skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> > For research, name a better duo.

> A search engine and scihub?

> Wikipedia is useful for a high-level overview. For more info, you'll be clicking on the references a lot. No reason not to start with the sources.

Ok, you got me there. I knew using "research" with no qualifier was going to get me into trouble. I should have said "general research."

I can't wait for Sci-Hub, or better, to become legal. The fact that is not legal is pretty embarrassing for our civilization.

Regarding the search engine, for a lot of general research adding "... reddit" often improves results in my experience. It's so weird how important that site turned out to be. Now if only it could make money without unneccesary features. I feel like we should buy reddit for the commons while we can :)
maybe

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Orca

https://sonic-pi.net/

https://teenage.engineering/products/po
I'm referring to anything that is generated using the emit keyword in a smart contract. Here is what I'm referring to: https://medium.com/mycrypto/understanding-event-logs-on-the-...
Oracle wins bidding war for TikTok’s US operations
European here: donor/lobbying imho is the legalized bribing in the USA. It is annoying some people when I phrase it like this, but hey, people who sit on a big chair tend to want to continue sitting on said chair. And donors' cash helps to that objective. So yes, I don't care if it's Larry or John, or pual, or Ringo, or George, if I pay you money to stay in power, and in exchange I get to benefit from that, you can call it what you want. I call it bribing/kickback/fraud/etc.

Money went from person A to person B. Person B made a decision so only person A profitted. I see a pattern. Don't you?
> Unless you think that universities should pick their students by lotteries

This is already the case in the US - more so than any other developed nation I think, because of how poor state public schools can be and the lack of a welfare / healthcare safety net for the poor. The lottery of who you are born to and where you live is pretty much the main determination of whether you get into an elite university or not.

The answer is to provide enough high quality higher education so everyone who wants to can get one, as long as they meet the minimum bar (pass GRE / high school diploma). Let people prove themselves as adults. I'm convinced this can be done, but probably not in the traditional way of requiring a physical presence on campus.
Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996)
Please don't post like this to HN. We're trying to avoid flamewars here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While it is mind blowing how less we've invested in modernizing education, the biggest barrier I've seen in recent times is - educating the educators.

For reference, I helped set up my high school with a <insert-suite-for-education> for free and they were very happy as there were folks charging them to get it set up.
But next biggest problem I saw was - teachers who have been using a blackboard all their life trying to do their best to teach with a powerpoint presentation.

Problem is exacerbated when you throw in more variables like - flaky internet connection, inconsistencies in UI all across, hardware failures, zoombombing and a certain lack of features.
Now do this in India - where the student:teacher ratio is absolutely crazy.

Really goes to show how we should get the fundamentals right.
Exactly, build tools shouldn't be deps of binary packages.
They use their own PureOS: https://pureos.net/
This comment. UK's CO2 _emissions_ may have fallen to 1890's levels, but CO2 _consumption_ hasn't: 89% of 1990 levels according to [1].

Let's not pat ourselves on the back and pretend the problem is solved.

1. https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...
According to wikipedia 9% of electricity is "bioenergy" [0]

How much of that is actually trees rather than
capture of agricultural methane? [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#E...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
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UK's autumn Covid-19 redundancies could exceed 700k
Check out:

- r/musicprogramming [1]

- #opensourcemusicians on the Freenode IRC network [2]

- VCV Rack [3]

- Supercollider [4]

- Overtone [5]

- ChucK [6]

- Awesome live-coding [7]

- Muffwiggler Forum [8]

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming/

[2] - https://freenode.net/

[3] - https://vcvrack.com/

[4] - https://supercollider.github.io/

[5] - https://github.com/overtone/overtone

[6] - https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

[7] - https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music

[8] - https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/
I think part of the idea of "not owning your device" is that apple and Google have controlled gardens, apple way more than android, but still. They control the system software.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346674
I worked at Parse when it was bought by Facebook. The day the news broke, Facebook’s market cap grew by multiples of the acquisition price. I remember being gobsmacked that Facebook effectively got paid to buy us.
BT broadband bills could reach £100k for rural users
What databases are comparable to ClickHouse say for
Ease of single node deployment
Super fast basic analytics, filter/group/count without a lot of optimization
Fabulous compression
How much money do you make?

How much money do you think teachers make?
This is definitely way out on a limb.

That's too complicated, there is no way to know Larry would have ended up with the win like this.

