skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair, and overall it's a good thing. I'm not saying I can forge a sword or build a CPU or write an operating system in Assembly. The first language I learned was BASIC, when I was about 7, and after that they showed me Logo in school, moving the turtle around. So since I had a sense of how to turn pixels on and off with arrays and make fireworks, that seemed pretty ridiculous and easy. But even then, Hypercard blew my mind. And I was able to build things on it that I would never understand the low-level nature of.

I'm not saying everyone needs to build every tool they use by starting with a piece of rock. But knowing how things are made and how they work is really important. If python is the new algebra, great! The thing is, someone needs to be able to fix the instrument if it's broken.

Like, this is extreme, but I drive a car that's a simple machine. I can open the hood and know what I'm looking at, and if something is wrong I have a good idea what it is. But I can't make a piston or a fuel injector. I have to rely on people with plant investment, tooling, machines, to keep molding parts. They rely on people who have to forge the steel or iron. The forges rely on people who mine the raw material. The end consumer knowing roughly how that works is what separates us as a society from a cargo cult.

I don't think we can ever successfully separate ourselves from the roots of our technology or the lower layers of it. Anyway, if you're a curious 12-year-old coding in python you should wonder - how does this magic work! I was about that age when someone explained Assembly to me, and though I would never try to write something that way, just seeing it and understanding how it was moving bits around in memory to handle the higher level languages I was writing, blew my mind. I suddenly understood a lot more about what I was doing when I said "print $f"
Physical Education class over Zoom is something that I never contemplated being attempted
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." — Dick Cheney, before the US and coalition of the willing invaded Iraq.
Can be easily detected by licking the test hole to check if it tastes like coke / juice.

Public officials can easily do this in order to bust the kids.
Exactly, your freaking rental Toyota can pretty much do what a Tesla does, for a lot less money and a lot less broken promises that it won't run you into a wall...
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877472
As the saying goes, most children under 18 would test as sociopaths.

Apparently that includes older club and party goers as well.
The rocks are really bad
Trying to be as charitable as possible to anyone who says they don't need to fear surveillance, I don't believe it is because they think the innocent have nothing to fear, but because the sufficiently uninteresting have nothing to fear. Dissident journalists and political activists may be in the right morally and possibly even legally in some countries, but governments nonetheless have quite a tremendous incentive to surveil, imprison, stop, and possibly kill them. That is still not the case for an average citizen.

Trying to get people to care about stuff by convincing them it might someday directly impact them personally seems like a fool's errand to me. Even wars and genocides don't directly impact the vast majority of people, often even in the countries where they're happening. We instead need to figure out how to get people to care about bad things happening to other people. The case needs to be made to fight for freedom and against surveillance even if you're completely certain it will never impact you.
They don't mean the end result but the process of detecting something requires you to have a copy of that work and hence your software needs the copyrighted material in order to detect copyrighted songs to remove accurately.
Generals are on record saying that they would lie to Trump to keep troops in the ME. Trump would give the military deadlines to win or get out of the ME, and they would always beg for an extension.

If anyone talked Trump out of starting a war, it was Tucker Carlson vis-a-vis Iran. Trump did have a bone to pick with Iran, but he did pretty much nothing except kill Rouhani (want to compare that with I'm-pretty-good-at-this-killing-business Obama's kill list?)
HN had a Wall Street Journal article against RCV the other day, and I commented that I hadn't realized that it was a partisan issue.

I'll be interested in keeping an eye on this. I have the impression that (a) HN is very much in favor of RCV and other voting systems, and (b) HN skews somewhat to the right. (I'm much less certain about b, and I'm trying really hard to take into account the way you see opposing voices as much louder than those of your supporters.) It will be interesting to see this shifts the balance of opinion on HN.

(I'll not that I'm not especially a fan of alternative voting systems, on the grounds that I don't think they'll make as big of a difference as people hope. I'm all for them if people think it will reflect their preferences more accurately, but I believe they'll be disappointed.)
I've definitely read that it may play a role in decoupling the taste of sweet with satisfaction. That in turn may lead people to ultimately eat more before feeling satisfied, which is bad.

Also, I think there might actually be some links to type II diabetes, but I'm skeptical of causation on that one. It's not implausible, but fully correcting for people already trying to reduce sugar intake sounds essentially impossible in that case.
Consumer Reports: Let's Broadband Together
> I'd like to add that, while XMPP is XML-based, it might be more suitable to use a full-blown SGML parser to deal with XMPP streams being presented as incomplete XML (eg end-element tags missing) which SGML can deal with in a formal way (end-element inference).

