skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall recently reading a paper from back when the price of polysilicon was at its peak, which it discussed. Since then, adjust for inflation, its price has declined by a factor of 70.
Why would anyone vacation in China? There are so many better options in Asia.
GNU/Linux Decapitated Leadership
By "nonmetallic pellets used in low-power replica air guns" are they referring to airsoft BB's?
Some startups are profitable from day one. Others have a feasible plan to reach profitability, even if they never quite make it there.

Still others have no hope of ever becoming profitable, and their creators and backers know this, but hope to cash out by selling equity in their fundamentally worthless business at an inflated value through a promotion scheme. It's this variety that can accurately be termed frauds.
> Sure we may have too many people

Don't just assume this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdJgEwMinM
I think we're way past that point already. Everyone with a phone already has their location tracked at least by their phone company. You might've even given it away to other companies willingly: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline.

I don't think there were that many unintended consequences from this tech. We got better traffic jam maps. And maybe a handful of criminals who forgot to leave their phone at home got caught.

I think this is one of those things that people growing up with the tech won't think anything of it (mom wants to always know your location) but old geezers will reminisce of a time where we still had to call a landline and talk a friend's parents first to see if they are home.
Since moving to San Francisco 5 years ago I have been attacked on the street 4 times and had property stolen from my home 3 times. In only 1 of these cases was there a witnessing camera.

I think there is a very real tradeoff between safety and privacy, and I personally feel like my city would be better off sacrificing privacy in favor of more safety.
I read one paragraph, and don't even know what it's about, and I get pestered to sign up for something with my email. Not cool.
You almost never use `new` in modern C++, and you would never use it as you suggest because it wouldn't compile, you would simply say:

MyType x;

C++ is nothing at all like Java.
Those fees exist to cover risk mitigation - i.e. a certain percentage of on-ramps are fraudulent and the fee disperses the loss spread to everyone who is on-ramping.

Unless this service has invented some new technology in fraud prevention, it's going to eat that risk at a loss to themselves.
I'm not clear on what the argument here is. Are current assault rifle regulations bad? Yes, clearly. But they didn't start out that way; most centerfire semi-automatic rifles that accepted detachable magazines would have been (properly) considered assault rifles under the original 1980s proposals. (The AR-15 itself, of course, was designed by Eugene Stoner to be a standard-issue US military rifle.)

The only thing I think we can conclude about the incoherence of firearms legislation is that they have staunch and effective opposition from firearms advocates. I do not think it is at all valid to look at them and say "legislators don't know what an assault rifle is".
There are people in this thread explicitly advocating killing people.
Is a recession coming? Yes.

Will it be in the next 6 monthes, no. A recession is usually quantified by 2 quarters of negative growth.

Will it be in the next year? Maybe. Global economies have been slowing down and so its possible.

Will there be one in the next 100 years. Yes. Here is a list of recessions that have happened since the inception of the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit.... People are humans and make mistakes. Sometimes the things we thought would help to make the economy grow actually make it shrink.

Unless you are interested in being involved in public policy, there isn't much to be concerned with here. All you can do is find something you enjoy doing that makes people better off. Keep doing it until you master it. If you do these things it won't matter if the pundits on TV are saying that the world is ending, you will be alright.
That's honestly what it sounds like.
I wonder if anyone's estimated the relationship between global change in temperature and change in QUALYs.
Interesting quote from his Wikipedia page:

In 1884, based on this work, he submitted a 150-page dissertation on electrolytic conductivity to Uppsala for the doctorate. It did not impress the professors, among whom was Cleve, and he received a fourth-class degree, but upon his defense it was reclassified as third-class. Later, extensions of this very work would earn him the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[5]

Arrhenius put forth 56 theses in his 1884 dissertation, most of which would still be accepted today unchanged or with minor modifications.

As someone who is just finishing their PhD, the above keeps me humble!
Gun sales are up: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/gun-sa.... There has been a bit of a slump in 2017-2018 as the industry corrects for what was a huge boom during the Obama years, but gun sales are still up dramatically over the 21st century to date.
No, it's because of cost, not fear.

In France, we don't know how much their first wave of reactor construction cost, because the accounting mixed military and civilian development, and the paperwork has been lost. What we DO know is their recent attempts have gone disastrously wrong, with cost ballooning far outside the initial estimates. New nuclear is no longer a practical option there, if it ever was.
Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Such as this person clearly needing "mental help" because they implied collusion/corruption. Nobody asked or expected anyone to believe anything based on their statement, rather we are asked to believe it must be insane to make such a statement.
I tend to work in Windows, Linux and MacOS pretty regularly... so I tend to follow a similar approach (node instead of python though). Windows-isms under msys(git) bash in Windows just gets painful to coordinate at times.

