skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fewer people who you're required to trust, the fewer breaches there will be, even if no one is malicious and those breaches are accidental.

And ultimately even if the people you are talking to and your messaging provider are 100% trustworthy and never make mistakes, they usually cannot resist a lawful government request for data. Signal just has virtual no data available to provide them; Telegram could give them entire chat histories, and could be required to provide access to in-progress chats.
i think the monimum bar for something to be science is that it has to have a rigor to it which can be used for removing doubt:

- hypothesis

- control group

- well chosen or random samples from representative population

- statistical significance

- a way to separate correlation from causation

- enumeration of conflating factors and potential for flaws in the chosen methodology

- list of prior studies or research

- peer review

- reproducibility, possibly using alternative methods

until all of this is done, a survey (or any study) is not science. convincing the layman is insufficient; you have to convince other experts in the field.
Yeah, it still baffles me that people think economics is a proven science and not built on a shaky foundation that falls apart soon as you prod it.
I can build that. Send me a mail - e431415@gmail.com with the details.
Well, it depends on your exact definition of "self-modifying code" and "metaprogramming", given that it's not like there's an authoratative source you can look up the definitions in. The way I understand the term without additional context, XLST is not "self-modifying code" in the same way malware, certain JIT implementation techniques etc are.
Why put the future of your livelihood on the whims of those weird foreigners, when you can supply the much larger local markets and have a better idea what local long-term demand will be like?

The whole of the West (5 eyes plus Europe) is a smaller market than just China.

I know which market I'd be choosing if I was Chinese.
Agreed. The true threat exception to the First Amendment, which can indeed lead to a legally and constitutionally valid criminal conviction in the US, is a lot narrower than "might incite violence".
Arrow–Debreu model of economic equilibrium
> I just don't get what these tools buy me.

Nothing. They buy control over you for the distro publisher though.
For real metaprogramming try Clojure. It's another world entirely.
Half of the companies in your list were bought by a big American tech company. Splitting up American tech companies will allow Chinese giants to buy off the bite-sized chunks.
Yeah, most speech that relates to violence is neither illegal nor necessarily opposed by HN commenters (and of course plenty of us disagree with each other on what we want to tolerate). The exceptions are a lot narrower.
This reminds me of the f-35. I find it absolutely insane that a mix of tax incentives can lead to this inefficient mess involving custom built ships and airplanes.

Wonder how much this supply chain dynamic ends up adding to the cost of the a380 in aggregate
Has it become more reproducible? From what I've read we've only now come to terms with the fact that so much of the research is not reproducible and largely debunked (even land-mark studies like the Milgram experiments have started to be put into question)
Antitrusts haven't been good in 10-20 year timeline but on more longer term may be overall good for society. In short term it stifles and extinguishes the innovation contrary to belief. Classic case is Ma Bell which ended Bell Labs. Big giants like these make huge amount of money but they also fund things like Bell Labs (in Google's case DeepMind/Google Brain/Google X etc). Once this collapse, usually it takes decade or two before these massive innovation pipelines gets built up again.
>comparing it to real data

given that the study goes back as far as the creation of the Illiad I have serious trouble believing that we have high fidelity data about the social graph of individuals at that point in history.

Pretty much all we have is second-hand accounts to begin with which may themselves be as unreliable as fiction. So on that particular case, I fully agree with the author. That's not actually scientific.
We get a bit sidetracked by terminology here - if we suddenly called a college a technical school, would it suddenly be fine to remove the humanities from the curriculum? One of the big problems when we discuss these things is that there's so much inertia stemming from our preconceived notions of what a college is. It stops us from examining what are actual goals are, and if what we're doing is effective in achieving them.

I don't think the early comment that humanities is approached better as a hobby is necessarily wrong. It's quite possible that other approaches, like the Chautauqua movement, would be much more effective (my personal experience suggests it would).
A Student's Guide to College [video]
Thanks! The design is still relatively simple, but that will be changing soon as I build out more of the features. There's a 7 day free trial where you get full access to Water Cooler, and after that you're downgraded to the free tier.

With that said, we're actually still finishing up the billing system so anyone signing up right now gets an extended free trial until then. I'll make a note to further advertise the initial free trial though because it's easy to miss at the moment.
Reminds me of that time I used a full week to raytrace some logo...
I think its actually mainly just the HN submission actually now that I look at the article again, I see that his first part of the title is "SDL and ffmpeg tutorial".
It's hard to sense how much of vi is in vim, having only ever used vim. But I've never been very happy with vim, even though I've used it for 15 years. Maybe I need to find a "vim, the good parts (aka vi)" book.
Why SQLite?
It's always interesting to check ShadowStats http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart... in this context.
When you're doing something like writing your own routine for calculating fibonacci numbers, perhaps. But that's not the kind of optimization that's likely to be significant to most developers writing business applications.

