skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both times I’ve bought raspberry pi’s from Canakit.com they included adhesive heat sinks. But these were added by the vendor. It certainly seems like they should come with the pi from the factory.
Have worked in men's and women's porn. Women have this solved, all their porn is from Amazon. Historically don't chargeback so that hurdle never existed.

I wouldn't be surprised if more than half of Kindle revenue and certainly more than half of Kindle profits were just women's porn. Amazon occasionally has half-hearted crackdowns because some conservative finds it and complains.
Redis automatic cluster recovery for Kubernetes
>I guess a person could fashion "phone number to email as a service" where you get an unanswerable "phone number" which just forwards transcribed content to an email?

You've just described how SMS works for me under Voip.ms. All messages are available to be replied to via email, and starting conversations from their (albeit imperfect and slightly clunky) webpage or (much better) Android app
> might as well use the better language

Which would be Java in this case.
Throttle but.... will it shutdown intentionally due to temperature?
Thats a really good counter point and I can't think of any way the situations are different other than my morals saying working for pornhub is ok but trashing the planet is not. Of course thats totally subjective and someone could be of the opinion that working for pornhub is not ok.
In the US, the most common ACH debit and credit transfers can be “returned,” which is similar to a chargeback. This is covered by Subpart A of Regulation E of the Federal Reserve. Only “wire transfers” such as Fedwire and SWIFT transfers, which consumers rarely make here, offer final, irrevocable* payments the way many other countries’ normal domestic transfer systems do.

* Meaning they can’t be undone through the payment system. Sometimes it’s possible to sue the recipient or recover the money in other ways.
Find a few remote code executions in Python 2 after Jan 1 2020, and migration will be faster.
I've been a cat dad for over a decade. Mine loves to chew on plastic, in particular :)
I know they're keeping it around but when you ask for a feature/bug report they push over to 1pass x, pretty defensively too.
That sounds like the Worry Free work houses in the movie "Sorry to Bother You".
Not really -- look at CJDNS, Tor, or IPFS for examples of totally decentralised addressing schemes. These can be mapped to human readable addresses through Namecoin or Ethereum Name Service. We do centralize somewhere, but we don't have to.
In order to use the lightning network, you are making a smart contract on the normal slow bitcoin ledger with another party. You need to insert a pre-determined amount of money into this system to be able to spend it.

Most consumers will not want to do this because they don't know who they will be buying from and don't know how much they are going to spend. If they decide they want to buy from random website Z one day, making a lightning network connection between themselves and that website will be useless because establishing a lightning network connection needs to go on the regular slow block chain, so it'll take as long as a regular payment.

The only way it works is if a major exchange like Coinbase sets up lightning network agreements between other major exchanges. Then the user puts bitcoin into Coinbase and uses the Coinbase website to make lightning network payments on your behalf. This means you will probably put all your money into an exchange like Coinbase who can then run off with your money.
Yup. Atlanta is a blue dot in a sea of Georgia red.
I know some companies running major esports tournaments also have interests in the gambling side. So. There's that.
Please don't perpetuate this type of animated presentation style. Why?

1) Vertical layout is easier to scroll

2) Vertical layout puts the code blocks in-line to know where they belong in the text

3) Author's presentation style has animations that slow down user's ability to scan quickly

4) Scroll position determines the code block's visibility (!!! WTF)

5) Either have the entire page white or black. The contrast changes between reading the document and then reading the code tires the user

6) Scroll wheel feels highjacked because the left pane is static

I could go on and on. I strongly discourage people from using this type of documentation. Your users, will get tired of the novelty and when push comes to shove, they will want something like this:

https://golang.org/pkg/
No, getting them smart enough to build more probes to do more work should be the goal...eons from now.
Just imagine all the exploits they'll find and abuse.