TikTok was banned for 2 reasons:

1) Users on TT ganged together to screw up Trump's GOP convention. This means a) raising vengeful ire of Trump and b) serious implications for material political intervention by a an outside entity. Even though I don't think for a second the CCP had anything to do with it, the risk is materai.

2) National Security Risk. This is not a joke, almost all Chinese companies have 'CCP party apparatus', within the company to make sure they are following the party line, and they will hand over data for whatever purpose at anytime. Imagine having every US politician, Academic, CEO, Investors social medial - that's a lot of compromised individuals and you could compromise the country very quickly.

The reason TT should not be allowed even before 1 and 2 which are more controversial is simply trade - if foreign companies have to jump through hoops to play in China, those same hoops should be applied here tit-for-tat. Just on the basis of fair trade alone.

FYI Trump's bit about 'taking a cut' is just laughable, I honestly think he doesn't understand what 'trade' is, it's like he cannot seem to differentiate between 'his personal business' and anything else. Just like he cannot fathom how nations interact with one another, and sees everything in very personal terms i.e. with Putin, Erdogan etc..
Again, not a question of Tiktok's valuation, but whether this is relevant to bank considering Oracle Cloud for their own infra.
Active partial reconfiguration is a thing and works pretty much as you say - some parts of the chip continue running while others are swapped out, and an example use case is video encoding, just swap in the encoder engine optimised to a given standard, rather than have every standard in the same design requiring a much larger device.
> bandits have higher statistical power, but also higher false-positive rate; false positives can be quite high cost since they cause thrash and require time to investigate if a feature that tested well does poorly in production

Not sure what you mean by this. Higher false-positive rate compared to what? And given that bandits do not run for a predefined amount of time but converge at a rate proportional to the evidence (as opposed to your typical AB-test), a higher rate at which point in time?

Perhaps you mean that, because bandits typically run longer, there's a higher chance that they'll select an alternative that offers only a marginal improvement on the status quo whereas short experiments would just say "nah, no evidence that one is better than the other" and thereby get rid of a lot of noise?
I enjoyed this intro to their story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DQiexiUjAs

Not so much their sound, but the minimalistic/futuristic electronic duo format reminds me of Suicide. But Silver Apples were post-psychedelic where Suicide were proto-punk.
I disagree. Look at what that guy did with C macros. He was Fortran lover and wrote entire programs in C using Fortran syntax by re-purposing macros for that goal. You always write in same style, regardless of programming language.
Isn't the reason extraction is almost impossible that everything in a PDF is placed inside a box? So every line has it's own box and paragraphs don't exist. Paragraphs are just multiple boxes placed together. The context of sentences is completely gone.
Advantage of 80 column line coding style
There are quite a few theoretical disadvantages to the Swiss system, including what you mentioned. The surprising thing is though, when I compare to all other systems, I don't see that much of stalemate or progress gap. So even without understanding why, it seems to me it gets somehow evened out.
jEdit 5.6.0
The tighter that regulations squeeze on free-enterprise, the more free-enterprise "fights back" by doing stuff like this. It's the path of least-resistance and the most-profit so of course it'll get exploited.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16153284&cid=59935964 doctors might be pressurized to give patient medicine
Building fast interpreters in rust (2019)
nVidia clearly wants to compete with Intel in data centers. But how does buying ARM help with that? They already have an architectural license.

Right now, I can see nVidia replacing Mali smartphone GPUs in low to mid-end Exynos SoCs and the like. But it's not like nVidia to want to be in that low-margin area.
I've written a little overview of the open source options for text extraction available in C# https://dev.to/eliotjones/reading-a-pdf-in-c-on-net-core-43e...

At some point I need to port PdfTextStripper from PDFBox, it seems to be among the most reliable libraries for extracting text in a generic way.
Thanks for your post,

Yes I suppose it is possible in theory, but as in the first phase described in the article, surviving motor units are taking in charge junctions of the dying motor units, so the disease is invisible.

There are many theories about what causes ALS, most are borrowed from other diseases and some may reflect our thinking processes: We need a single cause for our comfort. But there may be no single cause of ALS, and perhaps no causal chain at all.

Actually it could be simply that when an upper motor neuron is stressed the disease is named ALS, when it is a neuron in substancia nigra it is called Parkinson, and when it is in the cingulate gyrus (and mostly in lobes) we call it Alzheimer.

But actually it is a story about neurons that are dying in the brain.
I think this is incorrect, this isn't the first trained multi-layer neural network.

