skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is big enough for everyone's kinks; I'll keep mine off yours and you return the favor tx
You just gave me a good idea. Thanks!

I am gonna open a site for giving free mask through crowdsourcing in many needed places.
Imagine this hypothetical scenario:

The US government, acting in accordance with its constitution invades and occupies Canada. Congress creates 13 new states corresponding to the previous provinces and territories and elections are held. Almost all of the elected members from the newly annexed areas are opposed to the annexation and introduce a bill to allow the 13 new states to secede from the US but the bill is overwhelmingly defeated by members of Congress from the other 50 states.

Does the US government in this scenario enjoy the consent of the governed?

If they do, imagine that the original US population was more split on the issue so that the secession bill would have passed with Canada divided into 13 states. However the pre-annexation Congress anticipated this and resolved to make Canada a single state that would consequently not have sufficient representation to pass the bill even with the support of opponents from some of the other 50 states.

Does the US government still enjoy the consent of the governed in the second scenario?
I plan to. They use a custom CSV format that my labeling tool can't work with so I converted everything to VOC XML. I need to write a script to convert back to their format to submit a PR.

Not sure if they'll accept the PR though; the original data had a "visualization link" back to the labeling company on each line which I can't reproduce.
I wonder if that's a characteristic of streaming a single file, consecutive blocks. That's be really strange behaviour though. Perhaps a thermal issue if the TV keeps it powered and spinning all the time? Certainly Xbox seems to keep the disk spinning - I had a WD Ext HDD attached and the light was always flickering even with the console off for whatever reason.

Personally I also find Seagate the loudest and 'clickiest' of all the drive brands. I can hear the mechanicals, making me think they will fail, so I trust them less than other brands.
QE and monetary stimulus is primarily effective at counteracting demand shocks. For example productive capacity, like empty storefront or unemployed workers, sits unused because liquidity has dried up.

A worldwide pandemic would primarily exert its economic effect through supply shocks. The productive capacity of the economy genuinely shrinks. Stores can't open during a quarantine. Sick workers can't show up at the office.

A pandemic might have second-order demand shocks, particularly if panicking investors flee to quality. But there'd still be a genuine contraction in real and potential GDP, most of which would get absorbed by contracting corporate profits. Monetary stimulus can't route around those constraints.
In this case it's a relatively simple live leak.
I don't think it's ok in the sense that it's not some kind of acceptable trade-off to make for a society-wide benefit or something like that, but I think it's ok in the sense that it's just a minor annoyance that doesn't make life unlivable. China is not some kind of dystopian hellhole where citizens constantly feel the government's boot on their necks. The government doesn't allow people to express themselves freely, but that doesn't stop many from doing it anyway. There simply aren't enough police officers to react to every violation. It doesn't exactly cow people into submission. My friend obviously wasn't praising the government when he told me how they tried to make him shut up.

I think you should be careful not to assume too much about life in a foreign country you haven't experienced for yourself.

Case in point, you talk about the social credit system as if it were operational, maybe even back then. In reality, nation-wide rollout is planned for this year, and many details are still up in the air. There are local pilot projects, but all of them are different and many are limited to providing data on companies (often not much, essentially just putting the company register online). Any stories you may have heard about people being punished by the social credit system are actually low-tech solutions without scores that have been rebranded, presumably so someone can claim to be on schedule implementing the master plan.
Well, let’s use our imagination...

... and hope that Apple reinvents user input on mobile.

A little Soli for advanced gestures:

https://atap.google.com/soli/

A selfie keyboard?

https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-selfietype-creates-a-magi...

Better voice commands. For example, why can’t I say “build app”

“Rename function foo to bar“
What were your thoughts on the police and court system while Black Lives Matter was making all the headlines? Or if that's not your cup of tea, how about when the court let Epstein go free when he was raping children?

I'm expressing a mainstream opinion at the least if not the majority. Being a more secret court doesn't make me feel more trusting.
> Germany has huge numbers of banks compared to other countries and so the system is inefficient.

That's not really true. While there is a huge number of banks, most of them are either co-op banks (Raiffeisen- and Volksbanken) or Sparkassen, and while they are all separate legal entities, all the banks from either of those groups run on their respective common infrastructure (Ficudia & GAD IT and Finanz Informatik).
If my boss would arrive in a support group or some other psychologically safe space for "opening up" then that would be a gross violation of the environment prerequisites that's required for that group/space to function properly - one of us would have to leave.

It would be like like bringing a parent or spouse to psychotherapy (pair/relationshop therapy is structurally different) - that simple presence automatically destroys the possibility to "open up" properly.
I thought the whole point of such things is it's near impossible to prove?

