skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For kicks, he says, the guards tossed the prisoners’ sandwiches onto the floor of the van, knowing that the tightly shackled men couldn’t reach them.

Why is this permitted? Does anyone other than me think the guards should also be prosecuted for this behavior? Worst of all who are the sort of people who apply for these jobs, behave like this all day and then just go home at the end of the day to have a nice evening with family. Very disturbing.

Aside, odd feeling reading this article featuring a US-Canada border crossing right after playing Detroit: Become Human last night.
This depends on how you define cost and benefit. Remember the cost of doing nothing is

Rising waters (more flood defences or flood insurance going up)
What is the cost when bayfromt SV property is flooded and cant be pumped out? What is the financial value of a species disappearing? What is the value of the oceans and the coral reefs that are being bleached by acid?

Compare that to the cost of switching to renewables lifestyle that can at least be quantified. Options are likely to get more and more expensive (it would have been cheaper 50 years ago than now even with our better tech) it's simply a matter of people putting enough money in to a) clean energy (because the more cheap clean energy we have the more viable other options like carbon capture becomes) and b) simply funding mitigating technologies.

It is quite possibly too late, we may have irreversibly damaged the climate to the point, where even a 100% switch off of co2 tomorrow would simply be too little, too late. Govs didn't introduce punishing taxes and subsidies for the right tech when they knew there was a problem (who votes for raising taxes?) So that's it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8E-4YVANU maybe something like this ;)
To be fair, "the people concerned" might themselves not have the authority to just diverge from the process.

The lesson to learn is that rigid processes don't work too well in creative fields such as software development. Every company wants to be innovative, i.e. come up with better ways to do things. The innovation will most likely not come from management, because they are busy doing management stuff to keep the company running smoothly. The good ideas will come from the employees that spend most of their time actually working on the subject. If a process prevents these employees from taking what they think is the best decision, then there needs to be a conversation about that process.

Rather than specify how to work, companies should focus on goals and have those goals shared across the organization: "We want to build the best possible product." The goals should inform everything else, because how can anything be more important than building the best product? If it's clear that a process is in the way, people should be empowered to change it.

Which is the point of agile: setting up your organization as a system that allows teams to do the right thing.
>Bitcoin is a tool for tax evasion and money exchange on criminal assets

You just made it more appealing and useful, since taxation is theft. Some "criminal" assets are incorrectly classified as criminal, so that's another +1 for Bitcoin.
So, children are so good at learning because they don't "know" anything and therefore do not put cognitive barriers in place?
Or it’s a counterfeit charger that fries their $2500 laptop.
A Detailed Guide to Better, More Measureable Prospect Experience Design (PX)
You make an interesting point. Most people would for example never shout at a coworker, but people consider shouting in an argument with one's spouse fairly routine.
This is one of the films whose visual impact at the time is hard to appreciate today. That scene was one in which the impact on the audience was almost as great as it was on the characters in the clip.

The opening of Star Was was similar (although that was more models-based).
Design patterns as higher order datatype-generic programs [pdf]
Jsonnet is not new, but it's a missed opportunity as it's a big departure from the JavaScript semantics. It's Standard Library and syntax are unique, which is not a good thing for its purpose. It needs to be a subset of JavaScript, which could later become part of ECMAScript. I understand that its lazy evaluation nature required some of those, but still, I find it often to be much more pain than it should be!
Funny! Some smart guy was quoted as saying that the biggest barrier to communication is the assumption that it has taken place. If you ask somebody if they understand you will rarely hear, "I have no idea what you are talking about."
Reader, I married them...?
Show HN: Online Simple Linear Regression Calculator
This is a minimum viable product that I made for an HTML5 based simple linear regression calculator that can work in your web browser. I intend to iterate on the design as the project was only born three days ago.
Matchmaking is overrated, and people expect too much out of relationships. My family is from Bangladesh where the marriages, though typically not arranged per se, involve less of a "trying on clothes" aspect than in the U.S. It's not clear to me that marriages are any happier here. (People are of course more likely to get divorced here, but are likely to end up in a second or third marriage that is not particularly happy either.)
Also, why does everyone blindly believe that a country called Russia even exists? Wake up, sheeple! /s
Ironic that many of the comments here are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
It won't be user-facing, so there won't be an SDK. It's a way of building chips better,like AMD's Infinity Fabric. You could integrate GPUs, multiple CPU dies (like Epyc), and DRAM on a single package and tie them all together with interposers, which would look to the user like a CPU with an integrated GPU and a big L4 cache.

Using multiple small dies and tying them together has several advantages. Small dies yield better, so sometimes several small dies are cheaper than one large one. There's also versatility because you can mix and match components.
With 60-40 advantage, the article says "The coin gives a 20 per cent advantage to the team that shoots first"

Not particularly strong on statistics, but is this not a 50% advantage?
That would be fun. How can I start?
This is only re: your last sentence.

