skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's going to be the defining event of trump's presidency, whether you think that's fair or not

Trump's approval is not the lowest it's been during his presidency - it was lower in Dec 2017 [0], and even now at 39.2% it's almost twice that of Congress [1] at 20%.

It doesn't seem to have hurt him all that much. If you look at favorability rather than job approval, it even seems to be almost unchanged [2], only having gone from 45% to 43%. And if you give any weight to Rasmussen, they have Trump's total approval going up since the 6th, from 47% to 51% [3]!

[0] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/politics/poll-of-the-week-con...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-trump-a...

[3] https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/tru...
It’s just hyperbolic. It’s abundantly clear that the intention is to share a list of papers that a lot of people who are interested in computer science might find interesting.
I wouldn’t go that far. The DMCA mentions “linking”. And while it’s a big stretch to say that a torrent or magnet link is a “link”, they do tell you “how” to find something. If that something is copyrighted, I could see an MPAA lawyer arguing that a torrent “links” to the infringing content. Although, OTOH, if I told a friend to “go to thepiratebay.org and search for $movieName”, it would be harder to prove I’m infringing. It’s a very gray area.
Agreed. I've had two $25 baofengs for camping / outdooring for... Four or five years. Both work fine. They don't see a ton of use but they have been banging around camping bins and glove boxes for that time.

Batteries hold their charge well.

Bonus-- they have FM radios. Weirdly the only thing in my house powered by batteries that does!
Thanks for your interest on this project. Training multiple models using the same data is truely a typical use case for vineyard. We will release more integeration with machine learning engines (tensorflow and pytorch) in the next major release.
Entirely disallowed? I've had to use my horn while stationery for safety reasons. Like when I'm in a parking lot, I can't go anywhere because there's a car in front of me, and someone starts to back out of a parking space toward me without looking. They need to know that it's not clear, and that's what the horn is for. (It's also what their mirrors are for, but I can't control that.)
Adrian Colyer's blog isn't a bad place to start.

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/12/29/my-new-years-resolution-...
We need some solution. Alarms are the only solution we have at the moment. So, until there's something else, alarms are necessary
The research cooperation by the scientific community seems unprecedented. The Bomb had terrific focus as did the Apollo program. But those were proprietary for the most part, not a world-wide effort. This seems new.

It would be grand if this spirit continues and provides a model for the other sciences. I would like to think this is a potential silver lining that could have wonderful consequences.
Because there is plenty coverage of Republican sleaze. The mistake is in thinking one set of politicians is “doing the right thing”.

Additionally, as of tomorrow the Republicans are irrelevant when it comes to the selecting a party to lobby. Democrats control the house, the senate, and the presidency. Keep their coffers lined and you keep the regulation at bay.
For some reason you seem to think that miners can't send out their own blocks. Of course they can do anything a simple relay node can do.

Also you are linking to a person who thinks the sun revolves around the earth and that there is nothing wrong with slavery because the bible says so.
GGP said it was an aftermarket electric fuel pump
Well, actually an Antifa activist (who also came on CNN) was one of those charged for inciting the Capitol attack:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/utah-man-charged-federal-...
https://www.newsweek.com/john-sullivan-capitol-attack-leftwi...

With men like these deliberately egging on rioters, it's no wonder a protest turned violent.
There are other products that are at similar enough risk that this angle should be taken seriously - ex: https://dgraph.io and https://materialize.com .
Sorry I only saw this now. I'd be happy to take a shot at explaining a nuance or two, but it would probably be best to email hn@ycombinator.com about it.
Can uvc light kill coronavirus?
It is heard that uvc ligth can inactive this kind of virus,do you guys know further information about this?
Heh, you should look into Libertarianism.
Some of the best talks I've been fortunate enough to catch have been archaeological expeditions.

MRB's was the first I attended, at RICON 2013:

https://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/19/distributed-systems-ar...

I wasn't lucky enough to catch it live, but Bret Victor's classic "The Future of Programming" is worth watching if you haven't already:

http://worrydream.com/dbx/

And I might as well plug my own talk about the CS papers on logical time, not nearly on the caliber of the above:

https://youtu.be/b_swtL5bxJg
> Linux networking conventions change every few years and simplying keeping up with the basics is a chore.

Debian has used /etc/network/interfaces for as long as I know. (at least 15+ years) It's sane, short and straightforward. For servers, this has been more than ideal for every setup I could conceive.
I don’t get this sort of sentiment. Just because it didn’t work before doesn’t mean it will never work.

When Congress questioned Facebook, the entire Tech industry mocked at the Senators for being (correctly) woefully out of touch. But they didn’t stop questioning them then, and now we have some very well crafted anti trust lawsuits filed against Google and Facebook.

