skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you dare to look into this topic, please also take a moment to look to another child protection non-profit[1] that (quite unusually) considers human and civil rights and sex positivity as one of its core values.

You might feel uneasy about "sex positivity" being associated with preventing child sexual abuse. They also have a lot of other messages that might initially repel you. But I also think that "when you associate shame and guilt with sex, you are facilitating sexual abuse"[2].

Here is a relevant Twitter thread about CSEM content filtering[3] and the secrecy around it. Secrecy that got them ejected out of a public National Center for Missing & Exploited Children meeting merely for tweeting about what was being said.

This Show HN open source project by Thorn seems to be an enormous improvement on that front. Would it be resistant to adversarial hashing (false positives)?

In my opinion, Thorn focuses way too much on technological solutions, and has an outright hollow message beyond that. Looking at 10+ of their website's pages, they don't dare to try to confront or explain the actual child sexual abuse itself, but only its most visible ill effects.

[1] https://prostasia.org/about/

[2] https://prostasia.org/blog/the-weapon-of-shame/

[3] https://twitter.com/ProstasiaInc/status/1178783074328424448
If can exchange USDT for BTC at the same rate that you can exchange USD for BTC, that's good enough to make 1-1 the going rate for USDT <-> USD. Yeah, it's inconvenient to exchange USDT into dollars, but the ability to easily exchange into dollars isn't the primary utility of stablecoins.
So do non-GPS plain old longwave and shortwave radio clocks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
Here you go, 57% prognosis. But personally, I’d bet for 95% in 10 years (in EU and US). Assuming the infrastructure is in place, I don’t see a reason for people to buy ICU cars really...

https://about.bnef.com/blog/electric-transport-revolution-se...

„Based on analysis of the evolving economics in different vehicle segments and geographical markets, BNEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook 2019 shows electrics taking up 57% of the global passenger car sales by 2040, slightly higher than it forecast a year ago. Electric buses are set to hold 81% of municipal bus sales by the same date.”
The S-word carries a lot of baggage since it ended so apocalyptically, so I don't blame them for wanting to move on.
What about DAI?

Will SEC have a good case that it is a security, if it’s proven to be a stablecoin? No expectation of profit.
> I feel that people tossing around the word corruption don't really understand what it means

I see. So your position is: I "don't really understand what [corruption] means" -- but you do. And because you possess the true understanding and I don't, nothing in my personal experience can possibly be evidence of corruption because you alone possess the true understanding.

Have I got that right?

> > The problem is that the rules are not applied evenly and transparently.

> Of course not. Never are

This is normalization of deviance. It might be true that the rules are never applied evenly and transparently anywhere and never have been, but it is one thing to posit this as a fact, and quite another to dismiss it as being inevitable (and hence acceptable) by saying, "Of course it's that way." No, it's not "of course." It's corruption, not just because the rules are not applied evenly and transparently, but because this is done by a group of powerful people for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else. Its inevitability is a self-fulfilling prophecy. By accepting it, you have made yourself part of the problem.
Without having signed up or even tried the actual product, I'm curious as to how many products are exactly like this. How is this different from Evernote, or the MS/Google equivalents?
You know normally I would agree with this sentiment, but we're talking about food that's being shipped in unsealed boxes.

I can totally see KK's side of this problem. It's sad to say in the scope of modern society, but how can you trust that this kid is actually selling you legitimate (and, without getting off track, unadulterated) Krispy Kreme donuts when he pulls up in your town?

What damage would this do to the brand if the person turned out to be a bad actor? If you were the CEO of Krispy Kreme, would you err on the side of caution and stop something before it gets out of hand?

A good friend of mine is a restaurant owner and he has a similar gripe about GrubHub and delivery services of this ilk. They bring the food cold, late, and mangled and now the restaurant's reputation is damaged instead of blaming GrubHub for how it was treated in transit.
That’s one of a litany of arguments. From sheer waste to limited capacity to funding international terrorism to missing all the basic features of the modern financial system to being slow, anti-efficient and rife with manipulation. It’s beanie babies for nerds. It’s a nifty theoretical solution to a hard CS problem, that’s found zero real world use in the last 10 years that isn’t crime. It’s great for crime.

I’m not necessarily cherry picking it for the top to make it look dramatic but that’s when volume peaked so more people bought in at that point than any other in the history of the currency. It’s the number that’s relevant to the largest group of people.

