skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuck at home with more time on my hands I've been rereading a lot of old sf. I just finished the last of John Twelve Hawk's 4th realm trilogy which has a modern technological Panopticon society as it's central theme. While some of the technological speculation is strictly fiction, it's surprising how much the series (last volume published 2009) foreshadows modern surveillance trends. The trends mentioned in the article could have dropped right into the story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Realm_Trilogy
Sorry if it was confusing, I really wanted to mention both a) lexical ambiguities b) syntactic ambiguities as possible obstacles for NLP.

> Unlike German, English typically has very rigid word order, so in the context of a sentence, you'll know if a specific word is a noun or a verb.

So you say you are able to guess from the word order what part of speech a particular word is. But with German you hardly need all this guessing.

If you compare two marginal examples:
- English "time flies like an arrow"
- German "Wenn Fliegen fliegen hinter Fliegen..."

you'll find out the English one has way more possible interpretations.
Would be simpler to do RAID6 encoding and then encrypt the results.
Being a monopoly is NOT illegal. It seems many people think once a company has a monopoly, they need to be broken into separate pieces. This is fiction. A monopoly would only be illegal if a business uses its monopoly power to stifle competition.
Wow, I'm shocked by your anger. His disowning the petty concept of a legal apology written in his name seems totally reasonable, mostly because the recipient is the UFC, and not an individual who suffered any kind of legitimate harm.
> I care about technologies used, how will it enhance my career for my next job, location, and salary.

How would you know this without doing your research? You've proved my point.
Not sure why this comment is downvoted, seems pretty accurate https://www.salon.com/2020/05/07/top-trump-donor-who-gave-mo...
> 1) Taxes.

What taxes are you talking about? You mentioned that you were selling through app stores, which I assume handled sales taxes for you in the few cases when they may be required. Your business income taxes would be the same as any business in your city/county/state/country. What else is there?
> the user has the ability and responsibility to control all aspects of access to the keys.

It should be obvious to you that this is crazy talk.
The Flavorful Story of Vanilla
Awesome. I can imagine it being a struggle to get front-end devs on board, but I'm glad to hear it's working well.

Thanks for answering.
"Diversity" has unfortunately become an Orwellian word for me. I find it unsettling that people are essentially being treated like collectibles and corporations strive to own every different color/gender. You could have a group of people with the same color and gender yet vastly different personalities, ideas, culture, etc. But HR will take one look at them and assume they are inherently similar. As if only adding in some other colors and genders could bring the desired level of uniqueness. The high level of focus on skin color and gender strikes me as extremely racist and sexist, despite attempting to be the opposite.
It'd be more helpful if you provided specifics. Also, conflating postal balloting and COVID-19 is inappropriate.

In principle, you should advocate for the Australian Ballot, which is private voting and public counting.

The election integrity gold standard is casting ballots at poll sites which are tabulated onsite the moment the polls close and the results shared immediately.

Some of the larger identified risks of postal balloting, generally, are mass disenfranchisement, losing the secret ballot, ballots and votes lost to the process, making auditing much harder, and pre-tabulating votes (as ballots are received).

Specific precautions and safe guards are required to mitigate these risks. Even well intentioned election administrators often don't have the resources, skills, and experience to conduct large postal balloting (aka vote-by-mail).

Despite all the known risks, the benefit of enfranchising people who'd other wise not be able to vote is reason enough to support vote-by-mail.

In conclusion, at this time, the correct policy position at this time is to dramatically increase funding for election administration and deploy 1,000s of election observers.
I've never used F# in any serious capacity, but OCaml compilation time is really fast. Ocaml multicore is going to drop soon, so mainline OCaml should finally have a real concurrency story soon. The effects system looks pretty interesting.
No affiliation, but I got a good (and now heavily used) rice cooker from this company; apparently it’s the same manufacturer as the Cuckoo models: https://www.yumasia.co.uk/sakura-multifunction-rice-cooker-w...
Maybe? It seems like saying at least half of the population is not capable of your job is elitist.

I could be misunderstanding something about what you're saying.
Good book - recommended sci fi if you are into that sort of thing.
If understand that right you have a thread that only looks for now-open jobs and assigns them to workers? How do they receive their work?

Funny enough, what you're describing is basically the timer api that was used in warcraft 3 scripting.
I agree the exact terms of funding requirements (10 years) for USPS were politically motivated to weaken it, but the philosophy of funding accrued benefits is sound, and it was long overdue. The same should be required of all entities issuing defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare.

Also, I find it ridiculous that retirement medical benefits can just be cut anytime, as they are part of the compensation agreement. It's just a fluke of the law that it was never enshrined like defined benefit pensions were.

