skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people go to FB looking for "long form" evergreen video content? If you do, how easy it to search for?

One is a social network. The other a media platform. The expectations and usage of each is different. Put another way...you host it on YT and market it on FB, __not__ the other way around.

For a brand to pick the best platform for their __particular__ content is not new and noteworthy. That is, it's not news. It's fluff. It's clickbait.
Android was also an acquisition.
"We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. " [1]

[1] - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2440-we-all-know-the-saying-i...
Indeed, it extends native Array: https://github.com/philbooth/hoopy/blob/master/index.js#L3
“Compromised” in the sense of that company’s trustworthiness, not in the cryptographic sense.
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There's already a solution for what is wrong with banks: credit unions. They just don't waste money on advertising so they get less visibility than they should.
Minimal banking services to every American? Postal banking.

http://www.campaignforpostalbanking.org/know-the-facts/
Interesting, I've never heard of a similar service in France but then again it's not like I've been searching.
I was going to say my employer made this stuff, but they are getting out of the business. Must not be profitable enough.

https://aerospace.honeywell.com/en/products/navigation-and-s...

SOI is an excellent RF process, and is what would be needed to get the rest of the radio on there.
Most recursive functions have a tree structure, either in the control flow or data flow. For loops don't really cut it; you minimally need auxiliary storage to track which branch you're currently on for every ancestor level, either explicitly by pushing indexes or structures onto a stack or queue, or implicitly with a work stack or queue. That's a bunch of accounting in an iterative solution you don't need with a recursive solution. The iterative solution will end up harder to read as a result. It'll also be a lot harder to reason about if the tree-like structure of the code is obscured.

If you need to return values for processing each child, and integrate them at the parent, then your solution gets tougher to reason about, as there's an ordering constraint and a dependency.

Recursion doesn't come up super often in most domains, but it's not rare. E.g. doing anything non-trivial with the DOM in a web front end, parsing an XML or JSON document, etc.
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I'm going to write a few words I always do this in the bank topics. In Poland (post-soviet EU member, 36M people) we have many banks. Inter-bank transfers are free for personal accounts. $0.50 for businesses in my case. We have free transfer for phone number of up to $1000. Instant. We use mostly debit cards tied to accounts without any fee with wireless payments. Our goverment reduced transaction fees so you can pay as low as $.10 bill without complain. Of course this moves us closer to cash-less full-control mode but who cares ;)
They damage sidewalks they’re (illegally) left on due to a high weight on a small surface.

That sounds suspect. Taking the example of a model used by one of the rent service in Paris, the Gogoro Smartscooter, that weighs 122Kg (incl. batteries), or 61Kg/tire. In comparison, a car like the Renault Zoe weighs almost 1500Kg, or 375Kg/tire. I know that bike tires are skinnier, but is it really enough to make more damage considering the weight differences?
You aren't wrong, but there is some value in a more complex control system. For example, the fridge uses some sort of hysteresis to prevent the compressor from cycling on and off too quickly. Let's say it runs for 15 minutes every hour. You ideally want it to schedule that last 15 minute run at the latest time possible when enough sunlight is still available to run it. This shortens the amount of time that the fridge needs to be able to stay cold without power.
The main question is who will really pay for a "free" service, which is obviously not free but rather is a kind of flat rate.

In the case of Estonia the expenses could be directly or indirectly covered from EU budget (which is filled by NL, DE etc.) and also the experiment is possible due to relatively low salaries. I cannot imagine such an experiment in NL.
It shifts the balance. Even if my hotline gets bombarded by mechanical turks the costs are the same on both sides.

Now google duplex can go and phone up every businessowner asking for the current store hours (or whatever), thus dumping the work of updating google's information on the store owners at essentially no own cost.

And the store owner does not even have a chance to find out whether it is a customer that will in some probability show up, or if he's just being used.
More than that, I have a member of staff that can only work 9-5 because those are the only hours that the bus routes service. They really want to start earlier and finish earlier but can't. More out of hours services would allow people more scope to work different hours and travel off peak.
I can always agree with "I wish there was more research" absent constraints and dependencies. But your post really seems to be saying that not nearly enough of the effort is being spent in this direction, and I'm wondering on what basis you think this? Because it is not true in my experience of dealing with depression researchers.
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If you like this, I recommend checking out Learn You Some Erlang (for great good) http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
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Very much agree.

If you are working on any kind of tree structure, graph, parse tree, etc., recursion can be really beautiful and clear.

