skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Secondly, how much of the surge in the Bitcoin price is due to manipulation and fraud? Fred states that more people want to buy Bitcoin at $28,000 than at $500. Is that true? Or is it that a handful of market manipulators are printing USD coins and using this fraudulent leverage to boost the value that buyers perceive Bitcoin to have?
I did watch https://youtu.be/_2KgrFm2Fz4 and came to the same conclusion.
When it's goods and not services (delivery is the service here, I guess, not the food as a good), usually it's termed dumping, and I'm fairly sure it's illegal. I don't know if that language ever gets used for services.
Impersonation is illegal, but GrubHub would argue that their logos are everywhere on these menus and it’s clear that they’re acting as agent.

To resolve this under existing law we’d need to wait for a lawsuit to roll through the courts. The legislature passes laws all the time that are somewhat duplicative to clarify their intent. The law isn’t a normalized database, and that actually speeds things up.
Having gone without insurance coverage, I have heard phrases like "our standard 85% discount" when notifying that I am paying cash instead of using insurance. (That said, I've also only received 30% discounts, so don't immediately jump ship :-) )
I don't think Uber Eats has a support page that says "Submit your amateur cease and desist letters here". A $300 trademark is a cheap business expense, using it to scare away massive corporations is expensive.
Happy New Year 2021!
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If you don't pay for physical products or tangible/useful services, then that's what happens. But look at it the bright side. The kind of people who burn cash on games would have instead thrown them on drugs, cigarettes, online gambling, or something even worse had these avenues never existed.
I'm more of an AWS / Infra person by trade, but this project was a great excuse to learn more about JS and some image processing libraries.

The static site was generated with Svelte + Sapper and deployed onto a S3 bucket with CloudFront for SSL. FabricJS is used adding and manipulating image elements, and jsPDF is used to export the images into PDF format for printing on standard printers. Canvas states can be saved and retrieved with URL parameters.
Exactly, I suppose the Taiwan government also helped a lot to TSMC to get started & get where it is now.
It's a clever success of the insurer lobbying effort. They have successfully convinced the US that it's the hospitals that are the problem not the insurers who control the revenue streams of hospitals.
Which year's?
Same applies to drugs. Those game are micro-optimized to trick people into paying money for it. No one would ever say "The money I spent on farmville was well spent".
Stories like this, about how random, independent events tie together to create our sense of 'progress', always remind me of James Burke's Connections:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

See for example how the Jacquard loom (i.e., punchcard 'programming') came about in episode four, "Faith in Numbers":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-4lMoXgI

The search for artificial quinine to treat malaria led to the development of artificial dyes, with the first colour being mauve (a 'pale purple'). A fuller treatment of the subject of artificial dyes, and the rise of the chemical industry, can be found in Simon Garfield's book Mauve (ISBN 978-0393323139).
What happens when you bandage a Rubik's cube?
By any chance, do you know an example of a regex library or tool that uses that backwards-matching trick?
I remember running Debian on NSLU2 over a decade ago, that was likely similar spec (single core ARM/32MB RAM) though less integrated.
I think social media implies there's more than one person involved, if you only watch videos and read no comments that's not really social media. The vast majority of Google search results is user generated content as well
> The rule mandating that hospitals disclose their privately negotiated charges with commercial health insurers is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2021.

So, today. Does anyone know how/where the data will be published?
> From the point of view of a game developer, having good graphics is "easy" because Unity and Unreal exist.

But this is not what the article, and this comment section, is about.
Not so irrelevant, because at USD 40k per, they were a bit more than teaching jumping jacks. I mentioned them specifically because they seem to have been the least-deniable part of the package.

The author of the lines «Горы стреляют, Стингер взлетает /
Если нарваться, то парни второй раз умрут» also seems to have accorded them more respect than you do...

I've heard the Chechens were able to manufacture their own small arms. Afghanis certainly had that capability; did they have it at the scale provided? Would they have been able to source their own MANPADs?
I've done short stints of pairing with folks, and yes, generally it works out great in those respects.

Yes, those setups are often best - for people and for the business - "no one point of failure". It also seems harder for businesses to commit to paying for that redundancy, at least up front.
Since they weren’t able to buy them any more since November it looks like they gave people at least a month to enjoy their purchases.
I agree with the sentiment. But you basically have no recourse if you get food poisoning from a restaurant. Unless it’s a mass event, there’s no way for you to prove it was the restaurant, and even if you could prove it, your damages aren’t likely to be enough to sue.
Most precompetitive research in the semi industry also happens at Imec in Belgium.

