skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something is very wrong in the US

I think I paid around 30€ to buy a foam mattress in Germany
Speaking of empires and toilets...

A federal judge in Arizona ruled yesterday that the US Customs and Border Protection can’t continue forcing immigrants to sleep on the floor in toilet stalls (that are being simultaneously used of course):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/20/arizona-det...
(US-centric view below, wonder if other countries have protection already in place through some means)

This does seem like a rather interesting intersection of ownership vs licensing.
The ownership is via the purchase of the physical item (the bike itself), but to really enjoy it requires the license (aka subscription to Peloton or similar).

I wonder (have not looked, plus IANAL) if the terms/agreement that the owners sign at the time of the physical purchase cover this eventuality, or if the physical purchase and and attendant ownership imply some sort of right to enjoyment for which there is a legal remedy.
You can't leave a 7 year old home alone, nevermind expect them to lock up and walk alone to a bus stop.

This can result in losing custody and other legal action against the parent: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/consequences-...
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Yeah, this is what I do. The Pi 4 has Gbit ethernet, so potentially faster than any device you can connect, and with 4 GB of memory most of the stuff you're running stays cached in RAM, so there's effectively no latency issues and additional memory requirements for a simple server are negligible. It's a great solution.
Yes, as far as I can tell you're claiming one of three things

1. Google actively assisted the NSA with data collection, beyond legal obligations (subpoenas etc.)

2. The NSA had a way of legally compelling companies to provide direct access to systems and can do arbitrary processing on company internal data

3. The NSA was snooping in Google's systems without Google's knowledge in 2013, and this hasn't been fixed 7 years later.

As far as I know, the Snowden leaks don't provide any real evidence for (1) or (2), and so are an extraordinary claim without evidence. (3) also seems rather unlikely. Hence the question.
(Using made up numbers for easy math)

The economists are saying that due to additional features/horsepower/fuel economy etc in the base models we're getting the equivalent of 1.5 cars for 27K in 2018 vs getting 1 car for 18K in 1996, so that both 1996 and 2018 dollars buy equivalent amounts of car.

OTOH a $18K annual rent in 1996 is now $36K. So in a basket that's half car half rent, the economists calculations say that $18K car and $18K rent in 1996 is equivalent to 18K car + 36K rent in 2018 for 50% inflation.

The OP is saying that's bullshit. The car may be 50% better, but you can't buy part of a car. So the equivalent of $18K + $18K in 1996 is now $27K + $36K for 75% inflation.
At this moment how I do it:
The initial score is 0, based on year of construction (newer is better ofc) I add 0-36 points, amount of square meters I multiply by 0.5 and add it as extra points, based on how prestigious is the district I add extra 0-4 points and there are many other things.

So why it's not possible like that to give score to each apartment? I mean if I find right weight for each parameter? How f.e. google rates websites, I guess it gives some kind of score to each of them? Or not?
Google tests new double tap gestures for Pixel phones on Android 11
My favorite Django tutorial is the Mozilla one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/D...

After that I'd recommend just building something. Tutorials are great but I've always learned the most when I've just tried to build a real project.
That's neat but people don't get paid dollars, not gold.
I'm rather a noob in the topic, but I've been reading in recent months about energy market and it seems like a collective insanity in the light of the climate crisis.

- In most(whole?) Europe, electricity used by trains is taxed higher than jet fuel used by planes (legacy measure from decades ago which was meant to boost air market; of course now it's hugely difficult to change it)

- Germany went strongly into renewables which is laudable, but CO2 footprint barely changed, because...

- Going away from nuclear and into renewables is in theory good, but the open secret is that you can never reach 100% renewables. So you need a backup, which is either gas or coal. In fact Germany even recently invested in new coal powered plants.

- Basically the effect of going away from nuclear is increasing CO2 emissions, and this is the last thing that we want at this time. But even Macron wants to reduce nuclear % in power production of France. Which means more CO2.

Am I missing something or this is total madness?
That’s what I was taught when I took accounting. Every measure has drawbacks, so you can’t rely on just one.

Income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows together give you a pretty complete picture.
I think if this happens, decentralized social networks will really take off.

The "small sites" you refer to , which I'm assuming are typical forum type sites, have been dying a slow death for the past few years anyway, since FB ate their lunch.
My take on this: http://uncharted.bpodgursky.com/ (out to 75 lys, w/ click-around exploration)

(not super maintained, apologies for visual glitches or stale data)
Not quite as odd, but my high school started at 8:10
It is easy to ascribe bad motives to a person of a party of a different affiliation and to assume this is just selective application of the law to advance political goals.

