skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile in the developed world: TGV takes 2 hours from Lyon to Paris, google maps claims a car takes 4 hours.

Yeah. But try going anywhere around Lyon[0] after the nice TGV trip from Paris[0] and welcome to connection hell.

[0] Or any other TGV connected cities.
They have not moved on, rails has matured and now requires less public debate.
I teach coding and robotics to kids age 10 - 14. I'm constantly having to tell them to fill in the birthdate field accurately when signing up for things like Scratch or TinkerCAD because I know it triggers a different account creation path that complies with COPPA.

After half the class says "but my parents tell me to just lie about my age so I can use free stuff online" I end up having to have a whole conversation with the class about COPPA, and more to the point, the question "Is it OK to misrepresent yourself to someone else in order to get them to give you something they otherwise would not" and the slippery slope of little white lies, and when is it OK to lie. It's a good conversation but always eye opening to see what is taught at home. Of course many of these 10 - 12 year olds are also playing GTA V and other MA games with their parents' permission.
Silence, benevolence, intensity – my adventure into Vipassana
Just opened PR#12:

https://github.com/schollz/rwtxt/pull/12

Now we'll find out if schollz is receptive :D
Ruslan Boshirov
"I pay my ISP for a 1 gbit connection to a peering point" there are two problems with that. Try to order last mile to peeing point to know the prise. Second one what to do if network is not on your local peering pint. Let's say you are watching Italian parliament live stream from USA. Should eyeballs carry all the cost for transatlantic infra or should Italian broadcaster pay for transatlantic traffic?
> Anyone who's familiar with the NYC->BOS Acela route

And that is literally like almost nobody. I bet less then 1% of anyone living in NYC or Boston metropolitan area have ever ridden on Amtrak, let alone the Acela.
> arcane in-house proprietary stuff

Just like any other successful company that does something interesting and has been around more than a couple of years.
The initial issue with Sage was its packaging due to its large number of dependencies. That is largely a non-issue now for the end user.

Now there is also SageMathCloud, that makes it even more convenient to adopt.
That's a clever idea I haven't heard before. VR to simulate advanced-AR tech. It sounds like it's worth pursuing.
websites are not for tracking users

this is stupid

just because Congress and FBI have been lazy does not make it legal for websites to act like street gangs

in general, websites are criminal scams run by filth

Congress needs to get its act together and throw them in prison

our society needs to purge the website operators

they're just useless worthless trash, not decent human beings
I think it is a matter of discipline. My economic background would emphasize the polynomial approach to these sorts of problems over less parametric methods such as regression trees. Fixed effect modeling (strict Hierarchical modeling) is a standard practice is my domain as well.
God is not tricked. There is no restriction against cooking on Shabbat. There are restrictions against eg. making a fire and building. If you can somehow cook without doing any of those things, then there is nothing wrong with it.
See, that is another issue. I've been asking around on boards for how to solve the issue since it's so annoying.

Asking What around on boards? What’s the issue?

Android 3&4 have been released 2011 so this doesn't add up here too. But the whole thing here is ridiculous for reasons stated below. I got that initial statement from this IT magazine: https://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/iOS-12-offenbar-auch-....

Posting a German website on an English speaking forum doesn’t help too mUCB.
So does NVIDIA, really; if you squint hard enough there's not a huge difference between an SoC with a GPU focus and an APU.
I also had it work better in Firefox for some reason. I tried it in Vivaldi and it ran at ~6 FPS while in Firefox ~60 FPS.
The link is clear. The question is what will the UK do about it? Punishment for these individuals is largely irrelevant because their identity is known and they will probably never leave Russia again.
I had never thought about it but in a sense black holes work as a mirror. Some light will sling shot around the back of the hole and back in the opposite direction.
NVIDIA has actual processors too:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-4-processor.html

