skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why punish Israel?

The whole "assist[ing] in getting journalists arrested/murdered/dismembered" thing still seems like pretty good justification to me. I'm not sure "but everyone else is doing it!" makes that acceptable. Requiring that we deal with every single one of those problems simultaneously else we shouldn't bother with any of them doesn't seem productive.

I'm also not sure I'd describe the refusal to actively fund that behaviour as punishment, but I suppose that's somewhat beside the point.
There's also RevNets, which saves memory by only using reversible layers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04585
Nice job slipping that in -- it fits perfectly!

And it brings back a fun memory:

I wrote MacTetris[1] when I was in high school. This made the computer lab a whole lot more popular during free periods than it had been previously.

Two interesting bugs that I recall:

* Mathematically rotating pieces around an axis was a terrible idea, but it produced some entertaining artifacts (and made placement much harder!). I replaced the math by precomputed rotation maps for each piece, which was much better. My first pass at the maps introduced a displacement bug, so you could spin the pieces counterclockwise and they would walk in the negative X direction.

* I got an angry bug report in the lunch room from a kid who had no reason to know my name. He was having a really great game, and then his score started decreasing with every piece. He felt like his record high score had been stolen from him, and he was upset! I asked "what was your score??". He said "I don't know, but by the time I noticed, it was over 30,000 but it was going DOWN!". Aha..[2] :)

[1] I'm sure the statute of limitations has expired on my appropriation of copyrights and trademarks.

[2] Back in the day, "int" meant "signed 16-bit integer", which is not the proper data type for a score counter.
Really? I got a 16gb laptop in Feb 2015 and I' doubt I'd get more than that if I bought a new one today. I've never seen it get even close to max memory.

Work-wise, at least. If it was a gaming machine I'd probably buy 32gb.
I love Ubuntu and it's the only tolerable desktop Linux that let's me get something done instead of constantly fixing the OS and searching for workarounds.

But even Ubuntu and Gnome have frequent glitches. They are minor annoyances that I can't even list well. Stuff like an icon would get stuck to the mouse cursor and I have to lock the screen and unlock again to fix it. Or I'd get light text on light background in the context menu. Or the font gets messed up randomly. Or alt tab works weirdly (yes I searched and fiddled with it, it's still not how I expect it). Many more small things. I should make a list but then again, I'm trying to get stuff done, no to compile meticulous bug reports.
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I idle in a Linux IRC channel where support is provided voluntarily 24/7x365.

The fact that your assessment doesn't stand up to is that "normal man" seems misplaced. The average person I know cannot figure out how to install Linux much less troubleshoot issues along the way. I don't think this makes them imbeciles or anything of the like. Even GNOMEs definition of a normal person is probably off kilter because the bar for their basic user is so high.
While this may be partly true, there are several 'talking hands' creators that do very well, at least in more 'informative' content(AvE, This Old Tony, etc)
I wouldn't say the AC experience itself made me better at my job, it's more like a lifetime of acquiring "random" experiences have made me overall much more capable than I'd be otherwise, and some of that helps with work. Tackling the AC is just an example of that class of thing. But I do think back to this specific experience often when I need a reminder that "I can probably figure this out" when I am confronted with something unusual.

I do have to say that I have a tendency to chase shiny objects and it's important to keep that in check. EG if I ended up spending a year on the AC it wouldn't have been worth it - there's a line somewhere. IDEALLY, we strategically select the discomfort we want to experience as being the specific discomfort that will grow us in the way we need to, rather than just swinging at a lot of different things as I sometimes tend to.

And - I am really glad you enjoyed the tale and it reminded you about something you care about.
Don't forget ICL and the 2900 Series mainframes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limite...
For those who don't work in megajoules, that's around 277kWh, which an average EV would drive around 1000 miles on.
Huh? You're innocent until you've been proven guilty. While the case is ongoing, you're still innocent. You aren't proven to be not guilty, sure, but you're still innocent
From my non-US perspective, those are not good prices.

I pay £28 ($35 ish) for 150Mbps symmetric. (In practice it's up to 220, never less than the 150 nominal.)

Before that I paid £18 ($22 ish) for 30/1.5 (30Mbps down is probably ok for me, I upgraded primarily for the up, but 30 symmetric not offered).
Everyone does it so I can too?

You have to start somewhere. But yes, let’s also cut off all the others you mentioned.
'Surprise' billing fix to be included in spending package
I'd take 6 old ThinkPad over 6 new Pi any day. :)

I host a lot out of my house on a T430S with a cracked screen.
That's bad. There are gradient descent techniques that are feed-forward, and understand the domains where those are appropriate and the domains where backprop is appropriate is I think important, especially as you try to do things like mix machine learning techniques with other differentiable programming strategies.
Except of course there is no deity which can assist us in this decision. That means our society has to have this difficult discussion and determine if or how we can gain the wisdom to change things. There is no question this is an issue where can change things but can we gain the courage to determine the outcome?

