skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any historical lessons to be learned from others that have done this in the past? Is that Sheriff putting the lives of other corrections officers and jail staff at risk?
Thanks a lot for those questions, they are really helpful in self evaluation and deciding on further steps. Sometimes I think I should be more patient but somedays I feel like I should just drop it and hope for the best.
Sometimes i find it difficult listing America as a 1st world country. Your law and justice system is ridiculous.
Probably not a huge concern, but I look at it this way. Is it worth your future time to deal with over ~$10 in taxes? Is it something that can lead to triggering an audit?

Even if the chance of the IRS coming back to me is small, I'd much rather pay the $10 now than deal with them later.
>>But the EPA hasn't been dismantled, and we've had many Republican presidents. Regulations and budgets have been cut...

That’s exactly how you dismantle a large government agency. You cut budgets until the organization is so crippled it can’t do its job, then you point at how ineffective it is and use that to drum up enough political will to abolish it.

“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” - Grover Norquist
> That makes perfect sense to me; the fork ON github is what lends the fork legitimacy versus "some dude found code."

No, he made two points. The first one is that this way you don't have your code in random freelancer's accounts, which I'm saying is wrong: a freelancer can take his code, and upload it back to his account.

So if this mechanism makes sense to you as a way of guaranteeing that your code won't be in other people's accounts, you're mistaken too.

In fact if you don't believe me give me access to your private repos and lets see what happens.
It still doesn't make sense in that use case. He could have cloned it to his local machine and still had access to the code. Had he done that he could have pushed it back to github as a completely new repository thereby creating a legitimate fork. It's a silly requirement from github.
> I had to turn off push notifications for things like "Snapchat declined 5% today".

This is telling to me. If they have opt-out notifications nudging users to make various day-trades, they're in shady territory. Kind of the opposite of Robin Hood.
That is very hard to navigate and slow to render. I suggest you simply use standard image tiling via https://www.maptiler.com/ or something similar.
The op doesn't want the code to be on github and his problem was about his code still being on someone elses accoint as a private fork.
It sounded more like "if they get hacked my code isn't there"

Being legit doesn't seem to have any meaning for him or the author of the article. Also the code is the only thing needed for legitimacy. The iphone bootloader code in some repo is still the legit iphone bootloader (as an example)
And this is why people should not take El Reg too seriously.

Or as one incarnation of Joker put it, "why so serious?".
But they can still download the source and re-upload it to GitHub.

It's really a false sense of control.
Asetek Announces Collaboration W Intel on Liquid Cooled Servers, Datacenters
Let's say the total collider budget could fund 100K mathematicians for 10 years, working on whatever they thought was most important.

It's hard to imagine the output of that wouldn't be amazing.
That hardly implies starvation. It might even be healthier than the typical US diet.
That's a good point. Deciding to go with those is still a choice though. It's like going to a restaurant that has both an omakase[1] option and regular dishes. Versus a restaurant that only offers omakase. The latter involves even less decision making.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omakase
> You're relying on people not making their forks out of github.

I'm not. Did you read my 3rd paragraph?

This is not a security strategy, it is a strategy for managing relationships--which is the purpose of using Github in the first place. There are far more secure ways to manage a git repo than Github, if that is the goal.
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Just a note, but if you don't hold on to them for more than a year then you calculate them like normal income. Long term assets (>= 1 year hold) are calculated at the reduced rate.

But I also agree that you shouldn't have to calculate it. I'm in favor of return free filing.
It's not just Intuit and H&R Block. A lot of us small business owners don't want the IRS knowing every detail of our businesses in order to just magically send us a pre-filled return each year.

The current tax system places responsibility on you, the investor, to tabulate all of your gains and losses, but it also gives you the freedom to invest in complex and unusual transactions like coins in the first place. Don't be so quick to assume you could give up the one without giving up the other, were it not for those pesky TurboTax lobbyists.
Want to live forever? First, you must die
That's the point. In an idealized economic abstraction, banning pollution (more accurately, creating a cause of action for damages in connection with any level of pollution) would force the cost to be internalized. You can let phosphorous from your farm leach into the river, but any downstream property owners can sue you for reducing their property values by causing algal blooms. If the value created by your farm exceeds the externalized cost of pollution, you keep your farm, pay off the property owners, and pass the costs of that into people who buy your meat and vegetables. When the costs of pollution are priced into those products, the market will properly balance the benefits of farm products against the harms of farm pollution.

