skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we have figured out how to get thousands of people to show up at a particular spot, to all take the same pic, shouldn't it be possible to get thousands of people to show up at a spot to do something more productive?

We need "Herd Hackers". The herd mind needs a good kick in the right direction once in a while.
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As I was just commenting in a different reply...

The shell ties the prior program's (or user input to the first) output to the input of the next program. That's (old) stdout and (new) stdin taken care of.

stderr is sent to the terminal as output by default.

For reference stdin, stdout, and stderr are normally numbered 0 through 2 respectively. When you're directing input and output on the shell (usually) the default is to wire up things as they'd make sense, but (without any IFS characters) a number on either side of the redirection operator codes tells the shell to grab a different input or output.

These will yield different results due to left to right parsing:

echo test >/tmp/test 2>&1
echo test 2>&1 >/tmp/test

In the second if there were any errors they'd be sent to the file, while in the first (assuming you can make temporary files, which normally you can) there won't be any errors printed but they would be sent as standard output on the shell.

Here's a more interesting example

echo test >/dev/null/test 2>/dev/null
echo test 2>/dev/null >/dev/null/test

The second line will silently fail (though it'll still return an exit value of 1) because the standard error output was already sent to /dev/null, while the first attempts to open a file that can't exist and prints the failure message before the error output is redirected.
Sure, as long as you like 1990s performance.
Looks like someone got fired
I built a patreon competitor using stripe connect. It wasn’t super successful, had a handful of creators making $20-$100/month, but it’s definitely doable without a ton of legal work. Stripe makes it pretty easy. You can set it up so payments go directly from supporter to creator’s stripe account, with a percent going to you. If you want to batch payments or have more control over funds then you actually need to collect funds and do the payouts, which makes things a bit more complex. Feel free to email me if you want to chat.

Honestly, dealing with payments is nothing compared to the amount of hand holding required to help creators set up a nice profile, pick good rewards, do a good job promoting their page, actually fulfill their rewards so they don’t lose backers, etc. It often took months of back and forth with creators to finally get their page launched. I’d avoid building a patreon competitor unless you personally know some very big creators (500k+ followers) or have a very specific niche in mind.
Asserting that

"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

is equivalent to

"the bill as an obvious positive step in health care."

requires blackout-inducing inertial velocity.

> It's certainly an awkward sentence

Why not call a spade a spade and say she misspoke?
While less of a nuisance, growing up in sf, the Full House house became my barometer for tourist-levels.

I never watched the show, so when people asked me for directions I used to assume they meant the painted ladies.

Gradually I realized I was wrong: Nowadays, more often than not, there's a line of people waiting out front to pose and cars double parked.

Apparently the remodeling is explicitly to change its appearance in order that people will stop.

I've heard similar stories for the Mrs. Doubtfire house.
Can anyone speculate as to why the NSA decided to release this? Have they released any OSS in the past?
This is all the bullshit talking like of Google and YouTube and Netflix are sending forcefully traffic to everyone that doesn't even want it.

Internet Service Provider as name suggests is a company that provides access to the internet. Net Neutrality goal is to make sure that's all they are doing. What you can access supposed to be all up to you, the user, not the ISP.

Someone also mentioned here mentioned that they are vary of placing regulation that would stifle innovation. This is wrong assumption for two reasons: 1) internet was this way until 2014[1], FCC was enforcing it, but after Verizon won lawsuit things changed 2) we had major acquisitions of media companies by ISPs, Comcast and AT&T, things are changing and the goal is to turn internet service into interactive cable. I don't live in Comcast region, but AT&T is doing this by offering capped internet (I'm taking about residential access) then zero rating services that are their own (HBO and Cinemax). At the same time they pulled these channels from Dish (they asked them to pay for more subscribers than they have) and jacked prices on DirecTV (also owned by them). They essentially want to turn HBO into a streaming service.

This is not technology innovation, this is flexing monopoly's muscles to generate more money.

[1] this is actually more complicated. The internet from beginning was under Title II intently because it was offered through telcos which operated under that regulation. In 2003 it was reclassified to Title I from telecommunication service to information service. This is where all started. The ISPs started using their position to throttle traffic, and in certain instances outright block it (reneger issues with VoIP?). FCC though acted in it and penalized ISPs which reverted their practices. After that happened to Verizon, they sued FCC and the court ruled that under Title I FCC has no control over Internet unless it reclassify it. At that point car was out of the bag. To get control back FCC reclassified Internet back to Title II. That was until 2017 when FCC reverted that change. We are now in untested waters where ISP can do pretty much anything and the only thing they have to worry about is being sued.
This is an augmentation that I'd love to use but I also wonder if it's going to affect sleep. Am I going to see my eyelids when I close them? That would be bad. I hope we're not so hot to be seen by those receptors. Btw, if we are going to see the cornea that would affect vision at any time.
> "I wanted to show the vulnerability of the Android and thought that Google would take care of security.” ... Maza-In said he didn’t contact Google.