So far the answer is no considering how unavailable death with dignity resources are in most states. Ironically it's religion that is blocking the fruitful discussions.
My Nokia N9 is still the greatest phone UI I’ve ever used. I wish Microsoft hadn’t killed Nokia.
Yes, good point!
Are there any upcoming advancements on scale production methods?
I thought of that story when I saw this story. All I could find is this:

https://www.angloinfo.com/blogs/france/midi-pyrenees/pot-pou...

Will update if I can find the one from the French Revolution.
The title is a bit misleading, but interesting article
Sounds like poetry for accountants.
I think they're referring to a more long-term and less direct causality when they say crying wolf causes more racism. In my reading of the GP, "leads to" would be a better word choice.

> enough to turn him in to a racist

If I were to call you a sexist for your choice of pronouns (and throw in "self hate is the worst kind" if your pronouns happen to be he/him), and you were to see several other likely unwarranted accusations being thrown around against you and others, you'd be less likely to take notice when real sexism is called out. Fewer people taking notice of real actionable cases of sexism would likely result in more sexism over time.
If you want minimal tweaking, I think you're pretty much constrained to Gnome and/or KDE as those are the two desktop ecosystems on Linux. Just install both and switch between them for a while until you decide which one is for you... most applications won't care which they're running under.

FYI, a lot of the dislike for the current Gnome comes from remembering what it used to be in the Gnome 2 days. You have no such history so maybe it'll be fine for you.
Retail options are kind of a ripoff especially now
From Section 2a :"(3) the term ‘‘pornographic image’’ means any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct."

The danger is that this could be weaponized to censor any opposing viewpoints, given that it includes art, drawings and political cartoons; this is not just about photographs of real people.

https://www.xbiz.com/docs/news/256391_SasseMerkleyDEC2020.pd...
That's to say that adults don't need antivirus software, nor password requirements, etc.

By virtue of being adults, they must always be making the right decisions and thus can never be hacked
>>they wouldn't need to do porn.

Why is it such an extremely hard to believe fact that maybe there are people out there that aren't doing it because they are desperate sluts that are failures of society and are actually doing it because its work that they enjoy.

Why is working at an injection molding plant making car parts such a better job? Seems extremely boring in comparison. The only real argument to make for it is that there are people out there who feel the need to shame people doing that kind of work and don't feel the need to do that for the person making auto parts.

The real comparison is also not the factory job, but the jobs that are like musicians and artists. Most of them know after a certain age they aren't going to get rich doing it but its work they enjoy. Some people get a little older and eventually decide to go for a different line of work but theres people that will shame the sex worker directing or doing scenes on the side (possibly even fire them from their job) but will praise the guy being in a Bob Dylan cover band with a couple of his friends.

Theres exploitation in the system that needs to be fixed but it seems like sites like OnlyFans giving the content creators choice are making steps towards that, as opposed to the others entrenched in the industry that are happy to take advantage of young people, something common in a lot of industries. Politicians, tech companies, other aspects of the entertainment idustry, have been happy to exploit unpaid and underpaid interns straight out of college. Nobody deserves to be exploited because they are young.
Cool, I never heard of frequency illusion. I experience it all the time.
It also doesn't really matter if I understood correctly AFA establishing incompetent defense for simple attacks. You could ftp in and upload a binary? but it wouldn't be signed! What about an old binary? Already we are into attacks on the anti-rollback on individual clients and we didn't need anything a beginner wouldn't try.

(I would go so far as to say that if there was insufficient anti-rollback and they still burned 0-days to get into that build server then they were expending resources trying to either look sophisticated or had some other odd motivation.)
Temple Grandin's inventions mostly revolved around applying a theory of mind to farm animals, did they not?
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I don't think it's taking the point too far to say that this will be one of the horsemen when the end comes for our current form of governance. Communications technology speeds social change, and government digs it's heels in because it's run by people who "know better" because they feel like their experience is more important than actual fact.

And then we laugh at people like AOC, because nothing makes us feel better about our ignorance than demeaning smart people who want to fix it for us.
Moore's law is not dead[2019]
IPFS isn't really built for it - at least, not with anything built in, but this is exactly how Freenet works.
Are these apps similar to Blockada?

https://blokada.org/
TOTP and U2F solve so many of those problems, I can not explain why banks are so resistent to them - though I've long suspected that they use SMS as an excuse to compile lists of phone numbers they sell to data brokers.

