skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additional facts: countries like Canada, France, Germany, etc., tax their corporations less than we do. Our taxes are a lot lower, but mainly because we have much lower taxes for the middle class.

Blatantly false. Our statutory tax rate may have been one of the highest in the Western World, but the effective tax rates before the Trump tax plan were some of the lowest after deductions and credits are taken into account.
> NVIDIA GPUs are actually typically more efficient for mining most coins, AMD cards are only preferred because they have quicker ROI.

In what way are nvidia cards more efficient? Vegas are in some cases much faster and at worst equal to gtx 1080.
The Switch has sold almost half as many units in the last 10 months as the Xbox One has in the last five years.

If the only concern is resolution and not quality or gameplay, then the Switch doesn't stack up, but I think the sales numbers point to the Switch being a smash hit with consumers so those compromises seem stomachable from my perspective.

(Anecdotally: I wish the graphics in BotW were better, at least in terms of draw distance, but then I take the Switch out of the dock and take it to work to play Mario Kart with my coworkers and it seems like a fine tradeoff to me.)
What's next for Rust in 2018? Ask the community
"Traumatic" is the key word there. There are different sorts of brain damage, and traumatic brain damage (the kind from impact) is only one kind. I am not a doctor, but I wouldn't be surprised if brain damage due to hypoxia (low levels of oxygen in the brain) is not considered "traumatic" brain damage, and so wouldn't be on that list.
Or it could be that Twitter cares about fake account impact mainly in terms of user experience. If a fake bot likes a tweet from another fake bot, does any human actually care?

I used to have a much bigger problem on Twitter with fake accounts and bot likes than I did, but despite my decades of willingness to bitch about spam, I have to concede that they've gotten better lately.

There's also a user benefit to letting bots run when they're not hurting anyone: you don't give hints to the spammers on how you're finding and nuking them. Indeed, if you identify them but don't block them, you can get a lot of data on what is spam. For example, on my mail server, I noticed I was getting a lot of dictionary attacks. So I took the hundred most common first names not in use on my domain and fed them all into the spam training system. That means odds are very good that my spam trainer will have seen a piece of spam before they try my actual account.
For instance, if you follow sports, it's an extremely efficient and direct way of keeping up-to-date with teams and players.
Not OP, but I personally was pretty heavily affected - I run Robohash.org, which runs off a bunch of Digital Ocean droplets.

I needed to fire up ~ 30% additional nodes after they did their migration.

I didn't measure as carefully as I could have, but the existing nodes couldn't keep up with demand after the upgrade.
If by seventies you mean 1870s
One Way to Protect the CTA from Uber, Lyft: Use Tech
Bezos didn't move to DC, just bought a house there. He's got plenty of houses.

I agree that the DC area is the most likely possibility for HQ2, but bezos buying a house there is a relatively unimportant indicator.
Grimly hilarious that anyone ever thought they couldn’t
Personally I'd happily pay $5/mo for all of my google services if it meant I was entirely removed from the whole advertising/"customer-is-a-product" offering and I could have confidence that I wasn't being sold as a product in other regards.
What is more likely - people saying "oh, I can't mine now, guess I'll have to sell all my hardware at a loss" or just switching to whatever next coin will be GPU oriented? For me it is obvious. Until (if) whole crypto market crashes people will continue to mine on GPU whatever they can, propping its valuation.
Show HN: A deep pretty printer for Go data structures to aid in debugging
It would be interesting to read about how he came up with that specific checksum algorithm. Trial and error?
Lost NASA satellite wakes up after being declared ‘dead’ 13 years ago
I use a pen and paper. Moleskin notebook and a Coptic multiliner 0.5. I also bought a pen loupe to keep the pen with the notebook . The multi liner drys so fast that I can never get a smudge.

For electronic notes I use the notes app from Apple.
KubeWeekly #122 – 2.5k nodes, ML and contributing
... which is owned by Oracle
I have no problem with it. Someone wants to be my marketing department? Bring it on.
https://books.google.com/books?id=KHezRs7nsAgC&pg=PA45&sourc...
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The exact same thing is said of sports stadiums, WalMart stores, and was said of the steel industry back in the day. Companies have shown they’re perfectly willing to leave as soon as those breaks expire, or they get a better deal elsewhere.
He basically defined existence as thinking, then turned it into a tautology. And then it blew up in his face when he realized that he couldn't prove anything else was thinking. And in fact even if there wasn't some devil tricking him (ala brain in a box hooked to the Matrix), things like rocks and water could never exist.

His entire philosophy was flawed right from the start. But it usually is. That's why so many philosophy texts take the first chapter (or volume) refuting philosophers who came before them.
> this caused regulators to go and whack us and so on.

proof? links? source?