There should be criminal liability for willful negligence that clearly increases risk to others. That kind of "I never thought" mindset is so...I don't even know what word to use...antisocial? Careless?
Father of two here also, and I hear you!

I think the point of this is to say that the negative effects on the body of lack of sleep on the body can't be reversed by the weekend catch up.

That doesn't mean you don't feel better after that weekend lie in or catch-up nap!

I have about 4 years of my life I can barely remember because it was work, on call, broken nights with babies, sleep, work, take turns to nap at weekends. Our second child was called Rachel because the only leisure time we had was taken to watch an episode of Friends every night before turning in and it worked on our subconscious. We had the energy to do nothing more (well, we obviously did one thing more... but I digress).
I thought it was great, but I know it's not a book for snowflakes. When I hear someone say "this is right" or "this is wrong", I am able to effortlessly interpret this as "I believe this is right/wrong". It's just being efficient with language. I don't need people to add extra words for fear of offending me.

Maybe the author was immature. That's great. Let it remind you what it's like to be young and so excited about something that you'd write a book about it. This book is great.
Finally a Danish study without Poul Thorsen! As he is no longer among the authors of the study it is probably the first Danish vaccine study that can be taken seriously, thanks to Mr Thorsen's non-participation (who bought a house in Atlanta,a Harley-Davidson and few other things with grant money from CDC and there is a suspicion that he has manipulated the results of studies).

However, like the Jain study (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2275444), this new study focuses primarily on MMR vaccination, which is a shame. Focusing on once vaccine in a heavily vaccinated population kinda proves nothing. They also captured data on vaccination with pentavalent vaccine, which is great, but unfortunately it seems that it is completely useless ...

As usual a control group of completely unvaccinated probably is not included because the study states that "We evaluated the association between MMR and autism in children with no DTaP -IPV / Hib vaccinations in the first year of life; we found no support for an association in this vaccine-naive subpopulation "- so the "no DTaP-IPV / HiB" field in the tables probably means "no DTaP-IPV / HiB in first year of life"(haha, sneaky!).
I view positively that they included other covariants (eg parents' age, etc.), but again, unfortunately, the covariant combination is missing and there are no groups with more variables (shame).

As with the Jain study, there is a "healthy user bias": the authors did not take into account the possibility that parents of children showing signs of ASD do not start / stop vaccinating the MMR and fall automatically into the "unvaxx" group. At least the authors mention this in the discussion.

And as usual: epidemiological studies are NOT a good tool for verifying the safety of a product (or to disprove possible causality), this is the job of clinical trials (unfortunately, vaccines' safety clinical trials are very very bad pseudoscince with no placebos).
I think you're ignoring some very basic aspects of the ISP business and taking entirely the wrong lessons away from Google Fiber.

There is no cheap way to enter many/most/all of these markets. This isn't a world of cheap VC cash, because there is no chance of winning a lottery. Google of all people couldn't make this make sense. Sure, they would have had a better pitch if they were competing with incumbants who did things like block Google Search. Except it's even more trivial to unblock Google Search than it is to offer better service. This gets worse when you consider the possibility of not outright blocking, but intentionally slowing services.

So yeah. If Google couldn't make Google Fiber work, there is no way any new competitor is going to spring out of nowhere. The reality of the competition hasn't changed - incumbants are at a massive advantage even compared to most incumbants. Infrastructure is a massive barrier to newcomers, and any competitive aspects that can be used to differentiate one offer from another can be trivially and immediately matched by the incumbants. And in practice most all of the offers are difficult or impossible to really compare to each other in pratice, so most consumers have to rely mainly on the marketing materials and subjective experiences.

And again I've left out a whole other side of the issue, namely the relationships between ISPs and services.

This is just an awful system to rely on tradional markets. It uses expensive infrastructure, and the products are indifferentiable in any meaningful way over any period of time.
Lol, what precious, hysterical overstatement. You think hat ten years ago we hardly kept in touch with people beyond our immediate circle because you were 13.

