skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the value of pennies to the economy is negative.

Every time I have to handle a penny it wastes my time and energy for no gain. I never find having a penny useful unless it will prevent me from getting more pennies. Multiply that by everyone in the country and that is quite a waste of time (i.e. money). There would be almost no loss of economic efficiency if we get rid of pennies but a nice savings in real time and energy, to say nothing of the waste that mining, refining, stamping and distributing them costs.
The stories that get voted to the front page of HN confuse me at times...
>Edit: I know that lunch hour in CA is exactly the wrong time to post something like this but please actually try and refute something I'm saying instead of mashing the downvote button like you're on Reddit. We're supposed to be able to have adult discussion around here.

Not sure why you are sneering at CA. Californians are just as American as the rest of the country, and in this case the issue at hand was in California.
> OSM is orders of magnitude worse than Apple's current data set in my area, and I doubt that's unusual.

As ever, define "worse" and "my area".

OSM is consistently worse worldwide (compared to Google, TomTom and Here) for geocoding. OSM is consistently worse for lane guidance. OSM is generally worse than Google worldwide for commercial POIs (shops, restaurants etc.), but on a par with TomTom and Here, and this is very location-dependent.

OSM is better worldwide, by several orders of magnitude, for pedestrian and bicycle mapping. OSM is generally better for non-commercial POIs. OSM is very often better in all aspects (save geocoding) in rural locations, particularly in Europe.

If you're an American motorist then Google is your best map right now. If you're a European cyclist then OSM is really the only game in town. It's not a black-and-white issue.
> The Y2K issue did actually require a significant amount of patching

I am referring mainly to the media hype and how it becomes the issue de jure and then ceases to matter. The media jumps on it and amplifies anyone who chimes or confirms the fear. Why? So they can run a 'if it bleeds it leads' type headline. While there could have been stories after the fact of problems for unpatched systems I don't remember any of those stories. And it is not because everyone patched their systems either.

I mean there were posts online about GDPR where some small insignificant company just folded up for fear of what would happen as if the EU was really going to go after that type of target. Anyone who has been in business for a long time knows that is not what is ever done.

To your point you are right because this isn't even (for US companies) a US regulation and if they have no customers in the EU then it is a stretch to be concerned about it (at least relative which is my point to the attention given to it by the media).
If the trash has a flat top, I leave it on top. Otherwise, gone. Any other behavior means, again, investing emotional energy to figure out what would be best. And my whole point is to be free.
Clean water is still a scarce basic need in many parts of the world and even in some parts of the United States even beyond Flint, Michigan.

Many women do not have access to or can afford feminine hygiene products in the world or US.

If high speed internet can be considered a good, it's a scarce utility in many parts of the world.

I think there's still many basic needs or utilities that are scarce...
You can use JVM fibers now with Quasar and Comsat, and Guava provides a whole cast of immutable data structures.

Direct support would be more efficient but because of Java's heavy JIT'ing you can get near native performance now
Same with Vue. I used to be more back-end, but frameworks like Vue and React make front-end feel more like traditional back-end, and are a joy to work with.

I'd separate the client side scripting and styling / layouts, actually. While JS and JS frameworks are fun and enjoyable to work with, and I can architect the JS stuff well to make maintainable code bases, CSS is still a mess for me. Though getting better at that as well. Flex-box and CSS Grid changes the game completely from using floats to do layouts.
> So should submitter be subject to legal scrutiny, monitoring, and restraint on behavior after that single event?

Having caught the post while it was still up, a second, identical incident happened four years after the initial occurrence.
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aerospikes

There’s a lot of reason why they haven’t been used yet, but I think most the compelling argument against them is that they won’t be used until fuel costs become the competitive factor in launch prices.

https://youtu.be/K4zFefh5T-8

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3004/why-arent-lin...

Nuclear rockets are quite the concept but have their obvious limitations. This video is worth checking out if you haven’t seen it yet.

https://youtu.be/eDNX65d-FBY
Use the experimental builds. Active development with a very active modding community.
I had this book on my computer back from when it was released, but never got around to reading it. Thank you for the recommendation!
I took it down because I just applied for another job, probably the last one I'll try. And I linked to my portfolio/blog site, but didn't want that to be the way they found out. Either way, I realize it's probably better for me to either remove this HN post, or to put the blog post back up, to avoid having discussion with too little context. So I pushed it and it should be back up now.
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$100 bills do generate profit for the person printing them, but in aggregate they inflate the currency as a whole. This inflation, in theory, cancels out the wealth "created."

So when people print money, they aren't generating any wealth - it's just a wealth transfer from people who have paper money to the people who print it.
I think Apple sponsoring and improving OSM would actually be the smartest and best way out of this debacle.

