skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes I'm familiar with the concept of regulatory capture but two points - as problematic as the whole thing is there are legal restrictions on regulatory capture that you could conceivably be caught in the act and two there are no legal restrictions on standardization capture - which has more of a chance of working?

>As humans, we may be in better shape with a bit of inefficiency in the name of liberty.

so, if I understand the argument - because regulatory capture is a thing we should allow standardization capture and the big companies should just do what they want because they will anyway?

at any rate if
>Every time it looks like we're having a referee police the marketplace, it turns out that the seller owns the marketplace, and the buyers become the product.

why do the big companies complain so much about being regulated if they will benefit so much from it? Is it all just masterful reverse psychology on their part?
Hm, Jvm also gives access to Kotlin and Scala, I'll definitely have to look into it.

Qt development can be excellent or nightmarish, sometimes both. I don't know enough to know why the disparity but I've been adjacent to teams that love qt and ones that loathe it. I'm guessing a big aspect is state management; qt predates the reactive revolution, and IIRC is prone (as is any gui) to callback hell.
Thank you for this. I've been casually reading the Swiss Covid Certificate verifier to find the same info.
https://archive.is/fn3tY
Coal is bad enough that we can justify getting rid of it without disingenuous comparisons of decently compensated mining jobs to min-wage sandwich assembly.
The magic happens in the reader app.

Does it have access to a passport ID? Image database?

How is the one verifying the validity of the certificate supposed to check if it's actually the holder of the certificate standing in front to clear admission?
Automatic Colorization for Docker Commands
A small utility written in Go to parse the output of Docker commands and automatically colorize them. Available via Homebrew or PPA.
Here you go!

https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

import { Query } from "@codemix/ts-sql";

const db = {
things: [
{ id: 1, name: "a", active: true },
{ id: 2, name: "b", active: false },
{ id: 3, name: "c", active: true },
],
} as const;

type ActiveThings = Query<
"SELECT id, name AS nom FROM things WHERE active = true",
typeof db
>;

// ActiveThings is now equal to the following type:
type Expected = [{ id: 1; nom: "a" }, { id: 3; nom: "c" }];
I noticed this trend all the way back in 2005. At the time I was excited about upgrading my desktop computer but after a few months I noticed everything performs about the same as before I upgraded the hardware. I concluded that the software must have gotten slower, absorbing all the hardware upgrade.
Driving is about the freedom of either having a car when you get there, or about making it a road trip taking detours on your way there.

None are available with the train unless you can take your car with you. At that point, the competition is over between them unless the train is much cheaper, which is not the case in the US, not to mention a 4h car trip takes 8 with Amtrak. So the train has nothing going for it against a car at least in my area.

If you don’t need a car then no one will choose to sit for 8hs for more money when you can get on a plane for 1.5h plus 30m of security and be there.
Look up Juice Media on YouTube.
My personal rule-of-thumb is that I develop with

-O0 -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined

And things have to stay instant

So far that has reliably meant that the software is useable on e.g. a raspberry pi 3.
> Who's trying to make 'regular folks' use git, with or without a gun?

I would have loved to have that option quite a few times. Lots of projects that involve software, but also get contributions from non-developers, or need almost no user-facing config, but not exactly zero. If git wasn't so hostile, quite a few tiny config web UIs I've built over the years could have been SublimeText or the like and a very userfriendly git client. It's kind of frustrating to have a repository with a directory full of .sql files, a CI pipeline that versions and verifies those and deploys the updated app, but the domain expert who is perfectly capable of writing the SQL still needs me to put the file in the right place and commit+push it, because they (understandably) just won't use git on Windows.
IKEA knows more about you than Google does
The Court of Final Appeal is a new court established after the handover to replace the role of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

It is stipulated in the Sino British Joint Declaration and established by the Basic Law of HKSAR.
YouTube Producer for Friendlyjordies Arrested by Counter Terrorism Police
I can't find any articles that either talk about "danish teens" or "sold screenshots on facebook". Do you have any sources you can link?

The QR codes design is pretty sound, so as long as they are validated correctly and checked against an ID this should not be possible.
The Danish app gives the user two options. You can either show one that contains name and DOB or one that doesn't.