The ASML litho machines are a single step in even just the wafer production process, there are several companies involved in making and processing masks, doing the etching, cleaning solutions, etc.
As many industries, it's a highly globalized supply chain, with many companies distributed around the world specializing and leading different aspects. And yes, several of them are in the EU.

As to why the governments would do this, well it's geopolitics. The EU has some big players in the industry, but other parts of the supply chain are elsewhere. When all big geopolitical powers are interdependent, then no player will move to block another off at risk of hurting themselves. Now, both China and the US are shoveling billions into developing a higher independence (even before the trade war). Likely, the EU feels it is now forced to follow suit, or risk having e.g. the access to high-volume fabs to be a bargaining chip in future trade negotiations.
The parenting style that creates leaders
Not to mention the current supply issues for gaming console chips and GPUs - unless it's a very temporary blip it looks like insufficient production of the most cutting edge chips & all that on top of the TSMC monopoly.
So, my memory failed me. The one which I couldn't make work was Photonix not PhotoPrism. It is still indexing my pictures and it kinda succeeded identifying some things (and others with lots of errors, eg. Dog as Hummingbird!). I'll wait it finish to confirm, but I feel already the need of two things:
- fix tags & retrain?
- face tags to identify and search for persons
It seems like an agreement or explicit description of what is happening (the delivery service is providing the food, not the restaurant) is going to be part of any sustainable model.
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Makes me wonder when did animals started to dream, even prototypcally.

Mammals ? Reptiles ?
But how often you want to "insert" elements in a sparse matrix? It seems like a very strange thing to do, I cannot imagine a situation where I would need to do that (during the lifetime of a sparse matrix).
Exciting development. Not many power blocs has the prerequisites to pull this off, though EU coordination capabilities still questionable.
I want to learn Rust

I want to change career from SWE to Quant Trading.
ARM IP, even full architectural license, is relatively small percentage of the cost of a semiconductor. Know-how for fables microarchitecture designs is widely distributed. Most fabless work goes to specialized asics.

It's the inability for SMIC to obtain EUV lithography equipment for their sub-7nm process technologies from ASML that prevents China from getting into high-end semiconductors, not the domestic microarchitecture know-how.
Government funding is extremely wasteful and will generally go into the pockets of the well connected. The problem is this game has been played for a long time and it has diminishing returns. The players have had decades to get the exploitation down.

Yes sillicon valley exists because of government money. But that was like 70 years ago. The world has changed and corruption is more severe. You will get no such bang for your government grant buck now.
I remember running it on this cheap iomega NAS drive around the same time. Very similar specs although it had a SATA controller.
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As someone who worked in HPC Projects in the EU, I'd say the vast majority of the grants is wasted. E.g. on

- obscure software and programming paradigms/libraries

- one-off's

- projects that create only reports, papers and recommendations

- endless recreations of the same software over the years and decades

- plain dumb projects

- attempts at recreating other people's software (e.g. U.S.)

There is also a large amount of overlap in work/content between projects, and lots of time is appropriated for unrelated work e.g. employees working on their PhDs.

On the other hand the industry takes a lot more money and plays similar games.

Project partners do not take the right path, because it's not conducive to fulfilling a grant, getting the next grant or increasing your citation count. The incentives are wrong.
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>Or will it more be like our Ariane missiles?
It's rude to call it a missile just because they launched one on the wrong azimuth recently. ;-)

Also given the success rate of the related Vega rocket, it would not be a very dependable missile anyway.
Vastly more Soviet troops were killed by Communist Chinese AK clones than by Stingers. But of course the impact on morale and logistics was profound.

This is however not what we discuss here. How much US attrition was due to Islamic fundamentalist MANPAD use, during the whole War of Terror?

See, it's irrelevant.
for even more profit become a doordash driver and exclusively ‘deliver’ these pizzas.
> I am not familiar with successful EU initiative.

The EU Cohesion Fund is one. Since 2007, ~133 billion € got invested in the poorer countries of the EU to improve trans-european traffic infrastructure (TEN, aka road, rail, waterways) and environmental projects (e.g. villages hooked up to proper sewage pipes with treatment plants at the end, instead of dumping sewage to the groundwater / into rivers and seas).
Well, pseudo-open source licenses. They're certainly not OSI approved, which is the benchmark most go by. And it's not really a "lot," in part because most organizations won't touch open source software that isn't on a usually fairly short list of licenses approved for use.
"Reversible" meant consuming the character stream in reverse order while matching the same language, so it's different from what you have in mind--automatically generating a printer from a parser. On the surface it sounds very doable if each pattern of AST node is generated by a unique grammar production. Then pretty printing is the task of matching against an unambiguous tree grammar. It's not really different from what the compiler for a language like ML or Haskell does for pattern matching.
Isn't this just a continuation of the service economy? It won't feel like people are losing jobs and making less money, people will lose jobs and make less money as they transition to creative domains that AI/automation hasn't captured yet.
i doubt NetBSD has drivers for this SoC
What ? there's a shitton of good research done on H2020 funds
Well, it seems to be competitive with Boeing & no one else really stepped up doing it the "proper" way so far.
I'll stick with bash-j's own words, where he bragged about running a python script "forever", and not your interpretation of his words. I'm also going to dismiss what you "think [I] assumed that they meant"

