skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of but not really because it's 1/1000 times the chance that they shop at stores in the same geographic location. So yeah I might have a couple dopplegangers but they're likely spread around the US and can be filtered out relatively easily.

It only becomes a problem if I (1) have a doppleganger, that (2) likes to steal, and (3) lives in the same area as me. It'd still be a kafkaesque nightmare but probably a pretty rare one.
The well-being of the minority vs the interests of money. I wonder how it tends to play out?
> One of the detainees at Guantanamo was grilled over the prevalence of the watch amongst suspected terrorists. He claimed that the water-resistant feature of the F91W watch was handy due to the Islamic requirement for followers to wash up to their elbows before prayers. Innocent enough explanation, right? Well not really. Interrogators smelled a rat when another prisoner claimed the prevalence of the watch amongst Jihadi inmates was simply due to the built-in compass that helped them pray towards Mecca. However, there is no compass in the F91W.

It's important to point out here that what you're reading about is people being tortured to confess on the purpose of a watch.

The logic of "Interrogators smelled a rat" is terrifying. Imagine you get captured by a state enemy and they ask you why so many Americans have iPhones. They beat you until you tell them and clearly "uh, they're useful? everyone has one? you can pay for them in installments so the cost is hidden?" aren't going to be acceptable answers. The interrogator smells a "rat" and wants to get the "real" answers from you.

Clearly the answers of "so we can do Muslim things" are to appease the interrogator. The prisoner knows that "I don't know, cause everyone else has one and they're cheap" is not going to fly.
Team Pangu demonstrates unpatchable SEP chip flaw in iOS
This sort of thing is a little perverse imo. I don’t think anyone should be punished for stealing food, that’s a crime of hopeless poverty. My roomates were broke in college, spending nearly all money on rent and school. If someone wanted meat that week, they would ring up the chuck as bananas at self checkout. Otherwise it was rice and beans.
I will get beat up for bringing this up, but I think that these facilities are operating in bubbles / silos. The reason I believe this, is that for months everything discussed in the article has also been discussed by an ER doctor in Riverside, CA that makes Youtube videos in his down time. [1] He is just reading the research available on nih.gov and a few other sites. What would it take to get all of the medical research groups to start collaborating on a common platform? Is the issue that they do not have a platform to share findings, theories, tests, or is everyone depending on the scientific review process and waiting for peer reviewed papers? Should we set up a forum for all the medical groups to share findings, theories, debate theories, etc?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDCRAMvideos/videos
Thanks for finding that detail. I went to that article and missed it somehow.
I don't think anyone has ever argued steroids made Bonds good (IMHO he was already a first ballot HOFer). It's pretty well understood that they aid in recovery. Bonds' most transcendent stretch came when most ballplayer's production is falling off or completely disappearing.

He put up 47 WAR during his age 37-41 seasons. That's unheard of. Given those seasons coincide with when he was using the cream and the clear, it's fair to call into question some of his counting numbers.

Being charitable, let's say he would have put up 23 WAR during those seasons[0]. That would leave him about 140 career WAR and around 660 HRs. That's solid Mays territory.

He would still be in the conversation for best ever. Mays certainly is. So it comes down to how you value those steroid seasons. Some folks want to throw it all out. Some folks (HOF voters) want to subtract points. Some folks think it didn't matter. We can never know. Just like we can never know how Ruth would have done in an integrated league.

[0] Given what we know about aging curves this is unlikely. But Bonds was a special athlete and it's not totally unheard of for players that age to have really good seasons.
Beginners aren’t in a position to figure out the difference between a usable $80 guitar and a barely playable $80 guitar.

My experience with Guitar Center specifically is that at most stores, most of the cheap guitars on sale won’t be set up properly and some of them will be missing strings. Buying an $80 guitar from GC is a roll of the dice.

