skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People can also help by double-checking anybody's licence before lending them their car, said Theresa-Anne Kramer, a spokesperson for MADD Montreal.

> The SAAQ says visually checking a driver's licence may not be enough, as a hard copy does not always provide up-to-date information. The agency reminds people that their car could be impounded for 30 days or more if the driver breaks the law.

> For a fee of $1.75, the SAAQ will verify a licence through its website.

> "That would be a wise thing to always do whenever you lend your car, even to your best friend," said Kramer.

> "That person might have kept it secret that they have an alcohol interlock in their own vehicle. Family members might not be aware of it. Friends might not be aware of it."

They want you to pay $1.75 for a single query against a database? That makes AWS prices look cheap.
Siberia was warmer 18,000 years ago.
If I was in Boeing's shoes I would be doing everything to ensure the real test is repeated and the test is passed.

They already face a MAJOR plane credibility issue with the MAX and to have another plane enter service without it actually having achieved a physically passed would do nothing for the credibility of that new plane.

While a prove by analysis pass might be fine for the regulators, in terms of public credibility a real pass would be a far better outcome for Boeing.
Yeah, they claimed a CRI of 91 but it was closer to 70, I think. (Measured with ArgyllCMS and a Colormunki Photo.)

You could tell it was wrong just by looking. It wasn't a measurement that only appeared by looking at it with expensive equipment; you turned the lights on and instantly though "this is completely unusable". I only measured it to see how bad it was.
Fire tv has ads too. Apple TV is really the only option unless u go custom.
I am thankful there is so much great work out there to be inspired by.
Anyone care to give an analysis of how this will affect small-timers who want to register .org domains in the future in comparison to registering a different top-level domain?
60.7 fps on the Pixel 3
So who do they belong to? The earth that they’re eventually going back to?

I think emotionally I agree with you, but rationally I just cannot explain it.
Being that we are close to New Year's resolution, maybe you can take a bit out of your 2020 year and pay it forward to some who don't have the opportunities that you've had. Then next year, come this time, they will be thankful for you and what you've done for them. Happy Thanksgiving.
I think it's best to let the student decide what's fake. It's better to analyze how the same story can be presented in vastly different ways, or with a different emphasis to further an agenda, even if neither is fake.

The same can be done with data visualizations.
If you're building a PC, I suggest pcpartpicker.com for comparisons and checking historical prices.

The really good deals (along comments about caveats that aren't apparent from specs) will usually show up on https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales or https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc
Winning the lottery of life, being born in Australia after world war 2 where everyone born is in the global top 1%.
Coding in Ruby is annoying because it makes me go "why didn't you use Python for this? You guys just had to be different, didn't you? For no other reason to feel special." I have similar feelings for the other D-tier and F-tier. There's better options available. Whereas when I see someone doing something in Prolog or Assembly, it's probably because they actually needed to do it in Prolog or Assembly and they have a damned good reason. They're good for what they do. Ruby is... it just exists for no particular reason, and it's existence is annoying to me.
A better title would be “DBS Patients beware of swimming”, but of course that audience would be much smaller.
I’m thankful that I have a fantastic little boy, who’s growing up healthy and happy.

Before I had one I just couldn’t imagine how much joy a child can bring to your life (and pain, and stress, and a lot of other bad things, but it’s all worth it).
What gets me is what is the point of a limit to test to if you are not going to enforce it.

If 1% less is ok (Boeing) test to 1% less,

if 3% less is ok (Airbus) make the limit 3% less.

Not enforcing a limit smells bad and does not fill me with confidence.

Strengthening the failure area will change the failure modes to other areas and may well make it fail at an even lower limit as other areas will be bending more to make up for the reduced deflection of the area that is strengthened.

Not re-testing it after a design change like this worries me.
Things I’ve found in checked-in notebooks:

* database credentials.

* sensitive data

* a whole DataBricks webpage because the person didn’t understand how to export just the notebook.

