skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> canonical dox is posting someone’s name and address

Posting a pseudonymous person’s name and address divulges private information: the real person behind the pseudonym. Posting a public official’s name and address isn’t doxxing.
If you think killing someone over smashing a window is reasonable you need to seek help immediately. Please talk go a mental health professional.
I don't remember FB applying that policy when the NYT doxed Scott.
Ask HN: Why can't kindles “nest” data structures?
Kindle has released an ability to collect a series. But, this is a list/set structure which displays "alongside" the collections model. E.g. if I have Asimov's foundation series filed in SF as a collection, I see 3 discrete books inside SF/ and I see one "series" structure of 3 books outside the collection.

Kindle post dates every OS i know having nested logical structure for file like items. Directories can contain directories. If you USB mount a Kindle FS its obvious it has directories. The UI however maps collections and series differently from some other model, not the filestore.

Can somebody explain to me why the Kindle abstraction over information cannot handle nested structure?

(To me, series but not inside collections is just designed to make me angry)

Obviously it's feedback I'm giving Amazon directly, which typically, is ignored.

I'm kind of seeking clue in the computer science domain why this fundamental concept wasn't "baked in" to what kindles do.
Project ideas for Django to improve your skills – FullyBearded
..which I googled for and found on GitHub.

> We believe in building software that lasts.

(emphasis theirs).

So, I had a look. Their GitHub has dozens of repos, and the desktop one depends on the web one? Wait, the whole thing is written in typescript? I have absolutely nothing against typescript, but I honestly would have expected a boring language, with a simple repo, not with git submodules....and definitely not something that depends on web tech, of any kind.
Python's tooling is horribly underdeveloped... And you notice that when moving from Java to Python. And all the solutions are at this point in time are hacks.

If I needed to waste more time on hacking a setuptools script, to get a file placed into /usr/local/lib/shared... I'd rather use Go or Rust.
Strings in c aren't that bad with stuff like bstring or glib. Just gotta be careful with deallocations so you don't get leaks. Much better than all the security issues with std strings. I mean not anywhere close to python/ruby/javascript easy but it's not as bad as HN likes to declare it.
> Facebook is allowed to identify a person’s residential and financial information, and it is allowed to use this information to sell access to users to other organisations, but it’s a violation of Facebook policy for users to share this information.

Uh, so? “You can’t use our platform to compete with the means by which we monetize the platform” isn’t an uncommon, or hard to understand, policy for private, for-profit platforms. It’s not the overt basis for the policy in question, but even if it was the covert interest, it wouldn’t be unusual.
CEOs say all the time that the stock is too low (musk was weird for saying high). They can express an opinion. They can’t make a false material statement of fact
I got to meet their small core team in 2008 at SXSW (I was already a fan of earlier versions). They were young, with one 40ish exec in tow, and had just got their expen$ive new letter-pressed, laser-cut square business cards. I remember feeling whoa when they're first Super Bowl ad aired. Seeing the percentage Anthony was able to retain is another whoa moment. He really was a one-man-show starting out. I recommend his episode of How I Built This[1]. His Google Talk [2] is interesting as well.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/699096835/squarespace-anthony...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC-dFd7Ekhk
Well, we already do something similar with terms like "Antiquity", even though Julius Caesar lived closer to us than construction of the Pyramid of Giza.
You're using speculation and a one-sided determination about publicly available information being harmful to justify censorship. It is completely unreasonable for an organization as large, influential, and powerful as Facebook (or Twitter) to censor ideas from one half of the country due to the biases of their employees and leaders. And yes, it is a meaningful impediment to dissemination of ideas since virtually all our society's conversations today take place on platforms owned by big tech companies. Our fundamental rights to free speech have been eroded by outsourcing the public town square to these companies that act in discriminatory ways. It's time to break them up, treat them as utilities, and regulate them heavily to uphold principles of free speech
I agree. But theoretically, if the paint shed or repelled dirt very well, it could outperform something with near the same reflectivity. But the article doesn't acknowledge titanium dioxide paints with the same theoretic reflectivity, so I have to assume it won't perform any better than existing products.
In my opinion, no, it makes no sense to write ML in C++ :

- Python allows for higher level description of algorithms, which means researchers can focus more on the ML stuff and less on low level details.

- There is no performance gain in going from Python to C++, because in both cases the models are compiled to specific binary formats to be executed on dedicated hardwares. TensorFlow enables accelerators not only for training, but also for data transformations and preprocessing.
Quite a mystery, isn’t it? The only plausible thing I can think of is some kind of money laundering scheme; not that I can figure out how it would work.
Allow me to hijack - I'm working on something to make the experience of reading the text-only version of books on OpenLibrary better (if they decide to integrate it when it's done.) Email's in the profile if you want to help out.