This is how change happens: you try repeatedly, learn from every failure and then finally you succeed.
Big Tech and Regulation
Missing crash-only software.
No mention of behavior types here in the comments? I'm wondering. Let's add this as it's related.

https://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~vv/papers/ancona.bono.etal_behav-ty...

As this above is a very academic viewpoint let's add also some reference to a real world implementation of some of the concepts:

https://alcestes.github.io/effpi/

Enjoy! :-)
Many of these were probably already distilled into a combination of textbook material, lectures and lecture notes, and class projects during the course of your degree. Though how much of it you were exposed to would depend on your particular subfield/focus during your degree program.
'...The firms silencing him were the broadcasters of the day.

As a media historian, I find more than a little similarity between the stand those stations took back then and the way Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have silenced false claims of election fraud and incitements to violence in the aftermath of the siege on the U.S. Capitol – noticeably by silencing the claims of Donald Trump and his supporters.'
You have to use the

ipfs://

prefix!
Jumping ship means something bad usually.
It is an interesting choice to start the timeline at the time people climbed through the window.
Thanks for liking this project! Your understanding is correct. If you want to give vineyard a try, you are welcome to drop me an email (sighingnow@gmail.com), I can help you set it up.
> then the proposed legislation will be shelved

My bet is when legislation appears it will pass and subtly entrench the incumbents. Win-win!
> This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present.

But the latest paper listed is from 1986. Has there really been no fundamental CS progress in ~four decades?
It's a list of papers most of which look like they'd be fun to read.

I am surprised to have read a surprising number of those (25-30%) but I've had thirty-five years to do so. Yes I read a bunch -- perhaps half of that number -- in graduate seminars decades ago so that helped, but if you tried to read them all at once you'd be overwhelmed and miss a lot of the significance.

Also almost all were published before 1980 which implies the faculty might have been in school around then too.
I was excited about Brave until I found out the Founder and CEO, Brendan Eich, is on the record for opposing same sex marriage.

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/mozilla-boss-brendan-eich-qu...

Anyone know more about this and where he stands on the issue now?
Save yourself the clicks and the reading folks.

I've seen shit like this in every field...

"Books every historian should have read."

"Books every English professor should have read."

"Books every psychoneuroendocrinologist should have read."

They're all a collection of shit that someone, somewhere - usually with an inflated self of self - feels qualified to tell you and every other person that they should have read.

You know what you should have read? Papers you find interesting that advance your understanding for the problems you face. Understand I'm not saying that every list everywhere is a load of horseshit that you need to ignore - I'm not. I'm saying be wary of all-encompassing "lists" of "things" you "should" do / know / read / experience.

EDIT: LOL, stealth edit on the title... from "Papers every computer scientist should read" to "Syllabus for Classics of Computer Science".

Well... at least the pretension took a backseat. :)
This is an interesting piece and definitely fits with my perception of a16z.

Their podcasts are really good and cover a wide range of tech subjects at a medium-high level for those not familiar. Content is usually aggressively future looking and often brutally honest and this article makes me think that is all by design now. Also look at their portfolio[0], makes you realize how big of a hand they have in the startup pie.

Didn't realize they funded Coinbase. Explains a lot of their crypto-content. I've seen a lot of skepticism on HN about crypto, but the a16z podcasts have convinced me it will be a critical component of finance and the web going forward.

[0] https://a16z.com/portfolio/
I still don’t understand how this business model works at all. Take cloudinary, for example. You can have your images transformed and hosted by cloudinary. So like you have a photo and let cloudinary examine the photo and serve different sizes, cropping to a human face as a circle for profile pictures for example. It is expensive. All you need is some idiot hitting refresh in a few tabs on the browser for a few hours on your website for you to run over your free tier.

I’d imagine that anyone spending real money is always thinking of ways to get off of something like this?
Interesting that they lay out 2 possibilities for the spread of agriculture:

1- From the fertile crescent to IVC

2- Independently evolved in IVC

but not:

3- IVC to fertile crescent

Since there were IVC related individuals who were buried in Iran and Turkmenistan, why is #3 not an option?
> I never saw a people living so poorly, yet thinking they're rich.

This quote is definitely better for describing people in HK who live in their 30m^2 apartment that cost USD$700000 than those in UK.
That was my first thought as well until I saw the tweet, though the possibility of it being an acid flashback was a close second.
Deplatforming isn't suppression it's realising that you entities do not have to be neutral in their support and broadcast of various things. It's the question of a radical over a liberal mindset.
What I loved about this article was the feeling of being dropped into a completely foreign world. The visual and acting style of the soap is so weird. The presence of Sanders is so unexpected. Not being familiar with Malbolge, it was all especially esoteric.

