skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd start by not calling your own friends "conformist" and "lazy". And instead, try to understand where they come from.

We won't solve problems by shouting at each other.
I just got in trouble at work today for booting my computer from an external drive to bypass the antivirus laden computer I have to use normally.
There's a relevant and insightful thread on Twitter posted by David Roberts here:

https://twitter.com/drvox/status/988144274720964608

His thread references the "debate" over climate change, and his point is that the debate most people participate in isn't truly a debate over facts, but rather a debate over trust. That matters of complexity are too distant from any one individual to have direct exposure-to, so in order to form a comprehensive viewpoint on anything, one much choose whom to trust. And that it's this part of the process of "understanding" which has been exploited. That people have been encouraging people to trust untrustworthy sources for information which doesn't necessarily square with the scientific evidence.

In this light point, when facts are irrelevant -- and if fake videos are used to compromise the voices of those which deserve our trust then I fear for those advocating fact-backed positions. It's clear they'll face an uphill battle.
If it's the same clip I watched, one of the (white) male passers-by asks what the (young, white) lady is doing and she says outright that she's stealing the bike. He proceeds to offer his help!
My thought is that it is much like what to do about any new technological threat, for example too many calories or too much information or too many distractions while driving. Bad things happen, and after about a generation coping mechanisms get developed, and some people adopt them more successfully than others. One is reminded of how populations adapt to new diseases.

One valid question, though, is whether or not the pace of introducing new technological threats to society has increased, such that we see something less like the Old World adaptation to the Black Death or malaria, and something more like the New World indigenous populations failure to adapt to getting all the Old World diseases introduced one after the other in quick succession.
Show HN: A Blazingly fast diff tool for database tables dumped as csv files
I'm guessing because there is less availability for charging during the day when you are at work, rather than at night when you are home.
This same argument has been made countless times. "Linux has no chance in the corporate world. HP has thousands of paid devs working on HP-UX."

It turned out there were a greater number of devs NOT at HP... and today, there are more devs NOT at Facebook.
Reminds me of Brave New World.
Often times the output of ML/AI will result in writing code for an expert system.

The system doesn't actually use ML or AI in realtime. ML just validates the correct conditionals and decisions are used in the software.

Most ML models can be distilled down using the Pareto principle anyway, and the 80/20 rule written into the code.

A politically correct and high-integrity story to tell investors might be "We use machine learning regression analysis to validate our expert systems are operating on optimal statistical models."
If you find yourself semi-lucid within a dream, it's beneficial to immediately try to "anchor" yourself in your surroundings, by slowing turning around in-place, touching yourself, smelling things; activate all of your senses and your grounding to the dream will be much stronger allowing you to stay lucid and control the narrative.
Sure thing...

from multiprocessing import Pool
with Pool(8) as p:
p.map(function, sequence))
It's a miserable program that started off bad and never really got any better. Only thing worse than using iTunes is using iTunes on the PC.
Splitting hairs, yes that uses bitwise operators, you can get away with either a modulus operator or a bitwise AND operator.
I don't think that was running through the project author's mind as a factor.

It is interesting to just know the reasoning. Nobody is bashing competition. It's just that GitHub has more mindshare and as such, contributors/forks are more likely, and there are more 3rd party integrations.

Again, competition is good for everyone, but let's not bash someone who is just curious why a project author would come to choose GitLab.
How does one implement a price curve? By supply & demand, it is just the result of energy production + energy usage. Are you saying that California has somehow made energy scarce during the day or are you talking about price manipulation?
IMHO. This is mostly integration tests. If you have methods that have calculations or other complex logic, then write unit tests for those. Integration tests and unit tests are complementary. The mix depends on the type of code you are testing.
> You haven't really gained 100k. You have gained 100k multiplied by your percentage of equity, i.e. the amount you have paid so far into your mortgage principal. Assuming it's a 30-year mortgage, that will be around 30%, so around 30k.

No, you've gained 100k. Your asset is worth $300k, your mortgage liability is $160k minus however much you've paid off; your book value is $140k (plus a bit) where before it was $40k. The bank may "own" the other 70% of your house but they don't get to increase your loan amount because it's gone up; you pocket 100% of the rise in the house's value (unless you end up defaulting on the mortgage).
Google CEO Pichai Set to Cash in $380M Award This Week
Yep. All the currencies you want. Even bitcoin.
It will even take into account your default currency when displaying it's symbol.
For example, for me Canadian dollar is simply "$", but US dollar is "US$". For US it will be the other way around: "$" for USD and "CA$" for CAD.
Indirectly through it's vast dependency tree.
It would be different if Apple didn't chain their mobile computer (iPhone, iPad) to this horrendous piece of software.

