skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like the NSA and Cisco do...
This is so cool! I love how simple the UI is.
What properties do you think make modern JavaScript a good language, rather than a (now, finally) barely passable language being actively ruined by its own ecosystem?
A secondary issue is also policing culture.

As a cost-saving measure due to Westminster-imposed spending cuts, the Scottish government merged all six regional Scottish police forces into a single force, Police Scotland, in 2013.

This involved a game of musical chairs at senior rank as posts were merged, so the senior officers with the best resumes (most people working for them, biggest budgets) ended up getting the plum jobs. In practice, this meant that Police Scotland lost its distinctive regional specialities and became dominated by senior cops from the former Strathclyde police force (i.e. Glasgow). This force was culturally presbyterian and prone to a puritanical zero-tolerance culture, which they exported to the rest of the nation, damaging local initiatives such as Edinburgh's unofficially sanctioned brothels (attacks on sex workers spiked) and setting relations with the LGBT community back by a decade. They also clamped down on tolerance of cannabis, which didn't help, and were notoriously unsupportive of harm reduction initiatives such as shooting galleries.

Police Scotland seems to be improving these days as they re-learn a lot of hard-won lessons about how to do policing in places that aren't the west end of Glasgow, but the combination of an intolerant, harsh policing culture and Theresa May's Home Office calling the shots on drugs was utterly toxic.
The study is interesting but I wouldn't say it "did rather well", as they applied a calibration to it first:

"A regression analysis was performed to improve the accuracy of the Foobot FBT0002100 data relative to the GrayWolf data. Field calibration equations were then produced from the calibration dataset using the results from the GrayWolf instruments as dependent variables and the Foobot FBT0002100 as independent variables and tested on the validation dataset. An analysis in SPSS of the linear, quadratic, and cubic models was performed individually for each parameter to find the most accurate equation."

You can't do that unless you happen to have access to a different research quality sensor. If the Foobot had that out of the factory it'd be nice though.
I hope this can be used to improve eye glasses too. At higher powers the effect of chromatic aberration as you get away from the center of the lens really sucks.

I have aspheric lenses which are supposed to help, but I still see the problem and I’ve been complaining to my optometrist who basically says he can’t make anything better than what I’ve got.

It’s especially bad in computer interfaces which often have thin high contrast lines which just splay out into red/blue as you get to the edges of the monitor.
Not only that, all those MBs are there just to help deliver a 1800 byte text-payload. That's literally a 2500x bloat-factor.

But hey, AMP is because Google care deeply about quick web-pages. No alternate agenda here, no siree.
https://pypi.org/project/tensorflow-rocm/
Or you could just respond to the man's question? - instead of responding childish
On the flipside, developers are not designers. "I took a decent pre-existing design and didn't try to fiddle with it too much" is a Good Thing, surely.
Around 2000-2001 I rented a house in the small town where I grew up, and there was a plum tree in the yard. I mentioned to the landlord that I had been approached by the neighborhood kids asking if they could harvest from the tree, and the landlord said he had no problem with it if I didn't mind (that was his arrangement with the last renter).

Kudos to the kids for asking first, and at first I didn't mind, but they ended up climbing on my pickup truck parked near the tree (the only place to park it) and dented the hood and roof in several places. After I showed them the damage and asked them not to climb on my truck, I had a gaggle of neighborhood moms beating my door down to tell me how much of a prick I was to forbid their children from climbing my truck to get to the tree. I ended up having to call the cops to have them removed.

When the landlord found out I called the cops on them, he took their side and asked me to find another place to live (I wasn't under a lease, it was a month to month rental agreement).

I'm a homeowner now, in a house that is not in a neighborhood specifically so I can avoid incidents where people feel they have a right to invade my space and damage my property. Again, I'd have no problem if I had a fruit tree in my yard today and people walking past wanted to get a bite to eat as long as they are courteous about it, but mob mentality is not something I'm comfortable with.
USA Government doesn't do terrible things to USA citizens, but does terrible things to Non-USA countries and its citizens (most of the rest of the world).

Chinese Government does terrible things to its own people, but doesn't do terrible things to the rest of the world.