It's not clear (to me) when you are supposed to show the code with additional information, and I haven't been asked to do so.
The Swiss verifier app reminds you in big letters that it's only valid with photo ID.
korea taking over USA, hahaha that's funny, America really is dying
I always though it was strange than Dutch completely embrace English in Netherlands but Flemish make everything they can to not speak French in Belgium. We can wonder if dutch will be spoken only in Belgium at some point in the future.
Thank you. We're going to be bringing more people onto the beta this week. We had a bit of a pause whilst we revisited a few bits. Hopefully you're on the list — I don't think we're too far away now!
McKeeman Form (2020)
Apparently anthracite is even sometimes used as a gemstone. I've certainly seen ornaments carved out of it.
This is a neat project! Another interesting project with self-replicating and evolving computer programs is Avida, developed in Charles Ofria’s lab. http://avida.devosoft.org/ It’s been used to research evolutionary processes in collaboration with Richard Lenski who leads the long term E. coli evolution experiment. e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01568

There’s also an Avida-ED version designed for classroom use.
Right? Moreover: why is this guy who's never been in it before allowed to go down there and walk around, completely unescorted?
Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'
Businesses like Lidl+Kaufland, BMW and others are just innocent family businesses. Nothing to look at here, folks.
Ah you were saying serve ads on the flightdeck displays! Ok that's innovative- I'd recommend featuring big watches, mirrored sunglasses and divorce lawyers.
Tesla's coal powered cars are ridiculous.
without giving names or identifiable details, could you explain what a "shitshow" looks like in those kind of environments ?

Is it like having an insane amount of validation, or everchanging requirements, or huge technical constraints, demotivated or unqualified people, etc.. what is it ?

i still remember the time when google was at the forefront of web app innovation, and it was probably already quite big. So i'm really curious to know what are the things that make it different today.
You still pay a premium because of default rates. The better your credit score the lower the predicted default rate and the lower the interest rate.

Low interest rates on loans are actually a pretty bad idea to stimulate an economy because the majority of people do not have access to them. If you gave people a $1000 coupon that lets them borrow $1000 at 0% interest regardless of the default rate you are going to see a bigger impact on inflation rates. The benefit is that people only take the loan if they actually spend it, therefore this is superior to helicopter money. If they default that's fine because then it turns into helicopter money which is still better than more loans for houses.
ugly mother xx Michael burry you deserve to lose all your money by betting against the bulls. Get ready for short squeeze and can't wait to see you go bankruptcy
Check name, compare with identification, and done? Most of the EU has an identity document.
The workers pushing back on the return to the office
Coal ship grounding on Great Barrier Reef blamed on fatigue

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/14/coal-shi...
Could be additional cargo space. Airlines would be quite happy, they could accept more cargo = more $.
Does it reflect a state of prior illness where only 1 jab is required instead of 2? Or is the doses element adjusted to reflect that?

Edit: could be in the top level "r" for Recovery group element

Edit 2: no, the recovery element does not allow information on vaccination, and vaccination/recovery group cannot be combined
I also took 3 compulsory foreign language classes and retained maybe 30 words after the exams. I hated it and treated it as a memorization problem. It was a complete waste of my time due to a lack of interest. I don't think you could have fixed it for someone like me. The root problem was my disinterest in learning another language which I don't think is going to change with a different pedagogy. I'm just simply not interested in the prospect of learning that content, and trying to get that content into my brain was a matter of great subjective displeasure.

That's why it should be opt-in. The people that are capable of getting value from it (you) join in and the people guaranteed to get no value due to a lack of interest (me) can do something else.

The same thing shouldn't apply to critical/foundational classes like basic math. But foreign languages aren't that.
We're talking about different things here. I said per capita matters because it helps us blame the correct people, and we certainly need to do that because there are >1B people in rich western countries that have an unfairly high CO2 footprint.
Being able to safely break is part of the towing test, as well as being able to haul the load up hill at highway speed.

The point is that an average sedan absolutely does not have the power to tow 4,000 pounds, let alone 4,000 pounds with it's breaks on.
The Dutch app will have two QR codes: a national one which does hardly contains any information - initials and day/month of birth - and the EU DCC which is discussed here.
As an extension, for use cases where this is not feasible (eg. you have clustering, non-trivial permission checks or multi-entity payloads etc.) it is quite convenient to have nginx with openresty talk to redis.
> Apart from the name/manufacturer of the received vaccine, there is no superfluous data inside, so the QR code is not a privacy nightmare, as some have feared.

It has someone's name and DOB in it, which, when scanned, creates a record of their identity at that location at that time.

Coordination between scanners can create a crude track log.

It's still a privacy nightmare.
See also: https://clash-lang.org/
It's a necessary evil because enforcing taxation at the employer is easier than at the employee. We would need invasive banks for that.
Says

","sameAs":[]}]}

at the top
The person reading can use their eyes to read a passport/photo ID ;) You don't need an app to do that.
Totally.

I encourage anyone to go write their own little storage engine for fun. It will force you think about IO, Parallelization, Serialization, Streams, and backwards compatibility.

