skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do, and, apparently, coming from Amazon, "minimal and plastic-free" means that, if I order a single item, it will come in retail packaging (plastic tray to immobilize and cushion, inside a cardboard box that is at least 6 times the size of the product - hence the need for that plastic tray - inside shrinkwrap), and then that item will be placed inside another cardboard box that is at least 6 times the volume of the retail packaging for the item I ordered, so, in order to cushion it, I need a huge pile of those plastic air pillows.

It's a pretty huge amount of packaging and cushioning, about the amount you'd need if your package will be handled by drug-crazed chimpanzees (or USPS). But then it just gets loaded into the back seat of the car of whatever gig economy person does the Amazon deliveries in my neighborhood that day. I don't know what Amazon thinks these people are doing to necessitate that volume of packaging, or why they're continuing to employ them given that they think that is the case.

tl;dr, if they really were pushing for minimal packaging, I'd have expected a paper (or _maybe_ Tyvek, to protect against the elements) envelope with my address printed on it around the already-sufficient retail packaging, and nothing more.
Lying for the sake of getting $$$ is OK in many parts of the world. Especially if you stick it up a dumb fat westerners'.

Source: born & raised in (ex-)USSR
Well, I don't know how mature the service mesh aspects of Consul will be now, but the rest of it is a very mature product that provides a distributed K/V store like etcd and also provides service discovery via either REST or DNS.
I always thought there was a winner but assumed the winner was someone related (family/friend) to the prize giver.
See http://hnrankings.info/17399895/ for a history of this submission rank.
Actually the LSTM model doesn't asume anything about ordering itself, but it could probably overfit because of ordering depending on how much training data is available, and in this case we know that the order of input and output is not directly related. One way to make the LSTM model more robust and less prone to over-fitting would simply be by making a number of copies of each training examples where each copy is then mutated by changing order of the images and tags.
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> From a trade perspective, a rising deficit means the US pays for Chinese goods, while barely getting paid for its products.

From what I understood this is not accurate. An iPhone built from China is recorded for the full value when shipped to US/Europe/etc. This makes it appear that there's a trade deficit while it's actually the opposite (controlled by Apple).

Europe works in a similar way when I looked at it (ages ago). There's various data collected (Eurostat). But for trade it's on value and it's not always clear who controls it, nor where it is headed.
Is it just for me or is kissmetrics.com redirecting to neilpatel.com?
That's rough!

Why wouldn't your kids would get your wife's citizenship in most countries? Also your (future?) wife's country probably has marriage visas and what not.
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Hi flaviocopes, thanks for the write up! It would be nice as a non-beginner for the ebook to have an index so I could skim the contents.
This is going to sound horrible, but I suspect at least part of the reason people are unwilling to state that "facial recognition tech currently doesn't work well enough", is because there is a lot of money riding on it. Selling to law enforcement was probably a very large part of the plan for that sector. So whether it works or not, they kind of have to get law enforcement to use it.
Would ir LEDs built into sunglasses be effective in combatting this trend. There was an article on hackaday about a person that did that to his license plate holder to deal with red light cameras.
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It appears that someone having read your comment here has left a horribly abusive comment on that memorial page now under the handle "Screw You Bob".

> ... The Hacker News army is here.

"Screw You Bob" you do not speak for me. Hopefully, you don't speak for many people on HN.

Words fail me. Can't we let the dead rest in peace?
Finding a security vulnerability and reporting it does not count as a data breach, because the data has not been misplaced, misused and/or other similar activities.

However the vulnerability itself could be used to cause a data breach, but in case of someone reporting it then it's not a data breach, considering they didn't abuse the data through the vulnerability.

It's no different than your QA testing an application and noticing that there is a data leak during test etc.
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To those interested, cannabis-infused beer has figured in the homebrew community for decades. The botanical and constituent similarity of hops and cannabis makes it a reasonable choice for those who enjoy oral consumption.
It’s also quite interesting to see commercial breweries start moving in that direction. Personally, I think cannabis is safer on its own, but people will do as they please.
> Because you don't know anything when your are born, everyday thousands of people learn about well-known cool things that are new for them: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

That doesn't mean that we should praise everyone who announces they discovered or invented basic math properties which for some reasom were ignored although they are basic prerequisites for a specific task.

