skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a great read. I am red/green colourblind and it was fascinating to learn about how edge detection plays a key role - I’ve always thought it was interesting how I struggle to tell colours apart on a graph, but it’s usually quite easy if there are two blocks to compare.

I do also find that it’s quite hard to match up two similar colours in the red/green spectrum, regardless of size, unless they are actually next to each other. I also struggle to differentiate between bright green and yellow, dark green and brown and sometimes blue and purple; to the point where I don’t know which of the two to call something. This I guess is not related to edge detection.

As an aside, I love this kind of content - well written, interesting and not on some bland platform like Facebook or Medium. It reminds me of the sort of stuff I used to discover with Stumbleupon. Any recommendations where to find this kind of stuff, except for on here?
My TV is an LG plasma unit from 2010. This tech was also was supposed to suffer from burn in problems. And in fact, just recently I noticed that the Ubuntu screen that manage this TV's content with was starting to burn in where the Icon array is along the top. So, what I should have done in the first place, I did now, which is make that icon automatically hide when the mouse isn't near. And now, about three months later, that burn in image is now imperceptible. The screen's colors are still as fabulous as they were in 2010 but the 720p aspect is starting to feel like a hinderance but one of the best buys I've ever made.
Looking closer at it.. I think US would be commas, and RS the newlines?
Leaves the imagination what GS could be used for..
Why do you think using 'gas' is the wrong way? Not only does it solve this problem, it solves it in a deterministic way, which has many applications, for example deterministic debugging and replicable computation!
>The whole US system considers it OK to use solitary confinement.

There is no "US Prison System." Rather, there are hundreds of prison systems in the US.

What's more, state governments operate independently from our Federal Government. Often, local governments operate independently from government at the state and Federal levels.

We have a Federal system. In fact, you can go from one state to another (and sometimes even from one county to another) and have the same activity be legal in one place, and illegal in another.

As such, trying to lump all of the US together is ignorant and best, and disingenuous at worst.

As for solitary confinement, I don't think it's a good idea. And I would like to see such treatment end.

Fortunately, in the city where I live, the use of solitary confinement has been restricted and there will may well be a vote this month[0] to end solitary confinement altogether in city facilities.

At the same time, the state government has dithered[1] and has yet to change the law.

My point is that regardless of what anyone may think about the appropriateness of solitary confinement, getting rid of such treatment everywhere in the US is, and will be, a long process. And more's the pity.

>The existence of an extradition treaty doesn't mean that UK courts are compelled to extradite anyone until/unless US prisons cease breeching basic human rights.

That sounds like a reasonable position.

Perhaps you should discuss that with your local MP or perhaps the Home Secretary. The US, while a party to that treaty, didn't force it on the UK. Your elected representatives made that decision on your behalf. If you don't like it, do what we did in my city -- elect people to change it.

[0] https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/6/29/21306995/mayor-de-blasio-v...

[1] https://www.thecity.nyc/justice/2020/9/8/21428284/cuomo-soli...
>The Linux network stack has been rapidly evolving

Are FreeBSD no longer getting any of those? It seems even Network Stack talks from Netflix are now Linux Focused.

It also makes me wonder..... does any of these matter once BPF takes over, quite literally.
Appreciate your answer, thank you - really sorry for the loss of your dad, losing mine really changed a lot of things for me.
This was an interesting talk on languages https://youtu.be/QyJZzq0v7Z4
That would be interesting. FWIW the US State Department has observed a factor of 3 difference in time to teach anglophones various languages (think dutch vs mandarin) to B2 level:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677256
MS Paint as a service
>That is most certainly not what the study means. If you were going to extrapolate, you might be able to get away with corruption is basic rich people behavior, but even that is going way further than what the study is actually saying.