If you know what you are doing you can buy a guitar for $60 or $40 on Craigslist. Doesn’t mean that you have good odds as a novice.
Show HN: Contextual-AI, SAP's first open-source ML library for explainability
I wonder if it’s inevitable that we will get denial of entry based facial recognition systems. It’s legally difficult to stop people from leaving the store whereas it’ll be much easier to prevent them from entering.

If someone shoplifts then they get banned from the chain, or a network of chains. This would be an alternative to police involvement. Restitution could be done proportionality and privately.

Of course there will be issues with it but I’m sure it could be cheaper to figure this out than the alternative loss prevention solutions.
Fair.

But, I think we're kind of losing the thread here. Let's just pretend the post that kicked off our conversation said "Yes, because much of what trump is criticized for is bad" instead of " ... objectively bad", and carry on from there.

Because it's not about the use of the word "objectively". It's about the immoral and unethical (and probably illegal) behavior of the current President of the United States, and people who are dying because of how the current administration has mis-handled the Covid-19 pandemic. And white supremacy being a destructive force in U.S. culture, society, and politics.

Let's talk about those, instead of the proper use of the word "objectively".
Pinpoint is solving for this

https://pinpoint.com
Slovenia was the richest federal unit within Yugloslavia and I guess that makes them the most successful experiment in socialism like ever. I think at that time they were doing better than the current Greece and Portugal. However, the rest of Yugloslavia wasn't that great.
Yes, that's sort of why I recommended his interviews, because he's given it a lot of thought and has interesting things to say about risk (I imagine even if he initially didn't think a ton about it, people constantly asking has given him some good answers) in addition to the explanation that these climbs are prepared for in advance.
Robotics should look beyond self-driving
It's interesting that it has taken this long to be commercially viable. I have an acquaintance who worked on visual perception and circa 2001 this was a hot research topic for them. IIRC, their team demonstrated a two camera system for gait recognition to LLNL around then.
Actually, it was probably five years ago

I lambasted them for it and instantly cancelled all such features, which are otherwise potentially quite helpful.

I hope this means that enough others had the same reaction that they quit that nonsense.
Your implication being your question is based in logic or scientific curiosity, and not some disingenuous politics.
Housing scarcity is more about the cost of the land than the house itself. You're right that that a house can be built for $50k (not by most modern standards, but it can be done). But if you wanted that $50k house in SF bay area, suddenly it's on a piece of land worth $2 million.
Too bad, I'd have loved to read this astrology debunking. And to forward it to a friend or two :P

You sure you don't still have a copy of it somewhere? 0:-)
Lots of bubbles to go around. Average entry level software developer job in Germany pays 40-45k€ (35-40k£). 60-70k would already be well-paid senior positions. No developer or dev manager earns six figures. These numbers also roughly apply to most engineering disciplines.
This is great if it works well. Drop-in replacement would be great for systems with DB abstraction like in django, sqlalchemy.
You're right. Just visit GoPros youtube channel. There's no shortage of adrenaline seekers.
Some of those are absolutely monstrous tips!
I'm not in danger but my landlord is literally not a person. It's a company in another state
MMU is less of a requirement these days, since the uclinux patches were upstreamed.

And it was ported to Alpha early on to be ported to a very 'not 386' style architecture. Before that it was very x86 specific.
Competition Is for Losers with Peter Thiel (2014)
Isn't it even in theory not possible for any algorithm (be it an ANN or otherwise) provide a solution to an infinitely variable chaotic problem based on solutions from a less-than-infinite set of other chaotic problems?

Isn't essentially they key concept of chaotic problems that they aren't predictable, so there is no real "pattern" to train on so to speak?
Besides the "win what?" question from the other commenter, how long has, say, Germany been ahead of China?

Probably 150 years, now? When I say "ahead", I mean per capita, a huge national GDP doesn't really help me much as an individual.