Should we also praise carpenters who discover the pythagorean theorem?
I recently discovered Enpass password manager (a mostly free alternative to 1password, only the mobile app has a pro version) also integrates HIBP into its desktop app.

https://www.enpass.io/docs/desktop-windows/pwned.html?highli...
The AVR was also not a Gen IV reactor (about which the parent/gp claims were made), and was built over 40 years ago. In fact construction began in 1961, and it was commissioned in ‘69, so really it was tech from 57 years ago that was put into practice 49 years ago.
Maybe Amazon can alter it's processes so that protection from elements can happen at container, truck and last mile transport level, instead of package level.

At those levels, long lasting solutions can be used which might be far more eco-friendly in the long term.
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> ... medicine is supposed to be functional not fun.

If I'm sleepy, I may drink a delicious, rich, hot coffee. The caffeine "medicine" in the coffee is certainly functional, and I greatly enjoy everything about the coffee. Sometimes I might even get a little boisterous while drinking coffees at the cafe in the company of good friends.

Food and medicine can be whatever a person wants, no need to pigeonhole each.
Cool but this should not be surprising to anyone who has seen a SpiderMan movie. I'm just sayin.
As far as I know that program is still a thing, but it has only ever been on a very limited subset of products. When it's available, they apply the shipping label directly to the product box and ship it like that.

Scroll down on this page for products with it available. It lists over 200,000, which is quite a lot, but is also a relatively small number for their scale: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Frustration-Free-Packaging/b?i...
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It's not a lot of leads but they're self-selecting for guillibility. Anyone who thinks they can actually win that car is probably more likely, as you guessed, to buy whatever crap someone is going to try and sell them.

Also that's just an hour on Wednesday afternoon. I'm sure the weekends get many more leads.
Netbooks were there first, though. The first wave of them is probably what spawned the Atom product line. (The very first of them had weird little Celerons that downclocked to like 660MHz for thermal reasons because there wasn't anything explicitly designed for purpose)

The fact Microsoft is subsidizing them to ensure they run Windows doesn't mean that a netbook as we know it wouldn't exist today without them. They'd still be on the market, likely running some poorly skinned Linux distribution like those "computers for seniors" they advertise in Parade magazine; or maybe Android-x86 would have gotten more support from OEMs and evolved into something usable as a daily driver.

The story has already been established for consumers: if you don't need games or performance, someone will sell you a portable device which will run an office suite and a web browser for USD200 or less. It's interesting to discuss how much "it runs Windows/uses an x86 CPU" is part of the narrative-- would a $150 ARM laptop running a nicely packaged Linux suite with LibreOffice sell?

I suspect there's no way out of the crappy laptop sector though. Even after the Vista Basic fiasco, I can't see Microsoft outright antagonizing OEMs by saying "Windows Next won't run on anything below some minimum spec that would provide an actually good experience, so goodbye $79 tablets with a gig of memory and 16 of flash"
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I wonder whether it's the right timing though, how much IP does the US have left? Serious question, does anyone have a good source on IP per industry and whether the lead has changed?
"Many of the threats we know are associated with climate change are slow moving. Gradually rising seas, a steady uptick in extreme weather events, and more all mean that change will come gradually to much of the globe."

Wicked Problems [1] are going to kick our arses over the next century, and I don't see how we're going to get through it without large-scale death and horror. There just isn't the political or social will to address the problems - and if we ever do get our act together then I can't see how it'll be anything other than too late. Mose things on HN seem utterly trivial when I'm reminded of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Technically speaking, face recognition has been a solved problem since the early 2000s despite facing few challenges nowadays including non-frontal, tiny or partial real-time detection. The most common algorithm is to output the bounding box (i.e. rectangle) coordinates for each present face, extract the facial landmarks (nose, pupils, mouth, etc.) points for the target face (the more landmarks you have, the more accurate the result is), perform some Euclidean distance calculation (sort of hash) and compare this to the existing face hashes (i.e. police database). The highest score is considered a potential match.

You can develop your own face recognition software providing a good dataset (i.e CelebA, LFW or the fed dataset if you have access to) using our embedded computer vision library[1] that we just released earlier this month or using the PixLab /facecompare HTTP endpoint (https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=facecompare).

[1]: https://github.com/symisc/sod
I honestly haven't dived into GDPR but I don't see a problem with a website owner offering something of value (an ebook) in exchange for something else of value (an email address). Disallowing that voluntary transactions oversteps the bounds of what I view a free state to be.

