skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "living wage surcharge" doesn't count, it's a political gimmick from restaurateurs against minimum wage increases designed to stoke public outrage.

The biggest share in operating costs for a restaurant is rent. Now if we could see a "the-rent-is-too-high" surcharge, that might spark a movement against excessive prices for apartment rents in the Bay. Fat change this will happen.
Because it's absolutely emblematic. Hidden fees riddle American life. "convenience fees" and "processing fees" for everything from movie and concert tickets to hotel rooms.
But let’s take the original premise: the US government wanted a means of controlling how people thought.

Do you believe they abandoned that pursuit after a failed experiment 50 years ago? Do you believe they abandoned it forever?
Yes, but statistics should be used to corroborate, they are not proof in themselves.
Where was this!? They not only boot the device but they search it too?
Yes, but for how long is this going to last?
How to level-up your reading habits
It simply uses the sqlite3_create_function API, so it’s as fast/slow as your Python function. You can even use Cython if pure Python isn’t fast enough. I use UDFs quite a bit and the performance is fine without extra tweaks most of the time, but for something like pow I’d use the math extension instead which would be way more performant.

Btw, user-defined scalar functions aren’t remotely as sexy as user-defined window functions.
> If you own bitcoins in countries where inflation is double digit and you think they will save your family, think again: they would most probably get you killed or robbed.

How so? It's not like correlating who owns which address is easy, and any smart person has their funds distributed across several wallets. So if you rob me of my bitcoins and I give you access to a wallet that doesn't contain all of my funds, how would you know any better?
Relevant stuff:

How a deadly fall revealed CIA secrets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20893452

1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_...

'Poisoner In Chief' Details The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...
"It is not feasible to get much more energy into a material than 1 eV per atom. Most solids have atomic weights of 30 GeV/c^2 [*] which yields E/m = 3x10^-11 c^2. When you convert this into the more human Watt-hour/kg, you get 850 W-hr/kg. "

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-battery-energy-density...

I believe.. this is true, but not 100% sure. However the limit is higher with air batteries... as stated in another answer. The energy density of gasoline is high because it uses air intake for oxidation.

Also... part of why rockets are so big is because they also don't use oxygen from the atmosphere, they carry their oxidizer in the rocket.
Hindi has basically the same phonemes as Sanskrit. Any Hindi speaker should be able to pronounce the two d's and t's for you. And if you can find one who also speaks unaccented English, they can help you compare them with the English d and t. That said, by far the harder part of Sanskrit will be grammar and vocab.
Statistical evidence can be used as proof in the court.

Even if it's not given in mathematical form, common sense reasoning uses common sense statistics every day. You could always claim freak accident if that would not be the case.
Well, that depends. You could have gold teeth, and jewelry, so if you were really determined... though having all your teeth hollowed out and filled with gold doesn't strike me at scalable strategy, at least not unless you have a lot of kids. But all that was also only because we were on the gold standard. Which, contrary to gold-bug belief, wasn't immune from currency manipulation. The US government arbitrarily increased the value from about $20/ounce to about $30/ounce at on point, making the government suddenly richer in a way not much different than printing more money in today's fiat system.
that would be great, but it's apparently impossible, as explained in our link, isn't it ?
Why is Office your only reference here? Office also runs on Android. It needs to be more portable.

Other references: Visual Studio runs on WPF and many Windows apps are UWP.
Why is this even a concern? You can easily find it all online on torrent sites anyway.

Not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand.
I was recently greeted by Brew message that my Mac OS X is too old and is not supported :) It was simply a warning, the installation (GNU tar) run OK and gtar worked. The OS is El Capitan and it's just turned 4 years.
? are you sure?
When you work for a company as large as Google unless you are very senior, you are a cog. I am not making a value judgement.