And I doubt the average German works more than the average Chinese.
The vast majority of corporate shops do not have a story for IT management of Linux machines. Accordingly, all employee PCs need to be either Windows or Mac -- and until WSL, for webdevs they were mostly Mac.
Not only that, usually cctvs have a tv facing the entrance with the feed and a reminder that you are on camera. This on the other hand, is Orwellian in comparison.
> This feature is present in any filesystem that supports quotas.

That's not true. No Linux filesystem supports recursive size tracking even though they mostly support quotas. The quotas are enforced and tracked by the block/extent and inode allocators.
>But just because someone has a reason to do something, doesn't mean they did it. It's not an argument about correctness.

Exactly, Google using or not using a license or some shady practice does not mean it is correct. It sucks that in US you have this weird thing where until someone is brought to court you are not sure what the rules actually are interpreted, from what the other comments mentioned the author(a lawyer) responded to this concerns and clarified things but yeah, we might need to forever wait or find some more courage
You're right - I forgot that finding a new tenant stops the obligation for the previous tenant.
Good call, that's an error on my part.
Is this the company that Uber bought then shuttered because of intellectual property theft?
John Banville and the Redemption of Art
Interesting project. Seems like a boilerplate to jump start various experiments.
A pretty cool product and very useful! I hope something like this becomes super wide spread (maybe with competitors as pricing is a bit wack) so we can always know how busy our local stores etc are before heading out.
Having worked on customer-tracking systems for several companies and seen executive strategy first hand and compiled reports to assess the effectiveness of these types of programs I have witnessed clear evidence that what you are saying is NOT true. Yes, there could theoretically be value to this type of data but trying to explain this to VPs is pearls before swine.

"They wouldn't do it if it didn't work" should be added to lists of logical fallacies. People do dumb stuff and make mistakes all the time, but groups of people are collectively about as clever as a slime mold.

To assume unquestioningly the intelligence of our rulers during the Trump era is just, wow. I don't know what world you live in, but in mine, the worst people on the planet are the ones at the wheel.
I have not seen that; thank you for this information.
I have not tried to benchmark Atlas but I am not sure the result would be meaningful. Atlas is an in-memory database, QuestDB persists to disk, the 2 are not very comparable.
I have worked with following consulting companies NCC Group, Security Innovation, and Coalfire in the past. All of them are pretty good.
Yeah, but these days you can build cheap, decent quality apartment buildings with 10-12-20 floors. Suddenly that piece of land can afford much higher population density.
I've heard being attributed to Hesiod from a talk by Adam Conover, but i've not investigated.

EDIT: sorry, apparently it's also a misquotation:

https://www.quora.com/Which-ancient-Greek-spoke-of-there-bei...
If you are using a negative numbers you can do it in three ways.

1. positive numbers represent the default for an account (A positive number in a debit account is a debit, but a positive number in a liability say, is a credit). This is done a lot. But he causes a lot of rules about when to add and went to subtract what the balance with what. I think this is why they lot of double entry bookkeeping and has a hard reputation. Certainly if you coded it you would have to code all those rules manually.

2. The approach I'm used to of having negative numbers in the debits and positive credits. This makes all the double accounting balancing much simpler. But I can see it may confuse some people when assets are negative.

3. Make credits at the beauty of an debits positive (incidentally I only today learned that beancount does it this way). Again balancing and double-entry accounting becomes simpler. Now money in the bank would be positive, like your bank statement. But sales income would be negative (it is a credit). I wonder if that would confuse people.

So maybe that's why UI should make everything positive and undifferentiated. But given the amount of time the Accounting 101 has to drill in all the rules of what
There are many automated train systems around at different levels, more than we think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...
Scott Alexander has a (Halloween) short story sort of about that:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
That's for the very young, ie children, at least from what I gathered.
I wish I could, I'll see if I can dig up my old report from class, but that was from 2007.

Very simply, I literally just wired the laser in series with the headphones, like, attached directly to the battery of the laser pointer so the audio +/- 5v would jiggle the laser's brightness around that value (the laser was also +5v so this "just works" if I recall. I might have had a resistor in there, and at some point, current leaked back into my iPod and fried it :)

On the receiving end, same deal, PC speaker audio jack attached to a photodiode and power.

