skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disagreeing with you, but regarding money laundering, it's not like drug trafficking and heists are only illegal streams of money which needs to be cleaned. Trafficking, prostitution, illegal gambling, depositing of toxic waste, bribe money, cyber crime, financial malversations etc.
Good choice. Benzodiazepines screw with brain chemistry like no other drug I've seen people use medically or recreationally. As one friend put it about his Xanax: "I'm not sure where the anxiety goes when I take Xanax, but I think it goes to the gym considering how strong it is when it comes back". My guess is that 20 or 50 years from now we are going to look back on the widespread prescription of benzos as a really bad idea. Hopefully the legalization of cannabis continues to accelerate so people like yourself don't have to risk legal consequences for treating a medical condition.
Maybe it's easier to understand as a rate. Around the beginning of May, the all-causes mortality rate in the USA was about 50% higher than normal. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02497-w
Nice! This is exciting as I own an early GS110TPv3. Would a very early firmware image help you in any with this effort (v1.0.0.4)? My switch is booted into a more recent firmware version now (7.x.x.x) but if I recall, the cloud features were not present in 1.0.0.4.
Candidate for an Ignobel prize. Could have used some figures
A VSTi i have used several times for birds & animals is "sounds of nature" by Xoxos, maybe you could take a look at how it is done, my guess is some fast FM modulations.

To stay in topic i have synthesized some nature sounds (birds, waters) myself using this synthesizer and a simple two oscillators FM setup with massive pitch modulations for each oscillators, you can hear it on :

https://youtu.be/25o4Ru8kbpE?t=1111

And FM squeaking doors : https://youtu.be/25o4Ru8kbpE?t=1404

So my guess is that some FM with pitch modulation and many oscillators may be the way to go.

Percussion can be synthesized with convincing results through resonant models (simple resonant filters with initial noise), this is called modal synthesis, you can find filters parameters for some real instruments here : http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/MiscModalFreq.html
I was referring to the cable bridges, not the ones that have wifi and all that. For example the SB6183. I don't think it's smart to get integrated cable+wifi because the wifi stuff evolves very rapidly and the cable stuff evolves hardly ever.
Congratulations, nice app! but is there any option to import labels made with labelImg to Labelai?
> Was worried about CF getting their claws dug into archive.org

SAME. From the title, I assumed the Wayback Machine would be using Cloudflare. Nice prank, boys.
I love Rust as much as the next guy but it's not the best language for numerics. Julia is really nice though.
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Do you have a source for this claim you keep posting? Quick search immediately appears to be the opposite, that cooked meat is easier to digest than raw

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/20/why-cooked-mea...
If I were them, I wouldn’t save it just to reduce my warrant workload.

Kinda like 4chan and DMCAs: there’s no point since it’s usually deleted by the time it’s submitted anyway.
Do you mean that we clung to single threaded compute for too long? Like we spent too many transistors on just making one fast core because it's easy to write code to use one core?
Yes, totally possible. You can use UNION ALL to merge them together. We are also working on globbing support for the Parquet reader that should be released next week [1].

[1] https://github.com/cwida/duckdb/issues/773
I'm using an RPi 4 as a NAS/home server and the difference between SD speeds and USB speeds was pretty noticeable (subjectively); even simple linux commands (ls, cp -r, mv) sped up after switching to a SanDisk Ultra Flair. Except for one USB drive...

Recently I had the misfortune of having a debian update screw up my docker daemon and I ran over to Best Buy to grab any-old-USB drive to use as a new OS drive. As it happens the SD copy over went fine, but as I performed basic "setting the server up" operations like copying over the old data (50 GB of various sizes) and firing up docker-compose scripts, performance deteriorated rapidly to the point where a docker install of a lighttpd container took at least 30 minutes and the system became effectively unusable.

The poor-performing drive was the PNY Elite-X Fit, USB 3.0, 128GB, purchased for ~$22

I've switched back to a SanDisk SD card for the moment which is perfectly adequate for the next few months but I hope to get back to running off a USB soon when I'm not so busy.
True, I stand corrected. I think that's still the case actually.
So, I think it may be more what you’re searching for and less the SEO of it. At least from my experience.

1. Use more specifically targeting words. I.e. I needed a specific valve for a new gas line I put in a few months ago. The kind of thing that’s not sold at Home Depot, but at wholesale outfits specifically tailored for plumbers. Instead of search for “3/4 gas valve” I searched for “3/4 gas cock” as “cock” is an industry word for “valve” and the results of which would get me more precisely to the sources I was looking for.

The same can be used for technical stuff. An example, instead of searching for “how do I add a firewall rule to a router” I’ll search for “cisco allow udp 53 rule”.