I think a perfect example of Apple doing this is: Webkit. Webkit gets back a lot from Apple (though I'm sure there's plenty of room to be miffed at Apple for being slow sometimes, but it still doesn't disprove the point) and it's a core part of their user-facing applications.

Personally, I'd like to see them just open source what they have and let the world enjoy. Either approach would certainly remove the death grip Google has on mapping solutions right now.

Edit: update for grammar and clarity fixes.
Ask HN: How legit is ayurveda?
I live near Iowa City. I encounter several folks wanting a donation every time I go downtown. A couple I know, I always put a buck or two in the can and pass a comment on the weather or whatnot.
It's not extremes of the political spectrum, but extremes of behaviour.

If this is Kiwi Farms, though... https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
There's a famous study somewhere showing that people interpret phrases describing probabilities differently.

By "significant chance" do you mean something like 10% or something like 70%?
Gentoo GitHub Account Hacked
Here in the UK, most banks charge business account holders about 1% when they deposit or withdraw cash. Add in the labour costs of cash handling, the risks associated with cash on the premises and (in many cases) the costs of a secure cash-in-transit service and it's potentially more expensive to take cash than cards.

Multiple studies have found that customers are more willing to spend and typically spend more per transaction when using cards rather than cash, so the merchant charge is usually a sound investment by the retailer.
> I must have missed the part where Google is letting state run Chinese companies run their data centers and sharing the data with the Chinese government. When that happens then Apple and Google will be on equal footing when it comes to China.

Are you suggesting Google is being allowed to store Chinese citizens’ data on servers outside China? If the servers are within Chinese territory, it doesn’t matter who is hosting them - they are subject to the same laws.
Or do business using the wife's last name, for instance, so a Google search doesn't sink you. I think OP's making a mistake by trying to go into consulting with a hopelessly tarnished "brand."
Particular to the c library? Because an "ldd" on the hello world listed quite a few libs which all worked fine with a static build.
>On Feb. 14, 2008, in Foshan, a city in southern China, 15,000 cartons of fireworks spread across 20 warehouses mysteriously exploded in the middle of the night, creating a tremendous blast that damaged windows and doors a half-mile away. Surprisingly, no one was seriously hurt.

>Before the explosion, companies could ship fireworks out of numerous ports, fireworks industry executives said. But after the explosion, Chinese authorities quickly cracked down, requiring almost all of the pyrotechnics to be moved out of Shanghai. And, perhaps most significant, to ship fireworks, companies now needed to obtain special permits, the executives said.

>Only three were initially given out by Shanghai’s Maritime Safety Administration to transfer fireworks onto container ships there, several fireworks and shipping executives said. Of those three, Ding was the only recipient who could move his vessels through the Shanghai port for export to the United States, according to Liu Jihua, owner of Hunan Hongguang Logistics, a Liuyang company that specializes in shipping to Southeast Asia.

Stuff like this is all over China, and they were even more extreme during the time of mandatory export licensing and "export tariffs"
Signage in store shows the price you pay at the till.

The till receipt or invoice breaks down the VAT element for you, and most places even pick out what is zero rated or exempt should you care.
>Fallaious street wisdom backed by egos and peer pressure

That's what I am trying to get at- problems stem from earlier sources. Whether someone eventually gets hooked on something is a consequence of earlier failure. Whatever drug/habit is ultimately picked up in the aftermath is a genuine negative, which will have its own particulars. But it is not the initial causative agent. This is an important distinction to make, because otherwise we're just rearranging deck chairs instead of managing the fundamental issue.

To expand context, when considering appropriate drug policy at a governmental level I think Portugal's experience is important to study:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
Hackers took over the Gentoo Linux GitHub repository
We suspect some data has been compromised in the Typeform breach
It's just nuts...
Urban planning is the most important factor. Density of buildings and people is essential to how desirable a mass transit system is to potential riders and how economically viable it is.
Math? Meh.

Just throw more GPUs at it bro. Gradient descent 4ever! xD

/s
Senate Votes to Legalize Hemp
As the % of users that are identifiable drops eventually the value isn't worth the cost. If only 5% is identifiable that is enough that it won't be done.

Note that identifiable comes is degrees. If they can't tell me from my wife that doesn't matter for most purposes.
What we know about Maryland’s controversial facial recognition database
Yep. I wasn't very cooperative with treatment after the first incident. I was very defensive. I felt that I needed to protect myself from the unfair world. That mindset prevented me from healing as a person and receiving proper treatment.

