skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It humanizes the victim from computer hard drive hacked to this is a person with quirks who you could know.
Funny how the same sentence applies to bash wrt POSIX shell in other contexts
can you explain what that does? It makes my iTerm2 screen wonderfully messy.
Don't forget that capitalism (with companies), and life itself does things that way. It's not necessarily elegant (although some might say it's actually elegant), but it works.
> ironically it also seems like US consumers are the ones ultimately paying most of the cost of those trade barriers

Consumers will pay more but I'm not as sure about the irony. Couldn't it be that the intent is to reduce US consumption of Chinese imported goods? Couldn't the policy's intent simply be to shift the economy ever so slightly away from consumption and toward production?
Whether it be autism or sexual orientation, it seems even more wrong to choose to have a child with something that will disadvantage them just to bolster the numbers of the other people already in the world being unfairly discriminated against.

Given that in this scenario there are two potential children; the one with undesirable_trait_x, and the replacement without it, and one will come into existence and one will not, as a parent, shouldn't you pick the child that will have the happiest life rather than the one that will better serve as canon-fodder in someones ideological crusade?
If TARP was such a great deal why did the government have to do it? Why didn't private investors jump in and support the banks?
Chroma subsampling is nice because it lets you "delay" some of the upsampling to later device in the pipeline, like your GPU outputs YUV4:2:0 and your monitor hardware does the chroma upsampling. If you don't want that, use 4:4:4. This feature you're talking about where you assign different compression factor to different color planes is already implemented in x264:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MeGUI/x264_Settings#chroma-qp-...
Man, I was just wondering if such product exists two days ago.
> I don't think anyone is not moving to a rural area because of the internet speeds.

Hi, I'm your counterexample. I held out moving to a rural area until the internet situation got better. It's great out here with a yagi on the roof.
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Perceptics is a pretty big player in the license plate camera market. This breach is extremely embarrassing for them and will doubtless put their future work with government in jeopardy as they become a political target. I wonder if this hack was perpetrated by China as retribution for the Huawei blockade? The Chinese perhaps have an arsenal of such breaches ready for release when the right politician needs a nudge.
Given that adobe creative cloud subscriptions are something like ~30 euro a month, and adobe illustrator is far better than this program it seems like it is a totally overpriced product
Uh, so an app store without:

Netflix, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Gmail, Outlook, Chromecast, Dropbox, OneDrive, YouTube, Twitter, Google search ( or duck duck go), Amazon, Amazon video, 2fa authenticator, iftt, Wikipedia, Skype, messenger, Snapchat, Instagram, Waze, Google maps, Ted, Wolfram Alpha, ... I'm pretty sure there is one of them that you use recurringly.

You're going to use that OS?

The only Chinese app I use is eWelink and I really want to flash that device to be more flexible and dump it.
"more nutritious", what do you mean by this? Rice is fairly devoid of nutrients relative to beef liver or any other meats mentioned.
9front is one of the most fascinating pieces of software that I know of. The devs are in this strange retrofutristic, idealist bubble where they are making their ideal OS, and don't care about the outside world (for it is tainted by unclean programming paradigms). Fun to watch, nonetheless.
>> You can say it, but that won't make it true. They can do it, and they do do it. Your comment is so much nonsense. The algorithm computers use to add 0.1 and 0.2 is the same algorithm that you use, which is, unsurprisingly, why they produce correct results.

Are you aware of floating point math? That's what most languages, and almost all languages aimed at performance, use. It's defined in the IEEE 754 standard and supported on a hardware level in many devices.

Here is a listing of the result of 0.1 + 0.2 in various languages: https://0.30000000000000004.com/

As the URL already indicates, most languages, including C, Rust, C++, Java, Javascript, Clojure, FORTRAN, Python, etc. evaluate this to 0.30000000000000004. I'm fine with this, I need fast rather than precise math. But it's not "correct".
Agreed, but I think the real problem is that the medium for communicating science is still basically a static PDF. Even if you use fancy microscopy to capture some of this roiling biology, the best you can do is link to a video file in the supplementary section of your paper, which few people will visit. Or to summarize the information in a bar graph.

This is so disappointing in this day and age where everyone at least has a computer, if not an iPad, capable of displaying video and animations in line with text.

And it would be great if BioRender would apply the principles laid out in "Stop Drawing Dead Fish" by Bret Victor: https://vimeo.com/64895205
No, it's a plasma. The high pressure in the article is a way of getting to a part of the phase diagram of that particular crystal where the superconducting transition happens at a higher temperature.
One of the studies that struck me (don't have it at hand) involved taking exactly the same diet and feeding it whole to one group and pureed to the other. The pureed food group gained weight and the control group didn't.

