skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I've noticed that makes it such a wonderful experience is that the trains still use the old tracks (not literally the same metal, but the same paths) that were laid down decades or even centuries prior. So as you roll through these small towns, you are often seeing the old parts that are full of character and charm, not the strip-malls or Wal-Marts. I love that.
I've always loved sigmoids, a really simple beauty to them.
LOVE this! Cool little world to play in.

I enjoyed editing a hole in front of me, falling in and editing a staircase to get back out.
Building an Audio Visualizer for Razer Chroma Keyboards
Security is enforced inbound. You can't enter without an account. You can grab "anything" you want and it's charged to the account.
Open-sourcing Python Test Runner for multiple tests in parallel
Leaded gas was in use since the 20's or 30's. Crime/Murders didn't to spike up until 1965. Murders started going down around 1994 or so. And then in the late 2000's, many cities have started to see it go back up.

I would wager the reasons for the increase in the late 60's is similar to the recent rise, and that it has nothing to do with lead.
Why results from the next generation of climate models matter
just posted:

"UPDATE: The (awesome) Scott Hanselman informs me that there has been a “hiccup” during migration, and that the intention was to archive the MSDN blogs in a read-only format with the same links; they should be back soon."
More often than not, if a term is missing from a page, chances are it is on the anchor text of a link that points to the page.
"Early results suggest ECS values from some of the new CMIP6 climate models are higher than previous estimates, with early numbers being reported between 2.8C (pdf) and 5.8C. This compares with the previous coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP5), which reported values between 2.1C to 4.7C. The IPCC’s fifth assessment report(AR5) assessed ECS to be “likely” in the range 1.5C to 4.5C and “very unlikely” greater than 6C. (These terms are defined using the IPCC methodology.)"

Yikes.
Maybe jinja is well-suited to whatever its intended purpose is, but it's not well-suited for programmatically building markup. Using a dynamically typed scripting language to generate the markup at least has the benefit of allowing you to define appropriate semantics via functions ("give me a blob of YAML that represents a Kubernetes service with these parameters").

Sure, you can probably build your own concept of functions on top of Jinja, either by embedding them or building your own paradigm on top of Jinja's template inheritance, but it's a hack either way.
All guns are deadly. That's what they're designed to be. Guns are not a sport toy, their purpose is to kill things. That's what makes them useful.

The problem is not "how deadly" a gun is.
Sure there is a balance.

Just like in emerging markets with high interest rates: if your government pays 10% per year (real terms) interest on its bonds, would you invest in a business that would only return 9%?

No, nobody would ever invest in it. But there's a reason the government is paying 10%: to reward the risk of lending money to it.

In the case of bitcoin, the only reason there is this deflationary "tax" is because someone arbitrarily decided that the supply of bitcoins should remain constant.

So you're voluntarily fucking up your economy.

Sure, "we could relax that and make the supply increase over time", but that doesn't address fluctuations on the demand for money, resulting in harder oscillations.

And then "but then we could have the supply adjust dynamically based on some guidance from economists plus the balance of supply and demand for money".

Well, congrats, you just recreated the modern monetary system.
Some contracts end up having clauses that require anti virus software to be used, sometimes on every networked system, which means that they need to load up /something/ to check that box.
I'm sure they did figure out mitigations. They failed. Things fail. Two airliners just failed rather spectacularly, and that's the very industry you're benchmarking against.

>Somehow it seems that large parts of the software industry simply hasn't reached the level of maturity we expect from pretty much all other industries.

True, but that's a rather broad brush — in terms of actual risk of damages there is nowhere near an equivalence between "airliner crashing into waiting hall" and "logging some plaintext passwords".

Of course the culture, priorities, and domain are also very different between social network engineering and airliner engineering, which is by the way one reason Facebook could grow from nothing to mind-bogglingly gigantic in a decade, while it takes a decade to get just one new airliner into production.
Facebook: ‘Hundreds of millions’ of users’ passwords stored in plain text
MMT seems to me like a plea to politicians to get rid of the independent federal reserve. MMT would create a situation where the goals of the Federal government and the Federal Reserve would be in direct conflict. I have no doubt that Federal Reserve would lost such a conflict but we'd all be worse off.
> I get that it’s fun to beat up on Tesla. We love nothing more than the little guy winning and the winning guy brought low.

Huh.. and here I thought Tesla was the little guy in an industry defined by century-old behemoths.

The truth is people like to shit on other people. As Taylor Swift famously said[0], "we don't live just in a celebrity takedown culture, we live in a takedown culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it's weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad."

