skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would probably go over better if the phrase about changing the law were in quotations marks to indicate it is kind of being tongue in cheek. It's not entirely inaccurate, more like a smidgen of double entendre.

I mean, I'm sympathetic to your complaint. It implies something more substantive than it really means. But I also appreciate word play. (shrug)
I assume that it's not a receipt like from a store, but a governmental "receipt" - a document proving payment of fine, which is something I'd definitely save on purpose.

(I'm not from the US, I have no idea how yours look - in Europe we have that on an A4 paper)
It's also possible the traditional reasoning is the same kind of abstraction layer developed around a similar black box, not necessarily most helpful to be taken literally.
I'd be interested to know what folks in your field think of the newly developed substance [1]'Vantablack'. Thin carbon tubes that apparently absorb 99.965% of visible light. Are there any cool applications for this stuff in practical effects?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack
So nobody had to replace tens of thousands of police officers to change the regime?

In my opinion, that just undermines the point. Nothing would have changed if the Securitate was controlling a bunch of AI sensors and such rather than a bunch of police officers.
Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, went to a normal magnet school like I did.
No law was changed. The title is straight up clickbait.
Noise cancelation would really be nice!

My main objective is to create a proper automatic avalanche detector. For this however, I will need to get datasets of avalanches observed in the field.

I'm discussing with Swedish authorities to get access to their database, and the Norwegian is already open. But I feel those datasets are worse than I would like them to be. My dream dataset would have confirmed non-avalanches as well, to find out what a false positive looks like. One way to get this would be to fly a drone over the same area every day for a season, which I think is feasible.

With that said, if any one knows of some data I could use, open or not, please contact me!
You are right, but changing the starting address of the WebAssembly memory map to something else (like 0x8000) would've been easier.
You can have a valid pointer to 0x00, but you only see it on microcontrollers and it doesn't really exist in any context WASM is being discussed.

The author's argument that this is a mistake is true. WASM should almost certainly have had some arbitrary offset like 0x1000 just due to the extreme commonality of null pointer derefs, and changing NULL to something else won't come close to solving that problem. You still have pointer derefs of fields in structs that were calloc'd or memset(0)'d. Compiler can't magically swap out the writes-to-zero there with whatever NULL should be instead.
(Not a lawyer, so no idea if this is still controlling case law)

The full reasoning chain seems to be that Hanover Shoe v United Shoe Machinery Corp (1968), in which the issue was USMC's leasing but refusal to sell machinery on which they had a monopoly, decided that being able to "pass along costs" was not a valid defense by a monopoly when sued by its direct customers.

Consequently, in Illinois Brick v Illinois (1977) the court decided that if a monopoly cannot use "they can pass along costs" as a defense from damages, then it follows that indirect purchasers (ie customers of customers) cannot use same offensively to sue a monopoly.

The intent is to prevent the complexity of calculating damages-once-removed, and putting the onus on the (simpler) damage calculation between direct monopoly and immediate customer.

If the Court upholds the prior decision, the plaintiffs will be denied standing. In that case, the appropriate legal challenge would either be an app seller suing Apple, or a customer suing an app seller (who could likely sue Apple in response).

If this is still case law, the only way I see this going another way is if the Court sees Apple's flat-30% as fundamentally different (and simpler) than the previously considered costs.

[1] Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp., 392 U.S. 481 (1968) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/392/481/

[2] Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/431/720/
The exact same things are done constantly by big companies (Google, Apple, etc.). The only difference is you have much less recourse when it happens there. At least the government gives you rights you can fight for in court.
You seem to be willfully misunderstanding the point. But I suspect that’s intentional. If you really think this, please do some reading on the subject of how court fees and small-scale civil violations and all the consequences of those things can lead to a vicious cycle of financial destruction for families on the edge of economic self sufficiency.
ASCII art is the gold standard. You can still read those RFCs decades later. Add a little Markdown, and you're done!
The more extraordinary the claim, the stronger the evidence required. The claim that trying to learn Pranayama from an "experienced guru" can "actually make you mad" is an extraordinary claim indeed.
> The difference in corruption between developed, developing and undeveloped countries is so large that it’s not just a difference in quantity but in kind.

Uhm, yes. The more money at stake, the higher the "quantity"; I don't argue that because it is obvious and irrelevant. The ~"difference in kind" is what I was pointing out.
Wissam Wellingborough – Adriving School of Motoring
> Since you have low churn (this is the most important thing), try to continue to grow your user base a couple orders of magnitude first (2000 free users is a number too low to plan for any kind of meaningful conversion) and then work it from there to either advertising or freemium.

Yes. Already agree with you on 99% of these issues.

