skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quotes here give insight into the fun and dangers involved. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/663284-ignition-an-inf...

'“It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.” '

I think I learned about the book from this blog, or a HN post of it,and it is both fun and expertly informed. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
> none of those countries share a border

Precisely. That should give the reader pause to think that there's something wrong.

You're missing that the author mixed up Monaco with Montenegro (Kosovo's neighbour) because they sound similar. That's the perennial Austria/Australia confusion writ small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Index_maintena...

I guess I was wrong about the splits, but everything else still holds.
Ask HN: Why Does Google Append It's Own Url When I Copy a Link in Hangouts
If i click on hangouts and try to copy a link, google changes the url to google.com and then redirects me to that particular url. Seems such a malicious way to gather more data.

For example https://bitbucket.org gets converted to https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bitbucket.org/&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1550844724231000&usg=AFxxxxxxIzQ
"It is also not socially acceptable to be in something just for the money unless it is wall street."

I'm not sure if I can agree with that. In general that may be true, but I would have to say most people do something they don't like 'just for the money' at some point in their life. Something like working as a kid for minimum wage in a store. It's most likely that you are just working there for money.
Thank you for posting this!

Like many enterprises, we are a Java shop, and some of our more… How shall I say it? Traditional developers and managers think that there is no real benefit in to higher cost to even think upgrading decade old JVM requirements…
What I Learned About Security from Calling 35 Contact Centers
All we need now is an independent content id system that companies might use to check content against. Doing nothing will leave this to the wrong parties to implement and turn into a control point.

IMHO a simple open platform could allow content creators to register their content. Anyone could then choose to check content id against such a platform. In case of conflicts, that platform would be the place to resolve things with escalation options and arbitration built into the platform. Basically getting to a world where people register ownership of content they created would make sharing that content safe.

IMHO this is a very sane solution to this problem. Right now the problem is that we rely on content id based on databases provided by the media industry. Any conflict in these systems means the wrong decisions get taken. With an open platform, you could argue that you checked and in case of conflicts with competing systems decide even document the outcome of any manual evaluation of ownership.

IMHO this would be in the spirit of this law, protect content owners against abuse of their content, and do so in a fair and transparent way where all sides have a chance to get their rights respected. The only problem with the current way of doing content id is that it is unfair and biased towards whatever version of the truth big media companies push as the truth.
Might be nice to have an "apply all" and "download all"
"COI uses an email address ... means it can already connect 3.8 billion users"

followed by

"After checking for server compatibility..."

Does this reduce the target pool? How much?

Also, how many people still use POP?
Hilarious fact!
No it does not. This is the GDPR discussion all over again. "This will kill the internet" and "All sites will be subscription only" etc. I'm not for the proposed law but it does not does not block fair use.
Just to be pedantic, Rikers, as I recall, is a state/city jail and not a federal prison.

My personal belief is if the gov't wants you in jail, they can basically make it happen and only people with extreme resources may be able to belay that.
Interesting Page about Real Estate
There are plenty of existing methods that become economically viable if CO2 is priced properly.
I feel like this needs a lot more elaboration :)

What’s the point of having access to a ton of great advisors if they’re constantly all telling you conflicting things? Is the answer just to go with your gut? If so, why do you need the advisors? Is it more to prime your decision making with possibilities? Or is it more for tactical execution advice once you decide on a direction? Or something else?
pgAdmin has a really good EXPLAIN visualisation tool built-in which makes it into a neat little diagram
Students Contribute to Research Through Ovarian Art
First Private Moon Lander Heralds New Lunar Space Race
I can't compute "educational setting" and "copyright" in the same comment.
One of the interesting problems with the medical model that emerged during our regular contact with it when our first kid was born is that medicine is intensely normative - that is, it assumes a median condition and looks for outliers that require correction. From a statistical and biological perspective this does not make sense. There is no underlying biological norm - variation is real (as in, our fundamental biology differs), and any normal behavior is merely the result of the central limit theorem, etc. Defining this real variation as disordered seems a fundamental problem. This becomes particularly problematic when those norms are measured using a non-representative sample (e.g. white Americans) and applied to everyone else.
Apple and Goldman Sachs Partnering on a Credit Card
But the "externalities" got shifted from indonesia to somewhere else.

How about this, if indonesia told norway to go to hell, cut down their forests, got rich and then in 20 years paid Laos $1 billion to spare their forests. Would we celebrate indonesia as great environmentalists? Of course not. We'd call them hypocrites, especially when the deforestation just moved to cambodia instead.