While there are many things in this world that I don’t understand, I few like this whole thing was a kind of delightful puzzle for five minutes. Nice to remember that off kilter feeing.
Reading through the paper, this reminds me of the close reading/distant reading paradigms in literary studies. They're effectively trying to build a machine learning model to reproduce the task of authorship attribution that analysts typically perform by hand. I have to give them kudos for their comprehensiveness in the feature engineering part and their attention to the numerous traps of authorship attribution (code reuse, multiple author...).

Yet one question that is not really considered is the political stakes of authorship attribution. When you look at the "suspected locations" of the malware authors, it's quite clear that they're mostly located in rogue states. But we also know that some of these attributions can be politically motivated rather than empirically grounded (Sony hacks). In the same way that language models reproduce racist/sexist language, this model might thus reproduce geopolitical bias in its authorship attribution.
> I consider it an existence-proof of the idea that a free market cannot solve all problems.

Free market capitalism and social welfare are not mutually exclusive concepts.
GitHub tied to their Social Credit System would be a scary thing. I actually wish I was joking, but given the other things it takes as inputs, this would be obvious.
Your last sentence is not true. The DMCA notice can be used for anything that the DMCA covers. One thing in the DMCA is:

> linking users to an online location containing [...] infringing activity

Extremely broad, but a link to a file sharing site with infringing content is also infringing. The DMCA notice can be used against the site containing the link.
Awesome. Is this a one man show or many people together?
> "Someone had to write the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet"

Amusingly no, nobody wrote it. There's a part of PowerShell which can wrap WMI/CIM classes into auto-generated cmdlets, and Get-NetAdapter is one of those. (Which is why it's not available on Linux installs of PowerShell).

Take a look at the XML in C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\NetAdapter\ and there's no C# code or .Net DLL for it, just "MSFT_NetAdapter.cmdletDefinition.cdxml" and "MSFT_NetAdapter.Format.ps1xml". Presumably auto-generated, human checked, though I can't prove that.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...
There was an endeavor sometime around 1998-2002 to reimplement a lot of coreutils, textutils, and other GNU-ish *utils in perl with regular, structured output formats (I believe XML at the time). Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact name and I don't think it was ever completed enough to be a contender.
The actual paper can be found on arxiv[0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.3839.pdf
Abysmal Docker performance on non-Linux is mainly because of filesystem isn't native, not by CPU virtualization.
Typically the standard for trademark cases is whether or not customers will confuse the two competing names/products/brands.

It's quite possible that because both companies target developers, architects, etc who're more than able to distinguish between the two companies' offerings... that Elastic's lawsuits didn't go anywhere
None of those points take away from it being "a literal sedition zone against the democratically elected government".

If we get a more transparent and verifiable election system in light of (or perhaps in spite of) the assault on capitol hill, then is it somehow justified? I certainly don't think so.
The number one way to reduce child labor is to empower (economically) poor, rural families. A lot of child labor is coming from families without resources / reduced education coming from rural to more urban areas.

You are pretty clueless about supply chains. A ton of companies pay lip service to supply chain ethics, but do nothing in reality. To actually drop a significant supply chain supplier is pretty major in this space, even if it takes 3 years to spin up a new supplier with capital build out (necessary at Apple's scale), QC, integration etc.

I'm not saying whataboutism. I am saying this story shows that if you care about ethics, Apple is probably one of the few firms out there willing to make these kind of major decisions.

Apparel - it's all a lie in terms of the ethics pledges.
Kimberly process for diamonds - badly manipulated - so again a lie in large measure.
The list goes on.
I could go on. There's a reason I bought a mad made diamond for my wife.

I am saying that you and these other western whiners seem to have no clue about the rest of the world. And if this is the reason you are going to dump apple - I feel bad for you, and everyone who will be abused to give you the cheap crap you end up buying. Because this story is not a bad story for apple in the global supply chain game. And it's super frustrating to see these endless stories that have become almost a joke.
This is the closest I've seen: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
I was wondering why the whole “path” was a single multi-word name. It’s not. It’s actually:

\\.\globalroot\device\condrv\kernelconnect
The War Comes Home: The Evolution of Domestic Terrorism in the United States
Is it?

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2020/06/protests-blm-mo... - "Violence Has Been An Important Tool For Protests"

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/riots-ar... - "The Double Standard of the American Riot"

https://time.com/5849679/history-protest-debate/ - "History Shows the Problem With Focusing on Whether a Protest Is Nonviolent"

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/blm-looting-prote... - "In Defense of Destroying Property"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/if-vio... - "If Violence Isn't the Way To End Racism In America, Then What Is?"

https://qz.com/1863651/violence-and-extreme-actions-shouldnt... - "Why Extreme Actions Shouldn’t Delegitimize A Protest"

Here's the now VP-elect fundraising for the rioters' bail fund: https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1267555018128965643
I'm a customer too, and the message was stupid.

Too often "dog whistles" are tantamount to psychic messages or seances. Only mind-readers can hear them and only the "woke", be it psychically or socially, can define them.

