skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cubans aren't lazy. By a long shot. I found them to be some of the most innovative and indeed they have quite the "hacker" culture given the very limited resources available to them.

And you're right, I didn't explain the property rights clearly. I commented in a rush and that was a mistake.

> Cubans were allowed to "own" real estate but the government could force them to "sell" the property at any time, at the price specified by the government, and only to the seller selected or approved by the government

What I meant by this (but did not clearly articulate) was that "homeowners" can not only be forced by the government to sell at any time (similar to eminent domain) but also need permission from the government if they want to sell. And even when they've been given permission to sell they don't list it on the open market or even have an assessment (as would happen with an eminent domain action). Instead, the government simply assigns a price to the property and then assigns a potential "buyer" for the predetermined price. If that "buyer" isn't interested, the government will assign another. I'm sure you can see how this system can easily be exploited by government administrators to obtain the most desirable property for themselves and their "friends" at an artificially low price.

And yes, I seriously linked to the Daily Mail. It certainly isn't always the best source of information but I was intending to share the photos and that link had the most variety. As I've been to the witches market, I found both the photos, and the information in the article, to be accurate and added to the conversation.

Your snarky attitude, on the other hand, adds little to HN. A quick look through your comment history makes me wonder whether you might benefit from a review of the Guidelines.
I am not sure about 'brand outreach'.

From the article:

More than 80% of internet users in North America and Europe have heard of it, and in nations where internet access is expanding rapidly, awareness of Wikipedia is growing quickly. Since 2016, for example, Wikipedia awareness in Nigeria has nearly doubled from 27% to 48% of internet users.

How can you realistically be an 'internet user' and NOT know of Wikipedia? Yet we are hovering around one in five internet users not knowing of Wikipedia. Unless 20% of the 'internet users' are under five I don't see how that goes. Even people who are not 'internet users', e.g. the geriatric crew with Alzheimer's and round the clock care assistants that can't get their children's names right have heard of Wikipedia.

I don't know how they get that 80% brand recognition up to 100%, even spending an infinite sum of money would not get them there. You have got to chuckle though, particularly with the statistic for Nigeria - again we are talking 'internet users' not some people who don't even have the telephone yet and have never seen a TV.
The problem, in all this, is not getting Wikipedia's expenses down to nothing. I use Wikipedia all the time, and I love it. It's an incredibly useful site and should be funded well enough to keep running indefinitely, and even have room for improvement.

On the other hand, if I choose to donate money to Wikmedia, 80% of it goes to other places, like their "content" sites, which consists of this bunch of mediocrity:

Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, and Wikidata.

I don't give a shit about any of these projects, the only one I really don't want to go away is Wikipedia, and the rest could die and I wouldn't even blink, except as those projects also support Wikipedia. Increase Wikipedia's expenses if you must! Double it! Triple it! Just don't pretend that the foundation is struggling to support the thing that most people donating actually care about.
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> Public roads are supposed to be paid for through fuel taxes,

No, they aren't, at least in California; fuel excise taxes (and diesel, but not gasoline, sales tax) are a part of road funding, but other sources, including general revenue (largely, sales taxes and personal and corporate income tax), are used.

EDIT: Not that taxing ride-sharing is likely to reduce congestion. It plausibly could increase it, if it induces residents of mostly walkable communities (which, sure, LA has fewer of than it should) who might otherwise rely on ride-sharing for occasional car needs to instead keep a personal vehicle, which then tends to encourage additional, less-necessary driving.
RSI seems to have gotten worse as the newer school systems are trying to be touch compatible. They also update often enough to break any useful shortcuts or get swapped for another entirely different system.
Could someone speak to the write endurance of BMC flash, vs whatever flash BIOS/UEFI lives in, vs NVRAM where now certain boot parameters are stored for persistence? Is it a total non-concern? It's not a user replaceable part.
>the only reasonable solution is to lower demand by raising the cost of driving

You can also reduce the need to travel by increasing density, which LA is attempting in certain respects.
Here is a helpful chart of USB versions and their connectors: https://preview.redd.it/s9dun6a1xmpz.png?width=960&crop=smar...

e.g. USB 3.2 has the same connector as USB-C

edit: I personally care far more about the connector than exact specs of each version
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You really shouln't use the fixed width style for lists, it's basically only useful for code.

instead you can just make a list with normal paragraphs so that lines can wrap normally.

1. Item One Das Handelsgericht Zürich hat in einem Massnahmeverfahren der Raiffeisen Schweiz gegen Inside Paradeplatz und Lukas Hässig entschieden, dass der Artikel eines anonymen Autors vom 20. August 2018 zu löschen sei.

