skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
then they'll probably be compelled to keep the history in some stash. iirc , internet providers had to face exactly this requirements in the 90s.
That's easy to solve though. They could easily write exceptions to any anti-encryption bill for public orgs who have access to sensitive information (police, politicians, etc). In fact, I would be shocked if they didn't make exceptions for certain parts of the government.
> it is guaranteed that all games you can buy will run as the developer intended it.

Exactly. It just works and saves time. Just buy the game, plug it in and play it. Simple.

No 'swap this GPU inside step', 'installing additional drivers step' or 'incompatible hardware errors', or 'run it in 32 bit mode' etc.
When I learned in the US, stall and spin avoidance and recovery was taught, but only stalls were actually practiced (because apparently too many accidents happened practicing spins). Not sure how the situation is in South Africa.

https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...
I'm unable to try to compute something similar by indicating the quantity and the percentage of alcohol, such as :

"2 beers (composition of 8% alcohol, 44cl) in 1 hour at 80kg"

I tried with or without parenthesis and with varying query. Never worked.

Any ideas?

(I'm interesting on knowing the level of blood alcohol percentage and the duration it takes to go under the limit, depending on the percentage of alcohol and quantity)
I see a lot of companies nowadays looks if you have worked in OSS or not so it will also help me improve my resume.

A lot of companies say they do. Very few companies actually do. If you want to improve your job prospects and you have 1000 hours to spend coding in your spare time, you'd do better putting that time into learning specific things businesses want and building a portfolio of Github repos that demonstrate them, than making open source contributions even if the OSS contributions are relevant to the same problems.

That's absolutely not a reason to make OSS contributions. It's worthwhile, fun, and if you're a bit lucky can lead to a good job. It just isn't the optimal way to improve your career.
As an MP in Luxembourg I asked the gov’ for confirmation and they confirmed that they were at the origin of the request. Currently I’m waiting on more details as to how many requests our tiny nation made to different messenger services abroad.
(2020). Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553974
Sure: TBAA, access to invalid union field (in C++), etc.

Many of them are impossible in theory to check, and many are impossible to efficiently check in practice.
I don't really agree with your point. In the example, the candidate did the interview for as long as he/she thought it could turn into something. As soon as he/she realized that they ask questions that are completely irrelevant to the job (in his/her eyes, at least), the candidate let the interviewers know that it's not the kind of job, team, priorities the candidate wanted. Nothing wrong with that.

Wasting their time would be to continue the interview process and answer questions you think are pointless for the position at hand. It's something you can do when you already have other offers or your current position is good enough (meaning it is better than what the interviewers can offer).

When you know you won't take the job, it's okay to cut the interview short.
> Cheaper than a gaming PC

They're subsidised by the game prices. You still pay for it in the end.

> Home entertainment system. Youtube, Netflix, blurays etc.

You can use a PC in the same way. If you position it well, you can even have a dual purpose work/entertainment PC.
It's only cheaper if the only thing you're using a PC for is gaming. But most people have other uses for it, so now you need a console + PC.

Might as well buy a better PC to do everything.
Whatsapp almost reached one billion monthly users before they changed from paid (1$/year) to free.
There are many smaller islands like Threema, Tox and others. Signal is not a lone one, even if we look away from the continent named Apple.
When something goes wrong, fly the plane. You have to be calm or you will die. This is covered in training.

Response to your edit: It's yawing because of asymmetric thrust.
> The grant agencies all work in terms of "percent effort", where you say what percentage of your time you're going to spend on this grant, and the amount requested is that percentage times your annual salary, plus a percentage for benefits.

This seems like it would tend to promote collusion between researchers and universities, where whenever somebody is hired into a soft money position, they would prefer to have a high official salary, and the university doesn't care because the actual salary is $0. The granting agencies aren't a party to salary negotiations -- what's keeping salaries down? Say someone's job is to get grants from NIH. Why would they ever be salaried below $200k?
As a person who used to take interviews, I thought discussions were the best way to figure out if someone is competent.
I mean, when I ended up in a discussion with someone, I felt like I did great. I had a good time and it frequently led to an offer.

As someone who's now interviewing a person or more every week (during a hiring surge), I still don't know of a better way to interview someone, but I'm not convinced this is great. A lot of people, who are unquestionably smart, coming into the interview after long careers in big companies, have a lot of trouble expressing themselves (especially if it's not in their native language), let alone selling themselves.
They come in trying to find the correct answer for each question, even if it's open ended questions to trigger discussion. And when asked for a concrete answer to something, they will instead fumble around, only touch upon the answer, and talk about something that distracted them.

We still frequently hire people who interview like that, but it takes a lot of thinking and extrapolating.

