skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll definitely use PayPal instead of submitting my details directly to a site for purchase of goods or services.

I might even go so far as to not purchase from a site if I'm not confident with assumptions of how their infrastructure is and they don't offer PayPal.
I'd point to the RISC-V talks given by Krste Asanovic or Dave Patterson. Perhaps those from 2016 are best.
we've all dealt with such people and I hear you on all the concerns raised.

But as pointed out, what you describe has nothing to do with the "generalist vs. specialist" debate
> No idea of the technicals, other than sampling at double the audible frequency does- to this layman - seem logical it would give you a wave more diverged from reality as frequency increases - and at the absurd extreme a 22khz (inaudible to most) square wave if sampling at 44, 4 points to represent 11k etc.

I gave a link that clearly explains and tests the technical aspects using analog equipment. It's an extremely well-thought out and well-researched video. Did you watch it?

I'm not saying you didn't hear something. I'm just saying the phenomenon you described does not accurately characterize the current state of digital audio, even when using commodity hardware.
Nasa’s Fermi Satellite Clocks ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar Speeding Through Space
Direct link: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Unfortunately for a lot of people, their lives will implode if they stop working. If they stop working, they receive no income and have to either eat into savings (if they're lucky) or would otherwise struggle to pay rent/life expenses.
> Their recidivism and overall crime-rates rates are significantly lower than in the US...

Not really true:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472929/

Totally comparable to the US, Norway being an exception (as usual).

> They blow the US out of the water on every metric.

The US is a very large and diverse country and it's not structurally comparable to Germany, Netherlands and much less Norway (with 22% of GDP being oil exports). That would be cherry-picking. To draw any conclusions on the effectiveness of incarceration would require more careful analysis.

> I can't fathom what gave you a different idea.

Crime statistics and crime aren't the same thing. The point of prison sentences is no just punishment, it's deterrence. If you rarely convict anybody, your prisoner's rate is low, but the criminals are out on the street knowing they have nothing to fear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/16...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-traffickin...

https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/finance/gangsters-paradis...
> Eating withoout washing hands is a huge taboo in south asia.

...and here another point - personal hygiene directly with the left hand.
Yes absolutely, we're just exploiting potential energy here, and that was my point, perhaps I wasn't clear enough.

That's why the efficiency of the power plant (if this energy would have been captured) would have been a sight to see on paper. The energy they put into the fracking would have been tiny compared to this.

edit: spelling
Which adblocker are you using?
There is an inherent racism to a lot of US sentencing and prison policies, as well as an assumption that those who commit crimes are irrevocably criminal. It's a very dated view of why people become criminals.
Yes legalise all of them like Portugal did, but spend all of the enforcement budget on rehabilitation and re-integrating addicts into society.[1]

What makes a drug addictive is not the substance itself, but the environment which surrounds the 'addict'. An environment that is poor in social connections and purpose makes drugs more addictive to the users.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Buckling banks are sacrificing back end systems for shiny apps and services
The burden of proof is on the SEC. The settlement agreement’s language and the policy that Tesla enacted as a result - that the SEC approved - allows Musk to do exactly what he did. Read the legal briefs. Have you ever been in a court of law? Facts matter. Case law matters. Prior communications between the parties matter.
I guess that, for systems that are not considered critical for safety, disabling them if they are failing in a way that creates additional problems is the better option. This calculus depends on how useful they are when working, how much trouble they cause when failing, and how likely they are to fail in that way. In some cases, I imagine the option to disable comes with the requirement to land as soon as safely possible, or to not fly again until fixed.
It is considered a pretty big deal in the gaming industry, specially if they do leverage all the YouTube infrastructure they have like they say. We will see about that one.
Indonesian Airline cancels $6B in 737 Orders
reminded me a bit of angularjs, with its constant watching of state data
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I don't have enough HN points to downvote yet but this is clearly a joke.
Go is excellent at building CLI commands of this type. It maybe the thing that it's best at.
> In many US states you can assume that people you walk past may well have a handgun under his jacket or in her purse.

I think that's kind of a stretch. Where I live I think most people have a gun or two at home, and I do too, but I've never personally met someone who carries them around on the street. (For one thing, I've tried those conceal carry holsters, and found them extremely uncomfortable.)

The only time my guns are out is for hunting, or going to the range with friends.
"What if people were directly paid to view adverts?"

One of the "problems" with that it is that it would reveal just how little money these things make. A page full of busy ads that annoy the heck out of you may still make well under a penny, only breaking a penny if you actually click on something and possibly even then only if you buy something.

Facebook's approximate revenue in 2018 is about 34 billion, it seems [1]. Facebook's user count in 2018 [2], call it two billion for math convenience and a fudge factor for fake & dead accounts. Simple math shows that even if 100% of their revenues are from ads, they're making $17 dollars a year from their average user. Revenue, not profit. And they're one of the big money makers in the ad industry!