I am curious if people will uptake PowerShell Core (though not much of a fan there either).
This works because you're the person who uploaded the data, and because you have a shared secret with Hackernews: in other words, an identity and a link between that identity and the data.

Let's say someone else uploads a photo of my face to an image sharing site. Is there a way for me to prove to that site that the face belongs to me without sharing additional information?

This principle also applies in the opposite direction. Let's say a third-party noncommercial site uploads a photo of my face and makes it publicly fixing. In order to demand they remove the photo, I need to be able to link that website to an owner.

It's not that the systems can never be combined. It's that following either system in the absolute results in conflicts with the other.
"C18 is a “bugfix release” of the C standard. Whereas the intention of the C working group (WG14) has been that this release does not introduce normative changes (but one)..."
But the point is, it's not the US company's responsibility to deduct your country's sales tax for them. Some companies do as a courtesy to their customers, but they're not required to do so. It's your responsibility when importing the item into your country to pay your local sales tax. The US company can treat you like any other local customer.
Sometimes I think about theoretically committing a crime. Just running it through in my head. I feel like in every single situation I'd have to pull some seriously Mission Impossible stuff not to get caught on some camera. I realize most crimes are not thought through very rationally, but this feels like a rational deterrent to crime.

So in that sense I don't mind cameras. What would bother me is:

a) Excessive video retention. It's useful in the short term as a form of evidence but in the long term it's just creepy.
b) Proactive video analysis (rather than only reacting when something bad happens).

I guess with how cheap storage and compute are now, (a) and (b) are inevitable. So I guess I land on the anti-camera side of things. But I know that if a crime was ever committed against me I'd really hope there was video footage!
And at a minimum they knew he is former military thanks to that huge OPM hack several years ago. As he would have shown up on the list along with having a security clearance.
"How is the intermittency gap actually bridged. Tell me. I WANT to know."

There are several different ways.
Demand response is significant. Large users are already paid to reduce their usage during times of tight supply. It should be economical at some level to push that much further down the list. Some utilities today already do time-of-day pricing, so make it much more explicit and allow many more people to participate. The idea that we must allow anyone to use as much electricity as they want at any time is ridiculous.

For seasonal and time of day issues, the intermittency issue is mitigated by the fact that different technologies are strong at different times. Wind is most active at night. So the answer to "what do you do when the sun isn't shining" is in fact "install wind". Similarly, wind is weak in summer. Guess what? Summer has the longest daylight periods. So solar panels produce electricity for many more hours per day. "Use electricity during the day and use much less at night" is a reasonable solution. Again, the bullshit idea that we need to allow everyone to use all of the electricity that they want at any time needs to go die in a fire.
Pure comedy. Thanks.
Yeah, it seems like it. ️
Playboy seldom ever directly suggests the exploitation of women, and yet somehow people who enjoy exploiting women read it.

Perhaps someone is not so adept at reading between the lines. Just a guess.
iTunes uses FairPlay DRM for tv shows and movies (at least).
Honestly in this day and age, Amazon is better off having a service company come and change the tire so as to avoid workplace injuries and other liabilities. Most companies are able to bring spares from their stock.
Because it's a form of vendor lock-in, but for an internal vendor.

Also, is it really working for them? We're responding to someone who thinks it isn't.
This is deeply tragic. I wish the story gave more details. Based on the provincial governor's statement, it sounds like U.S. forces were relying on the Afghan government's intelligence assessment.

I also wish news sources would be more careful about suggesting that there are autonomous killer robots in the sky. The drone didn't target anything. A remote pilot did, based on information he/she was provided.
"Daimler [...] recently released its latest generation internal combustion engine and it might be its last."

"Furthermore, generations of combustion engines have long development timelines [...]"

"[...] they still might work on some specific parts to improve on their existing engines."

So this is the best moment for them to make this kind of announcement, which does not seem that much engaging.
They're working on it. In a tweet Nat replied "Dependency caching is coming this year! Biggest gap we know we have to fix."[1]

[1] - https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1166757981637115904
In the special case of delivery vehicles that applies. But the high mileage also means a phenomenal reduction in carbon emissions and pollution over those 300k miles.
Agree. If you limit the allowed use-cases and have strict access and retention policies this could be really helpful.

Of course it could be used for dumb shit like giving out jaywalking tickets en-masse. And I'm not sure there's any existing agency I trust to draw the line correctly.
I’m a researcher in this field. First, do you have any evidence that routes are unrestricted? I’m not involved in this particular test, but my guess is that there are extremely specific restrictions. In the more general case, the US government (primarily NASA and the FAA) are actively working on coming up with the regulations that will cover this on a permanent basis, and they will absolutely consider privacy among literally hundreds of other factors.
That sounds more like a criticism of microservices, which can definitely be overdone.
"Building nuclear power plants takes longer than that."