It is really fun (and not even that hard) and even if it works I still recommend against using it in production, but it will help take some of the magic away on how databases work and reveal the real challenge. The real difficult part for me comes from building a query language, parser and optimizer (like sql) and to handle concurrent writes properly. It is still difficult for me to comprehend how something like a sql query string gets converted into instructions that pull data out of a single file (say sqlite file), where that file's structure on disk can be messy and unknowable upfront when sqlite gets compiled. You essentially have a dynamic data structure and you are able to slice & order the data however you want, it is not known at compile time with hard-coded rules. So I think in that regard sql adds a ton of value. So sqlite is still my go to for most flat-file scenarios.
America is two countries now
Using that already ;)
> The language is written using Wren Language and their wonderful book Crafting Interpreters as a reference.

I had to read this a few times to understand that this isn’t saying that Pocketlang is not written in Wren. I was looking for Wren code in the repo and I was slightly confused.

Very cool project though! I always love to see projects inspired by Crafting Interpreters.
Australia is a much bigger emitter than China on a per-capita basis and is much wealthier. I don't see how we can convince China that they should cut emissions if places like Australia and the USA won't.
Yeah there's different QR codes, one for usage in The Netherlands, and one for international usage.

Dutch: https://coronacheck.nl/nl/faq/1-6-welke-informatie-staat-in-...

English: https://coronacheck.nl/en/faq/1-6-welke-informatie-staat-in-...
Although the two are abound in cultural similarities, most every single aspect of life is better in Australia than NZ.

Voluntary emigration tells that story. 100 Kiwis move across the ditch for every 1 Aussie that returns the favour (per capita).
> When you're making a decoder, it's a big no-go.

I remember one of my first big OO projects was writing a TIFF reader.

What a nightmare.
But it's trivially readable and collectable anyway.
Nope, just asking really.
This one [1] doesn't specifically mention facebook.

You can run the text through a translator yourself, but the main quote: "Henover weekenden har vi allerede set de første eksempler på danskere, der sælger QR-koder i lukkede grupper på sociale medier" roughly translates to: "During the weekend we have experienced the first examples of people selling QR codes in closed groups on social media".

Edit:
This article [2] is about 6 teens being charged with forgery of the pass.

[1]: https://www.inputmag.dk/snyd-med-coronapas-er-dokumentfalsk/

[2]: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/oestjylland/seks-gymnasi...
I'm having grief running the code on MacOS. Has anyone tried running the UK NHS app QR code through this? I am (200%) certain that uk.gov reinvented the wheel just to piss everyone off, but it would be interesting to know.
The following can be true at the same time:

- An API program isn’t a magic bullet

- An API program is a necessary, but not sufficient condition to replicate Amazon’s success

You’re right that this case study proves that it alone is insufficient to create the kind of company that Amazon became, but does it also prove that it’s unnecessary to create the kind of company that Amazon became?
This is a nice formula. There's an argument to be had for learning the skill of inoffensive commentary. I prefer to recieve feedback in this form. Confusingly I also sympathize with the crowd who would rather state things in more forceful terms, in the name of being genuine and impactful... We tend to focus on things that are highly critical.
I'd prefer if people felt happier after reading a comment of mine, and maybe see me as a friendly person...but I question the overrelience on pleasantry, I think it belies some insecurity.
Way ahead of you, I had an 1800X at work years ago which was a beast, current PC is a 2700X (wanted the 5950X but well can't buy one and the 5900X isn't really what I want but I digress) - love them.

Last laptop I bought the missus at xmas was a Ryzen 4000 and that thing screams performance wise, incredible for 800 quid.
I don't of internation sources. But you can google translate this one https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2021-06-01-snyd-med-nyt-coron...
Google Keeps Stopping
The certificate expires after 1 hour, so this is still an online process.
The US is a country of 330M people. Coal employs about 60k here.

There’s no reason to keep acting like it’s a key aspect of the economy.
If we want to fight the climate crisis, we must embrace nuclear power
Effects of EMR on Biological Systems: Soviet studies (1993) [pdf]
Hacking
How To Hack FaceBook
My immediate thought on reading the first paragraph is, "this is like Time Cube if it actually made complete sense under the word salad." It's really, honestly rather obnoxiously, obtuse, but I get what they are getting at.

It feels like when academic ML papers use the abstract to try to boozle and astound the reader with tons of jargon, because we all know a paper wins more Academia Points (TM) the more they can make other smart people feel dumb.
> "China has been urging the U.S. side to respect market economy principles and international trade rules, to immediately stop stretching the concept of national security and stop wantonly abusing state power to suppress China's tech companies," spokesman Zhai Lijian said on Tuesday in Beijing.

Ironic. I don't suppose they will allow Twitter, Facebook etc in China after this.
I think they easily outpace Apple in the consumer space. What areas do you think Apple does better?
self-hosted options: nextcloud, radicale, baikal, cyrus.
Like you, I really struggle with Australia (I was born in NZ. Lived 30 years in Australia, now a digital nomad).

Australia seems to be doing everything in it's power to not be climate friendly. Dismantling carbon tax, trying to maintain coal power[0], exporting coal, putting taxes on electric cars[1] (WHY?!). Plus, other things I've likely forgotten.

