skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to start getting out in front of the issues. Not reacting all the time.

It's kind of difficult when the privacy violations in question begin in secret. Consider police trying not to disclose their use of Stingrays, for example.

I somehow doubt police departments and intelligence agencies are going to agree to run all future uses of tech by a privacy watchdog, so how do you suggest getting ahead of the problem?
Consider the following two cases:

1. MyClass has 10 private fields, each with a trivial getter and setter.

2. YourClass has 10 private fields, of which 9 have a trivial getter and setter. The last one has a trivial getter but the setter is non-trivial.

If you use your IDE to write your getters and setters, than the two classes above will look the same at glance.

If you use Lombok, the "special" field will stick out at once.

Personally, I prefer to avoid Lombok and just use public fields. That way, the field with a nontrivial setter will also stick out, and no need for bytecode magic.
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If it can’t be done without harming society then it should be destroyed. This is why we don’t have nuclear powered cruise missiles, by the way.
Hey, creator of siuba here. I think siuba's big advantage is that it can generate SQL code.

The architecture necessary to pull off executing either pandas or SQL also makes it very extensible (e.g. to spark or dask in the future :).

https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/key_features.html
Fortnite is also important to a lot of people, that doesn't make it actually important.
> What drives me crazy is people who say "can I ask you a question?" I really try hard not to say "you just did".

Yes! And the same things happens in real life as well. As a teacher, I get quite often this same question: "Can I ask something?" To which I always reply: "Apparently!"

In the classroom I am trying to establish a local "classroom culture" wherein students feel safe to ask anything. I suppose we should also try to establish a local "chatroom culture" with norms, expectations, responsibilities, and so on.
I am really not a choosy person in this matter, and to reduce toll of selection, I have a simple habit of using only two pairs of clothes, I wear them alternatively. When at home I use loose cotton pants and undershirt.
For washing, I wash my under-garments daily and my shirts/pants after one-three uses based on season, in summer its daily wash and in winter its 2-3.
My cloths on average lasts 4-5 months and under-garments 2 months.
Ask HN: How did you learn to design sound systems?
As the area gets larger and volume goes up, sound engineering gets much more complex. For example a great home stereo system is fairly trivial compared to setting up sound for a concert in a stadium.

For those who have learned the art of sound engineering, where did you start? Any good resources for someone who wants to learn a little theory with a lot of practical application?
Your propaganda is defined by anything you don't agree with trying to persuade you. Big green isn't propaganda, only big oil right?
Again someone flagged the article. Flag is meant for abusive or inappropriate material, not a special super-downvote option.
The advantage of mastodon is that banning is not monolithic: so, if I have instances A, B, C, D: B can decide (through whatever process it uses for such things) they don’t like A’s content and ban it without affecting users on C and D. But, the problem it really solves is moderation: if I start an instance with 10 friends, moderation of posts on the instance is almost a non-issue that can be handled by a couple admins in their spare time. Handling off-instance posts is more difficult, but you can either maintain a ban list to block a list of bad instances or you can adopt a default deny policy and only federate with instances that have content your local community wants to see. Either way, the Mastodon model seems better because it allows policy to be specified at the “local” level rather than requiring a uniform policy across the network.
Hi, I love that you enjoyed it!

Yeah I totally get your point about the title—the TPU quota that I got was close to about the equivalent of $20k—but in my defense I don't have any other access to compute beyond anything that I get through the TFRC or through google colab
I mostly agree with you. I just want to point out that the reason Trump was held to a different standard than previous presidents is simply that he lied so much from the start. Journalists from "mainstream media" rightly perceived him as a threat because when called out on his lies he overtly attacked them and encouraged violence against them (arguably resulting in casualties in the Capital Gazette shooting).
I agree with you, which is why I don't use platforms like Facebook at all.
I'd love to see this go on much past 100 days, but this is awesome. Would love to see accountability like this for every politician.
I'm easily distracted so getting a message breaks my focus anyway. If that's going to happen, I'd rather it happen in one call than in a prolonged back and forth by chat, and then eventually a call. If I really need to focus I just turn notifications off.
I used to run a twitter bot. It didn't create any content. Just liked, retweeted or followed based on keywords.

Then my tweets would get liked and followed. 95% of that was just bots.

Every now and then I would unfollow a real person and my account, which was clearly a bot, would get some hate mail telling me to re-follow them.

It was pretty surreal.
So tell me, does slack set me to unavailable if Im in a different slack workspace? I have about two dozen communities I could be in, fortunately most of them moved to discord or telegram to avoid people like you

Does it say I’m unavailable if I have slack open in a browser tab and I’m using other tabs

What about the desktop app?