And those who don't hear the "whistles" can't argue with them, because they're entirely nebulous and present (or even need) and proof of their veracity.
In Racket and Scheme, false is the only 'falsy' value, with everything else evaluating 'truthy', which is nice since you don't have to worry about the specifics of the return type.

I think the bigger issue with null or None, though, is not necessarily using it as a return type (where that makes sense, and can be enforced by a type system) but when objects are mutated to the value of null. The bigger issue there is with mutation and side-effects, but having null there as a convenient short cut can be a foot gun that leads to lots of errors.
It's worth noting that MongoDB made the same change to their licensing due to a similar move by AWS 2 years ago... it made them a stronger business though (and enabled them to create even more value for their current/future customers).

More info at the link below

https://stratechery.com/2019/aws-mongodb-and-the-economic-re...
Or it’s decrypted on your side, and you reporting it sends the decrypted form. How else would a “report” button work if not with unencrypted data? Not everything is a conspiracy.
To me, it sounds like a history list basically. Understanding the past so we know how we got to today. Does anyone "need" to read anything? No. Would you be enriched by it? Maybe. I persinally think its an interesting reading list.

More generally, this seems like an undergrad course. Isn't the point of an undergrad degree to give broad foundational instruction that can be further built on? What better way then to see how we got to the present.

> Does a roboticist need to understand lambda calculus?

Reading a single paper and understanding something is very different. Understanding it, is a bit much. Knowing the very vaugest of an introduction to the subject by reading a single very foundational paper, they might benefit from that. At the very least, they should know how to read and understand a paper in an adjacent field to their own (this is an undergrad class after all)
If we're still talking comparisons, then also setting things on fire all over the capitol (including attempting to burn down multiple buildings): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/fires-light-...
Isn't this usually attributed to the Reagan administration's repeal of Mental Health Systems Act? Not that the situtation was necessarily all that great before it was repealed, but my understanding is that the federal government making this change ended up putting a lot of people on the street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...
His tax returns show he didn’t make any to start with - or possibly more accurately, he just avoided saying he made any money and thereby didn’t pay any tax.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-tru...
Yeah I meant O(1), whoops
I feel like the demonstrated effectiveness of quarantining old people is the reason you can't do that. It sounds great on paper, but it turns out that homes are staffed with lots of casual workers who work multiple jobs, and keeping covid out of them is near impossible.

Could this be addressed? Sure. Should it in future? Probably. But we don't get a whole lot of tries when there's a pandemic going around. It didn't work at first, how many attempts do you have to give it before you say "we need to solve that next time, right now we need a different solution"?
What are the process states in Unix/Linux?
Visually it is a dumpster fire. Window borders are inconsistently sized, the close/minimize/full screen buttons aren’t consistently placed.

There’s an enormous amount of wasted space. You need that 32” monitor. My 16” RMBP now has as much usable space as my 13”.

Keyboard navigation is bizarre. Try this:

1) Open Mail.

2) Cmd W.

3) Cmd 1 (or is it Cmd 0?!, hint: it’s whatever Messages isn’t!)

4) Without using your mouse select a message in your inbox.

5) Without using your mouse navigate to a folder under your inbox.

6) Without using your mouse navigate to an inbox in another account.

All of this is possible in Catalina and earlier with zero confusion (selections are highlighted clearly) and can be done “backwards” using shift. In Big Sur some of it is actually impossible and you have to just guess where you start.

When native apps aren’t even consistent in their behavior and appearance that is a trainwreck.

You may be able to read the tea leaves and see a grand vision here but I have to use a half-baked desktop environment until Not-Jony Ive is satisfied they have reminded me they are not Jony Ive. To them I say, trust me, I noticed.
Despite its name, Canvasblocker actually does that, it sends slightly shifted API data, not only for canvas but for most fingerprinting methods.

Nonetheless I'm happy to hear about the improvements in Brave. I've actually shifted from Firefox to Brave since I'm expecting Webkit/Blink to become a 'Linux kernel' for web technologies and thus the web.

Keep up the great work! The only true remaining nitpicks I still have with Brave (after the introduction of Sync V2) are

1. iOS Brave being based on Firefox instead of Chrome iOS (I am aware of the technical cost of switching codebase)

2. Prevent browser close on last tab close

If those two existed Brave would be perfect for me.
> seems ideal for securing a monopoly

Seems like a bit of a catch-22, doesn't it? If we set moderation standards too low, then big social-media companies are evil because they're not doing anything about harmful content. If we set those standards too high, then big social-media companies are evil because monopoly. And there never seems to be any space in between. We need something better than just an excuse to hate on Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/etc.
The book will be released on February 2. "Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science" edited by Harry Lewis, and published by MIT Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS would be the obvious choice...
We’re Not Paying for #1