skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of big data workflows, zstd is no brainer replacement of gzip. Always faster decompression, plus you can save tons of storage and data transfer.
A self-hosted tiny realtime messaging service based on redis
More about “why no new AND successful FOSS projects”
I have a pretty active Github. When interviewing I talked about it and put a link in my resume. People very rarely check it, but it gave me talking points when the tech of some old project matched the company's stack.
The comment isn’t disallowed; the downvote count just tells you how many people disagree with your statement and think you’re wrong about what you’re saying.

By the way, Make is so powerful that not only can it be used as a build engine, but for day to day system administration, web development and general task automation as well.
It happens quite often, I donno why there is no supportive research on it.
Why no more new AND successful FOSS projects in the last ten years?
As believer in GC enabled system programming languages, I do feel it was indeed a missed opportunity, specially to change the mind of those that think C and C++ are the only way to write OSes.
Like they did with PRISM?
Conflict vs. Mistake
Im talking about an internet that does not exist yet..one where theres a system in place where every iNet user can spot a fake video vs. a real one in a heartbeat or fake news vs. real.

Do you not think based off of this Face2Face technology and all the fake news this evolution needs to happen?
Per that wording, it seems like Valve's policy is both stronger and weaker than the Australian standards, isn't it?

E.g. if a game clearly specifies that it's Mac only, and you buy it but only have a PC, AFAICT Valve will give you a refund even though Australian standards wouldn't require it. Ditto if you buy the game and realize you'd already bought it elsewhere, etc.

It sounds like it's only in the narrow case where the game, say, claims to support Mac but doesn't, that Valve's policy becomes weaker than the Australian standards. Or am I missing something?

(Note this is all referring to Valve's current policy - I understand it wasn't in effect when the ACCC case started.)
This is the limit for a no-questions-asked refund that is automatically available.

If you run into a bigger issue you can contact support.

There was once a case where a supposedly multi-level game contained only one unbeatable level that seemed like it was supposed to waste over 2 hours to lock you out of refund. Valve made that game refundable at any time and now it's off Steam (at least I can't find it, the developer said it was the wrong build but I'm quite skeptical at this point)[0].

Of course Steam support is total hit and miss, i.e. I once reported an error on their website (I got "An error occurred while processing your request." in the store + some long GUID so I reported it to them) and I got told to check if my internet connection is okay which is fucking ridiculous.

But if it blows up on social media and in news (like [0] did) or there is legal threat (like with this article linked here or soon with CS:GO gambling, maybe) then they take action.

[0] - https://www.vg247.com/2015/08/07/amazingly-broken-steam-game...
Education is broken, and not "impulse-fixable", ie it will require years of collective concerted effort to affect change, if it is ever fixed at all.

"A dad who knows ____ and can teach it" is, on the other hand, a practically-attainable real-world solution.
Imprisoning people without trial, for predicted future crimes, is what's unfair. Letting an algorithm make the prediction instead of a judge only punctuates the injustice.

What is a "fair" criteria to base this decision on? Is it fair to throw someone in jail because they are young, or they got layed off, or they don't have friends or family? How is any of that better than jailing them for their skin color?

These are exactly the things that justice is supposed to be blind to.

I'm rooting for the algorithms here, simply because they make the inherent injustice of pre-trial detention harder to ignore. We can convince ourselves that this injustice is somehow corrected by the presumed wisdom and compassion of a human judge. But by formalizing the logic, we have to acknowledge that we are literally throwing people in jail for plainly unfair reasons.
https://ecommercenews.eu/amazon-launches-switzerland/

[Amazon] has signed a cooperation agreement with Swiss Post, which means the postal agency will carry out customs clearance for Amazon in the near future.

Customs clearance is said to take a maximum of three hours, which makes 24-hour delivery from abroad possible. Amazon offers this delivery method as part of its Prime offer in Germany
Fun Fun Function, the most dedicated programming show on youtube and on this world! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q
Why can't we have just one way of declaring and naming namespaces using something called... namespaces ?

There are probably goos reasons for doing it this way, but it always feels weird having to declare all your namespace's types inside one of its member.
If the software is free (no cost), I don’t think it would count as a sale. It would apply to paid software though. (It also doesn’t apply if it costs more than $40k though, since that’s no longer a business-to-consumer transaction.)
When Netflix and amazon inevitably start adverts

I am positive that day will come. Soon enough. Unfortunately.
Even the smallest EC2 images can run multiple containers if your containers are small enough, and either way it makes sense to add a level of abstraction over your pool of EC2 instances - i.e. treat them as pool as opposed a set of discrete blocks. ECS lets you specify exactly what resources each container needs, and then lets you make your pool shrink or grow as necessary. The pool can also be a heterogenous mixture of instance types, even a combination of on premise (?) ones. And could also be spot instances, which are way cheaper. Could also be whichever spot instance types happen to be cheapest at the moment.

