skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question, from an anxious person whose parents are nearing "that age": Is it normal for a person with dementia to have control of their finances, to the point where they can give large amounts of money away?
Not a cryptocurrency expert either but I suspect there will always be someone willing to launder the cryptocoins for a large enough commission.
i live in the gta/ontario and take cold showers 🧐
>surely ransomed bitcoins qualify as stolen

Is this typically the case? As far as I understand, fraud losses for example are often treated quite differently than stolen goods. Are ransom payments really considered stolen?

This doesn't necessarily seem like the kind of a situation where the nemo dat rule would be directly applicable, especially given that it doesn't typically extend to money anyway.
They don't charge 3%, they charge about a tenth of a percent (0.11%). What you think of as fees is actually a basket of charges going to different parties. almost 2% goes to your (the purchaser) credit card company to cover the risk of you not paying them, about a percent goes to the store's bank to cover the case when they have to give the money back (either because it was a fraudulent online transaction, or the store cheated the customer and the customer went to their card issuer, etc.) and that tiny little bit that's left goes to Visa/MasterCard.

Credit transaction fees actually make lots of sense and are grounded in the actual cost of the financial product. As a merchant, you can choose to accept only debit cards to avoid the cost
I also do this, but with Linode. The only hangup I hit every once in a while is that some services will block access to VPS IP blocks due to spam/malicious traffic. E.g. occasionally I can't get Google search results while on VPN, or Pokemon Go won't connect as they block VPS providers to prevent spoofing.
I work on a fully open data repository. The website has the API linked in 3 places, so when I find inappropriate scraping I block it with "HTTP 420 ... see <API link> or contact <email>".

Some people probably switch to using the API, but no-one has ever contacted us. They either give up, or run their scraper on a different computer -- I've seen the same scraper move between university computers, departments, then (in the evening) to a consumer broadband IP.
I'm trying to puzzle out how this works in practice. So if LinkedIn has truly public data (no login required to view) then it can be scraped no problem.

But if it's only accessible with a login, then it falls under TOS and they can be blocked?
It's hard to overstate how big of a breaking change that was. Python is basically scriptable C. In c, strings aren't really a thing, but they are first class in Python (since everything is effectively a dict). And char's are your typical string-like data structure. So in py2, it made (some) sense at the time to let str and byte[] types intermingle. I don't agree with that choice, but it wasn't unreasonable (much like the null pointer).

This led to all manner of playing fast and loose with str as byte[] usage. I've seen inline asm and even machine code in python.

Now it's the new millenium and oh look, ascii-char won't cut it as your language implementation of strings.
This was no expert, but an academic... those who can't do, teach...
AI Weirdness
Well firstly, having a great UX doesn’t mean throwing away features. It means improving the product you have so it’s more user friendly, increased readability, and more powerful. It can even mean increased features like better thread management, snooze support, better people-centric management, additional workflows explicitly supported (like zero inbox), etc.

Most of the sibling comments here are a “get off my lawn” type variety that IMHO are not fully informed by what good UX means. Great design isn’t superficial, in the least. A great user experience is a great user experience... it doesn’t mean compromising because something was hard, and it doesn’t throw away how the product is used or has evolved.

We should be aiming to improve and innovate to be helpful, not stagnate. And improvement means people’s existing needs are considered, not disregarded as many here seem to think.
So, the carriers do not own any of the physical Apple phone inventory?
Infopage: All serverless monitoring tools and resources
The paperwork telling him to disclose was probabbly a big hint.
Knowing how often Kremlin retreats to shaping public perception through theatrics, it's easy to think of the bomb threats as an inside job.
One negative aspect of nuclear reactors that I found is rarely discussed is their vulnerability to military attacks. Wind, water and solar are distributed much more. Of course there are other single points of failure, but at least those failures don't involve risk of nuclear contamination.
I’m building a simple, opinionated tool to create and manage roadmaps the right way (IE not features on a Gantt chart). Think of the opinions that the basecamp guys bake into their products, but targeted at roadmapping.
Going to use it with my own internal product team for a while, but could easily see it being a good standalone product.
Here's another one that decided to use JS naming conventions while providing Linq API: https://github.com/tomi/fromfrom
They were citing worldwide capacity factors and prices for wind, not French ones, which I agree are much worse.
I never understood why police even accepts anonymous bomb tips. They should respond by requiring the person giving the tip to identify himself.
The iPad is awesome for kids < 13 (please keep your chocolate-covered hands off my laptop keyboard!!), and when I just want to consume media.
Particle Drops Support of Particle Mesh
Yes, that is a major factor in aging of chips. But giving a number for this is very difficult, as it varies on a lot of parameters. Quite a lot depends on the process the chip was manufactured with. Older processes with larger feature sizes usually are less affected than modern processes with smaller structures. But almost all details of processes are confidential and available under NDA only, so not openly published. Also, it depends on the concrete designs. That is, why the carrier migration is simulated as part of the modern design process.
Of course, also the operation conditions play a role. The hotter the chip is and the higher the operation voltage, the quicker the diffusion happens.
It may sound obvious but why not build a second Los Angeles?
https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf - thank you.
What did that cost per km? A large part of the nuclear vs renewable discussing is one about which is cheaper.
I don't understand why anyone would spy on the NIH. It isn't like they work in secret. Every bit of work done by their scientists and grant recipients will end up published in the appropriate journal.
That people value different things is an important insight. It's the fundamental reason why trade creates wealth, for example.