However, there is another way to look at this different from my own political leanings. As little effort as Democrats put into anti-trust prosecutions, Republicans (of the past 30 years) have been anti-anti-trust. In the late 90s when the DOJ had Microsoft on the rack, nominee Bush said he'd stop the antitrust effort. In fact even though MS had been found in violation of antitrust laws, then President Bush stopped the effort to break up MS and instead they were told to make relatively minor changes in their behavior.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/06/157258/Bush-Administrati...

So is it that the current administration finally believes there is a place for antitrust, or is it using the law as a political tool?
OKCupid has a graph of reported height for men[0]. It's both shifted 2 inches to the right of average, but also slightly flattened at the normal peak of 5'10". It's not nearly as pronounced as the graphs in this post, but it's still notable.

[0] https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-onli...
No. You are wrong. That is not the definition of "real" inflation.

Here's an economy in, say, 1990. It has X amount of money.

Here's "the same" economy in 2020, except it has 20% more people, and 20% more produced per worker per year, so it produces 44% more output than it did in 1990. (All numbers made up on the spot for illustration purposes. Your economic growth may vary.) When I say "44% more output", I don't mean measured by dollars; I mean actual amount of stuff produced - cars and steel and food and movies.

Now, what should the money supply be in 2020? X? 1.2 X (to account for population growth)? 1.44 X (to account for amount of stuff being produced)? If the money supply is only X (no inflation, by your definition), then things that cost $1 in 1990 would cost $0.69 in 2020. That's... not what most of us consider to be "zero inflation". That's deflation.

The normal definition of zero inflation is that the cost of things remains constant, not that the total amount of money remains constant. That's reasonable because most of us get paid in a fixed number of dollars, not in a fixed fraction of the money supply.
Anger is toxic.
> they cannot push enough GPU juice to the screens

...yet. That's just a matter of waiting a few more years.

I wonder if most of the next Star Wars movies will be shot with this tech.
New Rotating Detonation Engine Could Enable Cheaper, Lighter Spacecraft
FreeBSD vs. Linux Scaling Up to 128 Threads with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
Considering the price is 0 at times, does that make sense? More capacity?
I've posted this before, but it's relevant again:

My high school started at 7am. I also took the bus; which picked up around 6:15am; so I usually woke up around 5:45am during the week. I would often nod off during my first or second period; and routinely took 2-3 hour naps when I got home from school; which screwed up my ability to fall asleep early at night or get much homework done. I sometimes wonder what my academics would have been like if I was actually awake during those first two periods.

(This was in the 90's)
The younger kids should be going earlier, at least around here. They start after 9:00! They've had two of their most alert hours of the day already by then.

This is so the older kids can start earlier. There are only so many buses. Adjust one to start later and the other starts earlier, and vice-versa. The high schools should have the 9:00 start and the elementaries should get their 7:40 start or whatever it is, assuming the whole window can't be adjusted.

Nb. I've had it explained to my by people in education that early starts in high school are insisted upon by the sports folks, so they can have longer afternoon practices with sunlight in the Winter, and that there's no hope of switching start times up on a large scale without attacking that constituency and winning, which is... probably not gonna happen.
They do. Tax agencies worldwide have used statistical techniques for decades.
This also seems reminiscent of the hacking efforts for insulin pumps a-la:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/06/05/diabetics-for...
After growing up reading BOFH, I believe the admin always controls everything
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I briefly worked for Barclays as a subcontractor and they would improve their efficiency much more if they monitored in such detail how slow are the (virtual?) machines they provision remotely to their contractors and employees.
For larger volumes of events, we wouldn't recommend using Postgres.

The nice thing about single-tenancy is that in reality lots of users have small enough datasets that scaling isn't a problem. Heap et al have to scale to all of their users combined (as you said, terabytes), we just have to scale to the biggest user. Postgres also allows you to get started very quickly and do lots of queries yourself.

In our docs we explain our thinking more. Postgres is great for the vast majority of use-cases, and we're working hard to optimise those queries.
Once users get beyond Postgres, we have integrations with databases that can scale well across many hosts, and we provide services around this to help people size their servers correctly.
I don't have anything against heat pumps. I just don't think that they would solve the problems the article is talking about. I would put heat pumps all over the place, once electric energy, transportation etc. are 100% renewable.
That seems to mean "if you assume that the drug seizure records are not falsified, you can conclude that the police are not lying or producing false evidence".
You are definitely incorrect on multiple levels. Perhaps in this particular domain, but synthetic data to pretrain neural networks has hundreds of published uses showing better results than models trained using just the available real data.
What can Big Data Analysis learn from Indian fishermen?
Speaking of cruelty and Alexander, he was also a bloodthirsty, paranoid, alcoholic lunatic. Apart from the standard sackings and such inherent in ancient conquest, he executed many around him on shaky suspicions and killed his close friend Cleitus in a drunken rage.

