skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I was vectorizing flags (the simple geometric kind, though, since I've done it with a text editor and some scripting/templating) on Wikimedia Commons as a pastime years ago. I got reasonably well-versed in parsing heraldry as a side-effect and it was fun in a way, considering that it is indeed a fairly precise description syntax for coat of arms and flags.

And I got confused when GRRM started using proper heraldic descriptions for flags in ASoIaF with the third book, while the two before were basically just very simple English descriptions. Most readers probably never really noticed :)
It would be really interesting to see if they can make this viable and reliable.

Side note: no disrepect intended, but when reading the names of some of the islands it feels like they're written in pig Latin.
I had the opposite experience in Raleigh, North Carolina. My family and I ate at the ten ten Chinese buffet and when we paid I, as a good European, didn't add a tip, it just never occurred to me and anyway the only service we had received was a waiter slopping pink lemonade into glasses from a jug as he wandered around the tables.

We were chased by an irate waiter asking why I hadn't tipped. So I tipped him a single dollar bill to make it clear how little the service was worth.
The enrollment rates I provided are the percentage of the total population that are enrolled in university. It is important to consider the fact that the US population is younger by a considerable margin as compared to Germany. Even if the degree attainment rates aren't very far off, the percentage of population enrolled in university can be significantly different due to that age difference.

These statistics are from an Economist article, which I can try and track down if I have the time.

Edit: Didn't track down the economist article, but here are sources on US and German enrollment rates:

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372 reports 19.9 million students. About 6 to 6.2% of the US population.

https://www.uni-bonn.de/studying/international-students/coun... reports 2.8 million germany university students. About 3.4% of the population.
> No, we're talking about 2-3 line functions. Stop arguing with a straw man. You're taking what you know to be true about complex code, and then asserting that those things are also true with simple code. That doesn't work.

The library in question is literally 50 lines of code. About 30 when you remove the exports and comments at the top. I find it somewhat ironic that you are so opposed to using utility libraries and you didn't even bother to look at the one in play here.

> The beauty is that because we are rolling our own function, we only need to support the single function signature we decide we're going to stick to in our codebase. Supporting every use-case becomes a moot point.

No it doesn't. All the use-cases are useful. You use strings when you need default classes and objects when you have conditional classes. You can't implement both of those in two lines of code.

> The author of the library has to support the 10^5 people who use his code, meaning he's more likely to merge silly pull requests like "should take objects",

It's always taken objects as properties and for good reason: it's a clean way to separate conditional classes from unconditional ones.

But sure dude, all those features are insane. Put his code up to a solid 30 lines. Really saving the bacon by rolling your own that doesn't do the same thing.

> Learning dozens of APIs takes just as much time as implementing them for a certain set of functions. That set is different for everyone, but it is not the null set for anyone.

Yeah, that's why everyone writes their own lodash. It's just a set of trivial functions.
DoNotPay lets users ‘swipe right’ on court settlements and sue for $25k
x86 really does decode CISC into RISC-like instructions. They're called micro-ops. Some of the instruction cache stores these translated instructions. People research the details of this. See https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=142&v=t

The article looked about right to me.

I didn't watch the (3 hour!) video you linked to. Can you give the time offset where the myth you refer to is explained?
Changing my mindset about sales to advisor has been immensely useful for earning trust. In the enterprise space, we’ve been able to secure demos with folks we would not have reached had we tried hard sales.

The first goal is to start a conversation and the 2nd is to get a callback for a 2nd conversation.
It's because the position "believe the victims" doesn't make sense to the average person. We don't know they are victims. That's why evidence is important. That's why we have presumption of innocence. We, as a society, shouldn't ruin lives and careers based on a simple claim.
Tinfoil hat: data that they slurp outside trips, like tracking user locations, etc
Cuttin’ out the ad-man: Clients are moving their content creation in-house
> Americans can communicate in any language as long as it's English.

Any language. As long as it's English.

I... I guess?
I filled out the form, I'd like to try, my email is celorisoli at gmail
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There is if you use them all? We're talking about strings, arrays and objects as inputs. ~30 lines of actual code.
A "server" in this particular case is a machine capable of running most video games (and Steam, GOG, any other game client), ergo a Windows machine.
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Running your own mailserver is easy enough if you have an IP that isn't blacklisted. Most residential IP's will be on the Spamhaus PBL which will cause issues. You can run a mailserver on a $5/month VPS without issue as long as you have a dedicated IP and you check for blacklist entries before you start.
Watch something like a greyhound or German Shepherd at full throttle and you might reassess your view about whether it adds to motor skills. It seems to be a very active part of a full speed sprint.

