skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention C/C++ literally killed compiler optimizations research. C++ committee's ignorance towards practical concerns such as debug build performance, error messages, build times and ignorance towards prior art has kept programming world 20 years behind.
My 'ugh field' right now is making a staging environment for a Wordpress blog that has been left untouched for quite a few years. Anyone raise me?
I understand the legal issue for PayPal, but then they got really lucky in this case. Tardigrade isn’t really a widely used word, so just blocking the word completely is “fine”, but what if the arms dealer in question operated under the name “Arts and crafts ltd”? Would PayPal have used another blocking system?

I don’t blame PayPal for their reaction, but I also doubt that they actually have better solutions than keyword blocking.
Have you actually read The Dark Forest? Because that scenario is what I was commenting about.

The scenario says that the only logical conclusion is that, since resources are limited, if you are left with another civilization the most logical course of action is to preemptively, immediately strike and destroy it so that you can gain their resources and are in better position for the future encounters.

For that reason all civilizations keep total silence for fear of another civilization wiping them off.
Wish they showed a bit more, I'd be interested to see how video or animations look on it.

I often get headaches that make looking at digital screens painful, even when dimmed. I'd be curious to see if a display like this would help.
Imagine paying money to install an always on mic/camera in your own home. These people both scare and confuse me.
> Not everyone is fit to ride a bicycle

This is true. Nor is the climate suitable everywhere, etc. However:

> riding a bicycle where there's cars on the road is a lot more dangerous than being in a car.

This is a problem that absolutely can solved by more "should". The police should police more, and the courts should be strict about endangering others with deadly weapons, even if those deadly weapons are on wheels.

> people are free to make their own choices.

People are "free" to speed, or to drive drunk, or to otherwise endanger others "where there's cars on the road". Looks like these "own choices" aren't a terribly good fit to many of the problems posed by cars.
They reported two facts, statistical significance and effect size, one of which was not replicated. Of course this doesn't prove anything definitively, but it still arouses suspicion. As for whether it's exclamation-point-worthy, at worst it depends. For example, 0.5 standard deviation improvement in math scores might normally require a ton more expensive effort or even have been thought previously impossible, while a 0.2 was easy and not publication-worthy.
Because they take exp(5) more time to read, you take logarithm to make it sound better.

Seriously, I see this quoted without context all time. They are domain specific languages.
Moving substantial amounts of gold/cash money across the world is a difficult, risky operation. Have a real think about how you would get, say, 10 million across a border safely.

In contrast, moving millions in bitcoin is no more difficult than moving cents.
Writing Win32 apps like it's 2020: Helpers for a modern C++ world
Thank you for the info.

But, that's just it! I think I'm polite. I have an opinion. If I don't see others making the point I have, I go ahead and make it. I'm happy to be challenged, I'll reply, and take corrections on the chin.

But that's not what's happening. I'm being downvoted (I think) because of the filtered consensus disagrees with my line of thought, not that I'm not following guidelines. Albeit, how could I follow guidelines they aren't even published! I had to create this post to, to get a link to another post where this is discussed!
I read alot about them, but I have never come across one in the wild despite living in a fairly wealthy, gadget friendly environment. I agree that the whole idea of voluntarily installing something like this seems mind-blowingly nuts. Are real people actually using Alexa? If so- what for? Are there killer reasons for using Alexa like there are for, say, a Tesla or an iPhone?
The weird thing about plastic is that it is often too flimsy to easily reuse but will still survive for thousands of years in the environment.

I wonder if it would make sense to require these items to be more substantial and then make reuse financially unavoidable. So the only way to buy bottled water would be in a reusable container. You would either return it for a deposit or reuse it yourself.
“The Role of Lipid Membranes in Life’s Origin”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5370405/
I agree with this. Lotteries are required to post the odds of winning for each ticket you buy. If that's a scam, everything non-deterministic is also a scam.
There are thousands of named/documented meditation techniques; I would be stunned if this weren’t one of them.
It's all fun and giggles until someone brings down the society. 90's pyramid schemes in Albania are considered among the main causes of the Albania Civil war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War

I mean, it all boils down to the problems it causes in the fabric of the society and every society is different but when things happen at scale at dangerous rates dangerous things happen. You can be sure that if your citizens find a way to loose their savings quickly enough on lotteries you will have them banned too. If you have your citizens spending everything they have on chocolates, you will have chocolates banned despite being delicious.

These things tend to be reactionary IMHO. I wish we had a better reaction to the 2008 crisis though.
i use it do buy my vpn services and to speculate with altcoins
I switched from helm to ivy-counsel-swiper earlier this year and I haven't looked back.
Super cringey. TripleByte did this and everyone hated it.
The idea is that the lottery run by the state is fair, honest and less exploitative than a free market alternative. And if there's no legal lottery, an abusive free market alternative always emerges.

