skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You give rights to people who offer money, not to people who offer goods and services. Why?

Also: what happens when both parties are offering money (e.g. currency exchange)? Can both of them choose who to transact with?

And if neither party has money (e.g. barter) then I assume that you think they should be coerced into working with each other?
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You come off as really wanting to shift the topic from the privacy of the man in the example. Theoretically the wife might find the truth, the camera manufacturer might make more business, the utility company may make more money from the camera, but those are frankly irrelevant to the original point: ubiquitous facial recognition brings a risk to even ordinary people. That's not changed just because others may benefit.
If your video conferencing platform _requires_ all participants to have low-latency setups, you are going for a very niche market. I'm talking about fundamental design changes we can bake into the general-purpose video conferencing apps that exist today, such as Teams, Hangouts/Meet, and Zoom.
Even if you believe in objective morality, I think my point about how the discussion should go stands.

Let's say that your definition of free speech is the objectively correct one. You then have to convince people to adopt that framework. You can't appeal to the objective definition; that's a circular argument. So you have to do it on the merits of the tradeoffs, like "bot spam is noise that detracts from a conversation".

To your example specifically, my own opinion is that it depends. I'm fine with removing bot spam from a comment section. But move down to more "infrastructural" layers, and I become less okay with it. For example, I don't think ISPs should try to block spam; they should be entirely agnostic to what content passes through their pipes.
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Here are my guesses (in addition to your points):

- Until late in it's lifecycle, .net runtime performance was worse than JVM.

- Also, the Windows TCP stack, re-architected with Vista, had severe latency issues, which probably led to wholesale abandonment of that platform for low-latency applications. Some of these problems were fixed in Windows 8, but it was probably too late by then.

(These two points are based on my own experience with Windows/CLR/JVM in the mid/late 2000s and some anecdotes I heard second-hand. So I can't really cite any public sources for them)

I'm sure the fact that you can customize Linux to the extreme and the lack of .Net on Linux in those days probably had a lot to do with the choice of Java, in addition to the above.

However, based on my reading of blogs like Mechanical Sympathy [1] a while ago (~8-10 years), there does seem to have been some demand for .Net-based solutions in the HFT space. They had code for both Java and C# in their public code.

[1]https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
I bet they used a bit of sun.misc.Unsafe too

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/the-unsafe-class-unsaf...
A language that brings the Gentoo installation experience to external libraries and requires special purpose data structures to compile properly?
If you just connect it to a single HDMI input though, then the only one of those that matters is that they're slow to turn on. Which is slightly annoying, but not a huge deal.
Ask HN: Generating Millions of Audio Files with AI
I am building a system where I need to load test with a very large data set of lossless audio files (preferably flac). Since part of this testing requires making the audio files public for full end to end testing I don't want to deal with attributions or copyright.

I was looking into libraries to generate the files with machine learning. At a minimum, I would need polyphonic tracks (drum, piano other instruments), that span multiple genres. Libraries that generate via machine learning against MIDI is sufficient. I would also need to generate album art.

What libraries or resources would I need to generate such a dataset?
Thanks for that link - seems to be further evidence they do already do this refspec flag by default.

> The default flags are:

GIT_DEPTH.
The list of refspecs.
A remote called origin.
Never cheated on a test. Wouldn't accept this software, but I fear todays pupils are inoculated enough and teachers lack experience.
> I suspect the only reason they claim not to be an organisation is because they don't want to be label a terror organisation.

I suspect it's because there is no "they". All the antifa-in-the-name orgs are just loosely connected groups that espouse similar ideology.

There is no Gavin or Enrique for "antifa".
> unified political beliefs

No, they don't. As with many extreme movements, people calling themselves Antifa are a group of people of similar but nevertheless disparate outlooks, united through the principle of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Were Antifa to prevail over their ideological adversaries, one could expect them to then immediately descend into savage infighting, just like most other historical revolutions have.

Nor would a uniform mean that there is a united organization. Within the world of splintered Marxist parties, there is a long tradition of different groups maintaining the same aesthetic style, while nevertheless branding each other as heretical and not real communists.
Obviously he was that and a foundational social scientist. I'll do that and I'm almost certainly closer to being an ancap than you are.
The Azul JVM has been around for I'm guessing at least 10+ years? I think originally you had to buy it on their own custom hardware. No idea what it's like now, but an ex-sales guy told me then that it wasn't super reliable.
right, you could play it on any device with a modern web browser. to keep things simple, i'm focusing on games that are optimized for phone-sized browsers. but it would be trivially to allow tablet/desktop only games with more complicated UI elements in the future, maybe in their own section. :)

netgames.io is awesome! The developer Luke is even more awesome! The cool thing about how rocketcrab is setup is that it actually didn't require any code changes to the netgames.io games for it to work with rocketcrab. :O
It is that, but for AIs, not humans.
That's a clear slippery slope fallacy.