Corruption is incredibly widespread globally across all demographics. It tends to show up the least in WEIRD places, and be most obvious in poorer countries, but it's everywhere and every level of society.
HOPL by Diarmuid Pigott (https://hopl.info/home.prx) is a pretty thorough picture of a vast number of programming languages (8945 of them).
What makes you think web dev is mindless or cannot benefit from multiple cores?
There’s an iOS app called “Color Blind Pal” which does many things, but most usefully tells you the name of the colour under a cross hair overlaid on the camera, which I find helpful as I struggle to name colours e.g. bright green vs yellow, or blue vs purple
Hey man! Love your newsletter but many times I am just too lazy or occupied to properly read through them :/

Since you already are on YouTube, my one suggestion to improve the adoption would be to make videos on them. I know it might be super time consuming but imo it will reach more people.
You can probably find a user space TCP implementation that you can use with LD_PRELOAD. In this case you wouldn't need to do anything to make your app use it.

If instead you want a networking stack written in Python,
for WSGI based frameworks like Flask it is enough to write a WSGI server that instead of using the `socket` module uses your custom stack. It will be compatible with the vast majority of Python web apps thanks to WSGI.

That being said it's very unlikely that you will notice any performance improvement. In the case of a networking stack written in Python it would even be way worse than the kernel implementation.
The point is that the widely used services and applications in the US are either from the US or from countries that are safely within the US's sphere of influence. TikTok is an exception as it comes from a country that is as much outside the US's sphere of influence as the US is outside the sphere of influence of European countries (or of any other country in the world).
How many people will have increased wages as a result of this?

(IMHO not many at all, which is good though, means that people there are very rich)
THC in Cannabis Could Help Prevent Fatal Covid-19 Complications
The eraser not working is a sign the app hasn't been thought out from the perspective of graphic tablet users, which would likely be a pretty major target demographic.
Arm DevSummit, October 6-8 2020 Virtual Conference
> What do you do with the many, many houses already there?

Either clear the forest, or demolish them.
This isn't accurate. It wasn't "China" who silenced people, it was a local official who eventually got removed and punished. The now deceased doctor, who wanted to report it, got officially apologized.

Don't buy into the western anti-china propaganda.

Here's an official timeline: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/29-06-2020-covidtimelin...

I clearly remember back when this whole thing started and how pretty much all of the western countries bashed on china endlessly for no actually sane reason. It's what made me start digging into it. This whole mess, we live in now, wouldn't be a thing if china-bashing wasn't the norm in western countries and if they, the respective governments, instead had acted in the interest of their respective people. Which they didn't.
B2B Marketplace Strategy
There's no accounting for bad taste.
HotDoc | Engineers, Product, UI/UX, Data Ops | Onsite in Melbourne or Remote (Australia or New Zealand) | https://www.hotdoc.com.au/careers

HotDoc is improving the healthcare experience for everyone in Australia. We're a patient engagement platform used by most the nation's GPs and a quarter of the population. We're growing to tackle other parts of the health system.

We're an ethics-driven team of around 100 people working mostly out of our office in Melbourne CBD (ex. COVID), though with full-time remote folks everywhere from Perth to New Zealand.

We value empathetic and pragmatic people, and use mostly Ruby on Rails, Node, and Ember. We have Product Engineering challenges figuring out how to make software that's usable and viable in healthcare, along with data syncing, integration with medical systems, and a consumer-facing hybrid app with a few million monthly users.
> Fire breaks are really effective for small fires in moderate weather conditions. The kind of fires we saw in Oz or Cali jump straight over them.

