skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds like you're actually aware that it's easier to read the redundant code when you are not an expert, so we don't have any disagreement there.

Actually, there is minor disagreement. I don't think I used anything requiring expert-level understanding. I would put the tools I used at the level of day-to-day proficiency, not expert level. Roughly, the level it took me 3 months to reach, not the level I'm still working towards after 10 years.
They also have additional data sources to add to their algorithms when people allow their contacts to be read, and you are in their contacts. Or, if people search for you, odds are they know you. Some of the connections can seem spooky, but it is all data-driven.
If I understand it correctly it's not really "reauthorized"---the devices have always been approved, but in 2017 an environmental group submitted a petition to the EPA to de-approve them and now the EPA has declined that petition.
Then the justice system needs to resource itself appropriately. A town menace should not be allowed to continue harassing folks because the police can't be half-assed to take care of him.

If your actions are causing others to suffer, and you're willingly doing nothing to prevent that, and you have expended the patience of those around you, then you get what's coming. Maybe he shouldn't have been such a shithead.
Laziness in attempting to share data with someone in another org?

"Nope, can't access it" ...

"Nope, still can't access it"...

"My manager is harassing me to get access now"...

"Look, just make it public then change it back after I get it copied"...
Google is not some small company to commit fraud for a few pennies
Coinbase should be hiring pentesters and giving them employee level access - even access to commit and deploy code.

Any insider shouldn't be able to steal more than the hot wallet, and even that should be hard.

I actually wouldn't put much effort into border security. At coinbases level of risk, evildoers will have no qualms bribing an employee to install a backdoor in their machine.
And I think we should absolutely hold that against C as a development language.
There are plenty of things I didn't fully understand as a student, not just academic things but self-realization "youth is wasted on the young" type learnings, which I suspect impacts all of us

BUT, I bet if you look at the data, things like DARE and driver's ed and sex ed v abstinance education have measurable, statistical impacts on what people believe and how they act.

ALSO, there are plenty of jobs out there for technical work. Each of us decides what people and organizations we are comfortable supporting with our labor. It's not a perfectly free decision, and there are plenty of individual trade-offs to make, but we're hardly passive players.
If it accomplishes the minimum functional requirements without additional time/money, isn't that the point?
You can easily pay that. Or you could go to either Rick's or Dick's on Geary and pay $20. ($15 haircut + $5 tip)
I wonder if it just has more to do with confidence. I don't think there are any good indicators of someone lying.
Is this the next industry taking a hit from an asset-light strategy?
The metrics data includes upstream and downstream calls for each service, so you can pull those together to draw the whole topology. Don't need end-to-end traces for that.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Would you please stop creating accounts to do that with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You know what. I can accept that there's a separate meaning in philosophy that this professor uses it in that context. Words often have unique meanings in specific fields.

However the colloquial, general meaning is still that of scientific skepticism. That's what comes up when you search skepticism on Wikipedia, reddit, or various definitions. That's also what is reasonably being referred to in a Hacker News post; a community that often subscribes to the same values expressed in skepticism.

Unless you know this professor and can put his words in their appropriate context, then the whole thing reads as decrying an entire movement of scientifically-minded people.
"How are you going to identify the source of a wire transfer if you don't have a customer to match it against?"

Already in current practice you generally don't identify the source, you identify the order # or invoice # in the transfer details and ignore the payer which can be and often is different from the ordering customer (family members, companies paying some bills, etc), the payer information currently gets used only in case of mistakes and such.

My point is that I'd like all these companies to do their best to treat these purchases as if they were anonymous. But your point about VAT rules is a valid issue that might have wider implications about the general necessity to store data.

"what you'll have to tell everyone's credit card company when they start disputing charges as product-not-delivered and you have nothing to counter with." that's absolutely not an issue, that might be the case for card-not-present transactions but for as long as I can remember every single pizza courier or similar would use a wireless terminal to get a chip&pin (or now contactless) card-present authorisation which can't really be disputed in this way.
Flaws like this? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypt...

I support such uses of smartcards, but we have to be disciplined regarding our assumptions about non-repudiation.
> Any engineer can tell you that a measurement is meaningless without tolerances/margin of error, and the tolerance in effect when putting up a fence is not expressed in a microscopic scale.

But these locations are very precise, indicating high accuracy/low margin of error, but they don't have that high accuracy. In fact, the error could be in meters, rather than in the implied millimeters, so it definitely could be a problem for a fence.