We agree that people can acquire wealth in ways that hurt others. I think that's different from saying the wealth itself is bad, but that's perhaps splitting hairs.

Crimes and externalities are real, but they're also very manageable with good legislation, and I think all experience is that the enormous accumulation of wealth since the Industrial Revolution has been the best thing that ever happened.

I don't let the minor imperfections distract from the awesome big picture!
Could you check if the issue with the demo has been fixed? GitHub's image host doesn't support WebP (which I use for better quality at a smaller size), so I've moved it to my own server where the MIME type should be correct.

Your interactive project sounds interesting, let us know when it's out :)
This is interesting to to think about, considering Google gets its own results from scraping...
Facial Detection – Understanding Viola Jones’ Algorithm
You're right, turning off Firefox's tracking protection reveals the 'captcha' box (disguised FB comment box)... but it still fails since I've FB's platform feature turned off. Another window pops up informing me that I need to turn it on to record my comment, which of course I declined...
Because that's how people often treat it (whether they should or not).

You're implying that since it's not actually a variable (X being rich = X having something interesting to say), it can't function as a variable.

But it very much can. Whether it should or shouldn't be a variable, for many people it functions as one.

The same way people buy music or watch movies of "good looking" actors and musicians, even though being "good looking" is not a variable to judge whether a song/movie is good or not.

So, since this (treating wealth/beauty/fame/etc as a variable as to whether something is interesting) exists, and is often prevalent, it makes sense to wonder when someone listens to somebody else X that is rich/beautiful/famous whether they merely listen to X because he is those things (and not because X has something interesting to say).
This makes me think of Aaron Swartz. If he had the strength to keep from harming himself, his whole sentence would have likely been vacated. This is a reminder to those of us with suicidal thoughts: things can always get better.
This text gives me comfort in that the fact that I feel like a noob in many topics should be an encouragement to learn more, rather than give up because the wealthy people are superhuman and I'm not.
From http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...

opp. to a professed orator, opp. a professed philosopher

Comes from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...

where you can find: opp. public, my personal opinion, unique and different from others
The EFF has a writeup on this decision from September that I found more helpful than the linked article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
> We haven't made much progress stemming growth.

Birth rates in the United States are already below replacement rate. Population growth is a result of immigration. Americans lowering their birth rates further won't do much.
If you have a good income
I disagree that current onshore wind in France is not 50%, only 21%; also maybe you were comparing the low capacity factor of French nuclear because it is used for load following and curtailed in summer because it is scaled for winter usage using restive heating. And comparing it to offshore with intermitttent power, not dispatchable in the best location. Totally misleading.
I tend to agree. I've got an iPad Pro, but my MacBook Pro is still my default for activities which are often possible, but awkward on the iPad.

What Apple seems to have done though is avoid an uncontained failure. I could have seen other tech leadership teams going all in on the iPad Pro, and removing/deprecating other lines completely at this point.

They've started incremental investment in the iPad after years of low/no investment. This seems like a better strategy to realise the full capabilities of the product while retaining what works. This is too slow for some people, but I don't know of another option, especially when an ARM transition on laptops is a consideration.
That's called the mammalian diving response!
> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number below.

This sounds like they are going to continue using my purchase data but without anonymization? Not a native speaker so perhaps I'm just misunderstanding the sentence.
Low-hanging fruit, not particularly hacky, but really nice: Android phone on guitar pedalboard. Metronome, tuner, backing track jukebox, etc. I run the headphone jack into a Boss looper pedal. Very handy to have a dedicated android in the effect loop.
Well I never said "onshore". Nevertheless, wikipedia has an example of an onshore wind farm with 60.2% in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Wind_farm
In this case, LinkedIn users kind of do want their “public profiles” to be public. They’re online CVs; by definition, if you make one, your goal is to get it into the hands of anyone who asks for it!