It won't, solid rockets are inherently limited in their safety (for the reasons you pointed out), fuel efficiency and ability to be rapidly reused.

The fuel efficiency will never be that of kerolox, methalox or hydrolox engines [1].

Landing a solid the way Falcon 9 lands is impossible (there is no engine on the way back, and if you can shut it down safely and then relight it then you can't throttle it), and when you recover the parts of the rocket that are not fuel, "refueling" solid rocket is basically re-manufacturing (the STS boosters were re-manufactured, without any economy).

In general, the use of solid boosters for crewed NASA missions is a folly that was mandated by congress to funnel money into ATK (manufacturer of many military solid rockets and explosives from hand held to ICBM/SLBM, now Northrop Grumman). Ares I, Liberty and OmegA, and the SLS boosters, are just more of the same.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket#Perfor...
Identical bluetooth OBDII scanners: Aliexpress $2.98 shipped, Amazon $10.99 shipped

IME this is a fairly typical price ratio. Sometimes they are much closer though. Of course Amazon ships it in 2 days instead of weeks. The "Bezos tax" is largely paying for the very convenient logistics of US warehousing.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ELM-327-V-2-1-BT-adapter-Wor...

https://www.amazon.com/Mestart-Bluetooth-Diagnostic-Scanner-...
Venezuela citizens didn't lose any money? are you serious?

So you must be happy, since most Venezuelans may be millionaires now! (but let's just forget about the fact that 1M+ from their currency is valued as less than a dollar; and that this value loss have destroyed their lives)
Thanks for sharing this! The steps in Wikipedia are so clear and concise in describing how I attempted to track down different bugs.

I'll definitely also read the book and use it as a guideline on what to try next instead of randomly asking myself "what else can I try?".
For the applications I use, gtk3 did not add any significant improvement over gtk2. Often it was the opposite (goodbye menubars anyone?). It seemed like all my dank gtk themes broke every time there was a minor version bump.
> If we were really made in god's image, then he'd expect us to follow logic, thank you.

There's literally nothing in the scriptures (that I've read) supporting this, while there's plenty of evidence God itself is batshit insane, or at least suffers from bipolar disorder, paranoia, and obsessive jealousy. As such, it's entirely plausible to me that we are, indeed, made in such a god's image...
Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook's missteps and what comes next
That might be because you lost your qt4 theming config when you upgraded your DE to qt5, so qt4 has fallen back to defaults.

On ArchLinux you can run `qtconfig-qt4` to configure the look and feel of qt4 applications.
I understand what the authors are trying to convey, but this is the same country that supported slavery for a few centuries. How can the authors not see the parallels between that and what they are proposing?
> I have precious little hope for the future of projects that inspire this type of zealotry

Good, then get lost and leave us alone in our cesspool of "zealotry".

Bitcoin is a system of capitalism (vuluntary interactions) and the network gets secured by PoW via people's greed.

Seems to be working to me.
There are a lot nicer ways to say that FYI
He made loss (Stunt cost $1200 and he lost money)

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article21366818...

$38 for an art piece that most people realised it to be..... what if it was another Banskey prank.
Loved the finale
Sure, but the question was about legality, not ability. Of course there are ways to reliably circumvent some laws. Some laws are stupid. Sometimes those two intersect. But those serve only to answer questions about indictment risk and whether something should be legal, not whether or not it is.
Surprisingly, much of the Bitcoin community doesn't know this and think that the leading zeros are special.

That's because most of the Bitcoin community is speculators and get rich quick types due to the frothyness of the space, whom neither know nor care to know about the mathmateical and cryptographic underpinnings of bitcoin.
I guess that a regular app would not have the necessary low level access (that I assume is required) to do anything like that.

So that (another guess) means that the android phone needs to be under complete control of the malware.

Is that common or are my guesses/assumptions wrong?
Have a look at bodymovin / Lottie, I appreciate the handmade approach but might save you a bunch of time
A human could scrape it all the same. So if Instagram doesn't want that, they should close the site.
Good for you :) - for me, laying down with eyes shut is when I will have attractive solutions to hard problems! Happens sometimes standing in the shower but those all tend to be strategic ones unlike the tactical ones that get solved laying down.

Crazy stuff!
The service provider will just block Tor.
Open source sustainability
Legal rephrasing: Is there a reason that as a user of a user-agent like Firefox you would be in a legally different position than as a user of this user-agent app?
Interesting bit of spam on the forum from an account created ~2hours ago:
>globalrobin00 35 minutes ago [-]
> Are you from US, and have a verified coinbase account?
> Then what are you waiting for when you can be earning up
> to 0.5 > BTC weekly, with your empty verified coinbase
> wallet. Contact +1-423-445-xxxx"

Apparently seeking to 1) get around Know Your customer rules using your account or 2) escalate into your linked US bank accounts.

