skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day, Shopify distributed a standalone version of their store server so people could write themes. It was pretty neat. I could see this being used for something similar.
Pony is one of the new languages that intrigue me the most. Its performance seems very good, but how would you compare its expressiveness to e.g. Python?
Please add a way to set the invoice's email address and cc address vi API. Also the invoice might need to go to multiple email addresses.

Most of our clients have an accounts payable department that's different from the main contact email.
https://www.google.de/search?q=choose+boring+technology :)
1) It's anecdotal evidence, so I'm not trying to argue you're wrong with it; it's simply not convincing enough even to me to try to do so.

2) You're making a lot of assumptions. I can tell you without asking her that she has an account because she was talking about the subs she likes the most, such as AskReddit and IAmA.

As for commenting and contributing, she -- this specific person -- is extremely introverted (but not tech-savvy -- I know because "family tech support"), so I would be inclined to think not. As for asking her any of those questions, because she is introverted, I don't feel comfortable asking her -- she definitely doesn't want to hear she was being talked about on the internet, even anonymously.

One thought though...I think you have to look at the way she started the discussion "I saw this on AskReddit..." not I saw this on Reddit, or "the internet, this site called Reddit", that sort of thing. She not only expected us (of which I am probably the most tech-savvy and near to the youngest) to understand wtf she was talking about, but to understand she was talking about a subreddit. And I know one person (looking at my mother-in-law) who had no clue, but there were other people probably 5-15 years older than me who did at least a passable job of looking like they understood.
They are, but people use their debit cards for ATMs and mostly use credit cards for other transactions (for those that do have credit cards, which is a majority of people). All of my credit cards same with some type of pin for using them at ATMs for cash advances. I couldn’t tell you a single one of them.
> Each timestep advances the game by 4 frames, and each observation is the pixels on the screen for the current frame, a shape [224, 320, 3] array of uint8 values. Each action is which buttons to hold down until the next frame (a shape [12] array of bool values, one for each button on the Genesis controller where invalid button combinations (Up+Down or accessing the start menu) are ignored ... During training you can access a few variables from the memory of the game through the info dictionary. During testing, these variables are not available.

So yep, the RGB image.
I wonder if they'll force users to purchase dongles for their new desktop machines, too.
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I find it hard to remember if Google Docs originally had tags instead of folders. Or if I just imagined it. I can’t find it through googling.

I would rather use tags than folders, but can’t find good support in an operating system.

Google used to be the closest since you could use the search bar as a command line and search queries as tags. There are no folders. But they changed now that try to guess what you’re looking for rather than what you type.

OSX has tags, but their search is slow and inaccurate.

The closest is I’ve been trying to use Gmail as an organizer with inbox infinity rather than inbox zero. Nothing organized other than tags. Using search to find anything.
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It won't help you, here is one example; http://www.hackingarticles.in/set-bypass-outbound-rule-windo...
Google Drive used to be based around tags, not hierarchies. It was wonderful. Then as it matured and catered to more and more 'normal' people it introduced the concept of folders. The folders were initially tags 'really' - the same file could exist in multiple folders at the same time. But they made that harder and harder, and now I think it's hierarchical folders through and through.

I miss the old days.
How do you make sure things are tagged properly though? A file must reside within a folder, even if it's a default location, which forces a user to think about the folder where the file is stored. With tags, a user could very easily forget one tag on a file, and now any filtering on that tag is never going to be aware of the new file existing.

What if you find another picture somewhere from your <Paris> trip, but you forget to add the <Travel> tag? Or you have a tag for "cool architecture pics" or something and you miss tagging one of your Paris pics with this when you upload?

There just seems like so much friction in properly keeping tags organized, despite how much extremely better the "read" UI is for someone browsing or searching file collections.
Indian here.

India's regulation love is mind-boggling and matched only by Venezuella or North Korea. Only difference being that people beat the system no matter what.

My family decided to start a fully self-funded private school in 2004. Here are the steps.

1. First we need to get NOC from the local government which we will get only if we show the land, building etc. Most important factor in NOC is "need". So we need to show paperwork that there are not enough schools nearby for the projection of new students over 10 years and all that.

Clearly, you can't argue that "my school would be better". (We paid $10k as bribe to get this)

2. There is lot of regulation related to teacher's salaries and qualification, teacher-student ratio etc. Fee regulation etc. but relatively easier to get with very less bribe.

3. Right to Education Law (RTE) kicks in.

We have to do tremendous amount of paper work and give 25% of our seats to government for free which the government allocates based on complex lottery that uses caste/income etc. Given that our school caters to lower middle class a plumbers kid is paying to subsidise education of electrician's son because the former did not win the RTE lottery.