OpenAI has already done some experiments here [0]. All the way down at the bottom, under the "surprising behaviors" heading, 3 of the 4 examples involve the AIs finding bugs in the simulation and using it to their advantage. The 4th isn't a bug exactly, but a (missing) edge case in their behavior not initially anticipated.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/
I think the biggest win here is the marketing for Vice after putting together this $25M fund. This is totally on-brand for them, regardless of how business-viable these investments are. Plus, it’s not Vice’s own money they are playing with (which is good for them given their profitability struggles as a parent company).

My inclination is that VCs don’t particularly not-invest in successful “vice-driven companies” due to their moral compass, but rather due to the financial friction and PR risk-reward involved in doing so.

I feel like the article understates the point that, given the nature of vices, if the business turns out to be doing substantial harm and a media shitstorm hits, the VCs will absolutely be dragged into the mix and publicly shamed for contributing to the problem. When Juul was going through it’s recent implosion all the cigarette giants who were investors got name-dropped. When WeWork was in the news, SoftBank’s name was being dragged right next to it. And the media was sure to tie Uber articles to Saudi money.

Sure, some investments are bound to not work out for VC firms, but nobody wants to trash their firm’s legacy and reputation over blowback from the fickle beast that is public opinion on the internet and word of mouth.

There is still value in these vice industries and proper federal regulations still need to be figured out for things like Cannabis companies to operate like ‘real’ businesses.

Not all “vice” companies are equal and I think it will still take time to figure out to what level different types are socially acceptable and what restrictions to put in place to keep the good/bad balance in check.
SCENARIO

Usually it’s not stolen credit cards, usually it’s their card but they say it was stolen and try to do a charge back.

Hubby pays for porn.

Wife looks at bill.

Hubby denies it, must have been identity theft!

They demand a charge back since clearly card stolen by unknown porn hound, not innocent hubby.

CONSEQUENCES

Card processors and especially customers of card processors get their accounts flagged for too many returns / charge backs, which cost much more to handle than the original transaction fees compensate for. Rates go from a couple percent to 20%, making business models not work.

Banks that the processor deposited into when card swiped, have to risk manage how much money to hold back from the customer in case 2 months later all the deposits get sucked back out by charge backs. What happens if the bank customer had withdrawn their money?

BAD OUTCOME

Very hard problem, easier to just not deal with sectors that have extreme and unpredictable charge backs.
Manticore Search's percolate queries is much faster - https://manticoresearch.com/2018/02/06/percolate-queries-man...
They wouldn't be MLMs in any recognizable sense?
Yup I've been using KeePass + OneDrive (and duplicated to my NAS) on all my devices, across all major OSes, for years now. Never had a single issue and love that it's open source with a selection of clients to choose from.

You can also keep your password database offline (airgapped network, USB key/drive, remote/offline devices), and having control of the client + database means you know you can still access those same passwords a decade from now.
Most of the online gambling operators in New Jersey take PayPal, though you usually have to use either a bank account linked with ACH or a balance you already have in PayPal.
Too long, no need to overcomplicate things. Moderation isn't rocket science. All you need to do is delete spam and mod the occasional obviously spammy person and you're 99% of the way there.

IME the best moderation is the lightest moderation. Additional good guidelines

1a Simplicity: Simple Rules: If you have to have a set of rules have as simple and clearcut a set of rules as possible prominently posted.

1b Simplicity: Avoid CoCs: CoCs are the opposite of simple rules. They have a tendency to grow and are designed to be used in a proactive rather than reactive fashion that encourages abuse.

2. Transparency: If you mod someone let them know why they're modded and the exact consequences of this (ie precise times etc) as a bonus have a partially anonymized bulletin board showing the public modding actions and even takedown and external requests from outside groups to moderate your content.

3. Politics: Don't mod based on your personal ideology. Seems simple but generally ignored by most places.

4. No protected classes, no divisiveness, neutrality: Rules like "no antiLBGT" or "no sexist remarks" are wrongheaded as much as you might believe in them. Setting aside specific protected classes is inherently a divisive act. Instead have rules like "no personal insults" which apply and are enforced on everybody equally. Moderation in a place which supposedly is about free expression is about removing disruption not enforcing morality.

