skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free press can be free propaganda. State press is free propaganda. Free press also has a check-and-balance in that other journalists can call out its abuses. State press has no check-and-balance, because everyone who contradicts it gets thrown in prison.

Even if someone distrusts literally everything that modern press is putting out, they'd still prefer to live in a world where they're legally allowed to publish blog posts talking about how bad the press is. More to the point, if someone assumes the BBC is propaganda because it's publicly funded, why would they want to live in a world where only the BBC is allowed to broadcast?

Saying that one system has faults doesn't imply that it's a good idea for us to switch to a system that is strictly worse on nearly every axis.
> without tons of StreamReader[] overhead

I agree with you that the "obvious things" are frustratingly slow, but you can get significant (>10x) improvements with small changes, even if not the fastest. If big.txt is a random test file of 100MB and 700k lines then I get this:

$x = get-content big.txt # 15 seconds (obvious and bad)
$x = (get-content big.txt -raw) -split "`r?`n" # 6s, regex split mixed line endings
$x = (get-content big.txt -raw).split("`r`n") # 2.2s, fixed line endings
$x = ${c:\path\to\big.txt} # 1.2s
$x = [io.file]::ReadAllLines('c:\path\to\big.txt') # 1s
$x = [io.streamreader]::new([io.filestream]::new('c:\path\to\big.txt', 'open'), [text.encoding]::ASCII, $false, 10mb).ReadToEnd().split([System.Environment]::NewLine) # 1.2s

PowerShell 7 is working on performance improvements throughout, but early design decisions mean this particularly is not likely to change.

> This isn't a problem with Linux commands that just pipe text to highly optimized C binaries.

Python can do this easily as well, and PowerShell can't, and that is one thing I think doesn't get enough discussion and mention. For however good C#/.Net can be, it's still another layer between PowerShell code and low level OS stuff, a layer other shells and high level languages don't have, and a shell is supposed to be "OS Script" first, not "C# script". Python ctypes -> C library is just a ton easier than PowerShell -> C# -> P/Invoke -> Win32 API.
200 gigabit is where PCI Express 4.0 is sorely needed, two such ports need more bandwidth than a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot can provide so they are using two such slots http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_adapter_cards/PB_C... look at the top. (I know I linked Ethernet, the bandwidth situation is the same.)

> Socket Direct technology is enabled by a main card housing the ConnectX-6
and an auxiliary PCIe card bringing in the remaining PCIe lanes. The
ConnectX-6 Socket Direct card is installed into two PCIe x16 slots and
connected using a 350mm long harness
No there isn’t. You can logically construct one set from the other.

If you are unable to run a business that provides equal access to the level required by regulation, then your business is unsustainable and cannot function. This is the same situation as running a business that cannot afford to provide a service while meeting environmental regulations.
Buy random, short non-random.
$99 is steep for a lot of these domain names. You also don't disclose who the registrar is. Personally I wouldn't consider this without knowing you won't put me in GoDaddy's grasp or an equally horrible registrar.

Also it seems like you misunderstand why such a site deserves a large margin: good domains.

I don't care about paying $99 for a domain that expires in 4 mins, I could nab that myself.

What I would pay $99 for is a really great domain name, expiring... who cares because that's what your site is for.
It’s uncanny, though also depressing, how similar this behavior is to Trump supporters who will not let the facts get in the way of their support. It’s like identification: this person signals everything that I hold sacred so I’m all-in.
Pretty much everything in that article is the opposite of my numerous experiences. You goto ticket counter just like normal and declare the firearm, they look at it, stick a card in the outer bag and verify you have the only key. You also can travel with ammo as long as it's in 'original package'. Then after that it depends on the airport, some you just walk it over to tsa just like an oversized bag. All in all it takes about 10min extra. Very easy, never been hassled at all. Each airline has their own rules which are clearly spelled out on their websites. I've never tried sticking a bunch of camera gear in the pelican but it wouldn't be difficult, they just look in the box, at no time do they touch it so you can have whatever under it. Xray might pickup on it and they ask you to open, which is why you walk it over to them.
The current transition to Chez Scheme might allow this in the future.
Yea I know, I considered that someone would raise the fact that they're a telco. It's difficult to articulate what I mean by tech-first, and I don't want to lean on "I know it when I see it", but I'm describing a cluster in thingspace that I think is clear to pretty much everyone here.
PLIST is pretty flexible though, the underlying storage can be XML, binary or even JSON now.
The macronutrients are what I would personally focus on with little thought given to calories. The macros are quite solid here.

