skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the government took action against these guys as opposed to covert support and encouragement you would have a point.

How many public lynchers have been convicted ? (Its a rhetorical question)

Why has the Modi government passed orders not to record lynching related deaths ? (again a rhetorical question)

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ncrb-leaves-out-data...

May be you should take your lecture to the government friendly media about branding the entire movement as Khalistani, Pakistani terrorists.
You are right, although as long as it is tied to me, it is not secure according to my definition, but sure, it is more secure than most instant messaging apps. I do not think it is a good thing to have my phone number, or even my e-mail tied to it when you can easily do it in another way. With e-mails the problem is that most have a thing against throwaway e-mails, and non-throwaway ones are difficult to sign up for using a VPN, let alone Tor, for example. It is still pretty much tied to you. There are so many ways to do it without using either of those. I suppose they may use those things as an anti-spam mechanism or something, but see below for an instant messaging app that does not require these and where DDoS attacks or spamming is not much of a concern. For the record, in Ricochet you got random IDs in the form of "ricochet:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". You share your Ricochet ID to be able to get a connection request.

To me, Ricochet is the most secure instant messaging app for desktop. It would be even better were it to use Onion v3, and if it were available on Android, but then again, I do not really consider my phone secure by default with all the Google crapware. I disabled the default Google keyboard and downloaded one that does not require Internet connection and that is not related to Google in any way. It is so silly that I cannot even delete any apps that came with my phone. So they say its storage capacity is 32 GB. Half of that is spent on crap that came with the phone, splendid. In any case, I am going off-topic here so... :)
Please create a quote from the website
That rumor mongering is amplified by Social media and often leads to violence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

https://www.wired.com/story/how-whatsapp-fuels-fake-news-and...

I do not like shutting of Internet in any area but I am not the one responsible for maintaining law and order. Additionally, in the age of e2e apps, it becomes quite difficult to find the real perpetrators.
The hacker news API is served by firebase -- I'm sure google's infrastructure can handle that traffic
Some of them, like HIV, encode multiple genes in overlapping sections. If ever there was a case for intelligent design it would be in these viruses, not complex organisms with huge genomes like plants and humans.
I’ve heard the main reason is that it’s impossible for the government to pay market rate for high-end software engineers, because of fixed pay bands.
I'm a bit of a docker cynic, but if you tell me I have to deploy any of Ruby, Python, Node.js, or Perl, I'm using docker to manage the dependencies. My opinion is that this is actually docker's primary value-add. Yes, it enables who hosts of orchestration benefits, but it also makes it actually possible to just package these runtimes in a reasonable-ish way.

For platforms which support more self-contained binaries, I'm going to keep trying to avoid docker as much as possible.
Typing isn't everything. Humans won't have to type "secret-token:" but they will have to read it and it looks ugly :-)

I would probably have voted for "secret:[..]".

But maybe ugly is good.

Secret tokens shouldn't survive for long in source code or files you read, or .bash_history files, or your editor's buffers. They should be in secret config files that you don't read often or even open in an editor.

Maybe it's better that they are annoying to see, as a reminder to move them somewhere you don't look at.
Billionaires Bicker over Space Toys
If I ever have a house and it’s large enough and I have enough time and money to do house projects, I plan on making a wiring closet behind the media center.
Are you asking him to prove a negative?

He just explained he picks the cheapest item in some database based on some specs.
That's what the article says:

Luck = Doing * Telling
Discount? These jabs are extremely cheap compared to the costs of the shutdowns. Even at $1000 per patient it would be a no-brainer.
Honestly it’s a brilliant term. I’ve seen it in the Audiophile, DIY Audio, and Synthesizer communities as well.

While WAF capacity tends to be fairly constant over time, careful strategic planning can ensure sufficient WAF capacity to avoid significant restrictions on side project activity.
First Principles as a Life Strategy
"Pioneered 2000 years ago by Aristotle and popularized most recently by Elon Musk, First Principles is a method of reasoning which involves breaking down a complex problem into its most fundamental parts and reasoning upwards from there."
haha this podcast is what inspired me on my tts system.

Thought the concept was great, but couldn't stand the host or style. it feels like being trapped in room with crazy person, harder to fall asleep to his mutterings. Also doesn't work well when topics are random, need something that grabs brain interest, but not too much. This is why comment threads are great - they're somewhat sorted by quality. You start off with interesting conversations before quality drop, and it's easy for brain to check out.
I’m putting this at 90% chance of being a joke, 10% chance of being astroturfing for Big Coffee, who are worried about how long they can string out the ‘third wave’ thing and looking for the next sales hook. :)
Rome in 3D
I found virtual 3rd trailer about Colosseum district to be amazing.
Orwell's 1984?
For location, you can find villages or monasteries in Europe, especially depopulating areas in Italy for brutally cheap (under $100k). If you have a bit more money, say $5-700k, you can buy an old factory or convent in France. Various tax advantages can be had with enough cleverness.