Purpose 1) will land you in serious legal jeopardy for a mere ~70mBTC per day, while purpose 2) will drain your bank account at some point.

Quite cheap compensation for being a sink for toxic side-effects of money laundering &/or theft.
I'll play. Which of these claims do you think haven't been sufficiently demonstrated?

1. There was social media interference in the 2016 US elections through the spreading of propaganda on social media.

2. Some of that campaign originated (geographically) from Russia.

3. The Kremlin (whether or not through the Internet Research Agency) was behind some of this propaganda.

Separately, I'm curious whether you believe:

4. The Kremlin is involved in social media-based election interference in countries other than the USA.
I saw a t-shirt the other day that said "friends don't let friends sell bitcoins". At first I thought it was anti-bitcoin, but then I realized that they were advocating "hodl". Yeah feels like a cult to me.
Ask HN: Tax Implications of Ethereum Smart Contracts?
Hey Guys,

I’m thinking of building a web based app that uses smart contracts. If my app takes a percentage of a given transaction how does the IRS view that? Is it only taxed if I convert that to FIAT?

Hoping some of you have experience with this.

I also wonder if a given app utilizes smart contracts if that is considered a money transmitter business.
> I knew that stating my opinion was going to be taken badly, but then I thought why censor myself? I should say what I mean and mean what I say.

No, it's not being 'taken badly'. It's on you. What you're saying is an outrage. HackerNews isn't a YouTube comment thread; we expect better.

Rather than complaining about how your readers misunderstood you, you might think to at least explain yourself when you go ahead and say that teenaged hackers deserve death.
42 major BDS groups have ties to “Palestinian” jihad terrorist organizations
What's the difference between chiplets and SoCs?
My gripe with GTK3 are tiny, auto-hiding scroll bars. After a long day at work they become impossible to use even with a mouse. Hitting them with a Wacom is basically impossible.

What’s worse is that you can find many different recipes on the web on how to enlarge th scrollbars/disable auto-hide, and most of them don’t work or work only some of the time.
No but close. Got back into IT. Wife quit her job to run business. Hired managers but takes a hands off approach. Doesn't want to work in restaurants directly.
Developing cobalt-free batteries
if you are getting paid, what's the issue? office space can be very expensive and being remote is a great way to save cost and extend the runway. remote companies work best when everyone is 100% remote, but it's also very difficult and painful to figure out if you don't have experienced folks running it.
The chiplets are separate pieces of silicon linked together by a larger chip, whereas SOCs are etched onto one large piece of silicon?
That seems more like an example of how the "planning laws" are a nuisance and totally out of step with reality. If there were really some harm in the house being there, surely somebody should have challenged it before 10 years. What harm is the court redressing in ordering it torn down?
These triplets were separated at birth for a twisted experiment
Is it current population sustainable though.

Is it enough space to freeze produce of a city of half a million people?

Many modern inventions are what they are because of nothing more than mass pop. Farm vehicles instead of horses pulling to feed millions instead of 1000's like wise printing press/internet to let millions read instead of 1000's.

World population now is magnitudes larger than in ancient times. While these inventions might be cost effective. You probably need an area the size of texas full of these cooling buildings to get the same "bandwidth" for current human population.

Not to mention you'd need 1000s of trucks because these do not fit in the space of a fridge. I have a strong feeling these do not work at all on small scale.

The issue is same with wind and solar power. The physical surface area needed to get the same power per square inch is too much. I think to get the same global power output with wind turbines alone we don't even have enough space and also needs abyssmal amounts of raw fossil fuels and materials to build.

Cost effective =/= efficency/entropy
I wouldn't call that unreadable at all
One in three American drivers can’t tell if their tires are bald
Or Welsh. You want a canonical form for "wnaethpwyd"? Try "gwneud"! Some regexes and an exceptions list isn't going to cut it.

The more a language needs a lemmatizer for NLP the harder it is to write it.
> You'd think it'd be easy to use ritual vivisection, human sacrifice at scale, organized child murder, and cannibalism [1] as an absolutely unambiguous black-and-white line by which to demarcate civilization from barbarian savagery.

We might as well add to that list treating humans like property, the mass murder, mass rape, and mass killing of civilians by invading armies, child labor, genocide, things like pogroms and lynchings, separating children from parents at scale, etc ...

So, who is exactly left on the “civilized” side of the line now?
> My conclusion... if we don't embrace a pragmatic reality of what things cost, if we try and manage the costs tightly... the side effects usually have unintended consequences that are worse than facing or embracing the original costs.

