skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting point.

it's also interesting, though, that governments and law enforcement are completely willing to treat objects as individuals when they want to confiscate it. my understanding of many civil forfeiture laws is that they "charge" the object with drug trafficking, or whatever, and then take it when the object doesn't mount a vigorous legal defense.

(i'd be happy to be corrected by someone who understands this better than me; I'm just pointing out that it's a related legal issue)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United... :

Civil forfeiture begins when government suspects that a
property is connected with illegal drug activity, and files
a civil action:[20]

The government simply files a civil action in rem against
the property itself, and then generally must prove, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the property is
forfeitable under the applicable forfeiture statute. Civil
forfeiture is independent of any criminal case, and because
of this, the forfeiture action may be filed before
indictment, after indictment, or even if there is no
indictment. Likewise, civil forfeiture may be sought in
cases in which the owner is criminally acquitted of the
underlying crimes ...

— Craig Gaumer, Assistant United States Attorney, 2007[20]
The same system - Sanifair - is also active in the UK; last time I was in Germany, they cost 70 cents per visit - extrapolate that to the amount of visitors / hour and I think you get a decent wage to keep the toilets clean at all times. In addition, you get a coupon worth 50 cents, which can be spent at all gas stations / truck stops using the same system (most of them), incentivising making a purchase to help cover more costs.

In addition, the bathroom areas are designed to be easy to clean and brightly lit.
No. Their passenger services had around $100 million in profits, according to their 2017 report.

Much lower margins, of course, but still profitable.
How it feels to have 'millennial burnout'
By the same logic, YouTube creators should only use YT to build an audience, then switch to hosting their own videos. Yet they want to remain on the platform.
Roads that would be clogged with more passenger traffic if there was no mass transit available. Better train infrastructure isn't just good for people who take the train, it's also good for road traffic.
Yup, you're right on that one.

I don't think I explicitly said that one should use iodine + DoH to bypass captive portals, but sorry if that somehow was implied.

The blogpost was just intended to be an experiment to compare the performance :-)
Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs
I understand that, but that has nothing to do with STM in general and everything with Haskell solution in particular.
Why would a decrease in price drive an increase in competition?
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Wait, this is easy — have candidates interview each other, and extend offers to every pair that would hire each other.
I was stopped by a cop in Berlin for jaywalking. He didn't give me a ticket. But there were no cars around either.

There is also an unspoken rule for jaywalking, don't do it around kids. I also saw 3 tween girls walking across the street on a green, they were right around half way when the crosswalk light turned red. They all turned around and went back. It was kind of funny. My American friend told me a funny story where he was drinking with German friends, and they walk back at like 3am with no cars in sight and he of course crosses the street and all the Germans were back at other side waiting for it to turn green.
Cost. Growing pigs is expensive, it takes more space, more food, and more time.
It was once tried at Gare de Montparnasse, but wasn’t too successful.

Most of the TGV traffic is at Paris, where all stations in the city are terminus stations. So you’ll always have one power car at the platform and on the other side you are often constrained by signals.
Pigs are used in research, but they are expensive. Maybe 1000 times the cost of mice? The techniques described in the article (bad choice of temperature and environment) are cutting corners, but testing on pigs instead would completely change the amount of testing you can do.
> The client doesn't seem to care, and just sees the 5-20 second webpage load times as totally normal

Yes, but will they tolerate 2 minute page load times? 10 minute?

At some point reality kicks in and you start to have to care about the nuts-and-bolts hardware.
What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?
Yep. Look at his announcement from a few months ago. "I will pre-approve all posts on Twitter".
"lately"?

You are reporting something that was announced in 2010.

It should now be put into the context of the French and German governments' wish to merge Alstom with Siemens.

'Lately' (2018), Alstom signed a deal to sell TGVs to Morocco.
Eurostar trains are less comfortable than TGV trains, though.
That's curious, I find that statement so slimy I'm afraid to slip on it.

It tries to misdirect the conversation by painting the criticism as "not design to accommodate the homeless", when it actually was "don't design to purposefully exclude the homeless", which their design does at the expense of being worse for non-homeless people too (everyone may need to lie down sometimes).

It also indirectly portraits anything done to ameliorate a social ill negatively, which is a shitty thing to do.

Fuck me, that statement makes me angry. At least "just doing my job" is honest, now I'm hoping they go bankrupt.
Very careful with this option, as it's based in the EU which means free speech is not considered; that makes it a very dangerous option for podcast and youtube creators, opinion bloggers, etc.
And careful people keep in mind that only what's defined in the standard can be expected to be true across compiler updates.
1. Not a good example. Kinect has a depth sensor - this guys claim to do it from a 2D photo.

