skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of thing is done today with EMV cards to determine whether the customer needs to enter a PIN or not. Under a threshold: swipe and go because the level of possible fraud is acceptable vs. the impact on the customer. Above a threshold, PIN required.
There was a time before copyright existed, and we got pretty nice books from it.

Sure. But it was a long period of time, and the number of pretty nice books produced during that time was relatively low, and the number of people they reached was also relatively low.

I'm no fan of content farms and their clickbait ad-spam, but there is still plenty of content written for love around if you step away from sources like Facebook and Google. However, much of it isn't edited or illustrated to professional standards, or covering subjects comprehensively, or accompanied by exercises, or based on years of demanding research and fieldwork. Commercial support can provide these benefits in a way that most people writing purely for fun as a hobby can't or won't.
I quite like the concept of keeping each video under 2 minutes.

Congrats on getting to the 100-mark! What do you think was the best thing to come out of vlogging simultaneously?
Not as scary as the fact that Alphabet pressures local governments to let them drain aquifers to cool the machines¹, and powers them using vast swaths of bulldozed former habitats of endangered desert tortoises and focused beams of light that literally burn alive thousands of birds, including threatened predators².

1: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/google-s-controversial-g...

2: https://www.sbsun.com/2014/08/18/emerging-solar-plants-in-mo...

"Once built, U.S. government biologists found the plant's superheated mirrors were killing birds. In April, biologists working for the state estimated that 3,500 birds died at Ivanpah in the span of a year, many of them burned alive while flying through a part of the solar installment where air temperatures can reach 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit." — https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-tech-solar-projects-fail-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility#B...
> That would have been worth the expense in DBA time alone, right?

You're assuming the DBA did nothing else during the project's timeline, and that's not likely the case. A lot of work in projects like this is just letting the batch job run while you keep an eye on it.
> This is also why I pay someone to change my oil. It's a simple procedure, but the list of things that can go wrong is a list.

This used to be me. I motorcycle, but unlike perhaps your typical motorcyclist I don't have a good brain/hand/mind for working on engines. I just tend to do a shitty job, get bored before I'm done, or can't wrap my head around the geometry of something (so I'll almost always turn a clutch adjuster the wrong way).

So I'd take my bike in for everything. But I was noticing that things didn't quite seem actually fixed, so I brought the bike over to MotoGuild, a place where you can rent time on a motorcycle lift and they have all kinds of tools you can use included, and popped the engine cover off.

I found horrifying evidence that I can't trust anybody to work on my bike other than me. The sprocket where the chain connects to the engine was loose to nearly falling off - it should be tightened to a shitload of newtons and secured with a locking washer. The clutch area was chunky with crud, despite me having paid for a clutch cable swap and them assuring me they had cleaned everything to avoid my new clutch cable getting gnarly and gross like the last one did (I'd lubricate it and black nasty would come out the cable cover). The chain wasn't really cleaned at all, they had clearly just run a rag on the outside, but between the links and on the tire side, it was nasty. Therefore, it wasn't actually effectively lubed, either.

Bunch of other random things as well.

I am like the LAST person to ever say "if you wanna get something done right, do it yourself," because I am flush with cash and bereft of discipline and willpower, but holy shit, apparently, if you wanna get something done right...
I think copyright is about information control.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just don't think there's much difference between "Politics" and politics, and filing a lawsuit is a clearly political act. Politicians write laws so that they can be used in court. Even more straightforward-seeming court cases, like murder trials, are political in that the government can't apply every law to every person all the time, so it has to make political decisions about what laws and what people to focus on.

In this case, a large organization is asking the court to interpret a law that effects a huge portion of American society and determines when and how information can be spread. In the US, the court's interpretation of a law is as important if not more important than the legislative process that created the law.
Paying people 1200 a month isn't going to inspire them to take a permanent vacation because while it might be enough to survive on its not enough to live well on and people want to be needed and purposeful. Supply might tighten but it wont fall "through the floor". Furthermore demand right now in the US isn't just as high if not higher its crap and its going to be crap through 2020.

Instead of basing it on bad armchair psych how about provide a credible analysis from an actual economist that shows the conclusions you are suggesting.
I think we give google too much credit by assuming sophisticated moderation _algorithms_.
> But a consumer cannot just unilaterally demand that a business should use a different business model more to the liking of the consumer.

Yes, they can. It's weird that you think that people can't demand that any aspect of any business change (or end) because they don't like it. That's basically an argument against law and democracy.