Also complaining means you reveal what you know, which helps narrow what you don't know.
Seems like it was memorable enough for you to post about it.
That's too bad--not sure why he didn't do better. Didn't agree with all of his points, but he's one of the few candidates this year that I'd care to hang out with, or work for.
What annoys me the most about the whole "Huawei fiasco" is the fact people were going to install proprietary product to run 5G, which meant that it ended in a strange speculation game. If only open and free hardware had to be used for such things, there wouldn't be any problems of putting blind trust into a foreign company.
Which is not any less ambiguous.
There's a disconnect here.

People who talk about the danger of humans driving cars always seem to talk about the raw numbers, because humans drive cars a lot and the raw numbers are rather large.

But when we talk about automated driving, it's in percentages, because it's not being done on the same scale.

So to compare apples to apples, you'd have to convert the number of fatalities to an accuracy percentage. Have you considered trying? There is certainly more than one way to do it, but it would greatly contribute to the discussion if you made some attempt.
I know that a "token" is some value that is used in the transaction. I still have no idea what a PAN is.
Eh. betting on incompetence over malignance is easy money. Could this be a conspiracy? Sure thing. Subs do all kinds of very secretive things, and select few subs have singular missions of international importance. More likely two or three quality assurance & design failures occured and american sailors died.
\enkov\ vs \kouvid\ is splitting hairs...
You mean they don't accept contactless payments at all?

The seller's terminal does not have to know about Apple Pay for it to work, the phone just pretends it's a card.
I think all of my cards have contactless now. I've used it precisely once, when I handed my card to the teller and they tapped it on the pad for me.
Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died
Taco Bell succesfully patented the hexagonal tortilla folding pattern they use for Crunch Wrap Supremes.
> instead of the inside out

Now the name makes even more sense. I first read it as sh/git, but reading it as something that starts inside and slowly works its way out is now my preferred explanation of the name.
EMV transactions still use track data format from magstripe world to ensure backward compatibility.
I once landed a job as a web developer in a marketing department where IT was gatekeeping production hard.

Although all the code was in git (the real git), deployment involved a magical shell script someone in IT had written ages ago. Only after a bunch of rocky, outage-causing deployments did we have the sense to start digging into this magic script.

It turned out it was just a bad, thousands of lines long re-implementation of git using perl and mysql that captured and stored diffs and rsync'd them to production. ...And this was well into the era of CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools.

Eventually, the company brought in new IT leadership that put an end to that kind of nonsense, which freed us in marketing to buy purpose-built PaaS for our needs.

Obviously do this kind of crazy stuff as you please on the side. But at work, build only what uniquely adds value to your company. For most, dev tools are probably pretty low on that list.
And circulated through the building via blowers.
The problem with awk today is that it has very few features that would make it superior to Perl,Ruby or Python.

The only instance where awk has utility for me is when the program is short enough to be explicitly specified at the command line, for example:

$3 > 10 { print $6 - $5 }

for that it is awesome, you don't have to look inside another program to figure exactly what is happening, it is explicit etc. it is also super fast, much-much faster than splitting with a typical scripting language

for anything more complicated than that, it offers very few benefits (I'd be hard pressed to name any) and significant limitations.

Thus IMO the problem with awk is that it does too little and offers to little room to grow.
It's not skimming, it simply presents an NFC transaction to the card through wallet/clothes. The card instantly approves, without you doing anything. It's a one-time loss, capped at the transaction limit for contactless. They could try and do it over and over, I guess
Could you please flesh out your comment on Ding's skill in regard to infectious disease epidemiology ? I don't doubt you, I just like to know why people say things.
Nothing done by an algorithm is copyrightable either, as far as I know. It comes into the non-human "monkey selfie" category. The only copyrightable output would be taken directly from human-created copyrightable input, i.e., the original books.
Late reply to a now-closed thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22094219

I've quasi-blogged at https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius When I do re-start, that will at least get updates.

There's a new blog, I promise, eventually coming to GitLab, likely:

https://gitlab.com/dredmorbius/lair-of-the-id

Or https://gitlab.com/dredmorbius/synopticon

And yes, technology as predicated on energy flux is a principle I've largely accepted. Vaclav Smil's work is singular in this, though I find Daniel Yergin's to be so as well, though that seems largely unintentional / accidental.

It's oil, not money, that changes everything.

(Or at least changed it.)
> oh fuck, I didn't realize that the git index is a binary file format

I wonder if the project (or likely, another one) might be better served by implementing the index using plain text (or whatever else might be more natural for shell wrangling) to elucidate the conceptual structure rather than matching git literally.

PS: The name is very apropos. One doesn’t see too many such fitting opportunities — feels warm and fuzzy to see this one well used :-)
Depends on card issuer, jurisdiction, retailer, security heuristics, etc.

