skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is another thing, it would be even better if we could control E2E encryption per room.

Since we do everything in the open, instead of needing something like XMPP for private conversations, and IRC for public conversations, we could simply have private rooms with E2E encryption for the team, and public rooms for everyone else.

I wish IRC had E2E encryption.

In the end, I think we might stay with XMPP with OMEMO for private conversations — or Matrix, depending on how well weechat-matrix work —, and use mailing lists for public discussions. We already use them for patches anyway.
The comparison to Windows is laughable. IOS market share is less than 33%.
Summers could become 'too hot for humans'
For embedded uses, RISC-V is perfectly capable and in fact being used by a bunch of companies already (mostly in China).
With this I might be able to build a machine that can play Cities: Skylines with some speed when working on a large city!
There is no citizenship requirement for owning stocks of American companies. While U.S. investment securities are regulated by U.S. law, there are no specific provisions that forbid individuals who are not citizens of the U.S. from participating in the U.S. stock market.
> FWIW 4chan has accounts

The Wikipedia page[1] claims that “Registration is not possible”. Is it wrong, or am I misunderstanding?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
Businesses want wages to be secret and may even adopt policies that ban employees from discussing it, but in the U.S. employees' rights to discuss pay amongst themselves are protected under the NLRA.

https://www.insperity.com/blog/when-employees-discuss-wages/
I still occasionally use a now over 40 years old Nikon FE that, despite having never been serviced as far as I can tell, still works flawlessly. It even does some things better than even the most modern DSLRs, it can, for example automatically expose exposures several minutes long correctly (far outside spec, but works). Impeccable quality. The old Ai-S lenses, too, entirely made from glass, brass, aluminium and some steel with a touch of cement, it pleases the gods. Zeiss still makes them like they used to.
I don't know of any country other than the US which gives food stamps to unemployed people. Elsewhere, they're given cash payments, and the alcohol abuse problem you mention is rare enough that food stamps aren't considered as an alternative. In the UK, there's housing benefit which might be similar to the US's Section 8. As rents/mortgage interest payments vary depending on where you live, it makes sense for this to be paid, directly to the landlord/bank, in addition to unemployment benefit.
>4chan is not just an image board, but an intelligence service too.

Let's not go too far, Pizzagate and QAnon started on 4chan as well. Calling it an "intelligence service" implies a degree of agency or purpose that 4chan doesn't have, or even care about.
Trump wants nothing more than to “win” against perceived competitors.

Remember when Twitter fact checked those Trump tweets?

Trump is the type of petty person to not let something like this go.
> “Oh this person just throws stuff on Medium? Probably not worth my time.”

This is just the worst attitude. Someone's not worth your time because they don't have the knowledge or time to stand up a website on their own domain? People who aren't web developers might still have something interesting to say.
You think government-run organizations are that efficient?
Have you ever been to the DMV?
> In the West you can only go so far, back there, especially if you have specialized technical knowledge, you have a chance to make an impact at scale that would never be possible in the West . . . . I am not sure what the U.S. can really do about this without adopting essentially the same repression as in China. I.E. control the flow of personal. [sic]

The U.S. economy is nearly 2x larger than China's, and if you're counting the entire "West" (I'm guessing you mean Europe + US?), it's about 4x larger. And that's just looking at GDP; if you consider GDP per capita, the difference is even starker: the U.S. is nearly 7x higher. In terms of immigration, the U.S. has roughly 750x more inbound immigration than China [1], and the EU has similar numbers [2].

I don't think the numbers back up what you're saying here — they contradict it pretty soundly. In fact, the U.S. currently is (IMO stupidly) trying to prevent people from coming at all because it has such a huge volume of inbound immigration.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe
Recreating Oberon in D sounds like an interesting blog post. Please write about it!
I'm guessing you're being facetious, but it has come up and it's covered in the FAQ: https://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/
Geez that sounds exactly like how the place I work at works. Interesting!
I'd call https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process the major advance and Gilchrest-Thomas a refinement. Shrug.
Ah yeah okay the idea of using that short of a time window didn’t occur. I retract my devils advocating.
I think I see the disconnect then: ML researchers are often the people who build the datasets. Datasets aren't something that grow in the wild, nor is it usually a task for ML engineers. So the original tweet wasn't really offloading the problem; it was self-criticism (though it's understandable it didn't sound like it).
Can you give an example of why UltraEdit is better than emacs? Thanks!
Regardless of the merits of this idea, it seems a tricky thing to implement. What is the polar opposite of right wing political videos? It's tempting to say left wing political videos, but both are political videos and thus not opposite each other along that particular dimension. So obviously you have to pick and choose which dimensions you want flipped and which you don't. Otherwise the opposite of political videos might be... a documentary about marbles or something. That wouldn't be very useful.
I see the value on this. As a very, very bad player, but with some knowledge, it´s a game that rewards heavily the ability to strategize, optimize builds for different, very quick situations, and shows dedication.