* collections of notebooks named only what step in the process they are, and literally nothing about what they actually do.

* Whole base64 encoded images and zip files

* packages imported by manually manipulating system environment paths

* multi-processing/multithreading by shelling out and calling new python instances

* good old “don’t run these cells”
Or just use jupytext and only commit the .py files. Works for us. Commits just look like normal python code, with a few comment markers for cells
Of course, besides simply supporting recovery from bit rot, one would also want to have confidence in the implementation. I think the vendors which provide production support for btrfs do so just for a few features.
30 years ago, Quebec was the province where "nobody cared how drunk you were as long as you stayed on your side of the road." It looks like that caught up to them, and is causing enough problems to warrant this new law.
And you never said where you live
In that grade level I would've liked a course which would dissolve the "magic" behind computers and other technology, akin to the nand2tetris course (https://www.nand2tetris.org/). The topic could be anything, though, such as websites, wireless communications or online advertising.

Scripting or macros would also be immensely useful for anybody nowadays. Computers should be making everyone's lives easier. A nice example of this would be the Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (https://automatetheboringstuff.com/). It would also be a more meaningful introduction to programming than learning how to program the hangman game.

These two examples might be a bit difficult for all of the students of that age, but I'm sure that at least some inspiration could be drawn from them.
Probably because usage volume is low, so they have to amortize the fixed costs (eg. payment to the government IT consultants) over a smaller number of requests.
"we're not going to re-test. We failed the test but it was close enough"

Yeah that makes me feel safe Boeing, real safe. Specially given your history now.

Planes used to pass these tests with flying colors and they've been pretty safe. Have we forgotten already that planes used to break in half in the sky when there's heavy turbulence? 3.5G sounds like much, but it is also not that much. There's a reason why the test needs to be passed at a certain level, not just below.

Heck otherwise, how about I pay 99% of my taxes, mortgage, pass 99% of my exams, etc. What is this?

Note: before you read and trust the articles too much, airline planes have been WELL above 3.5G already in the real world. The fact that they're not supposed to go there does not mean they never do.
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I was thinking “is salea some sort of benchmark?”
Essentially, yes.

> (^~^:_1) 5

First, let me break this down, in the interest of sharing the joys of J.

The thing in parenthesis is our inverse operation of x^x; we then evaluate that at 5. The first ^ is exponentiation and the following ~ makes binary operators into unary ones by evaluating on the diagonal. In other words it turns f(x,y) into f(x) = f(x,x), which for x^y corresponds to x^x.

Next we have the ^: modifier. This is function iteration, i.e. exponentiation over function composition. The function is on the left (here ^~) and the count on the right (here _1). So f ^: 2 means f(f(x)). In fact, this function exponentiation is extended to negative integers as well! In J, negative numbers are prefixed with _ (underscore), and f^:_1 actually gives us the inverse of f (if it exists)!

Anyway, we can see inspect the definition for an operation's inverse using the b. verb. From the jconsole:

^~ b. _1
3 : '(- -&b@(*^.) % >:@^.)^:_ ]1>.b=.^.y'"0 :.(^~)

The part we are interested in is in single quotes. Pulling this one apart would involve introducing the various operator combinators in J, so suffice it to say that the ^:_ part numerically approximates a fixed point of the part in parenthesis, which essentially is a straightforward transcription of the recursive relation in Newton's method.
> a top notch camera

The advances in camera tech these days are primarily software, which is not open source. We're talking dozens of person-years minimum to replicate what Apple, Google, Samsung, etc do in software.
Interesting. But I have personally witnessed poverty and people dying of hunger in front of my very eyes. I’d rather help those people than invest in failed moon missions.
Vast.ai is a little obscure but it's a real functioning service, and pretty nifty. I used it awhile ago to rent an 8-GPU machine for way less than AWS would've cost: https://www.gwern.net/Faces#biggan
I've been wondering the same about ‘normal’ levels of activity. Pretty sure most of us are horribly motion-deprived by the standards of hunters or gatherers. But then again, presumably someone also was staying behind at home, and I don't remember any folk wisdom saying housekeepers are all dystrophic.
Luckily we’re living in the era where people are offloading their old last-gen dumb TVs for next to nothing in order to replace it with a smart one.