It's interesting to look at both of my HN accounts. I can actually see my gradual mental deterioration and then gradual recovery.
There's the natural limit and the theoretical limit. In theory, some future gene therapy may swap out your chromosomes for ones that don't decay (while somehow not causing negative side effects) while you're still an embryo or gamete, and do all sorts of other things to make you nearly biologically immortal. And in some even more distant future, maybe consciousness upload (with the "copy conundrum" somehow resolved) will be a real thing, in which case living for thousands or millions of years seems plausible.
A letter to queer youth considering a career in tech
If you are not uniquely identifiable but 99% of the users are that's enough to identify you. That's why US Navy funded the tor project. If their people were the only ones that could hide from other governments then those other governments knew who those unidentified people were.
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
I'm not speaking about science as a whole or a scientific program, but a scientific claim. CERN is certainly not falsifiable, but it produces predictions which (often) turn out to be true. It does so by devising falsifiable claims and then testing those claims.

In other words, the method to create interesting predictions which turn out to be true is to create interesting predictions, then test those predictions, and update your understanding of the world based on them. Once your world-model is good enough, your predictions will often be true. And, perhaps, eventually your predictions will be so often true that they become uninteresting, so you must move on to other questions.
Healthcare and drug treatment are scarce services for many in the U.S.
I also use Comcast at home & work. In my experience, my home service has been more reliable than work. My office is in the northern Chicago Suburbs, my home is in the western Chicago Suburbs. I've literally had days when I've had to leave the office to work from home, because, at least from home, I could still VPN into our data centers in NY/NJ from home, but no access from our office.
There's no technical limitation whatsoever in the way of using OSM as a primary data source and also doing things like using phone telemetry to add roads to your local display map.

It'd likely be necessary to make that data available under the same license OSM is under, but that'd be it.

The way people use OSM, they grab a dump of the data and then load it into a database or whatever (probably processing it into a convenient schema) and then build maps from that database. So it's pretty easy to have more than 1 source contributing to the map you are displaying.

For updates, edits to OSM are available minute by minute, so if your data ingestion is up to it you don't have to put up with the stale data:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm/diffs#Minutel...
As a researcher at a startup, I have to rely on 3rd party tools at least to some extent to collect information (like surveys, screeners, etc). Luckily the data I collect isn't super sensitive, but my guess is that most small companies are collecting names, phone numbers, and email at least and storing them in a 3rd party platform. I imagine most small companies rely on 3rd parties like Google, Airtable, Salesforce, etc. to store at least some data about users. But I don't want to rely on these insecure 3rd parties to store this data. Maybe an opportunity for SaaS to move into a different direction where there's a front-end portal but actually don't store your data? Most small companies don't have developer resources to make secure surveys in-house.
Not sure if I understand what you're after, but AWS offers private API Gateway's now
Whoops, you're right.

"1 2 3".split(' ').map { it.toInt() * 2 }
Aerospikes are not a dramatic improvement in anything. They just buy you a bit more nozzle efficiency, and that only really comes into its own for ssto.
This is called REM rebound. The reason is that in this case the psychoactive drugs in cannabis act as sedatives. Similar to alcohol and other depressants, this makes it easier to fall asleep, but harder to enter the "deeper" stages of sleep like REM. So when you quit ingesting cannabis, your body tries to make up for your ongoing REM sleep deficit, and you have more/stronger dreams as a result

This what is happening to the top level commenter. I don't know if the nightmares in particular are a result of REM rebound, but it could be that the person is simply prone to nightmares, and part of their addiction could be self-medication for their innately nightmarish dreams.
Chrome has no interest in doing that.

Google uses browser fingerprinting for their ads, and to make sure a real user is requesting their services.

I would trust Safari a lot more to implement something like this.
> If mobile phones adopted Web technologies

So what do you want that you're not getting? Nothing about Android stops you from writing a web app.
Lighter colors, even if not white, would still reduce absorption and increase reflection. A middle-gray would help, and possibly something with a color tint to it.
The U.S. Needs More Foreign Entrepreneurs, Not Fewer
This is also a big issue with NoScript and similar plugins. A very small percentage of real users (ignoring bots and headless browsers and such) intentionally disable JavaScript, so they're painting a target on themselves while trying to do the opposite.
Niantic’s AR occlusion technique and how can I get started
Almost 30 years ago I was active in online mudding. I managed to antagonize another young man who became convinced I was quite literally the devil incarnate.

The particularly scary aspect to this was that he happened to live just a couple of hours from me. I was quite concerned he would take action on his belief; I don’t recall what threats he made, but he seemed quite serious.

The internet is a tremendous amplifier for the mundane, the good, and the evil.
The nice thing about rockets is that you can start as small as you'd like and build progressively larger and larger rockets and get the engineering details right before you have to worry about getting into space.

Space elevators, skyhooks, and launch loops are all big enough that it's an all-or-nothing deal. You can test individual components, but a whole end-to-end space elevator has to be exactly the distance between ground and geosync or else it just doesn't work. At best, you could build smaller versions of this stuff on the moon first and then scale up to Earth-size later, taking into account such factors as water, atmosphere, and the fact that the Earth is not tidally locked with the sun. But that requires hauling metric fucktons of parts and equipment to the moon, even if you're using lunar resources to build the space elevator itself, so there's no guarantee you end up ahead in the end.