I've no idea how replicable that result is, but I'd still take that over a hypothesis that hasn't been tested at all.
Or don't and cook Korean. ;)

(Their dishes are components tossed together mostly.)
Er ... there are lots of nuclear decays which produce beta particles electrons. Neutrons have a short half-life when free of a nucleus, and decay into a proton, electron and an electron anti-neutrino (to conserve momentum). [1]

Electrons are posited to be fundamental, and e-e e-e<sup>+</sup> collisions haven't, as far as I know though well outside my original field of study, produced any data suggesting internal structure.

This doesn't mean that they don't have structure, we simply have no theory (that I know of, but then again, I'm a former solid state guy) that predicts structure, nor do we have sufficiently powerful colliders to get us to a point to see such structure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay#%CE%B2%E2%88%92_dec...
Because you thought their marketing effort was really just swell and they deserve some support for trying to hard.
Didn't you watch Silicon Valley? It's the answer to Hooli's Box III.
That's fair, this is probably more brochure to generate buzz, etc. It' still a little ironic, though. I got a chuckle out of it anyway.
Instead of getting into a new weapons race I would prefer more effort into negotiating an international agreement to not weaponize space. The stance of the US in the past few years seemed to be to produce more weapons than anybody else and not negotiate.
What can you cut out? (2018)
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> From the discussion and examples, that seems to be a restriction on the programmer, not a feature of the feature.

Being a restriction and being a feature are not mutually exclusive. Strong typing is a restriction on what's a collection of bits. Functions are just restrictions on your ability to change the PC. Loops are just restrictions on your ability to jump.

Restrictions are necessary to create structure.
You have a very unrealistic image of governmental history. As mentioned a big part of the reason Nixon decided to can the space program was because he literally did not like JFK. That was in 1972. If you want to go back further in history we had a vice president and secretary of the treasury literally engage in a duel to the death over their disputes. In particular the man on the $10 bill was killed by vice president of the man on the nickel. That was in 1804. If you'd like to go in between those we dates were busy killing each other off in a Civil War.

Even looking at the present, I think many are not aware of what's happening in Europe. Systems from Scandinavia's welfare state to the UK's NHS are in increasingly bad shape with things looking to only become worse. It's a mixture of increasing migration, an aging population, in the case of healthcare systems populations becoming generally less healthful, and increasing ideological fracturing of society. These are all issues that the US has has been an unfortunate leader on. The solidity of these systems will be illustrated over the next decade or two. Suffice to say, places like Sweden are already a good distance from the country you may think you are idealizing, and a few decades from now it will likely be even further away from that ideal. The point of this is that you need to compare apples to apples. If you're still idealizing Europe in a couple of decades, I'll concede the point - but I doubt you will be.
Curious: why not beg or dumpster dive if you were starving? I personally know somebody who used to panhandle at a freeway exit for drug money. They said $80-120 per day was regular. I also know someone who fed themselves entirely via picking through unwanted food at the back of super markets and restaurants (kind of a loopy hippie, live in a tent in the forest while attending college, etc.).
Yeah, I don’t know about factories per se. Its more been about infrastructure around raw materials export.
"This idea doesn't seem relevant in my tiny corner of software development, therefore it is not relevant in ANY of software development" is the disease of this website.
it was probably encoded at a time when they didn't do 4k av1 tests but only 1080p, but since then they also did a 4k one if you wanna test it https://youtu.be/LXb3EKWsInQ
>> The United States has asked Britain to extradite Mr. Assange, who is fighting the move, and the filing of the new charges clears the way for British courts to weigh whether it would be lawful to transfer custody of him to a place where he will face Espionage Act charges.

Unfortunately, with Theresa May's resignation today (effective 7 June) the way the wind blows is that Boris Johnson will become the new leader of the Tory party and prime minister of the UK. I can't imagine that the US extradition request will be resisted for very long after that.

Interstingly, unless the UK finds a way to extradite Assange to two nations at once, this will rather leave the Swedish prosecutor who asked for it first with a bit of an embarassing turn of events to deal with. I really don't see the UK (especially the UK under BoJo) giving priority to a rape trial in Sweden over an espionage trial in the US. One of those is much more photogenic.
Correlation does not mean causation. It's also possible that splitting and competition improves one railway but would make another worse. Maybe a railway is just organized well enough that splitting is not an improvement. If the timetable gets designed by the director's nephew, something needs to change. But if multiple competing teams produce proposals and the best one gets chosen, you already have the benefits of competing companies without the disadvantages.

