skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the cost of all cloud services is similar, then maybe that’s just what it costs to run a cloud service? That’s not high markup, that’s just cloud being more expensive than on-prem. Or are you suggesting price collusion to maintain artificially high profits?
I've asked a few, and they've been pretty reasonable.

Of course, I haven't had something where I've had to ask DJB, so I may be biased.
Great product? Their backend, maybe, but their frontend is just a horrible piece of ux design/frontend junk.
Timsort and Introsort: Swift's Sorting Algorithms
Why GraphQL Is the Future of APIs
I disagree. My iPhone 7 usually takes better shots than my Canon 800D unless I actually put my photography knowledge to work. I'm scared. It's just better at calculating exposure, aperture and ISO sensitivity than the DSLR. And does great job at post-processing to hide its optical and sensor limitations.

Do iPhone photos look better when zoomed in? Of course not, but they do look better at "normal" scale, which is what counts IMO. And of course this only applies when you shoot "standard" scenes, the DSLR (with lenses) gives you ability to shoot things that the iPhone just can't.

Am I ditching my DSLR? Of course not, but that's only because I'm willing to invest effort in actually taking great photos, which isn't trivial (to me) and is much harder with the iPhone.
Employees who are treated rudely get their revenge with the silent treatment
They did respond to the claim of "requires due process to remove" red flag laws are temporary so in order to remove them all that is needed is the passage of time.

There hasn't been a test of the constitutionality of red flag laws with regards to red flag laws. However there is clearly a "compelling government interest" and it could be argued that it is the least restrictive in order achieve this goal.
There’s a lot more that goes into the success of a business than the financials that investment services firms have access to. It’s entirely possible for someone that interacts with a company on a daily or weekly basis to have a better idea of how well that business is doing than professional investors, especially if they also bother to look at the public financials.

Gathering this kind of information may be too labor-intensive to justify doing it as a profession but rewarding enough for an interested amateur.
That's just your bias and no grounds for violating it. In fact, if it was true the more reason to comply. But it is obviously false, seeing Google can still do whatever they wish without serious repercussions.
A lot of people would agree with you that prohibition was somewhat successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prohibition-era_gangs...
Government is us, the people. It's not some mythical entity separate from the society it exists in.

How far are you willing to go the other way? If the police knew where every single citizen was 100% of the time, crime rates would plummet! Super easy, fit everyone with a gps anklet, and make it punishable with jailtime for anyone who tampers with them or removes them. Tadaa!

It's a balance between fascism and liberty, between control and freedom. Removing cash moves that balance too far in the wrong direction, which is why we should oppose it, if we want a free society.
Ok. Thanks I see your point. Active traders set current market value. So if the price of AAPL goes to $1MM, then the indexes adjust accordingly. Cool!
> ultimately a lot of our current economic system is designed to serve those needs.

I simply don't buy that. The market for VWs is far, far larger than the market for Ferraris/Bentleys. McDonald's made orders of magnitude more money than any luxury restaurant chain. The same for shoes, pots, pans, watches, computers, jewelry, soap, etc. The luxury yacht business is microscopic.
That's one possible answer. If they're trying to make their car seem safer than other cars, it's a deceptive statistic to use.

But when the argument is "using the vehicle this way is a lot safer than the minimum requirements to be on the road", it's a relevant and fair statistic.
They did ask how the players felt, because the GP has a good point, and included it in the analysis:

"3.4.3. Enjoyment item

After participants in each condition finished their 8 h of gameplay and before the posttest battery of tests was administered, we presented an item to players concerning their enjoyment of the assigned game. This was a single self-reported response to the statement: “I enjoyed playing (Portal 2 or Lumosity).” The 5-point Likert scale ranged from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree)."

"The measures were controlled for player enjoyment in all models (when significant) to rule out any effect enjoyment might have in learning gains. That is, based on participants' responses to the
statement about enjoying their assigned game, for Portal 2 participants, enjoyment M = 4.32; SD = 0.93, while for the Lumosity participants,
M = 3.50; SD = 1.05. The difference between the two groups' enjoyment is significant, with a strong advantage for the Portal 2 group: F(1,73) = 12.69; p < .001. Cohen's d = .83, which is a large effect size."

"Enjoyment was a significant covariate in the VSNA ANCOVA model"
If you've got a child or two you might find you do laundry every day. We certainly do, although I appreciate using cloth diapers makes that more necessary than it might otherwise be.