Your example is about someone entering a contract, accepting the fruits of that contract, then refusing to hold up their end of that contract. Completely unrelated.
not "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills"?
This is a half-joke of a comment, but I would pay $50/month to a product that could explicitly prohibit the CEO from editing the production database.
Well, the phrase "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics" exists for a reason, data representation sometimes implies "the incontestable conclusion", where a conclusion should not exist.
Anecdotally, I just glanced at my inbox and found that I received no emails from individuals within my 20 most recent emails.
If you believe this argument, it should apply to everyone going through the criminal justice system and not just this case.

Does that seem like a question that should be contemplated in this case?
You can still own land in Singapore, they call it estate land I believe. The HDB homes are basically government owned housing that is leased back at a lower rate so the average family can afford it. The homes tend to lose value later in the lease term as it’s unclear what happens when the lease runs out (many are 99 year leases and some are 50+ years in already).

Not that different than low-income housing in SF that people purchase. The price is artificially low and appreciation (for the owner) is capped.
To be frank that bank policy sounds a lot like a pretense for protectionism to banks more than an antitrust measure so they don't have to worry about being disrupted by others winning big on bets they didn't take.

I recognize there may be very different values in play but I find calling that wrong bizzare and arbitrary.
same like all Apple pricing, no? Seems just above reasonable, rubs you the wrong way, yet you still go for it. Sort of perfect from their perspective
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Legally they can as it is a violation. They probably never did just based on that, but it would be in the list of reasons.
Brutal Truths About Productivity No One Wants to Talk About
Cascadeur: physics-based animation software, breakthrough in character animation
One President/Prime Minister cannot lead/manage 7 billion people;

Google should be split into separate companies;

http://archive.li/WOJje
Doesn't chain loading BOOTMGR break bootlocker?
As a child who was tracked into gifted classes since elementary school, I vividly remember whole lessons dedicated to strategically taking standardized tests.

An example of a tricky question we learned to answer correctly: "1. Big is to bigger as little is to ____" is "A. tiny," not "B. big", because the question is looking at changes in intensity, not just increasing size.

We were also taught general test-taking strategies like budgeting time for an entire test, making an educated guess on, or skipping & returning to, tricky questions, and so forth. Getting explicitly taught these skills made me perform better on standardized tests. And families like mine, with the socio-economic resources to get their kids taught these skills, will do better on standardized tests--including IQ tests--as a result.
It's not impossible. It's merely a matter of resources and will. Google not only has to store all that video they also need to transmit it over and over again. An archivist would only have to write to store the video. If humanity makes it to the year 3000 we're going to be pretty disappointed that all that video was lost due to a lack of foresight.
I think we might just have difference for where we place the bar for 'senior.' This does vary by company too. A non-tech company, a tech outsourcing shop in India, Oracle, Google, and elite startups all have very different bars.

At least in companies I've been, someone who can code but cannot design a database, that's a junior backend position, no questions asked. Likewise, someone who can code, but can't do UI/UX design work, that's a junior design position, no questions asked.

I think one issue is that if someone has depth in algorithms, computer architectures, and similar, becoming a competent DBA isn't too much work. SQL isn't rocket science, and neither is how databases are organized. If you don't understand B-trees, have background in what sorts of operations to nanoseconds, microseconds, or milliseconds, cache hierarchies, and so on, that's a pretty generally-applicable back-end data set, and you can pick up databases in a few months. That's something I'd expect a senior back-end engineer to have done at some point in their career. If not, I'd hire them in a more junior role, and then advance them quickly. Coincidentally, with that skillset, you can also design something new, like that Facebook back-end. That's also what FAANG interviews try to screen for, although they've had the narrowing effect that people try to master FAANG interview questions, without necessarily that depth.

In line with that, I also don't think positions like the Facebook one you described are rare. A lot of positions I've seen require that level of background. I also think you underestimate the number of people at that level.
I agree the example given is poor and as others have pointed out presents a race condition where a DB transaction would be better. I like the introduction to async/await from PouchDB blog: https://pouchdb.com/2015/03/05/taming-the-async-beast-with-e...

And their discussion of Promises: https://pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-have-a-problem-with-promis...
A quick google shows that at minimum 25% to 30% of homeless have serious mental illness, and almost half have some mental illness (50%-60% of homeless females suffer from mental illness). There is overlap with drug addiction, but drug addiction tends to represent around 40%-50% of homeless. It's also necessary to differentiate temporary homelessness and long-term homelessness. I didn't find any numbers, but I suspect long-term homelessness is dominated by mental illness and drug addiction. That's not to say people cannot fall on hard times and end up homeless, but that population tends to bounce back within weeks or months and also requires different policy solutions as well.

On a side note, have you walked through homeless encampments in cities like San Fran, or Seattle? It is obvious that mental illness and drug addiction is rampant.