2. Often I find that the same couple sites are the places that have the specific information I’ve looked for in the past. I do this for product reviews as an example: “cove security reddit”. For a more technical example, during the gas line, I searched: “3/4 gas 10” WC Reddit”. This got me into a few conversation threads where a master plumber was explaining the max BTU usage I could have on a similar line to mine, he then explained the math behind it with some very valuable knowledge from his experience on permitting and gas company nuances. Exactly what I was looking for.

These are two basic examples that show methods that work super well for me in finding what I need and skipping the bullshit out there. These combined with learning Googles operator syntax is the ticket.

You could go as far as messing with DNS or some blocking methods, but that seems likes a ton of work for little return. Just learn how to search a little better. :)
https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches
questions to ask:
1) why do you want to become a computer engineer
2) what does a computer engineer do
3) what do you hope to achieve by becoming a computer engineer
Many things were unimaginably hard in the past, until we figured out how to do them. Is it impossible that this may also be the case, to some noteworthy degree, with the human shortcomings you have accurately identified?

Some people think that the abstract idea of the ego (or more generally, the illusory nature of human consciousness) plays a very big role in the pattern of follies that mankind seems to repeat across generations and cultures. Consider an idea: if you are engaged in an undertaking (say, designing a somewhat sophisticated machine) where decisions are based on measurements, and your measurements often happen to be incorrect (sometimes incredibly incorrect, to the point of being the opposite of what is true), should one be surprised when the outcome is often other than predicted? And if for some reason the idea never occurs to you that such a flaw exists in the system, or you realize there is a flaw but incorrectly consider it to be unimportant, should one be surprised that problems persists over time?
Yes, the competition for attention used to be at the level of the whole newspaper, or the whole magazine.

Now the attention competition is at the article level, and the headline is near the top of the funnel. To not be subjected to (as much of) this insanity, you can use a smart aggregator like HN or a well-moderated subreddit.
I just recorded a voice memo this morning with an inspired idea related to this. Water in a box, pee into the box, poop into compost bags, collect and restock weekly. I’ve done manual labor digging trenches, working with construction, all that. Also been homeless for 2 yrs in SF/SV for what it’s worth, doing said work (do not have resources for coding interviews, trying to save). With compostable or washable containers, I have no idea why one would make a sewage system in a camp. Being a (former) engineer as well, I can appreciate the thought put into it.
You’re absolutely right in every regard, I just want to throw in a little flavor from my experience as a security consultant. I’ve worked with state governments where we had to tune out alerting of failed logins on their domain controller because the public login for their public facing site was backed directly by their internal Active Directory server and we were seeing thousands of failed login alerts every day.

The state of infosec is still that bad and unfortunately most consumers can’t know of these problems let alone choose to opt out. Right now much of the cost of a breach is borne by the end users who didn’t choose the poor level of security the organization implemented, and I am increasingly of the opinion that it’s better to bring down your organization’s IT infrastructure than to suffer a catastrophic breach. Because if the pain if borne by the internal IT teams more than the end user (who again often has no knowledge or no choice), eventually the company will be forced to implement better processes.

As long as the real cost of a breach is paid for by end users, organizations have very little incentive to improve.
Only if you are running the Samba DC functionality, which is non-default. Also, you would have needed to specifically disable the protection that was added by Samba in 2018.
This clearly isn't to create some utopic 'more reliable Web'. In fact, Cloudflare severely undermines that, by pushing their centralised view of what the internet should be.

I was hopeful, but after reading this:

> “The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has an impressive infrastructure that can archive the web at scale,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “By working together, we can take another step toward making the Internet more resilient by stopping server issues for our customers and in turn from interrupting businesses and users online.”

It's plain to see that this is a money-making venture for Cloudflare.
While I do like the added functionality, I personally can't see how this 'improves' the Wayback Machine. It's just going to place more load on it.
> (though I think it’s important for a functional society to obey laws, and get them changed if they aren’t working instead of just breaking them based on personal preference)

This is an unbelievably privileged position to take.

Are you not aware that the country itself was established in the finest tradition of civil disobedience?

The declaration of independence was an act of civil disobedience.

The end of colonial empires was an act of civil disobedience.

Slavery and segregation were resisted by civil disobedience.

Oskar Schindler is the only member of the Nazi party to have been buried in Jerusalem in recognition of his civil disobedience.

Are you really suggesting that all of these acts in defiance of unjust laws were morally wrong, and that everyone should have just waited for the law or regime to change?
You never wanted for anything in your life and it shows. Social safety nets aren't "handouts for lazy people". Let's take the obvious out and not even mention things like disability benefits, which exist so people who had the misfortune of having accidents or health problems which leave them unable to work and to produce value for Our Great Ruling Class aren't cast aside like garbage and don't have to depend on charity to live. Let's focus on things like unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc.