It's also a very subtle tool for social interaction as you note - the difference between tail wagging whilst up, horizontal and down, or wagging just the tip and so on. There's quite a lot of complexity hiding there.
That's not an API. The goal is to let desktop developper inovate by keeping backward compatibility with desktop applications.
That's not just subsidies, but also how trade routes have been optimized. China, the US and every other country, have non-symmetric mail dispatch systems, optimized for the China->wherever route, with mass dispatch from China branching out to everywhere else. The reverse wherever->China is how much shipments cost over non-optimized routes around the world.

Stopping the subsidies won't stop the differences in volume and optimization (but it can be argued that subsidies no longer make any sense).
And there's shaming people for having a different opinion than the majority.
”Tax payers have lost up to €2 billion, that’s nearly €350,000 for every Danish man, woman and child.”

You sure about that math, cumex-files?
I mean, a backdoor can just be flipping an if somewhere from && to ||, not exactly suspicious if it's mixed in with other stuff.
You're absolutely wrong. If reading the docs were harder/more work than writing the code we'd have 100s of implementations of lodash. Instead people use lodash.

Dependency boundary? If you can't figure out what a function called classNames does in the context of a React render function in which the output of classNames is put as a value in to "className" attributes, you need to find a new job.

Dependencies cost time, effort and brain power when they actually require those things. Be thoughtful when using something that actually requires investigation. But honestly, a trivial function should be self-documenting or it really isn't trivial, is it? If I had an npm library called array-flatten are you seriously going to read the docs, or assume it flattens nested arrays?
It checks out. My face hurts.
I do forecasting at Uber, we don’t collect data outside of trips.
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You are right, it's an unwinnable cat and mouse situation. I was focusing too much on the printing of in-game currency in my head and didn't communicate. I wasn't proposing to stopping it, tho. Make it hard and make them hide, cheats aren't all powerful if you try to stay undetected. Also, having no security around the currency for years, when it's such a problem, just seems lazy.

Bringing law enforcement into the equation won't stop cheats either. And it involves huge costs for the company and much more for the society, I think.

Also: ML can be used on both sides as well. A scaling Autoadmin which detects odd behavior doesn't seem harder than a bot playing for you without showing odd behavior.
I am sorry to hear you were bullied. I also have experienced this.

I know this will be hard to listen to, but it is my truth.

I was bullied because I gave them my power. When I took responsibility for my emotions, and refused to fear them, it all changed. Power comes with responsibility. When I took responsibility for my fear away from them, I could take my power back and it all stopped.

It sounds like victim blaming, I know. "Just ignore them and they'll go away". All that crap. For me, it was more like "no one is ever doing that to me again". I refused to be afraid any more. I would face them, fight them, do whatever it took, take whatever they did to me, but I would not be afraid any more.

I am responsible for my emotions. I refuse to give anyone else that power over me.
"In a murder case of 1235, a villager was stabbed to death and authorities determined that his wounds were inflicted by a sickle; this was a tool used for cutting rice at harvest time, a fact which led them to suspect a fellow peasant worker was involved. The local magistrate had the villagers assemble in the town square where they would temporarily relinquish their sickles. Within minutes, a mass of blow flies gathered around one sickle and none other, attracted to the scent of traces of blood unseen by the naked eye. It became apparent to all that the owner of that sickle was the culprit, the latter pleading for mercy as he was detained by authorities."
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Just arrived to make the exact same comment.

Overstated a 1000 times, which suggests they are mistaking the new US-style billion of 1000 million for the old form of a billion (i.e. a million million).
Only off my a 1000x
Yeah, better waste public $$$ by forcing government to create in-house solution
How is writing down PIN related to security? It is still a single point of failure, attacker knowing PIN can gain access to everything in your account - iCloud, password backups etc. And in iOS10 security was better, so Apple consciously decided to degrade it in iOS11. See source - https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/11/ios-11-horror-story-the-r...
The link is down, does anyone know of a mirror/backup ?
I see nothing wrong with this. When people bought stock in startup IPO like FB, the core reason is the founder and his vision. There are too many examples in history where shortsighted investors have booted out founder to milk the company and through leftover to vultures. I would prefer founder to be protected from this ups and downs.

Here's bit of context:

Heavily influenced by Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, they set up Facebook so Mr. Zuckerberg controlled not one, but two board seats. Mr. Parker had been ousted — twice — out of his own companies and was determined not to let the same happen to Facebook’s founder. When Mr. Parker left the company, he gave control of his seat to Mr. Zuckerberg, giving him control of three board seats out of five.