At the end of the day, this exercise is just wealthy european neocolonialists trying to feel better about themselves as they keep a underdeveloped country poor. While norway gets to destroy their and other countries resources to enrich itself, they use that ill gotten wealth to dupe poor countries to stay poor.

How about this, lets shift wealth instead. Tax all of europe X amount of money and shift that wealth to indonesia and ASEAN to achieve an equal living standard? This way, indonesia and ASEAN won't touch their forests or resources and their living standard will be equal to that of europe? Now that would make a real difference.

Of course it would mean europeans living standard would have to decline, but europeans (especially norwegians) are such environment loving saints right? They are willing to sacrifice right? Or are they greedy like the rest of us and want others to sacrifice while they themselves enjoy the good life?

Or how about this, we give norway $1 billion to shut down their oil industry? Do you think the norwegians would agree to that? Of course not.
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This is so common in so many companies I've worked with that it doesn't even begin to surprise me. This is an accepted way of life at most tech companies.
Jeremie Miller, 1999:

> "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).

Matthew Hodgson, 2019:

> I think they missed the the bit where Matrix is called Matrix because it bridges (matrixes) the existing networks (Slack, IRC, Telegram, Discord, XMPP, etc) in, rather than needing to convince everyone to join.
That's exactly what their plan is:

>Fano sees WeWork buildings as one giant sensor for data collection, and he wants to map them down to the object. Understanding the space means understanding how to make it more efficient and better for members.

https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-secret-weapon-will-b...
Ask HN: Practical Examples for Getting Started with Document Classification
Hello, everybody,

I am a dual student from Mannheim, Germany and I am currently writing my bachelor thesis on document classification for business documents.

As I am in the early stages of my project, I am currently looking for literature and examples to familiarize myself with the topic. At the suggestion of my supervisor, here is the first ASK HN .

Are there good and practical literature as well as examples for document classification, be it text-based or layout-based?

I have already read some paper to start with, but I am missing some practical examples!

If anyone has some cool tips for me, that would be great :)

Thanks, Johannes
No, it's like complaining your IM gets access to your e-mail conversations. Or browser gets full access to your phone calls history.

Access to your e-mail account allows you to reset password in most services associated with it.
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Wear a midge jacket and a dry suit and you are good to go!

http://www.midgejacket.co.uk/

;-)

NB I seem to me relatively immune to midges, but I do seem to be popular with clegs and ticks :-(
Sweden. Out of 20 Swedish representatives 18 are against and 2 have no track record (neither clearly against or supporting): https://saveyourinternet.eu/se/

You can see how representatives in other countries voted by navigating from https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/
Facebook Stock: Too Good to Be True
pgAdmin by itself is a _really_ horrible program to use otherwise though.

I do wish that it was as polished as the database core itself seems to be.
Take this with a grain of salt since it's their own website, but Youtube themselves say they wouldn't be able to let any content on their platform stay up even if it slightly resembled copyrighted content. Think the current Content ID system times 10.

https://www.youtube.com/saveyourinternet/

https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/10/a-final-upda...
Also don't buy 20 pairs of jeans etc per year.

The cheap "fast-fashion" these days has a hidden cost you don't pay directly. And its HUGE.
That's not how it'll work though. Do vegans get more flight allowances? Do people with kids have to forgo meat as well as vacations?

Obviously no consumer choice driven solution is going to work. The costs have to be included in the goods and services if we want any actual reduction.
Xi has multiple components written in multiple languages. In the rust core, json de/serialization is not a problem, but swift is lacking a similar high-performance library.
Don't frame this as a free speech issue. Freedom of speech is as protected in the EU as it is in the US, possibly more.

Freedom of speech in Europe is not just an EU question, but also - and mainly - up to constitutions and legislation of the member states. So of course it varies. But there is less surveillance in Europe on what citizens say online, European media is less centralized than American, there are more parties with opposing views in parliaments, much less political correctness in both politics, business life, and social life. Most importantly, European courts is most member states uphold the protection of the individuals' freedom of speech.