(Hi Mek! Thanks for the help so far)
How long is it going to take to get customizable key commands to where they were in 2016 (five years ago)?
It's difficult to see this as anything other than a selectively enforced policy, which seems to be applied in a very lop-sided politically-motivated way.

Whether it's a policy of Facebook's or not is completely irrelevant. If they do not enforce this policy consistently, it opens them to accusations of political bias... which is what we have here.
You can block 3rd party cookies today. In my experience it breaks less than 1% of sites and those that break can be replaced with other sites.
Not just that. Chess.com also saw a huge surge when Covid began.
"and the only useful one" Actually this is a useless definition, because what constitutes "private information" is exactly at issue
Linux should stick to C. If Rust is still around in 20 years, then it can be chosen as a mainstream kernel programming language for Linux. Google Fuchsia's Zircon kernel chose to use C++ over Rust over stability concerns.

Best to have an independent cleanroom kernel implementation where Rust can prove itself.
I guess I am further out of the loop than I thought (and imagine I'll get reemed for this comment), but I thought BLM was a movement (with dubious Russian propagandic origins designed to fuel divisiveness, but turned mostly noble), not an organization. How did this org even come to be? I'd love to read an actual timeline or history of this all.
I use Joplin too, and export my notes to https://notes.stavros.io. If you want a site like that from your notes, you can use the script I wrote:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/

It's a bit ad-hoc, but it works well.
> by the end of the day I'm usually feeling so exhausted that I seem to struggle to do more then lie down as mindless zombie.

I've personally found that exercise helps stop the zombie symptoms. Which helps me focus after work hours.

For developing skills outside of work, try making little projects: games, simple apps... Etc. Having a small scope and clear goals will give you motivation to complete them and in turn hone your skills.
Yes, but it needs to be said that the "huge brick of money" was half of what NASA gave Boeing (which is itself just a tiny proportion of Boeing's profit). And look where we are.
> But in another sense, it's not artificial. It's a natural side effect of the physics of how microphones work. In building microphones to be directional (favor sounds from, say, in front), they've also made it where the amount of bass picked up is heightened when the mic is very close.

This is called the Proximity Effect, isn't it?
Wow that site and all it's auto play videos crashed my phone. I get that you want to show off the cool tech but please don't put that many videos on autoplay.
I used Black 2.0 and 3.0 to make an distracting little sill disappear. 2.0 was easier to use, but 3.0 is really really black.

before:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/usBMEYDRgykc2bni6

after:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/89cyApVzncXWcHYt5
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zxnGMrcUrodM78Lq8

night (really just gone):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/La1KNutxn3PhSEAg8

closeup:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uQ3d5oRYtnB3Tfzh8
Price goes up and it means nothing. BTC's price went up and it still can't be used as cash.

Store of value is a meme invented by influencers on Twitter. They did a damn good job too.
Yes, it is. The popularly cited studies these days suggest an upper limit of one second to ensure a user maintains flow.
Given the very high computing requirements of Machine Learning, I've always be perplexed by the seemingly widespread and unquestionable preference of Python over native code (typically C/C++).

I guess performance was considered less critical than clarity/flexibility. But it seems that people are discovering that complex code tend to be hard to read/modify no matter the language...
To me that's the best part, they haven't abstracted away HTML/CSS, so you have control over everything like you would if you built a site from scratch.

Creating HTML/CSS through a realtime updated UI is just so much faster and the better experience IMO. Its a great example of "Inventing on Principle," re: this great Bret Victor talk https://vimeo.com/36579366

That said, coding from scratch, while slower than using Webflow, isn't the real pain point for me. But I can see how someone less technical might see that as the real value.

The real hassle in building static sites from scratch is the nightmare of NPM, git, bad static site generator defaults, complicated headless CMSs configurations and fragile dependencies.
Surely there is a public figure exception? You can't post a pic of Barbara Streisand's house on facebook?
TCP over TCP vpn is a bad idea, udp is better.
Even though I mostly stay away from the Google ecosystem, I do use Keep for several years now. Mainly because of how easy it is to export notes as sorted individual html files that I can import as formatted text into Scrivener where I organize all my writing. I wish the native MacOS Notes app would be better but I lost once all of my notes after an iCloud error. Even Apple couldn't help me on the phone. The structure was still there on their servers, but strangely the notes were empty.
Time in the market beats trying to time the market.

https://youtu.be/nE7A-qb3QBI
I love it.