And a bitcoin scam can rob you of thousands in a minute. That's a lot of lottery tickets.
Sure, but out-of-tree third party modules and drivers is not what the comment I replied to said.
I have spacemacs configured to use it, too.
Well completing Know Your Customer checks and audits is sort of their job, isn’t it? They provide a service, saying that they will process payments unless the payment is prohibited by government sanctions. But instead of carrying out actual due diligence, they just block anything remotely related and put the onus and cost of doing their own job on their customers. At least they should have a better process to start proper diligence once a customer complains about overreach of their blacklist, to avoid improperly sanctioning innocent businesses.

What if an arms trader used the name “Tickets Limited”? Would they block all payments mentioning tickets? Surely not, as it would hurt their business, clearly illustrating that their conduct is not at all due to “compliance with mandatory laws and nothing we can do about it” but “we did the math and we feel we can screw you over in this case.”
When the US president mentioned anything of the sorts, it was ridiculed and turned into a meme in local California news papers. https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Fin...
But the blog is very important for him, just as psychiatry.
Banks (and their customers) get government protection in return for following a very extensive set of restrictions about how they can run their business.
Looks like you're having a Lua Uppercase Accident
> what happens to the 40 odd plastic bags I've accumulated?

We always used them as garbage can liners. Now that stores no longer have plastic bags we have to buy plastic bags. So instead of reusing the plastic bags we brought our groceries home in, we are buying brand new plastic bags instead. The same number of plastic bags are entering the landfill. The only difference is that now we have to pay for them.
This is the kind of thinking that lead to the TSA putting infants, and even a US Senator, on the US no-fly list because their names matched those of "known terrorists."

The Washington concept of NATIONAL SECURITY<tm> is a brain-eating parasite that seemingly renders compliance managers unable to tell the difference between categorically different things, such as US Senators and IRA terrorists, or Serbian companies named Tardigard and products, sold by companies completely unconnected with Serbia, with descriptions that contain the word tardigard.
Politicians often ask for silly things in connection with technologies they don't really understand, to achieve goals they don't really expect to achieve, just in order to look good to a certain part of the electorate.

Consider an analogy between modern social media sites and something like a phone network or postal mail service. What would happen if a politician suggested that phone companies or their national postal service should be required to monitor all communications for some vaguely-defined concept of suspicious activity, and then when something was flagged, have it reviewed by a human and if deemed inappropriate cut off the spread within X hours? It would be considered an absurd suggestion by just about everyone, for being impractical, expensive, intrusive, unreliable and of questionable benefit.

And yet, politicians keep suggesting that social media companies should be able to do almost exactly that. There are demands that these companies magically detect any sort of inappropriate content on their systems, and then remove it quickly. Small details like subjectivity, privacy and practicality never seem to feature in the press conference, though.
I think you might be confused, there are sites with similar sounding names. But if I am mistaken can you tell me more?
I am using this big website(they also have physicalo presence) for more then 10 years and I never had issues with products, warranty ore returning things. Personally I am more afraid of PayPal fucking me then emag.ro
But why do we still allow lotteries even if there are lots of examples of them ruining people's lives?
About as expected as the Spanish Inquisition.
The dynamic tiling window manager Xmonad is written in Haskell and while I don't use it personally (I use bspwm), I've heard it's great.
Changi Airport is an experience in itself, so you might be on to something there.
It's just an observation that handcrafted heuristics, which are required to mitigate combinatorial explosion, time after time give way to heuristics produced by machine learning.

Haar cascades, various OCR techniques, rule-based translation, chess heuristics for alpha-beta search, pre NN speech recognition techniques etc.
You bullshit promoting rust on hacker news about as easily as you write a program in python.

If you do very meaningful shilling, you might think about that a bit more but then you have to in any case.
So "get out of jail free cards" do exist. And here I thought that GTA came up with them.

In 1997
This isn't about protecting the middle class from dangerous investments. It is about (quoting from the article) "preserv[ing] state sovereignty in monetary policy".

Modern states don't see it as acceptable for private entities to transact however they like. There are aspects of taxation and law enforcement that are currently implemented via the monetary system and they don't want bitcoin et al to circumvent that.
It’s a small language, so not many.
Interestingly, in a somewhat related notion, I’ve been noticing that there’s been a recent push in society towards individuality (over collectivism). In the way people view right or wrong, many have started to believe in their own preferences as ideals. While it’s good to have differences, it’s interesting to see the downstream effects of an overcorrection for the self. For example, doctors are now being accused of immorally attacking someone for being obese (seen as a personality trait), when in reality they’re just trying to help patients be aware of their unhealthy habits so they can improve their condition.

