skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just standard stupidity as we have always had. What has changed is the scope of the problem. While a few generations ago, stupidity affected ones local environment, now stupidity can have a global impact. People back then could not do any better. This isn't about intelligence, this is about intelligently working together. Something humans don't do a great job at in large numbers.
I honestly cannot believe the massive scope of this project, it’s astonishing. What an accomplishment!

You singlehandedly created something that took many programmers many decades to build.
It's pretty easy to buy handheld lasers in the several Watt range online for only a few hundred bucks. They're even on eBay, just advertised as way below the actual strength that they are. You look up the actual model number and can figure out their real specs.

It wouldn't surprise me if something like this was used here.
Ask HN: Anything preventig ad-tech from behavioral profile ranking?
After data harvesting, behavioral profiling and profile tracking is there anything preventing ad-tech from profile ranking? We already abused every possible protocol, software and hardware for ad. Why will we not abuse AI/ML?
A perhaps more relevant number is 200 MB of object code.

It is hard to imagine how it could take that much code to do what systemd does. Hard, like 2 orders of magnitude hard. Each VM in your machine burns another 200 MB. It seems like only incredible sloppiness could make it so huge. But I would welcome commentary from someone who has audited enough of it to know.
> Basically Terraform is cloud agnostic, so you can (theoretically) define something in Terraform and then use it on AWS, or GCP, or Azure.

> Fair criticism, I've never used it, just what I've picked up from their marketing material.

LOL, why'd you even comment? You are making statements based on marketing material? Microsoft is probably hiring people like you if you're looking for a job.
> The actual correlative with injury risk is stress

This seems like a strange take to me. Aren't you essentially arguing that a faulty seatbelt isn't really a problem because the real source of injury is the collision?

The obvious response would seem to be, "well yeah, that's why we want working seatbelts", and analogously, "we don't want muscular imbalances because of increased injury risk under stress". Although other reasons also exist.
Magic Spoon
It's a bad solution to a legitimate problem, one very easily abused.

A few years ago in the northwest xinjiang province there was an uprising by the muslim population randomly stabbing chinese, injecting them with needles, containing God knows what, pulling people out of cars and beating them to death, etc. The people were so scared no one went out to do anything and full commerce everything stopped entirely (I know because my wife have sisters and direct relatives living there). So one result was a general crackdown on everyone. In xingjian now restaurants, grocery stores, etc all have xray machines and metal detectors at all entrances. It seems subways, trains, airports, all over now require xray and metal detectors just to enter. Just as in western europe the islamic population in many cases is a menace.
Whenever I see these kinds of videos, I’m struck by how much time and work it must have taken to be able to announce a new slider component.

From the state a month ago, it’s very reasonable. From scratch however...

How do you even start building an OS?
Let’s fix up Notre Dame with concrete and steel, but let the sun shine into it
The useful functionality (encoding/decoding) is covered by binascii, which uu in fact uses internally.

What the uu module proper provides is a pair of awful file-to-file interfaces. Default to spitting the decoded file directly to disk at with the name in its header is, uh, questionable.
That is not even remotely normal anywhere in the UK. Where was this?
Still, even a mainstream game console is far less specialized than this one
I'm pretty sure it's largely classic C, /not/ C++.
Boom wants to build a supersonic jet for mainstream passengers
(Also, getting in the weeds, the "mostly unsandboxed" refers to that MSIX installs will do a few things to insure at all costs clean uninstall, including system folder virtualization/redirection, registry virtualization/redirection, and similar techniques. Windows and MSI has been doing a lot of this sort of thing under-the-hood silently since XP as a part of compatibility work, MSIX just does it more obviously/automatically/always.)
Agreed about CF. AWS puts a huge emphasis on CloudFormation when they know it is sub-par. Ansible is pretty cool too because you can easily convert between YAML/JSON for CF, and add a lot of flexibility based on variables and other things such as error handling that you can't do with Terraform.
What's what?
A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 2005:

http://rebels-library.org/files/d3Thompson-1.pdf
We solved the mystery of Libyan desert glass
The retail side is very easy to jettison. Most of the goods can be found at target, Walmart, Best Buy, Costco, or Newegg. At least it was for me.
Right away? Or when you actually need to do the thing?

