skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is so “scary” here? It’s literally the easiest thing you can possibly do. It’s the default option.

“You know how you were gonna have a second kid? Here’s a thought: consider using the time and money you’d spend on that to do something else. Like retire early.”

If we can’t convince people not to do an expensive, time-consuming, painful thing in order to help stop global warming, we really do have problems.
Successful Ecommerce Stores Serving Seniors
In a way, they do pay for the electricity. The more energy costs their tennants, the less than can charge for rent.
They are called Hiden-no-tare (秘伝のタレ). The word is also used for undocumented steps of works like a server setup.
So should no one attempt to make a device that detects this because some police are racist? I doubt American racism is at the top of minds of a Canadian startup trying to help with their nation's recent legalization of cannabis, even though they will definitely want to sell to the US market.
> She rattled off a couple of other disparaging comments about the peaceful protestors I was preparing to
join, repeatedly referring to them as those people b
efore a chorus of my team’s nodding heads, each
bobbing affirmingly behind their desks.

The author did say that the co-worker who said that she considered the protestors annoying and counterproductive was making disparaging remarks.

> Over the last 5 years, I’ve heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants,
boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods, mockingly imitate people who speak different
languages, reject candidates of color without evidence because of “fit,” and so much more.

The author is definitely claiming to have witnessed racist attitudes from co-workers.

> The way it came across to me was a individual sharing their anecdotal experience being a minority in a large and very well known company. It was a reflection on how he felt about their experiences.

Correct. And in doing so, the author demonstrates that he categorized his co-workers as making disparaging comments because she regarded BLM's tactics to be annoying and counterproductive. If this is what the author considers disparagement, it speaks more about his own extremely narrow view of what are and are not acceptable viewpoints than it does about Google.

> Personally though, in response to your comment. I believe the abortion issue is a bit more nuanced than the police killing an man and facing no repercussions.

If you think there's little nuance then maybe you should dig a bit deeper. The police officer killed a man in the commission of a robbery. The autopsy result showed bullets entering Brown's upper chest and exiting his lower back. This is consistent with running towards the officer, which supports the officer's testimony that Brown charged at him.

And there weren't "no repercussions". The officer was investigated, and grand jury was summoned to decide whether or not to indite him. No conviction came out of it, but that doesn't mean that there were "no repercussions".

> But I'm not here to change your mind sir, it's cool to have no empathy for your fellow humans.

I earnestly hope you realize the irony of telling another commenter that they "have no empathy for your fellow humans" because he has a different takeaway from this post.
I agree, and it would be great if git adopted the general philosophy that it would never do a destructive change without stashing it in "trash" first. This could even go as far as adding a "git undo" command.
Facebook doesn't sell data
Poland isn't "one of Europe's poorer countries" and many countries that operate nuclear power plants are poorer than Poland (such as: Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, India, Iran, Mexico, Pakistan, Romania, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine)
Prices of stock are based on future expectation of earnings. This is why you can have a company like Amazon have incredible earnings, but still have the share price tank. IE, expectations were that they would have even more incredible earnings, but they were merely incredible.

This is also how you can have companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy get huge stock gains if they defy earnings expectations.

As such, expectations of future results are already priced into stocks. It's literally the stock price. Whether a stock moves up or down is based on the delta between reality and expectation.
Wow, vice and the verge, those are fantastic sources. What part of your graphic design courses covered epistemology and topics related to censorship? Based on your comments I'm going to assume none
The article by the OP is slightly vague about the details of the breach. This one goes into more detail: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/choice-hotels-d...

But after reading the details, the whole situation looked nothing more than a straight-forward search on SHODAN.io for exposed DBs. A 'ransom' of $4,000 for 700k users is cheap to Choice Hotels compared to the others I've seen demanding $1M+ for the same number of users.

> The MongoDB database was made publicly available with no password or other authentication required to access it.

> The database was left exposed for four days.

Classic.
> Yeah the article makes no attempt to explain why they are "curves," or why the slopes look like that at all.

Since there's no quantification defined for either “seniority” or the things measures against it, the shape of the curves is meaningless, anyway.
Both selenium and arsenic are considered trace elements. Selenium much more so; most of the world's diet is selenium-poor. But selenium supplements are useful in counteractive arsenic poisoning:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23800687
That's how alcohol breathalysers work here - if it looks like you're over the legal limit you get a second, more sophisticated test.

