skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While a naive person may make that inference, a rational person may understand that 'ideogram' does not constitute an assertion that the picture depicts the prize to be won.

The law isn't based on a "rational" person, but a "reasonable" one, that is the judgement of an ordinary person with typical life experiences. That's why you're tried by a jury of your peers, not of logicians, lawyers or ethicists.
How would you even regulated that? This is the sort of detailed complex gray-zone law that is hard to define and harder to enforce.

A more general increase in the power of contract and what the need to include to make them valid.
Another cool paper along a similar thread is DLPaper2Code: Auto-generation of Code from Deep Learning Research Papers (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03543).

I see opportunities with tools like this in the form of apps and/or SaaS, IF a team is willing to put thousands of hours into a top quality way to make the machine learning super user friendly. The only comparable product of such a nature I've seen is deepl.com/translator (translator better than google translate which leverages deep learning - don't trust me? go try it)
I never understood the starring out thing. If the forum is inappropriate for that word, then using stars is also inappropriate.
Have you tried Pain-free Passwords?

I haven't used it myself, but it was created by Wladimir Palant (creator of AdBlock Plus extension), I believe after they examined the LastPass extension and were rather unimpressed with its security practices.

https://pfp.works/
> You also don't want the dolly in your kitchen because you don't know what it rolled over before that.

How are the dolly's wheels any different from the delivery person's shoes?
Are you in Auckland with that kind of rent?
As a London pedestrian I am fully in favour of electric buses.

The NoX fumes are horrible for pedestrians too. Especially when the buses are stacked one after another, idling.

I seriously can’t believe the government refuses to act on the diesel disaster. Tens of thousands of people die from diesel exhaust complications per year, but they don’t care.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/Fjr6v88OPk7U4/giphy.gif
Ask them whether they'd use Yogi Berra quotes to decide how best to manage a baseball team.
Login Session Maintenance in Node.js Using Express and Handlebars
There's actually the opposite evidence; it's worse to be in a vehicle than walk or cycle, and there's a few studies that say that the benefits of cycling outweigh the pollution exposure.

http://www.breathelondon.org/south-east/project/modes-transp...
It's all part of the script. They insert an artificial expectation that one must wait to be seated to manufacture a sense of popularity, trendiness, and exclusivity.

Sounds like another Chicago restaurant that I visited once. Once. That establishment remains to this day the only place where I have ever left a $0.02 tip--worst service I have ever experienced as a restaurant customer.
They are NOT always scams, they just have bad reputation because of possibility of abuse.

There are plenty of good management companies that run thousands of timeshare units. My family pays for 3 and all are in perfect shape, own private beach access, gives access to nice cars (that are changed to new every 2 years) and have very strict rules on participants. No, you cannot just crash place with your friends and call the day; the penalties are harsh and good timeshare management will match you with people interested in similar lifestyle. They are much much cheaper than price of tickets / setting up vacation trip and the thought alone that maximum 52 people (versus 365 in hotel room) per year slept in that bed and took a dump in that toilet is a very comfortable one :)
What's irresponsible about just landfilling it after it has served its purpose? You're taking a small amount of oil that started off underground, and then isolating it back under ground.

The main problem appears to be with people who litter, and in areas that don't have a sanitation system to carry away and isolate garbage like this.

Recycling plastic is nice, but the point of GP's post is that even without it, it has the potential to massively reduce waste.
I was one of the very first developers with an app published on Google Play store, and as a "thank you" for having one of the first apps with 10k+ downloads(which wasn't difficult when number of apps on the store was measured in hundreds), Google wanted to send me the Nexus One phone - which was great, except that the email I got from them looked like scam, it was basically "hey you won a phone, click on this link and fill out this google spreadsheet with your details!" - no official google logo, it was just plain text email and the spreadsheet looked dodgy as hell. So I ignored it, until I read about the giveaway on a reputable site few days later - and yeah, I filled out the sheet and the phone arrived few weeks later. But it was very very easy to ignore it.
Yes, if you run out of money. That is the first assumption which doesn't hold true for the majority of addicts (who are at least moderately functional, as opposed to the dysfunctional picture you're painting here). Addiction is a complicated array of factors that either push you further into it or do not, and a lot of it has to do with your social safety net. In the average american case, I'll admit this appears to not be there. In places where this isn't so much the case, prospects for long-term addicts are much, much better (look towards the more permissive countries in Europe for evidence on this).
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No inclusion of the knock-on benefits of NHS savings from fewer cases of diesel exhaust complications.
You can’t spam using either of those protocols.
Enhanced Aha integration with GitHub
This is a really great point that deserves to be it's own comment, rather than a reply to another. The two greatest challenges facing us in the next few years are climate change and water usage. Plastic is an issue, but it's not a life-or-death-for-the-species problem. We can figure plastic out later. We already are discovering bacteria and other organisms that can digest plastics.