All of your “maybe they...” rhetorical questions have a firm answer outside your bubble. You’re not going to like them
Sorry, but this so much differs depending on which month/day it is. My "biological clock" is reliably and wakes me up more or less the same time, however comparing winter/summer has a huge difference - having total darkness or sun heating your room. Regardless of DST.
Doesn't seem you were paying attention. Germany carrot and stick smaller states while engaging in favor exchanges with France, de facto dominating the European Parliament. Go check where art. 11 and the austerity protocols come from.
From a short cut perspective, you could do the following:

Require each of your customers (creators) to sign up for a Stripe account and have them input into your system their processing keys. Whenever somebody wants to pay them, use their keys to process the payment and it goes directly into their Stripe account. This would offload all legal liabilities (Stripe would determine whether their business is okay to operate from a processing standpoint) and tax responsibilities fall completely on them.

Here are the drawbacks:

1) You wouldn’t be able to automatically take a percent of a creator’s billings but rather would have to calculate it and invoice them / charge their card

2) Patrons wouldn’t be able to save a credit card and use it across multiple creators

3) Your fees would be on top of the 2.9% that Stripe charges a creator which would be limited to 2.1% if you want to compete with Patreon at 5%
We can also say that Airtel and other telecom were looting Indian customers before Jio came up.
Just because Jio is offering competition doesn't mean they are corrupt.
> Saw some good news though - last year internet speeds increased nearly 40% in the US.

This is within the "Moore's law applied to network hardware" range and is not unusual.

It's also somewhat misleading because of how they're measuring (mean download speed), because customers have recently been abandoning DSL for (faster) cable. But if a 10Mbps DSL customer switches to 20Mbps cable, it shows up in the numbers as a 100% speed increase even if the cable network is no faster than it was before, or is faster than before but by significantly less than the 100% they're getting counted as.

In other words, it's claiming the destruction of competition as a consumer benefit because the market share loss of the dying competitor brings up the average.
Was tax compliance in Greece below 50% across the board, or was it below 50% for <particular segments of the population>? How incompliant were those 50%?

I can believe that 50% of, say independent handymen contractors may have been swindling the government of some part of their taxes.

I have a much harder time to believe that 50% of the entire population was. (Especially given that ~50% of the population - children, pensioners, and the unemployed, aren't even supposed to pay much in the way of taxes.)
Like a sibling comment pointed out already, how would have net neutrality prevented that? You're thinking they are merging because they planning to take advantage of anti-nn regulations better?
"When Philip IV succeeded his father in 1621, Spain was clearly in economic and political decline, a source of consternation."

"The Spain that the sickly young Charles II (1661-1700) inherited was clearly in decline and there were more losses immediately." [1]

These are both from before the steam engine was invented. I don't think its reasonable blame steam power for the downfall of Spain. The dates just don't really line up, especially not when you look when steam became a major driving force.

Now I agree with your point that the availability of coal was a huge factor in the industrial revolution.

Ps looking up copper ore concentrations, I got the same 12% figure, I thought it questionable as its so far higher than other concentrations. Apparently modern ore has 0.6% copper.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire
I'd go as far as calling it malicious...
I cannot write Americanised versions of words without incredibly concious thought about doing so, which breaks my train of thought. I find it easy to understand what is meant by color, why shouldn't our cousins over the Pond be able to understand what a colour is? (stupid example, but you get the point)
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I think I'm misreading your response, those sounds like benefits, not reasons that it definitely wouldn't work?
It is definitely curious. Whenever I mention Common Lisp is my preferred language people start talking to me as if I'm some wizard from another dimension. That, or stupid parenthesis jokes.

It really has an image problem.

I always try to explain that I like Common Lisp because it is an easy and very practical language, but the people I talk to that have no experience in it think it is very hard and impractical. I think the latter is because of university courses where one is not allowed to use the full power of the language.
Code Fragment: Finding quote pairs with carry-less multiply (PCLMULQDQ)
Yes.

In fact, the essence of decompilation is a NP-Complete problem: Graph Isomorphism.

So far, our decompilers are just greedy scheme to approximate the original expressions as best as possible by treating each instruction as a tree then as a graph, but still even a single assignment could cause the entire outcome of the code to change a lot, let alone to correctly recognizing heavily optimized procedures.