The tech exists. My neighbor works for a company that does encoding of data on packaging. Goal is that every cereal box on the grocery aisle can be individually tracked.
I'm not 'using speculation', I'm simply pointing out the analogy you're making is flawed and not very, you know, analogous.
Python (in common ML frameworks) is really just wrapping well optimized native code. The overhead is very minimal. The advantage here is about easy access to the internals. I don't know that any material speedup is expected just because its written in C++
Because -very- few people use it per their telemetry so they don't want to maintain it anymore. It makes sense to throw out a sizeable chunk of code that is only being used by 0.1% of your users. Lftp is great command line replacement for it and extremely scriptable.
I really seem to have a filter how I see thy this that I just found confirmation about the original disappointment of when I was a impressionable young chess fan, in my comment above,

but I can only say that I really would have felt very hurt by this limitation if I could transplant my childhood me to today. I have such a distinctive memory of the way I felt about arbitrarily elitist and opaque barriers to intellectual pursuit.

I'm not doing a very good job expressing myself probably because I have such a clear recollection of the way I was as a kid, but I think that my earlier comment about how better PR and marketing would be a help with Kasparov's image when you consider this limitation remains opaque in functional reality even if the reason of the limit is clear any inquiring mind has to ask why not take it more slowly / soft launch, as you suggested, or if something else isn't quite there yet.
There seem to be multiple Black Lives Matter organizations, going in various directions. Wikipedia tries to sort this out.[1]

Occupy Wall Street tried to do that, but they were so disorganized to accomplish much directly. They did, though, firmly establish "the 1%" meme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
I evaluated and purchased a few Thales HSMs. At the time the difference between the FIPS and standard/dev editions was a bunch of cash and the spaces within the device were filled with epoxy and would erase if tampered with.

Software was the same, hardware looked the same. The crypto module is validated only with the $$ hardware.

Sometimes the non FIPS devices will have other algorithms not on the FIPS list.
Dragon is 4.4 meters (14.4 feet) tall and 3.66 meters (12 feet) in diameter. Starship fairing payload envelope is 22m tall and 8m in diameter. More than 3 dragons would comfortably fit inside.
Two contributing factors, I suspect. Most importantly software can only deal with whatever hits the digital side; physics and electronics being what they are there are lots of places to lose information on the analog side. If you filter out that range before you add gain you probably get way better SNR and don't have to rely on some ridiculously sampling and high resolution to not lose things. Second - they have been doing this a lot longer than sophisticated software pipelines have been available.
Which sounds like a crazy comparison but you’ve got people on HN saying that stores should be forced to carry products they don’t want to.

It’s completely unfair that Starbucks is taking away consumer choice by not selling Dunkin’ Donuts coffee.
Or whales, or rhinos, or sharks, or beaver, or buffalo...
The first point is quite valid though. From "https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/memory-model.html" where it says "Rust does not yet have a defined memory model"
True. But so what? The market can stay irrational for a long time and there is money to be made by taking advantage of this ponzi.

Arguing about this is not useful.
So... Java is bad, but let's ignore Python's problems.

I'm forced to use Python at work, because data scientists demand it, and I can rant about your "good for data" language for at least 24 hours straight.

Python isn't great at anything specifically, but it's crap in a few specific places. No multithreading? Fine! But then Python core libraries are crap at IPC, when multiprocess is the preferred way of parallel computing!
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I am 100% sure there is no root kit installed on my piece of paper transmitting every pen stroke to the internet. I am 100% sure there is no defect in the design of the piece of paper that could make it instantly readable to the entire world once discovered.

You can't say that about any software or hardware.
Show HN: 3D Wealth Visualizer – Input wealth to visualize it's size
Facebook is not designed to be addictive, it's designed to be engaging. Lunatics aren't the core base for Facebook either, a small minority of Facebook's total user base cause problems. It looks like you've already made up your mind that Facebook is addictive and bad, you barely have to dress it up with this analogy.
Isn't part of the problem here that a lot of the BLM donation money has gone to fund stuff like buying their big property? There have also been other scandals regarding misuse of the donation money and it has made many regional BLM groups call to question where the money is going. There is very little accountability and transparency yet we have large companies like Amazon feeding them money via donations.
The problem is that Facebook selectively enforces these rules.
Right now we're focusing on building a functional core protocol and making sure it's sufficiently extensible. It should be possible to build chaffing as an add-on extension down the line.
taxes aren't just a way to raise money for federal and local governments, they are also an elegant way which society has to allocate social hatred.
You need a corporate tax because people hate corporations, a wealth tax is being discussed and on the horizon because people hate the wealthy...and so forth

In this case, of course there was a tax on wine in ancient Egypt in order to represent the social hatred which ensued when somebody saw a wealthy person consume a luxury item such as wine
Hopefully with a modern encryption selection that doesn't have known short circuit attacks?
While those names are vestiges of the history, I would be curious how you would name cuMemcpyDtoHAsync?

They have lots of functions [1] to name and I usually find they did a good job given the low level of the language and its proximity with the hardware and low level programming.

