skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course the big and wealthy countries in the EU want to make sure that the smaller countries aren't attractive for businesses.

I'm not seeing that kind of thing happening at all.

It's just that the equation of how much to win (for a large number of Dollars brought into Ireland when Amazon opens a data center, for example), versus how much to lose (in lost regulatory power, tax revenue etc when domestic companies start asking for the same deal) looks different for a small country than it does for a large country.

...that is also the reason why tax havens tend to be small island countries. A country like Bermuda has a lot to gain from a zero-corporate-tax tax regime if it means it can fill the island with banks and law firms and little to lose if it has next to zero domestic economy and therefore it is by definition the case that the loss in tax revenue pertains to income that would have otherwise been taxed elsewhere anyway.
Ireland... Tax haven and advocate of US companies in the EU. This is unsurprising, unfortunately.
Safety is important, but I don't think any amount of safety is worth any amount of negative externalities. I mean there's things we could do right now that would make things more safe. We could ban everyone with older cars from driving (since they don't have as many safety features). We could ban everyone from the roads that has a somewhat-higher than average accident rate. We could ban all people past a certain age. If safety is always more important than access to transportation we should do those things.

I disagree with those, so I also disagree with the premise that having a human in the car should be required for any amount of increased safety. I think the amount matters. And keep in mind we are only talking about safety increases from present day, you're just proposing to ban them in order to achieve a greater safety increase.

My >90 year old grandmother still drives. She hasn't run anyone over, but I imagine her reaction time isn't the best. Apparently it's common for cops to be lenient with elderly folks who are known bad drivers, since in many areas they wouldn't be able to get groceries or go to the doctor otherwise. I'd argue that maintaining the status quo (by having a blanket policy) for many groups of drivers would probably be safety theater instead of anything real.

Lastly, I touched on this in my earlier post, but if you care about deaths it's very important to consider what cars are actually being replaced in addition to individual car statistics. Imagine in scenario A, 10 million older cars are replaced by 10 million driver-assist cars, and scenario B where 30 million older cars are replaced by 15 million self-driving taxis. Assume the driver-assist car is safer than the self-driving car, which is safer than the older car. Even so, the driver assist scenario may have thousands more deaths, since the uptake rate is different. And this is without taking into account any safety-improving software updates, which are very difficult to estimate but may be very significant statistically.

A simple per-car comparison may lead to all of the negative externalities and thousands of more people killed. I really do not see how that outcome could be justified in the name of "safety". At the very least, even if safety is the first and only concern, policy makers should try to minimize vehicular deaths which requires considering things at the fleet level.
Yes. That is industrial design. Industrial design degrees are heavily engineering based. Source: studied industrial design.
Related work in this area includes Scotland's "violence reduction unit", similarly effective by using social inclusion; and de Soto's book "The Other Path" about bringing land ownership and small businesses into legality in order to reduce the power of Shining Path's Maoist guerillas.
Switzerland has its own GDPR-like privacy act.
Any way to get the dark/terminal theme on Basic HTML? I am not getting any theme option in Settings. I used to have the Terminal theme for years before the new GMail.

Standard Gmail does allow for a dark background, would like that in Basic HTML.
> you'll find that EEs and embedded software engineers take the pragmatic approach of looking at the physical signals to figure out what's happening instead of trying to understand the system from the schematic and first-principles

wat? With software, you can basically probe the workings of a system without affecting it, as well as easily roll back state. Whereas when some rare transient fries several codependent components and desolders a transistor from the board, you're stuck abstract reasoning about what the heck happened, if only to make sure you've actually replaced everything that broke.

FWIW if you have reason to worry about capacitive coupling, you should most definitely have the parasitic capacitance on your schematic, at least the one in your head.

But yes, there is a lot of measuring and not being proven until something is actually built. Heck, many types of circuits can't even be built on an easy medium like a breadboard. But needing to invest more effort means applying more forethought.
Understanding the SOLID principles of software engineering
Mailchimp breaks partnership with Shopify over data sharing
More serious designs are basically the same as what's said here, it's just spread over more pages. You often have special labels that designate that it's connecting to something on a different page, or hierarchical/multi-channel blocks which can be confusing because there isn't really a standard way of showing that, so it's often vendor specific. You get used to the main ones after a while though (Mentor Graphics Pads/Xpedition, Cadence Allegro, and Altium).

A good source of schematics for learning is often development boards - for example, the BeagleBoard ones - https://beagleboard.org/hardware/design

This YouTube series is quite good if you want to see a very complicated design - it takes you through the schematic/layout of a dual-Xeon server motherboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXZJ6jrpIKU
I Bought a Tesla for $78 per Month
Some would say adding a dependency that doesn't give you anything new you can't already easily do is abhorrent and inelegant.