It's just somewhat shocking that the user base is constantly saying that they love the app but not actually showing that they love it...
Question is: how do you reconcile that knowledge with the hiring process when you don't like to lie.
We often forget that basically always brilliant successful kids have solid fundaments in form of their parents, affluent in the financial and legal domains. Even then they don't always succeed - remember that British kid who sold a recommendation engine to Yahoo?

The rags-to-riches in the industry doesn't exist, move along people.
Scaling fines up to higher incomes for things that don't really matter (jaywalking, minor traffic violations) seems antithetical to the individualistic core of American culture. We typically try to equalize society by raising the floor for the many, rather than lowering the ceiling for the few.
The general point that this article makes is true--C and C++ are still unsafe, even if you execute them in a VM--but there are some very important caveats to note:

* ROP should be impossible in Web Assembly, because the call stack is a separate stack, inaccessible from the heap and effectively invisible to the program.

* For the same reason, classic buffer overflow attacks involving attacker-supplied machine code are impossible. In addition, Web Assembly bytecode is never mapped into the heap, so attackers cannot inject shellcode via the usual methods.

* Mmap functionality is proposed for the future [1], which would allow for the implementation of guard pages. (Guard pages are fairly weak defenses anyway...)

I'm sure that it's possible to attack a Web Assembly program's control flow by overwriting vtables and function pointers and taking advantage of the resulting type confusion. But it's significantly more difficult than it is in native code.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...
It’s funny but at the end of the day what youre talking about is the realization of idiocracy through our implementation of shitty “automation” using software.

I mean basically you have a computer system where the court system, law enforcement and DMV are all saying your license is expired for failure to pay...when you actually paid. Now you are getting more tickets and basically stuck in an infinite loop of hell.

I’m currently going through the same thing with my Bank (BOA), where my car window was smashed my wallet (credit and debit card stolen) and cards were used by the 2 theives at footlocker for ~$500. The bank software even caught the fraud first and texted me about suspicious activity on the cards before I knew what happened, the cards were reported stolen, I have a police report, but Bank of America keeps denying my claim saying they investigated and the purchase was legit because my “chip was present” even though they know the card was stolen and used by the theives. When I talk to a person it’s always “oh let me reinitiate a new claim and I’ll make detailed notes, you should definitely get your money back, that makes no sense.” Automated claim comes back “denied. Valid transaction, chip present.”

Like you I will probably have to take legal action to sort this out, at least in my case I’m a lawyer and can file a small claims case without paying a lawyer, but i will have to front the filing fees out of pocket and it will still cost me time/effort.
Did you not change your address and license when you moved states? That's typically required within 30 or 60 days, although a lot of people do ignore those laws.
What's the process for fighting this in a Chinese court?
Agreed. It's fascinating, really. To me it seems that the algorithm is generating both male/female genitalia, but it's sort of "choosing" based on what "looks best".

That is to say, certain features that in their SFW form already look vaguely like a penis seem to be depicted as a penis (the statues, volcano, etc), whereas other features like the beaches were depicted as vulvas. And the slight red tinge present in some of the canyon/beach images also elicited the vulva, even if the shape of the surface wasn't something "obvious".

Man, ironically this stuff to me is true abstract art. To use a somewhat trite cliche, the [extremely subtle] erotic nature of these environments that are clearly not actually genitalia gives insight into how the human mind works just as well as it does into (convolutional?) neural networks themselves
> It doesn't make it a good theory that you can come up with an even more ridiculous theory.

But in that context "Gods talking to him" isn't the "more ridiculous theory" we came up with after, it was the original theory. Just like this:

> but can you explain Achilles literally fighting a river-God and winning

Doesn't make it "more plausible" for gods and deities to be involved. That "river-God" could have been any numbers of dangerous aquatic animals, which would be way more plausible than arguing "He fought an actual river god!".

I realize I'm ruffling a lot of theist feathers here, but any explanation that involves the "supernatural" should automatically be considered rather implausible, especially when there are much more plausible alternatives that do not involve the supernatural at all.
Not being American, this is the one thing I wish Trump/GOP/conservatives did in the US: bust the tech trusts. They're taking the courts, they can surely find state or federal attorneys to bring the cases, and the executive would provide them with cover and enforcement.

I'm surprised they haven't done it already. It would make sense for purely partisan reasons because tech companies are very liberal and extremely hostile to Trump's administration. But they could even reach across the aisle with megacorps like Amazon pretty clearly abusing their lower level employees which has been a cause on the left for decades.
Elsevier Dropping Journal of Discrete Algorithms Wil
It is worse than the title says: a key tool for trapping corrupted process state, null pointer segfault, is turned off in WebAssembly targets.

The second most common source of process corruption, integer overflow, usually ignored in native targets because direct memory corruption is so much worse, is also adopted into WebAssembly wholesale.

