skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run https://dummyimage.com, the first placeholder image service which has been online since 2007. I use a 1GB, 1vCPU instance from DreamCompute costing $6.00 per month. That's it.

To be fair dummyimage.com doesn't do any sort of image reading or resizing. Source doe at https://github.com/kingkool68/dummyimage
Doesn't help that headlines on this site are fully mutable…
> Products: Seminars, female sex slaves including children
When Midwest Startups Sell, Their Hometown Schools Often Lose
They are big enough to gently crush a person.
I've been using Xubuntu for about 10 years now. Over the weekend, I tried to switch my main desktop to Ubuntu. The animations instantly drove me back. I didn't even bother looking if I could turn them off because I knew, even if there is an option, I'd be fighting with them after every update for the rest of my life.
There are multiple meanings of the word identification.

SSN and NIN could reasonably be used for identification of the form of "this person's data is different from that person's data". (identification as in primary/unique key)

They can't/shouldn't be used for authentication that this person is who they claim to be. (identification as in password)
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Unfortunately there is way too much oil known today. Much of it will have to stay underground, if the worst climate catastrophes are to be averted.
Or just use Amazons serverless image handler, to server up requested sizes, and cache them. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/serverless-image-handler/
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Satellite is most popular where cable does not exist which also tends to be the places with access to the fewest networks.
"He posed with a gun pointed at his face. The man accidentally shot himself"

There seemed to be quite a few of these. There is no such thing as accidentally shooting yourself. You can only do so through gross negligence (or positive intent). It's incredibly simple and easy to 1) Not point a gun at your face, or anything else you don't want to shoot, 2) check if a gun is loaded as the first thing you do any time you handle one, and 3) Keep your damn booger hook off the bang switch.
Someone, somewhere, in US government needs to push for the same system Estonia uses for their national ID card.

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/
NSPV a simple approach to superlight clients leveraging notarizations
God forbid the global middle class can experience other cultures and get outside of their own bubble.
Given some of the code I've had to spelunking this may be an unsolvable problem.

The Eiffel Tower was built as a tourist destination so they'd make the problem easy, but this might be good for Machu Picchu

Actually for the latter it could be a knowledge of the history quiz, or a leave-no-trace quiz...
Good advice here, absolutely! Having a thought, even getting distracted by a whole chain of thought, doesn't mean you are a failure and you should stop the exercise. It takes some getting used to this idea, but repeatedly coming back to the exercise is the exercise.

It's much much less about just blanking out or how long you can maintain the focus and much much more about how you deal with all the craziness that your subconscious is doing to you. Minute by minute; each time it happens. Because it's not going to stop happening, during the exercise or not. Your mind is going to do what it wants; figuring out what you can do with that fact during the exercise then carries over to the rest of life.

I will add that it's taken me a long time to get to the point where I'm not frustrated with myself for getting distracted, so I'm not trying to say this is easy. On the contrary. But it's been worth it for me.
Ah yes the Incel link, which i think is totally unproven yet i am sure "pundits" will be sure that it exists. This study is about immigrants in europe, which is better defined, and who are excluded in more specific ways (including celibacy i would guess in some cases). Plus i don't think calling anyone with emotional problems (which are always ugly and always express themselves as ugly) is right. You probably wouldn't do the same if they were women either - in fact lots of women say bad things about men too. Neither is despicable , calling someone despicable is a cop-out and uncharitable.
Do you see how Southeast, Dunwamish, and Delridge are a rainbow of colors with barely any specks of blue while the north neighborhoods are all blue with specks of green?

That's the racial divide. Not just downtown.
> Programming in the large without tests is a fool's errand. Type systems don't guarantee correctness.

I never said you do not need tests nor that static typing is a panacea. In my view it's a necessary, but not sufficient condition, when programming in the large.
Tip: I leave the social security number blank for medical providers, and have never been asked for it verbally except once. I told them I don't feel comfortable with it, and the person said that was fine and moved on.
Shh. Let the tourist flood Venice and leave our wild places untrammeled.
You forgot :

- deal with management who wont pay for a support license because the product is "Open Source"

- spend weeks troubleshooting dependancy hells for applications with no documentation and no architecture and listening devs tell you that "it works on their laptop" (but somehow they can't give you a working requirements.txt or equivalent)

- the immense pleasure of using apt, pip, npm, and all of their cousins behind corporate proxies

- deal with information security departments who have no idea what you are doing, and thus feel threatened and block all of your initiatives by default

- deal with infrastructure departments who are building their own internal cloud infrastructure, with no budget (hello again free "Open Source"), and won't label it "prod-ready" after 4 or 5 years while support for their legacy is dropped

- convince management that they may have to give some training to their 60 "integrators" and 80 "exploit" teams that are still copying and pasting shell scripts from Word documents written last decade or earlier
Wild animals are wild animals no matter what their temperament when tamed. One of the biggest parts of taming is just acclimatizing the animal to people so they're not scared in our presence.
Transferable Representation Learning in Vision-and-Language Navigation
Artificial Intelligence, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data
> However an optional is really just a list constrained to size 0 or 1.

