skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racist laws would be struck down, so it's not surprising that it's not explicit. However the political racist undertones are unmistakable.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-prote...

Regarding H-1B's, DHS almost made a decision to make many people on work visas criminals with a catch-22 situation because of the delays in processing H1 extensions. I wish I was making this up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/07/11/new-u...
I also thought they went out of business already. Their parent company Helios and Matheson is a horrific penny stock ($0.0018) traded over the counter pink sheets.
All right, the Republicans have to move their position just enough to appeal to the median electoral vote just a bit more than the Democrats do. If the Democrats go full off-the-deep-end leftist (as seen by the bulk of the voters), then the Republicans may not have to move at all.
I don't understand why the police has to react to an anonymous calls the way they do in the first place.

Is there a legitimate case where you'd need to call in a SWAT team and remain anonymous at the same time? Seems like if you're legit concerned about the situation, you should have no problem proving your details that could be traced back to you. If you wish to remain anonymous, then your call should be deprioritized and so maybe they send a nearby patrolling officer to investigate the situation before sending SWAT team.
I don’t think Friedman was a fascist. I think he was a sophist who had no problem working with or lending support to fascists when he thought it served his interests and ingratiated him to him to elites in the economic and political milieu in which he operated.

Again, on the one hand you have someone who fled Chile and was murdered by the Pinochet regime and someone who flew into give speeches and pal around with the junta. I’m sorry if I weigh the account of the former more than that of the latter.
> Automatic driving is starting to work, after a few billion dollars was thrown at that problem. That, too, was harder than expected.

It is quite surprising that it took so long if you look at the achievements from the 1980s and 90s by German military. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HbVWm7wdmE
Similar story but of a failed physics project is "Project Prometheus" by George Dyson, Richard Dyson's son. It's about the project to use atomic explosions for extremely efficient propulsion. With proper implementation, such atomic bomb thrusters would have allowed for 100,000 ton payloads and a truly space faring society.
The cost of decommission alone is 70 times higher, differences in th surrounding geography don't explain this discrepancy. It's worth pointing out that from what I can tell, this money hasn't actually been spent it's a forecast. Furthermore, a competing party held power in Japan at the time of the accident vs. when this projected cost was drawn up. There's a conflict of interest in that exaggerating the damage is politically advantageous. I'm interested in seeing how much money actually gets spent.
No I mean it’s the obvious position to take when 99% of customers want it. For all manufacturers. If it was just 80% of customers who wanted it then it would be unfortunate if no manufacturer positioned themselves to cater to the 20% who want a “pc phone”, but since those who want it are (surely?) not even a rounding error in the statistics, I can’t see why it’s unfortunate.
Since every transaction is public you can trace the flow of funds like a graph traversal.
> There were not fast computers so it was thanks to Exile II "looking like crap" that we were able to play it at all

You're making the mistake of thinking that a game that looks good must use more resources. That doesn't make sense.

If one took the exact same resources and gave them a more consistent art style, keeping the same file sizes or even lowering them, the games could look just fine and yet still fine on a low-end machine.

Better looking graphics or art != larger file sizes.
Someday I want to write a diff utility specifically for code. Whitespace addition/removal cost like .1, addition/removal of a curly brace .5. There are a handful of other things default diff does that make it really annoying for code.
Thieves use keyless hack to steal a £90k Tesla in seconds
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but right now it is up to her. So, your first comment is great for the technically savvy, but everyone else is SOL.
I Backtested 17 Advanced and 15 Neural Net Trading Strategies with Top30 Coins
Real Vision has some great commentary on the Yuan and its implications. Most recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ssFICVFH40

The big risk from my point of view is that currency weakness tends to spook international investment capital who is exposed to the local currency, triggering selloffs as capital flees, exacerbating the problem.
This looks like an updated version of the the exact same talk from the same author from 2017. Link to 2017 talk below, with HN comments from 2 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877332
> Wave collapse feels like nonsense, requires arbitrary notions of "observers".

There's recently been a long thread over on PhysicsForums[1] about the Wiegner's friend experiment[2]. The thread was kicked off by this[3] paper detailing a realization of the experiment, in which the authors conclude "this result lends considerable strength to interpretations of quantum theory already set in an observer-dependent framework and demands for revision of those which are not."

Then again as far as I can see MWI doesn't come out victorious, "one way to accommodate our result is by proclaiming that “facts of the world” can only be established by a privileged observer—e.g., one that would have access to the “global wavefunction” in the many worlds interpretation".

