skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering more about orchestration of the actors... something needs to be responsible for spawning them onto machines and something needs to be responsible for tracking where they are or where their queues are. I love MSFT Orleans but I'd love even more something that fit easier into a conventional node.js and docker kind of world (C# is great but when I look at adoption curves Typescript seems to be growing fast while C# seems to be at best holding steady)
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The article does not go far enough in expanding the scope of consequences. When consumers start buying more stuff at lower prices, they are diverting money that would probably be spent on other things. Hence there is no net change in consumer spending, only a shift in where they spend their money.

Automation always results in labor cost reduction for the one implementing the automation. If it did not, they wouldn't do it.
You mean like this: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movi...
I realized how little i knew about how databases work until I watched this lecture series.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA

Does anyone have DB internal book recommendation that inst' boring as hell.
What about when it turned out Google was tracking users second-by-second location data, even after users had removed consent and turned off locations?
The church I attend these days is doing this sort of "invite the community in during the week" approach, and being fairly successful at it, from what I can tell. There are a lot of dynamics going on there; I don't think it'd work everywhere. But definitely there's something to the idea, and worth bringing up in your congregational context if collapse is in the offing.
Being asked if you can use chopsticks for the 10,000 time is a living hell.
Malicious Attacks by JavaScript
Presumably, some of those that are selected to be a "jury of your peers" are going to be the same demographic as you, that is if you have a good lawyer who can select the right jury.
CraSSh is a cross-browser purely declarative DoS
Sucks to be a current home owner in the general vicinity of these free homes.
Electric scooters are causing injuries and accidents
Black box data shows pilots fought control system in Indonesia crash
Agreed. It's impractical to incorporate "ideal patterns and practices", but competent developers can get pretty close.

Having said that, I much prefer working with code that is very simple and redundant with a verbose API, than with a codebase that is overly refactored and abstracted.

Finding the balance of the two extremes would be my definition of an ideal pattern.
Studies show that the pay differential for "all but completed degree" and "completed degree" are stark. Researchers have said that this indicates that a large fraction of the "value" of college is just signalling (intelligence, aptitude, diligence), not education.

If that's the case, many of the students in your post are right -- just giving them the degree could save them (and the school) a lot of time and money. Maybe your art history class is a cost-effective way to get a world class education in late Italian Romantic oil paintings, but as a way of proving you're smart enough to work in a law firm (or even "broaden your horizons and become a better citizen through rounded education") I can't imagine it's terribly efficient.
The problem is market price would be less than a penny per megabyte of data.

EDIT: Okay, I admit I pulled this figure out of my behind but my point is data is incredibly cheap.
Documentation as an Open Source Practice
Not my experience - being a TA for a bad professor or bad course involved more work but gets one better evaluations. You're the "good guy". If the professor is good, the standards are higher and you can't leave their shadow.
Germinate Seeds with a 3D Printed Container
Three Years Documenting the Daily Lives of Japan's Brazilian Community (2017)
I learned with fusion 360 and their online training. A hobby license is free, and the videos are good. There is also a Danish guy, I can't remember his name, who makes enthusiastic fusion 360 videos on YT regularly.

Edit: this is the guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5bc9c3S12g
Do you measure your privacy in megabytes?
Your comment has just added Copenhagen to my list of "must-visit" cities.
At the risk of getting downvoted... good riddance.
What he did was very, very hard. And he did it very, very well. However, just because a magician says he's dealing from the middle of the deck, or that he knows how many cards he's picked up by feel alone doesn't necessarily mean he's telling the truth. Nevertheless, he was one of the best card handlers around at the time of his death, second only perhaps to Richard Turner
This is bad and nobody is required to pretend otherwise. Sensitivity to a critical opinion doesn't make the opinion a form of attack or hostility.
There's lots of different sounds to hear, but on a decibel level it must be quiet in the woods I think.
That's a silly article. The essay says that we should disregard essays if they have a title like the essay's own, so... pradox.

When "considered harmful" is considered flaimbait rhetoric, perhaps the problem is with the readers who refuse to engage with any mildly-worded criticism.
https://outline.com/sScq5j
I don't think air cavitates. There's a fairly gradual transition from incompressible to compressible flow for air, but I don't think that's true for water.
Ha! The wedding was just around the corner from where I live. It's a small world, love seeing Australians on HN :)
Re. the financial calculus. His sponsorship and modelling income is not known precisely but I've seen it estimated at $2 million per year. Losing the title puts all that at risk. A 50k penalty to prizemoney is peanuts.
> Who decides the truth?

A jury? In most Western societies the final arbiter of "truth" in a legal dispute is the court, usually the judge but (especially in the U.S.) the jury. If the court's fact finder says the sky isn't blue then the sky isn't blue, period, at least in the context of the dispute. This is one of the principle roles of the courts, and it's why the judiciary is supposed to be independent of the executive organs.