My theory: folks like iteration because 90% of the "for" loops they write are really just "foreach".
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Make WPF-like replacement that works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and their browsers and we will all switch. You are demanding that we all become mega crops with N teams duplicating the same code in with native frameworks and that just won't happen because a) we don't have cash laying around b) users don't know the difference between 10 MB app and 200 MB app, only us do.

> How much cache does your laptop have?

Enough. How much bandwidth does my ram have? Enough that it can fill cpu caches in I don't notice time. I still have 12 year old Conroe with spinning hard disk laying around and it never had any problem running VS Code so there's that data point.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/8jubqj/pwn910nd_abu...
It's interesting how many people are stuck in the past and refuse to move to better formats. Because of that we still don't have 60fps movies :/
This has nothing to do with comming up with idea like the title suggests. And it's because having ideas is overated. You find good ideas everywhere, all the time. the execution matters the most, which is part of what you describe.
Gas is free in the US?
I'd love for you to be correct. I think pulling out of the JCPOA was stupid, and I'd love to be able to point out there is no risk anyway. But...

> Iran has nuclear power plants though, and uranium enrichment is needed to fuel them.

They have a single commercial reactor[0], and it doesn't need the enrichment levels they are producing.

Most reactors are light water reactors (of two types – PWR and BWR) and require uranium to be enriched from 0.7% to 3-5% U-235 in their fuel. This is normal low-enriched uranium (LEU). There is some interest in taking enrichment levels to about 7%, and even close to 20% for certain special power reactor fuels, as high-assay LEU (HALEU).[1]

Iran has over 200kg(!) of 20% enriched uranium[2]. I guess it could be for an unbuilt, experimental reactor like they claim. It seems unlikely, since they haven't pursued any contracts for a reactor like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...

[2] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...
I'm not. When that happens it means many of us (basically everybody between a keyboard and a chair) are out of a job.

'Dear turing test candidate, how would a program to do this and that look like.'

Or 'business strategy'.
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I was thinking in the same direction but could not come up with a simple test. Your idea to start with "is not divisible by 2 .. 3 .. 4 .." is great.

It's interesting, that up to 4, it's a perfect pattern:

function isPrime(n) { return n%2 && n%3 && n%4; }

As soon as you get to 'Not divisible by 5' noise starts to appear:

function isPrime(n) { return n%2 && n%3 && n%4 && n%5; }

This 'noise' closes some gaps between the pattern and makes it look like runes.

Would any type of noise do this?

Here is how it looks like with some random noise added:

function isPrime(n) { return n%2 && n%3 && n%4 && (Math.random()>0.95); }

It is not as structured as the version based on primes.

As of now, I'm not sure what to make of it. Maybe there is some other type of simple 'noise' that creates something as complex and logical as the primes. Maybe not.
Not really saying that, of course any OS is hackable, Linux also is not normally a RTOS with the exception of RT Linux, and possibly some other specific distro's.

What I was trying to say is that something that has a more direct connection to the device is less likely to be prone on this specific kind of attack, which is AFAICU a sort of MITM (displaying a loop of the recorded display), and of course with a very "vertical" and "dedicated" operating system there should be less chances of the "casual" insertion of a USB stick in it (and possibly even no USB port at all on the actual hardware used).
Do you think people take trains for fun? If all the of the bus and tube network were free, I don’t think charging would make a difference to overcrowding, given how much more efficient the buses could be.
Nice! It's always good to see Datalog in action. In my experience, Datalog is often more convenient and more readable than SQL.

As the post mentions, the current ergonomics ("a wall of definitions") are indeed the main shortcoming of the present approach, which is syntactically far removed from Datalog.

My suggestion towards an automated conversion is to consider Prolog: Syntactically, a Datalog clause is a valid Prolog term. In fact, Datalog is a syntactic subset of Prolog. Therefore, it can be easily parsed with Prolog (using the predicate read/1), and then inspected via built-in mechanisms. You may be able to write a Prolog program that converts proper Datalog definitions to such Rust snippets.
Totally agree! I made nopullrequests.com to help solve this.
What is the field?
You can board in the middle (eg if with a pram or wheelchair), but then the bus driver will ask you to come to the front of the bus and tap in, while the entire bus has to wait for that.
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32632/was-public...
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Maybe it's because I've done a lot of webapps. But I always found her html/css way easier to use than qt
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Do you have any proof that links EU funds being used for this?
Yes, as she already does lots of statistical process control, design of experiments, etc.
I think the issue are not the tires but the kickstand, which i have seen sinking into the tarmac on sunny days even on light bicycles.
> - How do you deal with the fact that we don't know why anything at all exists? Why, for instance, do atoms, subatomic particles, etc, exist AT ALL? Why not NOTHING?