It seems to me we have a kind of liberal guilt when it comes to plastic production. As if we're defiling this green and pleasant land with something alien to the universe. We're almost certainly not producing anything that hasn't already existed. We should stop acting like we are. (The same goes for nuclear waste.) As long as plastics are disposed responsibly in ways that don't damage plants and animals, what's the issue?
Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars so the DEA Put Him in Prison (2013)
Off topic but that is a gnarly commit history
The noise inside the bus seems quite annoying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKJSMqhYKk
About 30 years ago in Australia There was a competition at the local shopping centre. Spend $20 at any shop in the centre, show your receipt and you get a chance to win the displayed car.

The chance involved folding a paper plane, and then trying to get it into the car through the sunroof. Which was only open a small crack.

A friend of the family tried about 5 times over the day and never got close.

They came back quite drunk at the end of the day to have one last go. Threw the plane and instead of going over the top of the car, it accidentally slammed directly into the front windscreen. It then rebounded straight up in the air and then dropped straight down through the sunroof.

They walked away with the car.
If you have to use selection bias just to conjure up interest, I'd say there's no fire amongst all that smoke. I read through 7 of those and while some of them were mildly interesting when they hit the news cycle, they're certainly not now. Grist for America's identity politics rumor mill, but certainly not remarkable in any other sense.
(e) Free tickets for some event (which is very often the hook to get you into the door)
I believe it's actually opposite that's the way of the future it's everything
We also rely on witnesses with dubious memories and motives but people will never be held to the same standards as machines.
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Survive cloud vendor crashes with Netlify and FaunaDB
Correct, it is hard to get in a useful form. Then if you want to share it with a different Provider on an different EMR, it is non trivial to get that data imported into your data record.
I doubt that software could tell the difference between (a long tap) and (a short tap followed by a pause).
The article's title I see is "The gig economy crash, with 'Gigged' author Sarah Kessler". I can't see the word "doom" or phrase "from the start" in the article.
Telecoms + networking software engineer here:

'tis true - the caller has call release control on the PSTN i.e. the call doesn't end until the caller puts down the phone. There's special handling for e.g. 911 calls so that call release control is given to the callee i.e. the PSAP.

This doesn't work for e.g. SIP because the SIP client is not a dumb slave to the network. If I click end call, even if the network doesn't 'want' to end the call, my phone thinks the call has ended.
“command-blind” –Adj: Why you get stuck following instructions you find online
We can and should do better. What if we had a robot that would drive through the fields, detecting weeds and crushing or cutting them out instead of chemical solutions? Couldn't we deliver the water more directly as well?

Shouldn't transportation use battery powered vehicles instead of fossil fuel based vehicles?

Can't we steam wash with renewable energy?

Maybe it costs more to do some of these things now, but I think folks could use some good goals to work toward.
The benefits of cycling outweigh the harms of the pollution, almost everywhere. The pollution is still harmful, though, and lowers your lifespan compared to not having as much pollution.
Might not be so easy -- it is like paying payroll -- you, not only the recipient, need to report the tax ID of the person/entity that you paid.
There's nothing new about government targeting of dissidents. The worst case scenario there played out in the fifties with McCarthy. Society survived.
for some things sure e.g. Italy has had mandatory biodegradable shopping bags for a few years, but for other things, like coke bottles, it seems harder.

I mean, you can enforce glass bottles but that does not seem like a major improvement.
Or not, considering the source comment has been grayed out.
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57% of Tech Workers Are Suffering from Job Burnout, Survey Finds
>Many of us understand very well that the climate is changing and that humans might have something to do with it, we just don't know to what extent.
But even posing such an idea will get you put into the "climate denier" category in a heartbeat and stop all rational discussion.

Because when climate change deniers could no longer deny that the climate is changing, they started saying that humans were not to blame. It's mostly the same people moving the goal posts. It is then quite natural that you get lumped into that camp when expressing that "opinion".
Worth noting for backend engineers: every major browser supports Brotli compression, and 85.22% of users run a browser that supports it[1].

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli
They overprovisioned, and never actually got close to that in practice.
> The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful

The problem with this approach is that it would lead to a proliferation of snake-oil salesmen.