I think having them than not having them is still better than nothing
I refer to

https://www.ted.com/talks/genevieve_von_petzinger_why_are_th...
- Dead simple for content authors.
- Almost every need has already been solved by the community so I rarely need to add any important code to the stack.
- It has room to grow from a the very basic marketing site it starts as into whatever direction might be needed long term.
- It's relatively simple DB setup allows for me (using my typical patterns) to export the data should I need to migrate to a different CMS later without any real pain points.
A former colleague of mine who was also red/green colourblind had a pair of these and I borrowed them for the weekend. I was pretty underwhelmed to be honest, couldn’t see much difference. Maybe they work better for certain types of colourblindness.
They can easily be remotely disabled if there's any suspicious activity, ie to any other server than the telemetry backend.
I listen to SomaFM's Drone Zone channel on noise-cancelling headphones when I program. It broadcasts "drone" music – no lyrics, very little rhythm, melody or harmony – the music concentrates mainly on sound texture. And of course, no ads. Can't recommend it enough.
I'm confident HN could handle an explanation of that that's evidence-based, or at least presents a self-consistent model, and doesn't just peddle conspiracy theories.

If you have one, please share (or link to a previous discussion). I'm somewhat open to this view, given that it seems like a reasonable explanation that a good chunk of the influential people have gone through the same few schools, socialize in the same circles, etc. By itself that isn't nefarious per se, but it does limit the distribution of worldviews among the people with power.
Modi couldn't ban alibaba let alone Google play store.

India today has no eBay equivalent or even Alibaba or Taobao equivalent, without these I don't see b2b or even exports growing much.

eBay used to be the only way to find stuff like rare metal, or niche tools and spare parts.
Yes It is.
This is a super interesting article! However some parts of it are... well they are true for me as well, even though I'm pretty sure I'm not colorblind.

This, in particular:

> Another consequence of all this is that I see very little color in the stars.

It's all white for me... Am I missing colors?
C++ as a language has very little influence from Lisp.

I would draw an arrow from Lisp to ML, since FP, GC, list processing etc. came from Lisp - ML was even implemented in Lisp and used the runtime.
I usually modify HTML forms so that they won’t work and fix them with javascript. This gives me almost zero spam.

You can do this for WordPress, but you will need to change comments endpoint, since spam software knows where to make a request.
> relatively unaffected - by the covid19 pandemic

With 2k daily new cases, unaffected my ass.
There has always been a ton of effort at formalising ethics, political theories and philosophy generally in a mathematical-like way. The whole of modern philosophy, especially political philosophy , is a product of that effort. That's basically what the enlightenment was.

The problem, IMO, is that formalistic, math-like approach produces "an inconsistent system can prove anything, so is essentially useless for reasoning." Going for fundamental, objective truths with a mathematical standard as an ideal can go one of three ways: delusion, nihilism or sociopathy.

Peter Singer, Jeremy Bentham and other utilitarians came up with a "moral math" system that (a) sounded morally reasonable at first pass and (b) are theoretical applicable widely. The problem they encounter is extreme conclusions. Bentham was responsible for some horrific prison/reformatory systems. Singer ends up with some sociopathic conclusions like morally good infanticide.

Ayn Rand went down a philosophical worm-whole trying to tie her philosophical system into one "theory-of-everything" bow where pure (Aristotelian) logic yields conclusive answers to all epistemological, moral, political & economic questions. This certainty, rather than just the extreme or counterintuitive (selfishness as a virtue) elements of objectivism is what gives it that cult-like flavour.

Ayn Rand was simply following the frame created by Marxism, and Trotsky particularly. Marxism of that era was all about airtight rationality. Communism wasn't a choice, but a dictate of pure reason. Marxists got this idea from French revolutionary philosophers, who started with the idea of "rationalising" everything with math-like systems of thought.

What all these have in common is a desire to create irreproachable systems. Like math, like physics. In practice, they created religions. Religions are irreproachable too. The way religions become irreproachable is by banishing heretics. That's what the "secular" rationalist philosophers did to. Rand was famous for her banishments.

If you are after scientifically valid, reductive, Popperian insights only... you might just have to accept that this is an amoral viewpoint. Morals just don't exist in the mathematical realm.
Assange being in the Ecuadorian embassy would not have prevented Sweden from building a case and charging him.

