skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a myth that a significant number of people want less government. What they really want is a government that does their bidding.
Half thought the same. Why would a criminal gang need a torture chamber in a container? Isn't any basement (and old chair) good for that? And why multiple ones, how many people do they need to torture exactly at the same time? Is there a booking system in place like for meeting rooms?

One possibility is that they're props, good to give a good scare to those who might think of scamming the criminals.
Here [1] it says that Chrome stopped supporting HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) with Chrome 72. There are other debates on it. See the discussions for excuses.

Or is cert pinning something different than HPKP?

- [1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/213410/did-goog...
There is also https://jspaint.app/
That rewrite completely loses the point though.

The point is not "accepting people different than me", it's "having suitable principles to still fight in favour of people I might otherwise rightly or wrongly dislike".

You completely removed the part where he not only didn't act antagonistically towards them but actively opposed other people doing so as well.

And that part was the single most important part, and the principle he was arguing in favour of.

If you think your rewrite was the same exact content, then I'm afraid I don't think you understood what he was saying at all.
There is a bit of a difference between a KG of sugar which is sold 'as is' vs a kilogram of pure Cocaine which will never reach the end user in that state. So on a KG of sugar those costs are a large fraction, on a KG of coke they are a very small fraction. The markup is so large because the market is happy to bear it and the risk of getting caught goes up as more people are involved which will typically happen near the edge. Drug lords are rarely captured, their minions more frequently and street dealers more frequently still. The street price reflects that and simple economics: competition in drugs sales is fierce, fierce enough to kill for. If they could sell it for more they definitely would. Ironically, the better the authorities get at seizing shipments the higher the street price will be compensating the drug syndicates to some extent for their seized cargo.

> The retail price is probably x1000 the price of the shipping container.

You're off by a factor of about 100.
DNS usually isn’t, and TLS still runs over TCP, which is vulnerable to this type of hijacking, so yes, it is indeed still relevant due to both resolution as well as transport layer.

NSA would be very bad at their job indeed if they couldn’t issue valid TLS certificates for any domain to themselves.
> Is the JVM spec itself really a moving target ?

Yes, it is. Every new Java release brings a new JVM spec and a new version of the classfile format [1]. How much changes varies from release to release – in some Java releases, little changes other than the classfile version number; in other Java releases, there are significant new features – new opcodes, new class file attributes, new constant pool entry types, etc.

> I am working on a heavily customized java7/jvm7 internals engine. So I am years behind.

The most obvious thing you'd be missing would be support for the CONSTANT_Dynamic_info, CONSTANT_Module_info, and CONSTANT_Package_info constant pool entries.

There are a bunch of new classfile attributes, but you may be able to get away with just ignoring the newer ones, at the cost that certain newer features won't work correctly (such as modules introduced in Java 9).

I don't think they've added any new opcodes since the introduction of invokedynamic in Java 7. (But, there is always the chance that some future Java release will.)

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/index.html
Hey Rob, We are considering this. Send me mail, it would be good to get more feedback ben@gravitational.com
They certainly are adults.

Unfortunately, they often haven't grown up yet.
What would the tribal law sentence be for the same crime?
I think Amazon Prime is a big cause of this mindset. It's become so much easier to order things on Amazon and wait two days than it is to think about going to the store and looking for the item you want.
Many of "the people" have gotten lucky because SCOTUS went "their" way over the last few generations. Part of that lies with Executive choices for judges and some has been a wildcard (Kennedy, Roberts on ACA, Gorsuch for the last couple of weeks).

It could all spin based off of the next appointment.

But The Founders clearly thought Congress should be somewhere else than yelling from the sidelines.
if the article was claiming to show "intent" to discriminate then it would have been misleading. I wrote the article and I never claimed to show intent. I was just showing what as effectively happening and for that the diffeerences in ownership of eligible companies by race is irrelevant.
This is absolutely not the right move.

This is you self promoting your app.

Restaurants will pay more to market themselves, hire delivery drivers, and manage the logistics.

Local restaurants are hurting because of COVID. They are blaming the delivery services, whose proprietary tech, marketing spend, logistics services are the only reason 90% could maintain any revenue stream.
You just said: “There are ways of getting in to a university without passing the gaokao threshold that would ordinarily be required.”

VIP students is a way to communicate across the university. Otherwise professors have no way of knowing who they need to give extra leniency to. I know collage professors at several schools and we really have nothing widespread like that.
I use sanebox.com for approximately this behavior, and I'm happy with their service.

