skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mechanics are totally different. Greece defaulted on government debt. Turkey is mostly struggling with private sector debt.

The volumes of debt are also very different. Greece had a LOT more debt when they defaulted.
The Czech Republic, it's even worse in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia (personal experience); I also have even more horror stories about the Czech system - right now I'm waiting for the third month to finally get a bad tooth checked (and I will have to pay around $500 if I don't want the tooth simply extracted, no other option covered by insurance is available).

On the other hand I had extremely good experience with cheap private healthcare in Ukraine. I wasn't brave enough to test their public system.

Sorry I didn't mention it, I thought I did but I mentioned just the currency.
To add one datum, I turned off location history thinking that meant that Google would use my _current_ location for Maps, Search etc while not storing my _past_ locations. Their interface and messaging did not succeed in dissuading me from this belief, despite the fact that I was explicitly looking for messaging and settings related to protecting my privacy.

Was I naive to believe this was even possible in the first place? Probably. I used to think Google were basically good guys, so I thought that when they said something they actually meant it, and I was willing to forgive them for minor mistakes and bad press. This is the first time I actually feel like they've lied to me.

I'll be migrating my personal Google accounts elsewhere. Suggestions are welcome for good alternatives, free/non-free/whatever, that offer effective privacy controls.
The difference between this and grenfell was that here the local authorities had been acknowledged of the status of the bridge via official documents. The bridge suffer a major redesign in the '90s. I cannot believe how nobody cared about it.
Oh, yeah -- that's a good suggestion. Or freemium model.
Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September
Yes! By using Firefox.
I did enjoy it, yes, and I'm following your idea for my town also (it's open data here). Lucky for me, it's a little bit prettier (I think they have autocomplete on their devices for the addresses).

I already have some preliminary data - in a city with 350k inhabitants, they gave 150k fines last year, totaling 2.5 mil EUR. I can't wait to search for the hotspots
At least what I experienced is that businesses raise prices as their interest goes higher. I'm obviously talking very short-termish (first few months).
No. I'm not aware of anyone doing a randomized controlled trial on going adventuring. I'm just pointing out that people who died naturally won't be able to tell their stories, so we're disproportionately likely to hear from the ones for whom it worked out ok.
I also work at Google and what mystifies me when I do interviews is just how consistently people manage to screw up even the medium difficulty questions. I used to love asking this question until it was banned:

https://programmingpraxis.com/2012/01/20/knights-on-a-keypad...

This is a great question because it has several levels of solutions:

1. A recursive solution that iterates over all sequences, exponential time and logarithmic in space. Interviewing for T3 (entry level, think college grad), getting only this far in 45 minutes earns a "leaning no hire" in my book.

2. The above solution except with memoization, which reduces the runtime to linear but requires linear space. This one earns a "leaning hire" from me.

3. A dynamic programming solution that takes linear time and constant space. This one gets a "hire" to a "strong hire," depending on the elegance of the implementation and the strength of the discussion we have around it.

4. A logarithmic time solution involving adjacency matrices, matrix multiplication, and binary decomposition of numbers. I've never seen anyone get this and I only learned about it after months of asking this question.

It's shocking how few candidates actually got as far as solution 1. I kinda want to open this up to the HN comments section, because this does not strike me as a brutally difficult problem, but the rate at which people fell on their faces when presented with this question suggests either something about our interview process or about the candidates we interview.

EDIT: A clarification about “getting as far as” a particular solution: I’m not sitting there stone faced taking notes, I provide hints and prods and suggestions to push candidates toward more optimal solutions. I want the candidate to get as far as possible because it feels good to watch someone succeed, but oftentimes they run out of steam or take forever to implement their solution. In particular with respect to solution 1, if that’s as far as a candidate can get despite my recommendations, that’s not a good sign for their algorithmic ability.
Yes, there were a number of intelligent looking young children there. This however is only in furtherence of the argument that we must set good examples.
Surely the farmer must realize that the buyer is not eating all that, and will be reselling it. They are then competing with their own produce.

Also, they don't always pay someone to do sales. A lot of farm stands have honor boxes, Or they do pre-paid farm shares and just deliver to a drop-off point. There are a lot of ways for veg farmers to get paid directly for their produce, and they are all somehow less convenient and more expensive than going to a grocery store. Do they just not go to Kroger or Publix or Piggly Wiggly or wherever to see what they have to beat?
Which Python static analysis tools should I use? – Codacy Blog
Which prominent feminists? The person who says the most reprehensible things in the article, Diane Davis, is not a prominent feminist. I've never even heard of her. I looked up her wikipedia page, and it looks like her main hobby might be updating her own wikipedia page.

The other person quoted, Dana Bolger, who said Title 9 has mostly been used against predatory men, seemed like they were being quoted out of context. Nowhere did Dana Bolger say, "historically this has been the case and it needs to stay that way."

