skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If it were the case that allowing charging was an economic benefit to the owners of gas stations, I guess they'd already be doing it.

Chargers require capital outlay. Unless you can prove that your revenue is going to offset the capital outlay fairly quickly (<1 year), I'm not going to do it given the margins on most gas stations.
And that sir ... is your PRO plan :-)
The big driver of electric vans is operational cost, AFAIK. Dublin doesn’t have emissions rules different from the country as a whole, but delivery companies seem to be keen on the electric vans anyway.
The same research was discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23387374
Or completely replace departments that train and arm murderers.
Mux is hiring engineers to work on distributed systems at scale
Tim Sweeney of Epic is currently worth $10 billion.

He has been a programmer for decades and is still active at it.
Pipes are a great idea, but are severely hampered by the many edge cases around escaping, quoting, and, my pet peeve, error handling. By default, in modern shells, this will actually succeed with no error:

$ alias fail=exit 1
$ find / | fail | wc -l; echo $?
0
0

You can turn on the "pipefail" option to remedy this:

$ set -o pipefail
$ find / | fail | wc -l; echo $?
0
1

Most scripts don't, because the option makes everything much stricter, and requires more error handling.

Of course, a lot of scripts also forget to enable the similarly strict "errexit" (-e) and "nounset" options (-u), which are also important in modern scripting.

There's another error that hardly anyone bothers to handle correctly:

x=$(find / | fail | wc -l)

This sets x to "" because the command failed. The only way to test if this succeeded is to check $?, or use an if statement around it:

if ! x=$(find / | fail | wc -l); then
echo "Fail!" >&2
exit 1
fi

I don't think I've seen a script ever bother do this.

Of course, if you also want the error message from the command. If you want that, you have to start using name pipes or temporary files, with the attendant cleanup. Shell scripting is suddenly much more complicated, and the resulting scripts become much less fun to write.

And that's why shell scripts are so brittle.
I'm aware, but I could just as easily see a lesser registrar getting confused by an abuse report and suspending github.com because it embeds content from githubusercontent.com.
That is true, but my impression is that the original syntax was cumbersome and that golang made major advancements on that front (though I'm no expert and haven't studied the original papers)
I’m sorry but big guys aren’t much threatened by this. They can squash any upstart in a blink. It’s the instability it brings along with future potential among the big players that’s of concern.
So like most solutions involving blockchains, no blockchain is actually required.
Because the only thing Americans care about is money.
Crayta Will Be the First Stadia Game to Implement Revolutionary ‘State Share’
The required LaTeX for simple documents is correspondingly simple. You need less than 10 commands to generate a normal essay, and most are the same in everything. The power of BibTex alone makes it worth it, especially when all academic databases output BibTex entries.
Ask HN: What do u think of two sources here?
Compare this https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-cases-spike-in-texas-oregon-and-arizona-1819ce9f-8565-483a-b367-b678a607154d.html?fbclid=IwAR29-sGiTSrR517Vcc4hPq9cxHhVsqXh3juvovxIBdSx0AZVlxAcKAuF78

and

http://virustracking.net/
Not aware of an SMTP replacement, that will be a real doozy. Maybe one day FastMail or Google will write a new overcomplicated poorly-documented API-driven cant-do-anything-without-15-layers-of-abstraction replacement and we can spend a couple trillion dollars on replacement gear and new features.

I still like SMTP. Just last year I was able to find the owner of a random smtp box that nobody knew where it was or who it belonged to, by telnet-ing to port 25 and typing out an e-mail to 'root'. Got a response from an admin an hour later. You gotta respect a protocol that you can use directly with nothing but a network socket and a terminal, using the same protocol syntax you learned two decades before.
Huh, I took my own passport photo, adjusted the colors, fixed some red eye and even touched up some blemishes and dark circles under my eyes. Why make a rule if you have absolutely zero intent or ability to enforce it?
The difference here is that in the financial crisis, The market was in a bubble. Almost anyone you would talk to at the time would tell you the Stock market has never been stronger. A very, very few number of people knew what was coming. Now, every armchair trader is believing they’re reliving The Big Short and they’re the main character. They fail to realize that this is literally the opposite situation- a crash that has already happened and now the subsequent recovery we’re in.

How many crashes did you know about before they happened? I’m guessing zero. You still believe this time is different.
Fire Releases Model Code of Conduct
It would make much more sense for Germany to pay for (or mandate) the installation of electric car chargers at supermarkets and at strategic parking spots in cities. Petrol stations will cease to exist, along with all those mandated chargers.

> petrol stations in Australia have replaced the corner shops

Are petrol stations somehow responsible for consumer habits? What about sky-high residential realestate prices that make cornershops too expensive to open? Or low density housing that Australian cities are known for?