Yes, but sometimes there is competition between projects. In that case it may pay to lie about the actual cost.
You mean, assuming it happened? It's probably not permitted. It'd fall under the category of cruel and unusual punishment, or maybe extrajudicial punishment. Plenty of things happen that are not permitted.
A login is not enough because of cross site request forgery. A site on the internet can include css, scripts or images from your service and generate get and post requests to it with the users credentials.
Intercepting and Emulating Linux System Calls with Ptrace
Wtf? I have to check the wikipedia article, but I thought even the 6 million total was stretching it a little.
In Dari any normal electrical household fridge is also called a Yakhchal.
Reminds me of a chapter from the book "Surely you must be joking Mr. Feynman" (as far as I remember).

The chapter describes how Feynman came across how his colleague visualizes a task. IIRC Feynman does it visually (imagines something visual in his mind) and thus can do voice related activities while he is thinking, but his colleague does it by visualizing sound (he thinks tick-tock sounds in his mind), so can do visual tasks while he is thinking.

Really fascinating how a human mind works.

Also reminds me of the quote by Einstein, something about judging the ability of a fish to climb a tree.

Everyone has a unique and effective way to navigate the world intellectually.
Pollution including that of the sort which causes birth defects among children at a mass scale?
I think a more interesting question is HN’s opinion on the morality and ethics of such scrapers, since the law varies between countries and is often twisted by lobby in this field.
Visualization of the global refugee flow (2000-2015)
Toxic wavelength of blue light changes as insects grow
The root cause of fight is that partners disagree over something that is important to both (likely related to some core value). The contributing factor is oftentimes stress, people are not able to be perfect under stress and sleep deprivation.

Self-control and compassion don't make disagreement or bad feelings over important things disappear. They are still present. The "never fight" relationships (not just marriage, but also friendships) are either "we do things as separately as possible" or one of the two ceased to talk about his or her issues. The latter are then "I had not idea partner is unhappy and bam shock divorce" situations.

The easiest way how to keep calm is not to care. It does not have to be screaming match, but if you never disagree about things like child raising, it is likely that one did checked out.
I know. I was there. ;-) What I meant was that `impl Trait` hasn't existed yet on Rust stable, and it gives folks legitimately new powers, so it seems like it was on the line between it being a refinement and it being a legitimately new language feature. But this is splitting hairs; the classification doesn't matter much.
Because that is a fundamental point that seems to often be missed in density discussions. Cars are great for low density areas and appealing at high density areas where as mass transit is great at high density but awful at low.density this why park and ride stations outside the city are a thing.

Even if you could build miltistory underground car parks you still need roadway space. German narrow gauge trams quite happily chug Elon in two directions on 10 feet carry highway capacity traffic one highway lane is 12 feet. They don't need the space. So car traffic takes up much more space that means you can't have the same density. If you don't have those cars you could put all the factories and warehouse space underground and you would have even more surface room this would allow a higher density of people. To imagine this take a look at your closest city on Google maps and how much space is taken up by car parks and roads now if you can reduce that use to 20% while keeping the same city boundaries, the density of the city hasn't changed but a lot more land is available. How much bigger can your house be if the highway is only one lane wide? How many more people can you add in?

You would also have the issue of getting people to and from the miltistory underground but that is exactly what happens on car free areas. You take the tram/bus/train pick up your car/rental/rideshare/uber at the multi story car park and continue on from there. If it's right on the major highways around the area you reduce a lot of the traffic headaches.
My opinion is basically that since businesses use machines to target, communicate, and attempt to influence me, they have no right to deny my ability to do the same, unless it harms their service e.g. DDoS.
It's an unprovable, but I'd bet a considerable sum that there were more than a few Aztecs who had some serious doubts about the whole human sacrifice thing.

Voicing those doubts, of course, seems like it would have been an excellent way to find yourself next at the sharp end of the priest's knife.
This exactly. My wife and I are both on our second marriage and we were in our mid 30s when we got married. She had two sons that she was raising alone. Ironically enough, the relationship with my stepsons was rock solid almost immediately, but the first four years of our marriage, it seems like we were contemplating divorce at least once every six months and would go weeks without speaking to each other. We were both older, set in our ways, and had different outlooks on a lot of things.

But if you look at us now, you would think we are the perfect couple and our marriage is a well oiled machine . It took four years for us to get there.

Our sons saw this first hand and were old enough to know what was going on. But if their earliest memories were us four to seven years into our marriage, out of the financial jams that we were both in when we got married, etc. Thier perspectives on how easy a great marriage is would be completely different.

If I look at my parents marriage growing up, I would have idealized it too. My parents have been married for close to 50 years and together for almost 60 - they were high school sweethearts. By the time I was born, they had already been together for 14 years.
> just go home at the end of the day to have a nice evening with family

You mean, assuming they have do have a family and are capable of having a nice evening? Sometimes people's behavior convey their inner issues. Not that I'm justifying their behavior in any way, just objective thinking.
But this negates the advantage of having a small number of trusted repos if you need to add third-party repos for every project.
The end of memes? Campaigners dismayed at European internet ruling