I got my current TV off the side of the road. It’s a 42” LCD Samsung, and that’s good enough for me.
It seems like this would not be broadly representative of actual sales. If someone is buying a stand alone CPU, they are planning on building their own machine. Most people buy prebuilt machines or laptops, and the majority of those still seem to be intel.
Computer displays don’t often have speakers built into them or robust support for multiple (2+) HDMI inputs or coax inputs for cable/antenna or RGA inputs. All things people typically expect in a TV.
Note that this test also does not factor in fatigue, maintenance wear and tear, etc. Planes fly for several decades and some will fly with quite a bit of imperfections (i.e. cracks) for a while before it's maintenance day
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Financial Advice 101 shouldn't need to involve any software. A 101 in Finance isn't "modern financial planning", and giving people who don't understand the 'time value of money' or basic budgeting shouldn't be handed Double Entry accounting tools.
should read “get caught driving drunk...”. i don’t know how many times you have to drive drunk to get caught doing so but it could be a lot.
> Well, fire does not shine by black-body radiation

Flame, not entirely; embers, yes.
I will counter with the Iiyama prolite x4071uhsu-b1, the highest-contrast (5000:1 typ) LCD I have ever seen with such a competitive sticker price. 500~600$ 4k 40". Up to 75Hz @24bit color or 60Hz @40bit color.

It has zero smart stuff, and comes with an RS232 input for which documentation exists to control _everything_ remotely. I think the latter is due to it's brother being a 24/7 rated digital signage device, which typically implies remote management.

I'm passively looking for a newer model for a potential secondary setup on a different desk/location, but haven't stumbled on anything I'd prefer.
Lottery of life indeed. I have been to many places in this world, and have seen many things that make me thankful I was born in a place where there is the opportunity to have a good and comfortable life if I make the effort to make it happen. A lot of people in a lot of places have been dealt such a shitty hand that their opportunities for a life similar to mine are near zero, no matter what they do in life.
I remember this very well. I was living close enough to the commotion to hear whatever it was that was getting set off (smoke bombs?) in an attempt to disrupt the protests at night. I recall pulling off the highway only to see an army Jeep and a soldier with an assault rifle waving me back toward an on-ramp.

Haven’t experienced anything nearly as dramatic since.
I already use Firefox but it's missing a few Chrome extensions and has poor performance on some sites, especially the Google ones.
Looking only at a package you receive does not even come close to the complexity of managing a supply chain of packages.

Shippers the size of Amazon are dealing with a supply chain of packages that is larger than the majority of businesses. They have likely already considered that they could ship in a different package, but it costs them less by having fewer packages to manage.

If every possible size/weight combination requires a different package, then the amount of packages sitting in warehouse will increase by an enormous margin.

I would wager that the actual resources consumed by having fewer package sizes to manage is less than the amount of resources consumed to have a huge variety of package sizes to manage.
Why wouldn’t people think this is a serious idea?? We can make far safer zeppelins with current technology even if we use H2 gas. And when you’re using it for something mundane like cargo instead of human recreational activity it’s a no brainer.
Probably not what you're asking, but this book is fantastic:
https://sql-performance-explained.com/

Edit: and topically, free for the weekend! https://twitter.com/MarkusWinand/status/1199982940471607297
As an Indian national I find this embarrassing. Not that they failed but that they even tried. We have much bigger more immediate problems to solve.
Liaison has nothing to do with a backend-as-a-service. You can host your backend anywhere you want.