I work at a small B2B SAAS company. We bill an implementation fee, an ongoing licensing cost, and costs per feature. If I create a new feature for a customer whether it’s a one off integration or something that will be in the product, everyone from the CEO to the customer knows how much value I personally bring to the company. That doesn’t scale and can’t work in a larger company.
> Either it works and you'll find it impossible to defend legalizing cryptocurrencies with money-laundering-as-a-service in front of Congress, or it doesn't work and prosecutors will slap money laundering charges on top of any crime that matters and you'll have a lot more difficult time defending yourself and your intent when you go to such lengths to hide your financial transactions.

Why? In most modern financial systems the ledger is not public. Why would I have to defend attempting to bring that level of privacy to bitcoin? It seems reasonable to want similar levels of privacy across instruments and doesn't seem illegal to use tumbler services, etc. I don't even see how that can be construed as money laundering. I imagine courts disagree but would love to read their reasoning.
It makes me wonder what projects are happening now, or recently that are not yet known.
> Either way, I think it reeks of pusillanimity.

It does, but "courage" is something you tell your troops they should have, to get them to kill and die for you. Tactics and strategy are all about cheating and seeking unfair advantage as much as possible (manipulating your own troops with tales of courage is such cheating too).
My application, does precisely what i want in terms of graphics, and runs at 600FPS. Explain to me why my users would benefit from me spending months switching to a different API? Life is too short for that. The loosers in all this are the Mac users. The reason to support Mac is to be nice to the users, not because it makes financial sense. If apple is going to actively make it harder why bother?
Read about "German physics". Third Reich Germany's scientific community suffered greatly because they had purged all Jewish people, many of whom were highly qualified and disciplined. Fortunately for the rest of the world, this had a deleterious impact on their war machine as well. I've heard it quipped that "Jewish physics" ended the war.
To the best of my knowledge, there wasn’t much of a difference in programming style going from GC to ARC except for a few exceptions like all those pesky CFMakeCollectable calls that ended up being no-ops anyway.
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-star
Not many people like to talk about this point because it seems off mode but those things made me quite sick. I was disappointed because I’m always in for a good burger no matter what it’s made with. (Don’t extrapolate that on me please!)

There were several threads on r/vegan that spoke to the same symptoms, but with only vague guesses to the cause—like the oils.

There is a lot of hubris displayed in the world of nutrition when any scientists I’ve spoken to in the research (rather than product) space seem to conclude that there isn’t enough known about the complex interactions that occur in our bodies when we eat a “whole” food utilizing the variety of compounds and their structured forms/proportions to say whether or not we can realistically and safely just supplement them yet. I’ve always been told, sure go ahead and supplement but just eat the food as well. Just don’t over eat. And eat mostly real food, shy away from processed stuff.
Call for quote to me spells 'go away'. If I have to call for a quote you are (1) going to overcharge me and (2) are afraid that your competitors can beat your price and/or (3) harass me for months afterwards with 'follow up' that I have no desire for.
And you get in the HOV lane...
I don't think that's an accurate summary of the research. One key aspect of their review is that they don't give much weight to (blatantly confounded) correlational studies. Looking at RCTs that "same risk" is tiny and not statistically significant. For example, looking at all-cause mortality, correlational studies find a hazard ratio of .93, while RCTs find a hazard ratio of .99.

They are definitely saying meat is less risky.
Very useful, especially when tuning or calibrating equipment. I find optimization so much easier on an analogue scale than a digital one.
That doesn’t work for Windows. The entire MO of Windows is that it runs old unsupported software forever. True, Apple did that twice, but they eventually drop support for the emulator/compatibility layer.
Many things are cheaper in Europe, eating out especially (you don’t even have to tip!). It varies of course, the Netherlands, France, and Germany are much cheaper than Denmark and Switzerland. Salaries are lower, true, but prices are fairly competitive to the states.
That Cutler guy only died in 2003, probably still as a respected member of his community...
After watching the Bill Gates Netflix documentary I was wondering what HN would think of the nuclear safety debate in regards to TerraPower's traveling wave design.
The english page of this article barely mentions experimentations on children. Other languages highlight sexual abuses and drug based experiments as part of sub-projects number 102, 103, 112 and 117. Apparently International Children Summer Camp was part of the project and were provided the children.

