skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it’s better to state the uncertainty [1] together with the measurement, but when this isn’t done, there is a standard convention for significant digits, explained in ISO 80000-1:2009 [2], subclause 7.3.4:

When a number is given without any further information,
it is generally interpreted so that the last digit is
rounded with a rounding range equal to 1 in the last digit
(see Annex B). Thus, for example, the number 401 008 is
generally assumed to represent a value between 401 007,5
and 401 008,5. In this case, the maximum magnitude of the
error in the number 401 008 is 0,5.

This is consistent with the author’s “less than half a unit.”

[1] JCGM 100:2008, Evaluation of measurement data — Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement, https://www.iso.org/sites/JCGM/GUM-JCGM100.htm

[2] ISO 80000-1:2009, Quantities and units — Part 1: General
Lots of really fair feedback here. We hear you.
Ah, obv I misunderstood your above post.

Makes a ton of sense. It’s been a while since I used Docker, but I’ll have to try it out next time I’m using a container setup. Particularly since HyperKit seems to make running a VM so straight forward.
Right, but at some point you have to question why these things are so cheap. What conditions are you helping to perpetuate by buying inexpensive clothes and meat?

Not that you're obligated to spend your money differently than you do. But this speaks to the country's yawning divide between red/blue that some of us choose to spend supporting local economies, buying ethically sourced goods, and generally trying to reduce the negative externalities of our lives. Meanwhile, other people don't want to worry about that, which is fair, but I don't know how culturally sustainable it is for groups to be polarizing at each end of that continuum.
Sometimes the best solution is to get the truth from the horse's mouth. I believe if you ask something like "Siri, are you a real person?" it will say something like "I'm not a real person or a robot...".
I think you are allowed to distribute pdf copies of your published work on a personal website, even if they appear in a paywalled journal
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The (accepted and legal) "norm" these days is to post an author pre-print in an institutional open-access repository - check out "green open access" (versus gold open access).

It's not ideal though, but search engines like Google Scholar are good at finding the open-access versions of paywalled academic works and linking to the PDF of them.
> The City of London's Intellectual Property Crime Unit says the Sci-Hub website could "pose a threat to their personal information and data".

> The police are concerned that users of the "Russia-based website" could have information taken and misused online.

Police (and politicians in general) should be careful about the fire they're playing with. There are some valid reasons to be concerned about hacking based out of Russia, but if every time they want to try to cast aspersions on things they don't like by highlighting connections to Russian they run he risk of people just totally discounting that warning in all cases.
For all intents and purposes, Code Relay literally just launched today, so I don't have any examples, yet.
5 minutes a day is a matter of scale.

If we can get 10% of programmers to devote 5 minutes to open source a day, we can help a lot of people (maintainers and the open source community as a whole).

Obviously, not everything can be broken down into 5 minute tasks. But, I believe there are enough things that can be broken down. That Code Relay is worth pursuing.

Maybe, it will only work for functional programming languages where there is a strict way to divide code into smaller and smaller functions.

Or maybe it will only work for crowdsourcing documentation. Most projects need better documentation, badly. So, this would be a worthwhile goal in and of itself.

The approach I'm taking now is to try everything and see what sticks.
"If you're tricked into revealing your log-in credentials, whether it's through the use of fake emails or malware, we know that Sci-Hub will then use those details to compromise your university's computer network in order to steal research papers," [Max Bruce, the City of London Police's cyber protection officer] said.

That's the first I've heard about this, and it would represent a very different perspective on Sci-Hub to the traditional anti-copyright Robin Hood styling.

That said, even though CoLP is a rather strange police force within system here, it would be surprising for it to make a definitive public statement like that without being reasonably confident that it was correct. Is there any truth to that allegation?
My guess is that the watering hole websites were probably browsed by minorities frowned upon by the Chinese state.

The Volexity blog covers some of the earlier watering hole attacks in more detail.
The GBA warez intros were the specific inspiration for the "no-intro" rom collection, which originally set out to create a complete collection that had not been modified in any way.
That's what consent is for. GDPR allows tracking with user consent (letter a) of article 6). No need to enumerate all the purposes in the law. The problem is that the GDPR allows companies to use hide tracking behind the concept of legitimate interest, and behind 1 million checkboxes that users now have to click in order to opt-out of tracking.
Therr was a massive astro turf campaign on reddit regarding NN. Of course there is some motive behind it when money is being spent to lobby it.

I even read something about how "people will literally die without NN". That kind of rhetoric should be a signal.
What is this analog hole of which you speak? Only nature delivers analog ;)

But nature doesn't create deep fakes - though not as the term is being used here. I would argue that nature has been making deep fakes for millions of years.

