skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have analyzed the claim, and it has no merit.

Out of 10s of thousands of code they're bringing just a few snippets here and there which frankly only deal with APIS (netty, Lucene) in a way that is simply normal to do.

A shameful FUD, Looking forward to read the official rebuttal.
What is the 'quite in the open' evidence you have of this?
Regarding keeping/losing old friends, I always believed that making new friends (and losing some of the old ones) is vital to someone's progress. Especially in a world that people relocate. I read this nice article about this here:

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/if-youre-not-losing-friends...
It is rooted way way way back to the Puritan ideal of doing the hard work yourself and not needing to rely on anyone else to succeed.
Not saying it's nice, but these are things a company like Lego needs to do, or risk losing trademarks on the iconic block type... I looked at the examples and they do show similarities to their IP so they need to sue or risk losing their own rights.

For the SW Lego sets, Disney will be sure to take a big cut of that increased prices on the product. Can't really blame Lego for that either. I can't say for sure regarding quality, this might be a thing?
I also seem to recall that standard car batteries respond poorly and inefficiently to trickle-discharge, being designed mainly for providing a lot of amps over a short period. Providing long term off-grid power is what deep cycle marine batteries are for, and they are a separate product.
The problem with Facebook (and similar) isn't just that it's easy the problem is it's designed to be addictive in order to scrape data and sell adverts.

It's a honey pot of whatever can be made by frighteningly dedicated amoral money driven software engineers and data scientists. The goal is to make a zero marginal cost product that uses your friends to make content and so entrap you spending time looking at adverts to make facebook money.

We regulate gambling because a certain proportion of the populations mental heuristics can be exploited by it. But we are now seeing incredible effort expended to find more exploits of peoples mental heuristics. Perhaps you are immune to facebook as I am immune to gambling? But it's only a matter of time before all our brains fall victim to something.
I’m going to be speaking at ReactiveConf in Prague, so sadly cannot make it to SF; hopefully see you at another conference though!
What I notice in Australia is when police want to pull someone over will often follow behind a car with their lights turned off until there is a safe area to pull over - then will turn on their lights. This might be a few minutes down the road.

Some people will immediately see lights flashing and pull over straight away without checking for a safe location, so by delaying their lights - it removes that out of the equation.
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LIGO does not record jiggling test masses. It records electrical signals that can be generated by jiggling test masses, and also by other means.

Every false alarm should be investigated to see what produces such frequent apparent events. They need to distinguish better real events from ersatz events, independently of simultaneous reports elsewhere or optical confirmations.
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Very cool!

I wonder why Google, a search company, is not offering this feature themselves. At least it got much nicer to search now with them offering transcripts of every video (you can simply ctrl+f with the transcript open) but it's still not as nice as it could be.
Because false positives would cause dangerous accidents as well.

And worse (heavy cynism ahead): they would make the car look stupid even when not causing an accident, whereas boldly plowing into whatever might or might not be an obstacle makes the car look strong and confident, right until it looks all bent and crumbled. Car sales are incredibly marketing driven and a self-driving implementation that routinely chickens out of ambiguities that look easily solvable to humans would be a worse marketing problem than twice the number of accident investigations Tesla is facing.
My only experience of VC money was during the dot-com bust. Worked at a pretty successful start-up that was good at what it did and was growing organically slowly but nicely. VC money came in and suddenly the CEO was obsessed with hiring people - to show huge amounts of growth.

I was sitting there saying "with a little bit of thought we can automate this stuff, go down the pub and watch the money roll in". It lasted about 2 years until everyone lost their jobs and everyone (VCs included) lost their noney.
Well, the most difficult part of Antichamber is that the 3D space is a non-euclidian one, so you have to adjust the way you think space. But I still think that the main game element is how to find your way from point A to point B in that space. And pathfinding isn't a trivial exercise in euclidian space, already, which is the point of the article.

I recommend the Talos Principle, even though I haven't finished it yet. Some challenges are quite hard, and it has even more spatial reasoning than portal. Here also, enigmas revolve around getting you from point A to point B, but you usually have to carry along some tools to help you. This often ends up being a variant of the Hanoi tower, or the wolf, goat and cabbage, but in a space with more than one dimension, unlike those classic riddles. And there is some lore hidden in the game world that can be quite interesting to puzzle together.