When I start using anything new I really only check that it can do what I need it to, not everything that’s possible.
Can you explain how what you're advocating / arguing for does not distill down to tyranny of the majority? That's how I have always viewed this argument but I'm open to hearing how I am wrong.
The framing of this article is weird. Keeps.com charges $25/month for finasteride; if we look that up on GoodRx it is ONE THIRD the regular retail price at CVS or Target or Rite-Aid or Walgreens. True, it's more than the secret with-special-coupon price nobody knows about, but since most people do pay the original overinflated retail price, those who patronize these services are saving money. They're perhaps not saving the most money they possibly could if they checked the GoodRx rankings every month, printed out those special coupons and stood in line...but that sounds like a lot of work.
If you hadn't replied first, I would have replied the exact same thing as your first paragraph - also starting with "Huh?".

That said, public ownership of companies is not necessarily undemocratic. It's just a bad idea for different reasons. USPS would be an example in the US of publicly owned company.

I believe that Marx even originally intended communism to be democratic. The regime in the USSR was supposed to be transitory.
It was C++ at least in the 90s when I interviewed for the JVM compiler team.
Are there any goggles pilots can wear to protect their eyes in these kinds of situations?

Edit: looks like maybe? https://www.amazon.com/HDE-Protection-Safety-Glasses-Lasers/...
That's about 1.2 million too much honestly. Other init systems do it better and dramatically faster with a few thousand lines of code, working with tools already available.
ScreenshotGo from Mozilla helps you sort the mess of your screenshots
What those devices do not do is deliver a likely novel game experience. This one does 12 of them.

That is 12 opportunities to put the gadgets down and focus on the new game.

Each of those are roughly $16 each. It is hard to get through McDees for that sum.

So when it is time, the idea is to set the world aside and have a bit of fun. You may be surprised.

The kids may groove on it, and just trade those times with fast food or something. Maybe an hour or two spent exploring the games, talking about the experience, seeing who likes what, why, etc... with Dads full attention plays better than you might think.
Teenage Engineering make really cool stuff too! :)
The title is proof of its own assertion: rates are changes with respect to time units.
Every time I go abroad, whether it's Europe, Japan, or most other places, I'm always struck by how international cities do such a better job of prioritizing people. Their public spaces are so enjoyable and safe to simply walk around in or bike through. American cities by contrast inevitably prioritize vehicles, even in Manhattan where fewer than 1 in 4 people even owns a car. We could be doing so much better, but simply aren't. No one seems to have the political will to make improvements.
US still accounts for double digit percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions.. so it's not a non-trivial amount
I thought git and hg both started around the same time, didn't they?
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No. This is not. They are using the emergency break lever in every car by either door that is on both ends of the car. It is unlocked and available to all. I once almost pulled it accidentally because the train braked hard and it was so crowded i was holding on to the ceiling.
It’s my understanding that America has contributed to the majority of total emissions since fossil fuel use began. I’ve heard that recently China has eclipsed us in annual emissions, but we still emit a lot of CO2 (and probably the most per capita). We have the power to develop new technologies and were the ones who benefitted from the majority of historical carbon emissions. With that information it seems to me justified to push Americans to act on climate change.
Can it perhaps be that people conducting such studies have reduced IQs overtime so the structure of the study has lost its accuracy? I mean getting a college degree is a lot easier than it used to be.
“Anvil”
It looks so dumb. I wonder who they are marketing this at? Not your typical Fortnite / CS / Wow gamer.

I love indie games and experimental story telling, but $150 for 12 games, and one of them uses a crank... not buying it. Sorry. $50 on steam gets me a whole lot of weird, and I got a ton left to invest in a case of craft beer to enjoy along with it.
UK-based ARM ‘told to suspend business with Huawei’
Does this mean we're going to have Python 2 installed on things forever? (Particularly anything that touches NNTP servers, as there's no replacement for that lib)
This and I have donated money as well. VLC is one of the apps I install shortly after getting a new box. Being cross platform is a great boon.
Watch your thoughts, they become words;
watch your words, they become actions;
watch your actions, they become habits;
watch your habits, they become character;
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

As one version of the quote goes.
Nonsense. The US produces more than double the CO2 per capita as China.

As usual, total numbers are meaningless without scaling them by population. If China split into 100 independent states tomorrow, they wouldn't be a problem anymore by your metric, even if they produce exactly the same amount of CO2 as they do now.

Fair comparison with roughly equal population: Europe, the US, and Australia combined vs. China. And the former group produces more CO2 than the latter.
- if the train is within the station limits, that lever can be active

- in case of fire the lever should alert the conductor. And the conductor should quickly make the best correct response. Often the passengers don't know that a station could be 20 seconds away and could clear out the train faster. The dispatch could clear a path for the train to speed to a better location than stuck in a tunnel with potentially nearly no place to evacuate to. Do you evacuate to ongoing train traffic? hell no! We have fire detectors, we could install them in every cart.
What about setting up and tearing down EKS clusters? I haven't used terraform but I learned about it through looking at this:

https://learn.hashicorp.com/terraform/aws/eks-intro

So, I'd say Kubernetes itself does more heavy lifting but not all of it?
While there is certainly overlap, these products are trying to solve different problems.

