skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole economic trap is so undeniably American, it’s hard to deal with the urge to laugh mixed with drear for the people subjected to it :/
My 69 year old father lived in Beijing for a few years recently and I'm pretty sure the company he worked for must have taken care of things like that for them because I can't imagine that man ever attempting to write Chinese.

I guess there's probably a pretty strong market for translators in the big Asian cities with American/European presence.
That too.

In the film, he hemms and hawws, and can't make up his mind of whether or not he wants to be king, but he never actually articulates a single reason for why he would not want to be one.

The film:

* Expects the audience fill in the blank for why he doesn't want to be a leader.

* Tries to make him more sympathetic as a leader, by turning him into a reluctant leader, as opposed to a guy seizing power because... Something something nobility, something something hereditary monarchy is how things are done in Middle Earth, but doesn't fly super-well for modern audiences..?
Motor skills, certainly. But not fine motor skills, obviously. There's a pretty big difference between getting within a cm of accuracy needed to press a key and drawing submillimeter-accurate curves. An aspiring artist or surgeon certainly needs that level of skill. But do fine motor skills impart other cognitive benefits?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072466
Show HN: Weekly Robotics Podcast Project Ep1 – BioRobotics with Auke Ijspeert
They do (Christendom).
spellcheck can't fix things like "their" and "there", many people autocorrect/spellcheck the wrong word in.
The visualization makes it look a little terrifying. Maybe that's an understatement...
Fill-in-the-blanks demo application using BERT
Facebook backs off plan to plaster ads all over WhatsApp
This, the GDPR and California's Bill No. 37 [0] make me feel that there is still hope for humanity and that governments do favor civilians over companies, at least from time to time.

[0] https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/californias-new-privacy-law...
I think you need to consider a few things.

1. A good understanding of something's basic/fundamental properties doesn't mean that there isn't other more meaningful research to be done and knowledge to be gained.

2. Particle physics in general is considered a mess. There are still many open problems in particle physics and a shiny new accelerator never hurts ;)

Sure there is still a lot more to learn about the inner structure of protons/neutrons but that doesn't mean that we don't have a decent understanding of the overall picture. There still isn't one unified theory that explains all the natural forces, but that doesn't mean that we don't understand gravity/electromagnetism/strong/weak forces in their own right.
> Is vaping better than cigarettes? Maybe

There is simply no plausible way it's not.

> Will flavoured vaping (...) get more young people and even children interested and hooked? Absolutely.

What is known about cigarette and nicotine addiction makes it actually quite unlikely. Nicotine alone does not seem that addictive, in any case it's definitely much less addictive than nicotine plus the combustion products found in tobacco. Cf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177026
Talk about premature optimization…
The Case Against Huawei
String theorists got it wrong: the universe isn’t made up of small vibrating strings, it’s made up of small vibrating noodles.
That's one of the things I like most about the EU, its strong laws in favor of citizens (privacy, health, etc).
Hi HN!

I've recently decided to branch off my robotics newsletter slightly and start recording podcasts when I have some spare time.

In this episode I've interviewed Auke Ijspeert, a professor at EPFL, who focuses on bioinspired robots. I've learned a ton making this episode and hope you will too!
I wrote one to generate all possible versions of the weekly puzzle (minimum 5-letter words) that score between 26 and 32 points, that runs in under 70 ms. It finds about 4.8k puzzles, for 14us per. (Nowadays they run puzzles that score as low as 20 (pfft).)

https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee/

I did both C++ and Rust versions. They run in the same time. My goal was the fastest single-threaded program that would fit on exactly one printed page. My first version ran in about a second, and I spent months shaving off milliseconds. Rust in 2016 was much more sensitive to arbitrary details of the source code. Maybe it's better now.

The final version does enough setup to enable most of the time to be spent in a four-instruction loop that a modern core can do in a single cycle per iteration, with occasional detours.

Compilers (clang is especially insistent) prefer to arrange the loop to take two cycles, and save a cycle on the long detours instead. I filed a bug on Gcc over it preferring the slow loop, but they decided the slow version was better:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67153

I absolutely recommend spending months optimizing a little but complicated program. I learned so much. Most things you think will make it faster make it slower.

The solution to any such puzzle is an easy one-line shellscript, also on the github page.
x86 has two: UD1 and UD2. Sadly, no one can agree on the length of UD1, even though everyone agrees that it’s illegal. UD2 is well behaved.
> or artificially cool surface ocean water

Good curiosity, but they would have to put out atleast an equal amount of heat into the atmosphere! (2nd law of thermodynamics).
One could of course argue that even the modern computer and therefore software was borne out of both necessity and dick measuring.
Without progressive overload the maximum strength of the muscle is very limited. Doing a bunch of pushups or planks will improve your ability to do that exercise, but you can't do pushups for a year and expect to squat 300 pounds-- the muscle growth just isn't there.
Honestly it took me a few seconds to remember what pique even means.
Project Cybersyn – a distributed decision support system
https://youtu.be/jhnKBKZvb_U?t=3516
Well that is a factor which tilts the curve, certainly.
Atombombs are worse than cluster bombs so we should use them.
OK, I really don't know anything about assembly/OSes, but if the price of going to kernel mode with sysenter/syscall is smaller than a not that pricey(the article says it's less than a single 64-bit integer division), does that mean microkernels can utilize that to improve performance?

What are the shortcomings of the method compared to interrupts?
It seems that periodically there is evidence showing that the universe is this or that and yet nothing is and it will never be concrete because it's impossible to find the root of the universe. I see it as a more philosophical question. I think we should be more focused on exploring the universe, not understanding it.
What is the future of the rich world’s housing markets?
There doesn't have to be an economic motive

What if they just feel like exploring, and gaining knowledge, and seeing things no one else has ever seen?
> EU digital and antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager is expected to present her proposals next month.

She has been such a force in the European Union during her short time in the Commission. I'm glad she's still spearheading stuff like this even if she didn't become president like some thought she would when Macron started promoting her.

The funny thing is that she was also officially second in command when she was in the Danish coalition government a decade ago, but somehow the government's official policies were much closer to _her_ party's ideology (Social Liberal) than the ideology of the much bigger Social Democratic party that they were in a coalition with.
Right, it would seem that they should only be moving away in one direction, and eventually we'd even see a difference between the forward and backward direction. However, I've heard people claim that eventually, all directions go toward the singularity?
A private company does not need to do facial recognition ... in public areas. I see no legitimate usecase.
Anecdote, but I hear it a lot: I have back pain, I start boxing every week. Backpain gone. Don't box for three weeks and take the bus instead for biking? Hello back pain my old friend.

Keep moving, keep the "core muscles" strong.

I'm not a doctor but I see a lot of this anecdata.
So does this mean "using facial recog. tech on video footage taken in a public area (post capture)"
OR
"only banning integrated video + face recog. tech"...

Hardly seems likely they'd ban all video cameras; So sending footage off to a remote location (possibly diff country) to process the file for faces is a trivial side step... Would love to think there's a comprehensive solution to this but it's a difficult thing to just say 'it's banned'.
> From 2013 to 2017, Tokyo built many houses as the whole of England.

> House prices in Tokyo are now 9% lower than they were in 2000, while in London they are 144% higher, adjusted for inflation.
Any good books or films on this topic?
If you reside in a country where those laws apply, that is.

Meanwhile in Australia, government agencies can obtain your phone and internet ‘metadata’ without a warrant and (ISPs^?) DNS servers are required by law to blacklist certain domains.

^ I assume ISPs because I have no issue with blacklists while using CF/Google DNS.
Taxis, restaurants, relocation assistants, fast food, online shopping, ...

If you live in the US, you have to give up a lot of services if you don't want to buy from people who are underpaid..
Drug development is the second biggest sector receiving VC funding after software. Most biopharma startups are founded by PhDs and MDs

If you're interested I'm running a program called Biotech Startup School on how to start biotech companies: https://www.baybridgebio.com/biotech-startup-school.html
International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing, Shenzhen
The market needs to be regulated more stringently.
I implement small Forth-likes quite a lot, for instance [0].

I really like having something to explore 70-80s machines (other than Basic), hardware and systems that have no/bad Repls (like Xamarin). This kind of thing is ideal for that as it takes a really short time to implement, gives full and flexible access and it is fast enough to prototype things with.

[0] https://gist.github.com/tluyben/16ee2645c4c8aed813005d51488d...
With Internet Explorer (and some cruel and unusual filters, proxies and firewalls) the linked article loads but it is displayed as a solid black rectangle.

No better way to prove the importance of avoiding useless complication, in this case gratuitous ornamental Javascript.
> Generally, a cheaper car costs far more to maintain. The total annual cost of ownership of a 2-year-old Camry is far lower than a 10-year-old Camry. But to get that lower cost, you have to temporarily convert more of your money into that car asset.

That’s a poor example, since a Camry is notoriously reliable and needs minimal maintenance. And ten years really isn’t that old. The depreciation on the two year old car would outweigh the maintenance on the ten year old car. I believe that 5-10 years old is the sweet spot for TCO.
Will make life easier for criminals. I would love to have the arsonists who put my home on fire identified and safely locked away by a good camera. they would have had to deal with an 'attempted manslaughter' charge so they might have been prevented from causing other victims trouble for a while. So I'd love it if this exemption for security projects includes surveillance just outside the home.
Just a thought: maybe space is not sparsely populated with bits of stars and rocks. Space is filled with a form of matter we cannot yet detect.
I get them at my house. Every time there's an ice storm. And for a while there was an intermittent issue where floodwaters came up over my internet port in the junction box, and so my internet would go out for a while. Hopefully the power grid isn't as janky.
Humans in their first few years of life are totally untrustworthy, yet most adults can be trusted. That falsifies your theory of trust. Do you want modify it to accommodate young people and/or young companies?

EDIT: toned down
These "gig" and "service" companies are simply re-defining minimum wage and taking advantage of a segment of the populace that cant get minimum wage jobs for one reason or another. But yea, dont want 1.45 an hour then find another job. Dont want to be broke AF then dont have 3 kids. How can anyone take the examples in this article even remotely serious.
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You'd have to compare volume (not just thickness). iPhones are way smaller, so the difference is more significant than in an iPad.
Ironically skiresorts aren't a haven of biodiversity
Why should the FDA use up government resources to regulate vaping?

Put another way, why do we think the solution for people with no integrity or no clue or both trying to make money out of vaping (Juul included) is to spend taxpayers money helping them behave themselves?

I find this attitude pretty crazy to be frank. Consider that whatever happens from here, however much joy everybody gets from vaping and blowing smoke in the future, it isn’t ever going to be worth 50 dead people.

There is that, and then Juul pretending to be a benefit to society while getting children addicted to nicotine and then selling themselves to big tobacco... what exactly is the benefit of vaping? The argument it minimises the harm from smoking is nonsense and unproven. There are well established methods of reducing smoking on a societal level (put up the taxes), which return money to the government to pay for all the negative externalities of smoking which big tobacco isn’t held accountable for.

Anyway, the USA has a funny attitude about these things. Personal choice and optionality are considered paramount. Someone else can pick up the pieces. Applying it everywhere is obviously flawed if you ask me.
Obsolete cables are not just technology marching forward, but also customers buying other makers’ devices that make them useless.

An iPhone user buying an android phone will need a new set of cables, his old lightning ones have no purpose anymore.
That is true, and I didn't mean to imply that anything is risk free. Only that this particular risk is specifically caused by vitamin E acetate.
This now has a font page dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072609
The current benchmark for climate change problems is "were things different 10-15 years ago".

Yea, things have always changed. It's why weather stable regions are historically more habitable than those which aren't.
Trees planting is already taken into account. There's just too much CO2 in the air.

Regarding Microsoft's CO2 pumping:

> Solving our planet’s carbon issues will require technology that does not exist today.

This is exactly what I'm saying in my first post. We are waiting for the technology Messiah.
I'm reminded about 30 times a day when dismissing a cookie popup of the stupidness of EU regulations. When considering the lifetimes wasted recreating that popup on countless websites, I'm ready to go full Libertarian.
I build Guile on the Mac regularly. I need to pass the paths to these 4 libraries to configure: libgmp, libunistring, libiconv, and libreadline. The libraries themselves I get from MacPorts. Then make check && make install. Doesn't look all that awful to me to be honest.
Seems like not having enough range is a much bigger problem than for a car.
It may sit for a while. We can't see notes before accepting it, unless you're willing to gamble on penalizing yourself with their 'Completion Rating' by accepting to read notes then 'reassigning' if there's no guarantee of higher pay. The 'Completion Rating' affects your ability to either schedule at 3pm, 6 days in advance or be a 'Top Dasher' that allows you to go on the clock any time you want. In smaller markets like mine, if I can't schedule at 3pm or be 'Top Dasher', I'm shit out of luck.

I personally don't accept any offer below about $8 total. On average I see Doordash pay $3 'Base Pay.' I'm just not willing to gamble because there are a ton of people who are more than happy to not tip either out of ignorance or willfully being a cheap ass.
Out of curiosity, what made you put AirBnB in that list?
I don't think it's possible via the api but some of the desktop clients allow you to export JSON files in a nice format. For macos, you need to download the appstore version as the other (nicer) one does not include this functionality
Economy of scale applies to production think chips & screens. What economy of scale can DoorDash achieve? Persuade everyone to be paid below fair wage? Push the margin of restaurants down?
That's exactly what it does do! Everything is served from the sqlar table inside the database. Is there a bit of the documentation that doesn't make that clear?
Dutch Govt Suggests Turning Off Citrix ADC Devices, Mitigations May Fail
That's when I thought the economy was doing really great and unemployment was all time low. But wait people want to work for below minimum wage? Something is broken
They figured it out with GDPR, so I don't think there will be a problem with that.
People are not automata. Usually we are not rational
It is a violation of fair market principles, at least in spirit. While legal, the "gig economy" is based on abusing contractor laws and regulations (e.g. lack of employee protections, sick time, ...) - which means that companies that follow the letter and the spirit by properly hiring and paying their workers are priced out of business.
That's not going to happen, the majority will always be drawn towards the cheaper choices. Work conditions and minimum pay are things that need to be regulated, because people won't chose their burger place based on how much their staff earns.
I never change the mode of a website. I have rarely done so and it seems to me an absurd cost for nothing. If the site is well designed in light colors it shouldn't be a problem. If the site is badly designed then it would be normal to offer such a possibility. An operating system is different: you are 24 hours looking at it, it is normal to have display preferences but a website? The average number of visits to sites I have worked on has never exceeded 3 minutes.
We use a lot of cement blocks these days for building foundations and pavers. I dunno how many private residences it takes to equal a mile of new highway or an office block, but it’s not nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System
An archaeological demonstration of path dependency in finance
"It is an archaeological demonstration of path dependency in finance, a bizarrely branching vestigial tail. I confidently assert that hundreds of computer programmers have shown up on their first day of work at financial services firms to build bond trading platforms, and they were like “we’ll let people input prices up to four decimal places, does that sound good,” and their bosses were like “hahaha decimals no we don’t use decimals here,” and they went slowly mad. No one could possibly want this, but it’s what we have."

"Unlike U.S. equity markets, which switched to decimal pricing in 2001, U.S. Treasury securities still trade in fractions. In particular, prices are quoted in 32nds of a point, where a point equals one percent of par, with the 32nds themselves split into fractions. On the BrokerTec platform, for example, 3- and 5-year notes trade in quarters of 32nds, whereas 7-, 10-, and 30-year securities trade in halves of 32nds. The quoted price for a 5-year note might be 98-15¼, for example, indicating a price in decimal form of 98.4765625 (that is, 98 + 15⁄32 + ¼⁄32).

Imagine coming up with that! Imagine being a human, with 10 fingers and 10 toes and centuries of decimal-based culture, and being like “instead of using 100ths of a point, we’ll use 128ths of a point, and we won’t even call them ‘128ths,’ we’ll call them ‘quarters of 32nds.’” Of course that’s not what happened, no one designed this; what happened is just that prices were quoted in points, and then someone wanted a bit more precision and went to half-points, and then someone wanted a bit more precision and went to quarter-points, and then the binary subdividing continued for a while and stabilized at 32nds, and then when it picked up again everyone was so used to 32nds that you had to say “half of a 32nd” instead of “1/64th.” "

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-15/it-s-not-insider-trading-if-the-president-does-it
Bean compliant getters are horrendous, most newer libraries avoid them.
I'd do an integer division by zero. The syscall number would be the dividend, and zero is the divisor.
Creating Tables and Querying Data with AWS DynamoDB
I was with you for the first sentence, but the criminals I'm afraid of are NSA/GCHQ/FVEY/etc who absolutely would never abide by some silly "ban" on a technology like this.
Yet another reason why I’m sad the UK is leaving the EU.

I believe we also have the most CCTV cameras per person in the world - or at least we’re the ‘most watched’ by sone other measure.
That would be pretty bad for anyone with a bunch of apple devices and a bunch of chargers, as during a period of several years you would no longer be able to charge any device using any charger in your home. It’s like the switch from the wide connctor to lightning all over again.

I really don’t care what plug Apple uses (their own or something else) but I do want them to use a single one and stick with it.
Maybe it has nothing to do with learning and more to do with not being different than their friends.
> Fake news isn't the biggest issue with media. It's obvious and can be easily taken down or discredited.

Fake news can be a big problem. Especially in the short term when it comes to major issues like war. The last two major wars was peddled to the american public with fake news - iraq war 1 ( Nayirah testimony ) and iraq war 2 ( yellowcake ).

We know that major PR firms, news agencies and government officials intentionally lied and created fake news which led to the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Not a single PR person, news person or government employee has been charged. Think about that. Hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children are dead because of intentional lies ( some in front of congress ) and nobody got prosecuted or sent to prison.

> The selective editing of facts by individuals with personal bias inside large organizations that are supposed to be trustworthy

The is the biggest problem with news is that people actually think they were or are supposed to be trustworth.

What I think should be taught in high school/colleges is the "History of News". I think it will be eye opening to anyone. Who created these news organizations, why did they create it, how it was created, etc. From the BBC, reuters, AP, NYTimes, WaPo, etc, you wouldn't label a single on as reliable or trustworthy if you understood their histories.

The ultimate problem is that people trust news organizations. Historically, nobody trusted news. News was maligned as nonsense ( yellow journalism ). It was only recently ( post ww2 ) when PR nonsense like "The most trusted name in news"/etc brainwashed people into trusting news.

The best we can do is do look at a variety of competing news sources. This way, they'll expose what the other side is lying about and you can judge for yourself. Especially when it comes to geopolitics or important news, they all lie, so your only hope is competing news sources.