skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, $40k is insane for an individual. $100 a year would be fine if commercial. To me even that is dumb. Someone has to pay to use your software for hobby and non-paying work? That just sounds wrong lol.
I am reluctant to try because the last thing I want is another subscription. I am sorry.

Otherwise, I really could use great tool to model databases ie. Postgres.
Happy Bob's Libtls tutorial
They know OTA is dead and are trying to position themselves to not be beholden to Netflix, Hulu...etc, although that would be easier on us.
Here's an interesting tidbit:

The tricky thing about THC, however, is that it is a large and complex molecule unlike ethanol, the main compound in alcohol, which is relatively small and simple. According to Tom Bruno, a NIST research chemist and co-author of the new paper, the vapor pressure of the THC compound is “very, very low,” which makes it difficult to measure.

Bruno, along with fellow NIST researcher and lead author Tara Lovestead, found a way to skirt around this issue by measuring THC vapor pressure with a vapor-capturing technique called PLOT-cryo. It works by trapping vapors in a solid substance that coats the inside of a small tube. Because the tube is so small, Bruno said, the process is very efficient.

“You don’t have to collect a lot to get an analyzable result,” he remarked.

The PLOT-cryo device works like a very sensitive nose. It can sniff out different compounds from the air, and has been previously used to identify explosives as well as decaying flesh.

https://www.seeker.com/health/new-thc-finding-paves-the-way-...
hmmmm, you and I need to have a little talk...

Edit: Since I am getting downvoted, I will just add context -> https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me

I was on the other end of a similar system.
That was part of it, but there were solutions to those problems that were implementable by smaller providers. (We had a nice split host system, where we had all headers and bodies of text groups locally, and just called out to one of the big providers for bodies from the binary groups.)

Unfortunately, once the web came along, usenet became a second-class service, and slowly degraded
Borrowing from rendering, it seems like a solution would be for every pixel to have "double buffers", one for the measurement in progress and one for the past measurement. Then you just need to make sure you can read all the past values in less than a frame and that all the buffer swaps happen in sync.
From TFA:

class BaseGreeter: Greeter {}

class LazyGreeter: BaseGreeter {
I used to work for a company that used a provision in the tax code - I can't remember if it was a California state or US tax break - for training their employees. They used to count meetings as training sessions and would make attendees sign attendance sheets to present that as "proof of training".
Yes, though I would expect the risk of complications from this procedure will outweigh the benefit for healthy patients for many years after it becomes a "routine" operation for those with lung disease.
RLBot: http://www.rlbot.org/

Just got into making bots for a game called Rocket League. The game is physics based (it's cars with rockets playing soccer, if you don't know RL) and it's very early days for botting. The community is pretty great, mostly hang out in the discord. There was just a tournament between all the bots this weekend as well.
Moravec's paradox!
I don’t like your post, so I’m going to downvote you. That way other people won’t see your post and potentially be influenced or enlightened by it. That way I don’t have to put effort into responding either.

Furthermore your post lacks both hilarious memes and funny one liners so I’m definitely not upvoting it lol.
It seems like a stretch to call this a big discovery in the math world. Even if it had been published in a top journal etc, it would be unlikely to be heralded as a major achievement.
I probably should have said "he liked it at 73" - that was his thing. If anyone moved it, there was a lot of hell to pay (or so I'd been told). The preferences of one person (who was not even necessarily in that building a full/regular 40 hours per week) outweighed the comfort of 120 other people who worked early morning to late night.
Yes. Reason being that companies are waiting much longer to IPO. Take a look at Table 12b on page 34 [1]. In the 1980s, the average number of companies that offered an IPO with sales >$1BB was under 5%. In the 2010s, it averages about 15%. (in 2005 $)

Still contending that this move towards quality is the legacy of .COM mania and the ensuing Sarbanes-Oxley burden.
Reproducibility crisis.
It's not really just Dodd-Frank that is the cause of this, it's also the SEC slowly tightening the screws for the last 15 years since the .com bubble. Nobody wants another bubble but instead of trying to get at the root cause they've just pushed it out of the public eye, now a bunch of PE investors are gonna lose money once it pops.
Odd that this article mentions non-profit journalism as if it's recently been invented. I've been cycling between local NPR stations -- KQED for my current home, KUT, WFIU, WNIN for my past -- for years. Even my parents, devout conservatives suspicious of public access as the haven of kooks and liberals (My dad would say: "isn't that redundant"?) have found themselves dialing in to get some information not shouted.
And leads to mold and bad air unless you are careful which people aren't
Being such a concise language, Haskell could be a good option here. You can do quick scripting while still having a powerful type system (especially compared to Go's) backing you up. I somewhat quickly typed this code up and haven't tested it, but it should replicate that bash script pretty closely:

