skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused. Or maybe you're confusing AND with OR? How can "A and not A" ever be true, let alone tautologically so? Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_noncontradiction
>Pixels are data, the little squares are the artifacts your LCD eventually produces with the help of that data.

Only we don't care about the data, except when they are rendered as "artifacts" at our screens.

So prioritising the abstract data is putting the cart before the horse. We only captured/generated those data to display them on our LCD.
Local Government in the United States
When Kaby Lake-G (Intel CPU with RADEON iGPU) is released, I thought that it's for Apple devices but Apple doesn't released devices that use it. I'm curious what's purpose.
More relevantly, they were specifically ordered by their city council not to use tear gas and then went ahead and did it anyways, all over the city.

I'd like to think, regardless of anyone's politics, we could all agree that the elected government should have authority over the police.
So... If I smash in the windows of a Nike shop, steal all the shoes, then give them to homeless people, I'm excused? No crime here?
Ask HN: Wildly Unpopular Opinions
This is a judgement-free zone if you're looking for something to downvote go look somewhere else.

Surely we can escape the collective groupthink a little to share some of our most unpopular opinions and theories?

I've got a few of my own so I'll kick it off in the comments --
"tuition-free"

"tuition-fee free"? I would hope you get at least some tuition!
> They had issues with hard drugs in the 1970s, but kicked all of that to the curb and there is a strict community-supported ban on all hard drugs.

Are you sure that the dealers you saw were trading hard drugs, and not soft ones like cannabis, mushrooms, etc.?
Why You Need Uselessness in Your Life
> This completely ignores the fact that the culture and people who make up a country do greatly impact it's success. Traditions of working together, independent thought, etc. None of this exists in a vacuum.

> If too many people of the same culture move to another country, they won't assimilate. They will form their own subcommunities. This is seen in America with the latin population and in europe with the muslim population.

Agree. And since we don't live in a vacuum, you will notice that third world cultures are increasingly similar to those in the first world. Assimilation is already happening.

Nonetheless, the path there does involve periods of throttled migration, and this is fine. The important part is that we move in that direction as fast as feasible.

> They will form their own subcommunities.
American history shows that, with time, most immigrants tend to assimilate to the mainstream culture just fine. In the 1800s, the Irish were regarded as backwards and Pope-idolizers, but they assimilated just fine. In any case, I don't worry about these subcommunities, it is a natural path for any sufficiently large state.
And then there is Teradici’s PCoIP hardware, which is shockingly good. It compresses and encapsulates video, audio, and device data. You just install a card into your machine at one end and run a thin client box at the other end - or use a software client.

The quality is amazing.
Partially due to Apple because they don't prepare for adopt AMD processors (like lack of AMD's instruction like AMD-V support).
The person you're replying to is a current Google employee.
Because those things are not pursued. Good faith can only go so far when their comment was just as valid a decade ago as it is today.
Postman raises $150M Series C
People should read Cantor's bio page too.

He was treated horrifically by the mathematics establishment. There is some justice in learning his history all these years later.
Caveat: I'm not a security researcher just have a basic knowledge of the terms and techniques you would find in a beginner exploit tutorial.

These types of exploits are usually specially crafted files that trick the code responsible for parsing and displaying the video file into running whatever the creator wants. The terms "buffer overflow/underflow+" and "shellcode" might help narrow down a definition for you. Below is an overly simplistic version .

The video might contain, inside of it, a specially written computer program that sends the IP address of the current computer to whatever location the attacker wants. (This is the shellcode). This code could be really simple.

The video could also have parts in it that do not make sense. the video player code makes assumptions about the video that the video purposefully violates. When the video is processed by the computer, the video player code misunderstands what it needs to do and will accidently treat the video as code. (this is the buffer overflow). Since parts of the video are actually special shellcode, the computer has been tricked into running code hidden inside the video.

The article below implies that is what this was https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyyxb3/the-fbi-booby-trap...

+Buffer overflows / underflows are just one of many techniques for exploiting a program. it's the main one I know in passing.
Hmmm, Graphviz can do this now. Search the FAQ for "how do I use non-ASCII character sets"
Hawking’s original voice synth was the default sound of the DECtalk hardware speech synth.

It would not surprise me if SGI’s software implementation were similar to the he most popular hardware of the 1980s.
It’s too loud. Consider how other equipment you might place near your tv looks.
How we dress at work makes way more of a difference than we understand.

The main reason startup culture sucks people up and spits out their bones is because we've taken the worst parts of corporacy and left all the best ones to rot.