LinkedIn, likewise, has built its business model on an implicit contract with its users that it’s going to show their CV to anyone who asks for it.

I think LinkedIn users would be surprised that LinkedIn doesn’t let bots read (scrape) their public CV. A CV (individually, rather than in aggregate) is ultimately useful for only one thing: marketing the CV’s author’s skills. Why wouldn’t I want my marketable skills scraped into some private “talent matchmaking” agency’s databases, such that someone could find me—and hire me—when I show up as a result of some fancy OLAP query they paid that agency to run on their scraped data? It’s more roundabout than them just finding my CV on LinkedIn, but I’m still glad they found it!
> We do not have to limit ourselves to just one source.

Well, as long as it is no coal or nuclear, no, we don't. But those two do not like to share capacity, so as much as you have them, you better use them.

> Blocking nuclear in favor of some sort of pie in the sky global power network...

The natural state of nuclear is blocked. It's not in favor of a renewable network, it simply is. Maybe it would be better if it wasn't, but that's not reality.
Security questions and CAPTCHA don’t just verify our identities but reshape them
Digital radio specification includes delivering Java applets over digital radio
I've been taking cold showers for quite a number of years and haven't noticed any significant benefit, except they are short :)
Hacker group seized Twitter, Facebook accounts of 15 NFL teams
Do they have to lose $100B, or just underperform?

People have accepted 2% fees on managed funds despite underperforming an index fund for decades.
Sixteen Leading Quants Imagine the Next Decade in Global Finance
Every profession has challenges. Most of them don’t resort to violating the rights of others to solve those challenges.
That's Calculus 1.
And the onshore wind in France is 21%, and that is a fact you can easily check on the internet with public numbers.
That's an interesting thought. I've removed (deleted?) my Facebook account several months ago. Maybe I should have kept it around in order to manage it.
>Robert Mercer, the former co–chief executive of Renaissance Technologies, allegedly told a friend that Medallion was right 50.75 percent of the time when it came to its millions of trades — adding that “you can make billions that way.”

Totally not a finance guy, but how can this be true with drawdowns? The losses are worse than the gains- if you had $100 and take a 33% loss, it would take a bit more than a 50% gain to get back to where you were. 50% loss and you'd need to double your money to get back, etc.

So.... with drawdowns, don't you need to be right more than 50.75% of the time?
There is a concept in US copyright known as "thin" copyright. Collections of uncopyrightable information can in fact be copyrighted, but the arrangement of the information must have some spark or minimal creative energy. Mere "sweat of the brow" is insufficient to confer copyrightability on the work.

Such "thin" copyright tends to mean that there is a strong presumption against infringement. You generally need to demonstrate that the work has been copied virtually in its entirety to find infringement; partial borrowing is insufficient.
s/real/office/g and then the article reads just fine.

Otherwise, yeah, it makes little sense, because, yeah, just about every other kind of work, short perhaps of literal bricklaying, has been radically changed by tablets. The last time I had to visit a hospital, I got the impression that they might have had more money invested in iPads than in CT scanners.

I don't see this as a failure. Expecting the iPad to be positioned as a device that would outright displace an existing line of Apple products that's typically sold at 2-3x the price point strikes me as an impressive failure to intuit Apple's priorities. The iPad was intended to break into - and even create - new markets, not to cannibalize its cousins. And if you look at it that way, it's been an amazing success.
I don't think a revenge tax is necessary. You can probably conservatively estimate the carbon intensity per unit of GDP and then set a tariff based on that number.
Facebook Accepted Thousands of Dollars to Promote Ad Its Fact Checkers Debunked
The "i-devices are just consumption devices and toys LOL" viewpoint, which is shockingly still common in programmer circles, seems to rely on a bizarrely narrow idea of what "doing real work with a computer" looks like. Meanwhile iPads and in some cases even iPhones are wildly better devices for lots of work, creative and otherwise, than a "real" computer.
Unfortunately, I don't have current detailed pricing for Beckhoff's lowest end. I, too, wish they would just publish pricing. IIRC, low end beckoff arm controllers do get down to 400-500 USD. A CX9020 1GHz A8 based unit, with win embedded compact edition runs about 1000 USD with the runtime. As I understand it, this is the lowest end unit system for basic multi-axis motion control. Keep in mind that this is actually a lot of computational horsepower. When beckhoff says "basic" that means mid range for most other PLC's.

For complete honesty... I ended up using a Galil motion controller rather than the Beckhoff ARM unit mentioned above, but that was due to really tight form-factor issues. Technically, the Beckhoff unit would have been better. The overall hardware cost was moreorless a wash between Galil and Beckhoff.
If you're handling private / confidential data on public WiFi on a regular basis, it might be a good idea, but keep in mind that most websites have HTTPS security applied to them already, which means that communications are already secured in transit. VPNs only move the issue to another place if you're not using HTTPS, as it just moves the location that the data leaves in its insecure state.