I would also argue that the ubiquity of things like BLAS wrappers largely blurs these lines. For example, one of the big reasons I choose Python over Java (my company's primary language) for my work is that, thanks to numpy, Python absolutely smokes Java at crunching numbers, for my purposes. This despite Java being a compiled static language and Python being an interpreted dynamic language.
You jest but that’s legal too since late 2017

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-rsquo-s-epa...
I think it works the same way that a psychologist works. You’re partially paying them to just be an impartial generator of feedback. You cannot get that anywhere within your organization or circle of friends.
Appreciate more choices to the consumer
This. And if you get to the end of vimtutor, you'll see a recommendation to continue learning via `:help user-manual`. I would have saved myself months of effort trying to learn Vim if I would have just RTFM.
I'm assuming US.

For newspapers Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post would be some examples. Really, most on this list [1] are going to be fine.

For radio, NPR.

For TV, the nightly news broadcasts of PBS and the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS).

I'd be cautious about the cable news networks, like CNN and FOX. Filling a 24/7 schedule with news is hard without getting mind numbingly repetitive, filling time with a lot of fluff, having a lot of opinion shows, or having other random stuff.

There is an interesting chart here [2] that has a plot of many news sources, with the horizontal axis being left/right bias, and the vertical axis being overall source reliability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pulitzer_Prize-winnin...

[2] https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/?...
I am a hispanic and this is exactly how I feel. We are not pawns that need to be manipulated for social points.
I have those enabled, but I don't see a way to make a voice or video call from the desktop. Maybe I'm missing something?
In the next week or two I'm rolling out direct calls. If you don't need to do external meetings, then this could definitely nix Zoom. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it would replace Slack because most teams still need that text communication option, but long term that is an area I want Water Cooler to tackle.
Two years ago, support for paid (peanuts-level, $20/mo?) plan was... not great.
Both BGV and CKKS are so called batched schemes, which allows you to pack multiple values into a single ciphertext (typically thousands) and perform operations on all of the values for the cost of a single homomorphic operation. Batching is one of the larger sources of speedup since the discovery of fully homomorphic encryption.

The values in BGV and CKKS are integers and both schemes allow homomorphic integer multiplication and addition (CKKS gives approximate results). TFHE is actually not a batched scheme and moreover operates mostly on the level of single bits and boolean gate operations. It is quite difficult to directly compare TFHE with batched integer schemes.

Which scheme is best will ultimately depend a lot on the requirements of the application. If you're operating on integers and don't need bitwise operations, then an integer scheme is appropriate. Applications that need bitwise logic and can work with small bitwidths will be more suited for TFHE. CKKS is especially good for numeric and machine learning applications, because the approximation it implies can be managed and it allows using faster encryption parameters than BGV/BFV would.
eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
Also, this applies not only to graphs, but any “findings” slides or section of a research presentation.
It's not awful if you'd need to build new rail links into the city centre anyway (e.g., due to capacity) and you have little onward long-distance travel. Tokyo–Osaka may well be a viable route for that, but there certainly aren't many.

(In the Shanghai case it's practically laughable, because it's such a short journey the top speed is practically irrelevant: it spends half its time accelerating/braking)
First of all this is very cool and interesting that you guys actually took the time to build out a system like this, even if it isn't perfect.

I did have one question though, are you reliant upon the integrity of the platform upon which you're running your voting application on?
In the sense, if I had malware on the phone you were voting from, would that be enough to compromise a system like this?
An addition, did you have any plan to identify the voters to make sure you couldn't cast an unlimited number of votes?
Dyscalculia (2012) [video]
Team Productivity for MS Teams
The Rav4 Prime is launching in months and is an electrified SUV under $40k based on a very good all-rounder vehicle.
It works for me on safari (Version 13.1 (15609.1.20.111.8) / catalina). So probably not deliberate.
TxtStyle – command-line tool for colorizing output of console programs
Not if they were required to allow content creators to utilize alternate ad platforms to inject ads before or after the run. Sure they'd still have the option to kick the creators out of search or off the platform entirely, but that potentially enables alternative hosting platforms.

There used to be (and might still be) limits on how much national advertising national networks could require local stations to carry, on the theory this made local stations more independent (and in tune with local needs). This is my 21st century version of that regulation.

Like I said, I'm not even sure I'm in favor of such a break up, but I can see the historical parallels.
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fir...
If you like modal editing, consider https://www.spacemacs.org/

The org-mode[1] outlining and magit[2] wrapper for git are most worthy.