> We don't have a single 7/11 in South Australia.

There are plenty of convience stores in Adelaide, including ezimart and nightowl. Perhaps 7/11 franchisee fees are too high?
Any source of party sponsorship of CNN? Trolling Trump for ratings doesn’t necessarily mean they are doing the bidding of the DNC. Fox on the other hand...
I wouldn't assume that at all. Many of the loudest people pushing for HCQ at all costs are doing it because Trump and Fox News said so.
It would be really cool if it actually worked. Saw the recent videos and they are pretty much all a mess.

Anyone knows of something like this that works? Links? Thank you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_...
Isn’t that the whole point of blockchain? A distributed ledger with no central authority so no single entity has the power to manipulate the history...
15 steps from a defense attorney including ending QI:

1. Abolish qualified immunity

2. Require police for carry malpractice insurance

3. Use pay incentives to get a better breed of police officer

4. Incentivize community policing

5. Make "Brady lists" public record

6. Abolish cities' sweetheart deals with police unions

7. Require de-escalation in Use of Force policies alongside public, transparent training on de-escalation

8. End "tail-light policing" entirely

9. Mandate a separation between the crime response units and investigative units in a department

10. Automatic special prosecutors for all police brutality incidents

11. More frequent USDOJ intervention

12. Expand data collection and mandatory reporting on use-of-force incidents (and other police activity generally)

13. Enact statutory protections to restore the 4th / 5th / 6th / 8th Amendments

14. Scale back, or eliminate entirely, "contempt of cop" statutes

15. Stronger sentencing for police misconduct offenses

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1266053291684827138.html
I think it's less naive, I trust they're aware of the risks, and more that passport fraud of that sort just doesn't happen on a regular enough basis to require better security. Occasionally a Member of Parliament [0] or foreign intelligence agency [1] has a go, but passport fraud is overall low.

I'm sure they also have automated tools for detecting photo manipulation.

The whole process for getting an NZ passport is an order of magnitude easier than a European passport. Here in Australia I was able complete the entire process online, and they couriered my passport to me from the Sydney consulate. I also have a passport for a European country, and last time I renewed it, I had to make an overnight trip to the consulate and spend half a day getting my passport renewed. I needed to get my photo done by an approved photographer, and they also scanned my fingerprints to store in the passport's chip (they don't store fingerprints for NZ passports).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrett_(politician)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_passport#Use_by_Is...
I'm surprised MH-E hasn't been mentioned. (MH was mentioned in past tense.)

I have a whole system built on top of it. See
https://github.com/e40/emacs-mail-client

EDIT: I've been using MH-E to read email since the 80's.
Ask HN: What is your personal knowledge management system?
Lower / more diversified risk doesn't necessarily mean more liquid. For every big liquid ETF, there's many smaller ETFs with similar holdings and thus similar diversification and risk, but much lower volume, wider spreads, shallower order books, etc.

Though I agree that long-term, smart investors will prefer to own a diversified product because of that lower risk. So it does make sense that whatever diversified product they choose becomes more liquid than its constituents, just for the small number of winners they coordinate on (thanks to better marketing, lower fees, better deals with market makers, etc.) and not all ETFs with comparable risk profile.
The executive, and specifically the DoJ, has significant discretion to abstain from trying court cases. But regulatory agencies are a different matter. More importantly, in this context it would seem the EPA would be affirmatively approving projects without following the legally required process. I'm not sure what kind of discretion regulatory agencies have in completely abstaining from undertaking some action, but AFAIU they definitely don't enjoy much discretion to simply ignore the rules once they take that first step; not unless there's other legislation that gives them an escape hatch.
I think that would just add more noise.
Get out in the streets until the problem is solved. Your representatives distract you from how much power you have as an individual.
So you also use two different registrars (the cheap option)?

Or the more expensive option where you use a registrar that gives you get a direct phone number to an account manager.
The owners of the gas stations would see greater economic benefit if EVs did not become popular.

So you could argue it's would be in the best interest of the owners to not allowing charging stations, as that would help to slow the uptake of EVs.
The EU has mandated CCS, so it’s not a particular kind, it will soon be the only kind.
Renaissance Technologies is one of the few places where you'll see billionaire engineers and scientists in the world of Wall Street. Due to the nature of how they capture returns in their primary fund (it's now for insiders only, so their outsized returns go to the employees with a stake).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Scientists, especially in biology (possibly psychology too but i don't know), do look at papers as data points and not conclusions. The "conclusion-minded" treatment of papers is a sad artefact of the publish-or-perish system (have to add a ton of spin to your results to make them publishable) and of pop science journalism.
Well thought out article. He spoke to one white person and compared notes on police interactions. That's usually enough information to base one's opinion on.

