skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gift cards are often used for money laundering and fraud, because they act as de facto currency but are not subject to the same regulations. I think the key is limiting the extent to which they can be used as currency, which is related to what you mention and what the article mentions.

I don't know that full Know Your Customer laws should be in force here with gift cards, but both Target and the bank that facilitates these transactions should be doing more to prevent these.
While that would be somewhat harder, I bet most engineers are much less greedy than companies that employ them.
"drop out of collage"...that line itself could make money.
If I took what Facebook presents to me through my feed as a news source to influence my POV, I might believe that Obama is a secret Muslim, or that Trump was done away with years ago, and is instead an alien, or that Helen Hunt, the actress, is involved in international child trafficking, or perhaps that COVID-19 was put in place to control the world's population. In my experience, all Facebook does is reveal and feed upon people's worst needs, desires, fears. I'll take the NY Times over this any day of the week.
I don't think its overblown.

Snooping the clipboard is usually either spyware activity or utility behavior. Its not as if its a password manager expiring a copied password. Its not even something grabbing text from the clipboard because I've set it up to do so in some text processing utility.

Linkedin doesn't need this kind of functionality. They simply got caught.

Plenty of other shenanigans going on. This is likely just one of many.
There are a lot of policies put in place that affect the energy markets that elected leaders are heavily involved in. For instance, there are production tax credits for wind. There are incentives for rooftop solar. There is talk of a carbon tax or cap and trade. There are debates about whether or not nuclear should be counted for or against clean energy targets. In the 1970s, there was massive legislation (the clean air act) that increased the costs of coal dramatically. These all greatly influence the mix of energy that gets built and are very tied to consumer preferences (if a little indirectly).
I'm incredibly nervous about job interviews. I'll start sweating in the first two or three minutes even over Zoom. I recently "fell into" a job because my university supervisor recommended me to a friend of his at a small business in which my only test was a code review I could do the day before. But I worry that for any future job because I'm terrible at algorithm questions, and I suspect (and I doubt this is just impostor syndrome) that I'm simply not great at algorithms, despite a small cachet of personal projects, which aren't that impressive either.
Could it not spend some portion of that money on research and development? I feel that literally any industry could find improvements.
The herd immunity threshold is relative to behavior and transmission opportunities.
You could make a browser that renders ALFI in a text-only mode using say ncurses. When I designed ALFI I always had this in mind.
Can't you choose your electricity provider? I definitely check the electricity production type pie chart every time I switch providers.
VNC. Put a server on their computer and through a VPN you can safely do and show them what you meant.

Or switch them to Linux. For browsing/mail it's perfect. And if they want to have Windows games then make a separate partition where they play there and cut access to internet for that Windows installation.
“The Fed has bought a relatively small amount of Walmart’s investment-grade bonds” would be a less alarmist way of saying that.
Rise of the Machines: The Anatomy and Notoriety of the AK-47
Hydro can be fast. The UK uses pumped hydro for frequency management among other things, and can spin up several GW in seconds.
Suppose somebody was making an indie video game and wanted to use this idea to build a community. How would that even work? Do you create custom forum software to detect contributors, or just use something like fig to pay supporters if you succeed?
This is not that.
Do they get a seat on the board?
I've just run my own numbers. But looking at your image, something seems seriously seriously off on the solar side. I get roughly similar numbers for nuclear; e.g. 250 thousand metric tonnes concrete / TWh for an AP1000 and 5x that for Sizewell B, using concrete mass numbers from [0]. Averaging these two designs is really close to their 760 number for concrete.

For solar, let's take some average random numbers, 800 pounds for a 6kW array on a roof [1]. So starting just with the panels, a 25% capacity factor over 30 years will generate 394 MWh == 0.000394 TWh. 800 pounds is 0.000363 thousand metric tonnes. So converting to the units of thousand metric tonnes / TWh, we are at 900 thousand metric tonnes/TWh for the panels for solar. Add another 10% for inverters, double that for framing if you're installing in a field rather than on a house, and I don't know where they are coming up with their stuff. 2700 tonnes/GWh for glass alone is ludicrous.

I'm not sure where that report comes from, but it would be worth checking the sources. After a basic sniff test, I'm going to dismiss it. Maybe it's using weights from 1980 solar panels or something.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110722031413/http://www.nuclea...