I have no affiliation and I’ve never even heard of Sagg in my life, but it seems interesting.
Tell us, have you shorted many stocks before? It is simply not the opposite of going long.
You could also note that today people are turning to Internet instead of traditional media and what do we see there? A monopoly: Google controls almost all search, advertising, mobile phone and user-generated video market (except for adult video), Facebook owns all major Western social networks. So if the government makes a deal with these two companies, they will be able to control what majority of Internet users see on their screens. Wouldn't it be nice if they would see only positive things about one candidate and negative news about others? Both Facebook and Google are private companies and they are free to moderate and censor content as they wish. In exchange for a good service, for example, the government could make legislation more favourable for them.

But no matter how bad is this situation, it cannot be even remotely compared to authoritarian countries.
I can think of worse places. On top of airliners, for example, or inside active coal mines.
Given that your definition of statistics contains nested levels of 'either or', it shouldn't really surprise you that it doesn't really generalize well.

More generally I'd consider statistics to be the applied version of probability theory. Of course in this case the very thing they were trying to compute also fit the definition of a 'statistic'.

If you consider this is to be too broad, then keep in mind that it's simply better when you can apply the concepts and techniques from probability theory to more things.
That's extremely misleading. DJIA is the original one and it's named that because A is for average and DJ is for Dow Jones. So only one of letters could vary in context, and only the I is the one people mean when they take about Dow Jones.

"The Dow" or "the Dow Jones" always means DJIA.
Yeah, the big problem is labor. if you are only making a few bucks a user, making enough money to make up for your opportunity cost (vs. working as a tech for a large company) requires a lot of users.

I've got a lot of experience serving the low-margin market, both for ISPs, WISPs, but mostly on the hosting side, (and hosting is actually easier; the less you have the customer on the equipment, the less time you spend fixing stuff they broke.) and let me tell you, low margin does not at all line up with low support expectations.

Even if you can charge your customer twice what it's costing you and making ten bucks a month per user, one tech support issue can end up eating all the margin that customer would have given you for years.
Parent post was misleading, though.
But you still haven’t given me an example. Thusly any competitor to come into this space would have to spend as much as WeWork at least to unseat them or to make a competitive brand for themselves. Sure the market’s not new, but the solidified brand in this market is. That counts for a lot.
For a while, U.S. has targeted X% inflation. What happens if we sell a 100 year bond at Y% yield and then in 50 years economists learn we should target less than Y% inflation? In that case are we stuck between either the bonds growing faster and faster and faster than the dollar, or being constrained in inflation targets?
Thunderf00t says Solar frickin' failure.

Maybe solar tracking panels above parking lots would be better, and there's zillions of Walmarts with enormous parking areas the size of some airports that could co-locate solar farms.
I'm ignorant, Why can't everyone use Let's Encrypt?
https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync works great. I've been running it for years.
Go here: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out... and put in your strategy compared to just an S&P 500 fund over the last 30 years.
Then you’ve kinda reinvented Kerberos or at least half of it. You’d be creating a hell of a lot of load on the server and the CA generating and signing all those new certificates.

Way back when “Grid computing” was a thing you’d use daily client certificates. You’d be issued a highly restricted signing cert which could only be used to generate extremely short lived certificates with your user CN. Which avoids the whole melting CA issue by having the end user generate them.
I think São Paulo is a city that takes time to discover. The only people who like it are those who've lived there long enough to be very familiar with it...since it obviously lacks the "postcard" sights of Rio.

I lived in both cities and I loved Rio, despite its problems. I found SP to be quite boring, grey and overcrowded (save for select places like Liberdade, Ibirapuera, the former Portuguese Language Museum, Serra da Cantareira, etc), yet I always thought that if I had lived there much longer, I could have grown to really like it. There's a feeling that something pulses under the surface and you can only experience it via serendipity, word of mouth and curiosity, if that makes sense.
EBITDA itself is an interesting number that tells you something about the company in question. It's not the only number you should use, and it can definitely be misleading if it's the only thing you look at, but it does tell you something about the underlying business.

However, 'We' has it's own EBITDA-sounding metric where they exclude so many expenses it is laughable.
So a competitor to WeWork would have to spend even more than WeWork to compete vs the brand. They’d be even more strapped for cash for PR/ads than the main player. They have the first mover advantage.
Well, I guess it's just reading the comment two entirely different ways. The way I read it, it sounds like someone who loves programming, not being able to imagine how you would never want to program outside work–not 24 hours a day, but never at all. You know, for the fun of it.

You make it sound like the guy is your boss, making it a requirement for employment that people do programming they don't want to do outside work hours.