The UK urged Swedish prosecutors not to question Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy,[1] though Swedish prosecutors eventually did so. When Swedish prosecutors wanted to drop the investigation, British officials urged them to continue it:[2]

> Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!

But immediately after the US began extradition hearings against Assange in London, and there was a debate over whether to give the Swedish or American request priority, Sweden dropped the case.

Just to top it off, Swedish prosecutors altered witness testimony[3] and UK prosecutors deleted emails relating to the case.[1]

The investigation was dropped because it had already served its purpose.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/10/uk-prosecutors...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-t...

3. https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
Yes, the encrypted mode.
watching Pinocchio (the series[1]) as a child was always somewhat scary. there were some moments that I remember until today which I was really terrified and that gave me actual nightmares.

I'd really love to see a remake of the film (or the series) but for adults and as a fantasy thriller/horror show. It would have lot of potential I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio:_The_Series
>What the authors are saying (I think) is that they tried the same tricks on the Panama data and got nothing useful out of it. The standard graph techniques don’t explain anything useful about what’s going on.

The impression I got was not that they found nothing useful, but that they didn't find broadly interconnected networks within the data.

If that's the case, it's likely that the transactions in the data aren't tightly linked.

Which is useful, in that it tells us that those involved in such activities are not a cabal of evil elites, rather they're disparate groups with little in common except their desire to avoid taxes/hide assets.

That conclusion certainly implies that addressing these activities will be more difficult as they are decentralized and widespread, but it's certainly not useless IMHO.
There were a lot of lawyers among the framers. They didn't choose the wording of something as important as the First Amendment randomly.
Sure, but not to the level of a "very bad sign". Especially when the whole thing is sluggish to begin with and seems to be struggling with far more basic operational tasks.
I have to disagree. The politics and power play of the kicking out of Jobs is famous, kind of the textbook case. Woz even quit over it.

The mantle passing to ballmer came at the objection of many major stock holders but some tiny cabal of gates et al overrode it. For years there were protests and threats that people would sell off millions if they didn't can him. There was substantial slippage and he lost all support and bounced, like Lee Iacocca except without any glory days
Why do you want it as a native app? I, personally, prefer web pages wherever possible, because I know that they are well-sandboxed and can be run pretty much everywhere.
> there's frequent interaction between code written by the end developer and code from the library

Microkernel operating systems that use capability security like KeyKOS or one of its distant successors, sel4 focus on optimizing the call procedure as best as they can. A small performance overhead for guaranteed security properties shouldn't be seen as a tradeoff.

>send it to a separate execution environment, and then marshal it right back[...]

Current runtimes of all kinds always need new instances of something to sandbox things, which incurs a big overhead everytime. But it doesn't have to be this way. The KeyKOS kernel was of fixed size, I built my https://esolangs.org/wiki/RarVM to be so, too, it is stateless. No need for several instances of the interpreter itself, and minimal overhead in the process snapshots.

>policy decision about whether to grant privileges [...] people would choose not to use it

The advantage of capability systems (that start with all rights given in every call by default) is that even if people do not initially use it, they can restrict rights later - "hollow out the attack surface", when this makes economical sense - when a library becomes popular, laws or contracts require it etc.

While users may not interact with it directly or choose not to use it, such systems grant developers at least the ability to secure their software internally, something that is not even possible now.

> [...] it's just a safety measure [...] purely-computational libraries can still be dangerous

But this argument doesn't attack the central point. Yes, this is true, but has nothing to do with the security properties offered by POLA architectures like capability security. It's an orthogonal problem, which has to be mitigated by other mechanisms, possibly social.
>Hey where can independent researchers obtain the Panama Papers? I don’t think people can be expected to simply “trust us guys.”

Footnote 5 of the paper in the submission provides a link to the data used. For your convenience, that link is:
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database

I look forward to reading your paper when it's complete.
What does it mean to 'source ethics'. I don't understand the phrase.
Here's what happend to me:

Day 1: Fever, chills. I slept under 2 blanket and after 4 hours I started sweating so I threw off all the blankets.

