skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a problem with testing infrastructure/code, that will start disabling random tests until either you're left with nothing, or realise that radical moves are rarely practical. (With a side of distrust from any team you send the work to)
With a wire transfer you have to provide a swift or such routing number a bank name, an account holder name, and an account#. All of which have to match.

Then there is a processing period during which it can still be cancelled.

Finally the dispute resolution process (the law) can force the transaction to be reversed - taking money back from the recipient account.

None of that exists in bitcoin. Especially given you can’t necessarily identify the miner or recipient to contact to reverse the transaction, even if they wanted to.

We’ll just ignore crypto transactions taking $$$s per transaction, taking minutes to hours to complete, and consume more power than some countries.
So.. since 2018.. it was 2.5 years ago.. and nothing changed? Obviously, who cares about ex-customers.. fresh one are generating bigger bonuses...
> but imagine the legal expense they have, fighting likely millions of takedown requests, malicious lawsuits, complying with local laws and regulations in China, Russia

Wikimedia Foundation is not fighting any takedown requests. Wikimedia Foundation had exactly ten DMCA requests last year[1]. That’s a bit short of “millions” you believe it does. It does not comply with any local regulations in China or Russia, or elsewhere, because it does not operate in China or Russia (or really anywhere outside US, except caching servers in NL and Singapore). Wikipedia is actually completely blocked in China, and the fact that you did not know that signals your utter unfamiliarity with the realities of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation.

> paying a team of top software engineers to handle running a top-visited site (that by the way, has almost no downtime),

It was already a top visited site when its development team consisted of a single person, Brion Vibber. There have been very little significant development since then, and if there had been zero development since then, you’d probably not even notice.

Now, to be sure, at this scale, it needs some full time round the clock reliability engineers, but you can easily see that their headcount keeps growing, but their site and infrastructure is mostly unchanged.

[1] - https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:DMCA_2019
Redirect Method: Using Adwords, YouTube videos to confront online radicalization
> The close knit tribe that thrived with cooperation is definitely in its death throes right now

Is it? I think there are a lot of social systems that are being tested at the moment, some are failing. There are many developed countries that are improving their cooperation in the current crisis - I'm in one - Australia, there are others that have seemed to come together, and others that have failed abysmally. No doubt the ones that have had trouble will examine and regroup, maybe some won't. I can imagine if you're in a country with a thousand deaths a day, things don't look good.
Hey mate, thanks for the response.

Yeah, our steel detailers here (seven across two sites) use Tekla Structures and have it tweaked how our workshops like, and I've got to say it produced the best drawings I've ever worked with.

Also spits out NC1 files for the laser and beam-line, so we're somewhat keeping up with the technological advances to stay competitive.

And yeah, I've worked myself in to a pretty good niche here, and it's a bit of a nice corner to be in at the moment.

I'll continue to observe the playing-field.

Thanks again.
This. Even if you could conceivably account for every feasible epigenetic difference possible in every conceivable genetically distinct human, I'm not sure what the point is. Twins are still different people with different experiences and personalities even if they are nearly genetically (and epigenetically - at least at first) identical. I feel like the spirit of OPs post is humans in a post scarcity society have a duty to bring into existence every feasible distinct human experience. But this is impossible because DNA and even epigenetics does not encompass all that makes a person unique and distinct.
I don't think this is true. The ResNet was born at Microsoft, DQN was born at Deepmind, the Transformer was born at Google, and GPT2 was born at OpenAI.

I'm obviously biased since I work at an industry AI lab, but we both have important roles to play.
A new family member! It's good to see BEAM is getting traction.

The documentation seem to be work in progress. I wonder how to type processes/genservers. But generally, it seems to be a good fit, since most Erlang code is already pretty functional (immutable, no variables, etc).
You still have to obey the laws of the company you operate in. So if you want to act like a bank, you have to obey banking laws - including all the capital and auditing.
Interesting tidbit:

> We tested the Redirect Method in an ISIS-focused campaign in Arabic and English. Over the course of 8 weeks, 320,000 individuals watched over half a million minutes of the 116 videos we selected to refute ISIS's recruiting themes.
TIL TARIPT!
I'm dubious that the old police were "police-trained."
The first line of the CHAZ demands:

> The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police

Also, I would look at the Baltimore police/crime post-Freddie Grey to see how diminished police action leads to much increased crime. What the BPD did was horrifying but so was the rise in crime once they became less active.
For my situation, it's not even so much about having a door. But having a separated work space/bookshelves (though there are plenty of others throughout the house), lights/audio gear, and generally a separated space that can be pretty messy. In times past, that would be about having lots of paper. Now it's more about having a bunch of computers/cables/etc. isolated from the rest of the house--even if, in practice, I often work elsewhere with a laptop.
> Being human is defined by existing humans.