However, if you, or bash-j, believe Excel is incapable of avoiding manual data updates, that's simply not correct. Excel provides at least 3 ways of bypassing manual data entry in favor of automated imports from an external data source -- VBA code, ODC (not to be confused with ODBC) data connection definitions, and PowerQuery (I think that is the current name, haven't used it in a long time).
You hate all game companies in the same way? Or just the ones that make games that are not exactly for you?
The world is becoming a smaller place with bigger fish every year. Without the EU powers like china and russia would have it even easier to dominate smaller european nations politics.

Just being able to deflect other parties to negiotiate with the EU instead of national goverments can be a help: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-merkel-germany-e...

A tighter foreign and military policy integration could also enable more independence from the US but most EU countries prefer to reap the dividends of the waning pax americana than to spend necessary ressources on defense.

Interesting multipolar times are ahead where standing alone might not be the best choice.
Inflationary pressures and pent up demand no doubt. Also, you can just look at the chart and see it's basically already there.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/iron-ore
Yeah but that was then and this is now. Exploiting these EU programmes is a business for many. They produce paperwork and they get EU funds.
It doesn’t, it’s Linux only for now. Unless someone builds uboot for bsd. Even then there would be a huge amount of work to do to get it running stable.
Information control is no different from border control. Is it wrong for China to enforce it via Apple?
"Macht Sinn" (makes sense) is almost a legitimate phrase already and "Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm" (The early bird catches the worm) might be soon.
Even ignoring specific criticism of RISC-V - the ISA means fuck all if you can't build the actual uarch that implements it. We are probably going to see x86 struggle because of issue-width (although Jim Keller seriously hinted something enormous when he was still at Intel), but the ISA itself (to 1*) isn't much of a CPU
“If the ratio of Number of Non-Zero (NNZ) elements to the size is less than 0.5, the matrix is sparse. While this is the mathematical definition, I will be using the term sparse for matrices with only NNZ elements and dense for matrices with all elements.”

No, this is not the mathematical definition. An n-by-n matrix is usually considered sparse if the number of nonzero elements is O(n). Which means that the ratio of nonzero elements goes to zero as the matrix grows.
I learned the specific 're1 string re2' decomposition with backward matching from Hyperscan but AFAIK several fast grep-oriented regex engines factor out both prefixes and suffixes and use whichever is longer/most rare as a substring anchor. For the suffix case you need backward matching to confirm the regex match after the substring match. Hyperscan actually decomposes the entire state machine graph into 're1 string re2' style fragments, which lets them select the fastest implementation technique for each sub-machine.

I think Russ Cox talks about backward matching in his article series on regular expressions, so it's probably used somewhere in re2.
> dreams are primarily visual precisely because ...

This is a central claim in the article that's just stated and taken for granted.

In my experience, at least, dreams are not primarily visual. They have a visual component, but also a vague auditory component, a motor-experience (feeling of movement) component, etc., and all of those feel equally important. And most of all, there is a "felt experience" component that actually feels like the primary element of it; emotion is the core element of that, but a better description is "the lizard brain's interpretation" of what's happening in the dream, that feels like the central element of the dream.

The visual part is also not in full colour generally, in my case, it's like early movies during the transition from black-and-white, with slight colour tints generally towards the bluish colour regions.

I'm curious what others' dream experiences are like, and in particular whether it's the case that most people do experience them as primarily visual.
Indeed, I think insurance and health providers collude to jack up prices. “Saving” a heavily inflated price makes the insurance look good. The provider can use the high prices as a bludgeon against the uninsured.
Well i'm not sure gunboat diplomacy and banana/global policing wars provide sufficient motivation compared to total wars… can only steal and squander so much before your factories get bombed and supply chains crippled.

I would agree if only the money dumps stopped ending up going mostly in the same places… lol
> It’s a bad product that people get addicted to,

Every time I hear about people having issues with partner being addicted to gaming, the game in question is PC or console game. Typically competitive online one, sometimes single player. It is rarely mobile game, like I never heard people complain about partner being addicted to Farmville.

