skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't see the point of disdain, Depardieu is a relatively well known Russian citizen and also a French public figure so if you want someone from outside of the EU visa agreements, perhaps it's a good example of an individual like that?

He famously gave up his French passport [1]. The official document features his picture issued via a legitimate Department/Executive agency [2]. If I didn't know any better, that looks like a meme!

You are implying that a department which is responsible for implementing the most wide-ranging project and whose sole remit is based around taxonomy of biometrics, has a totally legitimate right to use an image of any person in official documents, in order to promote certain values of it's member states and thereby circumventing it's own laws and directives like Art.17?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20750593

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/migration-and-home-aff...
This conversation is about hobbies. No one is cleaning sewers as a hobby (they wouldn't even let you!)
I think I was there when the visual art section opened, but I never spent much time there.
No it was more the casual use of sex assualt to further your argument that I objected to. All the worse, because it made no sense at all.
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> Yes. Code using powerful libraries. Every use of a powerful library eliminates any number of every kind of bug.

So if I find that a C++ project is using powerful libraries, I can be confident that it doesn't have memory errors? History suggests not.
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I suppose the point I'm making is that the facial recognition system correctly identified the individual responsible for the crimes. Mr. Bah was not mistaken as the perpetrator by the system. The only reason he's involved is because his identity was stolen. If only one store was robbed and no facial recognition was involved the outcome would have been the same. So he was tied to the other crimes because of the facial recognition, but the only reason he was tied to any at all was, again, because of his stolen identity.
You don’t see how a gpu accelerated numeric array would speed up ray tracing?
I think that all of my math teachers in middle and high school used projectors with transparencies. It wasn't until college that most math and physics was on black boards. The major benefit of transparencies is that the teacher was always facing the class. So they could just look up to make eye contact with students.

I hadn't given it thought before, but I assume transparencies weren't as present in college because the room a given college class will be is essentially random. It's not an environment controlled by the person teaching. in high school and middle school, that was the teachers' classroom. The teacher stayed in their room, and we moved around. Projectors require more maintenance (bulbs going out!), and the college teachers would need to lug around their transparencies and pens. But all college classrooms have blackboards and some chalk.
maybe the fastest way to fight global warming in this instance would be to commercialize the technology solely in China so that it is adopted widely there first
Vacancy rate for standard long-term rental units, is absurdly low in toronto (1.1%)

A low vacancy rate generally means that rentals are a seller's market - offer a bad unit or a high price, or both, and you can easily find a tenant, because there's just so few places to rent.

I believe a healthy vacancy rate for a city is in the 6-7 percent range. 1.1 percent is insanely low.

But, it's not terribly surprising. The story of housing in the 21st century is that vacancy builds in the tiny manufacturing towns of yesteryear (much of the Midwest USA for example) while people move en masse to a few superstar cities that usually fail under overbearing regulations and zoning to build anywhere near enough units to match the incoming migration.
Great story. One quick bug report: your Bulk & Wholesale page has a broken contact form: https://www.vidaliaonions.com/bulk-wholesale/
You get an OOM if your working set is larger than the heap. Otherwise, the GC just works harder, reducing your performance. Generally, the JVM uses as much memory as you let it.
What's with the timing on this post? Seems like it's only being posted because KDENLive just dropped a huge new release yesterday.
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I love dearly the GNU project and the beautiful, nicely worded documentation which is always a pleasure to read (when rendered as pdf documents). However, the info format is unfathomable; if it is possible to really hate one file format, it must be this one.
I don't think this is true for modern languages.

Rust seeds the whole state by default: https://docs.rs/rand/0.6.5/rand/

Julia seems to seed 128 bits: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/5741c7f53c5ea443bbd7...

However, your statement seems to apply to old languages:

C# uses only 32 bits and the time for seeding: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.random?vi...

Java only supports 48 bit seeds: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Random.h...
It sounds like he created a co-operative. This is the case in Oregon where lots of milk growers...er...dairy farmers pool their resources into a funnel organization, Tillamook Farmer's Co-op, that handles packaging, distribution and marketing. This is such a wild story tho, I loved reading it.
> But here's the kicker - those same teams are unlikely to use Rust anyway.

Absolutely disagree. Those are exactly the teams that will choose Rust over C++. It is well known that many shy away from writing plugins for node or python in C/C++ specifically due to the fact that they don't have enough experience with these unforgiving languages. The gap between Python/JS and C/C++ is wide and deep. But the use case is still there. If you have to improve performance of a component - Rust provides a lower barrier to entry and will be chosen by such teams.
> nothing preventing someone from forking ...