MTP exists for a reason, as does USB storage. But "Think Different" means doing worse and nonstandard.
There is no such thing as "no code". You can hide it behind pretty interfaces but in the end, you are just using images instead of words.

And with images, people think of children books, easy, right? In reality, as soon as you introduce a tiny bit of complexity, it becomes closer to Chinese. In Chinese, you can still see the little drawings, but that's just the background of a highly complex language.

Whether you code in an English-like text based language or a proto-Chinese-like picture based language doesn't change the fact that you are coding. Most people end up preferring the "text" approach that is more adapted to computers, and ultimately easier.
Good question. I definitely should go into more detail as to what IOpipe is doing under the hood. But to answer your question, IOpipe is an agent that wraps your lambda handler and gathers metrics about it. In this article, I use the ProfilerPlugin, which additionally wraps the function with Python's cProfile profiler. The profile I download from the IOpipe dashboard comes directly from cProfile. Will revise the article to go into more detail, thanks for the feedback.
Negative price signals that cause solar or wind production curtailment is essentially throwing clean energy away.

Negative prices are a helpful market signal, but must be combined with battery storage requirements.
From what I have read on the tesla forums, batteries degrade much faster when fully charged and fully discharged. Both of these are actively discouraged by the manuals and software. For example, you have the option of setting the max charge when plugging it in which most people set to something like 80% as they normally don't need the full range.
Who says that OP isn't happy there is competition? I am. I'm also curious on the reasoning.
Goldman Sachs Hires Crypto Trader Justin Schmidt to Lead Digital Assets
The cheap washers are not $650, that's still an expensive washer. The cheapest new washers are more like $350. And probably not any less reliable that the $650 washer, just less neat buttons, no glass top. Yeah, probably less reliable than the speed queen.

Hoses are quite the racket. Because of where I put the washer, I had to get extra long ones.
In this case I'd argue that apples is "what an average person would do". That's the comparison the article is making.

Millions of Americans are leveraged in their homes. Relatively few trade on margin. I think that makes it a valid comparison, even if it's not a fair comparison.
The dashboards are a detail, but visibility into topline service metrics are absolutely critical. There's a huge difference between "I need to configure a bunch of stuff and do some complicated things first", and "I get them automatically".
Naive Bayes is machine learning. A very simple machine learning method, but machine learning.

Also, the argument that it's pure statistics doesn't really fly - support vector machines, random forests or deep learning multilayer perceptrons are just as much statistics as probabilistic graphical models.
> I think someone has built over 10 megawatts but I'm not sure.

GE just announced a 12MW turbine, which will start appearing in real world projects in 2020.
It depends on the situation. If the queries you're writing deal are heavily integrated with application models and logic, then using the ORM is probably the way to go (especially with the ORM does some client side caching and other optimizations). Of course, if you start to see that the ORM's queries underperform compared to raw SQL then you should check to see what SQL the ORM is spitting out. I've seen SQLAlchemy create some very poor queries compared to what would be expected and ended up writing parts of those queries in raw SQL, but those cases are pretty uncommon when most of the logic for the application is simple gets/updates with filter/join conditions.
The EU launches investigation into Apple/Shazam deal
> How will blockchain help in tracking shipments in an accurate, reliable and secure manner and most importantly, how does it stop corruption?

We already had double entry accounting in order to establish immutable book entries but that gives us a problem of a potential multiple sets of books. The publishing of these records to the blockchain via PoW therefore establishes a sort of triple entry system where the Proof of Work idea is intending to prove a single unmodified ledger.

I work IT for a retail manufacturer. We have to track ingredients for every product we create and what products they each go into and to which customers they ship out to. I'd say it's reasonable that we trust our own database but do you? Is it reasonable for you to trust my database? What if there's a huge recall because of a tainted ingredient? What if I found out I'd lose my job or the company would fold because of this recall and maybe I was lied to and told the tainted ingredient is harmless(Im no food scientist)? I think we have enough evidence to show that companies will sometimes alter books and lie to avoid responsibility but not me no, I'd NEVER do such a thing, i'm a good boy who would never get fired for doing such a thing but maybe that's what would get me fired....fuck what do I do? Oh you meant data corruption....yea no one has double spent yet have they?
A recent write-up of some of the political complexities and problems cropping up from China's broadening influence over parts of Europe:

"Greece was one of the early flashpoints for Germany's concern about the growing competition from China. Benefiting from Beijing's large direct investments, Greece blocked last June an EU statement at the United Nations about China's repressive human rights policies."

