skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the Ruhr area. They're definitely still relatively rare (I haven't seen them in the most common stores like Aldi, Rewe), so it's not too surprising you've missed them. I guess that will change within the next couple of years.

I have a pretty good experiencce with O2 also, but I'm aware that it can be completely unusable in rural areas. Luckily, I don't really leave the city boundaries much.

EDIT: I just remembered, I used to live in Karlsruhe, and the Real there also had a self-checkout. I haven't lived there since 2016, for what it's worth. Yeah, not sure why it's confined to larger stores. Perhaps not popular enough to warrant sacrificing cash register real estate in smaller stores for it. Germans don't like new things after all.
> A good AI for a game like Civilization would have knowledge of human social concepts like honor and vindictiveness,

This is a pretty wild assumption to say the least.
Lets not forget people used to code on displays that could only fit 80x30 character text. I'd happily give up a good % of the resolution on my monitor in exchange for an unlimited numbers of variable-sized screens organized however/wherever I want them.
Interesting article.

>Refusing to administer a shock of 225 volts would be an implicit admission that they had been wrong to deliver 210.

This aligns with my suspicion around why we fall for cons, whether it's similar to the Köpenick caper, the above experiments or even some to the "Prince of Nigeria" type cons - it's the cost of being wrong. In the story with Captain Voigt, the cost of being wrong started off quite high and rose with every order acquiesced to. In the experiments, it started off low but rose with every iteration. With a "large windfall" type con, the cost of being wrong is, at least naively, missing out on an entirely new life.

Combine that with a figure of presumed valid authority - a scientist at a research institute, an army Captain, or a Prince with access to means - and it's not difficult to see how people become entrapped.
>He has a very ungerman definition of usually on time :) There's probably not a bigger laughing stock in Germany than our trains (Okay, there is BER). The long-distance ones only arrive within 5 minutes 75% of the time [1]. If you have tight transfers to make, that can get very annoying.

Then don't arrange for "tight transfers"?

If "within 5 minutes" (or close, I'm guessing the rest of the time would be some "unbearable" late of 10 minutes or so?) messes your schedule you have a messed up schedule.
Young kids go everywhere you go, so you can still go to Europe. It maybe take a cruise, that cash be pretty family friendly while allowing you to see a different city every day.
Thanks! Glad you like it!
I seem to recall Feynman having a similar attitude towards philosophy.

It's really sad and disapopinting to see that sort of close-minded attitude come from such a talented person towards entire fields he knows nearly nothing about.
I think a lot of people have reaped the benefits of open source software. And corporations are formed of people.

It is a check and balance on proprietary software, in quality, cost, privacy and independence.

It has benefitted developers directly, in education, in transferrence of skills to other employers, and in direct customization of software for their personal needs.
You can always use Wayback Machine links
sort of related: is there such a thing as an extension for Firefox that saves a copy of the page when I bookmark it?
There are lots of things people can do after being shown once. They'll go a at a measured pace, but need minor or zero help. Sports and marital art practice are all about getting sub-second decisions and extremely quick/smooth movements; none of that's relevant to writing something without feeling like a fool.

Maybe a tool like this necessarily needs a bunch of practice. Or maybe it's badly designed, and the experience should be more like chopping a carrot.
Another interesting project is to do your own web framework. Routing, ORM, validations that work both server and client side, rendering server and client side transparently are some of the challenges. Just do something and improve some actual pain point you see with a popular one. I did mine and, even thou I have never used it for anything important, I still think it is a good learning experience and I can point to some aspects of it that are better than all the major web frameworks.
>75% punctual is good? Because I usually use the long-distance train when I need to go somewhere, not to go for a drink, and having a 1 in 4 chance of being late at a customer's or missing a plane...

If you're gonna miss a plane because a train is more than 5 minutes late (I'm guessing closer to 10 or so, not 30), then you didn't plan your trip to the airport that well...
But the only case where you would rely on group membership is if the individual traits are unknown. Obviously generalization will never be as accurate as individual knowledge. Why would anybody be worried that people would act otherwise?
Not really ELI5, but simplified version is:

* The "2 seconds" is used measure a specific number of algorithm iterations running a specific software implementation on the host CPU when the volume is initialized. This count is static after initialization.

* If an attacker has a faster device, or a lot of cores, or both (GPU), the attacker can do more iterations per second. Thus, it takes them fewer seconds (potentially fractions of a second) per guess.

> What's so broken about PBKDF2 that they get a > 1000x speedup?