If you're way over whatever limit they decide for THC then it shouldn't matter if you have a prescription - a medical need doesn't make you a better driver while under the influence.

But I agree with what you're saying - it's not the tool that is problematic here, but the laws that go around it. A beer yesterday seems OK. Driving tipsy is generally accepted (except in Oz in the case of novice/probationary drivers) but considering the high correlation between alcohol and driving impairment, I think it's more a testament to the alcohol lobby's strength that even a little drink driving is considered reasonable. Drinking alcohol is/should be a recreational activity, not a human right.
One of my favorite not-quite-conspiracy-theories is that all of quants and crazy trading algorithms are just to provide cover for the insider trading.
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I agree that libraries have a major impact on the perceived readability of a programming language. As an example, it used to be quite messy to issue HTTP requests from Python, but then the Requests library appeared, and suddenly it became much easier to write readable client libraries. Rust code will become more readable as its libraries mature.
I think Node.js is the better choice for this than Rails. You want your Python number-crunching API accessed async leaving Node to take care of auth, logging and database reads. With your Python API returning JSON I would imagine Rails serialisation would slow down performance relative to Node.
"All altruism is enlightened self-interest" - Heinlein
Amazing that the Chinese teamed up with an amateur, instead of an other space agency. It is really impressive how much of an impact amateurs can have in astronomy and space research.
It's not just hand-wavy. It's outright wrong. The size of the search space isn't just exponential in the amount of history -- that's the number of possible histories. The number of mappings from histories to positions is doubly exponential, so they can't even be uniquely described in less than exponential space.
> It means China is dumping US debt. Which will mean a surge in interest rates, a weaker US dollar, and in a nightmare scenario, hyperinflation.

But then again, the popular wisdom seems to be that a weak currency supports exports. So I don't know that this is clearly a bad thing. Hyperinflation I would peg to be usually caused by a break down of the domestic market.
The translation says he's licensed to operate the Chinese satellite. Is that right? Did he have to get approval to issue the command or was this him on his own? Quite a nice picture for a satellite that is now defunct. Was the Chinese satellite's mission already done or did it fail prematurely?
... or Tyson.
you get a compile time error saying f isn't known to have enough entries, and you resolve it by adding a decidable check that produces a proof that it does. (the check at runtime is just >)
What's available in iOS but not Android? From my experience they're pretty close, but I may be missing something.
It’s possible that if you could spin up an open source relational database like Postgres or MySQL and load your data set, you could do everything but the models and viz themselves in SQL. SQL will handle 3 mil rows in a snap. If you are transforming the contents of the cells then R is potentially nicer, but if you are mainly summarizing, grouping, subsetting, etc SQL is fast and readable and you can “dump” a CSV that’s fast to read in R or Stata. Your R or Stata code will be really short, really just a load step, a viz / pretty tables step, and then a model run step. It’ll be easy to swap out languages according to the team/prof/project requirements.
Exactly this. Meat is drastically cheaper than it would be from natural market forces and actual healthy shit is expensive.

I'm not vegan or vegetarian by the way but this aggravates me to no end and contributes to a lot of our problems.
reading HN as a woman is an exercise in managing fury
The Benefits of Pair Programming
It's not a problem, it's a business opportunity. Imagine being a sole manufacturer of a device every cop will be carrying... Many successful companies are making human lives miserable anyway, this is simply one more.
i asked the author where did he source his data, his reply was "i scraped data"

how can you scrape pricing data? not every data in this is on public domain, otherwise there would be no Bloombergs, CapitalIQs selling data for millions(sure they're overrated and overpriced but still!). Or in other words, if he is right - he can sell data and make millions. no need of looking for an investment strategy. just my skeptical side saying :)

you need clean data to accurately test ideas. for instance getting tick data is quite expensive. most universities have free access to Bloomberg, CapitalIQ etc. datasets the reason professors can test and also the reason some smart guys in the industry work for university on the side
Arable's a blunt classification though. In NZ we have no mountain lions preying on our sheep, which makes better use of that land. Not to mention favourable growing conditions.
Why should profit be the motive to grow food. What extactly have we been doing as a society that we still have people who stuggle to pay for basic necessities needed to live.
Nope, I actually found that one possible. There's already a package (minted) for syntax highlighting, and it calls external programs (the pygments Python script IIRC), so I don't see any reason why they couldn't do that.
I'm @Adys in that thread arguing against that FWIW, and the votes are essentially even. I find that there's very few "empty" discussions, and it's always possible to actually talk to people. But yeah, fair warning, this is a pretty strongly left-leaning site, and you'll have people with pretty strong opinions about it.