This is legislation aimed at Google and Facebook, and other large companies, yes. Go back 15-20 years, and nobody would have thought that Google would get away with using the creations of content providers without paying a fair share. I don't see anything wrong in Google or Facebook being forced to apply filters. We have gotten used to what is truly an disgusting situation where creators of music, journalism etc. don't get paid and their works are put out on Youtube, Facebook etc. I would have liked to see a higher threshold so that only truly large companies had to worry about filters, but again; these filters will likely be easy to find in 10 different versions for free on GitHub in a couple of years, and better ones you can license for a small fee.

But I agree, Europe should finally start to tax Facebook, Google, Amazon etc.
I mean all this really is is two people sending email really quickly to each other....
Why did you decide to write this? What was the motivation?
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Call to Ban Killer Robots in Wars
An explanation on why this is an issue: any device plugged into the PCIe bus is able read and write the host memory as it pleases. How?

DMA (Direct Memory Access) is a way for peripheral devices to access main memory while circumventing the CPU. This is common and an important performance optimization, and no problem in itself. The IOMMU makes sure that this is restricted to certain memory ranges used for communicating with a device, so there is no security issue.

But it turns out that if the ATS (Address Translation Services) bit is set on a PCIe device, the IOMMU is rendered useless. The device now has free access!
Heh, a few weeks back I was listening a podcast and it mentioned when US/NATO decide to remove some foreign country's government they start by calling it regime instead of ruler/ruling party etc.
I see most PhD students in business management with Windows computers. There Macs have 5%-10% incidence rate in my experience. I work with a few CS profs and their students and all the profs use Macs and their students use either Windows or Linux (I think) machines :) I spoke with two of them who use new MBPs before buying mine and they strongly recommended buying it.

In some executive teaching in Europe I have seen people using mostly Macs. It could be because of the industry where they came from. Among the masters students in France, about 50%-60% had Macs.

The caveat remains: This is "anecdata"
Fastmail generates a password for applications that you give access, so you never actually share your real password. I imagine they could use a solution like this.
A majority of what? A poll among the general population? support of local parliamentarians in those countries?

In either case, that doesn't per-se call the democratic legitimacy into question. The entire point of a representative democracy is that you elect competent people to make decisions for you, which by definition means that a lot of the time they'll decide to do X even though Y would be the outcome if the issue were to be put to a popular vote.
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Well, it isn't surprising if you consider that the European Union was build based on an organization called « European Coal and Steel Community ». Basically Coal-Steel syndicate controlled by European Oligarchs. That's the nature of the EU.
Sure, just port the entire tex package ecosystem first would you? Tex isn't cumbersome enough to give up for anything less than feature parity with those.
OT, but I notice it can be run by #include-ing the simdjson.cpp file. How common is this in CPP projects?
If we want to just play with words to make them meaningless: humans have never left the bonds of Earth's gravity.
I'm not interested in economic viability, but energy viability. Given that we get most of our energy by creating CO2, it doesn't make sense to use some of that energy to remove some of that CO2. The only option is rapid expansion of nuclear and/or solar, but at latter will take a while and the former isn't very popular.
I wonder if it's possible to do something with bitslicing?
Yes!!! A generalization for other kinds of simple grammars would be awesome.

On another note. As a js programmer who deals with a ton of json, I would love v8 to adopt some of the tricks into their json parser.
Complete insanity!

Since when is it okay to steal money from Norway's taxpayers who disagree with this nonsense and then send it to one of most corrupt countries in the world?
And old fireman said that Steel will burn like crazy. Tree probably burns slower. Concrete also "burns" and will change characteristics (become weaker) when exposed to high temperatures. I wouln't like to be in a burning building, but a wooden building would probably be least dangerous !?
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How I Built a League of Legends Voice Assistant with Amazon Alexa
Why don't you just mine BTC and then sell it and spend the money to offset CO2? /s
i assume ther are multiple drafts and such based on various negotiations. here’s a press release that features one draft:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018...

but i found the wikipedia article to be very informative: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_th...
Is That a Robot? Dr. Bear Bot Helps Care for Kids at Local Hospital
Maybe should of made this a poll
This is more of a python generator for latex code that illustrates a neural network, not an package for drawing NN's with latex.
Visualising Mental Valuation Processes
>Don't frame this as a free speech issue. Freedom of speech is as protected in the EU as it is in the US, possibly more.

Yeah, no. This (blasphemy laws) would be unthinkable in the US:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
This is a great comment.

I’m not sure marketing belongs in the list though. It’s critical but it’s a part of execution and overlaps with several other items on the list. Just stood out to me.