Sanebox works by logging into my mail server, not replacing it. I have three "send" addresses, and I've learned the hard way that I must authenticate through the SMTP server that goes with the address I'm claiming, or risk being classified as spam by my recipients' email servers. Of course, various email programs allow one to assert any return address one likes. It is a mistake to use this feature. Particularly if one is more tech savvy than one's recipients, it is all too easy to blame them when your mail goes to spam. No, it's your fault. I was that idiot.

Similarly, Qualtrics will send out surveys for colleges and businesses, but won't use the business domain without extra steps. Those surveys don't get read. My college was making this mistake, till I pointed it out. Qualtrics has clear instructions on fixing this.

So Hey is clearly not ready for market, if it can't support its users correctly using business domains for business matters. This isn't a matter of waiting till one's employer signs on with Hey; anyone using Hey who is employed is going to hit this issue.
I think that your particular example is very relevant.

Of course a good speech recognition system needs to model all the relevant characteristics of the human vocal tract as such, and of the many different vocal tracts of individual humans!

But this is substantially different from the notion of integrating a human-made model of the human vocal tract.

In this case the bitter lesson (which, as far as I understand, does apply to vocal tract modeling - I don't personally work on speech recognition but colleagues a few doors down do) is that if you start with some data about human voice and biology; you develop some explicit model M, and then integrate it into your system, then it does not work as well if you properly design a system that will learn speech recognition on the whole, learning an implicit model M' of the relevant properties of the vocal tract (and the distribution of these properties in different vocal tracts) as a byproduct of that, given sufficient data.

A hypothesis (which does need more research to be demonstrated, though, but we have some empirical evidence for similar things in most aspects of NLP) on the reason for this is that the human-made model M can't be as good as the learned model because it's restricted by the need to be understandable by humans. It's simplified and regularized and limited in size so that it can be reasonably developed, described, analyzed and discussed by humans - but there's no reason to suppose that the ideal model that would perfectly match reality is simple enough for that; it may well be reducible to a parameteric function that simply has too many parameters to be neatly summarizable to a human-understandable size without simplifying in ways that cost accuracy.
Ive never found it either. And there are always comments saying “it’s easy to find” which feeds into the notion that he’s not really anonymous. I don’t buy any of it.
>I think the term UX was defined to go way beyond those concerns, and into areas from marketing, branding, copywriting, all the way to what the actual product is, how it is offered, even pricing.

Interesting! I'm totally on board with this set of concerns - but can you find any reference for your statement? (Anybody on the web who gave a definition of UX similar to yours?)
Professionally, I could see defense attorneys being very concerned by this.

Internally and among colleagues? They're howling with laughter at the hypocrisy of cops who love the idea of "if you're doing nothing wrong, there's nothing to hide."
Does he use standard Hochdeutsch in the book? I would have loved to read it in the original language, but I struggle with easy reading novels targeted at teenagers in German.
The current top contender on AI optical flow uses LESS CPU and LESS RAM than last year's leader. As such, I strongly disagree with the article.

Yes, many AI fields have become better from improved computational power. But this additional computational power has unlocked architectural choices which were previously impossible to execute in a timely manner.

So the conclusion may equally well be that a good network architecture results in a good result. And if you cannot use the right architecture due to RAM or CPU constraints, then you will get bad results.

And while taking an old AI algorithm and re-training it with 2x the original parameters and 2x the data does work and does improve results, I would argue that that's kind of low-level copycat "research" and not advancing the field. Yes, there's a lot of people doing it, but no, it's not significantly advancing the field. It's tiny incremental baby steps.

In the area of optical flow, this year's new top contenders introduce many completely novel approaches, such as new normalization methods, new data representations, new nonlinearities and a full bag of "never used before" augmentation methods. All of these are handcrafted elements that someone built by observing what "bug" needs fixing. And that easily halved the loss rate, compared to last year's architectures, while using LESS CPU and RAM. So to me, that is clear proof of a superior network architecture, not of additional computing power.
In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html
Sounds to me like tech from the nation of Foud, wherever that is.
Money buys food to eat, a home in a safe neighborhood, a night out with friends, nice clothes for dating, an education, etc etc etc. Even if you are discussing depression and mental illness, money buys you therapy, medication, etc etc.

Get out of here with your idea that happiness is some magical thing that money can't buy. Go talk to a homeless person and ask them if money would improve their lives.
> If you think your rewrite was the same exact content, then I'm afraid I don't think you understood what he was saying at all.

Bingo!

He's obviously not a very good writer. I don't need to argue for freedom of speech and equal rights and justice for all because in my world those are givens. I don't need to justify to myself or others why those truths are self evident. Nor do I need to recount a story about being young and stupid. Everyone used to be young and stupid, that's also a given. There is no need to write it on a blog and show how you're so much better than what you used to be. Let your actions show how you are better. I don't need to be told when I can infer directly from someone's actions whether they're good or not. Words are deceptive, actions are truthful.