Then again I haven't studied QM so what do I know. Fun to think about while on the bus tho!

[1]: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/a-realization-of-a-bas...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080
> We have also summarized these ideas today on the [Chromium blog][1].

[1]: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/building-a-more-priv...
Anyone or anything can definitely assert something is true. Here, I'll do it with a scientific proposition: "Humans definitely evolved from non-human apes."

One thing that distinguishes science from many other modes of thinking is that scientists have learned that things that seem definitely true sometimes turn out not to be, which is why carefully expressed scientific judgements don't go quite so far as I just did. "Our current best explanations for the way the world is have humans evolving from non-human apes, and it currently seems incredibly unlikely that any theory that doesn't have that feature will work out better than those do."

If you come to some intuitive judgement, you may "definitely assert" that it's true. If so, that isn't because intuition has some power to "reach knowledge of truth" that's denied to science. It's because, in the grip of that intuitive conviction, you aren't thinking as careful as scientists-at-their-most-careful do.
> Basically whenever you have a shared database you have a form of tight coupling which defeats the point of microservices.

With all the different interpretations of what is a microservice, a common one is that having a shared database makes it not a microservices architecture. But yeah, people call them that regardless.
That is something that unfortunately happens almost every year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/437017.stm
>> They can put out bonds

Isn't that what the federal govt does too? The US sells treasury bonds and China buys them.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040115/reaso...
The video and pictures show real prints from an Ultimaker.
We’ve actually just released a roadmap for rehauling the Apollo Server transport layer, to better support different technologies there. Does https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/3184 help you at all?

Or, if this is something that would be implemented client-side, drop an issue over on the iOS client repo, we’ve just brought on a new engineer dedicated to the mobile native clients, she might be able to better help you.
What would have happened to me if I hadn't become a father? Would I have been financially a lot better off without kids to pay for, free to do whatever I want, had a lot time to myself? Maybe. On the other hand, I might not be here.

Having kids was the best reason not to commit suicide I've ever had.
We need a GDPR equivalent in the US. That's the only way this will change.
Thank you, Scott!
Had to use this to improve the speed of our admin user search after the table got fairly large (>1mil). The biggest problem was that it's a general search that searched display_name as well as email. We ended up cleverly omitting the email search unless '@' was included in the search string.
I'm noticing a frequent problem with a handful of construction workers. Rather than constructing for the 80% of what a building must do, they think of all the possibilities that go wrong and start from the edge cases inwards, which individually represent a small piece of the whole.

I would rather they deliver a building and just let it collapse when an edge case occurs.

Working in the manner they do is causing them to miss deadlines with nothing to show. I'd be ok if they missed deadlines but a building could already be used for 50% and it's well documented what it doesn't do, but we're getting to the finish line with no useable building yet.
You must be quite sensitive to see this as “acidic”. I have seen this guy speak at several conferences and he is absolutely the opposite of “acidic”. Here’s an “acidic” comment for you: He makes great games that people love and he doesn’t owe you a thing.
I’m questioning your belief in a system that clearly doesn’t a give shit about your data and your ability to do anything about it in that system.

You and some other engineers on this forum can conjure all the concepts you want about how to fix it, and the perceived value in doing so, on here in these forums and nothing will come of it. Because by and large the system doesn’t give a shit.

You’re “f’in” data is being bought and sold to bad actors without you even knowing it. And you agreed to that by using these services.

Like you said in another post, the genie is out of the bottle.

The value of securing an inherently insecure society is stupid.

You’re thinking about this like an engineer only and you’re losing and have been for years. There’s no engineering solution to these problems at the technical or social level.

We’ve been fighting fraud since society began. Good luck. I’m sure a hardcore software engineer will figure it out
Good illustration of TIL by the way.

"TIL Today I Learned"
OSM with a good theme is pretty good... But it's the other features people use Google Maps for. If you use Android, you might want to try Locus, it can do online and offline maps, online routing from multiple providers and a ton of other stuff.
I don't know how you can sidestep the question of whether we could have won the war with less hardship. It isn't missing the point it IS a really important point.

Any more complex ethical framework is inevitably only ethical in anyone's judgement until such time as it leads to a bad enough effect that nobody would countenance.

For example bombing cities is a horror whether its with nuclear or conventional weapons. If you could reliably predict that refraining from such unethical behavior would lead to an allied loss would you say that it remained the ethical choice knowing that it led to a greater evil end result?

I would say that any strategy however ethical that led to a Nazi/Imperial Japanese empire across the world would have been an unforgivable evil no matter how high minded.