There's also embedded stuff.
I've noticed that the number of "local number" scam calls I receive has dropped sharply (I live in NYC). A few months ago I'd sometimes get several a day, now it's maybe one every couple of weeks. Maybe as more people learn about the scam and it gets less effective, the scammers move on to other things.
Until 2015 my phone was A Motorola Razr i, which used an Intel cpu with x86 architecture, so it's not that uncommon.
Also the PS4 uses today x86 for its main cpu. It's not mobile, but comparing it to Z80 is exaggerating a bit.
But in real terms, AMD is migrating their proprietary user space drivers to run on fully open source kernel drivers. It'll be an awfully chilly day in hell when Nvidia decides to do something similar.
One ISP do not pay another same sized ISP is they maintain in and out traffic ratios aka settlement free peering.
> auto-encoders are overplayed,

What you are using for unsupervised learning instead of autoencoders?
Don't forget Guile. I managed entire web sites with Guile back in the day.
This might be useful if you're implementing an app in the FPGA as well; having the NIC, TCP/IP stack, and app in the same FPGA eliminates PCIe latency. But besides HFT it's hard to find uses for this type of thing.
Sure, when I say "SoC with a GPU focus" I'm talking about Tegra.
I don't have to handle "the notch", that thing (and the toxic company behind it) has to handle the web or gtfo.
The (London) Times was reporting today that even some official Russian government spokespeople have been less than supportive of these guys and their stories, eg leaving open questions about their credibility.
Thanks. It wasn't as clear to me in the article that there was a run-time check but it makes much more sense now.
And some light will orbit for eons before either going in or escaping.
For anyone interested, here are some videos of what it's like to fall into a black hole together with some very good explanations:

- https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/index.html

- https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26185/what-will-...
I'll drag us back on topic by saying that I think it's pretty cool that Prince Charles is using his power, such as it is, to help spread ideas that might help us stop ruining the world.
Monte Python Simulation: Misunderstanding Monte Carlo
This is called gravitational lensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
Can confirm, works great (>40fps) on Firefox 61 under the latest Ubuntu on an i7 Dell Latitude.
I might be in the minority here (and I don't do game development, which is the topic of this thread), but I tend to start by using `vec.get(i)` (which returns an option) and then only switch to the index notation if I end up checking the length immediately beforehand and want to do an early return or something to avoid extra indentation in the code where I use the accessed element.
People cost money to just exist. Showing up for work is not free.

How much it costs to exists has no bearing on what companies should pay you. That would be like me trying to get a raise based on my mortgage being unaffordable.

People laboring and not making enough to fund their labor do the same thing. They die. Really.

And that’s a social issue. Raising minimum wage to take care of that makes about as much sense as your health insurance being tied to your employer.

Let the free market sort out how much people should get paid and let the government and the taxpayers (including corporation) provide a safety net.

Yes I consider myself to be a “big government free market capitalist”.

It is one thing to suggest doing that for a small business makes sense. Fine.
It is quite another to suggest large, very profitable ones need us to do that.
They don't, and that is what this is about.

Okay, so we have the government provide a safety net, tax all business the same at a graduated tax rate like we do individuals and let them deduct wages like they do now.
I was down-voted until I’ve lost all karma points! I wonder what harm or disconvert I may have caused by asking a simple question about a users comments.
Oh, no, I understand.

I'm not personally arguing in favor of inefficiency. I'm fairly neutral on the topic.

I'm only saying that not everyone values efficiency. And some people never will and will never be argued into valuing it.

Also,

> You can hardly take this for granted without making a case for it, as your low-effort comment does.

You should be more charitable. I wasn't arguing for anything.

> decentralized inefficiency you're talking about

I never said any such thing and I'll thank you for not attributing words to me that I never said.
New Mexico solar observatory denies aliens involved in ‘security’ closure
CI and the Change Log
If we're talking about computer related tech then it's not even a contest. Pick any number be it total funding, exits, whatever and the US is going to win by an order of magnitude.