Pick your poison.
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> Trouble with organic is that those cows live longer

Interesting. Do you have a source? I don't see a good reason for this off the top of my head.
German sneaker shop tricks bots by selling images of sneakers
So, was anybody able to find some source code for this allegedly Open Source OS or the allegedly Open Source ARK compiler?
The Rosenburg Files – The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi Era [pdf]
Does an analytical solution actually make any difference in practice though? I would guess that numerical approximations would have reached similar accuracy as modern manufacturing methods by this point.
These days most shopping streets also tends to be closed from traffic for security reasons. So it is probably mostly an organizational issue.
I don’t think they’re worse, because the total carbon footprint is much smaller compared to everyone owning their own car
I am not sure if any c++ compiler can actually compile a single file in parallel but usually you have many small to large files in compiling a project then "make -j" or "ninja" can build in parallel, and it is quite embarrassingly parallel task (but very memory intensive too).
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Translated it for you via DeepL:

The online shop of a small shoe shop in Frankfurt records almost 700,000 hits when a rare sneaker is on offer. Bots buy them in bulk and later sell them at even higher prices. Recently, however, they only buy pictures of the shoes - a trick that seems to work.

The co-founder of the skater shop Bonkers Martin Schreiber has developed a strategy to trick bots and automatic scripts when buying online. Instead of coveted Nike shoes, he simply put their product images online for 10 euros each - including a matching description. Bots nevertheless ordered them a thousand times automatically.

The reason: Online shoppers buy limited edition shoes like the Nike SB x Parra within milliseconds and later sell them to collectors for a multiple. This not only generates frustration among customers, but also up to 700,000 online accesses to the shop, which look like a DDoS attack. Schreiber told the German skatemagazine Soloskatemag in an interview: "So we said that we would now also show our middle finger and sell digital pictures of our shoes.

## 7.000 Euro for 100 pictures

The trick seems to have worked, because several buyers have often bought pictures of the products - 70 Euros for seven pictures each. Apparently one of them was a person who placed 100 orders and spent 7,000 euros. The complaints and cancellation requests via Paypal were not long in coming. However, Paypal did not refund the price because the product description was not misleading. Finally, the product title had clearly indicated that these were pictures of shoes and not shoes themselves. "But of course such a bot does not recognise this," says Schreiber. He had refunded the money to some reasonable people in the form of a voucher.

Schreiber had previously informed Nike of the action and obtained the manufacturer's consent. It had also been announced well in advance in their own blog and in social media channels such as Instagram and Facebook. He wants more shops to follow this example in order to be a deterrent for bot users. However, it is not difficult to program them with some rules and restrictions to avoid such traps.
It‘s super easy to call a cab in Germany and they arrive within 5-10 minutes. A lot of them are nice Mercedes. I really don’t see how doing a call that takes ~30 seconds and paying by cash that you carry around anyways (~100€ in cash on hand is super normal in Germany) is any worse than booking a ride through Über.
No, ML model is not evaluated empirically at all. Measures like accuracy and precision are not empirical. Neither is generalization as evaluated by using some model data set.
These measures are statistical predictions that may or may not be correct.

Failure rate in the wild is empirical. Accuracy in the wild, the same.

Since the designer does not have access to real data, they are actually not working empirically at all and as such you get common overfitting and methods that work well on model datasets but not on real data.
This looks exactly like https://algodaily.com minus the IDE and ability to actually code.

Also, heads up, under "Spaced Repetition":
"The best way to learn is to continually riview content. If you want to master coding interviews keep practicing. Getting an email in your inbox will make it easier to remember and will guide you."

Got a typo at "review". This also doesn't seem like spaced repetition-- there's no mention of any spacing/order. Going to build that in?
Isn't the problem hypocrisy rather than group sex? You can perfectly legally have group sex in the UK (if all participants are legally consenting), the people most likely to object are those who think they're in a trusting monogamous/monoandrous relationship with one of the participants.

The primary reasons people can be blackmailed seem to be because they've not been forthright, or, they themselves perceive it as wrong.
Something similar to SIMD for England is the Atlas of Variation: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/atlas-of-variation

Fingertips also provide a range of useful information: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/
> I once suggested "cgroup'ing" (loosely speaking) the entire system into two rough buckets: one for SSH, with enough dedicated RAM that ssh will never get swapped, and one for everything else.

I feel like I've been waiting 25 years for someone to implement this by default in every operating system, and yet no one seems to do this. (Arguably iOS does this with Jetsam priorities, btw.) Why is it so hard to ensure that these base components get guaranteed RAM? It was always extra infurating on Windows, as you'd end up in swap hell and need to kill something because the computer is now running insanely slow; so you hit ctrl-alt-del and the UI would instantly respond with a menu that would work great... and then you'd click Task Manager, and rather than that functionality being implemented in that menu--or being designed to never swap--you would get thrown back into the swap hell in the hope that eventually the taskman would load. It was insane, and so easily fixed in numerous ways (the most simple probably being to add a trivial task manager that only had memory usage and a kill button in that OS escape menu).
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Well. The article is very interesting. I'm already convinced about the nuclear-aspects of it. However, it does not "shows-up" super clearly.

