skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, reporting a lack of intelligence that directly links those actions to Antifa, especially only a week after the first protest, does not mean there was no direct link. But have a counterpoint, from some people who already had some intelligence: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/law-enfo...

> "U.S. police officials said they are examining both local and out-of-state actors focused on creating damage and inciting violent confrontations with police (and possibly other protesters) in the name of anarchist and antifa causes."

> "They prepared to commit property damage and directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities."

> "And they developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov cocktails where they thought officers would not be."

Beyond even Antifa and similar groups, my first point is largely about the statement "garden variety robbers unassociated with any political group."

There have been many protests throughout America's history. Most of them are done peacefully. Clearly most of them do not approach the level of violence and destruction that the recent riots and looting accomplished--riots and looting that coincided with those protests. Are we to believe this is largely coincidence?

The images and videos of the damage and looting that was done are out there. Windows, doors, and even entire buildings destroyed and ransacked, with "F* cops", "F* 12", "ACAB", &c. scrawled on the remains. Smashing, grabbing, chanting, it's all out there. There was obviously a political statement meant by many if not most of those people. This is made even more obvious when there are political groups that make statements such as: "By any means necessary", "No justice, no peace", "Give us what we want or we'll burn down the system", &c.

These are obviously politically-motivated actions. You cannot bear witness to all of the radical statements that have been made, also bear witness to the radical acts carried out and publicly supported, and then say the two are not related.
Good point, but its listed as explicitly disclosed and/or sold
Yeah, in some ways this was the perfect outcome for that kind of posturing.

Anecdotally, it seems to me that an actual drop in international student numbers would likely have hurt colleges in Republican-controlled states worse than Democrat-controlled ones. American students armed with student loans would still flock to top universities to make up for the international student shortfall, and I can't think of a top 10 [1] university off the top of my head that's in a state with a Republican governor.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive...
Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture
yikyak failed even with significant funding, why would you ape it exactly?
I don't think the implication is "everyone is doing it" as much as "these data categories (and category descriptions) are standardized across every company."

I am not a lawyer, but I think it is reasonable to assume that this when drafting the law, law makers had to:

- Choose a set of categories that were not to broad and not too narrow, and optimized for reader interpretability/clarity

- Mandate companies to use standard descriptions of these categories in order to prevent them from obfuscating what it was that was being collected.

It's sad to me how many people here immediately assume either malicious intent by iD or incompetence by their lawyers as the only possible explanations. Making something that is widely applicable, easy to interpret, and is meaningful isn't an easy task. Thats not to say that these categories are perfect, just saying there's not an objectively "right" answer.
Something I don't see many people talking about is how Openreach, the UK's main physical layer broadband provider, uses Huawei kit in the majority of its street cabinets and has done since FTTC VDSL was rolled out a decade ago.

5G is the tip of the iceberg with respect to the UK's communications infrastructure involvement with Huawei.
Instead of "borrowed" you could say "owed" as you state. The basic idea is it represents money you have that you're on the hook for. Could be deferred revenue, accounts payable, bank debt, etc. I say "borrowed" because that's a concrete term that maps to a transaction with which most people are familiar.

I'd also argue that you can work through even the most complicated accounting transaction and build the most complex financial statements by repeatedly asking the questions I've outlined in the above framework. Accounting was meant to be simple and accessible for the layman, but for some reason every Accounting 101 class teaches things like "debit means left and credit means right," which causes most people to throw up their hands and just rely on bookkeepers and accountants for all things money related.
This is genius. If you assume that the Trump Administration did this to show their base that they're serious about deporting foreigners to garner election votes, then you can conclude that they've managed to do that with as much publicity as possible at virtually no cost financially.

It's likely they knew this would never go through and didn't want a knockdown drag-out fight in the courts. However, they still capitalized on a situation and should be congratulated for that, regardless of whether or not you agree with the politics.

I would hope that the DNC would learn this tactic and employ it equally as well in the future.
I think this is the most practical realization - That everyone is doing it, and will probably continue doing it until the end of time. If you accept this, then you can quickly constrain the things you should actually worry about to a much smaller list.

The first thing that pops into my mind here is the importance of end-to-end encryption. If you cannot trust anything in the middle (presumably because the internet goes everywhere), perhaps we can at least trust the networks and devices under our immediate control. This is still not perfect because these devices can be compromised at the factory too, but it's still a much better position to be in. I can't make my ISP install core routers that I am comfortable with, but I can make sure that I install network hardware and use computers & phones that I trust on both ends (or convince my counterparties to do the same).
Doesn't need to be considered inflammatory. I don't think questions should be considered inflammatory especially when they don't include recriminations or rude language. In fact the question could be interpreted as accepting the current state of things and only wanting and explanation.