I’d also challenge the last paragraph. I don’t think anything on this list matters as much as working hard. Literally every single successful business owner I’ve ever known has worked their ass off, usually for many years. For me the correlation is 100%. That’s not to say it’s sufficient but it seems necessary and the most equalizing force on your list [1]

1. Although I sometimes think in our fetishization of hard work, we ignore the fact that not everyone can grind away for years on a speculative venture even if they wanted to. I know many wonderful people who just don’t have that personality. Telling them to “outwork their competition” makes as much sense as telling someone to change their favorite color or decide to love a food they hate. It’s just not how they’re wired and that’s OK.
Not only that, they also keep asking you on every repeat visit but click 'ok' once accidentally and they will file that forever and never present you with the option to withdraw your consent.
In my personal opinion if you are doing something that risky do it when you are young. Once you cross a particular age threshold your possibilities of future pivots back to jobs will be decreased considerably. Especially in the tech industry ageism does exist. And at a young age you tend to take a more irrational leap of faiths and to an extent, that's a must for an entrepreneur in his early stages.

In my own experience, i jumped into the entrepreneurial journey right after my graduation. Was it a well thought out decision. No of course not. It was a kid chasing his dreams. All cliches aside sometimes dreams don't feed you. But if you ask me "do i regret", i would confidently say No. If you choose to be an entrepreneur, no one or no book in the world can prepare you for the shit that you are going to face and 60% of the time you'll have bad experiences. So why choose it over a well-paying job? That's a question you might have to answer. And that answer will change over time. If you go with it, be prepared for the following

It not fun (As mainstream media portray it to be).
Every morning when you wake up & your rational mind will ask you why? be prepared with an answer.
Embrace the uncertainty and learn to survive on hope.

And finally, save some money at least to survive for 3 years. Live frugally
Would any be theoretically viable? I imagine a cyst gets blown into space from time to time but wouldn't last long in a radiation filled vacuum. Solar UV radiation is intense without the atmosphere. It's why space suit visors look reflective and why spaceships tend to always be white or shiny.

Bonus: myth: space is dark. You don't get the omnipresent lit sky effect since there is no atmosphere to scatter the light but if you are anywhere near a star it is blindingly bright... in the star's direction.
Improved RNA Data Visualization Method Gets to the Bigger Picture Faster
That's one of the things we're considering. But it is by far the most idiomatic way to do things in Swift. One of the alternatives we're considering is implementing the line cache (including the update protocol) in Rust, which would be a huge performance jump.
> Maybe this will revitalize hosting of personal websites where there’s no “platform” to censor your free speech?

Then you have basically unlimited liability, as far as I can tell; hardly seems like an upside.
The webpage you linked is from last year I think. Article 13 has since been updated
On first read it totally didn't come across that way, but on second look I might just be too far out of the target group to recognize as positive what it advertises...
> Sounds like a dream job.

Yeah, I thought that too. :)

I would ride it out for as long as you can, saving as much as you can. The Cash Cushion you'd get would then give you a lot of options...
I work at a startup in India. I saw many articles on quitting jobs from big companies and pursuing dreams. I was very curious to know how are they balancing their work and life. Creating a startup is very difficult than a job at the company. Unless it's a high funded startup, most of the founders handle all the department. The stress is very high. Iteration over the product idea is another thing that makes crazy. How are you guys manage all that? But passion is a fancy word!!!
I don’t believe that incivility and disrespect are synonyms. It’s possible to rob someone blind in a civilised way, and equally to bluntly do someone a good turn.

You’re jumping backwards and forwards between the specific and the general here, but yes, I think it’s appropriate to admonish a PR person who knows there’s a journalist around for being off brand because _that’s literally their job_.

To speak to “it makes assholes of all of us”, appeals to civility and politeness have a long and sordid history of being used to oppress people, cf tone policing.
the Daylight by uplift technologies usually in the $100 range on amazon. According to a psychiatrist i spoke with this model is what was used in some of the studies showing the benefits of bright light therapy. I've used it for years and it makes a big difference.
No, I don’t think the project needs to use Codable. The point of that benchmark was to evaluate Codable’s performance under Swift 5. It was posed that performance was much improved. The benchmark points out that it has a little bit but not significantly.

Codable is desirable because it encodes/decides directly to strifes vs manually picking fields out of dicts.
Hadn't seen that particular wrapper, but if we're going to take on an FFI solution, we're more likely to use Rust for this, and implement more logic than just JSON parsing.
i have been wondering about just that...