Yes, there's plenty we can criticize Tesla on, but people will extend this to even seemingly benign things like having something stolen from the company because it's cool to hate on the company in $current_year

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[0] https://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/taylorswift/view/1136...
I have something like this you could try out - it separates your application into two distinct servers one half providing all user account and session stuff and the other is your application. When users request whatever URL my software will proxy your application, or serve its own content. Whenever your server is proxied it includes account and session identifiers.

The user and administration interfaces are boring HTML without client-side JavaScript, and it is totally API-driven. The API can be accessed via NodeJS within the same server or via HTTP from your application server which can be in any language. There are modules for subscriptions and organizations that add hundreds more API routes and pages to your frontend.

https://github.com/userappstore/dashboard

My goal with this software is to make writing web applications as simple as blogging is when you use WordPress.

Some illustrations of how it works:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/userappstore/userappstore-...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/userappstore/userappstore-...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/userappstore/userappstore-...
Why has this fallacy of google blocking europe become so popular? Monopolies cannot flex their muscles in markets that they do not participate in. What do you think will happen to all the competitors that have been pushed back through googles dominance? They will start growing and replace google because thanks to google's leave there will be a huge gap in the market.
> I can't message you on Twitter from Facebook, or tweet at you on LinkedIn. You must stay in their walled garden

Speaking of Facebook and whatsapp, a while ago I read that you couldn't post links to some other social networks. Is it true and if so which sites are affected?
And even worse is special effects.
The person who said "Subscribe to PewDiePie" on camera before killing dozens of Muslims is in fact a white supremacist.
According to the explanation about permissions within NoRoot Firewall itself, any app with the 'Internet' permission can create connections to bypass the VPN. This is how NoRoot Firewall itself works (else the filtered traffic would never escape the app/vpn).
There are 2 ways to see stereograms and I it depends on how exactly you are focusing. One way is the "inverted" version you see.

For me, everything appears as it should.

Here's one place where this is discussed: https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicEye/comments/2u0cc1/inverted_i...
Also any offline store where you pay for something with a credit card. For me the convenience of not having to deal with cash on a daily basis is worth it. I can see how others would take a different viewpoint, but one really has to be cash-only if they want to avoid their financial habits being data-mined.
Use of those tools (along with MLlib and virtually anything relying on a py4j bridge) was precisely the setup I tested and found to have unacceptably poor performance when taken across our range of both large and small workloads, in addition to many problems with deep inflexibility in controlling the runtime environment on a per-project basis (our most critical requirement).

See my other comment below with a link to a previous discussion.
I’m guessing by using image recognition of the original digital / DVD releases against the newly scanned hi-def video?
Isn’t that what living in your means mean by definition?
> The biggest example to me that Amazon no longer cares about the customer is their experience for non-Prime users.

That's the thing - you're not an Amazon customer if you don't subscribe to Prime. You're the merchant's customer, you just happen to be shopping through Amazon's site.
Explicitly logging a password is one of those practices that doesn't sit on the backlog.

It's probably a bit more complicated than that. Usually the things that I encounter have to do with how HTTP requests are logged.

For example, putting sensitive information in a URL that's loaded over HTTPS is considered insecure because many companies have policies where they log every URL that their employees visit. (Think of a password reset link.)

A lot of inexperienced programmers don't realize this, because they don't realize that you can man-in-the-middle yourself, and that most corporate computers come preconfigured to allow the employer to man-in-the-middle everyone.

So, if a password reset link never expires, it means that some guy in IT can own an account that was reset on a corporate computer.

(This, basically, is how they catch people viewing porn on their work computers.)

Anyway, my point is that the problem is probably something where a junior programmer transmitted a password in a way that they didn't realize was being logged.
use-package is a nice declarative way to configure packages in .emacs
Analyzing tf.function to discover AutoGraph strengths and subtleties
I claim not that it is the whole effect size, but certainly the massive drop in testosterone must account for some of it. Would be interesting to see the state-by-state, year-by-year correlation.
Recently a younger friend realized that if they wanted to major in Economics, the only option at most schools is a B.A. instead of B.S.

At first I thought it was a bit dramatic for schools to differentiate that specific field so much, since I would think it belongs firmly with other STEM fields, but it's definitely the right call.

That such a basic question like how inflation is created (is it when you print the money, or when that money is spent) is still a topic being debated really makes you want more from the field.