Tildes is also a wonderful community outside of political topics. But if you're looking for news aggregators specifically, most news will likely be political in some form, and have people arguing over politics in its comments. Hell, look at HN.

I agree on the UI btw. There's a few themes you can try as well. It's simplistic but practical.
Then i've been lucky, since i did that and much more in the past. Nowadays i'm doing 22 to 23 up to 28 peak on flat ground with no headwind. On a decades old 3-speed, with coaster/back pedal brake, mud guards and basket on the (rear)carrier. (27x1 1/4 pumped to 7.5 to 8 bars)

The only thing of going wrong i can think of is insects in the eye, and generally unpleasant airstream in the eyes.
Use sports glasses. Problem solved. Anything else is situtational awareness, maybe a helmet, and good maintenance.
The argument goes that starvation is usually a logistics/corruption problem as much as anything. Technically you can consider the math of supply without it, but practically it matters more than most other things.

Is the current situation unusual, or is it SNAFU?
Interesting point about Wigner, but about the article...

This study does not examine phenotypes, but may be applied to them somehow. Instead:

>we use simulation to show that CNNs can leverage images of aligned sequences to accurately uncover regions experiencing gene flow between related populations/species, estimate recombination rates, detect selective sweeps, and make demographic inferences

I believe this works well because the sorting of the data (Fig. 2) introduces phylogenetic information into the image to be analyzed. This reminds me of neighbor joining [0], but has some differences. Without this ordering, their method does not work as well.

0)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbor_joining
The article states China’s holdings are still increasing, the opposite of dumping. Japan is simply increasing faster.
Time and resources to make and support babies is a big constraint.

Most parents want to provide a standard of living to their kids that is better than what they grew up in, which costs significantly more to provide.

Kids didn't always have their own bedrooms or cellphones, and in an agrarian society kids were useful as extra "free" labor. The shift to cities has rewritten the economic calculations potential parents do.
This is a solid rule. Glad it's enforced so strictly.
I think, really, everyone on HN is pro-authoritarian, or they would go elsewhere and not submit to downvoting and the karma system in general.
What genocide happened in the US in the 1840s?

Are you talking about the Civil War in the 1860s?
Buy low, sell high. Focus on reliable, proven stocks. It's not hard. Buy on bad days, sell on good days. Dont overcomplicate things.
The first hedge fund Jones & Co. that launched 1949 hired business writers that would consistently "find" profitable trades. The logic was that Jones & Co. assumed that they had a line to insider information.

Yup, you can make a consistent buck if you know the right people with the right info. That system will always work.
> We've written asterisks after most <li>'s in the bill of rights.

These really aren't "exceptions" to the Free Speech Clause as "freedom of speech" was always a legal term of art. Opinions of precisely what it means vary, even at the time the Constitution was drafted, but it certainly was never equivalent to the mere physical act of communicating. Indeed, speech implies something about the substance and motivation of what's being communicated, which is exactly why performances and many other forms of activity--including abstention--are considered "speech".

More generally, the exercise of any right is always implicitly limited by its effect on others' rights. Here we have a perfect example: the right of the public, through their government, to effectively communicate emergency information in a timely matter would be infringed if anybody could imitate the tones. There's a natural conflict that must be resolved here, and for fairly obvious reasons (even if you don't necessarily agree), it's resolved in favor of the public.
Does any of that actually matter in a realistic threat model in an airplane? The integrity of the critical systems matters, but there shouldn’t be any secrecy concerns. An attacker learning the full state of the avionics computer would be of little value. Similarly, a side channel from the entertainment system to a critical system shouldn’t matter unless the critical system is already compromised, since the critical system won’t be listening to the side channel.
>Moreover, I cannot think of one thing that we were free to do a few decades ago and we're restricted to do now.

Fly abroad without getting our crotches checked?

Walk around the city without companies/governments tracking our location?

Less surveillance in everything?

Don't have corporations police what we can and cannot say on this era's popular platforms (doesn't matter if we can still open a personal blog in 2019, since those are not where the discussion is today - whereas they were in the early 00s, and they did matter back then).