The U.S. is unique in holding journalists and politicians to a lower standard of truth. The U.K. has tough defamation laws that are arguably abused to quiet newspapers, but even so it's a stretch to equivocate the state of free speech in the U.K. to authoritarian societies. That is to say, few people would argue that U.K. citizens don't as a general matter enjoy free speech rights commensurate with American citizens.

A legal principle like defamation, however, requires a cognizable injury to a particular person. It's difficult to pin point the injuries caused by any particular piece of fakes news, so you may have to loosen that standard if you want to encompass fake news. Recognizing, e.g., injuries to the public can be dangerous. OTOH the requirement of intent can help to reign that in.
Similar examples have been Fargate and Lambda, which have surprisingly long cold start times depending on runtimes and VPC configurations. IMHO it is a big part of AWS expertise to know these things and be able to choose the right services not just according to the marketing brochures, but according to how they really work for each use case. Having said that, I'm glad to now have learned about that Kinesis Analytics restart issue.
I lived in a church converted to condos in South Boston for a few years. The Catholic Church sold the property to developers to pay for an $85 million sex abuse settlement. When Boston had that one winter where we got 2 feet of snow every other day for a month and a half the ice dams were so bad it basically rained inside every unit for the entire month of February. We all lost everything. It turns out a 100+ year old building with a steeply pitched slate roof is almost impossible to repair in the dead of winter on short notice.
Buildings like this seem interesting and like they have character but I would never live in a converted church again.
Can Product Bugs Make Your Business Stronger?
Most of the noise from cars is from the tyres.
I'm very much the same. When I was young my devices were filled with every program and extension I could find and my devices were slow, full of ads and likely sucking up all my personal info.

These days I have everything trimmed down to the bare minimum open source programs only. My "old" phone runs faster than everyones current year phone and I have no adverts on anything. I use next to no social media and I feel I live a better life and get better experiences with tech than the general public.

Most modern tech is actively hostile to the user and having some restraint and avoiding the crap will reward you well.
> Simulated pee splashback test

The attention to detail in Japanese engineering always amazes me.
That would be fair if all you cared about was calculation.
Comparing our numbers with Roman numerals is fair, I believe you're saying, if all you care about is representation. They both require practice to read and write.

But we care about both representing numbers and computing with them. So I don't think it makes sense to say its not fair to point out the drawbacks of a system that can't do both.
Seems like a small fine, compared to the potential financial benefit of that installation. Hopefully it serves as a deterrent for future adware installs. If not, maybe we start calling our lawmakers.

For those of you in the adware space, would you pay >$10 per head to install your adware onto a computer? My guess is absolutely.
Just out of curiosity, what do you use for calling Fortran from Python (e.g. f2py, ctypes)? Do you have any suggestion about how to combine them together (e.g., for parallel calculations)?
Just hope you never need an external system, or a cloud hosted service to talk to your dev/test environments. It’s so cheap and easy to do it right that it just doesn’t make sense to do it the other way.
> those are all much higher density areas than the vast majority of the US

Don't you mean the vast majority of the tiny corner you know? You haven't even mentioned ever living anywhere else, let alone in the same variety of places I have, so I'll take your claims about vast majorities with more than one grain of salt. Maybe you really do live in a place uniquely deprived of public green space (though that's still unsubstantiated by actual maps or anything). If so, it's still your choice and you're welcome to it. It doesn't change reality for the true vast majority. Enjoy life in your self-made closet.
The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology (2007) [pdf]
Cool old-style website! Look at the source; there's no CSS.
Then I would have no problem paying, and Facebook would be glad to make 10x what they would have otherwise.
Separated by travel ban, Iranian families reunite at border library
>In practice, I highly doubt anyone actually knows or cares.

I really would like to believe that was the case, but here we are in this dreadful thread full of outrage and grammar pedantry.
old code (pre-1980s) houses have poor resistance to MAJOR earthquakes. Their heavy roof tiles make them liable to collapse in major earthquakes (Kobe), which is a pretty nasty way to die
As someone who never found regex difficult to understand, and observed how some others are the same while others seem to view any moderately long regex with a look of shock and horror, it appears to largely be a matter of attitude and perception --- the ones in the former group have, for lack of a better term, an "APL mindset" to learning. That is, they're not afraid of the fact that something looks completely foreign and incomprehensible at first, and realise that it's just another language to be learned.
- Crispr gene editing.
- responsive computer brain interface
- building a value layer in top of tcp/ip
- AR/VR taking off
- today.
Strong, structural type systems are a good fit for GraphQL back ends. You should look into TypeScript and Reason before you decide.
The entire premise of things happening cannot in this day and age be something that involves screwing over the working class as has been the case with the vast majority of urban planning decisions historically, abet is also something that is starting to get better now.