Because we tie how we view the world to our individuality, we also adopt our own flaws as part of our objective compass. And things get interesting when people with that same frame of mind run into each other.
Lua does exceptionally well as a nice, lightweight language embedded in another project.
It is designed to maximise the global packet flow while preserving reliability. A similar system for society would maximise the societal output while preserving conformity.
Uber got in Big Trouble for this a while back[0]. Basically, device fingerprinting[1]. It seems like it's sort of OK now?

[0] https://the-parallax.com/2017/04/26/uber-device-fingerprinti...

[1] https://nshipster.com/device-identifiers/
There's the ArchWiki, but overall the Linux audio ecosystem is severely under-documented.
I think to say "not even a developer" connotes surprise. I wouldn't expect to see someone whose dayjob doesn't involve programming work on something like an Emacs package.
The argument was that you wanted the ability to use your phone as you please and download what you want. You can do that now.

How much money have you really spent buying apps or doing in app purchases over the past year? What’s more likely to happen, you will save money or the developers will keep more of a cut?

On the other hand, most money on either store is not being spent buying apps from Indy developers - it’s being spent on loot boxes and pay to win games. Do you think that getting rid of the 30% is going to all of the sudden mean indy developers can make a come back like they did in 2008?
defending criminality from romania wont help you much. there have even been reports in your country’s media about emag’s shady political links how they fucked over competitors. but you know how they say, you either see the problem or are part if the problem. pretty sure paypal was swamped by romanian criminals - friend of mine had money stolen via paypal from a romanian ip address just a few days back.
Open source is pretty interesting in how it functions and it’s something I really want to understand more deeply.
Firefox. I have no reason to switch yet, and there are certain creature comforts (userChrome.css and a ton of under the hood changes in about:config) that make me want to stay.
> He suddenly realized that he could tame the distributions in SPDEs using an approach modeled on the mathematical properties of “wavelets” — brief, heartbeatlike oscillations that encode information in JPEG and MP3 files.

Wavelets are not used in JPEG or MP3 files. They're used in JPEG 2000 and video codecs like Dirac, which have failed to outperform DCT-based codecs like JPEG and MP3 and h.264.

Most of this article flew over my head though.
If any "cryptocurrency institution" is under the same scrutiny as a regular bank then it may get the same conditions.

Otherwise most people want currency that they can use anywhere ideally also without the use of any tech, that is stable, and "chaperoned" by institutions that are under some pretty intense supervision (all things considered).
Here's a tip: Inevitably you'll sit outside in a restaurant, 3m from the street -- if you're lucky. Many streets in the Paris city center are one way, and many are on an incline. Pick one where the street slopes down. Most scooters will coast down relatively quietly. Conversely, avoid slopes going up. The locals don't seem to notice it.
This week in KDE: Akademy makes the magic happen
Someone managing to ruin their lives every now and then with lotteries is not bringing down the society apparently. But as things happen rules and restrictions are introduced and as a result lotteries all over the world are regulated to different degrees.

Don't worry though, if you have a lottery craze with too many people putting too much money in it and only few happen to profit, you will have lotteries banned.

Until that happens, people can freely loose their money and I am in favour of it. Let's not have commissions that decide where people buy their hopes and entertainment, right?
Huh. So a DVD at 4.7gb would go from containing 5000 5mb photos to a 700mb model + 80,000 photos.
Very useful - thanks!

I don't want to downvote. I want to know why my comments get downvoted! How does one get that superpower? Because it absolutely seems that I bump into some sort of consensus thinking.

I mean, I've been posting in the last months pretty regularly, I'm posting my genuine arguments and positions, that I have come to over years, and I can support. I think they are interesting ideas - or at least they are authentic. And yet 4 months in, I'm currently at 26 points, having scaled the heady heights of 35 points!

Jeez, this seems to be a tough audience for people who I think should be open to interesting, unusual and perhaps challenging ideas!

> Try to avoid political threads. Each one has his/her opinion and wants to downvote any alternative.

Believe it or not, I don't think I'm political. I think I have a philosophical position. I really don't care about left or right. My philosophical position is of a skeptical bent. But, yep, this is misinterpreted as being political.

Cheers.
I was able to get whole genome sequencing from DanteLabs anonymously with Bitcoin (I'm still waiting for the test results though). Also cheapair.com works well for plane tickets, though it's the opposite of cheap.
I would say between 10-20 of my friends have some variety of smart home device? Most are Alexa, with a few Google Homes. They span the spectrum from tech-savvy to the opposite.
It would be very interesting to see how many bought them as a novelty, and then got tired of them and unplugged them.
The interview in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450038
mentions there is a Patreon account
https://www.patreon.com/emacshelm

I'm not at all sure whether that would be effective help today. Other ideas?
For regular financial products that's already the case.

