skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure 1995 - 2000. I doubt it will work out better this time - rather the opposite if I'm allowed to guess, and it's just sad that this particular mistake is repeated as a consequence of ideologically induced reality distortion effects.
> In fact, whenever two students win each other’s jackpot trade, there must always be a third student that’s higher on the ranking at one of the schools — and that wants a spot at this school

I don't think that's true, what if in both schools they were ranked last place and last place plus one?
Obviously you can't fix incompetent creators with options given to you by the creators, but I don't think that's the only possibility here. Ithink the most useful possibility for a technique like that would be a "customize your experience" kind of thing. Maybe some people want more action, while other people want more romance. There are shows right now struggling and failing to balance the disparate desires of their audience, and sometimes they'll miss the balance so badly that nobody's very happy. Allowing somebody to just click a "more pew pew now" button might actually benefit those shows. Possibly.
Agreed; it's a variation on "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." (I realize I'm dating myself.)
30% of London's fleet, increasing to 60% by the end of this year. (Plus a few zero emission.)

Source: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/improving-buses
Here's how I see it: Netflix and other streaming services are recreating all of cable now. It's not a good thing, just wait. Networks moved to the current cable model because its the most profitable. Netflix disrupted that in the same way Uber disrupted Taxis, now they're both becoming what they sought to change.
Half through the article, but boy, it looks cool :D

1) Compartmentalize - awful word, meaning new skin (virtual Id). Better call it Id separation. U must use new

1.1) Make new Id with new names, nicks, adresses, countries, stories

1.2) Buy new devices (MAC adresses) paying cash. Best to use separate MacBook / iPad / iPhone. Apple security beats Windows and Android flat.

Scanning WiFi access point traffic shows all connected devices by MAC. Your device pings available WiFis revealing the MAC.

1.3) locations / networks (locations by IP). Always use VPN in always-on mode (DNS leaks). Different VPN provider for every device (and Id), paying BitCoin or 3rd-party deals via PayPal. Same device on a different network can be tracked via browser (browser fingerprinting). So, separate devices.

Install uBlock Origin in advanced/medium mode to every browser and use Private browsing tabs only (tracking cookies).

1.4) New Id's social profiles (FB and rest). Takes effort, get pictures from google images, and so on. Good profile will be 6 months old at least. Buy friends.

Classical error - logging in as Id1 from device/network(by location) assigned to Id2.

2) ...
Much simpler usint the ORM - you can defer columns:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/loading_columns.htm...

This is both at the 'object' level, and at the query level for example at the query level:
from sqlalchemy.orm import defer, undefer

query = session.query(Book)
query = query.options(defer('summary'))
query = query.options(undefer('excerpt'))
query.all()

You can also group columns for deferral/undeferral.

I use this loads.
I think it is misleading to label Netflix as being an ad-free distributor. They in fact do generate revenue via advertising - it's just more modern and hidden: product placement.

"According to Isaacs, brands pay $50,000 to $500,000 per episode for getting into a Netflix or Amazon show. The price is calculated based on the popularity of the show and how long the product will be showed in the episode. There are two options for product placement in the shows: a logo in the background or a real plot point in the story." [0]

This, to me, seems just as disruptive to the creative freedom of a program's producers/writers/directors.

[0] https://learnbonds.com/134772/netflix-killing-secret-ads-sho...
Starbucks creates policy on non-paying guests
Why is it logical relevant agencies have access to providers they don't need these devices to track cellphones.
That’s what people say, because it’s hard to say anything else without hitting narratives that will be interpreted as racist or insensitive for other reasons.

Household culture is a big predictor of outcome. Parental age is another. Asian/Indian kids buck the bigger trend, because those family cultures value education as the way to advance.

Usually these policy discussions get dumbed down into inner-city vs suburbia comparison. But I think we’re starting to see bigger cohorts of white kids from suburban professional backgrounds who are not doing better than their parents.
AI and Arbitrage
Looking at the github of Jamie Lokier [1]... He probably did not ;-)
[1] https://github.com/jlokier
I'd love to know how this works out for you. I was trying to do something similar, but got stuck.

The core issue is that the fluent object design approach makes it very difficult to decompose objects into reusable features. The shared state behind the fluent approach makes creating multiple sub-objects (to then combining them) difficult (maybe impossible). The power of Python gets limited to thinking about only one thing at a time.