If the effort to create a new 'drug' is trivial, but the study on efficacy/harm is long and expensive, then there would be a huge number of snake-oil offerings.

Take colored water, slap a 'it cures cancer' sticker on it, and start selling it the public. In a couple of years, once there are studies showing that it's just colored water, and does nothing, just shut down the product and make a new one. The regulatory/safety efforts would never be able to keep up.
Oh wow, I didn't realize that wasm did not currently have any direct bindings to the DOM. How does it interact with the page then? I saw a demo where they ported UE4 - how does something like that work without DOM access?
CO2 shortage: Why it really matters for the UK's food and drink supply
I was surprised that they felt USB charging is a feature. We've had that, and WIFI, on some diesel buses in Gloucestershire for a while.

USB charge points under the seats tend to be more broken - accidentally kicked.
> They came back quite drunk

> They walked away with the car.

Hopefully they did walk.
Scala implementation from one of the authors here: https://github.com/djspiewak/parseback
THC is already an approved drug in the US under the name nabilone. It’s schedule 2.

This newly approved drug is CBD. There is no need for the DEA to reschedule marijuana. They’ve already been ok with this contradictory scheduling for over a decade.
Keeping in mind you probably won't hear them coming.
which has been corrected.
Google Home now speaks Spanish
I would hate to be an ATT customer.
It seems to me, many web developers today don't even realize, that creating features without js and enriching the experience from that baseline, not only enhances performance and accessibility, but in the end is often not more work and might even lead to cleaner, leaner code. I guess in the end it just comes down to which tools one learned first and based on that which approach one takes to solve the problem at hand.

I can only encourage everyone that thinks js is the catch-all solution to dive a bit deeper into html&css and try out alternate solutions. It's worth it for the knowledge gain in itself but offers many other benefits.
There where a lot of edge cases to those calculations. Including very short short commute times, specific locations within cities, background physical activity, traffic accidents etc.

Further, while 1% of cities may cross their air thresholds at their assumption levels those are the largest cities. So far more than 1% of the population would be worse off.

It's just the news glossed over the very real downsides mentioned in the study.
> Roping the unsuspecting into an incredibly expensive time-share using hard-sell boiler-room tactics without ever being up-front about the true costs.

The hack is to attend, tell them you go once a year, sometimes twice, to some ethnic ancestral home town, and you'll buy on the spot if they have a timeshare there. Pick out some two-stop-light town in some out of the way country, that doesn't even have AirBnB rooms, and you can see the sales people visibly deflate as they vainly look for a listing in Borat-istan. Put on a show of being all sad, and explain that you can't imagine paying for their fantastic deal for only 15% of your annual travel budget, but to put you down in the wait list as the first to buy when they expand to your home town.

You are in-and-out in the allotted time, with the freebies, usually three hours max. I actually like inspecting the actual buildings to try to spot whether or not they took shortcuts, as how these scams work fascinates me, and some of these places have genuinely good ideas I scrapbook for my homebuilding notes, so I don't mind the lead up to the real sales pitch where I deflate them, but I'm sure you can modify the hack so you open with your counter-pitch and are in and out in minutes. I've seen people report they tell the salespeople up front they only came for the freebies, they're never buying, and if both sides agree to discreetly walk early so the sales manager doesn't notice, they'll rate the sales effort A++++ (there are always surveys afterwards), and are out in minutes.

I'm curious with groups like 419 Eaters why there aren't more organized scambaiters for timeshare scams. The freebies are legit, and if you're planning to be in a particular area anyways, three hours for a 1-2 day stay, especially if you like seeing how others solve various housing-related challenges, is a good trade.
This was a fun read, but left me with the question: What book on C pointers would be the polar opposite of this one?

I'd like to read that book.
NVidia transforms standard video into slow motion using AI
That technique was used long before Amazon used it. Actually, the first comment on that article confirms this: Bruce Tognazzini came up with it for Apple in 1986.
Over-the-top, sugary fluff.

Bad writing.
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban
I'm Polish and even though I have heard the term Babie Lato I have never ever associated it with spiders.
In my experience, save-scumming is as much of a cheat for developers as it is for gamers.

90% of your players can't get past a level because it's poorly designed? Why, just tell them to keep saving and reloading until they get through! It's realistic! It makes sense! It's blah blah blah.

Unless deliberate like in Kaizo-games, the over-reliance on save-scumming is an indicator that the game's creators are just too insecure or too untalented to fix their own oversights.
Openssh.org is down
If you don't want to set up everything yourself and just want to tune in to some numbers stations, there is an online SDR interface hosted from the Netherlands.

