skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the FTC prove they’ve used a destroyed algorithm versus a reasonable facsimile? I feel like the lawyers are going to love the litigation that will come of this
A repeat offender. She also had a stint at Lucent.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to you, to the cleaners!
As of testing 2 minutes ago, downloading from the canonical "latest" location [1] vs. navigating the directory structure of the mentioned repository[2] result in identical files, which (assuming the above info is correct) means my scripted ffox upgrades have omitted the unique id, I guess?

(In my case:)

1: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=...

2: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/98.0.1/linux-x8...
>mostly because I'm concerned about the imminent threat of China taking over Taiwan and TSMC with it.

Isn't TSMC building infrastructure out in Arizona? It might not be full featured but it creates a launch point for protecting a world wide asset.
https://tsmccareers.com/tsmc-arizona/
https://archive.ph/zZYNR
Kaitai is usually used when dealing with blobs that have poorly defined or reverse engineered layout. It’s not particularly great at what you probably think it should be used for, which is why it seems strange to you n
Not that I'm sticking up for Russia here, but I think that assumes that there is a universal canonical "right" and a canonical "wrong", which I am not convinced about.
None of this seems to indicate why.

My guess is this correlated directly to lots of physical work or lots of exercise.
That doesn't sound like a surprising discovery.
This whole affair is pretty much a culmination in failure of the great thought experiment that started in the 1990s - that the spread of capitalism and trade with dictatorships and authoritarian regimes would undermine those venues and lead to the rise of democracy and other freedoms by opening them to the world.

Instead what we've found is we just grant those entities legitimacy and influence over our own affairs, while letting them change not at all. Wealth and power without any of the requisite social development. We've got China building the Great Internet Firewall specifically to keep Western ideas out but let the money come in, and we've allowed our tech companies to freely supply them the equipment and skills to do it.
In Spain usually the father's name.
You can define i to be

0 -1
1 0

and then the two become identical. (A cute detail is that this is a 90 degree rotation matrix)
I'm curious: are you at all concerned that Intel cannot deliver performance comparable to Apple with a reasonable wattage? If you consider battery drain at all, Intel is no contest.
rearranging deck chairs on the titanic
I've only read the first edition, but I'm a bit surprised to read that as I don't recall them assuming any knowledge, except maybe some basic geometry and vector math.
That is a great new release! I have been using Mendeley because it is easier to take notes while reading a paper, but note-taking lacks rich functionality.

The cherry in the pie would be a Zotero version for the Remarkable2 :)
Even if they don't know the endorsing parties, they should know something about whoever paid for the ad.
It really doesn't help that the administrator of Russia's Space Agency, Dmitry Rogozin, is a completely unhinged neo-nazi.

Here he is giving Nazi salute at a Nazi march in 2007:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xkXVVcPWSU8
In the case of JIT,
it may swap the
Bytecode but the
flow of execution
remains the same.

Are you able to elaborate on this further?

1a. Does this mean the process gets restarted during reload?

1b. If no restart, how are active threads handled? What if a thread should no longer exist post-reload?
“the better place to plan an uncertain future”…don’t know about that, but I suspect it will prove to be the better place to live a fulfilled life. As they say, there was always more to life than increasing its speed.
my guess is:

rot13 cynargfpnyr
In most cases, route from Japan to Europe is routed via US. It takes over 200ms. CDN improved our life much but I agree which is a bit sad in a way.
Unmasking the Campaign Against “White Supremacy Culture” in Science
WebWorker may be one of the most important ones missing in Node.
In terms of popularity, it sure looks like that ...

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend
There are many places that have fog, but no or little rain - the skeleton coast inwards/Namib desert in Namibia for example.
> I'm very glad they did a pleurectomy both times instead of pleurodesis; I've heard people describe pleurodesis and it's pretty terrifying, both the recovery and the permanent after-effects. Noticeably reduced breathing capacity isn't uncommon.

I've had a pleurodesis on my left side. I never noticed any reduced breathing capacity. The procedure left a few stab-like incisions scars but I actually like them. I'd feel safer if the same was did on the right side too; I like the idea that it will never happen again on the left side but hate the feeling that it can happen again at any time on the right side.

I don't know if the procedure I was submitted is the most common. The surgeon described that they burned (cauterized, I think) the pleuras with an electric scalpel. As it healed, the pleuras stuck on one another. It was painful for just a few days but analgesics were enough to make it bearable.

There was one strange effect: it numbed the tactile feeling of parts of my breast, chest and arm. Immediately after the surgery the numbing effect was so intense that I could pierce the skin with my nails until it bled and felt not pain. I actually did it to demonstrate how numb it was. The medic said it would improve over time. It took years to get the feeling back. It's been twenty years and the feeling still is a bit numb.
Download to install conversion also doesn't need an embedded token.