What about the mobile app?

Surely they all influence the status of each other

My life doesnt revolve around slack and slack status, why does yours?
Libvirt: Abort() when seeing ENOMEM errors
Snowden made it pretty clear that they already are.
Isn’t it though? Almost all do accept it, and if you raise it with them, they ask you why you’re bothering.
>What kind of %#*& customer service is this that it takes over five months to even try to get ahold of a real human being to help with a problem!!!! This is horrible.

If you aren't buying ads on FB, you aren't a customer,no matter how you look at it.
Those aren’t as good as just using Lombok.
I’d say your first paragraph is facts, and the second is an opinion that is often cited but only partially true because what left-right means in ‘Europe’ is different from what it means in the US.

However...

It’s unclear what these two points have to do with either the original piece or my comment to which you replied.

Can you relate them in some way?

How do they shed light on the idea that Greenwald is not claiming there is a conspiracy?
I have not done a comparison, but RDP is mostly pixel based from what I understand, while x2go is "protocol" based (and therefore limited to xorg/x11), so it's a LOT quicker than say, VNC (even with compression) -- for example, if you drag a window around, it's perfectly "instant" -- there is no lag.

I can develop using geany/vscode/eclipse remotely over a reasonably good DSL/fibre connection and quite frankly, there is zero difference with being "local" to the workstation. Don't even need a LAN.

Only thing which obviously doesn't work as good is web browsing/video etc as that is inherently a lot more pixel pushing.
Some ideas:

- Listing those issues separately.

- Make posts without funding last a limited amount of time.
This argument is basically “I don’t need privacy because I have nothing to hide”
Mold We Drew
Now that they have tied Oculus accounts to Facebook accounts, they may have to revisit this policy of arbitrarily banning accounts from all services unilaterally and without explanation. The headsets from Oculus are not inexpensive and I imagine some people end up downloading a fair number of applications for their equipment. Regardless of their click-through terms of service, they will have a more traditional relationship with the Oculus customers.
All of that is true. The question is: is that bad for society? There's increasing evidence that it is.
I'm not sure that time travel is the only reason - it might turn out to explain some other peculiarities in the universe (spooky action at a distance jumps into my mind as something that could potentially have an explanation linked to this).

It also would seem to be impossible to calculate energy at a specific moment. Energy = mc^2, or expressed differently, e = m * d^2 * t^-2. If t = 0, then t^-2 is not calculable.
> They don't want to type out a bunch of words for a question if the reply isn't going to happen for a few hours.

But if I'm not immediately available, they'll presumably need to ask someone else, or accept that they have to wait for a reply. Either way they will need to type the question at some point. So type it now, and if I don't immediately reply, paste the same question to the next person, etc or better yet put it in a channel, where my teammates can jump in.

And frankly, the norm that people should try to ask a clear question, or frame an actionable request up front often seems to improve the understanding of the requesting party. I've many times had the experience where pulling together the relevant info to frame a question answers it, or fully describing a task reveals a way to streamline it.
Great read... I’ve had similar thoughts before.

Question though: when that thought experiment is applied to the physical body of a person, aren’t our cells dying and being replaced constantly? Does that mean our identity changes over time and with new experiences? (Mind blown)
> OpenJDK is nearly the exact same code base as the Oracle VM, so this is highly unlikely.

As of Java 11, completely the exact same code as Oracle JDK. The only difference is licensing.
You're doing the thing in the article. The truth is enough people regardless of political stance struggle to explicitly negotiate with ideas that are counter to their own world-view. That's not an unfortunate trait of any one demographic.
Tesla’s autopilot won’t achieve full autonomy, Waymo CEO says
Learn calligraphy! There are many videos and tutorials to follow along with and I have found after not much time at all the careful practice carries over to my normal writing.

I think the secret key is rhythm.
So in other words, a company that does too well and is too successful at making a product popular should lose the same basic property rights and freedom of association every other person and organization is given under the constitution, as punishment for their success
On this note, the best free pen I've ever received was from a Marriott in Japan. The body is square instead of round, and it's made from a soft matte black plastic. If anyone knows where to order these bulk pens, please leave me a reply!
Then you and your friends should run a private server. Full duh.
What insight are you hoping to find with this question?
AirPods Pro, Wallet, Keys, phone.
Oh, interesting. I never realized there was a distinction and it may explain one reason I've preferred the 207 to some "other rollerball" pens that I've tried. (I do prefer a wider tip for most purposes though.)
> FB bans probably hit bots 99% of the time

Greatly doubt that given overt spam being so prevalent.
Does the term nm even have meaning apart from marketing anymore? I honestly can't tell. Without measured real-world performance it's rarely useful and has become nothing more than a guidepost for hardware.