Here is a college textbook chapter detailing types of precision and accuracy errors in GIS systems: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog469/book/export/html/252

"GIS users are not always aware of the difficult problems caused by error, inaccuracy, and imprecision. They often fall prey to False Precision and False Accuracy, that is they report their findings to a level of precision or accuracy that is impossible to achieve with their source materials. If locations on a GIS coverage are only measured within a hundred feet of their true position, it makes no sense to report predicted locations in a solution to a tenth of a foot. That is, just because computers can store numeric figures down many decimal places does not mean that all those decimal places are "significant." It is important for GIS solutions to be reported honestly, and only to the level of accuracy and precision they can support."

Or in other words, don't build a fence relying on naked coordinates of high precision but unknown accuracy.
This is really fascinating. I apologize if this is a silly question but under the Fabrication section there is a pic titled "physical structure(Texas Instruments, 1997.)" My question is why do all of the components always look so "puffy" or "fuzzy" in these chip zoom-in pics? I guess I'm always surprised that such a precision process produces something with such imperfect looking shapes. Or are these slightly amorphous shapes just a distortion produced by a scanning electron microscope?

EDIT: This is the pic I was asking about:
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/na_1.png
I do a lot of hardware sales online and often exchanging identities is a way to increase trust amongst buyer and seller.

This article holds up to my observation that black people use cash app and white people use venmo.
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By the comment, the GP is not a Haskell developer and those people are not programming in Haskell.

So, even though it is well known that short named variables and point free syntax often improve the readability of Haskell code, it probably does not improve the readability of his code.
Great idea! I've benefited and been a part of things like this at fb, and can vouch for how it can increase empowerment. Rooting for ya'll!
The whole idea is so insane... it's mind blowing.

The animal doesn't fit underneath the seat. It's clearly taking up leg room of the passengers next to it.

I understand making accommodations for people with disabilities. But there's a trend in this country:

Group A has X problem. Group A proposes a solution that violates Group B's life and liberty. Group B complains. Everyone gets angry at Group B, because 'how else could Group A get a solution'. The answer is simple: It's not Group B's problem.

Why people think their problem (emotional support needs) should be my problem (100 pounds of animal falling on me, having it invade my space or the need to breath air which many people can't if it has animal hair)

I'm truly wandering if this isn't a case of some news organization believing an onion article. It really seems like a picture from an onion article.
To classify this guy as a bully does no justice, he had shot numerous people and nearly beat a man to death.
This topic brings out the whiny keyboard warriors every time
Interesting to contemplate what could be done to shift those incentives around. Obviously there are certifications (LEED), and there's straight-up regulation, but would there be a way to mandate that a builder or landlord is responsible for a portion of future HVAC expenses such that they are motivated to get this right upfront?
Well, this is boring. I would prefer an insurance that locks in the price for some time. dohop.com was offering this for some time.
Latvia also has ID cards with embedded certificates that can be used to sign documents/login. These cards are optional (passport is mandatory, ID card can be requested) for now but will be required from 2023. Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania also have SmartID (although this is a private company service) which is an app on your mobile device and is used for logging in banks. SmartID account is issued by the bank (lowest level, can only log in issuer bank) or by yourself using your ID card (highest level, can log in any service that supports SmartID as well as document signing).
I would hazard a guess that most of them are the LK bootloader that Google (contrary to your claim) does distribute large portions of: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/lk/

http://newandroidbook.com/Articles/aboot.html
Woah, apparently this is because my workplace has added this website to the super-block-without-even-telling-you list...
Nice, wouldn't mind trying something like that myself. I'm not sure if we get enough sun though ;)

I put a PiZeroW in our garden as a wildlife camera in an IP68 case with a waterproof USB connector for power, but alas sometimes it possibly overheats or becomes unresponsive and requires switching it off/on again. (It hit around 90C once, I have since added a little heat sink, but not sure how much that helps in a closed case).

I also found I had to slightly overvolt the PiZero in the config to get the camera to function correctly.

I've been trying to see if there's any interesting serial output when it becomes unresponsive by adding an ESP32 to it. But I haven't quite got the hang of programming that yet.
I think the answer is in your question:

Why would search history be related to travel history? Can't they be decoupled?
I was at Semicon Japan last year in December and I learn about the coolest semiconductor company (non profit research organization) ever - MinimalFab [1]. There isn't much information their website but this [2] video explains what MinimalFab is about. Essentially, it is a cleanroom-free, modularized fab where each process step in a fab is like a little ATM machine. Miniaturization of complex fab processes is mind blowing and everything is contained inside the machine including a Class 100 environment. Load a tiny quarter sized wafer in a cassette to process and move material from one machine to another. This kind of a fab setup would be incredibly useful to R&D fabs in universities and small scale fabrication for military, space, defense and perhaps even hobby use.

