skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's "a reward". I'm talking about whether at the end of a gaming session you feel good and would like to play again (rewarding) or if you feel unfulfilled and want to play more try and get that fulfillment. Rewarding.
I'm of the opinion that money remaining fungible is of more importance to modern economies than preventing money laundering.

If crimes are performed to obtain such money, then the crimes are abhorrent no doubt. However the sending and receipt of said money afterwards, in-and-of-itself should not be a crime.

I believe it is not money laundering that is causing asset bubbles in specific jurisdictions, but the enforcement of anti-money laundering measures worldwide that is causing such illicit capital to concentrate to jurisdictions where avenues to launder them is accessible.

If the proceeds of crime can be spent in the jurisdictions where the crime took place, illicit capital will not cause asset bubbles.
The Inner Chronicle of What We Are – Understanding Werner Herzog (video)
This guy is spamming his product on here day in and day out.
> If I'm buying clothes for the gym, I don't want to buy "ROWILUX" or "YAKER" or "YSENTO" brand. I've bought enough to know they're all junk. Just show me the stuff that people actually put effort into!

This is actually how I feel about self-published books. Amazon won't stop recommending them to me. I bought a couple, and the writing quality is truly atrocious. So now self-published just means I am guaranteed not to buy the book unless it gets a meaningful recommendation from someone trustworthy.

And I once bought the cheapest available toilet paper from Lucky. It was terrible, definitely not worth the minor savings.

On the other hand, I don't really think it's wrong for Amazon to be selling self-published books, or for Lucky to be selling ultra-cheap toilet paper.
Yep this is a common move a lot of companies are doing for their biz partners and customers are requiring these sorts of tests be done before getting final procurement sign-off.
And gals.

But seriously, that is why I come to HN...so I can talk to people smarter than me, or at least, expert in an area I am not.
You are making a lot of incorrect statements about brains and vision. I would advise you to study some visual neuroscience.

> Learning multilayer convolutional representations of statistical features is roughly equal to taking few first few layers in visual cortex and stacking them.

No, it isn't roughly equal the first few layers of visual cortex. The first few layers of visual cortex have substantial feedback connectivity from higher areas which affects the responses of even the most peripheral parts. (Citations in our arxiv preprint linked above.). Most of the brain has more feedback connectivity from elsewhere than feedforward ascending connectivity. This qualitatively affects activations.

>We are essentially building a frog...

I suspect frog vision is far more robust than anything we are "essentially building".

> Features seem to exist independently...

Please have a close look at some modern visual neuroscience. Or speak to an good honest electrophysiologist.
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or just stop using public money on whitelisting transactions, how much resources is British Columbia spending on trying to flag transactions. The best they got after all of this is a report from GERMANY talking about it, and now they are lobbying the Canadian federal government for MORE resources to combat it, WHY? To what end? So that housing prices rise 65% instead of 70%? WOW okay, and regarding the lofty goal of stopping terrorist financing how about looking at all the terrorist attacks that didn't happen with all those billions disappearing where the origin was unknown and now the current unknown recipient has integrated it into the economy completely indistinct from everyone else.

The funny thing about "dirty cash" and money laundering is that this designation is reserved for AFTER you discover what the origin of the money was AND ALSO have seen it converted into a clean source. The action of converting it into a clean source doesn't make it dirty before hand, hence no money laundering. The onus is on the government. Money laundering itself just being an added on charge to help make an indictment stick, when you can't actually pin the crime to acquire the dirty money on anyone. How much would that cost British Columbia to figure out? Would be the dumbest use of public coffers
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As opposed to... careful Amazon? Careful maker of these toxic kid supplies?!

I don’t get this whole idea that government necessarily means poor quality. In using it to take away money, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. There’s plenty that the gov already does well that we trust and depend on. If we had a bigger collective empathic view for others, a stronger notion of the value of civil service, and a closed wage gap between public and private, we could expect and get more from public institutions.
> This is just life.

Market forces naturally explain what we have today, therefore ... I'm Don Quixote. Sure, I'll accept the title. Likewise, I could say: if you don't like reading complaints like this, blog posts and internet comments might not be for you. :-)

> You're... saying that there should only be one CPU architecture too?

No. I'm saying that the analogous situation with CPU architectures was observed 50 years ago, and despite causing inefficiencies (especially at first), we've spent the effort to create abstractions to gradually make it easier to describe systems at a higher level. It generally doesn't matter, to either users or developers, that there are multiple CPU architectures. We still have many programming languages, too.

Databases have gone in the opposite direction: while adding features over the years, even when these features are 99.9% functionally identical between vendors, they've picked different syntax and data types. Even though they all speak "SQL", databases are more incompatible today than ever.