See
https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/167

They are trying to fix this in 2.0, but that's still in early development.
But China is bigger than the US, they have much more space for development.
Except that's not how real software is built. Real software has to add new features to remain competitive. Just look at a few of the features for Postgres 9.4 to 10:

JSONB data type, ALTER SYSTEM statement for changing config values, ability to refresh materialized views without blocking reads, dynamic registration/start/stop of background worker processes, Logical Decoding API, GiN index improvements, Linux huge page support, database cache reloading via pg_prewarm
UPSERT, row level security, TABLESAMPLE, CUBE/ROLLUP, GROUPING SETS, and new BRIN index[113]
Parallel query support, PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper (FDW) improvements with sort/join pushdown, multiple synchronous standbys, faster vacuuming of large table
Logical replication, declarative table partitioning, improved query parallelism

We'd all love for software to be bug-free and stable, but features have to be added.
> unwillingness to drop the C API

Is a feature not a bug. It makes things like NumPy, SciPy and Pandas possible.
Overall, I think it's a positive change. But I think there are other effects too.

One is the trend toward longer, multi-season story arcs. This is also a trend in traditional television, but seems that the single episode story is dead on Netflix.

That's a shame, because it often is possible to succinctly express an idea in 30mins or 1hour. But it's in Netflix's best interests to keep you hooked on a show and "watching one more episode". That's particularly valuable for content that is released week-by-week. It also has other benefits, the more you watch, the more you're dependent on their service.

The one exception to this I've seen on Netflix is Black Mirror. But that was a show developed outside of the platform initially. I can't see something like Star trek the next generation, or another idea driven show which explores a single idea in a single episode being green lit on Netflix, and that's a shame.
I'm from the Kingdom of Fife (i.e., Scotland) and I also hear yelly (someone being a certain kind of shouty).
US is involved in human rights violations too. So where does that logic leave us?
The prime numbers are interesting no matter how you slice and dice them!
Hollowing Out: The Channels of Income Polarization in the United States
You should obviously comply, otherwise you might face fines and EU business customers basically can't use your SAAS. But as long as you're small that compiance isn't that hard. It's mostly basic stuff like having backups, encrypting them, not mailing your customer's info around in excel sheets, not giving everyone access to your servers, updating your servers, having a privacy policy that lists who gets customer info, etc.

The scary stuff is what happens if you have thousands of customers and they start requesting deletion or information. But if you only have a hand full of EU customers you can wait till that happens, you only have to comply within a month.

EU regulators are generally very reasonable. If you show that you made reasonable effort but had a genuine mistake they will generally give you a warning or at worst a low fine.
True, but I don't see how you can have a "free market" on a train track otherwise. You've got to schedule trains, you can't have them coming and going as the market reorganises. And there's little possibility of choice, there's usually only one reasonable route to get somewhere, people don't want to add 6 hours of their journey time, to go via an alternative route.
I get the attractiveness of seeing this particular film in a form that is as close as what the director wanted the audience to see as possible. But the analogy only goes so far. Much of chemical film photography goes through the digital domain for manipulation. Almost all magazine photography goes into a digital production process. Many artists digitize their paintings and sell "giclée" prints to hit lower price points and extract a lot more revenue from popular paintings.
GDPR compliance of Google Fonts
Panning shots and faster motion become much less choppy at 60. This is why sports are broadcast at 60fps today. Imagine if you could watch the Bourne Identity and actually tell what was going on.
Wow, I didn't know that. I guess it's logical given that it's been going on in TV/films for some time.

This is probably the end-game of Adblocking unfortunately. A lot more product placement that is obviously harder to filter.
Pretty much most of Western Europe. Uk train services are expensive and unreliable, but they are run by private companies.
His lecture on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ0uPkG-pr4
It seems to me these illusions are a very small, tangible peek at the extensive differences in how people perceive the world around them.
UPDATE - Saturday May 19

Join the Telegram group to discuss:
https://t.me/joinchat/G8AnchIna2q8yn1lGHirkA

Note that Even and Odd Values of N have a very different pattern. For example try using the values 99 and 99, and then 100 and 100, in this HTML preview version:

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/acmegeek/p...

Here is animation of increasing even values of N approaching GCD:
https://streamable.com/l7r96

CODE TO TRY:

Javascript
https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u....

Mathematica
https://github.com/shaunxcode/a-pattern-in-the-primes

Perl
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5tfub5geyuctex/prime-draw.pl?dl=0

EXPLANATION:

In short, actually there are some curious patterns in this, and they are not simply equivalent to OEIS A054521 (as we, and others, initially thought they were).

For even values of n, they can be rendered by the GCD sequence, without the primality testing. But for odd values the pattern is different and GCD doesn't describe it.
Thanks, sorry I don't usually scroll down on Twitter much because very often it's bots and people clamoring for attention.
Yes, the US certainly cannot claim the moral high ground any longer.
This isn't true? Real estate prices in Shanghai and Beijing are lower (in absolute terms) than SF and NY. Relative to local incomes they're probably more expensive though.

