skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if prison libraries have electronics books.. imagine if they had access to esp microcontrollers.
> Hunh you don't you put your queries in sprocs and store that in the data base and your source control system of choice.

Not everybody enjoys sprocs-- having 3 sources of truth (repository, dev db, prod db) gives me headaches.
These sections of the speech resonate with me:

"For now, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin pose little or no challenge to the existing order of fiat currencies and central banks. Why? Because they are too volatile, too risky, too energy intensive, and because the underlying technologies are not yet scalable. Many are too opaque for regulators; and some have been hacked.

But many of these are technological challenges that could be addressed over time. Not so long ago, some experts argued that personal computers would never be adopted, and that tablets would only be used as expensive coffee trays. So I think it may not be wise to dismiss virtual currencies."

"IMF experience shows that there is a tipping point beyond which coordination around a new currency is exponential. In the Seychelles, for example, dollarization jumped from 20 percent in 2006 to 60 percent in 2008."

"Why might citizens hold virtual currencies rather than physical dollars, euros, or sterling? Because it may one day be easier and safer than obtaining paper bills, especially in remote regions. And because virtual currencies could actually become more stable."

The person speaking: Christine Lagarde, Head of the International Monetary Fund.
Out of curiosity, what was the job position?
There are many births that are planned C-sections for when the mother is unable to deliver vaginally safely. These births would not be planned on a holiday because doctors usually only work emergencies on holidays.
The real problem is people. You can talk about gun control all you want but evil is a people problem—not a gun problem.
Pretty sure heat dissipation is going to make ocular implants difficult to make happen.
The Role of Content in Digital Signage and DooH
> I always wondered why these aren't part of the FPU command set, or at least part of modern programming languages

They are a part of modern (and not-so-modern) programming languages (% in Python, Rust, etc.). Even C from quarter of a century ago supports them (fmod). There are also at least two CPU instructions on x86, fprem and fprem1.
This means code review process is completely wrong. All these "nitpicks" should be automated by linters and code review should be more about implementation, structure, performance, etc..
Metrics for the Metrics God.

They don't really mean anything, you can't draw actionable conclusions, and no one will even read the report after the first week, but you gather the metrics anyway to satiate the Metrics God's hunger.
End result != motivation

Bad at making profit doesn't necessarly means you're not-for-profit.

Also from the article:

"What they told people at the time was we're going to use this data to improve services. But now thanks to [Sky News] investigative reporting, we find out that it's partly to improve the services, but also it's to exploit people's data for revenue, doing advertising."
> I also have a script that checks what are the most crypto-y file in a directory.

Could you share it? :)
Without recognising single persons, it would be much harder. You would have to consider that a person twice as close to the camera takes up 2x as much room as someone 2x further away. Generally, it can also be very hard to see people on a crowded platform and you can almost double the amount of people on the platform and see as little of the platform after as you did before. Wifi will probably generate better customers in that case. Add in the fact that you are still processing visual data and that you will get a lot of media attention and Londoners will lose trust in your services and you have a definite no-go for your project.
Here's another anecdote: when I was younger, cilantro was a nightmare for me. It tasted horrible and I could detect it in minute amounts, like to season a soup or curry.
Years later, I love the stuff. I don't know when my taste for it changed, but I find cilantro one of the most effective and interesting flavors for certain dishes.

I also like wine.
I thought they were going to talk about diffractive optic telescopes which require neither lenses or mirrors. See more here https://str.llnl.gov/str/March03/pdfs/03_03.2.pdf. Someone did not do their research! The aragoscope is mentioned in the Spacetime episode mentioned elsewhere here.
Talking about their licensing practice, I was about to buy a license for LR but their website prohibited me because I'm from their no- support/blacklisted country, so I can't buy. thanks for piracy and FOSS as well.
AI, VR, Augmented Reality, Functional Programming, etc...
> only after it realised that it was utterly alone and isolated and almost universally reviled, and the collapse of world communism meant that it wouldn’t be shielded by its erstwhile allies

I am confused by this sentence. At least, in Europe and US, it was the right-wing parties that supported South Africa's apartheid regime. In Sweden, it had the staunch support by the right-wing Moderate Party led by no other than Carl Bildt. And here's more on the US-ZA ties: http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/19/apartheid-amnesia/
K-Means Clustering in Python from Scratch
To add on to your list:

https://www.holistics.io (I work here).
I'm actually happy about this.

The data that has been collected is great (http://content.tfl.gov.uk/review-tfl-wifi-pilot.pdf) and not realistically available in any other way. The only data stored is (hashed) MAC and timestamp. It's taking place on a system where most users are already tracked semi-anonymously using contactless cards or Oyster cards, and is trivially avoidable by disabling wifi.