I cannot understand how so many of my fellow Americans love to talk about the merits of democracy, but when it comes to large scale capital projects, either public or private, people suddenly hate democratic decision making. Moses sized power completely ignoring the democratic process, and had musk built these tunnels, he'd have done the same.
Hey, I actually struggled with that a bit, I really appreciate this advice! Will include it tonight :) thank you!
For starters, the rest of the betterexplained.com site!

WolframAlpha is pretty great too.

I'd bet heavy other HN'ers can point you to other great sites.
With a proper warrant that is fine.

Candy isn’t going to set off dogs.
As tracker1 mentioned, don't think of this as for reflowing text for different devices but as a data capture and documents processing solution.

Example: You are dealing with a lot of PDF documents that contain unstructured information (e.g. a filled form) and you need to extract bits of information (e.g. name, address) and output it in a structured format (e.g. JSON/XLS).
Honestly I don’t know, but I assume so? Especially in SF where the weather is good, it’s pretty much termites that are the biggest threat!!
But it’s also false to claim most are women and children and that most are fleeing violence (most are men seeking economic sdvantage) and that entering illegally deserves as much rights as people who’ve applied legally and have waited decades.
It’s also false to insinuate the Obama admin didn’t use teargas against wannabe border crossers. And it’s also false to insinuate it’s illegal. France, just the other day had suppressed a demo against taxes in Paris using teargas but no one’s outraged at that. Teargas is used as crowd control in many euro countries.
It's hard to blame them. I've been in similar situations multiple times where a requirement seems simple enough on the surface that you only get a few hours to work on it. But it's actually not that easy to write it cleanly.

That hacky workaround you're talking about? Well, my task depends on it. The workaround too depends on another hack. With the amount of time I have to work on it, it's a no brainer.

Earlier in my career, I tried to fix them, but they started to break other "hacks" and down the rabbit hole I go. Sometimes it's just not worth it.
Cool project! Was this collaboratory between the two of you?

I especially love this photo [1], I wish that style of formal wear was more common in America.

[1] https://wedding.rampatra.com/img/eng_pics/NGP_4089-lg.jpg
In addition to the sibling comment, you can also find relatively cheap housing in some of the Sunbelt although I understand that the real housing crash in Las Vegas has largely recovered.

If you're serious about it, you really need to think about your non-negotiables, your strong preferences, and how high you're willing to go for "cheap" housing. For some people the answer might be a condo in a smaller city that isn't in demand. For others, it might be a house that's out in the sticks someplace. There's also a huge difference between cheap as in $100K and cheap as in $300K.

Contra another post, you probably don't want land that isn't already engineered. Of course, also consider Internet. I know tech people who manage with satellite but there are a lot of compromises.
I don’t see why all of the Native American treaties shouldn’t be reopened.

We have an order of magnitude better a view on the facts of history than we did 100 years ago.

Just as DNA evidence gives cause to reopen the cases of living incarcerated, we should pull all of the current land claims in the U.S. which include any claims granted under treaty and if there is any new evidence of criminal wrongdoing, adjudicate those crimes and bring forward any civil litigation that may fall from those decisions.

Heck, exempt any existing structures, with an easement, to appease existing residents. But any empty space, undeveloped land, farmland, etc can be returned.

Offer any residents of the space a share too, as needed. Not corporations but individuals up to a certain acreage if they can show they continuously kept that land in production.

Murder is not an excuse for ignoring a signed legal document, and hasn’t been in this country for hundreds of years.

We only have time. Maybe it takes 1000 years but I believe the First Nations will be made whole, to whatever degree the Constitution indicates in its highest interpretation.
The Atlantic covered this last week, it appears they changed the title from something close to the WP to what they have now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/murphy-cas...
My secret sauce to be in top 2% of a kaggle competition
Based on what we've observed, one could likely estimate the amount of accretion needed to make Sag A* visible from Earth. Or bright enough to fry us. It'd be a huge stretch for me to do that. But I bet that it's a lot less than Andromeda. I mean, there could be a substantial black hole, maybe 50-100 years out, and I doubt that we could detect it now :)
I’m not arguing the price is low, I’m arguing we don’t know the real price of the generic.
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Generally, these are stuffed in there for marketing and aren't very effective when used in actual business scenarios.

Source: I do a lot of post-sales consulting work implementing RPA solutions.
Couple things:

1) We're services/project oriented. So for each $1 we spend, we receive ~$20 back on revenue. That unfortunately doesn't compound and isn't recurring in the normal SaaS sense.

2) That's $20:$1 on revenue but not profit. We average between 15-25% net profit. Not great and we're trying to focus heavily on increasing this but it's quite tricky. Incrasing this usually means very expensive equipment purchases for automation.

