skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solid point, but I'd prefer a permissionless system where any actor is able to have a voice in the direction of policy to a walled garden where wealth appears to be a prerequisite for membership.

Any permissionless system must allow maliciously self-interested actors to act as they please, so long as the underlying soundness of the currency is not affected. The mass printing of tether has no effect on the usefulness of bitcoin as a transaction medium, just a temporary effect on its usefulness as a store of value (and personally, the value of bitcoin seems to be doing just fine). I'm still able to transfer bitcoin from my personal device anywhere in the world in seconds (at 0 confirmations, about an hour for the recommended 6), as opposed to waiting days for an ACH or wire transfer to clear.

Anyway, bad actors are the reason that we need the rule of law in this space. If Bitfinex is as shady as is claimed, they won't be able to get away with their schemes indefinitely.
OK, thanks. But what's "crapware" to some may be features to others. Such as the remote-management clown parade.
mmmm today i learned something new-thanks.
I mentioned it because I'm pretty sure the parent I was responding to works there...
The Catholic Inquisition still exists but it has been renamed to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_...
I appreciate your digging into this. The 1913 tidbit is an interesting wrinkle.

I'd say, based on experience and conversations w/ elected officials, at the end of the day "encourage home ownership" is less likely to be a driver, but more so a selling point to the public.

I also seem to remember reading in a number of sources, one of Michael Lewis' books comes to mind, is that Lew Ranieri (and friends) is a probable reason for the deduction's survival if, as you suggest, there was any real discussion about cutting the MI deduction.

I can also tell you that NAR, for the more recent discussion about cutting the MI and SALT deductions would have been (and were) a significant factor in lobbying against changes that they would expect to slow sales.

Externally, lobbying is talked about as some sort of corrupting force to be excised. Internally, it's simply considered to be an integral part of the legislative process. IMHO, people should attribute less to altruism decisions that are likely linked to someone's lobbying efforts.

Thanks again.
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It's unclear to me what the strongest plausible interpretation is.

Either a) One child was a massive success because it lead to massive infanticide (to the tune of 30 million girls).

b) One child was massively successful because it lead to 30 million girls that are officially non-persons in China.

OP heaps praise on a Maoist policy... and I'm arguing in bad faith?
Look up “VAG Tacho”: http://maltchev.com/kiti/

This tool successfully recovers SKC codes from pretty much any VAG Group’s (Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda) cars. It can also do other things like edit the odometer and probably more. It’s simply using “undocumented” (although is anything there documented?) commands of the diagnostics protocol to get raw access to the persistent storage.
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>if it expired

It can't be valid if it has already expired, can it?
Seems like every single day new country economy takes a plunge .... hmmm it is a sign?
That's not what I'm saying. The news has 0 relevance to teams, whether those teams care or not.

Github was a for-profit organization losing massive amounts of money with stalled development and weak features compared to competitors. It's only major asset was the large community. It now has a many more resources to stay around long-term and finally start building better products. Your data is also 1-click away from being exported and git is already distributed meaning every developer has a complete clone.

What possible issue is there to worry about?
>A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.

May be all that's required [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
That was certainly our experience here.

"Wellington's mid-rise buildings worst affected by earthquake"
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...

NB, the defence headquarters building, and the statistics building mentioned in the article have since been demolished.
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I’m just saying this is using flexbox for exactly what CSS grid was designed to do. You’re better off just sticking to the browser standards and keeping this stuff really simple, rather than introducing dependencies.
Yes ....
>>I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what we are? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.
<<

For anybody that does not get the reference this is from Battle Star Galactica. It is a rant by the old Cylon model. His name and model number escape me at the moment.
I have always found selfish routing to have interesting implications for a world in which traffic is more coordinated and centrally managed -- be it through present-day apps like Google Maps and Waze, or some near-future technology with autonomous cars communicating with one another. The happy Roughgarden/Tardos result that selfish routing is only 4/3 as bad as coordination is great, but it also means there’s not much slack to be picked up: fully coordinated routes would only be 3/4 as long as the status quo.

(Of course that's not the entire story on autonomous cars, for instance, because they will also get into fewer accidents, react to changing traffic conditions faster, can potentially drive more tightly at high speed, etc.)