Googling Dana, she actually responds to the article on her Twitter page, saying much the same thing that I do in my comment.

https://twitter.com/danabolger/status/1029369826710564866
I would recommend a book (and YouTube) over picking a random trainer from the set of all possible trainers. I know some that are way better than a book, but I've also seen plenty that don't know how to squat or deadlift, much less teach someone else. If you're at a powerlifting or Olympic lifting gym specifically, absolutely use one of the trainers from there. Crossfit too. But if you're at a typical chain gym, I would not trust most trainers.
I seem to recall some similar results back when AMD first released their APUs with the shared FPU setup, and Windows barfed because of its scheduler. Everyone still blamed AMD for making a crap CPU design...
Recirculating the water wouldn't be considered consuming.

They do have flat plate heat exchangers, commonly used on boats and either in direct contact with the water, or bonded to the hull, that have a closed loop cooling system to conduct the heat to the water.

But submersion of the entire vessel isn't needed for this to be effective, just sufficient surface area in contact with water to effectively disperse the heat.

There are many safer ways to do this than submersion. I will do the calculations later but I don't believe even the entire surface of the submersed data center would be sufficient to disperse the heat using natural convection and conduction. It takes 1000s of feet of submersed(or buried) tubing to effectively reject the heat in common geothermal/lake source home cooling systems, and they are typically in the 60,000 btu range(~18kw)

A submerged heat exchanger in a closed loop cooling system seems like a much better solution, if the reason for submersion is cooling related.
Ah, I'm running Linux on the T480, and it's great for that. I've had no driver issues.
Sad how some governments choose to invalidate a citizens privacy rights for "valid" business interests.

A hotel can call the police any time if they suspect an issue with a guest.
Historically, this devaluation is pretty insignificant. It only halved in value. The current Turkish Lira is actually the second iteration. The first Turkish Lira at one point had the following value:

1995 – 1 U.S. dollar = 45,000 first Turkish lira
2001 – 1 U.S. dollar = 1,650,000 first Turkish lira

That's 36 times less in about 6 years! Eventually they replaced the first Turkish Lira with the current (second) Turkish Lira. It seems a lot of Turkish people should still remember the previous Turkish lira. The second Turkish Lira was the most stable between 2006-2015 or so.. but historically the Lira has always been hugely unstable.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira#First_Turkish_lir...
This is exactly how the Mega Everdrive and similar retro flashcarts work. The "OS" loaded from SD card configures an FPGA inside the cartridge.
>They don't ask the publisher from that other country to modify the contents.

They shouldn't rely on this as their only option, but they may as well ask. If the publisher complies it saves everyone a lot of bother.
Understanding the Modern State
Oh, right, so we have to distinguish two things:

1. One party wants to cut Social Security. This is obviously true.

2. That same party wants to convince you that it has to be cut or otherwise changed in significant ways or it will fail entirely -- which brings us back to #1.

In other words, #1 is driving #2, not the other way around. If you're worried about #1, then I'm with you. You should be. But this is generally presented as a worry about #2, which is really just a cynical ploy to get back to #1.

They want to cut Social Security for ideological reasons. But their plan is to convince you that it needs to be done for practical reasons. It's a pretty good plan that seems to be working quite well, because a whole bunch of regular folks who don't know what the word "insolvent" means are sure it applies to Social Security.
I do not think there is any pattern, just fundamentals that I believe in.

I want to acquire coins not for the price now, but in 20 years from now. I want the cheapest price possible because I have only so much cash to spend on that.

I have an amount earmarked for aqusition, and a rule to spend it. I do not care much about the/3 red alerts. Quite the opposite: I see that as indicators of interest.

Remember the article you submitted in 2013, annoucing Bitcoin was at 650? 5 years later, now, it is at 10x that price. I regret not buying them - even if it later crashed, because markets go up and down.

Bitcoin crashed before, it will crash again. I do not care about making the absolute best possible - just some good enough profits. 10x every 5 years is good enough for me,
That's actually regrettable, I agree.

What's more regrettable in my opinion is that piece is inflated in comparison to something like the Equifax scandal because:

1. This is a service you opt in to use (there's competition), you can opt-out off the tracking in 3 clicks, and your data is safe (so far)

2. Equifax leaked the SSN of millions who haven't even subscribed to their service

Anyway, I agree, we can still improve customer privacy and transparency.
Why You Shouldn't Settle for a Free VPN
The iPhone location history is on your iPhone not at Apple.

And Apple doesn’t track you. They cycle identifiers regularly for exactly this reason.

Spreading falsehoods about this being something everyone does is harmful because it normalizes the abusive behavior from those that actually do.
buy for the long term. buy things backed by current value. buy with diversification.
I beg to differ. I think you're definitely overestimating the importance of individualization. TV has been doing all of these things for half a century. People will literally watch it all day and definitely become addicted.