This is all overwhelmingly worse than in the native case, because we make some effort to run only trustworthy native code, but browsers actively solicit unknown code from known-hostile sources--most particularly, web ads.

The existence of safe-ish languages doesn't help, because there is no incentive to deploy them in user-hostile code fragments.
This is how it works in Sweden and I believe we have even fewer road casualties than the US.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Target Test Flight Dates
I've had the idea that a lot of medical training (besides anatomy, chemistry, bio, many other things :-)) was memorizing a big decision tree to evaluate someone, which seems fundamentally different than flash cards. How do you learn that? Family history that pertinent , previous conditions etc.
You might be right but it would be far far far too expensive to look at things this way.

The hope was that the community would at least contribute back enough funds so that I wouldn't have to go out of pocket.

I mean I've literally LOST money open sourcing this even excluding my time to build it.

I'm -$1250 or so at this point.
Your vacuum manufacturer probably has a monopoly on vacuum bags for it's machine because it's niche enough for nobody else to care about making alternative bags. If someone decided that they wanted to, they could.

This isn't the case with the iPhone. It isn't niche and plenty of people want to build and be listed in alternatives, but they are prevented from doing so.
I once read about a proposed 1$ fee for mistakes like that. For individuals, it's just one dollar. For companies and especially the state, it can cost 1000$ and more in processing fees altogether.
Most justice systems are built on the assumption that it's better to let 100 guilty people go than convicting one innocent person. Once we accept that it's OK to convict innocent people as long as the averages are fine then we are heading into serious trouble.
This would be great, many people support this idea. You'll need generational change to get there.
>He didn’t undermine himself.

I didn't say this.

His quote (with or without the context of the paragraph) necessarily means that his app's impact is not understood. If all we have are self-quotes, that's weak support, too.
I guess she means he left communism. A belief in history, almost as a god, is inherent in communism as I understand it. The changes they believe in are pre-ordained, they need only to join the stream.
Gmail: can't delete records of purchases and reservations; Protonmail?
I think the future of this issue is still unwritten, and definitely not set in stone.
Easy running totals with windowing functions in PostgreSQL
These DFS-type mazes are pretty easy to solve...
Three buckets: (1) people who figured out how to do it right, (2) people who’s yet to figure out how to do it right but can spot the things done right, and (3) everyone else.
Except they are usually granted immunity by statute. It came up in conversation the other day with a group of friends, the question of 'citizens arrest'.

In my state, NJ, anyone can bring a disorderly person in front of a judge or detain someone who's suspected to have committed a major crime. However, it never happens because if we were incorrect then all sorts of civil and criminal claims could be made for injuries and/or false imprisonment.

We scoured the state's criminal law and found out members of law enforcement were relieved from liability if they were wrong about the above.

The other job that was exempt from liability was librarian. Apparently, a librarian can tackle someone suspected of stealing a book and it's ok under NJ law. [1]

[1] https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/2013/title-2c/sectio...
That's an interesting hypothesis. The alveoli are delicate and highly vascularized, but then they are also already evolved specifically to facilitate rapid gas exchange, and geared to rapidly offload our CO2.
It would be fascinating to see empirical information about their performance in these conditions.
To add to this, hyperinflation is not a monetary phenomenon, it is a consequence of political and economic collapse. Everywhere and always hyperinflation is the result of political catastrophe, be it losing a war or something self-inflicted. Hyperinflation is possible in the USA, but if and when it happens the cause will observably be a political one.
They are skins around Safari. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS

> Unlike Firefox on Android, Firefox for iOS does not support browser add-ons. Additionally, it uses Apple's Webkit rendering engine, rather than Mozilla's Gecko. Both of these limitations are in accordance with Apple's rules for submitting apps to the App Store.

Search for safari, webkit or WKWebView in https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios and you'll see how the integration goes.
This is Ray. I'm trying to lay low after archiving my project as I really just want to move on at this point, but I couldn't help myself and read some of the comments here anyway. Thanks for this, Kevin. Uppy is a fantastic library and I wish you and the rest of the Transloadit team the best. If I were looking for an enterprise-class upload library in the future, I'd absolutely choose Uppy at this point.
This counts for me as typical destruction.
Destructive types who like to destroy software projects either announce that cleanup which will everything make better "It’s also a strong investment in keeping your code clean and light which improves future development speed" or that destruction is good.

"All references to the deprecated should be removed across all relevant repos" No one should ever know what was there before.

Fork a new major version and don't destroy the old version. Let others maintain that if you don't care anymore.
UK has never had jaywalking laws. Most countries don't. We have crossings too, of course, which are optional, but sensible to use when it's rush hours etc. There's no sign that our collisions or injuries are disproportionately high.