Anyone interested in selfish routing should check out Braess's paradox, which is wonderfully unintuitive and strange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
They outsource their tech support to the lowest bidder, mostly in difficult to monitor overseas offices. I'd say the most likely scenario is that underpaid Dell employees are just using their official access to do the scams or pass the information along to outside scammers.
Centrally planned cities are invariably poor

On this I disagree, people think they know what they want, but it's not necessarily what they need - consider the usual over-55 development, which is car-centric, doesn't have sidewalks or supermarkets and community centers within walking distance, and not nearly enough medical facilities nearby. Good if you are a healthy 55-year-old, but there'll be much pain in the future when the owner's health is failing 25 years later. The golf course doesn't make up for the fact that you can't get anywhere from your home!

The developer has a conflict of interest, their interest is to sell, the long-term viability of the development or the well-being of the owners is not on their radar. Something needs to provide a counterweight here.
The Internet as a system allowed this deliberately public configuration, so the Internet is at fault.

The World Wide Web as a system allowed this deliberately public configuration, so the web is at fault.

AWS S3 as a system allowed this deliberately public configuration. So AWS S3 is at fault.

None of those seem quite right.

To me, seems more like AWS S3 isn’t designed for the higher level use case of sending a “shared secret” folder link by email to a collaborator, combined with a drinking the kool-aid tic where all employees try solving all use cases with the in-house hammer at hand.

At the same time, I think AWS has made a mistake — putting a Web Console on top of an API driven infrastructure, and investing so much recently in trying to make the web UI more “usable”.

AWS is not your father’s webmin VPS, but by now the console is so friendly, today’s sales guy can be forgiven for thinking S3 config and Dropbox config are the same thing.
Huh, somebody should tell the Silicon Valley tech firms that. Dirty lawbreakers with their nap pods!
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Paper ballots are safe only if everything else around the election is safe. It's very easy to stuff fake ballot papers into the ballot box or take out ballots you don't like by unsealing the box. If you don't like the way a constituency has voted, it's very easy to fire ballot box and burn the papers. It takes time and manpower to secure ballot boxes for a long time required for manual counting and to secure and transport ballot papers before that. You need to have multiple supervisors witnessing counting of each vote to prevent the counter from manipulating the count which takes time and slows down counting. All this and more has happened in the history of paper ballot elections in India - which is partly why India moved to electronic voting which is a lot harder to tamper with. Paper ballot works only in a utopian world where you assume simple thuggery doesn't happen
Stocks have higher volatility that housing, for sure. What might be scary is the leverage.
To a point perhaps, and at least the official documentation can toggle between them. After the Great Renaming though, things start to look different and reading something like a code snippet is just a lot of mental translation.
I really dislike how Bulma doesn't style html elements by default, instead requiring things like

<input class="input" ..../>

Why not just target input elements with some sensible default styling?
Something something student loans, something something increased future earning power, something something growth based economy.

Ah, the joys of the modern higher learning establishments.
With plenty of favors from your roommate to be repaid in beer at a later date.
Threat model: "surveillance capitalism".
Anyone in the ad business has a strong incentive to surveil you to sell or use the data.

That's a difference between Apple and Google - Apple is at least partially in the hardware business. Google is in the ad business - the surveillance business - full stop. And I say this as a fan of Google and someone who still uses their public DNS. But it's not surprising that people wonder how they use data.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_...
But for every article about Facebook's creepy stalker behavior, thousands of other companies are breathing a collective sigh of relief that it's Facebook and not them in the spotlight. Because while Facebook is one of the biggest players in this space, there are thousands of other companies that spy on and manipulate us for profit.

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it "surveillance capitalism."
>Sounds like you're in a bubble.

To be honest, I don't think I did. I just want to be a part of the other bubble really, really, really bad.
I would be happy with this resolution. I would be much more inclined to buy audio books if I can get them in a non obscure format.
Damn, so last night I was thinking about how 1/x approaches ∞ for positive x, and -∞ for negative x. And it struck me that perhaps beyond both ∞ and -∞ is 0, so 1/x might actually equal 0 when x is 0. Rather like closed "liner" paths in closed universes. But again, IANAM ;)
1 in 106 is a strange ratio. It seems that this article was reformatted, particularly because of all the random hyphens. Is it possible that the original said "1 in 10⁶"? I would be a little concerned if I was in the military dealing with bombs that had around a 1 in 100 chance of exploding (or even arming) unexpectedly.
> No telescope required.