I'm still not sure what to do.
I’m not using Reddit, so cannot compare the experience, but Telegram is a messenger app, not a forum.
Last time I tried them, they still required phone number? If it is still the case, they did compromise on the users privacy.
> That being said I have a gaming PC and consoles too mostly becasue of the exclusives

That's one of the reasons I hate consoles on an ideological level. Unless there are technical reason that make porting the game so hard that it's just not worth it, the only reason for "exclusives" to exist is to fuck over consumers.
As someone without 3D experience who's done 3D modelling I can tell you drawing 2D sprites is way more difficult, I rather do 3D modelling than that so if anything it makes the development harder. But cool concept anyway.
Normalisation depends on the semantics of the data, and so the details of SMTP are very much relevant.
I would argue it being even less trustworthy, with the vast majority of messages being stored in clear in closed-source servers.
So, at what point exactly becomes a motivation to do something intrinsic?
The moment the 'I' forgets its origin and history and attributes it all to itself?
My understanding is that this component was added to their server code. If their clients are still verifyiably encrypting the content and limiting the metadata for your messages, it should not be much of an issue.
The estate is enormous and beautiful and they have a lot of events for kids. Not far from Watford.
As for how it manages to be cheaper, there's two factors

- At the beginning of the release cycle consoles are often sold at a loss, the money is made back from game sales (a $60 PC game costs $70 on console)

- It's much easier to optimize for the known hardware configuration of a console than for "all PCs". Console hardware isn't high-end, the heavy lifting is done by heavy optimization of the games for the specific hardware
Most people use a laptop (or even tablet) for their everyday needs nowadays, and they likely don't want a heavy and hot gaming laptop for that.
> They're subsidised by the game prices. You still pay for it in the end.

How much is a half-decent game PC ? €2000 ? Compare to a €500 console. For €1500 I can buy a lot of 'overpriced' games.
As a reminder, Crypto.com alone just spent $100M on an advertising campaign involving Matt Damon, urging people to buy currencies and comparing crypto buyers to colonizers of America, or the great generals of history, or something like that.

So the crypto space definitely has money to invest on advertising, if anything to remain up to their promises a bit longer.
Why do I have to be new to ask stupid questions?
You are paying for support in terms of the higher cost of the games, being locked to one online store and only approved playable games they allow, not being able to move it to another console generation, no replacable parts. A good PC in 2013 would have been 1.3x more expensive at launch (today it would be way more expensive to build a PS5 equivalent) but a PC would be able to play games better than a PS4 Pro (it is locked for GTA5 at 1080/30fps, while PC is always unlocked), have more graphics options, populate the streets with more NPCs, and tons of external niceties such as mods, you can use the PC for playing old games and emulators too. You can get 60FPS on desktop or more any time if you lowered the graphics like they do for consoles like PS4, but even the equivalent PC GPU runs a better than 30FPS at 1080. https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCGame/FPS-Estimates-Grand-The...

At the same time, I don't really recommend building a fancy gaming PC, most games are not exciting and having an APU for playing fun older games makes the most sense to me, I used my GPUs way more before, but since 2017 for Prey I haven't felt like I cared for them since I care to play AoE II and Starcraft more, and new games that are exciting are all indie, and don't need good graphics like into the breach, or Factorio don't exist on console. The PS store irritates me because they resell to me the same games again except on a different console, PC just runs everything. Heres the performance of an 3400G APU ($150 CPU+GPU on one chip. You can also upgrade the hardware if you see a good deal, unlike a PS4 where you'd have to buy a completely new one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0p5fbW5odY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxPtHuyPJo

I think you should consider a low end PC for gaming, its got tons of cool stuff you can run, they even cloned PS3's PT, you aren't getting better support for gaming by buying a console. https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/2/17519118/pt-remake-windows-...
> Affiliate Prof., Dept. of Physics and Biophysics at U. San Diego

Is this the quality of education I can expect from UCSD?
> now you need a console + PC

A lot of people I know use console + Mac.
I know, what's wrong with that?
No it's not.

Some of those games are funded and developed wouldn't of been made if it wasn't for the fact they wanted to have games to sell the console. They are not fucking you over by not having it on your system, you just feel annoyed that it's not.

It's simply a business decision and marketing tool and because it's valuable you get more and better games than you would of gotten before. If there weren't such exclusives you wouldn't have such incentives and they wouldn't always exist in the first place.
Their server code was closed source for over a year with no explanation, turns out it was to add a shitcoin called "MobileCoin" that Signal's founder has a financial interest in.

Ever since that, I don't think you should consider Signal's server "open source" at all. They've shown they'll conceal, diverge and cover up for their own enrichment. What will they do when they're threatened? Cave.
A half decent PC is in the 800€ to 1000€ range. If you're willing to take some graphical downgrades you can do it for 600-800€ too.