Logically there is no just reason to desire the suffering of the Japanese people. A solution that also preserved the lives of the Japanese people would be most ethical but what if you have to pick?

Even if the end result is not on net evil like Nazi domination of the globe those whose responsibility is the lives of say the English people seem duty bound to consider the needs of their charges over a foreign power. Is this not ethical too? How does that interact with your ethical framework or utilitarians?

It seems more apt to suppose that a grand unified theory of ethics just doesn't exist. Its always more complicated than you think. It seems that in some cases refusing to sacrifice your personal ethics to prevent greater evil would itself be evil. Shitty right.
Not according to Title 8 Section 1158, in the first sentence: "Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters), irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section or, where applicable, section 1225(b) of this title."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158
Its a bit interesting that Velero just merged a proposal about Restic https://github.com/heptio/velero/commit/86408bf8052cf33a5a80...
Is this where the k8s backup ideas are going?
I think the packaging waste would be more than the actual food waste and ruin the compost balance if we just tried to blindly mix it all. I compost my food waste and I definitely have more packaging waste each week than food waste.
To each their own. Pride in my decisions and my hard work is an important part of my self esteem.
I think you're ignoring his statements about his business model, game audience, ROI for graphic's improvement, etc.
Yeah the fundamental difference is that states can't print money to pay them the way the federal government can.
Fight over facial recognition dividing Detroit-high stakes for police, privacy
My point was something along the lines of this: “I pick my kids up at school at 4 and make them dinner every day at 5. I consider that successful”

I realize I’m lucky to be able to make that choice (and my kids will get a higher education regardless) - but it makes me sad that anyone everywhere would need to choose between success as being a present parent and success as giving your kids economic stability.
The issue I'm having with the claims is that their use of the word "model" seems to connote exactly of the opposite of what someone reading the paper without seeing their definition would suggest, and indeed what other commenters here are taking it to mean.

The colloquial restatement of the theorem suggests a regulator "is a model of [a] system" if the regulator's action is a function of the system, and nothing else. As in, a constant regulator that has only one state still meets the criteria for being a "model". The possibility that is excluded is that the regulator has additional details that don't correspond to states of the system.

In your thermostat example, the theorem doesn't even begin to say that, even though that's what the title suggests, and what everyone wants to believe. In fact, the theorem merely says a thermostat that only depends on the temperature of the room is simpler than one that also cares if the walls are blue.
Positive Psychology can change your life
I worked in Finland in 2001-2002 in what we would call now startup and even lead managers or scientists in company were not in the office in July-August. They simply worked more during winter and spent as much of Finnish summer outside as possible. But as article mentions, it was usual to take long vacations even in government jobs - if you needed visa for your relative, you'd better have it before June, or you would get it in September, since clerks were out of office :).
I think it's possible to build general purpose AI that is not alive in any way. I think it's just easier to imagine ways to get their that involve mimicking animal/human intelligence with those "living" qualities and so that's why people focus on that.
Privacy.com might offer close to what you're describing.
How does this compare? It appears to only backup chosen apps, not necessarily a whole cluster?
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Total non-sequitur. Nobody is making any assertions about how "left" Obama is.
What does the USA do better exactly?

Well, it seems crass to point this out, but NATO has a big presence in the Baltic states right now because you guys won’t invest in your own defence. So yeah, that is what they do.
I concur - "The Book of Why" lays out this thesis really well (http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/).
Overstock CEO resigns after his 'deep state' comments sparked stock selloff
It’s not about ::this relatively insignificant thing that can be logically addressed without violence:: —- it’s about ::a set of assumed moral values and forced respect to their integrity::: is how dumb wars get started and paper work sends a nations childrens off to die.

It was a stupid dick measuring contest that got two people killed and almost much more.
I am in Wallonie. We hear this a lot.
Sounds like adoption of ideas from Samuel Butler's Erewhon. "a man is ... punished very heavily for serious illness, while failure of eyes or hearing in one over sixty-five, who has had good health hitherto, is dealt with by fine only, or imprisonment in default of payment. But if a man forges a cheque, or sets his house on fire, or robs with violence from the person, or does any other such things as are criminal in our own country, he is either taken to a hospital and most carefully tended at the public expense, or if he is in good circumstances, he lets it be known to all his friends that he is suffering from a severe fit of immorality, just as we do when we are ill"
At least the authorities looking at them. In the states we have to rely on stuff like the Innocence Project, unfortunately.
Why? Companies keep customers happy because of competition. You can't force companies to make anyone happy, but you can set up a situation where making customers happy if I'm their best interest.
>And you agreed to that by using these services.