As an example, https://www.deutsche-bank.es/pbc/data/es/hazte-cliente-cuent...

Every product is given a risk between 1 and 6 where 1 is the most safe.
Being able to edit people’s comments on GitHub is nice as a maintainer but removing information and completely changing people’s comments is really nasty. Any such effort should be clearly justified, preferably with a visual “edit message” that goes along with the smaller “edited” text.
Cal Newport's "Deep Work" cites an example of someone buying business-class airline tickets because the ability to focus on a plane was such a boon.
I like this idea a lot.
Online Lisp Meetings YouTube Playlist
Online Lisp Meeting coordinator here.

The initiative for these has started after this year's European Lisp Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. This year's formula, in order to adapt to its online form, included pre-recorded videos from all speakers, which were streamed on Twitch; the speakers, along with all participants, were available on Twitch chat for live commentary during the talk.

I thought two things: one, that this formula turned out to be surprisingly nice to participate in, and that it would be beneficial for the broader Lisp community to have more chances to meet, talk, and brainstorm than just once per year. This is why I have implemented the idea for cyclic online Lisp meetings, and it seems to have taken off well! So far, the meetings have been occurring regularly since May on a mostly-every-two-weeks schedule. (Sometimes it's three weeks, and sometimes one week.)

The toughest thing that I am personally facing is that I am a Common Lisp programmer and I think that this is reflected in the videos; most of the programmers I know (and therefore have invited) who use any dialect of Lisp are Common Lisp programmers. So far, only one talk in the series is not using Common Lisp, and I would like that to change - the European Lisp Symposium is not Common Lisp-centric, and, in my opinion, neither should the Online Lisp Meetings be.

If you're doing anything related to Lisp and you consider interesting enough to share, please let me know - I'll gladly accept your prerecorded talk and host it on a Twitch stream in order to make it available to our (mostly European) audience for synchronized watching and chat, and then upload it to YouTube for more permanent storage.

The announcements for new meetings are made at https://mailman.common-lisp.net/listinfo/online-lisp-meets and on /r/Lisp on Reddit.
Or you know....it's a smart move by the legislators. Want to drive at car-like speeds? Get a car licence with everything that it involves then.

With bicycles it makes even more sense - since the reality is that despite what the law says, many people ride them on pavements - so the speed should be limited to what is safe for pedestrians.
Not understanding that things is not supposed to be taken literally is a common trait with autistic people.
There was a Patreon linked to from the interview linked to in another comment, but it seems to be defunct: https://www.patreon.com/emacshelm/creators

However, sounds from that interview that being in the mountains is both his job and primary source of enjoyment, so I wouldn't be surprised if money isn't a factor.
I am not defending them, I am surprised about this since this is the biggest such site(I think) and I used it a lot without any issues. Also I don't know any "criminals" and I don't want to defend or protect anyone, if there is some tax or political involvement I am not aware and it was not what I was thinking on.
I suspect there's a false positive rate on some teams's dashboard and it's kept at an acceptable level that won't require raising transaction fees or incurring too many more OFAC fines.
That's an arbitrary opinion that you are holding on to. Being a target of warrantless search is not a sign of the land of the free.

If you disagree show me the proof of

> Americans who are overseas plotting imminent terrorist attacks

Show me the oversight over Anwar Awlaki's assasination that went ahead despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime. Proof of oversight, if you please over the killing of his 16 year old son.

I can play the same game that you have been playing in asking nothing less than irrefutable proof that will stand in a public court. Hope you believe in upholding the same standards over yourself that seek in others.

If you cannot, then how is it different from other places where such proofs are not forthcoming after killings or incarcerations ?
Isn't being able to buy from anywhere in the world the whole point of it?

It's really popular for underground stuff, anyway, everything else can be purchased with a normal bank card (or Paypal).

Bitcoin is not used by sellers in most countries afaik, because there's simply no need for it (yet).
> too many people putting too much money in it and only few happen to profit

But that's the explicitly stated purpose of a lottery. The goal of the lottery is to have as many losers and as few winners as possible, in order to attract people with larger and larger jackpots.
That IPhone and Samsung with a non replaceable battery is...a mic and camera that is always on. Potentially even when the device is off.
Has anyone tried to implement this as a gstreamer plugin?
Self acceptance is super key to adhd... Do you have a portfolio site or presentation? I've gotten good at presenting the concepts of past projects... People rarely have time for more.
Bit curious that it doesn't seem to run on a Raspberry Pi. Would seem like an obvious thing to do at this point. Looked around and found some forum threads, but nothing installable.
If you cannot distinguish a trusted party from a malicious party everything is then potentially malicious. This is why we have certificates, certificate revocation, and trust authorities.