skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
more frequently breaking traffic law

I can't find it right now but there was some research done in the UK recently that showed the opposite was the case.
That is overall audience though, for more specific sets of people the IE11 proportion is much higher.

For a game, a technical development site, a home improvement tutorial site, a blog about My Little Pony, other things that are targeting only (or at least primarily) home and/or technical users you are probably able to completely ignore IE11, but if your project cares to be used in certain commercial or government/public sectors (investment banking in my case, health care and education too I'm told, ...) IE11 support is unfortunately still absolutely essential.
A similar idea that I like is Van Halen's brown M&M's clause. Worth a read

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
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Some examples of intrusive product placement:

https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE

https://youtu.be/ca6W7peL6s4

https://youtu.be/J8T2kZ8f6BA

Especially bad when they make a character say or do something that doesn’t fit with their persona to shoehorn mention of a brand.

Maybe it’s me getting older, but I can’t help but notice product placement, speeding up of shows, Netflix doing the opposite by stretching out shows with useless filler scenes, story arcs introducing unnecessary and tacked on side plots to increase # of seasons, extra sexual and gore content to shock.

It really ruins watching media for me. The last one I really liked was Breaking Bad I think.
I believe what we should be developing instead is the software that provably generates semi-random paths and inputs to the phone's accelerator API that fake your true location.
But is that not simply the perspective of someone who has already smoked for a number of years, and who doesn't really care about the presentation?

As far as I understood, the point was to make the packaging less enticing to potential new customers?
Bear in mind that (in my country) this is averaged over a 24 hours. So you will see fewer commercials during daytime but a lot of commercials during primetime such that it averages to 12 minutes per hour.
This is a much better story, if only because it’s real, and involves contracts instead of hypothetical fake cult rituals.
Is there an independent audit of this claim? Similar things happened at Uber and we have nothing but Facebooks word for it.

I take it that not every employee has access. No employee having access seems unbelievable.
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I'm in Wuhan. I don't use Ofo but I keep an eye out and have only noticed a single Ofo bike in a hundred over the last few months with an auto-unlock.

Obviously, the bikeshare companies roll out their newest stock in Beijing and Shanghai. I'd guess most Ofo bikes in all of China still use the manual unlock, and will do so for a while yet.
Germany has toned it down a lot, but they still have cigarette vending machine at most train stations and randomly scattered around towns, at least in southern Germany.
I don't think that's so much of a factor.

I've met plenty of people that do not use the internet have irrational hatred for cyclists in the UK.

It seems like it's a car culture thing. And whenever a driver sees a cyclist doing something wrong it confirms the idea to them.

Regardless of whether there's any merit to it.
> Well, there's a darker side to that as well. Obesity is a problem for low income people - because cheap food is usually terrible for you - high calories, high salt, high fat and easy to eat a lot of. Think of your typical fast food - the amount of calories that can be bought for a few dollars. Same with soft drinks. Shaming people who get large might be one strategy, but we also need to stop the fast food peddlers that make it so easy, cheap, and addictive.

Possibly...I see it more as a matter of education and at the end of the day personal choice. I suspect that for the price of a basic McDonald's meal you could get enough potatoes/pasta, cheese and frozen peas to feed an entire family.

I concur with your thoughts on the addictive nature of some of the foods. But that is slightly misleading. Generally speaking our bodies enjoy fat, sugar, etc no need to fight it. Again I'd rather focus on empowering (or at least trying to) people to make informed decisions regardless of what's being peddled at them ;-)
Isn't this how the whole flat-earth thing started?
I like that optimism. I can also imagine a future where anybody can contribute. But I know plenty of people right now who are wondering if they should get a master's degree instead of stopping at a bachelor's degree in order to get a job that can pay off their education debt.
Thanks for posting this. This looks like something genuinely new. Going to look into it.
> Recently I just heard of a company that finally, in 2018, upgraded their IE requirements to IE 11.

One of our clients is one of the largest investment/savings banks in the UK. For services for their back-office and branch users they have only just dropped IE8 support as a requirement.

Logs I have access to show a fair number of users still have IE8 and are using it to access our legacy products, though we are assured that everyone either has IE11 or Chrome or both so for the newer services releasing to them RealSoonNow(tm) our insistence on dropping support for IE prior to 11 is not going to be a problem (though we have heard that before, so I on this matter I await the post rollout feedback with a mix of hope and trepidation!).
Going there recently, I was shocked by the mechanical cigarette dispensers by every checkout lane in the supermarket and the large bags of tobacco openly displayed on shelves for sale on the other side of checkout lane.