I don't see where the USPS is required to use T-bill rates to value liabilities in the tex of the PAEA law:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr6407/text

>who shall hold membership in the American Academy of Actuaries and shall be qualified in the evaluation of pension obligations, to conduct a review in accordance with generally accepted actuarial practices and principles and to provide a report to the Commission containing the results of the review.
Synology NAS does this very well.
They're Floridians. They've fortified their immune systems by huffing bath salts and committing acts of cannibalism.

It's baffling watching commentators describing the dangerously elevated levels of nitrogen tetroxide juxtaposed with the crew members wandering around in short sleeves.
When they docked, the first words from the ISS crew were about where they could put their trash.

Making it look mundane seems like a conscious choice.
Facebook is a great piece of software. Facebook is also breaking any privacy rules they can get away with breaking. Which way should we judge them? Sorry, for some people it's both.
You can usually switch to a different company when you're not happy with the work they do, it's much harder to switch to a different state.
Sticky tape trick led to Nobel Prize
[0] https://privacy.com
Plenty of mature technology/companies are on the front page of HN daily.
That's why CCP banned them in China.
> I am sure that if PASemi is spun off Apple, it may be the hottest CPU company in the world.

This may be true, but it seems hard to make the case that Apple is using monopoly power to stifle innovation in the CPU market, of all things.

> I am sure that the Apple services will also do better outside the Apple hardware group.

Really? I'm not at all sure that Apple Music, for instance, would be competitive with Spotify if it wasn't bundled with iOS devices -- I can't think of any other unbundled music service that's competitive with them. (And how many of your Android-using friends are Apple Music subscribers? It's technically possible, right?) Likewise, would lots of people be lining up to use iCloud if Macs, iPhones and iPads started with what amounts to "click here to use iCloud?" iMessage, maybe? Eh, maybe, but.

> In fact, many good things may happen in the long term by actually applying the anti-monopoly laws and breaking up a few companies instead of working around the laws.

Sure, but I'm not convinced the problems with Apple's App Store policies are best addressed by forcing Apple to spin off "The App Store Company." They'd be much better addressed by forcing Apple to allow sideloading of apps (probably using the "Gatekeeper" technology they already have in place on Macs, which I naïvely thought would have come to iOS by now) and relaxing in-app purchase rules to the point where apps that don't -- or can't, like Amazon Kindle -- use Apple's in-app purchase framework can at least tell you how to buy content from it. Hell, as some HN nerds would tell you, you could get a huge chunk of the way there simply by forcing Apple to build full PWA support into WebKit. None of those things require Apple to be broken up in any material way.

Also, side note:

> Google executives were saying some years ago that if Android was not part of Google, it would have been one of hottest startups in the valley.

You know Android was one of the hottest startups in the Valley and that's why Google bought them, right? :) (Arguably hotter than PA Semi was when Apple bought them!)
The log demo only shows Log Y Scale. Am I to assume that it can also do Log/Log scales or Log X scale too?
I wouldn't call F# an OCaml derivative, but rather they are both ML derivatives.
Restatement of the other responder:

You put a repeater on (at least) one side of every bottleneck to remove redundant traffic.
You can't exactly blame their curiosity. They are Floridians, so it's not like there's a lot common sense though. "Florida Man assists SpaceX recovery!" You know that during launches, people would attempt to get a closer view as well if it wasn't so secure. Look at the nimrods that encroach airport landings to feel the jet wash. Next time, there will probably be a larger escort fleet though.
Improving Pulse Diversity in the Iterative Setting
Amd64 caught up and passed it when?
Unlike the US, Europe doesn't require a monopoly for certain anticompetitive behaviours to be deemed illegal.
This is presuming you have democracy now, when studies that show that congressional policy has no correlation to the interests of the people at large but a meaningful correlation to lobbyist money.

In a republic, representatives are meant to be selected as being a stand in for the majority of their electorates will and interests. In aggregate, such authentic representatives would then be proposing policy and instituting an agenda corresponding to the desires of a majority of the public at large.

Studies show a supermajority support in the US now for drug war deescalation, universal health care, military disarmament and an end to the Middle Eastern occupations, more equitable tax code, and more. Policies a substantial minority in congress are even remotely interested in considering let alone passing.

Its not much of a democracy if the people you elect, in aggregate, are not actually acting in the interests of their electorate. At all. Its a democracy in name, but a plutocracy in practice, and to be fair this was the structural intent of the founding documents. Having a senate is undemocratic. Having an electoral college is undemocratic. First past the post voting is undemocratic. Historically, huge restrictions on suffrage, the barriers put in place for newly suffraged peoples to actually vote, general disenfranchisement / difficulties in voting, the lack of regulation on campaigning, etc are in place to perpetuate and empower the plutocratic power duopoly regime incumbent political institutions exist to protect.