Especially : “The Alar tale illustrates a basic limitation in the ability of our mind to deal with small risks: we either ignore them altogether or give them far too much weight—nothing in between.” is kind of misleading. As you suggest Fukushima, etc, it seems it falls in the second category. However, because you are not talking a lot about it, it may fall in the prior one.

The link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daminozide also leads to something we believed as harmless, which in the end wasn't. So .. To me -not native speaker - I could read whatever I wanted in this sentence. :)

Also, if we stay nuclear-centered : "Molten Salt Fusion Reactors, please?". What are you exactly looking for with this technology ? Compactness ? Something else ? :)

Unfortunately this guy has very few intervention in English and is mostly French-centered. However, I would highly suggest to see one of his intervention (subtitled in english, if the translation is correct enough ?): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNovJemYKcdKt7PDdptJZfQ
Maybe not fully, but cabs refused to go to good neighborhoods, let alone bad ones.

I live in Queens in a great neighborhood and cabs have "forgot" how to get here more than once. They don't like it because they have a lower chance of a return fare.
Poor people but with enough money to buy a parking space in central London, and a job that also includes the benefit of a parking space? Most rich people don’t have either of those things.
I think it would be great for someone to introduce well-crafted legislation, formed with the input of smart, savvy, educated, and Big Tech-hostile technologists, that establishes some kind of standards board to review and levy fines for things like dark patterns.

This legislation is not that. It is one legislator's policy team throwing darts wildly, with the goal of generating hype for their member, not actually getting anything passed into law.
Monday GUI: A tool to run local apps and/or forward others (Linux and macOS)
No native Chinese speaker will mistake 鸿蒙 (Hong Meng) for 洪门(Hong men) . And no Non Chinese speaker will even know what is HongMen.

Don't know where you're going with this.
I wish more companies did that, effectively trickling down the VC and investor money down to their employees, and preferably the gig workers. We should be encouraging more companies to adopt the Uber model, except we should insist on that gig worker compensation.
This is a fascinating idea (and not just saying that because I wanted to build something similar); discussed super briefly here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19993517

I really think that the American political system is so influenced by money in politics that as an individual your vote is relatively unimportant but in a large bloc you can be influential, and pooling money towards hiring additional voices for causes you care about is an unfortunate but probably necessary step to take
Does anyone here know any more details? I’m curious as to how this improves on the 2014 work by the same author and others: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.2014...

I think this is the new paper (from 2018): https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-57-31-9...

The introduction to the new paper gives a reasonably clear explanation of how it relates to previous work:

> The design of optical systems with aspheric surface has the goal to strongly reduce spherical aberration. Spherical aberration on lenses has been extensively studied by Ref. [1]. Luneberg [2] established a method for computing the shape of the second surface from an initial first surface that introduces spherical aberration, which he described just for special cases. Many authors proposed a lens design with two aspheric surfaces to correct spherical aberration [3,4].

> The problem of the design of a singlet free of spherical aberration with two aspheric surfaces is also known as the Wasserman and Wolf problem [5]. The problem has been solved with a numerical approach by Ref. [6]. Recently, Ref. [7] has shown a rigorous analytical solution of a singlet lens free of spherical aberration for the special case when the first surface is flat or conical. Since its publication, several works inspired by its solution have emerged [7–12], all of them free of spherical aberration. The solution has six different signs; therefore, it is a set of 2^6 = 64 possible solutions, where only one is right. We test the formula provided by those in Ref. [7], when the first surface is not flat or conic, and the equation system does not give correct answers.

> In this paper, we present a rigorous analytical solution for the design of lenses free of spherical aberration. The solution presented here has just one sign; therefore, it is a set of just two possible solutions. Our solution is robust because the set of solutions is valid for negative and positive refraction indices. The model allows use of continuous functions, such that the rays inside the lens do not cross each other. This model will compute the second surface in order to correct the spherical aberration produced by the first surface.

If I understand this correctly, the key difference is that the earlier paper (referred to as [7] above) only addresses the case where one of the surfaces of the lens is flat or conical. I’m not sure whether this is a serious limitation in practice: I would have thought naively that it’s easier to manufacture a lens with one flat surface.

The (new) paper also includes (in Appendix A) Mathematica code to compute and plot the lenses produced by this method.
The only time I've encountered someone who displayed open sectarian bigotry was a (distant) relative who happened to be in the Strathclyde police force!