But yes, hotels, prisons, hospitals, and similar places would be the initial target-markets for anything laundry-related.
To save others the disappointment of expecting a 2019 update, this is a cleaned-up copy of the classic text.
I'll bet he's not black.
You spent 177 words or 1,068 characters disagreeing with the article, but not one refuting it.
What are good podcasts about finance, tech, health?
What finance, tech and health podcasts do you recommend?
Not all the time, only when not paying attention.
This system was paying attention and still run into obstacles.
Can you imagine a human driver looking at something on the road and going "eh, I don't know what this is, so I probably should not brake".
Why? The algo should obviously be public so if you went to court you'd question the algo or its impl, not the computer. After all, you only want restitution and correction of the issue, not punishment.
It's sold on Amazon.de, at least in annotated form[1], and furthermore is quite trivial to find online - the Internet Archive has multiple versions[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.de/dp/3981405234

[2] https://ia800301.us.archive.org/3/items/Hitler-Adolf-Mein-Ka... / https://ia802801.us.archive.org/9/items/Hitler-Adolf-Mein-Ka...
There's ample evidence that inhaling smoke is harmful, for example, for the same reasons why smoking cigarettes is harmful.
Go 2: chained comparisons proposal
Phones that secretly listen to us are a myth
So don't indict the corporation, indict the executives making these decisions. The U.S. loves to issue slap on the wrist fines, but actually going after specific individuals for white collared crime does not ever seem to happen in highly publicized cases.
Using Docker Compose to Run Your Applications
What is the definition of liberty? It seems travel would fall under it?
Card payments, including contactless payments, can be done offline. However the card has to be configured by the bank to allow this, which I guess some do not.
That is life's way of doing it. Evolve, let natural selection take its course, rinse and repeat.
Are you sure you haven't read the Culture series? That universe is a 3D skein on 4D hypersphere.
What question is being begged?
Zipcar should get banned from such stupid practices and almost liquidating fine for customer deception.
Does GDPR protect the privacy of your emotions? (Linkedin)
No, it’s imprisonment.
If that's your list, I clearly need to check out The Talos Principle and Infinifactory. Minecraft and Portal are easily my son's favourite games. He seems to have lost interest in Roblox, Baba is You was fun but didn't really catch on.

He also enjoyed Braid, but many of the puzzles there were a bit too hard for him at the time. Maybe we should try again. And he's taken an interest in all the Supermario games now.
That's very different. You are talking about people making a decision on textbooks for one of the two largest markets in the entire US.

Yeah, that's going to be ripe for abuse.

Professors taking bribes at universities overseeing 30 books? Or even 300? Please. You'd have to be a complete moron to risk your professorship over that.

Perhaps an untenured lecturer in a big intro class, though, might be persuaded. Most of them are paid terribly poorly, and losing a job but gaining $5,000 in cash might be within the realm of possibility.
I got the same thing for my wife and she swears by it. I'm curious though, what do you do when you travel? We haven't found a good option for hotels, it would add a lot of weight (and bulk) to try and pack it when flying.
Tiered vectors have been around for a while. The paper for them came out in 1998. They've just always been rather underappreciated. I only found out about them through this thread too.

I don't think any of us mean to imply that you copied off another implementation; independent discovery happens all the time! It's great you've made this a usable C++ library and have contributed your own thoughts on the structure!

It looks like you're having difficulty with some of the resizing. The two array approach described here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10478260/looking-for-a-d... makes resizing a lot easier. You just double the size of the main array and increase the size of the offset array by the square root of two, without needing to fiddle around with anything else. You also get unchanged amortized time bounds.
Elastic may present it this way, but it doesn't need to be. Personally I decompiled different binaries numerous times in order to understand how an implementation works, but it never occurred to me I could "copy" the code somehow - the decompiled version was usually a big mess, so I had to figure out what is essential and reimplement it myself. In may jurisdictions this is perfectly legal. The jurisdictions of the USA and EU explicitly allow decompilation for the sake of interoperability.
Privacy is definitely at stake in cash-less electronic transactions, but going cash-less might be the only way to curb corruption in a country like India.

In India, only pathetic (<10-20%) percentage of people pay direct tax, what remains after corrupt bureaucrats take their share is what spent on development of the country.

It's no brainer on why cash transactions is the preferred mode for the corrupt. Cash-less electronic transactions, fool-proof audit backed by tech like blockchain seems like only option left to curb this menace and save the country.

As far as privacy is concerned, due to the loop-hole in the law, any citizen's bank account can be accessed by the authorities at any time; so cash-less transactions isn't going to change much here. Corrupt, don't use the bank accounts to store their stash anyways, at-least within the country.

But India is not ready for cash-less transaction anytime soon, as evident from the demonetisation of 2016 in which promoting cash-less transaction was one of the main arguments.
I guess I'm in the other group - bought a weighted blanket to try out and now I just have an expensive heavy blanket.
Hulu Will Adapt Margaret Atwood’s Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Why doesn't set -e do what I expected?
That depends how you look at it. Crypto also has other advantages that payment systems haven't: any arbritary amount from 0.00001 to millions in 1 go, instant (especially advantage for the large numbers, since banks cannot do that), smart contracts etc.