You can clearly define and enshrine intolerance based on immutable physical characteristics into speech laws, as many countries have done (Canada, Germany, etc).
Got any proof of actual loss of business because Mastercard/Visa/Paypal took a credit card transaction from a "hate group"?

no one is going to stop using those platforms...
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The vaccine may itself not be perfectly protective, and the herd immunity threshold only works if the people vaccinated are random. Otherwise any unvaccinated population can have an outbreak.
Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests
By "instantiate", I mean to insert the actual implementation in one .c/.cpp file you write. This is a typical strategy used by single header libraries. It can be done in two ways in a .c file: a) call a huge macro after #include to insert the actual code and/or b) define a macro like "#define LIBRARY_IMPL" prior to #include to let the header insert the code. Single-header libraries don't necessarily have the problems you are describing if implemented properly.

The owner of this repo is a well known figure on game development. His libraries are somewhat widely used and have probably inspired quite a few single-header libraries which adopt similar strategies. My comments are not specific to his libraries, either.
It happens a lot today. Advertising targets lifestyle cohorts, and political orientation is part of that. if you polled Uber and Lyft users you'd find that they have very different views of the world. Same with McDonalds and Chick-Fil-A. Last year, I was on an American Airlines flight and it was notable that they played up patriotism in a way that Delta doesn't.
I have a "red alert" card so if I'm found unconscious a paramedic knows to contact the study team to find out if I'm in the control arm or I've had the active vaccine so they can rule out if it's important to why I was found unconscious!

But it is just a piece of paper that the team printed out, and I think I lost it.
That is not un an entirely unfair characterization. However in my mind HFT practicioners are model citizens when compared to so many of the bright young minds working in the worlds largest tech companies. HFT is a neutral force in the world, while Ad driven tech is causing harm at a scale that is hard to overstate. History will judge the companies profiting from manipulating the worst in us in a much harsher light than they will HFT.
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>I think the main culprit exacerbating this is the main stream media.

It's driven by any participant who is making money from the political process. This includes MSM, Social Media, Political Consultants, and on and on.
Yes, the second-most recent model had a butterfly keyboard. I’m blanking on the year, it was either 2018 or 2019.
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Are you allowed to celebrate if you (as a minority group, possibly individually) are materially hurt by these platforms?

Also this is far from corporate shunning, these are deeply socially unacceptable positions too. PayPal already has a long list of things it deems unacceptable. When I worked for an artist community that had an NSFW section we got weekly threats from PayPal compliance, I don't think sites like Patreon fare much better there. I don't see how this is special. Getting banned from PayPal is far, FAR away from "being shunned by all corporations".
That’s a fair point. I guess my underlying assumption would be the government funding the research would retain rights to the research as well. Thanks for pointing that out.
> it's the useless (unless you write an AST-rewriting macro) structure

In a good JS editor, how many key combinations and mouse clicks are required to jumping into, jumping out of, and cutting a block of code (eg. a function definition or a conditional expression), or transposing, merging, splitting, annexing, and de-annexing 2 blocks of codes? It usually takes me at most 2 key combinations with a Lisp editor (including navigating the cursor to the right place), thanks to Lisp's uniform structure.

> Say, naming a thing, a function definition, and a function invocation are all very visually different in, say, JS

Aren't these also visually highlighted in a Lisp editor as well?

Besides, a Lisp editor can optionally blur the parentheses so users don't mentally have to.

(edit: formatting, recounting the key presses required)
And next year, when the political winds change... businesses can stop working with you because insert random reason here.

Nice standard of intolerance we are building here.
> Are you sure you’re not the extremist? You seem to have an axe to grind.

I'm sure once you're downvoted to invisibility, you're takeaway will be that "HN is a bunch of extremists", instead of the more reasonable "why are a bunch of mild-mannered software developers whose culture has always been open to different types of people strongly disagreeing with what I say?".

Could it be that we see a danger in this that you do not? It's seems fairly obvious to me that our country is starting to crumble around us. Perhaps you're living in a situation where that's not apparant.
???

I run ads and campaigns for my company and they are an absolutely essential form of communication.

... as almost everyone running and actual business knows.

Yes - it can be very inefficient - but it's not inherently wasteful.

You're making the wrong comparison - the 'Digital Ad Industry' could be compared to 'Digital Banking Industry' perhaps - i.e. useful overall but deficiencies exist.

HFT is one of the ares in which there are no reasonable externalities.