I genuinely was curious. I wanted to update my model of whom was deserving so I could more accurately predict future honorings.
So what are they collecting that qualifies as a medical record? I don’t know how you could dismiss this in such a blasé manner.
Organization of Complexity: A Five Step Implementation for Freelancers
Crazy. Any more examples, details and links?
Allowing this syntax for all functions and methods seems ridiculous, especially with the problems Guido mentions (like how the first argument can't begin with a paren or bracket, wtf). But a limited version of this feature that's specific only to the print statement seems fine. If the parser already has the complexity to issue a warning like:

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(1, 2, 3)?

Then why not just have it DWIM?
Realistically, it would take some compile time conditionals in a bunch of places to get rid of the dependencies. The best part, you'll get paid for all those #ifdefs, whens and #[cfg()]s! You can even split longer functions to be able to wrap each one of them in those conditionals! Where do I sign up?
Moderna Phase 1 Results Show Vaccine Safe and Induces a Immune Response
2024. Cathie Wood's bull case for everything going right for Tesla is 24k/share in 2024. She also breaks out everything else, shows what happens to the share price if autonomy doesn't happen, or if they don't keep building gigafactories, etc.
> I think we can all agree the world would be worse off if Google didn't exist

Very, very strong disagree.

Though I do agree with the general concept here that many essential jobs can be done from home. I also think many companies chose to use their "essential" status to drag people to the office who should've stayed home. Management personnel by and large should've stayed home even when line jobs had to be done on-site. HR, finance, etc. are great examples of staff that should work from home even at an "essential" business, that I often found did not switch to WFH during stay-at-home orders.

Many essential businesses could have half their staff working from home and continue essential services, but many would just say their business doesn't work remote and call it good.
You just don't understand it. See my comment above.
Today I received an email message from SpaceX/Starlink to obtain my "service address." Previously I had provided my email (more than once, actually) on the Starlink "beta" sign-up page. This is the first communication I've seen from them.
There's nothing more painfully frustrating than a customer service agent that tries to handle what they think are my emotional needs.

My emotional needs are that they fix their damn service.
Apparently his only punishment was investing in theranos.
But that's just it- if you read the article, "all of the marbles" are "not the same color". Oversimplifying things into a broader conclusion is often not an improvement.
10 Predictions about the Software Development trends in the 2030s
I agree with the general sentiment of the article, but the following is a big mistake IMHO:

> Some developers would have immediately gone back to the person reporting the problem and required more information before investigating. I try and do as much as I can with the information provided.

Some developers have a hard time with interpersonal communication but you can't isolate yourself if you're working in an org. That mindset will inevitably make you less effective (I learned that the hard way).
Yes, but you can trust your senses enough to tell you're in the air and not yet dead.

Software with no output doesn't give you even that.
What I've realized is that Elon Musk simply puts less value on individual human lives than most others do. I don't mean that quite as harshly as it comes off, but it does seem that Elon likely believes the world would be a better place if all of the "dumbest" people were allowed to get themselves killed, allowing the rest of the human race to move forward. He may have a point, but I can't go down that path with him.
I use a couple of sheets of pre-cut blackout dot stickers in various sizes. More expensive than just using the duct tape, but the cleaner look is nice.
I used to get this, along with some other anxiety stuff. A low dose of prozac taken 2x per week totally eliminated it (anecdata i know, but i thought it was interesting).
Am I missing something? The article says this was a May 2019 deal. Why is this news now?
The slave labor that the USSR used was abhorrent.

According to this study [0] the gulag deaths were approximately 830,000 from 1934 to 1953. It is important to know however that 70% of the deaths occurred between 1941 and 1944 (included) so they can kinda be attributed to difficulties from War Period. Also, it's important to note that antibiotics didn't become available until after WW2.

To put things into perspective, I have an interesting comparison for you. Using the same source as above for the USSR, and this report [1] from the Bureau of Justice Statistics we can say that Mortality in the gulag in 1953 (236 deaths per 100,000 prisoners) was lower than mortality in US prisons today, both in state prisons (303 deaths per 100,000 prisoners) and federal prisons (252 deaths per 100,000 prisoners).

Hope it's useful.

[0]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2166597?read-now=1&refreqid=exc...