Google is big, does and did a lot of things that could be a problem in the eyes of regulators.
Most of the concern with battery innovation is you can burn a lot of money very fast, as far as I'm aware, and I believe the manufacturers believe the powertrain to be more useful to invest in.
Well spotted, very funny.

Speaking of which, I recently moved to DDG and couldn't be happier.

Frankly the only thing I don't like about DDG is the name.
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I think this is an excellent idea. Once a company grows beyond a certain market share/ market cap it gets split down the middle. Thus kind of happened in an ad-hoc way before, e.g. Bell. The only trouble is these mega companies have lots of clout and a strong self preservation instinct.
Ehhh for day traders it can be. The market seems to react heavily on opinions and non factual stuff, thus the saying "buy on rumors, sell on news".

Source: My opinion... its all pretty hand wavy to me.
Nice to meet you as well! We've helped several SaaS startups predict upgrades and reduce churn, so definitely sounds like a great fit.

Shoot me an email at bilal@clearbrain.com and I can help you get started. You can also get set up immediately at https://www.clearbrain.com
One of our use cases used factory pattern when creating contract instances. You'd get contract address by subscribing to event from the blockchain. Issue I ran into was that metamask would not get events from the blockchain even though it should. There we're a lot of issues with the feature, some resolved, some still not.
Basically this issue: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2393
This is fantastic news! I hadn't heard of this - it means my future memory upgrades will be reasonably priced :-).
hitting that page from europe just shows

"Sorry, we couldn’t find that page

We’ve moved a lot of stuff over the years, and it must’ve gotten lost in the mix. Please try retyping the address or just head back to our home page."
Interesting. In Seattle we now have 3 dockless bike shares (Spin, Lime and Ofo). I think Lime is about to roll out electric bikes, but so far none are. It makes riding up hills pretty rough, especially since they aren't geared very well.
> How about actors playing the roles of (still living) real people in theatre and movies? Would they suddenly need permission?

I would certainly bloody hope they need permission. You have the usual caveats regarding the public interest for things, but I mean, one could argue a director should at least have one face to face conversation with someone they're including in a movie.

> Should the (many!) Elvis impersonators need a licence from his estate?

I think it's super creepy how widespread and how effectively public domain Elvis' image, act, and etc. is. He's been impersonated, lampooned, parodied, etc. so many times over. I mean you can't deny his cultural impact, but I don't know. I find it unsettling.

> Impersonating others isn't a new issue, we already have a quite settled body of law about that and centuries of weird edge cases. I don't see a radical difference brought in by technology here. IMHO the treatment of making face-swapped porn videos (or distributing them, which is a quite different case) should be the same as the currently established treatment of painting (or distributing) a realistic painting of someone you know in a pornographic pose - whatever that treatment is.

More to the point: I'm not talking about impersonation, I'm talking about the use of one's likeness for personal, commercial, or illicit purpose without that individual's knowledge or consent, and frankly I find HN's overall response to this a little alarming. It seems (though this admittedly small and totally not even remotely scientific sample) that the tech-inclined don't seem to care much for privacy rights when it stops them from doing objectively cool things.
I think you and I mean different things by computational mathematics. Calculus isn't analysis, but it still has substantial rigor to it. You might not be able to develop calculus from scratch after studying it, like you could by working through real analysis, but that doesn't mean studying calculus has to be hollow and rote. For example, I find Spivak's Calculus to be a good compromise between full on analysis and the kind of formula memorization you're talking about.

Ideally computational mathematics teaches more than just the simple "what" - it should address at least one of the "how" or "why", but it doesn't necessarily need to address all three. I also disagree that the point of the education should be for students to be capable of teaching themselves novel mathematics (and to be honest, I'm pessimistic most graduating math undergrads could do that simply because they made it through something like Rudin).
Good point and, as a city resident, I wouldn't mind a bit of peace and quiet myself (but would go more extreme and get as rural as possible).

I think on this I was thinking more the requirements of the HQ2 which specifically mentioned mass transit routes.

Also, more generally, the parent was talking about the 'network effect' of SF and the culture there. When you're isolated in your affordable single-family home and commute to your office park that vastly differs from the serendipity and collision of people, thoughts, opportunities that you have living in a denser place where you come across more people daily, one would think. I assume that's why cities are more liberal - that we have to put up with, tolerate, and can empathize with a wider variety of people than the isolation of house->car->work->car->house.

Just speculating there.
>Are there personal things in your past you don't want your insurance company to know about? How about your employer? Or the IRS? Even your spouse? What if someone showed up one day and threatened to your your secrets unless you pay up?

