skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of them outsource voting decisions to companies which exist just to aggregate the most "corporate/sensible" way to vote. So the parent saying "they're not activist investors" is probably true, but then every single vote proceeding along "maximise profit according to a consensus view" lines probably isn't great for society.
> I believe all current major implementations typedef `uint8_t` to `unsigned char`

That can't be right, because CHAR_BIT is not always 8.
The Mind Traps That Entrepreneurs Must Avoid
> rather than people smoking joints which they don't bother with at all these days in the UK.

Police regularly arrest people with small amounts of cannabis, and the range of options they have include criminal prosecution which still happens.
Can you believe that Qatar, the nation that provided the right infrastructure for Osama Bin Ladin's attack in 9/11, still flies direct flights to JFK?

They are a rogue nation that should not be part of the OPEC nor the UN.

They are funding ISIS with billions.

This is a futile attempt to bankrupt Saudis after their amazing breakout from Islamist Ideologies.
Australian Gov’s encryption proposal to weaken communications with backdoors
Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi – It’s Making Us All Fear Technology
Blame assignment is counterproductive because it encourages a culture of risk aversion. I suspect highly productive members produce more bugs simply because of the size of their contribution, and that's acceptable in some (perhaps most) businesses.
I'll tell you what really improved our successrate. We implemented a small IQ test and a small relevant coding challenge. Failure in one of these got you disqualified immediately. We started weeding out sub-optimal candidates real quick and were able to focus on the star talent.
You sit with an old friend in bar, already quite drunk. You haven't seen this guys for years but now that you had such a nice evening you really feel like old brothers. Now he tells you about this great house he has and that he considers to move to another town. He might let you take it before he puts it on the market and to a friendship price that he could certainly not achieve on the market.

Will you, at this point, remember that "Scammers dress up ‘opportunities’ with
professional looking brochures and websites to mask their fraudulent operations. They often begin with a phone call or email out of the blue from a scammer offering a ‘not-to-be-missed’, ‘high return’ or ‘guaranteed’ opportunity. The scammer usually operates from overseas, and will not have an Australian Financial Services licence"?

Probably not. But you might remember the story that guy on hacker news told you. You might remember, just as in that story, that you should look out carefully when a "great opportunity" arises. You might check your emotional state and find the comradry you feel to that old friend might not be based on facts since you haven't seen him for a long time. It's rather related to you two having a great night together.

And you might recognize that this combination of great offer, excitement, and a person who doesn't spend time with you often are combining to red flags for a scam.

But that is all because it was a specific example, a story. Not just a list of facts and attributes that generally relate to a set of scams that can be categorized as rather similar.

Therefore I'd argue that such a general list of scams, without specific examples, is not worth much. People's brain simply doesn't work like that. Rather check on Youtube for actual scams. Like "tourist scams in <countryX>".
To me it's all about intent. By using a function instead of a class, you are basically saying "future reader, this component is nothing more than a simple mapping from those values to that DOM tree, don't try to look for internal states or any complex treatment here".

Sure you could write a "normal React component without state" and do the same, but having those properties baked in the way you defined the component is much stronger.
I'd go for mushrooms and yeast tanks in damp dark places. But you can also eat only so much of them.
I agree on the preference that if it's not really optional, just don't make it optional.

On-call also varies a ton between companies. I was technically on-call all of the time in my last job, but it was a low throughput system. I had to be up at odd hours maybe once every 2-3 months. I slept pretty well. If you offered me free meals for the week, I wouldn't mind taking my turn on the watch regularly.

This job, I'm on call maybe one week every two months on a high throughput system, and even though it's only half of the day (we have an overseas team to take the night shift), it's generally acknowledged in the team that your sleep takes a hit and you get no real work done that week. If this were an optional part of my job, you'd have to pay me double for the week (basically a 10% raise).
Because the poster is presenting in perhaps a difficult way to understand. Listed prices are inclusive of VAT/sales tax, there's a single price listed. Companies can reclaim VAT/sales tax from the tax office on presentation of valid receipts. Depending on product, sales taxes vary from 4% to 1Xs%. Pretty similar to how reclaiming VAT works in the EU.

Individuals could, for example, request a discount from a restaurant for not requesting a tax receipt (discount being in the form of some free Sprites or other small token). Smaller places might accommodate this, larger ones would not.
This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> The 2nd thing I'd do is rename "char" into "byte" since that's effectively what it is

This isn't always true. See machines where CHAR_BIT > 8.
The future of appapp.io
> 2. You can choose to pay sales tax or not. It is optional.

Is it optional by law? or is it just that many sellers opt to not collect sales tax if you don't ask for a receipt?