[1]: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6766
The content is still "up". This request was only to remove the search results. Removal of the results means Google cannot profit from the content. However, the publishers of the content can still profit. In some cases, the information may be published as a part of the public record, a service financed through taxes on citizens. In such cases, it is arguable there should be no "profit". However third party "tech companies" are routinely utilising public records to generate web traffic to satisfy their advertising, tracking and user data collection "business" models.

"Right to be forgotten" enables people to ask search engines to remove certain results. It does not enable them to, e.g., ask newspapers to remove articles that contain accusations of harassment.

As long as the articles remain available from the original publisher, the newspaper, the "right to be forgotten" has no effect on access to the information. What it does do is cut out the search engine online ad sales services middleman, the Google web search engine, and forces the reader to go to the original publisher of the information.

A third party search engine could theoretically be purely objective in its presentation of search results however it could also be non-objective, e.g., biased in favour of advancing its own interests. Now the reader has an additional potential source of bias to deal with, besides the newspaper -- the search engine.

If "right to be forgotten" were the law of land worldwide, then perhaps it would put evolutionary pressure to develop more innovative methodologies and mechanisms for web users to find information on the web without using third party middlemen, e.g., ad-supported web search engines. Currently, we have continuing evolutionary pressure to centralize all web access through a few third party websites, e.g., Google.
People get too caught up in attaching technology to a given place or person. "Chinese technology" vs "US technology". And probably a related phenomenon, when the "lead engineer in charge of the original Pentium" goes to work for Samsung or something (hypothetically), people think that means that Samsung is going to start making x86 processors or something silly like that.

Technology is bigger than any one person or place. Samsung could make x86 chips just fine without hiring a single Intel engineer, if they put enough money behind the project. Likewise, China could out-innovate silicon valley if they poured trillions into it (and I'm sure they make that calculation yearly and decide not to). Likewise, the US could build fabs and get back up to speed with China when it comes to chip production, but they would have to pour trillions into it, and it would disrupt our image of green/clean technology.
For the people on Linux using ultrawides, I recomment Xephyr at 1080p. You can put whatever you want to stream in there, and still have the real estate of the rest of your screen. It's super nice :)
Sad? You’re feeling bad that a corporation might be judged unfairly? Jesus christ.
Waitlists are based on state funding in many ways, and international students don't take up that funding allotment, and in many ways increase the number of subsidized students.

If it's a place like stanford which hasn't increase it admission count much since the 1960s, that is a completely different issue.
The international war crimes court is not limited to only persons who have committed genocide against their own people.
> There is also a small difference in DRAM support – TR Pro supports up to 2 TB, but EPYC supports 4 TB. All of the Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors are single socket only.

This is probably a small misprint; EPYC only supports 2TB per socket, or 4TB on multi-socket boards.

In that regard, TRPro looks like its just a re-branded EPYC chip.
You are splitting hairs. The problem isn't whether someone has their hands on the controls or not, it's the fact that the operator isn't paying attention to what's going on outside the vehicle.
I didn't even realise that was all that the touted "Tesla Autopilot" did, so much was the hype around the internet. My 20k car does the same then (lane keeping + auto emergency braking).
As they say, the road to Perl is paved with good intentions.

There are several languages that people like for this sort of flexibility, but I think Python's relative rigidity has always been one of its strengths.
100 $ / kWh battery packs. Or the range of the Semi, deemed 'physically impossible' by a Daimler exec. Let's see how that goes.

Musk's whole point is this: much more things are technologically feasible, but most people / companies limit themselves within apparent constraints.

As mentioned: he's a physicist. From a physics standpoint, only a small amount of things are actually impossible. Only the deepest fundamentals give rise to constraints, and only those are the constraints he accepts. Everything else is debatable. At least. Sure, money so that he can throw army of talented engineers at problems helps. But it's his whole point! If it's your goal and it's possible in principle, reach for it.

Be it batteries, reusable rockets, autopilot.

That's why he says that it's possible in principle to achieve level 5 autonomy without lidar (having worked with lidar as chief engineer at SpaceX) and that it's possible in principle to do brain-machine-brain communication of language or complex ideas within a decade.

It might not work eventually. If so, it might be very well delayed for years.

But there is a reason that ppl like Thiel or Palihapitiya say: never bet against Elon.