Once tabloid journalists start trying to infer embarrassing things about politicians based on metadata we'll probably have some progress.
>> Google and Facebook also use your data as input for increasingly sophisticated AI algorithms that put you in a filter bubble

> How is this any different from the pre- or sans-Google and Facebook world?

Easy: the bubbles are tighter and harder to pierce. In the old days, you'd have to get your information from the same news sources as everyone else, only customized at a fairly coarse level (e.g. a city). That regularly pierced your bubble and gave the community a common reference point. Now, many, many more people get all their information from individually-customized feeds that are precisely matched to their biases and their bubble. There's so many fewer common reference points which makes is harder for many people in the same communities to even communicate.

tl;dr: it's an emergent qualitative difference caused by scale.
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Not that I got very deep into mathematics but higher level math is all formal logic and proofs. There are mathematical theorems that are proven to be true/closed for many years by mathematicians before they find commercial/practical applications.

For the HN audience, much of the power and usefulness of RDBMSs is derived from the relational model and the relational algebra it sits on [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra
> Fantasy football is Dungeons & Dragons for jocks

Fantasy Football seems more like a wargame using actual wars for a randomizer than an RPG.
> Two, that by shipping drugs, drug companies are causing the epidemic. They may be profiting from it, they may support legislation to make it worse, but it doesn't take millions of pills to get hooked. This is a result of additiction, not a cause of it.

And epidemic takes two things, and infection vector, and a high spread rate. Supplying far too many pills, if that is indeed what they did, allows for a higher infection rate, and let's a problem become an epidemic.

> You shut-off/slow-down the pill flow, you just create a bigger black market. Addiction is a natural result of using opiods to treat pain. It is not caused by too many pills.

If it's already established, then yes, you create a large black market because the demand is already there. When looking at the problem from the beginning though, it's clear to me that restricted supply would lead to restricted growth to some degree. The question is what degree?

If there were no pills to be shipped to these locations, and there never was, what would it look like now? What about 10% of the amount that was shipped? What if it was 1000% of the amount that actually shipped? Unless those scenarios would cause little or no difference in the current situation, it's clear that supply has considerable effect on how the problem develops and progresses.

> Three, that drug companies are the only people with agency here. Surely there are doctors, pharmacists, nurse-practitioners, ministers, social workers, and a slew of other people in these towns that are exposed to this problem every day.

Yes, but we talk about and deal with those people all the time. Doctors and pharmacists lose their licenses, people go to jail. But that's individual people, and their individual effect on the problem is necessarily small. There are relatively few drug companies, so if even one is acting negligently then we need to look very closely, and very hard, as their effect on the system and thus the problem is much greater. It's the same everywhere. Out of a clerk, policeman, judge, and politician, whose corruption has the ability to cause harm to the most people? The drug companies are at the top of this pyramid, so they deserve quite a bit of scrutiny.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16269595
You get to see a flood of spambots if you make the mistake of clicking any of the trending hashtags, but otherwise yeah it's a non-issue for the vast majority of Twitter usage.
If you, or others want to know a bit more about it,

NGEN

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/ngen...

AOT Compilation for Windows 8.x store apps, based on Singularity's Bartok compiler

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

AOT Compilation for Windows 10 store apps, using Visual C++ backend

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/net-native...
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MoviePass CEO on how $10/month movies is possible
From my experience in O+G and mining processing plant control systems many people that tune loops regularly for a while can basically do it by inspection, with small adjustments after the first pass.

First rule is you will not need any derivative except in a handful of particular cases that are well known/identifiable.
Jeremy Hunt caused the crisis as a stepping stone to privatisation which is why he's the most disliked frontline politician in the UK:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-i...
ICYMI in January: here’s what happened in G Suite
> If a fake bot likes a tweet from another fake bot, does any human actually care?

Very nice!
Reading these comments has made me feel very stupid for treating recruiter messages like spam. Better late than never! I have been off the job market for almost a decade and things appear to have changed a lot.

Do you have any advice for working with recruiters, beyond basically doing the opposite of what I have been doing?
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The original article suffered from the same flaw, and they never really explained it.
Test suites that rely on fast rollback may beg to differ
A new type of self driving car
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Freedom 2.0 / Towards a New Physics of Human Systems
I have hard time guessing if You are serious or just trolling.
Lyme disease is no joke. It can destroy Your life. And first real symptoms often comes when damages done to nervous system are irreversible.
My father had it and and lost ability to concentrate when reading text longer than one page. Son of my uncle almost died from it when he was 18. Even if You think You are healthy, You should test Yourself.
You could use default parameters in this case.

const add = (a, b=0) => {return a+b}
It's fine until you actually start pushing it hard. Intel is far less aggressive with driver fixes and the cards will absolutely collapse at higher detail levels on big screens.