This seems like a good trade-off.
You might enjoy the New Yorker column, "Rabbit Holes". It's specifically for articles that take a small observation or part of culture and dive way deeper into it than you'd imagine possible (or practical).

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes
Postgres user here. pgadmin4 lead me to try alternative clients. Recently, I've found DBeaver useful. I'd give popsql a try if it didn't require google account information.
How are credentials and result sets transfered? Is it directly from my computer to the server or is PopSQL a middle man in the communication?
For the record: What Facebook is and wants to be is actually an enforceable personal relations layer on top of the web stack.

Uber agrees to send in my name a “Pay me £7.23 for that shared ride” to my Facebook friends, but not to people for whom I can’t prove I know well enough. Tinder shows shared relations with strangers. That is a powerful web of features unlocked thanks to this. That’s why building an API was such a key early change of what Facebook was.

Typically, Twitter does something similar to Facebook on the surface (a news feed) but is not planning on serving as an authentication layer, so they do a lot less to address grievers, inauthentic accounts and lately, unwanted political influence.

The News Feed was the first key feature, built internally and it boosted the business model that Facebook has started leveraging: targeted advertising. But neither the News Feed, not advertising is the core of Facebook — no more than ads are at the core of Google.

Google wants to leverage artificial intelligence to organise the world’s information. That your friends matter to you and that you trust them more, and that you want computers to tell who they are is what’s at the core of Facebook; the recent pivot to communities is clearly in that line: you also trust and are willing to help people that you might not have met before because you belong to certain groups, communities.

Ads are a simple and effective way to finance both projects. Because management had to place ad-focused people high up, they took over a bit of the attention, but leaders at both companies know to focus on the end-goal.

I can easily imagine Facebook making more money from transaction fee, or distributing 3D-content; I can imagine Google making more money similarly (typically, CPA is kind of that). Both have tried, and the results were underwhelming, and will most likely try again.
Don't Android and iOS randomize the MAC addr these days? Are they investing in something that's going to have a very short life?
Yup, I have a script `worklog` which boils down to this:

#!/bin/sh
mkdir ~/.worklog || true
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
cat ~/.worklog/$(date +%w).md
else
echo "$(date): $*" >> ~/.worklog/$(date +%w).md
fi

That gives a file per-week which can either have contents appended to it, or viewed. Usage is the obvious:

$ worklog "I did some stuff"
$ worklog [shows the output]
Understanding Uber: Breaking Down the London Driver Numbers
Interesting question. I'd speculate that IM in particular was unified enough around AOL and SMS. (And clients like Trillium did work across systems.) And with smartphone apps and notifications, having a single universal messaging client was less important.

Email was quite fractured at one time but it did become pretty interoperable when it went mainstream.
AZ utility will use 'reverse demand response' to avoid renewables curtailment
To copy or not to copy? Few words about copyright in Game Dev Industry
She's been a very well respected minister of finance for a major economy. She's literally an expert on the subject she's speaking on (which is economy, not technology) - and she's not giving advice, she's offering an analysis.
Strangely enough, one of my clearest memories about this game (played it after Jedi Knight Academy), is my first experience with motion sickness...
Nonetheless, I loved it and lost a lot of time to it, even though my internet connection was practically nonexistent at the time, so multiplayer was not an option.
How to create a website mockup
A-Frame Fonts (WebVR)
Finally we have different varity of fonts from google fonts in the most used WebVR framework !

Github Repo : https://github.com/etiennepinchon/aframe-fonts

Twitter Link : https://twitter.com/EtiennePinchon/status/914824468886904833
That's a great point. Pokemon were designed to be distinguishable from one another, that's good game design. However many birds and plants look similar with minute differences to distinguish them.
I also think Hershey chocolate tastes a bit like vomit. Parmesan cheese too. I wonder if it is a genetic thing that only some can taste, like the bitterness in Brussel sprouts.
TfL IS not-for-profit. I.E. any profit it gets is reinvested in London's transport infrastructure.

Sky News hasn't really done any investigative reporting here, the information is publicly available and most interested people knew about this project years ago.
Oh how I miss Eudora. It’s the only thing I actually miss from back in my days of using Windows. Thunderbird was never an adequate replacement, and now I sadly use Apple mail and curse it every day.
We're actually on banana 2.0 (Cavendish banana) - banana 1.0 ('Big Mike') got wiped out by Panama disease[1], which very well might happen again. The joys of monoculture!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease
sure you are in tech?
This kind of thing makes me think we are in the dark ages when it comes to dealing with offenders. One day perhaps humanity will reach the stage where we have the know-how to prevent criminality, and effectively rehabilitate offenders in case it does happen, and without having to go to ridiculous technological lengths.
You're conflating two different things.

A typical screen refreshes at 60Hz, giving 16ms between refreshes. If you take more than 16ms between animation frames, it will appear choppy and "bad".