An endowment you can rustle up with sufficiently well connected people, especially if you aren't looking for that much money.

Grants I agree are a problem. Darpa as I recall doesn't necessarily require university connections, but I'm not sure if Europe has anything easy like that. Maybe you attach a startup incubator?

1)https://www.patrice-besse.co.uk/ads/historic-buildings-for-s...
2) https://www.patrice-besse.co.uk/ads/historic-buildings-relig...

EDIT: In terms of financing, how much money do you really need? If you are self sufficient in terms of owning the property, endowment income and growing vegetables and selling beer/yoghurt etc., is that not enough? Would the modern academic type be interested at all in essentially living in a commune/monastery where some amount of time is dedicated to cleaning/maintenance/carpentry/agriculture?
I met a manager of this once. She told me Oracle hired anyone with a college degree (hers was English) for her job because “managing developers isn’t that hard, you just have to keep track of milestones etc”
With enough bad luck, it's possibly to never have the opportunity to make those changes.
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Every seems to be being snarky, but on the off chance you care about the actual pricing, and assuming you're talking about Oracle's JDK and not OpenJDK: Oracle's JDK is free to use. You can pay for support if you want, which gives you the bleeding edge security patches immediately (without support you can upgrade every six months to get the all patches). The pricing for support is calculated by CPU core count I believe. So if you're using Java in production on 100 cores, that's going to be more expensive than 10. I don't have the specific numbers off the top of my head though.
Wouldn’t a virus be hard-selected for short, efficient genetic code? They are so tiny that extra base pairs must have an enormous effect on their physical and mechanical condition.
Many of the things that would ease things up on plural systems would also benefit individuals as well
'I was scammed out of £17,000 on Instagram'
I posted a status update the morning after a major riot happened in my neighborhood that consisted of a short summary of what happened, a statement that I was ok, and essentially "fuck the rioters." I could name names of friends who, in response, insisted on "people > property", "fuck the racist capitalist system", "rioting is language of the unheard", "looting is reparations," and "don't tell black people how to protest." I'm sure you can find examples of this on twitter and reddit if you look—it was unavoidable for a time.

Since I'm not willing to out my friends or comb through old social media, have an example from local media instead: https://www.wbez.org/stories/winning-has-come-through-revolt...

Also, an image macro posted to my wall, representative of the kinds of stuff I was seeing at the time: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnCI4_9W4AAAxDf.jpg
Understanding Dbscan and K-NN with Random Geometric Graphs
Do you honestly think this isn't going to end in tears?

This stock isn't worth even half of where it finished on Friday. Which means it is almost guaranteed to take a dive at some point. When it does, everyone who bought at ridiculous valuations to support the other mob members will be devastated. And who will profit from the almost certain drop? Some of the very same companies and individuals who the mob thought they were hurting.

Think about it for a moment. This stock was being shorted (over 140% of it, which is very, very wrong -- rules should change) when it was just a few bucks. They were short GME when they knew they could only make a few bucks per share. What do you think is going to happen now that they know they can make HUNDREDS of dollars per share?

The question isn't whether or not this is a good short. The only question is when to short it. That's the chess game at the moment. It's a weird combination of psychology and timing. I don't know the answer to this question, yet I am as close to 100% certain that GME will implode as I can be (not enough to gamble my money, I don't gamble).

So, yes, in many ways it is like a Ponzi scheme: Some made a ton of money, others a little money, and the based of the pyramid will eventually get hurt.
The protesters attached police. There are pictures, videos. You can't push it under carpet and say nothing happened.
The plugin uses very little CPU, and is entirely inactive when not in use (i.e. when data isn't being pulled => the transfer function isn't being called) due to how ALSA works

EDIT: Do note, though, that each process pulling audio will be denoising independently, so the usage scales linearly with the amount of clients. This is due to how ALSA plugins work, but regardless of that, on a Ryzen 5 1600x (the only CPU I can test on), the plugin uses 2.5% of a single core when recording mono 48k
I believe Pulse also has a LADSPA module that you could try.
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Get rid of 230. It’s worse than the alternative.
https://medium.com/nanocurrency/the-nano-faucet-c99e18ae1202

It was a "faucet" instead of an "airdrop" but the effect is very similar, only a few early enthusiast got the coins.
Challenges - like this google fiasco - really test the merit of a person and org...and you @Arathorn and the rest of the Element team as well as the Matrix org/Foundation team have shown to be really great stewards and leaders for Matrix, as well as great actors for open source and internet-at-large software. Kudos to you and the teams for the great job at managing this challenge (that never should have been created by Google in the first place)!! I've been a fanboy of matrix since the beginning (both the protocol and the teams building it), and it is behavior like yours and the related teams (incljuding all contributors!) that keep me as a fanboy for both the protocol stack and the software. Keep on truckin'!!! :-)
I find it kind of funny that milk tea is tied to Asian identity. afaik for traditional Chinese adding milk to tea is a faux pas kind of like adding Coke to wine. I think the modern practice of adding milk to tea started with the British, who imported it via Hong Kong. The Taiwanese then added tapioca + sugar which became bubble tea.