I have no right to complain if the service I sign up to tells me they are selling my data to 3rd parties. I certainly have a right to complain if the service I sign up to tells me my data is private, then through their negligence someone lays their DB bare.

>The value of securing an inherently insecure society is stupid.

A real live nihilist. Better give up on everything that's broken, eh?

>There’s no engineering solution to these problems at the technical or social level.

No technical engineering solutions to a technical issue, that's a hot take I haven't heard. As for social, luckily we are able to communicate with other humans and work together on different aspects of a problem. Or I guess some people just shit on others, claim everything is insolvable, and ride their high horse into the sunset.

>Good luck. I’m sure a hardcore software engineer will figure it out

Thanks, friend.
Scientists share new details about mysterious 'ghost particle'
It's the balance of payments that's the problem, not government deficits. All lowering the deficit does when there's a negative balance of payments is increase private debt.

And if there are recession fears, the last thing you want to do is raise taxes. The problem is where the tax cuts are, not that they are tax cuts; you want to cut taxes on people who spend a high proportion of their income on consumption, not wealthy people who will sit on it.

As for the political impossibility of reversing tax cuts, in the case of cuts for the rich, this is not at all due to public pressure, but private pressure, and in that the impossibility of reversing tax cuts is no different from the impossibility of not enacting them. When politicians are more obligated to voters than donors, taxes on wealthy people will rise. There is zero pressure from voters to maintain tax cuts on wealthy people, other than general support for an entire package of tax cuts if very visible middle class subsidy is mixed in with them.
What a vapid article.

Their card can be damaged?

Yes, all cards can.

The main thing is: is this more easily damaged than other similar metallic credit cards.

The article doesn't mention this at all.

Next up on the news:

X Product can be Damaged, Will yours be?

Then just write generic text with no sources, comparisons or data of any kind.
Apple warns not to keep its credit card by leather. Or denim. Or loose change
It is when you do it in the middle of the desert instead of a lawful port of entry.
Since Google has cookies dropped by google.com properties that they can use for user tracking, I'm surprised they haven't worked harder to reduce the effectiveness of fingerprinting in Chrome. They could make user tracking more difficult for ad companies that don't have cookies dropped by sites as popular as google.com while accurately marketing the Chrome changes as improving user privacy.
I really wish iPhones had away messages for iMessage and/or SMS. It can seem like you're intentionally being a dick if you don't respond promptly, so it'd be nice to just make it clear you've chosen to be not available instead of this weird uncertain state that seems to be the default. Bonus points if you could join and leave group chats seamlessly like AIM chat rooms.
Stash was an inspiration for K8up. Unlike Stash, K8up is non-intrusive and doesn't add additional containers to Pods. It runs as k8s jobs besides the application Pods.
I did the same thing. I was merging our billing db with that of a business we had just bought. Due to the nature of our business, customers could exist in both.

So I had a routine that normalized the address, as best I could anyway, didn't help that it was all just one varchar field. Then implimented Levenshtein Distance, messed with the weighting a bit to fit our particular data and away it went. Saved a bunch of headaches. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than hand matching a couple thousand accounts.
>> The 100-million-degree fireball vaporized the steel tower down to its footings...

This is often discussed, that the tower was turned from solid steel to vapor, but isn't what happened. The tower was no longer standing but was still there to be founud. Many bits were melted and surely some bits disappeared, but the bulk of the metal was still present on the ground after the blast. And this mattered. How close a metal structure could be to the blast was a vital question for project orion (A-bomb powered spacecraft).
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The ECB is negative and preparing to cut lower.

BoJ is buying 90%+ of their own bond market.

Emerging markets are blowing up routinely, most recently Argentina.

Australia and Canada have their own issues.

The U.S. isn't perfect but it's comparatively safe with a large military and reserve currency status with positive interest rates giving them room to react short term.

(Edit: To be crystal clear, this relative safety on the world stage means the USD is in demand as a "flight to safety". Same can be said about Treasuries, which is why domestic economic analysis doesn't necessarily align with the recession indicator of an inverted yield curve. The world could be going into recession. It's also worth noting that Gold has been rallying in USD terms, which tells us it's even safer.)
What identity confirmation exists currently for phone companies? You can use a pay phone, pay cash for a prepaid wireless phone, phone in a motel room booked under a fake name, etc.