Imagine Tesla actually rolling out level 5 autonomy within a year or two...
There is an attempt at intrusion from Sony though:

To use the YouTube app, it asks you to associate a Sony app to your YouTube account, that can track your video history (in or out of the PS4) and reserves the right to share videos to your YouTube channel, publicly.
For a detailed perspective on how the proof works, I highly recommend Ernest Nagel and James Newman's book Gödel's Proof [0], mentioned in the article. Alternatively, Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader is a classic which serves as a great (and more accessible) introduction to the proof [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden...
Pretty much the same as the P series EPYC chips, though they don’t seem to have SEV support and use a completely new chipset/socket instead of SP3.
And when Vietnam invaded Cambodia and stopped the genocide in two weeks, this happened:

> Although Sihanouk distanced himself from the human rights abuses of the Khmer Rouge, he accused Vietnam of using aggression to violate Kampuchea's sovereignty. As such, he demanded all UN countries suspend aid to Vietnam and not recognize the Vietnamese-installed regime. Subsequently, seven non-aligned members of the UN Security Council submitted a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Kampuchea, which was endorsed by China, France, Norway, Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom. However, the resolution was not approved due to opposition from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese...
>So how would you operate each of these bespoke services? One service uses TCP, one uses UDP, one uses SCTP. What happens if your buffer sizes are incorrect?

Such bullshit. Since when we use UDP for a CRUD service ? Since when SCTP is even considered outside of the telecom world?

HTTP and Rest-like API have been able to handle properly simple CRUD API since 20 years without problems, way before gRPC was even a thing.

gRPC has its usage for large, complex API that required a proper RPC framework. But in 99% of the case, yes it's an overkill.
Oh absolutely, there are many differences between in person and online, and (as you said) the size of the audience definitely matters. Part of the job of instructors is to work the crowd, and in that sense it is not different from any other kind of performance. Setting matters.

I guess I was making a point in reaction to the many "hybrid" in person / online courses being offered by universities, for the fall and possibly beyond. Hybrid is actually harder than either 100% in person or 100% online.
Don't be afraid to put unfinished code or code without tests up on GitHub -- just mention in your README that it's not production-ready yet or something. It still has educational value for the community. Maybe someone will even help you write tests! Btw, thanks for sharing -- I had never heard of the R-Tree data structure before.
Your comment calls out a couple of US presidents by name but does not come close to mention Cuba's regime, let alone any of his leaders, a single time.

Do you believe that the US has most of the responsibility while Cuba's dictatorship has none at all?
I couldn’t find any after a quick search, but are you aware of any studies that compare EV to ICE safety normalized for model year? It would be an interesting comparison given the assumption that there are a lot more older (and this less safe) ICE vehicles on the road
> You're flying! How?

> Python! I learned it last night! Everything is so simple! Hello world is just: print "Hello, world!"

> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Hello, world!")?

> I dunno... dynamic typing? Whitespace?

> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!

> But how are you flying?

> I just typed: imports antigravity as ag

> TypeError: imports() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given
I don't know enough about Kissinger to have a strong opinion about him, but I think the idea is that Kissinger got away with a lot of awful stuff because he was responsible for a lot of horrendous things done to other peoples. If Hitler had left the Jews in Germany and Austria alone and just killed the Jews in Poland would that have made things any better?

Again, I am not taking a stance since I haven't done enough research, just explaining why theoretically someone could think that Kissinger committed crimes against humanity without killing any Americans or even violating American laws.
Hi everyone! OP here.

Why write another article on JPEG when there are already hundreds of articles on the internet? Well, normally when you read articles on JPEG, the author just gives you details about what the format looks like. You don’t implement any code to do the actual decompression and decoding. Even if you do write code, it is in C/C++ and not accessible to a wide group of people. I tried to change that through this article. I give you a guided tour of JPEG encoding/decoding process and show you how it can be implemented in Python3.

I mainly focus on decoding baseline encoded JPEG images.
> I know I am being mean to Elon by calling him an idiot [...] But facts are facts.

You are not being mean, just silly. Elon clearly isn't an "idiot" however you stretch the meaning of the word, he's a highly capable and successful man and has demonstrated repeatedly his skill, both in engineering and entrepreneurship. And your opinion isn't a fact.
> those areas that can afford scholarly work tend to make use of/ABUSE free resources the most ??

oohhh, this is ringing some bells right now
I firmly believe that when I buy a phone I take ownership of the phone and this means also responsibility and potential risk of the phone being destroyed through my carelessness. Since Apple is no longer owner of the phone they are only responsible for their own actions with regards to the phone.

That still means if there is a hidden fault in the phone or they brick it by sending an update, they are still responsible in my understanding. But no longer if I give the device to family member and he/she is careless enough to sit on it.