I don't put words like "very stupid", "angry", "I'm afraid", "fearful", etc. in my writing because I don't identify with those things and I don't want anyone reading my words to identify with them either. If I intend to say something then I say it without flowery language about my youth or emotionally charged words because I reserve those words for private conversations with people that I trust.
Aren’t the tweets ingested by Dataminr public? I agree this would be problematic if they were using private data, but using data available to anyone on the platform feels like fair game.
I think he doesn't complain at all about WASM speed vs JS.

He wants WASM to be closer to C performance. I.e. to move further along this line:

|JS|========>|WASM|=========>=========>========>|C|
Well, one possible reason is that even if people support unions in general, they don't support one engaging in behavior they think is corrupt, illegal, or unethical.
The Prancing Pony vending machine at SAIL
Can somebody explain what is meant by viral shedding here? Some of those links mention cotton swabs used for testing. So viral load is shedding of infectious "compound" into throat and nose mucus. But no symthoms means there is no cough yet. How much of that is shedding into air you breath out? Is it assumed this is the same?
My own experience: having had a good portion of my childhood (after immigration) in a Rocky Mountain West state, I moved to Chicago for school. The first time I came back to visit for Christmas, I was blown away by how white the area was, and that I had never noticed before! Suddenly all of the childhood struggles I had with people quietly judging me fell into place (little things: assuming promiscuity, passing me over for a leadership position for someone less qualified, etc). That Christmas, the only person of color I saw was the guy behind the grocery's store's sushi counter, who was - wait for it, Japanese. It left me deeply disturbed, excited to come back to Chicago and excited to leave that state permanently.
EBS Direct APIs: Create Snapshots from Any Block Storage Device
We all pay people to do things that we could do ourselves that we would rather not do.

Every time we eat out, pay a lawn service to cut our grass, have someone else wash our car.

Yes. It is dumb though to justify it based on how much you get paid hourly. They don’t understand the real concept of opportunity cost.
That's the idea but IMO the major issue with it is that the touchbar is dedicated to the currently in-focus application. That's basically the opposite of what I want, if Zoom is already in focus I can click to leave just as fast as I can use the touchbar to leave. If I have switched over to a browser tab for taking notes and zoom is in the background, that's when it would be useful to be able to leave the zoom meeting from the touchbar.

Edit: Music apps are somewhat privileged and play/pause can be done more globally, but it's still multiple taps, and there are other cases I would like to be able to use.
Eh... I'm not sure about that. When Democrats had control of both houses + the presidency in 2008, they actually got some stuff done (which included the ACA).

The problem with the 115th Congress is that Republicans have done a good job getting their base to believe that various policies are bad for the country, but when push comes to shove even they recognize that: 1 - they have no viable alternative, and 2 - that said policies are better than nothing.

You should not conflate one party's inability to govern with Congress being dysfunctional overall. When the Dems get control of all branches of government again, I fully expect to see the logjam clear up for at least a few years.
isodatetime for ISO 8601:2004, and eventually[1] 8601-1:2019.

python-dateutil for incomplete but stdlibbish ISO 8601:2004.

python-edtf for ISO 8601-2:2019.

However, the ISO 8601-2:2019 spec is something of a clusterfuck born out of EDTF.

Most public discourse about it can be found in various confused crossover threads from people who need open-ended dates for their projects.[2-9]

Here's a haskell implementation of ISO 8601-1:2019 and ISO 8601-2:2019, for reference.[10]

[1]: https://github.com/metomi/isodatetime/issues/138

[2]: https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/

[3]: https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/background.html

[4]: https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/implementations.html

[5]: https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/656

[6]: https://github.com/ixc/python-edtf/issues/24

[7]: https://github.com/saw-leipzig/csv2cmi/issues/18

[8]: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/242

[9]: https://github.com/JohnLukeBentley/open-datetime-standard-bo...

[10]: https://github.com/druimalban/iso8601-timestamp
A book is probably a lower-capital-investment way of testing out the concept
majority of studies are based on sampling
I think the term "Russell Conjugation" captures this well.

https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
Asking for uni-time ignores physics. It just doesn't exist. It can already be measured clocks separated by a meter in altitude run differently. We might have something that works for daily human stuff, but if you leave the planet or ask for Pico seconds, no standard can help...
Lack of tactile feedback and fat finger issues (even while typing) make this unlikely to be true.
> well, ok, but then that just means that the people who would fail a background check will buy privately or from a gun show, and their access isn't really diminished, so the so-called "compromise" was little better than not passing a law at all.