Ansible seems to focus on managing infrastructure, Terraform shines when creating infrastructure.
ABS looks abroad for Census work. Locals ain't good enough
Almost 60% of the laptops are MacBook Pros it would seem
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This would have been far more interesting if it were showing inflows (and outflows, I guess) rather than a static percentage. As is it just shows that in, say, Chicago you still can afford it without being an educated millennial doing "computer stuff", and Mountain View you can't.
By ensuring that they have an automatic deactivation.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-landmines/u-s-halts-u...

"While retaining stockpiles, the United States has not used persistent mines for some time. The last field of persistent mines under U.S. control was in Guantanamo, Cuba, and was removed in 1999, the State Department official said."
That's certainly not normal.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if you had to do this to get into a restaurant somewhere slightly sensitive, such as at the top of a skyscraper. And i have been asked for ID - and patted down! - going to the bowling lanes in a slightly gangy part of town.

But nobody's going to give you the third degree to get into a Nando's.
You've only taken care of the surface-level complexity with AWS. Want to do something more like add a header to the response? Well then, create a lambda, deploy it to the edge, and pay per page view. This is something Firebase is much more elegant at - the initial deploy, and then evolution and addition of features geared to static site deployment.
>Yes, considering that per capita Canada has more money than Japan and spends more on healthcare?

Canada spends about 2% more, or 100$ more per capita: https://img.datawrapper.de/IzkJn/full.png

You think spending 2% more will result in comparable healthcare to a country with 870% higher population density?

> I think total population density is misleading when Canada’s population is very concentrated in a few cities.

Ah yes of course, because you can just abandon those who don't live in the few cities.

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It's almost like this is a complex issue you can't simplify by examining one dimension at a time, but even if for a second you smoke test this idea by singling out population density, it's absurd to expect similar outcomes.
That is simply not true. The US may not produce as much visible pollution anymore, but we still emit a ton of carbon.
Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia are all about as much or more than us but China is significantly less per capita.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
> The accuracy of their predictions are chilling — they anticipated (in their "21st Century Study-High Growth Scenario") that in 2020 atmospheric CO2 levels would fall between 400 and 420 ppm. They also foresaw the accompanying sea level rise, melting of polar ice sheets, change of rainfall patterns, and agricultural failures.

Wow. How does this compare to other predictions at the time?
> community developers requesting access to help were being ignored

This is not true, I have not been contacted. I learned from Fedora's decision to replace Dstat with PCP months after it was already decided.

So it's not like I have had a choice. The choices I have today are:

1. Continue with a project, while Fedora/RHEL is shipping a tool by the same name (with 90% of my code)

2. Rename the original Dstat project, which would be silly

3. Discontinue the project

Option 3 is the path of least resistance. Option 1 and 2 would not bring any joy. At least someone will be paid for maintaining the tool.
I wasn't aware that state healthcare and state education works well.

A few examples of state healthcare systems in Soviet Union / Russia, UK, Hong Kong or Thailand seem to show that state healthcare is a miserable failure and those who are able to get access to private healthcare will always prefer it.

Similar with schools, it appears that people strongly prefer private schools to government schools, even in places where private schools are quite ordinary, not just for the elites, and don't require expensive tuition - competing with government schools for the same kids.
Not being too familiar with Smart Contracts, it was nice to see the simple summary included.

>A contract is a mutually agreeable arrangement of rules among mutually suspicious parties so they may cooperate with limited risks to each other's mischief. It is a game both are willing to play because both expect to win.
>
>A conventional contract is passive paper interpreted at great expense by lawyers and courts.
>
>A smart contract is written in program code, in which the logic of the program's execution enforce the terms of the contract. Smart contracts reduce costs by orders of magnitude, leading to a more cooperative world.

Can anyone recommend a good link to start learning more about smart contacts and how they are used in specific real-world examples? Most of what I'm finding reads as very general/theoretical.
> if something is both lawful and profitable, you have to have an almost absolute consensus amongst the people capable of doing it that it should not be done.

Sure, but you just need a weak consensus amongst everyone that it should not be done to make it unlawful.
Sounds like somebody pranked you.

