skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless plug: A friend of mine and I made a game[1] for a jam that works the other way around. The goal is to manually fiddle with the coefficients to recreate a given shape.

It gives an easy way to play with the coefficients and hopefully allows the player to gain some intuitions. For example how some combinations of frequencies lead to rotational symmetry and why negative frequencies are necessary.

It's not very polished, though. I made a mistake while writing the algorithm that checks whether the shape is matching. It causes some false negatives in certain situations. There might also be some issues with dragging the controls on Mac OS.

[1] https://coldiv.itch.io/fouriershaper
You could obtain an HTTPS certificate and then only use it for offline signing. That would fulfill the same purpose.
You're telling me you're not interested in getting rid of apples' monopolistic policies?

You're telling me that you're not aware that if epic wins then it means apple has less of a monopolistic foothold over the app store?
How did I know Person X sent me a, a "zip bomb"? I haven't opened their email yet. Why would they do a nasty thing like that?
No he would falsely claim that drinking paint thinner cures cancer, and sane people would argue he’s an idiot.
Thanks, that's fascinating. At least from a cursory search (https://www.google.com/search?q=are+public+playlists+copyrig...), conclusive case law doesn't seem to exist in the US. In the UK, the one case I found was settled (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/27/spotify-m...) and didn't address an app/company attempting to enforce a copyright license received when a user created a playlist. It's not clear in either jurisdiction, but like you said, litigation is definitely possible.
> If it does not end up helping people it's much ado about nothing

This is a frequent argument raised with respect to homeopathy and other quack cures. Unfortunately, unproven cures have a cost in avoided treatment and a false sense of security.
Yeah, and then the "average joe" makes the decision which opinion and treatment to go with, if either. Not the doctor.
> The public is not smart enough to tell the difference between something that passed 3 clinical trials and things that did not but are available for use.

The public does not get the treatment by themselves in this case. This is not Over-The-Counter. A doctor would have to decide it's necessary and would have to agree with the patient - that's what an emergency authorization is about.
Growing up, my hometown wasn't big enough for a dedicated bookstore (~1400 residents), but there was a small gift shop on Main Street. It had lots of little knicknacks and other things associated with giving gifts. Past the cards and stationary, the boxes of chocolate, the little porcelain figurines, the bags of potpourri and scented candles, all the way at the back, were a couple small bookshelves. Mostly books for young children, or large format books you'd set on your coffee table with nice pictures in them.

What I remember most fondly was that even though the in-store selection was meager, if you were looking for a particular title, the owner was happy to look it up and order from her wholesale catalog. And she'd take 10% off the MSRP! Me and my other teenage nerd friends became some of her most regular customers, coming in to order sci-fi books.
> The original code snippet had no bugs until you added more code, stop arguing in bad faith.

Wow, that's a really low blow. I'm arguing in perfectly good faith. Failing to call the base class initializer introduces misbehavior in multiple inheritance and the way this happens in Python is completely unexpected. Not every language is like this.

> Also, the new snippet has a syntax error, the last version where this was valid reached end of life January 1st, and has been deprecated for 10 years prior to that. Not sure how much stock to put in your python opinions given that context.

Er, what syntax error are you talking about? https://ideone.com/3hI4Wj
> Were the operators of YTS threatened with lawsuits?

7th sentence:

> The background to this ‘partnership’ appears to have its roots in cases where YTS itself was sued by attorney Kerry Culpepper for copyright infringement.
Same on Windows regarding data loss. Terrible and I’ll never use their ext2 drivers again.
I am anxiously awaiting the moment when he will tell us that by injecting bleach we can cure cancer and very good people have told him this treatment works and it is CNN and the deep state holding it back. What is truly sad is that I am not being sarcastic or hyperbolic, I am literally just waiting for him to say something this dumb...
> Self-hosting is clearly inferior in major objective measures: availability, durability, and security.

I'd not go as far. You can have your setup behind a VPN on a high port, go for distributed storage (for example at your home and at your parents) and be rather secure with a stable, auto-updated distribution. Cold backups could be an encrypted blob in a cloud or a tape somewhere.

Now, of course this needs quite some upfront investment in time and money; without a solid setup, I fully agree that the cloud is superior (unless your prefer your data lost over read by the NSA).