2. Item two Das Handelsgericht hat festgehalten, dass nicht klar sei, ob unter den gegebenen Umständen der Text wirklich wie behauptet von einem ehemaligen Kadermann der Bank stamme.

3. Item three Inside Paradeplatz und Lukas Hässig wie auch Raiffeisen Schweiz akzeptieren diesen Entscheid.
There are two clear advantages:

1) Clear types and structs that are shared between client and server means that both can generate models based on a common set of data specs

2) Clients can have some autonomy in what data they choose to fetch. This is easier said than done but models may be set up to allow joins on datasets for custom model trees and reduced payload size by limiting the fields returned.
> as a financial institution you simply cannot have your IT system incompliant

This just isn’t true, or rather “compliance” tends to be quite fuzzy.

Regulators generally expect you follow recommendations from places like NIST. But it’s not a hard requirement, you just need to explain why deviating is better.

Unfortunately most fincial institutions trip up at the “explain why it’s better” bit. Either because they aren’t competent enough, or (more likely) can’t be bothered.
I'm an avid cook and a regular grocery shopper but I also get meals occasionally from a couple of services here in Canada. Getting together all of the ingredients for a meal -- many of which can only be bought in quantity, but might only be needed in very small amounts -- is much more of a nuisance and expensive than many estimate. And in the end the meal kit costs me around $40CAD for a 4 serving meal which is entirely reasonable.

Which is why I think these services are doomed. I don't see how they can do it as inexpensively as they do. Really it's a remarkable value.

And to many of the comments, one of the services here now has a selection of meals each week that are only available if you pick it up at a large grocery chain, that partnership being presumably how they're trying to reduce costs.
Transfer learning (or student-teacher training) isn't really the same thing as pre-training as it was being talked about 10 years ago. And in those days the claim wasn't that it helped a bit, but that it made training many deeper networks possible at all.
I'm not sure this is safe to use. If https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emilengler/distroverify-da... is compromised (for example your GitHub account is compromised) then it looks to me that line 51 of https://github.com/emilengler/distroverify/blob/master/distr... (in commit b55c30c) will give the attacker arbitrary code execution on anyone using this tool.
Makes me wonder how Gobble is doing.

It seems to be likely that there is a percentage of customers who will try and use these services for the long run. The trick will be for these companies to build up enough profitable customers so that they can spend on marketing to new customers and still make a profit. I'd expect some consolidation and in a few years, a handful of sustainable businesses.
One problem with the translated GCC messages was that GCC didn't use error numbers at the time (still doesn't, I think, I didn't notice anyway), so it was basically impossible to reference the error except by full error message.

MSVC on the other hand always includes a warning/error number, so there less issues talking about a particular error independent of language.
As others have mentioned, taxing efficient cars doesn't seem to make much sense. Maybe tax actual miles traveled instead? That would solve the problem of increasing efficiency and also decrease the value of loitering and cruising in-between pick-ups.
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Why not just use an actual 2.5" SSD instead of a bunch of SD cards in a terrible quality adapter?

At least with the SSD, you only have one microcontroller doing god-knows-what to hide the horrific reality of flash storage, vs 10 SD card microcontrollers and one on the adapter board, which are all probably even worse.
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At a previous employee they were quite chuffed to have a Windows 2000 locked down build provided by the NSA
TIL this exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_ball#Seed_bombing and that China has reportedly sent troops to reforest by land in the past.
I’m seeing a lot of the negatives of meal kits here, but let me counter with my experience. I have little kids, and delivery meal kits are great for us. Shopping with a toddler and an infant is HARD. The cognitive load of keeping food stocked is hard. With a meal kit subscription, it’s set and forget, I can always be sure that I have at least 3 solid meals for that week with fresh food. It takes half of the thinking and shopping and automates it.
Hrm, I have a less traditional approach. Slap a denier, their numbers are few so they'll probably get a good 2-3 slaps each, then we can talk like reasonable people. /s

(Please don't do violence...)

But honestly, at this point, it's futile, idiots are idiots and people who aren't idiots need to fix things within our political system and then send a bunch of the top idiots to jail to teach them a lesson. My patience for gradualism has entirely dissolved. If you're one of the many Californians of HN here please devote some time to kicking Feinstein out of office next round, her continued republican-lite attitude isn't getting anything done.
Are Headers the Problem?
I feel USB workgroup is having its Winamp moment. Skip USB4 and bring us version 5: as lean as the v2 but with the good bits of v3.
Until the trusted, independent review websites are paid to let some things slide. It is a very difficult environment to maintain.
+1 for Monzo. The API works with their business accounts (in preview), too.

