skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. So if Bing started getting better at detecting duplicate articles and keeping track of duplicates per domain and ranked them lower that would be a big improvement over Google. Doesn't sound hard to do it you've got search engine size resources.
London Metro Police Deploy Facial Recognition Tech Sporting a 100% Fail Rate
In what sense is NYT not a corporation like FB, looking after the interest of their shareholders? They are public and listed on NYSE with a market cap of $4B, and their stock has still to recover from the 2002 prices, which probably makes all the main shareholders pretty mad considering the large market bull run of the past decade.

Mind you, I'm not defending FB in any capacity, I just find it odd to not treat NYT articles like what they are: just another biased piece put out by a biased giant media corporation.
Yeah it's crazy that it's not fixed yet. About 5 years when I was using VMs for my development environment I remember that bug causing all sorts of issues with assets not loading correctly.

It's also why I recommend people avoid Docker Toolbox like the plague since it uses VirtualBox under the hood. Either use Docker for Windows (if you have Windows 10 Pro), or roll your own VMWare Player (free) VM which doesn't have that bug, has way better I/O performance in the end and isn't much harder to set up.
I don't think it's wise to encourage even more tracking of people/objects moving around in the real world.

it probably wouldn't be that bad if government could track autonomous semis making deliveries to large shopping centers, but I wouldn't want it to have fine-grained data on who goes where and who delivers to their house.
Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)
People just want a nice place to work at a decent price. There is no brand loyalty in this space. If someone has a nice product next door people will move. Same as Uber vs Lyft. Nobody cares what logo is on the car.
Adriving School Kettering
Finally a problem that blockchain technology can solve?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719816
Different countries have different cost of living expenses. Housing+food+transportation in SE Asia is much, much cheaper than the US or Western Europe. For USD1500 a month you can live like a king in Bangkok, or a pauper in SF.

Saving money isn't just about making more money, but just as much as cutting expenses.
I wouldn't even mind shelling out $50 for a license if I needed one, but they won't let me. It takes $5000, because they require a purchase of 100 or more at a time. It feels like they don't want to spend time on small stuff, and really don't care.
If they are just deleting accounts where someone logged in from a treasury-barred country’s IP, I wonder what happens if you BGP hijack a small amount of that address space, somehow get admins or high profile users to connect via this (run WiFi? Some kind of proxy?), and then observe the chaos.
This sounds a bit interesting, extending trips doesn't sound like a common occurrence, but you say you met 200+ people that did just that?
Isn't the new Hyper-V support in VBox 6.0 using that? https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hyperv-support
Advertising: Why billboards and outdoor ads are booming in a smartphone age
That argument was blown out of the water when copyright started to be retroactively extended.
Both. The one at 180 AU would be considered the 9th known planet from the Sun, until the one at 120 AU was discovered.
Holy cow, what an ugly user interface. I mean, it wasn't exactly a Matisse before, but it's just hideous now on macOS.

Who thought "easy to use" rhymed with "make the icons look like nearly identical and somewhat indistinguishable blue squares"? Who decided that an already rather unprofessional drawing of Tux needed to be transformed into Baby's First Vector Drawing™?

And why, when previous versions already did a semi-respectable job of at least _pretending_ to look like a native Cocoa app on macOS, does version 6 not only regress its implementation of the Aqua theme down to everything-is-grey but do so by getting rid of the gradient that emulated NSToolbar on most settings windows whilst then _adding_ ugly gradients to the list of VM settings on the main window in place of the vastly more functional rounded rectangles with separate headers of previous versions?

You see, if it's possible to regress the user interface so badly _when it was already fine_, I don't hold much hope for the rest of the technology. Call me a snob, but it reeks of sloppiness.
Was this with your GP or did you just turn up at the A&E with minor ailments - turning up at the A&E with something you should be seeing a GP with will mean you got the back of the queue.

I have never had a problem getting a appointment to see my GP.
https://richg42.blogspot.com/2016/08/rads-ground-breaking-lo...
Somehow I feel sorry for the little rat.
That’s finite demand as the effort of going to the doctor is non zero. People in good heath are not going to waste their time.

Assuming the average doctor’s visit is 15 minutes and the average person goes to the doctor every month. That’s only 1 GP per 640 people. After that point they might send you to a specialist some fraction of the time, but it’s still finite.

Consider dental insurance is ~15$ a month and most people go to the dentist twice a year. That’s about what GP side of heathcare costs. It’s the care after that point from people with actual issues that gets expensive. Yet, without the vast overhead of insurance you cut the costs of providing actual heath in half. Which more than covers the costs from people that are currently turned away.