[1] https://news.energysage.com/average-solar-panel-size-weight/

Edit: and honestly, both weight / Wh and land / Wh are fairly meaningless numbers for both technologies. What really matters is cost and environmental impact, since we have ample land and ability to put weight on land.
I think people selfishly like many aspects of the covid lockdown. But they may regret it later. I know many school teachers that have enjoyed a very light workload this spring and are rooting for something similar in the fall. It may go on for a while, but at some point administrators and tax payers will realize there is no reason to pay for so many teacher salaries. It’s going to be rough.
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> 3. The education itself, which should be intellectually challenging (more or less depending on subject, with STEM subjects usually moreso, especially at top tier schools)

Your implication that non-STEM fields are less intellectually challenging is pretty insulting. Have you enrolled in a non-STEM degree? Do you have evidence that writing a treatise on comparative literature or archeology is less intellectually challenging than pushing out some code or solving some derivatives? Please choose your words carefully when communicating.
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> Can we acknowledge the fact that most men would be ecstatic to be hit on by a woman or two at a conference? Can we acknowledge that men and women are innately different? That forcing men to change their behavior significantly to accommodate for women in male spaces may in fact place unequal strain on men?

Well, does it place unequal strain on men to just not do something? I get the appeal of this—and believe, I would love to have women throw themselves at me left and right! But the issue is: it's probably interesting if it happens a few times, but what if it keeps happening? What is if every smile, every kind word of yours would be seen as 'Oh, he must be into me'?

I am not saying anyone's at fault here: I get it, there's a few women around and hey, you can shoot your shot. The trouble is that it's one shot for you, but dozens for her over the course of a regular conference. The conference messaging apps make it easy to make advances to women...
That indeed is impressive.
What is interesting about a seemingly random pdf about salary data that is 10 years old?
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Could firefox download x264 and compile it on-demand?
RIP sir and thank you for the art. Once Upon a Time in America and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly have burned a huge amount of my entertainment time.
Another link that might interest you, using an amber screened VT220 terminal with a modern computer.

https://jstn.tumblr.com/post/8692501831
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Do you think no one in the US suffers horribly?

Consider the bankruptcies, the imprisonment-for-profit, the financial corruption, the racist police violence, the homelessness, the opiate scandals, the gun violence, the fact that most of the population has no safety net of any kind - and that's nowhere close to being a complete list.

There were privileged people in the Soviet Union who were doing just fine, and they had no interest in how well the system was working for everyone else.

We know how that ended.

It's very, very unwise to assume that the US can't possibly make the same mistake.
I have a choice between having the one regional electricity provider provide me with electricity, and having no electricity.

If I owned a free-standing house, I could theoretically switch to rooftop solar, but it is uneconomical compared to utility solar.
That sounds like it has some Universal Paperclips vibes.
By your own source, test positivity is up over the last 4 weeks.

> Now we have more tests than we know what to do with

A coworker related about a month ago that when his wife, who works in a hospital and showed some symptoms of covid-19, asked to be tested, she was told that the nearest place with available tests was a 2.5 hour drive away.
MPEG is not US-based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Picture_Experts_Group

The article we are all commenting on is by a German research organization that has been a major contributor to video coding standards.

Perhaps you're confused by the patent issue? European companies are happy to file for US patents and collect the money.
ICE to deport online-only students on student visas
The people who study these kinds of things consider accidents as well. We've been running nuclear reactors for 70+ years and can still see that on average they use a truly tiny amount of land, very compatible with ecosystem conservation. That's why a lot of conservationists do like nuclear.

Keep in mind that Colorado is naturally more radioactive (due to cosmic rays at elevation and uranium in the rocks) than almost all the area surrounding Fukushima today. Thus you can find people who say that nuclear accidents create permanently uninhabitable wastelands, but that is simply not true. Below 100 mSv/year of radiation, no one has proved that any harm is done (or not done).

Antinuclear institutions have formally used the strategy of terrifying people into thinking that even levels of radiation close to the natural background (3-6 mSv/yr in most places) are deadly. It is unjustifiable.

There are some interesting arguments to be made about Chernobyl as well. It is not really a wasteland, as you can see in the pictures and discussion here [1]. Wildlife has returned incredibly with the absence of humans.

Climate change has pretty large potential land impacts so that should be factored into fossil like natural gas too.

[1] https://thoughtscapism.com/2019/05/08/what-about-radioactive...
My wife and I have taught our daughter materials sometimes 2 grade levels above where she is. I think every child has the potential for genius. It is really how you present the material.

I taught a few classes last year on how to program in Scratch to grades 1-5. The 4th and 5th graders really loved it and they went off on their own to learn more. It was not a large sample, but I think presenting the right material in the right way to the right age makes a huge difference.

I have been thinking of ways to improve education. I think there is a huge potential in online video. If it is produced right in the sense of say "Hollywood" verse say Khan Academy, kids will enjoy it a lot more.
I think that's adjacency rather than dopamine specifically. Unfortunately for you the "break thing" is adjacent to "cigarette". For whatever time you did the "break thing" with a cigarette you encoded a lot of behavioral and environmental memories together. So even after the chemical addition to the nicotine fades you're still associating the desirable "break thing" aspects with a cigarette.