Worth noting it's opened up to regulated AISPs now too, so it's no longer only available for consumers to use to access their own information.
Then throw btrfs on it, and you have a sure-fire recipe for data corruption!
Parents co-sign contracts with students, but our contracts are designed to work elegantly with co-signers, different than similar programs. We're really just a modern fiscal sponsor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship) designed for students that has a financial model that is still viable when project budgets are small (i.e. <$5K). We cut costs by writing software to do repetitive work, like producing basic financial reports, instead of hiring humans. You'd be shocked by some of the work fiscal sponsors do manually.

Student organizer teams assume liability for their events with our model, but we equip them with liability releases for attendees and have a relationship with a great insurance broker they can use to acquire insurance if needed.

You're right: some schools offer financial services, but they're often poorly managed due to lack of resources and are usually only available in well-off areas. Even then, most teachers and school administrators are already crushed by the burden of their workload and are hesitant to take on additional work, especially if it involves potential liability issues. There are probably students in this thread who have had that experience of being turned away—it's pretty common.
> since there are no viable alternatives to driving in LA, either rideshare or private car.

The article seems to imply otherwise, that tons of money has been spent on improving public transit.

Not agreeing with you or the article either way, just pointing that out.
That is on the table in Europe with real-time tolling based on miles driven.
In other words, if you don’t get shot, it wasn’t attempted murder.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the point of this article, but I always put linefeeds where they should logically be. If people would like to view it in a certain way, it's always easy to put it through a text-processing program, which will do a much better job on semantically separated content rather that that which has had formatting hard-coded into it.

(Incidentally, this is also why I use tabs for indentation, since it's a lot easier for tooling to relayout. But I'm not trying to start the holy war here.)
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons are both heavily used within Wikipedia, and Wiktionary is a very useful resource. It's kinda like saying "I don't want the money I donate to Mozilla to end up funding shitty projects like Gecko and Servo! I want it to end up in Firefox!"

There are offshoots in those, yes, but that doesn't make it a huge waste. Remember wikipedia was a very, very long shot for a very long time. To fund successes, you have to fund a lot of potential failures.

In other words, if you trust what the wikimedia foundation is doing, then you should donate to them and trust what they do with it (but feel free to challenge it and voice your opinion as a donor). And if you don't trust what they're doing, then you shouldn't be donating to them in the first place IMO, regardless of their ownership of Wikipedia.
> The whole point is to NOT trust the endpoints to be reliable narrators of what they are transmitting over the network

That’s not the goal though. You’re not trying to monitor the systems themselves, you’re trying to monitor the people using the system.

A financial regulator doesn’t give a crap what your system does, or how it does it. They only care that they can blame (and potentially prosecute) an actual person if it goes wrong.

Using middleware boxes makes this easy. Not need to actually modify the software your using to create proper audit logs, just log everything and figure it out later.
I'm not sure that's the source of the problem here. There are multiple variants of this particular product, but they are all substantially similar to each other, and completely different from most of the products being reviewed.
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This is defeated by simply giving people amazon gift cards to purchase the product to submit the review. I've seen many reviews state that this is already happening: a review in exchange for the product.
Züri!
I wonder how many people get to the end and then don't bother to apply, either because they never intended to or because writing up with a resume is too time consuming.
Interesting, for what it's worth you can already run VSCode on Chromebooks using Intel processors.

It's my preferred editor right now on my Pixelbook running from the Embedded Linux container beta.
I get where you're coming from, but I honestly assume no malice. It's fairly common knowledge in tabletop circles that spindown dice will have an unbalanced distribution. They're definitely made to be used only as a counter.

Now, whether it matters if you use a weighted die to determine who goes first is a different story. If you're both using the same die, who cares?
If anyone is interested in this type of work, our team at Amperon is hiring data engineers, data scientists, and front end engineers. We’re funded by SV Angel and Notation Capital and we’ve already got traction in ERCOT (Texas).

More info: https://medium.com/@astanway/introducing-amperon-2cded368284...
LOL she was 36. When I say retired I mean "quit with no intention of going back to work". :)

But more specifically, science! We used IVF.
I'm confused when you say 'former' felon. I thought a felon is someone who committed a felony. Unless your conviction was overturned, aren't you forevermore a felon, even after you serve your sentence?
Ask HN: Quitting when the company is close to the edge
How do you handle quitting when the company is nosediving?

I work for a startup that's not doing too well. Quitting will have a noticable impact on the company and I'm pretty sure I'll have no luck getting a reference.

How do you deal with this when interviewing? Would you go with honesty: "I'm leaving before I have no choice." Or would you dance around the reason?
Aside from the security vulnerability, it's very cool that you can now get a high bandwidth connection between an FPGA and a system via a cable instead of a card.