It could be obtained through other data that doesn't need to track the individual install.

I forget if Firefox has a 'welcome' page that it shows on first launch, but it could serve as the count of number of installs.

I believe Firefox also has an auto update system, so that too could serve as an Active Users count.

Lots of ways that you can derive this data without needing to track individual download to installation.
Execution is making something. Decisions and speeches and choice and "coming up with the concept" don't constitute execution. But they show intent, and therefore, IMHO, art.

Art is like crime. It's a bigger crime to think of something bad, and then do it. But in lots of cases, planning to do a crime is a crime, even without implementation.
That’s a job for machines: https://hackaday.com/2019/06/20/automated-dice-tester-uses-m...
dang, could you add https:// at the start of the link?
Try forgetting a lot of what you know about numbers then, and maybe then you might understand better.

Real numbers are quite easy for people to "understand"--you can point out the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter will always be constant, and name it, while not being exactly expressible as a ratio between two integers, and people will understand that as a concept. Yes, real numbers have all sorts of weird properties, are challenging to build in a set-theoretic principle, etc., but most people aren't going to reach a level of mathematics where those issues come up.

By contrast, complex numbers are invariably introduced as a mathematical gimmick. The imaginary number 'i' is sqrt(-1)... what does that even mean? What would an i-meter long rod look like? What can you point to as a physical construct that encapsulates complex numbers? Especially as is often taught, complex numbers just feel like someone arbitrarily decides that it means something, and you're then manipulating something without any justification for what it actually is or why you should care.

I'll note that negative numbers are similar to complex numbers: a rod of -1 meters doesn't make sense as a physical construct. Indeed, historically, negative numbers aren't in much use until about the same time complex numbers are invented. However, the value of negative numbers is readily apparent: you can use it to keep track of directionality; a credit of -$100 is clearly the same as a debit of $100, for example. With complex numbers, examples of why you might want to do the work are rarely forthcoming. But to give the example no one gave me in school: complex numbers encode magnitude and phase--it will tell if you adding two things that are equally strong will cancel each other out completely, intensify each other, or something in between. (Of course, this is not readily apparent from the usual representation of complex numbers as a + bi, which may be why it's not really covered).
I have used x265 fairly easily to encode a 4K Bluray. None of the AV1 options seem to have the required performance (both quality and encoding speed) and ease of use.
Be careful. These things tend to morph, mutate and become turing-complete. If it grows an emacs step back quietly and slowly. Just remember to feed it plenty of parentheses and you'll be fine.
With a strategy like that how would they justify millions a year in C-level salaries?
It was the right solution for banks in 2008, as most of them would have gone under without a bailout.

Take over, investigate, prosecute, replace corrupt management with people of integrity.

Basically, what the FDIC does with small banks that fail.
AMAZING SHORT FICTIONAL STORY MUST READ !!
Really? A lot of our hospitals in Ontario make use of a tablet on a stick that can very quickly connect with a live translator on camera in their language. I am surprised Vancouver would be using Google translate and not an option like this. I've used it and it works fairly decently. Obviously it's still slower than speaking their language, but even having a translator in person still incurs such a delay.

The only real benefit I found to in person is that it's a bit more personal feeling and you don't have as many issues with the patient not hearing what they said on the tablet and vice-versa.

I found the language barriers are not a huge deal with options like this. I've also worked for a 911 call center taking ambulance calls and it's much harder to manage language barriers there as it can be hard to tell someone who speaks none of your language that you're getting a translation service on the line.
I keep getting an error that it can't reach some API when trying to log in with that one but if it works for you maybe it's a temporary issue.
Discussing two “holy war” topics at the same time
It depends on what you're buying. Expensive jewelry, for example, is something I would never buy off eBay. High-end electronics is a maybe, but the seller would need to have close to 100% positive feedback.
>Before the bill was presented to Parliament, the UK’s main opposition party, the Labour Party, suggested that it would offer little obstruction to the Online Safety Bill and complained that it hadn’t been introduced fast enough.

Anyone in UK thought about keeping children safe from inheriting a totalitarian dystopia?
Wow, genius. This would have personally helped immensely
Which Commodore format is being removed? Can't find it in the list of PEPs.
I dont understand why I'm getting downvoted.

My comment was not at all on the post itself or current affaires. I'm big fan of space exploration regardless of which country achieves success. I was just appreciating the fact that Elon has build SpaceX in a way that it minimize things outside his control so that his mission can succeed.
Brother Laser MFCs have been good for me for 15+ years.
How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
GitHub sponsored a coffee van at FOSDEM. That was a solid choice.