Mind you this was going back a bit (1980 or so) but someone who ranted about the evils of Catholicism to anyone in earshot probably didn't get many counter arguments from their colleagues.
> Don't get me wrong, that kind of skepticism is good. It just feels naive and tribal to limit it to the Chinese companies.
If anything, most internet has use has to be at least somewhat more stimulating and engaging than passively sitting on the couch for hours staring at a screen.
Then you are not a target. There are many scientific workloads that actually can benefit from shared memory multi core processors like this. They do not scale properly in cluster. Data Science is very simple and obvious target. Developers also can benefit a lot. Have you worked on a very large project of mixed c++ and Fortran + for some reason python (Compiling or profiling)? This is god send. I am currently working on a single node with 2x28 core and I still need more cores. For licensing issues I cannot use more than one node for my task.
Buckie is definitely sold south of the border. I've moved from Scotland to England and I see Buckie for sale in cornershops here with the same frequency I would in Scotland. Buckfast is made at an abbey in England, it doesn't originate in Scotland.
Ah, I fully agree here. The comment I made about 4% yield was once you are at retirement and want a low volatility portfolio, not on your way there.

Maxing out your annual pension allowance - as I said it depends on your personal circumstances, however I think many people on HN mid/late career will have no difficulty there
Taxis are important for elderly or disabled people who can't use public transport or walk medium distances.
In general making an OS from scratch wasn't very successful even with Samsung (#2 maker with considerable market share and a track record) completely failed with Tizen, so a relatively younger and smaller chinese company succeeding seems dubious. Of course I would be glad for a competing mobile OS, but I would wait for benchmarks and take security statements with a grain of salt. Also, it might be completely different departments at Huawei but there's the Cisco router firmware debacle (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000)
I guess there are two kinds of privacy issues at play here:

1. Privacy denied.

2. Privacy forfeited.

OP, I think, is complaining about the former. Though both forms could either be consentual or not. The latter is usually, in spirit, non-consentual: You agreed to the terms in good faith but wouldn't if you knew the unprecedented scale of the exploit.
I heard some people say screw these CMake, Autotools, Makefiles, Ninjas, mesons, etc. Compilation of even big projects takes seconds. Just use a batch file on Windows and shell script on Linux. It was Casey Muratori on his Handmade Hero stream. I think he is right and most projects don't need even a Makefile.

I've been learning CMake recently and it seems that quite literally every part of it is ridden with edge cases and weird bumps. Like:

- Variables can have a type, but it's not really a type, it's for GUI only.
- There are cache variables but regular variables take precedence except if you set a cache variable with FORCE. But if you do so, then it hides the normal variable and you get different behaviour on subsequent runs.
- Variables can be combined in an array, except it is a string separated by ;.
- There is a bunch of deprecated syntax that you shouldn't use but should be aware of. You should start your CMakeList.txt files with a weird conditional that sets the minimum required version using a syntactic hack.
- It ignores $CPPFLAGS in some cases, Arch Wiki said so.
- There are multiple values for true and false. Things like YES, 1, ON, TRUE, NO, 0, OFF, FALSE.
- For older versions of CMake a string literal can evaluate to the value of similarly named variable.
- It is really a programming language. There is seems to be so much to it, it doesn't look limited

I just started to learn. It's not a big deal, but it feels messy.
This is not a good guess.

Chase announced they were closing these accounts in April 2018, and tried to have them closed by March 2018.

The reason was that Chase was getting out of it's relationship with J.P. Morgan.

It's now over a year later, and due to contractual obligations can't legally force people to pay their full balances all at once.

Other than continuing their relationship with J.P Morgan until all cardholders payed off their balances in full, this was the only other option.
Hi,

I am Liam a Recruiting Lead for Gitlab. I would be very keen to set up a time to talk through your interview experience.
How about the law saying it's illegal to put candy bars in the checkout aisle? When does it stop? You can't just keep doing this forever it's literally insane. How big does the books of donts have to be before we are all criminals? Saying it's the government's job to regulate our lives to give us less bad habits is also an opinion, not some objective fact like you state either. Be careful about projecting your feelings and wants onto others, because once you rope the government into it the people that don't share your view are being trampled on with no recourse.
This i made on my website in 1999. In my case it was an online poll, but the principle was the same.

When people attempted to vote multiple times, the count would only increase locally in the spammers browser. Only the first vote was saved in the database. The spamming votes we stored in a cookie on client and added them to the results before rendering the result so he believed he submitted multiple votes.

We had some server side logging as well. Was funny to see in the logs, the number of people that tried to submit multiple votes and to see a few user submitting a lot before realizing the votes didn't get added to the db.

Was very effective and reduced the worst of the spamming significantly.
And flouride in the water [0], maybe good for your teeth, health effects on the rest of the body unclear ... law of unintended consequences and all that.

Folic acid fortification of flour too [1]. Protects against neural-tube defects, health effects on aging adults less clear. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_in_the_Unit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_fortification#Folate