Traditional industries are perhaps doing better, not sure. I hear that Europeans tend to be more innovative in manufacturing, factory tech etc. But I wouldn't know enough to have an opinion. If you look at the GDPs something must be going okayish. But it sure isn't startups.

I agree on VCs and capital but that's just a symptom IMO. The risk aversion goes all the way down. So does the conservatism.

Moving to the US is easier than changing the culture.
Thanks. Since the submission seems to be intended to be about the platform itself, we've updated the link from https://dante-stories.herokuapp.com/.
> You can't. Again, most people never use this functionality.

I don't think I'm THAT much of an exception. I sit at an open-ish desk all day and wear headphones to block out ambient noise. I also need to charge my phone at some point in the day if I want it to last through my commute in the evening. This means that I often need to charge while listening.

Given the popularity of open offices and limitations in phone battery life, I don't think this is so rare.
On a related note, there's a paper by the Interstellar special effects team and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne describing how they rendered the black hole in the film and the tradeoffs they made:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808
Hardbacks sell for a lot more money than paperbacks, earning the publisher (and usually the author) a lot more.
I'm running a Radeon RX560 (replaced an Nvidia card), using the open source AMDGPU kernel driver and Mesa. It's seamless and works at least equal to (probably better than) the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
You asked this question when it was shabbat for most people but shabbat recently ended for me.

There are many things you can do on Shabbat. You can go on a walk, have a family meal, play board games (I only play board games on Shabbat), take a nap, read a book, etc. There are some gray areas, such as if you can carry something outside. Most people figured out a way to do it. No computing and telecommunication is universal with exception for life critical activities like with doctors and fire fighters.
Stop rerunning your tests
I appreciate you sharing the story. There's a difference between characterizing a specific reaction as weak and calling a person weak.

There's also a natural human tendency to overlook horrors when they are abstract and "data" which is why "5000 dead" is a statistic, but that kid around the corner who died is a tragedy.
If you enjoy this article, I highly recommend the other articles in the archives [1], especially the 2008-2009 series.

By the way, the author also created Grokbit [2], a search engine for source code that's just… amazing.

[1] https://manybutfinite.com/archives/
[2] https://grokbit.com/
Not really in an English language publication especially an American one even in English speaking countries imperial units as are still used in day to day speech even if engineering has gone metric.
#MeToo in the Monastery: Chinese Abbot’s Fall Stirs Questions on Buddhism’s Path
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

(from page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U... )

Furthermore self-driving cars are at this point ONLY driving through areas with a lot of pedestrians. You'd expect them, therefore, to have much higher accident fatalities than normal vehicles. Why ? They're always around pedestrians. Instead, in the first years of operation, they're safer than humans.

Even with Uber's less than stellar safety practices, and Tesla's ... well ... how do I put this politely ? [1] seems a good link. Let's just say Tesla owners could be more careful, especially since they signed a contract stating that they would be more careful (and youtube has much worse than that video). Given that that's how people use self-driving cars I would argue that's pretty damning for human driving skills.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5-Z2MswgU
You’d be surprised. I rented a car in the US recently and the digital gauges changed to kilometers when I connected my phone to bluetooth (my phone is in European)

All analog dials I’ve ever seen are dual mph/kph
The UK is actually unusual insofar as we allow trains as fast as 125mph (201km/h) without in-cab signalling; most other places in Europe require in-cab signalling at lower speeds (some as low as half of that!).
And if you want to move over your existing medium content to Ghost -https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
"Many worry that Xuecheng’s model of a supercharged Buddhism that embraces social trends lacks the very spirituality that drew people to the faith in the first place. His downfall also presents a potential setback in the Chinese government’s efforts to push Buddhism as a kind of national religion that can win friends abroad and offer moral values at home."
In a true Randall Munroe "What if?" fashion, I'd be interested if this stuff would be stable enough to hold together on its own or if it needs the absolutely extreme gravity and pressure around it to stick together and would fall apart otherwise.