Now, if you want more portal, the game modding community is quite profusive around Valve's IP. You have Portal stories: Mel, Aperture tag, Portal: prelude. The quality is often worse than complete games, but the puzzles can be quite challenging.
This is very sad, but other than donating to the Internet Archive what can we do? Feels like we'll know more about certain periods of the Byzantine Empire than 1996 online culture in the near future.
I have been wondering for some time if some kind of randomization of the fingerprinting parameters would be better than trying to be standard/anonymous. If the fingerprint changes often wouldn't it become completely useless?
It's not quite 100%, the merchant has costs associated with using cash: The time a cashier has to spend counting the cash register's content, time spent on bank runs to put away earnings/get extra coins for change, some fees associated with it, some amount that gets "lost"...

I remember the cost was less than credit cards take, but not much lower than Girocard payments.
For our firstborn, the (finnish) hospital provided us with a family room for 3 days. Due to the circumstances of the birth, it was me (father) who got all the instruction at that point. I actually got to teach my wife how to change nappies and bath the baby afterwards :)
As long as browsers are inherently insecure in regards to fingerprinting protection, the only viable protection is to create an extensive list of known JS fingerprinters.

Additionally one needs to disallow all third party javascript sources by default.

Both strategies are possible with a good content blocker.

These strategies protect against all known and almost all unknown fingerprinting scripts. The only scenario where it doesn't work is unknown first-party scripts, but cross-site tracking is impossible.
My feelings as well. What we really need is a ansible script or a docker file, which would build a Jenkins instance which everyone could use. You would of course need different tools for various build setup and technologies, but CircleCI is far from point and click anyway. I really which I would spend all the time I wasted on their config to build the above. This way everyone could run 5000$/mo of CircleCI on a 50$/mo bare metal.
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You can get more than enough food for 2 people with like $300/month. We get that in Europe, and in comparison the food in the US is dirt cheap (not to mention wholesale/bundle deals like in CostCo etc).

One should be able to get a basic house somewhere and only pay like $600 - $800 month. Doesn't have to be Manhattan, Iowa or Missouri or Alabama would do.

Furniture you can buy dirt cheap, you can have a house full of IKEA furniture for $3000 (one off cost), and IKEA is not even the cheapest option (second hand, etc).

Are utilities (electricity, water, internet, mobile I'd say) more than $200/month in the US?

What would the costly "entertainment" be? If you have internet you have movies, games, reading, social media, and music for free or next to free (e.g. a couple subscriptions at $20/month).

Since you don't have to work, you can also entertain yourself in all kinds of ways impossible for an office drone during regular hours, including daily walks, treks, sports, painting, music practice, creative cooking, etc... Most are close to free to do.

These add to $1400 or so a month, for a couple of to. They could surely do some stuff with the rest. And if they can do an occasional work gig, they can easily take vacations, put some money in the bank, etc.
> At 200 ft it's quieter than standing next to a running car.

Really very loud then for the people around you in a nature environment.
perhaps people at risk of stroke become vegetarians, while for some reason people at risk of ischaemic heart disease are simply not recognized of being at risk, and hence don't become vegetarian in response?

does the article explain how or why vegetarians are at higher risk of stroke?
Magma is, for practical purposes, infinitely conductive. Only atmospheric EM events are plausible causes of spurious correlated events.
Banks have been around for hundreds of years. All I'm proposing is that there is a legal right for people to hold a bank account of some form, where they are able to put their money so they don't have all their life savings in cash under the bed. I'm not suggesting that we ban cash at all, just that people have a right to securely store their money and the option to use cashless transactions if they choose.

Being legally required to hold a bank account use cashless transactions is just as much of a violation of one's rights as being barred from opening a bank account and being forced to use cash for all transactions. Two sides of the same coin, so to speak. It's not about allowing people to transact in cash, but allowing them alternative choices, all of which should be legal.

If you can't hold a bank account (because the banks have decided you're not allowed one for whatever reason), you need to use cash for everything. This means you always have a relatively large amount of cash on you. Not only are you now at greater risk of burglary or robbery, the consequences of being a victim are now even greater. You also can't put money in a savings account, or pay for things online.

I've had my house burgled and had large amounts of cash stolen from me before. There was nothing the police could do. Even if they caught the burglar, the money wasn't coming back to me. It was a significant hit to my personal finances at the time.