A pedestrian crosses when they feel it is safe to do so, and anywhere along the road they choose. Having started to cross they have priority over traffic. Lately some drivers are less inclined to give way to pedestrians, but the law hasn't changed, and they are still legally obliged to do so. Motorways, of course, have no pedestrians.

The word was originally from jay-drivers. Which was a forgotten American term of abuse for carriage drivers who did not stick to the correct side of the road! Once cars arrived the industry lobbied and jaywalking became a term of abuse for pedestrians, and eventually a law.
You know, if you are willing to work for free, that's your call. You can ignore that piece if that is not your cup of tea.

I'm just trying to tell you that if you want the community to cough up money, the thing you need to communicate is "Hey, I need X amount of money to do this thing to make this product better." That is much more likely to get you money than begging for "donations."

But, honestly, $88/mo at this early stage is quite good. And if you only need another $112/mo to meet your goal, to my mind, that's an easy sell. You just need to spell that out to people "Hey, cool, thanks for all the love. We have $88/mo though we are brand spanking new. But what I would really like is $200/mo so I can add this other thing. Only $112 to go! Woot!"
The surprising (?) formula for becoming an art star
China plans first undersea tunnel for high-speed trains
Are you suggesting C mandates operating systems not overcommit memory (I don't think it does), or that objects cannot be larger than PTRDIFF_MAX (and ptrdiff_t is signed)? (Edit: On further reading, I don't think the standard says that, either.)

Many implementations do not conform to that definition. But it's also possible that the expression results in a value smaller than PTRDIFF_MAX (or similarly, small enough the operating system does not need to overcommit), and then even a malloc conforming to that definition is free to return a pointer to some virtual memory (committed or not).
These issues are only going to be more complex as time marches onward. Our understanding of neuroscience and the mind are just getting out of infancy with the optogenetic and CRISPR revolutions. It's going to be pretty cool to see how our definitions change as the science marches onward.

I'll give a concrete example: Persistent vegetative states. Prior to some recent research [0,1], people in these states were thought to be just, well, akin to vegetables. However, under MRI, it was found that there were conscious people 'trapped' in these bodies. Not for all, but for some. Communication out of their 'locked-in' state is now possible. In terms of Jaynes, this means that the acts of perception, concept formation, learning, thinking, and reasoning are not all directly linked; they can occur independent of each other.

Sure, you can argue if these people are conscious still or not, just like with Ulysses. But what we are now seeing is that the seat of the mind, our brains, can be parceled out. Bits of it can act independent of the other parts. That a mind is kinda, sometimes, in specific cases, sorta like Legos. That a human mind is divisible, that the idea of a mind is likely to encompass more than just humans, and that we're just in a small sub-set of 'minds'.

So, it's going to be fun to watch how our ideas of a 'mind', of 'consciousness', of 'personhood', all change as the data keeps rolling in.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4913176/

[1]https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/74/11/1571
Source? Ocean phyplankton are very resistant to temperature changes.
No, when economic systems pressure companies into cutting corners, it's completely fair to criticize the situation.

"Think of all of the money people are saving by allowing businesses to refuse service to disabled people."

A system with massive net positive social utility does not alone justify injustice for a few.
> Things we pay $0.99 today for used to cost $50.

It's interesting because I imagine that'll be Apple's argument, and the natural counter-argument is that the $0.99 price is deceptive because of the "freemium" model of most apps.

Not sure how convincing they can make that argument, but it'll be interesting nonetheless. I imagine it'll involve putting an average "cost-per-app" including in-app purchases.
What is the trustworthiness of this website?
Have you tried advertising on your website? Something like adsense pays decent. How many pageviews does your site get per month?

Is there a way you can build a viral mechanic into your product? Where people using it encourage others to use it? One way to leverage this might be to put functionality that is currently in react embedded in electron into a web app.

One other thing - what about removing some features, or for new features, only putting them in a paid version? So people could try it, then when they like it plunk down $10/mo.

Edit: To add a little inspiration... Let's say you removed a few key features from the open source ( free ) version. Yes, people could go back to previous commits but honestly no one will do that. Then you get rid of all the donate buttons and start selling the product for $10/mo. Let's say you can convert 50% of your 40% most highly engaged users. Even with no growth you'd be making about $4k/mo.

Edit 2: What about charging for cloud sync for the data? You could have a very small amount for free, then after that they pay. You'd have huge margins, and could explain that this is how the project will survive. This is a common business model used by dropbox, gmail, notion, etc.
@askvictor Not guaranteed legit but possibly less likely to be abused than GMaps.
https://business.yellowpages.ca/onboarding/#/search
I actually look at the local paper book yellow pages sometimes for local businesses - sometimes you find good people who haven't bothered to get online.
I guess Obama never met people like Fabrice Bellard or John Carmack.