I guess what I'm getting at is: it's a good thing that compilers were invented before all software needed an ROI, and it's a shame databases didn't get the same treatment before corporate interests took over.
ah I wrote a similar response highlighting the massive resources spent on whitelisting transactions
> by any person in the world

I think you've identified a big part of the problem (and for which the solution is obvious).
there's a reason why not everything in SQL is a set and it's that you can do a lot of mathematical work from inside the engines. this was largely overlooked in the article and undefined what operations between set of multiple cardinality would require and if this would result back to what they call unwieldy runtime errors when doing math over set of mismatched cardinality.
Kotlin's main improvement on Java is its seamless integration with the most popular IDE on the JVM. Of course, it helps that IntelliJ and Kotlin are put out by the same company, but Jetbrains did emphasize when they first announced Kotlin that its integration with IntelliJ would be top priority. Groovy and Scala never had this improvement.
How did you know the glasses were fake? Hopefully not the hard way...
Agree 100% tptacek. Though I would suggest that opening up vetting to add new firms and the resulting competition would only improve the situation for partners in terms of pricing, scheduling, process, etc.

Obviously we're a competing firm to those, so bias warning :), but I think it's a sound principal that would help the market.
Why do you think Fedora Silverblue isn't ideal for everyday use? I'm going to try out F30 Silverblue here pretty soon, but I had heard that is was great, so I'm just curious what problems you've run into.
> I wouldn’t expect a market to stop this kind of behaviour but to simply put a price on it - “oh you want the non-toxic version? That’s an extra $20 please.”

That isn't a market solution, it's a bad-faith caricature. Obviously, no vendor is going to offer you a choice between toxic and non-toxic, because doing so would mean admitting one of their products was toxic.

The market solution is branding; some vendors will build up reputations, and those good reputations will let them charge a higher price. This very minute you're commenting in a thread that's mostly about how Amazon's poor offerings are blackening its name.
According to the unending stream of devs saying that they just want to ship iOS apps on macos, this is the most important thing.

I agree with you entirely: I expect a huge flood of awful software.

Marzipan for games seems more reasonable, but only because most games are "create a single window, and go fullscreen".
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Complementary to the above, we have the following article from today:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/10/news-corp-rick...

"The Australian" is a newspaper owned by News Corp, which is run by Rupert Murdoch who, despite no longer being an Australian citizen, is a strong Liberal Party (Australia's current coal-loving government) supporter, so much so that he was instrumental in the process of removing the previous leader of the party for, basically, not being conservative enough:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/liberal-leadership-sp...

Such is the power of the very few at the very top, OUTSIDE of government.
I love he relational model, but any language where null = null does not return true is insane.

Yes, I understand the theoretical rationale behind three-value-logic. Over here where I'm getting actual work done, it's nothing but an obstacle.
Last year they sold about 7200 to Norway alone[1]. They apparently had low production capacity but is ramping up and expects to sell over 10k in Norway this year.

[1]: https://www.tek.no/artikler/i-fjor-hadde-vw-ett-ars-levering...
>> I wonder what they're using the lead and cadmium for

pigments (lead), soldering (lead) and light sensors (cadmium).
I wipe my /home and still have all my data, because I save it in a separate SSD.
Time, unlike money, can't be meaningfully saved and then used later. You have to use it immediately.
I thought countries who did this already issued their own certs to be able to analyze traffic. Like China. Maybe I misunderstood.
Yeah, and the Earth is actually Terra. Swimming against popular parlance and convention is not gonna win any points. Well, maybe on here. But not many other places! shakes fist in Dawkins' general direction
Wake me up when the AVI encoder's performance can be measured by Frames Per Second. Currently, it should better be counted by Frames Per Day. Decoder is also slow. We need a high end desktop computer for real-time decoding of AV1 video.

There is no phone/tablet that can afford such performance.
HackerNews front page is good for thousands of views. As much as 10,000 if you can get near the top.

r/programming is good for a couple of tens of thousands of views. Reddit is hard and random. Getting the first ~20 votes is soooo random. Subreddits like r/rust are smaller, but passionate, and good for a few thousand views.

r/dataisbeautiful is good for hundreds of thousands of views. It's a very slow subreddit so if you can hit #1 you'll be on it's frontpage for 24 hours plus. I cracked half a million views from there once.

I've never gotten shit for traffic from Twitter or Facebook.
Interesting! I have some ideas for options here if you'd like to chat offline to see if I can help you here hit us up. https://includesecurity.com/#contact

Context: I work in this space and actively work on programs such as these.
No, I am not.

The laws in the democracies that exist are not, in fact, determined by a uniquely/canonically defined aggregate “will of the people”.

I don’t think that they even can be, as I don’t think that there can be a canonical definition for what the “will of the people” is.

The laws are the result of a particular choice of set-up of democratic systems, along with peoples actions and choices within those systems.