Shanghai and Beijing are (I believe) more expensive than Chicago or Atlanta in absolute terms.
Just relaunched my website with quite a different look and wanted to share it here to see opinions. Feel free to criticize it (constructively please) so that I can improve it.

It has two main goals: for showing my open source in case anyone wants to donate and for future possible jobs (either full-time or freelancing). The design is a bit torn apart trying to achieve both goals at the same time, but still pretty decent IMHO. The Open Source goal is long-term while the other is short term and I don't need that one right now, so things like a CV link are ignored so far.
In the UK at least all the supplied cheques I've seen for many years are pre-approved crossed. That is, they are explicitly not to be paid to the bearer in cash, but only into an account held by the named recipient.
I think I expected it to be much closer to the popularity of FB, I'm quite surprised.

Unrelated, I recognise your name from GitHub, thanks for your work on the psychonaut wiki, I've used that resource many times.
Menu of the Future: Insects, Weeds, and Bleeding Veggie Burgers
Companies and government agencies generally don't prefund retirement healthcare benefits to 100%. Rapid USPS funding requirements starting 2007 were frontloaded for the first ten years. And while there are arguments for prefunding versus a pay-as-you-go approach with current retirees, it's a balance between short-term liquidity and long-term benefits.[0] Per the Postmaster General's testimony in 2017:

> Our significant financial losses are due in large part to the legally mandated RHB prefunding requirement. Such a requirement to prefund retiree health care obligations is not imposed on most other federal entities or private-sector businesses that offer retiree health benefits, let alone on an accelerated basis. The Postal Service’s funded level for RHB far exceeds that of civilian federal government entities, state governments, and those private sector companies that offer retiree health benefits at all.[1]

Changes in mailing behavior were worse than the USPS expected in 2006, and RHBF payments became much more of a problem than was initially expected. It's not so much that prefunding is bad per se, but that the requirements as enacted limited the USPS's liquidity and options. The USPS IG[2] also put out a white paper[3] on the subject that argues some of the assumptions behind the funding requirements. You'll find a range of arguments out there from suggesting that the only problem for the USPS is the impact of the RHBF payment requirements to them being just a symptom of broader problems, but but the GAO report on the subject is a pretty even-handed take on the subject.[4]

0. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43349.pdf

1. https://about.usps.com/news/testimony/2017/pr17_pmg0207.htm

2. https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume

3. https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...

4. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Todis...
He had spent a good chunk of his life taking designs and simplifying them and was a genius in that aspect, seeing things that other people couldn’t do when it came to circuit design.
I joined Metafilter in 2002, and although I no longer use it as my main source of content discovery, I do love to go back now and again. It's always been a top notch community, and if you haven't ever spent some time on the site, I highly recommend it.
This is a fascinating and illuminating piece of history, but I have a hard time believing that these cartographic mistakes are the reason for China's posture in the South China Sea.

The first part of the article mentions the strategic and economic resources in the region. Do we think that China would be minding its own business if these mistakes had not been made? It seems more likely that we would simply be left with the "ancient and historical claim[s] to the reefs and rocks in the South China Sea" without the attendant maps from the early 20th century.
Political entities linked to the US government do this too.
Vietnam Veteran Brotherhood Collection
You're highly unlikely to ever be fined or come under official scrutiny. That being said, you may still want to try and comply with the GDPR:

1. It's becoming a checkbox buying issue for EU customers. Depending on what data you have, what you're doing with it, the fact that you aren't GDPR compliant may mean that your EU customers aren't GDPR compliant b/c they use you.

2. At some level you should care about the security and privacy of your users and while far from perfect the GDPR is a good general framework.

3. Unlikely is not the same as none. Given the tremendous technical leverage that exists now, it's not crazy to think that even a small SAAS with a couple hundred customers might have tens or hundreds of thousands of personal records. (consider an email newsletter service with 200 customers each of whom have 5,000 subscribers -> 1 million personal records).

If you have a million records on hand and a data breach happens, it's quite likely someone is going to complain and you might suddenly be on someone's radar. Don't take that to mean "omg, if I have a databreach I could get fined for $$$$". Because it's much more like: if you have a databreach and you haven't done a good job securing the data or letting people delete it or have some clear data handling rules and you failed to report the breach you might be in trouble.
Government bodies don't care about your private data or they would disband the NSA.