Converted to daily terms, that's about 4.7 cents per day. That's what they're trashing your feed for, rearranging it so you see more ads and less of your family, rearranging it to drive "engagement" by putting more rage- and stress-inducing controversial content into your feed, and carefully managing your experience for. 5 cents a day, average.

Advertisers aren't just crashing our society, driving our news industries into death spirals, invading our privacy at scales that would make the Stasi blush, and annoying the hell out of us on almost every web page we visit, they're doing it for almost no money. They can't afford to pay you to view advertising. Even someone making minimum wage would find the offer they could make laughable, because your offer would be coming out of their profits, not revenue, so if Facebook wanted to pay you to view ads they'd be slicing up something like a $1/year with you.

(This is why I've proposed as one solution something like a 1cent/impression advertising tax. It would annihilate everything but the absolutely most profitable portions of the industry. Even a 0.01cent/impression tax would probably kill 90% of it. And I think there's a perfectly justifiable case to be made that such a tax would simply be internalizing externalities and perfectly justified under both left and right wing theories of economics.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/544001/facebooks-adverti...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
‘Haft Sin’ Traditional Table Exemplifying Nowruz in Iran
The pot prohibition was unfortunate on many levels. It appears like it's falling apart rapidly at this point. I hope that continues.
No. We have a platform (https://qbix.com/blog) that needs to run on as many commodity hosts as possible, so as to form a cloud that isn’t centralized in Google and Amazon.

We are building a Wordpress-like decentralized open source alternative to Facebook and Google.
I don't think you understand the Linux vendor support model.

The labor isn't "donated" in any sense of the word. It's not like these big companies just pay hundreds of kernel developers to sit around and make commits to whatever they're in the mood to do today.

Clients pay Linux vendors to get the hardware support, features, etc. that they need written into the Linux kernel, and the vendors do that for them. They write the code, test it, harden it, and get it upstreamed so that the client isn't stuck carrying a patched kernel on their own in perpetuity.

It's not the financial interest of Linux consumers (think: banks, airlines, healthcare systems, militaries, cloud platforms, entertainment producers, etc.) to pay millions of dollars a year to have their own in-house kernel development and support team when they can pay a vendor to do it.

It's not just about support in the sense of someone to pick up the phone, it's about support in the sense of maintaining and developing mission-critical software for large enterprises.

And with that, indemnity.

Do your shareholders want to hear that you're working with a tried, tested, trusted vendor to make sure your systems that can never, ever, ever go down are in fact designed that way? Or do they want to hear, don't worry, Dave in IT's got it, he got a kernel patch accepted once? In many industries, IT is just a cost center and a risk. Corporations and governments are motivated to lower their IT-related risk in the most financially-prudent manner, which usually means a vendor.
Wasn't that the HD terrible remaster, rather than the 16:9 SD terrible remaster?
Add Calculator to Wix Website
Did this but with an app in Germany. As I "scored" 95 out of 100 points and was apparently at the top 1% of the drivers, I got a pretty good discount on my insurance.

About 500€ per year less than without this app. So yeah, for that price they can track me anytime I drive, I don't have an issue with that.
> I fail to have much sympathy for people who simply have to buy ice cream, chocolate, soda etc. You put the products in the shopping cart yourself knowing well it harms you, you use your cash/card to pay for it.

What about alcohol addiction? Heroin? What about depression?
For the actual removal, you could try using conent-aware resizing[1] along with blob detection to give the person to be removed a negative weight.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadw0BRKeMk&t=3m43s
This article starts with several paragraphs of rambling about the author and his wife and whatnot. I don't know if there is an official name for this sort of medium.com writing style, but I have seen it criticized before.
Maybe medium.com authors are paid by words?

Anyway, I am sure it's a good article. Sadly, I am now conditioned to close the tab whenever the article starts with the author & friend or partner last Friday...
PuTTY was only updated 6 days ago...so I don't find that terribly worrying for a fork. The update history for KiTTY seems to imply it would get updated soon.[0] e.g. the .69 and .70 updates were merged within a few weeks the last time...

[0]http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?action=news&zone=en
Also, in Windows Features you can install OpenSSH directly as a feature on Windows and get "real" ssh even in CMD.EXE and PowerShell terminals.
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Benzene from Petrochemical Fire Triggers 'Shelter in Place' Order for Texas City
not a fault of the library itself. also, mysqli_* has the same issue, was not removed
Next up: Stadia.
Very neat, I can see myself coming back to this for literally every urban destination.
Survey: Half of business economists see recession by 2020
I came here to make a similar comment. Google has the institutional attention span of a goldfish and I'm going to wait a few years to see if they actually stick with Stadia before getting my hopes up.
Maybe to some, but PC gamers are averse to not owning their games. The input latency is also very obvious, which is not good for high paced games (of which all of the top games right now are).
If the energy was building up anyways, then wouldn't it have come out in an earthquake eventually? In fact, the later earthquake would have been worse. Maybe people will start intentionally fracking near earthquake zones on a regular basis to prevent the energy buildup from becoming dangerous.
"I assume you'd be paying some sort of subscription free for the pleasure of basically googling ads. Seems a bit backwards."