I really feel bad about this whole thing. I have no idea what it's like to be black. However, blacks have no idea what it's like to be white, or Asian, or Hispanic.

I think they assume that if you're white, no one treats you like shit. That hasn't been my experience.

If I described all the different times I had negative run-in with police, you might think I was one of Neal's black peers.

Turns out, police have a difficult job to do and civilians have no idea, none.

A cop pulls you over for no reason because they just got a call that a white guy in a dark suv just clipped an old lady and took off. You matched that extremely vague description, it's just bad luck for you, but you had no idea.

Stuff like that happens all the time.
If you're having to extract your data using a regex, then the data probably isn't well-formed enough for a shell pipeline. It's doable, but a bad idea.

Regex should not be the first hammer you reach for, because it's a scalpel.

I recently wanted cpu cores + 1. That could be a single regex. But this is more maintainable, and readable:

echo '1 + '"$(grep 'cpu cores' /proc/cpuinfo | tail -n1 | awk -F ':' '{print $2}')" | bc

There's room for a regex there. Grep could have done it, and then I wouldn't need the others... But I wouldn't be able to come back in twelve months and instantly be able to tell you what it is doing.
So "dunno" is a good enough reason to allow people to suffer from potentially damaging COVID-19? There is a tradeoff whenever you default to "block", especially when there are no other good treatments. You are preventing people from searching the solution space.
Cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel_%E2%80%93_New_Zeal...
Most EV drivers have no need to visit charging stations [...]

You do realise that we're talking about Germany here, don't you? You cannot apply US standards to a foreign country with 7x the population density and only a ~50% home ownership rate...

The fact of the matter is, that half of German households cannot charge their vehicles at home, because they live in a rented apartment.

In cities in particular (you know, the places where EVs make the most sense), many people don't have a garage - often not even a dedicated parking spot.

This is an actual problem that prevents many people from owning an EV in Germany.
This is the only time they were caught:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealan...

But it's safe to say that if they were caught once, they've probably done it numerous times.
There's a parade of apologists who will quickly pop up to say that a private company platform should not be held to any free speech standard since they're not a government, never mind how much power they wield in practice.
As an American, I'm jealous of this policy. If all gas stations in the US were required to provide EV charging, there would be a significant uptick in EV adoption. Even if they don't end up getting used, the value is in the peace-of-mind for people currently on the edge of making the switch to EVs. It's a great way to encourage EV adoption, second only to straight cash incentives.

Another thing to consider is the assumption that home charging is always feasible. I would love an EV, but it simply doesn't make sense where I rent.
The website is not opening for me.
At least the municipalities then would have to choose between never ending payouts or fixing things.
A (rather infamous? I recall a ton of controversy about it) wikipedia article for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charas
I'm under the impression that fMRI for predicting coma outcomes is still quite experimental: https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/11/brain-scans-coma-recover...
Seven US states have "at large" congressional districts, and a few states have one at large district. This seems easier and maybe more sensible for a state's representatives in the US Congress. [0]

Apparently, there used to be more at large states, except states were using it to dilute minority votes. (The white majority was large enough to elect all-white representatives.) In 1986, this was ruled to violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-large

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornburg_v._Gingles
I recall hearing conjecture that cc was already a routine, and that "copy and convert" became dd as a result in a really old system that may have been pre-unix.

Researching, it appears that there are multiple attributions, because it's just that obvious and necessary a routine.

https://www2.cs.duke.edu/csl/docs/unix_course/intro-98.html

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)
In https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05243, we presented a measure of the effectiveness of eight face obscuration techniques. We did so by attacking the redacted faces in three scenarios: obscured face identification, verification, and reconstruction. Based on our evaluation, we show that the k-same based methods are the most effective.
GoDaddy answers their phones with real people, but they are completely powerless to actually help you. You can escalate all the way to the office of the CEO (who doesn't answer their phones) and they won't lift a finger to help you. I had been a customer for over ten years with several domains, and they still wouldn't help me with a three-figure billing error. What kind of business fights a decade-long customer over an interest rounding error for them?
People who used to have .ly or .sy domains probably still care...

https://priceonomics.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-ly/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...
There's a huge and qualitative difference between the example video and the 'recent videos' below.

The example video shows the face being stretched mostly around the mouth, and without extreme or sudden changes. Sure, it looks fake, but it seems coherent. It's almost the kind of thing a human would make in a comedy setting. But in the generated videos below, I see a lot of the issues we often get with generative models -- eyes or mouths flickering in and out of existence, a disappearing neck, parts of the background getting mixed with the face, etc. Sort of nightmare-ish, but not at the level of deep-dream dog-worms from 2014 or whenever.