Anything that is created by CNN Deep Fake tech is delivered via computer - either using printer or with some sort of screen screen. Let's eliminate printers as nobody uses them anymore. What about screens? I smell a business opportunity.
AI in drug discovery: what is realistic, what are illusions?
> Why add things to Python to make it strongly typed?

Python is strongly typed. The support for external tools is to enable static type checking, not strong typing.

> Why not just use Java or C#?

Why add “dynamic” to C#, why not just use Python?
Why should anyone but shareholders trust CEOs?

I'm asking this in earnest. If the primary goals of a company essentially boil down to personal and shareholder enrichment then why should I not consider all large companies an existential threat to my life itself?
ShutUp10 is a great tool for quickly viewing and disabling all Windows 10 telemetry: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I don't quite understand your argument. I use my distros package manager in a very similar way to how you describe brew for my tools, and also use containers in the contexts you describe.

Only difference I see is that my containers are running natively (eg no VM in the background) and that I've not had any random errors from my package manager in years. Not sure what brew is like these days but last I used it the experience felt like a half baked apt/yum to me (3+ years ago though)
Oh, I see where you're coming from, but I was actually just being pedantic about what it means to be "civilized", since human civilization goes back thousands of years before electric light. "Civilized" in historical contexts means to be in an advanced stage of social and cultural development, that there is a lot of structure to people's lives, even if that structure employed violence in ways we find abhorrent.

The other meaning of "civilized", the one you seem to have intended, is more along the lines of being well-mannered and less violent, which is why I take your point.
Publishers are not all the same on this. Nature explicitly allows - not just ignores, but allows - authors to distribute copies themselves. You can factor in the publisher's policy when you choose where to send your paper.

(I'm not connected with Nature).
disagree. The first sentence is the lede. Next, a primary source backs it up with a specific quote. Then context is given for the decision. Sci-hub's perspective follows.

Then you get several sentences on the police's view, and several on Sci-hub's.

It's mechanically straightforward, like most news.
Which app is that? I haven't done much digging, but of the two Pocket Casts electron apps I found, one hasn't been updated since 2017 (before chrome supported this API) and the other doesn't have macOS builds.

edit: the second one does support them https://imgur.com/0EFLLmM
thanks for the shoutout :)
Didn’t you see the reality show? It’s already under Cheyenne Mountain.
SF School Board Member Accused Asians of Using ‘White Supremacy’ to ‘Get Ahead’
> Not scihub pirate-public

Why?
Probably someone contributed their credentials because they (rightfully IMO) felt the cause was justified.

Later the uni found out, asked questions and the person just lied they were 'tricked'. Uni makes a police report and the police just takes it at face value.
Many thanks. I had thought of XXDP as the "ugly duckling" of PDP-11 O/S's because of its ungainly UI, however the code turned out to be incredibly subtle, forced by fixed space constraints and permitted by that elegant instruction set. It was so much fun unraveling its secrets. IJH.
Completely ignores political science, economics and physics? Checks out. ;)
Not an equivalent of literate programming. Here you can jump to arbitrary files at arbitrary points, in literate programming your code must flow from top to bottom linearly, which is most of the times impossible to achieve.
For administrative fees maybe there could be a digital version of the tax stamp?
> Unless it applies to sandwiching within the same block.

Yes, that's what it means.

TX 0: attacker
TX 1: victim
TX 2: attacker
Isn't this what Adobe is trying to do? [1] It was posted on HN a few times but never started a discussion that I saw. Personally, I'm scared of it although I can't put my finger on why.

1. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2019/11/04/content-authent...
It's a press release from the UK government, it's not actual reporting. The BBC tend to release these kind of things a couple of days before a policy announcement.

Here's an example:

Mar 14 "Ageing equipment puts Army at risk, MPs warn
British army armoured vehicle. The British army is likely to find itself "outgunned" in any conflict with Russian forces" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56386446

Then 3 days later a new UK foreign policy increasing military spending https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56391994. The fact check here from the BBC is interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56417924

What happens here is that voters see the first article, it sits in their mind a bit and they think "well maybe we should increase military spending, we need a good armed forces" then lo and behold their wish comes true a few days later.

We're just living in an real world Yes Minister episode.
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I love this renaissance the genre is having, combining older aesthetic with better art design and lighting. Valheim comes to mind. I hope janky looking games but that are as deep as Deus Ex aren't far behind.
I'm talking explicitly about the PC era. The 8bit machines were far more limited and that music was chiptune in every meaningful way.

But when you get to PC's you didn't have one set in stone hardware FM synth as a standard. Your hardware varied and it was absolutely controlled via MIDI even if you lacked the hardware to interface with external MIDI devices.

Depending on the hardware you had at the time your soundcard gave you either FM Synthesis such as with the classic SoundBlasters, Adlib etc. A fixed sample library in the case of devices like the Sound Canvas. Or with the later more advanced soundcards you had wavetable synthesis starting with the AWE32 which opened you up to soundfonts.