Or there may be cultural differences between the railway companies. Maybe one company is staffed by hard workers who are motivated by working at a state-owned railway rather than for some capitalist that isn't them and would be offended if you introduced competition hoping to get them to work harder. The other could be staffed by lazy bums who find working for the state distasteful and do need a kick in the arse.

Forcing a split could also cause other reforms that outweigh the damage the split causes.
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Doctors would face the same amount of social friction if they did what this guy is doing, which is giving his unsolicited opinion about the health of people he does not know personally, and has only seen pictures of online.
They’re more or less mobile ATMs rolling through a hospital. Also, the security is in large part from reducing the overall number of people with any access.
He was a Spice Girls fan?
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Curious to know, are there ways that a country (in fact mainly the U.S.) can 'flip the switch' (weaponize, if you will) on fundamental internet tech, such as DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP and many many others, to severely affect a foreign adversary's business (either a company or a country)?

Sure those are merely standards/protocols, still, is it possible these tech and their current world-wide setup be effectively used in conflicts by issuing government executive orders or enacting new laws?

Edit: just found this on reddit. Not exactly what I was asking (fundamental internet standards/protocols), but still somewhat related.

From a reddit post --
"Huawei is no longer able or allowed to work on standards for Wi-Fi, USB and SD cards. "Temporarily restricted" by Wi-Fi Alliance, voluntarily withdrew from JEDEC (USB etc) and no longer a member of SD Associaton (which technically means no more SD slots)"
There's not a lot of evidence that homelessness and mental health welfare will generate net positive tax revenue. Ever met someone on anti-psychotics? They go through the rest of their life barely able to grasp new concepts with a drug specifically designed to mute that part of their brain, alongside the side effects on their relatively short-lived organs being poisoned by the same drug cocktail.
> that’s just a matter of not putting resources into it.

And Boeing consistently missing deadlines they agreed to. But that's a matter of them being in the business of milking taxpayers not a matter of technology.
There is a lot of "fake" workstations: everything is so clean! No Fritos bag, no Coke bottles, no paper, no trash, ... just clean desks! Fake! lol :D
What point of that quote leads you to think they also can't provide high-speed access in non-rural areas?
I would like to see a version of this list (and the nutrient/calorie list) modified for ethically raised meat and other animal products. Sure chicken can be dirt cheap, but often that's enabled by raising them in unconscionable conditions.
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> And then people wonder why torrents are still so popular? Because it's the most convenient, not because it's free.
Well you can also worry about Fucking tech company Being spying on your driving habits as well as there is a rumor of companies being required to scan/spy on all license plates by the municipalities.....
Did anybody else immediately think of the episode in Hogan's Heroes where Hogan convinces Col. Klink to drink heavy water? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0602322/
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Everybody who believes that private sector is by definition more efficient than public should take note.
Come on, you know that "potential damage to US * likelihood of occurring" is not how funds get allocated. If that were true, they'd have ended our dependence on many foreign markets (especially oil), solved global warming (or at least built a great seawall), and headed off a bunch of social issues that threaten the stability and cohesion of the US.

Follow the money.
I thought that most people wanted to avoid having to stop their trip for charging while driving because it takes too long (I don't even like to stop for gas and it is much quicker)... it's weird that you would not choose the best solution to your problem (and spend more money while doing it), but I guess some people don't care about time or money.

Also, what are those white spots on the map? Unpopulated areas with no charger in a 2h radius?
Grass is always greener - though this is the first time I see someone envious of mail delivery. It's a job.
Reading the license plate is trivial, its processing, and doing the advanced queries that make ALPR solutions real.

Sure you could create a bunch of pi cams able to handle a few reads per second, but then say you want to know what plates have traveled with your target plate between multiple camera sets to see if someone is being followed, or you have cell phone pings and want to search all cameras in the radius of that tower for a plate.

The reading isn't hard, its fully solved, the economical and real-time searching of plates and evidence compilation is the much harder problem.
Isn't the article stating that the hackers are posting the actual license plate scans of people crossing the border? That seems like a big deal to me.
Definitely. Two fairly standard techniques in mathematics are solving a cut down version of a problem and lifting that to a full solution, and solving a more general version and specializing to a particular case. Sometimes, amazingly, the more general problem is easier to solve, perhaps because fewer irrelevant details stand in the way.