VPNs aren't nearly as much of a godsend that they're made out to be. If you're trying to access geo-restricted content or bypass firewall blocking, it's alright, but at that point you might as well just use a proxy.

VPNs are not a replacement for thorough security measures. Use common sense and stay up to date on methods people commonly use to bypass security and do your best to keep it in mind.

If you're paranoid about DNS spoofing, use DNS over HTTPS or something like that.

Nobody NEEDS a VPN, and they're marketed rather improperly by a lot of providers. It makes me physically recoil when people say they VPNs protect them from hackers or protect from Malware and viruses because it is woefully ignorant.

Also, don't trust No-Logs policies. They still do it, guaranteed.
Google Chrome: Control your music, videos and more
Openshift, CDs, Golang and More for DevOps in One Event in Belgium
Man, the hate is thick on the HN comment ground today.

Lots of august people are very afraid of looking or feeling stupid. Ask anyone in a product development meeting to take a firm stance on the technical feasibility of a product feature and you'll get a lot of hemming and hawing about it whether the details are feasible, and very few people willing to put their neck out and say "Yes, we can do it." Because if you're wrong, you've spent some of your political capital in a way that fixes in everyone's mind: "Well, the last time we listened to cushychicken, we fucked up!"

The angle that I think pg is missing is: when can you safely be a noob, without torpedoing your credibility?

That's a much more difficult and interesting question.
Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy
We all don't like the idea of not being paid for our work, but somehow it's the duty of these journalists, editors, publishers, prints, etc to do so.
> duplicate content

On the same website or across the web (or a network) ?

edit: ah, from the page you linked

> Every page should provide unique content that doesn’t appear elsewhere on the site. Search engines will penalise or even completely hide pages that are too similar as showing duplicate search results is unhelpful to users. Duplicate pages can also reduce the search rank benefit of backlinks because it’s better to have backlinks to a single URL compared to backlinks spread over a set of duplicate page URLs. Crawling duplicates will also use up the resources search crawlers allocate to crawling your site which means important pages might not be indexed. You can eliminate sets of duplicate pages by consolidating them to a single URL using redirects or canonical tags.
A chance that an anonymous bomb tip will turn out to be true is very small. But it's not zero.

Now, for a second, imagine that it really happened. And you're the official who decided "no, we will not act on this". And this decision is in the records. Does this situation look good to you?
There is currently no offshore wind park in France.

Maybe you mean to compare wind in France with world best wind, but this is what you wrote.

"nuclears capacity factor in France (the country with a high nuclear buildout) is about 72%, while that of wind is about 50%"
DIY LED Ping Pong Ball Display with Arduino
At least in my experience, problems with Linq are problems with optimization. For example, if you have an in-memory collection with 100,000 items, and you do collection.First(i => i.id == 123), that will be much slower than a dictionary indexed by id. (Refactor so you can do collection[123] instead of Linq.)

Some developers understand this, for other less savvy developers, it's just voodoo. In any case, if the collection is 100 items, there's no real advantage to optimizing.

Also, a foreach loop with an if statement is probably faster than a select statement, because it's not allocating a lambda and going back and forth in the stack; and a for loop indexed by a counter is probably faster than a foreach loop. Those, however, are micro-optimizations that really need their value shown in a profiler.

I once wrote a library that allowed indexing collections by different properties. It was quite intense, and it paid off as the application has lots of RAM-based queries and its internal collections can scale to 20,000 or 250,000 items.

(Unrelated: I wanted to open source the library, but my boss wouldn't let me. Sigh. Maybe I should have pushed back around my annual review that being able to put my name on a useful open-source library is important career development.)
Yeah, those useless academics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_uni...
Fear of Coronavirus Might Prove Lethal for the Global Economy
Yeah Google gave it some lip service for a little bit and then just walked away from any serious help for Android tablets.

Granted ChromeOS and Chromebooks have done a good job of covering some of the tablet use case space, obviously not entirely, but it seems like a better place to focus.
Earlier discussion (june 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18866800
How to Personally Fight Climate Change
Old money are mostly out of the rat race, more distant from the need of self-marketing, and usually with better education and taste (in fact, it's almost proverbial that old money have better taste than the "nouveaux rich").

All kinds of writers, artists, scientists etc were once from that group.

So it's more probable to listen to something interesting from an old money millionaire who inherited wealth, than from a self-made one (which would tire you with self-promotion and gloating about their business acumen, bravado, and hardships they had to overcome).
Good job! I'm taking downvotes for this!