[1] https://orgmode.org/

[2] https://magit.vc/
If Twitter gets the DMCA notice and then doesn't take down the video, they're liable for copyright infringement. With the number of views a video like this gets, the damages could be huge. Twitter has no real choice.

There are images in the video from Floyd's memorial service. My guess is that these were taken by someone who is not a Trump supporter. I bet they saw their (unlicensed) photo in the ad and called their lawyer. Their lawyer sent a DMCA letter, and voila.
In a way, science is a process of creating a model. To create a model, you first need evidence (i.e. data) and then you form hypothesis which your proposed model. Then you make prediction using your model that wasn't known before. If predictions continues to remain true over time then you have higher confidence in your model. However, a true scientist would never set his/her confidence to 1.0 in any model because all models are eventually wrong and needs to be improved further. So the science is the process of continuously gathering evidence, improving model and remain skeptical that you might be wrong. It is very much like training a machine learned model using training data. Most soft sciences do the first two steps and bypass everything else. It's like you created ML model, you had good result on training data but you never tested your model on hold out set, assumed your model was good enough and just moved on to make a press release.
U.S. spends twice as much on law and order as it does on cash welfare
The field is called steganography.
52 Lessons on the Psychology of Human Nature
The point is for you to decide. Every fictional story is, and always will be, interpreted differently by each reader. Thank you for reading the story and providing a comment.
“Invariably” is an uncommon word to be honest. Also “nature” in this context is uncommon as well. Kind of archaic. It’s pompous because it uses a whole bunch of words to say nothing. Use of the active voice instead of passive voice would have helped as well. Add in unnecessary words such as ”ergo”, a frilly web font, and people assume the author just wants to show off.
I can't think of any such instances. I suspect GP is thinking of something else.
Thank you! At present time, you get an environment that is designed specifically for the workplace -- more private by nature because everything is scoped to and only available to your organization, higher quality video chat, and higher quality screen sharing (at least when compared directly to the free version of Discord).

Long term, we'll be adding in more enterprise features like user permissions, multiple teams within an organization, SSO, and a live broadcast feature that lets you do an all-hands with your entire organization.
Maybe when it comes to flying you wouldn't want too much corner-cutting in pursuit of the max profit. Max.. why does that sound familiar?
I did part of the ML course. I've been pondering over which language to choose to advance my functional programming journey. I've been torn between choosing Lispy variants such as Scheme, Racket, Clojure etc or the ML variants such Scala, SML, OCaml, F# or go nuts and do Haskell! :D But I'm a data analyst by profession and I'm 35 years old. So I need to choose something wisely. I'm studying statistics at the moment and the most wise choice for me is R. I already do some work on Python. R is based on Scheme and has a lot of functional aspects. Some of the answers related to Machine Learning here are relevant to me. But for the question, I also believe the Washington University course is a strong contender. Hopefully, I'll have the time in future to learn some of it.
The biggest problem is that there isn't really a way to break up a data center. Unlike Amazon and Microsoft, Google doesn't use their own cloud.
I'd love to see what you think is the #1 most racist, violent, and hateful tweet from president Trump. Really, go ahead and find it, then let me know what it is.

Note: I do not support racism, violence, or hateful actions. I don't seek for things of that nature (I denounce them), but I genuinely haven't seen those qualities in the words of our president, so I sincerely want to know what all the fuss is about with respect to Trump's so-called racist remarks. I have seen a lot of people ascribing those labels to various things he's said (but not intended), and I've seen him say and do a lot of anti-racist things, but apparently the coded racism in his language isn't as obvious to me as it is to so many other people.
Oh man! Stratus was one of my favorite (and first) systems. VOS was I believe the only PL/1 based OS? Had a lot of fun learning PL/1 on them, and the scripting ('command macros') was pretty nice. It was lacking all the nix tools though. There was eventually a 'C' compiler and nix OS for Stratus, but IIRC, it never was as stable/mature as VOS.
That's awesome. But isn't H.264 like, 20 times more complicated than H.262? Or maybe not, I just think I remember looking at some big manual, not sure if it was actually H.264. But it seemed super complex. Maybe not as difficult for people who are really good at math.
> Don't expect performance like that for any practical application without a lot more work.

5 years later I have servers that can do 2 million (multi process) without messing with Numa or nic settings.
My father (a physicist) used to quote Rutherford to me: "all science Is either physics or stamp collecting". An extreme position perhaps. I now work in a college of humanities and have frequently collaborated with engineers. I have seen first hand how poorly applied scientific thinking has become within the humanities. But I cannot blame them. They are only giving to the uni what has been asked of them.