"Hungary, where China is building a high-speed railway line from Budapest to Belgrade, joined Greece to block another EU statement criticizing China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, after The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against Beijing in July 2016."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/chinas-growing-economic-pres...
Apple’s purchase of Shazam is now under investigation by the EU – The Verge
Idaho state government beefs up cybersecurity
Fusée Gelée – Nintendo Switch / Nvidia Tegra Vulnerability [pdf]
It's a public Montessori elementary school.
The ultimate is when you can jump back and forth between your editor and your terminal without having to grab a mouse touch your trackpad. Tmux is so beautiful for this. I have Atom doing it, but it's a bit clunky.
Every code has side effects. Splitting code into appropriate functions makes those side effects much more managable.
My approach is to make my PC disposable. With all cloud services its a lot easier than it used to be. IE

* Working code in github

* Photos in offline multiple HDD

* Docs in cloud servers and important ones printed out.

This way I dont really care if I get a virus, or gets stolen, or destroyed in fire or HDD crash etc. I actually locked myself out of my encrypted laptop and it didnt really matter - I just reinstalled everything.

I also think anti-virus is more trouble than its worth now, but am more assured as above.
Yep! Exactly that!
Well... at least on one of his 3 screens.
You might want to async the downloading part. It is often faster to download 5 images at once than to download them one after another.

In the choices section you use input("text") properly one place but not others. You use a couple different ways of decoding codes, and the dict way is nicer, but also consistency is nice. Also, I am not sure you handle bad input (default all?)...

Personally, I'd pull the meat out of the loops in main() into functions - GetImageList() and GetImage(). Relatively complex there so it would be easier to read and spot errors in those bits of code in isolation.
* This leads to the power companies naturally feeling rather sour about being forced to credit residents for the power they supply to the grid during low-demand hours. Their costs are staying about the same, but now their revenue stream goes down.*

Time to get rid of coal? What the Duck Curve indicates to me, is that California's grad-scale solar really should be located about 6 hours time difference to the west. How about ocean solar farms located in the plastic laden mid-Pacific gyre? They could be equipped with plastic harvesting equipment.
This is just an aside but why do websites (and browsers) still auto-play video content in this day and age? I thought we ended that disturbing trend..
In which country do you live? UK?
SMS has the advantage of being accessible from a cell tower without a separate data connection. RCS does not. It's like they took all the worst parts of other messaging protocols and put it into one product.
What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer
First look at Google Chrome's UI design refresh
How long to EVs take to charge? Should be pretty simple to put a time delay into the charger to _begin_ charging around 2 AM when energy usage has gone back down again.
It supports the same themes I use for vs-code, which I like. Plus I prefer the minimal window borders.
I think this is the important distinction. These "codeless" tools really just shift the inherent complexities of software development instead of getting rid of them. Anecdotally, I had much harder time learning how to read/understand LabVIEW graphical "code" than I did learning C.
> if Bain, KKR, and Vornado had never come along, Toys 'R' Us wouldn't be doing stellar, but it probably could've muddled through

I'm rarely a defender of leveraged buy-outs, but in this case, I think it was a good thing. Private investors took a moribund business and attempted a turnaround. If they succeeded, everybody would have won. If they failed, a long and tortured slide into irrelevance got aborted and cut short.
No idea if this is was the commenter was implying, but I think the advice is because plenty of apps can send requests in the 1 second initial window as you authenticate your VPN.

In theory, that could be sensitive data or enable a sophisticated attacker to correlate you with your VPN exit (if you were using it for pseudo-anonymity).

I don't think key negotiation is compromised in any way...
Normally, I would say no, but recently, I've been thinking a bit differently on the matter. At minimum a good ad blocker is needed, and even with that some things are getting through. If the general technical experience level of the user is low to medium, I would seriously consider a virus protector.

On the same note, Deep Freeze for those of you who have to deal with a bunch of Windows machines in a lab or library situation is amazing.
There's an import from CSV for historical data. Here's the demo:
https://demo.honeymoney.io/app/my/import
“Most people aren't as dumb as your ego likes to imagine them to be. They may not know the details of how their computers work but they know sketchy looking crap when they see it.”

That’s simply not true. Like, at all. If it were, then viruses and malware wouldn’t be spreading like they are, especially phishing campaigns. I know many very smart people who have been compromised.

I also take issue with the word “dumb” — “smart” people can be caught off guard as well. Not everything looks sketchy, as good phishing does everything right to make you think it’s all ok.

It’s a really difficult type of software to create, and perhaps there’s room for new computer vision type anti-viruses to find look-a-like websites, but normal humans need all the help they can get!
Personally I'd just let that be UB; garbage in, garbage out.
I'd be surprised if they didn't have some project on home robots. While I would like to see Amazon have a program for making robots that do useful tasks like dishes they are probably going to make something more like an echo on wheels. The technology needed to do this is fairly mature. Robot vacuums have been on the market for years, robot vacuums with SLAM have also been on the market for years. They aren't perfect and can't operate in a very cluttered room, but this is probably acceptable for an 'echo on wheels' application.