I’m picking this because these things can’t be true for it to be a solution to the stated problem: helping the Venezuelans.
They should call the new umbrella corp "The" so we get to say "The Facebook" again
They're still losing money hand over fist - no surprise there. Looks like that is hitting the stock in after-hours for about -5%. Biggest takeaway for me is that gross revenue actually grew slower than total trips (30% vs 31%), which is an interesting trend.
“As of December 31, 2018, our Research and Development departments employed 51,948 people (+5.3%) Group-wide or 7.8% of the total headcount.”

They also spend €13.6 billion on r&d every year.
Ibis: https://docs.ibis-project.org/

https://docs.ibis-project.org/notebooks/tutorial/2-Basics-Ag...
> What is the value add for a wifi-enabled alarm clock?

My dumb alarm clock is the last and only thing I possess that requires I set the time manually. And it drifts. Even my wristwatch autosynchronizes every night to the time server signal sent over RF from Denver. I've seriously considered modding the alarm clock to autosync that way as well.

My alarm clock is a sunrise alarm clock with a 100W bulb. Can't quite replace with a cell phone. But maybe with smart bulbs. Hmm, I might have to rethink this whole thing.
Mao had an awareness of what was going on. For example, like the Soviets during the Ukraine famine, Mao's government intentionally outlawed starvation being listed as a cause of death. He was also so utterly convinced of the correctness of his ideologically informed ideas about farming (e.g., he was under the spell of Lysenko's ideas about unproductively close spacing because crops of the same "class" would never compete with each other) that he would choose to blame failures on people's lack of purity for correctly following his ideas and on imagined conspiracies of deposed landlords.

However, what you're saying is also true; there are documented historical examples of local officials, terrified of Mao, setting up faked fields with scarce crops from the neighboring area being transplanted into a single field specifically to "impress" Mao during his visits and avoid his ire.
So let's say Tesla will be making 3K cars a day a year from now, or 10% of VWs output (I haven't checked the numbers, just trusting the parents's post).

That would leave some, but not much time for VW to get their house in order before they face a serious challenge. But that assumes that Tesla's and VWs markets are the same, whereas I believe VW also has much lower-priced market segments than Tesla.
Thanks for report!
Yes, I know... in the glChAoSP_1_40.zip archive appear that error (I zipped it from Windows).
I already had uploaded a separated glChAoSP_OSX.zip archive, zipped directly on Mac... and it seems work.
Thanks again ;)
No branding agency bills at $600/hr.

Source: Have triple bid projects to some of the biggest identity design (branding) firms in NYC before.

The rates are more like $250/hr.

However, if this was done in-house...it was probably a massive boondoggle (see Uber's 2nd to last rebrand led by Kalanick for more info) and giant waste of money. Too many emotions and stakeholders involved. Better to farm it out to an independent 3rd party and control costs with a fixed project-based agreement from the beginning.
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I know exactly what your talking about. the suberbs stretch for miles and miles with no downtowns, cafes, parks or libraries anywhere in sight. everywhere you look, its the same old 1 story L-Shaped house that spreads over the entire lot, with 2 or even 3 garages. On most houses almost a third of the living space is dedicated to garaging. Outside the house is nothing but concrete. The roofs have no slopes, no towers, no alcoves. the windows have no shutters, no flowers. People don't care for their lawns.
They're marketing to a younger crowd. Average age of a Porsche owner is 40. Go where the puck is going to be, not where it is. My elderly neighbor with his Porsche might not appreciate the reference, but mid 30s I enjoy it.
Tangential question: I'm curious how many people (here on HN, or in general) learned SQL before they learned more traditional programming (e.g. Python, Java, C)? I learned traditional programming (through college) and only stumbled upon SQL years later (someone left a "How to use Microsft Access" book around at work).

I absolutely love SQL, and am in the middle of writing a book on how to use just SQLite for large, complicated data work. My target audience is programmers, but also non-programmers, because I think SQL is vastly easier to learn than something like Python. The tradeoff of course is that SQL is much more limited a framework, but it's more than enough to do data work (all the stuff that isn't visualization or complex stats).

When I lived around Palo Alto, I met a few recent grads who didn't study STEM in college, but ended up working for tech firms in content and analytics roles. They'd know Excel and Tableau, but through co-workers, would pick up SQL to make their data work easier. But they hadn't yet had learned general programming, or tried Python/Javascript.

But I can't imagine many other professional or academic career paths in which someone who ends up learning and using both Python and SQL started out with SQL, then learned Python (i.e. general programming). Would would they have done with SQL in school, or as a hobby?
Three possible outcomes (with possibility of a blend of all 3 happening):

1. Housing market collapses as boomers realize they need to retire and neither Gen X or Millenials have the money to afford the current stock at their expected price.

2. Alt-outcome #1: Government bails out boomers once #1 occurs (wouldn't surprise me because the Baby Boomer generation is one of the most selfish groups in existence and they actually vote so they tend to be angry, loud, and in control.

