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=PLUTO

[4] https://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-addons/ham-it-up-304/h...
> In general in America, police are very trusted and even in years with significant issues, that trust did not sharply decline

Exactly what I expect nothing will come of all this chaos. Sure on an individual level they'll sacrifice a few of their own to pacify the crowd, but Americans are too infatuated with the police for any real change to happen.
When will accent correction come to market so non native speakers (who have difficulty in pronouncing some words) are able to make quality voice overs for YouTube and podcasts?

Looking at the virtual agents, it seems they are able to understand very crappy English (with all my attempts), how far are we from correcting it?
> Odersky's coursera course is a great introduction.

Honestly that course completely put me off the language. The questions didn't match what he just told you and it was very difficult to figure out what to do. I gave up half way through and bought a Spark book to try to learn it, I might buy this one too.
For Signal desktop on Linux to not require that I validate my mobile device randomly to read my encrypted messages. If it used GPG then this wouldn't be a problem.
So then we just give up on all treaties?
Only a bit tongue-in-cheek - "It's Miller time" seems to fit. It's an 80's era ad campaign. The basic idea is, you've been working hard, time for a break, kick back, drink a beer, etc.

It was also used (in the cultural sense) when you've been banging your head on a problem, a co-workers says "It's Miller time?" meaning, perhaps it's time to stop and relax, and do something else for a while?

Or, when coming home, your roommate might way "It's Miller Time!", meaning "you've maybe had a tough day at work, welcome back to a place where you can relax." This may or may not be accompanied by a can of beer.
TikTok is not primarily livestreaming, but it does have live streams (with live chat overlay on top of video, looking very similar to live streaming interface of Instagram or Periscope)

So apparently TikTok Live is mostly a competitor to those two (and maybe YouNow) but not to widescreen/desktop-oriented streams of Twitch

YouTube Live on the other hand is very much a competitor to Twitch (livestreaming to millions and NOT auto-expiring/deleting past broadcasts by default is something only YouTube can do for now)
Only if that rocket had a nuclear bomb on it.
You'd be surprised how not powerful individual bits of munitions are. Sure a 2000 pound bomb sounds scary. But they work really well against point targets. Cities are not point targets.

https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-s...
It's funny memes until it's a weapon. That said, funny memes have become a weapon too. One of the worst things about the modern Internet, IMO.
In my opinion Desktop Clients > Browser Clients when it comes to messengers. If you have more than ten tabs open it is annoying to always have to switch tabs or break out a window. Having a desktop application that remembers where you want to save stuff people send you is a plus too.
Long-time Signal user but I'm on the verge of moving I think. There are several UX shortcomings but the new PIN nag is a bridge too far. What are my options for alternatives? I imagine Telegram is the next best bet but very open to suggestions.
It‘s true - passports get invalid after 10 years here. I translated this source [1]:

„The photographers in Ingolstadt and the surrounding area also take a critical view of the idea of the Gerolfingen Minister of the Interior. Very critically. An adjective that keeps coming up: threatening his very existence. Theresia Häusler from Foto Porst Am Stein says: "We take 20 to 40 passport photos per day." At normal market prices of between 15 and 20 euros for the pictures, you can work out what the loss of revenue per day is. Up to 50 percent of the revenues could be lost in your branch, says Häusler“

I mean, you don't really need these businesses nowadays that much. Just take a picture with your phone, no need to develop it.

[1]: https://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/Existenzbedroh... (German)
Feel free to use the technique. I only hope that you'll also call it shameMap, because it's funny.
I guess mostly for fun. The baby video example on that page was pretty funny. Although if I see 10 of them it might get a bit less funny.
Ironically, this is a good Foucaultian critique of postmodernism as an academic field today. Foucault emphasized the relationship between knowledge and power relations, saying that the process of knowledge creation is no independent of the power structures which creates it (in this example, the academic institutions, the journals, and the allocation of capital)

Honestly, if Foucault came alive today and saw how the neoliberals took advantage of postmodernism (by stealing their language of difference and deconstruction to distract and prevent people from thinking about capital alongside to race/gender relations), he would be very disappointed.
I'll add my two cents. I use emacs for email (mu4e+mbsync) and having used Thunderbird, Claws, Gmail, Roundcube (probably many others), emacs is, without a doubt (for me) the fastest way to launch/read/search/reply emails.

I can launch an emacs email client in 1/10th of a second, and it takes me straight to my inbox which is setup to highlight the emails I'm interested in. Opening an email to read is again 1/10th second (thanks to mbsync). Finally search via mu4e/xapian is blindingly fast (faster than gmail). For me, the competitors aren't even close.
That movie is harsh! Highly recommended
The worst thing about funny memes is people use it as answers, come backs, etc... as if they were adolescents...
MD5 is not safe for this use case. Assuming the provider is malicious, this is exactly the scenario where MD5 is broken (i.e. it is possible to make source code that compiles a certain way so that you can make another binary that has the same hash but is different. The bright side is the attack would have evidence as there would be certain patterns in the binary that could be detected if you knew how/where to look. That said, just use sha256)
Street violence always ends up benefiting the State. Looting plays right into the hands of the State justifying a military response to civil unrest. Nothing’s going to push a moderate to the right like an angry mob outside their door. And there are a lot more of them than there are of you.
This smacks of utopianism - social policy won't do away with crime. And color me surprised if the woke crowd successfully run with an austerity agenda.
I think it also factors in the velocity of upvotes. I.e., I've seen things with 3 upvotes make the front page, presumably because they happened very rapidly.
Other early bitcoin hoarders might be - 100K btc would almost get you three commas. That may have cost $1000 maybe back in the day.

To have $1bn and still code full time, it would have to be 'hands off' money, which is rare because to make that much money you'd probably need a wildly successful business which you kind of need to manage yourself.

Someone else mentioned trading firms, that might be one way, with enough luck and negotiation skills.
I have sadly no faith in europe to get this right. While capitalism is under fire right now it does one thing better than anything we know right now. Innovate. I don't see a government competition with a group of smart, capable people, who would reap all the money from said effort.
Metadata-extractor: access the metadata in images and videos via a simple API
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There's a lot more than just crypto. Its much more common for systems to fail in the supporting code then it is for the crypto to be wrong. So first step is probably learn reverse engineering and verify the crypto is being used correctly.

Then after that get a phd in cryptography.