No argument that they have improved (the many years and millions of dollars I mentioned were spent), so much so that the low end discrete GPU market is completely dead. But there is still a lot of space between the best Intel card and a mid range nVidia or AMD card like a Geforce 1070.
Same in Canada.
Do you use googles?
Has the population of the things that eat the ticks declined too?
Michael Malice is great. He had an interview that also covered North Korea on the Rubin Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmaPdyqGUU
Well once you're down that path, why eat any animal?
In theory, the device could only listen for its trigger word using local processing, which then and only then would trigger a cloud upload to process the following phrase. The user has implicitly indicated "I'd like a cloud lookup on this please, and I understand what I say next is going somewhere out of my control."

If you go with continuous recognition and upload, you then have everything you say being removed from your control. You'll see situations where cloud providers' records are subpoena'ed like that murder case with Alexa. [1] You'll also see cloud providers say "if you want to hav a private conversation, you best leave the room." [2] That's terribad for everyone.

1. https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/07/amazon-hands-over-alexa-...

2. https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-rec...
I do this, but also be prepared for video you expect to play to no work as expected. For instance, a video might appear to be frozen or "loading" until you click on it.
Shit, I've been here 6 years already and don't consider myself an immigrant.
a) it is not at all certain since both processes do damage to board and chips and not a single person in this thread knows what will be more severe for each small part of the board or connections.

b) have you actually tried replacing monstrous coolers on moderns cards? Or even buying spares? It is rare, expensive, hard to disassemble and hard to fit back. Some cards even use glue stickers on memory thermo-interface, you can potentially tore chips away.
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Someone messes with my phone, makes my wake word my name and hands it back to me. Even better someone messes with a bunch of my friends phones and makes their wake word my name and they don't notice and I'm being monitored by them.
I occasionally fetch some works from japanese artists (SFW and not) from twitter since not all of them use pixiv and as far as my browsing experience goes their retweets, conversations, mentions and so on all seem to point to other humans.

Likes, Followers and accounts yelling into some hashtags can be dominated bots. But if you look at the feeds of individual people and those that they talk with that's a totally different experience.

> Tumblr today is drowning in porn.

Tumblr has had NSFW for a long time now. If anything some of it may have migrated to patreon now that it is easier to monetize.
Isn't that a bit thorny since most of the content is copyrighted...
hestipod - I found your contribution worthwhile so thank you. I hope you're able to find some help.
The porn bots have only gotten worse, though. In 2012 it was at least mostly human-run porn blogs, and they didn't start following you if you were just a regular blog.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/limebike-rolling-electric-bicy...

Limit of 14.5 MPH feels a little slow to me.
Totally agree. I went to philosophy section of university myself (although, I didn't go up to a degree, it was mostly for my own interest) and later recruited a developer who attended too.

It was a pleasant surprise to realize it was so much easier for us to write specs and discuss issues and possible solutions on github together. We were just more used to think on "paper" and to articulate our ideas by writing them, which allowed us to be really comfortable doing async work and to communicate complex ideas.

It was really appreciated, among all those "hum... I'll call you, it will be easier".
After reading this comment thread, i can attest that it's clearly not known enough in france indeed. From what i've read before (because i knew about Lyme), the only region affected by Lyme is nord-east of the country. We get tick bites whenever we go to south of France with my family, but so far nobody every got anything looking like Lyme.
Bilal,

Hi and congrats on ClearBrain! Hope all is well, super excited to see where this goes.
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I'd imagine they will need to classify them as "motor vehicles" which will require users to provide proof of a driver's license with motorcycle endorsement to use them.

Not really ideal for most casual users.

EDIT: http://www.wsp.wa.gov/traveler/docs/equipmt/elect_bicycle.pd...

It appears by staying under 20 MPH they can avoid this.
I live in Albuquerque, where the Alvarado is emblematic of much of our modern relationship with early 20th century history. Shortly after the Alvarado closed it was razed and the space was used to build a parking lot for the adjacent train station and city buildings; just a few decades later the city put up a transit center in the same place called the Alvarado and designed in the same fashion as the hotel. It features historic plaques about notable visitors to the Alvarado. Today, the Alvarado station is a major part of the state's attempt to build a viable commuter rail service (the Rail Runner).

It's amusing and also rather sad to watch these attempts to bring back what we had about one hundred years ago.
Are the language/syntax differences documented somewhere? It's difficult to tell if something is an obscure early stage ecmascript proposal or a language feature specific to observablehq. For example in https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/introduction-to-note...

import {canvas as flood} with {height} from "@mbostock/randomized-flood-fill"

or how you define generators

i = {
let i = 0;
while (true) {
yield ++i;
}
}

etc