So fix that broken process. This is a nonsense result.
I am extremely critical of their government but China has beautiful nature and culture. I would love to visit if it wasn't so Orwellian.
The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America
Agree to disagree on this example I guess. "household" is referred to in the bill when defining re-identification, and this is an important improvement over the language in GDPR, especially when it comes to geolocation data, which is often sold at the household level (ie: Experian sells household level market segmentation profiles that tell you a lot about a person's behavior without directly linking to an individual).

The only other place households are referred to is in the section defining which companies the rules apply to, which is also pretty straightforward in a plain reading. If a company's number of consumers, households, or devices exceeds 50k, they qualify.

> (B) Alone or in combination, annually buys, receives for the business’ commercial purposes, sells, or shares for commercial purposes, alone or in combination, the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices.
Or watch Hans Rosling on how it's not a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdJgEwMinM
The sound of sand reveals its source
Yeah that is absolutely what it sounds like to me, these are toys that many people played with as children or would be willing to give to children to play with. Pretty harmless unless it catches you in the eye. They are specifically designed to not be dangerous. I've never heard of any other type of air-fired plastic pellets at least. Pretty enraging and hopefully Mr. Hohn is able to make it back to American soil very soon
> authorities have alleged that Mr. Hohn was illegally transporting ammunition

Is this all they managed to come up with? The bar for saber rattling is low these days.
Just to approach this from another angle: Teslas currently make up about 0.1% (very very roughly) of all cars in the US. From that, you’d expect around 40 fatalities per year, and increasing fast.
Velocity is a big part of the equation.
How do you know AnchorUSD, Zap, Abacus, or Sparkswap are not doing the same as Coinbase either?
But there's more than that... you'd also need a body of large thermal mass opposite the halogen bulb to absorb the heat, and then re radiate it, so it could bounce off the CO2.
Any action that causes the police to investigate and leaves them continuing to investigate what they think is a crime, is irresponsible. (Polk break in)

Using locking picking tools is destructive (it technically causes damage)

"Social Engineering" (What the physical access section is under) to gain physical access is not lock picking, although there's no evidence they used the tools? and not opening doors or windows they are not allowed to open, when no one is there.

This is stupid, yes, the men should not be put in prison, but equally Coalfire messed up bad, maybe they verbally got the ok then it's back onto state who messed up bad.

What if the cops had drawn weapons. Someone does need to get into some sort of trouble for this.
I guess it depends on a team's or even just a single dev's priorities. Does something need to be perfect to be considered complete? I like to stay on top of bugs but things like little refactorings or code cleanups I've been avoiding more until it's directly affecting what I'm trying to do.

I used to refactor and try and improve every file I needed to work in, but more and more I've been trying to make as little changes as possible in order to complete my goals. Leaving the code just a bit cleaner in each commit.
Ooh, I didn't know that revolving shotguns were a thing. Cool engineering.

https://www.alloutdoor.com/2019/02/26/becker-blow-forward-re...

I'd like to see these guns in more video games. Would be funny to have a game where "hard" mode is playing left handed, with shell being ejected into the FOV.
Yeah, it depends on our lifestyle and how we furnish it.
There's tons of gorgeous places on the mainland, and Hainan, and the Hong Kong and Macau SARs (although they've gotta do some more leg-work to exfil you from one of the latter two).
I can totally understand some repercussions if he had been attempting to fly with an airsoft gun, but small plastic balls? This is just absurd.
It's about as significant as IBM dropping out of the PC market because Dell,etc are preferred by consumers. The platform is standardized and the vast majority of AR-15s the public own have no Colt parts in them.

Colt are a big name, but from the perspective of the home consumer they are no longer significant.
This reminds me of the comic which has a machine gun salesperson trying to sell to a medieval king who says "I can't be bothered with that, I have a battle to fight!"
Will Apple Behave Differently When It Launches Its Spatial Computing Devices?
Yes.

Emplify, for example, makes it a point not to reveal averaged responses for subgroups of size less than 5, for similar reasons: https://intercom.help/emplify-insights/en/articles/1731829-c...

We should be making an effort to take such care with all customer data, even just when storing it. Mistakes are inevitable, of course, so small gaps that are soon fixed should be let off with a warning, with any fines proportionate to the amount of exposure and negligence involved. How would we do that? Maybe have an agency of experts tasked with determining the fines, and allowing companies to appeal those fines in open court. Like what GDPR does.

I'm a software engineer who works for a SaaS data analytics startup that has to comply with GDPR. It's not cheap, just like it's not cheap complying with all the laws restricting pollutants emitted by my car, but it's still completely worthwhile.