You would think banks would fall over themselves to support U2F just because they could sell branded keys at a markup, or require customers to provide their own.

Admittedly Firefox really set back U2F by resisting supporting it for so many years. It is getting better but a lot of the sites that do support U2F still gate it on user agent, so if you are not using Chrome they don't even try.

That doesn't explain TOTP though.
“Chinese food” is not analogous to Taco Bell. Panda Express might be your Taco Bell equivalent.. maybe.
I feel lucky that as a developer I have had the chance to participate in building the web in my lifetime.

Of course I am just one person among the millions that builds it, so I am humbled but also very proud of it.

I cannot think of a single invention in human's history that federated so many people together as the web, and it is beautiful.
This is refusing to republish someone else's speech though, rather than refusing to let them speak.

I can't force you to repeat the things I say, that's not what my freedom of speech is
Is that so different from "downsizing", "television", "textbook", "wallpaper", "motorbike", "grapefruit", "agoraphobia", "airport", "manslaughter", "candlestick", et al?
I guess the question now is; under what jurisdiction does exploits based on WhatsApp and iOS source code lie?

If I reverse engineered and sold exploits of American missile systems while in Somalia would that mean everything is A-OK?

Idk. Again, not a lawyer.
I haven't found this years aoc to be too mathematical either. It seems more parsing related, i.e. extract all this info from a line of text is the hardest part.
Spring sucks but Java Play Framework is great actually.
Any gnome extension I've installed I came to regret it without exception (on Ubuntu). They always ended up breaking something in a fatal way where even after uninstalling them would leave the damage. For example now my windows won't snap to half the screen edges (to take up half the screen) any more, just randomly. That's just one example. Extensions have always caused me headache and mess.

People often claim Linx desktops are "there" today, but the lack of polish and glitches are still painful. Not horrible, but not comparable to Windows or Mac. It's surely solid enough to use as the main daily OS, but you really have to stick to the defaults as customization often breaks stuff.
Here is a simple way to monitor your machines for intrusions or malpractice by insiders:
Put an amount of bitcoin on each machine , equal to licensing fees you would pay for backdoored security tools like solar winds. Monitor the bitcoin address for when it gets stolen. If it gets stolen, you have been owned.
I was following until the racism question. People misattribute sources of illness and subsequent recovery all the time. There are still people out there who believe wifi gives them headaches. Why should racism have anything to do with it?
Why not both?

For the longest time people viewed high IQ (as much as it is an actual distinct thing) as a pure blessing. But more and more is coming out saying like everything else high IQ is a trade off and by increasing IQ you decrease other factors so it would not be at all surprising if major issues are strongly correlated with high IQ.

That said I believe autism specifically occurs up and down the range of IQs and there are generally more people with autism on the low end of the spectrum (it could be equally likely that this is because of the diagnosis bias from the above).
It’s becoming more common to grant 7-10 year window after certain tenure (like two years) at least among yc companies. I’ve also seen window extended per year of tenure
A German news paper like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has little reason to mention the 2nd amendment rights, because there are no 2nd amendment rights in Germany.

What most countries in EU has is gun ownership license, similar to a driving license, and thus the default right that people without a license has is no rights. Permission is given by the government, and thus the government set the terms.

In the US this power relationship is the other way around. People have a default right to bear arms, and so government have to take away rights in order to enforce gun control.

One could easily imagine a country where driving a car would be part of a constitution, in which case a driving license would be a hot discussion. How, when and where should the government be allowed to step in and remove peoples right to do with their car property as they wish? People from other countries would look at the debate and find it a bit odd.
Show HN: Fantasy trading card game with AI-generated character arts
" To me, the interesting question is how the hiring manager got into their position."

The same way as anyone else.

And as for sports ... who cares who the owner is?

'Owning a sports team' has nothing to do with playing on one, frankly, by most historical measures it's a money-losing enterprise, something rich guys outbid each other on because they can. Like a yacht.

Ironically, nobody questions the meritocracy of sports because it's mostly evident that the best rise to the top.

Not always, and there are so many factors.

If you open up your next job position to less than qualified candidates you will see all manner of people come through the gates, most of whom - surprise surprise - are totally unqualified.

This whole 'the world is not meritocratic' meme is really problematic and assumes there's basically no ability for people to vet or understand each other when hiring, which is ridiculous.

Ask the nurse giving you a vaccine how long they had to study, how many exams they had to pass before they were allowed anywhere near you. No study, no pass, no job.
Last time rice cookers were discussed on HN I opined that all you really need is a decent (so, _not_ a $20 model) rice cooker made by a Chinese or Japanese manufacturer (e.g. Tiger), with a simple on-off switch.