Most older Brits don't carry any sort of ID at all. Young people often need ID to buy booze, but when you're old enough that nobody could mistake you for under 25 they never bother you. Source: I've never carried ID, in my 40s this ceased ever causing any hassle because now nobody ever even asks.
When working solely on AWS, I prefer CloudFormation, since I feel it's easier to organize my deployments into CloudFormation Stacks.
In the podcasting industry, referral codes are used specifically so that advertisers can figure out how many conversions are coming from the podcast

The old-school method of this was to have unique response numbers. It's why you see phone numbers like "800-555-1212 extension 37." When you call the number and ask for extension 37, the person on the horn says, "Yes, this is extension 37..." and begins their pitch while noting that affiliate 37 gets the conversion credit.

It's similar to TV commercials you see that tell you to "Go to example.com/TV37."

Some lead generators are willing to splash out extra money on specific phone numbers without extensions because they believe they convert better. It's why toll free phone numbers expanded so rapidly from just 800 and 888 to 877, 866, 855, and 844.
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I recently managed to nudge my German cousin into reading. Having been raised on consoles and Spongebob, he never enjoyed the written word and was more of a thrillseeker, getting into trouble with a gang of his friends that landed him in custody for a couple months. I started talking to him about Goethe's "Faust", which I was reading at the time, and suggested he take it up. He told me his probation officer nearly fell off her chair when he said he was reading "Faust"; seasoned academics shy away from it.

Yesterday he said he read through 2 GoT books over the course of a weekend and asked me if reading raises IQ. I cited that famous "Freakonomics" chapter that correlates having books with high IQ but can't define a causal link between the two. I told him reading allows us to see patterns in the world around us, which is what IQ testing tests for, therefore if he can detect patterns through reading that apply to the real world he'll be increasing his IQ by reading.
This has happened to me while piloting a small plane over oakland. What happens is that the light hits the cockpit front window. That diffuses it throughout the cockpit. It blinds your momentarily. And you lose any and all night adaptation in your eyes. This particularly sucks on moonless nights, and doubly so when you have to look out the window to land.
Keep in mind that r/bodyweightfitness is biased towards active population ... and sedentary population would do well to follow a high-rep program like Convict Conditioning. See https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/atv610/i...
10% of this is knowing in advance what UI/UX paradigms you're matching/mimicking.

The original developers had to come up with the concept of, say, a taskbar from scratch.

They understood it has to run separately from other parts of the OS in case of crashes, it should support icons that are references to the same icons that windows have, etc.

But they were also limited by the resources of their day, and had to get clever about resource allocation. That's extremely time-consuming.

But that said, 90% of this project is simply a very good creator, being incredibly productive.

The mythical 100x programmer isn't always a myth.

I'm in awe.
This is why I find it so funny when people point to GDP or the stock market as evidence that it's all going fine. Most people don't own significant amounts of stock or see their wages grow as much as the already economically successful.
You need to read the article again then. Although the break pulls you describe are present in every car, the article clearly states that the one being activated is in the unused control cab in the back of the train (the cab used by the conductor when the train travels in the other direction)
You copy code and figures from karpathy lecture notes and did not cite him. Its call plagiarism.
Greasing the groove is another technique to follow.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/9zrpga/g...
The crank is really interesting. It's such an off the wall choice for a user interface. It will be cool to see how developers take advantage of it.
I suppose language wise the support is there but there are lack of libraries. A while ago I was consider considering F# for the backend. While looking for database client I found most third party like SQLprovider, rezoom.sql didnt support .net core very well.
You can’t share provider-specific resources across providers of course, but you can absolutely share other configuration data across providers. I find it extremely useful - for example it’s fairly trivial to bounce between scaleway, AWS, DO, Vultr, etc.
Point taken, but this is the difference between $12 for a Bud Light at a huge sports venue versus $12 for an interesting and memorable cocktail at an out-of-the-way bar. Both are expensive, but the latter is something you can't get anywhere else and might barely even turn a profit when everything else is factored in.
No, you can call your lawyer instead.
The fundamental questions that America needs to answer are:

What are the aspects of the current economic relationship with China that are beneficial to the US, and what are the aspects that are harmful.

What policies should it adopt to manage its relationships with China while maintaining its values. Whether it should act unilaterally to achieve those objectives, or coordinate with its allies.

What are the near-term and long-term consequences of Cooperating with China vs. Competing with China in a new cold war, considering China's power will likely rise in comparison with the US's.
Yes, from the pictures it looks like the light diffracts off the glass and fills the cockpit.

The plane moves fast but it's also far away, so the angle it changes by relative to the guy with the pointer is small. To follow it, you wouldn't have to move the tip of the pointer more than (if my rough calculations are right) about a centimeter a second.
Kings abdicate all the time.
A great time to be a capitalist.