“That solidified Mark’s position as the sort of hereditary king of Facebook,” said Parker in The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick. “I refer to Facebook as a family business. Mark and his heirs will control Facebook in perpetuity.”

https://christopherming.com/2018/01/zuckerberg-fixes-faceboo...
what do you mean by 'vintage' in your article?
Until you are a victim of a crime and facial recognition helps to find the perpetrator and you suddenly change your mind.

> The letter also contained demands to kick Palantir, the software firm that powers much of ICE’s deportation and tracking program, off Amazon Web Services

And... I can tell this post is going to be west-coast extreme liberal biased.
I was talking about better security that was present in iOS10 and then degraded by Apple in iOS11. See the link - https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/11/ios-11-horror-story-the-r...
What? Denmark is a small town of 5,700 people, isn't it?

edit: Then I got curious about what size a 'town' is, which led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_hierarchy which gave me the word 'Ecumenopolis' for a planet-wide city.
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And why don't people tip bus drivers, airline check in clerks, the counter staff at Hertz, etc.? Some check out operators in supermarkets are more efficient than others, should they be tipped?

What is it that makes restaurant and bar staff special?
Black holes exist, in the sense that we have observed several phenomena that can be easily explained by the presence of a black hole, but which couldn't be explained otherwise. For example the orbits of stars around Sagittarius A* ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* ) and the X-ray emmission of Cygnus X-1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1 ).

> In short a black hole is how we call the possible existence of a place in the universe where there is no time nor energy

I don't know where you got this idea, but black holes don't have "no time" and they contain lots of energy (often several stars' worth).

Keep in mind that time is relative, so when talking about extreme situations like black holes it's important to keep track of what we're talking relative to. In particular, if an astronaut left a space ship, approached a black hole, passed beyond the event horizon and carried on going, that astronaut wouldn't really notice: if they looked forwards into the black hole they'd just see normal looking space, if they looked backwards they'd see their ship just as if they'd not entered the black hole. Relative to the astronaut, space and time appear completely normal; hence it doesn't make sense to talk about black holes having "no time".

Things would look different relative to the ship: the image of the astronaut they see would redshift as it approached the event horizon, and would also slow down until it came to a stop when at the horizon.

Note that this ignores tidal forces, which can be large around small black holes (the astronaut would certainly notice if their body were torn apart!). For large black holes like Sagittarius A* the tidal forces at the event horizon should be small enough to ignore.
Found one :
https://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep2000.htm
Yeah, due to a very poor birthrate, the Danish population is currently at an all time low of ~5700 souls.
Possibly confusion by someone who's used to the long scale? In Danish, as in most non-English European languages, the cognate of "billion" means trillion (10^12).
I think the different 'billions' are called long and short scales.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Oh, the terminal dues issue.[1] International mail is delivered in the destination country but paid for in the sending country. The UPU has rates for this, and they vary with the development category of the sending country. The problem is that China is still getting the rate for underdeveloped countries. In 2021, that's scheduled to change. Every 10 years this gets looked at.

[1] https://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/terminal-dues-time-end-dr...
The Orkney Isles are setting the example in the UK. Going green and making progress with it is also quite good for the community, not to mention the balance sheet. Another future is definitely possible and the folks in the Orkney Isles are an inspiration.

The Fully Charged Show on YouTube has been following progress for years, here is a recent three part series on wind, hydrogen and big batteries in the Orkney Isles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rybpaqhg5Qg

I highly recommend liking, subscribing and giving a thumbs up to Fully Charged Show. Anyone that enjoyed Red Dwarf or Scrapheap Challenge will know the presenter.
And thats why they need muh immigration.

jk
> in most non-English European languages

i dont think that's true
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This has previously been discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738405 (Feb 2017, 212 comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771493 (June 2015, 531 comments) but I think it's a really impressive visualisation that a lot of people probably haven't seen yet.
The names are either old celtic or norse names. If you check out the Wikipedia page for Papa Westray, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Westray, then follow the links you get quite a history on the origins of the names.
I think to make the public aware of the risks an election result needs to simply be hacked in such an obvious way that it's instantly discredited.
It would be nice if they could cut to the chase instead of playing pretend Dostoyevski.
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Jacob Colliers perfect pitch is apparently (if his tricks on stream are to be believed) accurate to a few cents
What about machine tabulating first and then hand count afterwards as a check? Alternatively any party can ask for a manual recount of individual districts?
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tl;dr; People asked for task refund on tax they didn't pay.
Study exposes security vulnerabilities in terahertz data links – News from Brown
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilione
In the article they make it clear that they’ve indicated they intend to leave, in a year’s time as required by the treaty, if negotiations to bring China out of its old developing nation status don’t succeed.
Could you buy a BBC Micro? Pricey probably, but great heirloom too
> There's some irony here -- all of this just to avoid dealing with string templates:

By that argument, we can just avoid everything by not making our apps dynamic!