But thats where conservative mindsets come from in the first place. Content with the status quo and in fear of things going wrong that they don't want to try to do right. And its not an unfounded fear - centuries of evidence shows regime change never works, especially when its against the interests of a societies incumbent ruling class. But I just don't like maintaining the veneer delusion that America is anything close to truly democratic, or has ever really been.
Facebooks Libra coin just got released
To add on to above, the Wikipedia article on the Loudness War is an interesting read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
If price is no object you an always get a ELP LT-1LRC that uses a laser to read the vinyl disk.
Incidentally, most browsers block popups by default. There might be a reason for doing that...
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Measuring and examining TLS 1.3, IPv4, and IPv6 performance
We have this problem with Standard Ebooks. The number of people that say things are public domain without actually checking it is very high. A CC0 licence is an explicit grant of public domain status by the licensor, and hence the legal issues rest with them in the event of any problem.

Public domain obviously can be ascertained, but if CC0 hasn’t been granted we rely on dated reproductions: basically a photograph of the artwork in question in a book or journal with a copyright date of 1924 or earlier.

(that’s obviously specifically a US legal reading, but SE from a legal point of view is a US project)
Congrats to the NASA and SpaceX teams. Awesome public/private partnership!
Elon as CEO delivering on so many things is pretty amazing. I always think once you are lucky, twice you are good.
Accountability to whom? The NSA is still illegally snooping on you and I, killer-cops go unpunished, and the social justice system is biased against black men, but supposedly there is accountability?

The difference here is that it's not profitable for UPS to piss off its customer base. A CEO of a privatised postal company acting in his own rational self interest would produce far different results than Donald Trump acting in his own rational self interest.

And even if the CEO didn't produce good results, I could mail my letter using another firm. With USPS, this is not possible. They have a legally protected monopoly on the delivery of letters. No one else can do it.
>Due to the racial wealth gap in the US--which was caused by systemic racism

I did some searching and couldn't find any articles about racial wealth gaps in other countries. Is there any evidence to suggest that the racial wealth gap is uniquely an American problem?
Election administration is chronically underfunded.

A lot of people have some very funny ideas about how to conduct elections.

For examples:

Should ballots be required to be received or postmarked by Election Day to be accepted? (Correct answer is postmarked.)

If a voter makes a mistake, how does it get corrected? Some jurisdictions just toss any ballot with any mistake.

What are the standards for signature verification? What happens if the admins identify a mismatch?

Sadly, the minutia goes on and on.
70% of statistics are made up.
Fake news to target drone community for tracking. Nice try but not really.
The dose makes the poison. Just because you can detect the virus doesn’t mean it is around in quantities that can make you sick. I believe the CDC has updated their guidance to reflect this fact.
I'm not white, and that store is of my ethnicity, you outraged-on-other-people's-behalf moron.
[I'll assume the downvote was a misclick and that math/physics hasn't also become political.]
The article goes into significant detail, but the problem is that the computable real numbers are a tiny slice of all real numbers, and in general even in principle mathematicians can only deal with a countable subset of the reals. So (metamathematically) if almost every single real can't actually be used in mathematics, it's hard to say the concept has much mathematical validity. [Which makes its mathematical usefulness a philosophical pickle.]

> Math is about defining a system and playing it out

A lot of mathematicians would consider this a very limited view of the subject.
and OpenAI
I’m lost. What does Rust have to do with the Linux kernel?

I agree that most kernel programming isn’t computer-science hard, but its peopleware-hard: you need to maintain compatibility and get signoff and step very carefully forward because any change can affect so many disparate groupa.
Military contractor Elon Musk was able to do what humans have been doing for decades. What an accomplishment of our tax dollars. Congratulations Americans, you are amazing.
Apple: Modular multiple display electronic devices (patent application)
> It is full of Apple (and other corporate) apologists

Just because someone has a different opinion to yours doesn't make them an "apologist".

Especially given that your opinion that every company needs to spin off their internal units into seperate companies is frankly insane.
The write up disappointingly only sees the value in understanding swarm behaviors from the perspective of police controlling crowds, and not from the perspective of crowds learning better swarm behaviors to prevent such authoritarian control.
The thing is that it's very hard, psychologically, to do that. We evolved our social instincts in small roaming bands. When ten or twenty people in such a band attack you, that's tantamount to the whole band turning against you --- and in the nomadic band context, ejection from the group is death. Of course you feel fear when people scream at you and claim you're unfit to be a member of society. Of course you try to address the criticism. Of course you try to be re-accepted into the group.