> Basically, individuals have more freedom than many western countries BUT companies have a lot more restrictions. It is a very clever system that "mostly" works.

More freedom how?
I believe because it is taught the wrong way and with a confusing notation.

We do int ptr instead of int ptr and talk about memory instead of just saying: "It is simply a box containing 1 value, we can also make a box containing a box containing the value."

Luckily, I don't do C.
The future of React is less classes and more functions.

See hooks

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html
It's the difference between believing that what matters is user rights and sharing code, and believing that what matters is the world containing more cool stuff.

Tim O'Reilly has a story (which I'll probably butcher) where after publishing the BSD manuals as books he was accused by someone at a conference of stealing the author's work. One of the authors stood up and said something like "Actually what Tim is doing is exactly what we want - spreading the material as widely as possible and making it as useful as possible. We knew exactly what we were doing choosing that license".

It's the same spirit in which MacOS being based on BSD is fine, even if not a single line of code is shared back. The question isn't "What did Apple share back to BSD programmers recently?", it's "Is the world a better place with MacOS in it as something people can choose to use?".

The same applies to Amazon. It simply wouldn't have been possible to build something like Amazon purely on proprietary code, running only proprietary OSes and services. Even if they had, it would have been a lot less interesting. I think it's pretty clear that the world is a better place with services like AWS available. As long as they follow the licenses of the software they use, there isn't a problem, but if some licensors disagree they can always change their license.
Everclear is around 95%, so it would be more like drinking Everclear when you were expecting a 4% beer. And given the difference between medical and recreational doses, it would be like having 5-6 beers, all at 95%. That would probably leave you pretty fucked.
Big fan of 1blocker! It works just perfectly. I think that Apple has created a really nice concept for adblocking. They leverage native performance with enough flexibility for 3rd parties. Plus, the privacy aspect is great.
It contains a maze of twisty little passages.
Also, dead drug users don't make for good repeat business.
> A lot of the US problem is that those patients will then be given a big box of opioids to take home for the next week.

Even the week isn't really a problem, in fact that's become one of the restrictions here in Ohio because the normal practice was to prescribe entire months at a time. People were ending up with 30-60+ day supplies of extended release medications like oxycontin for recovery from procedures that shouldn't have been all that painful for more than 10-12 days.

Now if a doctor wants to prescribe opiates for acute pain after a surgery or something, it can't be more than a 7 day supply, any longer and the pharmacist can't fill it. A completely new prescription is required for every additional 7 day supply.

In contrast to what was going on before, that means there are now on average 7-8 opportunities for a doctor to re-evaluate whether opiates are still appropriate over a 60 day period, rather than just 1 (the prescription for the 2nd 30 day supply).
Whoops! Fixed it now.
A better distinction here in naming would be to call GitLab EE "Source Available" rather than "Open Source"
Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
An outage could be caused by infrastructure, by library code, by configuration, by increased activity, not necessarily your own software.
The dealers buy a kilo of heroin, or fentanyl, and dilute it. They can dilute the fentanyl much more, which means they can sell very many more doses. This means they have huge profits from fentanyl.
Britain introduced an income tax in 1842 I believe.
It was supposed to be temporary.
That's funny, I made a completely contrarian comment: I believe there is not enough talk about boxes and too much about irrelevant memory magic!
Shell most likely contracts out most of the workload to subsidiaries and external companies (ex. franchise gas stations).
I think it's fair to say that it's counter-productive for more than one reason.

That said, I think if you want to encourage risk taking, do it directly -- incentivize it with money/prestige or hire more people who take risks (and give them free reign). In recent history more and more "labs"-type positions have been opening up at companies, with the aim being to lure in people who want to do interesting work. As an engineer, a labs position is 1000% more interesting to me than any other senior whatever position because of this ability to take risks and possibly reap large rewards (even if they go to the company).

As far as your point about productive members producing more bugs, you can incentivize/dis-incentivize this by changing how you perform reviews. Incentivize productivity, but not at the cost of introducing more bugs. Shower cash/prestige/autonomy on developers that produce lots of features with low error-counts and people will optimize for that if that's what drives them.
Control the consumption of oil market is no small power either.
It's pretty much what Google is looking into doing

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538
BC is huge. For this particular spot, it's a very long distance from the nearest road, even one passable by high clearance 4x4. Unless you had the valley it's in as a specific destination, would be easy to miss. It is also not accessible by float plane, so either a multi day hike or helicopter.

If you look at where the population is concentrated in BC, the 10 largest cities, take a look at the total population of the province, and then look at how many square km it is...
It might remain livable.
The Gnosis Safe Multisig Wallet
I think I must not be a people, because my brain does generally work that way.

