skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a balancing act. I trust Apple to keep my security and privacy as a priority, and to keep my iOS device up to date and secure, but I can't install things from outside the app store.

I don't trust the android ecosystem in the slightest bit (to the extent that I don't like people connecting to my wifi with their random android devices) to be secure, but I could install whatever I wanted.
Some of those patents have expired, so it would take a lot of research to be certain. A hardware implementation is likely to be patent-infringing.

The SDR implementation is unlikely to be patent-infringing, as Australia does not generally allow software patents. [0] Software implementations of existing hardware are generally not considered to be patent-infringing under the current interpretations of law.

However! The SDR implementation is still likely to be copyright-infringing, as Australia does have copyright laws that are rather vague and far reaching, and Australians are not granted the right to give up copyright.

[0] Software patents can be granted, but they require the idea "improve the computer" rather than "merely requires generic computer implementation". Which is a higher hurdle than people expect, and has led to IBM, Microsoft and others losing and failing to gain software patents in Australia.
This is already the case in some very small communities, and there are sometimes mail delivery volunteers. The USPS was already profitable but has been undermined significantly: opening the private option for servicing USPS mail and requiring pensions to be paid up front for every employee.

Additionally rural communities are about 20% of the population, and many of these communities are around farmland, which of course is necessary to keep some of. It's much harder to live alone with just a small amount of farmers vs. even the smallest of communities. Should farmers commute to the farm just so the USPS has a slightly easier time?
Pretty cool. The embedding similarity approach makes a lot of sense. I actually this project by experimenting with computing cosine similarities of sentence embeddings [1]. But I wasn't very impressed with out-of-the-box results, and I found it difficult to set a similarity threshold for a match. QA was the second try, and the pretrained models worked better out of the box. I'm wondering if I should revisit the embedding approach now...

[1] https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers
Production Marks
Why should we assume that this reasoning wasn’t factored in by the respondents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24231857 (4 days ago, 207 comments)

Anything else?
> The whole "defund the police" movement feels very much in line with the "Luxury beliefs"

Why do you believe this? It seems to me that reinvesting budgets spent on surplus humvees on more/better school counselors is a perfectly reasonable goal.
If you mean this, https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17717476011, the Kobo indeed has many of those features as of now. Supports searching a Dictionary, Wikipedia, Google, and adding notes. There are translations in the Dictionary, but the "Word Wise" feature does not exist, but I can live without that. I can understand some who wouldn't, though.
Assuming the last digit is a checksum and the first six are taken by the routing information, that leaves them 9 digits or a billion possible numbers per credit card issuer. Japan has a population of about 125 million. Are Japanese people cycling their numbers so frequently? Or are they big on ephemeral card numbers?

Is it not possible for an issuer to get a second prefix if they run out of digits?

I also wonder if credit card numbers aren't living on borrowed time anyway. Instead of adding more digits it might make sense to remove the digits entirely and only allow token based transactions. This does assume we figure out a way to do online purchases not using the digits.
> Is there a Chinese author and speaker with decades

This is only as I understand it, but technically, yes.

People like to think that the Chinese Communist Party is a single body with a single well-defined set of ideas.

It's not.

It's perfectly possible for academics and even party politicians to utter criticism of the current party direction. They can, for example, advocate the return of fundamental Maoism, or advocate free market mechanisms. As long as you can argue a point of view that lies within the party's tenets, there is usually no problem.

It's different when:

- you are a person of influence.

and

- you argue against the stability of the country (where, conveniently, the CCP is seen as the most important stabilising force in mainland China (by the CCP)).

I don't know if a Chinese Chomsky exists. I have the impression that if he would exist, he would be marginalised by the media, or some of his ideas would be adopted and used in some splintered minority faction of the CCP and hailed as a great but impractical thinker, and mostly ignored.
> The article seems more interested in weaving a narrative than reporting the salient facets in a succinct form.

Yes, that is what the article was intending to do.
I get loads of results, both related to VKontakte and other things (e.g. a "Roland VK-8 and VK-77 Combo Organ"), "Vaartkapoen", etc.

I live in Sweden, maybe the VK-limiting filter is set on US search results?
I think a point of tension for grad students is that many don't realize a PhD program is more so a job than it is another part of your education. Your advisor is generally paying for you with their hard earned grant money and relies on your results for their own success. In typical 9-5 job terms, the advisor is the manager and the PhD students are the individual contributors.

It's a harsh realization that many grad students come to, but unless your grad student is getting some level of results then the advisor will feel his/her grant money isn't going to good use. It's essentially the same thought process a manager goes through when they feel they are paying somebody a salary but that person is not contributing.

This is why independence is so critical and one of the most important traits of a grad student. Time spent telling a student exactly what to do, again, is not always a resource well spent.