But that's wildly impractical. Hence the existence of the EPA, which is tasked with managing pollution, and using central planning to balance the benefits of productive activity against the harms of pollution.
Environmental protection isn't free, but comes at an economic cost. Too much for the benefits and you will have a net loss.
Please confirm that my understanding is correct. You have a number of "stupid" terms in Lagrangian, whose cumulative effect must be small in order for the whole theory to make sense at all. This small cumulative effect can be achieved in 2 ways: 1) each term is small 2) terms more or less cancel out. When each term is small, we call it naturalness, otherwise it's fine-tuning. If this is correct, then... say you have N random varaibles, and you know that the sum is small. What is more likely: that each of N variables is small, or that the sum is small because it just happens to be small? :)
Since price is a property of the concept of freedom, the price property cannot have a value which itself is the concept of freedom. The compiler will bail because the inner concept of freedom would have an incomplete type.

The way around this is to define the price property as a reference to the concept of freedom. That way you hold a memory addy to the concept of freedom within the struct and can compile and run your program with impunity.
Anyone know where I could license/purchase hi-res LIDAR scans for use in game development?
Mobileye, although both now Intel
In your view, is there any way to curtail a bloated bureaucracy without being accused of trying to destroy it completely?

Can a bureaucracy ever get too big, or to the point that its negative effects outweigh its positives?

> “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” - Grover Norquist

This quote doesn't imply desire to destroy it, but capability. The desire of people being more powerful than their government is not a radical idea.
Some people without a specific cultural understanding happen to translate the content perfectly well, too. Experience and constant mastering of translational skills is what counts. If experienced and skilled translators are cooperating in developing process, it could be more than possible to get to a human performance.
Prime minister wants Finland to adopt Artificial Intelligence at scale
They tried seceding about 160 years ago. There was a huge war and about half the country was destroyed.
iainmerrick. You are completely and utterly incorrect. Read hardins original article. Hardin is addressing Everything that is "common."

I can prove it to you. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full

This is the original article by Hardin. Ctrl-F oceans. Then Ctrl-F pollution. You will see that Hardin directly references pollution and oceans as commons.

If you read the entire article you will see that he talks about population control more than he talks about land.
> expertise in chess transfers to other disciplines

Some scientists think understanding quantum theories make them sudden experts in economics. I am always amazed at the arrogance displayed where humility should be the norm.
We’re a huge country, of course you’re going to find lots of issues. The US is also really good at publicizing the bad stuff we do. But I guess American hate is all the rage these days.
+1 for the Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro.

I use one. Relatively expensive, but brilliant -- very much my favourite ever switch and keyboard.
While fun, it would also mean they would be publicly disclosing vulnerabilities in their own systems and then deliberately withholding the patch, just to put on this shpiel in order to appear as the underdog?
> During the immediate period prior to the EPA,

By "immediate period" you mean a couple of hundred years before 1970. English courts started ignoring property rights (e.g. the right of downstream riparian users to undiminished water quality from upstream activities) in the 1700s or so during the first industrial revolution.
> This is antithetical to science. If you're promising a breakthrough discovery, you're approaching the experiment with bias.

Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one.

To take an example to the extreme, if it were just about science, science might decide to convert the entire mass of the Earth into a particle collider and kill us all in the process.
I had that thought too. I think there are ways to mitigate this with graffiti post limits for a set length of time once it becomes a problem though
AcOP vs. hackers: Coordinating cloud, edge, and fog computing for safe data
re: Art in emerging tech.
Though "VR" has arguably been emerging for many years, I do occasionally see glimmers of what we once saw in the past when I load up random apps for the HTC Vive. That community still feels like it produces some very artistic work from time to time.
I can really recommend the book. It's a lot of fun. Arguably one of the first picaresque novels.
A good list of customers here:

https://www.movidius.com/news
Mattis is linked to Theranos’s massive fraud and nobody wants to talk about it
without paywall - http://archive.is/cHYve
If it's just Bitcoin named in the bylaw, what's to stop the mining enterprises from switching to mining another cryptocurrency?
Couldn't you use the cost of operation? I figure you could either keep track of it yourself or use a standard depreciation rate on equipment and electricity costs (since probably few people tracked that). Would be like running a business, which you kind of are as a miner. But you do make a point that this is a difficult thing and coinbase can't really track it.

BUT from what I understand, people leave a lot of coins on exchanges and never transfer them back to personal wallets. Coinbase can track that.
LOL @ the bright green on black terminal pictures. How shall I say it, it feels very "l33t". Too bad they didn't use more normal terminal colours, it would improve readability IMO.
> Gell-Mann Amnesia

Except this is totally not true.

Unless you are an expert (Which you imply you are not) then it's totally irrelevant.

Here it's called appling common sense. You are totally missing the real issue.