Can't cost that much to run a van for the day (I see them in places with low footfall and the incremental material cost is low), quite low waste, widely appreciated by conference attendees. Also the queue was long so people spent a while in front of the logo, some of the time discussing GitHub.
Which debunking video was like that?
Intel can't start filling gaps in the market for car ECUs or whatever, but there has been a shortage of PC components too, people are buying whatever is available, so it's an ideal moment for Intel's down-cycle to be happening - sales numbers will be more about manufacturing capacity than the strength of the product.
Again, we're talking about forms here. If you have a reason to want to know if someone has a uterus or might be or become pregnant, you can just ask that. Forms for things where this is important usually do anyways. Sometimes gated on an "if you answered female to the above..." which actually compounds the problem for some people who are not neatly categorized that way.

Likewise, asking a cis man if he is or might be pregnant should not be a horrible thing to do, nor a problem for record keeping, though like I alluded to in my initial reply here, it does sometimes cause confusion or even confrontation to ask them.
Silicon Valley's Hustle Harder Era Was Doomed, but It Sure Makes for Great TV
No, that's not true; it's just less efficient because you have to handle more air and cool it to a lower temperature. Air in Earth's atmosphere always has significant humidity. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716765 for some calculations.

It's reasonable to condense drinking/cooking water from air with solar energy in places that lack secure water. Not water for other purposes; you can't run a cooling tower, irrigate a field or an orchard, water a herd of cattle, or even grow a garden that way. But a household-sized dehumidifier powered by a household-sized solar panel can certainly make enough water to drink and cook rice.

On the other hand, if you live in semi-arid desert or any wetter biome, a cistern probably has a better cost-benefit ratio. Depending on your aquifer, a well may be better still.
To me, it doesn’t seem arbitrary at all. Depending on the team size, a closed-source application likely has a small number of other developers that have a vested interest (or access, for that matter). Whereas an open-source project could potentially have orders of magnitude higher number of readers. A much larger audience would warrant higher priority over a readable/clean commit history.
Here it is running on a Nintendo DS https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/File:Infernods2.png
It's just a correlation, no? Probably grip strength is just a decent indicator for overall health. Whereas the implication of the article is that sitting around squeezing grip strength trainers will somehow reduce your chance of disability / heart disease / death.

Article also didn't link an actual study (always a bad sign), just some stub article. I did find this, apparently by the same authors, on a quick search; grip strength is lower in diabetics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26232901/
> Data and geospatial tools around access to safe drinking water are provided here to aid academic reproducibility and advancement in the context of the Nature Paper “Global Potential of Harvesting Drinking Water from Air using Solar Energy”.

Again from the readme.

You're correct that the slide deck mentions a $150 price point. The readme mentions cheap as less than 5% of total income. If we assume the poorest people in the world, who walk miles each day to access water, then we are talking about income levels of ~$365-$730 a year. 5% of that is less than $150.

All of my points still stand. Project X at Google set out to solve one of the very hard problems in the world, and made their findings and work available to the public for free. It's clearly not supposed to be something going to market, so asking who will buy it that needs fresh water is obtuse, IMO.
The sad part about Kaitai is that it doesn’t do encoding, which I only found out later.
Oh sorry, I'd clarify - I've never actually needed ESL assistance in a Vancouver hospital so I have no idea what they're equipped with - I was just offering a more local language selection to those of us on the west coast.
I suppose it should be a regulator representing the public then.
I like Perl's Data::ParseBinary (https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::ParseBinary)

my $s = Struct("foo",
UBInt8("a"),
UBInt16("b"),
Struct("bar",
UBInt8("a"),
UBInt16("b"),
)
);
my $data = $s->parse("ABBabb");
# $data is { a => 65, b => 16962, bar => { a => 97, b => 25186 } }
> his income increased by more than $1 million, going from $1.4 million in 2014 to $2.5 million in 2015

You're already in the top 1% of earners in the US. Is the extra 1M per year really worth the risk of being caught? Sometimes I fail to understand the logic behind some people's actions.

Not to mention how unethical something like this is...
I don't know anything about quantum mechanics, but if I'm reading the article right the experiments are meant to disprove this?

> Perhaps it’s most natural to represent each complex dimension by two real dimensions, but real-valued theories need not be so limited. There could be three real dimensions per complex dimension—or four, or even infinitely many.

> Navascués and colleagues found a function of measurement correlations for the entanglement-swapping experiment that could reach 62‾√=8.49 in standard quantum theory but that could never exceed 7.66 in a real-valued formulation.

edit: ok I think they're talking about something different entirely, reading more just made me confused. It seems to me that complex numbers are easier to work with than 2d vectors with operations defined to make them behave the same as complex numbers though.
Sure, but that could be a small agency indistinguishable from a spam operation, and is the expectation that the publisher vet each claim and endorsee?

They should be able to address complaints and to prevent repeat attempts to breach this, but is stopping it altogether feasible?

