skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not complicated.

Your data (we could debate whether "data about you" is actually "your data" but that is a tangent discussion) is valuable. FedEx can collect then sell it.
That's an amazingly slippery slope if I ever saw one:

"We've eliminated the death penalty because we are so enlightened. But now that we've sentenced you to life in prison, every morning with breakfast, we offer a side of poison just in case you would like to exercise your right to check out of this hell hole.

No pressure. Just being helpful."
I've de-Rusted the title so hopefully the thread can stay on topic (i.e. specific, not generic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
I hope he is able to profit from his story with book and/or movie rights. It's a fascinating story and I bet would make a great movie a la Captain Phillips or 127 Hours.
I really don't mean this to sound cynical, though I can see how it comes across. I think it's more about understanding human psychology and trying to use that understanding to empathize with and understand why people behave in seemingly irrational ways.

As a tribal primate species are absolutely hard-wired to seek ways to provide value to our tribe. Being worthless to the tribe means being left in the forest, which was a death sentence to our evolutionary ancestors. So our need for social prestige is as fundamental as food and shelter. Perhaps even more so since for most of our ancestors, food and shelter came from the tribe.

The ways we seek out that esteem are determined by our surrounding culture. If esteem is the game we're trying to win, culture determines the board and the moves we're allowed to make. We can push against culture somewhat and it evolves over time, but we're largely stuck with the one we're enmeshed in.

So you get a set of people who need to feel valued. You raise them in a culture that says the main way to do that is by having a well-paying job. Then you take away the jobs. This is a recipe for unrest and strife.
It's not trivial to fix without introducing mechanisms that are worse than death, such as isolated confinement and other forms of torture.
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maybe someone could have sent him a copy of this film? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Island_(film)

A bit of hacking, some solar panels, a few stereos, tents, some poker chips, a rock band's visit... how long before the authorities would force him off? How many bitcoins would have he raked?
(OK this is thinking different in a slightly hollywoodesque way... still)

cheers!
I love SQL.

I think you're spot on that it takes a different mindset. I treat it like a disposable expression of data, not a program. Essentially, I have data in one form, and I need to translate to this form, what is the logical representation of such a transformation?

If the results of an SQL are not as expected, I have no problem rewriting the entire thing rather than doing a "bug fix."
That's because, as a consequence of our own transparency, on every thread on a political topic, the resident anarchist trolls are free to give us a history lesson of everything wrong the US has ever done. There are many countries where such types of posters would get arrested on some real or made-up charge for being hyper critical of the state. Most Americans who feel that we're some hyper-corrupt, irreparable place(systemically dysfunctional, if you will) have no idea how far other governments go to cover up their dirty deeds. Our rule of law is still the envy of people who come from places that rule by law.
How much memory is on the chip, and what kind is it?

Under what circumstances does the chip need to access external memory?

What type of communication interfaces does this chip have?

Also, if the chip is the size of a wafer, is it appropriate to call it a Chip?
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1) because it implies that one day they might be it favour of bringing them back with the right technology etc

2) because you want to convince people of important moral principles. I don't want you to not beat your wife because you'll get caught, but because it's inherently wrong.
Should. But aren't.
Great, now do Chūtoro !
Fantastic! This brings Ubuntu in front of macOS.

Does anyone know why I can find the admx and get going or is it reading the standard windows policies? Can't seem to find any articles/documentation.
A group is a group. Doesn't matter whether you call it additive or multiplicative. So DH doesn't change since either way g^a and a*g are both defined as repeated action of g on g via the group operation.

ECDH has smaller keys because the attacks are (until now) weaker and not because you're using an additive cyclic group.
This exactly. In the US it is common for police to steal from citizens if they feel they can get away with it, I know many people who have had it happen to them personally, both with cash and possessions.
I'm sure he had no supplies for basic maintenence, but the law still requires someone to hold accountable so it would be him.

It would be interesting if this did happen and the court found him guilty of dereliction of duty for not conjuring replacement parts out of thin air. Would he be sent to a land prison or back to the prison of the ship?
A large portion of the article is answering most of this
Programs like this usually attempt to detect and forbid being run in a VM.
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he's running a website under the name of google. You can play it down, but that's pretty cool.
That map is generated from self-reported data from ISPs filing form 477 (https://www.fcc.gov/economics-analytics/industry-analysis-di...)
The threshold for coverage is a single customer in a census block.

