skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason is not complex, it’s just rarely discussed. The first time Chlorine was used it killed a lot of soldiers, because nobody had a clue what was going on and no one was equipped or trained to deal with it. By the end of the same war, chemical weapons killed very very few soldiers, because they had training, and masks. What a chemical weapon does really well is kill civilians. In particular it kills the young and old who can’t get away, who are weakest. Chemical weapons can render an area uninhabitable, one thing they’re terrible at is killing soldiers. They have MOPP suits, and training, and vehicles with filters and overpressure seals, and autoinjectors with reversal agents.

So why are chemical weapons banned? Well the talking heads like to say “they don’t work, they’re just as likely to blow back on your own troops, they’re cruel.” Really though, they do work on non-combatants. Intentionally targeting non-combatants is what’s actually illegal and discouraged. Dropping bombs to destroy a city or AA batttery while knowing that you’ll massacre civilians is seen as tacitly kosher, but just gassing the populace to the exclusion of armed manpower and armaments is very much a taboo. At least, legally and officially, although countries find ways to skirt that with defoliants, pyrophorics, nuclear weapons, etc.
You can be pretty certain a EU law will be fairly specific in what is required.

And I doubt it will be simple.

Either way, it’s still an absurd idea, regardless of whether it’s doable in reality.
I saw a signature on slashdot: "Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence."
> If what you are eating is increasing your hunger levels

In my experience as someone who has lost-- and been keeping off, for years-- 150lbs, what you eat makes very little difference in your hunger levels. Unless you're talking about eating amphetamines.
Good point, thank you -- it's also almost time to announce the date!
It has nothing to do with the mafia, and everything to do with Carmel's long-time self-esteem problem. The only people that insist on pronouncing the town's name like the one in California are Carmel residents. The rest of the world pronounces it "KAR-mel". Or, more snidely, "CarMEL-by-the-Interstate". It was particularly hilarious that residents like to think of Carmel as where the rich people live (it's really where the upper middle-class live), and then I moved to Redmond and saw how real rich people lived. :-)

I haven't lived near Indianapolis in twenty years, but I don't imagine it's changed much. In which case public spending is probably motivated more by keeping up appearances, just like with Carmel's citizens, than it is about corruption.
Actually this is not a surprise, most of the people feel rich based on what materials they poses and what they can afford to buy even on the loan. It does not matter what money they have in bank. Very recent famous example of this would be 50 cent.
Congrats. This is awesome and thanks for sharing.
The idea for short subject videos is actually pretty good but here is what I don’t like: Netflix, HBO, and Amazon rock because they spend a ton of money making their own material. I don’t see getting the same quality by farming out production to contractors.

Regarding the main point of the article: I always liked the idea of lean and sometimes bootstrapped startups. The current trend of mega financing perhaps comes from all of the money slushing around in markets looking for investments. Part of the effect of increasing wealth disparity is the the very rich have much more capital than they need to live and want to invest.
Can relate. Anhedonia/depression all my life, and a mid-life divorce devastated me financially and personally.

Beyond what others have said, consider the possibility that this is a problem you may have for the rest of your life. Mine hasn't decreased much, but I've made some peace with it. To a degree, I just ignore or ride out the worst days. Reading the stoics seems to help. Literally just doing things can help. If you feel like doing something--anything--try to get yourself to do it.
There is a character limit. I'm on my phone, so checking character count isn't convenient for me at the moment, but that's a common reason to drop words that add little meaning.
I generally applaud the European Union's efforts to make things better for their citizens. However, this is just so easy to circumvent by using a VPN.

Furthermore, this does not solve the problem of having strong EU contenders to Netflix, Hulu and whatever else is out there. It is better for the EU to fund something that can fight on its own two feet rather than using these punitive measures that prevent people from watching things that they _paid_ for and _want_ to watch.
As far as I can tell the only impact GDPR has had on my life is that there are a lot more annoying popups for me to mindlessly click 'accept' on.
Except US daily usage of FB has been perfectly steady for 8 quarters.
Got it, thanks.

I'm fully in agreement with you on this, given that you take "decentralized" to imply "uniform (or nearly uniform) distribution of power/influence".

As an aside, this exemplifies why I tend to avoid the term "decentralized" in the current context: not everyone makes the assumption of uniformity when they read this word.

As a double aside, in case you haven't run across it, I highly recommend this book: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
This reads like a variation on the "many successful products started off looking like toys" post I've seen repeatedly over the years. The problem with this theme is extrapolating that all toy markets/products will grow into sustaining ecosystems.

You can and should consider toy "beachheads" into larger and growing markets, but the idea of targeting a small/limited market is flawed IMO.