There's a trend to throw a library at the problem, but that comes at a cost.
Yes it was clear that he acquired his other knowledge through hard work and interest.
Ah thank you, I know that word and now I have no idea why I made it difficult for myself :D
After reading the article, I still do not know what is actually meant by "legalizing" gangs. Exactly in which way was the mere existence of a gang, compared to maybe the crimes it did perform, illegal before in Ecuador?

The only specifics the article gets into sound more like increased money for streetworkers.

Does anybody have any details on the situation there?
Open source Jira CLI tool to show tickets you're assigned to + impedements
If KaiOS does get significant market share, they will.
It’s interesting that you lead with “I type on a mechanical keyboard”. I have long considered that at least part of the issue is related to heavier typing styles. I know that sounds like “your holding it wrong”, but thats not what I’m saying. As engineering solutions go, the keyboard they designed is extremely elegant. Maybe they didn’t account enough for how people type.
Very interesting. I'm just beginning my dev career (still in college) but I've always fantasized about doing something in aerospace. I'm in no position to start up something like that now, but maybe (hopefully) in a decade or two.

Would you mind expanding on what your goal is with your company?
Don't want to share the website publicly, but the reason Amazon affiliate works so well is that people don't just buy the product you're referring but a ton of additional products too.

On a given day, a customer might buy 1 MIDI keyboard that I referred. But he will also buy books, CDs, home tools and anything else he needs, and I get 6% of all of that
Your example is a bit confusing. This would be a more idiomatic way of writing it:

.some-class {
> div, a {
background: blue;
&:hover {
background: red;
}
}
}
I've met a dozen or so Google engineers over the years and am very confident as labelling them all as quite clearly very intelligent.

I'm surprised we're even having this conversation.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750278
> The Jasons' solution was to develop a system of remote sensors that could be airdropped into the jungle and provide intelligence on the enemy. The program, like much to do with Vietnam, was controversial and didn't work perfectly

LOL so a bunch of ivory tower academics who have never left the cushy confines of campus let alone entered a battlefield come up with impractical and useless inventions that got dumped within a day. What's the bet men on the ground hated them! And the real solution came from some comms officer who knows a bit about soldering and sensors (and the reality of jungle warfare) probably.

Im surprised the DOD put up with them for so long.
I wasn't around then but, if I'm not mistaken, Nixon hadn't been convicted when Ford pardoned him shortly after assuming the Presidency.

ETA: According to Wikipedia [0]:

> The pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.

It seems that, in the U.S. at least, one can be preemptively pardoned.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon
Yes, all this effort to generate music, with disappointing, lifeless results, is somewhat disturbing.
> People seem to break it down into three potential categories: misinterpretted/bad data/not real, secret project carried out by other nation, or extraterrestrial craft. ... Extraterrestrial doesn't make sense, because of the difficulty in crossing interstellar distances.

We know there is plenty that we don't know. However, what is so devestatingly sad is that it seems pretty clear that no one living today will ever get a full understanding. Physics progressed pretty quickly in the early 20th century, but it's now moving at a glacial pace. If faster than light travel, wormholes, or multiple universes are real possibilities, it may very well take several thousand years for humans to decipher them.
> protecting legitimate traders using the Bitfinex platform. and legitimate holders of tether. primarily those residing in New York

Bitfinex doesn't accept US customers though?
Search for Thanos on Google
lol I can't tell who's the cow or who's the milk in that analogy but I love baby cows so i'm in!
I've been writing CSS since the late 90s. SASS, especially nesting, makes it vastly easier to write, understand, and maintain. It's an unabashed win.

When kids tell say that CSS sucks, it's not annoying at all. Things change, people learn, and tools get better.

People questioning and improving old things is good, not annoying.
I feel the same about 99% of crypto participants - but you can't deny there are a handful of legitimate areas. IPFS and Golem come to mind.
You can save a decent amount of money buying phones from brands that don't pay for their own R&D.
there are pictures of the 755CDV doing that, if that's of any interest:

http://www.lenovoblog.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/3566815....

http://www.lenovoblog.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/755cdv.j...

http://www.lenovoblog.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/thinkpad...

(from http://www.lenovoblog.cz/2016/02/historie-rodiny-notebooku-i... )

https://thinkwiki.de/755
Pro tip: including depreciation of assets on taxes.
The project it links to is not used in production yet, it's just a pilot at this stage.
I used to write only in Sass for these same reasons, but switched back to CSS.

CSS now has variables (if you really need them -- chances are you don't).

The redundancy of writing a selector multiple times is sightly annoying, but I don't think it rises to the level of value I need to include a new dependency in my app or build pipeline.
Interestingly, it's still going strong in Japan. It's one of the factors that make it so difficult to be vegetarian/vegan in Japan - even Bread may contain 'shortening' (generally made of lard).