Dispute handling and chargebacks are also very disputable for wire transfers. I have to give my ID to the bank every few years, yet people get scammed with wire transfers all the time and get a "sorry can't do anything about your lost money" from the bank.
No TMA vehicles? I haven't seen an accident without TMA here, I think no one is even supposed to go out to the accident before the TMA is in place.
A lot of patterns and designs in software are about as old as the field is. Individual alligator don't get to live 200 million years.
Always give them something interesting to find first, to make their search seem worthwhile.

John Waters described how Divine would smuggle marijuana in her artificial vagina, which she would check in her luggage at the top. Once they found that, they'd decide they didn't need to search any more, without looking inside.

https://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2007/07/john-waters-on....

On Divine Getting Through Airport Security As A Drag Queen

Finding Divine's false tits in his luggage, Airport Security] would slam it back shut. He'd have his cheater on the top — his fake vagina — and [Divine] said he could come through customs with pot, they'd see the cheater and go, "Oh! Oh!" He would put the cheater right on top [in] his suitcase. Divine's cheater is at Wesleyan University at the Film Archives. Clint Eastwood's is too. No, Clint Eastwood is in the same place with me and I said to Clint Eastwood, "Y'know, just think, Divine's cheater and Dirty Harry's police badge will rest together forever!"
The Mathematics of Elo Ratings
All of these cases sounds like "administrative proceedings", which according to Cornell LII, have a (somewhat controversial) history of limitation due to the 5th?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/a...
For financial products, there is a correct price but it cannot be known for certain until far in the future. Stocks in particular represent a claim on the future dividends of the company, whether issued during operation or at the dissolution of the company. If both those future dividends and future inflation were known, you could accurately calculate the present value of that cash flow and get the correct price.
A partial match can still be linked to a unique identify on the backend. Just think of how a fingerprint scanner works, or face / song matching algo's, just need a snippet of data.
Circleci Security Incident on 8/31/2019
{disk.frame} is epic and “is much faster than” Spark on a single machine
literally: the fault of the EPA. Not Joking.
Fedex contracts out its deliveries. They are more like franchise. This is kind of what amazon is doing for the past few years.
Consider Brexit for a minute. The most recent polls show support for leaving, but throughout it's been extremely close. However multinational corporations are universally against Brexit - a global world is a more profitable world. And these same multinational corporations tend to have a strangle hold on the places most people get their news from. This can be from the news agencies themselves (Disney owns ABC, Comcast owns NBC, Time Warner owns CNN, etc) but more directly also from the way that people get their news. For most people that is Facebook and Google. And these corporations tend to promote what is their own best interest. As a specific example CNN ends up being chosen for about 20% of Google's news recommendations. It's a deeply partisan site that's not uniquely popular and has a dubious track record when it comes to reliability. But their agenda and Google's agenda fit nicely.

Consider the two topics above, combined. The global media has nearly universally tried to condemn Brexit. And while media clearly doesn't have as large as an effect as some would like to imagine (Facebook was seeing an exodus of young users before any media outrage - it's become the social media site for your mom), it equally clearly does have at least some effect. And so imagine Google simply swapped their bias. And was suddenly now disproportionately promoting messaging come propaganda against the EU, in favor of Brexit, promoting things such as the yellow vests in France, the various leave campaigns gaining momentum in other nations, etc.

When topics, even with the media disproportionately on one side, are so close - if that media that people were presented suddenly started lobbying for the other side, that would have a massive effect. I don't think it's hyperbolic to suggest that companies such as Google and Facebook could effectively cause the EU to collapse if they so desired. It's already on somewhat shaky ground with near universal media support. If they don't play ball with the companies that direct that media, that ground very much stands to give way.

That doesn't mean the governments are completely obsequious to the corporations, yet, but it does mean that the corporations are also in no way obsequious to the governments. And I think this interbalanced relationship is one major reason that we see increasingly see governments reluctant to do anything that could meaningfully negatively affect mega corporations or other very powerful players. It's also why I see us gradually headed towards more overt corporatism. Corporations grow exponentially more powerful by the decade, and this shows no signs of abating.
Wow, I wish I had known that back then. How did I miss that?
I'm from Belgium, which has one of the highest income taxes in the world. Why do you put "anti money laundering" as a benefit?
Why would a gun not count as property and/or liberty?
He seems to use volume traded as a proxy for depth of the market. Is that well supported? I could imagine a stable stock moving no volume because the price didn't move, while everyone is lined up eagerly to make trades an increment out on either side of the current price.
pfft. Built any “City” theme sets lately? All the police minifigs pack pretty realistic-looking semi-autos.
"ridiculous situation in Hong Kong"

How is it ridiculous? I can't think of any government, except maybe Canada, that would just allow a part of their country to secede, especially if the movement to do so was explicitly backed and funded by a foreign power (in the case of HK, the same foreign power that used to occupy that part of the country).
> also I believe if you want to be pedantic, if it runs on combustion it's a engine. if electric then a motor.

