skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking of the economics behind this feat, if these were not slaves, but paid employees, I would assume that a whole ecosystem would exist nearby.

These people would need to be housed, buy food with their salaries (stores/markets), send kids to 'school'. A city would need to have been developed to accommodate that population.

Also, if they were slaves they wouldn't have been given the luxury of a proper burial/cremation, so somewhere nearby there should be mass graves.

I am not an archeologist, I am just trying to think with modern days analogies.
But then the non-scammy should have a business opportunity in breaking the status quo.
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This is still an option, and last time I was passing through the HK airport I noticed that a shop next to immigration was selling very reasonably priced data bundles with that kind of dual-network SIM. Highly recommended for those who only stay for a week or two.
A favorite quip of mine is that I dislike Ruby because the entire community optimizes for one-liners.
France’s Digital Minister Mounir Mahjoubi on Upcoming Digital Policies
I expect a lot of people do just stay home. If it’s a total PITA to go into a city after work people find other activities.
Speaking about Skype, Microsoft should be ashamed of the low quality of this app compared to WeChat.

WeChat is snappy and feels very responsive. It works every time.
With Skype it's always a hassle to connect (Android and Windows), the app feels very heavy (Android).

I just started to use chat apps recently and frankly I was expecting better from MS, since I had good experiences with all their other products.
> Is there some reason to believe that these differences are inherent, and not the result of gene expression being affected by the environment?

That is a question that remains to be answered, and is only just beginning to be looked into through research on epigenetics[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
LOL, i can imagine what you said.
These things don't actually explain why the download is large.

The download is large because it has example scenes included.
I come from Seeed, hope you enjoy the Shenzhen Maker Map :)
You are right, people would be interested to implement a real compiler for an actual language.
I have tried it.
But when you actually sit down to implement, its atleast months.
But if you choose a simple language, you can get the entire compiler done in perhaps a week/month at most.
Indeed, that prepares you for implementing an actual language. My 2 cents, what do you think ?
You're cherry picking. You pick the places where Occam's razor picks the correct answer and ignoring all the places it doesn't. For any new situation we can't predict which of those possibilities the answer will fall. Hence my statement that Occam's razor has no predictive powers.

I just linked to the first article I found that talked about the subject. And it's interesting that you look for something lazy instead of addressing more serious issues like Newton's model vs Einstien's. Very clearly the (much!) more complex answer is more correct than the simple one. Here's [1] another link discussing the issue and gives 2 examples.

[1] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap3.html
Search for "Occam"
Can you give any sources?
Over the years, the Guardian has responded (satisfactorily, IMHO) to such claims many, many times. Here are a few that I personally remember:

https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2008/mar/06/...

https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2011/feb/22/...
Whatever the tax is, I hope it is on some kind of physical consumption of scarce resources, rather than on economic transactions that are inherently private and increasingly out of the bounds of any jurisdiction.
I think they were more interested in how the relative percentages of bandwidth usage by type (erotic versus other uses) compares to today's patterns.
I'd hazard a guess that people have generally been equally interested in sex over the years. :) Although I do wonder what the gender demographic split was like back then online, again I'd hazard a guess at a greater proportion of males compared with today.
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I agree that professional food critics are making public their opinion, backed by their reputation. But nothing can be inferred about this opinion being honest, since it can be (and is surely often) bought.
MPEG: a crisis, the causes, and a solution
as a kid I remember vividly two uses:

- online phone book
- video games magazine services for news, tips and most importantly prize winning contest (with no luck)

we all knew about the online erotic chat (lots of public billboard with explicit enough colors to get the message across) but for some reason neither I nor my friends ever got interested in trying them. Oh maybe they were pay before use anyway... that would have interesting consequences when your parents review the phone bill afterwards.
You can probably buy a spot in Michelin. Whether that happens frequently or is accepted is an interesting question.
Really? I thought selective pressure was required to cause a major shift in the average human. The reason that our population has boomed is because our selective pressure has declined significantly. Or are you more talking about the adaptability of the species overall has increased?
I am using SSR with zero crossing and it makes much difference.

First, I am dithering the boiler power (the power is applied to the boiler on only some AC cycles), I am basically deciding per cycle whether I want my boiler turned on for the next 1/100th or 1/120th of the second. I am already running my model about 50 times per second (not using PID) so that's ok.

Being able to apply fractional power to the boiler means it is quiet and much less scale deposits.

Also due to the zero-crossing control I have much less electrical noise. Turning the boiler fully-on blindly causes electrical noise which is not nice for other devices (my Baratza Sette grinder turns on spontaneusly when this happens).
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The irony is even stronger if you consider that Louis Pouzin was a strong inspirator of packet based communications (having just done the cyclades network system) and TCP/IP but for some reason the French national telecom agency didn't believe in it and stuck with a different protocol for too long.
> Claiming that society is sexist in that way is not a conspiracy theory?