Perhaps it can be that some peoples' brains work one way and others another way, and perhaps there are multiple ways of working.
Plenty of countries had no income tax in that era, which shows that that was not a defining factor for US success back then.
The thing is, as a kid we got measles and we got time off school (Yay!), but we'd get a booster shot at the time and the wheels of society keep turning as we'd stay at home until we got well enough to go back. I got mumps, german measles and a variety of things kids nowdays get vaccinated for. I've had the chicken pox 3 times and it's relative, shingles, twice (somehow my immune system doesn't learn this one!).

So...why is there now all this fuss to be pre-vaccinated? To me it's like the tetanus shot, if you get pricked by a bit of rusty metal and it's been 10 years, you go and get a shot.

One of the main things that I can think of is that due to a modern society, both parents are working and absolutely need to send their kids to school. This of course can be a big problem without a mandatory, herd-immunity system in place.

> unsubstantiated scares regarding their safety still occur

This is probably because they're not exactly unsubstantiated:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix#Narcolepsy_investiga...

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-11-23/the-fallout-from-a-ba...
Scottish Nationalists can demand another vote, but they won't get it as long as the Tories are in power. In as much as you can take Corbyn at his word, he is not in favour either, and nor are many in the Labour party. It might happen if the Scottish Parliament votes for it, but it's still not a sure thing to pass. Besides which, it isn't wise: Scotland can't pay its way and depends on EU and British (English) money. Out of the EU, Scotland would be in a worse economic position if it leaves the UK, and there's no guarantee that it would be allowed to join the EU in the near future: many EU members with a veto aren't keen to encourage separatist movements.
How did you manage to increase the accuracy rate? What is it now?
Necunos announces postmarketOS collaboration
Necuno Solutions and postmarketOS announce a community collaboration aiming to offer
postmarketOS on the Necuno Mobile, truly open source hardware platform. Last week, the company announced similar collaboration with KDE, bringin postmarketOS to Necuno Mobile.

More in Necuno Solutions Blog.
https://necunos.com/blog/necuno-solutions-and-postmarketos-collaboration/
Why Spike Is the Future of Email
I know, my gf in the US used to be a PA. We do not have this exact position but others are filling it in a way. It's generally a slightly different structure.
Qatar won't be too concerned - if the LNG market stays stable ;)
Oh yeah, they're everywhere, we've been digging for millennia. Though as anyone who's bought a home around old mining areas knows there's a fair bit of subsidence around old mines and shafts. Leaves me wondering what proportion is feasible without significant effort digging them out, pumping and propping them again?

Then there's the countless seams that were narrow enough to trigger instant claustrophobia. The many crawlable only spaces that don't give space to sit, let alone stand. Plenty of headroom for lettuce, but rather more challenging for harvesting and the associated humans.
Thanks andreyk, and thank you for all the cool stuff you do in the AI community, been following your work for a little while now
You believe correctly, but naturally, it's a lot more verbose:

var lowercaseIds = ids.stream().map(String::toLowerCase);

and an additional

.collect(Collectors.toList())

if you don't want a Stream instance. (var is Java 10, though I believe it should not be used in production code, ever)
Why is it called optional if it really isn't?
The second step p = Probability(X_i = heads) is technically wrong (although a common abuse of notation). It's strictly speaking p = Probability(X_i = heads | p).

So while it is meaningful to say:

"p has this probability distribution."

It is not meaningful to say:

"The probability the coin comes up heads has this probability distribution."

This is because p and the probability the coin comes up heads are not the same thing (this is even more apparent if you have a non-Bernoulli scenario) when p is no longer fixed.

It's not really just a case of marginal vs conditional probabilities either. Even in the case of a conditional probability, it's only defined for a fixed condition.

Even in the case of random measures, while you can reasonably talk about the probability of a probability distribution, it still doesn't really make sense to talk about the probability distribution of a probability.
Possibly mammoth and saber tooth tiger bones, if some fell in a long time ago.
In cold climate it might not be so much more energy because greenhouses need to be heated in winters and it takes a lot of energy too. For instance 2kW heater is not much, compared to a 2kW light fixture which is like 5 strong led consoles that can grow a lot of lettuce (and also provide enough heating at the same time). If you use rotating stands you can optimize it even more. I think much bigger problem will be controlling the humidity and preventing molds from attacking the plants.
>UBO doesn't mess it

Never had this issue. Even in Slack, where UBO blocks 778 elements atm.
Mozilla is subject to US law. Mozilla has no obligation to enable certain addons only for visitors from certain countries.
Congrats on shipping!

Checked for NYC, but says it has only data for US. Where actually is data available?
The Kubernetes Operator landscape
HN is full of advertising posts now...