Other than that, it mostly boils down to risk management: A third-party hacker might have an easier time with your network than Google or Dropbox, but being script-kiddie save is not that hard [0], so it needs to be someone with time and skill. TLAs can't simply subpoena your data, so it might be harder for them - unless your home network is setup badly [1] or they're willing to possibly burn a zero-day. Your day-to-day ad agency is not going to lay hands on your data. It really boils down to what aspect you optimize for; given the grandparent, I assumed it to be privacy and therefore selfhosting to be probably better. But I should've been clearer on that :)

[0] Yes, mistakes happen, but big corporations have also been hacked with trivial exploits, so let's call it even.

[1] This also poses a danger to your login data, though, so the Cloud security team does not help either.
It’s hard! They’re not slow by choice, they’re slow because of the years it takes for safety approvals, testing, and certification to complete. I’ve met a creative director who’s responsible for Norwegian’s IFE last year, and she was telling me about some of the crazy challenges it is to try and work with the hardware and software constraints they get. The software teams certainly have the resources and knowledge to build a great, modern platform.
Michelin Man
Full title of FDA's announcement: "FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Convalescent Plasma as Potential Promising COVID–19 Treatment, Another Achievement in Administration’s Fight Against Pandemic".

Note 1: "potential promising treatment"
- why the caveating?

Note 2: "another achievement in administration's fight against pandemic
- sounds like PR; trying to score points?
The title of this should be "Lightroom iOS app update..." and save some panic for a desktop user.
All the great American agencies like FDA, FAA, USPS have been tarnished by politicization.
Those who advise friends/family of the meal they are about to consume via a photo.
Not so much amuse as concern; Many young people complain of loneliness but when using public transport have their eyes glued to their device. Totally ignoring their fellow travellers!
Doesn't have to be mods. Could be experts above a threshold via voting.

After a year, the owner should perhaps no longer own the question. They've already gotten the answer, and now it only matters to new viewers. If the answer changes, accepted answer needs to be updated.
I think Goodwill's selection depends on it's area. Their book selection at the stores where I live aren't that good. The prices of books vary between stores. But you can count on one thing: Each store will always have at least one complete set of Twilight novels.
> especially when you need one.

It's very debatable that Linux "needs" more support for a proprietary 25-year-old filesystem that is, in many ways, obsolete.
RTIC looks kinda cool, I may kick the tires on it. Do you know if there's any support or docs for running C or C++ code as an `rtic::app`?
> a false sense of security

You mean placebo effect ?
Except of course he never told anyone to "inject bleach". Jesus you people are gullible.
So the doctor is the primary gating factor. Even if a patient wants to get a treatment, a doctor needs to ok it first.
VGA capture has been solved for a long time by readily available products. You can get multi-port or single port units like the Lantronix Spyder. For the most part, HDMI has not had much of a solution. I suspect it’s because of the copy protection enforced by media companies combined with most sever companies moving to fully built-in management interfaces (e.g. IPMI, DRAC, etc.)
Dry versus Liquid Measuring Cups
Do you think that a court will permit a plaintiff to claim Apple has a "monopoly" over app distribution without an examination of its market power in the greater smartphone market?

Keep in mind that even if Apple only had 1% market share in the smartphone market they would still have a "monopoly" over app distribution on their own phones.
I'd love to see a QNX clone.
One of Amazon’s first employees says the company should be broken up (2019)
The attack they're describing is even more subtle than that. The problem is that you could have zip.py in your downloads folder, and if pip itself has `import zip` then it will pick that up in preference to the standard library one.
Because it sounds like communist propaganda.
Yes, previous article was better.

Bloomberg article is better.[1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-17/citibank-...
Let me be more clear. If a European buys a product from a US company and that company operates and is incorporated in the US then GDPR can be ignored.

The EU would say otherwise but fortunately they don’t get to police the world anymore than any other foreign country.
This is what we would have if AOL won in the 90's. That round of walled gardens failed, but this round is much better funded.

We need protocols not platforms. The longer this goes on, the more they will ratchet up the pressure. The open internet has always won out in the past, but this round of walled gardens has a strangle hold. More people conflate Facebook with the internet than ever did AOL or CompuServe.
>in case everyone else who could fly it chooses the wrong entree for dinner.

I thought modern airliners can auto-land? All you need is someone to walk you through dialing in the numbers.
“ FB and most sites which have a bias against, say conspiracy theories, regularly find themselves against conservative forces which for, whatever reason, have a willingness to expound and accept conspiracy theories.”

lol - Conspiricy is hardly a “conservative” issue. Heck just look at the now thoroughly debunked Russian collusion hoax.

Pizzagate? Laughed out and mocked but over time more and more evidence of perversion among elites surfaces. The most recent being “Cuties”, the “award winning” movie about twerking (their word, not mine) 11 year olds Netflix just started to promote. That award, BTW was from Sundance - where one of the co-founders was convicted and faces six years to life for.... pedophilia.