Contrast that with the UK where tobacco is hidden behind shutters and only available from a separate kiosk area.

I wonder if having it openly displayed at checkouts removes the mystery (and hence its appeal) or just serves to make it an impulse purchase?
> I don’t know who “we” is, but don’t count me in that group.

Your article supports my premise.

If you need me to post people doing horrible things while drunk or tobacco related death statistics I'm happy to do so as a counterargument.
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The endless (and pointless) wars that our soldier are being spent on has a relatively easy solution

Reinstate the draft.

That might seem counterintuitive since that would give us a lot more soldiers to use, but it would give a lot of families, a lot of Americans real skin in the game.

Wasting soldiers is easy as long as most people dont care and dont notice. But when it is your daughter/cousin/ uncle/parent someone you know for a majority of the population it becomes a very serious matter.

I say this as an ex-army soldier. I will be honest and say that I didnt enjoy my time in the military very much, and forcing thousands and thousands of youth to go through it means a lot of pain and uncomfortable situation, I think the benefits would outweigh the sacrifices made to make this happen.

An alternate plan would it to be mandatory that family members of elected officials to serve in the military and in wars, personally.
(Not just sit at a desk in DC pushing buttons) But there is so much corruption in those systems that the children would probably be protected one way or another.
No, a lot of countries require that you take tests and show that you're looking for a job in that country. Of course it'll also cost money.

For my country the following applies:

* Must have residency permit, permanent or temporary with intent to be permanent

* Must pass residency exam (tests language, law, etc.)

* Must be living in country for 8 years minimum

* Must have independent source of income that isn't social welfare or unemployment benefits

* Sufficient knowledge of local language

* Must not have been convicted of a crime

* Must pledge to the democratic order laid out by the constitution

* Annulling or otherwise revoking your previous citizenship
I don't get why using a multitenant setup for MySQL (like in the PHP days) isn't a much better solution for this, as it doesn't require many instances of MySQL (or many VMs each running a single instance), nor does it require constant resources. This does require constant resource use, and you incur the significant startup delay for what seems to me very little reason.

But I guess for Amazon, inefficiency translates to $$$, so wouldn't really make sense to do this.

I wonder that more generally about cloud as well. For many things making the backends multitenant would be far cheaper for the customers and just a bit more expensive for the providers ... there's the security aspect (but is it really that different ? Even with VMs the kernel and hypervisors still need to not leak information, and even with Physical servers the "reboot and recovery" and remote control mechanisms are often still avenues for security exploits)

This low level separation is easy and cheap to implement for the providers, but (it seems to me) much more expensive for the customers.

But I guess that's pretty much true for all cloud stuff. It provides automation, but at an operational cost, which is really not the trade off I'd like to make.
Similar, but doesn't really seem to be the same thing.

In the Van Halen case, they're trying to see if the service provider even finds out about the clause; to pass the test is to weed out the brown candies. In the orange juice case, the orange juice is clearly requested; to pass the test is apparently to be able to work through all the potential prerequisites.
Does "the same app" refer to Signal? If so, you an run it without having Google Play installed (though it will be more battery-hungry), and download the APK yourself.
Many sites embed Facebook and Google trackers, which I learn only after visiting the site. I'd say that this is not exactly voluntarily.
That's a urban legend.

I have over 1,800 points, and there's no downvote to be seen.
That's a great point. I find having to decide what I want to watch to be a feature as I want to be deliberate about how I spend my time and attention. I know plenty of 70+ year olds that are way too influenced by whatever cable news is constantly playing in the background.
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We apply very draconian rules to motorists, and then people get upset when those same kind of rules are not applied to other users. It is very inconsistent and that makes people angry. But this ignores the fact that motor vehicles are exceptional in terms of the harm they can cause simply due to weight and speed. That is why we need draconian and annoying laws, but only for motor vehicles. The risk posed by bikes and pedestrians is so small that strictly enforced rules would be authoritarian and restrict freedom to an unacceptable degree.

I do agree that cyclists should follow rules. But the magnitutde of danger caused by rule breaking is massively lower and that should be acknowledged. A dangerous driver is committing a worse crime than a careless cyclist.

Also, cyclists are not some homogeneous group. The person complaining about dangerous drivers is not neccessarily the person going through a red light.
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My commute choices are personal bike directly to work (long and hilly), or bus and a long walk. Taking a Mobike from the bus stop shaves 10 min off the walk each way.
With deep learning and techniques such as text and image generation, as well as the existence of motivated and well-funded state or corporate organizations, I fear the age of social media as social manipulation is just the beginning.
"You become what you pretend to be", or as my grandmother said "if the wind changes, your face will be stuck like that".
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I wrote a pretty in depth blog on how I run Node.js code for my SaaS at https://medium.freecodecamp.org/running-untrusted-javascript...
Surprising. In London at least, when you cross at a crossing, you always have to check for cyclists skipping the lights.
I would say there is push lately to picture UK situation in very black colors and I believe many of those claims are not really justified.