Nothing in particular; it lacks some of the memory hardness that newer KDFs have. The attacker gets 1000x speedup by throwing something like 1000x the compute at the problem. (This is a little cheaper than it might seem because the problem is tractable on GPU.)
I don't know about German train schedules specifically, but in life in general while avoiding tight transfers is generally a good idea sometimes you just have no say in the matter.
I have 3 kids, 1.5 year apart, and I can completely relate. Not sure what kind of wisdom I can give you though... besides getting a baby sitter as often as possible
see also The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
Not sure about Gb of throughout makes editor memory representations unimportant. Just this week my friend said he kill emacs with a few-MB text file. I was astonished that a software of that esteem would struggle with that.
If this is proper science, what’s the hypothesis?
This is absolutely false. There are currently discussions about net instability due to the missing North-South connection for renewable energy sources. I think you underestimate the sheer amount of power needed for cars, especially in the densely populated southern areas.
For sure. I'm a fan of organic culture and process but if something is not working it often takes someone to fix it.

Office space is because the new guy specifically needs somewhere outside of home to be productive. It's one wework hot desk between the three of us.
Hadly Wickham is a hero of the language, single-handedly tries to wrestle the slippery monster into sanity, I think long term is a losing battle because in the end the language is still borked.

My hat off to him though!

As for the language ... consider this: lapply(), sapply(), tapply(), vapply() each does something different. The language allows two kinds of assignment operators even: a=1 or a <- 1 that are "almost" identical ... good luck, here is a language there are two ways to even assign a value to a name.
I've noticed this when seeing my sister's kid at her home. Cooking is hard for her because her son constantly wants her attention. For a while (when he was 2ish), he really wanted to help cook. Obviously giving him a kitchen knife or letting him near a hot stove/oven would be a terrible idea, so instead she would give him a big bowl, a spatula, some flour, a used spice shaker that she'd put flour or something colorful in, and have him sit on the floor in the kitchen and "help cook". Sure, he made a bit of a mess, but it wasn't hard to clean up, kept him occupied, and made him feel a part of the action.
I, for one, was disappointed by the lack of Screech, cod-kissing, and Anne of Green Gables cosplay.
Are you suggesting we should start genetically altering ourselves for purpose of making men and women the same?
Well, then you get the worse of both worlds. Why use AWS at all if you’re not using their managed services? You’re spending more on raw resources and just as much on maintenance.

As far as Terraform, there is nothing portable about it. Each of its provisioners are cloud specific.
Iron March users want to murder people whose ethnicity or politics they dislike; perhaps you should reconsider your harm calculus.
I see a lot of people hating on R or on R-studio. For those people, I'm curious what you would posit as an alternative?

I have liked R because I use it simply, inside emacs org-mode code source blocks which use either R to generate plots or gnuplot. Based on comments, now I am afraid I will reach some ceiling in R. What else is there? Octave? Sage? Julia?
That's assuming the incumbents are giving the premium for those customers to the drivers.

But even if they were, the drivers are in a competitive labor market. If you get the customers with lower prices then you can also get the drivers because they'd rather be working for your rate than not at all.
You’ll have better luck if you limit yourself to 400-level presentations. Still not perfect, but you’re less likely to get 20 minutes of beginner-level introduction before you get to the good stuff.

But yeah, it’s frustrating. If you’re only going to breakout sessions at re:Invent you’re not getting your money’s worth. You need to have lots of discussions with AWS engineers in the AWS portion of the expo hall, and if your spend is high enough, get private meetings with the service teams you’re using or are interested in.
Counter-counter-point: Delivering business value is a more desired and compensated skill than raw programming ability.

Moreover, learning how to deliver value builds empathy for non-programmers who also deliver value and also the realization that programming ability is not where a company lives and dies. These are the number one and number two things most often lacking in programmers.

I have to fight with "seasoned pros" on the regular to get them to stop doing things like sending passwords in email or worse, put them in text files in git. Because A) what the hell are you thinking and B) holy shit, we're a public company WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!? You have to explain to them, repeatedly, why this is bad and also things like why a production-ready database isn't the same as the single-instance point and click AMI they spun up...

All of this because the only virtue that they know is "I shouldn't be blocked by anything." Unfortunately some of them are such skilled programmers that they'll drag entire IT and GRC organizations screaming in their wake trying to make sense of the mess.
This was averages across all America, all income brackets. Privilege does make things easier, yes.
Glorification of your ancestors, or having the expectation that your descendants will procreate in your honor, sounds like self-interested ego stroking and a vain attempt at establishing ones own importance in the universe, when that importance in the grand scheme of things is questionable.

Adopting a belief of "Lack of choice" is still a choice, as no one holds a gun to your head to have children, and birth control options are readily available to much of the world. This sounds like an excuse to remove inhibitions around sex, in that you are somehow doing this sexual act to honor "something greater than yourself", rather than it being your own self-interested pleasure seeking.

Species that adopt breeding = winning behaviors often experience overpopulation pressures which leads to catastrophic die offs. Turning this into a winners vs losers argument, over an act that is not that terribly complex or worthy of ticker-tape parades, seems again more self-interested ego stroking. How many points do you score when you have a baby, and who is keeping score? Maybe just you.
Current fuel cells are said to be in the 40-60% efficiency range. That’s actually not bad, especially if you can do something with the waste heat.

But when you look at the overall round-trip efficiency of the hydrogen lifecycle (production, compression/liquefaction, distribution, storage/leakage, compression again), it’s pretty woeful. Many estimates come in well below 20%.

If we came up with a more efficient fuel cell, it wouldn’t improve the overall efficiency much.
Wanted: Virtual reality headsets that aren’t made in China
Without taking a position on future possibilities I think your point misses half the truth - if solo developers can create what we now consider to be AAA-quality games, the bar will raise. Consider the incredible tools at anyone's disposal for free* have not removed the need for a variety of talents to craft worlds and tell stories that make for compelling games.

One could draw comparisons to the availability of high quality film making equipment or incredibly realistic VST plugins for making orchestral scores. At its heart, the limitations of tools define the upper boundary of a medium or genre, but do not lift all creators to some upper limit of goodness.

*until sales reach a point that royalties must be paid, in the case of unreal engine
Volkswagen to bring self-driving electric shuttles to Qatar
I have to assume this is a joke. If it isn't, well. There's not a lot of reason to use more than 32 bytes from /dev/urandom. The extra 7.97 MB of key aren't doing you any favors, nor is 15 minutes of unlock time helping — zero seconds would be fine for this use.
GPUs are essentially wide SIMD processors. If cores take different branches that can slow them down dramatically, in the worst case all cores have to execute all branches.

The other thing that slows them down is memory access. Caches are small because everything adds up quickly once you multiply it by a few thousand. They are optimized for access patterns typical in graphics, which is mostly sequential or every-x-bytes. The main memory might be GDDR5 or GDDR6, but even the 600GB/s memory bandwidth of the RTX 2080TI is quickly used up once you have 8000 threads requesting random bytes from memory.

Apart from branching and memory I don't think GPUs have many weaknesses. They can save a lot of transistors because they don't care about single-core performance. For example instead of doing sophisticated instruction reordering to hide memory latency they just switch to a different set of threads whenever they would otherwise wait for memory. There are some tasks that Intel CPUs have transistors dedicated to like AES or 64bit integers and they do loose some speed on those, but at the same time these things are easy to do in silicon so your CPU loses to ASICs. And even a GPU eventually has enough cores that the software implementation run 4000 times in parallel will beat the CPU by a wide margin again.
This kind of detention definately happens in Australia, or more precisely in concentration camps paid for by the Australian Government in other Pacific nations.

Makes me ashamed to be Australian.
Germany does not have extraterritorial prison colonies.

I think this is a combination of hyperbole and choosing the wrong word. Germany does have housing for refugees and asylum seekers while they wait for asylum to be granted or denied, and the conditions there might be construed as prison-like depending on your political point of view. Technically it's not a prison.

Asylum seekers are not permitted to do paid work, for example, and I think they also cannot exercise freedom of movement inside the EU or Germany (they have to clear moving to a different city with the authorities first and they are generally not given enough money to actually move around).

The EU has made a deal with Turkey to prevent refugees from Syria to come to the EU. That might be construed as an extraterritorial prison camp (the press has been mostly silent about the conditions those people are held in but I assume they are not very nice). Technically, even if that is a prison colony, it's not Germany's.

Greece has also held refugees in camps, one could interpret this as "on behalf of Germany", which I think is technically incorrect but in a sense still true.

German political debate has unfortunately become a shouting match between leftists who use war-cry terminology like OP did here, and right-wing populists who complain that asylum seekers should be sent home straight away and should not be allowed a legal way to protest if they are denied asylum status.

As always in shouting matches and war, the first victim are the facts and the truth.

Personally I think it is abhorrent how the EU is building a fortress to keep refugees out. Compared to most other EU countries however, Germany is by far not the worst of the bunch. Also I think far too little is being done to remove the reasons why people would leave everything behind and flee to the EU. You can't win scenarios like this by fighting the symptoms and doing cosmetics only.

Also, dear American friends, the biggest reasons for refugees from the middle east fleeing to Europe are a) your constant wars and meddling in the area and b) climate change, which from Europe also looks like it is disproportionally being caused by you.

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That's a bit over the top, but I agree there's a bit too much social pressure toward parenthood. And it's a bit presumptuous to make parenthood sound like rainbows if it may actually make a lot of people miserable.
Sorry, I should never have brought Feynman up because it could really cause offense. I edited the bit about him out of my comment.
I've heard people say that battery storage technology improves at 3% per year.

What's the rate of improvement in high-pressure gas or liquefied gas storage? Is the weight of the container decreasing at 3%+ per year?
Someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like he's wearing a first-gen Vive, which is surprisingly light (especially when you swap the tether of a cord with the wireless adapter).

I've got nearly 2500 hours in VR and sometimes spend up to 8 hours a day with it on, and it is way less big/bulky than it looks.

I put giant googly eyes on mine, even. :)
Note: the Jmicron site explicitly mentions support for the TRIM feature for the JMS580 but not earlier bridge devices including 561. This matters if you connect SATA SSDs.
I bought a Casper mattress when they first came to market. My SO and I needed a new mattress and decided we would take them up on their 90 day return offer.

After the second night, my SO complained her neck was hurting so we contacted the return people. They said they would send someone to pick up the mattress from us.

Next day a 1800 Junk showed up and the guys threw it in the back. Essentially after two days of use it went in the landfill (I assume). So I learned to be skeptical of offers of free returns on items that touch the body.

In the end we found that the NovaFoam mattress from Costco was better for us and it was less expensive.
Millennials Are Leaving Religion
I would be interested in the other direction.

Would anyone from the EU who moved to Australia care to tell us about their experiences?
It's unlikely plain emacs struggled with that file.
In part I think it's also the development of greater paranoia and zero risk tolerance (for whatever reason). It seems like nowadays if you let your kid play by themselves, or even if you aren't hovering over them close enough, some other parent will call the cops and you'll get in trouble for being a "negligent parent". When I was a kid (80s/90s), I'd ride my bike around the neighborhood alone or with friends, walk to friends' houses by myself, etc., and that was the norm.
> It's perfectly normal to be a bit nervous or shy during interviews, so don't sweat it so much. A decent interviewer isn't going to hold that against you.

An interviewer held it against me. Said I did well technically but didn't seem confident enough.

In order to ace the interview you pretty much have to be the perfect candidate -- technically, socially, emotionally.
I'm not sure it actually matters with the prevalence of skimmers plus this and even cameras taking pictures of cards.

I've had 3 compromised cards just this year, so now I just go inside and pay.
That's a mild description of what appear to be the incoherent ramblings of a nutcase. He keeps a blog here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qilang

in case you are interested in learning how bad chi will influence your dealings with Shen, or Qi, or ..
Disclaimer: I do like kids, but, anybody else out there with 0 urge to have em?

I'm already somewhat behind the prime of when most people would be having some, but I don't regret it because I simply have never felt the call.

I'm sure I'd be an ok parent, I've done alright at most other parts in life, but it also seems like a thing you actually would want to want if you're to commit to it.
You can easily achieve same with:

https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/#how-it-works

https://docsify.js.org/#/

(or thousands of similar generators..)

The docs are based on markdown

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/tree/master/website/docs
You quote a reply to a post that advocated for all education to be segregated. That means making a choice for others.

In this post, I make a recommendation of staying away from R. It is not even a remotely similar context.
This is something nobody can answer for you. Kids are all different. Some are low maintenance, some are extremely high maintenance, and it's a roll of the dice as to what you can expect. My kid was extremely high maintenance in his first few years, and remains high maintenance for his age to this day (he's 15). So for the first 5 years or so both career and personal life were basically put on hold, and our marriage very nearly fell apart because we felt trapped. I have friends whose kids just do the right things all on their own though, so I know for a fact not all kids are high maintenance.
Why don't you just give them to poor people? You know,for free?
Interesting read, as was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_v._DeStefano

I'm glad I don't have to worry about hiring. Seems like employers are caught in a catch-22.
1.4% of people globally end up dying by suicide.