It's not that end tags are missing in XMPP, just that the "document" is streamed so it isn't all available at once. Any common SAX-style parser can deal with streaming documents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur for which we have guessed at the probable rules and can play it today.
Lots of hardware progress in Moon exploration last week
Helen of Troy: The Pearl of Women
Absolutely. I've been wondering if noticing that 'something feels wrong' is a deeply ingrained response related perhaps to survival. When a possible threat is detected, even when it's not clear what the threat is, it's time to feel very uncomfortable.
There was a shortage for most of 2020 and only in the last month or so has the DE been available domestically. It might be lagging a bit internationally.
Same at my kids school. Whenever they have a positive antibody test, they just do it again.

I think that the antibody tests are sketchy in the first place, but if they don't even stick to the protocol and don't follow up positive antibody tests with PCR tests, it's almost pointless.
I have the same reaction to VR, what is the optimistic non-dystopian view? I am generally curious because near complete human absorption in technology is what I see and it's hard for me to picture that in a positive light.
There is another element here. The courts have ruled that police actions on duty and in public interactions are consider public and not subject to most privacy laws, including recording them without permission. This means that their actions can be recorded and broadcast (the very reason they are playing this music to avoid that). It shouldn't matter what the intent is if they are a public figure, then they should know that others can film them and that recording can be broadcast. So they know they are being recorded as a public official and that it could be broadcast to a wider audience. Playing a song to try to limit that broadcast is a completely illogical and stupid idea. If they didn't play it, there wouldn't be any copyright music to be concerned with. By playing it, they know this video could be broadcast on platforms or media that don't filter and that it absolutely, without question, leads to unlicensed reproduction.

Basically standards for public officials are different from normal people.
gcc will avoid FMA if you specify `-std=c17` (or another C standard, instead of the default "GNU" variant). Note that it has to avoid FMA in that case because fusing (a * b) + c would not comply with the C17/IEEE-754 spec (see -fexcess-precision in the manual).
4. You need to have a relatively small number of humans who are specialists in some domain edit some large structured format that will be consumed by a computer. Thus you probably need an XML editor and the validation tools XML supports, rather than trying to roll your own.
>I repeat no wonderful fairy tale to tell about the years from 97-99

This is a weird mentality to me. Of course human nature hasn't changed in the past 25 years. But that isn't where DotCom nostalgia comes from. It comes from the fact that "The Internet" as we know it, the force that has driven the majority of recent technological progress as well as the careers of many people on this site, was brand new.

I have no idea how anyone can be a tech person and not look back fondly (or curiously) at that period in time.
For reference, the original title was:

We are drowning in churn and noise.
I am fighting by switching this
site to PDF

I find the "actual" title unhelpful, unenlightening, uninformative, and uninviting, which I why I originally chose text taken directly from the page, so people would know what it was about before taking the time to click and read.

I know why the HN mods have changed it to "Deurbanising the Web", but I wish they'd keep more informative titles, especially when taken from the article in question.
Yeah, the same exact fact got twisted so much that you feel you have a giant wave.
> Some interviewers are looking for a sharp technical mind unafraid to challenge them.

And people like that are those you want to work with.

> Others view any challenge to what they think is right as a threat.

And those you don't.
> And so what if the government looks at my holiday pictures, they think.

Holiday pics, sure. Dick pics? Joe public doesn't like that one!

https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=24m53s
Sure, and it "seems like" the extremist propaganda that Big Tech shut down was violating all sorts of other laws like incitement.

Is "seems like" enough of a reason now for private companies to choose not to contract with other private companies? Or should we go to a judge and jury in both cases?
the "I don't know how these things work" post.
> What is shared is known to a high degree of certainty.

Not to me, not to you. You're just believing them. My kid believes in Father Xmas "to a high degree of certainty."

See also Dick Cheney

They could just give us the evidence.
>> it's significantly more difficult with HTML

Right Click > Save as

Try it with this page!
Yeah I'm familiar with Riot being called Element now, and you don't need to look further than this chat for me to state that.

"It's not a quality guarantee for clients in practice since you can't control Client Side with open source"

What? Open source native client with reproducible builds is literally the gold standard of individual control over software, it's even GPL licenced.
>Shouldn’t there be an outcry against the suppression of free speech?

Only if someone was one of the many people who don't understand what Free Speech is or incorrectly think of rights only in terms of themselves and people they like, not for those who they don't. In this case, Amazon is exercising their own Free Speech rights. Free speech necessarily (and as a matter of law) means the freedom to not speak and to not associate with other people. If I want to lend my support to a specific candidate with a sign in my field, I necessarily must have the right to refuse signs by everyone else. If the government puts a gun to my head and forces me to let every single candidate put a sign in my field, then the effect is no special endorsement for anyone and a flagrant violation of my free speech rights.