Have a mainstream without moral panics? We used to have the easily triggered persons of the right back in the day, now we have the same of the left, but there was a point (late 60s/early 70s) where people could be more radical than today.

Buy a program without a subscription and use it for the next 10 years or so the same price you know pay for 1 to 3 years of use! (Like people are still using ancient Photoshop in Windows today, or how people like RR Martin still use something like Wordstar 20+ years after its last release -- with subscriptions it would be impossible).

Widespread free sharing of commercial music, films etc like in late 90s/early 00s without all major outlets being crushed like they are being now?

Tons of government regulations (from building codes, to "food safety" BS meant to crush smaller producers) that affect every aspect of business and everyday life, for things that people could freely do 20-30-50 years ago...
I want to try building something like this, but using Tahoe-LAFS[1] to store the packages / images, so that you could get de-duplication for free, and capability based access control. I have no idea if it would be feasible in practice yet. How hard is it to build a custom docker registry? From a glance at this code it doesn't look terribly complex to get something simple going.

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
FANG is the ticker symbol of Diamondback Energy, a Midland, Texas oil company.

https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/FANG/overview
To my knowledge China has intentionally be reducing its holding of US treasuries as part of the ongoing trade... kerfuffle. Yes, China and Japan are usually close, but this delta was closed not because Japan bought more T-bills but because China sold theirs off over the last few months, and is continuing to do so. They're down to the lowest level of holdings since 2017. [1,2,3]

To your point the majority is held domestically but this does create pressure on the instruments at the margins and raises the cost of borrowing both now and over time. Some of that is being masked now by the flight of capital to safety, particularly domestically, over concerns of the same recession.

Less buyers of T-bills raises interest rates, which in turn raises the cost of borrowing money, which in turn pushes down equities. I doubt the Chinese could sell off their T-bills any faster without risking de-valuing their holdings. With that said, I doubt their holdings go up until this trade war ends, if ever, and this will prove problematic once the dust settles. A worst-case scenario for the US is higher interest rates [wiping out current bond investors] combined with lower equities [wiping out current stock investors]. This yields inflation and removes the levers of economic control from the federal reserve -- it could be devastating.

[1] (May) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-15/china-s-u...

[2] (June) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-17/china-cut...

[3] (July) https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3018924/chin...
They're not lying. To parallelize, you have to code in a different style - though it doesn't have to be CUDA. However, it's easier to enforce the syle in a parallel-specific language, and it can help to support idioms.

Controlling the language certainly helps Nvidia's economic moat.
You would think the hackers would demand more than 4k in Bitcoin
Would have liked to see the analysis of All 53 of the VPN's they tested so one could see how the one one uses compares..
Ah true. Got it backwards. Graphs should be concave. In any case, can one ever reach perfection?
>It's almost perfect

All it needs is research-verified encryption!
I think we need a device that will make testing people for coffee consumption easier. It has been shown caffeine negatively affects you driving ability.
the author is trying to sell crypto trading bot ! looks shady to me
if anything guarantees you profit, run away from it as fast as you can :
https://credium.io/

https://towardsdatascience.com/crypto-trading-bots-a-helpful...
I'd much rather be locked into one app than be forced into an entire ecosystem.
Germany specifically has very high electricity prices, it’s a poor comparison to the rest of Europe even excluding France. https://1-stromvergleich.com/electricity-prices-europe/

Frances electricity prices are 0.01 euro’s lower than Great Britten a comparable economy, but France is still higher than much of Europe.

> There are days where production is 1/10th the requirement.

Wind production in a single country on it’s own is extremely variable.

Germany: “The day with the lowest wind yields was 24th July 2018. With an average output of 1338 MW, corresponding to 10 percent of the average daily output, only 32,1 GWh of wind power was fed in on this day.”

However, solar output on that day was not also 10% of normal.

Low solar power and low wind power days are inversely correlated. Further, variability decreases over larger geographic areas.

A realistic look at generation goes something like this.

As an optimization problem you need to compare daily demand which is seasonal and weather dependent with solar and wind generation which are also seasonal and weather dependent. Further, choosing wind locations that match your demand both seasonally and hourly. Figuring out the cost of excess capacity for each generating source.

After doing that you can back fill with imports and hydro generation which is dispatch able over time.

Storage is effectively a last resort, though after building it you want to maximize it’s use which means reducing the need to import and use hydro power.

Finally, on extremely unusual situations you ask some consumers to cut demand and finally use backup generators.