However way you slice it, mental illness represents a huge part of the homeless population. Policy wise, they are treated no different than people who end up homeless due to economic circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_and_mental_health
I agree the lawyer is doing the right thing for his role - perhaps I should have phrased as "ridiculous for this argument to be taken seriously" or some such.
I was under the impression that masks only work to protect you from transmitting to others. Has that aspect not been studied yet?

Or are you talking about the efficacy of masks protecting the person that wears it?

Appreciate your time.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more Amber Alert options?
Right now your Amber Alerts can either be on or off. Most people I know turn those off after their first 3am wake up siren.

Any Apple/Google employees here that could help explain why there aren't more options such as:

* Off

* On

* On, but respect Do Not Disturb. When you wake up you can get a list of alerts that happened overnight like the rest of the notifications

* On, but only while moving/driving. Next time you connect to your car you can get a list of alerts

I realize that time is critical and the hours until you wake up or begin to drive may be too late, but given the alternative of no alerts at all, surely something is better than nothing for 1) catching up and 2) getting active alerts when you elected to receive them
I've done migrations of several databases with ~20TB of data before. Assuming you're data is immutable, A much easier approach than what they did is to restore a backup of the database onto a new machine. Since you don't have to worry about serving production traffic you can have the machine go full throttle on performing the migration. When the migration has finished you have to copy the new data that came in during the migration into the new database which isn't too bad.

When I've done this with 20TB DBs, it usually took several days to complete. That's much better than the 11 months mentioned in the blog post.
I guess I should monitor the libffi patch queue more carefully, as I only learned about their proposed changes by following the hacker news > phoronx > lkml rabbit hole.
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If the demographic is the 15-25 age range, they will leave as soon as they feel that their aunt and her dog has signed up, therefore making it "not cool" by definition
Bit before my time
And (truth value unknown by Snopes because proving a negative is impossible, but it corresponds with the videos) failed to wear identification or do or say anything that would allow the person being taken by unknown people into an unmarked car to distinguish those people from one of the paramilitary alt-right militias that populates Oregon.
Yes, as another commenter pointed out, this would get you into trouble if the endpoint you're calling is stateful at all. And that's definitely not something a compiler could ever reason about.
Idk I think the haskell elephant in the room is the poor beginner and intermediate resources,poor tooling,lack of libraries and poor documentation but maybe that's just me people totally don't want to use haskell because it's involved in some cryptocurrency scams
Portable MRI. Anytime, Anywhere
I don't get you. It uses refillable ink tanks, right? Why would they be over-full, and why would the manufacturer care? How could they ever detect third-party ink?

My assumption was that they were charging more for the printer and being 'permissive' regarding ink (that is to say, allowing the customer to do what they want with equipment they own).

They look like they're somewhat high maintenance. [0][1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRo0ADOPMSs

[1] https://www.tonergiant.co.uk/blog/2017/03/buy-epson-ecotank-...
Visa and Mastercard don't use a scheme fee in the U.S. The credit card system is structured differently here than it is in the EU.

Generally, Visa and Mastercard simply charge more per transaction for different cards in the US. For example, rewards cards cost merchants more, which is why many gas stations won't accept them.
> Sure, but should scientists work for free?

I think the premise of the question is flawed.

I think science should be free and scientists should be paid a liveable wage as any other person should be.

People can write stories all day long, even stories that will be read by nobody. Scientists can do science all day long even science that benefits nobody.

But writing stories all day long practices the art without worry about a paycheck. Scientists doing science practices the art without worry about a paycheck.

Both can be done with personal computers these days. Personal computers are extremely cheap to have and to maintain. There's nothing stopping it other than politics.
shrug I suppose it's a bit silly to argue over a spectrum of expression, but I'd say that the Lose Yourself video shows someone communicating in sign with a level of expressiveness that verbal speakers rarely achieve. Now granted, that's comparing an above-average signer to average speakers, so it's not a fair comparison. Perhaps a better comparison would be between the signer and the original artist (Eminem). But if advanced signers can compete with advanced speakers for expressiveness, I think it's hard to argue that sign is less expressive.
>limits to advertising that promotes selfish greed and consumption

Poor people aren't poor because they consume too much.

>regulation of the press to eliminate the deliberate dissemination of obvious fake news

How do you stop this from being used to mandate the dissemination of fake news?
Google has outgrown its corporate culture
Hah. My first thought was, 'what kind of idiot lets a file get to be 44TB... Then I realized who it was. Nice to see that even StackOverflow had an issue like this.
If not, that's impressive.
Even harder and even more expensive to extract if you give a damn about the environment.
The inspiration was the gas giants, planets with no practical surface on which to land.
I'm still waiting for an apology for base 10. We should be using base 12 or dozenal.
The Gap Problem
Then call it a "successful in capitalist society" test.
Thought: A good theory of everything in Physics would include such things as: Particles, Waves, Fields, Classic Newtonian Physics, Quantum Physics, Phi, e, Pi, Prime Numbers, Fourier Transforms, Math Generalized To Higher Dimensions, Fluid Dynamics, Cymatics, Cellular Automata, a bunch of others too numerous to count, and, and... (wait for it!)...