If he were a more recent figure he would be most comparable to Stalin or Hitler.
I recall talking to some europeans and they said they like their driers, which only half dry clothes (they put them up on a line to finish) but use less energy. It's some sort of virtue thing, I guess.
To be fair, even more "moderate" democrat like Tulsi was censored/throttled by Google. She has an ongoing lawsuit on this.
I do not have access to the original paper, but author's assessment that the bunching is due to prosecutorial discretion is a little puzzling to me. If it is true that prosecutors are choosing to prosecute cases that are above the cutoff at a higher rate than those below, I would have expected everything above 280g to increase, rather than a solitary spike at 280g?
The author's premise does not hinge of the price of single items. Sure, a Dodge Caravan in 2018 may have a lower inflation-adjusted price than the 1996 model, but the author never claimed that every individual item's price increased faster than the measured rate of inflation. He looked more broadly at the amount the median worker spends on transportation. No one buys just a Dodge Caravan. They buy the Caravan, they pay for it with a loan of a significantly longer time than you'd get in 1996, they pay for more gas (longer commutes) that is more expensive, they pay for car insurance, and tolls. This total transportation cost (plus other mandatory necessities like health insurance and rent) have grown faster than the median worker's wages.
The interesting part to me here is that all the non-open source tools are very big, successful companies
Don't forget contractors.

Several years ago, one of our competitors implemented a public-facing web-based form for a local ISD. When the form loaded, the user was prompted with two pieces of info: a student's last 4 digits of SSN and their birthdate. The form then performed an AJAX request to the server, which did a DB lookup and pulled in ALL the transcript data of the matching student record to send back to the front-end.

Said competitor then presented this "solution" at a vendor conference and bragged about how amazing and easy to use it was and how the parents loved it because they no longer had to call the school to request transcripts yadda yadda. When casually asked about security/privacy concerns, their engineer basically said "well, how likely is it that an unauthorized party will know both a student's birthdate and the last 4 digits of SSN? Probably not very."

...yeah.
>To ensure your single digit aged child reaches the bus.

For what it's worth, this is a uniquely American problem; schoolchildren in Europe and Asia have no problems taking public transit while being single-digit age.

Of course, those places haven't bowed to irrational paranoia like North American countries do, but the fact remains that the assumption that children aren't capable of getting to a bus stop safely is a falsehood that fortunately only North American societies have chosen to embrace.

It's stupid, but taking that on requires people to stop listening to a certain loud minority, so it's hard to break, though some states (like Utah) have made legal inroads against them.
Can you link to a website of how that mattress looks like?
100% agreed. A base64 encode would be a lot more browser friendly. Something like `background-image: url('data:image/jpeg;base64,....')` means you only need the encoder, the browser would decode without any js being needed (which would block initial page render)
I learned FORTRAN on a HP 2000C timesharing system, using a FORTRAN emulator written in BASIC. It was dog slow, but it worked. I have no idea where the emulator came from.
Salt-sproxy 2020.2.0 release notes
From the quote in the footnotes:
"I do find bunching at 280g after 2010 in case management data from the Executive Office of the US Attorney (EOUSA). I also find that approximately 30% of prosecutors are responsible for the rise in cases with 280g after 2010, and that there is variation in prosecutor-level bunching both within and between districts. Prosecutors who bunch cases at 280g also have a high share of cases right above 28g after 2010 (the 5-year threshold post-2010) and a high share of cases above 50g prior to 2010 (the 10-year threshold pre-2010). Also, bunching above a mandatory minimum threshold persists across districts for prosecutors who switch districts. Moreover, when a “bunching” prosecutor switches into a new district, all other attorneys in that district increase their own bunching at mandatory minimums. These results suggest that the observed bunching at sentencing is specifically due to prosecutorial discretion"

If you had to work to parse it like I did, the TL;DR is that a minority (30%) of prosecutors are responsible for the "bunching" and it seems they intentionally are choosing to prosecute more cases at this level.

So, there may be police falsifying evidence, but the paper couldn't detect that and it seems more driven by prosecutors choosing to do "bunching" to get the amount of crack to hit the minimum.

IANAL so not sure what bunching means. Maybe instead of charges from separate arrests, they group them together as one large case?
I'm sorry I thought I was clear. Let me try to make it clearer:

> That seems like a recipe for folks just building endlessly regardless of demand

In some ways, yes. If so, it definite could create a problem wherein there's more supply than demand.

> pulling money from government...

The ethics of government capture aside, this sounds to me like that's rather the _point_ of a government subsidy on something: to build more supply of that something.

> and an eventual mess when you fix it and nobody is making money suddenly...