In practice as things currently are, and I believe also theoretically necessarily (except for randomness or other things not determined by a person’s choice), different persons have different degrees of influence over what laws are enacted, and over what the government does.

If you are telling someone that you and they are a certain organization, but the influence they have is minuscule (by some way of measuring), and you have the rest of the control, it seems reasonable that that person would object to your framing.

The government is not “us”, nor is it “those people”. The government is “it”. It is a useful structure which is generally good to have around, but does have a number of drawbacks at times, which it would be good for us to mitigate using what influence over it we may happen to have.

I am not saying this as against government or against democracy, which both seem better than the alternatives.

But democracy, I think, is good because of pragmatic reasons, not because it allows the government to “be us”.
A separate SSD if it's a desktop PC.
I’ll bet she gets picked up again in just days.
The same happened to me just a couple of days ago. I thought it was a very nice thing for the quality of the content that goes to the top (not just because it was my submission, of course).
Seriously, were talking about a relational system where expressing a tree is super difficult. Why do we put up with this???
I've spent time in very impoverished (aka high-crime) areas and never once did it occur to me to be scared of knocking on my neighbor's door.

In fact, that's one of the first things I will do when moving into a new place, not only to socialize and build goodwill but to ascertain any potential threats and establish that I am not afraid to unload shells onto anyone breaking into my home.

In the most ghetto of ghetto places, your neighbor is the only person you fuck with. Neighborhood gangs are no joke. Only in Whiteville, America are we afraid of our own neighbors.

Decades of creating distrust in impoverished minority communities, and the government's still done a better job at keeping the affluent disunited than the poor.
How do you implement the request counter? I tried to find a better way to get metrics on my blog than Google Analytics but couldn't find a good, easy solution.

And how do you know those views weren't bots/crawlers? Pulling apart "real" traffic from fake seems impossible. :(
He seems to operate on a very narrow definition of what a programming language is, as if symbolic languages and homoiconic languages and declarative languages and logic langauges don't already exist.

Really any language used to specify a computation is a programming language, and so "computational language" and "programming language" are synonymous. Wolfram certainly knows this. His post is just marketing.
The stitches factory is on overdrive
At least on Firefox, it was indeed stop. I believe it still works too, even though nowadays they hide the button, if you expose the functionality through an addon.
I enjoyed Diablo 2 a lot when I was younger but didn't care anywhere near as much for my experience with 3. I think the main issue is that with 2 I mostly played it in the same room as friends I was playing it with, and it was more something to do while we would hang out and talk to each other. I played with friends when I played 3 too, but it wasn't in person and I think that hurt it
I think just unmigrated legacy accounts are going away, but you move it over the the same cloud IDE setup just pegged to a regular aws account https://c9.io/announcement
That is true and irrelevant.

It would also not exist without other free software. Though this too is true and irrelevant.
Simple Python script to scrape a Netgear router
Useful Commands to Manage Apache Web Server in Linux
Any performance metrics for edgedb ?
I agree with this. I have a separate user for admin tasks. We go out of our way to not document who has elevated access.
>how much resources is British Columbia spending on trying to flag transactions

I'm in BC. The honest answer to this is really nothing.
No one at a higher level cared at all about this, since they were raking in a ton from transaction fees.
It's all gravy, the javascript WebP decoders, until you convert your 20K high res photo site to WebP, then not realizing for a week, scratching your head about the bounce rate spiking, that you're crashing browsers left and right...
I'm using Graphile in deployment at the moment, and it works quite nicely. Granted, we have a limited amount of users thus far, so I don't really know how well it handles big loads, but it allowed us to get off the ground with a PoC _really_ quickly.
Can we, for just a moment, stop and think about what you just wrote?

I mean it's so draconian that it begs disbelief.

A couple of mortals are born as infants upon this plain of existence. They get a short amount of time to sample what experience is, while bound by gravity to a spheroidal object, encapsulated in a region of its somewhat humid biosphere. A joke is made, laughs are shared.

From that moment forward, the teller of the joke spends the rest of their time trying to destroy all other mortals, unless they acqiesce to an awareness that the joke teller is the eternal master of that joke, until no mortal yet lives, who had shared this plain of existence as a contemporary of the joke teller.

LEST YE BE ANNIHILATED.

Sorry.

Not playing this game with you.

I'm thinking a quick death is likely preferable, and might just be the best escape from a place like this.
Yeah, but then SpaceX.
This is why I come to HN
Isn’t that just another way of saying the ITER approach is infeasible? So it’s basically a jobs program
rather than refusing to testify, couldn't you just answer with "i don't recall" to every question (or variations as appropriate)?
HTTP Referer – Etymology
Well, the videos on this page are empty areas on my browser. But I can see GIFs just fine.
Microsoft is launching [Visual Studio Code Online](https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-...) soon and [Stackblitz](https://stackblitz.com/) has an online code editor based on Visual Studio Code as well.
The only edge cases I could find in the article were the discussion of nulls... which aren’t so much an edge case as they are just an ever-present problem that no one really notices until it hurts (its not at all difficult to write a broken-on-null query). Is there something else you’re referring to? Afaict, everything else was just trivially observable aspects of the language

>Given the vast usage of SQL and its overwhelming popularity, if there were real problems with the language then there would be a lot more noise about them. But most people seem to be happy with it.