Anyways, this is just my perspective on things based on conversations with a couple of my immediate family members who are professors. I went into the normal job market after getting my bachelor's, and I see a lot of parallels between the world of academia and the rest of us. There are different titles and the work is different, but much of the structure and politics are the same.
I'll be the first to admit that capitalist systems have had their failures, but communist systems have never had a success. Communism was tried in more than a dozen countries across a century, in different cultures, in different geographic regions, in societies with very different levels of technological development. Not once did it create a success like Japan or Singapore or the USA or Hong Kong. Heck, we even split two countries down the middle and ran one side communist and one side capitalist (Germany & Korea). In both cases, the communist side became a hellhole and the capitalist side wasn't a bad place to live.
Is there a news site that does the opposite? Always cites sources, provide ample links throughout text?

that’s the site I’d subscribe to.
Mind that you actually look at them, and to that end, cull aggressively.

Eventually an unbounded archive grows so large & onerous you'll never really want to look through it again.

(This was one good feature of prints & albums. A minimum level of curation was required)
I love that fuzzy date search use-case, will try testing that out.
Review: AWS App Mesh – A Service Mesh for EC2, ECS, and EKS
If they don't want to give you an email address, they don't care about your product. That's great feedback that the hypothesis is wrong.
IIRC malaria in africa is basically totally resistant to HCQ by now. There's places where resistance to Artemisinin is a thing.
I updated the post to reflect the numbers I get from the native rust implementation's benchmarks (instead of SMHasher's copy of the C code): 66 ns and 5.5 GB/s.

However, I don't see any dependency chain between iterations in the short-input benchmarks; the numbers don't necessarily reflect latency as much as throughput when hashing a lot of short inputs independently (a rare situation).

Even SMHasher gets that wrong: writing some of the previous iteration's output to the new hashed data, or using it to update the "seed" may not suffice, depending on the algorithm. It's probably safest to derive the address of hashed data from the previous hash value; I think this would look like `slice.split_at(prev_hash & 8).1.split_at(hash_size).0` in Rust, where the input `slice` is padded with 8 extra elements.
This is why the defund the police people really need a better slogan. You can argue that the police should work differently than they do, but it's just obviously stupid to not have police.
> can we make our own SDR LTE handset

To achieve the same data rates as a usual LTE handset, but using SDR instead of an ASIC, would make it extremely power hungry. Power is not much of an issue for the base station, but for the handset it is essential.
Like
which nu | xargs dirname
The Creative Independent
They literally threatened to cancel the second account. This is what the injunction is about, and the judge ruled that Apple can't cancel the second account and prevent Epic from using Mac tools to legally develop Unreal.

You would know this if you read the injunction that is being discussed...
Calibre was always much better at generating Kindle-compatible books than Kindlegen ever was. We use Calibre in our posix-based build chain at Standard Ebooks.

The Kindle file format is just miserable, and Kindle is basically the IE6 of ereaders. Anyone who cares about ebooks should get a different device that supports epub natively. Kobo makes nice devices, supports epub, and uses Webkit as their renderer (when used with their kepub format, which is not ideal but is basically a specially-formatted epub so good enough in the low-bar world of ereaders).
Pretty much. I keep seeing people here use the multi-year police academies in Europe as an example of why they have less issues with police brutality, while at the same time saying that the police in the USA need less resources.
If HFT and B are racing for the same order, they evidently have a very similar trading objective. In which case it's bizarre to ascribe some uniquely negative social value to HFT winning that race.
This! And when are we going to get uMatrix back? The one must-have add-on.
That's a good solution if your game receives game states, but in our case the game was deterministic and ran the simulation on the client at 50FPS, only receiving the inputs from other players. This means that if your game freezes for 10 seconds (or tab out for 10 seconds), when you go back it would have to simulate all those 10 seconds before it could continue.

Imagine having GTA 5 multi-player running in a background window, you would still want to hear the other people, hear the in-game sounds so you can come back to the game if something important happens, and also not have to simulate instantly all the events that you missed when you come back.

This also reminded me that we had problems with just playing a sound when a game started to let the players know they should come back to the tab. Players complained that sometimes the game does not notify them it has started, but it was just Chrome simply not executing JavaScript anymore.
Yea, and it's only an 8 page ruling. Sometimes a news organization is adding value by distilling some dense ruling of hundreds of pages into something digestible, but here, just go read the primary source.
Police departments and city governments are plagued with corruption, you cannot expect corrupt institution the be capable of fixing itself.
Thanks very much for sharing. You know, that does sound quite romantic after all :-D
Without disclosing my opinions/take on Bill Gates, I think some see his charity as a means to gain power in specific regions to [insert conspiracy theory].