Is there really no way to experimentally test these questions?
Right and this arguably is especially the case for high dimensional image datasets. Yet despite this case, we are able to train models on these high dimensional dataset through MCMC (with some tricks) with good likelihood, indicating that standard MCMC technique can actually scale up to very high dimensional multi-modal situations which was previously thought to be computationally intractable.
Specifically, the issue is with null hypothesis significance testing. That's what this whole "statistical significance" debate is about, because "Scientists rise up against NHST" isn't clickbaity enough :(. Yes, statistics are central, and we have to answer the question you posed, but we don't have to use NHST to do it.
The real insight of this article is not the role of innovation, but the unintended power given to one particular company structure, the corporation, to be shielded from obligations to act as a public entity for the good of society as a condition of existence. Remember, there are other company forms like a partnership that are not considered ‘legal persons’. This status as an individual person meant corporations could use public goods and accumulate property on a scale that no one person could (because a Corp can pool resources of many people and out bid others) while also being shielded from regulations in ways partnerships were not.

The way I think of innovation in this context is this. It may give an initial advantage, but it doesn’t last and isn’t as big of a contributing factor in creating lasting monopolies as is the corporate form and the shield it provides against regulation, public obligations, and even the competition that future innovation might bring.
One really big bugbears I have with HMD and the firmware updates is absolutely unusable WiFi after they released the January/February security updates for this year.

After installing the security updates, WiFi only works once after a reboot, the moment you disable it, you have to either sludge forward with modem speeds on 2.4GHz-band or none at all if you are on 5GHz-band. Since these problems manifested after installing the security updates, it's slowly starting to point towards a driver/firmware issue instead of a hardware problem as some have speculated.

Some fixes for this are "phantom SIM", resetting WiFi settings or booting into safe mode. Only common thing with these "fixes" is the reboot; so far it is the only thing that will fix the WiFi but turn it off once and you're boned. Similar issues are noticeable with the WiFi AP: first try after boot works just fine, next one you have to try to force 2.4GHz-band on the AP along with 5GHz, causing the AP to "soft reboot". After this, you are very likely in need of a reboot as the AP will no show up.

After this breach of privacy and data security, along with the WiFi issues, I'm slowly starting to lean towards filing a complaint to either HMD or the local customer protection agency here.

Worst of all, the support forum topics I've checked somewhat regularly on have no official replies from HMD or Nokia, only second-hand information from people who have been in touch with support.
I always assumed it was because your frame of reference gets longer and longer. For a 5 year old, a day is 1/1825 of their entire life, whereas for a 50-year-old it's a smaller piece of your life by a factor of 10.
>you can’t cut interest rates below zero

Well, he was wrong on that point.

>Crazy as it sounds, several of Europe’s central banks cut interest rates below zero in 2014, and then Japan followed. By mid-2016, some 500 million people in a quarter of the world's economies were living with rates in the red

https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/negative-interest-rates
Yes it's problematic in the sense that studio apartments typically go for €250k, whereas the median salary lets you borrow around €180k, and prices rose 10% last year, i.e. at a median salary even with 100% savings rate of net income, you can barely keep up with price increases. (although price growth is flattening these coming years).

In other words, purchasing the smallest housing unit is impossible for about 3 out of 4 people, many of whom are born and raised there, and it's getting worse.

Then there's the rental market. There's social housing, but the median salary is too high to be eligible for it. And even if you were low-income, the waiting list is now 15 years. So say you're 25 years old, there is no prospect of moving out of your parents' home unless you leaves the city you're born and raised in.

Then there's the rest of the rental market. Rents typically start at 1100 or so for the smallest housing units, and you're typically required to earn gross 3.5x the rent each month, which is more than the median salary, too.

And this concerns the smallest housing units. Not having your bedroom in your living room and in your kitchen is a luxury you can't easily find in this price range. Anything that's liveable long-term is going to require substantially above-median incomes.

As for comparisons with Bay Area, it's simply not appropriate in any conversation about affordable housing worldwide if you ask me. Nor is an anecdote of a friend with uniquely high-income who can afford a nice place, appropriate either, in a discussion about affordable housing for all.
Impressive product with very natural voices.
Is there any correlation now between violence and proximity of airports? Aviation still uses leaded gas, and there have been studies finding that children near airports have elevated lead levels [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230438/
Tesla is the largest battery manufacturer in the world, and manufactures their batteries at significantly lower cost, higher performance, tighter tolerances, and with greater automation than anyone else in the world.

Panasonic manufactures the battery cells for Tesla and most of the market. Tesla assembles the cells into batteries. It would be accurate to say that Tesla is the largest manufacturer of car batteries, but they are nowhere close to being the largest battery manufacturer in the world.

The gross margins that Tesla has achieved on the Model 3 I believe speaks for itself as the worlds best at that price point, and that does not come without a well run supply chain.

We must be talking about a different Model 3. If Tesla had terrific Model 3 gross margins, it wouldn't have needed to (try to) close all of its stores and eliminate all customer referral incentives just to make the $35k Model 3 possible...in one color and style...with limited options. It's competitors could have great margins too if they only sold the car in one color, one style, and no packages, because their economies of scale would absolutely dwarf Tesla's.