We have to increase fees of remaining 75% students to cover the expenditure on these 25%.

The government promised a small money per seat by law. However for last 4 years we have not got a penny. The amount is any ways very little.

But then RTE has various other provisions and the violation of that results into withdrawal of NOC, closure of school and criminal proceeding against the principal/management.

Here are some of the provisions:
- There should be X toilets per 100 students.
- You can not dismiss any student for any reason. (not just 25% RTE students but all 100% students)
- You can not set any admission criteria what so ever. No tests, interviews, family background nothing. Pure lottery only. (For the 75% students)

Most parents know this and will simply refuse to pay fees after we give admission to their kids. All we can do is to beg.

4. There is 100% exemption to any school that is run by management whose members are Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Jain or Sikh. (which means RTE applies to your school only if the management is Hindu or Jewish)

5. RTE resulted into closure of thousands of schools in India and mushrooming of Church run schools.

My family closed the school in 2016. There are various court cases still going around this.
I doubt this could ever be used to arbitrarily read minds. Even if you could do the measurements without the targer knowing, you would have to somehow correlate the target's real thoughts with those measurements. In the article, the targets voluntarily provide that correlation to measurements during a training phase. It might be the case that some neuro-physical patterns might be common across targets, but that seems very unlikely.

If the target is in your custody and you coerce him to give training data, then he could just give garbage data. You tell him to think "fish barrel neuton whale", but he really thinks "somebody once told me".

Do sub-vocalizations only occur for certain categories of thoughts? I suspect that facial memories do not induce sub-vocalizations.
Sometimes you don't need to redo everything from scratch to change things.

There are a number of problems in scientific publishing. Two big ones are:

1) Distribution hurdles and paywalls imposed by rent seeking journals - who knows how much this has prevented innovation and scientific advancement in the last 20 years

2) Easily replicating experiments / easily verifying accuracy and significance of results - this is related to for instance making data used in research more easily accessible and making it easier to spot p-value hacking

Fixing these might not require a completely new format for papers. Or it could. I can envision solutions both ways.

I really like what the folks from Fermat's Library have been doing. They have been developing tools that are actually useful at the present time and push us in the right direction. I use their arXiv chrome extension https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian all the time for extracting references and bibtex. At the same time they are playing with entirely new concepts - they just posted a neat article on medium about a new unit for academic publishing https://medium.com/@fermatslibrary/a-new-unit-of-academic-pu...
I wouldn't be surprised if the future compilers would optimize it away as well, since ffast-math basicly makes NaN's equivalent to undefined behaviour.
> And yet continual rent for a place to sleep (whether paid to banks and cities, or abstracted to private landlords) is also literally taking money from people by force of law.

I concur. And we, IMO, ought to have a CIVIL way of determining land rights lest we go back to tribalism and might makes right determinations (individual violence).

>So long as the overriding monetary environment remains a biased towards centralized extraction

And how do we pay for the resources needed to civilly determine and enforce the outcomes of claims to land? Whatever government oversees the process, local, county, state, or federal will need a way to extract something of value from those governed which is why we have fiat currency and why taxes must be paid in the form of currency controlled and dictated by said governments.

>I'm personally against BI in that pouring more gasoline on the inflationary fire is not going to put it out, but deflationary economics have never been popular

I agree with you. Rather than collect taxes to force value extraction the government could just inflate the money supply by paying those that operate it with newly created dollars. No taxation needed. I think this is a worse solution as it's easy for loose money policies to snowball. People at least feel the pinch and pain of taxes to help restrain and reign in the cost(s) of government.

>there most certainly is a libertarian argument in that those who wish to distance themselves from that technology should be able to, rather than being forced to cope within it.

I believe people should be allowed to conduct business using whatever currency they wish except for paying taxes. They'll need to obtain or convert their currency into the fiat currency of choice.

I heard there's a Libertarian paradise East of Ethiopia and Kenya for those purists that can't accept compromise.
I was under the impression this was used in case of a dispute, they could go back to the receipt to determine if it was your signature or not. Not sure how often that is actually used.

Apparently a lot of cards are dropping the requirement anyway. [1]

[1] - https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/signatures-soon...
They should have stuck to attacking MBS, and brought up the fact that the 9/11 hijackers had direct support from Saudi diplomatic personnel.