They will however copy the GDPR as an excuse to create tools to prevent disruption, manipulate markets, and to expand their organizational reach.
This is one of the really sad thing about medicine today. For those of us who remember how going to the doctor used to be, the experience these days is so disheartening. All that slavish tending to to the computers and data entry instead of spending time with the patients. Nurses and even nursing assistance have also been greatly impacted by this.
you'll notice it by reduced services since that 1000 euros is being moved to public transportation from what it used to be. My guess is that soon you'll see tax rates rise to match the shortfall.

And this is all assuming the public transport will be useful and efficient, instead of being the bare minimum of what is available and chronically underfunded and underrepaired. That stuff is capital intensive and expensive, which bureaucrats will soon find out to their chagrin.
> This, to me, seems just as disruptive to the creative freedom of a program's producers/writers/directors.

only if there is a wide disparity in the price companies are willing to pay to have their product in the show.

say you have a show about a lawyer and they need a car to drive around in. my guess is bmw and mercedes offer similar amounts of money, so you just pick the one that the character would prefer.

on the other hand, you're probably not going to see anyone using a pixel 2 outside of mr robot.
Ask HN: I would pay X for Y (May 2018)
That’s on the show creators though. Netflix doesn’t see a dime of that money.
I guess the TurboFan backend of V8 is so powerful now that my guess is that it would be prepared to receive a Python or Lua frontend to it.

Current Javascript is very complex, so maybe the current V8 Turbofan backend would already be fit to process a Python bytecode carefully crafted to fit this particular JIT backend?
That structure predates TV. Plays were divided into 3 or 5 acts.
So the author both learned persistence and the toleration of frustration but also admits to turning in half-done homeworks (if at all), half-assing midterms and generally not trying hard. Or maybe this is just-so story without much merit.
Facebook dependency can’t really drop significantly as long as people keep requiring it for things that don’t technically need Facebook.

Don’t link to articles only viewable on Facebook. If somebody plans an event on Facebook, push back and request to be sent the details and say “I can’t log in to Facebook”, etc. Check in with your friends in non-Messenger ways, e.g. phone messaging or (gasp!) actually seeing them in person. Make walled-off sites unacceptable.
It's also just so much wasted time. Once I started watching old Mythbusters episodes on youtube I realized that about a third of it is just drumming up suspense before a commercial break, or recapping after a break. That's time that could be filled with actually interesting content.
The thing is, the majority of journeys aren't like that. Right now, the majority lose out to cater for people with your travel habits. The system should cater for the majority first, who don't have time to look through terms and conditions to work out the cheapest prices.

Also, people want to get from A to B the quickest. Taking longer, and possibly slower alternative routes is absolutely not an option, considering how our trains are already slow compared to most other nations anyway.
I fail to see how this reply is helpful to anyone other than your ego. Perhaps you could state your view in a way that constructively improves their observations.
Yes, I was a math major as an undergrad, and it is these exact traits that carried over to computer science / engineering. I see a lot of programmers that are cavalier, don't check (unit test) their solutions, unwilling to wrestle with frustrating problems, and are quick to reach for the "framework of the day" to solve what should be trivial problems.

I also add to the list a deep appreciation for elegant solutions (Mathematicians do not like kludges).
I’m afraid that you might be right. I’d love to see Instagram step up to the challenge here, as they obviously have deeper pockets than most.

Who knows, maybe releasing their experimental code would prompt some really good discussion and get things moving in a direction of speedy run times.
If physics removes itself even further from philosophy... it will slowly become a cesspool of rigid dogma, becoming blind to reality. Physics, as it is, is already lost in a jungle of abstractions, becoming more and more divorced from the real world.

Mathematical models are simply not equal to real world, even if we use models in an attempt to approximate, so that we can do useful things. Mathematics can never truly model reality. The best it can do is a caricature, and not the real thing.

Without solid philosophy to guide the scientists who drive the scientific institutions, the sciences fall stagnant, because it is philosophy that is the very bedrock and lifeblood of the scientific endeavour, in all fields. Without philosophy, that endless hunt and search for meaning and understanding, we lose our way.
People make mistakes in communication all the time. Other humans can notice and interpret around those mistakes, but computers can't. Humans can infer things that are missing or implicit in the data. Computers can't. So if we build a computer system on top of data that we _know_ will be poor, incomplete, and sloppy, and if we force reliance on that system, then that's a major problem.

It's silly to assert "the computer didn't do anything wrong". The computer has no agency or will. It doesn't matter if we run perfect software against a bad dataset, or if we run perfect data through bad software. The only thing that matters are the results. The computer and the people are all parts of the same system.
Context matters.

Jobs was repeatedly referring to system software in this talk, a category distinct from application software.

System software + own hardware = competitive advantage

Application software + own hardware = ?*

*Most likely a world of pain and heavy losses.