I’d like to see anyone else try and come close to what they’ve shipped without a fair share of fuckups along the way

Toyota and VW shipped 10 million cars worldwide last year without any logistics issues. Hell, most companies are able to ship their products without any controllable logistics issues. Why does Tesla get a pass for failing to do something that every other manufacturer gets right?
One favorite trick of Microsoft IT is to delete old instances of SharePoint servers for projects. Where "old" is maybe 3-4 years.

Goodbye design documents. Goodbye test plans. Goodbye user studies. Goodbye meeting notes. Goodbye just about everything interesting except for the source code of the project. And backups? "What is this word you are using . . . ''backup''?"

Which is why I just checked everything into source control and told the PMs they could bloody well learn how to use Source Depot.
The article is specifically about youth crime in California.
Nothing you've said actually runs counter to the parent comment, though. Tesla can simultaneously be awful at logistics and still be the largest battery pack manufacturer because no one else really wanted to get into that game until recently.

Also, the gross margins on the Model 3 have little to do with supply chain. They cut a lot of corners on build quality, interior fit and finish, etc. to get to that margin and they're only able to do so because of lack of competition in the segment.
That's why modern languages need something like a typedef!

At least C# has a concept of a SecureString for things like passwords.
Facebook Mistakenly Stored Millions of Users' Passwords in Plaintext
Typometer – A program that simplifies measuring and comparing input latency
Yesterday Dan Luu's post about terminal latency made the front page again. If you found it interesting you might like Typometer. It's a program that simplifies measuring and comparing input latency.

https://pavelfatin.com/typometer/

I did a quick test with:

- Alacritty

- Alacritty with tmux

- GNOME Terminal

- Hyper

- kitty

- xterm

You can see the results here:

https://imgur.com/a/An09EtX
> No major search engine has worked that way since the 90s, I don't know why this is suddenly becoming a narrative on this site now.

I understand the idea, but you are wrong or at least not completely right (I can't speak for all markets).

I know someone who learned to spell as a kid using Google, because if he didn't spell the words correctly he wouldn't get to see pictures of the moon or whatever he wanted to see.

Also after they learned to guess what people meant, Google used to be able to respect +, "" and also the verbatim option hidden beneath a button.

For a while they would also ask politely: did you mean x?

Since then it has become worse and worse: silently rewriting, fuzzing without asking etc.
Cashless stores don't have cash handling expenses. Without social coordination business isn't necessarily incentivized to include unbanked customers.
I see a lot of comments from people getting excited about superficial quality improvements, and I'm mystified. It's nice I guess, but the story and acting are unchanged by this sort of thing, and isn't that what matters to Star Trek fans?
The firmware for my 7 Plus is littered with packages named "com.evenwell.*", including the very aggressive powersaving "feature".
If you are a relatively new company, getting on stable ground, would you appreciate it if someone stole your IP and then proceeded to copy you, and get a huge boost past the part that nearly bankrupted you and left you homeless? That's not very fair to me, either.

Full disclosure: I do agree that there is such a thing as going overboard, but when your top engineers get recruited to a new company doing the same exact thing and take their laptop with them, that's a bit much. Especially when they load up all their drives with documentation before they leave.
KiCad 5.1.0
If you raise seed funding, the expectation is that you will continue to raise money to fuel your growth. Even if your SAFE or convertible note doesn't have those terms in it, your first priced round will and all previous investors will inherit those rights through their preferred stock.
Research shows handwritten notes to generally be far superior to typed notes for memory and retention

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...

So while there are certainly some people who are better with digital notes it is absolutely not " pointless to agree or disagree."
What does being popular have to do with robocalls? It’s more likely they target people who pick up often. In that case, don’t answer the phone unless you know the number
Theft is taking off with something that is in plain view. Burglary includes breaking in, and robbery involves violent force. Lawgivers the world over especially detest violence, so no surprise that the latter two traditionally attract stiffer penalties.
Who? In most of Asia trains are privatized. In Europe, the passenger rail companies are in various stages of privatization. Rail in the UK is more or less privatised. Deutche Bahn, SNCF, Trenitalia, DSB, etc., are private companies. The government is involved in the sense they are the largest or sole shareholder, but they are run as for-profit corporations. For example, they compete in other countries. Many, such as SNCF, are on the path to further privatization: https://www.railway-technology.com/features/french-rail-refo.... Amtrak, though legally an independent corporation, is in practice operated like a government agency.
If you want exact then put it in quotes. Sometimes you may not know the exact language to use or proper language to ask and in those cases their current functionality is extremely useful.