Day 2: Took the test and came out positive but I started feeling good.

Day 3: I completely recovered. Got back to normal just like I was before

Day 4: fever back, wtf?

Day 5: cough started, lost taste

Day 6: Breathing difficulty, feeling pressure on chest

Day 7: joint pain started

Day 8: everything back to normal

Day 9-15: normal

I never lost my sense of smell. I am so sure about it because I was working on a DIY project at home where I was smelling distillate.

I had flu worse than this, if severe flus I experienced in paste were 90/100 then this would be at best 10/100 in severity, pain, discomfort.

I managed to work at home on my projects from my list and ate a lot and drink tons of water and slept peacefully.
Very YAML. I checked the example, and the difference is that YAML places the > following the attribute name, and this format places it before the text.

BTW, I happen to like YAML as a configuration format. It's much more readable than JSON. It's not that suitable for serialization, and probably shouldn't be used to create huge config files, but for the rest, it's as good as it gets.
Schottky one is negligible.
Disneyland as a Degenerate Utopia [pdf]
Where would it get the carbon-14 from? Virus particles (virions) are made by and from their host. So you'd need a human made from carbon-14 first.
True, on the one hand impostor syndrome can push us to continuously improve, but on the other hand it can cause lots of wasted mental energy. It is important to keep it under toxic levels.
Music with lyrics takes me out of the zone so for me it has to be instrumental only.
> It tends to show up the least in WEIRD places

What do you mean by that?
It seems opinionated is frequently used as synonym to poorly researched nowadays.
> you need to be an expert to know what such a fundamental feature is for.

No you don't... the parent commenter explained to you what it's for in a simple and concise manner... you chose to not accept that even though you're not an expert in this, and then complains you need to be an expert to do it?!?
Managing Covid-19 in a Novel, Rapidly Deployable Community Isolation Facility
A big middle finger to my ~top 20 public university who wouldn't give me any accommodations of extra time because they required some ridiculous hoops to jump through proving I had trouble concentrating and finishing an exam in the allotted time, they wanted substantial documentation with brain scans showing I had a deficit all because ADHD isn't considered a bonafide disability by the government. I almost flunked out cause of some calculus and organic/biochemistry classes that required tons of rote memorization (pre-med before switching to computer major).

Even though I'm successful now in tech with a huge salary, this experience of being treated like I had a made-up disorder (can't easily perceive it with no physical impairment/more obvious mental issues), and was invisible to the system full of cold-hearted academic administrators quick to academically disqualify me still makes me seethe and feel wronged to this very day.

Can anyone relate?
I was wondering, thanks!
It is screaming with double negations!
Hm. On my 7300HQ, single channel 2667MHz DDR4 my hand crafted assembly code runs through 512 megs looking for a binary needle (8 bytes length for this example) in random data (mersenne twister) in 59 milliseconds. The needle is, of course, at the end of the 512megs. No SSE, on a single core and it scales nearly perfectly.

Not sure what to make of this article. In the end, what truly matters is knowing how a CPU operates and what not to do if you want to have your code running actually fast, not just "perceived fast".

That being said, I still consider the 59ms to be slow.
Insert Arthur C. Clarke quote here.
I think that this describes imaginary authoritarian country rather then real one. It is not like all policies of authoritarian leaders worked as intended. They don't, the ranks under twist them to unrecognizable.

Also, authoritarian leader willing to sacrifice well being of subjects is not the exception, it is the norm. You can't be authoritarian leader without such willingness.

Also, checks and balances are not stupid. The difference is that stalling of Trump orders happened in the open for well defined reasons.
Easily manage and connect to EC2 from console
A comparison of mortality rates across 30 countries over the years
Telegram app used by malware to infiltrate e-commerce sites
...built on PrestaShop, WooCommerce, and Magento.