Were these even from the same method? Or is there some about the user-submitted photos that meaningfully differs from those used during training?
>> see the Big Sort by Bill Bishop

Can you elaborate on why that’s relevant? Sorry, I’m not going to buy and read an entire book on this.
The unknown knowns?
I think it is being hugged to death atm, can't load it either.
Honestly if we look what currently works best for electric cars is:

- short/mid distance (city/metro area/village cluster/...)
- personal charger, often implying personal parking slot

In which case indeed gas stations become complete obsolete.

But if electric cars become more wide spread then there will be many cases of people without personal parking slots using them and fast chargers in super marked parking slots and similar are still rare. Especially people traveling inside of Germany. So gas stations with chargers are still somewhat useful.

I believe enforcing chargers on gas stations will allow easier adoption outside of the "personal parking slot sharing only case", especially they make electric cars more reliable for holiday/weekend/busisness trips inside of Germany.
Shoganai translates very easily into the English phrase "it can't be helped", with very little lost in the translation.

By contrast, I think a great, useful Japanese phrase that I wish we had in English but is very hard to translate is otsukaresama (お疲れ様) and its variants. It's what you say to someone at the end of the work day, or after finishing something challenging like a hike, or just to acknowledge that some task is being put away for now.

The closest thing might be "good job", or "good work". But otsukaresama has no implied assessment of someone's performance. Which is good, because it means anyone can say it - a peer, family, superior, junior. You can say it to be comforting even after someone gives up for the day having failed to solve a problem, where "good work" might sound sarcastic. A literal translation might be "with respect to the tired", or something like that.
So an organization that gets millions of dollars from the US government is supporting people that wish to overthrow the government, many of whom are outright anarchists. Seems like a poor investment. Unless....
If you're interested in this, you may enjoy the subreddit r/DoesNotTranslate.
You can make that general argument about any single approach to reform. Let's not put all our hopes in any one single solution, and let's not be misled into false dichotomies.
I remember a friend doing that. More funny a friend wrote I owe you $5 and deposited and took out $10 the minimum allowed.

What happened was that person lost the ability to deposit and withdraw.

There is a level of trust but things will catch up to you.
The one thing I love about Chinese is, it's just like English use the canonical 'the' instead of German 'der/die/das' - it rarely classifies things.

For example, 'someone is doing something' would be like 'someone current do something' in Chinese. There's no 'ing' postfix, instead, you add 'current' or 'now' only when it matters.

There's almost no redundancy of information, thus there are fewer chances to specify illegal statements. When Chinese find out Finland or German native-speakers sometimes also make grammar mistakes when speaking their own languages, it was mind-blowing...

Sadly, I'm not sure if it is influenced by other languages, there are more and more classifiers in modern Chinese:

1. Though gender is not classified by oral Chinese language, it was classified in the modern written Chinese language.

2. The infamous quantity classifications as the article mentioned. Non-native speakers would find these pretty hard to remember. A 'tiao' of fish, A 'duo' of mushroom, doesn't really exist in the old Chinese, they were just a fish or a mushroom. It was only mandatory when it's needed, like a bunch of fish.
My point is that financial assets are practically always more complicated than conventional wisdom belies.
I’m in neuroscience. Don’t buy the media narrative that they figured all out, many areas are very close to psychology and it’s vague folk definitions. Ask a neuroscientist to define consciousness and you will see them struggle. You can read deeper starting from there, ask very obvious questions and the big mystery part will come back.
Oh, dear, cruelty to BP.

I think I’ll live.
> They can squash any upstart in a blink.

exactly. That makes for a very unstable situation as any small guy without credible ability to respond can become a prey at any moment.

> It’s the instability it brings along with future potential among the big players that’s of concern.

Historical experience shows that MAD brings stability. Compare the fate of North Korea vs. Libya, Iraq, Ukraine, etc.
> What are some examples of English words or phrases that are so loaded with cultural significance that they are difficult to translate?

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

The whole nine yards.

Also, there was a thread where a lot of foreigner CS students use english words because many of the words don't have direct translations or sensible translations - like mouse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377270
Wouldn’t incumbents losing suggest that gerrymandering makes elections less competitive and favors incumbents?
Matrix is E2EE for some clients and implementations. You have to research what you use carefully, even in the HN discussion about that post people were recommending clients that didn't support encryption.
It turns out the sobremesa is the perfect word for my own definition of hell on earth.

“few pleasures are greater than sharing a table and then chatting nonsense for a hefty portion of what remains of the day.”

The author must be a masochist if they think this is pleasurable.
The Apple watch, Airpods and everything else except Macs are tightly coupled to the sale of iPhones. If you stop making iPhones, the rest is pretty much dead too.
Recovering 3D Editable Objects from a Single Photograph
Ok, since at least two of you who know what you're talking about have objected to the title, I've replaced it with the more general subtitle above. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "Cryo-electron microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time".)