We might actually answer that question. First, there is no such thing such as "atoms". The universe (or reality) is not physical. You might want to read more about quantum mechanics to get a glimpse. It is also very possible that the universe created itself out of nothing. It is also possible that we are living in a loop. It is also possible that we live in a simulation, but that doesn't answer the existential question. As our gods have started somewhere.

As far as I'm concerned, I think the consciousness loop is what it is. Your life is never going to end. You are looping through it and probably through the same life infinitely.

> - How do you deal with the fact that your life is meaningless. You will die and - at best - leave behind a legacy for history books. More likely, you will die and it will be completely insignificant. To put it another way: How do you deal with the fact that your life is MEANINGLESS?

I changed my career. Broke the regular social norms. It was simple for me: You can just end it if you want. Might as well try to "see" things that are interesting to me. I did that way before my discovery of the quantum and uncertain reality of reality. It was Steve Jobs talk that pushed to it. If you were to die tomorrow, what will you be doing today? Just go ahead and do it NOW.

> - How do you deal with the likelihood that you will suffer greatly at some point in the future, whether it be from cancer, or some other disease? How does a day of 9-5 work, capped off with a horrible prolonged cancer treatment at the end of your life, not corrupt your mind?

Good riddance life! But seriously, I don't think it matters or it is about cancer. You can die from a meteor too. Stop the 9-5 job if that is what you don't want to do. Go back to 2. Answer that question. And don't be afraid to take life changing measures. Remember, you are insignificant on the larger scale of the universe. You only fear because of the social environment around you. Might as well change it.
You need the frequent stops for sure, although perhaps they could make 1 in every 4 buses and express, with limited stops.

Either way, if there’s 4 double doors along the whole side of the bus that can be used to board / alight, without a tap in queue, the turnaround time per stop could be 3-4x faster.
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Nothing, except maybe for sunlight, is costless. Someone is always paying. Free means the users don't pay, not that it doesn't cost anyone anything.
I believe the way most people operate is by avoiding thinking about these kind of subjects.

Another coping mechanism (a bit more healthy IMHO) is to try and accept death and pain as an inevitable part of the human experience and of what it means to be human. “Memento mori” and all of that.
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They’re not complaining, if anything, China is looking to influence their neighbors to follow authoritarian suit.
Public transport was not free in the USSR.
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Can Trump have command over what USPS does with their business tactics?
Putting Adsense ads on pages without content is an obvious violation of the ToS.
This is just jingoistic scaremongering. These things are not done in the open. Not just China anyone could be doing anything.

Everyone familiar with history knows the consequences of surveillance, most people don't like surveillance but is that stopping anyone?

China is not the one bombing random countries and killing hundreds of thousands of people and setting entire societies back decades. These are crimes against humanity with no accountability and consequences for those involved so where is the ethics and morality? China is not the one who used just discovered nuclear weapons recklessly on a civilian population, not once but twice.

Blanket statement of ethics and morality are meaningless when not consistent with actions on the ground. They merely serve to fabricate a non existent moral high ground whose existence requires a denial and diminishment of one own actions while pointing fingers and demonizing others. Posturing may be fun but ignoring the ethical deterioration in your own society has consequences.
It’s basically subsidised- if you had to pay for the external costs of the gas you burn per trip you wouldn’t do it.
Yeah, the problem with the EU is really that the small peripheral countries have too much influence, whereas the wealthy countries are bullied submission /s
You ask as if it were some criminal activity. Actually, I find using external funds not bad at all whether they are used directly or indirectly (feasibility studies, investments in infrastructure like roads etc.)

I just wanted to say that without having significant financial support from EU Estonia would hardly be able to carry out such experiments with "free" services.
I've often argued half the stops should be marked as disabled/elderly stops. The stops are so frequent, I wouldn't mind walking one stop further at all (or in a few cases even two stops), and I'm really lazy when it comes to physical exercise. Some stops are so close you can recognise people standing at the previous or next one.

I would at least like to see a trial, where half the stops (of those which are really close) are marked as meant for disabled/elderly/blind people. Everyone can stand at every stop and the bus will service it, but everyone likes faster transport and hopefully they'll choose to not stand at disabled stops. Some assholes will undoubtedly refuse, but if that happens at one or two stops out of ten or twenty, that's a win.

Or, alternatively, only service each stop with every other bus. The lines where there are enough people to have stops every 1 minute walking distance, there are also enough buses (like every 10 minutes) to not have to wait long if you don't want to walk to the next stop. Or you time leaving work so that you're there when your closest stop gets serviced: that's no disadvantage for you and a win for speed.
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He doesn’t need it, it’s dogma
Calculus is not a requirement to graduate high school in America. Algebra, sure.
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>At that point, why not go a step further and just use a proper HDL?