PS: And yes billing is ~50% of current US costs when you include Doctor time dealing with paperwork. Remember the entire insurance industry and their profit is pure added cost, but so is the medical billing people inside each provider.
Staff at Amazon's Swansea warehouse 'treated like robots'
This reminds me of The Expanse (Nemesis Games). In the future (~2300s), they use an "expert system" to recreate images of stars obscured by dust clouds. It creates a "computational lens that couldn't exist in the physical world". In one instance, the main characters use this technology to recreate images from a hand-terminal (smartphone) whose screen has been shattered.

Relevant excerpt: https://books.google.com/books?id=A_-zBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT239&ots...
Read the paragraph after the lightning bolt.

Genuinely excited about the applications of this technology to astronomy.
The NYC Transit Mess
> Why can’t we worry about multiple things at once?

That was exactly my point. Is it somehow a bad thing to acknowledge criticism of both parties, largely in support of 40acres's point? Is it somehow better to use criticism of one as an excuse to ignore the other, as a pseudo-refutation of my own point? That's the truly noxious kind of whataboutism.
Iran is one of the most heavy users of social accounts to influence the world, amongst Russia and China.
I also think it would be great if we could just do "world_model = fold(books)" instead of simulation.

Is anyone aware of such efforts/results?
Edit: You don't have to go far to see that DeepMind are pushing AlphaZero as "general purpose". This is the title of their Science paper on it:

A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140

"General" as in what? As opposed to reinforcement learning, in er, general? As opposed to other ANN architectures?

>> I am in no way dismissing AlphaZero's truy remarkable abilities in both chess and other games like go and shogi.

More to the point- it's only chess, go and shogi; not games "like" those.

The AlphaZero architecture has the structure of a chessboard and the range of moves of pieces in chess, go and shogi hard-coded and you can't just take a trained AlphaZero model and apply it to a game that doesn't have either the board or the moves of those three games.

To be blunt, AlphaZero has mastered chess, go and shogi, but it can't play noughts-and-crosses.
This is only true for refugees, economic migrants usually have a wide range of good jobs to choose from.

And unemployment is at its lowest point in year in Canada.
Fortnite teen hackers 'earning thousands of pounds a week'
"originating from" is an interesting phrase as far as the internet goes and people's mobility.

Is that when the account was first used? Majority of use related to IP? Something to do with the email address?
Iran is an amazing country and the people even more so, never ever met people more kind, giving (even when they don't have anything they give you all they've got), helpful, funny and down to earth. The fauna, flora and architecture alone is worth it, the people is just the icing on the cake.
Oh yes :-) there is a reason renal units are often in separate areas.
The claimed reinvention from scratch of a text editor, and the nice command, are in fact nothing of the sort. One is a means for invoking a text editor (of one's choice) against particular configuration files, no more a "reinvention from scratch" of a text editor than the vipw command is; and the other is one of the several settings specifying eventual service process state, and is no more a reinvention from scratch than the Service Access Facility's "ulimit" built-in was in 1988.

* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-0214/6m6nf1of0/inde...

This is one of the standard parts of service management, and service management toolsets all have to do it, either employing nice or their own mechanisms. Gerrit Pape's toolset does it with the -n option to chpst, for example.

* http://smarden.org/runit/chpst.8.html

Ironically given the subject of Debian, one can look to the Debian package archive (or indeed the FreeBSD or NetBSD ports tree and some others) to see lots of actual reinventions of a text editor.

* https://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/

* http://www.guckes.net/vi/clones.php3

Similarly, the claim that cron is only just now being reinvented from scratch looks rather ill-informed given the existence of tools such as Uwe Ohse's uschedule and the multiple "cron" tools, many of which reinvent the design in significant ways (Bruce Guenter's split of scheduling, spooling, and updating into separate services being a notable example); and given the fact that Paul Vixie's "original" PD Cron was actually itself a from-scratch clone.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808251

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005677
Smart move. This shouldn't surprise anyone that makes a point of avoiding US prosecution and jail:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/huawei-cfo-accused-of-frau...

https://www.bassberrygovcontrade.com/iran-sanction-violation...
I was thinking more about civil liability and not necessarily from the thief. Say the thief crashes into pedestrians - the victims families might go after the thief and the bomb maker.
Apologies for late reply. I have listed the issues for you that Hochbahn has summarised in their public statements. Following points are at the very least not satisfactory, some are almost seen as fraudulent claims from BYD:

- Passenger comfort, spacing in the busses, quality of used materials, information systems

- No regard or interest for European market and no licenses

- Batteries are not sufficient for actual service, listed capacities are not representative of normal use due to variables in traffic, weather, road conditions, driver performance, air conditioning

- BYD faces criticism for many issues with their busses such as reported inability to drive up hills

- BYD seems to report battery capacity at twice (!) of their practical capacity in every day use