I think that might be less general than you think: General Motors hasn't exactly been known for their electric motors the last few decades.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine
> is it better than human drivers?

The bar is much higher than that. People accept people killed by other humans suddenly becoming ill or briefly not paying attention. We accept human error. We do NOT accept machine error.

So the criterion is that autopilots should avoid a lot of accidents that humans risk getting into (e.g. lack of attention) but it must not be involved in ANY accidents that a human paying attention would get into.

In the end, no one really cares about the overrall safety or the statistics of it all, when it comes to acceptance of new systems. What matters for public perception (so in the end legislation) will be an almost impossible bar for autonomous vehicles, because they don't have the benefit of acceptable human error that we give flesh drivers.
We got our oldest daughter one for college and she loves it. Very similar experience to what you've described.
+1. Same weight blanket. It took me a couple of nights to fully get used to it (I think I might have preferred a slightly lighter one, something in the 15lb range) but my sleep has noticeably improved in both speed of falling asleep and duration before waking. According to my CPAP machine, I have fewer apnea events per night, too.

For those looking to try one: go for whichever has the smallest pockets for the beads. It does make a difference in how smooth the weight feels.
> an obligation to make doing illegal things as easy as possible

(possible) != (as easy as possible)

The claim is that making illegal transactions impossible would cause societal harm.

I agree that it's an amusing idea, but it's also extremely important and not much talked about. Bruce Schneier touched on it in a 2018 essay (https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2018/11/surveillanc...).

> All social progress—from ending slavery to fighting for women's rights—began as ideas that were, quite literally, dangerous to assert.
Admittedly I'm very skeptical of big pharma, can't help but read it as we are stuck with innovation, let's just dust this old thing off and give it a facelift. Afterall ingesting psychedelic substances can be made legal when pharma profits from it.
Unless there is some way known to render them safe, as for the other toxic plants noted here: "L. sativus needs soaking and thorough cooking to reduce toxins", "Breeding programs are underway to produce lines of L. sativus that produce less ODAP", and "Some authors have argued that this toxicity is overstated, and L. sativus is harmless as part of a normal diet."

People carry on about cyanide in peach pits, but as a youngster I ate them like almonds and never suffered for it.
As another fire engine driver (now officer), this is why more and more departments are employing "blocker engines", old decommissioned, stripped engines to provide this security, without risking a $500,000 engine to $1.5MM tiller.

Also, anything that fails to assume that emergency traffic may be at a vastly differing speed from other traffic, or that emergency lights should _almost exclusively result in an autopilot disengagement_ (because their behavior should but is not always entirely predictable, particularly to a machine without sufficient context and/or experience) is to me inherently poorly designed.
GTM – Adding multiple triggers to a tag without Copying
It's also worth noting that almost every bank in Austria charges customers for the 'privilege' of having a bank account...
That depends on:

A) the standard lock-up period of a fund, or

B) an ETF under strong selling pressure can be halted by the exchange. Some contracts presumably allow an ETF manager to halt sales if high outflows and low liquidity? Certainly can occur with funds.
> their main profit is not data, it's customers paying for infrasctructure. They don't have to share any data at all

But the goal is explosive growth, not profit, hence marketing tools. Ask their VC.
But your phone number would still be in facebooks database...
Not just any white man but a land owner. In fairness it included straight and gay so it was more progressive.

My point was it is closer to the ideals.
I’m not really sure who this article is trying to convince. Besides, who thinks it’s the “phones” listening to us? It’s the apps that do the listening. Only recently are iOS and android finally clawing back errant permissions on these apps to prevent such behavior.
Everything seems reasonable to some people when it is applied to someone they don't agree with. Instead think about how a government can and will abuse a law. Taxes in the US were supposed to be temporary to pay for a war. Imagine using red flag laws and no fly lists to totally decimate the opposing political party, doesn't sound so good to give the government these powers. More people are killed with hammers and clubs each year in the US than with guns it just doesn't make the news like high profile gun violence.
This is funny. You can review the audio files Android records online. This feature is completely unknown to my parents, secretly maybe a strong word though.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6030020?co=GENIE...
I'd personally feel much more comfortable if white people and non-white people were subject to the same laws. Why don't we work on that selective enforcement problem?
MEPs don't write laws. You would know this with the bare minimum of research into the topic.

(List of random bad things)

I'll let you explain how those things are relevant. There will always be racists and crazy people. Mass immigration may create more of them if that's what you wish.

You also write about racism yet link to an article about Islam. Islam isn't a race, you can read more about it using an internet search engine.
Based on the fact that never seems to happen, no.
The three horsemen of the machine learning apocalypse