The 100ms budget is around pressing a button and seeing a response. If you pressed your refresh button and the page loaded in 100ms, you consider that sufficiently "instantaneous". (This breaks down for video game controls where you're continuously giving input. And maybe 100ms is too long to respond to someone typing at 70WPM, but expecting a 10ms response is much too greedy.)
That's an eloquent expression of the views of the KKK.

The KKK is, however, 100% wrong to think that their violence is justified by imaginary oppression of white people.

>Of course you'll say that it doesn't count for whatever reason.

It doesn't count for the very simple and very obvious reason that colonialism was based on an ideology of white supremacy, whereas anti-colonialism was not based on an ideology of black/brown supremacy. In other words, the British thought that their superiority to the Indians entitled them to run India. The Indians didn't think that their superiority to the British entitled them to run Britain.
Nice strategy post.

I was hoping for some numbers as well, like how many "unknown" transaction-state they get per unit time, /or /day or anything like that. Even some % figure would have been insightful.
AIM was not a unified IM system. For starters, they made it hard to sign up outside the US (the sign up form needed a valid zip code). As a result MSN was more popular in Western Europe, and I get the impression that ICQ took the lead in Eastern Europe.

(until Skype, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp took over)
Where I find her position slightly disingenuous is that the role of central banks and of the IMF is precisely to bend the rules when they think it is required, by either printing money or making funds available to states to support them or their currency. So neither central banks nor the IMF will have any interest in a currency which cannot be somewhat manipulated.

Where cryptocurrencies might fit in nevertheless is that they are only as strong as the convention to use a common algorithm. And the choice of this algorithm can be influenced or controlled by law or regulations. Hence the said authorities can achieve the same thing they currently do with crypto currencies than with fiat currencies. Might have defeated the original purpose but is a more likely scenario if cryptocurrencies become mainstream.
How foreigners Register USA company and USA local business account
I'm a Chinese businessman, mainly exporting raw materials from China to overseas market. Is it possible for me to register a US company and open business account in US. I will manage the company in China. Does anyone know this? Thank you very much.
Anything can be virtualized, if you're brave enough.
I didn't defend them, I just explained why they couldn't do what you suggested (reconnect the radio with a firmware change). If you want to get angry, ponder why they took away my beloved headphone jack. :-(
>"Everyone (trapped) employed in the credit fuelled consumption economy needs the farm to exist."

The consumption-based segment of the economy has existed for much longer than social networks or the internet:

https://jobenomicsblog.com/consumption-based-economy/

Also countries with post-industrial economies are a mix of service and consumption. There is no economy that is solely consumption based.
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I still don't understand where you get 25-35% tax "all-in" from, as you wrote in a previous post. It seems if you're to make what's considered anything like a decent wage in this sector (tech) you will pay at least 40%, and the more you make the more you pay, hence progressive tax.

Is this wrong?
Handled users money as a random web person?

If you mean you did the bureaucratic stuff online, I assume you still needed to give proof of who you are -- perhaps with some state provider digital signature or whatever.

If not, then it might be easier for the one opening the shop, but it's much more dangerous for the consumers giving them their money.
How to Setup a Local Laravel Dev Environment Using Homestead
Another way to think about it is as taking advantage of a window of opportunity to gather the data before it disappears.
Household energy storage batteries: Myths and realities
Netgear addressed dozens of vulnerabilities in #Routers, Switches and NAS h
Social terror until everyone is on his/her toes and the resources are redistributed not according to achievement/risk&reward - but how high you are on the ladder in the new church of social progression?

Is there a way to opt out of your version of society?
I do this with Python+Boto+Jenkins: https://giorgiosironi.github.io/talks/ec2_ci/slides/
Until now we were turning off at the end of the hour (e.g. 2:55:00, 3:55:00) but now we have to change the model a bit.
The problem is that if you can't tell two similar-looking birds apart then you won't notice (or care) when one disappears. Names are important for this reason, they force you to identify the differences between animals, to tell one apart from another, and thereby appreciate the diversity of life around you - a diversity that is rapidly vanishing.
Australia banned guns after a mass shooting in 1996. They've haven't had a mass shooting since.
I've installed Linux on family member's computers before just to get calls when an update broke the graphics driver.
Just try and let your wife install and update Arch herself, I'm sure she'd give up quickly.
That being said, most users just need some icons and a web browser, almost any OS works for that.
that works with a negative 'doesn't know it' but not with a positive 'does know it'.

The question does even X know Y? Implies that X is somehow out of touch, and not knowing Y, but maybe they do - surprise!

The question Does even X not know Y? Implies we would expect X to know Y, but what if even X does not?

The question Doesn't X even know Y? Implies that X is stupid and doesn't know a lot of things, but can it be that they are so stupid that they don't even know Y!?!?