What?
Why a good online form creator matters for your business
/r/AnimalsKillingPeople corrects this "Non carnivorous animals are cute & cuddly" misconception

Reminds me of a hiker video where the girl mentioned seeing a bear & instinctively going "aww" before realizing she'd just attracted the attention of a bear

Driving in Northern Ontario, there's signs warning people to not attempt to take selfies with bears
>”I predict that long, slow, possibly "eco" trips will become fashionable as a new way to signal wealth”

Perhaps but that’s a minority of the tourist pop., so the problem will remain and only slightly diminished.
Suicide is defined as intentionally killing oneself.
"That the presentation of the jet prize is puffery / exaggerated and meant in jest. If you remove the ridiculous, over the top part from that, there is nothing left but the items actually on offer. In the case of an ad presenting a trip to Disneyland and illustrating it with "magical transport", I'm quite confident the courts would consider the potential offer to be the trip, not the "magical transport"."

That's my point, they aren't (/shouldn't) going to be considering the teenager going to school either.
> Over-sensitive individuals are hard to please and often unhappy. That's more of a personality flaw than a flaw with the current state of software engineering.

Ah yes. Just remove the part of myself that got me into software as a child, and proceed robotically.

Why didn't I think of that?
"Five passengers aboard a sightseeing helicopter drowned after a passenger allegedly tried to take a 'shoe selfie' leading to the passenger's safety tether getting caught in the emergency fuel shutoff lever."

Man, I'd be so pissed if I died because someone was trying to take a stupid selfie.
Since it links to recent DVD releases to download as mp4 files, bittorrent protocol or not, I'd say illegal.
why is India so heavily represented by the list? Even for it's large population it seems very high.
maybe also a greener way to travel
You'd be doing something similar with the task library in C# or Promises in Javascript (or in ES5-land, callback hell).

I'd recommend just opening up an IDE in any of these and seeing the types and parameters that come in and out of these calls.
The sync vs async worlds really to clash with each other but at least we have strongly typed languages to help with writing the code. In javascript you could be mixing callbacks and promises and encounter bits where you'd never know that the next line would never be executed because of some nonexistent callback, etc etc.
there's a pdf floating around - for me it's the first hit when i search casella berger on google

>I'm up on calculus and linear algebra, but I only took one statistics course as an undergrad 25 years ago.

it is a serious graduate math stats book but i personally don't consider it a graduate math book (because it does not use measure theory). it is proof focused because it's used for foundational grad stats classes (i.e. prep for quals) but the proofs aren't that hard to follow (if you've had a good calculus class [epsilon-delta definition of limits]).

some of the exercises are brutal algebraically though. good things there's a solutions manual floating around :)
You are not wrong. But at the same time, you can see from their scope: They have to compete against countries where the cost of labor and the cost of living is much less. Meaning, they can hardly sell their product as the same price as farmer in some other country while making ends-meet.

This is nothing new and a known consequence of globalization. Especially when their is no/low tariff and cheap transportation, as is the case within the EU.

This mean that, either you let some industry die off and rely entirely on importation (which we did for a lot of manufacturing where everything is know produce in mostly Asian country) or you heavily subsidized it to keep it alive.

In the case of agriculture, France heavily subsidized it to keep it alive as it is considered a strategical industry. It is a huge sink hole for France, and as far as I know for the EU. I don't know if they really profit from it financially speaking, but they do need it for soft power and to not being subject of more influence from other country.

Overall, their is probably some hypocrisy about globalization within farmer. But isn't it also a natural human behavior ? We tend to scream about injustice unless this injustice profit us.
GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles
We all need to learn to hug a hacker
There's a difference between hating Python, and saying (I'm guessing is the comment that spurred this one) this: "I try to be a good sport about it, but every time I write python I want to quit software engineering.", like a top-level comment below says.

If you had to write Python, would you also want to quit software engineering? Would you go back to Fortran instead of Python?

Of course you're allowed to hate Python but someone saying "every time I write python I want to quit software" is either extreme hyperbole, some tangentially related issue like depression, or just no language at all would make them happy enough.
Elephants are complex, intelligent, and most importantly VERY LARGE creatures. In particular (although I doubt it's relevant to selfies), musth can make bulls quite dangerous no matter the environment or individual.