[1] https://www.minimalfab.com/en/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOVbmfYxoM
An old comment on McCarthy's LISP 1.5 manual: "This is the source of the opinion that LISP is hard."
The only shocking thing to me is this is the first time I’ve seen any story about this hole in the GDPR. This was one of the top reasons we blocked and deleted all EU users. How do I verify that a request is legitimately from a user, short of them arriving in person and providing some biometrics, which presumably we would need to collect from them in the beginning?

I have no idea. Any system with a high false negative rate is breaking the law, and one with a high false positive rate seems even worse.
It is useful for component design as it removes the need to name things and then reference them.

It is similar to inline styles in how atomic it is but provides responsive classes which adapt to screen sizes.

It also provides predefined defaults for sizes and colors to prevent codebase rot and design inconsistencies.

Allows combining framework classes into nameable classes (requires using their building tool).

As someone who uses scss and know css myself I will not use it but I can see how it can be useful for devs who don’t want to learn css.

I just can’t get over the inefficiency of learning all their styles and typing them as classes feels gross compared to BEM. But I get it.
Users flagged this, probably because the post is much too strong flamebait not to produce a flamewar if people started replying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My grandmother in-law relayed a similar story growing up on a farm in Kansas. When she was a little girl there was a gypsy camp up the river. The gypsies would occasionally steal chickens. Her father eventually put a stop to it when they brazenly tried to use a car (I don’t know where they got it) to steal several chickens. Her father got his hands on one of the women and beat her senseless and one of the men engaged him and he pounded the man till he went limp. They were carted off by the other gypsies. Possibly dead.

I asked “Wasn’t there a sheriff? Didn’t he get in trouble?” She said “no, there was no law”. I said “you mean like no law enforcement?” She said “no, there was no LAW”. Implying it was completely lawless way out there on the farm.

Crazy to think about. This was in the 1930’s.
There’s also something to be said, from a recruitment point of view, to having everyone’s site look the same. It eliminates one bit of unconscious bias. In a way, it can help anonymise each person, which can make for a different (perhaps fairer?) hiring process.
Because everyone reports relative gains in these articles and not absolute efficiency.
The price between a intermediary and an airline can be 1300 USD vs. 800 USD.
Curious how many men care about the relationship with their barber enough for this to not take off if done well.

There’s likely a sizable population that cares more about convenience, cost, and predictability of outcome.

Premium barbershops currently compete on experiences vs outcomes: giving you a glass of whiskey, providing great ambiance, etc. If robots become the default for basic haircuts it will make premium barbershops seems all the more luxurious because you have an actual person (an artist!) cutting your hair. Perhaps they'll be able to raise their prices even more.

1st Disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of On Deck and the OP is in the On Deck Fellowship.

2nd Disclosure: I thought this idea was completely crazy when Manish first brought in that absurd mannequin with the replaceable beards. Now, the more I think about what he's building and the opportunity space the more I love it.
I was only "a dev" and had an extremely difficult time getting cluster configuration changes pushed through. It was only because I bribed a sysop that we got a swap file added. We had our own Mr. No to deal with.

Lots of things could/should and would be done differently.
Not to be a luddite, but I'm not putting my face anywhere near a robot armed with a blade
Flaws in Visa contactless cards allow for bypass of anti-fraud checks
Thanks for sharing! Great article.
This one: https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim
Very helpful, haven't heard of this Google thing before. Thanks.
The Exxon Valdez of Cyberspace
>Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public?

Maybe they're trying to reproduce functionality of docker? It would actually be extremely useful for research involving modeling/AI because you could trivially reproduce the results by bundling the exact code and data.

Edit: actually maybe I'm confusing EBS snapshots with AMIs...
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Who will regulate digital political ads?
> if the justice system cannot help you then you have to take things into your own hands.

If you apply this rule strictly, then the mobs could first hit the police. In many countries, police officers are violent and have a de facto impunity when they break the law.

In the US, the police kills more than 1000 citizens each year, especially black men and teenagers. They very rarely face jail, not even loosing their job.

In my country, France, over the past year several dozens of citizens have lost an eye because of police shooting, a few have lost a hand because of grenades. The justice system protects the policemen, even when the videos are explicit. And when a juge tries to do his work, he can't. A grandma was killed while closing her window because she received a grenade in her head. The commanding officer refused to let the juge expertise the grenade launchers of his squad. He was promoted soon after.