Mine cooks white rice and brown rice perfectly, although I am supposed to soak the brown rice first (though it's still fine even if I don't). I suppose the only real improvement between my model and the new ones is that perhaps the rice cooker will soak the rice for you.

You can vary the amount of water to play with different textures, but once you have it dialed in, it's pretty hands-off.

I feel that these manufacturers try to pass off the new-and-shiny only because they have to. The old models last forever. In fact, the only reason why my last rice cooker broke is because gunk got stuck in the switch and it was not able to turn off automatically. In all other respects, the design is as simple and elegant as can be. A single circuit controlling a heating element, which automatically shuts off once a certain temperature threshold is reached.

Lastly, for those with one of those fuzzy-logic rice cookers, can you make scorched rice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_rice)? I didn't think so :)
America didn't stop giving aid to Israel despite 53 years of military occupation and apartheid. You think this is going to be the thing that changes the status quo on Israel?
I like the idea of play as one of the highest forms of existence.

E.g. we work to make money to eat to have energy to have leisure time to play.
Hi HN:

This is a fun project I've been working on recently. The idea of the cards started when I saw how an AI could generate realistic portraits of people. I tried to apply similar techniques to generating fantasy characters, and got amazing results.

The next 2 weeks were spent on designing the card assets, hero traits and descriptions. I borrowed some ideas from D&D (attribute points and alignment). Also threw in a random name generator, of which the names were scraped all over the internet.

Once I had the card assets, the rest all fell in place. It was obvious that the Ethereum blockchain was the best market place for such a collectible game. I spent the next 2 weeks writing the smart contract (based on ERC 721) and various pieces to support trading on the site. Fun fact: ETH price took off right before I was ready to deploy the contract on the mainnet. Due to high gas price, I had to spent a fortune... not fun!

I had a lot of fun working on it. Let me know if you have any questions.
Google Graph Mining NeurIPS 2020
i just cant feel happines
It's just a made up concept though. It would be physically impossible for YouTube to ban anything if it was a real thing.

That there's a conversation about YouTube censoring people says that it is perfectly possible for free speech to not exist. It's not a physical law of the universe
Anyone knows any opensourced projects on sound predictive maintenance?
Depends. Perhaps it may not be zero-click, but it's definitely possible to hack someone's phone using a communication app by sending a malicious payload. For example, Jeff Bezos's iPhone was hacked using a WhatsApp exploit.
I'm tired of introductions. I need to write real code and I have no idea if I actually got it right or if it looks right.

Does anyone have any testing or numbers about performance using different algorithms?
JetBrains products are blacklisted by the DoD (and a growing list of defense contractors) because they have offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

I’m guessing it’s over concerns about Russian backdoors.
Everyone involved from NSO execs through to the Saudi's and Emirati's should be facing DOJ indictments no different to what Russian, North Korean and Chinese hackers face

This thin veneer of NSO being a legitimate company has been exposed
How do you sell a business four billion? Easy, start with a business worth $30 billion.
Not sure what more to say. Was there something specific?
> Most of the world practiced slavery at the time. The empire they were breaking away from was the #1 slave-trading nation in the world at that time. Slavery was a pre-existing fact when the United States was founded. It wasn't the motivation for the founding.

And "The US was founded on white supremacist principles" can both simultaneously be true.

> Even slaveowners in Virginia began questioning slavery at this time. Jefferson, despite his own ownership of slaves, wrote the clause that forbade slavery in the Northwest Territories, and even proposed a new constitution for Virginia that would have freed anyone born after 31 December 1800. This was extremely early, in an international perspective, in the global anti-slavery movement. Britain wouldn't ban slavery until the 1830s.

Sort of, some antislavery sentiment in the UK predates the revolution. In 1772, slavery was ruled to be prohibited in England under English common law. It was still allowed in British colonies, but calling any founder a "leader" in this regard doesn't hold up to scrutiny. No law needed to be passed banning slavery in England, because it was already illegal prior to the founding of the US. The 1930 law you cite banned slavery in British colonies, but it had already been illegal in England for 60 years, and the slave trade was made illegal in 1807. In other words, in every aspect (partial abolition, total abolition, etc.) the UK led the US.

Article 1, Section 9 of the US constitution likely delayed that British law (the US and UK banned the slave trade simultaneously). Are you really going to tell me that Article 1, Section 9 isn't white supremacist? It literally prohibits the government from banning the slave trade until 1808.
What did the people say?
I’m not sure we have enough info to just assume Apple’s motive for using lightning. But I do find it interesting that you default to the less favorable of the two options presented as the “probable” one.