(My employer is not Emplify, although we are a customer of theirs. Good service.)
re: nonlinearity, I believe the word is irreducibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-flow_graph#Reducibilit...)
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had issues with the "support circle".

Usually Stripe is on the ball but I dunno, I had a very non-productive back and forth with them. Non-productive in the sense that it took a long time to get anything that was in response to my initial email and that in the end I didn't learn anything I didn't know before I sent the first email.

Their first couple of replies just tried to get me to use their hosted checkout even though I mentioned needing coupon codes early on which is not supported by that. I also included a super detailed explanation of my workflow (bullet points, using headers, in depth break down of everything) and it was clear their hosted checkout was no way possible to use -- not even the automatic payment intents was viable due to the lack of validation I had to do server side when using automatic PI. Manual PI with a million hoops to jump through or forfeiting sales with Charges was the only option.

It really felt like the support person didn't read the request. It felt like they skimmed it for 5 seconds for keywords (or maybe this was algorithmic) and then made a copy / paste suggestion from a script just to make sure they hit a daily quota of "emails answered". It took a number of these until I started to get responses back from someone who sounded like they read the initial email.

I'm thankful Stripe exists but the worst possible thing you can ever do in support besides ignoring a customer is having the customer spend 45 minutes writing the most detailed request for help possible and then getting a canned response that was already deemed not able to be used in the original email that was sent. It's just in your face proof that support didn't even read it. Then you have to spend 5 back and forth emails over a week just repeating what you wrote in the first email.

I wish multi-billion dollar companies hired support people who cared as much about the company as the CEO. I guess this is why solo devs and smaller teams tend to offer the best support -- simply because the person answering emails is the person running the business or is massively invested in it.
In short: laws against things that never sbould have been.

One can only hope they make sure it hits big actors more than any other ones, because they are what makes this kind of data collection dangerous for societies.
The article specifically mentions airsoft near the end,

> China has strict gun control laws, and it is potentially a criminal offense there to possess airsoft guns, similar to BB pellet guns, which are sometimes sold by online retailers as toys. It is unclear that carrying airsoft pellets alone would be considered a violation.
Just go to Taiwan: it’s Chinese culture without the Chinese government (or the air pollution, or the visa process, etc.)
how about we teach epistemology and logic instead.
"developing small batches of fighters with multiple companies, much like the Century Series of aircraft built in the 1950s, Roper said."

Do we even have multiple companies anymore? Sure, there's Boeing (Boeing, McDonnell, Douglas, maybe part of Convair?), Northrup/Grumman (Northrup, Grumman), Raytheon (I don't even know how many rolled up in this one), LockMart (Lockheed, Martin, part of Convair). That's 4, out of the multitude of 50s-era aviation companies: Consolidated, Vultee, Martin, McDonnel, Grumman, Northrup, North American, Fairchild, Republic, Vought, others I'm forgetting. There's 4 companies, optimized for extracting large dollars from DoD and CIA contracts, instead of 10-20 companies, optimized for getting airplanes on runways. I kind of doubt this will work. The DoD, and Air Force in particular, have quit getting things done in the last 30 years, in favor of spending money in all the congressional districts in the US.
All I got from the article was that the term pressi-tutes wasn't carved from thin air and people really are like that (blodget, ny post)
Millions of Australians' sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible
what percentage of FedEx pilots are ex-military?
In regards to improving the original dataset of 345/745M, I'm encountering this while I've been building an open-sourced tool at https://writeup.ai

I'm not certain how random users feel when knowing their selection knowing it's being used to improve an algorithm. In this case, it's relatively easy for me to log the prompt and the option that was selected -- just doing it felt a little ... bad, and I'm a little too scared of GDPR for a fun project.

The other thing is humans sometimes select the funnier option even though it may not necessarily be the best one. In a Show Reddit post, the most upvoted response is a Game of Throne's character Tyrion and a brothel story.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/d5s9yh/i_made_a...

Open-sourced Code: https://github.com/jeffshek/writeup-frontend
So they detained him and then found a reason: plastic BBs in a checked bag. Less dangerous than the plastic knives they serve with food in the cabin.

China strictly controls ammunition inside China. There is no way plastic BBs are considered ammunition.

... But if China does they better stop the illegal export of BBs and airsoft guns to the USA. Taiwan will happily increase production.
To any new grad reading this...Code Complete is still relevant !!
There's a long cultural history to China. Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Terra Cotta Army, Hutongs, Yangtze River, Three Gorges, authentic Chinese cuisine that will probably make you sick to your stomach, Guilin, Pearl River, Hong Kong, and many other places.

I'm really glad I went back in 2006 before national governments started getting snippy with each other and their citizens. I wouldn't go now because I don't really like the idea of being imprisoned without trial, but if you ignore the politics there's a lot to experience in China.
Read all the way to the end.