5. No scummy things: Theres almost never any justification for measures like shadowbanning.

If you notice, these guidelines are the opposite of how most of Big Tech does things which is why soapboxes of the internet are becoming crappier and crappier. Most places moderate with a heavier hand than necessary. In most places including here, a big chunk of the moderation is political in nature.
When my then-to-be wife and I flew to Belgium to start living and working there, we took our two cats on the plane.

After almost eight years there, when we flew back to the US, we paid for my sister-in-law and her husband to fly over and help us, and part of the job was to then fly back with one of our three cats. My wife and I had the other two cats with us.

Seemed to be pretty normal business on Delta, at least at the time.
>> to stop doing things that are causing significant harm to society.

>When people say this, what they really mean is they prefer a society where people are less empowered to speak their minds

Somehow I think you might be missing a pretty broad middle ground between ridding society of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of yearly man hours spent on convincing people to consume, and oppressively limiting speech...

Personally I'm generally for rather limited legislation, but the depths to which ad companies are going to vacuum and aggregate every bit of personal information from our lives is, frankly, terrifying. A society wherin each and every one of our actions, habits, and beliefs is monitored and recorded is called a dystopia, and all that data is only a legislative handwave away from an authoritarian nightmare.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but in this rare case I start to wonder if some sort of legislation may be necessary, even given the typical heavy-handedness and technological illiteracy of the legislative powers. But, honestly, the layman has proven to be too ignorant to understand the scope of this problem and vote with their clicks/wallet.
That and interest rates. As rates fall property values will rise in proportion. A home’s value is what people that want to live there are willing to pay and can afford each month. So it either goes to the bank, the owner, or the tax collector.
No, that was from hearing them present their work.

But I do think the GEFCom2014 Electricity Forecasting benchmark is pretty clear proof that ML solutions such as these can improve expenditure decision making compared to established techniques.
You didn't answer the core point. People don't sit at home if there are no taxis. That's never happened. And if cyclists take cars now, it's probably because it's safer to do so than riding around traffic. These aren't bad things.
I wrote a starter article quite a while ago about using Naive Bayes for analyzing clickstream data if anyone is interested: https://tinyurl.com/ulmam85

Recommend downloading the PDF for better rendering of math symbols.
They have to be backwards-compatible to persuade people to pay for their proprietary products rather than switch to another vendor.
The replies I've seen elsewhere here seem well thought out, and in almost all cases take consideration of the contents of the article into their responses, even if not intentionally.

I like what this article says, and would like to support the promotion of it's content without adding further confounding additional language.

Should I have upvoted the article and said nothing?

P.P.S. This comment could be posted on most things I see on HN without further editing, and would convey what I feel about them.
Ask HN: Anyone Attending Iaapa Trade Show in Orlando?
Looking for other founders and/or hackers with similar interests:
- Arcade Game Development
- VFX software
- Family Entertainment Center technology
Hit me up!