No. It's just a false claim. False claims aren't conspiracy theories.

> I would priorities truth over political correctness.

It's prioritize*, and prioritization only matters when there's a tradeoff. I'm not sacrificing truth to point out your mistake.
I don't want any subscriptions. I want to pay for the content I actually consume. With money back option to discourage clickbait headlines and sensationalist intros.

So what any group/alliance should solve is micro-payments on web.
Ask HN: How do you setup machines for local development?
We're using Boxen at my company to provision our dev environments, but having huge problems maintaining it: Externalities beyond our control (homebrew, dependencies, system updates) are breaking the provisioning process, and we're only finding out & trying to fix them when onboarding a new employee. Boxen's maintenance cost is too high to continue to be a viable option.

We've been exploring alternatives, but not really found anything which will help us get a new hire up & running as soon as they walk through the door.

Docker has seemed like the best bet so far, but its I/O performance on Mac is abysmal, and the workarounds for that (Docker Sync) are unreliable due to other bugs in Docker for Mac.

So, I'm wondering how you / your company's manage setting up development environments?
Cryptocurrencies don't require you to give away your computing power for free, the blockchain gives them rewards for securing the network.
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What are you talking about? How does this relate to the topic at hand?
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Nah. Land titles are all digital now, and while it's theoretically something I could try to argue in court, I've no interest in dispossessing some poor sod of their land.
“At long last everybody realises that the old MPEG business model is broke, all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.”

Good.

“Can something be done?”

Yep. Search for a new job!
Yes you can, but nobody does, because the inconvenience outweighs the advantages of increased privacy.

Cash is doomed by the same problem - it's inconvenient, and also pretty insane to carry around paper tokens when we could carry digital ones.

Even if you do manage to evade some tracking (e.g. by using cash) cameras are tracking you everywhere, we have facial recognition improving rapidly, car number plate tracking etc etc. At some point it will be possible to track your entire life with ease simply from following your movements, and it will be very difficult to circumvent without laws to control that sort of information.

I do think it's more important to control the use of extensive personal information and tracking than to try to limit it, because limiting it simply won't work, and can be easily bypassed.
There will almost always be external influences that change the behaviour over time. If you have a vehicle, going up the hill will require more energy to keep the speed constant.
For your growhouse, if it's hot outside of the box it may requires less heating, etc.
Or the LEDs that you use get less efficient over time.
You really want to have a dynamic algorithm such as PID that can deal with these changes in a near optimal fashion.
Yes I agree that's the correct approach.
If you like that video, you might enjoy this great book about Minitel:

https://www.amazon.com/Minitel-Welcome-Internet-Platform-Stu...

I have started to read it, but haven't made it all the way through. I love tech history and the book is great so far!
Not really. But OSM is a wiki. So there is no central body to "confirm" changes. If you want, you can just edit things as you go.

You can even edit OSM on your phone (e.g. with Vespucci), so you could drive along a road, think "this is totally wrong on OSM", pull over, get out your phone and correct it.
No problem with being skeptical and typically supply will follow demand, however there are a couple of important things to note when it comes to Cobalt.

Most cobalt is produced as a result of other extraction activities, it is rarely the primary resource. Normally it's in found/produced in conjunction with Copper and Nickel mines. This has a number of repercussions which would take too long to detail here, however to get more Nickel on stream would require either increasing capacity at existing operations, which may or may not be a non-trivial task or a combination of exploring/designing/procuring/operating a new Cobalt asset which is never non-trivial. The result is, there will always be a significant lag between market demand and output capacity creating sudden spikes in price, a surge in investment activity and then eventual stabilization of price once assets start producing.

Most of the worlds known reserves (identified resource which may or may not be economical to extract) for Cobalt come from the the Democratic Republic of Congo, which for the purposes of this discussion can be said to have reserves an estimated order of magnitude over anyone else. In response to growing demand the DRC have raised taxes on Cobalt as recent as a few weeks ago. A number of operations have been sold to Chinese companies in recent years, shoring up their supply chains. It almost goes without saying that a number of these operations have terrible human/labor rights issues and track records.

We've all managed to come to terms with our cognitive dissonance of driving cars and drinking out of plastic bottles when it comes to Oil, but how will everyone feel about funding the DRC in the name of progress?
There may not be an iPhone SE 2 after all
Lots of swearing, not a lot of logic, facts, or accuracy. It's wrong from the very start (Bezos is not, by any measure, the "richest person in history". I'm not even sure he makes the top 10 of "richest Americans in history"; he's beaten by both Gates and several gilded-age robber barons, and they're in turn dwarfed by historical figures like Alan Rufus or Mansa Musa I).