Yup - all just conspiracies. Which is the fun of conspiracies - they can provide great cover if deployed appropriately.
It’s funny - in the arguments about Apple and the App Store, I’ve seen plenty of people making the opposite case - ‘it’s not scary out there’, the security benefits of the App Store are ‘bullshit’, etc.
Why is the FDA getting in the way of all these promising treatments? How is it 8 months into a pandemic and we still have little information about the efficacy of a century old therapy that has shown promise?

The public has zero decision-making authority on the matter so who cares? Let the doctors decide.
This seems very similar to Easy2Boot[0] which I’ve used for several years with mixed success. Some systems don’t like booting from weird embedded GRUB variants. Some systems don’t boot it at all. I would assume Ventoy is based on a similar approach, I wonder if they have managed to solve some of E2Bs problems?

0 - https://www.easy2boot.com/
Holy cow, if that doesn’t come off as biased, I don’t know what does.
Well that's certainly the green-washing that's going on in the US right now, and everyone's eating it right up.

Not a climate solution though. Gas's 490 gCO₂-eq/kWh is incompatible with stopping climate change.
Suuuure sounds like it’s politically motivated, no?
What if I told you diversity record doesn't matter as much as you think it does? You've been brainwashed by left-wing media.
If the tracker itself is also on Tor, you don't need exit nodes, which are probably the most limited resource in the Tor design due to the legal challenges of running an exit node. And while normal Tor clients use a 3-layer design, a reduced number of layers might be good enough for torrent users. If the torrent client participates in the tor network, that would also help.
It's unfortunate how (blatantly) political this announcement is written, as opposed to scientific. I think announcements from FDA/CDC etc should be about the science, not the politics. But maybe I'm just being naive.
Overblown?
Because all namespaces in all routinely used languages are com.land.animal and not animal.land.com

So there’s no reason in naming functions any differently when Entity within the name is just another namespace.

Also I don’t really understand why have the function name “restoreDatabase” when you could just put that function as “restore” within a module called “database”.

So you’re kind of missing the whole point of where the prefixes rather than suffixes come from.
Doctor is still in the loop. Let doctors doctor.
Why is the FDA getting in the way of all these promising treatments?

Citation please
"ride that horse eventually" - I'm pretty well on with the horse and riding part, and I make plans I'm held to all the time, from investors, CEOs, and customers. I would have been fired long ago (and have been fired in the past) if I didn't make plans, committed dates, and contracts with customers that managed scope, schedule & budget (see: all of professional program management).

Please look up the papers on planning & quality & cost & schedule from Capers Jones. The textbook is literally titled "The Economics of Software Quality". Tom DeMarco's classic is "Controlling Software Projects".

I'm trying to give you a starting point to see that it's not even my anecdotes, but repeatable studies that show this.

Your examples are that requirements change, and it's hard. Of the few buildings I have built, the requirements changed drastically there in all cases, so I can only say that software engineering is not magically different. After decades of practice with software engineering my experience of planning lines up with the textbooks you can find on the topic, and not this blog post.
The salmon mousse strikes again...
This happens frequently to my wife on her mobile phone even when on the same WiFi network as me, but doesn't on my phone. We're both not using YouTube app, but NewPipe, Firefox Klar and Firefox Fennec.

She tried logging into YouTube on desktop browser and turning Restricted mode on/off, but it didn't help.

The issue seems to occur with non-mainstream media covering (Serbian) oppositional topics.
Am I missing something here? They've been using plasma ever since the early breakout in China. Why is this being treated as a breakthrough out of a sudden?
What is the usual pattern here? I imagine you have A.__init__(self) and B.__init__(self) in C.__init__(), right?

i.e. child logic is handled in the child, not in the parent.
Also depends how rich you are.
> You mean placebo effect

Not quite. Charitably, it’s like the seatbelt effect. With the advent of seatbelts, drivers were comfortable with riskier driving habits than they would have been otherwise.

This is a problem per se. Doubly so if the seatbelt is a sham.
How is Parler doing these days anyway?
Airbnb bans all house parties worldwide
Huh, that's one way to put it I guess. I always understood this story to be that Amory Lovins was virulently anti-nuclear and invented the Soft Energy Path as a nuclear-free utopia vision to underpin his anti-nuclear activities.

One of the biggest actual challenges with Soft Energy is its low EROI. As you have to start buying huge batteries and transmission lines at a certain point, it dips below feasible levels in some studies, like [1]. Because of it's astronomical energy density, nuclear is amazing on EROI (and also effectively carbon-free).