If you're going to IAAPA, let's meet up there!
At the hobbyist level they are making detectable amounts of radiation, but only something like 1 trillionth of a watt worth of fast neutrons per second.
New Motorola Razr flip phone: Both retro and futuristic
Here is a summary of network effect involving general government I agree with:
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/11/corporate-ameri...
Now if only they could have someone proof read prior to publishing...
Green+Mattress+Coupon+Awesome+Night+Sleep
The only reason I didn't downvote you was you didn't launch into the inevitable-from-an-MLM-apologist "and you can learn more about how to get rich like me by...". The things you "believe" are provably untrue for the majority of unfortunates who fall into the MLM trap. You should be ashamed (I know you won't) for perpetuating those falsehoods.
I assume the primary goal is "extract as much rent as possible from the (often non-profit) organizations that use the .org domain."
In the academic data science-y world, the transition has passed the hump. In other words, where I was reluctant to switch a few years ago because some of my basic tooling was still in the 2 land, today the critical mass of important libraries has been ported and updated. Most of the cutting-edge docs and tutorials (Google's GPT2 for example) default to python3.
That sounds like just literal self-punishment. If you want to use Core 2 you need some super lightweight DE like Xfce or LXDE. Windows 10? Come on. You will simply have to get some newer hardware to do anything with that.
Presto – Next generation front-of-house technology
I post to my own blog and cross-post to Medium. I get a lot more views on my Medium cross posts - that's why I continue to post there. I've found job freelance opportunities via people visiting my Github, which they said they found from Medium.
Until AMD releases stable drivers and gains market share, we'll just sit on the porch and buy cheap Intel.

Fleet of BSODing machines because we decided to buy workstation graphics from AMD, I thought they would have figured out drivers by now.

The knee jerk reaction to go and because they finally got closer to closing the gap with Intel is funny to watch but not very forward thinking.
I don't think this is related to Vice media?
> It also happens in the US marijuana industry

The US marijuana industry is, under federal law, entirely criminal, so that's kind of understandable, even if the underlying law is arguably undesirable.
> Who could possibly threaten a bank over handling financial transactions for sex workers?

The government. The sex work industry was targeted by the Obama administration under Operation Chokepoint. Banks that dealt with customers the administration didn't like were subject to greater scrutiny and regulatory action.
Oh, the guys who came after may have feasted on pizza, but they are hardly the "original grep author" are they?

I imagine the author of grep, Ultimate Unix Geek, squinting at vi;

Either qualify "which grep" or define "author" because to me, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, not the translator.
"Bet" is the operative term here. Maybe, maybe not.
>found to harbor ill gotten gains

Ah yeah like they were on the hook for laundering Mexican drug cartel money?
2020 Ford Mustang Mach E
Remember that the new Pi 4B has USB3, and according to the benchmark posted on their site it can read from an SSD over USB at 363 MB/s, and write at 323 MB/s. That's pretty good, I don't think you'll get much better than that with a SATA chip connected to the same SoC, so a regular external hard drive with USB3 is probably the best option for most Raspberry Pi customers.

The Rock64Pro is probably a great board too, and it also has USB3, so it can do both options. There's some Odroid boards that have built in SATA as well.

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/raspberry-pi-4-specs-...
I agree, I lost 10 pounds of weight after stopping the intake of alcohol, measured over months.

It is working for me, and I no longer seem to be quite so affected by overcast/gloomy days. I would refer to it as mild Seasonal Affectation Disorder, but I am reading that this is now being challenged as maybe not a real reason for the blahs in winter/extended rainy season (paraphrased, maybe poorly, based on my own experience).

Regardless, I have found my own success for now, time will tell if I remain convinced.

YMMV.
Okay, but the lightning network is not just "here's all my money, please don't run off". There's crypto around it, a multisig protocol designed to prevent exactly that, no?

If it was just some crap exchange, why would anyone be bothering, and especially why would it be taking so long?
I mean what if there were no centralized retailers, everybody would be encouraged to re-sell, everybody would be rewarded for distributing to other active re-sellers, people receiving abnormally high passive income from their networks because of their high position in the distribution hierarchy would be taxed to reward active minors.

At the same time businesses producing goods (rather than distributing tem) and services (incl. storage, logistics and quality control) would remain the classic way, MLM is just about the sales.

Just imagine buying all your groceries and gadgets from neighbors and friends rather than from Walmart/etc. Wouldn't that be nice?
Interesting they go the route of selling inventory. It must be required to make the thing legit. From what I could see from one meeting I was tricked into attending (it was supposed to be a BBQ and no mention of any sort of meeting) the real product to sell was the high margin learning materials and seminars. That the effort of course goes into recruiting people to sell this stuff to. The guy who invited me did well to place himself as the "church" and "organizer." The rest were suckers being sold on the "community" component. Do your capitalist prayers and good things will come to you. Have faith!
Kind of reminds me of Aether. https://getaether.net/
I'm struggling to figure out what your point is. Could you elaborate?