Lattice Gas Automata

Technically Lattice Gas Automata is a sub-category of Cellular Automata -- but my intuitive mind says that it really shouldn't be skipped or glossed over...

(Now that I think about it, perhaps there's some kind of Automata that generalizes to N dimensions... that would be interesting too, and a worthy subject of study... Also, it occurs to me that there might be some higher mathematical unification between fluid dynamics and Automata... that would be interesting too...)
This is such a great idea lukevp!!! I will consider to have those featured ones.
I'd argue that's what conventional companies do. And is also conventionally the source of their ultimate demise: can't compete with new actors on the market because talent has left the place, so the company has to resort to lawsuits and acquisition until its cash flow dries out with its last cash cow.

Arguably, Google still has a lot of in-house talent, but optimizing for the financial aspect usually ties talent down sooner or later.
Well, a system that can't be booted is totally secure against many kinds of remote & local attacks. So, "mission accomplished", I guess?
> You can't boot to an mdraid device with systemd-boot, you can only have a separate (non mirrored or raid'd) partition on a drive, and point to that drive to boot.

Sorta kinda true in theory but not in practice. Yes systemd-boot isn't raid aware but if you configure mdraid to store its metadata at the end of the drive then you wind up with a, say, mirrored disk that to the firmware doesn't look like it's mirrored at all. And since the firmware just reads the partition it's safe and works.

So yes, you have to configure your firmware to look at both drives in a mirrored setup as a fallback but you can boot.

> but saying "nobody cares" is just needlessly dismissive

Fair, I'm more saying that having firmware that only supports a small set of simple filesystems is the usually the more normal situation, the fact that GRUB comes with all the drivers makes it the weird one.
Look for the U in UBI.
Am I out of touch or is 20% of cloud bill outrageous? It would be astronomical for enterprises and not worth it for start-ups.
Artificially low interest is not a guarantee. It's an opportunity for the time being.

They are already paying rent, and if married, they get $2,000.

If their rent is $600, they would have $2,000/month to save a down payment and then have $2,600 to buy a median priced home. That's enough to cover insurance and property taxes.

The standard down payment is 20%, so a $226k home would be $45,200.
The article mentions some possible advantages of speech over gestures:

(1) Abstractness (which it debunks, I think successfully).

(2) Better in the dark.

(3) Frees the hands.

(4) Energy usage.

There are some others I can think of, too:

(5) Not only does it free the hands of the speaker, it frees the eyes of the listener. I can only look in one direction at a time. If you're trying to communicate to me about a task I'm doing which involves looking at something, with gestures I need to shift my gaze to you and then back to what I'm doing. This makes real-time coordination of physical tasks difficult.

(6) Distance. If two people are far apart (say, 100 meters), they can shout and be understood. With gestures, that could be possible but only if they involve large movements. Verbal communication can be scaled to large distances with a more straightforward modification.

(7) Vision problems are more prevalent and strike at a younger age than hearing problems. What percentage of otherwise-healthy 35 year old people have myopia vs. have hearing loss?
I would agree. :) Is that the case with Haskell? The OP only says that "some of the very founding contributors to Haskell itself" are deeply involved in this.
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Refusal to publish NZ academic's book is a worrying blow for free speech (2019)
The chain "Speedway" has chip card readers at their pumps, at least in my region (western NY).
There's not only clipboard issues, this Reddit user did some digging and found some interesting things.

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
I feel reminded of "gym science" when it comes to a lot of parental development strategies for children. Everyone does it so there must be something to it. If controlled studies can't replicate any effects it does not appear to bother parents much.

Why is it so hard to accept that domain transfer does not exist. If kids learn chess for a few years, they won't be better at mathematics. After five years of practicing Violin kids don't find learning a foreign language easier. Adding insult to injury, learning Latin (like many Europeans still do) contrary to common sense does not improve scholastic results of students when learning other languages.
70% as revenue by Alphabet in 2019, 60% of that from Google and 10% from YouTube. https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/HMtQjcWW/Alp...
No, it does help. They cover that in the article

“Early diagnosis is important because it could offer more opportunities to treat the disease.
Dr Rosa Sancho, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, explained that previous clinical trials of drugs had failed because the patients enrolled in them were too far advanced in their illness, and by that time it was "too late".