So if a teaspoon of Nuclear Neutron Pasta would really end up somewhere on a meadow here on Earth, what would happen?
Wikipedia for Cobra Effect
Ghost 2.0 basically has an exact clone of the Medium editor which is important to some people. But of course it depends on how you prefer to write.
Thread pool self-induced deadlocks
Ah, Newlisp. The language whose community makes the Rust Evangelism Strike Force go "hey, guys, can you take it down a notch?" More than once have I seen a programming community get a contingent of Newlisp advocates airdropped into it, only to repeat the same tired Amway-tier sales pitches about how Newlisp is the first Lisp-based language, ever, to be used for practical applications. Which is true only if you ignore the decades of computer science that have been done outside Lutz Mueller's brain. And despite calling itself "new" it uses ideas old enough to sign up for AARP membership, that have been tried and abandoned early in Lisp's development, precisely because they're impractical or a source of bugs when attempting to build real-world applications.

So yeah, unless something's changed, it's gonna be a no from me. Don't get me wrong, Newlisp is interesting -- in sort of the same way TempleOS is. But its aggressive tryhard advocacy community just put me right off a language I otherwise might've given a spin.
When macOS crashes, it gives you the choice to not reopen the applications on login. I think Apple Support will regularly talk users through booting in Safe Mode [0] which is more dramatic but would also prevent the malicious content from reloading.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
this one will count as an opinion thread
I'm really surprised of the thread here, considering nothing is faster calling out people overstepping the bounds of their credibility than HackerNews, usually.

The author wildly mixes statistic sources with inspirational tinder-quotes, mentions research about that abnormal whale, than boils it down to grandma-psychology and does a general bad job separating "my opinion", "read somewhere" and "credible source".

In a similar fashion, comments here confusing anecdotes with science and vice versa. Of course loneliness is compared to network-cryptography a wider experienced phenomenon and can be discussed on a personal level if you declare that, but I find it very hard to extract anything of value here...
/r/worldnews is a news subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/4pkw1n/britain...
Japanese train food culture is all about buying stuff at the station. The packaged food you can buy at stores in Japan is shockingly good, and they're generally clustered at train stations.

(A cultural note: eating on long-distance trains is expected (they have fold-down tables and cup-holders), but eating or drinking (other than water) on local trains is an EXTREME faux pas. Don't do it.)
The study seems to be from 2015
Amtrak is extremely popular in the Northeast Corridor. The Acela has 3,442,188 yearly riders. 10 million Amtrak passengers pass through Penn Station every year. The Northeast Corridor line has 12 million yearly riders.

- https://media.amtrak.com/2017/11/amtrak-sets-ridership-reven...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_Amtrak_station...

- https://www.railpassengers.org/all-aboard/tools-info/ridersh...
To be honest, I would probably be the person telling kids to never share accurate information about yourself online. Granted this is bad advice if you're convincing kids to not play mature games (which should be a whole separate conversation in itself) but I think there's a huge looming issue with online presence.

There's a lot of kids leaving a huge amount of information about them online because of the internet storing almost everything they do. They link every account or every detail to themselves in real life, making it easy for people and companies to gather a ton of free data. Some of which might be dangerous to their future careers.
Let’s ask the question that matters: how much cash do you have? Don’t use debt to finance an education. That’s a pure gamble that most people lose. Work hard and build things. If you can build things you love, that’s even better.

I’m thinking that since you’re asking “should I go to school” you’re like the fish asking “should I attempt to eat from this hook”. If someone is offering something for free, investigate what’s at stake and who is most likely to benefit at the end of the day.
If you are building new or renovating, draw in "smurf" duct into every room, window and door. You will thank yourself later when you want to draw network cables. You never know what cables you want to have in the future.
As a French that has moved to California : wow does transport suck in the USA !!!
Both subway and trains are a big step back from what I was used to in France.
How did Bellingcat obtain those passport application files?
The display is only part of the story. You could save some battery life with an e-paper display sure, but you still have the CPU and radio grinding away at the battery. The ultra power saving mode on my Samsung phone is a good example, it throttles the CPU, sleeps the radio aggressively, restricts the phone to only running a few basic apps, and turns off most of the OLED display. I can increase battery lifetime by almost a factor of 5 with that on.