I'm glad that you never experienced hardships in your life, truly. But some people have. I have. Some people come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Others have hit rough patches. Some through mental health problems, substance addiction, or simply bad fucking luck and despite being hard-working simply got the short end of the stick and have no work with which to sustain themselves. Shouldn't we help these people get back on their feet? Lastly, the number of people which truly conform to your stereotype of "welfare queens" leeching off taxpayer's money are truly negligible, and have a negligible impact on the country's finances. If you truly cared about it you would much sooner worry about things like the MIC, regulatory capture, the capitalist class owning government and siphoning money for themselves (as amply demonstrated by the coronavirus bailouts), etc, rather than pick on people who are down on their luck.
Intel at least absolutely clung to clock speed and one core for software reasons--in large part because of pressure from a certain very important software partner.

But multicore on a single (mostly) general purpose architecture (leaving aside vector instructions) is still easier from a software perspective than the very heterogeneous architecture--vector, array, FPGA, etc.--we're increasingly adopting.
Testicles are naturally lumpy. How can you tell the regular lumps apart from a potentially harmful one?
> These servers are not at all publicly facing

That’s a bold (and incorrect) statement. What you meant to say is “hopefully (and in most but not all cases) these servers are not publicly facing”. Because I’ve worked with an alarmingly high number of organizations where their internal AD absolutely is public facing.
This is a poor model of Hacker News comment phenomena. It requires all this extra complexity in the theory (comment “waves” and “triggered” reactions, highly generic stereotypes of whether a responder is reflective and thoughtful, and whether this correlates with moderate opinions).

From an Occam’s Razor point of view, this is a very poor theory, and I’d even go further and suggest it indicates unfair bias on the moderators’ part to implicitly subscribe to this judgment about early / quick responders.

A competing, much simpler theory is that Hacker News, like everything else on the planet, is tribal and political. People add comments to support their tribe, and people use upvotes to support their tribe, while they use FAQ & guideline legalese, downvotes, shadow bans and timeout periods to punish opposing viewpoints and tribes they don’t like.

I think the reason people look past this much simpler theory that comports much better with the evidence is that they want to protect a false sense that Hacker News is democratic and tolerant of unusual views, but it so deeply isn’t.
“I’ve seen how the burrito is made and I ain’t hungry”

Discussing Android apps and trackers.
Dang describes dialectics.
> If you don’t have evidence then don’t expect someone to not be confirmed.

Basically everybody went into this process expecting Kav to be confirmed, since there is a long history of ignoring these sorts of claims.

"You shouldn't expect justice without evidence" and "people who come forward after decades are liars because nobody does that" are very very very different claims.
Well, there goes my startup.
Science works because you are able to control most of the variables. It simplifies the world into something that can be modelled. Major decisions like energy policy are just more complicated than that. It is hundreds of overlapping considerations that have no good single answer. Yes science still matters, but there are deeper political questions at play. You just need to accept that if you want to build big complex things in the environment.

Of course these kind of issues can often be ignored with sufficient political support. Which is exactly what wind and solar have done in Europe.

Try using science to prove that a wind turbine isn't ugly. Or that it is worth killing some bird of prey to get clean energy. Try using science to explain why a coal miner should lose their livelihood. Or why you should stop eating so much red meat. It does not work.

At the heart of this debate is not scepticism of science, but scepticism of scientists and engineers. Scepticism that they really are as good as they say they are.
That comment still gives me nightmares. But also makes me really glad I don't work on such a codebase. Ours has some history to it, and a few areas that are a bit gnarly, but even they sound idilic in comparison.
I don't know about cooking because thermal waters tend to be sulfuric but for example - Tbilisi was a settlement of hunters who would use "free" hot water to make animal leather soft.

Archaeologists discovered evidence of continuous habitation of the Tbilisi - since the early Bronze Age, and stone artifacts dating to the Paleolithic age.
I would expect that proceeds from drugs constitute the vast majority of value that is laundered today, though. It would be interesting to consider the impact, for sure.
Generally, your metaphors should not rely on comparison to a pretty traumatic event that has happened to quite a few people, many of whom might be around you without you knowing.
DeskGap is a lightweight electron alternative for cross-platform desktop apps
> I still don't understand why it's such a successful business

From what perspective? The logic seems relatively straightforwards to me.

- The GitHub interface is usually easier to use than the git interface. This is mostly true for technical users (programmers) and very true for non-technical users (many project managers).

- Setting up a repo on GitHub is easier/faster than setting up your own server+git+backups+etc.

- GitHub adds useful features on top of what git can already do

-GitHub has excellent mind share by virtue of being the defacto home of open source software. It’s the first thing I think of for free and premium source hosting.

- The pricing of GitHub professional packages is small, a rounding error on the salary of your programmers and PMs.
Designing an Overkill workbench for home office Part 3
> There's nothing in Swift that's inherently suitable for ML

The type system?
> Maybe I would have a different opinion if I was a US resident.

