skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also a deep hint to a potential worst case outcome of loot boxes. Pinball machines experienced a prohibition because of their similarity to slot machines. States that do not allow slot machines stopped allowing pinball machines. Eventually those states started to relax the prohibition based on whether or not pinball machine scoring systems could be determined by player skill and whether or not pinball machines produced payouts/rewards/prizes. But they started by banning all pinball machines, and bankrupted a number of companies in the industry.

Videogames should have been a lot more careful to avoid this situation in the first place. It's not like the pinball prohibition was that long ago (New York was the last state to stop prohibiting pinball machines in 1976), nor that it was that far from home because it impacted laws on early arcades where videogames got their start (literally right next to pinball machines, and sometimes by the same manufacturers).

It probably is a stretch for states to simply ban all videogames in 2019, but that sort of reaction is certainly possible in the right climate, and it has happened before.
Just a thought exercise to show why this is so hard: let's say you know where the aircraft was a minute before crashing but not the direction of it. If an aircraft is flying at a modest 200 km/h (that's a Cessna 172 cruising) then in a single minute it can fly more than 3km. The area of a circle with a radius of that is close to 35km^2. That's half of Manhattan Island.
> Mr. Campbell shared the photo with experts at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, who used classified technology to enhance the picture.

I was curious about this since I hadn't heard of this agency before. I have no experience with GEOINT but they seem to have a pretty impressive GH organization

https://github.com/ngageoint
Interesting, I had not looked at these because I'm not interested in volunteering to add type notations to our code base.
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Curious if this was before or after Rolls-Royce thought they'd fixed it.
I presume this is already on thread but Irish police conducted a manhunt for serial traffic offender "Prawo Jazdy" - till they realised that was "Driving License" in Polish

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/47...
> Advisory Committee has no say in anything that AMP does.

Why did you focus on one irrelevant aspect of that document? The document also includes the Technical Steering Committee, a majority of whose members do not work for Google. That doesn't fit your narrative.

> In order to compete with it you need to provide nearly all of the same features.

In other words, users want it.

> There are no bugs in iOS that preclude instant pages.

iOS had broken iFrame scrolling for years. If you can implement safe instant loading while working around that iOS bug, let's hear it.

> RSS is a web feed.... There is no feed.

I was talking about items in the RSS feed as you quoted yourself in an earlier comment and then somehow forgot, but lets ignore this strawmanning and continue.

> That has a standard XML format and can be read by anyone: a client app on your phone, a client app on your desktop, a link aggregator that can be built by a half-decent engineer in about two evenings. Additionally, it is trivially discoverable by including a standard meta tag on a page.

So exactly the same as AMP.

> They are only "instant" when significant effort has been spent setting up an AMP cache so that some or all content is already on the client's browser before the client hits the AMP page.

Aside from effort, this is exactly the same as RSS. The additional effort is from doing things that RSS cannot do like monetization, interactivity, analytics, A/B testing, and above the fold optimizations. Cloudflare handles that effort fine.

> An AMP cache destroyes the very essence of the web: linking. You will not get the original URL, you will get the cache's URL.

Exactly the same as RSS. A link to an RSS reader is a link to the reader's URL, not the original URL.
> Given the orders of magnitude between the two, there's a strong incentive to only cater to the 10% of players, at the expense of the other players

This model is prevalent in mobile gaming as well. Many popular games have IAP of $50 - $99, that you can buy multiple times per month, which is targeted more towards a 1% than a 10%.

> How will that impact our games going forward?

I think it affects many industries. Real estate is one of them. I've lived in a few cities with rising real estate costs where the majority of new mid-rise apartments are luxury, clearly priced towards those 10% or less.

People who have money, want as much money as possible now, at any future cost. This is simply the general outlook of many businesses at the moment. Of course, this is unsustainable, and it will probably crash at some point.
Ask HN: How Do I Get Started with OCR(Optical Character Recognition)?
I have no background in machine learning or computer vision. What I do have is a problem statement. I want to be able to parse and get structured text out of financial documents like W2s and Paystubs. For ex)parse out company name, salary etc from a W2. Off the shelf solutions like AWS Textract doesnt work very well. So far I have only been treating OCR as a blackbox. If I were to build an OCR service myself for a specialized set of financial documents, what theory and tools would I need to learning assuming I have a CS background, but not an ML background? Thanks in advance
Oh hey I guess I did. Totally forgot about that.

You'll note:

* He says something factually wrong (`It does not run the open source codebase at all.`)

* I point out that he's factually wrong, and back it up.