If a manager doesn't understand the importance of dressing up at least a few days a week he doesn't deserve the responsibility and most of the problems in this corporate world are down to young men who haven't discovered themselves but are willing to sacrifice all their energies in proving they're the best at something they know very little about.
I would suggest that you question the trustworthiness of your sources.
You're ok with the background check, insipid questions, and unexplained warning?

"How can you conclude the officer knew the drivers race"

What measure of proof do you require?
Specifically the music festivals I've been to. It's fun and a wonderful feeling for a while, but eventually the idiots/assholes will become a problem that needs to be dealt with. Or nature throws a disaster at you and there is chaos.

It's a little hard to come up with historical examples because the utopia portion is often quite short and overshadowed by the negatives that follow. Generally, I would point to almost any historical 'revolution' as a warning that tearing down a system and rebuilding it from scratch does not mean improvement, even if it appears to be at the beginning. You could probably point to the August 1789 period of the French Revolution as an example of the 'utopic' phase, but I'm not certain. The fall of Saddam's government in Iraq would be another example. Kurdish Syria is probably another decent example.
No-one is right about graffiti. I like graffiti too, by the way.

I think I'm as entitled to claiming something is not art as the author who claims it is. For some creations, the consensus will side with one or the other. Nobody can put pigeon feces on display in a museum and force me to think of them as art, no matter what they think.

A lot of people don't consider found objects "real" art, by the way. I'm not alone in this.
The missile knows where it is [video]
I would recommend Rails (or Django, or Laravel), not because Golang is a bad language, but because it's just a language where as Rails is a fully-featured web framework that will do a lot of stuff for you out of the box (authentication, sessions, database access and ORM, templates, etc).
> it's true 100% of the time.

I don't think this is a great way of expressing it really since it's not very clear what "100% of the time" means formally; to most people (myself included), saying "100% of the time" in the context of whether a property holds over a set is to say that the property holds for all elements of the set.

This is completely different to saying it holds almost everywhere, which is to say it holds on the complement of a measure zero set.
This seems too good to be true and I’m trying to figure out the catch.
How do you propose to stop two [groups of] people from willingly making a trade agreement? If you have an issue with it, what gives you the right, or ability to stop them?
The first question I always ask of these weird online universities is, are they regionally accredited? National accreditation is not really a high bar and isn’t considered competitive; all legitimate institutions of higher learning should qualify for and receive regional accreditation from an appropriate authority before considering such study in one’s best interest.

This online learning site is eligible for regional accreditation as of 2020, but they really play up the eligibility in a way that seems suspect. They aren’t clear if they have even applied, but they have 5 years to apply until they have to have a redetermination of eligibility.

Not saying this is a scam, but it feels like a scam.

This site was very hard to find, for what it’s worth.

https://www.uopeople.edu/student-experience/quality/accredit...
The only required fees are an application fee and an exam fee per course. There are fees to transfer courses in, and many courses require a proctor. You can opt to have a professional in your community or use the online service ProctorU for a fee charged by that service.
Comments are great for teams and your future self but your point is well taken
Re: hacking, preservation - - does Elsevier make reasonable assurances in this space beyond being a strawman that can be torn apart in a lawsuit? Is there a reason an open access platform could not make technological assurances that are as good or better?

This really seems like a good and fairly low-risk opportunity for universities to form a consortium of sorts to make their own publishing platform. And then maybe "impact" would be built in because they'd all be getting high on their own supply. But these institutions are strangely prone to silos despite the collaborative spirit of academia writ large so I don't see that happening.
Is there a significant # of people on HN that use Windows in production? Perhaps I'm misguided, but if this was about Linux stuff, it'd seem appropriate.
Ask HN: How do you measure a developers 'performance'?
My boss always asks for 'a number, any number' to show how the team is doing.

It makes sense since every other department has numbers to back their performance but it's tough to put one together for the engineering team.

Before you say "trusting your team is enough" ... it's really not.. My team trusts one another but its no replacement for having concrete data to:

1. Show the larger org
2. Help us improve internally
3. See the effects of our changes

Any suggestions?
How SaaS Reinvented Shareware
Not yet. They started the process a few months ago.
An amateur map of infrastructure right on the site:
https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/img/16.jpg
What makes you say that?

Google report Youtube's revenue as $15bn, and profits to be really high. Maybe they underaccount infrastructure costs, but it's definitely not billions.

Google could be broken up into very logical units.
Given how much trump lies and spins the truth to suit his purpose[1], I don’t think it would make a difference.
1. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-comments-on-buffalo-p...
I started out as a steel detailer but haven't worked in that sector for over 10 years, so I've not got my finger on the pulse. But in the design sector I'm in now, it's a bit quiet at the moment and has been for a few years, and that means there are a lot of experienced draftee's out there without work - left overs from the boom times. So in that regard, it might not be the best industry to pursue at this time. But if you can leverage your existing skills and contacts etc, you might be able to get yourself into a niche, and then you would be set.