Most people that prone self-defense and rant about some bad guys' impunity do no wish to see this fact: most policemen can break the law and not face the consequences. They're the only category of citizens that are above the law.
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Your application page doesn't work. I click APPLY and nothing happens. I guess it's because of "Last application date: 22/7/2019"?
Also, the airlines could change their algorithm - randomly. If for no other reason than to muck with Google.
We're still figuring it out is the honest answer. Here are some learnings from this past year that address some of your points:

* Robotic arms are getting better. They're becoming easy to interface with (I programmed the arm in the video using JavaScript) and they're getting cheaper (the arm in the video is $5k kit, $10k assembled).

* CV technology has advanced significantly in the past couple years thanks to self-driving tech and facial recognition tech. These are advances that can be repurposed to this venture.

* It's going to be baby steps. We mentioned starting with beards but we may even go easier and start with neck fuzz. It's going to be an iterative process and there might be some constraints involved on the UX side until we get better (e.g. asking the user to keep their face within a certain boundary).
Geting 4x Speedup with .NET Core 3.0 SIMD Intrinsics
Pre-loading: cache When cache is slower than one query
Understood, but:

So, when one train operator asked for a photocopy of a passport, he convinced it instead to accept a postmarked envelope addressed to the "victim".

A postmarked envelope? This is baffling to me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/co3y5n/preload...
Not sure why you're downvoted. It's pretty clear that when a lot of people make "dumb mistakes" despite the solution being "obvious", it's because a flawed system design.

Look at the simplest analogy to this - the opt-out/opt-in buttons. If something is opt-out by default, then most people will leave it that way, even if they have no good reason to leave it is. And advertising companies like Google and Facebook take full advantage of this.
The airline knows that you are coming from google flights. They know that you know the prices of the competitors...
I've re-re-re-read most of his earlier works (Nova, Dhalgren, Driftglass and so on). I would recommend them to anyone, though Dhalgren and Triton are probably inappropriate and maybe incomprehensible for younger readers.

I got maybe 50pp into Nest of Spiders and was done. Every few months I try to read a few more pages, and always put the book down again.

However, I think that Delaney did not fail this reader. If anything, what he wrote in Spiders made me realize that I wasn't as open-minded as I thought I was. I don't care to expand those particular limits, the subject matter is definitely not my cup of tea. But I'm happy we live in a society where he can publish that work, and I'm happy to at least try to read it, and happy to do my bit to support him doing it.
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No it sounds like bad development mentality in any language.
How is that not a problem with GDPR? They passed a law which relies on technology which does not exist. There is no way to safely and reliably identify an individual electronically.
Are you certain that the data is accurate enough to support better precision? Where I live we have avcess to vectorized property maps, but the data source may be a digitized 200 y/o map.
Perhaps something like this?

https://github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-stream
goes home completely forgetting to change it back...
I'm totally picturing The Hand treated like a relic in some Italian church, along these lines:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-anthonys-tongue
It's a good thing they charge fast because the capacity is pretty low. Regular single-use AA batteries are around 2500 mAh, other rechargeable batteries around 2000 mAh, these only have 1500.
Does it a help in this case if one runs the browser in a sandbox? E.g. in docker?

They can then break out from the browser, but only get to docker with that exploit, and it's unlikely they have a docker exploit too at hand, is it?
You realize that's a ridiculous framing of reasonable objection? The real question is why do they "need" things like your location and web search history to offer this for your past flight searches.
Here in India, I have the option of going to a cheap barber who costs about $1.2 (yes), a slightly better place that costs about $3, and a top of the line place that costs $8.
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Website seems like it got the HN hug of death, archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190809200012/http://sam.zeloof...
Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018)
Fuel cells have been commercially available since the 1960s, though they were mostly confined to space program applications then.

Automobile manufacturers have produced small numbers of fuel cell vehicles since the turn of the millennium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell_vehicle#List_of_mode...

I'm not making claims about the actual merits of fuel cells, mind you. But claiming they're further out than fusion is bizarre. Some people are driving them around today. Nobody is generating net power from fusion today.
> The General Sherman removed 1438.892 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air. Divided by the American yearly CO2 footprint of 16.6 metric tons ,we get 86.7 years of CO2 sequestered in a single tree!

Although it took around 2500 years to do so. If your calculations are right, the American should presumably plant 30 of these trees rather than one in order to have a more real-time impact. This is also assuming that each tree planted will follow something like the growth trajectory of the largest tree in the world.

I'm also not sure that this calculation is right, for example because using the approximate mass of the tree as the amount of CO₂ fixed by the tree neglects the contribution of the H₂O that was also an ingredient for the tree's cellulose content.

(I fully support people planting sequoia trees, though!)
There have been hedging services for the public. One of them was bought and killed by M$:

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/farewell-farecast-microsoft-ki...