Most of my cards have a $100 contactless limit for most retailers. Costco gets $200.
All modern common implementations (I think). MSVC's malloc definitely locks. I think gcc, clang and icc do too. This is a big reason why tcmalloc and jemalloc were created.
Instant (< 10 seconds) is at least possible, if not normal, between any two banks that support SCT Inst (which most do now).
Ultimate security: put a US device behind a Chinese one (or vice versa)
mobile and desktop devices, because although html is supposed to already be cross platform, in theory, when it comes to games you have to make some assumptions about whether a user is using a mouse or a touch screen or a keyboard, specific screen sizes, testing on obscure browsers running linux and old versions of gecko and things start to break
I don't think anybody should be targeting plain POSIX shell anymore. There are much richer shells available almost everywhere.
I now have a good explanation for the boss why I'm drinking gin & tonics at work..

James Burke covered this in Connections² :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLa_IrAj-o
Not following the usage of "suffering" here at all. Maybe it's an autocomplete error?
'89 or '90 I wrote a personal version control tool in awk, shell and rcs. Because I didn't know better.
Yes. But what happens when you start adding swap, unlimited background processes, etc.?

All of the advantages of an iPad go away - you get Windows 2-1.
The suspicious thing isn't the tool/technology, it's the actor and what the world would be like if they ran the show.

This is a good reason why Chinese needs to democratize totally and switch things up.

The issue is, when you live in China and luck strikes out, there's no choice but to conform, or face suffering, which if Xinjiang is any measure, includes deprivation of liberty. Take pity on the one who has disagreement with the system in PRC.

I don't understand a government lasting long without elections by the people. I don't get their end game on the world stage. They remind me of Kefka from Final Fantasy VI, or team rocket in Pokemon, because news often planning some conspiracy or trap that'd backfire on them in the end.
The wifi stack isn't the cellular modem. There's a reason people are particularly concerned about the baseband.
Seagate do an 'archive' HDD, but with only a 3-year warranty I wouldn't expect it to work as a long term solution.
Transactions over some limit (in Romania it's over ~$25 because it's 100 local romanian lei so a nice round number) require you to enter the pin in the terminal.

But the US doesn't seem to have discovered pin numbers.

And judging by other posts for this story, you haven't discovered contactless payments either. They were available long before Apple Pay.
There's a Reggie Watts song about this..
In vitro means nothing for clinical use
Everything you wanted to know about carbon sequestration
I'd like to compliment the author on the quality of this post. It's very well written, data/example driven, fair, and educational.

Overall, a joy to read. Thank you!
> Having written a review on the seasonality of influenza

Is one of the theories lack of Vitamin D?
Finally a disease I could claim gin and tonic are the cure for.
Pops open tonic bottle, pours gin deliberately
Sugary Drink Consumption Plunges in Chile After New Food Law
To be fair, I don't think a search warrant is oppression if used correctly. If there was something analogous for encryption I wouldn't mind. Problem is an "encryption search warrant" likely would happen without anyone knowing about it.
I have same experience with 5x 3 GB Seagates. None lasted 2 years. Replaced those with Toshiba's and HGST in my Synology and it's been 3+ years without bad sectors. Will never buy Seagate again.
Fei-Fei Li deserves to be on this list too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li
You are right that the core of Apple Pay security is functionally identical to chip and contactless transactions.

However a seemingly trivial but important difference with Apple Pay is that it doesn't use your physical card number—instead it uses a different card number randomly assigned to your device. The payment networks can therefore recognise Apple Pay-assigned numbers and know to demand full Apple Pay authentication when they are used.

This reduces the scope for downgrade attacks.
It is arguable that the US and Russia have collectively committed a crime against humanity that's comparable to genocide. Not in any simple numeric sense, of course. But even 1% annual risk of killing a billion people, protracted over several decades, is a pretty big number.

And yes, humanity is highly stratified. Socially, economically, whatever. But that just reflects what we are. Hate on it all you want, it's not gonna change.
Do they really think people are using these datasets for commercial applications?
What a strange thing to say. You think people with clearances hanging around other people with clearances know the same amount as civilians and uncleared service members? Surely you jest.
How does this jive w/ the totals counted on this site:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/

? I guess the source data could be fudged but surely China realizes by now that faking things is only going to make them look worse in the long run? Maybe I'm too optimistic.
Disease caused by the Wuhan coronavirus officially has a name: Covid-19
I didn't really understand why there were so many banking startups in the US until I found out that simple bank transfers cost money over there.
Oh I misunderstood because Firefox also started experimenting with DOH lately. So it could be either, yeah!
Depending on your strike and maturity, you may not lose anything. If the entire market sells off hard, correlation will go to 1 in the slide. Index options tend to price in some expectation of this (it's called "correlation skew") for downside options. So you'll make money on three things in a slide:

* delta, ie the slide itself,

* vega, ie the increased expectation of volatility for the remaining duration of the option contract,

* skew, which will increase more for index options than for single names due to implied correlation resetting higher.