Regarding programs, Tekla Structures is the gold standard for detailing steel structures, but the price is up there (if you're looking at going it alone). Cheaper options that I haven't used are available from Autodesk for AutoCAD, and another from Bentley for Microstation. I would look at the Microstation option first, because the "core" seems to be better for 3D work than AutoCAD. However, Autodesk does a reasonably priced bundle of programs for the construction industry, which includes some BIM staples like Navisworks.
I think this article misses a major point...

PAUSE used to have a fixed quite short latency.

It now has a variable latency. I would hazard a guess that the latency strongly depends what the other cores on the machine are doing, and the other thread on the same core.

Specifically, I would guess intel saw pause being used in spinlocks, and seeing a lot of power and time on functional units being wasted on locks that spin a lot. They decided to deliberately slow down a spinlock's spinning to use less power, and less of other functional units, and in doing so will free up functional units for the computations on the other hyper-thread and power/thermal headroom for other cores in the same CPU.

By doing so, the thought is that overall, the computation should complete sooner.

If both hyperthreads on a core execute pause, I'd expect the latency to go to very low again.

Yet that reasoning didn't work in this case... The only explanation I can think of is that while some threads are executing pause instructions, other threads are executing other kinds of spinlock's without pause instructions. Those other spinlock's end up spinning faster now they have more functional units, but still making no forward progress.

The overall result is the computation isn't sped up, and you still pay a latency penalty to notice the computation is done, hence slower overall.
Current student in the CS program. Feel free to ask questions.
Hi, I like your idea for your wife. Hope the surgery will succeed without damage to her speaking. I'm from Nvidia and know well the team behind NeMo toolkit. Happy to connect you to the team if that helps. You may send me an email to ardenwood.bruin_at_gmail.com. -- Michael
>General consumers

But are they pushing against it? Would they, if asked?
Are we entering a new phase in human existence? The close knit tribe that thrived with cooperation is definitely in its death throes right now, at least in the developed world. Is it possible for us to cooperate on a global scale though, or are we still too primitive, our consciousness too weak to comprehend our place in such a massive system.
My favorite function is the Devil's Staircase found by plotting the map-winding number of a circle map, which has steps at every rational number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_tongue .
eventually the idiots/assholes will become a problem that needs to be dealt with

Like the police force?
Is it worth duplicating the fb specific parts of your website at another web address as a test site, so that If it was similarly affected, you could provide the address info to help troubleshoot?
i'd love a group like that!
So what makes regional accreditation so great? Do other countries have it? Why can’t a major regional body go national? Is it the law? It all sounds like a scam from that to textbooks.
I'm surprised they're not disclosing the US ones.
I once made a half-pixel error trying to write a fast Fourier transform as a series of fragment shaders. That was nasty to track down! The error was smeared across all the pixels in the frequency domain causing weird subtle frequency biases in certain directions.
The "new police" are constrained by a different system than the officers. Namely, they weren't police-trained.

Whether that's going to be a positive or a negative remains to be seen, but that's one of the key notions in these protests.
The Internet Archive should do the lawful thing and remove all the content that the publishers want removed, to prevent the collateral damage to the important resource for those who just want to see old versions of pages that have changed or disappeared.

Leave the books and whatever to pirate torrent sites and just do the Wayback Machine thing.
We're taking a two-pronged approach as we launch and scale up.

Short term: camera resolution on the average cell phone is often better than an array onboard a satellite, so the MVP is a native app that window seat passengers use to record in-flight. Because we know the flight route before takeoff and GPS works in Airplane mode, we load in target coordinates and ping the user to begin recording when flying over a target coordinate. They receive free in-flight wifi for their effort, but we also use the wifi connection to stream the video feed. That gets us more exposure to the 77,000 daily flights across the U.S. each day (also boosts general awareness: "Why are you recording out the window?")

Long term: we're developing a hardware solution much more powerful than a cell phone camera with a 6-camera array and many more sensors, including an infrared dome for near-field cloud penetration and onboard preprocessor for compressing the stream before sending it back down to earth. The form factor is akin to a headphone case (I actually used a Bose headphone case for the prototype) and is mounted to the window within the cabin, mitigating the need for FAA (but not FCC) approval. There are some teaser images on our Instagram if you're curious - @notasatellite.
Is this available to international students?
Sorry, but respectable people don’t shove 75 year old men to the ground and leave them.
I believe zip bombs are pretty easily mitigated, with memory limits, cpu time ulimits, etc.