2. OK, then what the point of showing it if it is prerecorded? that does not show any real value to users. Basically nothing different from a video.

3. Its impossible to disguise real light the way you say it. This is fundamental technical limit. I am not sure how magic leap is doing it if doing at all.
Sub-Acute Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking
Are you able to process payments as low as 1c and if so, aren't fees exceeding the amount charged?
What is nice about this approach is that it gives you an instant map of the codebase (where the important parts are, etc.) that you really just can't get any other way.
Yes, what ves said. Read the Wikipedia article to see the first known Sankey chart (which actually predated Sankey), Minard’s famous diagram of Napoleon’s campaign in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram
The department cannot get rid of mission critical maintenance. If you do that, your company dies right there and then once you're even minimally unlucky.
The newcomers have a delay where they need to be trained, which is typically measured at at least a year.

The new guys get removed first. Ones working on shiny less critical processes. Shiny and critical generally happens in startups.

When legacy is being replaced, old timers generally see the writing on the wall and move on as well as retrain.
That screams blockchain, doesn't it? ;-)
Err UK rail was famously terrible before "privatisation".

Not that privatisation is the answer, nor that being public was at fault, but I'm not sure rewriting history is helpful.

Looking at UK water companies being privatised so their owners can stuff them full of debt to get around the profit caps is probably a better case study.

Profit percentage caps are silly because the obvious way to make more money is to make the entire service more expensive by wasting money, this increasing turnover, thus increasing the size of that 4%.

Monopolies being privatised doesn't seem super helpful either, but hey, that's the UK for you.
This works up until the part of the research where you cut the pet open to see what the effects were.
1. Assess how much of the code is actually understood. Is there any record of the design decisions, the edge cases, the debugging process, the paths that weren't taken? Who knows the most about the codebase and how it got to be how it is?

2. What's the current specification? Don't look at the stack, look at input and output cases. How well does the code meet the spec? Where is it failing?

3. Before you change anything you need to know what the change process is. You probably do already know this, but if you don't need to find out whether there are any demarcations of responsibility, even if they're only informal and unstated areas of interest.

4. When you have all that, you can start working on the code with some knowledge of the context you - and the code - are operating in.

5. If code works, don't rewrite or refactor for style without a very very good reason. And don't do it unless you can change all the "bad" code at once. Otherwise you'll end up with a mess of incompatible idioms that make future changes hard to read.

6. Write your own docs as you go. Best case is other people will benefit from reading them, worst case is you'll remind yourself what you were doing six months from now - because you'll have forgotten by then.

If you're a junior you may not have access to all of the above, so the fall-back is to find out what you specifically are supposed to do, and where you're supposed to do it.

If that's vague or unspecified, I'd suggest studying the code to make your own model of it and then running possible actions past other team members and the client before you make the first few changes - to establish a working pattern.
> In 2021, France will be trying something completely new with its high-speed services. For the first time, rival companies will be allowed to vie with SNCF, competing with the national provider on major routes.

Completely new for France, I guess? This has been reality in Italy for years: Trenitalia and Italo both operate high-speed trains on major routes.

> In its double-decker carriages, moving around by wheelchair will be far smoother, thanks to platforms that can lift and rotate at the end of each wagon.

Why would you even want to go to the upper deck on a wheelchair?
Chinese AI startup raises $600m as Beijing pushes chip industry
It's an experiment on how much cash you can grab :)
Is there a micropayment service he could have used, to avoid micropayments showing up on a bank statement? Do any such services event exist?

Is this PCI compliant, since CC numbers are typed on his page?
GPGPU is definitely not having "no use outside of HPC".
Almost any modern game engine that you use nowadays use GPGPU in some ways (for AI, Physics, some terrain processing, ...).
GPGPU is also insanely popular in modern AI these days. Almost any AI framework has backend with CUDA or OpenCL.
A lot of Offline renderer also use GPGPU nowadays.

And this is just a few example that come to mind. The number of application that benefit from high-latency, high-throughput computations are plenty. Why do you think NVidia is still pushing and updating CUDA ?

> Otherwise for anything "GPGPU" in usage it tends to really just be "GPU"

It's like saying most turing-complete usage tend to be just "CPU". You can absolutely do GPGPU with just "normal" GPU usage. After-all, what is an array of data if not a texture ? A lot of processing are implemented this way: A texture and a pixel shader. But it doesn't mean that it is not GPGPU. GPGPU means that the GPU doesn't limit us to displaying polygons on the screen.
Consumers see no need for $2k foldable phone, poll shows
Tencent-backed brokerage Futu targets $130m in US listing
Author here, in case anyone wants to question, abuse, argue, etc.
Years ago I read an article where the author argued that between network effects and indirect beneficiaries of transportation services markets are extremely sub-optimal. Also the value of the service varies widely as well. One box contains a toaster anotherbox contains a vital part needed to get a machine shop back up and running.
More than being an inexperienced programmer with shiny keywords.