I do not know for python but CUDA on C++ has error handling!

As for the command line: think as you were programming for a specific architecture with its associated API

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/index.html
This year may be the year that cryptocurrency acquires a purpose.
Python isn't really driving the compute intensive part of ML actually, whether it's JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow the code is really mostly native. Convolution are implemented by hand in highly optimized libraries (Intel MKL-DNN, Nvidia cuDNN) and the Python glue is really just a light "dispatcher".

A lot of it is also asynchronous for performance: the Python code just enqueues more work to a queue which some native C++ code processes.
For TensorFlow the Python code traces an entire computation graph that is stored a protobuf and then executed by a C++ native stack, potentially remotely/distributed. Serving ML with TensorFlow does not involve any Python code in many scenarios.

Python is still quite useful for scientist to quickly glue everything together, and to describe their dataset, or when they collect result and need to produce graphs or other data analyses.
Yes, exactly how long probably depends on a lot of factors, but the benefits really starts for me after 30+ hours.

Drinking water with potassium + magnesium + salt also helps a lot, to replenish electrolytes, but some people can manage without. Some people can continue workouts, others continue for 7+ days. It's all about experimentation.

Atm. i start each week fasting and just fast for as long as it feels ok. Often 1-3 days.

I would recommend 2 fasts per month 36-48 hours, and with electrolyte water for newcomers.

Off course starting weight, activity level etc. is also important factors, i'm personally trying to lose some "corona weight" atm.
Many community colleges offer excellent programs for later-in-life learners to get them up to speed on things like math and writing skills.

You can use community college to go from being a college dropout to transferring into Berkeley. It's important that we preserve those mechanisms for social mobility.
I hope this help startups and small businesses.
Contracts are voluntary agreements. Nobody is born into a contract. The idea of a social contract implies we have a choice: accept the group's rules or be removed and lose group benefits. This is simply not possible.

We are forced to try and change the system from within. The means for doing it vary. Lobbying the government, electing favorable politicians, violent revolution... In current times people can just build technology that implements whatever change they want to see in the world. Technology so powerful it alters the "social contract" whether governments want it or not.
Yes, facebook is known for its strong stances regarding "privacy and personal information"

What's glaring is that there's not even a veneer of consistency in this decision.
Will they now be going back and censoring all articles that could lead to someone's residence? All future articles?

Of course they won't. They're content to be self-evidently biased on this point. As a liberal this troubles me.
I first learned this story because it was front-page news on Breitbart and quickly becoming a flashpoint for commentary and erm, "thoughtful analysis"

Maybe it got flagged because of factor such as who was sharing it and how it was being commented on? I have no idea how or what any of their moderation tools work, but if one of the flags is "popular with extremist disinformation sites," perhaps that was the trigger?
I see we may have underestimated China.
The next paragraph:

> For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app. Automatic daily weather updates on Android phones pinpoint roughly where you are. And some searches that have nothing to do with location, such as “chocolate chip cookies” or “kids science kits”, pinpoint your precise latitude and longitude accurate to the square foot and save it to your Google account.

Obviously, if you open Maps and you've given the app location permission, it'll get your location. Similarly, if you have weather enabled, it'll regularly update to not become stale. Searches for products is a bit more subtle, I agree, but your browser also asks for location access per site, so you simply can refuse to give it for Google search.

Each of these is connected to a specific feature you're using, it's not just constantly pinging your location for the sake of your location. Each ping is specifically for a service you're using.

The real issue here is the fact that "Web & Apps activity" didn't explicitly mention location, and it happened to be next to this other feature named "Location History", and this juxtaposition implied that the former didn't collect location. That's it, that's the only issue here, and since 2018 thye've fixed it by adding "this might include location data" to Web & Apps activity.
Sir, an inquiring mind wants to know: have you ever hired anyone who had more noteworthy accomplishments than yourself? And what have your hires gone on to do? Do they excel in life or in just making their managers life easier?
Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let's not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness.

Relevant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476783/#s2titl...
It's a store of value, which is not too far from a currency. It is also an inefficient currency that is related to some that aren't so inefficient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean_Times
The Green Revolution in India refers to a period in India when agriculture was converted into an industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology, such as the use of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, tractors, irrigation facilities, pesticides, and fertilizers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution_in_India
when is the mining phase over?
Dogecoin has an actual use case though, it is called wealth transfer, and it is doing a damn good job at it. Just make sure you aren't at the bottom of the barrel but someone else is. Life is hard, we need to eat other people to survive. Deal with it. Long live Dogecoin!
Thanks for the pointer! I tried cross compiling without docker and hit that exact same problem with the Ring dependency. This blog post seems to have a potential solution, i'll give it a try. I do recall trying a million things however.