A tangentially related matter I see cited more often than not in these circles, are about an uptick in vaccine-caused paralysis occurring in India, causing the foundation to be kicked out.

The argument being that an uptick in “non-polio acute flaccid paralysis” (NPAFP) was recorded in areas where the oral vaccine was distributed, and this subsequently got the foundation “kicked out of India” (quoted because, as source below states, this is false) [0]

[0] https://fullfact.org/online/gates-polio-vaccine/
I had the exact opposite experience. This thesis (and the introduction) made perfect sense to me but the following results, methods and rationales left me unconvinced and uninspired.
China did try to pin the virus on US intelligence agencies (IIRC). Guess you're right?
We've changed the URL from https://mailchi.mp/theprepared/the-prepared-4ydgzm58vl to the article that it points to, which seems to have the most information about the story.

I don't think an issue of a newsletter which contains a paragraph about one thing among lots of other things, plus promotional padding, really counts as an article about that thing for HN purposes. It seems more like an attempt to promote the newsletter than to share interesting information about hockey sticks.
Your lede and finish are somewhat contradictory, don't you think? English can't both lack nuance and expressiveness, and be difficult to translate because of the nuance and expressivity!

Languages hide their expressive power in different places, rather. Hungarian is primarily an agglutinative language, while English is historically a fusional language, which lost most of its inflection and is mainly analytic in its modern form.

In conclusion, the first clause of your first sentence is bearing most of the load.
And usually there is the graphical representation of the paper, may it be an important figure or plots that can summarise the findings.
I've seen a ton of flak thrown at Sun for the license, but Cooper's name only seems to come up as a source that it was intentional. I've never gotten the impression people blame her.

Of course I haven't read every discussion about it, but I have read quite a few. I think someone would have to both confirm that the incompatibility was intentional and argue it was the correct choice to to get much hate about it.
Thank you.

I know of two examples of professors who wrote a detailed syllabus like yours, albeit in different styles. One was my brother's advisor, and the other is my brother. ;-) Perhaps not coincidentally, these professors were also known for having a straightforward approach, and for their students getting through the process reasonably unscathed. That's not to say it was easy for students, or that conflicts didn't ever occur. But there was little or no confusion about the expectations.
> It seems to me that reinvesting budgets spent on surplus humvees on more/better school counselors is a perfectly reasonable goal.

The level of "defund" people are advocating for varies pretty wildly.

Yes, reallocating budget is perhaps a reasonable thing.

A non trivial number of the protesters are advocating for complete elimination of the police though.

Oddly enough, I'd expect the widespread riots that have continued all summer long will have the exact opposite effect in the medium to long term.
Yet another case study in why allowing a privacy-hostile advertising company to control the most popular web browser and influence web standards is bad for the web.
> Anything with quantum physics in the title works too.

Well, there's a small chance you'll update the submission to point to a working link in the future, and that some of the comments refer to that...
Gaming hardware: Insights from the Corsair IPO filing
Just about to start their 5th year.
America's Favourite Missile Test Site Is No Longer Playing Ball (2016)
> Sidenote: TIL You can send articles and wordpress posts / content to a Kindle with the appropriate plugin.

That's one of the most useful features of the Kindle for me. As far as I know only PocketBook devices offer similar functionality (email address to send documents to the device).

I work on Push to Kindle (a similar service to Amazon's Send to Kindle browser extension for sending web articles). Have had reports that it works better on many sites. There's also a Firefox addon for it which Amazon does not yet provide. More info on recent changes here: https://blog.fivefilters.org/2020/08/19/push-to-kindle-chang...
I think the penalty was something to do with equipment safety.

I played in Canada, but this ruling seems quite similar to what was in effect for us: https://www.usahockeyrulebook.com/page/show/1084649-rule-605...

I think the worry is a broken stick has a chance of producing something sharp that can injure others. I think it is more of a worry when the break is along the shaft of a wooden stick (as you could stab someone, you're basically wielding a spear) but even a split along the bottom of a wooden stick's blade has the potential to lose splinters.
> Really? In the 1970's in the US it was possible to own a house and support a family of 4 on a single income in the manufacturing sector. It was also possible to work your way through college and exit with a degree and no debt, in a job market which made that worth it.

Since the 1970s, physical house size has increased from around 1600 sq.ft to around 2600 sq.ft. At the same time, house occupants has dropped from about 3 to about 2.5 [0]. In addition to that, the building requirements and safety features have increased costs significantly per square foot.

Average house price in 1975 was around 42k [1]. That is a little over 200k in 2020 dollars [2]. Doing some math with 200k/1600 vs 380k/2600 gives $125/sq.ft and $146/sq.ft or roughly a 14% increase in relative cost. In 1975, median income was around 12k [3] while median income in 2018 was around 63k [4]. (EDIT: I'd note that I'm being generous as home prices dropped significantly this year and I went with the higher numbers)

SHOCK!!!!