#!/usr/bin/env stack
-- stack script --resolver=lts-12.2

import System.Process (system)

import Control.Lens
import Crypto.Hash.SHA256
import qualified Data.Bytestring.Lazy as B
import Network.Wreq

url = "https://example.com"
mem = "memory.txt"

main = do
oldsum <- B.readFile mem
newsum <- (hashLazy . view responseBody) <$> get url
when (oldsum /== newsum) $ do
exitCode <- system $ "xmpp_notify " ++ url ++ " changed"
B.writeFile mem newsum

I didn't make use of it, but there's also the Turtle library which aims to provide a fairly solid shell scripting experience, providing a lot of coreutils as simple Haskell functions. You also get a REPL in the form of GHCI, which comes default in Haskell installations.
AI winning due to super human abilities is about as impressive as a Counter Strike bot with perfect aim making headshots every time.
How do you handle custom environment requirements, whether it’s Python version, library version, or more complex things in the environment that some code might run on?

Basically, suppose I wanted everything that I could define in a Docker container to be available “as the environment” in which the notebook is running. How do I do that?

I ask because I’ve started to see an alarming proliferation of “notebook as a service” platforms that don’t offer that type of full environment spec, if they offer any configuration of the run time environment at all.

I’ve taught probability and data science at university level and worked in machine learning in a variety of businesses too, and I’d say for literally all use cases, from the quickest little pure-pedagogy prototype of a canned Keras model to a heavily customized use case with custom-compiled TensorFlow, different data assets for testing vs ad hoc exploration vs deployment, etc., the absolutely minimum thing needed before anything can be said to offer “reproducibility” is complete specification of the run time environment and artifacts.

The trend to convince people that a little “poke around with scripts in a managed environment” offering is value-additive is dangerous, very similar to MATLAB’s approach to entwine all data exploration with the atrocious development havits that are facilitated by the console environment (and to specifically target university students with free licenses, to use a drug dealer model to get engineers hooked on MATLAB’s workflow model and use that to leverage employers to oblige by buying and standardizing on abjectly bad MATLAB products).

Any time I meet young data scientists I always try to encourage them to avoid junk like that. It’s vital to begin experiments with fully reproducible artifacts like thick archive files or containers, and to structure code into meaningful reproducible units even for your first ad hoc explorations, and to absolutely always avoid linear scripting as an exploratory technique (it is terrible and ineffective for such a task).

Kaggle Kernels seems like a cool idea, so long as the programmer must fully define artifacts that describe the complete entirety of the run time environment, and nobody is sold on the Kool Aid of just linear scripting in some other managed environment.

Each kernel for example could have a link back to a GitHub repo containing a Dockerfile and build scripts for what defined the precise environment the notebook is running in. Now that’s reproducible.
> but what makes koreader especially appealing to me is that it is a far better pdf reader than Kindle’s native

Same! On-the-fly column splitting, text reflow, and contrast adjustment makes reading academic papers much more pleasant.
.....isn't HostGator by chance is it? Sounds like the kind of stuff they would have pulled back in their days
I'd say that those were crazy things, but not too much. AI understood that teamfight were impossibile to win, and so the really weird choices (sven dying for the tower lol) . I'd say that matches with such lineup are not too much and so they didn't really know, but they did an awesome job and kept things balanced for so long
> There may be technological fixes for high value cash crops grown in controlled environments.

Can you expand on this? I have felt the same way, and have a good understanding of the tech problem to be solved, but I'm having trouble selling the idea to any buyer. Would you attempt to anticipate crop price spikes and plant ahead of time?
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You can download the tool and run it locally.
Thank you that was interesting.
I work in insurance, which I imagine faces similar challenges to banks. I’d like to know more about what you’re working on and your approach.
Don't you typically inform the system's owner as soon as you discover the vuln? You still get "credit" in that case, don't you? Somehow I suspect you're not really a security researcher...
It would be nice if the title named the proof. Math is a giant field, and very few HNers are mathematicians or interested in any particular area of mathematics, so it would be helpful to know what the general topic is without clicking on the link and reading a few paragraphs.

"A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof of the Gaussian Correlation Inequality (2017)"
What about lip-reading with reflected Wi-Fi signals :) :

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~guanhua/paper/WiHear_MobiC...