Bitcoin code has been forked thousands of times. Only a few forks survive today, and those are worth a small fraction of the original.

That's because Bitcoin, like all money, is a social construct. It's an idea and belief shared among many people. Bitcoin, like all money, has no intrinsic value, but derives value from the network of people who find it useful.

It's much more difficult to fork a network of people and shared beliefs than it is to fork the code.

And I'll preempt the inevitable argument that dollars and renminbi are backed by the military, or by taxes, or by central banks, etc. That's all hogwash. Money isn't backed by anything other than shared belief and the promises we make to each other.
That sounds better, perhaps now Clojure can outgrow the "batteries-not-included" feel.
Moments of whimsy are some of the most important. It was a moment of whimsy that led to me studying abroad in college, and another moment of whimsy that led me to meet my wife while I was there. Couldn't have been more than 5 total minutes of thoughts no more complicated than "yeah, I guess I'll give it a go" that shaped my entire life.

And yet, I can spend another 5 minutes in the grocery store agonizing over which of two near-identical bags of chips to buy. Funny how that goes.
.NET is the only runtime that comes close. Unfortunately, some early design decisions (reified generics) make language interop on the CLR much more cumbersome than on the JVM. Clojure in particular makes heavy use of the fact that a Clojure map/list/set is a Java map/list/set. This is awkward on the CLR (where you must specialize the collection).
Awesome work! Let's get it into Homebrew.
I thought the emacs tooling depended upon leiningen.
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I am working for Saas product and have to increase my blog and landing page traffic by 10x in a week bit more please share some actionable tips and hacks to increase relevant traffic.
It certainly _feels_ like I’ve had more Prime orders not show up in 2 days, when viewing the last 6 months, vs. those before that.

As a household we do about 400 orders a year on Amazon with a couple spikes around e.g. Christmas, but a consistent baseline of at least 20-25 monthly.

There’s a CSV you can pull which shows all the orders you’ve ever made, on what date, the cost, etc. I can’t recall if it logs a date for when it was delivered. Will have to look later.
I guess. I fail to see how this is better than sticking an API server onto Heroku or similar, especially given the engineering hours spent will easily dwarf any potential hosting cost differences.
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Just like Nvidia we are seeing price drop. AMD is creating some good competition.
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Thanks! I think the idea you outlined would definitely work, but it is different than current refrigerants a few ways. For example: the secondary liquid loop you mention would probably vary in temperature with time. Right after the pulse starts the fluid would be very hot (or cold). As the solid material changes trends back toward the mean temperature, the secondary loop would follow. The secondary loop would need to then exchange heat with the system being heated or cooled. This would require the heat exchanger to work over a variety of temperatures for the fluid loop. This in itself is obviously not impossible but it does prohibit important optimizations to efficiency that you can get by assuming more steady operating conditions.
Oh god that sounds just so incredibly good
Expanded polystyrene is, by design, a very lightweight and flimsy material. And the very fact that it's so flimsy, and also typically used in food containers, is why nobody wants to use it: it tends to be horribly contaminated with foreign material, and is difficult to effectively clean. I'm not sure there's much of a market for a post-consumer material that consists of a mix of polystyrene and uneaten cheese.
Yes, all these things need to be done. But, again, most of these things will matter little if in 30-50 years much of our planet becomes uninhabitable, which is now nearly certain unless we take immediate action.

Those 2-3 billion people on earth you mentioned? Most of those live in the tropical zones and if we do not concentrate on fighting climate change NOW, will not have a place to live. Healthcare will be a secondary issue.
IMHO it's illegal even if you make it clear that it was pulled from another publication and with the name of the original author.
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Oops, thank you.
Im a blockchain noob, but if the election was driven by blockchain, how would one protect against Chinese mining warehouses trying to gain control of the network? What would a double spend attack look like? Again, just a blockchain noob asking noob questions
Specialized forums certainly still exist, but according to my perception, the activity on many of them has decreased A LOT compared to 10-15 years ago.

People spend much more time on FB, Instagram et al.

Reddit is an interesting hybrid. it does allow for specialized communities, but still engages in the "content feeding" mentioned above.

In forums, deep discussions can/could go on for weeks on the same topic. This completely impossible in today's main platforms.

Hackernews is just as guilty of this!

Few people read submissions older than a day or two, and a miniscule amount of them comment. Because no-one is going to answer anyway. That's my biggest gripe with this community.
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But such a system is incompatible with the secret ballot, and is therefore vulnerable to voter coercion.

Didn't vote for the right candidate? You're fired "for performance reasons".
I couldn’t find anywhere including the article. NPR has a disclaimer though that one of their sponsors is Blue Apron.