That's a philosophy, not a fact. Individuals and organizations define things by all sorts of criteria. eg temporally, consensus and differentiation are just a few. It's not as simple as "we all agree this zebra is a human".
yes, they get an "honorarium" according to the signup page, which means peanuts most likely (probably a portion of that ~$200 proctoring fee, or whatever they call it).

has anyone here applied to be an instructor?
So the real problem is it's slightly inconvenient [0] to catch people using rentals to commit crimes and that justifies randomly bothering anyone in a rental car?

[0] They can still go get the records any time after all.
I'd guess that's pretty atypical.
I really appreciate this response; banally labeling this a "PR issue" was a bit callous and does nothing to address the underlying concerns or the consequences of leaving them unaddressed.

I'm more or less a team of one at the moment and the original instinct when I had the idea was along the lines of "If I'm having to address privacy concerns, I must be doing something right", implying some degree of public interest in the product. There's now quantifiable interest and the waitlist hasn't stopped growing. Comments like yours make me realize I need a rock-solid set of first principles before enlisting outside help. The eternal optimist sees infinite use cases and it's easy to discard the bad and the ugly ones for the good, but the ramifications you've listed will kill the product before it even truly starts.

I'd love to chat more about this side of product development and throw some questions your way if you've got some time to spare (chris@notasatellite.com), but thank you again for the thoughtful response and reading material.
Because there is no meaningful proof of identity for a bitcoin address? If someone on twitter says “here’s my bitcoin address for donations” they may have been hacked, or they could claim that they were hacked, and you can’t find who controls the recipient account. By design.
This is a decent chair. $236.54 currently.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BT2SR8U/

much better than anything at Office Depot or similar stores.
Uhh when was the last time you were in Detroit?
Google's new rules clamp down on discriminatory housing, job ads
For the uninitiated, the FDA faced criticism initially by being too slow to authorize PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 and issued a much more broad EUA for serological tests. However, serological tests need to be run on known positive and negative patients (already tested) to validate their accuracy. Because infection with SARS-CoV-2 is relatively uncommon, and because the EUA is broad, tests that offer the statistical value of a coin flip have been authorized and used. This is a problem if you’re trying to make health decisions.

So, the FDA is trying to advise people on this risk by providing tools to judge the performance of serological tests to help clear up the confusion. This is because many tests have rated performance based on a very small number of people and the error bars are relatively large.
I didn't even use the word 'art' let alone propose any of these definitions. I just pointed out that 'Fountain' made an impact on your choices today.
Wow. i'm glad i found this. I've been looking for a way to connect to my laptop running Ubuntu 20.04 from my desktop running windows 10. I tried a few other programs before but they weren't compatible with windows rdp.
>But your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Or if you now have to pay for X what you used to get for free
An international wire transfer requires even more checks than a domestic one, and you can always sue in the recipients jurisdiction.
Similar experience, closed ad account because of “suspicious activity”, at least ten support tickets (half closed automatically), four lame apologies (our system says no, sry) and then finally, “there was an error in our system, you’re good to go”
If your reconstruction function is symmetric, which it should be, then your pixel centers are at 0.5, 0.5. All commonly used resampling algorithms are symmetric, except perhaps truncating implementations of point sampling (which are thus inconsistent with the rest and arguably wrong for this reason). It doesn't matter how you choose to reconstruct, samples should still be centered around their reconstruction function.

Otherwise, you're shifting the image around every time you reconstruct. This causes errors and can be very hard to reason about.
The rights of mega corporations get eroded very frequently. I think even anti-corporate activists will admit to that. Their concern, generally, is that corporate rights should be not eroded through gradual tiny reforms but blown away completely.
defunding police pensions is a bit much.
I guess this is a promising project, bookmarked.
Check out Western Governors University, it's self-paced.
The sneeze shield is a great idea. I've seen these pop up in a lot of shops, either as a way to protect the clerk, or as a way to protect people at self-checkouts from each other while keeping them all open.

Whether it actually stops corona spread I am not so sure. It probably lowers the risk, but air is circulating in all directions so some virus could get around it. As long as it lowers the risk it's probably a good buy.
> Anarchic utopias do not stay utopic for all that long.