I have noticed that the market seems to be in a "buy any dip" mentality, so be aware of that. If the market sells off, it may come right back the next day. Look at what happened already with the coronavirus outbreak, as well as Iran's missile launches before that.
> wanted to add that here in Portland, we have the special Apple Pay transit wallet for the bus, which is amazing!

I'm aware of this, because here in Canada, if you add a transit pass to Google Pay, the only options are 1) Las Vegas Monorail, 2) Melbourne myki, 3) Portland Hop and 4) Manatee County, Florida MCAT.
> More pertinent to this, modern CPUs have multi-stage pipelines and branch prediction.

A correctly predicted branch is still slower than no branch. An incorrectly predicted branch is one of the slowest things you can have happen on a modern CPU.

> Third, just the possibility of throwing an exception has a cost as the program has to have the code to unwind the stack.

Incorrect. The exception handling code does not execute in the normal path.

-fno-exceptions ~never makes your code faster. It does, however, shrink your binary size. Which is a non-trivial cost, but not the focus of the discussion.
That data looks quite delayed, I'd check this one out

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Years ago, I bought the O'Reilly Awk & Sed book with the intention of becoming a linux guru and master the commandline.

Then I realized most all the awk/sed stuff looked very similar to Perl, which I already knew, and I ended up just becoming very good at Perl 1-liners.
It seems like there used to be a lot more women in computing. In my first job out of college (late 80's), I worked in a group of software developers with 12 women and two men. It was not considered odd.
"The question is whether self-driving cars, even with the errors, are safer for people than regular drivers on average. If so..."

You could say "the question is whether aircraft, even with the errors, are safe for people than regular drivers on average. If so..." - then how should we change policy towards Boeing in light of the 737 MAX fiasco? Should we then avoid any adverse action towards them and focus on encouraging more people to fly?

If we declare that something is safer, particularly before it even exists, isn't there a danger of a feedback loop that prevents it from being safer?

Regular drivers kill people, but they are also generally vulnerable to the crashes that they cause. Boeing engineers, or the programmers of self-driving AIs, don't have their interests aligned with you, the occupant of the vehicle, nearly as much.
> Instead of saying “Urgh, why don’t they learn to code?” instead let’s think of another solution.

Always refreshing to see this as the motivation for an article.
Go is probably more verbose because it’s missing List comprehensions, for example.

It needs map, filter, reduce to reduce line count. Swift, while probably not as performant as Go, makes writing in a more Pythonic style.

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9].filter {$0 % 2 == 0}.map {$0 * 2}.reduce(0, +)

["550", "a", "6", "b", "42", "99", "100"].compactMap{Int($0)}.filter {$0 < 100}

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functio...
Crypto clearly reacting
That's Static Data Authentication. Dynamic Data Authentication is also a thing - the recommended thing nowadays, actually. Check it out https://www.openscdp.org/scripts/tutorial/emv/DDA.html

These schemes are independent of physical transfer mechanism (well, mostly)

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_smart_card you might be talking about MSD while I'm talking about EMV. C'mon, America, you're better than that
It does however request hash prefixes, then google sends to the client all bad URLs that match, that is what can be brute forced with relative ease, if you already have a stream of previous they are visiting (via google analytics, google captcha, and other matched hashes). Especially if you know most every URL on the internet already. (hash them, then look it up in a table).

Anonymization is a very tricky subject, and there is a lot of techniques that get trumpeted but are absolutely not effective assuming a bad faith actor.
But you’re missing out on so much good stuff when you do this. Awk might not replace Python once you start needing external dependencies but awk can absolutely replace bash in a lot of situations.
I don't think this confronts anything I said.

Bulk allocations with custom allocators would either be exactly what I said (low malloc calls) or would just not use malloc at all and use the system memory mapping functions.

The larger point was that an exception being thrown and taking a global lock is not going to tank performance. That would imply that all other threads are trying to take the same lock at the same time and that the thread that gets it holds it for a long time.

Even in the case of malloc, where there could be actual heavy lock contention, this is not always a bottleneck.
I don't think it's possible to have a PoS terminal that doesn't accept physical Amex cards but that does accept Amex cards via Apple/Google Pay.
Amateur Radio and the Titanic (2019)
^ this one right here.

Not going to pretend the US is perfect. But in a world where the future is basically a choice between one of two super powers to throw your lot in with, imma go with the US.
Actually the equal-and-opposite thing was more true. They picked up the ball so hard that they believed they could compete with Android with an entire Mozilla mobile operating system. A lot of effort was wasted.
Wang Xiaoyun Broke MD5. Broke SHA-0. Broke SHA-1.

Awesome !
Andrew Yang Drops Out of Presidential Race
We have an active process whereby staff with more experience try to actively pass on that experience, spending large amounts of time explaining that the "new" initiative has been tried before and detailing what happened and why it failed.

Of course nobody takes any notice.