An e-paper display would save a bit more, sure, but the type of display isn't the only limitation to a low-power smart phone. You need to design the whole thing to work together to save power; changing one component isn't gonna be enough.
I'm specifically thinking of the Music and Messages apps which show very little content while typing a search or message. It's hard to reply to a set of text messages when it feels like you're reading them through a keyhole and typing anything scrolls you back down to the bottom. Music is just as bad and shows ~1 result while the keyboard is up during search.
I would only choose the startup, if they're working on something that you're personally super passionate about and if Google isn't doing work in that area.

Additionally the startup would have to be run by people whose abilities to run the business in all of its aspects I trust 100%.

If the pay is 1/3, financially the only logical option is Google.
> Yeah. But try going anywhere around Lyon[0] after the nice TGV trip from Paris[0] and welcome to connection hell.

Public transportations are often quite good in European cities. When I was in college, it tooked me sligtly more than 3 hours door to door to go from my parents home in a Paris suburb to my University dorm in Lyon. It's not so bad for a trip of nearly 450km.
Why would you teach children to help companies harvest their data by accurately filling in forms for them?

If they we're all just innocent checks to see if they should be offered a product or not I could see your argument. Companies however, have weaponized personal data and once given away it can't come back. They should be adding noise to any data they have to give up just to help mask themselves in the digital world.
Very amateurish. Why even talk about clockspeed of a machine, that can run any countable set of Turing programs in a single tick? That does not make any sense.

Also, claim, that such a machine is physically impossible in our Universe is unsubstantiated (thought very likely).
Not a lot of info at that link. Project overview / documentation is here, that might be better?

https://robigalia.gitlab.io/book/rosme.html

As a meta comment, sprawling projects like this (with lots of sub-projects) just don't seem to be as friendly to navigate on gitlab vs github. gitlab does have a "pages" feature but it's still a lot of work to build something nice with it...
I love this. I had absolutely no idea. Thanks for the info!
Really? We got the TER from Lyon to Saint Etienne last year, connecting out of a TGV. It was fine, and more reliable than the jam-prone parallel road.
Good insights as even many InfoSec folks seem to fall into this blame the victim mentality.
As a non-coder (physicist) writing Rust, the thing that really stuck me was that the time between successful compile and flawless operation was significantly shorter than the C and Python I write. Furthermore, this difference when writing anything threaded is simply breathtaking. Im my experience there are simply fewer corner cases that the Rust compiler lets through.
Feast your eyes on comet 67P's surface, with depth cues added
The USDS, Led by Matt Cutts, Is Changing Government One Fire at a Time
Is Javascript an appropriate language for embedded applications? Given all of the security issues with IOT, I would think a 'stricter' language (e.g., Rust or even Java) is better suited to this application.
If you're using a third party CDN to serve Javascript assets on a page that requests users to enter sensitive information, such as credit card details, then you are DOING IT WRONG.

Seriously, do the devs not realize that "cloud" means "somebody else's computer" and using "cloud assets" on your payment pages means somebody else is deciding what Javascript to run on your payment pages?
Humio does have a self-hosted version - but is closed source. You can download a trial and it supports most logs types via support for opensource log shippers, ie logstash and beats..along with other popular formats including Kafka.

https://docs.humio.com/integrations/

The UI is what simplifies analysis and visualization with live, real-time query and db.
Asaccarian Manifesto
You'd still have a hell of a hassle on your hands cleaning up the mess and protecting your credit score, etc., right?