But, somehow, those games get defended each time.
> a robust international trade system

A list of various trade routes, dating from ancient times to the Middle Ages:

* https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/86338/8-trade-routes-sha...

A cool map of Medieval trade routes:

* https://www.visualcapitalist.com/medieval-trade-route-map/

'Globalism' / global trade isn't anything new.
Many people where caught unawares by video game addiction. Cultures convey the dangers of drugs and gambling quite effectively allowing many susceptible people to avoid them, but IAP where a very new thing.
IIRC this was a theoretical model of two populations with different characteristics re. offspring production. Real life is more complicated than theoretical models, so it's unclear whether the results of such a model are applicable or useful.
I recently took legal advice on a technically unenforceable clause in a contract. I was told that I would probably win, but it would take a year or two to resolve and I would almost certainly not gain anything financially after legal costs, and I stood a chance of losing money I could not afford to lose.

So terms don't have to be strictly "enforeceable" to have the desired effect from the company's perspective.
I think you missed the last paragraph.
It’s not about morals. It’s about environmental/ecosystem balance. Parent comment talked about feedback loops and over-hunting.
Running it locally will always be faster as long as your machine is not a bottleneck (#cores, ram, ...). I think the use-case for distcc et al is to enable less-powerful machines to run builds faster by levering other machines. That’s exactly what we use it for at work. Our developers have not-so-powerful laptops and with distcc/icecc they can utilize the power of our build agents in the server room.

Also interesting to read: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg
On the assumption that almost everyone would be better without Farmville in their lives and that such a loss might at least get some of them to reconsider the wisdom of their behavior, there would be a certain irony if such a class action suit were to be successful.
I think the article describes one good reason for why we dream, one of the benefits of dreaming, but it doesn't have to be the only or even main reason. I think it's most likely that dreaming provides multiple benefits, and what the article claims is one of the minor ones.
Misread as Action Pack, a license bundle from Microsoft that changes frequently and unpredictably.
Education and healthcare have runaway costs compared to industries in the private sectors. Maybe the government shouldn’t subsidize nonprofit colleges and hospitals, as they create a distorted uncompetitive market.
My experience has been nothing like that. The developer portal is definitely a bit buggy but all my apps have been reviewed and approved very timely. Critical updates go through very quickly.

However I appreciate it’s a big process and given the amount of complaints online on how bad the process is, I put a lot of extra care to make sure everything goes through very smoothly. I use TestFlight a lot to test a lot and I look at the App Store process as akin to sending my software to a publisher and writing to CDs - I go to full efforts to make sure it is as perfect as possible by the point I’m submitting.

Also might have to do with number of users you have. Now I have quite a few downloads on my main app, so I may be getting a bit better treatment on priority fixes.
I feel like this will be a hostile move if their product gains traction. As soon as people start using “YouTube Shorts”/“Google Clips” more because that’s where everything is. Creators will start creating for that platform because it saves consumers a click.

Once this happens they’ll move to improve the format, then finally either shut down the aggregation, or relegate it to a separate product (Google Video Search vs YouTube).

It’s the standard open web playbook for Google/Microsoft/Facebook. We will see if they succeed.
I read the previous comment as: there wasn’t anyone at the end trying to help make it actually commercialized
a small piece of good news coming from the Trump administration, but still far too little to be meaningful
TSMC is the 11th most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of 489B US dollars.
The barn door needs to be closed. I don't care if it means there won't be more doordashes if the only way those companies can exist is by scamming customers and exploiting restaurants. I don't see why this is a problem. They're called "growth hacks" for a reason. If your concern is that people won't be able to compete with DoorDash now without breaking the law, maybe DoorDash should be penalized for past misbehavior... If you follow this "but banning this will prevent competition!" logic to its conclusion now it's logically inappropriate to make all sorts of things illegal because fraudsters got rich doing them and it would prevent competition.

Personally I think it's possible for delivery apps to succeed without breaking the law. Similarly I believe a cab-hailing app can succeed without breaking the law. The fact that the big players in both markets have made "regulatory arbitrage" and lawbreaking a core part of their business model (protected by massive amounts of venture capital and highly paid lawyers) is not a reason to get rid of the laws they broke.
Indeed it is a very common pattern. People tend to believe whatever is convenient (read: self serving) for them to believe.
I don't have a link handy, but I recall watching a documentary where a bunch of college students participated in a study that involved waking them every time they reached REM state. After 6 days they started becoming psychotic. After 7 days someone stepped in and aborted the project as the students were going fully psychotic. I don't recall who intervened. They may not have died but if I recall correctly, they would have killed each other.
Particularly when you go look for "eugenics" statements and don't find any. Who died and made you internet cop, anon?