In my opinion this is a bit creepy. Now one would be putting an Amazon device capable of sensing and actuation in their home. And not just sensing, enough sensing to map a house and perhaps keep track of where people are. If the robot does image recognition, so one can say hold up an empty box to buy more on amazon, that's even creepier. As the only practical means of doing this would be to send images to amazon's servers.
There is a potentially disastrous blow to FB's business model in the GDPR that relates to this sort of profiling. It is forbidden under GDPR, unless the user grants explicit consent (opt-in). See [1].

Without this, FB's targeting abilities for ads just evaporates. It is going to be interesting to see how this pans out.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
What if the Internet itself is the problem?

We might be witnessing the Eternal September of the entire network.

Humans + networked Turing machines = shit-show

Are we doomed? Can we have a fundamentally different relationship with these machines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
> Tech to create a feedback loop to keep you in a particular state.

We already invented this and named it “television.”
You need a surprisingly small battery to shift use a mere 4 hours.

This is why we need market rates for power, for everyone. If I have a bunch of panels and my power is worthless at 2pm, that's fine. A small battery system will pay for itself quickly if that power is worth peak at 6pm. Or maybe I set my car to charge in the early afternoon? Maybe when I install my system, I put my panels facing West instead of south?
I'm interested on how society will adapt to this in criminal cases. I think soon we'll need better ways to authenticate and validate video / audio evidence.
> What is a fair price?

Given the large amount of people you can place in a large vehicle, one would hope that a private car is significantly more expensive than public transport without having to convince anyone to pay for bizarre things like being able to pick a seat. The fact that it isn't is, in fact, utterly bizarre.

In the case of the dates we have to travel for a conference, the bus is £150 pp, and flights are £300+ pp - with no flexibility whatsoever in either case. Trains come out to £400 pp or more, which is bizarre given the passenger density of long-distance rail.

Anyway, the point was, the cheap option only exists if you know how to look for it - it's really, really not obvious, and the only reason I know how to do it is that public transport is my full-time hobby. And then once you pick the cheap option and suffer a delay - which is almost guaranteed to happen on a regular enough basis to make the cheap option actually more expensive in many cases, given the state of the country's transport infrastructure - you're stuck on your own, because we have no concept of a joined-up multimodal journey in this country, unlike the rest of Europe. Hell, if you go for the cheap option, staff may even treat you with suspicion and assume you're lying about what your ticket allows you to do, and what you're entitled to.

If you go to the National Rail Enquiries site today and ask for a ticket from London to Manchester tomorrow, you'll be sold a completely non-flexible ticket totalling about £100 if it matches up with your schedule, or up to £169 otherwise. Compare this to e.g. Switzerland, well-known for having an exceptionally high cost of living - where I can book a train from Zurich to Geneva for £54 tomorrow with nothing but a quick google search for "trains zurich to geneva", or £24 if I want to travel in a couple of days. (And on much more comfortable trains, I might add.) There's no need to worry about booking weeks in advance or poring over whether the bus or the plane will be cheaper or whether there's a split ticket that works - the infrastructure exists to allow fast, cheap, somewhat flexible travel on comfortable services.
In most cases adding a swimming-pool sized tank of water to your house complete with a heat-exchange system to save $40 a month on your electric bill isn't going to be very economical, let alone practical.
Please do list a couple of useful solutions where blockchain is the right/better tool for the jobs and thats outside of crypto coins or secondary layer of payment abstraction (and even there any payment option could work better in a lot of the cases).
Sensible adults have long been a proponent of free speech. It’s the call to censorship for comfort that is new and seemingly coming from younger generations who don’t have experience with why that may be a bad idea.

The ACLU has long defended all speech: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/why-we-must-defend-fre...
* runs on a fast JIT

* package management and modules actually work

* huge ecosystem of packages

* ability to use native code modules in needed

* has webassembly too

* runs a huge range of other languages. It can fill a role similar to the JVM and .Net runtimes in this respect.
Glad you have to make up things that didn't happen to make yourself feel better.

Wait, no, not glad. That's really tragic. I hope you're ok.
Here is the EPA filing for the Tesla Model S 60 which shows a 65.9kw/h and a 95.5kw/h for the 85/85D. (based on the filing date of 2013..)

https://iaspub.epa.gov/otaqpub/display_file.jsp?docid=31841&...

These are dyno load tests (on the battery) not the actual road/drive tests which are used for the final classification of the car this one is used for the classification of the power train only.
Check https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-veteran-fighter-pilot-tamm... instead of this garbage.
>In other words, if Bain, KKR, and Vornado had never come along, Toys 'R' Us wouldn't be doing stellar, but it probably could've muddled through.

Maybe. It was already on a downward spiral. There's pretty much zero evidence that, left as a public company, they'd have figured out a way to reboot. It's not like there aren't plenty of other retail chains in dire straits.