Minsky & Rosenblatt's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book) covers multi-layer neural nets.

Rosenblatt's electronic implementation, the Mark I https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/236965.pdf

Minsky's electronic implementation, SNAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_reinf...
If it disables login with apple id, can those users use the app?
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This may sound good, but it's only meaningful if you'd put that into a larger context. For instance, tomatoes:

"Our results show that imported tomatoes from Spain and Italy have two times lower greenhouse gas emissions than those produced in Austria in capital-intensive heated systems. On the contrary, tomatoes from Spain and Italy were found to have 3.7 to 4.7 times higher greenhouse gas emissions in comparison to less-intensive organic production systems in Austria. Therefore, greenhouse gas emissions from tomato production highly depend on the production system such as the prevalence or absence of heating." [1]

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-013-0171-8

It's the second part that it's important here. It doesn't really matter where tomatoes are grown: Italy, Spain or Austria. In absolute terms, tomatoes production still results in far more carbon emissions then less-intensive produce.

Moreover, you have to compound those emission numbers with consumption numbers. Tomatoes are a basically a staple food in the Western world. Massive amounts are produced and consumed. This is why the consumer price per unit is basically pennies at the counter.

The offset of that is, in absolute terms, a massive carbon footprint. If hundreds of thousands of tons of tomatoes are shipped by airplane or freightship across the world anually, that still translates into big emissions.

In order to reduce carbon emissions in a meaningful way, the entire life cycle of the product in your shopping bag should be weaned off fossil fuel use in an absolute terms. This isn't an easy exercise:

"The results show that the largest reduction of environmental impacts can be achieved by consuming seasonal fruits and vegetables, followed by reduction of transport by airplane. Sourcing fruits and vegetables locally is only a good strategy to reduce the carbon footprint if no greenhouse heating with fossil fuels is involved. The impact of water consumption depends on the location of agricultural production. For some crops a trade-off between the carbon footprint and the induced water stress is observed." [2]

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394405/
Thank you - now edited.
+1 for Orca.

Orca is live coding environment / procedural music playground.

This video gives an overview of what it is.
https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE
Yes, the phone is your castle, and the castle is breached.

By design. Whether that's by your phone automatically backing up your data to the cloud, or whether that's because your OS decides to roll out a 'track and trace' update to be used by governmental agencies, or any number of other possibilities.

Privacy cannot be regained by petitioning Google, Apple or the government for the features you think you should have - ie total control, repairability, headphone sockets, etc. You are the product.

When it turns out our own phones are snitches, the answer is to get out. Why stay in a breached castle? And these snitches can't get stitches. The only answer I see it to ditch the phone.
Thanks for the detailed response. Aside from the genre, a lot of what you said there applies to me. But I am trying a different tack recently. I want to be able to "jam out" on some weird sound that I found in my virtual audio stack. Even if that includes some weird mastering effect artefact. I want it all live.

This led me to focus on excellent but simple triggers, and the lowest possible latency. I can't overstate the impact of low latency on making the entire DAW/Virtual Instrument stack feel "real."

My quest for low latency with robust DSP lasted for 3 months of orders and returns. I ended up getting a Focusrite 4Pre which has a Thunderbolt 2 interface. I got the Apple Tbolt 3<->2 adapter and I can get robust ~2-3ms audio playback latency even on Ableton/Windows running on a 2017 XPS 9560. When you plug a drum trigger into something like that, it's whole different beast. I had no idea. I ended up with the NI Maschine Mikro Mk3 for the drum trigger. I can't believe how these NI pads feel with low latency audio.

Has anyone else gotten further down the latency rabbit hole than me? Please share!
Only part of the biomass comes from waste, either from the timber mills or from tree crowns and undersize wood. The rest comes from trees which are harvested for this purpose. The areas is replanted for this purpose with a fast-growing species like Willow and Poplar. The result can not be called a forest, it is a dense plantation with a high turnaround time.
That's a cool looking tool.

Have you marketed it towards pentesters at all? I guess Burp has that market pretty well locked down, but I'm always open to seeing more competitors.

As far as Apple limiting their tools, well, that's why I'll never own an Apple product. Why would I buy a device that I can't develop for?
There are lots of places you can make C's syntax more concise. What do you get for changing the syntax here? Why is it worth it?

void* was merely for example. Yes make it typed when you use it in your C code. Also used accessor functions to wrap array index so you can switch on & off a macro for bounds checking, absolutely do that. Does new syntax change anything if you do these things?

