skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the same slow animations with Chrome. I don't know what the point of it is, since it's apparently trivially bypassable, but I don't think the goal is to annoy people.

Also, the web would be much more annoying to use without captchas. (Not necessarily recaptcha, but just the concept in general.) If you've ever been an administrator of a site that's prone to spam, it's usually one of the only effective options. Other trade-offs would generally involve blocking huge ranges of potential users, with tons of false positives, or laborious manual approval which isn't feasible past a certain scale if it's just you or a few people.
This is BS. I've written several comments mentioning Trump and Xi without a problem. If you're being downvoted it's because what you're saying isn't true.
How was that possible since that was before first-to-file?
Cooking at home is dramatically more time/cost effective for two people compared to eating out. Anyone this isn't true for just has very inefficient shopping, prep, cooking and cleaning habits. They probably also don't understand how inefficient they are in these areas, or know what the food budget of someone who knows what they are doing actually looks like. This is always abundantly clear when this gets discussed on HN.
6 Weeks at Recurse Center
IP address is PII only when combined with things like name and address. Not by itself.
Overseas Chinese users can still use the chat function in Alipay to chat, no problem. As well as a host of other services like skype, facetime, etc.

Also, the Chinese communist party/government has recently decided to tighten the noose on its private companies: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/business/china-communist-... which makes wechat a national threat.
What I find incredibly disturbing is that these resources and expertise are being spent on drugs rather than child abuse materials etc.
AFAIK, marying a citizen gives you a straight path to resident papers and, later, citizenship, in the western world, including USA.
It's not common knowledge if the rest of us didn't know.
Other than Effective Java, I recommend looking at some of the Google libraries, specifically Guava [1] and Guice [2] for dependency injection.

Java is fundamentally a slow adopter of new techniques (it just got lambdas in JDK 8), but a lot of the Google libraries fill in the gaps.

Note that if you are learning Java for Android development, that's a whole different sub-discipline. In that case I recommend the Android tutorials since most of the work is dealing with the Android SDK.

[1] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/guava/index.htm

[2] https://www.baeldung.com/guice
So encryption is insecure because encryption is not signing?
>That would address some of the issues and not others, all of which were laid out in my original comment. (Hint: read the words after "Indian".)

I originally literally quoted the entire sentence from your original comment, which came after "Indian". We could do without the snide remarks. I was genuinely trying to get your position, but all you are doing is making snide remarks and attempting to make yourself sound more knowledgeable than you are about the issue.
The usefulness of a computer isn't linear with speed. Usefulness is application-specific, of course, but in most applications usefulness is somewhere between log(speed) and sqrt(speed).

For example:

If you're solving NP problems (common in optimization), the size of the problem you can handle in a given amount of time is proportional to log(speed).

If you're adding features to software, then any given feature requires some amount of compute power. Experience shows these to be power-law distributed. Early software versions started with the cheapest features, so now we're adding things on the right side of the distribution. So each new feature is likely to require additional compute power increasing like a power law.

For a concrete example: when OSX added transparency and shadows to windows, it required every pixel in a window to be operated on twice. A doubling of a major component of the screen update time for a feature which only slightly increases user happiness/productivity. It had to wait until GPUs were fast enough to support it.

In machine learning, the accuracy of results increases much less than linearly, somewhere between log(# parameters) and sqrt(# parameters). And the inference time is linear in the number of parameters.

So it's a good thing that compute power is increasing exponentially or else progress would be really slow.
They send out their IP?

IP address in not unique. IP is not PII, unless combined with other info which the companies said it doesnt do?
Right, these are both one-day study exercises I think to come up to speed. Java's designed like this - almost everything is additive and builds on the same principles.
Take ownership of your air.

SARS-CoV-2 is ~ 100 nm, room air purifiers with HEPA filters and the filter technology in real N95 masks filter far below this amount. You can make the air cleaner than ever with modern technology to protect yourself.
> Use Spring for frameworks.

Or Dropwizard if you want microservices that are more light weight and performant than Spring.

https://glennengstrand.info/software/performance/springboot/...

Or Vert.x or Play if you want to code reactive microservices.

https://glennengstrand.info/software/architecture/microservi...

> No one does inheritance anymore composition's all the rage.