Unfortunately, I agree that it´s a poor thing to say in a presentation, as it requires people to actually know the game to understand why that would be good. People who don´t play might just think "what do I care that he's good at a game?"
It looks like the code is actually stored in plain text, and that this is basically microfilm?
Namba Food: Top Delivery Service in Central Asia
Npmjs reducing salaries for employees up to 50% post acquisition by GitHub
I am the OP and the way this normally works is that we would speak out if someone did something in the wrong way, for example a step in a process was forgotten. It’s better to step in (ha) and help out and make the suggestion of how to fix it.

But to write out constructive feedback which goes against your colleagues record, so that they have to show how they received this feedback and the steps they did to remedy it, seems a bit much.

For example, how do I know that a certain piece of feedback might be really difficult/impossible for you to fix and then you lose out on a %age salary increase or promotion because of it?

I can’t write ‘mr x could really work on coming to work earlier’, as that’s not my job. What if I write ‘mr x. would have been better to use x pattern in his development because ...’, as that would mean I have oversight of how they are doing their work and I haven’t spoken up in time. Which seems crazy.

If you are doing something wrong or something that can be improved, I would prefer to tell you point in time, and when the context is right.

To leave ‘constructive feedback’ against your personal record removes a lot of context, and has the potential to damage your career and our relationship.

I don’t like it!
> The FBI has some very effective ways to pick faces out of the crowd once there's real money on the line.

Like what? Any proof?

How many crimes out of 100 do you think are actually caught and prosecuted by the FBI?
Using a tripcode would be the closest thing 4chan has to an "account" that I'm aware of, but it doesn't require registration, it just adds a (theoretically) unique identifier to posts.
That quote relies on a Euro-centric view of world history (and some bad geography) and completely ignores centuries of history during the middle ages where knowledge and wealth was being concentrated in the Islamic world and basically all of Asian history.
> I would love to understand the software process breakdowns that allow that "Charlie" code to make it into production!

In embedded systems FW-space is at a premium.

If you can avoid embedding a full crypto-stack in your firmware and replace it with 5 lines of C, which provides at least some safety, more often than not (depending on the use-case), that might be the right decision.

I mean, even if the encryption used here was proper RSA, the method discussed in this article might lead to disclosing the key and cracking the protocol anyway.
For all we know Huawei might do so too, plus HiSilicon makes their own modems while Apple buys them from Intel.

Mac sales are essentially insignificant compared to phone sales, and nowhere near enough to make up the gap in units between Huawei and Apple.
What are the form of the emails? text@singledomain.com, text@disposible.email.service.com ? What if the service requires constant SMS OTP that you cannot opt out of?
As a Canadian living in the US: it really isn't. The US wants to believe it isn't a dumpster fire but beyond its natural beauty (literally the Chinese name for America means "beautiful country", of which I'm jealous because the Chinese name for Canada is Jianada) and high salary there are so, so many reasons why it is not a very desirable place to live. Institutional racism and a comically horrible healthcare system are some examples. Many Americans are quite delusional about this.

One big benefit of living there is you won't be bombed by the US military, I guess.
It should be noted that iron was still around before iron-ore mining. But metallurgists back then had to wait for meteorites to fall from the sky and craft those (King Tut's meteorite-iron sword).

But yes, the leap from copper/bronze (which could be discovered by simply dropping rocks into a fire, since copper melts at low enough temperatures) vs iron, which is a process that requires much hotter temperatures + forging techniques, is huge.

Learning to mix metals into alloys would eventually lead to the discovery of steel (mix iron + wood). Not as good as modern steel, but trial-and-error would get a process down over the centuries for sure.

The "Iron Forge" seems to be the hardest step in the whole tech tree. Its a huge leap, no matter how I think about it. Maybe some old pre-history metallurgist was lucky enough to play with meteorite-iron and noticed similarities to ore somewhere else.
If one is talking about steel/iron metallurgists of all time, you cannot ignore Indian metallurgists. Some iron implements built in ancient India match or even surpass the quality of similar implementations of current time.
Find a broker that will get you a no-cost refi (they wrap the costs into the principal, raising your payment about 1-2%). You can easily do better than what you're getting now.
> If we preserve open hardware and software, then we could rebuild in the case of civilizational decline and the accompanying knowledge loss

...can we?