[1] Dynamic Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROI) and material requirements in scenarios of global transition to renewable energies (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2019.100399
Passenger[0] lands King Air, with his family aboard, when pilot died shortly after take-off:

https://youtu.be/aqPvVxxIDr0

The video is a reconstruction from the radio recordings. I learned that air traffic controllers are rarely themselves pilots and that finding someone with King Air experience during an emergency isn't easy. This video is recent, but the incident happened in 2009. News story from that year:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2009/april/14/u...

[0] He'd earned a private pilot's license 18 years prior, but had quit flying shortly after with only 80 hours total time logged.
you have completely missed the point. You cannot compare the number of current deaths with the number of current infections without taking into consideration the rate at which the virus is spreading.

At the beginning, the rate at which the number of deaths was growing was 26% per day, or doubling approximately every 3 days. This means that in the two weeks that it takes for the average person that is going to die of covid to die of covid, the number of people infected has grown by a factor of 2^4 to 2^5. So by the time that 30 people have died, It is reasonable to suspect that that the number of infections had grown by an order of magnitude since those people were infected, and those people are 1.5% of the people who had been infected two weeks ago. (This back of the envelope calculation is very sensitive to changes in the time to death distribution for people who have contracted covid, particularly to number of people that die fast.)

Furthermore, your infection fatality ratio is entirely wrong. My 1.5% was very optimistic. South Korea has the most exhaustively tested population on earth, and their case fatality rate is 2%, and it's worse among cases that have reached an endpoint. The virus could have mutated and attenuated since then, but other evidence suggests that the New York strain was more lethal than the SK strain, not less.

The Sciencemag paper that you have linked relies on a "seroprevalence of 3%", despite the parenthetical statement right next to their assumption that the confidence interval on that seroprevalence is between 0 and 3 percent. So not only have they chosen the maximum value for seroprevalence in that interval as their assumption, but the interval actually includes zero. Antibody testing cannot say with 95% confidence that any of its positive results were not false positives. That's a pretty bad test.
It is absolutely a tactic of this admin and others to erode the trust of institutions they want to undermine.

It’s working too.
He is. Trump pressured the FDA to allow the therapy. It's ridiculous that the FDA drags its feet on these things during a pandemic.
If I owe you money and John Smith knocks on your door, hands you a pile of money, and says “this is from bradleyjg to pay off his debt” I think it is entirely reasonable to rely on that representation. You lent money, it was paid back by the borrower’s agent, the transaction is over.
But that's not what they're talking about. The attack they're describing is like if you did `cpp main.c` on a genuinely legitimate file in your downloads directory, but it picked up virus from printf.c (but would silently fall back to the real standard library version if printf.c isn't there).
You might want to follow the Rust developments in this area: https://areweguiyet.com/
I'm not suggesting people shouldn't take responsibility for their actions.

I'm suggesting that no adult should apologize for anything unless it's sincere.
to collect dataset?
No I don't (the code is as-is), but in fact if I did, those those would still suffer from basically the same problem even if I did (exercise for the reader). In modern Python you're supposed to use super().__init__() to let it handle this issue with multiple inheritance.
Gmail is only a single failure point if you let it be one though - set up 2fa on all your accounts, and this problem is solved.
In the absence of sufficient science, doctors and patients are not particularly well-positioned to make these decisions, either.

See, for example: off-label use of Vioxx.
I too get any book I want and don’t have to store it in my house, And it’s all free—just saying. :)
Isn't that pretty much what all platforms these platforms do these days, with algorithmic feeds? What level of control do you plan to add on top of it? And more importantly - how do you plan to monetize a model that's pretty much dependent on dopamine hits, without making it _more_ addictive/a time-waste?
An exotic device that smells like tradecraft is a great way to get past the bored rent-a-cops and meet some some serious counterintelligence investigators.
Aside from the Python related stuff one thing that confuses me about this article is the claim than a browser can put files in your Downloads directory without you requesting that. Exactly what browser/HTTP feature allows that ?

I don't think I've never encountered this behavior and any time I've downloaded a file I've had the opportunity to see and change the name it is stored under.
Herd immunity at a national level while protecting the vulnerable will protect nursing homes to the extent it makes introduction of the virus into nursing homes less likely. You're correct that it does nothing to help the nursing homes once the virus gets introduced there, though.
Fair enough, my comment was intended for people who were unfamiliar with the case and might misinterpret it to apply here.