Back in the day, many better mail order catalogs cost money to receive. Mostly to offset the cost of mailing them out, but partially as a form of filter, on the theory that someone sufficiently interested in a catalog to pay to get it would be more likely to actually order something.
That's amusing. Your prior is that the die is fair. And even if it is, regardless of what the result of the first throw is, the chance that it is fair is necessarily lowered after the first throw.

That's an odd effect of Bayes' rule that I never considered.
I don't argue that it can be useful for online debates, but damn, how boring would be Frank Herbert's Dune dialogues if we follow this principle?

Specially with pearls like this: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91393/dune-explain...
Boeing 737 MAX: MCAS problem background, explanations and scenarios
Give me a big fat MIPS pizza box for the 21st Century, and I'm in. Give me a pocketable mobile MIPS device, and I'm in as well.

As long as they both work together as platforms.
> historically there have been and are plenty of other businesses at their scale that did/do not need this at all.

Have we ever had an internet company with over 1 billion active users not using advertising as its main source of income?
How much of a factor are rounded corners on the LCD?

And FaceID?
How to block Facebook login / signup pop-up (2018)
At least according to the second paragraph of TFA, the problem wasn't the amount of energy they took out of the ground. It was all the fracking.
Setting up P2P video on a web page in 5 minutes for free
It's good advice. Ten years ago, I had some opportunity to improve some soft skills by taking some courses. I took some courses related to selling your ideas and coaching.

Turns out that this is something lots of engineers could benefit from as this is simply not part of their bag of tools when they leave university and something that can frustrate them enormously when they need to engage with others whether it is colleagues, customers, or superiors.

I've been in more than a few meetings where people were yelling at each other, or worse, where I ended up doing a fair bit of yelling myself. These days, I tend to be a bit more conscious about it than I used to be. Usually it indicates something is wrong that needs fixing and quite often it is beyond whatever is being discussed. Fixing that is often the more important thing.

A few tricks I apply:
1) If you think something is good, make a point of communicating that. It buys you good will and people are more likely to listen to you when you say otherwise. Also it keeps people motivated.
2) Talk in terms of improvements/fixes/changes instead of simply stating, "this sucks". It's much harder to argue against that by others because why wouldn't you want to improve things.
3) Pick your fights carefully. Having opinions is cheap but owning the consequences is not. I often give people room to do things their way even when I don't fully agree it's the right way. Basically I need them to do it for me without my involvement. And there's always the chance you are wrong after all. In any case, the whole point of a team is being able to trust others to get shit done without you. If you need to micromanage everything, something is wrong. That something might be you.
I suppose the amount of stress/strain held within these rocks will be hard to ascertain. If these earthquakes occur periodically, sure that gives us a better estimate, but we still don't know the unintended consequences of triggering a quake. Not to mention the property damage.
did anyone save the GIFs in the JSON file?
The biggest issue with the US health insurance is very simple: it is underwritten for one year. Want to fix it? Pass a law where the minimum coverage period is 10 years and force the companies price it out in advance. Hell, make it 20-30 years. Suddenly the insurance companies will start buying hospitals and optimizing for health care costs rather than information and funnel arbitrage.
Even in this thread I see a lot of people conflating consulting with working as a highly paid contractor. I accidentally fell into contracting two years ago when the company I was working for closed unexpectedly. I doubled my yearly income, but I'm still an employee in practice.
The only people I ever experienced having bad trips from smoking weed were those with deep, unresolved mental issues. Unsurprisingly, those shouldn't consume any mind-altering drugs at all, including alcohol (which can easily trigger lifelong schizophrenia - seen it firsthand).
A few topics for discussion might include:

* Anonymized and/or aggregated data
* Behavior tracking via cookies (in app vs marketing?)
* Referral/Affiliate tracking
How much does open-source hardware really matter? It sounds really cool, and i hope it takes off. But is this really where the industry is going, or is this a flash in the pan that gets a lot of attention from people like us?
I will 100% try this within the next weeks. I am ddg-ing every possible variation of "ethical adsense alternative" without any useful leads for months now.
My 2c:

1) Don't go overboard. GA is one thing. GA plus twenty other obscure analytics cookies and scripts is another. If your site looks like [1], there is 0 chance of ever being on my white-list for ads.