I'm sometimes a little concerned about how complicated chip fabs are. They feel like something that could take generations to rebuild, even if we had all the knowledge on what to do.
The f6 is high end low volume product. They only make and sell a couple hundred a year.
Matlab: Great for prototyping and tinkering.
Here is the WBM archive of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20200708064647/https://www.howeq...

(for those who can't access the original site due to it being hugged to death)
I'm having an ADHD night and I had the same thought, except I haven't died yet. Felt like giving up three times already, but I did have a click moment after playing around with a scheme repl for a couple of minutes. I understand the first example of call/cc now!

(display
(call/cc (lambda (cc)
(display "I got here.\n")
(cc "This string was passed to the continuation.\n")
(display "But not here.\n"))))

Edit: Tried playing around with mit-scheme, but it doesn't work with the ctrl-v'ing the examples. Chezscheme does work.
Living Wills and the CoronaVirus
We are all so worried about the CoronaVirus pandemic that now's the time to prepare your wills.
As David Rosenthal (formerly of Sun, NVIDIA, and Stanford) explains, the actual Arctic Code Vault is a PR stunt, and has almost no chance of helping anyone in any kind of realistic disaster scenario: https://blog.dshr.org/2019/11/seeds-or-code.html

That said, the rest of the project, which focuses on preserving several independent copies of repositories hosted on GitHub with a handful of partner organizations, is quite useful. From the same post: "They are using a range of technologies, making feeds available over the Internet, and partnering with the Internet Archive, the Software Heritage Foundation and the Bodleian Library. These are mostly things which will get used in the foreseeable future, and should be applauded for that reason."
They aren’t directly controlled by the government though.

And you have plenty of organisations like NPR and PBS which are truly independent.

Also anyone can create a news site or blog without worrying about it being blocked.
> One thing I've seen lately is that YouTube will recommend a video that I've already watched all of it. And they know I've watched it because I leave the watch history on and it has the red bar showing how far through the video i watch.

This may surprise you, but if I like a video I'll watch it a few dozen times. I say this might surprise you since it certainly surprises my friends who make this complaint.

The accommodations the algorithms make for people like me is probably making it worse for people like you.
> Don't presume I'm arguing in bad faith or dismiss my arguments as "feelings" just because I disagree with you

You're right, and I apologize. It's a long and heated comment thread :-)

> I've been trying to show that it's a valid concern.

Are you at least somewhat more convinced now that these "concerns" are really more about casting doubts on the validity of California's elections? And on automatic registration in general? Because the facts are that undocumented people aren't registered to vote when they get a license or ID, even if they try to.

> It took some 15 comments and multiple sources before this safeguard was posted - it's not even on the Snopes page.

Agreed. It took me some digging to find the exact source too, and I'm surprised Snopes didn't have it. It should have been right at the top of the article.

> Penalties don't matter if no one is enforcing them.

If there was something to find, there would be enforcement. I've already shown that it isn't hard to find evidence of wrongdoing. Why aren't state or federal prosecutors going after them?
It's funny to see Google/Facebook get slagged over China. Anyone who truly cared about companies doing business in China should try to discriminate between companies that are actually doing what they are arguing for and the ones that aren't, but often I think it's just another hammer to bash the companies they don't like.
Agreed! As noted in other answer, Snorkel certainly does not work for everything :) And indeed, in many cases it may be easier to express what you know extensionally (label examples) vs intensionally (write functions). A lot comes down to the unit cost per label over time- and whether it's more economical to label a bunch of data by hand vs. write LFs or similar.

That's btw why a lot of examples of ML today are ones where data is (i) simple for non-experts to label, (ii) non-private and therefore easy to outsource for labeling, and (iii) low rate of change (e.g. images for self-driving, basic NLP stuff for chat bots, etc)- this kind of data can be labeled cheaply and once, so hand-labeled training sets are (barely) economically feasible to build manually. However, most data is not that easy or cheap to label, needs to be relabeled constantly to adapt to change, and thus the investment in a programmatic approach is often far better even if certainly not push-button!
Recruiters call me a lot in the UK. I assume it's because they're able to command your attention as long as you stay on the line. Emails are easily ignored.
That's not objective though. For instance I prefer a PDF to a mailed invoice.
"social critic and mathematician" is very biased
Fun fact: The Chromium dev tools are "just another web app": https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
That's a good suggestion, and as it happens I use web clients when possible as well.