Bank accounts and cashless transactions aren't just a way for the government to keep tabs on the population, they're also a form of security for the general population.
In germany, a similar feature exists. Unfortunately, these nurses are so much in demand that you have to book them when you are planning on having a child (atleast where I reside).
No, it's a longitudinal study (it looks at several existing groups with different levels of facebook use and gives them a survey to measure life satisfaction). This can extablish correlation, not causality. The causality can be completely reversed from their hypothesis - unhappy people use Facebook more.

Only an experiment, doing an intervention on a group, can establish causality. You stop eating for two days, you're starving - hey, not eating causes starving, who knew ? In this case, if you can make low-Facebook-using groups to use a lot, and vice-versa, and measure the effect of this intervention, that would establish causality. However, you can imagine the practical difficulty of ensuring people change their habits. They rarely do it when it has a positive impact on their health, they certainly won't do it for an experiment. This is called patient compliance in medical jargon.
a.k.a. post hoc ergo propter hoc
Imagine it like this: It feels like toxic propaganda that doesn’t jive with reality or empathy for anyone- an every man for himself lack of community and warmth. And for some, it feels even worse: it feels like the pressure to pretend you are slways doing well, even when homeless and starving, lest you appear weak and thus marked as such in a society that shuns anyone who doesn’t look wildly successful and wealthy and somehow like a celebrity.
That's just bullshit, a narrative feminists peddled by posting selective pictures and ads of LEGO sets.

They even complain about modern "girl's Lego", instead of being happy that it brings girls to using Lego.

It also doesn't make sense to complain about a Lego car as enforcing gender stereotypes. Don't they want girls to build cars? It is so illogical. They claim girls are not interested in engineering (cars), because of Lego not catering to girls, and at the same time claim Lego cars don't appeal to girls.

As if company bosses would shun earning billions by refusing to market to girls, just to enforce gender stereotypes. Companies want to make money. That's it. The new "themed" sets apparently sell better than the "random box of colored bricks" from the past.
Is there much of a difference? People consider UBI a "disincentive to work" itself.

Would a entrepreneur with a startup aspiration really drop it to become poor and be entitled for NIT?
Blockchain already has a usecase: currency
That's it, it's that simple
I think you mean InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState

https://github.com/zxlooong/jdk16045/blob/master/com/sun/jav...
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No rewriting. Program must be migrated as-is with as little manual change as possible. If the customer wants to make changes later that's up to them.
Earlier on HN:

261 comments in 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817728

262 comments in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12547353

Let's see if this time it gets 263 comments.
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That's true, I guess it works out to be the same.

Isn't Sydney wonderful!
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ACSL (acsl.co.jp) is the first drone-making startup to enter Tokyo's exchange. They seem to have clients and are making money.

They do B2B drones though, maybe this article was too focused on B2C companies.
More data is almost always better, but I disagree on what's sufficient. If a specific use case ranks moderately high vs. the entire US fleet, then that single piece of data is sufficient.

The driver that's above average but could be more above average isn't where we need to be fixing things. Not when there are millions of drivers that are either hyper-aggressive or senile still on the roads.
Protective Meat.
>Primaries/caucuses are managed at the state level, and are not controlled directly or indirectly by the DNC.

Why would that be?
https://www.taekeyboards.com/single-post/REVIEW-QISAN-MAGICF...

and there are more good suggestions on that website.
The story about "Held der Steine" looked to me like an attorney going too far. Stupid move, stupid shitstorm ensues. The design of the classical Lego minifigure OTOH is protected. It's completely legal and understandable to go after copies of that.

But with "Bluebrixx", I'm not so sure if this is all. There might be more about that. Look for example at this page: https://www.bluebrixx.com/de/bluebrixxspecials/scifi

This looks very much like something fishy going on. They call them "Bluebrixx-Specials" but they are clearly not original designs.

What does a "classical ambulance" do in a category called "SF"? It looks eerily similar to Ecto-1, that's why. I also suppose they don't have the license to do classical Battlestar Galactica models.

They should be very careful about such things.
Seems pretty competitive to me if the third fastest in your benchmark uses dancing links.

I do think it's probably true that dancing links wont be literally the fastest, but the neat thing is that it's a generic algorithm that solves ALL total cover problems, not just Sudoku. Of course a tuned Sudoku solver could probably beat it (optimizing around the Sudoku-specific parts), but it's nice to see that it's at least in the running.
It's not just software -- manufacturing sees a new "methodology" every other year.