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
OK, we've put the title back closer to the original. “Horseshit” (we don't need to bowdlerize) is clickbait, so we've gone with “misconception”. Happy to update again if there's a better word.
America has a long history of facilitating other nations' experiments in tyranny. Like, a really really long one. I learned the other day that many of the atrocities committed in the Belgian Free Congo were actually committed by American and British companies, and the details were covered up after it became public.

In order to get me interested in a new Threat To American Democracy and Freedom, you need to show that it's actually novel and unprecedented. And then it's only as interesting as its potential to actually scale. Remember red-light cameras? In Georgia they had to take them out because after the public bitched, they had to increase the length of the yellow light and the company running them couldn't make ends meet.

Without economic incentives, the political will to keep it going, and a novel approach, it's really hard to get interested in outrage or fear over technological dystopia.
There are companies that specialize in insuring risks like that. It is a whole sub industry of insuring unlikely to win contests.

https://www.holeinoneinsurance.com/how-much-does-it-cost.htm...
So awful there are still plentiful migrants banging on the door to be let in.
Are you doing code splitting? If not, this would be my first target for gains :)
I see your point but at this point I think it's just a matter of taste. I don't really see how having a function meant to deal with a special case of character buffers disguised as a general purpose string manipulation routine in the stdlib could be considered reasonable. I understand why it's here, I understand the history, I understand why it made sense at some point to have such a function but you won't be able to convince me that it's not broken or that it shouldn't be deprecated in favor of strlcpy (ditto for strncat/strlcat). After all it is in <string.h>, not <fixed-width-string.h>, it's pretty heinous that it fails at the very low bar of actually producing a valid C string every time (especially given the very high prejudice of having rogue unterminated "strings" in a C program).
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Book Review: Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
> we can't both secure the continued prosperity of humanity and at the same time not have an impact on the environment we live.

I'm not sure I believe that. There are many aspects of modern life that are way more energy wasteful than they need to be.

Ever walk down a street in Vegas? The amount of excess demonstrated there is staggering. Giant fountains in a desert.

I'm not convinced we need to live to that level of excess in order to be prosperous.

> The way out of our problems is not to stop up but to continue improving technology and energy utilization.

I'm not sure any environmentalist would argue that we should stop improving technology. I certainly wouldn't.

I think we need to invest heavily in research and technology to find better cleaner sources of energy. But I also think we need some level of regulation like a Carbon Tax/Rebate, pollution taxes, etc, in order to actually incentivize the market to be take those externalities into account.
I don't do any international, all US based. I keep track of all my expenses (credit cards and banks accounts) and tag them using Quickbooks Self Employed. It even estimates federal quarterly taxes and allows me to make quarterly online payments using EFTPS.gov. At tax time it exports everything into TurboTax which saves a ton of time on deducations and reporting my quarterly federal tax payments.
In my experience, the trick is finding the sweet spot between something you use every day and your abilities. I don't contribute to Ubuntu, because I have very little understanding of what's going on there. I do contribute to my lab's software Nengo and other libraries I use, because I understand the code layout and where I can contribute. Consequently, maybe it's a good idea to make a decision matrix based on these criteria?
I briefly skimmed it. It's basically the vuejs.org docs stretched out over 120 pages
An Excess of Jupiter Analogs in Super-Earth Systems
Most people will say that the motivation to work on a problem should come from you being really excited about the problem domain. Play around with someone else's code, trying to do something interesting to you that's just barely on the edge of what the provided code can do. Then, when you realize you just need that one feature to do something awesome, you can write it yourself. Don't contribute to open source because you feel like you should, contribute to open source because you want the project to have the features you're contributing.
did anyone vote for more taxes on themselves to cover the cost?
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Are you confusing him with Scott Adams?
I have never been on a PIP, but I've seen people on it.

In this limited experience, 100% of the PIPs were just a grace period before firing them. One of them just found something else in the meanwhile, the other one -an idealistic chap- fought until the very end a war he couldn't win. His case wasn't about performance, but about what he thought was right. A big loss for the company as he was an amazing engineer that just needed some guidance, but he got a mediocre manager with who he clashed...
Here's an article that talks about the process of fat adaptation. https://medium.com/@davidludwigmd/adapting-to-fat-on-a-low-c... Note the graphs showing ketone levels continuing to rise through 38 days of complete fasting. If you are ingesting some carbohydrates or protein, this would slow the adaptation process beyond that.

There are lots of studies showing a performance decrease during within those early few weeks of the adapatation process, but they aren't really showing the fully adapted, optimized state.