About authorization, Liaison doesn't expose anything by default. Only the specified attributes and methods are exposed, and there is an authorization mechanism so you can customize what you want depending on the user.
And don't forget the most basic element of computer literacy: understanding the difference between a document editor like MS Word and an editor that shows the actual bytes. This is really not hard at all, but also something that people can easily miss if they never run into an actual use case.
Very interesting read, well explained and somehow 'feels right'. I didn't think psychotherapy could work until it was explained to me this way.
He says yes to China and Russia, so why not?
Altium crashes, but is useful for routing non-trivial boards.

I last used kicad in 2014 so perhaps my opinion is dated, but there was no competition then. I can't imagine an order of magnitude improvement has happened since.

Other random thoughts: real boards take weeks because signal integrity had to be taken into account. If I can just mash wires from point to point it doesn't take that long. Also: hobbyist kicad users won't pay for this service.

No expertise necessary - who the heck is the target demographic? Who is doing custom hardware these days that finds the PCB layout part of the design difficult (but amenable to autorouting?)
Iiyama is one if them. Don't consider branding, look for tech specs/price.
I wish that too. :)
If you got enough of a draw from one device in your house that lights flicker, the safety switch should probably trigger.
OK, correction: something I just figured out today is that you can actually set the zoom level for a given site as well now. So I set it to like 50% for Google and now I get the desktop version zoomed in properly whenever I search.
I like natural light, but office ceiling lights hurt my eyes.
You aren't paying attention to the phrase "expected load".

If, in the bridge scenario, it cracks under 2.95x the normal load, vs. 3.0x or 3.05x, that is not what Feynman was describing. He was explicitly talking about a partial failure under about 1.0x. Which based on other comments is not what happened here.
If their registrar did that, Wikipedia would change registrars to one that didn't - and they'd be able to keep their .org. There's competition among registrars, unlike registries.
Excited as ever for this. Got my toolkit ready. Trying to decide if I want to aim for something besides speed this year; maybe visualizations, or literate code. Given my current work, I probably won't focus on a new language.
Unless you source high quality LED luminaires, they look terrible let alone flicker... most of the shit on amazon is just that unfortunately.
You could get caught driving sober and be in for the same treat, depending on the vagaries of the breathalyzer and your genetics
State-imposed differential privacy violations as punishment. This is just.
The most interesting thing about that experiment IMO is that as the foxes got friendlier towards humans, they looked more like puppies even as adults. If I remember correctly this is because the trait of trusting strangers is associated with being infantile, so when selectively breeding for that trait you get the puppy like looks too. So not only are they nicer, they're also cuter.
Anecdotal: was setting up some Hisense TVs at work the other day and the unit came up with a message that "all Network features" would be disabled if you declined the EULA.

Immediately thought "works for me".

I wonder if any other manufacturer offers that choice.

Edit: commercial signage panels are about as close as you get to dumb TVs these days. Rarely include any smart features, can get in quite large sizes. Not OLED or anything but if you just want a decent display...
Ostensibly they should belong to the estate of the deceased. As it is now, in the US (as I understand it) organs and body tissue is in this weird limbo of not being considered property. The original case law around this seems to exist to: 1) make it hard to go after doctors who do things you don't like with your discarded tissue (either destroying it, or giving it to the state for evidence), and 2) prevent trafficking in humans and their organs.

The second part seems to mean that only certain types of nonprofits can accept organs. From there they may or may not be able to profit off of the sale of the organ but instead the services to transport and maintain it. Then at a certain point, you've turned penises into lip filler, and then you can sell the lip filler (at a huge profit).
If a registrar did that, the .org domain owner would change to a better registrar, and they'd be able to keep their .org domain. There's competition among registrars, unlike registries.
I think Ali also has one for 11/11? Maybe I am mistaken...
Commander Keen in WebAssembly
Excessively safe meaning safer than the regulated margin of safety. Nobody really demands unlimited recursive safety margins.
Is there anything out there that is more complete?
I hate it when governments do this, and they seem to do it a lot. The socially optimal price is the marginal cost of providing the service. In this case, the marginal cost is essentially 0 so the search should be free. They're leaving welfare gains on the table by setting such a ridiculous price.
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Meta analysis: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257795314_The_Effec...
Anyone knows a decent and inexpensive way to measure CRI?

It seems like a simple enough problem with a prism and a monochrome CCD sensor, yet the cheapest device I can find is over a thousand dollars.
I'm thankful to live in a country that respects my basic human rights. Having met those less fortunate, I've realized I've taken this for granted way too long. Birth is the greatest randomizer to your life.
Stop spam I would imagine. If you have to pay such a "high" price for the query, then you're not going to enumerate every license combination (unless you had deep pockets)
I've been positively impressed with the readability of OLPC XOs in sunlight, which I think are what you're talking about. It's too bad they weren't willing to consider a capitalist rather than communist model for making them available; I think they would have been popular. I think there are also color transflective displays but I've only seen them in photos.

E-ink displays are even better than the XO, and machines with them are much more easily available, but most of them only come in the surveillance-capitalist hood-welded-shut model. They use orders of magnitude less energy than transflective LCDs for some usage patterns, but refresh slowly.
In current-generation Intel CPUs the use of AVX512 forces a reduction in clock speed, negating much of the theoretical benefits.

The clock speed reduction also affects other cores, which may not be executing AVX512 instructions at that time. Code that is nearly 100% AVX512 will get an overall speed boost, but mixed multi-threaded workloads can actually regress in performance. On virtualised or multi-user systems such as Citrix or some database engines this is a serious issue at the moment.

This will improve or go away entirely once they're on 10nm or some smaller process.

Secondly, the rarity of AVX512 means that few applications take advantage of this instruction set, and those that do have not had anywhere the same level of fine-tuning as the more common AVX2 code.

For example, SQL Server recently got vector instruction set support, called "Batch Mode Processing", but I can't find any references to indicate that it uses AVX512, and it probably doesn't.

Once AMD supports AVX512, it trickles down to the mainstream CPUs, and the clock speeds are maintained it'll have a significant advantage over AVX2.
Corruption is a moral issue that exists besides the law. If the payment occurring produces no net benefit then I see no reason to consider it just.

These problems seem complex and may truly be, but if they lead to payment for nonperformance then that needs to be addressed. I expect the market can figure it out from there.
What is "moral obsolescence"? If you mean "normal obsolescence", planes are used for a long time, so what would draw the line between normal lifespan and excessive?
Loan startups in India flout harassment laws
Thankful I get to live where I do, and mostly get to work on passion projects all the time. I have an amazingly talented and supportive wife (hey honey wanna go sleep in your minivan and compete in this hackathon with me?! I’ll do backend you do front end!), and amazingly supportive, ideologically aligned friends with whom I get to work on the aforementioned passion projects with.

I’m really, really lucky, and I try not to ever let myself forget it.
When exactly are you thinking of? Are you old enough to remember before decimalization? Do you consider that "enormous"?
The thing is that virus and bacteria don't work magically to harm us. They have to evolve too. Its unlikely that we will awaken anything harmful to us because they simply never evolved the mechanisms to harm us.

There are some exceptions but apparently they're rare.

I think there was an episode of 99% Invisible with a qualified person explaining all this instead of some rando on the internet (me) but I can't find it =(

Hopefully someone else can elaborate
That seems like a weak excuse. The capability needs to exist for SAAQ staff regardless, and something like this can either be implemented as a human service where it's an email request (low volume) or a form on the website.

I could be mistaken but I believe it was the SAAQ that had "business hours" for one of their online services where you could only submit a form between 9 and 4 or something ridiculous like that.
Some of my non-white friends who haven't been blessed with forward-thinking parents such as yours, who give their children civilized names nonetheless use Western names on their resume when job seeking. So I don't think having a government 'white name' is all the beneficiary for job seeking purposes.
Sounds like a (nice) summary of this zinger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635896