The examples presented are successful in what where HUGE markets with limiting factors. No one debated the size of the retail book business when Amazon started, the challenge was how to pay for things over the internet. Ebay provided market-making for individuals to sell stuff - anyone remember classified ads and the buy & sell? That was big business for newspapers.

I feel like there's a lot of selection bias and revisionist history in this post.
It seems the latest plan for the Chicago pensions is to issue $10bn in bonds with the assumption this will earn more in the fund than interest they will pay on the bonds.

If the markets keep booming absolutely. Though risky to tackle excessive debt with more debt. Especially while the markets are likely near their cyclical peak.

They also talk about increased taxes. But no mention of the pension members taking a haircut or contributing more which would seem a fair and financially stable option, though obviously not politically.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-emanuel-10-billion-ci...

I always felt a good pension system would be to have something like Australia's where 10% of your pay goes into a fund you can't touch til ~65. You can invest it how you want within reasonable parameters to avoid scams etc but the money must be saved. This combined with a government pension that starts at 65 on poverty line payments but increases each year you dont take it.

This way people don't have to fund their full retirement lenght and takes away planning for the unknown moment of death, assuming increases are reasonable. People can plan to fund say 15 years of retirement and then know they hit X+15 years increases pension which is more affordable to the govt as many citizens will die during the self-funding period removing that obligation.
These latencies should include register access (nominally 1 clock cycle). Compilers work very hard to keep things in registers and it's nice to know the relative benefit of register vs L1.
The time has already passed to put this giant down. For a business that lost it's capability of innovating at least 10 years ago, even having all of those great brains as their workforce and plentiful money, they try too hard pushing this kind of bullshit into the industry.

Stop trying to enforce unnatural and irrational changes just for gaining protagonism on something you DON'T DESERVE and shouldn't even mess about.

It's already annoying having to load your analytics present in almost every modern website, despise the fact that most of the world don't even know about the existence of this, neither agreed with(cannot choose to block something you don't even know about).

Are you thinking it's overreaction? wait for tomorrow. Keep underestimating what they are doing.
The normal computer science curriculum at Carnegie Mellon is already more difficult than real-world AI applications.
A very brief look at the HN homepage tells me this is not the reason.
Another big reasons are language barriers and more importantly, vastly different tax codes and laws between EU countries. But the regulations don't help either, that's true.
Yet, I watch plenty of Japanese anime. I watch South Korean dramas as well. Simply saying that your contender cannot face up to the competition is laughable.

If you cannot compete on budget, perhaps you can compete on plot and story lines. One has to remember that the salaries that you have to pay Hollywood actors are much higher than what people in most other countries would make.
Reaching out to my network.
I'm quite positive what will instead happen is psuedo-companies will prop up in each country, whose specific purpose is to produce a sufficient number of garbage but 'local' film, to license to each streaming provider, to meet the requirement. If netflix has a catalogue of 600, and belgium only has 90 films, then 210 pieces of shit will be produced to fluff it up (and likely explicitly ignored by the recommendation algorithms, with caveats). Eventually, the streaming services will realize its a smaller headache, cheaper, and presumably more profitable, to rely solely on the psuedo-companies for local films (outside of 'hit' local films, or rather, accidentally local), and it will simply become 300 garbage items.

Notably, those accidentally local films would probably have appeared in the catalogue anyways.

In similar fashion, the US gov is required to give a chunk of its business to minority run companies, and so you now have companies whose sole value is having a disabled alaskan female at the head, to land the contract, and then immediately contract out the entire thing to an 'actual' business to handle.

So I expect that it wouldn't be merely as bad as reducing netflix's catalogue. It will entirely cripple each countries local film industries (at least, if they are, or were going to be, dependent on streaming services for income). This can only be good for countries that already have a strong film industry.
Two things at play here: First, browser engines intentionally hold onto memory to re-use (they are allocating large-ish chunks at a time) until there is a Memory pressure Event. It‘s not leaked memory.

Second, it sounds like you have quite a few addons running that each hold quite a bit of data in memory (like ad blockers). Try safe mode and see if behavior changes (though ads may now swallow quite a bit of memory now).
Some Technical Notes on Kullback-Leibler Divergence
OTOH, how to fund pensions properly is a solved problem. A properly managed pension fund will have fully funded (with a high degree of certainty) a pensioners' expected payout by the time he retires, and indeed have fully funded accrued liabilities at every point in his career. It's just a matter of relying on a conservative rate of return with a proven track record. Something like 4-6% per annum, IIRC. We know this because of the 200+ years of commercial and regulatory experience with insurance, especially life insurance. People trust their life insurance and annuity policies will pay out because politicians from 100 years ago bequeathed to us a reliable regulatory framework (forged by multiple crises) that penalizes insurers from being "innovative" with the bottom line. That same discipline can and is used for pensions, just not for public pensions at the state level because state governments are often exempt from regulations controlling private actors.