- BYD busses have reduced life spans, making their e-busses even more uneconomic

These are problems of early/novel e-busses but it effectively leads to the inability to deliver a service at the quality that German customers demand. There is simply no way that anyone will be ok with getting out of a bus into the rain/snow, walking the rest of the track because the battery suddenly ran out earlier than expected.
The radiation pattern isn't the strongest there, however. Antennae on mobiles will be strongest emitting from the back and sides, with less out the front. Any RF that gets absorbed by the body is wasted energy, so they optimise the antennae to emit away from the body in the typical orientation.
The NYT is a corporation. A corporation who lied about the WMD, garnering support for a war which caused death and endless suffering to millions of people.
We're talking about pilots, airport personel, and police, who have been reporting several drone sightings over a long period, and are continuing to report drone sightings (the runway is still closed because drones are still being seen despite the area now teeming with police).

Seems to me to be as reliable as can be.

There have been many previous incidents and the occurrence is increasing. This seems to be the major one that is going to shake things up.
I read somewhere that communist countries tend to invest more in infrastructure: communication and mass transit that bring people together and allow information to flow faster, since decision making is centralized. Of course China is no longer a planned economy and this applied more to the 20th century than now.
I miss Myspace, it was way less creepy and IMHO led to much more meaningful communication.
The Syrian ban comes from a U.S. federal sanction. Not arguing that the sanction is right, or that Slack is correctly implementing its adherence, but this is not a similar situation to people calling for a boycott to make a point.
What about fines and jail time?

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
> In signal processing complex numbers are useful for more purely mathematical reasons.

Yes, but as always you can ask yourself: is this merely a coincidence (if there is such a thing as one) or is this reflecting some deeper relation between nature and mathematics?

After all, a "signal" is quite a general and abstract notion.
Great work, Tarsius!

> The use of a database makes certain future changes more difficult. While I will try to keep breaking changes to a minimum, I have little hope that I can make it without any at all. In some cases it might even be necessary for users to discard the existing database.

I wonder what issues you have in mind. The way I see it, a database should be able to make it easier to avoid breaking changes, if you version tables and for every would-be breaking change you add code that migrates the changed tables to the newest format.
The majority of phrases and words in any language have a modern meaning that does not resemble their literal origins. That’s how language works.
Why don't you use a free alternative as Matrix? If you self host, then you are the only one who controls who your users are.
Is this whataboutism?

Funny I've been using Youtube for years, the only pirated content I've encountered were a few TV documenties and some unwacthable movies, and they seem to be deleted often.

Never saw Youtube promote and recommend any pirated content to me, unlike Bilibili.

Bilibili's front page is almost normal and all good, their shady stuff seems buried deep, my ipad is full of pirated Youtube videos with hundreds of thousands of views.
NET Core – What's Coming in .NET Core 3.0
Facebook is far from where Microsoft were in 2003-2007. Most people (90-something percent?) could chose between Microsoft or Apple or no computer at all.

Ordinary consumers could not use a text editor, a spreadsheet, send an email, or browse the internet, without doing it form either a Windows or Apple computer. Apple was a secluded niche for graphical designers and the like. Almost everybody else used a Windows computer. There were whole industries where everybody only used Windows operating system and the Office suite and where you could not work without.

Almost nothing ties me to Facebook and most businesses are not dependent on Facebook in any way. I can use computers, phones etc. without Facebook. I can contact people without it, write to them, see their pictures and videos etc. I can go online without. Most companies nowadays function perfectly fine without Facebook. If Facebook disappeared, only a few niches such as game studios, advertisers etc. would truly lose customers or the ability to work with others. Most advertising could be done through other channels in a matter of hours. Contacts with friends could be made in days using other platforms.

I was going to say that Facebook is where Microsoft were at some point in the late 70s or early 80s when it was just one out of several alternatives, but the comparison is just not good.
United States sanctions: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
Resume examples from people that got hired in Tesla, Google, Spotify
An iPhone costs roughly the same no matter where you live, it’s still more fun to visit Vietnam on an SF salary then it is to visit SF on a Vietnamese salary.
and clients
All I remember from MySpace is "Thanks for the add!"
Is anyone using VirtualBox on the desktop? Specifically, to run Linux/macOS/Windows guests on a macOS host?

Would you recommend it? Or is the best option VMware Fusion, Parallels, or something else?
You don't have to pay artists for music if you don't listen to it.
Assuming the prison system uses signal blocking, my uninformed guess would be that there would be concerns about it interfering with flight systems.
I am OK with using this logic when it comes to individuals using media for non-profit purposes, but movie studios are out to make money. Saying "if it didn't exist they wouldn't have used it" is taking away from the final composed project that includes many artists and mediums.
State monad?
Of course the problem is that the US is such a big country with huge immigration and scandinavian countries arent so it's always hard to compare.