The guy said "probably" and "is how I look at it", but that wasn't enough–the words are still treated like he'd said "definitely" and "I'd make this a legal requirement" or something. Ah anyway.
Under airliners seems even worse.
Many also see it as a way to use government to control peoples’ lifestyles. That’s why politics and laws get so much emphasis over technological solutions. That’s why the “Green New Deal” is primarily a jobs program rather than a carbon recapture Manhattan Project. You don’t need world government if the US invents practical carbon recapture technology.
Snow plows and salt aren't even the worst of it. Every road is going to have some water in it and when the temperature drops below zero, that water freezes. Water expands when it freezes and this puts stress on the asphalt. You go through enough of these cycles and your road starts to breaking down.
The world's slowest supercomputer, amirite?

(Actually tho is there a coin out there that let's people post jobs to be computed as a useful proof of work? I would be curious to know.)
Divide total American wealth by it’s population and you find the average American has an extreme amount of wealth relative to the rest of the world. American private debt seems like a huge deal, but it’s largely owned by other Americans.
What is the advantage of putting the solar panels under the cars rather than above them?
So MS's plan is to put a rebranded Chrome browser on Windows? Will that keep people from downloading Chrome? Then what incentive will G have to keep improving Chrome?
How do you honestly function day to day if you need to have two dogs with you at all times? Do you work from home? How can you drive without being an emotional wreck?

I'm not trying to be a dick, but I see your post and it causes my brain to short circuit. I don't want you confined to your house, but if you are so fragile psychological and emotionally that you can't function for a few hours without your two dogs at your side should you really be flying?
SETIcoin
Oh my, that's what you thought I meant with "the enslavement of women as a means of replenishment for your armies"?

I fear that was a misunderstanding, good sir. I didn't mean that women were ever press ganged into the army, but into producing the next generation of recruits. Frankly, I actually lold when I got that just now! =)
I don't really understand why they're trying to push 5g. 4g is pretty fast, and it's still not available everywhere. I'd much rather have more 4g than start another arms race for faster cell towers.

If the FCC pushes anything for wider access to fast internet, I think it should be in low orbit satellites, which offer alternatives for everyone instead of just people who live in cities (5g) or people who live in rural areas ($121M investment you talk about).

Are they doing anything related to satellite internet? I know SpaceX and OneWeb are developing tech in this space, and I would absolutely love an alternative to cellular networks for internet outside my house, and I think it's reasonable to invest in it in exchange for allowing ISP competition with a shared set of satellites.
>> Why, for example, does Amazon not have a standard set of shipping box sizes which it not only delivers, but re-collects via the same logistics network?

It tried this with plastic bins. Customers just kept the bins. Enforce return by fining customers who don't return bins? What if they say they were stolen off their porch?

You have a huge chain of custody problem here.
Blindly investing money into “the poor” is a foolish endeavor that yields little strength to a country. Herd immunity and preventative health is a quantifiable thing and so I support universal healthcare. But we have to stop this disasterous assumption that the only reason people are poor is their circumstances.

The best way to help poor people is to lower the minimum wage so they can get jobs.

Subsidizing the poor increases consumption which is bad not only for the first order effect (throwing away money)... but also for the little thought of second order effect: it incentivizes people to build businesses that cater to consumption that was in the first place unsustainable. Smart people that could have been doing something else instead facilitate the creation of businesses that are only funded by inflation and cheap credit.

This is the story of the US economy in the past 30 years. The two largest disasters in recent history: the student loan bubble and the housing bubble, were both founded upon the notion that we should “give money away” without any real measurement of whether or not there would be a return on capital.

Our government should invest the majority of capital in basic research, healthcare, education and infrastructure... not the creation of a consumption driven bloated welfare state.
I think you're mixing up a couple of issues.

If a recession hits, or even if there's just a glut of rental office space because other players overinvest, then WeWork may not be able to fill their spaces, which they've mostly committed to on long-term leases. Their costs are fixed in the short term, but their revenue could be highly variable.

It's true that in the longer term the market for large blocks of space follows economic cycles, so if they are looking to expand during a recession, they can get a good price. But why would they do that? Since their business model is all about flexibility, they will be harder hit by recessions than both property owners and other people who need large blocks of space.
>Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this

Sounds like a total improvement over websites I have suffered... not to mention allows all kinds of third parties to create their own fancier ordering systems on top!
The effects of hyperinflating away the debt aren't really much better
You should have also reported them to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a little known regulatory office that no one ever seems to know about, but govern such cases like yours.
The fundamentals appear to be intrinsic scarcity + facilitating illegal transactions easily (circumventing currency controls, drug deals, malware ransoms, etc.).

I haven't seen much intrinsic value beyond those two things. Everything else is fluff (e.g. coffee shops taking bitcoin) or speculation.

That said, illegal transactions are an absolutely massive part of the global economy.