Attacking Apple for providing well above market pay for jobs that rescue chinese laborers from brutal and dangerous rural farm jobs just makes the writer sound entitled.
I personally don't interpret "do one thing, and do it well" to mean "do one small thing, and do it well"; the "one thing" could be as big as a programming language, or a display server, or whatever. Perl's "one thing" would be being a scripting language; it should be a scripting language, and it should be the best scripting language it can be. It just shouldn't also do a bunch of other stuff, like also being an RDBMS.

That philosophy could also be applied recursively; Perl should do just one thing; it should be a good scripting language. The Perl JSON module should just do one thing; it should be a good JSON encoder and decoder. That doesn't mean it should be simple; the JSON module should have as much complexity as necessary to make it a good and useful tool.

I do recognize that my interpretation isn't a great _definition_, because you can construe most things to be UNIX-y if you just expand what "one thing" it should be good at enough, but I do think it's useful to keep in mind when designing something.

That said, I have never written Perl (other than a very tiny amount of Perl 6), and don't know exactly what about it convinced you, but I wouldn't mind a discussion about it if you clarify.
You can run ubuntu natively without a VM on windows 10. It works really well.

Also configuring Linux is not the beast that it was years ago. Even on laptops it is fairly straightforward.

I feel the pain here too. It feels like macbooks have stagnated the last 5 years. I am struggling to do java / microservices development on my MBP. I just don't have the RAM and cores to run a lot of server processes.
Billing (recurring or one time) is a transactional activity and should be monetized as such. There should be a per invoice or per customer type of rate. This whole % of revenue seems crazy to me. There is no inherent risk involved like payment processing. You can get paid no matter what in a tx model...

Based on what I see in the market with other billing/subscription providers, they all do the same thing (rev share). Since these businesses are not the payment gateway they try to do a revenue grab with the % share.

I hoped Stripe would be able to disrupt this by already being positioned as a payment gateway and offer this on top in a transactional model....

Hope they rethink this strategy. And no first $1MM isnt going to cut it. Any serious business will see this as a growth challenge. Backend billing flows are challenging to build and once you are committed to this you are locked in for quite sometime from the roadmap perspective.
Oh, I completely agree. I think what soured me is when something like OpenSSL pushes a critical bug. It affects basically everything, so you're close to guaranteed to learn what machines are snowflakes.
As in the case of Google Talk/Meet?
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I hope you like our product and we appreciate your feedback very much.
>In fact, medical devices seem actually counter to your argument. No one says an automatic defibrillator's decisions as to when to fire are going to be as good as a human doctor, and in fact these things have non-zero (often fatal) false positive rates. But they save lives, so we use them anyway.

Yes, we would also tolerate Teslas if they were critical life support technology. How many lives has it saved BTW?

>and in fact these things have non-zero (often fatal) false positive rate

What is non zero? Ten to the power -20?
Tags are great BUT

It's pretty important to realize that a files position is merely it's default tag (and you can tag it further with many different types of systems like extended attributes, as I think both Gnome and KDE have used at times).

Without that default tag you have a mess.

It's also important to note that Tags have a very high maintenance cost of their own.

Duplicate, inconsistently applied and redundant tags are a aggressive cancer in any of these systems.

No you can't just ignore them as they make it more and more difficult to accomplish even basic viewing /scanning over files for the system and the user.

Many many users have trouble even doing basic maintenance on their file locations (that default tag) that makes a tag based system even more prone to failure.
Mbs is not trying to make himself look like a positive transformative figure, he actually is one. The war in Yemen is equally the fault of Saudi Arabia and Iran but I don't hear anyone calling for sanctions on Iran. I am astounded that such ignorance could come from one of the worlds pillars of higher education. Consolidation of power such as that recently performed by mbs is routine and it was done in a very humane way indeed compared to other instances. When you consider that not properly consolidating power could lead to the compromising of the state and perhaps set the groundwork for the destruction of the state, his actions seem quite reasonable
Some of us just really like nice cars without signaling wealth. I recently bought a Hyundai Genesis even though I liked and could afford the better Mercedes Benz because I preferred to have a non-luxury brand. It's a New England thing.
I can't see how that can be true. Prior to chip+pin, you could still withdraw money from an ATM with a card+pin, so how exactly did the security change?