I have already been using Cypress FX-3 to get 5 Gbps USB connection to an FPGA, but this is better.
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Exploiting auto-downloading modules requires that the filesystem's already been exploited to the point where the app's code can be modified.

I could add `require('foo')` but I could also just require no third party code and have fun with the `process` module.
You'd be surprised how slow our ISP's DNS servers can be.
Military wants to power bases with small nuclear reactors
Additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates
How do you know that rsync with throttling options is faster than the thermal throttling (designed by the manufacturer)?
It prevents over / under fetching. Eg, on certain screen sizes you might show more or fewer fields. With GraphQL you can decide the fields you want in the client and explicitly request them. You can do this with REST by passing in a lot of extra query parameters, but it’s pretty awful. So most people end up either over fetching (getting more data from the server than they need and discarding some of it) or underfetching (get a list of IDs, then make a follow up request per ID). GraphQL solves that really nicely - the client requests what it wants, and the server answers it in a single response.

GraphQL is also typed, and has some really great developer tooling as a result. It’s usually really easy to learn about a data source by just exploring in graphiql with ctrl+space autocomplete. Eg, check out github’s API: https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
Isn't that thing really really dangerous? It does use Raid 0 (ie, no redundancy) on one of the fastest wearing media out there. Unless I missed some recent development, SD cards are a lot more subject to wearing than SSD drives, therefore any use of them to build a disk with striping would be just crazy.
Funny that things can become semantic by accommodating line-based tools.
Python3

import random, statistics

num_of_sims = 10000
num_of_rolls = 3000
results = []

for s in range(num_of_sims):

sum_of_rolls = 0

# roll 20 sided dice
for r in range(num_of_rolls):
sum_of_rolls += random.randint(1,20)

# keep track of the average value
results.append(sum_of_rolls / num_of_rolls)

print("ave: ", statistics.mean(results)) # which is 10.49915
print("stdev: ", statistics.stdev(results)) # which is 0.10492

Now where did I put my statistical tables?
you've got A, B, C, Micro, and Mini connectors all that conform to 3.0 and 3.1 spec...

Alas the standard needs standardised....
Singaporean in Sydney here -- I've barely found any decent Asian food in my time here, not to mention the exorbitant prices. Could you recommend some options? I'll love to improve my food options here.
I got also very annoyed by that to the point where I spent more time filtering fake reviews than the cheap product is worth. I always start npw by remembering myself that a physical shop would not give me any reviews, but also often the same bad quality to an even higher price.
Something else to consider is that traffic was bad way before ride sharing companies started popping up. Secondly, additional taxes will ultimately end up being paid for by people who do not own a vehicle. A better way to help alleviate traffic conditions is to raise gas taxes across the board or maybe just using the tax dollars more efficiently to build public transportation like trains on top of the existing infrastructure that cars typically use. I don't know why California is wasting time on obviously bad legislation. Why do they feel the need to consider the crazy option?
I wish Amazon would separate verified reviews (actually shipped item from Amazon Warehouse to this Amazon account who is writing a review) from unverified reviews.

Does anyone know why they don't do this?
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logoshi.com or logojoy.com - create a logo quickly.

knowem.com / instantdomainsearch.com for quickly finding domains/ the right name. if you want, you can hire someone via fiverr.com instead of paying knowem.com to go secure everything.

goodui.org / ixdchecklist.com / enterpriseready.io for benchmarking

scaleway.com for cheap hosting

betalist.com for cheap launch

producthunt.com for cheap launch

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-klipper-extract-all/fahollcgofmpnehocdgofnhkkchiekoo?hl=en - search blog posts "top x bloggers" and clip all the blog links with this chrome extension. Generate CSV - then utilize blockspring.com inside of google sheets to find the contact info/twitter/facebook page. etc...

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Curious to hear more.
Looking at that study, the high end simply wasn’t included. It seemed to just cover wage earners and professional salaried workers.
This is an interesting case since it has the potential to impact other larger entities such as Amazon (Goods), Google (Apps), Apple (Apps).

The issue with fake paid reviews is extremely difficult to gauge and act upon. On one end, the owner of the marketplace doesn't want their place to be seeing as 'full of fakes' on the other end, they don't want to be seeing as censoring legit feedback. How do you know who is who? The second you figure that out, the 'bad actors' will find different, innovative ways to break your system.

On another side, because review has become a huge part of the decision people take, new entrants are finding it harder to get a piece of the market (even if they are legit) without paying someone to provide reviews.

Finding the right balance in this area will be a continuous effort on all sides, we will likely need better independent customer review sites, the marketplaces will need to find better ways to gauge what is real and what is not, the customers will need to be proactive and check information from different angles, businesses will need to find new ways to prove their legitimacy to get the trust of clients.