At least one counterexample to this is Exarcheia[1] in Athens, which has been relatively unpoliced for the last 50 years.

I was there about a year ago and was struck by how both peaceful and lively it was. Nowhere in Athens felt nearly as alive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exarcheia
Mac: Toggle WiFi when Ethernet connected or disconnected
Abolish police is a first step. The idea is to create an alternative way to keep public order, and not _start_ from the police as a concept.
Just a guessing, but maybe a really large file with a limited character set, maybe even just repeating 1 character should compress really well
Speed running comp. sci. in 6 months!
> how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old?

You publish hashes of all the documents. It's trivial to distribute lists of hashes. You can even put them into existing blockchains, which guarantee they won't change.
Ask HN: Alternatives to S3 Buckets?
Especially for smaller/personal projects. I know Google has an equivalent product, but I'm just trying to get the lay of the land. The bucket equivalent of DigitalOcean's hosting would also be interesting to know about (or does DigitalOcean themselves have a bucket product?).
The change in .Net Core: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/commit/03bf95c8db9003a5925...

(The implementation might be different on .Net Framework)
I tried to learn Galois theory on Coursera a few years ago (the course was in French, which is my mother tongue, but probably few HNers can understand it), and failed the class partly due to lack of time. Since then I've been trying from time to time to read about it, which refreshed knowledge of Group theory, but so far I haven't gotten to the point where I understand Galois's idea to prove that some polynomial equations are not solvable by radicals.
Twitter? Because Twitter has been doing that a lot for me recently. It's like all their devs are on mobile or Retina screens and overpowered CPUs and nobody noticed the problem (and resulting processing overhead).
Modest to "it depends." I'd place it on par with a local community college for myself. However, I think it depends more on the student.

The instructors act more as moderators rather than instructors. There are no lectures, and they have limited interaction (e.g., a few posts in the forums and responses to our weekly learning journals). Thus, it's hard to really take advantage of their knowledge.

Instructor are also volunteers. I've read that they're paid a small honorarium, but I've been unable to find supporting evidence in any school documentation. (Granted, I haven't looked hard.)

You will primarily teach yourself through course materials. The materials can vary from excellent to awful. Thus, it can be a challenge sometimes. (Fortunately, I've been to grad school [education field] in the past, so it's not much of an issue for me.)

The school talks about "peer learning," but it is poorly integrated. It mainly amounts to peer assessments and required discussion forum posts. So, as you might guess, the quality of the latter varies wildly.

There are definitely quite a few students who struggle, and there's not a lot of support structure built into the school yet. (It's still young. ~10 years old.)

The CS curriculum is fairly standard (e.g., operating systems, programming, algorithms, data structures, etc.).
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It shouldn't be much more work than you've already done, so you should definitely go for it!
Maybe even build multi-target support into your assembler, it shouldn't be too difficult. I implemented the framework for this.

Instead of MIPS, it might be a good idea to target RISC-V. It's a more modern RISC ISA which apparently has a few less quirks. I found the MIPS documentation to be great, mind you. There's lots of resources available online about MIPS programming. So there are advantages to targeting MIPS, no doubt. RISC-V is on the cutting edge, however. If you're interested in embedded development, learning RISC-V now will have other advantages.
Nope. That’s not how it works. It’s easy to find out with a simple internet search. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/79/5/899S/4690223

But keep the downvotes going since it insults you so much
I can’t see this working on a large scale. With no IP rights then how can I protect my work? We could outlaw all businesses so nobody can take my work and turn a profit from it but then where’s the incentive to solve complex problems? If I have to give away my solution then there’s really no reason for me to try unless I’m being forced in some way. Why would a dr want to work on a solution for cancer instead of just treating people if the value gain is the same?
I enjoyed working in restaurants in my formative years but I don't think I'd be happy owning one. Honestly I think my dream job would be working on a cargo ship or something but sadly I'm well past the age cap for breaking into the field.
I’m obsessed with the Mandelbrot Set, so a lot of the mathematics I read recreationally branches from that: fractals, complex numbers, Riemannian and Hermitian manifolds, and related topics.