The data is rarely validated except in extreme cases (https://www.telecompetitor.com/fcc-company-that-filed-false-...)
That doesn't address the aspect of "skin in the game". If the government pays out over your misconduct, why should you care?
There are 30k people in Gibraltar and probably most of them use the .com or .uk domain.
I literally LOL'd at "James Louise Bond"
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Can somebody chime in and say whether this would be a useful solution to recommend similar texts if I compute fastText, doc2vec or other embeddings?

What do such vector similarity queries use in production when there's no DB support? Surely having the "real" DB like Postgres and one for vectors alongside it would be cumbersome.
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I'm not sure if you remember but this was exactly the route that Windows 8 took and it was a giant failure. There was a "tablet" mode and a "Windows" mode with a start button. App developers couldn't figure out which one they wanted to optimize for and ended up making half-assed versions of their apps for both sides of the OS and end users were confused about which mode they needed to be in for which apps and how they could multitask to switch between them.

Power users didn't really have many issues as the paradigm isn't all that complex but, in daily usage, it was a big mess and it never made any headway. It was the first thing they got rid of in the first Windows 8 Service Pack. Apple knew that and saw it and I prefer their cautious approach and would be fully against what you're suggesting unless there are some major UI changes.
If you invoke Solzhenitsyn this way in a capital punishment debate, it basically amounts to a tu quoque fallacy.

Suppose I'm evil because I park in handicapped stalls.

That doesn't mean I'm not in a moral position to send someone to hell who kidnaps and kills children.
We can argue about definiton of words like legitimate, control, and “very small”.

But a better test is this: would you go for a drive there with your family? Would you invest billions in a multi-decade mining project there - if you had to depend on the government’s version of law & order only?
I don't know about WildType specifically, but it's not necessarily true that a salmon would need to die at any point in the process. Cells from a simple muscle biopsy could be cultured for this purpose, and a single biopsy may have the potential to produce a great deal of cells depending on the culture conditions. Or they may have developed an immortalized salmon cell line from an initial biopsy that they can proliferate indefinitely (though this leads to questions about genetic drift after a certain number of population doublings; I'm sure they would have a bunch of frozen vials to restart from early passage numbers every few batches though).
Thanks for the book recommendation! I'll make sure to check it out.
Have you considered that cases involving individuals are easier for lesser courts to decide? Black and white cases don’t make it to the supreme court.
California needs to stop subsidizing republican states with their federal tax dollars and separate from the union with the rest of the west coast if we keep on going down that road of logic.
As someone who's been interested in filecoin mining for a while, my main question is around legal liability for miners. For instance, if I am storing other people's data and it turns out someone was storing something illegal (unbeknownst to me), could I be held liable under US law?
The usual "We want to hire people but we can't find anyone ... willing to work for such wage"
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Hello, I think everyone in life has moments when you want to make a special gift and give diamonds to a person close and indifferent to you. At such moments, the least you need to do is realize that you are driving a fake. In order to avoid such situations, such purchases should be carefully planned and, if possible, the origin of diamonds and their authenticity should be checked in special laboratories, such as this one https://gemscience.net/ .
Only after a thorough inspection will you be able to easily and calmly make the dream purchase and gift. Believe me. this is exactly the case when you should reinsure yourself.
Now I'm worried they might find out that I've been using this newfangled technology called "email" for the past 25 years and I haven't licked a stamp in over a decade. Some say its only used for money laundering and drug dealing, but I think it's rather convenient and more innovative than what the government can offer.
I guess eighth grade arithmetic is elitest now <shrug>
> The system of trial-by-peers is flawed with a measurable error rate.

I've been listening to the podcast Court Junkie (not to be confused with "Crime Junkie"; long story...), and this was my main takeaway as well.

The podcast is great because it is almost entirely audio excerpts from actual murder trials, with some extra narration to tie it together. It made me realize my understanding of trial-by-jury was formulated almost entirely by television and other storytelling, and not be reality.

What amazed me the most is how the winner seems to be biased toward whichever side can present the most compelling story. Not the most realistic story or most likely story, just the most interesting one.
Did this happen at a traffic stop? Did you give them your wallet when they asked for your license? I don’t think I’ve ever given a cop my wallet. I take the ID out and hand that to them. If they asked me for the wallet, I would feel powerless to say no, I just have never been asked. I’m not defending the police here, this behavior is disgusting, just trying to understand the circumstances in which this occurred.

Also, I’m low-key wondering if I should start handing the cop my wallet. They never give me a warning, maybe if they got some money out of the interaction they’d start...
> But it’s not even at all comparable with the third world.