GCC is only slightly older than Linux or BSD. Do you think those programs are gigantic piles of outdated and barely maintainable code?

GCC produces the faster code than clang by a significant margin. (ICC produces faster code than GCC, but you need to pay for it and buy Intel hardware. MSVC is obviously garbage.) Its LTO optimizes more stuff than clang's, despite clang pioneering the idea. So sure, it's old, but it's best in class at what it does.

2.95 brings back memories though. It's why I switched from Slackware to Gentoo. Some random application I used didn't compile with 2.95 and required gcc-3. But configuring gcc-3 was still a huge pain with most distros, Gentoo was literally the only one where gcc-3 could be configured as the primary compiler. Those were the days.
Ethereum is still on proof of work, so it has the same problem as bitcoin. If they made confirmations take 1 minute instead of 10 minutes, that just means their confirmations are 1/10th as reliable as Bitcoin's confirmations. Nothing was solved there.

And PoS has been "not so far away for a couple years now" because they keep finding problems with it.
Sadly TSX was just a bad idea from the get-go.
I'm not sure you only need that many steps. As you start out, each step gives you a lot of distance. But log gets flatter and flatter the more steps you take.

If you knew the number of steps, I think you could only make a lower bound on spacing, not an upper bound. Since at worst all the steps could be clustered really close, except for the last one.

But now I have to think more because it seems like it should actually help the argument that the spacing gets finer and finer as you step, because that is what we want anyway. And is the number of steps actually important to the proof?
Look at the recent scandal with “Girls do Porn”. Some nasty people exploited and harmed women through dishonesty and grift.

Do you want your bank associated with that? Do you want to be sued because you benefited from the conduct or financed it?
> if you're building hundreds of them

Where is the waste being stored and how safe is that location against the drastic climate change which is now beginning to occur?
Sure! I agree. It might be possible that things will change in the future. And if things change, then I agree that this might cause problems.

The only reason why I am sceptical, though, is because I have heard these same arguments, about how the government will ban Bitcoin, for 6-7 years. And yet it hasn't happened yet.

So it is totally possible that this time is different. But I just feel like, I need to be very sceptical about these arguments, until they actually happen. Because I heard them before, and those people were proven wrong.

But you are right, in that it is very possible that maybe this time is different.
Dogmatically insisting on origins-at-zero is silly: it depends too much on the data, the message, and the audience.

For example, my lab studies the electrical activity of brain cells. A neuron normally sits at -70 mV relative to the extracellular space. When it fires, it can briefly cross 0 mV (though it probably won’t reach +70 mV) and sometimes you might want to show that complete spike. Other times, subthreshold changes in the cells’ activity are more important to a hypothesis, and then you’ll zoom in on a smaller range (maybe -90 to -55 mV). Neither of these situations would benefit from a plot centered at zero; in fact, it would look decidedly odd.

(Your other comment about log-log plots also seems odd to me, because the width of the line is almost never meaningful, unless there’s something like a confidence/credible interval band, which case that’s the whole point.
> But that's not what you claimed, you claimed the developers and advocates were mostly retiring.

I can make multiple claims; they are not exclusive. Making a new claim doesn't necessarily make my previous one less true. My main point is Perl is like Cobol now. It'll probably be around long after we're both gone, but there's no more growth.

> I'd also say that Perl's popularity is effectively gone in the general use of the term. While some new development is actually being done in Perl, IME the only people choosing it are already Perl advocates.

it doesn't sound like we disagree.
I was under the impression that suppliers could choose not to allow SKU mixing but many do not because mixing leads to lower delivery times.

Is that not true?