If you had a Sound Canvas or similar "sound module" as they were called, there were many, you absolutely did have external MIDI capabilities because it was a requirement for the device to work. You had to have a MIDI interface card or box. I had a 4 port Roland card in the mid 90's. I don't remember the model but they stopped making drivers after Win98 for it.
I run into that same problem a lot while trying to find tutorials that target beginners. Absolute beginners, the kind showing up to my organization's Google Summer of Code chat rooms. It's rare to find tutorials that just keep it simple enough.

I wanted a regex one recently. First off, they all presumed mastery of the concept of a string, but more seriously, none of them had a really good definition of a regex! I still can't think of one myself, but I know it's probably not "pattern to match specific strings", because it uses an uncommon meaning of "pattern" and a jargon meaning of "match". And of course they all immediately used terms like "formal languages".

The perldoc page 'perlretut' did pretty well with "a template that is used to determine if a string has certain characteristics" - ok, a bit abstract for my taste, but let's keep going - then a bit further down they use "modifier" (flag) with no definition. But I really had to look hard for flaws in that one. I guess the only way to actually nail this is to supervise successive groups of students as they try to learn using your tutorial-in-progress...
As a fan of Ethereum I'm glad to see this since Cardano has many of the characteristics that got me enthusiastic about Ethereum, eg. smart contracts and PoS (planned).

I've been surprised to discover that, according to social media, I'm not supposed to be a fan of both at the same time.

If forced to take a position against something, I guess I would say that the real battle is to overcome the general perception that crypto = bitcoin. The possibilities for crypto are enormous if we can get past that limited view.
"next target"? has been a target since inception.
At Moderna or BioNtech Cancer and Gene Therapy were priorities during the last decade or so, with limited evidence of success as far as I can tell. Infectious disease is scientific low hanging fruit for this approach, but has been less attractive commercial opportunities, so received limited focus on that until SARS-COV-2. The did a good job executing on the vaccines, but I'm not giving much for these vaccines as proof of concept for scientific success in cancer or orphan disease gene therapy.
There are definitely several ways to set up complex Shopify shipping situations. My livelihood is in good part based on it.
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I assume they mean that law enforcement will catch up eventually.

Copies are widely distributed. That's how it works.

Even if the whole thing blew up somehow, it would be very unlikely for every copy to be lost.
The Glue Work: is the devil in *these* details?
I had always assumed that that was just the official story, but that not getting millions of angry rioters over was a key (unspoken) motivation. But it seems I was wrong about that, too. I can't find a single source to back up my assumption, I don't know where I got it from.

I really should stop assuming.
To be fair, there's probably an efficient frontier problem in pedestrianizing neighborhoods. If you closed off the entirety of Manhattan to cars, it would probably destroy Manhattan, but if you closed off specific areas such that people could still move themselves and goods around the city, it would be much improved.
Also known as 'flooding the zone'. Like many political tropes, this originates in team sports which in turn is an abstraction of war. It's an awful lot easier to understand the media landscape if you consider it as cultural warfare with ideas and tropes as territory, although this is hard to visualize in spatial terms.

The answer to this (and the accompanying tribalism that pervades public discourse nowadays) is often said to be education and critical thinking, but that requires years of investment and often-unwelcome external discipline to internalize and actuate; it's a statement of what we would like to have instead rather than an actionable solution to its own absence.

Friendly emotional persuasion can work better as a de-escalation-bridging tactic, as suggested here: https://dr-gleb-tsipursky.medium.com/how-to-talk-to-a-scienc...

This is also helpful for gathering information to understand the dynamics and attractiveness of false information, even if no changing of mind can occur; think of it as the difference between carefully dismantling an unexploded munition in order to figure out how it works vs. a controlled explosion to minimize future risk at the expense of continued vulnerability.

Where conflict is unavoidable or deliberately fomented (eg people arguing in bad faith rather than sincerely believing falsehoods), an overtly hostile response imposes a cost on the aggressor, and when consistently and predictably applied it effectively alters the payoff matrix in an adversarial game: https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/

Many people are aware of Mutual Assured Destruction as a kind of nuclear diplomacy, where you are deterred from nuking me because I've made it very clear that if you do I will take you down with me, leading to a heavily armed but uneasy peace. There are also lesser-known concepts like Power Transition Theory (about how wars originate from weaker countries challenging stronger ones) and nowadays scholars of international relations tend to adhere to Hegemonic Stability Theory (one very powerful country plays Teacher/cop) or World System Theory (every dog has its day). Developing familiarity with the broad concepts of interstate conflict (without going too deep down any intellectual rabbit hole) can be helpful in modeling smaller scale political conflicts, divisions in civil society etc.
> pdf copies of your published work

Not wishing to sound facetious, but where would I get the PDFs, other than from - say - SciHub?