2) Just be honest and transparent. You don't need a big "WE USE COOKIESSSSSS" banner, but a short little message along the lines of "We use GA to help develop a better experience for you. All data is in aggregate, and not identifiable. Please consider white-listing our website if you would like to participate in making this website even better".

[1] https://imgur.com/a/7AHbQ5E
I asked in the Stadia announcement thread "How many years until its canceled and our game libraries erased from all existence?" I got downvoted and someone likened my comment to making fun of the fat kid at the gym. I was like, when did this become hail corporate? Its not like Stadia is some type of new year's resolution, but then again, Google will probably drop it as quickly if it becomes unprofitable.
There is a level of social cohesiveness amongst the Japanese in Japan that Westerners haven't had in a century.
I agree. Anecdotally, I've seen a few of companies hire large data science teams and operate them outside the context of any product management; i.e. as basically R&D arms. The problem is that most companies do not have R&D-level problems, and they do not have a good way to surface priorities to the data science team, manage delivery, etc., and the data science team ends up building a lot of stuff from scratch, or working on priorities that don't add a lot of value, or not having stakeholders really understand what they do. This isn't good for the data science team either, as it's hard for them to communicate value.

I think the pin analogy in the article is a slight straw-man and a strange choice of comparison: sure, running a data science isn't like running a factory production line. It requires experimentation and isn't deterministic. But IMO that doesn't mean it should sit outside of product management, or is completely different from building or managing a regular software engineering team: in some instances, hiring full-stack developers absolutely makes sense. In some, you will need folks who are specialised to certain problem spaces; isn't it the same in data science?

I also think that, if data science code is going from R&D into actual prod, it is helpful if it is reviewed and tested from a more software eng POV, and may end up in parts being rewritten by teams with more specialised skill sets around e.g. performance. It would put a huge onus to put on every data scientist if they had to learn this stuff (and I'm not talking like petabyte data engineering)

I've been working on a way[1] to help data scientists more easily share and run their models/code without having to spend a lot of time on the engineering side, but a big group of our users are also folks in data teams who are not experts in lots of ML or engineering (are not "full stack" in this sense), but they work with data every day and need a way to use parts of the data science ecosystem more easily. IMO upskilling these folks may be more then norm going forward than being able to hire data scientists who are also experts on the entire stack.

[1] https://nstack.com
I've been having a similar experience myself. I bought a ladder off amazon, and one of the rungs broke off while I was leaning over my roof. They refunded, but I'll never buy another tool on Amazon again.
2018 Boracay Closure and Redevelopment
I find this interesting for several reasons. I've lived in 5 countries. America is the only country where I've seen the senior/veteran/police/whatever discounts trotted out.

Isn't it funny, however, that "we" claim to value seniors, but almost to a man, elderly mom and dad are tossed into care homes as soon as it's inconvenient for their adult kids. Sadly, this is done for many reasons, many of which are to bilk people for their money. Most countries bring mom and dad or surviving parent into the home for the remainder of their natural life. In other cultures, not doing so is tantamount to an anathema. Welcome to America, land of the free to be bilked, and home of the brave should you step foot into hospital.
Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history
The cost of bitcoin is mainly determined by the price of electricity and the price of ASICs. RAM is more important for other coins, but for Bitcoin it's mainly about the hashing output of some specialized circuits.
Ubuntu 14.04 shipped with PHP 5.5 by default, and it's supported until next month. I don't know how well the maintainers backport security fixes from newer versions, but at least technically it's still supported. The last security update to php5-common on trusty came out only a few days ago.

End of upstream support is meaningless in a world where most servers run LTS distros of one flavor or another. I've been telling my clients that they should be able to rely on PHP 7.2 for a long, long time because it's the default version in Ubuntu 18.04 and RHEL/CentOS 8, both of which come with 10 years of support.
Exactly, this seems like an interesting avenue to explore.
It would be electromagnetic potential caused by strain on the rock, right?
Boracay Island in Philippines Shut Down for Environmental Rehabilitation (2018)
Yes, and if they'd said Rust was more popular than COBOL, that would also have been damning with faint praise.
I'm pretty sure if you actually look at cattle branding and advertising branding, the thing being branded is the product. Branding is as simple as the BIC logo on cheap pens, and hoping you'll remember the name when you need one or talk about one. I'm not sure how you're torturing the metaphor to get to the brand being applied to your brain.
Yes we need surveillance on millions of legitimate videos and legislate delays into all live streaming services to protect the 200 unfortunate people who couldn't stop watching the stream on their own accord.

Okay now let's stop with the sarcasm. Blocking videos is acceptable, they can be watched many times over and shared even after the live stream has ended. Blocking live streams doesn't do any of that. A live stream is shown once and then it is effectively "deleted", regardless of whether workers filter it or not.

Why punish millions of innocent people for such a tiny minority? This isn't a video that has been shared million of times. Even the recording has only been seen 4000 times.