That sucks in a different way, as the experience tends to be sub par, but at least it works (when on desktop - it's high friction when I've only got my phone to hand).

It's still much like having a different application for every community or work client though - only it's become a different tab for each of them, with the tabs organised by application rather than by usefulness (or there are too many tabs), which is a poor way to organise.

It also makes it difficult to organise information beyond the crude tools provided. Desktop notifications exist, yes, but I would find it so much more useful to be able to filter content and notify me of only relevant things, sort, pin, annotate, link and so on. And for this prioritisation and context management to mediate between different information sources globally, rather than having to use my own brain to do it manually, which I find to be a significant cognitive load.
This definitely originated from the Chris Sacca anecdote about Travis Kalanick being one of the top Wii Tennis players - it either came out in a start-up podcast or some shark tank episode.

Anecdotally watching and following top e-sports players (in Overwatch in particular) I would see high video game performance as at best a neutral indicator... those archetypes of people are typically very good at the one activity they do all day and very poor at taking care of themselves or sticking to things that don't immediately excite them.

Finally, for many video games are a coping mechanism and may be a better red flag indicator for past trauma, depression, etc.
Yeah there are a crazy number of people yoloing in crazy options plays right now. Their job must be much much harder these days if that’s the case.
The story says right up front in the subhed that the flooding didn't reach the seeds. But the quotes make it pretty clear that what did happen was out of spec.

For something that's meant to survive any catastrophe that might happen over centuries to come, it's not a good sign to see that happen so early. It's extra bad to see it driven by a trend, namely global warming, that we're continuing to push farther and farther and have shown few signs of stopping.
Show HN: Stream ethereum event logs on etherstream.io
Hi HN!

I made a tool to stream ethereum event logs https://www.etherstream.io, and I would love to get some feedback. I've found that it is extremely useful to be able to quickly "tail" logs from particular contracts while developing Dapps. My hope is to get a link on etherscan.io event logs (for example, https://etherscan.io/tx/0x75512fd4151dafce8f5a6b8b406d58f2ce...) so you can jump directly from an individual event log to the stream of those logs.

There are a few rough edges (the front end talks directly to Infura with a key I made with a throwaway email, so this won't be able to handle a huge surge of traffic until I add a backend), but if this project gains some traction, I'll smooth them out.

If you're someone who develops apps that interact with the ethereum blockchain, please let me know what you think!

Elliot
They made off with $117k in their bitcoin wallet, which is not connected to any exchanges:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
Does Zulip have India/Asia pricing?

Slack has an exchange rate adjusted pricing which is much cheaper (in dollar terms) for people paying from India.
SlateStarCodex on why this is deceptive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200303232829/https://slatestar...
Someone posted a few tweets to try small variations, and now many of the examples look very similar.
Which is why I’m always surprised the F6, to borrow a phrase from Apple, “remains a product in our lineup”.

There’s so many used and seemingly indestructible film cameras floating around. I guess there’s some market for a factory-warranty film SLR, but I’m not sure what said market is. If I was going to shoot film, I’d find a Nikon F5, which would also double as a medieval flail for self-defense.

(Or I’d pull my 1983 Pentax off the shelf.)
Or would it just allow for a clearer connection between what the audience wants and what gets "printed" without an editorial influence? The problem isn't centralization, the problem is we're building confirmation bias engines.
I personally know people in a large semiconductor company in China that moved to Vietnam having been born there with a family and 2 kids.

Which is kind of insane to think about. I don’t know them too well otherwise I’d ask them of their reasons for moving permanently out of China.

Just that I have a sample size of 1, so take it with a grain of salt.
Yeah, closing the Manix2 is harder than the PM2. Grip strength and practice are all I can recommend. I grip the handle with all my fingers (not covering the slot) with the butt/pommel nestled in the the palm. This gives you the leverage to reach forward with thumb and index finger to pull rearwards on the locking nubs. Then you can whip your wrist to get the blade to seat, or just reach forward with the thumb to pull it in.

edit: when you've got the nubs pulled back, you have to give it a little shake shift the blade a little.
I think SDRAM can do

REQUEST1-REQUEST2---RESPONSE1-RESPONSE2

can't it?
I love unusual discoveries like this. Reminds me of watching the Star Trek TNG episode about silicon-based lifeforms as a kid and wishing real-life had more strange discoveries like that.