On edit:

The question Does X know even Y? Implies they are knowledgable about a lot of things, but Y is such a rare and mysterious subject that we would be surprised if they did but what if they do know Y!?!
But some people just cant help themselves. They are natural nitpickers and this process just enables them ...
Generally, if it's an executable, you should look for the main function. Otherwise, it's a library, in which case you should look at the documentation and start from the handful of points of entries into the library.
Ask HN: How much do you sleep?
And how does that impact your productivity?
iOS randomises MAC addresses periodically, so it will be difficult to track you this way. This isn't a compelling reason why it's idiotic.
Story time;

I've recently started working with a SME (<100 users) who took this approach after abandoning the vendor's reporting recommendations for their Line of Business application (apparently it was just crap).

Other areas of the business cannot be without these reports under any circumstances. Negotiation is not an option.

Since about 2012 they've had various employees generating reports, alerts and data warehouses as objects in the database. Naturally some of these have been superseded. Very often the old objects were left behind "just incase". Almost all of the original authors have left and documentation has been lost or just didn't exist in the first place.

Many of these objects are dense and difficult (because SQL was the wrong tool for the job, or because they go many layers deep like matryoshka dolls).

Demands for changes to reports are frequent (weekly), and some reports functionally overlap, but produce wildly different results for different areas of the business based on various "rules".

Honestly, the database is a fucking mess (approximately 1900 objects relating to reports, alerts and data warehouses - some of which are dolls going many many levels deep., There's a huge sense of shame and fear over trying to regain control.

I totaly understand that this was entirely a human problem. With more restraint this wouldn't have happened. Both inside and out side of the IT team. However, a tool like PopSQL, metabase, etc. I believe would've helped with;

1. Ad-hoc queries that didn't really need to be full objects

2. Discoverability through prettier annotations, etc. - reduction of reports being duplicated

3. Auditing - last access/run times, etc. would be much easier to find to reduce the cruft

4. If the tool is more appropriate it could off load some of the things that SQL is not good at

There are undeniably good reasons for storing reports, alerts and data warehouses (developer maintained objects) in version control. If the report creation/alteration requests don't come often, then I'd argue it's ideal.

However living in the real world, I personally feel it needs to be balanced in conjunction with tools like PopSQL, metabase, etc. Right tool for the right job.
before i realized jelly was the name of the phone, i had this visual in my head that there was a tiny phone embedded inside a gel, which obviously would make it super smooth to slide inside your prison wallet.
Back in my day we snuck Zack Morris size cellphones into prison in our butts and we liked it!
Here are a couple of ways in which feature flags can be better than branches: QA can try in-development features out together easily. Some flags can be used operationally to turn off non-essential features during periods of high load (for a service, that is).

There's no free lunch, but flags can be a useful tool.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
HP Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used by Pentagon
Oops, I misread the comment about the bridge. I would assume German bridges would use metric measures.
Functional data validation in Swift
I never drink coffee (hate the taste, similar to alcohol), and am plenty energetic throughout the day. I regularly go to sleep at 6am if I'm working on some side-project, and that's only because I don't want to wake up very very late the next day.
Combination of your improvements and the first commentor's in the link

- 'notes' by itself views the file (interactive shell only)

- 'notes' with args, the args are appended to file (original function)

- 'notes' with heredoc (or any piped data) allows for multiline notes

notes() {
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
echo $@ >> "$HOME/notes.md"
else
# detect if we're in a tty or a pipe
if [ -t 0 ]; then
less "$HOME/notes.md"
else
cat - >> "$HOME/notes.md"
fi
fi
}

usage:
$ notes 1
$ notes 1 2 3
$ notes <<EOF
> this is a
> multiline note
> EOF
$ uptime | notes
$ notes
(opens less with the following content)
1
1 2 3
this is a
multiline note
23:22:06 up 3 days, 11:41, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.15, 0.26
Should have went with "Beaver or Bidoof" for the title.
> you can almost double the amount of people on the platform and see as little of the platform after as you did before

I would suggest that "overcrowding" was achieved well before that point though.

> Wifi will probably generate better customers in that case.

Assumes that one person equals one Wifi though which isn't necessarily the case.

> you are still processing visual data and that you will get a lot of media attention

Perhaps. It would definitely require a deft hand on the PR tiller.
"Whether its called facebook or is run by a Zuckerberg is in an irrelevant point."
The NSF grant money wasn't paid directly to students. The departments still set the pay scale, and had to deal with COL disparities like all employers do. And if your prof couldn't support you, then you didn't work for that prof, or you got a teaching assistantship.

At least in my field, physics, lack of sufficient funding meant you didn't get students.

This whole business wasn't risk free. There were students who dropped out because their prof lost funding. In my view, the risk of not finishing at all is a bigger cost of graduate education than the pay scale.
I sleep at least for 7 Hours. Whenever I sleep less or when I don't get quality sleep, it's very difficult to focus.