But now we live on a planet with almost eight billion people screaming at each other. The criticism of a few means nothing.
The old heuristic of counting critics to get a proxy for the opinion of the group doesn't work anymore. But we still fear the rejection of the group, and at some level, deep down, we still interpret an attack from a few people as evidence of deep unpopularity.

Rejecting this instinct is essential for participation in a global conversation. It doesn't come naturally to us, but it can be learned --- just as you can train yourself out of a fear of spiders or heights. It looks like at least some corporate leaders have started to learn the essential skill of not fearing social media loudmouths.
> I've waited in line to vote, but the lines were never longer than the lines at my local supermarket on Saturday morning

As is disproportionately the case on HN, you are probably a relatively privileged individual, living in a relatively privileged community. Even if not, you should be aware that generalizing from your personal experience is not reliable.
For anyone not on top of internet culture, or not a native English speaker:

I'm pretty certain that Musk was being sarcastic. I've never seen "obv" as a shorthand for obvious used at the end of a sentence in a serious context.
It would depend on your definition of porn of course, but at least in Germany you can get pornographic magazines at lots of kiosks/stores, especially the bigger ones
That's the oxidiser, although the fuel (also according to Wikipedia) is MMH, not UDMH... It's probably just as dangerous though!
If anything the boycott may have given the ...interests of those the boycott was supposedly about more leverage over Facebook, since they provided the remaining ad revenue.
Now you know why they want to backdoor all encryption. Why do so many governments hate freedom?
Ive considered making decisions off my RSA token values before. I’ve come to realize I’m not one for the chaos of harlequin life though.
Proofs by contradiction are not accepted in some flavors of mathematics, like constructive mathematics. In fact, constructive mathematicians believe in a definition of real numbers that is more in line with what this paper talks about.
Trying to ELI5 this to myself - USPS has to fund their pensions and is forced to keep money aside for it. They are unable to make price increases to account for all this extra money that they have to keep aside since they are a public service. Their competitors UPS, FedEx are not being held to the same standard, and so USPS is losing out? And this makes a convenient excuse to show USPS as a failed org?
This sounds plausible, but wouldn't work. The USPS has a history of defending its monopoly. Two example:

In 1971 a private corporation, the Independent Postal System of America, offered to deliver Christmas cards for five cents each — three cents less than the U.S.P.S. rate. They were stopped by a court injunction.

In 1966 the CF&I Steel Corporation, frustrated by the quality of postal service between their Denver headquarters and their plant in Pueblo, hired an armored-car service to deliver the mail. After five months of operation the service was halted by the Denver Post Office, and "at the Post Office’s suggestion" CF&I paid two thousand dollars toward back postage..
The performance of F# and OCaml would be interesting to compare in depth. I imagine F# has a higher performance ceiling these days, with .NET Core 3.1 and higher, but what about idiomatic code? Not so sure, since F# has some overhead in it's sequences and a few other things.
Can you name a first world county that doesn't have voter id laws?
Indeed. If you want it to be cleaner, a discipline of constructor arguments for injection and __call__ arguments for semantic input is really all you need.
It's a pretty site, don't get me wrong, but which law suggests presenting lists of obscurely named concepts as fullscreen shape art where I have to click one by one to read the list?
This has always been the case, not sure why this is news.
Encryptions are randomized, not deterministic.
As long as you have term limits, you don’t have to move states/countries to get different leaders, you vote.
Great compilation! But 12-14 don't seem to have direct relevance to to UX. (Occam's Razor, 80/20 rule, and "work expands to fill available time".)
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https://demo.hutsee.com

HutSee is a new social platform for neighbors that focuses on creating meaningful connections within your neighborhood by sharing resources like tools, books, knowledge, fresh garden picks, rides to work, and more.

My aim in writing HutSee is to have a place online where neighbors favor mindful discussion over posting minor grievances, empathy and kindness over making hurtful comments, mutual aid and honoring community over a 'get-off-my-lawn' attitude.

The project is still a work in progress but it's at a place where it can be shared outside of friends and family to get feedback. I set up a read-only demo environment for this on heroku here:

https://demo.hutsee.com

Thank you for checking it out. I can also setup your neighborhood on HutSee if you'd like to use it yourself ( provided it's in the US and I can find the shape data for postgis ) - just let me know!

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TF360 Prototype – The Fastest Amiga CD32 Ever
It is possible. Encrypting a piece of data requires the public key but not the secret key. Therefore you can give your public key to all of these multiples entities, they encrypt data and do computation on it, and only you can decrypt the resulting computation using your secret key.

I have to say that a related question I have is how to get the opposite : making sure the third party only used the inputs I gave them and did not replaced them with their own, and making sure they processed these inputs through the exact program I gave them and not an altered version of it.

I have rough ideas about how one could do something like this but if anybody had a reference to literature on the topic, that would be great.