They're wonderful, but that shouldn't be confused with "harmless".
Guide to the Python Print Function
> If I could point at any one evangelical belief that for whatever reason offends this atheist, it's Prosperity Gospel. The idea that you should follow Christ so that material wealth will be drawn towards you, in correlation to how hardcore you are about Jesus.

Surely there is nothing worse than the prosperity gospel. I didn’t think there could be something worse than the glorification of suffering until I understood the prosperity gospel.

I honestly wish we could found a church based on teaching and practicing meditation and communication techniques. I think it would be a good place to raise a kid since churches are largely about raising kids.
Planetary Lensing: Enter the ‘Terrascope’
> Each location will have to determine when it's seen enough erosion

That assumes that there are people who care. But if globetrotting becomes the dominant way to live for the middle class, very few people will care. Most people are flocking in major metropolises to work and live in tiny apartments. That trend has not changed, even with technology making it easier to work remotely. This centralization means that in the future anything outside rich megacities will be a tourist destination - and just that.

We already see that happening in the south of europe, which is becoming a convenient cheap tourist destination while the brain drain to the north continues.
I dont know about the other locations, but the one in Oregon is in the Dallas and no one wants to live there. Low cost of living, low power costs, good tax structure to name a few reasons Google is there...

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2018/04/google_tou...
I grew up in one of the USSR satellite states. Still remember Chernobyl like it was yesterday.

One thing's for sure - whatever Russians tell the world about this incident, it'll be a lie.
A lot of Apple defenders have the perspective that Apple isn't selling you a thing (i.e. an object), it's selling you an experience (a fashion object, a lifestyle brand). From this perspective, if Apple doesn't aggressively attack people who don't align with the brand values, they damage the brand.

People who want to economize on parts and labour damage the brand. They're poor people, or at least people not wealthy enough not to care about these things; they shouldn't be associated with the Apple brand. Apple does not aim at the bottom of the market.

People who want open hardware that they can poke at damage the brand. Apple sells an integrated, hassle-free experience. An open market is chaotic and uncontrolled, and antithetical to the brand promise.
We used to have a good way to regulate the amount of tourists in specific areas, called city planning.

Maybe it’s a well known fact, but I didn’t personally know this before I started working at a municipality, but there are entire departments who do nothing but plan. The best description of what they do, is that they play really complicated real world sim city, and at some level they draw “residential area”, “industry”, “commercial area”, “hotel” on a map, and those plans determine what we’re allowed to build on those locations.

If they plan correctly, there is a finite amount of hotels or holiday homes available in an area, and once those are full, the town or city can house no more tourists. This means that you could actually regulate how many people could physically visit London at any given time by limiting the amount of hotels and the amount of rooms a hotel was allowed to house with city planning.

Private rentals and popular apps to handle it, broke this system. At least until regulation catches up.
As someone who learned parsing in the ‘80s I find Packrat Parsing to be an interesting example of invalidated assumptions.

Working memory was on the megabyte scale in the mid ‘80s, plus or minus an order of magnitude. Any parsing algorithm which could require memory proportional to input size (like pack rat parsing with memorization) was nothing more than a thought experiment.

Slide forward to the 2000’s and Packrat Parsing can be a practical system for some scenarios.

Now from the ~2020 perspective; packrat parsing and parsing combinator libraries are trivial to use, possibly consuming uncounted mountains of RAM, but we have 10000 times more RAM in our machines than the ‘80s and it just doesn’t matter if you can prove whether the upper bound memory use of your parsing algorithm is a function of parse tree depth or input length.
Also brings in a customer who might buy another item or two, only costing McD a few pennies for a soda.
Since the App Store shows icons at a large size, it's blurry on non-retina screens too:

https://i.imgur.com/kJiaHwM.png

Seeing that icon, I would assume the quality of app I'm getting is not the quality I expect for $30.

Per Apple's documentation, you need icon sizes up to 1024x1024. This represents a 512x512 size at 2x DPI.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

At the very least for the short term you could hire someone at an online freelancing site to trace the existing icon into vectors and make larger versions of it.
How about this crazy idea: allow the governments at those cultural places to decide how and if they want to limit tourism there, instead of some know-it-alls in America. If they want to have 1M tourists there, that's their business, not yours.
Is this not standard practice for how countries trade with each other?
While people often write off selfie related things as purely narcissism/stupidity, I feel like quite a few of these are pretty ordinary and accidental. For example there's a few about not noticing an incoming flash flood, or the elephant ones (the herd attacked the man when he exited his vehicle).

Now some of these are REAL stupid. Climbing on trains, and being near trains is clearly a common theme.