An experienced programmer with all the shiny keywords is rare.
What makes this different than any other business idea that legally convinces customers to part with their money?
Named parameters. Even the first one. I don't know why named parameters aren't a thing outside Apple languages. They save so much time referring to documentation and jumping around between different files and code.
4- Fulfill a "we really looked for domestic candidates, honest!" checkbox before hiring on visa.
Japan antitrust probe to target Amazon, Rakuten and beyond
I thought it might just pretend to charge you, but I typed in some bogus numbers with a valid checksum, and it was rejected.
Working Remotely Is Dehumanizing
Thanks for the info. I'm sorry, you were right, that was a bad source.

However, the rebuttal surprisingly leaves out a graph that directly shows temperature against glaciation, solar output and co2, but rather just talks about the comparison, without showing it. I don't find that particularly convincing of anything. Just because

> "Around 446 million years ago, volcanic activity dropped while rock weathering remained high."

it doesn't follow that

> "This caused CO2 levels to fall below 3000 ppm, initiating cooling. It turns out falling CO2 levels was the cause of late Ordovician glaciation.",

especially given that this simple graph of all 3 influences mentioned (sun output, glaciation, and co2 levels) against temperature isn't included. Do you know of a source that shows this?

> "So we see that comparisons of present day climate to periods 500 million years ago need to take into account that the sun was less active than now. What about times closer to home? The last time CO2 was similar to current levels was around 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene. Back then, CO2 levels remained at around 365 to 410 ppm for thousands of years. Arctic temperatures were 11 to 16°C warmer (Csank 2011). Global temperatures over this period is estimated to be 3 to 4°C warmer than pre-industrial temperatures. Sea levels were around 25 metres higher than current sea level (Dwyer 2008)."

Again, it's hard for me to take this seriously without seeing the comparison between the different forces that are identified against each other and temperature. It's like someone was peering at something through binoculars and said they saw an elephant. They offer as proof by stating, "I see a trunk, and a tail, and its tusks..", but they won't let you look through the binoculars yourself. (Also the Csank 2011 link gives a 404)

The best I could find was https://www.co2levels.org/, which if you click the buttons in the top left, can be massaged in displaying co2 vs temperature for the last 800k years. And even in this period there are a few the temperature decouples from the co2 levels and mostly the temperature rise precedes the rise in co2, which makes one think that co2 entering the atmosphere is a effect of climate rather than a cause.

> You have to understand geology to be able to compare. If you don't, people with agenda will easily sell you worthless graphs. Worthless as in "CO2 was higher when there were no plants and animals on the land at all, just the naked rocks." Nice target you have.

I'm not saying the earth was the same as before. Just that the idea is that co2 is causing irreversible warming and that's that, isn't supported very well by the evidence I've seen. At best what you have given me shows that the co2 causing warming isn't entirely disprovable.

I guess what I'm worried about is that the news often simplifies complex topics to, "it's a disaster!", or alternatively, "it's a hoax!" I don't think things are that simple, yet I haven't heard from anyone, scientist or no, that things are not either a "disaster" or a "hoax".
Every message so far is some form of test. And what else would you expect? Nobody will care to continue chatting if there is no purpose uniting the room, especially when the more you participate the worse off you are. What are you hoping to achieve here? Or is this just a useless gimmick to get you a couple bucks?
The same as the difference between any other business idea that legally convinces customers to part with their money, and any social experiment.
That'd make a nice cyberpunk billboard in 10 years.
Do we really need yet another coffee maker ?
GitHub API for ID Verification, PEP Check (ICOs, Exchanges)
Things that you can do to support a girlfriend post-abortion
If Google was truly not evil they would supply leadership and the billion dollars.

Aws and Google alone make hundreds of billions on the back of Linux and give back almost nothing.
What useful Python tools have you developed for image data as a data engineer?
I help with some data engineering efforts. One of my osten occuring tasks is to help prepare image data (typically millions) for training deep neural networks. I wish to know if there are useful tools if anyone has authored in python, whether in-house or open-source that has benefited your organisation. Thanks.
Lightning network, where are you?
we are looking for talent as hard as we can

... and yet you neither mention details nor have any contact info here or in your profile.
Are you saying that there isn't free speech in the EU? What are you basing this statement on?
South Korea moves up 5G mobile network launch to March
I see a following potential issue: when it becomes popular, company advertising product is much more likely to spend $1 than the average user.