Someone denying another person the use of their own private property because of disapproval over their behavior doesn't generally mean any free speech issues, quite the contrary. As always there are certainly very rare edge cases, but none of them apply to a situation like this. Amazon refusing business to someone due to their race or gender or the like would be a problem, but "spies working with authoritarians" is not a Protected Class.

>What jurisdiction’s laws were broken by this company?

Why would that matter? Amazon isn't the government. They aren't threatening with force/arresting/jailing/killing the NSO Group, just refusing to continue their business relationship. So they aren't restricted to caring about only illegal behavior. In fact a core part of the whole point of free speech is to move consequences into the realms of social and economic, rather then force, not to eliminate all consequences entirely. There are a few limited legal instances they can't discriminate over. Otherwise they can deal with whomever the hell they want.
The Abbey owned the hill.

Personally, I think it's Hercules. The prediction in the 30s, "if it's Hercules he should be carrying a lion skin" followed by the discovery of the lion skin/cloak in the 70s, is pretty compelling.

Why someone carved Hercules into a field in England? Not a clue.
> asking professional cooks to switch to electric is ridiculous.

I agree with this specific point, but I do not agree with the justifications presented. The notion that gas somehow enables food to magically taste better does not sit well with me.

I do agree that there are certain cuisines that are more ideally prepared with an indirect heat source, but any skilled chef should be able to produce excellent outcomes regardless of pedantic concerns around their tools. The cooktop is just a source of heat energy at the end of the day. The way you manage that energy is part of the artform. Blaming tools for bad food would be like blaming visual studio because production went down.
But if you want a page in PDF, you can print it to PDF. Sure, non-computer-savvy users might not know how to do it off-the-bat, but browsers make it pretty easy.
It seems not too terribly difficult to subtract the copyright audio from the videos.

Step 1: Identify the audio being played via Shazaam or similar algorithms.

Step 2: Find the overlap between the copyright song and the video's audio, because it won't be a perfect match.

Step 3: Subtract that audio from the video's audio.

It wouldn't be perfect and I'll bet it creates a lot of weirdness if, say, the office sings your Miranda Rights to the same tune as the song, but overall it would work and it would help stamp out this sort of problem. You could make a website that does this for uploaded videos.
Actually, that sounds like a horrible idea if you try to prevent superspreader events.

If anything, we need more testing, not less, to contain earlier.
>I think society these days is divided into three. The ideological left, ideological right, and the people who are more interested in reasoning through difficult problems.

Why is "ideology" a bad thing? I have ideological positions that can't be rationally derived from first principles: universal human rights, belief in freedom, belief in tolerance. Why are people with strong values and beliefs mere drones, while the people in the "centre" are the rational people interested in solving problems?

> the less dogmatic are people who gravitate toward hacking solutions to things. People might deride that as seeking technological fixes to intractable problems, but it's essentially apolitical

There is nothing apolitical about this. Accepting the current broad system and ruling class and trying only for "small fixes" is a political position.
When I click on the submitted link with Chrome on Android, it asks me if I want to redownload "0.pdf". Such a confusing question. If I pick the wrong answer, I end up with some restaurant menu I must have looked at months ago, not what the global poster intended.

So for non-confusing real-world UX I'd recommend extra care with file names if you want to go PDF only.
"People can be more than one thing" is VERY important.

Guys like this are free candy for foreign intelligence agencies and vital tools in waging war against the United States. It would be useless to create them as spies and saboteurs out of whole cloth, when it's so much more effective to find guys with a grievance… a REAL grievance… and turn them, own them, use them to full advantage.

Assange is a pawn and, like so many of us, not a good person. Doesn't mean he can't have had good motivations and goals. Doesn't mean those goals can't have proven useful to others.

It's complicated. So much is.
> it even displays fine on devices like tablets and phones that did not even exist 20 years ago

It would display perfectly if mobile browsers didn't have broken defaults (to work around broken websites) that you need to disable using <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">.
Maybe wickedreports.com?
Wow, this is a really good analogy. Sad, but true.
MVC is older than 3 tier applications and saying "model=database" makes me cringe and squirm, but at least I know they do a lot of CRUDs :)
And I 100% agree that whistleblowers need protection, as do journalists.