Better/faster tech for CDNs etc. can be developed without the HFT industry.
> h-he is considering --building-- a computer... Does the author not know how many computer enthusiasts do just that every day

Thought the same when skimming the post. Creators, streamers, AI folks, Kagglers, gamers, some crypto devs, all have a desktop, mainly because of nvidia GPUs. This isn't news for them for probably a decade.
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That's how we see it in retrospect, but at the time it wasn't obvious that the industry was nascent. Many people saw them as strong competitors to Myspace and Friendster rather than anything fundamentally new; even once they got clearly past Myspace, it was quite common to hear people saying that the global demand for social media is probably saturated as they continued to grow.

(And of course, it wasn't obvious that Myspace was a nascent industry either when they launched in 2003!)
25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer
Speaking about JVM garbage collection, why isn't automatic reference counting being used instead of traditional garbage collection? It seems kind of like the best of both words in a automatic memory-managed environment of providing safety as well as performance. Languages like Objective-C and Swift have proven that this is very viable. I wonder what's keeping the JVM from adopting it?
The linked software contains a CPU emulator, since 64-bit Windows cannot execute programs in 16-bit mode.

Regardless, I would argue Wine is an emulator. It emulates Windows's behavior, so it is perfectly fine to describe it as an emulator in some contexts. This pedantic nit-picking is really tiresome.
It was very interesting, I ported it to C++. However, I lost interest when the whole thing could lock up if the RingBuffer size was very small yet still a power of two.

It also uses sun.misc.Unsafe to do the latency critical aspects, so yes it's Java, but most certainly not vanilla Java.
Don’t personally know but usually it’s monkeys.
It's kinda shitty if Epik knows they are participating in questionable business practices, can't answer basic questions needed for SEC, and then turn around and try to spit this out as the whole thing being political.

This hurts people who want to run independent alternative platforms in the long term.
You are right, this is why my returns will inevitably be subpar.

I try to lay the blame at the feet of the entrepreneur as opposed to taking responsibility to learn more myself.

I’ll start with marzel-vanes, because I think that’s the base from which everything else builds. Let me know if any sources you think of might be helpful.
It's 12 years since the advent of blockchain yet there isn't a single good example of such censorship resistant publish ng. What gives? I'd imagine you must be wrong.
Well, no one was prosecuted in PayPal's termination of Epik's account either so I suppose we're good here then.
Shameless plug about a latency experiment I recently did using a C++ trading toolkit I have been working on for cryptocurrency exchanges: https://roq-trading.com/posts/latency_experiment/
A similar principle is in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, regarding penal offenses.

However, there was always a principle of civil liability of damages caused, so this should still be applicable.
Wine on Linux. Linux has 16-bit support.

For example you can run Windows 95 release of The Neverhood in Wine, which has some 16-bit parts (though practically, ScummVM is a better option).
Indeed. I mean, one guy made a system out of the concept, and ended up taking over one of the biggest countries on the planet some 100 years ago. Anyone serious about political technique has known this since forever.
The F1 comparison is not bad, but its not great either. F1's tech innovations are much more publicly visible (HFT shops are extremely secretive) and F1 has the added benefit of providing entertainment value to millions.
Generally speaking, experimental drug trials are run first on healthy groups and then in at-risk groups (old, young, those with co-morbidities). From the article, my guess is that they are expediting the sensitive groups trials, but unfortunately there's a lack of technical detail.

Source: My partner is an infectious disease specialist and we talk about this pretty much daily because I'm so curious.
If your statement was true, Chicago and California would be bastions of government efficiency and capability. Instead we see both Republican and Democratic cities do terribly on most measures, and those cities that generally prosper have very little to do with who is in control other than it not being a single party and they have the right conditions for job growth.

School funding happens at the state level too, not just the federal grants.
Thank you! I'm in the camp of "Curious about Lisp but never jumped into it" and was wondering if indentation could reduce some of the bracket-noise.

This is VERY elegant!
Launch HN: Classicops - time based Production access for AWS
Yep. It works fine on ff version 82.0/Ubuntu.

