skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So that's as far as you got? Didn't like the domain, therefore the study results are bunk?

75% of the authors are affiliated with other institutions, only 3 are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

NIDA itself is well-grounded. There have been some instances where they take a more conservative stance given uncertainty in results, but this is still a national scientific institute - not DARE or the DoJ.

Finally, the paper is on PMC: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426185/ - why do you disagree with their conclusion?
Product vs. Feature Teams
FAA Eases Restrictions on Drone Operations over Some Federal Facilities
Android somehow solves those I think? Unless those solutions are suboptimal?
RAW usually compresses, just not as well as lossy. For example, the lossless FLIF image format usually compresses images quite well (and it's lossless - you can binary compare the before and roundtrip images to check).

For video, I suspect there's things like FLIF, but with interframe knowledge, allowing even more compression.

None of these should beat good lossy codecs, but they vastly outperform completely uncompressed data for the stuff people normally capture.

If you somehow capture true random noise, then these wont' work. But most recordings of interest are much more structured, hence compressible.

https://flif.info/
The opening block with `:` and ending block with `}` literally killed me.
After market car stereo.

Never driven in a rental or borrowed car that had bluetooth that worked worth a damn.

So I bought the cheapest car I could possibly fine, got the the most bottom base model that I could get. Then put in a Sony Stereo headset and separate amplifier that was small enough to fit into the glove compartment. Added a little 12 inch subwoofer to the rear hatch and upgraded the door speakers.

I don't need a loud stereo. I just need one that was decent and wasn't a piece of shit. Spent about 400 dollars and got something that is a lot easier to use and more reliable then what you'd get out of of a 100,000 dollar car.
I am not surprised that CamScanner included a malicious advertising SDK, considering Exodus Privacy shows it has 17-19 trackers: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/search/com....
I wonder, is Google even compensated by US feds in the article story?
Slowly creeping up due to improved long term OS support?

My wife and brother are still completely happy with their iPhone 6 devices.
You can use Firefox privately though. And for work, if you want to get out of the vendor lock in, you can use a browser just for Google stuff. I do that at work as well because Chromium works better with my GPU for video calling, so I run Wire in kiosk mode. Everything else I do in a nicely configured and customized Firefox.
These articles present an incredibly naive analysis of the situation. The logic is "high pay should equal high stock performance" but this fails to recognize that in an effecient market the ability and salary of the ceo would already be priced into the stock, and thus would have "no effect" on its performance. You can't prove that the stock would've done less-worse if a different (lower paid) ceo was there, which is essentially what these articles try and argue.
FM transmitter, seriously? Those sound like absolute shit, aux cable is a thousand times better.
> The Democrats have not been moving right (except perhaps briefly during Reagan). Obama was not to the right of Clinton; Clinton was not to the right of Carter; and Carter was not to the right of Kennedy.

Honestly, I think that's untrue, except perhaps the Carter/Kennedy comparison.
Mitt Romney talking about only income tax is intentionally myopic. What's their total tax burden including payroll taxes?
Yeah, I’m not hoping for perfection. My iPhone is not perfect either, but Apple’s software is still in a very different league, quality wise, than BMW’s.
Thank you! It looks really sleek. I have one question:

Financial data is generally viewed as highly private. What measures have you taken to ensure that the data that I enter to the service won't get exposed?
Now go to the NYT main hurricane article and what do you see? The same misleading map that this article says people don't understand instead of the better wind speed probability alternative:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/hurricane-dorian-flori...
your statement is soundly countered in a similarly unsupported opinion above. You may not like their domain name but the paper and science behind it appear pretty sound.
I hope they design for devices to be repairable as well. I've learnt that apple watch just aren't repairable, smashed screen is 85% of the original cost.
> Linux is very easy to break and very hard to fix.

Funny enough as a Linux admin I feel the opposite. In Windows I'm using EventViewer and Procmon to try to dig through bullshit UIs to try to find events. Hell, lots of times Windows components and applications themselves are schizophrenic about how they log. Either zero logging, way too much logging, non-standard logging, or some other bullshit. Let me grep a text file or use a bpftrace instead!

> Windows is definitely more reliable as a daily driver than Linux, in my experience.

I support ~50 Linux desktops (you read that right) that are in use 24/7/365 and almost never have to intervene. If I do usually it's because of a change elsewhere that requires updates to a package (looking at you freerdp) or the Kernel needs to be updated. It's not out of the ordinary to see up times of months with no intervention required.