Why don't you apply common sense to other articles? This is absolutely not Gell-Mann Amnesia.

Common sense is knowing the Russians will KNOW a rare nerve agent used on a ex-spy in England will be found out and it repercussions would be huge.

Common sense is knowing the real story is not being told.

Gell-Mann Amnesia would be knowing what the real story is. (A faction of the Russia military is making a play? Someone in the Russian machine over extended? etc)
At least 4 dead in catastrophic FIU pedestrian bridge collapse; 9 rescued
The national mapping agency of the country you're interested in I would expect.

For the UK, it's the Ordnance Survey (https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk)
> Because, historically, many important discoveries (I would guess the majority) came from things people thought weren't terribly important. Often things that most thought had no value at all.

Or a massive case of "hmm, that's odd". Like Fleming noticing that bacteria were not growing near certain molds.
Well all government wages are taxpayer money... but to answer your question. The original intention of the law may have been one thing, but enterprising people are always looking for loopholes. Life hacking is the original hacking after all. And some folks are more ambitious on the scale they're willing to go. At this point the status quo is so traditional, you get to do this if you become sheriff. If managed "right", it's quite a nice perk and people aren't willingly going to give up perks when their number comes up.

I mean in the story this sheriff had to take out $150,000 loan because when the last sheriff died his estate got to keep the budget. The new sheriff probably didn't mind all that much, because he knew long term he could pay that loan off and make hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of dollars if he could hold on to the office long term.
From what I see in Alabama's laws (https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/2009/Title14/Chapter6/C...), it's more that there is a severe lack of "who watches the watchmen" set up in the laws, leading to what I see as the corruption described in the article.

There is a section that says that yes, the sheriff has the duty to feed the prisoners. There is a section that dictates the amount per capita. There is a brief section on supervision (14-6-41 -- the Board of Corrections and county commission in theory should supervise the feeding).

There is no section that I see so far that says the sheriff is supposed to pocket the change. There is, however, a section in 14-6-41 dictating that the sheriff doesn't have to create a daily record of food, though. So there's no audit trail.

Basically, it's a system that is very loose, the state gives the sheriff money, and that's it. Thus if the Board of Corrections and county commission "look the other way" on this sort of setup, the sheriff could easily pocket "cost savings". Alabama is not exactly known for its lack of corruption in government, so this story doesn't surprise me.

(Added pet peeve note: I really dislike media articles that reference "the law" without even providing a fleeting reference to what "the law" is. It's possible I missed a statute that more toes to the NPR story, but NPR sure isn't helping me look up what they are talking about with that article.)
Then you are objecting to a strawman. "This experiment promises interesting results" is different from "I promise that this experiment will yield interesting results". As in, it's a completely different definition.

Hence the the inclusion of "at least" in the source quote, which wouldn't make sense alongside the other definition. See the dictionary links that have been posted multiple times.
> The proof of a theorem can be memorized without any understanding just as easily as algebraic rules.

Sure, but in practice students who rely purely on memorization can't answer questions that go beyond what's directly covered in textbooks.
Matias switches are knockoffs of the classic Alps switches you might find in an older apple, dell or SGI board. However their tacticle is nowhere near as good as classic brown alps. They also have a reputation for collecting dirt, causing them to need to be cleaned to stay in good working order.

My suggestion, just go with cherry or their knockoffs unless you really really want to use a classic set of alps keycaps.
Feels like this needs to be a 3D map. 2 dimensions isn't quite cutting it.
Yarn accidentally removed from all Node.js docker images
No material benefit. For every 0.8 dollars they give the federal government they take 1.

Only benefit at this point is geopolitical stability.
I agree it was poorly written.

I believe the intent was to say:

A) We have recording from Cuba, therefore there's proof of ultrasonic noise.

B) This noise we have is in the audible spectrum, but we have reason to suspect it's from the interaction of two ultrasonic frequencies that together produce a very whiney audible frequency

C) Ultrasonic noise can be used for spying and voice-injection, so there's a potential motive for the US to use such technology at an embassy.
Similar to how no plan survives contact with the enemy, no well-structured system survives contact with the real world. I'm not defending Linux, since I'm sure it could be better, but every large, mature system I've ever worked in has had structural deficiencies.
They say they removed a small number, I’d like to know how many, because scanning over quickly I didn’t see even remotely as much porn as I expected. This is a scan of front pages, but still.
No offense taken. But I'm not sure if this is objective or an another point of view. I do not think in terms of strings; with regex I actually describe what syntax my writing has and use that for conversion. Obviously, I cannot manage random mixed-style codes or entire grammar that way (though some flexibility exists). But for a homogeneous style it is pretty simple -- imo simpler than getting used to yet another IDE with its can and cannot-s.