So yeah, being able to pool your EC2 instances is useful.
Is there any circumstance in which you would support detention before trial? If not, would you oppose the detention of a serial killer caught in the act? If you do support pre-trial detention in some cases, how do you distinguish these cases from those cases for which pre-trial detention is unjustified? Could such a decision scheme be "fair" in principle? What would make it fair?
in practice "lots of little modules" means something like 10 before your app start time starts to increase dangerously.
That's a very interesting way of looking at it. I always kind of looked at my preferred language's grammar as "code", but now I feel like I'm calling TLS SSL when I do that.

I wonder what else to call it. "Source code" is obvious and what everyone uses, but now I want something else to use.
Your mental gymnastics trying to mask the obvious regarding China and Apple is astounding. What about Apple makes you put so much faith in them, so as to taint the most logical explanation as "unlikely" especially whilst dealing with China?

China doesn't give two fucks about Apple or privacy. If you are in doubt, please travel there and experience the total blackout of services that refuse the share data with China. China DOESN'T need Apple, Apple needs China. And Apple needs to comply with their rules regardless of your delusions about Apple's piety. Be it health or selfies, the Chinese government shall have ALL data (on Chinese resents) accessible to them. Or Apple can get the fuck out of China - which Apple won't do because of it's fiduciary responsibilities colloquially called "greed". Welcome to reality
Yeah it was really weird to read of all the in-depth research done and extra mile the author went to in order to get an optimal build for Lightroom, only for the benchmarks to have been slower than a Macbook Pro in some areas and in some areas shaving only 2 mins off of 15 mins. That's just ridiculous.

I shoot with a D3100, whose 14MP is a third of the author's 42MP, but with Darktable, editing RAWs on a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro has been a breeze.
Fast Heavy hitters algorithm (2016)
Assume that you are insurance company with access to customers social media profiles.

You find out that if customer has a friend who posts pictures of fast motorcycles that increases the probability of customer making $100,000 claim in the future to 2% from previous 1%. Is it fair to double their insurance payment to make up for the increase in expected value even if the number of false positives is huge? General efficiency increases and customers can save money if they select their friends better. This might be how Chinese social scoring system might work in the future. Society as a whole optimizes itself.

What if instead of the insurance claim, the risk is homicide or rape. Should algorithmic judge take that into account when weighing the evidence?

Personally I think unconstrained algorithm in criminal cases is ethically wrong. Justice should be individualized or it's not justice.

In some other cases it might be justifiable.
LIFT: Learned Invariant Feature Transform
महाशिवरात्रि के महापर्व पर बन रहा है महासंयोग , इन 5 राशियों की होगी सभी
Those are nice, but I haven't found one that would:

1. Pass through enough power to sufficiently charge my 15" MBP (not an issue on 13" I think)

2. Have 4k/60Hz DisplayPort port

3. Not get extremely hot when plugged in (I had three, including the official Apple dongle and they all had this issue O.o )
Scroll down to the bottom of this page:

https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...

Just seeing those covers gave me a huge nostalgia-trip, from my own time programming the ZX Spectrum in the 80s. (First in BASIC, then in Z80 assembly via the fine manual.)
Correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not familiar with it. But isn't that a way to declare dependencies and share the information with other developers? That's something that has a good reason to exist. Replacing that functionality would involve a way more complicated solution to the same problem.
This is going to be very interesting to watch. They decided to add concurrency after having built an extraordinary complex language. Something people like rob pike thought would be very hard to do (and as both a go and a swift coder, i must say i tend to think he's probably got a point).
That is not just a convoluted scheme with no chance of effect, it is also morally reprehensible

Oh please. If company X sells cars with defective brakes, we don’t change the entire country’s speed limit just in case - it is 100% on the manufacturer to make it right.
Without a doubt python. I have been doing Machine Learning and Neural Network Programming for over a year now. Availability of good libraries such as scikit-learn and tensorflow along with the easiness of python makes python the go-to language for AI programming in my opinion.
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It could depend on which programming language one is using. For eg: I use python and I love sentdex. But it could be different depending upon your language of choice.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex
Here is another research published recently by BMJ about benefits of curcumin for cancer (myeloma) patients:

Long-term stabilisation of myeloma with curcumin
http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-218148.long
Not to say it's not useful (a plausible method of action + weak evidence is more suggestive that further study is needed than weak evidence alone, and that understanding could lead to further developments), but the question of does this work is far more important, and can be answered without knowing the how.
> [...] if you don’t want to use these new languages

I'm stumped – where is that suddenly coming from now? When did I say anything about not wanting to use Swift?
gcd still doesn't enable you to properly create mutexes or the equivalent of @synchronized.