I trust your observations of where you came from but I believe this is over-generalizing to places you may not have personal experience with.
Post author here: Well, this is not your run-of-the-mill Desktop Computer, but it is an Intel-based system designed as Server. Servers tend to have (a lot of) more RAM than desktop systems, so I think 128MB is not that much out-of-place. I got an acceptable price on the required 72-pin non-EDO parity SIMMs, so why not max it out?

The hard drive in that machine is still the original COMPAQ OEM version of the Fujitsu M2622F SCSI drive. In 1993, that was the entry base option for storage in that server, and I dare to say that it is typical Compaq tradition that the base level disk drive is just barely aedequate for the system. While that Fujitsu drive was a fair performer in 1991 when it was designed, in 1993 it wasn't that cool anymore. Granted, there were better options available, you could even get an EISA SCSI raid controller for that system.

And as a final remark: Diablo II was the reason my brother upgraded his K6-2 machine from 32MB to 128MB.
I believe that this is a false dichotomy that you present; I can think of several different solutions to this problem in seconds, none of which are what you describe.
There is zero evidence that the death penalty is useful for deterrence.

Zero points for using a distraction from the argument at hand which is whether the death penalty is justified.
Never assess your worth based on job interviews. Are you able to perform the duties of a Data Scientist intern? Meaning, if you were given a DS project, could you complete it? Would you have any idea what you were being asked to do? If yes, clearly the issue isn't your skillset or intelligence.
John Deere security flaw exposed address of every customer and more
If you're investing in real estate you can do what's called a 1031 exchange to ultimately defer capital gains from the sale of one property - as you are merely exchanging one investment property for another. Unless you are actually selling the property for cash then you don't necessarily have to pay capital gains since you're acquiring a new loan at the time of sale.
Show HN: A POC for just writing SQL in code
It's not a missed opportunity. It's a smart, intentional decision. Allowing MacOS apps to run on an iPad would be one thing but actually having them run MacOS (the desktop version) would not be a good idea without significant changes to the UI.
Sure, I agree with you on everything. Your comment is a bit more detailed than just converting EUR to USD, and gives a better feeling on the actual difference. As I mentioned on my comment, I was not disagreeing that the dev make more money in US, but just that the parent comment was not considering some things you have to pay in US, that makes the difference a bit smaller
"Carefully."

The article mentions a year of engineering went into dealing with the entire wafer thermally expanding under load.
Luckily my car is not connected to the internet so I don't have anyone A/B testing while I'm driving
The issue isn't about finding if some specific person deserves the death penalty or not. There are people, like Anders Breivik, where their guilt is pretty dang obvious.

But can you come up with some standard of evidence that would be 100% accurate in all cases? Real life tends to get complicated very quickly, and there have been people that have been executed on seemingly clear-cut evidence, only to be exonerated later (Timothy Evans comes to mind). When the cost of failure is so high, it's a safer move to just avoid the risk altogether.
Why not? Syria does have an embassy in Cairo.
You'd say something like "This content is hosted by 100 providers, with each having individual average uptime of 99.9%"
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Writing a parser for one specific version of a language is one thing (nontrivial), but writing a parser than parsed most versions of most programming languages and keeping it up-to-date is a enormous undertaking and cannot be done by one person
The first Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine used "... breakthrough techniques in cross-reticle patterning, but with the level of redundancy built into the design, ensured a yield of 100%, every time." I'm unsure what to think of this.

"When we spoke to Cerebras last year, the company stated that they already had orders in the ‘strong double digits’."

And they cost 2- 2.5 million each!

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15838/cerebras-wafer-scale-en...
Ask HN: Are Premium Domains a Scam? Getting charged $800/domain :(
I bought two "premium" domains standup.tech and saving.cash a year ago. They are due for renewal but are $800/pop.

I found some random registrar called bluehost and they said if I transfer these to my account with Bluehost, they will only be $49.99/year to renew.

Anyone know how I can get around this crazy fee? Is it set by Namecheap or the registry itself?
It truly has been a long time for you, as you don't even need to lick stamps, they are sticky on their own.
I've used exa in the past but lsd is more focused (basically a drop in replacement for ls) and a lot faster.
Tips for DevOps workflows: JSON formatting with jq and CI/CD linting automation
The entity's only job is to create a RFP and pick one. It's the company they hire that you have to worry about. The one thing we can count on is the government will spend the money to get what they want.
Exactly how does one outperform a human expert in natural language processing?
Yes, when will the USPS do something about the 0 postal workers killed from letter bombs this year, last year, the year before last, the year before last before last year, ...?