Parallel universe you (possibly with a goatee) that did the "break thing" but never smoked during a break will want to take a break but has no association with cigarettes or smoking. Their desire for a break remains, maybe with the same strength, but with no desire for a cigarette.
Ask HN: Do you know of a US news RSS feed with a high signal to noise ratio?
Good for you, not so good for your employer. Expensive mortgages is a big stick that motivates people to work.
Just going to be very, very disappointed if it doesn't actually fly...
"what does "Scale" even mean here?"

I meant in context of the number of publishers that advertisers need to deal with to purchase impressions.

Cutting out the ad networks probably makes sense for Ster and NPO. I know nothing about Dutch media, but I'm guessing they're big enough to court large brands with big marketing budgets on their own.

[edit: The "Mass media in the Netherlands" Wikipedia page is bananas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_the_Netherlands. I'm gathering advertising on NPO is regulated by a public body; the STER from the article.]
AV1 is supposed to be 30% better than HEVC
Source? If I recall correctly HEVC outperform AV1
Lol. Reminds me of The Crown where Price Charles is learning Welsh.

However, at least all the letters are familiar. Asian languages are at least an order of magnitude harder for westerners.
In the US most places have an established company (“the utility”) with a legal monopoly on electricity supply - and those companies choose where they source their grid power from.
Transferring into Ivies is nearly universally more difficult than getting in normally, the only exception is Cornell.

Unfortunately, I'm still paying for being mediocre in my high school years!
The problem states that the maximum number of transactions are two: We are given a list of integers representing stock prices; we must find the maximum profit that can be made assuming at most two no overlapping BUY – SELL transactions.
Given that Graeber himself very clearly says "a bullshit job is defined as one which the person doing the job believes doesn't have to, or shouldn't, exist", your assertion that the idea of bullshit jobs is "an egotistical effort to cheaply denigrate others" doesn't seem to make much sense.
That is not what the poster said at all.
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There is room in finance for multiple strategies, and a lot of niche funds that you've never heard of.

As an extreme example, Taleb's black swan hypothesis requires investors who are OK with losing money day in and day out. And yet people are willing to invest in Universa Investments. (Which is making a killing this year.)

Given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a... it there should be an appetite for niche funds following the value investing approach. And indeed https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/071415/five-... shows that there are successful funds that follow such approaches. They aren't very popular. But the excuse that professional fund managers CANNOT do something like this is clearly specious.

However as Taleb says, courage is the one virtue that can't be faked. Running a fund that follows a different strategy than the mainstream requires having the courage to tell investors that if they are not on board with your fund's strategy, then you would prefer that they take their money elsewhere. That kind of courage is rare. (And can be indistinguishable from stupidity for unbounded times.)
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This was a thing at my last job. The lack of comments always made me cringe. While not every line needs a comment, there's a reason why comments would be useful, especially in security software.

I learned a lot of bad habits there and I'm glad I no longer work there.

Their excuses were literally "no one reads comments" "no one keeps comments up to date" "my code is self documenting" etc.
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And yet... it's true.

https://www.freedomfoundation.com/washington/washington-heal...

“Our (DOH COVID-19) dashboard numbers do include any deaths to a person that has tested positive to COVID-19.”

“We don’t always know the cause of death for a death when it is first reported on our dashboard. That is true. Over the course of the outbreak, we have been monitoring and recording the causes of death as we know it. We currently do have some deaths that are being reported that are clearly from other causes. We have about five deaths — less than five deaths — that we know of that are related to obvious other causes. In this case, they are from gunshot wounds.”
If they speak japanese and are happy to adjust their working day to the japanese timezone I can't see why not.
Have you tried setting up a contact form on your website with a survey that collects all the informations beforehand for you?
Years ago I worked for a company that had a PCB production line, and even for relatively low volumes (compared to consumer electronics) they used basically that exact process. The PCBs would be printed elsewhere and delivered in flat stacks, the boards would go through pick-and-place, solder bath, reflow, through-hole, wave solder, sometimes xray inspection, etc. Also had a tour of an Iomega plant when I was much younger with similar processes.

Not sure if NeXT was a pioneer in those techniques, but they seemed standard by the late 1990s and 2000s.
Even at 0.3% IFR you're still talking about ~700k total fatalities in the US alone, assuming 70% of the population needs to be infected to achieve "herd immunity" without a vaccine.