Sickening.
> Do you want the developer to spend months moving the code from one legacy API to a new one

If the situation demands it I would say yes. I treat it as one big refactoring job. There are lots of shims in old software libraries that may not need to be there anymore. There are also lots of vulnerabilities that a fresh set of eyes and a different perspective can illuminate. A product that began its life being developed by a lone developer may have an entire team now. The rewrite is a good opportunity to explore how it works and why certain decisions were made.
"If Malaysia-based capital becomes more involved in the scene, there could be dividends at home, giving the country more leverage to persuade these companies to set up operations within its shores and employ and train locals – a multiplier effect for both capital and jobs, say industry players."

If Malaysian ops is a poor decision if your VC isn't Malaysia, it wouldn't magically become a good decision if your VC is Malaysia. Which suggests that this strings-attached money might not be in the fiduciary interests of the company.
There are well supported ways to keep using OpenGL on MacOS and iOS. This company is offering a wrapper that makes OpenGL run faster on top of Metal than it did natively, and promises support for future OS versions indefinitely..

https://moltengl.com/
Seems hard to have any prominent integration without having libra related infrastructure on fb servers, and all infra with ”libra” on it is likely to get seized in a raid.

But sure, if libra is just an altcoin on unrelated hardware then fb won’t be affected.
Their IPO disclosure said they could profitable if they halted growth, so t seems we'll get a chance to see what happens when they try and hit the "profit" button. Hopefully it's a big button. And the should have, like, a whole bunch of people help them hit that button really hard? Maybe twice, just to be sure.
I was pretty astonished, reading the original article, that a poker game would allow having RFID chips in the cards in the first place. It makes sense from the POV of wanting to stream the games without needing a set of cameras for the table, but dang if it doesn't sound like an incredibly bad idea to begin with.

And yes, you're 100% right, just make the guy play under any other circumstances and see if he's still as good. A few people in this thread are pointing out that there's no conclusive proof, and while that might technically be correct, there are way too many independent red flags here to let this guy continue to play without checking it out somehow. I could believe that a random guy in Sacramento was truly the best poker player in the world without the part where the cards have transmitting technology embedded in them, but with all the facts here you have to admit something smells a bit fishy.

Really interesting story though, I'm convinced he's cheating and I'm really curious to see how (if) they ultimately figure out he's doing it. Seems obvious the RFID cards are responsible, but I'd like to see exactly what information he's getting (his opponents' full hands, or just "CALL" or "FOLD") and how he's getting it (hat? phone? microscopic in-ear audio transmitter? x-ray glasses?).
Tangential:

Interview with Chris Morris on his new movie exposing the malfeasance of the FBI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liV5wKAihh8
My (soon to be) former apartment complex only accepted checks or money orders for rent payments
That is because of the current lithium chemistry batteries. A more stable battery that wont blow up so easily after some damage wont have the same restriction
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning
It seems to me then that OpenGL should have been a library instead of a driver all along. Its original intent unfortunately has no bearing on what it has become in the meantime.

> Yeah but as it can clearly be seen, you cannot rely on Apple when it comes to keeping things working.

Well yeah that's what deprecated means. At the moment, developers have a bit longer to get on with the times though, so that's nice I guess.
In other words: Malaysia being Malaysia.
Because why fix it if its not broken?
Interestingly your two questions point towards a trade off in battery design. Current research is adding more silicon to the batteries to increase energy density but doing so makes the battery degrade.

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-tiny-silicon-particles-power-l...