The basic physics behind rockets is simple as all hell, and it still required von Braun to spend his entire adult life building progressively bigger and bigger rockets and refining the design details. The V2 only needed to be able to land nose-first 200 miles from where it was launched, but without that knowledge and experience, the Saturn V would have been impossible. That's the kind of iteration that's fundamentally impossible with these other launch systems.
Edit: You are misread the post (and I didn't quite read it in enough detail myself). The post claims, Kiwi Farms, large alt-right-influence forum, is manipulating progressives to attack this person.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Agreed. Thank you for formalizing that ideal more coherently.
Rihanna uses unix “nmap” to hack computer in new movie Ocean's 8
I am certain you meant the 'sure you can!' as a positive.

To explain the downvotes, consider that ~99% of the time when someone laments a lack of something, and someone else replies with what is essentially a LMGTFY link, it is taken as snark.

If you had instead started with "the automated translation of this particular page is better than you might think, and you can actually get meaning out of it", you'd probably have positive votes. Most people who use automated translation services have noticed how awful they are with Japanese<>English conversion compared to many other language pairs, so pointing out that in this case it's not so bad is a useful thing. :)
And think of all the chuckles to be had when asking the corporate sponsor how many "impressions" they're looking for!
We cope just fine with variable tax rates and rules for who pays tax in the UK. The general rule is that all prices are inclusive of VAT (sales tax), if you’re VAT exempt as is the case for many businesses then you claim that money back. Some businesses allow you to provide proof of VAT exemption and sell at the price before tax to avoid having to claim back.

For things that don’t have different VAT rates, such as food or children’s clothing, it’s the retailers responsibility to price that in - most people probably couldn’t even tell you which particular goods are VAT exempt.
We should get rid of everything below the quarter. All we need are some rules for rounding up (or down). Then we could also drop the $1 dollar bill for a coin. A lot less confusion with only two main coins in circulation.
o/

I do bike directions based on OSM data: https://cycle.travel/map
Nice that we live on a planet with low enough gravity to get off of it. The article states that if the Earth was about 50% bigger, chemical rockets wouldn't be able to achieve escape velocity. Any species on a planet like that has a much much harder time getting into space.
IRC. In the depths of restaurant work. Met another one at BJJ.
Home owner Association, in case anyone else is wondering.
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The story itself claims tumblr users (and more generally, to quote, "young progressives") were behind the stalking, unless I misread.

[edit] sounds like kiwifarms is a 4chan-type trolling/alt-right site and simply got tumblr to also attack these poor folks by making up stories about them being animal abusers.
Comedian Pretends to Be Senator and Connects to Donald Trump Phone
The entire EU eurozone manages to do it. There's a 1 Euro note, but I've never seen it and as far as I know nobody uses it. Using 1 and 2 euro coins works great. I personaly just keep them in my pocket. I don't think jingling is a real problem.

Same goes for the UK and the pound. Nobody uses 1 pound notes.
For class weights, the easiest thing is to just generate that as another one of the items placed into the input function dictionary, e.g. when you wrap the DataGenerator. Then have a custom loss function that takes this input element and applies the weight for that training sample. Again, the need to do slight extra work is a limitation of TensorFlow here, not of Keras, but because Keras is so flexible, it's super easy to work around.

> "computing various stats that aren't provided by Keras.."

It seems like you have this backward. Keras provides the easy interface to create the custom callbacks. That's why you can create extra convergence metrics, etc., that are far harder to use if implementing in pure TensorFlow. The part where TensorFlow is specifically lacking functionality is in its ability to handle these callbacks (both pre-built in Keras or user-defined). I've had good success with the solution I mentioned with SessionRunHooks, but still, it is a terrible design choice by the TensorFlow people to create this in a way that is not directly compatible with all the work Keras had done.

> "from those tf.Estimator seemed the last devops-intense way to go (Horovod needs MPI and CERNDB/Keras Spark)."

Just based on how poorly designed the tf.Estimator API is though, I'm not actually sure the other methods would require less devops or less investment. In some cases for standard models, yes. But if you've already committed to using Keras for very customized situations, then going back to the dark ages with native TensorFlow will often be much more work and more error prone than using the other solutions. The Horovod dependence on MPI in particular is fairly simple and needs little management. Most people having done ML / stats PhDs will already have managed far more difficult situations with MPI previously anyway, or at least have the Linux skills needed. The point is you have a fighting chance, whereas deciphering undocumented and badly designed corners of TensorFlow often leaves you with no fighting chance.