It's premature for anyone, anywhere, to declare victory over the virus at this point because: 1 - there is a very high likelihood that we will have at least one more major global wave of the virus before we get an effective vaccine, 2 - we still do not know how effective said vaccine(s) will be, 3 - it's entirely possible that we will never get an effective vaccine (or it will arrive too late to mitigate most of the damage), at which point the only option will be to let the virus run its course.
Do you have a link? "Branch" is turning up a lot of unrelated results on Google.
Shoot the scammers
Unfortunately, much of the social substrate that builds freshman bonding is facilitated by older students, from dorm events and parties to students groups and office hours.
Since we are sharing: I've spent the last couple of years, on and off, building a physics engine from scratch. Pretty hard considering I'm not a mechanical engineer. Lots of fun though.
Inflation? What inflation?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

This is a yearly graph, but if you look at the month by month data you'll see that inflation has actually been negative recently.
> "Clear code shouldn't need comments"

That's like saying articles don't need summary.
I am not sure what "defunding" would accomplish at this point. At this point, the research has been done, and the products are available for astonishingly low prices. We don't stop oil spills by defunding offshore oil wells that have already been dug, and attempting to do so is likely to result in more oil spills as the money for maintenance is cut. Similarly, I'd expect that if budget for facial recognition is slashed, the parts that will be cut are oversight and training, and so now instead of just dealing with questionable technology, you're dealing with questionable technology used by people who have no idea what they're doing.

Also, as long as public spaces are under constant video surveillance, stopping facial recognition now only solves the problem temporarily. I think at a bare minimum, we need standards for when this evidence should be admissible in court (at current tech levels, probably approximately never) and when it is acceptable to use it in searches. The technical ship has sailed, so any fix is going to have to be legislative at this point.
The more they interfere the worse it will be one day. Kicking the can of the inevitable meltdown. The first mistake was allowing banks to be “too big to fail”. The second mistake was bailing them out.

Buying corporate debt is simply another piece of the mistake puzzle. This making the entire system more and more fragile.

At a certain point you either believe in capitalism and free markets or you admit that you like a special type of socialism.
It's a weird coincidence for you but for everybody else it's to be expected as there are dozens or hundreds of people having issues every day.

It's extremely unlikely to have anything to do with this incident.

You should obtain a copy of the certificate which triggers NET:ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED and take a look at that. There's an excellent chance there's something else even more obvious wrong (from your point of view as a human) but Chrome decided to focus on the lack of trustworthy SCTs.

My instinct would be that it's likely a middle box (e.g. "anti-virus software" on a PC can install itself to snoop on all HTTPS sites, or a corporate "data loss prevention" proxy or that sort of thing) and the bogus certificate will likely make that pretty obvious if you examine it.
I think the classes are going to remain mostly online though, the frosh coming in person is more for orientation type stuff.
I hate that too, especially when it's megacorps.

however I'd like to introduce two points of discussion:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/fed-bought-debt-from-wal...

first, Walmart is not the most outrageous of the list. coca cola is much worse. For all it's shortcomings, Walmart has a lot of domestic employees, around 1.5 millions. If the money from the fed directly went into welfare for these workers, it would have covered a couple months top, so it becomes a question of efficiency: if restructuring the debt buys a year or so before bankruptcy, it's still a net gain, under the assumption that being unemployed now would be much worse than being unemployed in 10 months after the current crisis is over.

second, Walmart effectively is the American version of social welfare. It's the kind of job almost anyone can get to get back on their feet. It's not too big too fail, nobody should be, but it's also not so bad a company to have around.
> Out of curiosity, why don't more of such production lines have dedicated machines that each do one small/simple action and then send it to the next one.

Specialising your tools or machines comes at a cost: inflexibility, specifically changeover time between different products. If your machine can only do exactly one thing, the changeover time is "physically replace the machine", which may mean a delay of months.

Changeover time is a massive, hard-to-see drag on everything in a factory. The ideal manufacturing machine station can instantly switch its use between any two consecutive products moving along the line. Physically impossible, but ideal. Fully-programmable robots are much closer to that ideal than single-purpose machines.

That said, the tradeoff depends on the product/process spectrum. Some products are produced in "job shops", meaning an extremely flexible, high-touch environment, turning out very short runs. Others are worker-paced or machine-paced (which is what the Playstation factory would count as), mostly this is used for consumer goods. These still retain some flexibility, as much as sensibly possible.

At the far end are "continuous process" plants. These are very specialised to the product. Bottling plants, chemical plants, oil refineries and so on, where flexibility is not a highly meaningful advantage and the product lends itself to being treated as an undifferentiated flow as opposed to discrete units of product.

I recommend Matching Supply with Demand by Cachon & Terweisch as a first book to read. Then follow with the more in-depth Factory Physics by Hopp & Spearman.