As for the actual meat of the article:

> Companies like Amazon build new headquarters and other facilities because they have a business need to do so. If a business has a business need to build a business facility, you do not need to pay the business money to do so.

Right, and I purchase lunch because I have a biological need to do so. And yet! Businesses still compete for my lunch order on price, including "paying me money" to win my business (or as normal people call it, offering me a discount). It's almost like my market transaction, freely entered into by both parties, rewards both of us, and both of us have an incentive to find, respectively, a good vendor and good customers! And in a market transaction, those incentives will often end up causing a competition based on price or other crude metrics like size!

> The only thing that every damn city in America is bidding on here is the right to have a business facility located in a certain place.

Which is a thing which has value, and thus is the sort of thing that people bid on, yes. What element of your time on planet earth led you to believe any other thing might possibly happen?

Now, it's totally possible that the eventual deal will prove to be a bad one for the lucky city (...or even Amazon) but 1) no such deal exists yet 2) we have no idea what the terms will be and 3) unlike the perennial boondoggle that is subidising stadiums, an Amazon headquarters could conceivably have a transformative effect.

> There’s an easy way to ensure that this charade doesn’t happen: a federal law banning these kinds of state and local subsidies to private businesses.

1) I have zero faith in the ability of legislators to draft a law that actually prevents this and 2) Amazon's HQ search is the worst possible example of what needs to be stopped. How about the subsides for making films in a state? Or the hideously pointless stadium subsidies?

I hate corporate welfare as much as the next quasi-minarchist libertarian (which, spoiler alert, is a LOT), but come on. This reads like the result of a college student who just sat through their first lecture on corporate welfare, spent 60 seconds on google news, and then spat out some clickbait.
I too donated after reading an article from the Guardian. I have donated to Wikipedia too. I have however never paid to access any paywalled article. I love having the freedom to pay when I can and I don't want to have a weekly/monthly subscription. I don't read enough news to justify a subscription.
I agree that WeChat translate is much more convenient. But the WeChat translation is much worse than Google Translate in my experience.
> Then go to various governments and say "Give us a list of secret sites ...

Or better teach people to turn their devices off.
We're pretty happy with Vagrant VMs on VirtualBox on MacOS.
If these are the same drones I've seen previously, the germinated seed is inside a hard(ish) molded nutrient pod with a pointy end, and the drone fires it into the ground with a compressed air cannon. Which makes me very dubious about the '1 per second' rate of fire - even if it's possible, the weight of the gear + seed pods + gas is going to severely limit how many can be planted before needing to reload and recharge.
There was an "aha" moment for me when I realized that PID loop only works well for linear systems (and sometimes it's not obvious if a system is linear or not).

Real world example: imagine you have a single-axis motion stage driven by electric motor and you want to control position of a carriage.
Usually your control output is motor voltage. Motor voltage approximately translates to current through motor windings, which in turn approximately translates to torque exerted by motor.
Torque exerts a force (T = F * r) on carriage. Applying force to the carriage makes it accelerate (F = m * a). Acceleration linearly increases the carriage velocity (v = v0 + a * t). Carriage having some velocity finally causes the position change (s = v0 * t + a * t^2).

In the essence, the system turns out to be non-linear with the respect to parameter you are controlling.

To improve this system, one solution is to add velocity sensor (or differentiate the position sensor, if it's resolution is high enough) and introduce a cascading PID loop topology- the outer loop takes position error and outputs velocity error, which is fed to inner loop (input = velocity error, output = acceleration). The coefficients for the loops have to be tuned starting from innermost loop.

Another solution is to use different control algorithm which is suited for non-linear systems (e.g. LQR).
Swings?
It is also worth mentioning that this novel, and many others at the time, were published as wildly anticipated serials, not that different from the currently so popular series. You can tell from the cliffhangers at the end of many chapters.
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Facebook's latest News Feed update gives local news a boost
Here's an interesting metric which I think is behind all the support troubles at Coinbase:

Take a look at Coinbase's Alexa ranking: https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coinbase.com

220 - up from around 3000 12 months ago! That is simply incredible. A site like that would get buried in support tickets fast, especially after such growth.

Another interesting metric, they are beating Citibank:https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/citi.com
Regarding the 'richest person in history' claim, I remember reading about this a couple of year ago [1]:

(top) 1. Mansa Musa

Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa Abraham Cresques—Getty Images/The Bridgeman Art Library
Year: 1280–1337

Country: Mali

Wealth: Richer than anyone could describe

Mansa Musa, the king of Timbuktu, is often referred to as the wealthiest person in history. According to Ferrum College history professor Richard Smith, Musa’s west African kingdom was likely the largest producer of gold in the world—at a time which gold was in especially high demand.