On the other hand I am touching the other ~40 W10 laptops multiple times a week.
$21/hr is the minimum wage for when they have a passenger in the car. EMTs still get paid even if they don't have a passenger
Okay, but it's not like Brave couldn't have seen that coming. It doesn't take a genius to see that a browser run by one of the world's largest advertisers is going to prioritize advertisers over users.
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Restaurants in India Getting Zinged by Delivery App Zomato
Weed, in its consumption form, (i.e. not hemp) doesn't have practical uses except maybe covering odors. Acetone does.

That said, hardware stores should be able to sell weed right beside the hand grenades and hard drugs should be available over the counter at any pharmacy that feels like stocking them.
Hmm, that does look promising, might be worth investigating.
From my own understanding, it is much more difficult to work with the Apple bluetooth stack than the Android bluetooth stack, at least from a non-Apple point of view.

Apple makes damn sure their products inter-operate, but they are not good about following Postel's law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
Yes, that one is a good one to monitor, because even Tropical Force Storm winds, when sustained long enough, can wreak significant havoc.

This one is also quite informative. It gives you a better idea of when you should have your house ready: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/144746.s...
Ann Coulter has been a fierce partisan her entire career. I think this is indisputable, whether you like her or not. Her judgement in these matters is questionable.
The biggest event of the "Singing Revolution". 7 months later Lithuania declared independence effectively becoming the first domino to fall. Other nations followed within weeks resulting in collapse of the Soviet Union.
That darn free market. If only there was some way to, idk, regulate it, or something. Unfortunately, it's an inevitable law of nature and we are helpless in the face of its wrath.
Same here; I block ads. I am denying revenue to the website. What I am not doing, is giving a middleman that money instead.

My conscience is okay with ad-blocking. It is not okay with helping someone steal.
Apple has a right to sell hermetic, unmaintainable boxes. They should have no say on their customers using alternative means to fix these boxes unless it wants to bind them in a contract.
Reddit discussion is interesting too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/cwsz8u/elon_musk_on...
Whilst perhaps a bit tangential to what you're looking for, "Database Reliability Engineering" by Charity Majors is an excellent read, and has a chapter covering all the major steps in improving observability in existing apps / infra (here applied to databases).
⅞ Also, popular notions, such as open source automagically eliminating lock-in, turn out to be not entirely true.

I have a feeling author tries to force this on readers, as I wouldn't consider it a popular opinion at any rate
Part of the answer is in how they collect those numbers.
It's kind of a sign of inefficiency as, at least as far as you can tell, a similar task was done in 1/10th of the time on a 1/1000th as powerful system. This may not be true, but just as you can't get to know every person you interract with you need to use plausible correlations to make judgements and predictions.
Uber lost over $5 billion in one quarter. They can’t afford too much of anything.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20793793/uber-5-billion-qu...
To reduce confusion more: The QR scanner only works on the camera accessed via the lock screen, but not from the actual "Camera.app"
Yeah, it’s a shame that Tesla does’t have CarPlay. However nice Tesla’s interface is, most of what I want is access to stuff that I already have on my phone.
> You can't blame code camps as to why programming in the 90's has not gotten a magnitude easier

It has. Things that were hard problems then are simple tasks today.

OTOH, if you want to get paid a princely salary, you have to do the things that are still nontrivial. The stuff that has been trivialized has stopped being valuable, the things that used to be intractable but have been reduced to merely challenging have taken their place as worth paying for.
I'm looking forward to people talking about "Big Weed" in 20 years with the contempt currently reserved for "Big Tobacco."
Regardless of how Chromium is run [1] Brave is still in a position to make their browser work however they want. They can choose what Chromium features to enable, and take the code any direction they want.

[1] Your categorization doesn't match what I've seen. Microsoft has been driving substantial changes as Edge moves onto it.
Wow, this is fascinating. I had no idea, either. I def always thought what they showed people thought wrongly. Granted, I don't live anywhere near these areas so it's never anything I have had to worry about in real life, but still fascinating and interesting to learn about it more. Very useful to know.
Tends to not apply to rich people, as you’ll just keep your nice summer car parked across the border 6 months of the year.
When a project has been going on for decades, things that have only changed in the last few years are not going to be immediately and obviously understood by people.

The legacy of confusion and weirdness around the Perl 6 project is a legit problem, even/especially if it's no longer true and now Perl 6 is like a normal language.
Would you care to speculate again about how much time I've spent reading their literature before this discussion? I promise you, it's non-zero. Please try not to dismiss people's positions that shallowly; it's a disservice to the conversation we're trying to have, and it's rude.

I am involved in a number of communities that engage intentionally, even sacramentally, with psychedelics. The amount of sheer bullshit they continue to promulgate on that matter, about which I consider myself advanced-lay to burgeoning-expert, is staggering, and is sufficient for me to be default skeptical of anything else they might have to say. When you lie to me about things I know something about, I'm obligated to trust the rest of your oeuvre somewhat less, aren't I?