The research reads so weak, though. For instance, they don’t count CO2 emission caused by transportation! They just bought the same ingredients at a grocery store, cooked the same meal themselves and compared the numbers! They also assume that you eat all of the meal kit.

So many assumptions, hard to replicate methods, arbitrary exclusions.

Even if this was not sponsored, pretty bad “research” anyways.
> Somebody needs to write self help books for the people who need them. That somebody should do a lot of boring research (note that I said should: the implication that they might not is intentional).

That doesn't mean it should be the author. If he hates self-help books as a concept, he'd probably do a shit job at it. That is, he might make money, but the book wouldn't be useful. Market economy as it is today, in practice, is pretty bad at rewarding quality. Marketing gives much greater ROI.

> The market economy works because it provides motivation for people to not do a job they would love and instead do something else.

I recognize that and this is the main thing I meant under "good" when I wrote about "good and bad" consequences. Unfortunately, Sturgeon's law applies - "90% of everything is crap". The market doesn't seem good at reducing this percentage. In self-help space, we need more Carnegies and Coveys, and less copycats who arrive in the space through "market research" and crap out nonsense that ultimately wastes buyers' money. Same thing applies to all other spaces. My complaint isn't really about the market telling you what to do - I'm just wishing the market was better at directing the right people to the right jobs, ensuring there's "impedance match" between the worker and the work.

I'm not sure how we can get there, though I think it would have to start with completely destroying the marketing industry. The world won't stop drowning in bad products and services for as long as a dollar spent on marketing buys you more profit than a dollar spent on product development or improving your service. Marketing completely scrambles people's ability to evaluate and reward quality and utility.
I agree -- it's silly to worry about this when there's so much more low-hanging fruit, like the endless JavaScript APIs that can access more and more hardware. For example, did you know that you can turn someone's webcam into their favicon? [1] I'll bet there are some exploits lurking around there. And that's even before we get into WASM/WASI. We're piling up complexity fast enough that I doubt Spectre will ever be worth exploiting at any scale in the real world. Maybe by a state-level actor against an individual, but that's not my threat model[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/davywtf/status/1119783380734836737

[2] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
CO2 is not an efficient refrigerant, its critical temperature is 31C, but CO2 is darn cheap
I imagine the common usage would be to write an ordinary python module and then just have a small block of inline python in the Rust code that imports and calls the module.
Cool thanks for the work! I'll try it out once the formula is released :) (Note: I am a different person)
I don't think forums attract these people. I think forums make them more visible and impossible to ignore when they turn up.

The Internet has no quality filter, so as all posts get equal prominence - which means that if you don't shadow-ban them, toxic idiots, kooks, and those with personality issues get exactly as much screen space as people whose words you want to read.

Before the Internet these people would write letters to magazines, newspapers, and famous people, and their efforts would be binned, possibly after some laughter at their expense.

Internet systems give them a much wider audience.

More worryingly, politics has no quality filter either. Some of the extremist parties rely on these people for their membership.

It's hard to know how to deal with this - and it's potentially far more of a problem than forum trolling.
Seconded: I would totally pay for 'ship this person an onion'
Aluminum cans are typically BPA lined, FYI.
What are the prospects on an ipad pro app?

I paid $1500+ for my ipad.
I'm very willing to pay for a good, open-source incremental reading solution on my iPad (with exportable content and easy backup).

We are at the pre-history of spaced repetition learning. This will have very large effects on society. Just ask any engineer how much they already forgot of what they learned in college. Coursera et al will get into this space, I hope, but that's not enough.

We need good, open alternatives like anki (but better) and with incremental reading. But keeping a slew of apps on different platforms updated and running smoothly is expensive. Anki's model of charging for the apple app is not bad.
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"too much in the weeds" is a good way to phrase this actually. I'm going to work on improving it but slammed for time.

Growth is hard man! :)
As a couple of commenters noted, a Korean company (Sejongmall) purchased some of the machinery, adopted the Hagoromo Fulltouch brand name, and recently started producing and selling chalk. You can buy it on Amazon, for example.

In my opinion (which seems to mostly be shared by other mathematicians), the quality is quite good -- approximately comparable to the Japanese original. Also the price is cheaper, $17.00 for a 72-piece box.

We chalk snobs have breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Ultimately changing consumer behavior and the way we shop is the way to reduce the carbon footprint and waste, not delivery food services. Even being aware that everything has an environmental cost can make a difference in how one purchases food.