* He dodges and insists he's right regardless.

Yup. True to form.
No, because search isn't the problem, curation and education is. Search by itself is a waste of time, if you don't know what you don't know, and don't know what to look for.

Institutional frameworks solve those problems.
What about liability ? My car catches fire with a swapped battery. Whose fault is it? Or a less deadly but more probable “I only got 20mi range when it told me 200”

Sounds like shocking possibilities.
This really doesn't make me feel very confident about getting on a 787 for a 14 hour flight next week.
Common misunderstandings when switching to a Tesla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Thanks for the downvote @dyukqu. You just re-post a golden piece of "AI" history claiming it as your achievement, without giving credit.

Have my upvote for your submission.
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I think the English translation is just ???. That sentence is just the purest nonsense filler.
But for a lot of people, the lower initial development time/cost aspect matters a lot.

As I said, I'm a fan of dynamic languages. :-)

One of the top ways that startups fail is failing to build what they need to build quickly enough. Maintenance costs only matter if you succeed in the first place. Using dynamic languages is therefore a good fit.

But, even if you're not Google, if you're writing software and have the luxury of paying attention to the lifetime costs of the project up front, you should choose a statically typed language.
If thing is small and heavy - yes.
If thing has a surface to it - it could fall significantly slower.

That said anything-metal falling from the sky is dangerous.
Mass-surveillance makes impossible to have any honest cold-minded debate on the subject unless one is an important person, but here is some relevant material. https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/...
You also have to know how to take care of them. Which requires work or paying folks. Even then the people who maintain it for you will give you instructions so it's still more work than t-shirt of the week
Since he's talking in F (e.g. 105), when he says sub-zero, he means -18C or lower. Or did you mean -10F?
> Nobody does ROI calculations on infrastructure costs

Strongtowns have a great article about costs and benefits https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2010/12/21/best-of-blog-... which makes some fantastic points about bogus numbers, and about how spending $ without gaining $ is a failure mode.

However, sometimes I feel they sideline the point that our government taxes us to provide shared infrastructure (legal, social, transport, hospitals, education, etc) and to prevent the tragedy of the commons.

Money spent to encourage social goals can be worthwhile or not, independent of the financial balance. Spending money that saves everyone time can be worthwhile, even if the tax base is not increased proportionally (the linked article disagrees with this). Edit: if the government taxes me $x for an hour's work, and spends $x to save me more than an hours drive, that is good economics for everyone even though the government hasn't increased tax returns.

Anyone who has been to some poor countries can viscerally understand the value of roading infrastructure, the value of social trust "infrastructure", or the value of safety and health improvements.

We can all see waste and bogus numbers in our governments, but yet most of us wouldn't move to a more anarchic country. We should fight against government waste and misincentives, but we should encourage improvements to our common good (the opposite of a tragedy).
I helped crack down on my own social media usage by getting a feature phone for calling and a really cheap low-end smart phone ($40) for those times when I really need an app for something.
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Plus, also incentives research.
I think it's pretty, but it's also very, very, very notification-happy. My icon in my taskbar is almost constantly flashing with stuff I don't need to read, from teams I'm only remotely involved with. I just figured out I could turn the banners off last week, but still overall it's a very....loud application. Wish I could write some kind of filtering rules.
The WHO is already running out of funds. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-07-24/ebola-fundi...
As another perspective, a recent draft paper[1] notes a correlation between transportation infrastructure costs and how much community involvement there is on the project. TL;DR, infrastructure was way cheaper when we could just bulldoze through neighborhoods and wetlands without meaningful pushback.

[1] Brooks, Leah, and Zachary D. Liscow. “Infrastructure Costs.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, July 31, 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3428675.
China is not communist under any political scientific definition.
Its good that it exists but it might be very expensive to use it across a broad population. Unlike the older pills that were expensive due to patent exclusivity, here fundamentally each pill is more expensive to make.
Volkswagen has had a similar attitude to its electric range. They are forever unavailable for this or that reason, and dealers just ignore them. Considering their typical timescales, even if this cut of hybrids actually results in better work in fully-electric, we won’t get to see it before 2020/2021 anyway.
Exactly. Underfunding agencies and programs, then blaming them when they inevitably fail and using that failure as an argument to push for privatization has been the Republican modus operandi for several decades now.
Re 3. providing a bio and referencing their other work is a good start; as is linking to trusted sources, LinkedIn, the person's Uni or business resumé page, a "verified" Twitter account might work; if they're of note they may have a Wikipedia page ...
Continually tagged by ~100M unique monthly visitors? (the rough drop in traffic, post-ban)
> Among EV experts, there’s a name for folks who have to park on the street: garage orphans.