Would adding a second checkbox ("I'm not a resident of the EU") be a way for a site owner to still provide this to exchange to non-EU residents?
Rumored full mouse and keyboard support for Xbox One could change gaming
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The whole world is probably past the tipping point. People who talk about halting or reversing climate change at this point are pollyannas or liars. The only thing we can realistically do is try to mitigate the most severe consequences.

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...
So in practice, I know this is true, but in principle, splitting a vacation property 52 ways so that everyone gets one week a year actually seems pretty reasonable. Why is it that these things are always scams?
I would argue that you cannot do agile management without having at least a working prototype first.

It would simply fall apart otherwise, because you need a long-term plan whether you're working in sprints or not.
To be fair, in many rural places you don't want to fall out of the norm on any spectrum and there's no opportunity for practically anything.

That's why you move out.
Generative not in the sense of generative grammar but in the sense described here https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-psychology/chapt...

There was a linguist who brought up those five key attributes of human language as being crucial, I can’t find his name right now :(

And I did not say that animals don’t use language. Or did I?

What I mean to say is that there is a dramatic difference in expressive power, in particular in being able to convey a plan of action. Animal language can convey “there is a tiger south-south-west 15 meters, run for your life”. But it can’t express “if there is a tiger run left, if there are two tigers run to the right” unless the animals have previously encountered that situation and survived unwittingly executing this plan of action.

To me this is akin to the difference between Turing complete and subturing languages, in that the expresssive power is so very different.
'This is FUD.' - this is FUD.
I live in the Philippines. The trash you see everywhere, in the streets and in the rivers is plastic bags and bottles. It sees that packaging actually makes its way to the dump.
Because their big business mates bribe them into doing it. However, Australia is not a corrupt country, so the 'bribe' will mean a high-paid consulting or executive job after their career in politics.

Additionally most of the wages being depressed are actually for entry-level jobs, and the poor have no voice in most democracies since they are not effectively organised.

Its a common scam to get a student visa (often with fake English test results etc) which allows you to enter the country and work 20 hours a week, then to actually work 60 hours and have the boss pay you for 20. This results in payments 1/3rd the level of minimum wage, but this is still attractive enough for poor Indian males to want to come and do it in the hundreds of thousands.

Plus Australia is has very generous welfare for the elderly (aka pensions) and a sub-replacement fertility level, so there is always pressure to maintain that ponzi scheme with more taxable bodies.

Oh, and in addition to all that, the people that are opposing this type of mass immigration are being called racist.
aka alcohol + thc = the spins not a fun combination and you're not fun on it.
I'm living this right now and I hate it so, so much.
As always I'm never a fan of security being open sourced, because it opens up the possibility for people to find work arounds.

Ex. say you block Virus X through a specific pattern and then open sourced the algorithm to find the pattern.

Now the developer of Virus X can just modify Virus X to not be detected by the algorithm that detected it before.

Note: This is strictly a personal opinion about security and I'm sure there pros/cons to both.
Wouldn't that create fragmentation in production, therefore possibly significant price increases due to the need of retooling of packaging and distribution?

Such measures work when done in the rich world with very large markets, for example, companies increase their standards due to EU regulations because they find that it's cheaper to retool themselves according to the EU and sell everywhere even if EU standards are not imposed everywhere, instead of maintaining two standards or losing the EU market altogether.
Another attempt to provide "hangover-proof" drinks with a similar effect: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/09/2...
Have you travelled to a city in India? Not exactly a pleasant experience, particularly if you are female.
same as with any other CDN, the load-balancer frontend of any cloud provider (e.g. if HIBP weren't behind Cloudflare, would you post the same about Azure, where its backend lives?), ...

I get why people are critical of SSL termination that talks to the backend over public channels unencrypted (which Cloudflare offers too), but for the HTTPS-to-HTTPS case they behave exactly like many other companies.
erikpukinskis, airstrike, jeffjose: I did not criticize MBA's in general!

My comment mentioned specifically "MBA-types with only a superficial, qualitative grasp of deep learning and AI."

MBAs who understand what they're managing (and who know what they don't know) are not in that group. And BTW, I suspect most MBAs who read HN are not in that group either :-)
This is a highly insightful comment. Thanks! I find the TeaTime stuff fascinating, but is know they only a handful of people have ever heard of it. Do you have any pointers for reference?
We are agreeing, I just didn't have as much free time to type an answer as you.
Thanks for raising that point. I skipped a lot of detail and nuance since I really didn’t want to write an essay.