Hmmm, that is oversimplification IMHO. When OOP first gained popularity, there was a lot of emphasis on inheritance. Inheritance got misused resulting in systems that became too rigid to change over time. The proverbial pendulum has swung the other way resulting in this sentiment of "no one does inheritance anymore" but inheritance is still very powerful and productive provided that you learn how to use it correctly. Think of inheritance as an advanced feature best left for more senior engineers to use.
And still US forces murder civilians in the Middle East without repercussions by drone and airstrike. Please explain to me why it would be wrong to carpet bomb the Rammstein airbase to take out the drone operations.
Compared to alternatives, high fees are better than being unbanked. Like payment gateways that let you sell THC.
Have a look at the following: https://i.redd.it/8gugazufo1o51.jpg

it looks like Sweden is fairing the same as far as new infections as most of the other European countries. So the fact is that its population didn't develop herd immunity (or at least it didn't in any measure better than other countries who did lock down) and its economy was still hit quite hard comparatively (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53664354)
What if a downvote cost you dharma- and what if the downvoted person could invest their own dharma to keep the post "buyont". You could even specify min or max points- if your comment was a hill to die upon for..
It's debatable. On the one hand, yes the most common case that the law applied to was "has HIV but virus loads are undetectable and thus risk of infection is nonexistent". On the other, removing that law means that someone who's off their meds with the intention of infecting others is now only guilty of a misdemeanor.

Personally, I'm still not sure how that doesn't count as rape by deception, but whatever.

In any case, I brought it up to compare to pandemic mask mandates. A "gay sex condom mandate" 30 or 40 years ago would have been incredibly effective at containing HIV (assuming it was actually followed), and HIV was at the time FAR more deadly than COVID-19. The fact that people consider one acceptable and one unthinkable is IMO interesting.
are you still on H1B?
I think that it is hard for younger people (especially young affluent people) to get a sense of how big of a problem drugs can be in society. Even prohibition seems crazy now - but it was popular at the time partly because public drunkenness and abusive husbands were a big deal.

I think the fact that black people are prosecuted at higher rates or the fact that crack is prosecuted harder than cocaine is a sign of racism, but it does bug me when people assign a conspiratorial level of control to the problem. It's a lose-lose, and at least in 2020 we are eon the side of prosecuting things too harshly.
Unless there were doing fairly simple ML that needed to be tightly integrated with a pre-existing Java codebase.
This is also clearly what happened with psychedelics. When they found out LSD wasn't the truth serum or mind control tool they had hoped it would be, and instead tended to just make people think more like hippies, they put the leg down hard.
> It simply isn't time/cost effective to cook for one person, probably not even two.

Paying someone else to source and make your food is a luxury. It saves you time, but you're definitely not saving money. Far from it.

Rarely is a financial advisor going to say: "Get your food from restaurants instead of a grocery store"
I am skeptical that there are no calls to underlying C or CUDA libraries occurring. Swift doesn’t naively beat BLAS
> The H1B stuff goes back and forth politically. If you ask me, if the economy is poor then there's no excuse for encouraging immigration, especially of high paid labor. If unemployment is high, that is (and that's the part that fluctuates).

Exactly why it should be easy, frictionless, and risk-free to tell on your employer for any labor violation as an H1-B. Make it abundantly clear to the visa holder that if their employer wrongs them in any way, they will pay big time and the visa holder will a. not face any punishment b. will be handsomely rewarded for coming forward.

This is what the unions should advocate for...
GeneticGo Genetic problem solver written in Go
Physically Modeled Drums with Multitouch
Given the fact that all data in WeChat is sent to a company in China, how would we be able to get concrete evidence of it?
How to build my ethics? Honest question, i have been clueless for a while.

Do you mean "how to I choose an ethical system to follow" or "how do I develop the strength of character to make hard choices"?
There are also magnitudes more destructive things they could be hunting on the dark web. This is like the lowest bar of illegality going on
Maybe their real estate will be cheaper, but if the city loses the income tax those higher earners and their luxury consumption, that loss of revenue is gonna fall to the middle class to make up, a middle class putting net more children into the school system too. NYC's annual spending per capita is already one of the highest in the nation.
Yeah these are real problems, I agree. And US citizens should continue to put pressure on their politicians to pass more privacy-related legislation

But my point wasn't really about data collection, it was about influence and content-control. People are readily influenced by memes, ads, headlines, etc which is why such platforms are so problematic because people are not comfortable with how much influence they have and how easily misinformation is spread.

What am I less comfortable with is leaving a path open for China to have that same kind of control in the US as FB/Google/etc, but without being subject to US laws like our private entities are.
The Synapse software is absolute trash.

I've used Logitech mice since forever, but their quality has taken a nose dive, so I bought a Razor Deathadder. Because everyone markets their products towards 13 year-olds, it's called "Deathadder" and it's stuffed full of RGB LEDs. To disable the LEDs, you must install the Synapse software which is Electron trash, because nobody writes real software any more. And you have to KEEP this software installed, to keep the LEDs off. If you uninstall it, the LEDs come right back on.