It's a bit strange; you'd think the land of 'harmony' would be having a large vegan population, but nearly everything in the country, from chips to bread have some form of animal product in them.
Let's think of all the cool UFO sightings we'll hear about once they start putting GANs in those sensors. Then the machine will be able to, quite literally, imagine things.
There's no way the government has the same resources as Facebook to make that case. The FTC loses when it goes to Court. Facebook would have more lawyers on the case than the FTC has paralegals total.
Types of product that could one day be made in space
The uncured Bacon producers aren’t using HACCP approved processes (to the best of my knowledge) Botulism is only killed at very elevated salt concentrations, which may exist on the surface of a salt/sugar cured pork belly, but nowhere high enough on the interior. Any process that uses mechanical injection of brine could drive those spores into the meat interior where it’s not subject to the required salt concentrations. Hanging hooks could drive botulism spores into the interior. The data on salt concentrations required to kill botulism spores is weak, so it’s unlikely any which are on the interior will be killed. Then during cold smoke temps, botulism spores will burst forth and begin multiplying rapidly, without the required salt concentration to control them. Luckily, properly fried bacon is cooked at a temperature high enough to kill botulism toxin. Unfortunately, not all bacon is cooked in the manner. A James Beard award winning restaurant uses uncured bacon in their ramen broth base (I’m assuming it’s prepared at temp/time which aren’t sufficient to deactivate the botulism toxin). It’s delicious, but I don’t understand how the bacon could be processed to eliminate all risk. I happily eat it because nobody has yet fallen ill, but I haven’t found the science which supports this method of processing.
I think you're right - that and the security industry convincing the vast majority NOT to write passwords down on sticky notes..
In the blog, he refers to test losses at an early stage, like in "add significant digits to your eval". Does he actually refer to the test data or is he referring to validation data? I was under the idea that we were supposed to touch the test data only once at the end of all training and validation. What is the right way to handle the test data?
Does the SEC Have Sufficient Resources to Protect Investors
So much for that "top secret".
(author here)

I was talking about this a few months ago with a well-meaning non-techie, who suggested that Uber - the money-burning minicab firm with an app - was an example of a "decentralised system." More than that - it was a model for how blockchain could succeed.

I think they'd never thought about the concept of distributed systems of any sort ever before in their lives.

"It's like blockchain, because anyone can sign up to be an Uber driver!"

"Uh ... anyone can sign up to be a minicab driver."

or the very concept of "open source" only being possible with "blockchain".
Coventry. That was not a normal raid. It is also a raid that is mired with myth. According to the legend Churchill knew all about it but 'sacrificed' Coventry as that would reveal that Enigma had been cracked.

This myth has persisted for many years and those that perpetuate it never mention that there were other sources of intelligence such as the guided radio waves, which were only turned on when the planes were on their way. There wasn't much point doing anything other than praying when the radio beams came on, it was too late to evacuate the city by then.

It is also quite hard today to appreciate what a useful place Coventry once was. It is not a particularly remarkable city, although, that said, the people there are remarkably friendly, welcoming and helpful. It also lacks urban sprawl, so although a 'big city' it does not feel that way when you enter it. Compare with nearby Birmingham where there is no green space between Birmingham proper and built up 'West Midlands'.

The myth about Churchill letting the Germans just bomb Coventry also serves to under-appreciate how important manufacturing was there. Coventry really was where it all got made, the numerous car companies that were once there all swapped over to making weapons of some sort and with no car companies there today it is hard to imagine so much came out of Coventry.

Other places the Luftwaffe helped with the town planning didn't quite have Coventry's industrial clout. Southampton, Plymouth, Bristol, Liverpool and Hull were historically ports rather than places where stuff got made although there were plenty of factories in all these cities when Britain was the 'workshop of the world'. Quite a lot was made in London too, although this is quite hard to believe given today's complete absence of smokestacks in the capital. All considered, the idea that Churchill just let Coventry go so as to not reveal Enigma is laughable.
ML models that generate music continue to improve. However, to me, the result still just seems like a novelty and nothing more. Perhaps it will take much more iteration and improvement in compute power before I hear a piece of music that I find truly inspiring that was generated by an AI.

On the other hand, I've been much more impacted by visual "art" already being generated by AIs. Perhaps the musical medium is ironically harder to crack since the format is simpler, rather like how it took longer for an AI to defeat an expert goban player than a chess player.
Which one, the model X that crashed on the highway lane barrier/split? That's not the only car crash.