Do we know how to do the same for infrastructure, especially large infrastructure projects? Infrastructure needs and costs are much more dynamic, which makes it easier to fudge numbers and avoid accountability--now and later.
“Use your key to protect your sign-in on a variety of apps and online services beyond Google.‘

I would be interested if I knew for sure that it works also with Fastmail, Twitter, my banks, etc. is there a list of compatible services?
Perhaps Netflix can just hire some people to produce some documentary content about Ireland? But then, this will have the adverse effect of having a large part of Ireland's film and television industry controlled by Netflix et all.
Forgive me. I didn't realise I was intruding on a private conversation.
Wouldn't it be easier to just kick Europe off the net since they can't play nice?
Eh, as usual. If the socket is non-blocking, then you'll find out how much did not fit in the send buffers and you can poll for when the socket becomes writable.

EDIT: Oops, no, the memory would not be copied to the send buffers, and since this is for IPC, we don't even need to account for buffering in this path. Also, for IPC, just sharing with the receiver doesn't work: you can't tell when the received will be done with the memory. You'd need the receiver to munmap() the memory when done, else you'll never know when it's done. Though presumably even sosend(2) as-is requires a munmap() on the receive side... but the docs I can find don't mention it, e.g., https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sosend&sektion=9&m...
(As you note elsewhere) it may have been introduced, but it won't come within a million miles of getting out of committee in the Senate; it might as well be a campaign platform plank.

Since there's absolutely no practical impact to this announcement, its presence on HN is really just an invitation to a political argument; it should get flagged away.
The amount of people who are wholly oblivious or simply don't care about the pension bombs that are going to rock most states in the USA is utterly insane to me, and its primarily the blue ones.

We really need to get rid of these over-promising pensions and get public employees onto private accounts like most workers have with 401ks, and yet the cry from the left is always more "well paying unions and pensions" while they have no idea it is becoming a house of cards.

I believe many places in California have already had to deal with shutting down public infrastructure and services due to pensions growing to be more and more of the local budgets.
Learning By Copying The Textbook
Twitter agrees to abuse-transparency reports, civil rights audit
How big data is taking a bite out of the food industry
It was was the on ramp to the highway to hell. Just because it looks tame in comparison to what we have, remember we likely wouldn't be where we are, legislatively, without it having showed the politicians the way.
Except for when the pension and budget planners plan around 10% returns that don't happen, or the planners make really bad bets for a whole lot of people that will never meet expectations but the money is owed and has to come from somewhere (ultimately the taxpayers)
Indeed, the analogy that came to me was that high schools already teach math, but I don't see the market for math skills being depressed by a glut of talent.
It could just be a new flag.
People still scream bloody murder about the Post Office being required to fund its pensions and avoid these catastrophes.
Yep, the transforms and series solutions are actually the most important part of ODEs, not just in EE but also in PDEs.
Isn't this what Google is essentially trying to achieve? Email, video streaming, advertising, etc...
In a roundabout way yes it does.
It might be interesting to see an example of a comment that you (or anyone) thinks would add to maintainability. What isn't expressed in the code?

If there is such information, there are two possibilities: either we could easily modify the code to express it; or we could not. Each would be interesting, but for different reasons.
You’re right, it does! I wonder if the definition is going to drift towards “ordering” as computing becomes ever more ubiquitous, or if we’re just in a linguistic cul de sac by virtue of our profession...
Fairphone is only ethical if you buy into the marketing about the minerals being ethically sourced.

Which you shouldn't, for obvious reasons.
Ask HN: Unethical to finish project from a company that never finished it
I worked on a mobile application for a project that I was really invested in but after graduating, different developers with different coding beliefs - the project just fell apart. I still love the idea and put so much time into it. Has a lot of potential I think. Can I just complete it on my own. Do I even have an obligation to ask them if I can do it? When is their idea no longer "thiers". Also did not like the direction they were going with the business.
I still miss when Reader was still very popular.
It's true that the code is slow on large threads. That's on our list to fix. The last time I profiled it, it was (surprisingly to me) forEach that showed up as the culprit.
Not OP.

PythonLib: Image is Numpy Matrix
I was prepared to be disappointed, however for an undergraduate I think this is pretty good.

That said, a huge omission seems to be some form of "Is this a data/ML problem?" class. Call it product management, product development or something else, but I constantly see clients asking for ML solutions when they don't even have data that would inform an ML solution. Often it's a people or process problem, or poorly defined requirements.