No, unfortunately in the USA, sensible public health recommendations are considered drastic. Heaven forbid Kyle can't buy his khakis and Wendy can't visit her hair salon. Restaurant dining is an inalienable right. Wearing a mask is briefly uncomfortable, therefore totally unacceptable. Banning large gatherings is communism. You gotta flex your freedom at all times to show how much of a good American you are. 2020 has drained me of my empathy. It sometimes feels like half the country has chosen suicide pact to avoid temporary inconvenience.
> “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide”

What about consciousness? The nature of reality? Suicide feels like a trivial topic compared to these two.
That's not a generalization, it's a misunderstanding. Not every program can benefit from doubling transistors because not every program is written to minimize serial computations and the impact of memory latency.

The reason Moore's law was insightful was because he didn't make the simplistic generalization of computing power (which is more difficult to quantify anyway) and looked at what was really happening on a fundamental level from an engineering perspective.
Optimistic failures are so common, that I assume every idea/business/etc. will fail, and I'm right most of the time.

That doesn't mean you will fail, but it means I'm not going to be particularly excited.
Yes, you could view it as a trap VC lays for bright young minds since success is likely for the VC with a hundred investments and unlikely for the individual. But then, not everyone is wired to work for others. And sometimes you personally need to scratch that entrepreneur itch before you can fathom joining staff meetings. Glad we live in a world where cperciva could decide their own path.
Well the point of a hostile takeover is that the current controller doesn't want to sell. They lose control because enough stockholders who previously supported them are willing to sell. It looks like the founder only controls 7%, so I don't think it would be impossible to find enough stock that is willing to be sold.
What is that evidence?

I just doesn't make sense to me, humans always were the most effective hunters and meat is much more nutritious than starch.
I've thought about the same thing, but I don't think it's feasible because you essentially need to play the video in both places and ensure it stays in sync. The easy solution is to hook up a Bluetooth transmitted to your TV.
> To get those same issues “back”, a fork developer would have to:

1. Agree with the original author that a fork/take-over is the right thing to do.

2. Create a GitHub organisation for the project, where rights and repos and everything can be re-allocated/delegated as needed.

3. Make original author transfer his repo to this organisation.

4. Done. No more steps.

It also includes magic redirects for all requests to the old repo, including issues and also git-request, so down-stream projects won’t even have to know.

It’s really very simple, and it works well.
To be clear, I didn't flag this, but to me it's also firmly in the "general news" box. It starts with "If you've been following the news", repeats a bunch of widely reported/discussed things and ends with the general recommendations I get all the time. It's not bad, but also not particularly interesting and I'm not sure why it's here.
> Taxing CO2 is literally the last thing “the financial elites” want - it’s a policy that’s been pushed by scientists and economists for decades but never gained political traction due to an intense lobbying campaign from the oil and gas industry.

Simply not true. "Scientists" didn't come up with carbon tax. Bankers did and they hired economists to peddle the idea.

> That’s also not what Thunberg advocates for. Thunberg primarily advocates for more aggressive national emissions reductions targets. She says that her drastic personal lifestyle changes (e.g. being vegan) are meant to raise awareness about environmentalism,

Ah yes, lets take advice from a 15 year old who knows absolutely nothing about anything. Climate fanatics scream "listen to the experts". Then then bring up a manipulated teen with obvious mental and emotional problems as their champion.

You say "the rich and powerful" aren't backing them and yet every major organization from the UN to World Bank is pushing the "vegan" nonsense not to mention carbon tax.

Remember "taxation without representation"? A global carbon tax is the epitome of that. So who is king george now and who are the ones advocating for it?

If there is going to be a global tax, there should be a global government which has authority from the global population. Not just from greedy financiers who want another financial assets to leech money from the masses to line their pockets.
In the spirit of "Yes, and...":

I've been chewing on an alternate narrative.

Firstly, I don't think any of us anticipated preferential attachment. Even despite the popularity of "six degrees of separation" and other graph related notions. Clay Shirky's essay about Power Laws was my first exposure to the idea. Here's Kotte's meta entry: http://www.kottke.org/03/02/weblogs-and-power-laws

Everyone complains about how "the web" we got is broken. It wasn't until very recently that I understood that Ted Nelson's Xanadu vision, an often imagined alternative timeline perfect web, requires centralization. Um, is this really what we want? Because that's what we're getting. Incrementally, fitfully, inevitably. Your warnings about DRM times infinity.

Also the libertarians, anarchists, technophiles behind "the web" thought we'd have micropayments. Instead, we got advertisements and freemium. I don't know if micropayments, or prepaid wallets, or subscriptions, would be less toxic. But it couldn't be any worse.
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