So I did what anyone would do: I took a screwdriver and a sidecutter, ripped out the leds and threw them in the trash.
My example is that the original claim is substantially meaningless so why even post it.

you're welcome!
Open Hardware GNU/Linux PPC64 Laptop Potential [pdf]
What does uMatrix do that uBlock Origin can't? I use uBO and it seems powerful enough to block the vast majority of nonsense.
Doesn't change the source of the word.
> I used the term “street heroin” instead of heroin because of all the complications that come along with it being illegal. This is a thread about black markets after all.

Well yes, and a thread about why recreational drugs should be legalized to reduce harm. But either way we should not be comparing the legal use of one substance to the illegal use of another. It's a mostly useless comparison when it comes to the nature of the substances and mostly useful to talk about the risks of prohibition.

As far as your other claims, I already said "You would really need to back up your claim with stats instead of just continuing to insist."

Anecdotal evidence about your friends and which addiction you would prefer don't do anything to move the conversation forward, so lacking stats and evidence about your claims, I'll stop here.
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (2018)
Yup. I was surprised and did the same sleuthing for PhotoStructure when libraries are stored on remote filesystems. I had to add a "local db replica" mode to work around this issue.

When running PhotoStructure under docker, it turned out to be simpler to just assume the DB is stored on a remote filesystem, and enable this mode by default. When running outside a container I can detect if the host volume is remote automatically and set the mode appropriately.

The reason why, other than missing file locking semantics, seems to be from WAL mode's use of an SHM file. Unsurprisingly, memory-mapped files don't work well from remote shares.
AFAICT uBO even in advanced mode doesn't differentiate between the kinds of requests that can be filtered, so filtering is only per domain and filters every kind of request for the domain equally. uM on the other hand differentiates between scripts, CSS, images, XHR, media and frames, and allows you to filter them individually.

But most importantly, uM also allows you to filter cookies with the same fidelity, which is the number one thing I would miss if I had to rely solely on uBO, because it means I can default to blocking even first-party cookies from sites I don't want leaving cookies on my machine. FF by itself gets close, by letting me set a policy that says "block all cookies except for cookies from these domains", but that doesn't let me filter which site is allowed to access those cookies.

Frankly, I find uBO redundant if one has uM installed but for two things: uBO can use the usual content-blocker lists (I personally don't need them because my router's DNS server does filtering using those same lists already, but it's useful for people without such a setup), and uBO can block remote fonts whereas uM can't. It would be great if uM's kind-based filtering was merged into uBO and remote fonts were kept as just another kind of request that can be filtered, but I don't know what gorhill plans to do.
There's a lot of enterprise data science being done with Java/Scala and the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem.

MXNet also makes deep learning a first-class citizen in Java, but yes the research community is firmly entrenched in Python atm.

I see JDK languages as being in a decent spot for deploying ML/DL, and maybe an "emerging" language for training DL models.

Folks like Jeremy Howard have increasingly been expressing growing pains with Python and TensorFlow has been looking for something with a better type system like Swift.

If I had to take a guess, I'd say that Python is likely going to be sharing the ecosystem with a language with a better type system and performance like Julia or something on the JDK.
Ancient Architects' (a YouTube channel) summary - https://youtu.be/GYr3PBzNyI0
Perhaps, but no amount of preparation has been able to vault me to even close to the elite, mostly because I guess I don’t have the genes for it.
The powers delegated to the Executive don’t generally require a good explanation. “Principles” are handled at the ballot box.
> selfish

Ah I love the "selfish" card.

Perhaps the pro-lockdown crowd is so selfish they helped 60% of businesses close.

Perhaps the pro-lockdown crowd is so selfish that they helped tens of millions become unemployed.

Perhaps the anti-choice crowd is so selfish that they restricted the choices of others due to their own fears.

Perhaps.

Perhaps my side is simply pro-choice.
People have the ability and technology to protect themselves now. E.g. if you are wearing an N95 mask properly, the net effect on your risk profile if someone is wearing a cloth mask is <5%.
The study is unconvincing. They mention that fields with more h1bs have lower unemployment. Well no kidding, in demand fields attract more h1bs, it isn't the h1bs making it more attractive.

Another problem with the study. "...the
program enables employers to hire foreign workers when they cannot hire U.S. workers"

This is such a lie. My brother has looking for around a year and cannot get his first position. Past few months, looked like I might lose my job do to Covid. I spent a few months looking for a job, but couldn't find one. At the same time 70% of my coworkers are on h1b, often in their early/mid 20s. Absolutely no reason they couldn't hire a domestic worker to do the job. H1B is a scam.
Or Belstaff. Even Aigle makes pretty good waxed jackets on occasion.

But one of the best materials for rain is still... wool.
RIP.