Advertising has been "weaponizing the amygdala" for a century. It's designed to instill insecurity and envy.
IT Doesn't Matter
I could be mistaken, but I don't think you can have a "pure" functional front-end. I think even with something like mithril.js, you will have to run some computation method to update changes in the view when some data changed.

I think the benefit of js functional programming is composability; you can build complicated functions from smaller, more focused functions. This ends up being easier to read and debug if you run into some unforeseen logic error.

It really depends on what you are building, but it's hard to avoid logic errors when working with the DOM explicitly. It's a lot easier to map over an empty array than to manipulate DOM elements that have been removed from the screen.
For weather, I use 2 mechanisms:
a. I setup IPhone weather app to my home town location. Works 95% of the time, I'm not traveling that much.
b. Search for "<town> weather" when I'm traveling. Browser autocomplete makes this trivial.
Fairly easy and doesn't feed Google with a stream of personalized location information.

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A day in the life of a BigAdCo surveillance apologist:

1. Claim it's obviously easy to disable the tracking behavior.

2. Claim the tracking behavior is absolutely necessary for feature X.

3. Claim that someone else would do the track tracking / is doing the tracking, so BigAdCo must do it to compete. [Notice how this conflicts with 4].

4. Claim that users could just use the competition. [Notice how this conflicts with 3].

5. ???

6. Profit!
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20180809104802/https://dev.to/jw...
Either way it's probably good for Google's reputation for them to roll their own. After all, they don't exactly have as high a standing as Apple appears to have for some things?
> Does anyone else feel a sense of overwhelming futility with respect to internet privacy?

You had me at overwhelming futility
The Paperback Edition of Writing a Compiler in Go
THere's one fact that people seem to have forgotten:
1USD=1.5TRY back in 2002.
Turkey has an inflation that's about 10% (reported, let's go with that).
1.1 ^ 16 * 1.5 = 6.8 - meaning 6.8TRY would be equivalent to 2002's dollar. US economy and dollar gained more strength in the meantime.

6.8 try/usd is not crazy. The previous exchange rate probably was.
> The worrying items are 3-6 that basically say anyone who provides software/hardware or develops that software/hardware is part of either used for providing communications or "an electronic service" are subject to the notices.

This sounds like it would apply to Tor.

I can't imagine Tor is actually the biggest problem though, certainly compared to simple encrypted messaging services with hundreds of millions of users.
@FranzFerdiNaN, who I can't seem to reply to directly, yes, you are right. I might've missed the point of the article I was referring to.

People today has more free time to ponder things like the meaning of life and has potentially a lot of time after retirement, and I think that is part of what makes people think differently about their careers once they reach 35.
I bet if you could select only the people who made it to the in-person interviews at these companies, which usually happens after multiple weed-out filters, you’d have a way-above-average cohort.
In similar vein is the Steve Aoki documentary on Netflix, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Diy networks were paramount to the label's early success. What's amazing is how the circuit has morphed into Electric Zoo, Lost Lands, Imagine, etc. From humble beginnings in underground LA nightclubs. And the pre-Twitter days of MySPace and the Cobrasnake ;)
xkcd was premonitory https://xkcd.com/2029/
I mean, didn't he end up paying a DEA agent to murder someone?
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About 8 years ago, I got an interview at Google.
I didn't really even want to work there... I just wanted to see what the place was like.
So I made it through the phone screens, went to the interview, and I failed. It was still a good experience!
From time to time I visit https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity and every time I need to turn something off again.
What does it matter? With authoritarian populist leaders, what they "actually believe" isn't even a meaningful concept. A defining characteristic of authoritarianism is that truth gets fuzzy in order to serve the interests of the state, and the defining characteristic of populism is to just go with whatever pleases the mob. So when you combine the two, you get policy made up on the spot but enforced with religious fervor, which is what's happening here.

I mean, take Trump: he's a raging ball of id who just yells whatever pops into his head at random and agrees with whoever spoke to him last. What he "actually believes" is probably, to use programming jargon, undefined.
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The notion of intrinsic value was abandoned by economists more than a hundred years ago. In modern economics, value is subjective. Market prices simply reflect the value individuals place on goods and services.
One clarification on the comment about latency. FPGAs are typically clocked much slower than a modern CPU. Typically, they run somewhere in the low 100's of MHz, whereas an Intel CPU clocks in at around 3GHz last time I went to the Apple Store. With a typical x86 multiply instruction having a latency of about, say, 3 cycles, putting that workload on an FPGA would result in a ~10x slow-down!

The real benefit of an FPGA is that you get to decide what happens in any given cycle. So rather than being able to multiply two numbers in a single cycle like on x86, you could make your FPGA design do, say, 20 multiplications in a single cycle (space allowing). Which means that you can now multiply 20 numbers in 1/10th of the time it would take on x86. (In reality I think you have something like four execution units capable of perfoming parallel ALU operations per cycle, depending on the family.)