There are traditional milk teas in other countries though, like India and Mongolia. The Mongolian version is salty instead of sweet.
That’s what the internet is for!
> Moreover, our politicians have placed their bets on two high-tech, two-shot and costly vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna. They require refrigeration that half the world can’t afford.

> American science has given us a Lamborghini when what the world needs is a Toyota

There is no Pfizer vaccine ... it's German science from Biontech. The author doesn't even get this detail right. Why should I take his panicky opinion serious?

> They actually represent an entirely new pandemic.

This is semantics abused for FUD. It's not a new pandemic - period.

> And by New Zealand’s or Taiwan’s measure, we look very bad.

Did it even occur to this guy that his favorite reference countries are small islands with basically just one major ship and airport?

> Be like a zero hero, like New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern.

This whole text is just a cheesy opinion piece - not a scientific view.

> No politician wanted to hear that evidence [by Drosten], and many continue to ignore it.

Not true - he's been the court scientist of German government since early 2020.
I find it really useful for development. For example when I configure nginx + a service, if it works in my local env, I have to run one command and I'll have the same in prod, and I don't have to debug in the server. Also is useful to keep track of the OS dependencies.

But it ends up being a matter of preference, I could still do it without it, but I'm used to it now, for some reason I feel that it makes my systems more "reproducible" in a simpler way.
best link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8959
Why wasn't this made a URN?
This is why, after human civilization collapses, onions will inherit the earth.
That’s not what the secure desktop is.

Windows has the normal desktop that shows your programs and separate desktops for special purposes. There is a desktop where your screensaver runs. So if your screensaver crashes it is not possible for your screen to show up.

Another desktop is where the login screen is on. Normal programs can’t connect to that desktop so they can’t capture your keystrokes as you type your password.

This isn’t about ‘walled gardens’.
Seems like as long its not Hindu religion its fine.
Terminal User Interfaces in PowerShell
> If you want to handle a signal in the analog domain, it doesn't take much in terms of electronics. AM radio can be received using a crystal radio, 100+ year old technology, if the signal is strong enough. You need 6 parts, antenna, ground lead, coil, capacitor, diode, headphones.

If there's one very strong station near you, you just need an antenna wire, ground, diode, and high-Z headphones. You'll hear the station.
I imagine the real issue is whether affiliating with a larger union is something that should be up for vote with the members, or at least an open debate.
An interesting question is: why are we not seeing
fast and scalable GPU implementations of GAs? (I'm not trying to trick
you, genuinely curious).

I think one problem, making GAs as they are understood today (maybe there is a better way), is the freewheeling, unconstrained nature of GA
fitness functions. If the ambient fitness function has a lot of
data-dependent branching, SIMD will be slow. Moreover GAs have two
phases: measuring fitness and mutation/crossing over to produce the next
generation. Is the mutation/crossover phase SIMD friendly? Typically, it
involves randomness ...

In contrast, neural net training is essentially GeMM (General Matrix
Multiply) which is an incredibly predictable workload -- almost no
data dependent branching. So none of the things that make processors
slow and complicated (caches, prefetching, branch prediction,
reservation station, scheduler ...) is needed: instead you can just
stream the data from main memory directly into the matrix multiplier
(tensor core). This means you can use the available transistors (and
energy) much more efficiently.

As far as I am aware, GAs have not, so far, been reduced to as simple
uniform and predictable a workload as GeMM, which I believe is why GAs
don't usually get run on a GPU (not to mention more specialised
hardware like TPUs).

run each machine almost
entirely independently.

I am not sure how this works with mutation/crossover. Learning happens by 'throwing away' unpromising search avenues (genes). So if different machines do not synchronise their populations, they don't learn from each other. Synchronisation OTOH is very slow.
Is the English-dubbed version of the original Japanese Iron Chef show on here? Would love to see some full episodes. That one has been hard to find.
Stock market was already “gamified” when the alternative to invest in bonds and cash savings was virtually eliminated by the Fed and the bailouts of large financial companies by the US government.

Now, real estate has been equally affected, leaving investors with the impression that the stock market is the only way to achieve reasonable returns. Be careful out there.
Thanks for the suggestion. Added a rate_limit parameter to my script to play nicely with the api :) https://github.com/thomasdziedzic/hackernews-etl/commit/6dff...
The so called power users, like any other, have many facets. Sometimes they're quite cooperative and indeed, they push edge cases that other users simply don't, advance powerful workflows using your tooling you never thought of, etc.