"Silicon shows promise for building much higher-capacity batteries because it's abundant and can absorb much more lithium than the graphite used in current lithium ion batteries. The problem is that silicon is prone to fracturing and breaking after numerous charge-and-discharge cycles, because it expands and contracts as it absorbs and releases lithium ions."
First off, these diet studies are not science. It's a lot of drama and PR push by so-called "scientists", it's a bit sickening to see this crap play out.

Observational studies on diets or food intake are useless to draw conclusions that are then plastered all over Daily Mail and so on: people actually read this shit seriously.and it affects people's lives. All based on shoddy, PR-centric "science". I would actually want to see something like "dietfraudwatch" that shames these researchers who don't have high standards to begin with.
> I was curious, because I saw, probably like the U.S. did when they agreed to the exchange, that experimenting on humans like we did on animals could not possibly fail to give insights that would be almost impossible to get otherwise

Exactly! In that light, these war crimes were doubly atrocious. They weren't even doing actual science.
What is your source that margarine is more unhealthy than red meat? And what do you mean by "healthy" anyway?
Should be easy to disrupt his numbers: play against him with your cards always turned down. Do no look at them :)
Was wondering how soon an idiot would politicise faxes.
I'm willing to bet that the disposable income of the US/EU middle classes exceeds that of the Indian one at least 10:1, for now.
As a non-technical founder, should I enroll in a coding bootcamp?
For example, Hack Reactor. Was thinking the purpose is to get basic understanding of programming and being able to speak the same language as the technical folks. Thoughts?
I know that "did you not read..." comments are normally (rightly) down-voted, but in this case I think it's a reasonable question.

The article makes a number of bold claims, without citing evidence. This is only acceptable because it's a summary of a larger report which _does_ cite evidence, but the presentation of the page doesn't make this as obvious as it could. It would be quite easy to skim-read the post, observe that there are bold un-sourced claims being made, and fail to notice that the full report is available to download.
do not include sales tax in advertised prices

I live in Canada and we do the same thing here. I think it’s a good thing to remind everyone of sales taxes at checkout time. Sales taxes are regressive taxes. We should get rid of them in favour of a more progressive tax, such as land value tax.

Laws that mandate hiding sales tax by including it in the advertised price only serve to entrench a tax that should be repealed.

Edit: I just wanted to note that the vast majority of people I see defending sales taxes (i.e. VAT) are Europeans and the people opposed are North Americans. Putting aside the argument over whether it’s a good idea or not, I think this is good (albeit anecdotal) evidence that hiding/showing the tax in the purchase price at checkout affects people’s opinion of the tax.
On the other hand, I've been programming in Windows since about the same time.

In the GUI front I had to work on Win32, MFC, WebForms, Silverlight, XAML and WinRT.

I've been trough two DirectX breaking upgrades where we had to rewrite pretty much everything that touched the API because of deprecations.

Sure, old things keep working for users, but if you stick with ancient technology it gets way too hard to hire developers.

I'm not complaining though: I love writing code and upgrading things is a breath of fresh air. Every Microsoft API was significantly better than the one preceding it, IMO.
Encode Sans Semi Expanded WebFont
how do they authenticate over phone. Just curious. Key generator? Something else?
Call FIOS just before the 12-month anniversary and ask them for a discount or you walk. I always got to keep my "discount".
Heads up that OP seems to have posted a disproportionate amount of pro China comments in the past year. This just looks like another attempt at psychological manipulation and generating more sympathy for the Chinese. Don't fall for it. Unfortunately dang given some of things he said recently can no longer be relied upon on these matters
Has the typical software application actually gotten better with time? I feel like websites in particular and software in general have gone downhill since the early 2000s. Everything is more complicated, less clear, loads more slowly, and is wrapped in the UI-flavor of the week. Boring ugly websites, like boring ugly technologies, just get the job done.
Objectively, I don’t see a problem with this. It makes perfect sense to pool your resources and live with family until you get your own family. I’m not sure how much longer I would have lived at home if I hadn’t moved out of town for work the week after graduating from college.
> Explain to me why my users would benefit from me spending months switching to a different API?