Don't much care for the seatbelt analogy there, remove your working, properly fitted seatbelts with our red ones because they're easier to see? These kinds of analogies always break down. Especially car analogies for programming and yes, I use them too.
Honestly, I haven't done a whole lot with FPGAs so others can probably give you a better answer. One thing I did which was fun was generate VGA video signals with an FPGA. This was much easier than I expected and it's rewarding to get immediate visual feedback.
> The only answer I see it to ditch the phone.

Did you?
The only reason why coal fired plants could be phased out is that the base load from industry is gone.

For example the UK last month produced 515,000 tons of steel. In the 1890s it produced 420,000 tons per month.

The title might as well be "UK De-Industrialization Complete".

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmbi...

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/steel-production
You might find this ultra-simple RNG interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30
It's doable, but it's only the easiest cases. If it's a one off script, or some automation you give as a base to a human to review afterwards it can be a good first step.

If it's supposed to be a somewhat final result, ran against a dataset you have little control over (people sending you PDFs they made, vs. PDFs coming from a know automated generator) you'll hit all the other not so edge cases very fast.

Like, otherwise invisible characters inserted in the middle of your text, layout that makes no logical sense and puts the text in a weird order but was fine when it was displayed on the page, characters missing because of weird typographic optimization (ligatures, characters only in specific embeded fonts etc.). Basically everything in the article is pretty easy to find in the wild.
If you want to understand Forth, I recommend this article:

A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 systems by Richard W.M. Jones

"LISP is the ultimate high-level language, and features from LISP are being added every
decade to the more common languages. But FORTH is in some ways the ultimate in low level
programming. Out of the box it lacks features like dynamic memory management and even
strings. In fact, at its primitive level it lacks even basic concepts like IF-statements
and loops.

Why then would you want to learn FORTH? There are several very good reasons. First
and foremost, FORTH is minimal. You really can write a complete FORTH in, say, 2000
lines of code. I don't just mean a FORTH program, I mean a complete FORTH operating
system, environment and language. You could boot such a FORTH on a bare PC and it would
come up with a prompt where you could start doing useful work. (...)

Secondly FORTH has a peculiar bootstrapping property. By that I mean that after writing
a little bit of assembly to talk to the hardware and implement a few primitives, all the
rest of the language and compiler is written in FORTH itself. Remember I said before
that FORTH lacked IF-statements and loops? Well of course it doesn't really because
such a lanuage would be useless, but my point was rather that IF-statements and loops are
written in FORTH itself."

https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
Professional scientists can't bet their reputation on a novel idea: a 1% chance it'll work out and 99% chance the scientist will be sent to academia's exile. It's better than what would've happened to them in medieval ages, though.

In past, many of the breakthru ideas came from aristocrats: they were rich enough to not give a shit about their reputation in academia.
4 years, 8 billions. 2 B / year. I don't think that's low. And during this time Arm was also filling its owner coffers. The only real question here is if they filled the coffers at a greater 2B/year or not. My guess is they didn't. Now SoftBank has a lot of cash to acquire more shining toys.
I think your point is important to understand, but I think it's kind of missing the point of measuring emissions by country. Exporting manufacturing, etc certainly does not solve the problem. But that's in part because no one country can solve the problem. Any one country that regulates carbon emissions will simply export their emitting industries to foreign countries that do not. What that means is that we have to keep playing whack a mole, until everyone is in compliance. That is, unfortunately, probably just the nature of the problem. We could try to do complex things like apply tariffs to imported goods based on their carbon footprint, but reliably measuring that is going to be next to impossible.

So I don't want to disagree with you per se, I think it's important to recognize that exporting industries is not, per se, solving climate change. But I thin it's also important to recognize that solving climate change, in the early stages, probably does look a lot like just reshuffling things by country.
Im not familiar with the tax system in the us, but progressive, direct taxation is indeed progressive. Usually this is offset by The regressive effects of indirect taxation, fees for public services, education, fines and so forth.
Scientists baffled by orcas ramming sailing boats
Apple Software is not secure either. Apple has just marketed themselves as being more secure.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...
I'm not sure there is any mystery here. Orcas are fed up with humans.
Thanks, so it seems you need to have some kind long-ish antenna and I guess faking a cable was the best way to hide it.
Beijing's mass surveillance of Australia and the world for secrets and scandal
What's your result with this idea?