> The classNames utility is a completely unnecessary abstraction.

The only necessary abstraction in programming is assembly since 0's and 1's are hard to reason about. The "need" in this case refers to needing to mix different primitives to make your app dynamic. Your arbitrary example above doesn't do anything because you still have conditional logic to determine what class1 class2 and class3 are, you are just doing a bunch of ugly crap in the render function rather than abstracting it. Or implementing your own version because you're smart.

It's a stupid hill to die on here... you want to argue about importing the entire lodash library because you like .chain, have at it. But I guess you can keep patting yourself on the back for avoiding importing a no-dependency 50-line library.
> i dont think that's true

Here is a handy list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...
Can confirm it's true for French and German:
Million 10^6
Milliard(e) 10^9
Billion 10^12
Billiard(e) 10^15
As it did in British English until, I guess, some time in the 80s or 90s after the Treasury decided to standardise on the US format (edit: apparently that was in 1975).

Like with metrication us Brits adopted it slowly so there were many years of seeing either usage. This wasn't confusing at all. :)
>The letter also contained demands to kick Palantir, the software firm that powers much of ICE’s deportation and tracking program, off Amazon Web Services

The number one thing that will make large companies reject cloud computing is any hint that why will be kicked off because their legal business goes against the mores of the US West coast tech workers. If Palantir gets kicked off, how long until these same workers call for banning Boeing. A lot of these large conglomerates have at least a division that is involved in the defense industry.

A final point. If you think that facial recognition is too dangerous to sell to police, why are you selling this dangerous technology to corporations where the potential for abuse is still there but with less oversight? Also, if. the police can’t buy this technology, they will buy the service from a middle man that buys it from Amazon.
Wow. Were life as simple as you see it...

And what does "Demonizing != distaste for cheating a friend." even mean? You are attempting to defame Gates and Ballmer because of an uncomfortable conversation that they had 30+ years ago that they ultimately didn't act on! So no, they weren't evil. Cold, perhaps for having the conversation. I'd actually argue that they are merely human, just like the rest of us; wonderfully imperfect.
The thing about conspiracy theories is that they are usually not falsifiable, at least not to their proponents.

As jboggan mentions, this theory is both falsifiable and testable in practice.

I think it's important that there are always a few people in science who go against the mainstream, as long as they do actual science, so falsifiable and testable theories.
What are some steps I should take to sell my SaaS business quickly?
AliExpress is doing that too. I'm in Spain, and I literally just received an SMS for a shipment from "SINOTRANS" which is what AliExpress uses to ship in bulk from China then fulfill locally.
57.000.0000.000€ is not so much for a tax-evading scheme in the whole of Europe? Or is it...
Danish tax payers have lost around EUR 1.7B. That's around EUR 300 for every Dane. Still a lot, but a lot less than they claim.

I have two takes on this:
1: The Danish tax authorities have been extremely careless in the administration of the rules. They didn't even check that the people owned the shares they claimed to own. Virtually all of it was approved by one employee with zero oversight.
2: Different international banks have either known what was happening, and willingly enabled it, or should have known. Money laundry rules oblige them to check when such giant sums flow in and out of such few accounts.
I think GF is former AMD used to be. I think TSMC is former IBM. But I might have my history wrong.
I own most of the platforms and buy lots of games... but haven't bought any physical copies in probably 5+ years either.

They're still in stores though and lots of people buy 'em yet. Especially on consoles.

https://www.techspot.com/news/75220-most-console-players-pre...

Digital is only recently starting to beat out physical, but changing fast now: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/for-console-games-dow...
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It can be really hard to source vacuum tubes and proper parts in general.

Here in Denmark we have a GIER 40/42 bit computer from 1961 which is kept in running order by volunteers. This is the first generation without tubes.

I made a few short videos (the last 3 on the page) of Henrik repairing the interface for the punched tape reader:
http://datamuseum.dk/2013/04/torsdagsaktive-2013041/

Somewhere I have a video of it playing music via the console - but I cannot find it right now. They are truly fun beasts to play around with.
There's a previous discussion for a NY Times article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18149831
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It just one major assault away... In europe too for that matter.
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There is an obvious attempt by the author to make the novel fun. It works - it is impossible for me to read this novel without guffawing multiple times.

Most people will describe a book that makes them laugh out loud as "fun", regardless of whether they observe the darker undertones.

"Fun" also doesn't need to be funny - there are many scenes of spectacular awe and wonder (like in the final chapter!) that are extremely fun.