This is without all the other items unrelated to this story. Treating refugees badly[2][3], and finding new ways abuse indigenous Australians[4].

I can't see myself living in Australia again. Not that the rest of the world is perfect by any means, but if I had to pick at this point it would probably be somewhere like the Nordic countries that seem to take their international responsibilities seriously (I'm sure it's not all roses there either).

[0] https://www.powerengineeringint.com/coal-fired/fossil-fuel-p...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/30/electric...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/02/austra...
[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/08/australia-abu...
[4] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/08/australia-off...
How can I verify that the QR code is of the person in front of me, if there's no name or anything included? Screenshots are old you know.
This isn't Uber or Tesla, they don't move fast and break things here.
Is this an elaborate joke website?
Eliminating our dependency on coal is a necessary but not sufficient condition in solving climate change issues. It's silly to suggest we shouldn't take a necessary step because it's not sufficient on it own.
Or just hop on a car train (while staying in your car). It's super relaxing e.g through a tunnel, you just drive on and then off. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_shuttle_train for some examples.
This is how European's feel irregardless if the app is Chinese or American. All your data gets sucked up by some foreign nation (private industry or government, doesn't really matter).
Insect repellent doesn't adequately repel ticks.
Are we even at 80% yet, compared to non-drunk/drugged/sleep-deprived regular human drivers? All of the videos I've seen are well below the driving capacity of a human taking their first driving lesson.
Presumably they're using the existing GSM/LTE Cell Broadcast mechanism. There may have been some work to do on agreeing protocols for access to it, but I don't think they're building anything from scratch.

I just checked my phone settings (Android) and I have cell broadcasts enabled, but test messages are turned off. I wonder what message category they'll use.
Hey, thanks for the response - it was actually exactly what you seem to have addressed re the wide & long formats. I'm still using v4.1 and ended up writing my own reshapeForPlotly() function which just called the pandas melt function. Will update to v5 now which sounds like it will simplify things.

I think Plotly is great, btw! I use it a lot with streamlit for quick visualisations of big datasets. Thanks for your work on it. I always found the relationship between plotlyexpress & graph_objects confusing but the docs seem much more explanatory now than I remember from a year or so ago and the code snippets on the main plotly site seem much more abundant. Hopefully as it gets more widely used, the community support on stackoverflow etc will build too.
Some reality from someone who is involved:

E-voting was a poorly implemented transparency process to check a not totally terrible (and also, not correct) implementation of a pretty good design. Lessons were learned on the transparency side, and they are on HackerOne now, doing things approximately right. Security is hard and they will probably fail again, but they are failing according to industry standards now, at least. (I was a reviewer of the original system.)

e-ID was rejected by the voters as a gift of a service that should have been in government control to private industry for them to make profit on it. There was nothing technically terrible about the design for outsourcing eIDs to private industry, it was just a concept the voters found unacceptable. (I voted no along with a majority of my fellow citizens.)
Modern dishwashers are effective. You don’t need to rinse the plates before starting the dishwasher. (But of course you should remove large food particles first.)

However, for a single-person household it might not be worth it. For a household of more than two it’s definitely worth it.
>> The model's size is ~173MB, depending on settings. That's not much space to have memorized every single possible combination of events, nor was our data enough to cover that either.

The resolution of the images output by the model is very low (what is it exactly, btw?). It's not impossible that your model has memorised at least a large part of its data.

In fact the simplest explanation of your model's output (as of much of deep neural networks for machine vision) is that it's a combination of memorisation and interpolation. There was a recent ish paper by Pedro Domingos that proposed an explation of deep learning as memorisation of exemplars similar to support vectors (if I understood it correctly - only gave it a high-level read).

It's also difficult to see from your demonstration exactly what the relation between the output and the input images are. You're showing some very simple situations in the video (go left, go right) but is that all that was in the input?

For example, I'd like to see what happens when you try to drive the car over the barrier. Was that situation in the input? And if so, how is it modelled in the output?

Finally, how do you see this having real-world applications? I don't mean necessarily right now, but let's say in 30 years time. So far, you need a fully working game engine to model a tiny part of an entire game in very low resolution and very poor detail. Do you see this as somehow being extended to creating a whole novel game from scratch? If so, how?

Edit: on memorisation, it's not necessary to memorise events, only the differences between sets of pixels in different frames. For instance, most of the background and the road stays the same during most of the "game". Again, the resolution is so low that it's not unfathomable that the model has memorised the background and the small changes to it necessary to model the input. So, it interpolates, but can it extrapolate to unseen situations that are nevertheless predicted by the physics you suggest it has learned, like driving over the barrier?
If American Google or Facebook can spy on Palestinians or Mexicans then why not let Chinese TikTok spy on Americans? It’s all the same.
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