[1]: http://time.com/money/3977798/the-10-richest-people-of-all-t...
That's, indeed, old advice. It's not 2000 any more (and how I wish it were!).
Spendesk raises €8M to expand its platform for all company purchases
It's understandable that MS engineers would enjoy working on a greenfield OS, but what MS are selling is legacy compatibility. If they stop offering that product, customers will just walk away.

They should keep Windows Windows and offer the new one as a "boot to Office", not mentioning any reference to operating systems at all, to set expectations right. That one could really fly with a certain market segment (RDP thin clients are a thing). That's assuming they can get Office proper to work on the new API, it might be the one codebase that is more entangled with legacy windows APIs than any other.
No, not all companies can be described that way.
Arrow's theorem is mathematics, but even citing it is greatly misleading. All Arrow proved was that, sometimes, voting becomes rock-paper-scissors between the three most popular candidates. That isn't "unfair".

It especially doesn't mean that all voting systems are equally bad, and yet the most common reason for people to cite Arrow's theorem is to try and dispute the idea that we can do better.
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> Code is an asset, like any other piece of capital.

When you possess 200 units of some currency, that's strictly better than possessing only 100 units. However, 200 LOC are not strictly better than 100 LOC.

When I replace a 1000-LOC program by a shell one-liner that does the same thing by composing some coreutils, I have removed 999 LOC without losing any value.

The asset is not the code itself, the asset is the value that you derive from it. Given a certain value that you want, the best code is that which brings this value while being the most maintainable. The article argues that the simplest code is usually the most maintainable one, and thus to be preferred.
The RIOT (used to be known as Vector) is just main client. There are many more clients. All listed here https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html

Matrix is the protocol - it is a standard. So there are many servers being implemented. But most of them are Alpha/Beta software. The server from matrix org everyone uses now is called Matrix Synapse. It is written in python. If you don't need extreme performance (thousands+ clients) then go with that. On debian/ubuntu it is simple as apt get matrix-synapse but it can be installed as any other python app. Then it is basically about setting one config yaml file (homeserver.yml) and you are done. Lots of guides here https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/synapse.html

I run matrix synapse for smallish org and we also tried rocket chat and mattermost. Riot was by far most stable and fastest. Rocket chat was very sluggish and mattermost had problems with mobile notifications (i think you have to pay them for notifications or something like that).
You might have noted that I have refrained from giving an opinion on how good or bad I think that the GDPR is. I just pointed out that it does not at all apply to the case that the GP pretended to have a problem with. By all means, there's enough to criticize about the GDPR, but do it with an argument that has merits, but not by attacking a strawman. (Your hypothetical case is a strawman, too, since the hospital doesn’t do business in the EU and is most likely required to keep records by law, which is a specific exemption clause)
Has anyone tried using Minigo with KSP (Kerbal Space Program)?
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Ask HN: Newbie looks for machine learning project to join
Hi. I look for a machine learning project to join. Possibly open source one.

The topic of machine learning is interesting for me. I am inventor and engineer at heart, but I don't really have much skills - I did several small object oriented projects in the past in Java, but I could learn a new programming language or technologies.

Where would be the best place to look for the project to join? Github comes to mind, but it is a vast place. Finding such a project and working with a friendly team could possibly give me a good motivation for learning and self-improvement which I otherwise lack.
I worked on a small project in Godot and I found the transition from Python to be pretty natural. Here's the GDscript primer if you want to take a glance:

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/scripting...
Oh sorry you want to hire someone. I did not understand.
Are there any repercussions for my negative reply to this ad? Or can I keep posting as usual?
Is a machine learning algorithm capable of getting better results than a PID? Is the extra effort worth it?
> Arrow's impossibility theorem is the most famous impossibility result in this area; it says that no algorithm can take in a set of rankings (e.g. match outcomes) and produce an aggregate ranking in a way that satisfies a small set of fairness criteria.

Ignoring the parenthetical "e.g. match outcomes", this is a correct description of Arrow's impossibility theorem. I don't see how match outcomes could possibly be an example of a set of rankings in the sense of the theorem, though.
Oh, wow -- thanks especially for that second link! I was wondering about this recently.
Speaking about erotic services it might be funny for Anglo-Saxons to know there was a (serious) dating service named 3615 CUM.

Of course they used the latin word "cum" that means "with" ...

They had giant advertising posters all over France, and I am sure quite a few English speaking visitors must had wondered about French mores :-)