Concurrency is still a work in progress in swift, in the most fundamental levels.
How did you misspell “benefits” offsetting both non consecutive “e”s backwards?
I disagree, now we have tons of free internet resources available.

Back then I had to bicycle to the library to borrow a book, and hope that the accompanying diskette with the compiler in it was still working.

Programming is still programming. Maybe becoming a professional software engineer is harder, though.
Apple Fanboy to Thinkpad Diehard (2017)
I've had that fairly recently (last 6 months) but it's only ever happened once - I'm guessing it's fairly low down the bug tracker priority list.
Or they will speed up the original movie or show so they can fit more ads.

https://lifehacker.com/network-television-stations-speed-up-...
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Glad to hear it! Not sure I need a 5120x2880 video anyway. I’d be perfectly happy with half that resolution.

I assume higher resolutions have a larger memory footprint. Is the RAM usage still reasonable at 3840x2400?
Show HN: Qookery – Declarative UI Building
Automated Tool from Linux Lite Devs – Check for Meltdown and Spectre
>In 5th grade everyone talked about how Algebra was hard. When I got to Algebra, it was pretty easy. I was very surprised! Of course my dad had to explain it to me, because my teacher was incapable of explaining it.

Surely the concept of outliers, survivorship bias, and statistical noise is easy too then!

>Of course my dad had to explain it to me, because my teacher was incapable of explaining it. 10th grade, same thing with calculus. Thank god my dad knew calculus and was patient. Because my teacher did not.

So, how do we produce millions of capable teachers (as opposed to the non-capable current bunch), with extra patience, and each dedicated to one or a tiny group of students?

Because this is not about how subject X is easy, but about how subject X can be made easy (or easier) under ideal conditions.

And even then, only if we assume you were a typical student, and not especially gifted or motivated.

>Programming is no different. We need to stop infantalizing people. Most humans are incredibly capable.

What if the problem is not how to teach motivated people under ideal conditions, but how to motivate or even how to teach unmotivated people, under all kinds of conditions (e.g. working class family, problematic household, poor school district, etc).
The problem with this analogy is that the government don't give out the only available land to Burger King restaurants for free while at the same time make it practically impossible for any other restaurants to get access to land and compete. Government created monopolies on food access are indeed a major issue in nations which has had that (east Germany, war time rationing) and it would be more important than high speed internet.

Thankfully this doesn't happen with Burger King. Burger joints are common simply because the ease of starting one up and access to customers. No requirement to go and dig cables on government land, no last mile issues, just make a safe building and edible food and off you go.
While they are not as good as they could be, there have been many cases awarded against Telcos, ISP's, Banks and Energy providers. It can only operate within our laws though so I do agree they could be given more powers, but only a decent government can do that, sadly which we havent had for a long time now.
Try to work for a western company -- you will most likely get paid more, and the culture will be much more relaxed. Being in Japan will be enough of a culture shock, imho.
So, do users in China get this feature or not?

That will give a clue about whether it is possible for Apple to decrypt the data or not...

It is impossible to trust a closed source system that cannot be audited independently. If Apple caved to the Chinese government, perhaps they will in the future cave to your local government too?
Or some insurance company too?
They're a business after all!
“What I’ve learned” just did a video on tumeric for hangovers. Summary: mix it with pepper and fat for best results. https://youtu.be/Ij_aJI5O9Rs

Tumeric may also help with ulcerative colitis. Here’s a summary of the studies: https://youtu.be/teJ9QHCdN2Q

Avoid tumeric if you are taking blood thinners.
> a practically-attainable real-world solution.

I can't be understanding this correctly. Please expand, I fear otherwise this is going to be at the back of my mind all day.
Other than the part that it has long since stopped or highly slowed down due to various reasons, why would the others be any different in Ayurveda. It is just medical science called by a different name. Now mankind's prejudice has made many shun it & discredit it again & again while at the same time digesting it & copying it to use a different name in order to credit someone else. There are many evidences for such copying, because not only are the good parts copied, but also the mistakes in the ancient Vedic sciences are copied by the people who want to discredit it because they attribute this cultural development to Hindu pagan religion — this while historically true has worked to encourage mankind to shun it even now. The copying of the mistakes are what gives away this dishonesty.

> Ayurveda, like many other traditional health practices, is an interesting source of hypotheses that can be tested by the modern scientific method - and we might learn a lot from doing just that - but it's by no means a fully verified system of knowledge.