This isn't about legal peculiarities. When Assange was offering help to crack passwords and encouraging Manning to access unauthorized material, he wasn't being a whistleblower or a journalist. He was conspiring to commit a crime. He knew that. He'd already been charged with hacking as a teenager. It was a choice he made having weighed up the risks and benefits.
There’s a great video on YouTube of Irving Finkel (quite an interesting guy) playing the Royal Game of Ur. https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I
Once a model is built, why do we need a high computation ?
I have to say I'm not surprised that NSO and similar entities are using any CDN/large-scale hosting company they can find. The bigger the better, and spreading their stuff around as widely as possible with as much obfuscation in server purpose as possible. Such things are impossible or problematic to block/null-route without breaking many other things hosted at same AS.
Why is it deliberately obtuse to think that some of China's billion people could be independent black hat hackers? Are they incapable of being evil or greedy?
It isn't about liking books. It's about misusing authority and abusing the protections afforded to religions, whether that's an official exorcist of the Church saying something that is not backed by the Faith, or a company saying that their religious beliefs prevent them from providing access to health care when it's also not backed by anything specific.
I was trying to say one could map the std deviation and mean feature size between the two. Currently that isn't done. Thus the 2D scale appears to differ between the two as well as the min/max delta.
Did they reply in the negative or just not respond?
Ria Kosher Drops New Collection Tagged ‘Loud Silence’
XSL was misunderstood and misused by pretty much everyone who did try it. Of course, writing code in XML is pretty awful, so that didn't help its reputation, either. But the ideas in XSL -- its declarative/functional nature and simple tree-processing-via-pattern-matching processing model -- were really quite good, especially once you understand it well enough to avoid trying to recreate procedural code with it.
I honestly can't believe all the praise for HTML and web on HN in the face of this awesome critique. I hugely appreciate the love for actual files.

>• PDFs are decentralised. You may have obtained this PDF from a website, or maybe not! Self-contained static files are liberating! They stand alone and are not dependent on being hosted by any particular web server or under any particular domain. You can publish to one host or to a thousand hosts or to none, and it maintains its identity through content-addressing, not through the blessing of a distributor.

This seems to have gotten lost in the offense everyone has taken over the choice to not use 'simple HTML', despite the document's clear reasoning that to do even that would embed the content deep in the 'urban web'. All of these simple-complex propositions about making some subset language or automating document flows are missing the point entirely.
I don’t understand the downvotes on HN. This is a novel idea, even if I think it’s…not for me. Thank you for adding something interesting to the conversation.
Well let me give you a few more that any progressive should get behind

- exec order forcing hospital transparency billing

- exec order forcing lower insulin and adrenaline prices [2]

hate the guy, that's fine. Argue he could have done more, I won't disagree.

But now (unless you're a hospital exec.) you have THREE good things you've heard of the bastard.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/06/27/2019-13...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210116081750/https://www.white...
I can't remember the exact book, but contained in a book about Ancient Egypt, there was the rules, paper pieces and a sample board for this game - we used to play it all the time as kids.

My grandpa helped us make a wooden set of pieces and a board before he passed, it was a a great little intro to woodworking project.
What methods are available to normal folks to ensure they don't have these malware? Does factory reset help? Or would this malware reinstall itself? How do I know or check if I'm a target? Do I need to Wireshark and inspect the entire network payloads to find offending packets?
The author calling for new content to be authored as PDF, which can easily be made discoverable.

I’m guessing your data set is made of scans with poor or no OCR.
Not that I'm going to dig through 10 years of reddit comments, but I always hated Assange. It was abundantly clear from the outset that he was only ever self-interested. All he ever did was collect dumps of data from wherever he could, hang his sources out to dry, then try to sell them to the public with the most manufactured drama possible.

Slight rant: People just get enamored with the story of the dark horse "journalist" fighting against the odds to expose corruption. In reality, the NY Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Pro Publica have all exposed vastly more salient information and done it all ethically and faced down all legal challenges in US courts and won.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I'd argue that running untrusted code in a Colab is even worse, as you'd risk your account instead of just your computer.

I don't think pickle files can be loaded safely, it's better to use a numpy archive npz to store the weights which can be loaded without a security risk by using allow_pickle=false when loading (the default since numpy 1.16.3)
Not commenting on OP, but you are talking about a single US regime.

And Many countries did independently investigate, and refuse help.
XML is not like other data format languages. XML is language-like, it's like a typical programming language that comes directly as an abstract syntax tree (AST), without the parsing step. No other data exchange formats are like that. Yet this is exactly what people need to conveniently describe things for machines. So it's not exactly a machine-to-machine exchange format, but human-to-machine and machine-to-human.

E.g. one of area where XML shines are user interface notations. A screen may have a tab that has another tab that may show yet another screen; a menu may have a submenu, and (although not recommended) a sub-submenu and so on. A field or text may appear here and there. The two chief things here are ordering and composition. XML is very good at that. Not as good as a dedicated UI language, perhaps, but, being generic, it's much more pliable an easier to tinker with.
The model's state is not the same thing as the model and even though it's 99% the case, the model in MVC should not be an anemic model.