Apparently The Globe And Mail thinks it has value.
I hope these protesters realize that the building they're holding hostage from the university costs money to run and maintain - which will probably be a factor in tuition costs getting even higher when they go to pay their bill next year.

If I was the university - I'd start by cutting power and water to the building. They're being too nice by giving them an out by granting immunity if they leave.
How was the original 500 “box-ticking”? It changed the company.
>Not even MIT teaches lisp anymore.

That's their loss.
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I can believe they’re overtaking slack because they make Teams an aggressive default install with the Office 365 client, and it’s replacing Skype for Business.
Electricity is everywhere. You'd be surprised at how many things are already using that capacity right on top of the mountains. It'll eventually be built out there too. Especially with the declining price of equipment needed to set it up there too.
To add to this, search engines already need to correlate "MITM" and "Man in the Middle". But we don't see anyone here arguing that the expanded form should be preferred to make searching between those two forms easier.

Correlating terms turns out to be a pretty easy problem. It's overlapping terms like "Mongoose (Animal)" and "Mongoose (Database)" that are hard.
Other treatments mentioned in the same paragraph cut mortality rates to 34% or 29%.
I didn’t even use tumblr for porn at all. I pretty much only follow artists.

I’m not sure if it’s still a problem, but the ban resulted in loads of non-porn images being flagged as porn. Most people gave up trying to fight it and left. When I visit tumblr now, it’s dead. Everyone moved on and fast.
Uganda requires online publishers and influencers to be registered
Identical for effective purposes. I don't make the same ~85 mile ride often enough to detect whatever small losses there may be.
Its not easy to immigrate out of a country you realize
Article says 6% unless I'm misunderstanding something.
Apologies for the clickbait-y title, but my co-founder and I did find that most of these facts were little known when we were talking to our users recently!
Sure, it's the former users that are complaining rather than the current users. The problem is that the Tumblr with its current set of users and current policies are what make it a boring and uninteresting place to go on the web.

Tumblr was a hot property specifically because of the former users, and if the site doesn't try to get them back it will become something reminiscent of Digg and Myspace- something to be looked upon with nostalgia but not for spending any time visiting.
AMP provides the incentives to load fewer assets. Publishers wont do it otherwise.
> Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Continuing in the Captain Obvious role, how do you propose to replace FBIA, Apple News, RSS, and AMP with something that both users and publishers love? AMP is just as fast as the first three, and it provides more control to the publishers than the first three, yet you are not ranting about the first three. Why?
I imagine a world where the electricity grid is intelligent enough to have a "conversation" with appliances to efficiently spread load across the day, more accurately plan capacity, and do it at a lower cost to consumers and the environment.
It's the claim of you and others here that this is "the" best site on the topic online. It's up to you to back that claim up, not for other people to run around to get evidence to disprove it.
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probably intended "unneededly"?
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> That choice boggles the mind.

Serving ads is hard when there's porn on the site.
Yeah, I can see guys with Teslas and extension cords on electric reels that plug into your external outlet and charge, then burn off they see your lights go on...
IMO, MS Teams works pretty well. Not as good as Slack, but not horrible.
Bobby tables we call him
Dr.Binary: Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions
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Hmm, it's implied at least later in the Twitter thread that it's predatory pricing. John's friend Pieter Level's quotes [0] Wikipedia [1] as follows:

>"Under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pricing below cost is prohibited where the seller has a dominant market position and the pricing will have an anti-competitive effect.[22][23]"

[0] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1146446632017203200

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing#European_Uni...
Thx for the Patreon link :)
Additionally, you can't seem to attach a .json file... though renaming it to .json.txt works. It's frustrating for sure.

Ran into something very similar during my (very) short stint doing Sharepoint development. I'm guessing it's some sort of limitation burried deep in some default MS code somewhere.
We can't have people trying to collaborate on programming. That's hacker stuff that doesn't belong on the corp network.
I want to know how long it will take for Ebola to evolve a resistance to this therapy.
I don't know if it's true for Chomsky, but I have noticed that a lot of academic sentences use a lot of inner clauses. I think it's a bad habit. When reading those sentences as a programmer, I wish for a lot of parentheses so I can determine order of operations. Without them we're left to infer that order, which is extra work when we're also just trying to figure out what the sentence itself is about.