What's perplexing to me is that governments haven't yet reacted to this by bringing the hammer down. Realistically, if you're not involved in fluff or speculation you're probably using bitcoin to break the laws of some country.
I haven't seen anything from it yet that would convince me that it's not a scam. The fact that there are people defending this after all this time baffles me.
The likes being sent as separate message completely defeats the point of the tapback, which is to register a reaction without spamming the screen with extra messages.
You are still not getting it, how likely would a British journalist have the best interest of China at heart? So if BBC were to publish propaganda against China, how likely would they act as the check and balance that you talk about?
>> You have a huge chain of custody problem here.

So things will be awesome when the problem is solved.

It's usually money that solves problems.

Amazon customers want environmentally friendly shipping.
So they pay the extra $5 deposit, which Amazon gives back when the container is returned.

Those who don't want to return the container have paid for it.

Then of course other companies and industries must become greener because customers demand it. And Amazon already has a solution in place for reusable/returnable shipping containers, so it becomes an even bigger win for Amazon when it sells reusable/returnable shipping container service end to end and manages all the chain of ownership stuff and absorbs the complexity and risk.

As I say, it's a HUGE problem, so a huge win for whichever company implements what I've already set out above. Just needs to happen that's all.

In the future, look for the option "Add $5 for shipping box return collection" on your favorite ecommerce site.

And look to Uber to expand to "UberEnvironment" - their container collection service where they pay people to collect containers and return them to cleaning/reuse centers.

There are so many, many, many delivery startups out there - they'll be able to expand not only to sending stuff to homes but collecting stuff (containers) from homes.
Cathay Pacific CEO, CCO Out over HK Protests
Observation: I find the uptick in stock buying articles just when the market is at it's frothiest quite interesting.

Stay vigilant out there traders, don't eat the 30% haircut that will be visiting global financial markets shortly.
Neat. Physical occupant presence detection seems like a very useful application. Also, a possible application would be to automatically detect if a person were in some sort of distress.
Try running Office, Chrome and Teams on a constrained system, then say that again!
What if the hypothesis is just propaganda to make moving all the manufacturing capacity to China so corporations and their shareholders can make greater amounts of profit. No one actually sipped on this koolaid, they just claimed to for sake of profit.
It is plausible, but how much money is actually saved if you need to build panels that can stand wear and tear of vehicles above them? Surely the engineering is different and more costly than regular panels that don't need to be built to withstand cars rolling over, plus their maintenance, no?
Split time series train and test data the right way, automatically
Mass non-residents don't need the license as long as it's unloaded and in a case.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/gun-ownership-in-massachus...
Homes are largely proxies for other wealth. Individuals don’t own subway systems or good schools, but access to such things are extremely valuable. Aka, location, location, location. This is why the home prices are so unstable they are propped up by demand for such access not the structures themselves.

Counter intuitively this creates huge downward pressures on property values as boomers move or die off.
or yMessage?
Airliners would be an ok place I guess, cool and above the clouds
Best one I've seen so far is based on NLP datasets and Elastic https://www.elastic.co/blog/generating-and-visualizing-alpha...
Am I not allowed to have my opinion about his opinion? You can have expansive ideas about opinions being acceptable but you need to apply them consistently. If he can tell a bunch of people that they’re not worthy of their careers, surely I can tell him that this is an awful thing to say.

It’s not “touchy” to be offended when someone says that the thing you do for a living, the thing you’re best at in the whole world, the thing you spend more time doing than anything else except sleeping, is something you shouldn’t even be doing at all, that you’ve somehow fundamentally fucked up a major part of the last couple of decades of your life.

Your question about Stallman and Linus is bizarre. These are people who are famous for being rude, almost as much as they’re famous for their achievements. If either one of them told me that I shouldn’t be in this field because I don’t do much programming in my spare time, I’d tell them to fuck right off.
How do you find the store or restaurant you’re looking for?
If they had admitted failure earlier, then they couldn't milk as much money from suckers.
I think you're reading the exponent wrong. 10 times the mass of the sun where we generally get a neutron star; 9 times the mass of the sun is too light, so we get electron capture collapses; lighter still, and down to one times the mass of the sun (10^0 solar masses, the origin of the log-scale x axis) is where we get white dwarfs.
That's perhaps great in android, but you can't/shouldn't write code for Linux/Windows/MacOS, where such a system is not in use, and then protest "I'm not the one that sucks." Maybe those OSes should implement such a system, but until they have the "wasted RAM" argument needs to end for anything other than specialty professional software that can reasonably assume itself to be the raison d'être of that computer (e.g. video editing software, CAD, build systems for large software projects, etc.)