"WiHear aims to detect human speech by analyzing radio reflections from mouth movements.
It requires individual
user to train the system extensively, and can recognize only a limited number of words (6 words) with high accuracy."
Run the algo on any reflective objects in the field of view, feed the outputted audio to a transcription NN. Save all high confidence transcribed voice as compressed txt. Save the source video if you pass a threshold of danger keywords. ("bomb", "kill", "prime minister", "didn't pay my tv licence")
Absolutely not. The client will either take you as shady or incompetent for being that much wrong in your estimate.
That sounds like Hostgator.
kOS. The in-game programming language for KSP, accessible via a mod. The subreddit is pretty interesting, and folks are always doing cool stuff on YouTube. Also a great way to learn the physics involved.
I don't get any odd vibe like that from this article. They are pretty upfront about the business motivations in this post:

> with the launch of our Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform Google Compute Engine, we noticed an interesting problem: customers were paying for a lot of CPUs, but their utilization rates were extremely low because they were running VMs. We knew we had an internal solution for this.

Later,

> most importantly, we were able to work with lots of great engineers, many of whom really understood the needs of businesses who would benefit from deploying containers

That does not read like a decision to pursue this for the betterment of the world. It sounds like a decision to pursue this for the betterment of their customers. That's capitalism, not benevolence, and they're pretty transparent about it.
Oh, good catch. The IRS instructions on valuing charitable gifts of stock supports your interpretation:

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p561#idm140501157972816

> determining the value of large blocks of stock usually requires the help of experts specializing in underwriting large quantities of securities, or in trading in the securities of the industry of which the particular company is a part

i.e. it's not just "(market price) x (number of shares)"

Although when I looked at the article it seems that they do not actually claim that he was able to deduct $500 million. They strongly imply it by saying that "his tax savings were pegged to the shares’ all-time high" but in terms of the actual deduction they just write that he "likely saved millions of dollars" which is accurate.
Excellent point. I responded to your other comment on this thread.
Scraping becomes unethical when it turns into a DOS, doesn't it? In some cases it wouldn't be an issue, but some scraping definitely makes the service less responsive.
Finally, a cogent explanation.

Edit: But missing a key issue, perhaps.

> Because Mastodon uses a collection of Instances, you’re not at the beck and call of one site owner. If you don’t like the direction an Instance is taking, you can pack your virtual bags and go. Mastodon even has an import/export tool that allows you to migrate the people you follow from one account/instance to another.

That sounds great. But if you do "pack your virtual bags and go", is there any way to map foo@bar.net to foo@baz.net? In the email analogy, there's clearly not. You need to tell all correspondents.
That's not programming, that's just fraud.
See also the story of the duck and the queen on game battle chess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess
Play Movies Anywhere API – Marketplace
I got halfway through the first season of that, but I didn’t enjoy the the humor, the barely-one-level-deep moralizing, or the lack of believability I felt the plots had. As examples, that episode with the social media thing, or the one-gender planet...

Did you (or anyone else now a fan) agree with my feelings initially, and find it got better?
ICO scams cause more than $2B loss to investors. Protect your investments
I disagree.

You wouldn’t need “outbound sales” if you had a product that people wanted. They would be calling you with their wallets open if it was the case.

You only need outbound sales/scammers if you have a product that you think that people need even though they’ve been living without just fine for ages.

> Some of it is scams, plenty isn't.

Please give me some examples of how some are scams but plenty are not. From personal experiences it's always been the opposite for me. I feel like telemarketing is only used where the product/deal is so bad/unneeded that it wouldn't sell through normal, respectful channels, requiring the use of a telemarketer to put pressure onto the innocent victim to push them towards a purchase.
But see, I can understand weapons building. The motivation is protective towards one's society, and that is the intended result, even if that might not be the actual case.

Whereas the intention of building an oppressive system such as the one described above is, what, selfishness? Laziness? Programmers, because of the high-demand nature of our role, do not tend to be subject to the usual financial pressures that other communities are. I'm not sure what would motivate someone to build such a system as opposed to walking and finding a better job offer.
This is not evidence regarding the claim, I simply want to know more about subject. I searched the literature and found the following paper (synopsis below). I still need to find the full paper elsewhere but it looks like it provides a good overview of the impact of SOX. This only concerns SOX though and there might be other regulatory burden (although I can't recall anything significant). Moreover, regulatory burden (if it exists) is only one of many reasons why companies don't go public (which I believe the abundance of private equity played the biggest role).

"SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review" by John C. Coates and Suraj Srinivasan http://www.aaajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2308/acch-50759?code=a...