Fix what? The idea that there's too much electricity and so nobody makes money? Then come up with another way to use the electricity. Charge money to use the excess electricity for something useful. For example: capturing carbon.
Both men and women showed height above the national average. As a result I am more inclined to believe that there is selection bias in OKCupid audience (more white people, less minorities) than that there is such widespread deception going on.
It's not a virtue thing. Energy is just very expensive in Europe compared to for example the US.
Let's at least pretend to give them the benefit of doubt.
Germans are heating their homes just not with electricity. A better title for the article would be, "Germans won't heat their homes with electricity even when it is free."
Not op but my middle school had a lot of odd schedule times to avoid students memorizing when a class ended. It didn't really work. Some teachers couldn't figure out when classes ended though.
I wonder about whether there are differences in performance when it comes to encoding as well. For example, I discovered in the early 90's that you could tell the difference between Borland and Microsoft compiled binaries by how they encoded things like ADD AX,BX.

I made a list of all such opcodes and made an encryption engine that simply used XOR to switch between encodings so each encryptor looked different. But I never did any timing or other performance tests on it to see if there were other differences than just the binary representation.
So where do you draw the line? At what net worth are you saying someone can't possibly help the country?

To say anyone with $X shouldn't be President sounds like profiling. Why not just disagree with his policies or actions?

As far as relevant experience, Bloomberg was the Mayor of NYC and has managed a large organization. That's a lot more government and leadership experience than Trump or Obama had.

Plenty of other things to not like about him but being Mayor of NYC or running a successful business shouldn't disqualify him by any means. So now no one who wants to be President should be a Mayor first or start a successful business? Maybe we should throw out senators while we're at it. Pretty soon we'll be left with armchair economists and self described philosophers who truly don't have any relevant experience.
Liquidity is a product like a hamburger is a product. Some firms expose themselves to the ability to sell liquidity for the same reason that other firms expose themselves to the ability to sell hamburgers. They think they can make money doing that.

Liquidity is unlike hamburgers in that there is a risk profile associated with it if you sell it to anyone who wants it. Adverse selection happens as detailed elsewhere; you lose money on their custom, potentially a lot of money relative to the margin on your product.

Certain buyers of liquidity are, like essentially all buyers of hamburgers, functionally riskless. You can profitably sell your product to them at a positive margin all day long, at virtually any quantity they could demand.

Payment for order flow is setting up a liquidity stand in a place where you structurally only get the non-risky customers. That liquidity stand is, like a hamburger shop, a cash machine, and justifies CapEx and OpEx to run. Part of the OpEx is paying your landlord for prominent placement of your liquidity stand in front of willing customers who are buying that sweet, sweet liquidity you're selling.

The price of liquidity changes moment-to-moment based on market conditions but is effectively standardized by law nationwide (NBBO). You are not overcharging your customers for liquidity; they pay the same price literally anyone in the country buying it in that instant does and you can, at your option, discount it further to reward them for buying it from you.

You are making superior margins on their custom because you don't inevitably lose lots of money by being in the liquidity business. The liquidity stand down the street is doing the same thing; your vicious competition against each other has caused the prices for your product to crater, to the enduring joy of the people who line up daily to buy your liquidity.
> and has a number of independent implementations

Actually it's slightly more than that: it's standardised. Signal for all it's niceties isn't. Even if you did emulate it (and you can because it's open source), it's a moving target so there is no guarantee what works today would work tomorrow. AFAIK, all existing reimplementations are incompatible.

Worse, it's infrastructure is centralised. There aren't 10 different lookup servers you can use interchangeably and cross validate. There is just one, situated in one country, and it happens to be a country whose government intelligence agencies have a long and colourful history of infiltrating and compromising organisations just like Signal.

The other thing major different is the PGP ecosystem does have key validation system, and in my experience it is actually used. People go to key signing parties and take them seriously. Signal also has very good key validation of course, but nobody uses it.

So while it's true to Signal can let kids chat to each other securely, the reality is it that security is very weak because they don't want to go to all that tedious setup the PGP / X509 ecosystems wants them to do. When they start a chat with someone new, they don't get a warning that could be anyone unless they use Signal's inbuilt (and very well designed) validation system. I guess such a warning might get in the way of the "frictionless experience" seems to love about it. As a consequence, when someone changes phones they have no idea of the importance of porting their Signal identity across, and when the other end gets the "Warning: Person XYZ changed their identity" (or whatever the wording is) they just shrug ignore it ("they must have got a new phone"). And with that whatever security Signal does provide collapses like a house of cards.

If the security industry claims Signal provides the same security as GPG/PGP while being easier to use, all that tells you is how little the people claiming to represent the security industry know about security. (This isn't to say if you use it correctly Signal won't provide a similar level of security - it does. But they it becomes as burdensome to use as PGP.)