So I think to be effective in ML you need to understand how successful products that USE ML are built and when ML/DNNs are appropriate.
Buy a 5$/month Protonmail account and forward your gmail to it, and slowly migrate all of your various email-authenticated services to point to your protonmail account. Plus Protonmail makes it very easy to run email from a domain that you already own, like your portfolio domain.
What fills in for Toronto?
While true, it's also the case that most people don't become researchers in the field that they studied in college. Most engineers become CAD operators, and most CS majors become programmers. We now teach CAD in engineering school so that students won't be broadsided by it when they get their first job.
What is it with Europe and hare-brained stupid internet ideas lately.

They pushed through GDRP and are now on a regulation high or something...
As much as I disagree with her politics, the Ayn Rand novel Anthem somewhat explores an extreme version of this idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella)
Besides importing goods from those countries, did US help build any infrastructure projects in these countries? I believe that's the big difference between China and western countries, especially US: no governing or military interactions, but help to improve the citizens' living with concrete infrastructure projects, like train, highway, subway, telecommunication etc.
Well, you do want them memorable to the people in-house but obscure to outsiders (such as anyone sitting at the next table in the coffee shop).

Back in the day, the much-waited-for Version 3 of Lotus 1-2-3 was called Godiva. (Just because everyone liked the chocolate, I think.) But Lotus knew that a lot of customers wouldn't own the high-end computer that the new version would require (hoo-boy a 386!), so they also created Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.2. That was far less sexy of a project to work on, so its code name was Chunky (after the much cheaper chocolate candy).

At the same time, Lotus worked on a SQL database that never _did_ see the light of day. Its lead designer was one of the original 1-2-3 programmers, who'd gotten tired of people asking him what he was working on next. So the code name for our project was, "No comment." Then when he responded, "No comment" to "What are you working on?" he was being explicitly correct. (...I still have the polo shirts and other swag from that project, too. Cool logo of /* */ )
The problem in many California towns, including mine, is that the public employee unions (particularly the fire and police) give huge amounts of campaign contributions to city politicians, who then turn around and give those unions everything they ask for. We even had a consultant come in and tell us we could easily cut our fire department in half, but nope: they instead got a new emergency center. Median salary for them is about $150K.
I always felt a good pension system would be to have something like Australia's where 10% of your pay goes into a fund you can't touch til ~65.

Social Security taxes in the U.S. amount to 12.4% of wages, exclusive of income taxes. And that's just to fund poverty line benefits. How are poverty line benefits funded in Australia? From regular income taxes?
> Hyperbole like this doesn’t help, and in fact often turns off people whom you might be able to sway to your cause.

I disagree; sometimes hyperbole is an effective way of waking people up to how they perceive the world. In this case I think it's fairly effective, and also worth it.
This proposal has a very French flavour to it.

Hopefully it won't affect us in the UK, but my fear would be that it leads to more walls being put up around content and services for EU Internet users, as has happened with GDPR.
Can someone explain which large organizations within the EU are pushing for article 13 and why? The more I read about this law the more stupid it seems.

GDPR compliance isn’t that hard but Article 13 is bad enough that it gives a compelling reason to just ignore the EU market for lots of applications. And it’s really going to up the costs of unseating internet incumbents
I think this is done to death in any intro to ML/AI class (at least speaking from an undergrad perspective).
With respect, keep in mind that your children will grow up and want to control their own social media presence.

Parents I know ask themselves, "do I have the moral right to post this photo of this (presently) small person, considering it will never go away?"
Draft Data Analysis: What We Learned from Analyzing Over 200,000 Draftsim
The difference in my experience is that hangups while I'm using Firefox usually happen within the viewport while moving tabs and accessing menus remains snappy, so it's easier to attribute that slog to the website. When I was using Chrome before, it would frequently lock up entirely.
For home cooking, pressure cooking makes Indian meals much easier. In a restaurant you'd presumably make big batches
>Content-ID-as-a-Service

Some torrent trackers have pretty good databases of content. They can make some side cash instead of relying on donations. Win-win for everyone.
Hutspot, hochepot or hotchpotch
I was referring to phpBB, actually, but it doesn't matter in this case.

But I'm measuring success by people going out of their way to visit the site--something facebook does not provide. Half the sites on the internet link to it.

> Right, and it does that by providing a better (a matter of taste, perhaps), cheaper product than Mastodon via specialization of labor, and through network effects, both of which depend on centralization.

I can't elect my moderation style on facebook.... so it's not at all equivalent. Centralization is central to why facebook isn't going to be a general purpose forum of use to anyone.
Does it really help the regular person? I've yet to hear an example of a real world problem that GDPR could have prevented.