In fact, you should not use a telescope even if you have one. Meteors move fast and cross a significant fraction of the sky.
I’m going to disagree that this was well written. I expected a factual article about dinosaur extinction and had to stop at the navel-gazing comment on a suicide attempt.
Trump is closer to Mao than he is Obama - in Trump's corruption, attacks on the media, attacks on the educated and intellectuals, attacks on minorities, boosting of racial nationalism, and attempts to steal tax dollars and profit off his leadership role.

The parties in the US are wildly different - one party is the party of billionaires, and you can tell because they pursue tax cuts for the very rich and cutting the social safety net for everyone else.
Go to market strategy is different for established company like Apple and small startups. Apple can afford later entry into the market, can afford to acquire innovations, product teams and spend more time on research. Also if you fail - you standup and do it again, if company like Apple fails - stock goes down and many people can get hurt — different dynamics.
"Stop trying to shorten code by 2 lines."

Agreed. Python code tends to be concise as is. There's no need to add little tricks to cut out a line or two at the expense of readability.

Along those lines, in a recent code review a developer balked at some proposed code and boasted how he could do the same thing in fewer lines. His "improved" code had a keyword parameter where the default was set to a lambda function containing nested list comprehensions plus a zip function... I voted against his "improvement" since it was the most unpythonic thing I'd ever seen. I'll take added readability and simplicity at the expense of a few extra lines.
BlueField is currently shipping in "smart NICs" and should be shipping as the host processor in storage appliances by the end of the year. It seems to be the cheapest and lowest-power option at the moment for getting PCIe gen 4 IO, compared to IBM's POWER9. They definitely abandoned the approach of having a very large number of weak cores after being acquired, but they're still using a mesh interconnect based on the Tilera IP.
I once found a development motherboard for the RAW processor at a MIT loading dock ( https://flic.kr/p/Fw8cKb ). I always wondered what happened to the project. Thanks for the full history!
> Given their security track record, I wouldn't trust Cloudflare with any of my data, regardless of what they plan or don't plan on doing with it.

Your username is anothergoogler; do you work for Google?
As a counterpoint, we need to come to grips with the fact that we, as a society, cannot afford to pay several hundred thousand to multiple millions of dollars in healthcare costs at the end of most people’s lives.
it's AWS misconfiguration or credential leaking.

By AWS themselves? Does that actually happen a lot?
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My comment was on the article, which was flat out wrong, and thanks for pointing that out in the paper I had missed that.

Their paper was still unimaginative. Trying a handful of vanilla networks doesn’t prove anything.

The right framing would have been, “here’s an interesting case to work on” instead of pretending to have identified a basic limitation of neural networks. This is more like a research idea than research.
Do you think the framers of the Constitution intended the House to have one representative for every 750,000 people?

You didn't simply ask people to give it some thought. You implied the person you were addressing hadn't. Then you reacted to the resulting downvotes by calling them uncivil and hypocritical and snarking about the 2016 election. You went on to imply that your opponent wants "to railroad all dissenters", which is hardly a charitable interpretation.
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The nature of exponential growth is that it doesn’t really matter that much how small the starting number is. You quickly end up with a big number no mattwr what.
correct, writers have the Writers Guild of America, VFX industry doesn't, they've tried with various initiatives to get one going but none have been successful yet.
This is extraordinary, Ian. Keep doing what you do :-)
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Maybe? I usually don't lock the door when I'm at my original house.
If I gained notoriety I'd probably be more inclined to lock it.
It’s fine if you don’t have an answer to my question. You weren’t expected to.
It's a funny question with that spelling :-) it's "ordnance".
Great read. I wish I had the time to mess with this sort of stuff as a hobby.
Seems like yes?

https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/expense-ratios/
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I'm guessing that this uses WebGL. Yes?
Because the ROI is tangible and corporeal.
> Why is it conceptually wrong to say the average of an empty array is zero?

It’s not conceptually wrong, it just means the “mean” you’re referring to calculates a different value than the “mean” we’re taught in school. So, underlying assumptions about the differences in “mean” should be communicated where it’s used.
You say you disagree, but what real world planned cities do you think came out well?

I think we probably generally agree on what might make a good city, but that's just theory, and my objection to planned cities has nothing to do with theory and everything to do with their empirical track record. I've heard no shortage of fascinating ideas for how cities could be planned and arranged, but whenever someone actually does plan out a city, like the examples I listed in my previous post or those in China or New Delphi, or wherever, it totally sucks.
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Linking /r/conspiracy doesn't help your case.
What standard based approach? "Shader Intrinsics" are non-standard by definition these are pre-compiled binaries that bypass the API, and only AMD uses them for graphics.