The untold reason why humanities now self-describes as 'social science' goes back to Thatcher years in the UK. She was the first to link university funding (and tenure) to research output. Research output was in turn defined by ranked publication and patents. This worked ok-ish in the sciences, but not so well in the arts. The humanities were obliged to ape the sciences in the way they spoke, the way they defined their outcomes and the functions they served. The scientific method is simply not a good fit for the arts.
I'm not sure if anyone could have executed that idea.

Even Elon Musk couldn't make it work
Well it could calibrate using the color temperature of the flash LED (assuming these are tightly specified) and require that you get your phone really close to the color and maybe shade out as much ambient light as possible.
Sqwiggle is an ancestor to this started by Michael Gutman and Matt Boyd c.2012-2013. Some teams at IBM used it. But it freaked people out because it would auto-take a snapshot via your webcam to recreate presence. I thought it was great, but everyone else thought it was creepy. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316035657/https://www.sqwig...
Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and EU had signed that abolishes the video camera tax.
Most camera brands are in Japan but I don't know how many cameras made in Japan.

This Japanese article describing the agreement especially for cameras. I can't find English articles like this.

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/zooma/1171774.htm...

This is the original agreement text that's too long didn't read.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/ecm/ie/page4e_000875.html
sure, but realistically this is exactly what has been happening if you just look at the last few years. many people are extremely misinformed and there are tons of propaganda campaigns. finding the real truth is borderline impossible. what is the solution? continue as is until someone more and more radical comes along bending truth to their will? there's gotta be some middle ground between a ministry of truth and just completely lawlessness.
Ask HN: How to Apply for SoftBank's Opportunity Growth Fund?
I've seen a few news stories on Softbank's Opportunity Growth Fund for people of color [1], but are there any specific steps to apply?

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ruthumoh/2020/06/03/softbank-creates-100-million-fund-to-invest-in-entrepreneurs-of-color/#48faa6436ee9
This was done by SpaceInvader for the UnRAID docker community months ago. As stated, it is just streamlining a process that has been available with KVM-OSX with various bash scripts for months or years before that.
Different case, 30 vs 60 fps, actual USB 3.0 plug and is also shipping from South Korea.
> I don't hear any actual counterargument.

I didn’t hear any sense.
True, but that's more of a current snapshot than a categorical determination. It's more like the social sciences started breaking away from the humanities many decades ago, and have been increasingly pulled in the general direction of hard science ever since. Though necessarily relying much more on modeling and statistical approaches than on formal analysis.

Due to the inherent impossibility of repeating experimental conditions exactly (or in some fields, at all), the social sciences will never join the hard sciences, but instead occupy terrain adjacent to both humanities (where their data is sourced from), and hard sciences (where techniques are sourced from, increasingly for the "computational"- prefixed subfields).
Amazeing!
I'm by no means a high level expert of command line, but if I need to do a quick edit I just use nano, and if I need to get down and dirty I use VS Code. Is this abnormal? I know a lot of power users use Vim, but I've just never fallen in love with it.
As a doctor in a third-world country, do you have any needs that could be solved by a simple web app? I'd be happy to build it if it could be of use to you and you can sell it to local medical practices.
use spacemacs with vim emulation :-)
Yeah that is a little creepy haha. Water Cooler doesn't do any surveillance like that.
Uh... The entire point of a riot is generally the public making itunequivocally clear it is time to pay attention.

Paying attention by throwing Bureau of Prisons Riot Control officers at free, protesters is very clearly doing the exact opposite. Frankly, if anything, it vindicates the need for more and potentially more extreme protest.

At this point, 0eople need to be sitting down with lawmakers. Law enforcement needs to chill the he'll out, and clean house, and communities need to collect themselves, and get their composure restored.

You don't "handle" large scale protests/riots with the application of more thug. That's how you escalate it. You get people talking. If people are talking, you're getting things on the way to a peaceful resolution. For Christ, sake, the entire damn chain of events started because a bunch of cops ignored all protestations and pleadings from the public around them.

Can we stop proving these people have a bloody point please?
The correction was in the original report; the markets already considered it.
Replication and publishing negative results do not get the respect they deserve. They should be given equal attention and funding as novel results. That would fix the replication crisis.
I love stories about people who got into tech along an uncommon path.
My first sub. Thanks.
I second that and would like to point out that apt-get only saves an old copy of neovim. I had to install the latest version using snap.

This issue is described in the link but I thought it deserves highlighting
I can't read this without hearing that voice actor's voice. So incredibly British.
AKA, "The dismal science"
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Ask HN: 25W Chess, a Good Idea?
I've been toying with this idea of creating a 25W computer chess tournament with prize money. Computer programs would be limited to running at 25W, to match the human brain energy usage. I hope this would level the playing field and create a fair comparison about the strength of both humans and computers at chess. What thinkest thou?