Finally, I said nothing whatsoever about the conclusion of the paper under general discussion. In point of fact, I generally agree with it.
Really the only issue I have with carplay is

1. That I can't tell siri to play things on spotify, etc, although apparently siri support for spotify is coming. I'm on the iOS 13.1 beta but it's still not there

2. Carplay limits the listing of bands/albums/songs in the menu. I get that they don't want me visually scrolling through hundreds of albums while I'm driving, but since there's no carplay search, and I can't (yet) control spotify with siri, this means to play the music I want I have to pick up my phone and select my music from there. Much less safe than if they just listed all my music on the screen.

They list far more albums when the car is at a stop, but it's still not all of it. Scrolling through my artists gets me to about G before it stops listing.

Siri support for spotify really can't come soon enough for me.
Well, either they are, or the PR department is reading too much into it and s/he's just explaining the reason why PR departments avoid it.
> I would never opt-in to ads even if there was some upside. That's like asking if I'd like to see billboards on a beautiful drive through Colorado and in return you'll throw some change in my center console. I'll just take the beautiful drive and you can keep the cash.

This, and the fact that Brave has decided to get in bed with advertisers at all seriously undermines their credibility.
> Wikipedia: “An optimizing compiler is a compiler that tries to minimize or maximize some attributes of an executable computer program.”

> So the algorithm designer (viewed as a machine) is an optimizing compiler?

> Nonsense. Compiler designers have narrower focus. Example: “A compiler will not change an implementation of bubble sort to use mergesort.” — Why not?

(No answer is given.)

An optimising compiler is permitted to replace your bubble-sort by a merge-sort, provided apparent program-behaviour is unchanged.

The only reason real compilers aren't likely to do this, is that the transformation is too sophisticated/too specific, for current compiler technology.

> compiler designers take responsibility only for “machine-specific optimization”. Outside this bailiwick they freely blame algorithm designers

This is wrong.

It's wrong in the shallow sense: in a typical modern compiler, most optimisations are performed at the level of an IR, not at the level of the particular target machine language. Common subexpression elimination, for instance.

It's also wrong in a deeper sense: compilers may apply optimisations which improve time complexity. That is to say, they may transform the algorithm itself. The target machine has no bearing there.

Consider the following unoptimised loop:

int found = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i != n; ++i) {
if (arr[i]) {
found = 1;
// break;
}
}

An optimising compiler may be capable of essentially uncommenting the commented-out 'break'. This changes the time-complexity of the scan in an obvious way.

This optimisation could even be applied by a source-to-source optimiser, with no awareness of the the target machine.

(We can nitpick about possible tradeoffs regarding branch-prediction when adding the 'break', but I think my point is clear.)
Anecdotally, I've heard that story a couple times.
Interesting, i have never seen a browser ad in my life... is that in US or something?
Fuzzing can feed all kinds of bad input into a program where the correct result is to print an error message and/or return an error code. E.g. if I feed a malformed PNG into a texture conversion tool, it probably should print an error and exit nonzero, so we can't automatically mark those as test failures.

On the other hand, if my same texture conversion tool hits a debug assertion about a corrupted heap, that should be a test failure. On the one hand, it was kinda predicted - someone wrote a debug assert to catch it after all - but on the other hand, it certainly wasn't supposed to happen, no matter what kind of bad input we were fed. It indicates we're corrupting memory, quite possibly in a way that won't always do the right thing of exiting non-zero, especially if the debug assertions are disabled in release builds.

Even when your encounter assertions in more predictable code, it's often the case that a non-zero premature exit actually wasn't the desired response. Maybe you wanted to gracefully exit with a better error message. Maybe you wanted to log an error and continue execution when your HTTP server recieves bad client requests, instead of creating a denial-of-service CVE. Maybe you had a bug, and your code is mishandling entirely valid input.

If you're using assertions to indicate "I believe this should never happen" instead of a general error reporting tool, it can be very nice to make them test failures when fuzzing.
I hope the default never flips.
Which is why they're not called Perl 7 and Perl 8 respectively
there's a fairly deep schism between the "I should be free to harm myself however I want" crowd and the "we need to protect people from themselves" crowd. the first group doesn't necessarily believe drugs are as safe as they publicly claim, but they fear that discussions about harm are the first step towards issuing or doubling down on bans. they don't think it becomes safe by winning a debate; they just don't want to let the second group win the debate on the record.

the second group, for their part, tend to come off as sanctimonious busybodies.
IMO this chart still doesn't adequately explain the data. That color scale reads to me like storm intensity.