Firstly, inflation is not going up, at least I couldn't find any evidence of that.

Secondly, looking at the UK trade partners (for instance here http://www.worldstopexports.com/united-kingdoms-top-import-p...) I see that UK has trade deficit will all EU countries, given the fact that UK has well develop economy they can in fact gain on leaving UK and relaying on bilateral deals (and I guess those who are bashing UK most will be first in the queue to start trading with them - Germany approach to Nord Stream that can be potentially dangerous for EU energy safety shows that when it comes to money, EU "unity" is thrown away quickly).

Third, weakening pound is actually good for UK, the goods they produce are cheaper, so event if imported goods are more expensive at some point this will come to equilibrium.

Fourth, UK has still hidden gems like tax havens here and there, including the one at the very center of London - quite convenient for all the rich people who, accidentally, have also a lot of political power and surely they would not like UK to be hurt too much.

The only danger I see is that Scotland might try to gain independence and walk away with the oil taken from the North See, this would shrink UK domestic market and could indeed do some harm.
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If you want a non-linear function that can be produced optically, consider an evanescent wave[1], as used in TIRF microscopy. Whether this is suitable in practise as an activation function I couldn’t say, though the curve does to my eye look like something that could be used in place of relu.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_field
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No it is not.

I was in Amsterdam last weekend, at the party mentioned at the very end of the article. Thousands of people packed into the square on a Friday evening having fun. Minimal police and security guards present.

On the Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people visited Amsterdam to watch the Canal Pride on the Prinsengracht. The police reported minimal disturbances, and arrested a grand total of 25 people, 17 of which were for pickpocketing [1]. That is a substantial reduction on prior years.

[1] https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2018/augustus/6/05-zakkenrolle...
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>That Thing Everyone Will Need To Worry About Eventually

(in USA #1)

I never have, and do not ever expect to have to, worry about it, because Euro
This is pretty user hostile. Glad I don’t have cable anymore.
Fun fact: This depicts word for word my previous job (company size around 50 people)
A certain percentage of people ignore the refutation and end up believing the bad idea. For certain bad ideas (racism, anti-vax etc) this can result in people getting killed.
It probably is. And personally, I don't really care. Because I have my earphones in and I can't hear anything coming from the outside world.

That's not to say that I can't care about rude behavior or do anything about it if it starts to persist. I've confronted more than one person who kept on with bad behaviors, at the coffee shop that I go to.

Usually a politely-worded request is all that's required. I may escalate to a second politely-worded request. I think that's only been needed once in 13 years of going to the coffee shop. The baristas handle it if it gets more out of hand.

There is behavior that I particularly don't have a problem with but other people do. This usually concerns the shared resource of space at the bar. One guy really needs his space, about half of a bar intended to seat 3. The coffee shop is his workplace and he needs everything just so. Other people roll their eyes and just give in, in many cases moving before he gets there. This, of course, suits him just fine. He seems to calibrate to just enough disagreeableness to get his way in this particular instance.

I'm just glad I don't have to get involved and can laugh from a distance.
I've seen it change too. When I was younger, I visited Vienna yearly and there the attitude has changed I feel. 15-20 years back you had better stay on the sidewalk or risk being cut off etc by cars, but now it seems they love their cyclists.

On a side-note: cyclist in Berlin are very annoying they park their bike in front of you at EVERY traffic light and are then exceedingly slow to get moving again.

Now that I think about it, it might just be that the attitude changes with the introduction of cycling lanes to keep cars and bikes separated
That’s certainly what happened.
What an unbelievably bad idea. Mandatory drafting is involuntary servitude, slavery. How about taking a non interventionist policy?
"Better to just cherish the life while it’s there."

Yes!

You cannot really clone a living thing, we can only make something that somewhat has the same DNA, but that is not a copy!
It's certainly routine to see cyclists running red lights in London. I'm sure cars do that sometimes, but I can't recall ever having seen a car do it while I was crossing the road.
I see no downvote on articles.

I do see downvote on some comments (not all).

The rules seem subtle.
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For broadcasts in Denmark, the rule is that ads cannot interrupt a program. It has to be before/after programs.

Some channels get around that by broadcasting from other countries to Denmark though.
> White supremacy doesn't help white people

It absolutely does help the people who believe in it: it gives them a sense of superiority and someone to blame. People walked away from lynchings with a sense of satisfaction and justice, not a recognition that they'd just committed a horrible crime.