3) I wish we could pour more money into advertising but we have to save up for additional equipment to purchase to expand services or pay for future software projects that could help us generate recurring revenue. We don't have deep pockets to leverage since it's bootstrapped. Otherwise, we'd have gone in guns blazing on advertising!
I’m a writer and software engineer. I’ve never seen deals like this before and I find it sad that their population is shrinking so much the these deals exist.

You should be able to find a job in one of the big cities. You’d have to commute, but the trains make that easy enough, I think.
Which, even worse, was not only hand selected but also heavily influenced by Cope himself, as he selected snippets he enjoyed from the output. So it's not really an apples to apples comparison.
It would be awesome if you could open source this!
if most browsers apply it... doesn't that means it works? Maybe not in the resolved-by-the-server-returning-a-304 sense but in at least some sense.
Sounds about right...
Measuring Pay-Per-Install: The Commoditization of Malware Distribution [pdf]
I think there are two things going on:

a) People are becoming less religious
b) People are leaving smaller churches for much larger churches that are non-denominational.

Smaller churches are more conservative and more political, people seem to be burned out on politics and don't really want it as something in their face on Sunday. You couple that with natural shifts in demographics and that essentially explains a lot of what is happening. I suspect once the millennial generation has more kids, church going will tick back up.
In the UK they get turned into pubs.
I used to work in HPC. The Mellanox gear, specifically InfiniBand is very good.

Fun fact: if you're working at a Saudi Arabian HPC center, say KAUST, your interconnects are purely Ethernet. Mellanox is (partially?) an Israeli company, and that's not very politically comfortable with procurement.
Better: “Thoughts and prayers”.
Saying something makes you want to cry isn't constructive criticism. It's just mean.
I agree, but want to try and add a more substantive comment. I suspect that many of the people who don't attend church anymore in the US are doing so because they never wanted to be there, but society is nowadays more accepting of their absence. If you're a Christian, I hope you don't despair; there are indeed people you will never be able to reach. Better they feel comfortable leaving the church than attending for societal (rather than religious) reasons.
Interesting. Well if it ever gets published would love to see it! We have our own js to help us model 'unique voters reached' and as one piece of fraud reduction toolset (in addition to 3rd party providers). The given example in pdf (maxchannelcount) is actually one piece of entropy we collect.

Now I'm thinking through this example,I'm going to try and test for these monkey patched methods (not sure if can do it, but maybe md5(toSting) compare to major browser native hashes?).

Sounds like you work for a verification vendor, if so have you had success with detecting these 'monkey patches'?
Filesystems and case-insensitivity
>>Yes, as long as it gets the necessary permits and green-light from my elected officials.

This. all im saying.
James better start running.
Ah, so that's what that bit about the TV was alluding to.
What happens to a society when it loses communal organizations and faith, and becomes increasingly atomized? Is this good or bad?
Can you explain this more to someone not knowledgeable about these tournaments? What did he do that was unconventional?
It can be even worse - I’ve seen TAs who basically serve up assignment solutions trying to get high ratings.
This ^^

And actually understanding the context of what you're trying to use OCR on can work backward to determine what the text actually is, i.e. if it's a "Name" field then the probabilities of ambiguous letters may change (in the case of handwriting rec).
> Why is the default not to launch a sandboxed camera app that only exists to take the receipt photo, and then disappears taking with it any permissions the app needed to carry this out?

Mobile OS and phone makers are incentivize not to do this because of various vested interests.
Ha, I suppose you’re expecting to get downvoted by HN’s Christian contingent? Somehow I think you’ll be okay.
He was just an added threshold layer to the network. :)
Despite warnings, All Children's kept operating. Babies died
I don't think history beat bears that out.

I was just listening to an interview with Deborah Blum on her new book, The Poison Squad, concerning the history of food safety regulations. It seems like most corporations have strong incentives to make defective products; bad products drive out good.

As for litigation, without regulations, you could only sue on the grounds that the corporation knowingly violated some "reasonable" standard of behavior.

One example that comes to mind is vinyl chloride in hairspray:

"The companies did not, however, immediately move to take the chemical out of hairspray. Their major fear seemed to be the possibility of lawsuits. In a January 1973 meeting, industry lawyers warned of the enormous potential legal liability:

""If vinyl chloride proves hazardous to health, a producing company's liability to its employees is limited by various Workmen’s Compensation laws. A company selling vinyl chloride as an aerosol propellant, however, has essentially unlimited liability to the entire U.S. population.""

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-crusa...

https://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/evidence/secrecy_pop02.html
Sounds like you are talking about the OAuth authentication flow which is designed to use a separate window/iframe for entering credentials. This allows the application to authenticate the user without ever having access to the cleartext credentials.