So the latency benefit of an FPGA comes from flexible, almost (almost) unbounded potential for parallelism in a given cycle, not clock frequency. Hardware has to be designed to exploit this potential, otherwise it's not going to see any improvement in latency.

Anyways, just something that is maybe obvious once you're told it, but isn't always mentioned in discussions like this. It certainly something that I didn't fully appreciate before getting involved in hardware design.
Was that in Urumqi or somewhere out near the border in 北疆? I went in 2006, so it wasn’t that bad yet.
I see object detection systems often compared by accuracy percentages but rarely by speed.

I ask because I'm building a surveillance system that uses object detection to answer simple questions, like: "Is there a squirrel on my bird feeder?", "Is my car in the garage?", "Is there a package on my front step?".

Right now I'm playing with Darknet and yolo from pjreddie because he emphasized performance and I'm getting about 69fps on my 1080ti.

Is speed not considered important by researchers at this time?

Is there any system that provides decent performance on CPUs? Dedicating $700 gpus to detect squirrels on the bird feeder is fine for crazy people like me but others may find that excessive.
Bullshitting with Einstein
what is the answer y = -120/x ?
"Almost anybody doing anything apart from basic beginner level coding work knows to look up to a solution on the internet if a solution is not scaling already"

This applies to some practical areas, but some are murky and need more than agile google-fu to waid through of an algorithmic jungle to a solution that provides added value to end user.

There is a discipline and domain dependent threshold where the internet suddenly becomes obscure and unhelpful when one is trying to find solutions. In these instances either you are solving the wrong problem, or the problem is quite complex and/or does not have a closed form/ready solution. The best thing to happen in these instances is that one can limit ones input domain just so that it maps to some algorithmic concept or another. It's not rocket science, but in these instances having an intuitive feel toward the big O behaviour and various algorithmic constructs is really, really helpfull.

Sometimes you just need to implement your own fudged QR decomposition and understand a little bit of numerics, or build custom octrees and whatnot. Couldn't really do it without my books. I do CAD and computational geometry stuff, YMMV.
The fourth amendment absolutely applies to hotel rooms.

https://www.gsblaw.com/duff-on-hospitality-law/guest-room-pr...

https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048...

From my very basic understanding of what transpired, the hotel security were trespassing by entering a rented room. I'm not altogether familiar with state law in Nevada, but that could certainly be argued in California.
Oh man, if only this argument worked on segfaults! "Shut up kernel, who are you to decide if that memory has been free'd? Just run the code as I meant it damn it!"
> if it couldn't have happened without your action

People have been buying and OD'ing on opiates for centuries. They could easily have happened without SR.
Yeah, I was just using Stripe/Paypal as an example of an payment intermediary. What you're saying makes a lot more sense to me now.
> What does it matter?

My assumption was that he's keeping rates low to avoid raising interest costs for his government and cronies. But it might be that he actually just misunderstands economics and everyone is too scared to tell him so.
You must have missed the news these last few years.

As soon as the markets get a whiff of potential instability in the country that would cause a deviation on the austerity policy imposed by the EU, the credit spread on goverment bonds skyrockets.

And with some good reason, as pre-EU governments used devaluation of the Lira to boost the exports and increase GDP (of course increasing inflation) on one hand, and kept borrowing money on the other, instead of trying to address historical problems like under-development of the South, unsustainable social security, rampant tax evasion, corruption in local administrations.

Even if currency devaluation were possible these days (basically only by leaving the EU), it would have to face a much more globalized economy than last century, where many exports depend on parts manufactured abroad, which would be suddenly more expensive to produce...

Italy is not broke as long it can pay interests on its debt, but every fluctuation in the global economy affect Italy way more than UK, US or Japan.
Francis Galton was Darwin's cousin. Reading the Origin of Species he became convinced of evolution. He believed that “what Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly.” He was also into statistics and measurement. There is an interesting story of him measuring an African (Khoikhoi) women's impressive derriere without touching her using a sextant from a distance. Women’s beauty consumed him. One of his experiments was to find which place has more beautiful women. Sorta like a 19th century HotORNot. He had two counters in each pocket, one for hot and one for nots. According to his study London had the most attractive women in the UK, Aberdeen the least.

https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/tag/francis-galton/

https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/footnote-...

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/eugenics-to...
taking current location into account !== building a cumulative location profile over time without explicit consent
Apparently, Hamilton defined quaternions as the solution to almost this exact problem. Quaternions are effectively elliptical vectors. That's a lot nicer than defining them in terms of generators and relations.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versor
Extreme temperatures 'especially likely for next four years'
It's wasteful, but probably no more than injection molding factories that make cheap plastic junk.