But anyway... That doesn't change the argument, if only it is more worrying
Seconded from another European. HN and Reddit are big chunks of the work day. Heck, people even watch YouTube.
https://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen
Maybe they already have. 850m is missing right?
> We had an interviewee (is that a word?) today who said that he didn't know and to me that was a reason to hire him.

I've seen this in interviews too, but my experience on this response is a bit mixed. I appreciate the honesty, but saying you don't know is a dead-end to solving the problem. A better response would be "I don't know X, but it sounds similar to Y which I solved by ...". Even if X and Y are not closely related, it at least shows they have the ability to make these mental connections.
Take a raking kind of light, and shine it on a beige to brown colored wall, so that the light will be stronger on one side and gradually fade in intensity (that is, less reflected light) across the field of view.

Now place a different shade of brown upholstered chair, in front of this wall.

Take a photo using the Hasselblad X1D, currently considered to have the most accurate color of mainstream cameras.

Now try to print it accurately, even with the best quality paper and a high end inkjet printer.

Even master printmakers will struggle with it.

Why?
I guess I have always failed to see the trouble with empathising with someone else, saying "I'm sorry to hear I made you feel that way" and moving on. It costs you nothing and if the response made you feel exasperated then you can opt to not continue the conversation. Isn't that the polite way to handle people you don't want to interact with? There does not, to me, seem to be a reason to feel strongly about it.
Northern Italy too. In Emilia everything contains lard, including bread. Town fairs still feature prominently a special kind of bread fried in lard, and it is considered a delicacy. I cannot imagine how vegetarians or Muslims can actually survive here.
Fascinating. For about a decade my father owned a one-hour photo lab back in the eighties. I worked for him.

When he purchased the equipment for his lab, he didn’t have a ton of money so the equipment was only semi automated. There were two machines, one to develop the color negative film and another to make prints.

I operated the printing machine. This involved sitting at a console and feeding each strip of negatives (typically 36 frames) one image at a time over a lamp which lit the negative from below. I then punched some buttons to make each print. I was assisted by a computer. But the computer was dumb. It looked at the negative and tried to average out the exposure so that the resulting print on average would be grey. 18% grey to be exact.

So my job was to look at this inverse negative that was 1” x 1.5”, figure out what the scene actually was, then override the computer’s exposure and color balance to get a correct print. 12 minutes later when the print had developed I’d know if I guessed correctly.

On a good day, I’d print about 100 rolls of film, 3600 prints, and maybe I’d have to redo about 36 of those.

Now this was in Miami and so I was printing picture of every subject and skin type under the sun.

And the funny thing is, I don’t recall ever noticing, particularly, that there were any issues with prints of persons of color.

What I do remember distinctly is that my dad and I never agreed on blue/yellow color balance. I thought he made everyone look like Smurfs. I pleaded with him to look at the whites of people’s eyes. Never won that battle. It was his shop.

Also, beach scenes. Snow scenes. Cameras and film often (counterintuitively) underexposed those.

But this was long ago and maybe I didn’t notice or don’t remember.
Most people unfortunately refer to Europe when they mean north-west Europe or even the Nordic countries alone.
I don't see why you can't have similar outcomes from different causes when a social circumstance is involved.

What killed lard in Europe? Different things. Probably even different things per country if you get very specific about it.

Merely exploring only American causes to an American result, doesn't make the article bogus and that criticism is what everyone is responding to because the OP said:

> I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.
Theorists of creativity eg Margaret Biden don't limit it to aesthetic domains. They include creativity in Go, in mathematics, even in coding. Marcus Du Sautoy has a recent intro book.
Great article!

My takeaways from it include practical use-cases for Differential Equations (I was never interested in solving the Heat Equation, btw, how boring is heat?), and what a good article/news/post ranking algorithm should do to avoid sock puppet voting and bot-powered voting rings...

If I were to suggest a new title for the article, it would be "How to write a better content ranking algorithm, with examples from Differential Calculus", or perhaps, "Learn Differential Calculus with examples from a real-world content ranking algorithm".

Anyway, this article has to be in my top-ten all-time favorites on HN.
The Kipling reference shows that the issues with technology raised in the thread are merely new aspects of an old dilemma.

What is my responsibility to share something I value?

That could be culture, technology, religion, defense, ways of raising children, marriage age, purifying water, sanitation, etc.

Where does "sharing" and "helping" become "imperialism" and "patronizing"?

Where does not sharing become negligence?

What level of customization for varying physical/cultural needs/preferences is required?

We make our best choices but may get criticized by others who choose differently, and will likely be judged harshly by future commentators, just like Kipling is now.
> I made the mistake of thinking I can also do some TV repair myself until I realised of the dangerous voltages floating about inside the TV.

Yep. Unlike the popular belief, it's not the high voltage in the tube, which can be easily discharged, the real danger comes when you need to probe the live circuit.