Sometimes two or three in one year.
But the wisdom of the crowd, the price signal, only works if professionals look at the stocks. And it requires only a few [hundred] of them (with big enough leverage, so their position shows up).

For the top 500 stocks there are enough people (and algos) going over every bit released by the corresponding companies.
My guess: the data was exfiltrated by a FB employee intending to use it for their own startup.
Yes, because when the management of the money supply is put into private hands, that has worked so well. Company scrips [1] were great for the people.

You haven't actually proposed a solution. Who should control the supply of money? Private companies? Because they have an even worse track record to governments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
People talk a lot about the tech bubble and forget the VC bubble
The father has 11 days of paternity leave in France.
And provide a big stick to whack the unfortunate employee.

"You ticked box AX-two-alpha-seven. Do you know what that means? And you didn't complete the P12a checklist. That's gross misconduct. You're fired."
They are also the world largest tire manufacturer ([citation needed] for this year but at least for 2011 it was true).
I created a simple browser extension for this purpose, "YouTube Turbo Button". As mentioned in the other comment, it can be easily done through the console, but I found having a button for it more convenient.
I like to sleep with a folded in half (double thick) Pendleton wool blanket. It adds weight and is much more heat-friendly than other blankets.
>Only established by the supreme court in 2008.

It was established when the Bill of Rights was ratified. The Supreme Court never held that there was no individual right to bear arms.

>There is no amendment saying either people have an individual right to possess a firearm, nor an individual right to have an abortion. These are inferences.

I'd argue it is the only reasonable interpretation. Interpreting "people" as some sort of collective right is absurd in view of the other uses of "right of the people" in the Bill of Rights, such as the first amendment. Nobody would argue the "right of the people . . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is limited to some collective right. Or the 4th amendment, certainly, you wouldn't say that is a collective right. And the 10th literally distinguishes between the states and the people.

Though I don't agree with it, there is a decent argument that it's an individual right defined in scope in relation to a well-regulated militia. United States v. Miller, the only case before Heller that really discussed the second amendment, seems to take this view. Short barrel Shotgun bans were okay because it wasn't related to a well-regulated milia. But that doesn't imply you have no right to bear arms that are relevant to a milia like handguns and battle rifles.
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Why are Remainers so convinced that staying in the EU is best for the UK?
Tell HN: Yahoo is completely down, including mail
It appears that Yahoo is completely down worldwide, with some reporting that only the mail is unavailable and others that both the website and the email are down.

https://twitter.com/DowndetectorUK/status/1169494174850269185
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Developing world can imitate it
Sure, but since we're discussing numbers based in reality it should be brought up.
Oh yes! "We monitored a few phones for a few minutes and are now so convinced that we write an article telling everyone to relax"

While I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, such half-assed pseudo-proofs actually make me believe there might be something behind the underlying conspiracy theory.
It is considered the same as homicide for the purpose of counting gun deaths. The reason for counting them the same is that both are deaths by gun. Likewise, hammer homicides and accidents are counted the same too in that stat.

They are not counted the same in homicide stats.
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I grew covering myself with two comforters just for the weight. Switched recently to a cooling weighted blanket and I no longer need a fan and AC all the way down to keep me cool. Still keep the fan for white noise tho.
Minecraft now releasing obfuscation maps for all releases
Hopefully it is proper research and not just trying to find clever ways to make money from it
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And I would contend that very important nuance is all too often lost, it people tend to use it in reference to gun homicide, and often make comparison against other forms of homicide. Doesn't make sense to compare gun homicide + gun suicide to, say, hammer homicide.
Maybe it's a social thing where it feels better when you're not alone?
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I'm not proposing that bank accounts are a legal requirement, but rather that access to banking is a legal right.
> Silicon Valley’s culture of “move fast and break things” meant business leaders were less concerned with reliability and more focused on game-changing discoveries.

This too is a pendulum. And I for one am looking forward to the pendulum swinging back just a little closer to reliability. Especially in terms of security models and secure by default innovations.
I understand they're both phone jacks, and I think my comment makes that clear. But I mean, the context is that USB is having yet another version, so their comment ("some technologies are already perfect") seemed to be that the original 1887 jack is precisely the same revision of the phone jack he doesn't want removed from his mobile phone.

I hadn't actually thought of the two meanings of "phone" in my comment, I understood that "phone jack" refers to telephone switch boards. I just assumed they were talking about removal from mobile phones because that's where those jacks are notoriously being removed.