How many games can you buy for 500€ max? About 10 or so. Maybe.
I use PCs for gaming because many Playstation titles can also be bought on Steam for a cheaper price. However, I'd be terrified of using my gaming PC for purposes other than gaming because games in general have a poor reputation regarding security and privacy. Many games are outright hostile towards users, with kernel-level DRMs and "privacy policies" and whatnot.
There is more, like very promising https://cwtch.im/
2 yrs ago i would've said 800€.

currently it would be 1.5k+€, but thats because of the silicon shortage and scalpers. and fwiw, a ps5 was going for 1.4k just a few month ago too.
> Others may be different, but I am happier if I spend my evening talking about, say, the points in common of Villneuve's Duke Leto and Cornwell's Arthur, rather than which person is being an annoying arsehole.

In my experience doing other activities (golfing, 5 a side football, painting miniatures, a book club, whatever) is a great way to avoid that problem.
NLP has been dominated by statistical learning approaches for some time, that's true, although when I did my Master's in 2016, I seem to remember the Brill tagger was still considered state-of-the-art and there was still a lot of work on learning PCFGs or dependency grammars. Perhaps that just happened to be what the tutors at my course were working on, though.

In any case, it seems to me that while real progress has been achieved in language modelling, the same cannot be said for language understanding. That's a bigger conversation but anyway, modelling is still what statistical learning techniques do best, whereas anything to do with semantics, you still need some kind of symbolic approach.

I never thought of HOG and SIFT as "symbolic". If I remember correctly, they were just sets of hand-crafted features? But, features for classifiers, like SVMs and so on.
> What we have here are "leaky abstractions"[1]. If the abstraction an IDE provides is not good enough that students can work with it without knowing about the lower layer, then the abstraction is leaky.

Do you suggest teachers fix Eclipse so it no longer has leaky abstractions rather than just teach students how to work in a modern file system?
Sure, but they still need to get an app somewhere. And also all the people they want to communicate with need that app. And that are not just other politicians, with them they can anyway communicate face to face in meetings. But politicians can't meet up with shady people. If they meet up with CEOs it's always on some record. But with Signal they can just text with them in secret.

Signal is there. And you can also install it on private devices, that's what politicians like even more. That even their own intelligence agency can't read the messages.

A lot of politicians are corrupt, and they don't like laws that make it harder for them.
> If your time-machine can follow a continuous path through spacetime between A and B, there is no more problem.

Nope, there are still some problems. It's not enough to be at the right space (=coordinates) at the right time, but you have to have both the right speed-vector and the right-acceleration vector, both compared to the universe (otherwise the milky way moves away from under your feet with galactic speed) and compared to your body (otherwise the speed/acceleration change will rip your body apart). And with right I mean 100% right, because we are talking about galactic speed and acceleration.
Where can I get these DRM free eBooks?
I don't understand how everyone thinks we'll spread out across the universe when "going inward" kind of makes more sense. We can't go faster than light, but we can simulate things and we keep getting better at that. What if we never really leave and just turn our planet into a big computer so we can live any kind of existence we can imagine (but we can't leave to interfere with others and we can only ever see things around us that already happened). I think we're stuck here in some fundamental ways, and other aliens probably figured this out too so they're living in high density planet sized computers.
I've honestly been wanting to give Telegram money.
This one is honest attempt in decentralization of IM: https://cwtch.im/ - worth supporting with donations because there is no token/ICO, no blockchain, and no bullshit from the author Sarah Jamie Lewis.
You imply metadata like encrypted blobs and destinations isn't valuable to governments and law enforcement. This is very far from the truth.

People are killed over metadata.

An encrypted blob also isn't nothing. Encryption is not a silver bullet. With a stream of encrypted blobs, you can ascertain:

- Connections

- Frequency of communication

- Volume of communication (length of the blobs)

- IP addresses

- Receipt time on the target number

Etc.
in theory yes but in practice your rights to privacy stop the moment you're on the radar of LEA's. not because of the laws but because of companies / vendors over-enthusiastic and pro-active efforts to collaborate.

one of my first jobs working as a dev for what was back then the largest email provider in Germany was a system that would automatically extract all email correspondence from user-accounts that were demanded (via fax) and fax it back to them. we received only a few per week and it was a manual process at LEA's s. there was no law that required this to be automated and we could have done this manually but we wanted it to scale so that we could serve the same answers not per week but per second if we had to (at least that's how I implemented it because I was young, and keen and not thinking). I have no idea how many requests they answer today but if I'd have to guess it would be a lot more because these processes today are also automated at the LEA. It's no longer a deputy that prints it out and manually sends a fax.

also LEO's are just people. there are plenty of cases where they are totally happy to use the system to their advantage, and well beyond making speeding tickets disappear.
I can't agree with this one. I enjoy Apple products and consider them to be of high quality, but they should not be the star example for user privacy. iCloud backups are turned on by default, which means they have access to the private key, and they considered adding a client-side detection system for "child pornography". From the standpoint of E2EE, enough is enough with the "gray area" in privacy systems. Either you don't fiddle/introspect with the content that goes through your communication medium, or you do.
> How is this distinct from organizing world information?