> At top speed, Big Island delivers 147 teraflops of 16-bit floating point performance. It supports multi-precision, mixed-data training and integrates high-speed interconnections. The new GPU also supports other numerical formats, including FP32, 32-bit integer and bfloat16.

Ship it to the masses and let us all see.
> The use of cell phone data is well understood, well litigated, and for all intents and purposes, settled law.

I don't have strong views on the right policy outcome, but it is not accurate to call this issue well litigated and/or settled law.

Just yesterday, NYTimes ran an article about DIA claiming a "commercial availability" exception to the only Supreme Court case addressing cell phone location data (Carpenter). If that is indeed DIA's rational, they are going to have some problems. For example, it is unlawful for the state to use commercially available thermal optics to surveil the interior of a dwelling without a warrant. I think DIA may be relying on dicta from Kyllo about devices in "common use", but their rational is secret so we won't know until it is... litigated.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/dia-surveilla...
Show HN: Traindown – A language to help athletes express their training
Autumn Covid-19 surge dates in Europe point to Vitamin D as contributing factor
Antivirus program security for all devices, new update 2021
Antivirus program security for all devices, new update 2021
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I can’t get pathologically obsessed with something that I lose dozens of times a year. It’s not worth the time or money spent over picking up a bulk pack at the local office store.
Yep i started off with trying to get it to work with pytorch (https://github.com/bkkaggle/lm-training-research-project/blo...) then with pt-lightning but the whole 1 user VM per TPU board limitation in pytorch-xla 7-8 months ago made me switch over to TF
I dislike the direction for society you are proposing. Each bad actor should absolutely know how and why they are identified as a bad actor. How else could they possibly even attempt to defend themselves as not bad actors. The same kind of idiocy is allowed in banks now under the guise of BSA. The only difference is, banks typically face much harder restrictions and are actually heavily regulated. For that reason, I believe the parent's post makes more sense than a blanket 'it is too hard for us to do it'.

In short, you are proposing that we penalize good actors for actions of bad actors for no other reason that it creates inconvenience for a platform. That is not acceptable.
Right, but it can sync arbitrary ranges sooner, which is also awful for consistency.
malloc is implemented using mmap.

You map memory manually when you need very low level control over memory.
I hate it too! For someone I don’t know I want to say “how can I help you” but even then that is presumptuous!

Sometimes they reply with “how are you”!

What.Do.You.Want?!?!

On Telegram I archive them immediately. And I check the archives once a month, maybe.
+1 on the ADD about timestamps :) and a +1 for Julia. Following her on Twitter and she's awesome!
Yes! See also Nick Sousanis "Unflattening", it's extraordinary.

http://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/
A Fisher Space Pen (capsule pen), among other things like keys and wallet.
It seems quite obvious to me that Larry is trying to get Ted Turner a job in the Clinton Administration.

What are you seeing there that's so shocking?
The problem with your "great" formulation is that my interlocutor does know, and I know she knows (because she wrote the code). What I don't know is whether she is in a position to give me an answer right now, which is what I need for it to do me any good.

So I usually open with "Ping..." which everyone I deal with knows means, "Are you in the mood to be bothered with a quick question that needs an immediate answer?" And I only do this with people I know prefer chat over email all else being equal because they will initiate chats with me. Otherwise I go straight to email.
There are only half million Teslas so you can just distribute the VIN numbers of all of them with a single bit flag saying whether they are eligible for free charging and another bit saying that they have an account in good order. Twenty bytes per car should do it, say 10 MB of storage to hold enough information to say which cars are allowed to charge even if the network is down.

Mind you in three years of owning and driving (70k km) my Model S I have never encountered a Supercharger station that was entirely out of order, just a few heavily used ones that have one or two stalls often not working.
So now we'll see twitter ban this bot because it "dehumanizes" a large group of people like the NPC meme right?
> Specifically, any change in public sentiment would be rather small and only accrue over the long term. It would therefore be of little use to, say, some PR executive at Shell.

I'd argue that's pretty easy to refute. Just look how quickly the Q-Anon nonsense has spread. And they weren't even trying to pretend to be legitimate, they just kept making up crazier and crazier statements "for the lulz".

> As for costs: the big one would be the damage to your reputation, as an individual, company, and industry, that would follow if the public found out. I'm having trouble imaging a scenario where you run such an operation, certainly involving a dozen people or so, without ever pissing one of them off sufficiently to see them calling a reporter.