I have the original bound journal for one of them, but you can bet your bottom dollar it would be illegal for me to start making photocopies of my work and handing them out...
For adversarial recordings, I wonder if we could have a camera that instantly uploads a timestamp and hash of each video taken to a blockchain. This way, we could have videos that we know for a fact were recorded at the latest at a certain time. It would still be vulnerable for a fake video to be post dated, but never pre dated.
Sure.

My questions here are about whether these results indicate further optimization potential for native-comp (in the default configuration, hopefully).

emacs-ng is an interesting experiment, but I think I will only be able to seriously consider it if it comes to reimplementing the Elisp VM on top of V8. Then it will be a single runtime, and little to no data structure conversion and FFI will be required.

In the meantime, I'll keep following the native-comp progress ;), as well as dreaming of Web Workers in stock Elisp API.
>He said it right there. If it has no possible military use, why did he even mention the military?

How do you get "the satellite could have military applications" from "The satellite was not designed for that"?

>On what basis do you assert that Human Rights Watch are not capable of assessing the satellites capabilities and possible uses?

You mean aside from "We won’t get involved in anything that has to do with the military. The satellite was not designed for that"? Why do you think the HRW has any capability to assess the possible applications of a satellite? Nothing on the HRW website either...

https://www.hrw.org/asia/myanmar-burma
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp pause usual data collection with an outage
I read "Shopify App" as one that clones/competes with Shopify. I prefer "app that uses Shopify"
You could say it about anything that is funded by tax payers but we still pay for many services partially funded by tax so I don't see how "funded partially by tax" could be reasoning for that.
There are real tokens meant to be used by real people that have some kind of 'tax' per transfer which is implemented similarly.

Uniswap doesn't care, it just needs to update its reserves before every swap.
Indonesia is also moving their capital. I think the fact that Jakarta is sinking has much to do with that decision.
>Let's say there was video recording of a politician in a hotel in Russia, to pick a random example. We would already expect it to be low-quality video even if it was real.

But why? The cheap last-gen iPhone in my pocket can take 4k videos, almost everybody has something like it in their pockets. Quality is cheap and will continue spreading, fuzzy video that looks like it was taken on a 90s camcorder will itself seem suspicious.
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Attacking the Stack [pdf]
I'm honestly baffled that anyone sees this any other way. It didn't even occur to me as a possibility. The whole betrayal was not just telegraphed, it was directly shown in every aspect of how Hans interacted with Anna.
There are so many news about different exploits. Let's closer look how it is working.
After the UK doing better at acquiring vaccines than the EU, this is what we need, finally something to point fingers and laugh at. ;)
Yeah definitely just at MVP stage but wanted to get some early feedback, thanks for checking it out.
I enjoyed watching Pose, which touches on this topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose_(TV_series)
Thank you for trying out and sharing your feedback. Your kind words and appreciation means a lot.

a) This makes sense, definitely a hover/show file name button should be there to facilitate with the complete name. I have added this to our improvement list and we will soon be rolling out an update on this.

b) We primarily targeted the parsing of ECAD formats, and their repacking. We have gerbers support planned for next quarter so you will soon be seeing a gerber generator (from source files) and a gerber viewer within inventhub.

c) This is a great idea, will definitely prioritize this as it could help someone understand platform with a fully populated project.
It's also the incongruence which people like I think.

It would be great to see Adolfo Mateo[0] as a 20 year old Japanese girl, not that he needs any improvement as he is.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES
It’s not too difficult to get a Linux VM running on top of MacOS on the M1. Then you can do whatever you want on your M1 Mac and have a full Linux distribution in another window.

Call of Duty is a whole other problem.
PSA: Coinbase support is absurdly horrific for a company that is holding money/crypto.

They have taken months to respond to support requests, and every response seems to have been copy/paste with zero review of the documented issues.

The errors I get are super helpful like "Something went wrong, but we don't know what." Seriously, that's the error on the iOS app, and the website error is even more cryptic.

Strong caution against putting any money where their ineptitude and lack of responsiveness would keep you from accessing it.
Purely from an opsec perspective I doubt we'll ever have world leaders as online and accessible on private platforms like Twitter as we did in the last years. It's just too much of a national security risk and every major state has to assume the CIA/Mossad/KGB/etc. is actively trying to intercept and undermine world leader's online presence. It is stupidly easy for a determined state actor to over time infiltrate and get an in with a private American company. The risks are just too great to have a world leader using Twitter or similar platforms for anything more than reshashed press releases and announcements. Smart nations will probably get ahead of potential hacking or other incidents by just having a blanket and clear policy that no official business will be communicated or done on Twitter or similar platforms.