The idea is that leaving behind old APIs will benefit driver and system stability for the entire ecosystem, benefiting your users in other ways. You might disagree with that view, but Apple is not doing this out of spite alone.

I'm not sure that switching to use a library like MoltenGL for this stuff would take months either, but you're in a better position to judge that I guess.
Number of states of the universe is a quantum value, not a classical one.
It’s potentially exploitable on iOS, but a UI issue has so far prevented the exploit from being useful. That’s not to say it couldn’t be exploited in a useful manner, and the vulnerability is still present. Continuing to use an unpatched version on iOS would be high-risk.
+1 to the above comments.

Governments that do this are either clueless or thugs. The market doesn't need their money, they need them to define a fair playground and that especially means defining how the state behaves.
I love the demo. Well done
That's rather disparaging. Unless you're drawing from some other source, it sounds like you're putting words in his mouth. Couldn't it also be as simple as "Let me do my job, which I'm trained to do"? You try not doing your job for 3 months and see how you feel.

Not everyone doing a dangerous job is just looking for an excuse to quit.
Location: Europe, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: well, it depends

Technologies: Java, Javascript, NodeJS, AngularJS, Angular7, ReactJS, Redux, jQuery, D3JS, Bootstrap, GraphQL, Rest APIs, GIT, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

Resumè/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-della-marca-25b55b26

English level: Excellent

Email: s.dellamarca@gmail.com
Pretty people don't always win at work
Presumably the CPU bug doesn't care for the exact functions involved, so wouldn't you have to do this for all of them?
I guess they don't have the resource to update their homepage last 20 years how they can update the app?

Their website still shows how long does it take to download files on the Dial-Up connection.
> hardly qualifies as battery anymore

Why not? There are plenty of battery technologies that use air as an oxidizer.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
No. The tech industry has a "driving people to drink" problem. This industry is toxic, the pay sucks for most people, the hours and working conditions are often those of a white collar sweatshop, and too many people use a bottle to cope because they don't know or have access to a better way.
Definitelly. To be able to respect developers in thier hard work ;-)
On the whole, yes, the UK is way better.

My current battle, though, is with Travelodge. I discovered the hard way their 'Flexible rate + Breakfast + Wifi' packagee refunds only the room and breakfast parts if you cancel. Despite the wording 'Cancel up until noon on arrival date', they withold the wifi charge if you cancel.

This isn't mentioned on the confirmation email, nor at the T&Cs link. The agents who answer the booking phone number can't do anything. There is no email contact. And their customer service phone number costs 13p per minute.

So anyone in the UK thinking of staying at Travelodge, don't! They are predatory scum...
Zuuuper!!! It works!

Unfortunately, the 'wikizero' solution works only with en.wikipedia.org, so I hadded

Redirect: en.wikipedia.org/

to: $1en.0wikipedia.org/$2

Pattern type: wildcard

Example: en.wikipedia.org/* → en.0wikipedia.org/*

There should be a solution for other wikipedia languages, but I cannot find it
It's also worth watching Wormwood [0], where Eric Olson investigates the death of his father, Frank Olson.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7306056/
6/10. Your earnesty and straightforward unpretentiousness still shone through. So YOU FUCKED UP BIG TIME BUDDY. lmao. <3
BTW: Apparently it works also with "1" and "2" and not just "0"
Remote control dogs developed for the CIA (2018)
> just the kinetic energy of a couple of liters of Neutron star alone should also figure into such discussions

That would have a mass _substantially_ higher than 1kg...
The fact that pagers are still in use by hospitals is a bit scary. POCSAG isn't encrypted, and it's possible to intercept messages in the area. One of my former coworkers did that as an art project: https://brannondorsey.com/project/holy-pager
Is there anything factually incorrect in the Wikipedia entry?
Fair enough.

I did follow the links, however it is a bit tedious to then make a picture from the endless mountain of comments on each issue, hence the remark.