Buddy, your product is not fully featured. In ublock, you can click and block individual elements or domains, in your product,the feature to whitelist any site is even a beta feature... And your app costs money, because the free version doesnt offer all blocking lists.

It also seems like i can not use my own lists, or language specific lists.
Btw, where can we download your content lists to make sure you do not just resell free, community driven lists?

So thanks for promoting Safaris terrible adblocker framework with a paid product that is lightyears inferior to the free Ublock we are discussing here.
>More freedom how?

From what I've seen (I have family over there), it's much less restrictive in most ways in terms of regulation and licensing. It is a very regulated society in some ways, but a wild west caveat emptor laisez faire anarchy in others. Also what regulation there is can often be circumvented by the right payments to the right people, which is a form of freedom if you squint at it right.

There's also little in the way of consumer rights. Of course if the anarchy gets too disruptive, in go the police and it gets bad for everybody. It's Big Stick regulation. The only stick they have is a big one, so they tend not to use it often, but when they do....

Take the baby powder doped with Melamine. There is no real enforcement of quality controls, but when the scandal went public and there was a huge scandal they tried and executed - actual shot in the head killed - some executives. A few months later it transpired that the confiscated baby milk powder had 'dissapeared' and was back on the market. By that time the public outcry had died down though.
Yes, and there's at least two ways you could handle this:

- Have the entire org take a hit

- Penalize the infra team

The thing about blame assignment is that no one wants to get blamed for anything (so like if you try #2 the infra team would likely find someone to blame as quick as possible), which ordinarily makes it pretty toxic but I think you can use it for good here with proper communication and goal-setting (which is of course harder than it sounds).

The case of outages completely caused by infrastructure I think is pretty rare, but if it's really something like S3 going down or whatever just don't count it. If it's that someone pushed an invalid load balancer setting to an ELB, then there's gonna be someone at fault, whether it's the infra team for letting it be possible in the first place or the developer that did it for doing it. Good infra teams try to make bad settings impossible and good settings self-servicable in my experience.

All this said, it really doesn't need to be super heavy handed, I mean don't make some orwellian report-your-neighbor for points system, but enforce accountability and link it to something people care about.
> no one has any problem being on call.

How do you know this?
Search for Eugene Khutoryansky on YouTube.
Why Is Everyone Talking About Buy Xanax Online?
> I've been on call for 20+ years. I've never gotten paid extra for it. I just figure it's baked into the normal paycheck

So much for 40 hour work week.
People would be spinning in their graves if they knew what had become of employer-employee relationship.
I tend to agree with you, even about my comment being a bit harsh. It's not like I want to attribute malice to physicians. The system just cannot operate smoothly under its current load and structure.

However, I heavily disagree about Internet connectivity. In cities like BER, HAM or MUC it is "meh". On the country-side and in smaller towns it is catastrophically bad for the 4th largest economy on the planet.

This is Deutsche Telekom's fiber network in Hamburg, today:
https://i.redd.it/r4a07co2x4y11.png
I agree, except hot food.
Also children's clothes and toiletry type stuff.

I seem to recall there was a thing about sanitary towels that needed a law change in Brussels, in order for us to zero rate them.

Edit:
From the GPs reference
"requires a minimum standard rate of 15% and one or two reduced rates not to be below 5%. Some EU members have a 0% VAT rate on certain supplies; these states would have agreed this as part of their EU Accession Treaty"

So its possible the GPs country doesn't allow zero rated VAT.
Great that you put actual examples together. I like that. But I'm not sure if you can really improve the world through that. A lot of these problems are quite obvious and if people iwll still put their money into ICOs I'm not sure anything could help that.

That, I feel, is the hardest part of learning more about scams and how to protect yourself. You inevitably see a lot of people who simply can't avoid it, almost going for getting scammed like a moth goes to the lamp, never learning from bad experience that you simply can't get rich quick if you aren't already rich.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527535

Another story pointed out that wasm today still lacks a few features and so, mostly regarding run-time inspection, has drawbacks server-side.

In the article there is no mention that wasm tomorrow could be quite different from wasm today; overall I believe the optimism is warranted.
Driverless car delivers packages without humans
From the 2.5m remaining after you have subtracted Vancouver and the Fraser valley, now subtract the populations of nanaimo, Victoria, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nelson, osoyoos, Whistler, Campbell River, Prince George, fort St John, nelson and just about every other town that is big enough to have a few bank branches... The remaining rural area outside of any city limits is REALLY sparsely populated.
Nope. And it’s not common to put % in front at all either.

This quirk identifies the author as having as their first language Arabic, perhaps Persian (where both styles are mixed), or Turkish (that one surprised me - RTL origin didn’t): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign