skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations. Not sure if this will work for you or not but this is what I did -

* Make sure you have a good health insurance plan.

* 529 account - the day my kids were born I started a recurring deposit 100 with some extra deposit on events like tax refund/bonus etc. I want to have enough to support public college tution.

* whatever I have left after mortgage and monthly expenses, I contribute to each of my accounts in specified order, going to next account only when I reach max limit for that account

- Checking account (limit 2 months of expenses)

- Online savings account for emergencies (limit 6 months of expenses)

- Roth IRA for both my wife and me (limit IRS prescribed limit around 6K per year)

- Retirement accounts (Robo advisors : regular investment account/IRA)
We have the CPR (Central Person Registry)-number in Denmark which is handed over to various authorities and can also be misused for fraud, to which degree I'm unsure of- but I have heard of some nasty debt issues people struggled to get out of. What's worse is that the generating algorithm is based off of your date of birth and if you have date of birth for the victim you can run the algorithm rather easily and come up with 10-20 potential CPR-numbers (I can't remember the exact num., but it's approximately in that range) whereas one is the valid for the person you wish to defraud.

EDIT: Unsure about possible CPR candidates when reversing CPR numbers.. There have been some updates to the way it's working post 2007.
second the Mackay book recommendation! It is a lovely text with a ton of examples, good reference for a senior course on applied probability.
it's not really such a deterministic thing. countries tend to be pretty secretive about the specifics of their nuclear attack/defense capabilities. it's hard to give better than a rough estimate of how many missiles could actually get through the defenses. if one superpower can deliver significantly more warheads on target than the other, MAD becomes less effective. it increases the temptation to use nuclear weapons in a desperate situation.
Most of the "global middle class" I know that travels does not experience other cultures at all. They stay in English speaking hotels, go to tourist trap restaurants, get the same picture everyone else in the world has, and experience it all with other tourists and approximately 0 locals.

No one is speaking out against experiencing the world-- the article is specifically against everyone going to the exact same handful of overcrowded places.
Hurricane forecasts may be running headlong into the butterfly effect
>In one case, I was iterating over the contents of what was supposed to be a list, but in some rare circumstances could instead be a string. Instead of throwing a type error, Python happily went along with it, and iterated over each character in the string individually.

I've been using python for about 13 years professionally and I wrote up a list of "things I wish python would fix but I think probably never will" and treating strings as iterable lists of characters was on there.

I've seen this bug multiple times and the fix is relatively easy - just to make strings by default non-iterable and use "string.chars" (or something) if you really want to iterate through the chars.

Nonetheless, I still love the language and wouldn't use anything else.

>Instead of just throwing an error, Python happily went along with it, used an uninitialized value, and then all the logic broke.

This one gets caught by linters - unfortunately 90% of most python linters spit out rule violations which aren't important which drowns out stuff like this in the noise.
The release notes for this version of XFCE mention improved vsync support. (Though the amd opensource drivers have an option that just “fixes” vsync across the board for me, and I only use lightweight WMs that don’t do anything special to support vsync).
It feels like electronic voting of any kind at the moment is a mistake. It seems far more prone to meddling and security issues compared to manual balloting. I don't know if there are any statistics that have been collected regarding this however, if anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great!
Movie theater chains running the subscription on their own is much more viable. They are paying per showtime anyway so a full or empty theater doesn't make them any money but the concessions do. Paying for extras like comfy chairs or food is how they get their money. Offering a monthly subscription that only covers tickets would really be the best option for them. They get more people in the theater that might feel obligated to buying food since they didn't just have to buy a ticket.
Also check what your insurance covers in regard to the child birth. Try to get the plan with the best coverage and least amount of deductibles.

We walked away paying nothing where friends in the same hospital had to pay a few thousand.

You can always change your plan after the kid is born or at the next open enrollment.
Life itself is also life or death
> As of 2016, the tourism industry is estimated to contribute about 10 percent to the Icelandic GDP;
Well, the congestion tax is not the only way! The market will consolidate on its own. Remember, tourism is part of every nation's economy, and adding more tax might shift tourists to other places. If the demand is increasing without any change to supply (number of flights, rental options, etc.), then the prices will increase for sure. I believe technology has made it easy to access than solved the supply problem. There is no need to introduce a separate tax. Looks more propaganda to slow down the tourism industry. If a place is super crowded, then you will see a decline in the number of visitors because it kills the ambiance (or prices might shoot up).
You got it exactly backwards, my guy. Master Morality is about pride and power; slave morality is kindness, simpathy, etcetera

Nietzsche was also firmly in the master camp. Said so himself many times on many books

Now me? I agree with Mr Nietzsche completely
Building an infinitely scalable cloud host for less than $5/mo
Its complicated, the local economy for some locations have dependency issues on tourists.
Disagreeing with anything you deem a "fad phrase" has literally zero more intellectual rigor than those who follow them. You're using the same metric just backwards.
Are you interpreting that comment as supportive of Apple? I'm not...
> I think monads highlight something underappreciated about programming, which is that different people regard very different things as "intuitive". It almost seems that modalities of thinking about programming are bigger, external things than programming itself.

I think this also. You need to pick a language that fits your problem area, but also one that fits your brain.
vicious cycle - similar to the resource curse
You close the attractions down and or throw up a lengthy permit process.

Here in PA too many stupid selfie drones were falling off the waterfalls of Glen Onko (straining/exhausting rescuers). It’s A great place to hike up alongside fairly huge waterfalls. It’s now shut down unfortunately. It was the 1st to 2nd most popular hike in PA.
It should be grounds for a particularly efficient form of litigation. In the past, you could have argued that better forms of authentication were onerous, but now they are much more efficient.
`pip-tools` has served me well, but an annoying gripe that pipenv/Poetry resolves is that you can't install git links in non-editable mode, i.e.

-e git+https://github.com/...

Works, but

git+https://github.com/...

Doesn't.

Also can you pin your dependencies to a specific hash? Last I checked you cannot. A major advantage of pipenv/Poetry is that the lockfile protects you against compromise of the package manager; if someone swaps in a new binary for yourdep==1.2.3, the lockfile will fail to validate the hash and you'll get an error.
New Hampshire used to have the same problem in the White Mountains. Mt. Washington, Mt. Lafayette, and a few others were being overwhelmed, while almost nobody went anywhere else. One thing that helped was the popularization of the 4,000-footer list. Many people who might otherwise have followed the crowds because they simply didn't know any better were instead spread out on 48 peaks all over the park, from north to south and east to west. My wife has completed the list, I have somewhere around (probably just short of) 40, our 15yo daughter has around 20. A lot of our friends and acquaintances are also consciously planning trips around the list. Obviously there's a lot more to making this work, but it does seem to help spread both the trail impact and the commercial impact on the towns in the area.
> FUD. Why should we want "behaves exactly as the browser does", when browsers (in fact, mostly Google's) are in fact turning against their users?

To avoid introducing vulnerabilities, the way lots of antivirus MITMs do, for example. Like it says in the rest of your quote.

> Especially Google's, because that's one of the ways you can still block ads and modify pages to have them displayed as the user(-agent) wants, while it continues to slowly remove abilities from browser extensions.

Blocking ads by MITM? Yikes. Extensions are very much a better tool for that. The idea that browser vendors are going to slowly cripple them so that they’re no longer an effective blocking tool is… wrong. But anyone who was on Chrome can use Firefox anyway.

> IMHO the whole "security" thing has turned into a power-grab for companies to enforce their control over users, which is the most disturbing part. We want security, but also control, which is not the "security" they want.

FUD.

> Edit: yay, instant downvotes! I hope you enjoy being herded by Google, because that's where the future is heading if we don't oppose.

Don’t.
> toxic masculinity is not about the traits themselves being inherently bad, it's about them being elevated to the point of excluding other things, and the unhealthy ways this manifests in society.

Yeah, almost like its masculinity, but toxic?
Top-level await is still a problem but a Promise version of the `fs` API has been available since Node v10.

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fspromises_readfile_path_o...
Specialized AI Chips Hold Both Promise and Peril for Developers
This is based on eSpeak [1] for Un*x environments, which is based on an application for Acorn/Risc OS. So, yes, it's quite dated. On the other hand, it's lean enough to be run in realtime in Emscripten...

However, all the configuration data, including phoneme tables, may be overwritten (but you would have to install eSpeak on your machine first, in order to compile these.)

Another approach would be actually porting this to JS (instead of cross-compiling), by this having full access. But I simply do not have the resources for this. (Meanwhile, there's the Web Speech Synthesis API. With this being available on most modern clients, it's probably not worth the effort.)

[1] http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
I though about that, too, but that's not any different from using AWS specific services. I actually now realized why they use bloody annoying different names: it's free marketing when someone writes about how they implemented stuff instead of having a generic name.
Tourism is often times an economic crutch to areas that countries can't grow out of. Some of the most iconic vacation destinations in the world like Bali and the Bahamas have some of the worst poverty inland where tourists don't like to venture. Talent ends up being used to help foreigners rather than the local people. Why would you study hard to be a doctor in your impoverished hometown when you can make more money as a bartender at a resort?
Plenty of people with less financial stability than yourself are parents and do just fine. The most important part, more than any other advice is to just show up. A lot of people overestimate what it takes to be a good parent. Be there, be present, and the rest tends to fall into place.
The elephant's mathematical trunk can smell numbers
Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon Edition – See What's New
Superconducting neurons could match the power efficiency of the brain
> It's such a shame that nuclear research stopped in 80s

Did it?
Read a Paper: LegoOS – An OS for Hardware Disaggregation
You need synchronisation primitives with async/await too. If you make every function async then you basically have the same as 1:N green threads. If you have pre-emptive threads or true multithreading with a N:M model then you do need to be more careful with synchronisation, but in principle this is orthogonal to async/await vs green threads.
But as I said, the rest of the text on that bar clearly explains what the message means, in terms a layman can easily understand.

Is there anything lost by _also_ including the technical information necessary to diagnose the problem?
During a snow storm/PABT outage this past winter, I observed a jitney line from 8th ave down halfway to 10th. It's pretty crazy to see the mishmash of alternative transit modes people will piece together when their main route (NJT, PATH, NJ bus, etc) goes offline.
Paper in ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00263
One way to minimize risk is to put a security freeze on one's credit report.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
For your first error, you can do some foot-shooting with a statically typed language too.

I remember a bug I made using C#, where I wanted to delete a collection of directories recursively. I got mixed up into the various inner loops and ended up iterating over the characters like you. But C# allows implicit conversions of char to string so the compiler was OK with it, and since those where network drive directories (starting with "\\server\"), the first iteration started deleting recursively the directory "\", which in windows means the root directory of the active drive (c:\)... And SSDs are fast at deleting stuff.
> How do I choose not to use Google properties

Sorry, I wasn't specific enough. The poster I was replying to was commenting on their browser and I was expanding that to mean their browser and other applications.

Blocking all access to all Google services could be an uncompletable task, unless you start from blocking everything and using a white-list approach only which it unlikely to be practical (on top of creating the whitelist you'd have to monitor it and react when they or one of their related entities buy out or otherwise co-opt services you might have whitelisted in the past.

There are fairly comprehensive (though given the volunteer effort involved I'm sure they aren't 100%) lists available, but I don't know of one specific to Google so you would end up blocking other similar services unless you add your own filter to the filter list before using it.

> if I choose to block it all (despite that rendering half the web unusable)?

I doubt it would make nearly that much unusable. The only one of their services that blocking would stop you using other things is recapcha and I dare say anything "hidden" behind that is also available elsewhere. Blocking analytics isn't going to affect you as a user, maps blocks itself a lot ATM anyway ("this site is configured incorrectly" messages where a map should be because the rules for inlining maps have changed (or their enforcement has) and people haven't updated their pages to reflect the policy change at Google), etc.
Malta has a strong component of tourism in its GDP, and it's not third-world level. It's not "tourist-only", but then again, no country is - only in the Maldives it surpasses 30% of GDP.
I still don't think you quite understand what's going on here. Python wouldn't create a new variable in this case. I It would re-assign the value represented by the variable you already assigned once. I agree that it would have been better if Python had explicit variable declarations (this is one of the few things I think Perl got right.).

On the other hand, Ruby made this same mistake. If you wrote this code in Javascript you wouldn't get an error, but you would in fact have two different variables.

For instance, this code runs for me using node 8:

var fun = (bool) => {
var x = 1;
if (bool) {
var x = 2;
x += 1;
} else {
x += 1;
}
console.log("x=" + x);
}

fun(1);
fun(0);
What is Blockbuster?
Stratix 10 SX at the Heart of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator
I can see how the Mac is not all golden but I still think it’s much better than windows.
TIL - never looked. (Most of our stuff is stuck on 8.x and I've got some work to do to upgrade us; never looked at the changes!) Thanks for the pointer.
This is a great point. My partner and I have all but stopped buying new stuff. We spent a fair amount on her travel system but it's already becoming obvious that she's out-growing most of it at 6 months.

My way of rationalising it is whether she'd rather have us spend all we could on having the best of baby gear now, or whether she'd rather have it in a savings account when she is looking to buy her first house, go to university etc.
During an intense Vipassana retreat I was examining how my inner personality was being projected and it suddenly fell away as unnecessary. I smiled and internally said Chris has been releived of duty. For several days I perceived my self non subjectively as a friend might see me. I observed my face in the mirror as a third person. It's hard to describe the actual physical feeling. We view ourselves through one hell of a subjective filter. It was a very calm and real experience.
> As per the iFixit report, the Apple chip that identifies it as an 'Apple Battery' can be moved to another battery from any/dubious source. Given this, how can software KNOW that it's truly an Apple original battery.

Doesn't that work against your argument? If you put in the effort to move the chip, the phone will never know you replaced the battery at all.

It's no riskier to trust the chip post-replacement than it is to trust the chip any other day of the year.
Netflix’s rivals say they aren’t competing with it. They are
I have small saving (<10k) and I run my own dev agency which just survived dramatic founders separation. We live in Ethiopia but my wife is American. I think she just stopped paying for healthcare . I didn't wanna bring it up just now.
It's not active damping, it's predictive, pre-computed powered damping.

If you change the physical behavior of the robot, such as by heating or cooling its arm rods, or by changing the mass of its end-weights, the pre-computed damping movements will be less accurate, and the wobble may return.

Active damping would require sensors and a more complicated microcontroller on the robot, rather than just looped playback from a ROM. Cheaper smooth-moving robots mean more animatronic elements can be put in your feature within a given budget.
Not with a simple hosts file entry, but surely some DNS resolvers support wildcards in their configuration to make this easier?
Summer Updates in Android OS
> What are we waiting for to fund nuclear powered cargos?

China to scare us with a temporary technological lead.
Meanwhile in Sony Alpha land: the entire firmware is Linux based and you can pwn it and install Android payloads... but the reverse-engineering community seems to have died down :(
Generally, knowingly and willfully giving false information to certain entities is fraud and is illegal. Especially when the form has you sign off that the information provided is correct to your knowledge under plenty of perjury.

Even if you gave a fake SSN to, say, a landlord (they need it to run a background and credit check on you and to better chase you down if you don't pay your rent) that would almost certainly be considered either fraud or theft by deception.

Generally, you provide the entity your SSN because they have a legitimate need to identity you, and that includes identifying you as you outside their internal system.
How to Build a Culture of Collaborative Innovation
50% of C++ devs don't use a package manager and 27% rely on a system package manager [1]. You don't hear C++ devs complaining about these issues not because they're happy with the state of dependency management in C++ but because there's a very low rate of adoption for package management systems. That, and the state of dependency management in C++ was so bad for so long that it's viewed as a fact of life.

1. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/
In the past Pipenv has failed to resolve dependencies for my project before, where Poetry (run last week) succeeded. Not a fair comparison as I've not tried Pipenv recently, but that at least lets you know that Poetry is now better than where pipenv was a few months ago.

$ pip freeze |wc -l
204
I'm a big fan of https://principiadiscordia.com/book/78.php -

DISCORDIAN SOCIETY SUPER SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC CYPHER CODE

Of possible interest to all Discordians, this information is herewith
released from the vaults of A.I.S.B., under the auspices of Episkopos Dr.
Mordecai Malignatius, KNS.

SAMPLE MESSAGE: ("HAIL ERIS")

CONVERSATION:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

STEP 1. Write out the message (HAIL ERIS) and put all the vowels at the end (HLRSAIEI)

STEP 2. Reverse order (IEIASRLH)

STEP 3. Convert to numbers (9-5-9-1-19-18-12-8)

STEP 4. Put into numerical order (1-5-8-9-9-12-18-19)

STEP 5. Convert back to letters (AEHIILRS)

This cryptographic cypher code is GUARANTEED TO BE 100% UNBREAKABLE.
The stock market is a resource allocation tool, and this is shareholders saying they expect the future expected dividends of environmentally unfriendly companies to be lower than previously expected.
Ohh the one advantage I have is that my parents and older sisters live cloth by. So, at least, no baby sitter concerns.
Are You Rich? Where Does Your Net Worth Rank in America?
I appreciate your measured response to my harsh criticism.

I agree with you that some claims are too important to ignore. I can tell that you believe that you were adding value, and I cannot fault you for that. However, the red flags which you see as a useful heuristic, I tend to see as anti-useful. Perhaps we may just disagree on that.
Over 150 Flights Canceled as Hong Kong Airport Is Flooded by Protesters
It's also possible to have the same base image that you cut a portion out of, so you wouldn't need to store an original image for each possibility, just cache results of cropping as needed.
Compact TLS 1.3
> Is there any city that actually follows this?

Yes? Many European cities are quite busy banning private rentals and requiring owners to actually live in their apartments. In my country it’s even illegal for foreigners to buy vacation homes.

Legislation moves a lot slower than the market though.
IMO Xubuntu is a no-frills, simple and reliable Linux distro that is good for daily use on middle-aged and newer machines, but also good for giving older hardware a chance to feel snappy and responsive even as it ages. Device drivers are available and “just work”. I don’t need a fancy UI and window animations. The low overhead and relative simpleness of the OS are it’s best features.

I don’t have a lot of fuss that wouldn’t also be had with many other Linux distros. The occasional manual fix and stack overflow search for some minor issue, the aging repositories that may or may not be maintained anymore, etc.
>At what price?

My point exactly. I know that executive pay is most often tied to share price, but who do you think really suffers more: the CEO who gets a slightly smaller bonus, or the fund that has to dump shares for whatever it can get?

Look at the example in the article. The fund dumped $300MM of Exxon shares in June, share price mostly unaffected.

>It could mean the difference between, say, a large oil company getting $1 billion from a European fund and a battery technology company getting that billion.

But unless the company is issuing new shares, it doesn't receive any of the money. It's a transaction between old/new shareholders.

I can see the drive to be able to market your investment fund as climate friendly to attract more AUM, but it's unclear to me it makes financial sense as the investor (at least generally).