In both cases, you can dispute transactions with the banks, and in both cases, the banks are going to open their defence with "but how did the thief know your PIN?" but that does not make it clear-cut, nor does it mean the banks will always win their argument.
Though whether an unethical offer is generous or a rip-off depends on how much you value you place on the personal integrity you have to trade for it.
What do you suggest? What features would you use to give priority to a trade?
The original study https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25975 that prompted the SSC article has an interesting discussion of this result in their supplement:

"A study using 14C birthdating on sorted NeuN+ nuclei suggested that hundreds of new neurons are generated per day in the adult human hippocampus, with little decline with age. The results obtained from this method differ from the data presented here and other histology studies that show a sharp decline in markers of newly formed neurons during early postnatal development. Birthdating with 14C relies on the isolation of neuronal nuclei using NeuN antibodies, but subpopulations of oligodendrocytes and microglia can also express NeuN. 14C could also possibly become incorporated into DNA through methylation or DNA repair independent of cell division, processes that have been shown to occur at higher rates in the hippocampus. The proposed addition of new neurons to the adult caudate nucleus using this method is not supported by other work in the human or BrdU labeling in adult macaques. The 14C method is an innovative approach to perform birthdating in postmortem human samples, but it has not been validated in animal studies."
Of course, it means you don't have to live in a large city. For a lot of people the reduced cost of living more than makes up the 30% paycut.

If you're already at the top marginal tax rate, saving 20-30 grand a year can be equivalent to earning 40-45 grand a year, and it's not crazy to think living outside the city could save that much.
IoT devices are typically behind NAT firewalls and thus not first-class Internet devices, making it difficult for IoT devices to connect directly to each other (rather than through a third party). I'm aware of workarounds, but I haven't yet seen evidence that the workarounds are reliable. Connectivity must be approximately as reliable as the user's Internet connection in order to gain mass adoption.
Was the history that peaceful before the British got there? I was under the impression that the sub-continent always had a decent amount of fighting and unrest
How to do a re-org
Why aren’t these firms insuring against this risk? Seems like any other risk that can be managed - pay premiums and so that a third party would fund any erroneous losses.
Not sure how I feel about it. One of my existing plan got duplicated for some reason.
What would be the effects of Venus crashing into the sun next?
Didn't Windows try to do this starting with 7? It has "libraries". It was awful and I just wanted the real file system back.
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I hadn't realized that they didn't sell them with just the integrated GPU anymore. Combined with the reduced battery, that seems like a poor decision.

As far as I'm aware, you've never been able to fully disable the dGPU. On my previous 2011 MBP, the dGPU failed. You could twiddle some UEFI variables to prevent switching to it so the system would boot, but it didn't actually cut power to it so it just ran hot and the battery died in 3 hours. Also, all the DisplayPorts were attached to the dGPU, so you couldn't plug up external monitors anymore if you did that. Units with the dGPU have worse battery life when there's a monitor plugged up, because it forces a switch to the dGPU.
This is why I would never work on this type of software! I just don't have the nerve.
To play devil’s advocate: if your faith in your government is such that you’d like to allocate your wealth in another country, you may also be motivated to hide that wealth for reasons that have nothing to do with corruption. There can be reasons for discretion and anonymity other than money laundering.
Thanks. From that link:

The reason shimmers exist at all is that some banks have
apparently not correctly implemented the chip card
standard, known as EMV (short for Europay, Mastercard
and Visa).

Ok, so my assumption was right—in theory—but of course they screw up the implementation!
At least show your working on why it's bad. Currently you're coming off as someone that's heard something is bad and repeating it without verifying
You don't need to do any of those things. You can subsist on liquid diet-drinks. Plenty of people never leave their homes, either by choice or because for some reason they can't. Plenty of people don't have cars. (I didn't until I was 36 years old.)

But a large fraction of people would find their lives made much, much worse if they were unable to eat solid food, to leave their house, or to drive a car.

Exactly the same goes for sex.

Brief reminder of the context for this discussion: the person the OP is about had a child despite not having much money, various people here said you shouldn't be having children if you're too short of money, others pointed out that not having children is sometimes difficult, and that is when user rubidium suggested that total abstinence from sex might be the answer.

So we're talking here about whether it's reasonable to say that poor people should just never have sex.

I guess opinions on that might vary. My opinion is: duh, no, what an absolutely terrible idea. You don't literally have to have sex any more than you literally have to have friends or holidays or music, but just like any of those it's a hell of a thing to say whole classes of people should just do without.
I am curious about the long-term ramifications of this law. How much work will be required to delete users from backups?
You mean seizure of land? That's quite a risky thing to do. Plenty of now 3rd world countries destroyed themselves doing that. If people can't trust the government to enforce property rights, then how can they invest in property safely? That could then limit investing in business that owns property.

Maybe it would be safe for the economy if it's done according to a law which is not retroactively applied to existing owners. Something like requiring new owners to be personally identified before they can even be granted ownership. Then there's no seizing required.
The whole point of doing this is that no one knows you own property in London. If you keep 130 million dollars worth of bitcoin in your wallet literally anyone can see it.
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