I don't use Facebook so maybe they already do this, but it's probably reasonable to require anyone advertising in a country to have a registered business presence within that country. But that's only going to work at scale (AdSense, FB, etc) and not with randoms putting ads on a site that anyone can see.
Hey, any way to contact you? Didn’t see an email in your profile. Mine is in my profile (franz@appleseedhq.net).
They have plenty of employment opportunities though - having fluent french on your resume opens up a whole lot of opportunities with companies that are required to offer some french language support (i.e. train stations, government offices)
This sounds similar to "walking speed predicts mortality rate" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/walking-speed-sur...

Systemic weakness leading to death is a common pattern.
List of Awesome Infrastructure Demos
It is amazing how quickly we go from not knowing how to do something to complaining that it is not good enough.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that Google translate is good enough for medical translation; we should still be employing people for this job.
I haven't seen this on Facebook (I have ads blocked there and see almost nothing from people I don't know personally), but I see this a lot on Twitter, on YouTube, and in email spam (some of which makes it through gmail's spam filter). The scammers have fairly sophisticated tactics and a high degree of automation; flagging and blocking individual spam accounts is useless, they clearly have scripts churning them out.

Fighting spam is a legitimately difficult problem. It's particularly difficult with crypto-scams, because the per-victim profit is so high that the spammers wind up well-resourced. Given that other major platforms have mostly failed to deal with the same scammers, it doesn't seem reasonable to hold Facebook-in-particular liable.
Everyone in the comments repeating the basic facts about complex number they learned in high school needs to read the article. This is Physics Today. Every person who reads it or contributes is already aware of what complex numbers are.
For this kind of regulation, you look to see what kinds of enforcement mechanisms exist. You need either (or ideally, both):

- a private right of action (IE, I get to sue you if you violate the privacy rights that this bill spells out)

- well funded and dedicated "white colar" unit under the attorneys general that has authority to investigate and punish wrongdoing

Getting the government to spend a whoooooole bunch of money on a dedicated white collar enforcement unit is generally not very popular, and while a private right of action is generally cheaper for the state, its also really unpopular with industry types who hate getting sued by jo jack and jane.

The EFF has a great rundown of what makes a good privacy bill here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus...

IAPP (which hosts this tracker) is ironically not as strong on privacy issues as the EFF is so I'm kind of glad they are not including a "effective" column, to be honest.
So how likely is this bill to become law? I know that in the US, most bills don't end up being law, but is this the same in the UK?
I assume you're talking about Papers? The main feature is that there's an iPad/Android app that syncs really cleanly.

With Zotero, syncing reliably across multiple devices was always hit or miss for me. Saving a few papers throughout my day, going home and reading/annotating them on my iPad, and then going back to work and pulling up a paper from the previous day with its annotations intact is the dream workflow for consuming academic lit that has always just worked with Papers but always required a lot of effort with Zotero. Maybe this is more of a "me" problem than a Zotero problem, but if I can't configure Zotero to sync reliably then many academics won't be able to.

There are some other neat features too. The built-in reader is good enough to not bother going with a third party. The handling of in-text references is better than any alternative (the actual reference is listed when hovering or clicking the reference number in text–a seemingly basic feature that lots of citation managers and PDF readers don't have that is essential for maintaining concentration). The handling of figures, metrics, and smart suggestion of related articles is also top-notch. I was sad to make the conversion from FOSS but haven't looked back yet. Hopefully this new Zotero release will make it possible to transition back–it looks like lots of killer features in Papers are offered by Zotero 6, which is great to see.

As for the rights-holding thing, most journals give their authors the right to distribute their work for free upon request, and there are some other loopholes for getting papers afaik, so I don't think it would be worth the time or effort to go after people with a few sci-hubbed papers in their Papers account. I am afraid that DRM will make this much harder though, especially for papers that have been downloaded on a university network for later offline reading.
Automatically resolve Syncthing conflicts using a three-way merge
Dean Kamen claimed on the Colbert Report in 2008 to have invented a machine that can produce 1000 liters per day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg1Hu0PMG0
Thanks to whoever posted this, and even moreso to whoever maintains it! I've been looking for something like this for a few months now. Much appreciated!
It was wrong for the West to taunt Putin with baby steps to perhaps, maybe, someday, having Ukraine in NATO. It was wrong for Zelensky to see the build up of troops on his border and do nothing for a good solid three months leading up to the invasion.

But none of that makes Russian troops invading, shelling and bombing hospitals, violating evacuation corridor agreements by firing on fleeing civilians, or any of the other senselessly hostile things they've done OK. They are wrong, their actions are evil.

I realize you're not sticking up for Russia, but I do think that if we're talking morals, it doesn't require moral absolutes (which I do think exist, but that's another discussion) to be able to judge the current situation. That is, I don't think condemning Russia's actions requires a priori agreement to a universal canonical moral standard.