Thanks.
Hey, I'm Benjamin and I'm one of the authors of this (foss) tool. You can check out the GitHub repo here https://github.com/testimio/root-cause

We'd love (developer) feedback on this. This is the first (big'ish) open source tool that Testim makes.
Hi, I am Sagar Gulabani, founder of Classicops(https://www.classicops.com/). Classicops provisions time based access to your production AWS Accounts, all with an approval flow.
I have worked as a devops engineer in the past 3 years and I have seen people facing troubles getting access to other people’s AWS Accounts, especially when they are production accounts. People don’t trust others easily with access to their production accounts which hinders productivity for genuine usecases. With some of our non technical folks running AWS Accounts, figuring out the nuances of IAM policies becomes a pain. What ends up happening is people give access that is too permissive which is perpetual in nature or its restrictive, which is fine but still perpetual. There is back and forth over communication tools like slack and JIRA to get the permissions right for the use case. And then when a second use case props up, this entire process repeats itself till we reach a point where the user has accumulated a lot of permissions. The permissions last as long as the person works with the AWS account owner. It would be quite cool to have the ability to let the requester provide for the IAM permissions he requires, approve it and automatically provision access for the users for a restricted time period, all through a single packaged platform.
I looked around for tools that would be solving this problem, but I really couldn't find one. I also saw people looking for chatops solution online to solve this problem. Classicops goes a step ahead and is a full fledged platform wherein users who want access to the AWS Account could request for permissions by either using a managed IAM Policy or providing a custom IAM policy for a given time period. Once the access is approved, the person would be allowed access to AWS using the console or using CLI credentials. Once the time period is over the access would be revoked automatically. The ability to do this reduces bottlenecks in productivity and helps AWS Account owners work with more people with a lesser risk of damage. This also could be extended to staging and dev accounts. Classicops has been built with a structure of teams and organisations in mind with appropriate roles for different people.
We do understand that there would be concerns around giving IAM access to external softwares so we do plan for certifications and also provide options for a self hosted offering.
We have launched the beta for which you could sign up at https://beta.classicops.com and try it out. The product is free while it is in beta. We’d love to hear your feedback on the product. Its incredibly important for us. Thanks for reading through our launch post.
Has anyone tried https://system76.com/laptops/lemur ?
Seems like a nice option and heard good things about PopOS
This is actually how you repair one of my favorite line of dumb TVs. Philips left the US TV market after these. I suspect it was for a bizarre reason: the default color selection was horrible and overred, and its optional algorithmic smoothing was terrible. You had to find a secret retailer menu to turn down the red (which took considerable online searching.) I think they probably got a lot of returns.

Otherwise it was great, and I have one that's still running.
Depending on how much effort you want to put into it, you may be able to use prompt-toolkit with IronPython (would have to use version 2.0 of prompt-toolkit since that supports Python 2.x) and then reference that in your C# applications
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> Basically, there's a bit of a spectrum of fast vs smart. In general it's hard to do incredibly smart stuff fast enough to compete in the "speed-critical" bucket of trades and vice-versa there's barely any point in being ultra-fast in the "non-speed-critical" bucket because your alphas last for minutes to hours.

Depending on the overall strategy, you can be smart and fast at once. If you have occasional alpha harvesting opportunities that must be acted on quickly (very low latency but also low-ish frequency), then it is possible to spend the time in between trades modeling market context and developing optimal short-term plans for how to react in case of various market triggers.
Do you prefer the Linux from Scratch installation experience which C and C++ provide?
Push-to-talk is necessary but not sufficient: you need to actually light up the square and move that speaker up so everyone notices that they intend to speak. Not sure if Zoom does this. Hiding a little "mute" icon in the corner is not good enough, we need to bake this functionality deep into the UI so that it becomes a natural and reflexive part of meetings. Zoom doesn't share layouts across all participants, which is a big problem too.
"The purpose of this study is to text a new vaccine against COVID-19 in healthy volunteers.

So I am assuming this is the control group.
>Everyone has an accent. When you say "without an accent," what you mean is that you are looking for someone with a particular accent that is meant to be free of features that identify someone as coming from a particular region.

Thats what an accent is, yes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accent

> In a way, it's discriminatory, because you're saying that people who do not speak your preferred dialect are not speaking "proper" English. Even if they grew up speaking English their entire life.

thats not what i said/wrote. Thats how you interpret it.
"Just do the vulnerable people first" has the significant advantage of being easy to explain and implement, but it does not maximize the speed of economic recovery.

For instance, I'm a vulnerable person because of preexisting conditions, so I'll likely be offered a vaccine relatively soon after approval. But that won't have a large impact on economic recovery: I'm in the home office in a single-person household and don't have any care obligations, so I'm at a comparatively low risk anyway. And I won't change my current behavior until the disease is fully gone anyway.
From TFPDF:

>You will be compensated for your time, the inconvenience of having blood tests and procedures, and
your travel expenses. The total amount compensated will be approximately £235 - £625 depending on
the exact number of visits and whether any repeat or additional visits are necessary.
>I'm not sure who GJS is…

Gerald Jay Sussman
Yep. It works fine on ff version 82.0/Ubuntu.

Thanks for checking it up.