The crux of the problem is that visualizing uncertainty is hard (remember the NYT 2016 election needles?) especially in a geospatial context where screen X and Y are meaningful. Animation can certainly help but interaction is even better.
Depends a lot on where you come from. BMW is very fancy in Denmark. In Switzerland, it’s one of the most common cars.
Ha, call it the libertarian / data-driven approach. Frenzy over drugs like marijuana and cocaine fueled the "war on drugs" which devastated communities -- so I'm a proponent of throwing out simple possession convictions and decriminalization, legalization in my mind will help keep it out of the hands of minor (I have no data). I'm for everyone knowing what they're getting into.
In that scenario though, wouldn't it be better to wait a little while until 5k monitors price drop?
Thanks for this specific info! If anyone reading this has done 23andMe, your ATK1 / rs2494732 genotype is available on there (search for those terms, it comes right up).
I was about 13 years old I didn't have much capitol to invest. I just put together the two pieces of the puzzle that housing prices were rising much faster than wages and that a products price can't continuously rise faster then the consumers ability to pay for that product. I guess the "smart money" missed that.

Now we have a bunch of presidential candidates that tell me they are going to print money all day long and a bunch of people who "know better" telling me that won't cause inflation to spike. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think BMW has something going for it with fit and finish, but I’d agree you’d get more bang for the buck with an Asian car.
I live in a hurricane area. We don't use the news for any information other than watching the weatherman stand in the storm and film, and satellite imagery while it's going on. We use noaa.gov, it has all those prediction maps. It's very good.

Here's Dorian's maps:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/144923.s...

For those that haven't been through these, the predictions do shift up to the last minute, so we'll check the maps every few hours just to see where it's headed. They update more frequently the closer it gets. Dorian's path seems to have moved a little south since this morning. Also, most areas aren't what you see on the news; they like to show the exception areas as the norm (shocker).
"Graphics like these need to be read closely and carefully. Only then can we grasp what they're really saying."

A cone showing the likely paths of the storm's eye seems like the incorrect graphic to communicate to the public. The public cares about how much rain and wind they are going to get. The take-away to me is that maybe we should just emphasize maps of expected cumulative rainfall and wind speed, and not present something that is uninformative (or prone to misinterpretation) to begin with.
They both return the site tensorflow. What were you going for exactly a specific page?
Below ~$45k/yr, the actual income tax rate paid is zero or negative after filing for a return. These are the 47% of Americans that Mitt Romney correctly described as paying no income tax.

That’s only if you believe in the fairy tale that Social Security and Medicare taxes (close to 15% including the employer’s side) go into a separate account and that those taxes don’t go into the same bucket as regular tax revenues.
If everyone is driving Toyota Aygo or Citroën C1s, a BMW 3 is pretty damn fancy.
I do the envelope method with EveryDollar.

I like the simplicity of everydollar, but I want some of the features you’ve built (like average for a category - so obvious and simple, but SO useful!)

How does this tool work in contrast to an envelope system?
I prefer firefox, but I'm on a mac and it runs pretty hot. I believe they're improving this though. Once performance is solved it'll be my default browser.
Does it work on Linux?
Ah, you're right, it's okay to take my money as long as you tell me you're going to take my money beforehand in a TOS that nobody reads. Caveat emptor!
So the source for that appears to be http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/oriindex.htm "Statistics on World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1-2008 AD" but I can't find the methodology used. It is definitely an interesting spreadsheet to look through.
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Well... there's no technical difference.

My understanding from the Apple/FBI fiasco is that it's an open question whether the US government is legally able to compel you to write and deliver custom code to your clients. But any local judge can issue you a warrant to hand over encrypted customer data that you're holding the key to.

But IANAL, maybe my take on that is overly simplistic.
FYI, EU is enforcing PSD2 directive from mid-September (yes, that's in two weeks). After that, all bank accounts in EU should - at least in theory - be available to 3rd party aggregators. I am sure Plaid is looking into it. This should allow you to easily expand to EU in near future.

(Obligatory note: the reality is that not all banks are yet ready for PSD2 and opening the APIs for their customer's accounts. But from mid-September, banks that are still dragging their feet will be eligible for fines, which should act as a good motivation.)

Anyway, it looks really amazing what you've done, and I'm really looking forward to services like yours expanding to EU.
I think the key take-aways are:

* any helmet provides significant protection vs. not wearing a helmet

* there is no correlation between cost and protection level

* there may be a correlation between protection and rotational-focused technologies (i.e. MIPS et al) but it's hard to tell because most manufacturers don't have a non-MIPS product anymore (where they do I don't see both the MIPS and non-MIPS models here)
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