Any practical classification system starts with corpus at hand, and tries to organize that. Any idealistic classification system that aspires to be "complete" (at least in theory) starts with theoretically possible corpus, and tries to organize that.

For example, if you want to classify the pictures you have in your personal photo library, it would make sense to have e.g. a folder named "2020", for the pictures you've made that year. But it would not make sense to have a folder named "1900", as it's unlikely you made any photos then. This is a practical classification.

But if you want to classify all of the world's photos, you may need to start with a folder named "1826" to hold the View from the Window at Le Gras[1]. Or maybe earlier, for the paintings. That's a theoretical classification.

DDS is a practical classification, and as such, it started with the corpus at hand — whatever public libraries in the USA had at Dewey's time. This is how it's "distinct from organizing world information".

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[1]: It's not clear if the photo was taken in 1826 or 1827, so our theoretical classification would need to account for that, or for photos where the year is unknown, or estimated, etc.
Shameless plug: local file tagging software for Linux, which stores tags in extended attributes: https://github.com/pts/ppfiletagger
I plop down on my couch, pick up the controller, and it just works.

Whereas on PC I have to go upstairs, usually switch out my work cables and keyboard/mouse, power up the thing, then fire up my game. Definitely less comfortable than the console experience, but on the other hand, there's games that just don't work on consoles (strategy, text-heavy games, etc).

At the moment I play Sekiro on the console and FFXIV on the PC. Both work on the other platform, but both are stronger on the ones I prefer to play them on.
Nah, the treaty of Westphalia holds. Countries are sovereign in their territory and basically powerless outside it. Luxembourg doesn't compel foreign foundations in foreign jurisdictions.

Luxembourg has the legal right to forbid people in its territory from using apps like Signal, though. But I doubt it would even try to that, because it's really difficult to write a scope that includes things like Signal messages and yet excludes things like messages that instruct and authorise your bank to transfer money.
Your nick rings some bells. [linear algebra etc].

Indeed, I think the same and am on the very same boat.
"Post nut clarity", as they call it, might be the reason to do something productive with your time, when you're already on the site.
> He was later tracked by a journalist who revealed quite a bit of additional personal info about him and his family, in a disparaging article (he "wasn’t a great coder"). She ended up finding his current employer and one of his colleagues told her to leave him alone, that’s where the Wikipedia line comes from.

Having been trained and worked as a journalist, I nonetheless always wonder what's the purpose of revelations like this. He wasn't a public figure, his anonymity didn't cause the society (nor the community of Ruby programmers?) any harm. Seems like there was actually no real public interest to justify publishing those details about his persona.

EDIT: Also interesting: excerpts from _why's literary mashup "Closure" where he describes the kafkaesque motives behind his decisions: https://kev.town/2013/04/30/why-did-why-the-lucky-stiff-quit...
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I used a tablet pc during my math bachelor's (convertible laptop computer with Wacom that existed 2002~2008). A couple years back I still used a Samsung Android tablet with pen (and squid). If I went back to school now I'd probably use an iPad and pen, or perhaps one of those wacom enabled e-readers (remarkable, boox?)
You're comparing full price console games to free PC games. There are numerous games on consoles that cost less than €50, and buying the latest AAA releases on PC will cost you more than €50 too
You could use something like this:

find /tmp -type f -mtime +30 -delete
Most games are nowadays multi-platform (or can be emulated) and they play better on PC. I don't really see the point of consoles, they can't be upgraded and are mostly bricks outside of playing games destined to be e-waste at some point.
How to Ask a Stranger for a Portrait
the pirate bay & friends.
The Power Grid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Conjecture, but backed up by the experiences I had with Journalism classes in college, part of my major:

Such pieces are typically written by a high-ranking individual within the publication, but they wish to deflect the backlash that can come from writing such a piece, so the "staff" name is used to shield the writer from criticism.

It's mostly Must-Run content: Content that a funding source or otherwise powerful position within the organization has deemed must be printed. Must-Run content is commonly used to burn or otherwise redirect vitriol, or more often establish a common message among many publications. Such things are also used to push local news outlets to [tow a line](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo) by their parent organizations (such as Sinclair Media group)

In the case of staff revolting, it's used to shield the individuals. In the case of a single high ranking individual, it's used to shield the individual by forcing the group to take the hit.

The practice is common enough it is [regularly a topic of discussion in citation styles](https://penandthepad.com/cite-editorial-author-4970.html).
iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer