skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some years ago I organized some bridge* events for charity. It was as simple as selecting a worthy cause (a children’s hospital), signing an agreement that we were going to turn over the funds, collecting the funds, and handing them over.

These were a minuscule success, and I later thought that a “fun run” would be a good way to raise some money. I asked around about how to organize such things, and I was connected to a firm that organized these things as a service.

They took me to a nice lunch, which I thought was a bad sign. “Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier,” is the old saying, and while there was no chandelier in the restaurant, the metaphor was nevertheless on point.

When I finally got the actual details of how the run would operate, I realized that the firm’s fees would greatly exceed the amount of money that would end up going to the charity.

I speculate that the “market” for these services are people who want to buy some respectability. Had I gone though with the deal and the run was a success, everyone would think I was a nice person doing nice things for people in need, even if the actual numbers would show that I was a nice person doing nice things for a service company’s revenues.

N=1, of course, but I have had an extremely cynical view of charity events ever since. There appears to be an entire industry built around siphoning away 90%-99% of every dollar adjacent to charity.

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* Bridge the card game, not the BASE-jumping location.
My mother had a saying: Choose your battles. I feel like the value of calling things "not my problem" in software is undervalued. You cannot fix every problem, you cannot train every engineer, and you cannot control everything. Learn to prioritize.

If it is not on your head, don't fuck with it. I understand the instinct to fix a Big Problem and look great to management. However, this is too high risk. If you solve the problem, you are a hero. If you fuck it up, you are an idiot and fired and cost the company $$.

Why run the risk at all? Just cash the paychecks and fix other things that can't go catastrophically wrong.
I know everyone's reaction (mine included) was: "No shit, people who drink low-fat milk probably live healthier lives in general"... But it looks like they really did account for other variables and found that milk-fat percentage was the only strong factor in play:

> "High-fat milk consumers may have lifestyles that are less healthy than low-fat milk drinkers. Since this possibility was recognized before the onset of the investigation, statistical adjustments were made for a dozen potential confounders. Statistical analyses determined that these variables had little influence on the milk fat and telomere relationship. Nevertheless, other variables could explain some of the relationship between milk fat intake and telomere length identified in the present investigation."

Source: https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/
there are services available which provide those for many countries, for a reasonable fee
It doesn’t have to be stored on a server that is publicly reachable, however.
Absolutely zero, considering their business is already shady as fuck powered by spammers spamming the affiliate links, nasty ads and no doubt lots of dark patterns. If the law cared they would already be in trouble for something else.

Besides that, Equifax got away with a slap on the wrist even though it was a highly publicised case.

This case will have zero attention outside of HN and the likes so I'd be very surprised if it even makes it to court.

There's also the issue that bringing the case to court will attract more attention to the leak and potentially force the plaintiffs to state their real details on the record, so while it's definitely unfair to let the website operators go unpunished, maybe leaving the mess alone and hoping the dust settles is the best course of action.
A surprising amount of the code is autogenerated, too. Protobuf stubs, @AutoValue classes, compile-time dependency injection, etc.
Not all auto completions are equal, I suspect you've only dealt with bad ones.

It's very tricky to get right and requires a lot of attention to detail in timings, human attention span, UX, and even psychology.

IDEA's auto completion is mostly good, in my experience, not sure if you've tried it.

> i can type "empty()" on the keyboard faster than I can look at a screen and choose "empty()" from a list,

Sure, but that's a five letter word with no camel case nor special symbols. Your observation stops applying very quickly as the code base grows.

Not mentioning that having to type all these letters and symbols (especially if you need to use the shift key) is
pretty bad from a carpal tunnel standpoint.
3.25% [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_content_of_milk
I do! I remember my first project with it was cracking WinRAR to stop it from showing the nag screen.
On Android, Google recently launched their own version of Apple Arcade: https://play.google.com/about/play-pass/

I haven't personally tried it, but it claims there are no ads or in-app purchases, and the catalog includes a bunch of classic kids' games.
It is in both ash and dash, the shells I mentioned. Your attempt at point scoring is irrelevant but expected.

ash & dash are about 100kB executables (POSIX plus a tiny number of non-interactive improvments like 'local'), bash is 1100kB. Every shell and subshell.
That's not my point, I don't contest that safe languages are safer. I contest the idea that we should "just use" something else. All my tools are written in C, the entire GNU toolchain is in C, how am I supposed to operate in this world if I "just don't use" C?
Serious question: is 1% milkfat known to be "more healthy" than 2%? The body needs fats, and the USA (most of all) is still recovering from an unhealthy fear of fats instilled by the megacorps the past ~30 years.
[me: grew up drinking 2% until I was fully grown / 18yrs]
Why would it matter whether the CEO can code?
This project was supposed to be that, a chance to learn SwiftUI. I didn't want to reverse engineer their API + document it. Frankly, I didn't have that kind of free time :)

It helped that React Native performed great for this use case.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the purpose of a pipeline operator - at least in JS.

From a cognitive perspective, it doesn't make code more readable or easier to understand.

From a practical perspective, why? What can't we do with it that isn't aesthetic?

Edit: Okay, after reading through the article again, I get it. I've had issues with eager loading in Node AND I will say the pipeline is easier to understand than simply using generators. Good article.
> Would an ID with everything redacted but the picture and birthdate pass? It should be sufficient to fulfil the site's legal requirements

No, it would not. ”...the records shall also include a legible hard copy or legible digitally scanned or other electronic copy of a hard copy of the identification document examined and, if that document does not contain a recent and recognizable picture of the performer, a legible hard copy of a picture identification card.” 28 CFR 75.2(a)(1); and there's a lot more besides, see https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/75.2 and 28 CFR 75 generally, as well as 18 USC § 2257.
I’m a software engineer and likely to be involved in implementing an ERP at the company I work for.

Ignoring whether or not we should (we’ll put a lot of thought into this), does anyone have any tips on what to do or avoid to make a project like this a success?
What makes it even worse, is that this is an industry where un-sane individuals frequently get obsessed / fall in love / stalk the models in question very frequently due to the context in which they work. This leak is going to be life-ruining (and potentially dangerous) for many of them.
Believe it or not, in the US even in places where waiters don’t have a lower minimum wage (the whole justification for tipping), people still expect to pay and receive 20%+ tips.

All so you aren’t perceived as being “cheap”. And the people cooking don’t even get any of it.
I would feel so, so fortunate to witness a supernova in my lifetime were it to occur..
Hash functions are repeatable. MBTI types are not--people often receive different results when retaking the test, even in short time periods. It categories are not based on research about significant aspects of personality, and often go against it. The Big Five personality test is a scientifically grounded one that actually works as you describe, and with less loss of accuracy.
I've had success with first using imagemagick to cleanup the image, do some thresholding and then using the latest version (4.1) of tesseract. With tesseract you can also try to experiment with different --psm values for better results.
I think it's interesting they embed the image as base64. I guess a single file deployment is easier.
>Additionally, videotaping military actions deemed vital to national security is a crime in the US.

Interesting, I'm curious which law says filming in a public location the downing of an airliner by the military would be a crime? Can you please give me a link or citation so I can read more about this?
I agree, but both the Equifax case and the lack of enforcement of the GDPR (still no sign of the million-dollar fines or even investigations) shows that the powers that be clearly have no incentive to actually enforce this (well at least until some high-profile politician's dirty laundry gets leaked).
GreyCat's wiki – Unix shell scripting or system administration
BP control in adults 80 years or older: Systolic BP intervention trial (SPRINT)
Well, maybe: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/07/evidence-sug...
Carta's User Acquisition Explained in a Tweet
Your free speech doesn't extend to someone else's rights. In this case they were selling other people's account credentials to bad actors who wanted to misuse those credentials.

"Free speech advocates" should rightfully stay away from defending obviously illegal and immoral behaviour that causes actual harm. There's no abuse of power here; it was rightfully shuttered.
You win!

I also think it should say “correlates with” rather than account for.
In my experience, this is partly true but in general it’s hard to get it to work well and in the end zsh is more slick. Xonsh is another shell that also has better completion than bash and with even less effort. (It’s not as stable though...)
In the 1990s, an emigrate from USSR asked me to explain politics (propaganda) in the USA.

She said in the USSR that there was very little information and everyone knew the government was lying but no one could guess at the truth.

Having read Postman, McLuhan, Chomsky, etc, and having dabbled in media, I felt qualified to answer:

In the USA, the truth was always available, but everyone is overwhelmed with information (called 'infoglut' in the 80s), so few people had the wherewithal to figure out what's what, and most people just shut down.

Today, I'd say even the truth is hard to find, even for the motivated and experienced researchers.
Mainframes tend to be designed with extreme uptime in mind - to the point of often having hot-swappable processors.
I've heard that an HTTP 451 is for when a country prohibits your service in their country. Like, if you wanted to access a VPN providers website in a country where they cannot do business, the provider would return a 451 to indicate they are not allowed to serve your request.

Have there been other cases where government seized websites return a 451?
Chelsea Manning probably takes comfort that this does not happen in the US
> Anyway, I also disagree in general. If a person brings so much value, than why not compensate that person adequately?

I'd be very interested to learn how a CEOs worth is evaluated, I cannot imagine it being a fair process that truly demonstrates that they deserve this much money.
You can't post like this on HN. Please don't do it again. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064871 and marked it off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you about this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252288
Obviously this is an anecdote, but what's ironic is that in my life, the "generally healthier" people all opt for either whole-milk or alternative kinds of milk (almond, oat, etc.), whereas the overweight people I know almost always opt for skim milk.

I am a pretty active person and health-conscious, and in my group, we all typically agree that we aren't fond of the substitutes made in skim milk.
I am inclined to think genetic signature matters. Is the lengthening of telemores a genetic thing? I am not sure if that’s even a right question to ask.
I have never understood this either. It might seem a bit cynical but it often feels a bit like someone trying to:

1. Do something cool they always wanted to

2. Get someone else to pay for it

3. Get some feel-good story to tell their friends in the process

Perhaps it’s not the case, and that most people are well intentioned, don’t think about it this way and aren’t trying to do anything nefarious. But it’s hard to shake the idea once it’s in your head :-/
Welll, i wouldnt keep it on a system on the web. This belongs in cold storage in their legal dept.
Would a site be willing to take the risk on accepting a blatantly doctored ID? The consequences for allowing an underage performer on the site are extremely severe. Decades in jail labeled as a pedophile and spending the rest of your life on the sex offender registry.

It's no surprise at all that the sites demand an extraordinary amount of PII about the performers before they are allowed to post a single image.

Shame the punishments for leaking PII are nowhere near as severe.
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"...[I]s also why we invented the wheel, harnessed fire, founded fancy schools like Harvard" there's a huge false equivalency here; I'll let you figure out which one it is.

How much consumer advertising appeals to "good" aspiration and fills a need which is fairly priced (ie doesn't have brand/marketing/silly subliminal cultural messaging priced in).
I drink milk almost daily. Over a lifetime it might.
That's a fair point and it's a project I'd like to tackle someday in spare or paid time.

I don't think C++ is annoyingly high-level in that case: just annoyingly lacking in the ecosystem to support it.
I think Quantum is smarter about what it prioritizes rendering. Time to complete page load may be slower in Quantum, but Quantum makes sure to display key parts of the page so that it appears to load faster.
Yes it is and no it isn't.

Learn from Admiral Grace Hopper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

The speed of light in fiber optic cable is about 2/3 the speed of light, which is why SpaceX's Starlink will have a potential latency advantage over oceanic fiber optics.

It also gives good perspective on what's being thrown away when you add a single ms of latency through a router or a display. 186 miles at the speed of light. Many on HN don't get this, but this is why cloud gaming is perfectly feasible if we're running with low latency displays and inputs, low distance to the edge compute, and few routing hops.
ha! here to comment the same
We’ve known about the Purkinje Effect, which causes reds to appear darker in dim light, for over 200 years, and molecular and circuit mechanisms are now pretty well understood.

I’d bet a kidney we still believe it in another 20 years.
Unfortunately it will have to when scanning them. But it won't be storing a copy of the image within app, if that helps.
> Firefox's bold font rendering is one thing keeping me away from it.

You are not alone. Firefox font rendering actually upsets me. Comparing to Chrome rendering, it's just a non-starter.

I have brought this up many times, but I get blasted for it. Apparently it's all based on opinion alone and you and I have a very minority opinion in these tech communities. I suspect that the silent majority is with us though.
IIRC not every 53-bit integer is representable in double, since float has two zero representations, but twos-complement integers have only one.

[edit]

Since the extra value is precisely a power of 2 (-2^52), then it will round correctly, however the value is arguably not precisely -2^52 since it has an epsilon of greater than 1.
Ok, I'm curious! What might such a tool look like or do? Did you have something specific in mind?
This is great! Do you have other related curated lists that you're willing to share?
Not really appropriate here. They announced this change to an open standard...in 2016.
You have it backwards, the availability of pollution spewing vehicles enabled white flight and our current sprawl.
Imagine being alive when it goes supernova (relatively to us on earth). That would be a spectacular thing to witness.
Toshiba Says It Built an Algo That’s Faster Than a Supercomputer
GitHub Student Developer Pack now with $200k worth of tools and training
Modern yes, but thankfully a lot still have the original ceilings and woodwork.
Honest title would be: It's probably a natural dimming cycle and the star will not be blowing up right now. If it did, not to worry, it's ~650 light years away, and it shouldn't hurt us (don't they always say that ;-)). It would be as bright as the moon if it went nova for a while.
Annual PC Shipments Rise for the First Time Since 2011
> The manpage doesn't specify that lrint() will set FE_INEXACT, but it seems weird to me that it wouldn't.

Annex F:

The lrint and llrint functions provide floating-to-integer conversion as prescribed by IEC 60559. They round according to the current rounding direction. If the rounded value is outside the range of the return type, the numeric result is unspecified and the ''invalid'' floating-point exception is raised. When they raise no other floating-point exception and the result differs from the argument, they raise the ''inexact'' floating-point exception.
Volkswagen CEO says carmaker faces same fate as Nokia without urgent reforms
No, read U.S.C 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements

(1) ascertain, by examination of an identification document containing such information, the performer’s name and date of birth, and require the performer to provide such other indicia of his or her identity as may be prescribed by regulations;
(2) ascertain any name, other than the performer’s present and correct name, ever used by the performer including maiden name, alias, nickname, stage, or professional name; and
(3) record in the records required by subsection (a) the information required by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection and such other identifying information as may be prescribed by regulation.
Yeah, it's kind of weird how little attention some of C's (historical)competitors in the systems programming space get. You'd think to see a lot of comparisons to whatever Ada* or Pascal would do in the same context.

* Probably because the Ada practitioners are all trapped in Scifs somewhere in the inner mantle of the Earth.
C got this right. We tend to resort to textual interfaces (CLIs and source code, searching instead of directories) because they have the expressivity and conciseness of language. No other tool such as Diagram languages works as good. As devs , our tools are keyboards and our eyes. The measurable goal is to reduce the time it takes to type and read code. Autocomplete makes code too verbose, keyboard makes it too cryptic. I tend to err towards brevoty, as i think it s important to be able to read code in large chunks fast. As such i think autocomplete is mostly annoying as it gets in the way. Languages should instead be laconic even if that means a little memorizing. I think C or python get the balance right and that should have a measurable productivity benefit
And that’s because biology and psychology are incredibly, stupendously more complicated.
If you are a Windows or Mac user, third-party apps like Kiwi for Gmail support this functionality (plus support multiple accounts.)
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)
Some windows were closed with brick, because of the tax you had to pay on windows.
There might be some survivorship bias in there if STEM fields are more successful than others, naturally leading to more STEM leaders, or more opportunities for leaders to form.
You could argue that "man-made machines", "biological machines" (all of life, animal, vegetal and fungus) and "simple matter machines" (like stars are engines or telluric planets are combustion heaters), even the "surface natural ecosystem of Earth", are all different material implementations of machines: organized systems. Carbon-based, copper-based, hydrogen-based... you might map the whole periodic table of elements minus the rare column perhaps.

Ultimately you'd find a common unicity — like electrical charges, strong/weak force, arrangements of "gates" and "structure" etc. — but used in different ways (for instance iirc charged clouds of gas in space don't form new stars because gravity at close range is weaker than the charge that repels them, only strong enough at larger distances to hold them together; that's dramatically different from the use of charges in biological cells).

The cosmos itself is but a big machine. Who's to say we (I mean the whole planet, maybe star system, maybe galaxy itself) aren't actually just a single "cell" of the cosmos? That we are part of a much bigger machine, that we are like those processing units on dendrites in the article, if the universe is a big brain of sorts?[1]

These are all types of machines (X. process of information; Y. engines to convert energy; Z. structures that "restrict" "flow" like gates, transistors, cell membranes, dendrites; N...), which apparently may be expressed, materially implemented in different ways.

To take your question about logic.

If you mean the universal logic exposed above, I don't think so personally — merely because there's no evidence for it whatsoever, no observation; and there's also no need if we accept that from such "machinery" complexity may emerge complex systems (e.g. humans).

If you mean logic from within the human mind — and this begs the question of whether maths and physics are "invented" or "discovered" in the background — then we must assume a subjective answer, at best an aggregate of "non-disproved facts" that we can all agree on within normalcy (edge cases helping us understand said average norm).

"Logic" is but one of several operating modes. Are we more than that? Most certainly yes. That's the experience of all of us. Because perception is so centered on thought, we tend to overappreciate the importance of thinking in our lives, in our behaviors and even values; but the relative picture gradually revealed by biology and psychology and sociology and economics etc. is that we are mostly irrational, mostly automatic (trained habits, patterns recognition, educated intuition, etc), and actually very little in the way of "logical behaviors units".

I'll let you ponder the discrepancy from an absolutely (perhaps) low-level logical machine to the possibility of a chaotic non-logical emergent high-level behavior. What it means for life, for AI, and possibly much bigger or smaller things we consider "inert", for now.

[1]: I mean, look at the larger structures of the universe, tell me it doesn't look like a sample from a biological tissue... http://cosmology.com/GalacticWalls.html (figure 6: http://cosmology.com/images/darkmatterdistribution.jpg)
Unintended consequences are a bitch.
We don't even need to STOP entirely. We can just reduce by ~50% of current levels.

Greenhouse gases could still be used for numerous applications, as long as we stop using it for power generation, ground transportation, and manufacturing.
Maybe it's up to the community to stop this kind of behaviour. Maybe it's time to create another non-profit focused on Mozilla's goals, with a promise of having a more sane salary structure and just fork Firefox.
>This is the same image they used for their 2018 April Fools prank and faked a domain seizure.

The FBI is seizing domains for April Fools Day pranks? Does anyone else think that's an overreach?