It is true that trade deficits are calculated on full value, not the “value-added”. Even with this distinction the argument still holds. E.g. in 2014, the "value added" trade deficit was USD 200 Billion while the official “full” value was USD 315 Billion. So it’s not like a tiny fraction, but rather a significant portion. This is one of the reasons people still use the old system - it is inaccurate but not at all grossly misleading (and inveting a new “global” system is really painful). This difference of USD 200 Billion is still too large for the US to willingly accept.

Here’s a link in case you wanna check a couple of figures.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-18/big-u-s-c...
If money is so important why don't you 'tiger' yourself, make a few million and then give them to your children?
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Targetprocess :)
Its more like, if there is a million people losing $100 but one person gaining $100,000,0001 its sound policy.
What do you do when you're asked to rotate your password every ninety days?
I don't think it's particularly "naive" to believe that retailers or advertising companies could make enough off of a contest promotion to justify the cost of a car. Most of the cost models of contests are opaque and, in most of North America at least, there is probably a general perception that regulations would be in place for something that so prominently implies that it is a contest for a car. The "trick" here is to set up the appearance of a contest while evading the legal controls for an actual contest. The very trick of disambiguating this in the more-or-less fine print is probably only allowed in things that aren't sweepstakes or contests.

Yes, in hindsight, it may seem that only "naive" people could believe this, and that "rational" people see through it. But this strategy probably represents something like the endpoint of a search strategy that found a successful meme, precisely because it mimics authentic, regulated contests.
In Mumbai, citizens seen to be carrying plastic bags are liable for fine of 5000 INR for first time offenders and up to 3 months prison time.
Yes, this has been the song of the Bitcoin fan for a half-dozen years at least. It doesn't work yet, but in the future it will be amazing. "Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today."

In 1995, the Internet was a vast improvement for things like email and file transfer and online forums and some games. It delivered actual value for 30 million people. Yes, there was more that it could do. But it delivered value on a daily basis for a lot of people. (And that was also true in 1985, albeit for something like 30,000 people.)

Bitcoin will never offer lower fees and greater convenience than existing payment networks. If it actually becomes a threat, those existing payment networks will get their shit together. And they can be far better than blockchain-based alternatives, because blockchains impose unnecessary technical limitations.

Look, for example, at M-Pesa. It's an electronic currency that leapfrogged existing payment systems. It started about the same time as Bitcoin. Except that it's actually useful for normal transactions and has real usage. In 2016, it was averaging 190 transactions per second, about 100x what Bitcoin is doing. Transactions are instant, and its fees are already lower than credit cards.

We could have that today in Western countries, but we don't because incumbents don't want to change and we're mostly fine with that. But if incumbents come under threat, they can do at least that well, and probably better given their much larger tech and research budgets.
There is one huge change here (as compared to things like the golang wasm port) which makes this more likely to be adopted IMO:

Rust compiled to WebAssembly doesn’t have a runtime. This results in small .wasm binary sizes that are proportional to the amount of Rust code that is being compiled to WebAssembly. Binary size is of huge importance since the .wasm must be downloaded over the network. The proportionality means you only pay (in code size) for what you use. In turn, that means it is feasible for existing JavaScript code bases to incrementally and partially adopt Rust.

Great to hear they're taking this approach. I do think it'd be nice to have DOM access too though, as then you won't need JS at all - I do think long term the attraction of this is to replace JS as a front-end language, not just augment it, but it's nice they're taking an incremental approach.
BHO would never have done it. The USA makes too much money on trade with China given the way the deficit is calculated.

For example, an iPhone made in China is only assembled there. All the IP is American, an American company realizes almost all the profit. This trade war is going to cripple us because we make so much money on even the deficit, even with the IP theft.

BHO wasn’t stupid, DJT sees an opportunity in simplistic messaging that gets his based riled up. What is weird is that we are at the peak of an economic cycle, it’s not like unemployment numbers could go any lower, and the jobs he is after with this trade war are all low value.
Could you explain how watching a Spider-Man movie would teach us that ultra-thin spider-silk has enough drag to lift a spider up in the air?
Well enough for what?

You don't think there's _any_ conceivable way that law enforcement could utilize facial recognition tech without negative consequences? Not even, say, aiding manual review of security camera footage as part of an investigation into a preexisting suspect?
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It is true that an array "name" is a pointer to its base address...

No, it's not. It is true that an expression of array type, when it is not the subject of either the unary-& or sizeof operators, evaluates to a pointer to the array's first element.

sizeof array

gives the size of the whole array, not the size of a pointer.

&array

gives the address of the whole array, not the address of a pointer.