In what universe does popularity imply quality? Certainly not the one I’m in — Avengers endgame is apparently #2 gross worldwide ever :-)
Marzipan doesn't seem all that useful for games, since they'd be targeting OpenGL or Metal for their UI anyways (plus I think a lot of games use Unity anyways, which does a lot of the hard work from what I hear).
I feel like we’re talking past each other. In the section about labor costs, it cites at least the following:

1. Slow uptake of skills, lower productivity. Related to recession.

2. Hard to get bids due to uncertain approval process. Entirely caused by city policy. Now you say let’s condition on approved projects: however, given that it can take up to half a decade to gain approval (infamous historic laundromat was just under 5 years), controlling for approved projects is misleading. In five years, construction costs doubled and a project that might have penciled out at inception may no longer. The developer would have to propose a more dense, taller, etc. building for the project to make sense, but that would be another half-decade round trip through city planning.

3. City rules about prevailing wage, local sourcing, etc. limiting the available labor pool which directly drives up labor cost. This is entirely a local control problem.

Are you saying 2 and 3 are not consequences of local regulation?

Additionally, most of what you’ve cited is true across the nation. What you fail to provide is a reason these macroeconomic factors seem to have a disparate impact on SF’s ability to build which is evident in, e.g., the number of new housing units per capita it has delivered vis a vis a comparable city such as Seattle.
Great overview, I have had many disagreements with IT managers that blame open source for security breaches.
My Mac app, Strukt, does a bit of this. The main problem is that the basics of the various databases don't align very well. The functionality that's common to all databases is quite weak. Even such things as case sensitivity are drastically different. And for many of the differences, there's simply no way to emulate the other's functionality, correctly and efficiently.

C compiles to assembly or machine code, and TypeScript compiles to JavaScript, and in both cases you have the full power of the level you're targeting, so it's fine. An RDBMS has very specific fast-paths that you really need to hit, or the whole exercise becomes pointless. It's like trying to write a 3D game in JavaScript without any way to access the GPU or even SIMD ops. We can do 3D games in JS today, but that's really only feasible because the browser vendors went and exposed the basic fast paths.
CVE-2018-10115, CVE-2018-5996, CVE-2017-17969, and CVE-2016-2334 in 7-Zip all gave code execution when opening a malformed archive.
Who the fuck else is going to do it? Clearly not the market or the products wouldn't be there right now. Every time you argue against governments regulating markets, you ignore the fact that regulations get written in blood.
You bring up some strong points. What about even after a recruiter, and you're in a new country or new company with no history of "who you are in the world," what's another way to demonstrate ones' prior harmonious existings? Seems like a funny riddle
I wonder what the parent meant by "corollary"? Simpatico is actually an English word now..
What's the root cause precisely for where all this toxic material originates from? How does it get into a factory in the first place? Is it some kind of sabotage or is this stuff inherently in raw materials that require processing that is omitted? How does one find oneself with a bunch of lead in this day and age without seeking it out?
It’s not a preorder but a reservation. You can get your money back any time
TLS 1.3 adoption has been growing significantly, though largely by CDNs as expected:

https://www.shodan.io/report/Zwg7ScFM
It’s sensible that stores should remove products that aren’t safe. That’s what Amazon has agreed to do in this case, on a nationwide level.

What doesn’t seem to make sense is requiring Amazon to do the actual safety testing. That would be akin to requiring baby stores to run safety tests on strollers, or requiring car dealerships to perform crash tests.
That has nothing to do with the insulin market.
Big boys SQL is relatively close to the standard.
Right, but the point is that this is a very slow feedback loop, at least compared to e.g. taxing corporations directly.
Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts
Not a dockerfile, but it may be worth looking at buildroot [0] and qemu [1]. I'd like to say that I started 5 years ago with these tools and ended up working on embedded systems, but it's more like I started 5 years ago and ended up with drawers full of unsupported ARM boards.

0: https://buildroot.org

1: https://www.qemu.org/
We've seen large cases recently of beef and greens contaminated with salmonella. E.g.

https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/newport-10-18/index.html

I don't know every lawsuit, but the blame in these cases seems to largely not land on the grocery stores, but the manufacturer.
Many of the most popular products made in SV are free so there’s not much room to compete on price.
Looks like it’s a $1.2 million, 5 year interest-free loan to the government of Quebec, not quite a ‘mere’ loan.