Interestingly enough that should hold true regardless of the price (assuming popularity, and very low risk that this is all just generated by a single person). Because users who spend more money are a more valuable target.
A true red flag I ignored when I was a very young developer was
> 'Write code that does not need to be tested.'.
being a requirement for a junior position.
I came from a freelance background where tests were not a requirement or even unwelcome due to the work overhead and cost.
Suffice to say I did not stay at this company for long.
It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
Sorry for the late reply but check out https://github.com/electrickite/luks-tpm2 and scencrypt in AUR.
Having worked in 2 startups, almost all I've learned I did myself.

Finding people more talented/experienced than you is hard in startups, and there's this really bad tendency to build everything as a prototype, while very rarely you get to convert something to a stable product.

So while you get to practice on possibly a broad array of topics, you rarely get to get beyond the beginner level / learn the best practices for it.

In the long run, this can be really disruptive for your career if you don't take the time to practice on your own.
Expectation–Maximization Algorithm in JavaScript
What content can you host on Patreon? I only really have experience with authors and text is cheap to host. Can you host video?
Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.
Observability Is for Troubleshooting
If the first employee had left their college, family, or country to join the startup - would they have gotten as much stock as the founder? How much risk must the first employee take on in order to be compensated at the same level?

On the same note - the lack of a paycheck says nothing about the risk of a founder. A founder may very well start with more money, more opportunity, or a bigger safety net than any future employees.

The lack of a paycheck also doesn't tell us anything about how much the founder's skills and creative input contributed to the success of the company VS the first employees.

If they both have been there since the beginning, it is very possible that the company would similarly not exist if the first employees hadn't joined. So "The company couldn't exist without the founder" could also hold true for "The company couldn't exist without the first employees".

I think it's an interesting question - should you be compensated for your contributions to the success of the company or should you be compensated for the risk you took on in working for it.

I feel as though most founders would agree with being compensated for your contributions to success. Though most founders also wouldn't give their first employee's a similar cut of the reward, to themselves.
In astrophysics yes (although I only follow the fields through friends), quite a lot of linear algebra/physics reference libraries are in Fortran, and new programs are still being developed in the more modern versions of it.

In Bioinformatics, not at all. Or at least in no direct way that I'm aware of. Sure, R packages indirectly call upon Fortran libraries (LAPACK et al.), but user facing programs are mostly, from my experience, written in C, C++, Java, Python & Perl.
Many countries in the EU have blasphemy laws and the European Court of Human Rights says they are okay:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

If someone criticised Jesus Christ in their podcast (for example), they would be putting Liberapay at risk. I don't believe Liberapay would allow that, so they'd just ban the user. That's what makes Liberapay a risky option.
Does it? I thought even bitcoin had transaction fees.
Mobile user acquisition – 7 ways to attract new users
Clean up the mess about leaves of absence on Slack
Nor did that changed anything. Most employees are contractors nowadays.

French politics must stop playing with trains and grow up. And fire the management that's been there for 10 years and made it worst.
There are two dead comments that are both just straightforward criticisms of this. I don't get it. The question is basically, "How do we keep bathrooms tidy?" and the answer is massive spending programs. Criticism of this sentiment is verboten. What the hell?

As to the subject, gas stations and fast food restaurants, etc, have always been effectively public bathrooms all through the US. Maybe San Francisco is an exception that people here confuse with a rule.
MWC 2019: Huawei Politics, Robots and Speedy 5G
Seems like a good way to get an angry e-mail from your ISP, or Twitter's lawyer.
It's not that they were total hacks. It's that they fell into the 1 standard deviation of the normal distribution that made them an average developer. Average devs produce the status quo, which is "software that works but that everyone complains about having to maintain". In my experience people with solid framework design and system architecture skillsets invariably fall into the top tail end of the distribution. They aren't like other developers. And they're rare. They can and often do get dubious pleasure out of making old code new again.
The thing is most sorting requirements are idiotic and despite them, trash still needs to be checked by hand, mostly because people put them in wrong bins(for example some paper cups shouldn't be put with paper - because they consist of 3 layers, and one of those layers needs a different process for recycling).

Over here the requirements are to sort your trash into 7 categories, of which 5 are recyclable.. and we generally speaking live in pretty small houses/flats compared to US.

why not make a simple system consisting of 3 categories: food waste(wet trash) - which you dispose daily because it stinks otherwise, dry trash - which won't stink, and recyclables?

The main idea behind recycling should be to make people recycle(emphasis on people), not to make it easier on sorting company, nor recycling company.
Soya yoghurt is definitely more similar to dairy yoghurt than soya milk is to dairy milk. The underlying tastes are only subtly different, in a way a merlot grape wine might be different to a cabernet grape.