Eat less meat. Make delis, bakeries, butchers, etc... more available in the grocery store so instead of buying six chicken breasts you can buy two. Same for hamburger buns, go to the bakery and buy individual buns. Make grocery stores donate their food or compost it rather than throw it out. Save and more importantly eat leftovers! While obviously not for everyone, shop for a few days not a week or two. More grocery stores need to provide a local Blue Apron alternative so I can go in and pick up a few boxes with whatever else I need.
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Any solution requires "crippling the software" - process isolation increases overhead through kernel context switches
You might have a propylene glycol allergy. Have you tried 100% VG juices? Also there are a lot of excellent mint/menthol flavors out, especially when mixed with some kind of fruit flavoring.
Banning plastic would mean you'd need to buy more fresh vegetables, which would reduce the amount that's wasted now. It would also encourage you to plan your trips more efficiently (eg shop somewhere closer to home).
Basically every first world country has this now, or is well on the way to having it.

Just today, for a JetBlue flight in the US: https://twitter.com/TallGlassofStyL/status/11199746416054599...

The question is not whether Governments should have this information - that horse has left the barn. The question now is what they should be allowed to do with it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned propane as refrigerant.
Lots of environmental benefits.
I believe Whole Foods uses it in some of their stores.
Look online for "Propane as a refrigerant. Whats not to love?"
outside online actually had another article about tagging locations of photos on instagram, and how those locations weren't able to deal with the subsequent influx of guests.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2160416/instagram-ruining-grea...
I wonder about the domain name snapping business. Are there people doing this full-time, buying expired domains in bulk?
The sweet candy flavour is mainly a crap load of sweeteners and ethyl maltol.

You can make your own liquid at home which uses far less EM/sweetener. It's also remarkably cheap, I pay about £10/month for the equivalent of 20 cigarettes a day. You can also reduce the nicotine concentration to lower than over the counter eliquid.

If you're looking to quit smoking I definitely recommend it. There are a lot of good guides on /r/diy_ecig for starting out.
The votes can be public but that doesn’t mean the data needs to include information that identifies the voter.
Quite right, prison guard unions have just as great an incentive to lobby for harsher sentencing as private corporations operating prisons do. They exist in state run prisons and no politician wants to piss off a public service union. They’re organised and they vote, same as teachers, police or firefighters.
In one of the class I had, which used Powerpoint, I had a pdf version of the slides, on which I added notes, all on the corresponding slides.
I love clojure. Would it be possible to get it running on a rust runtime? That would be awesome
Why do you read "absolute equality of outcome" when I write "similar outcomes"? That's called a strawman.

When in doubt, just wonder how to balance liberty, equality, fraternity. Do you want to reward kids who study well? I bet. Do you want adults dying on the street for their choices when they were 10 year old? Maybe not.

And this is exactly a moral perspective: you are deciding who deserves what. You may argue that from a practical perspective we can't give equal outcomes to everybody, and I agree with that. Which is why my first message emphasizes the fact that this is a goal, an objective to strive toward.

Inequalities and the desire to get more are what fuels our society today, so as long as we have the current organization, we will have some amount of that. The moral choices of making equality a worthwhile goal says that we still want to minimize inequalities as much as possible.
That is necessary but not sufficient. The American way is to spend, spend, spend...
No problem.

I sort of understand their view but the lack of medication or proper diagnose can also be linked to accidents, we just don’t have any data either way.
I took dozens of flghts out of and into ZRH and was checked exactly twice. Both times upon arrival at the gate:

Once upon arrival in Prague and once in Zurich upon arrival from
Athens.

In all other cases the whole process, at least in ZRH, was completely automated.

It does depend on country and airport, though.

Customs is a whole different kettle of fish. But as for id, I'm very rarely asked.
My understanding was that the actual domain name doesn't make much difference? I setup http://www.drivinglessonslimerick.com for a friend (I'm not a web dev) and it is on the second page of results when I search for Driving Lessons in Limerick. $2200 seems way too much, the value here is in this Onion business not the domain.
If I were to offer some unsolicited advice. Authenticity arises out of real communities, and that is something social networks are quite bad at. They often focus on the self much more than communitiy participation. I think that's why old chat networks and forums were so good at building communities, as you had to truly contribute to be part of them. You didn't even have an identity until you contributed to the community and revealed it while doing so.

Current social networks allow you to hit "join" or "like" and that's all the participation you need to get your validation. You're part of the group just by signing up, rather than because you helped make it a community by contributing.

That's probably why this story resonates with people here so much. It's not just a tech business, it's an attempt to contribute and be an integral part of the local community. Not something every startup gets to do.
Everything is easier with blockchain. A blockchain is a database with virtue.