An average house in 1975 is 16.5x the yearly income while an average house in 2020 is only 6x yearly income despite being 40% bigger and 15% less occupied while being safer to live in as well.

I'll give you college debt, but for all the wrong reasons. The government artificially incentivizes bad loans. They insist that kids CAN'T get that 380k house loan (even though the house is collateral), but also insist that kids CAN get that same 380k for a piece of (often useless) paper without any collateral backing. Get rid of the stupid laws and you'll watch that problem go away all by itself. Get rid of the pressure to have a degree to sweep floors and you'll watch college prices fall even faster.

[0] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

[2] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

[3] https://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-104.pdf]

[4] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/09/us-median-hou...
Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication#2020

In 2020 there were 102 wild cases, and 295 vaccine derived cases. You have to go back to 2016 for wild cases to outnumber vaccine cases.

He's getting downvoted for the tone: People are assuming he is discrediting the vaccine by saying that. I personally don't see that implication, I just see a bare, and correct, fact.
This issue only exists because without chrome's work here virtually every ISP / Wifi provider etc started hijacking DNS inquiries to pump trash ads down your throat.

THANK you google for stopping this total abuse of internet standards (very annoying for some cases where no UI as well).

The irony of Verisign complaining about this is incredible actually - they were the no 1 abusers of this in the past! They go on about interception being the exception these days. That's actually because chrome put a stake right through the heart of Verisgns efforts to intercept.
This is even more pronounced among so-called fragile communities, where 95% of black residents want to retain police presence, and in the Chicago area, 68% want increased police presence.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/257798/low-trust-police-complic...

On the other hand, a majority in these communities also say that people have a negative view of the police there.
I fail to see the connection between "tech-savvy" users and this tool, which is a command line tool. Why would a "non-tech-savvy" person even touch this? Either way, we will always have our ways (calibre's ebook converter [which has a GUI, and is available on the platforms that normal people use], pandoc, whatever).
Denying reality carries costs.

Smith's opus is often read as a critique of Communism. That's anachronistic: Das Capital was a critique of Smith, or at least what emerged in his name.

Smith was a critique not only of mercantilism, as is commonly acknowledged, but what we would now call capture and monopoly.
> I have seen a trend in UK PhDs in the last 10 years or so to include much more of the "practical skills" type work.

Gah I think this is a terrible idea.

In practice it means courses that aren't really relevant to anyone that you have to take when you really want to be getting on with your research.

Everyone's putting in minimum effort and getting nothing out of it. What a waste of time.

They're also taught by people slightly outside your field since they're taught across the department, so they teach you things that are seriously wrong for your field (I was told to publish in journals not conferences, for example, which is incorrect for my field).

They were always a frustrating waste of time. I just wanted to get on with my work.

It's only popular because it's aping the American PhD, and in my opinion the British PhD is better in practice (shorter, more focused, more grown-up, more independent, more professional) and should not be watered down.
I think it's just called the "broken stick" rule. Specifically, if you break your stick, you HAVE to drop it on the ice immediately and be done with it. If you even skate back to the bench holding it, you can get called for a penalty.
You can use it with Calibre, if you're looking for a GUI.
> you would think news magazines would be concise and to the point, I would even say, lapidary. But for some reason they became an outlet for graphomania?

Some people enjoy reading.
Ah, my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
This is just the new Firefox mobile user interface, right? I've been using it for quite some time in the nightly builds. It took a few minutes of adjustment the first time I saw the interface, as everything has been moved to the bottom of the screen. But this is actually fantastic for mobile usability, because you no longer have to reach all the way to the top of your screen to get to the URL bar or tab switcher.

The loss of extensions is unfortunate, but not surprising, given they've been gone from mainline Firefox for some time. There are some webextensions available now, including ublock.
It's more that Amazon packages can comprise such a a large % of deliveries/orders that the UPS/etc may need to keep that business, even at near 0 profit, to keep their infrastructure above water. That contract possibly covers a ton of last mile region they want to cover anyway to stay competitive but couldn't keep going due to lack of volume vs cost without Amazon.

It's a bit of a catch-22, they can reform their route and coverage to similarly profitable state with less coverage, potentially dooming them in the long run, or they can take the near 0 profit contract from Amazon and stay competitive while having almost no cards at the negotiation table. Amazon knows their business is huge and needed by these groups and is not afraid to point that out.
How is chrome equivalent to kindle? It's open source, it doesn't have a special format, you can visit any website with it.
The root servers may have to delay NXDOMAIN replies. Those are rare for legit requests.