But zip bombs aren't limited to zip files... lots of files have some compression in them You can make malicious PNG's that do the same thing. Probably tonnes of other files.
> The media coverage of it is WILD

I live 7 blocks away from "the zone" and can confirm, I have never in my life seen anything alike in this regard. The scale of the misinformation being spread in social networks and news media reached a level I couldn't believe possible before. Seriously, it's beyond absurd.

If anyone is interested, I have been taking some pictures of the ongoing protests (including a few of the zone): https://www.flickr.com/photos/peramides
New research helps unravel how vast amounts of plastic particles travel
Another fun one is the slippery devil's staircase, Minkowski's question-mark function. It's strictly increasing but the derivative is 0 at rational numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%27s_question-mark_fu...
Pluto probe offers eye-popping view of neighbouring star Proxima Centauri
I'd say the title is correct almost surely.
It looks like this technology is getting debugged. Some of the tests are well above 99% for both specificity and sensitivity. Some aren't, and they will probably be withdrawn from the market.
Animal Crossing’s fame has made it less like paradise and more like Wall Street
> That's not a reasonable objection, unless you can find somebody who thinks that we should go after google, but not go after these other companies.

But you can -- the US Department of Justice, who are apparently preparing a case against Google and not companies in those other markets.
So did mine, weird...
Thank you for the very informed reply. I think your project has a great future if you keep working on it. A fully typed query builder sounds amazing, the weakly typed one of Django bit me once back when I was getting started with it.
If the verdict involved something like "your Google account will no longer work with X service" there would definitely be a lot of consumer pushback
I'm not sure that is correct.

Psilocybin: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.201...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192...

Ketamine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461985/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.24791

It is well known that dissociative anaesthetics reduce brain activity and communication between brain regions. Classical psychedelics on the other hand tend to increase global brain activity, including that between regions (i.e. connectivity)
Rigor?
They're trying out the many proposed and proven methods of community management other than armed, poorly-trained cops. Music festivals aren't trying to prove the viability of alternative societal structures. They're different things.
Here's a recent summary: https://kottke.org/20/06/police-abolition-defund-the-police
Heh, $1 per day? Try $1k per day. https://imgur.com/duugqHK
You're right, that's a fair point. I wouldn't be surprised if WotC had avoided "Romani" because it felt like a demonym which wouldn't exist in their universe. :/

Are there any great substitute terms which focus on the lifestyle commonly associated with the Romani? "Nomadic" (or "nomads") is associated more with peoples who live away from civilization; "travelers" is a little weak, as it can imply a temporary activity.
When I enabled IPv6 traffic at home and logged default denies I constantly see Facebook owned IPv6 blocks trying to reach addresses browsing Facebook.

I have no idea what its trying to do but its legitimately the only IPv6 inbound traffic that isn't related to normal browsing.
Stiffer roadways could improve truck fuel efficiency
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. While many of the police actions are inexcusable, trying to have a society without an active group of people enforcing law and order doesn't work well. Just look at Baltimore for the downsides of police inaction.
Is being tech focused really better than being management focused? Surely that's just swapping one mis-focused model for another?
I prefer to be in roles that are outcome and value focused. That should mean appropriate tech and sensible management but not for their own sake.
George Winston’s Autumn
Thanks. I hadn't heard of Arnold tongue. That page has really nice illustrations.
But they should try something. Maybe degentrification could include a city requirement not to displace people when building new housing. The developer puts the previous occupant up and then guarantees them their same rent for, say, a decade going forward
Glad to hear it. It took some convincing on my part to offer it because I felt maybe some people were like me, never reading the newsletters they subscribe to. Do you think I think you’ll like about it is you get the whole article in the email. You’re not required to visit the website and look at ads or anything
They put up a cardboard sign that said "you are now leaving the USA" and graffitied some surfaces.

https://i.imgur.com/f6VHPJ0.jpg
Which company was it? Your experience with health insurance sounds nuts.
There were quite a few utopian socialist (not necessarily anarchist) projects started in the United States in the 19th century, especially following the proto-socialist Charles Fourier. Wikipedia has a list based on a wide variety of different philosophies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Utopian_commu...
I got a little U2F token that I leave plugged into my laptop and set it up on everything that supports it. It's really nice because you don't have to stop and hunt down a code, or a phone or app, just tap the side and it lets you in. I just wish more sites supported it.

In terms of both UX and authentication strength it's infinitely better than SMS/email/TOTP 2FA in every way. (My understanding is most alternatives, including SMS and google auth type TOTP, are still vulnerable to MitM attacks whereas U2F tokens solve that too).
And I hope it works. But history says it's going to go poorly and they're going to need to end up with something resembling a police force, even if they don't call it that.
this is a stupid slippery slope move.

but it wont make any diff to anything anyway, the cards were not in big use. literally no one will notice it.