Both methods have yielded a lot of progress in mathematics. For example, solving a cut down version of Fermat’s Last Theorem got us the theory of ideals in algebra. Relatedly, Wiles work on the modularity theorem ultimately led to the actual proof of FLT.
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Why would it cause a GDP decline? A strong Africa is good for the entire world economy. Another billion wealthy people to buy goods and services, travel and invest.
Getting discouraging to see facial recognition and machine learning getting conflated in every article's comments.
"I don't really have anything to say for myself"

Kids.

It's amazing how many times people will stop to say hello when a small child says hello to them. We got invited into someone's garden last weekend to feed their chickens.

Admittedly we live in a more rural area. Might not work so well on the mean streets of London.
My take on this: you're right that the other large competitors aren't better. That's just basic economics you only get good enough to be close to your competitors.

The other side is that a large company often gets large contracts. If you sell a software 10 million times it doesn't really matter if you spent 100x as much on it as a small company would. The small company with 10000 customers still is having 10x the revenue per work done.

Could you make more profit? Sure, but lacking market pressure you're rarely concerned with efficiency.

I just noticed my company always books flexible airline tickets. They cost about 2x as much as non flexible ones. I've never missed a flight and most of my colleagues haven't either. It makes sense if you're a busy manager that often doesn't fly. But for most engineers the flexibility costs more than what it's used for.
Tracking people is like 90% of what every organization does. It's why we have names, phone numbers, addresses, id numbers, license plates, etc. "Tracking people = bad" is an untenable assumption.
These are the instances where I feel it is definitely worth keeping some people around who act as glue. (or old timers).

In our company - we have a tech lead role which is supposed to be the technical point of contact for a given team. This person is expected to have answers or have a way to find the right answers about the nuances of the team.

The good ones are invaluable. Whenever new projects come up, the modus operandi is to write a proposal, review it with your current team for sanity (on whether it achieves its purpose) and then with this group of relevant stake holders / tech leads to ensure you're not getting some giant thing wrong that can nuke some other part of the business.

The problem I see with this role though - we (I am the one for analytics and one of the TLs for Data Infrastructure at Snap) have to handle 20-25 hours of meetings around all these coordination AND ensure some work gets done in your own area so that you are in touch with the code bases you are fiddling with. So as much of an alluring title that is, you are giving up deep dive development (like I was able to do building storage engines for DynamoDB). Tradeoffs :/

And there are cases where the tech leads don't have the answers (new or incompetent) OR they think of a weird case couple of months down the line, but this works out overall.

I probably should write a blog about this - but anyway, I don't know how this works out in the non-software world: Why wouldn't you have a knowledge person/council around?
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I've heard there are multiple successors e.g. https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html
If you can tolerate lactose, milk is the cheapest way to eat a good balance of high quality protein, fat, and carbs. 2400 calories for less than $3 at most grocery stores.

Then chicken is the lowest cost per calorie meat, so you're good there. May I also suggest large quantities of cheddar cheese and heavy whipping cream from Costco? Amazing value per dollar spent. Cheddar cheese (we have Tillamook at Costco out here on the west coast) is basically entirely protein and fat and then whipping cream is all fat.
For some films? Yeah, I'd do it.
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Bah. Hard thing to avoid is processed meat, as cooking meat right takes a tiny bit of skill and gear.

Anything else, unimportant, super easy to make and generally available, except in literal food deserts.

"Pot roast?! Who do you think we are, MILLIONAIRES?"

The worst part is probably peeling. That takes serious effort.
Then washing dishes. Then obviously shopping which has to be batched or mail in for efficiency.

If you're rich enough, there are a whole range of ways to save time, from dishwashers, bigger selection of dishes, timers on hardware, through buying peeled or lightly prepared food such as frozen (not exactly ready to eat, that's expensive and uncontrollable) through mail shopping or hiring someone to shop for you. Finally, outsourcing cooking completely to someone competent, the most expensive way.
If you lose access to google play do you also lose access to Google Cloud Messaging for notifications ? Because if that's the case that's huge. Hosted notification is so important these days.
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Boers. Your standard meat goat.

I have been around Nubians. They seem sane.
How much do I have to eat? How often? Is there any metal danger ala tuna?
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Lentils/other pulses/chickpeas are all healthy and nutritious.
I'm not opposing anything. I'm happy enough for people to do touristy stuff and do it myself sometimes.
I hereby propose to rebrand all marginally blockchain-related products and technologies "hash tree" or "convergent replicated state machine" technologies.
Canned beans may be processed but they are not “ultra processed” which is what the study is about. They’re just cooked beans in a can.
Everyone acts as if this came out of the blue, in reality there have been problems with China's state owned enterprises for a decade. Everyone has to play by the rules or why have rules at all?
Then trademarks are broken. They are supposed to protect and incentivize inventors, not lawyers.