But they can also be down-right arrogant and self-centered ;)

I think the scale of influence the article is talking about is bigger than personal circles and is focusing more on huge user bases. The power users I deal with daily are a mixed bunch; some are very earnest in their pursuit of using our product to its fullest extent, which is great; they open themselves up to risk by pushing new features their limits, and we're willing to work with them as they continue to invest further into us. This is great because in this scenario we have the same end goals, so it works out and it's a good investment for everyone involved.

For some power users though, as soon as our goals deviate and we're no longer looking in the same direction for a given feature/product, it's like a really bad break up, and quite a few do not like to take it silently or easily. I have some that have been threatening to leave the product for 3+ years because we've elected not to invest resources further into a specific feature (low demand, market is turning away from this feature, the investment is simply too great at this point to justify the cost). But they never leave, for reasons I'm not going to speculate on.

The way that our power users act regarding such decisions is frankly borderline harassment at times; spamming forum posts, harassing our support team with endless cases just to complain about a feature they know we don't have, it can eat up a lot of time. The power users insist they are right, and that our decision is 'a huge mistake we just don't understand', and they continue to remind us of this -- it's hard to not consider the attitudes arrogant, and the language used to describe themselves feels a bit too self-congratulatory.

Frankly speaking I don't like the tone of the article even if I agree with some of its points as it sounds too much like the bad users mentioned above.

So as with all things, it's best with moderation and constant doses of reality. Without these checks, it's easy to get a very bad relationship set up and such relationships take a lot to advance to a more stable position.
Because non-union companies are famous for not having any politics or turf wars?
The problem of "how does a computer identify an individual" is clearly a different problem to "how does the individual want to be identified?".

Facebook Work accounts. Teachers running Google Classroom. There are plenty of examples where technical solutions that address the first problem (to make it easier for computers) exacerbate the second (which seeks to make things easier for humans). We should prioritise the technological solutions that help us, not machines.
There is a lot of "logical" errors possible in a container runtime that no language will save you from. See CVE-2019-18837 https://github.com/containers/crun/pull/173
From what I researched, Falcon is used on nVidia GPUs for everything _but_ the graphics, for example to enforce a security model. But it's a start. Probably they will start using for other purposes as well, for example video encoders and decoders. I very much doubt though they will scutte their existing GPU architectures for RISC-V yet.
I don't care for performance. As you pointed out, performance can be due to luck. I am looking for interesting view points.
You could add a bunch of %2F to stand in for slashes, but that's pretty clunky.
The 44M is most likely over 5 years. Knowing Deloitte generally comes in on the high side of pricing I'd say it's around a 37 person team, cross functional including PMs, BAs, developers, testers, devops, Section 508 compliance, IA, user support.
Is crime scene forensics just “forensic archaeology”?

Im not sure I see the distinction you do — people do archaeology for different reasons already, eg discovery vs profit.
What does cow slaughter laws have to do with laws governing marriage
It’s not different than consuming meat and dairy, which Danes love. Let’s put this moral inconsistency to the side
In reality its complex matter farmers have more to gain than lose. For my personal belief I support the farmer reform proposed by the governments, but there are many fake news and political propaganda acting against it. If its about Indian politics never trust what you see on Internet news most are fake.
> Many utilities already offer off peak rates generally. My utility offers incentives to install an EV charger which is networked and then gives you a rebate for charging overnight after 11pm.

Where in the world are utilities offering this? I live in W. PA and every utility service out here laughed at me when I inquired about these kinds of things.
How do you reconcile that beef eating is fine in Kerala Hindus and abhorrent/used to target minorities by North Indian Hindus?
As someone who never thought of using Snowflake for personal use, what was the cost of setting up and using Snowflake? Did you use Snowflake in AWS? FWIW: I am super new to the Snowflake ecosystem
Isn't it the opposite? If you're at a FIRE point, there's no downside to trying to do possibly-job-ending things at your workplace. You're ready to leave anyway.

And anyone who's been at Google for a few years, even not at L5, will have no trouble finding a job elsewhere that pays as much (or more - last time I had a Google offer they flatly refused to match fintech salaries). Just make sure your name doesn't get into stories like this and resign a bit early if it seems like you're losing.
There is training instructions in the repository. The training scripts appear to be using some pretty standard ML libraries (I'm seeing keras and mentions of tensorflow), so I imagine that the requirements are the same as those.

I don't feel I'm qualified to elaborate on this specifically, again, I'm no ML person. For more info look here:
https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise/tree/master/training
https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise/blob/master/TRAINING-README
I wish CUPP had been around when I lived in Whitechapel! I used to have to walk all the way up Mile End for the Yi Fang stand (and sip it in the park!), or go to the shops in Shoreditch during work