Next to "Intel Inside", I can't think of a more successful secondary brand in the consumer goods world.
N95 masks aren't foolproof, require careful use and fitting, and are ideally saved for the medical professionals who are facing a second wave + flu.

I'm not entirely hiding at home, but I absolutely don't blame anyone who is, and in fact I'd suggest they're smarter than me for doing so.
Ignoring Yemen, Somalia, and the expansion of pre-existing wars?

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/trumps-dangero...
One can also hide things by sending an overwhelming amount of noise to drown out the signal.
FinCEN Files: world's biggest banks allowed to move dirty money around the world
Criminals deal with hard money and liquid assets, while most people have money invested in businesses and real estate. They also don't complain about big fees. So it is advantageous for banks to work with dark money.
I'm not really surprised by this. The pay and the work environment are shockingly poor in nursing homes.
I don’t intend to seem callous, so please help educate me.

If you marry a citizen, that accelerated the Green Card. If you marry a non-citizen, your situation is precarious, so why not rent rather than buy?

I’m not arguing that the rules are right. (They are clearly wrong) Just that if you’re ina precarious situation, avoid doing things that make it worse. When I lived abroad, the expats were all aware of being on borrowed time.

I think the world would be a better place in terms of peace and prosperity if people could circulate as easily as money. Unfortunately that’s not our world.

If my posts are wrong or offend I’m happy to delete them.
Because there is no law in the Constitution saying that "If China can block Facebook, Google, etc., then the US can block Chinese apps"

Congress can pass such a law and the President can sign it.
Yes, or a Googler who doesn’t want to be seen publicly attacking a Google project
Nominated in November 1987 and confirmed in February 1988. The spot wasn't vacant for 18 months once a reasonable candidate was nominated.
Thank you for expanding the window.

As someone who masked up before everyone else, I had people glaring and moving away from me in the grocery store like I was highly infectious.
That’s what banks are there to do
If the Democrats are "pro-immigration", they haven't actually succesfully done much to show it. Generally, not limited to H1B. this country has become very anti-immigration generally, and I hate it.

There isn't really such a thing as a "tech union" in the USA. I don't think very many tech H1B holders are working in areas with any unions. (And if they were wouldn't many union members be H1B holders themselves?)

Actually, I suspect Democrats get more money from tech companies that benefit from H1B hires than Republicans do. Tech companies in the past tend to donate to Dem more than Republican. Of course, the biggest companies, in nearly every industry, donate to both parties hoping to influence whoever is in office.

Perhaps that's what led to the bare improvement to a 60 day period under Obama, who was of course the last Democratic president. The Dems definitely haven't done any more for lower wage or less skilled immigrants, if you think they are somehow helping them but not H1B-type immigration, you are unfortunately mistaken.
In 2020 undemocratic seems a synonym for “swift and effective”
Hackers leak data on 1k Belarusian police officers
Yes. A ban now will be less disruptive than a ban later when WeChat has far more American users. The damage I refer to is the damage to to the lives and habits of WeChat's current American and immigrant users caused by WeChat's removal.
NIST's new tool helps IT staff see why users click on fraudulent emails
That’s a really good point. HIV is an interesting point, because we can not stop the spread, even after 50,000,000 deaths over the past few decades.

It’s objectively easier to stop HIV with coordinated effort than COVID, so therefore it is impossible to stop SARS-CoV-2 with the current population education/skill level.
Are you claiming that pubs and barbershops were designed based on an understanding of human behavior? It seems more like they've evolved over centuries, with everyone copying features that worked. Every time some architect tries to reinvent them based on theoretical principles of human interaction, the result sucks.
I fully support immigration reform and expedited citizenship for skilled workers. I empathize with you. I have a lot of friends from school who have to deal with this, and it sucks.

On the other hand, the H1B system isn’t supposed to import fungible labor. These visa are supposed to be for highly specialized labor — highly specialized to the point that the openings are rare. It’s hard to fault an abused program for being inconsiderate of a problem it wasn’t supposed to solve.
There's a strong culture in banking - not universal, but strong - that regulations are just a game being played between your institution and the regulators. A banker who steps just to the edge of being slapped down by regulators is seen as a much more positive figure than a restauranteur who just barely passes the health inspection or a loan shark who charges exactly the maximum allowed.
You twice made incorrect assumptions about what I believed. That's not necessary if you're just trying to understand it.

Now you're asserting that I'm lacking some knowledge about the issue, without bothering to specify what knowledge, specifically, I might be lacking.

This is not how good faith conversations tend to go.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2020/09/pa-coronavirus-orde...

"U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in a similar case out of California related to pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings, wrote in May that elected officials should be allowed latitude when acting in areas “fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties” and should not be subject to second-guessing by an “unelected federal judiciary.”