It's remarkably analog, but it's also the same reason that things like the now anachronistic CD-player cassette adapter work, throwing 5V AM signals around :)
The problem with this is that we live in a world where there are versions of things so cheap is to be unusable. you don't need a top-of-the-line skateboard to learn how to skate, but it's much harder to learn on a Walmart board, if not impossible. Bearings that don't roll, wheels that get flat spots, decks that are made of particle board and have no pop and l plastic bushings are all a huge impediment to doing the most basic parts of skating.
When I first got the personalized coupons I called Meijer and asked them who they bought my address from, they refused to answer.
If you use a credit card to pay and they datashare with another company where you used the same credit card to pay and the other company has your address, Meijer could have gotten it from them.

I have a walmart.com account - they add my in-store purchases to my Walmart.com history when I pay with a credit card I used at walmart.com.
Throw in a face mask and this tech is all useless. Especially now that we’ve normalized mask use in the U.S. for probably any cold and flu going forward.
As someone who has done a little work on the side recording audiobooks, I hope they paid that guy well. That sounds like a nightmare.
TSMC absolutely gets free capital from various governments.

That's the whole point of that Arizona fab they're building.
AdminLTE – Available in Jinja2, Flask and Django
Spend it with my family. Doing hobbies, I’m a big blood bowl nerd so that takes up a lot of my free time. Read books, watch movies, have fun with friends. Stuff like that.

Sometimes I program for fun.

I also work as an external examiner for CS students. Though that is only during finals, so twice a year. Mostly to keep up with what’s happening, but I’ll admit it’s a nice side income.

My former boss used his spare time to get an MBA and build a startup that he later sold before he moved on to higher management somewhere else. So you can also do that sort of thing if you’re so inclined. He didn’t have any children though. ;)
I mean, one thing we all can certainly be doing is making a concerted effort to shop more at our local independent businesses. Plus, this comes with the added benefit that it keeps money circulating in our communities for longer!
>> But RITE AID? What the hell, a fucking pharmacy? I mean: the customer is typically just buying whatever their doctor prescribes them.

I don't know about Rite Aid, but Walgreen's is pretty much the 'corner store' in many neighborhoods.
On balance I find writing your own tools is useful when your use cases are narrow but becoming a wizard in other tools is useful otherwise. I'm lucky that I get to define my own use cases.
Prior leaders are often underrated.

I don't know the specifics of this case but I know a lot of coaches refuse to be the person in charge of "rebuilding" because they know they will get 80% there just in time to get fired & watch someone else get all the credit.
Often these companies end up back in the hands of the PE firms after being stripped of pension and other obligations in bankruptcy. Maybe they would have done better with a successful turnaround. But they usually manage to set it up so it's a heads I win tails you lose kind of game.
(for these who struggled like me: the weighting balance,not the account balance. Nice one once you get that :)
A factor not mentioned in this article that makes these calculations difficult is that, the more turbines get deployed, the lower the prices in times of peak supply will be.

Some people think that means that, in order to get decent supply in times of unfavorable winds, subsidizing providers will remain necessary. Alternatively, countries can build storage infrastructure. That’s why there are projects underway for large scale hydrogen storage near the North Sea.
Yet another reason to wear a mask everywhere in public :P
Ask HN: Why aren't plugin architecture adopted for web services?
Jenkins is the only exception I've found.
Didnt Orbitz (or one of the travel sites) get caught charging customers more money per ticket if they were on a Macbook vs any other computer? [1] This type of data collection is the start of individual pricing based on what stores believe you will pay.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-users-pay-more-than-pc-users-s...
This number is also almost always good for like a dollar off per gallon of gas at stations that are tied into the grocery loyalty program. Lots of SafeWay's have their own stations for example.
Just look at VW.
Is HPC moving away from purely ALU throughput benchmarks? If so, I think that would be good news.
Are there any performance comparisons to TimescaleDB and Influx that you can share? A blog post perhaps?
It’s up to you. Make it work according to how you prefer to organize your notes. I dont follow the Zettelkasten system. I create notes per category or tag under which i can look for backlinks into related material. But otherwise I just use is to store everything, including lecture notes, vocabulary and full text of articles or lectures I consider important.