As a software developer, I explore lots of computer/data-science related topics as well, e.g. cellular automata, dynamics, and some statistics.
First mover. For a long time D targeted the same abstraction level as Go, and most of its libraries were designed with that in mind. Stuff like no_std was never a major goal for most supposed "systems languages" (that are not C/C++) until Rust came along. D was too slow in gaining momentum, getting corporate sponsorship, and adding new features that pushed the boundaries of what a systems programming language was capable of. Go had first class tooling, D felt like a C++ with a Garbage Collector. It reminds me a lot of Ocaml which also had a lot of great ideas and occasionally showed up in the engineering blog of a major corporation but if you look closely then you would notice severe issues with package management and multithreading (both of which are finally getting attention and being fixed, 5 years too late). There are a lot of boring engineering that goes into making a good programming language ecosystem that many smaller languages do not have either the willpower or resources in tackling.

This is not criticism of the D language, programming languages are like startups, success often has little to do with the product itself but more the ecosystem, funding, and luck.
Yes. In fact, I believe most of the students are international students. In my last course, I had students from Nigeria, Italy, Germany, the US, Vietnam, and China.
I have a 4 letter tld to my domain name for my email address. The two times that I had to chase up someone to let me create an account was absolutely bonkers. And it only happened with two systems that were crucial: my bank, and my company's payment system.
Can you clarify the timeline? AFAIK the police used tear-gas, then they were ordered to stop by the mayor, then they stopped and switched to other means like mace. Do you know differently?
>I would like to know who these people are who would download their banking apps from hax0rs.rus rather than, you know, the app store where they get all their other apps from.

I'm guessing the people that believe the hax0rs.rus version believes something like, 'get extra money on each deposit with our hacked version' or 'don't like bank fees?? Try the hax0rs.rus version to avoid those pesky bank fees'.

But more realistically, I imagine it's people clicking fraudulent links disguised as legitimate looking things from their bank. As apparent as things like that may seem to people who understand the web, it's not always obvious to people who haven't spent a million hours on the internet.

Most people eventually learn to pick up a sense about what's legit and not on the web, but it really does take a long time. I'm sure at some point over all your years of computing and interneting you've probably downloaded at least one shady application or clicked one sketchy link by mistake, I know I have, and if you haven't I commend you honestly.
You can kinda do that already. In my first semester at WGU I went through about 20 classes. It’s competency based and you can complete classes as soon as you master the material.
My favorite is when they just dump the URL to the history endlessly so you can never go far enough back. I see this on a surprising number of otherwise reputable sites, and then I immediately leave the site and set my browser to blacklist it.
This is the first time I’ve read the argument that it is our moral duty to give existence to all the humans in the set that is all possible DNA permutations that encode human beings, and I have to thank you for that.

Might make for a good scifi story.

You need a catchy slogan, like “enumerate all humans!”
I've been using xrdp for headless Raspberry Pi installations running Rasbian for years. It's easy to install and is a way smoother experience than vnc. Connections from Windows and Linux have rarely ever been a problem. Connecting from Android used to be an issue, but I think even that has been resolved at this point.
How about becoming a primary or a secondary school Math teacher?
If you cut any industry finely enough, you will find a monopoly. The pizza restaurant next door is a monopolist in the pizza category on my street.

So if you don’t want policy to be completely arbitrary, you’ll need some principles to follow when drawing industry boundaries.
Originally slated for release in 2019, now hyped out of fear of Nikola. Just a few days ago the Model Y was the top priority, now it’s the semi.
Minio is a self hostable object storage project
https://github.com/minio/minio
Accredited or not, “university of the people” sounds just like “hard knocks university”, “life college”, etc. Works for the Saul Goodman’s of the world, maybe.
> You might get a mix of some ASL topic-comment word order with some English subject-verb-object word order.

Not a huge shock, since you also get this between two sole English speakers communicating vocally.
> relatively unpoliced for the last 50 years

Source on that? 75% of that link talks about:

- riots following police action

- attacks on police stations

- special policing tactics for that region

- evictions by the police
> I’m sure we’ll be able to identify extremely negative mutations and either fix them or abandon those genomes.

will the resulting eugenics wars [0] be simulated [1] as well?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_wars

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
As a US based student, it wasn't too difficulty. It's comparative to any other school in the US. For students outside the US and particularly outside English speaking countries, it can be more involved.
Developing a Literature-Derived Dietary Inflammatory Index (2014)
The DMCA has a couple major parts. The part most people are familiar with deals with safe harbor provisions and "DMCA takedowns". The relevant part for this discussion makes it illegal to circumvent digital access-control technology. So you could argue that if you have reasonable measures in place to stop automated access of your content such as robots.txt then Facebook continuing to send automated requests would be a circumvention of your access controls.