The injuries with guns are indeed mostly pure narcissism/stupidity. Most of them were of those "gangsta selfies" where they put a gun to their head to look cool. Not only did they point a gun to their head, but they had to have it loaded, chambered, safety off, and finger on the trigger!
There's a big difference between being in the same space with the famous thing to experience it with your own body, and just seeing even the best reproduction. While I agree with you that we have to reconsider the way we use our wealth vis-a-vis the environment, I can't share your scorn for people who want to explore and experience things.
Well, here's another white male from North America who has lived here for many decades but who lives in a very different world from you. I urge you to consider dispassionately how this could be. Don't dismiss it immediately as "virtue signaling" or "gaslighting". Assume that I am sincere in my beliefs and accurate in my observations -- maybe you are accurate as well; I have observed North America and different times and places. Now consider how it is that you and I perceive the same place so differently.
And those reward card purchases pass a much higher interchange rate to the retailer (the US Mint in this case).
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How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
I don't know how common this is in other countries but in Norway we have a common system called BankID which is pretty much the de-facto way to identify yourself when applying for government services, bank loans or basically anything else "important". It usually consists of a two-factor authenticator issued by your bank, a password and your "birth number" (basically SSN) if you have all three as far as any bank or the government is concerned you "are" the person. However since it is so robust I don't think it can be exploited unless you royally fuck up. I wonder how the per capita identity theft cases in Norway are compared to the US because of this system, I would think much lower.
How to Attract Big Talent in Small Town
You need to test anyway. So, is it the case that type systems provide much value beyond what a proper set of tests, which are necessary, are going to provide anyway?

If you skimp on testing your system will be crap, but at least the type system can fool you into thinking otherwise because it still compiles.
I'm so old I can remember when people were encouraged to travel and buy experiences rather than goods, to meet different people and cultures, live outside one's comfort zone, and broaden one's horizons.

Now it is stay home, don't travel, don't eat meat, don't have kids, don't buy experiences or things. Ain't progress wonderful?
Pretty sure Neural Networks/AI are the next world transforming technology. Even if the current generation ends up going through a bust...
I've been hopping from one DevOps role to another for the past 4-5 years and I've been meaning to get into freelancing recently.

However, in my experience, I find that projects are incredibly hard to acquire, especially if it's your first freelance gig.

Do you happen to have any advice for me on how to get into DevOps freelancing, particularly how to acquire projects?

Thanks
Oh yes, this problem isn't going away anytime soon. But fashions and tastes may gradually change. Remember that package holidays, cruises, leisure resorts and high-rise beachfront hotels all were fashionable at some point, but are now seen as tacky.
In Germany we too have a SSN. Only my employers know it, it can be changed. I've never ever had anyone but the tax office or my employer ask for it.
Which states and what’s the legalese?
A startup that marries AI with empathy is helping women conceive
That is a good example. It illustrates that async is a partial abstraction on the way to dataflow. It's not immediately obvious from your example what's really going on: whereas re-writing it as dataflow pipelines makes the intent clear:

LoadWasher() | RunWasher() | LoadDryer() | RunDryer() | IronClothes()
CleanKitchen()

where `|` is piping the output of one operation into the next one (as per *nix shell). The two lines are independent and so can be scheduled according to resources available.

Doing so makes the inherent dependencies trivially clear. It doesn't matter which are "long" running and which aren't: it's not possible to run the washer until it's been loaded. Using async/await conflates two things:

1. What's "long" running, for some definition of "long" (--> make it async)

2. What's dependent on what (await)

--

EDIT: fix formatting & added missing "RunDryer()" step
This is an important argument. Less powerful constructs are easier to combine and understand. For example, call/cc is very powerful, but I would prefer to use various less powerful constructs like try/except/finally which are clearer.
There is a drawback: it pollutes the signatures of each asynchronous method and the signatures of the consumers.

Each method now returns a Task, and each method name ought to have a suffix of 'Async'. It sucks that changing this will require all consumers to also modify their signatures as well. But I understand why it is necessary, the compiler needs to mark each 'step' in the asynchronous function to create a kind of state machine.
VMware UI – Clarity Design System
I asked the same question of the tweet's author and I realize now he was trying to describe the EU's ban on hormones. I think every region/community should be allowed to decide what is banned. It was not clear to me from his wording what he meant by "demanding that Europe accept American beef stuffed with hormones".
Seconded. I would definitely learn a lot from this. I love the art style also.
Common sense doesn't seem to really be that common any more. More like un-common sense
But selficide refers to the -cide suffix, not to suicide.
>You can only do so through gross negligence

Which many people would consider to be "an accident". What's the point of this kind of safer-than-thou pedantry?

Believing "accident" is a term reserved for insignificant things is blame-culture mentality, and it has been time and time again been proven wrong. There are big, violent, absent-minded, negligent accidents.