Since I may use 2-3 [non-web] languages at the same time, viable IDE options may go down to zero. I like how regex and other vim-specific features empower my typing enough to not use what constrains me in my toolset.
Which leads to one of my favorite programming jokes:

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Google Cobalt: A small-footprint platform for a subset of HTML5/CSS/JS
so while it's not exactly the all in one service you describe, you can do something similar already:

http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/

to design your layout, then

http://builder.swillkb.com/

to design a layer case, files go to a laser cutting service,

then you would need a controller of some sort (commonly something like a https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/), switches, diodes, usb ports, etc.

then hand wire everything together.

tmk/qmk is more or less a defacto standard in custom keyboard firmware:

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware

here are some examples of people generating firmware with webtools, I don't know what they use on the backend.

https://www.massdrop.com/configurator/ergodox

http://qmk.thevankeyboards.com/
Those stacks aren't popping out water vapour. Check the size of the stacks and the factory - there's no scrubbers or fractionation columns preprocessing the waste gasses.

Paper mills are very polluting enterprises - the water you're seeing is a thin sheet with a mostly laminar flow. It is opaque. This is not normal. The level of waste solutes in the raw ejecta is absurdly high, and is comprised of decomposed organic material & high oxygen content which leads to algal blooms, bleaches, heavy metals, chelating agents, etc.

I think the burning barge is pretty self explanatory.
GitHub gives you the option to allow/disallow forking for private repos at both the repo and organization level.

https://help.github.com/articles/allowing-people-to-fork-pri...
It's pretty normal and expected for those of us that spent significant time on an actual VT220 or similar. Maybe the choice was just driven by someone similar.
I know it's in "flyover country" for most of you, but if you ever find yourself in Kansas City, the National Toy and Miniature Museum [0] has exhibit after exhibit of miniature woodworking (and miniature ceramics, and miniature metalworking and miniature textiles, etc) that is well worth the $5 entry fee.

[0]http://www.toyandminiaturemuseum.org/
That reminded me of two quotes:

> If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

-- C. S. Lewis

> A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

-- Isaac Newton
An explanation could that the "conservatives" prominent in the US now have strayed far away from being actually conservative.
This makes sense if you are writing an absolutely tiny library where the interface (the surface area) is a substantial fraction of the whole. In most projects of any appreciable scale, the user facing functions and types are a tiny, tiny fraction of the code and complexity of the whole. So no, this argument does not even come close to justifying using C instead of C++.

As few people seem to realize, it's common for even the C standard library to be implemented in C++. Having to implement all of the printf variants (there's 8, I think, at least) using C macros is horrible. Instead, the actual implementation of printf/fprintf etc happens in a function template. You then have one line extern C functions implemented via calling this template, which are declared in the header (and defined in the .cpp, along with the template).
Style Guide-Driven Development – the Android Pattern Library
I notice something in the NASA press release that is getting less attention, but I find fascinating. Apparently it was found that Scott Kelly's telomeres lengthened in space. It's hypothesized this is due to caloric restriction and exercise aboard the ISS, but it's noted that they returned to near-normal length shortly after he landed. Perhaps these are some effects of microgravity or radiation? Could space tourism become an anti-aging industry? I did some further searching on aging studies on the ISS and found only one as yet incomplete Japanese study of nematodes
Also relevant, though maybe deviating a bit from engineering: Principles of Neural Science by Kandel and Schwartz https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande...
52M isn’t chump change in funding. Glad to know VC’s think it’s a big problem.

Personally I am working on an Airtable/excel like product but rather than a spreadsheet, you can easily make structured hierarchies. Think rows, which could have more rows, or link to other cells. A very easy way to capture relational data.

You can just start writing stuff in cells Define headings and data types later. Like git, it stores version history, let’s you work offline and let’s you sync with others. Let’s you upload markdown, or pictures and files into cells. Define a stricter schemas later. Restrict editing/viewing of cells based on formulas so others can’t easily break what you’ve created.

I wrote a little manifesto at orows.com and working on a prototype. Once I have about a 100 users, I plan to quit my job and work on it full time.

Think github, but rather than files, an object graph.
> but would the stars align again for such a huge amount of funding, just for supersymmetry?

Maybe not.

What we really need is China to build a massive new supercollider as a national prestige project, to show their parity with the West. That might even spur some competitive spirit and get the West back into the game.
A sane option is to deny GIT access while still allowing the primary account to download a copy of the repo for a set amount of days.

Instead they play "data roach motel" and hold your data hostage. Very uncool.