These aren't rational reasons, but since people can go through most of their lives without really having to do things for rational reasons that doesn't matter.
I find the way car drivers go on about running red lights (which is not inherently dangerous, so there's no contradiction between running red lights and caring about safety) to be hypocritical given how often drivers break speed limits (which is just as much a violation of the rules of the road and much less safe).
A quick note that the layout of the site is really broken - lots of things overlapping each other - on a not-terribly-big screen with MacOS / Firefox.
> The risk posed by bikes and pedestrians is so small that strictly enforced rules would be authoritarian and restrict freedom to an unacceptable degree.

Rubbish. Having cyclists stop at red lights when people are crossing the road does not restrict their freedom "to an unacceptable degree". And even though I'm not likely to be killed by a cyclist running into me, I'd still much rather that they didn't.

I say this as someone who doesn't have a driving license, so I'm not "pro car". I'm just anti getting whomped out of nowhere by a bike.
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Yahoo's model could be fine-tuned: http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/gathered/examples/finetune_f...

Yeah, it's definitely not a nice task but what's stopping someone (well, besides potential legal issues) from using these commercial APIs to create datasets programatically and training a cloned model from that?

I'm curious what the profit margins are on these APIs because I think they are way overpriced.
Yes, I should have specified shitty, niche political goals not in the interest of the country or its people.
A B2B software marketplace instead of sales email drip campaigns back and forth
> not sure how it's called in English

"Immobiliser", usually. :)
I believe HN takes a holistic approach and takes other criteria into consideration. My downvote button was activated after my karma reached 500.
It may plausibly depend on how you add your apples and oranges. How are you going to count a traffic accident with two deaths against a bicycle leaning against a shop's display window (that's a really extreme example, yes)?
The colors on a RGB-based display is incorrect either way (with flux or without flux) at any color temperature (cool, warm, or in between).

Why is it that you prefer the incorrect colors without flux to the incorrect colors with flux?

Sounds like you prefer cool color temperature which is no more correct than warm color temperature.
My dad smoked from he was 16 until around 46 in 2003, when he suffered a (mild) heart attack. He had surgery and a stent put in, and completely quit smoking.

After a short recovery, it was like he was 10 years younger. Previously he would get winded just from tying his shoelaces, a combined effect of the smoking and constricted blood flow.

After recovering, it was like he got a new lease on life, he started getting into cooking healthier food, he started exercising and he even started playing the drums again. He's never been particularly open about his feelings, but I think it was a real eye opener for him, to face his own mortality and realizing that he'd been working way too much and not taking proper care of himself. His own dad died around the same age, also from a heart attack, which also made me realize that I have to watch my cholesterol and exercise more.

My dad turns 61 this October, and he's doing better than ever, fit as a fiddle, goes running and swimming every week. I'm glad he got a relatively mild warning and heeded it, otherwise he probably wouldn't be here today. And I'm glad medical technology had advanced to a point where they could save him, unlike his dad.
> What amount of rhetoric or marches or speeches would convince you to be a nazi?

There's a historical answer to this and it's found in the number of people who were convinced to join and vote for the Nazis in 1930s Germany. They were very good at propaganda.
You're really clutching at straws with this one.
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> The risk posed by bikes and pedestrians is so small

I don't know... cars stay on the road where I live. Cyclists will happily ride on the pavement and justify it with 'the road's too dangerous to cycle on'. They seem to consciously be happy with endangering people more vulnerable than themselves in order to keep themselves safe... which is what they criticise car drivers with.

I'm more concerned in practice about my three-year old daughter being hit by a cyclist on the pavement, than by a car on the road.
What programs do they depend on?
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I actually have a different take on this. There's a difference between filling the role of a service provider vs. a consultant.

I get the point that it's important to meet a brief, but I think the role of a consultant needs to go further.

A consultant asks 'why' to fully understand the problem. There needs to be an element of research and inquiry to provide consultancy, even if that is just a brief conversation before breakfast.

Why? Because, if you're solving a problem, it's important to understand what the end goal is. I'd start by finding out why orange juice, in particular, is important.

After meeting a brief, there's always a chance a situation or process can be improved. Why pay money for a consultant if this isn't what you're looking for?
Another argument against prohibiting speech on some platform is that it will push people platforms without any speech restriction, radicalasing their view.
It is. The only point where "rights" matter is when two groups of people are in conflict, and each side will always be able to express what they want as a "right" (e.g. making it illegal for other people to describe you in their own terms is your "right to exist").