More of them are endangered by their shitbox LLV trucks catching on fire.
The utility company I work for just announced today they're bringing 16 GW (16,000 megawatts) of solar and wind power generation online by 2030. They also announced their C02 emissions in 2030 will be 80% less than what they were in 2000, which is their baseline for when they first began actively reducing their carbon footprint.

I first started working for the company in 2002 and since then their coal-fired generation has fallen over 50%. That's not just CO2 emissions being reduced: it's a reduction in acid rain, it's a reduction in mercury entering our waterways, it's a reduction in NOx and SOx flume gasses finding their way into our lungs. This is for the betterment of all our health.

My company operates in 11 states in the US and I can tell you in the markets where consumers have a choice in their utility provider they overwhelmingly choose green/renewable resources. Public Utility Commissions are also very amenable to utilities demonstrably making progress in reducing emissions.

Green/renewable power is consumer-friendly and business-friendly. The coal industry is simply screwed.
I posted this thorough analysis recently and was disappointed there wasn't much interest:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/m...
Granted the analysis is now a month old, so perhaps not news worthy.

I migrated to Tidal after the Google Play Music to YouTube Music debacle, and have found Tidal's usability to far exceed Spotify. However, attention needs to be drawn to this BS MQA situation.
You are making the assumption that "investing billions of dollars" is synonymous with all other forms of justice. During the Junta in Chile for example, you were very safe to invest. You were probably even safe to go for a drive. But the system was grotesque on the whole. I think the point people are trying to make is that

1) It varies far too much from country to country to generalize in this way.

2) Justice is patchy and even across many areas of law depending on where you are.
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Love the theme! Honestly, I would play this game just to spend more time in Windows XP.
That were actively trying to murder them.
I believe such infrastructure is better thought of as distributed, rather than decentralized. decentralization is a tendency to resist centralizing forces, it is not an intentional policy of a group. as soon as an identifiable organ in the organization is charged with twiddling the policy knobs that govern control over group resource access, this organ is now distributing this access and it can no longer be considered decentralization.

the paradox is simply this: decentralization implies the absence of a decentralizer. there can be no "center of decentralization."

I contend that the term is much closer to incantation than implementation in practice.
If you're willing to assume that each invididual server has some level of reliability (e.g. "one nine") and you assume failures are uncorrelated you can build a more reliable system using erasure coding and reason mathematically about the resulting reliability. http://www.suaybarslan.com/Reliability_Systems_14.pdf
The subject is about why the stack overflow most loved programming languages tend to be recent. The article argues that because developers don't like legacy code, their impressions of languages used in legacy codebases are tainted. The subject is distinctly not about what languages are best in legacy codebases.

I have written code in many of the languages on the list, green or brown, and in a few of them I've worked with large codebases not written by me. I wouldn't consider any of them legacy though since they're fairly recent.

I am also a person, so I have preferences about the languages I write in. These preferences are exactly what stack overflow polls about. Because I have not worked on any legacy codebases, my impression of brown languages has not been affected by working on legacy code.

The fact that I, as a person who responded to the stack overflow poll who generally prefers green languages to brown languages, am unaffected by the factor that the author presents as significant, is an anecdata in opposition with the author's argument.

It's true that I'm uninformed about working on legacy codebases, but that's not the subject that my initial comment addressed
They were the earliest, really, searching mail first to find information about birth control being shared and pornography (Comstock Act, 1873), then sedition. I assume that all of the first precedents for mass surveillance and data collection come from the USPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws
We detached this generic tangent from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907026.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
I guess I’m assuming from the religious conservatives I know that they wouldn’t be into the organic/hippy/overpriced food market.
This is why we leave judging to the judicial system, and don't hand it over to developers who will try to treat life or death decisions as an undergraduate algorithm design exercise.
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Correct, the US has an excellent legal system for the maintenance of property and commerce, but from the human point of view it is a disaster. After all, just considering the maintenance of racial disparities at the judicial level over several decades will tell that this is not a functioning system.
Why do you believe that unless they're paying their developers "250k-500k a year", they wouldn't have built something useful?
There is so much potential to these technologies, but even autogenerated documents have so many embedded semantics that it is hard to train these tools for a wide variety of document formats.
Seriously, fuck Travis and anything he is involved with.

Then again being up to the same shit again might actually get him in trouble this time around.
File associations are certainly an area where I feel desktop systems in general have failed a bit. Both magic sniffing and and file extensions are very crude ways of managing the associations. Mime type in xattrs (or similar) is slightly better, but does anyone actually use that? And of course they are very platform specific and well hidden in general.
So proud of the EFF for stuff like this and it's why I'm a monthly donor.