There’s a graph server that might be helpful but I never used it.

Another advantage being able to ripgrep through content for dirty searches.

The more content is there (not just links and pointers) the more likely it is you’ll surprise yourself finding links between different domains you’re interested in.

For me, word definitions in Arabic for example, tie into terminology used in articles I read in other languages, because I can use “aliases” to refer back to them.
Show HN: Maker Bootcamp Week 1
I put together a small maker bootcamp last week. We get in groups of 5-10 to make stuff and keep each other accountable, that's it.

Here are a few pieces of wisdom from week 1:

- After the call I realized that selling my own products is way more difficult (psychologically) than selling for a company. Breaking through that personal limitation is my secondary goal for this challenge.

- Day 2 is harder than day 1. Day 1, you can ride the excitement, the possibilities, the dream.
Day 2 is work.

Join the bootcamp at https://xoxo.vc
I remember when this was a Show HN, it was my first comment to say that the homepage didn't work for me in an old version of Firefox (and the developers reached out, thanked me for the report, and fixed the problem).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878597

Now so many businesses needs to count capacity, and they're perfectly positioned with 5 years of experience in the space. Amazing foresight (and/or a bit of luck).
I feel Google has turned on its pledge of doing no evil. It is not shamelessly stealing publishers content and displaying it in the featured snippets. So the searcher has really no incentive of clicking on the search result anymore. He is getting all the information on Google itself.
thanks for trying the live demo. That's a very interesting result indeed. Btw, we are working on applying SIMD operations on filter queries (where clause) that will speed up the runtime of queries like that considerably.
Now that facemasks are normalized in the American public, surely this tech is pretty inert now? I imagine people will start wearing their masks for any cold or flu, not just COVID, like other countries have been doing for years. Any would be shoplift is now socially allowed to conceal their face at all times.

And if you weren’t a shop lift, it sounds like taking public transit, walking, or biking, and paying with cash will be king for the privacy conscious. At least this will force a few people into better mobility habits.
I appreciate it when Earth's Surveillance Capital is brought up as an abject lesson.
The pressure to schedule an induction up to a week or so early is also very strong. The sales pitch is "we can schedule at a convenient time for you and ensure that you'll have a bed". Implying that you're being super irresponsible by letting nature decide when the baby's ready. It all just feels like the OB/GYN is worried about their schedule more than the baby's or mother's well-being.

And c-sections are definitely subtly encouraged even if there's not a real need.
==Harbor Freight already knows it's customers are cheapskates and Whole Foods already knows it's customers barely look at the prices?==

If this is how you think pricing decisions are made, I don't know what to say.

On the one hand, we have the lived experience of increasing surveillance and targeting, an investigative article discussing it, and long, documented history of data investments from large corporations.

On the other hand, we have speculation that it's all FOMO.

You don't run pilot programs and eight-year roll-outs of things you aren't taking seriously.
I don't have a gripe with the term per se but in this case omitting who did it plainly renders the headline clickbait. If one tiny bit of info added to a headline would lose you most of your clicks, you're being deceptive to gain clicks. In this case the info is that the Nazis banned the book, because no one at all familiar with their book-banning criteria would find it surprising that math books were among the ones they banned, and so would shrug and move on without clicking. The implication of the headline is that the banning is novel or surprising or perhaps especially (and most provocatively) due to its content, but it's not.
How Cooling Things Down Is Heating Things Up
A visual essay about how cooling equipment like air conditioning and refrigerators cause climate change and what to do about it.