Here's an example from T.M. Scanlon's "What We Owe to Each Other", a philosophical book on morality I was reading yesterday:

"When I ask myself what reason the fact that an action would be wrong provides me with not to do it, my answer is that such an action would be one that I could not justify to others on grounds I could expect them to accept."

This sentence is actually key to what the entire book is about, but.... "what reason the fact that an action"? I mean even as programmers we are taught to break apart long boolean expressions.

It's kind of like garden path sentences but a more general syntactic ambiguity that smart people are more guilty of due to their need to explain complex subjects. Hard for a writer to recognize, because they know what they mean.
There are not enough taxpaying residents to make roads work, either. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/30/my-city-has-ma...
>I can't imagine anyone has ever tried to do engineering at scale (people wise) and did not find the value in static typing.

>why so few large projects have been written in a LISP or LISP descendant

The major dialect of Lisp, Common Lisp, is strongly typed, and many large projects have been written in it, for CAD/CAM, controlling a NASA spaceship, complete operating systems (Open Genera), the Mirai 3D graphics suite used for creating Gollum in "the lord of the rings", etc.
Go still needs to fallback to heavy stacks for c-ffi. In fact that’s the main reason rust dropped stackful coroutines, because you lose zero-cost ffi to c.
So does a large part of older US infrastructure. Imagine trying to navigate the NYC subways in a wheelchair.
> a scammer may need to get certs for a large number of domains.

Why? In the m1cros0ft.com example, you just need one domain, and you can send a phishing link out to millions of addresses.

> And unfortunately, a whole generation of computer illiterate users believe that lock means the site is legit.

That's exactly why EV doesn't help, because those users _also_ don't know that the absence of green is supposed to carry semantic meaning. In fact, those users largely don't know or care what a URL is in the first place.

HTTPS everywhere is unequivocally a good thing. I can (and do) personally run websites that have active user accounts precisely because of LetsEncrypt; it would be a terrible idea to train my users that they should type a password into a form that's submitted over HTTP. But I don't have a budget to pay rent-seeking CAs for certificates whose value is based on artificial scarcity.
I can think of at least one subreddit that often hits the top of r/all that will limit posts only to people who have sent a picture of their forearm to the mod to verify their race. Somehow that is allowed. Literally submitting a picture of your skin for the color to be judged. headdesk
The other related issue is that no one can judge for something's legitimacy because it all comes down to opinion and "root beliefs".

This applies to any organization.

It also links with free speech and private companies.
This is a good point. Personal assurances count for little. No-one is above writing buggy code. Even C/C++ codebases written by very expert programmers, often have pointer-based bugs, especially if large and complex. Operating systems and drivers, for instance.

As well as having free-form pointers, C/C++ also have many, many dark corners.

What proportion of C++ programmers know that comparison = (c == c++); causes undefined behaviour?
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I watched the video linked in the article. When the professor grabs someone's arm (someone trying to obstruct him), this is labeled (by the video) an 'assault'. When he is dragged out of the building, being restrained by multiple protesters, this is not an assault - but the person punching one of the protesters, I assume to try and get them to let go of the professor - that is labeled an assault.

And the professor's plan to enter the building is labeled a 'premeditated attack'. The six people he had with him (far outnumbered by the protesters) are labeled a 'mob'.

Oh, and the video (in which the worst thing is a punch seen from afar) starts with a scary content warning for "physical assault and violence, abusive language, swearing".

Protests have been reduced to victimhood competitions, but rarely have I seen them become this pathetic.
>One potential reason why Google, Facebook, and Amazon have been singled out for criticism of practices that seem common in the tech industry (and are often pro-consumer) may be due to the prevailing business model in the journalism industry. Google and Facebook are by far the largest competitors in the digital advertising market, and Amazon is expected to be the third-largest player by next year, according to eMarketer. As Ramsi Woodcock pointed out, news publications are also competing for advertising dollars, the type of conflict of interest that usually would warrant disclosure if, say, a journalist held stock in a company they were covering.

I see this argument echoed a lot and I doubt it's as overt as this. Maybe journalists inadvertently have some bias towards social media platforms because they see it hurting their industry or leading to a fight over clicks rather than quality content (which I do believe most journalists would prefer to create rather than clickbait). I find it harder to believe that journalists have banded together to fight all of the platforms that are potential competitors to them; an individual journalist probably just doesn't have that incentive and a news org probably couldn't keep a coordinated activity like trying to fight social media companies secret (I mean, trying to keep a secret cabal among journalists must be pretty tough)