> We review and assess research findings from more than 120 papers in accounting, finance, and law to evaluate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We describe significant developments in how the Act was implemented and find that despite severe criticism, the Act and institutions it created have survived almost intact since enactment. We report survey findings from informed parties that suggest that the Act has produced financial reporting benefits. While the direct costs of the Act were substantial and fell disproportionately on smaller companies, costs have fallen over time and in response to changes in its implementation. Research about indirect costs such as loss of risk taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have gone up after SOX but research on causal attribution is weak. On balance, research on the Act's net social welfare remains inconclusive. We end by outlining challenges facing research in this area, and propose an agenda for better modeling costs and benefits of financial regulation.
Depends entirely on your definition of "wrong".
You don't have to be polite if you are uncomfortable. If the person meant no harm and just wanted to help they'll forget about it by tomorrow. If they did mean harm your assertiveness will most likely cause them to rethink. Like most predators they want an easy victim.

Our instincts have been honed over thousands of years, there's not much to lose in trusting them.
I get that. And I was hoping for something purely economic. But maybe that's impossible. Which is why governments.
This is honestly the most horrifying post in this thread.
I found this "Google API" which has no documentation anywhere. Anybody know anything about it?
I missed the last sentence where he said he went with a competitor
And this is why I enjoy "TAS" or "tool assisted speedruns".

People will basically write a program to do the speedruns for them with literal microsecond precision. My favorite are watching super Mario 64 TAS runs.

Stuff like a special way that they can jump perfectly on some slopes to build up hilariously high speed values then using that to launch across the map all in a fraction of a second.

There is also a Pokemon run where the guy built a way to input arbritrary code during a first generation Pokemon (red or blue) run, and used it to program in the opening to the next generation of the games among other things things.
For videos, Usenet is still going strong.
What if he did stay on Apple and somehow derailed the Apple II project?

Its an interesting story that people always are interested in because all of these What If? questions basically assume that they would have a positive outcome if they made one single decision.
Yep, this is the only thing which I agree with. When I scrape I always try to use as little resources as possible and make sure it’s appropriate for the size of the site I’m scraping (I wouldn’t care about sending 1k requests/second to Facebook, but wouldn’t send more than a dozen few per second to a little e-commerce store).
True, but only if you don't ventilate properly. And exhaust fans are also a useful source of white noise. Along with running water.
FidoNet – A worldwide low-bandwidth distributed discussion system
I've signed up for an account and played around a bit and while I love so much about the whole idea of it I don't really know what to do.
> That means that greeter and greeter1 are just two references to the exact same underlying object

They are two references that differ in type. It is a feature in Swift (and any strongly-typed language) that references are typed and when types differ, behaviors can differ. I understand you disagree with this design principle but it is an inherent property of strong type systems that have reference semantics.

> two distinct value type instances

“Nope.” There isn’t any such thing as a “value type instance” since instances are a semantic of reference types.

> objects shouldn’t be different depending on how you look at them

The “difference” here is only in the types, so this statement is equivalent to “references shouldn’t be different depending on their type.” This statement implies that types should be useless
Why would the reviewers deserve credit for the decision to honor or not honor a paper? Nobody cares or knows who they are. Nobody cares what they think. What people care about is whether the paper got published. If it was published over the objections of 80% of reviewers, nobody cares about that either. The decision to publish is made by the publisher, and that's what people care about.
I used to crack games just for fun, in fact the fun was in cracking the game and not in actually playing the game.
OSHWA is revoking the certification for the MOTEDIS XYZ 3D printer
No, you can't. You can download the source code and build it yourself, or you can download a binary demo, or you can pay for a binary.

I used this tool a lot on Arch which had PKGBUILD for it on AUR but I wasn't able to build it on MacOS.
This very thought crossed my mind, and with interest rates rising we are about to put this hypothesis to the test. Assuming this is the correct explanation, we should see an increase in IPOs over the next few years as the cost of borrowing grows.
The Art of Language Invention [videos]
> But see, I can understand weapons building.

This is my point.

Eventually someone will come in and say the system in the OP was necessary for the company to stay afloat, pay its employees or retain value for its retired shareholders.
By technological fixes in agriculture, I simply mean greenhouses and fertigation systems. Control the environment in which plants grow more closely and thereby mitigate risks associated with weather shock. Works great for things like capsicum, high value lettuce etc. I don't see how this can be replicated for things like wheat and maize, although admittedly GM crops potentially offer some route to solving this problem.
> You'd need to also identify which device was infringing by getting a connection time/destination.

I still don't see where it says you have to do that. Your link doesn't seem to say anything about it.

I question the value of MAC address blocking in general. Anyone can change their MAC address and popular systems are even using MAC address randomization by default now.

And in a physically local context like this, couldn't you just tell the person they're not allowed to use your wireless anymore, or remove them from the property?

The issue is who has to identify the user. If all they gave you was your own IP address with no accurate timestamp or ports, you wouldn't even be able to get the effectively-useless MAC address, even with the connection records most people don't keep. If they gave you the user's legal name (e.g. because the user signed up for the file sharing service with it) then you wouldn't need any connection records.