3. Alt-outcome #2: Foreign money scoops up all the boomer housing and we have whole new problem.
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what about 2013 when bitcoin went from $100 to $1000 in the end of the year?

That was caused by very similar scamming by different people at MtGox.
That’s why we have high housing prices in the Bay Area to begin with.
How does the type of hoarding Sift does work with regulations like GDPR? The type of data collected seems like one big violation.

Do they simply avoid operating in places with GDPR (or equivalent) laws? Is that even possible?
I'm trying to write a good short answer or TL/DR and don't think I can. If you want a pithy one, at 1000 concurrent users (with no other information given) the answer is your bottleneck probably won't be Python or Ruby.

The real answer depends on some assumptions I'm making and questions

Assumption #1 - You're doing server side rendering because you talk about dynamically generated pages and not API response times.

Assumption #2 - You're using a database and it will be on the same instance as the web server.

Assumption #3 - You have one web server instance.

- What does shared CPU really mean? Is there a guarantee on a lower bound of the resources you will have?
- When the page is dynamically generated is it mostly calls to a DB and stitching that information together in a template?
- When the page is rendered can it require a lot of computation? An example of that is a portal where someone asks for a report with custom aggregations you're doing in the application layer and not DB layer
- Does rendering a page require calls to any other services?
- Do these services have RPS and average latency guarantees?
- Are you using a CDN or serving everything from your one web server instance?

A web app that is focused on serving static assets with little customization, say putting a user name in the header and a separate profile page, could be fine if you use a CDN for the static assets and don't call the DB excessively.

If you're calling the DB 200 times to generate a page, doing long running queries, or a lot of computation in the app layer you might be in trouble. (With my hypothetical 200 DB calls to load a page you're certainly not in a great spot :))

Does anyone know how to format a list? I can't figure out the magic incantation and https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc isn't helping much.
stablecoin would be superior for actual commerce

Superior to bitcoin, surely, but no superior to dollars. I have absolutely no difficulty with using my dollars to pay for anything I want.

The biggest reason one might not want to use dollars is to conceal one's identity, and while I admit that there exist valid uses for that, most of the market for anonymous commerce is illegal activity.
GDPR: A well-intentioned EU measure that unfortunately hurts the smallest and weakest and fails to have an impact on the big ones that it should target.
Noble in thought, weak in action
If you don't mind me asking, why is this conversation open to comments from non-employees? Having discussions be publicly viewable seems valuable, but letting anyone at all participate seems disruptive and unhelpful (as an outside party, I was having trouble following the thread of employee discussion interrupted as it was by internet furor).
In theory, algorithms are an important aspect of CS. Having learned about them plus some experience, enables the logical thinking mindset required to develop better code.
In practice, algorithms are hardly useful, either because T&M don't allow it, or the problem gets escalated when adding dependencies to existing code and services.
In theory, some CS, algorithmic or systems thinking background may be that crucible required to avoid many known pitfalls and rabbit holes.
In practice, developing and maintaining IT systems have nothing much in common with sports. This being something more of a distraction by ignorance and management, than anything of tangible value to people and environment.
I'm curious also, what law are you referring to?
Still got nothing on Pepsi

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
> Obviously, I wasn't consulted when this was kicked around, and I haven't done my due diligence to look up potential reasons. So, I risk embarrassment to preserve my time :(.

If anyone's wondering, I explained the reason:

https://github.com/pavehawk2007/osblog/issues/11

TL;DR: You're expected to still use the bits as access/dirty flags, but instead of the hardware automagically setting them, you set them yourself from the page fault handler. (Or if you don't need to track those things, you just set the flags to 1 from the start.)
Different schools do the sibling calculation differently. I had the same experience you describe in my third year at Swarthmore, which jacked up the "parental contribution" after my brother graduated from Carleton College. But Carleton does things differently, with the same parental contribution each year. They know going in how many siblings you have and just come up with a flat rate that you pay each year.

Each method has its pros and cons: the flat-rate method gives certainty, and the adjustable method is more appropriate if you don't know whether siblings will actually go to college. It seems the most important thing is for each institution to communicate which method they are using, so nobody gets a rude awakening.

caveat: my data points are 15 yrs old
> Bad logos change to often. The 'F' logo stood the test of time and ticks the boxes of Dieter Rams design principles which is respected globally by designers.

As far as I understood, the new logo will be used for the company itself, as opposed to its core product - the Facebook platform - which is still going to use the blue/white 'F'.
> while I didn't buy anything

And so targeting didn't work!