They were already caught funding the climate science denial reports despite knowing what was really going on. There was almost no backlash, why do you presume it would be any different this time?

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate-scientist-oil-com...
Mine's a 325i, that actually has a 3L engine.
Implementing Raft's Leader Election in Rust
> I'll give you just one example, which is press freedom. Under Obama, as I'm sure you know, the Espionage Act of 1917—one of the most pernicious laws we have on our books; it was enacted under Woodrow Wilson, and it was designed to criminalize dissent from U.S. participation in World War I—was invoked against whistleblowers and sources, like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and a dozen others, more under Obama than every other prior president combined. It ended up being three times more prosecutions under the Espionage Act for our sources as journalists than all previous presidents, including Nixon or Eisenhower or whoever you want to pick. And the press said almost nothing.

That's fairly meaningless without a comparison of the number of people for whom it could have been applied under Nixon or Eisenhower or whoever.

Was it applied more under Obama than, say, Eisenhower because Obama applied it to cases that Eisenhower would not have applied it to if they had occurred during his administration?

Or were there more people leaking classified information during Obama's time in office than there were during Eisenhower's and that explains why it was applied more under Obama.
I listened to the drilled podcast two weeks ago and season 3 was very eye opening to me because they did an in depth look at how corporate PR has evolved to influence public opinion in very subtle and powerful ways. We’re talking oil companies setting up contracts the size of $25 million to influence opinion on single issues and they work with psychologists to take advantage of the shortcomings inherent in our minds.

The result is that in 2021 people tell me things that influence their opinions that are either misleading, out of date or absolutely false. We’re talking things like climategate or that volcanoes give off more co2 than all of human civilization.

I’m just a regular person, I don’t believe in climate change, I’ve researched it, it’s something I’m concerned about. A million dollar PR campaign against me and my friends, family and coworkers is not something anyone can standup against.

The dogma that you perceive comes from people reacting to dissatisfaction from an important issue that isn’t being taken seriously. We are citizens, regular people, against what amounts to artificial intelligences that are maximizing the number of paper clips they produce. David and Goliath doesn’t come close to the situation we’re up against.
Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986
As other have said, you need hardware support to do this similarly to how GPUs do it.

That being said, that hardware support exists with NVDIMMs.
Yes, Gitpod is open-source and can be self-hosted: https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/
Now that's just silly. Longevity of the enterprise application is of no concern at all. The only things that matter is on-time and on-budget. If you can't deliver that, then you run into the problem the author of the article ran into, his bosses yelling at him and his career and job in jeopardy.

If the project develops issues after all the initial stakeholders have moved on, it's the new stakeholders' problem.
It will still try to connect to wifi points that you happen to pass by, though.
"Unfortunately, for safety and security reasons, we can’t provide additional information as to why your account was disabled. We appreciate your understanding, as this decision is final."
Could not have been better formulated by Kafka.
The team shaking up climate models
Hey folks! I would love to get some feedback on this project if you have a spare moment.

The intent is to provide a common format for training data.

By training data, I mean data you'd commonly find in a workout app. Think "Squats at 500 for 10 reps" sorta thing.

Anyhow, thanks for looking!
Hey it's reaaaaaaally time for us as a society to let facebook go. Go use something else, it's best for all of us.
To date, I've never found a better pencil than the Pentel Twist Erase III (0.5mm). So simple, so affordable, yet so great.

https://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-Twist-Erase-III-Mechanical-Pe...
People understand that chat/ messaging/ Slack is asynchronous.

There is no onus placed upon you here except perhaps in your hypothetical head.

Far more likely is:

> Co-worker: Hi, AA. We have a client with a problem, and I could use your help. Please do X, Y, and Z. Okay thanks, bye.

> AA: Crickets...

> Co-worker (5 minutes later): You there?

> AA: Crickets...

> Co-worker: Oops, just noticed it's 5:54, I should have known you'd have punched out already, I got it.
Outlawed?!

Facebook is not an essential service; it is not a monopoly; and access to it is not a human right.

By freedom of association, Facebook ought to be able to drop users arbitrarily as they see fit.
Ideas to crack our passwords. ;)
Using the experimental fast grouped pandas functions, it should run at the speed of optimized pandas code!

Since siuba functions just run on pandas DataFrames, you can always hand tune for performance, but imo most of the time pandas code runs slow it's because of something like .agg(lambda ...) somewhere.

There's an example with timings here:

https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer/pandas-grou...