That is true for everything, that is how science works today at least. Even scientific theories are tested again & again, just to prove them wrong. If they are proved wrong, then that is a great accomplishment, but how can they be proven wrong if they are not tested? Same with Ayurveda, it is just science with a different name.
Blockchain company buys 67,000 acres at Northern Nevada industrial park
Met voorstelling Hunker taboes rond verslaving te lijf
Shit Programmers Say, Translated [Hackernoon]
I think getting there is a question of how many canisters you can fill with gas and water. I think it would be fairly cheap if you have small enough payload. A quick calculation: You would need to fill up around 25,000 pipes and have 160 stages.
How your company can launch your own ICO?
I'm glad to hear no one else has this problem. Must be isolated to my computer then. The docs are written really well and it is super clear how to use it. It is just my computer that hangs everytime I visit that page
I like lists like this.

Server not found for Typen...
Never diagnosed with ADD (although this diagnosis really doesn't exist much in Germany), but I do the same for the same reasons. Even the browser tabs.
FWIW, you can often find this by going to the Google cached version of this page (in this case: "U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves NuScale Power’s Advanced Reactor"), though I agree, it would be useful to include.
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I'm honestly not sure if all of your comment is meant sarcastically or just the end.

The statement that fast food be cheap and thus essential to "working class people" is utter nonsense, so I guess it is ironic.
is that what you are aware of? I suspect a lot of us also choose the strongly signalled product also for mundane products.
> Today unfortunately we have a culture of “you can’t, it’s hard, it’s not for you, other people do that.”

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Profiling AWS Lambda Go Functions: CPU, Memory and Latency
i think that would be like saying a stray dog would be better at surviving in today's world than a stray velociraptor.
Well said mate. All OS-es shall switch to a mandatory command line interface for one hour a day, to prevent preferential fast-lanes for GUIs.
I've had similarly good experiences with Bose. Had a pair of SoundSport earphones which stopped working after like a year, just went to a store and they replaced it for free. Eventually same thing happened to that pair, and got those replaced for free too.
Not quite a cruise ship, more like a 10 passenger boat.

I wonder what would happen if one actually fell off a large cruise ship.
Even worse it is EU residents and who may or may not be in the EU when they interact with you.
You know the phrase "round up the usual suspects"?

It's the same root idea: the goal of the system is not to find the person who committed the crime. The goal of the system is, for each crime, to find a person who can be nailed for it. And you can manufacture a class of people such that whenever you need an offender you can go grab some of them and stand a good chance at getting a guilty plea or a conviction.

You start by selectively hyper-enforcing small violations against a chosen subset of the population. Get them for minor traffic violations (which you can ensure turn into arrest warrants by setting the fines and fees and other costs high enough!), get them for "paraphernalia" offenses (where you assume everyday objects in Person A's possession are evidence of drug habits while they wouldn't be assumed evidence in the possession of Person B!), get them for all sorts of things.

Now whenever there's a crime you just go pick some random people from the demographic you've been doing this to, figure out who you can bribe to testify against whom, and then march into the courtroom with witnesses and a defendant who has a thick file of previous "encounters" with the system, and off to a cell they go for a while.

And it gets even easier each go-round: people with criminal records don't usually have the resources to move on and rebuild their lives, so once they're released they're going to be right back where you found them last time. And they've got an even longer record now, which is just proof that you've been doing a great job in figuring out who these dangerous recidivists are! The model works!
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No axe to grind. What could I possibly have?

> Science, particularly modern science, even with all its baggage and flaws and politics, is evidence based.

Can be reworded as: "Science, particularly Vedic science, even with all its baggage and flaws and politics, is evidence based." The vedas are not any different than any sciences that mankind honestly developed. Only, it goes far beyond what we (aka modern science) are/is able to comprehend, about the consciousness of the universe etc. With time, that will also be rediscovered. Also not to take away anything from modern science, many things have been discovered & invented far more than Vedic sciences. My problem is treating the Vedas as purely a religious book like the Bible & Quran and neglecting the great expanse of knowledge in it.
I always thought they implemented refunds as a result of this case
Show HN: Honey Buckets – Find out who is snooping through your Amazon S3 buckets
Tether story is extremely interesting in the crypto world because it goes against everything crypto currencies like bitcoin were supposed to be:

- it's completely centralized, a single actor emits tethers.

- it's completely opaque as it relies on the trust that the actor that emits tethers actually has the money to back the claim that 1 tether == $1, yet you cannot redeem a tether for a dollar directly. Bitfinex TOS even say that they don't have to give you dollars for your tethers, I'm not making this up.

Tether is shrouded in secrecy yet crypto traders happily trade them, despite the fishy history of bitfinex a company no respectable bank wants to make business with. How can anyone think this is going to end well?
It's actually 10 months (40 weeks).

I don't know where the 9 months myth came from since I also believed on it. I just learned recently with my first baby.