I really don't understand why it being a big country would make things difficult. Any sane person would adjust the needs dependent on state and smaller. Norway's population is about the same as Indiana's, but is more sparsely populated - so some of the same problems as the western states. The benefit of the US being large would be that there are more pools to draw money from. And there are just as many opportunities to save money.

For example, Norway will send a nurse to one's home up to 6 times a day. For free. Even if you live on a cabin on an island or on a mountain. Why? Simply because it is still cheaper than a nursing home, overall. And as a bonus, folks tend to live longer and be happier with life.

As far as immigration goes, it is impossible to compare. But: Not every immigrant gets free healthcare. I get the state healthcare because my immigration status is family immigration - my spouse is Norwegian. If I were here for a job, however, I'd have to pay for health insurance. Of course, they'll still treat someone that pays cash and still treat emergencies. I don't really see how this would be an issue in the US either so long as the laws were set up correctly.

I'll further add that I think the healthcare is a bit different if folks are coming from an EU country - there are agreements in place about health care and things like that. Again, I don't see why this wouldn't be the case in the states.
How to make journal bundles ("big deals") fair and promote quality?
https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/100
Nonblocking I/O (2017)
You can query hundreds of thousands of rows in a text file on a command line in a raspberry pi with grep and wc.
BTW, there are some pay-to-chat applications. i.e. WowApp (https://www.wowapp.com/w/byteofmydream) and also you can spend earned money to charity. Sorry for spam, I just think it's a bit related to the topic
I would probably guess it's geolocation at time of registration.
From a technical standpoint what they're saying is if your IP matches any of these countries, we cannot allow you on our services. It's got nothing to do with ethnicity if a Puerto Rican guy from Orlando goes to Iran and gets banned, it's all about the IP not the person.

Seems they might want to tone down their bans starting from the moment the policy came to be vs doing it from the dawn of Slack's time, not sure how the policy is written and I'm not a lawyer so maybe they went off from legal advise.
Or just plain name checking.

One of the personal projects of mine was to put on a map the nationalized buildings that used to be owned by Jewish owners (I live in a former Easter-European communist country, we did nationalize a lot of stuff immediately after WW2 ended). That was pretty simple: I just got the nationalization order/law from back in the day (it included the names of the building owners and the addresses), I inputed it in a database and then I matched those owners' names against a public database containing only jewish names, meaning this one [1]. It was a lot more difficult to exactly geo-locate those buildings on a map (a lot of street names had changed in the last 70 years) than it was to guess the ethnicity of a lot of people on that list.

Again, this was part of a personal project that I had built in order to better know the history of the local Jewish community, but I could see the same "technique" (meaning just plain name matching against a known database with positive ethnic identification) being used for nefarious reasons in other circumstances and places.

[1] https://www.yadvashem.org/
Torresol and other spanish companies have some experience with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torresol_Energy

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_st...
It breaks commonly used tools, like RES. And using reddit without keyboard navigation is just painful.
Part of the problem is derivative works. I don't think even Disney cares too much if people stream Steamboat Willy - but if MGM Studios wants to create a new Mickey Mouse film that could be a problem for them.

Still I have little sympathy - it's hard to argue that endless Twilight fan-fiction did the franchise any harm. And there's plenty of non-canon James Bond films that have no impact on the main franchise.
I've used Parallels before and found it amazing - fast, simple and easy.

It's not worth the cost unless you use it very frequently though.
As bad as it may sound, but from what I can read in the tweets, he did violate the sanctions by using slack while being in iran.

Well, that is called breaking the law and I fully understand why slack terminated his account when he broke the law and violated their terms of service.

For example, other services or tools (like cisco anyconnect) clearly state, that you are not allowed to use them when in embargoed contries.
And this trend is to please the market by showing growing numbers of users due to developed countries having reached saturation and even increasing decline in the age range that matters (which lead to buying whatsapp and instagram at insane price tag as a defensive measure akin to panic).

But this growing numbers of users happen to lower the ARPU (average revenue per user) as those users generates almost no revenue and there's no opportunity to change that anytime soon.

There's a reason market capitalization of Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft lost about 1000 billions dollars collectively and about 20% in the recent months.

There is a form of awareness that these companies are overvalued much, that market are saturated and they are going to face the reality in the near future.

Having a lot Africans using facebook is just adding to its operating cost at the moment, economic gains from Africa are going to China. China is taking over Africa's economy at an alarming pace, not facebook.
For an idea of some of the damage that can be caused to an aircraft hitting a drone, this [0] was just a few days ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fts9u5ND24
Maybe people are only looking at base salary instead of total comp.

If anyone’s curious what the going rate is these days, visit levels.fyi and read some threads on Blind. Senior SWEs often land over 300K TC at the big companies.
Does Chrome need to ban Iranian users to?