And i know what you are talking about but both OpenGL and Vulkan support extensions but this isn't what we are really talking about.
In Spain is the same. But political parties send you also a copy and an envelope. So you can bring your ballot from home.

If the envelope contains more than one vote, but all are the same, it counts as one. If the envelop contains more than one vote but they are different it does not count.

In the voting school there are randomly chosen citizens and party representatives that identify the voters, all adults must have a national ID, and count the votes.

It works, and it will need a massive amount of people to change a significant amount of votes.
It's absolutely wild to read a comment like this as someone on about $800 a month (or about $600USD/mo.) I guess it's all relative.
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I would have thought that the GameCube would be the last Nintendo console to use a fixed-function GPU. I was very surprised to see that the Wii used one as well.
The pain signals of eye strain doesn't seem to hit right away, so I can keep reading past the point where I really should stop. The pain creeps up gradually but it's really too subtle if I'm stuck on an engaging story. But I don't have that problem if I turn off f.lux, that way my discomfort is more immediate and I stop.
It’s 100 episodes.
YIMBY has its limits. We all need to start looking at policies that dis-incentivize keeping empty units as speculative investments.
Descent, mostly not. Culture, mostly not. History, yes, of constantly fighting each other for hundreds of years (which is the type of shared history that creates national separations, not the kind that unites nations).

There are some groups of countries that have some descent and culture in common like Portugal/Spain or Benelux or Scandinavia, but there is no pan-European culture. Portugal, Greece, Monaco, Latvia and Iceland have almost nothing in common.
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I think the reason people down-voted you was because you attributed many perceived policy faults of the Chinese Communist Party over many decades to Mao himself. Rather, a careful analysis of history would show that there's profound difference in how each generation of CCP leader ruled the country, apart from the generalizations one could make about communist ideology as a whole.
I’m on mobile so I can’t verify this, but I think you might be able to accomplish what you want by using auto margins on the last child of the flex container? Auto margins have some really cool by-design interactions with flexbox. More info: https://hackernoon.com/flexbox-s-best-kept-secret-bd3d892826...
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I'm hoping that's the failure rate for detonation and not unintentional detonations.
What rain are you talking about? In fact, we could use more rain if anything. I can't even remember the last time it rained.
The diagram at the top has a 13th item labeled, yet the 13th term's definition is skipped! It seems like there was a difference of opinion as to whether 13 is unlucky, perhaps?
This is certainly one "drawback", depending on your perspective, and certainly a cost more of an ORM and how they tend to work than a runtime environment. You'd have a similar issue, for example, in Go if you want to lazy load a property (however there you can't await a goroutine).

Long story short, this drawback tends to be primarily based on experience of the overall system. Coming from traditional rails/django/etc will make these constructs seem awkward.
A lot of Americans are opposed to federal ID on principle, never mind the cost. Forcing states to require federal ID for voting might require a constitutional amendment. Fining people for not voting seems like it would be extremely unpopular, especially if nothing was done to make it more accessible. It would also certainly draw a Firat Amendment challenge. If burning a flag is speech, how is not voting not speech?
More insidious than vote buying is voter coercion and blackmail. This has been a major problem in the past in places without secret ballots.
From the article

> If any person shall wilfully ride upon any footpath or causeway by the side of any road made or set apart for the use or accommodation of foot passengers; or shall wilfully lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description, or any truck or sledge, upon any such footpath or causeway; or shall tether any horse, ass, mule, swine, or cattle, on any highway, so as to suffer or permit the tethered animal to be thereon.

It seems like a step forward was made almost two centuries ago. Let's not take a step back.
> Thankfully EULAs are void in Europe.

It's not so clear cut that you should be thankful. The ability of companies to dictate the terms of which users can use their software, affects their risk calculation to produce the product in the first place. It is very likely that very useful but imperfect software will not be written because the risk / reward balance is tilted.

Remember, you always have the ability to reject an EULA; simply don't use the product.

> If that was true 1 € shops wouldn't exist, but even those products have more testing than most software out there.

Consumers can make value choices on quality vs cost. This is a basic market function.
The article is a bit sensationalist from the title through to most of the "what ifs" and speculations in the body.

Hidden right at the end Godaddy even downplays the sensitivity of the information that was available.
Serializers are just functions. Why do they need to be classes?