You're assuming that you're starting with an FPGA only project. In reality most projects that are going to be accellerated with these Xeon+FPGA systems is existing software where only a handful of hotspots will have be ported to the limited C language which is significantly less effort than rewriting the entire algorithm in HDL.
GDPR fundamentally cannot tell whether storing of IP addresses is OK - because it's the processing of personal data for a specific purpose that can be lawful or not, and there's infinite number of possible processing purposes.

For example, if you're a CDN business, and naturally need to fight DDOS attacks, then storing exact IP addresses for all requests for a few weeks easily falls under "legitimate interest" (GDPR 6.1.f). On the other hand, if you're a political news site, then storing IP addresses and URL for the purpose of determining political preferences of people without their consent is very clearly illegal, taking into account that IP address can often be static and so identify specific person.

Yes, it means that you have some decisions to do yourself, and the regulator might disagree with your decisions, but that's true about pretty much every new law, no?
“A lot of the information is thrown away when you digitize. In sound terms it’s overtones and subtones—things that you can’t consciously hear. An analog medium has all kinds of complicated cross-talk between the different frequencies of information that you’re getting, which have a particular character to them”

Similar to audiophile hokeyness. The dust and dirt on the film must add warmth and character, similar to the hiss and warble of analog tape. If that’s your thing, fine, but having grown up listening to tape and records, the first time I heard a CD, my jaw dropped. It was really that much better.

Someone told me once the best record will always be better than the average CD, but the best CD is always better than the best record.

I do concede the “loudness wars” have really screwed up digital audio, but it is fundamentally better, and I’m sure uncomprsssed digital video is the same.
I'll second this. I used to do a good bit of work for credit unions. Every one of our clients were great folks who genuinely were trying to do the best thing for their customers. I'm a happy customer of USAA and Simple. If they didn't exist, I'd use a credit union. Without question.
I also prefer those movies, but Nolan’s Batman films were good as well. Not on the same level, but still good!
Wells Fargo et all will charge you $10 to cash even with their name on it.
I am impressed by whoever in Estonia's government has been doing PR; I've never seen a national government manipulate so much positive free press coverage, between E-residency in recent years and now the free transport initiative. Note that just like E-residency this "free transport" never has to amount to anything, yet by sheer qty of press coverage you'd think Estonia is the eighth continent.

Much like E-Residency the commentary here on and on most tech blogs pretends it'll be implemented to change the world and vast engineering-think discussions of how to implement, whereas in a couple of years it'll be yet another "New Coke/Classic Coke" and Estonia will have moved on to getting massive positive press over... I donno, changing all national laws using grep and tr to have gender neutral pronouns, or free 3-d printing as a constitutional human right, or ban freedom of association to eliminate racism, or legally mandating drone transport corridors in the national building code and planning commission documents, or ...
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In another world, everyone is superman and we are looking for a bicycle repair man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54CpPlCnM4I
The birthday paradox arises because with N people, there are N^2 possible pairings of people for birthday collisions, and thus the number of people required for a collision scales as sqrt(D), an unexpected result.

But here, there aren't N^2 possible pairings since each researcher would still just be studying 1 gene. So this is really as surprising as the article claims.
Big banks suck.

Use credit unions or small, local banks and you likely won't have this sort of problem.
Digital might catch up with 70mm eventually, but it's not there now. There's a reason so many IMAX theaters still use film.
Don’t most countries have first class and second class train service while they also have flat rate subscriptions? The subscription for first class is just more expensive.
Missing the entire point of the interview.

Some of the older media/technology has qualities that the current tech lacks, and that makes a difference in artistic expression.

It's not just 'more is better'.

Even B&W is sometimes, objectively, a far better medium than color.
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We came to many of the same conclusions.

This is why my co-founder and I decided to relocate to the UK in order to set up our bank. The friendlier regulatory ecosystem here is just a huge advantage compared to the US.

Plus, there's still a pretty clear path to getting a national US banking license - it just requires you to expand in from abroad, rather than trying to build it within the US.
I (as an estonian) am amazed this topic is reaching the top of HN or any other outlet. Locally it's a dispute of whether what people need is free bus transport or actually a more frequent schedles (I would vote for the latter).

The E-residency thing is way more awesome however and (like the blockchain tech) will take even more time for it to live up to the hype :D
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Does anyone have an idea roughly how long this would take to build?

I'm new to CS and I'm always seeing all these cool projects I want to work on, but I don't know how much of a time commitment it really is to build a side project like this.