Yes, "targeting" can put stuff in front of your eyeballs that may occasionally have marginal utility, but for sales? Nu uh.

In the baby/bathwater metaphor, you saw some ads for strollers. Still no baby.
If you manually type up an email with false political claims and send it to a gmail/yahoo mail account, it'll likely go through.

The spam blocking they do is designed to eliminate unwanted bulk mailings from automated systems, not some one off bit of content from an individual.
USDT is most commonly exchanged for Bitcoin. You can withdraw the Bitcoin from Binance to your own wallet, so you aren't really "exchanging one IOU for another".

There are plenty of valid criticisms of USDT. Saying that it is hard to exchange 1 USDT for a dollar's worth of Bitcoin that you control is not one of them.
sigh - the PTE A&D bits cause traps they way they do so that software can implement them (if it needs them, and not if it doesn't), it's an old trick and very much a RISC thing - not wanting to burden the hardware with something that software can do
It is much more difficult to find a way to get a lot of people within a 15 minute bike ride of their job (not even accounting for Winter) than to allow them to work remotely.
Maybe our tastes differ but actually like that building. Lots of facade variations and it is somewhat interesting. Ground level activation would be better with an activated street wall but that's my only big complaint.
Almost all of the funds will go towards increasing demand by helping people buy homes. It does little to increase supply. So this fund will actually make the housing situation worse overall since it'll increase the competition for the meager supply of housing that's available.
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It isn't "from a company"

> Statements do not establish the official position of Microsoft Corporation.

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=25453
really only because one company has a patent portfolio sitting on the entire notion of dram asynch serial interfaces. i think* those should start expiring soon
Yes, it improves efficiency under certain circumstances. This approach doesn't appear help if you wanted to set a record for world's most efficient water electrolyzer. But it does offer an efficiency improvement at industrially relevant (high) current densities. A lot of reported efficiency advances are relevant to setting records in the laboratory, but would be irrelevant to industry for various reasons. This appears to be the rarer case of the opposite limitation: not useful for setting new efficiency records in the laboratory, but potentially useful for improving industrial devices.

If you look at the full paper through sci-hub [1], it's an efficiency improvement specifically at higher current densities. In the left hand side of Figure 1, the magnetic/non-magnetic curves are indistinguishable at very low current densities. Those low current densities also have the lowest overvoltage and highest efficiency per gram of H2 produced. But for an industrially optimized device you want to push production rates higher for a given electrode area, which requires more current density, which also requires more voltage. Higher current density implies higher energy wastage since the voltage has to go up too.

The voltage increase with higher current density rises more slowly in the presence of a magnetic field. By the time current density reaches 50 mA/cm^-2, the setup with the magnetic field needs several millivolts less than the control setup without a magnetic field.

[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41560-019-0404-4
I'm trying to think of counterexamples to each approach. Can one express oneself without communication? Can one communicate without expressing something about themself, or, slightly more relaxed, without having someone perceive something about them?
Okay - can anyone actually cite me even a class, let alone a degree, that has the word wicker baskets in them? If not, stop using this straw-man term.
What I find funny in these discussions on HN is how most people seem to be completely oblivious to the obvious solution, proven to work in many developed countries around the world: have the state directly fund universities and don't charge tuition to students (or charge them a small amount). Why is the assumption "universities are private endeavours that should make a profit" something that goes unchallenged on HN?
>Universities used to be little more than professors and classrooms with very few administrators.

Correct. There was also no IT, counseling, healthcare, Title IX, and secondary public education was functional. Things are different now.
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It‘s not disingenuous - the point was that a lot of tax is being collected not that California is special.

Tax is comparable to Europe and yet services are not. The problem is therefore the government.
It's not a "strategic mistake", but rather a sensationalist divisive message pushed by mass media / the establishment. If you're falling for it, you're falling right in line.

Referring to "the left" (or "the right", for that matter) is more of the same. The people who are more receptive to a certain style of thinking and the political club that exploits them are not a unified group.
Mortgages are, typically, a functional debt market which is good for all parties involved. Well qualified buyers generally lack the capital needed to purchase a home outright. However, a bank can come in and provide long term financing at reasonable rates.

The buyer is pleased, because despite the interest payments, over time the buyer is building equity in a fairly stable or appreciating asset. This is a great example of "worthwhile" debt, and the private market for mortgages is thriving.

Of course, when guardrails are thrown out and mortgages are handed out haphazardly, things can get a bit messy, as we know.
Yeah I think the companies can catch up technologically.

The big problem is what will they do with all the unemployed workers?
One of the big things coming out of the GM negotiations was the question of the future of a reduced size of the workforce needed to build electric vehicles.