This is a gross misunderstanding of the law. If you run a firearms business, you must have an FFL. If you have an FFL your must perform background checks for transfers regardless of where they occur.

Private party transfers are only from one non-dealer to another and must be infrequent / not a source of income for you. Purchasing a gun on behalf of another (such as to avoid checks) is called a straw purchase and is illegal regardless.
Remove the JS runtime, replace it with a WASM runtime (assuming a future version of WASM with native, non JS DOM support) and relegate Javascript to a language module that just happens to ship with the browser for legacy reasons, along with other popular languages like Rust and Lua.

I would also re-introduce the type attribute to the HTML script tag and extend the tag to allow downloading WASM language runtimes as necessary. If the browser already has it cached, it would use the cached version like any other asset.

The end goal is for all software to be universally accessible and executable from a URL or some similar identifier. It's possible there may need to be another protocol for streaming applications rather than HTTP, I don't know.

This is a vaguely sketched out pie in the sky idea i've had for a while. I have no idea if it's even feasible, but I'd like to see it happen.
Sure. My point wasn't really whether to write unit tests or not. It's more, do what works for you / your team to enable you to ship consistently. For the OP, spending all of their time writing tests clearly isn't working for them if they haven't shipped at all.
Yes https://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/user-manual/#copying...

but beware of SCP https://gravitational.com/blog/scp-familiar-simple-insecure-...
Thank you, that makes perfect sense!
Require simple easily parsable English and as little ambiguity as possible. and then well define every term and phrase. include commenting much like code in the law it self. Along with a version history and changelog for with reasons given for each change.

But we live a the world of common law tradition in the US. and law unfortunately or not does not behave like code.
From the fact that you've been modded down, it seems the author wasn't the only one to forget the TU144.
Those unions wouldn't have the power they do without the unconditional support of many American voters.

Police union endorsements have a lot of sway.
Awful. “Check this out before you leave”

And it includes their articles plus sponsored ads about casinos for me.
>160k

Add a zero for SF.
> But if you just targeted your investments a bit more, you actually have a chance at making real money

1. I prefer passive investing. I already have one job.

2. More risk = more reward. I've purposely chosen this as my risk level.

3. Regardless of whether I'm smart or not, I'm not going to consistently beat the guy who eats-sleeps-and-drinks investing. Oh, and there are millions of him.

4. I believe it WILL allow me to retire earlier (given the power of compound interest and time).
Congress writes the laws. Courts interpret them. Congress can't simply say "oh actually back then we meant this other thing," as that would be completely nullifying the power of the Courts. Yes, they can make an amendment that changes/clarifies the meaning of an existing law, and that might sound like the same thing, but doing that requires the formality of the process -- in particular, bringing it to a vote.
Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries
I'm confused, and I'm not sure what you mean by the "3rd possibility [I] offered already". The New Yorker reporter suggested that maybe Alexander deleted his blog in order to conceal something bad that he'd written there from the NYT. That seems like a serious accusation to me, and I believe:

1. That this accusation is overwhelmingly likely to be false, because deleting the blog while leaving countless mirrors won't actually conceal what he wrote (and will actually popularize it short-term, due a sort of Streisand effect), and Alexander knows that, and Alexander is unlikely to take an action that would be futile or counter-productive.

2. That (1) is sufficiently obvious that the New Yorker reporter had to realize it.

3. That the New Yorker reporter published the accusation anyways, in bad faith (i.e., disingenuously, while knowing or believing that it's false), in order to smear Alexander.

For each step, do you agree or disagree? From your reply earlier, it seemed like you were simply declining to take a position? But you call it an otherwise coherent argument; so maybe you agree the New Yorker reporter probably did write in bad faith? So is our disagreement just whether it's okay to call a reporter for a major magazine who uses that platform to falsely degrade a pseudonymous blogger's reputation "stupid or disingenuous"? I agree that's an insult and not too polite, but it didn't seem particularly harsh given the public smear.

For what it's worth, I agree that my original post was generally flippant, because I was in a hurry and I strongly disliked the article. If you read through my post history, then you'll see that I typically write with more nuance (and that those posts get much less engagement, I guess demonstrating what everyone already knows about social media).
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Does the monthly interest also count towards the $600 for the 1099, or do you also issue a 1099-INT for the monthly interest?
I think you're right about the amount of scrutiny. I think he's pretty firmly a "public figure" now (more deliberately than most), his name is obfuscated at best, and I don't have a problem with the NYT publishing his last name.

I would have a real problem with it if he published under a pseudonym and the NYT were truly doxing him. But I don't think they'd have bothered with his last name at all if he were writing as "Bert Axelrose" or something.