Edit: Wiki said it is NP-Complete but I was pretty sketchy about it. I think the better wording should be "at least NP"
Partner up with someone knowledgeable, perhaps a paralegal who has worked in finance. They will know when to call in the big guns.
Time for NL to detach from Germany then if they go to permanent summertime. That time is the natural time for St Petersburg. It'll be weird to have different time between us but otherwise it's just too off for us.
Spoiler: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability
Depends on the use case. Sometimes compressed oops is counter productive, and it really isn't a significant piece of overhead if you are say... doing matrix multiplication with very large arrays.
Yet another time I want to tell people that a random Chinese official don't give fcuk about you or somebody being "an important foreign company"

Reminds me of how a totally noname official in Shenzhen bonded customs zone detained the entire initial iPhone 5 shipment to US, pretty much just to have the pleasure seeing Apple China c-levels fly from Beijing and dance around him, filling every form he had, on a claim of wrong punctuation in original filling.
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I can relate to this article a lot. Been in Asia for over 10 years mainly because of family. It has definitely affected my career prospects. Its a hard decision to make when you have the ability to move to SV and earn lots of money, but deny it.
She was talking to citizens, not to congressmen.
You don't have to use an inheritance based approach if you don't make it an ECS.
The point is that using any "something-based" approach is not necessary for most small and even medium sized games.
Just make what seems obvious until it doesn't work and then change it.
If you start thinking about architecture from the start you will have an issue when you find out it won't work for your project no matter the architecture you are using.
True. But there's still the on-sale bar:

> "A person shall be entitled to a patent unless . . . the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention."[0]

0) https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/supreme-court-s...
Proprietary chargers losing does make it easier. Sooner or later, all of us are going to be driving electric vehicles, and I personally do not want to have to keep trying different places and chargers to find one that is compatible with my car. One open standard, please.

Parking lots are going to become the new gas stations.
I'm sorry you had to go through that, but also happy you were able to take the time to learn more about yourself and the world. That experience is unfortunately still too hard to come by these days, though many individuals desperately need it.

I agree entirely with your conclusion. That is frankly another reason I'm leaving. The connections I've made here around tech (and other hobbies) are largely shallow and unfulfilling. I feel like all my income got eaten up by rent, and bad habits I justified as coping mechanisms. I can save up and use the money to actually build something back home (NC) to help people there in tangible ways. I do hope I find some time to catch a breather at some point so I can dedicate myself to that type of effort completely.

Thanks for sharing your experience and findings. I wish you well and hope you dont dwell on that regret. We all have to learn how wrong we have been sooner or later. I know I have. It's an unfortunate necessity of developing into a better person. Still sucks though.
Amethyst has stabilized a ton in the last few years, I'd definitely considering giving it another shot if it's been a bit.
Why Babies Cry?
I can’t speak for scientific analysis, but I can say that if I have had a disrupted week of sleep, a weekend catch up ‘resets’ me and serves its intended purpose (for me)
https://streamlabs.com/ does exactly this with PayPal. It goes directly to the streamer, and shows the name of the streamer’s PayPal account. For Chess Grandmaster Benjamin Finegold whose stream I watch on Twitch, that’s some chess education center in Atlanta. It also shows their email address and possibly a physical address, and it might show mine to them. I think the privacy issue might not make it work well for casual users like Patreon has, but for commercial users it would probably work better. I feel like I’m more likely to get my PayPal account flagged by donating to random streamers on StreamLabs than with an intermediary like Twitch or Patreon. I’m not too worried about it but I am more careful.

It also helps that tipping is just a minor feature of the product. Their product is an OBS which shows overlays and stuff in the stream, including an animation when someone leaves a tip. They also sell merchandise much like CafePress. I have a coffee mug with Hikaru Nakamura on it. Some info: https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/07/how-streamlabs-is-helping...

If you can find a way to make tipping part of a larger product/service, it seems less likely to be used for money laundering, and to be more likely to work without a huge amount of expertise in the area of payment platforms.
https://techcrunch.com/video/patreon-the-idea/
If such vicious cycles were true no new programming language would gain adoption; after all even Java was "a new language" at some point of time.
"The biggest problem is that the device can install any application, get full access to the device and can be substituted for fake banking applications [that can] intercept SMS [and] manage the device. In general, everything is possible."

PCs can do this too at the moment. I do not want my freedom taken away to install what I want and end up in a walled garden like ios.

Next thing you can only install government approved apps...

Some security risks will always exist.
> You're thinking they are merging because they planning to take advantage of anti-nn regulations better?

Yes, of course. Why else would a communications company and a content company merge? It only makes sense if the can leverage each-others natural advantages. With strong NN regulations, AT&T would need to provide everyone with same opportunities they are providing Time Warner.
I second this. Stellar experience.
This isn't funny. It must be a prank or something.
Hi HN!

I am Deyan, the developer behind Textstandup.com. I released its first public version few weeks ago and some external feedback will be very useful to me. I have written more about the motivation behind the project here https://medium.com/@ddobrinov/text-based-stand-ups-de741fa6c....

Thanks a lot!
Deyan
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Yepp.
Is the full colorization of Cyprus a result of a political statement or just ignorance?