skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't be guilty about that. You're doing the button a favor. Its only reason to exist is to be pressed, to be useful. It was good at that once. And now it isn't, because it's no longer connected to anything meaningful. The world has moved on, and its purpose is gone, and it is unaccountably still there.

And it's durable, of course, being made for outdoor use, and so it stays pretty much the same even though no one really cares about it or looks after it any more, day upon day and year upon year, and it stoically refuses to show much sign of its advancing age and the existential uncertainty which now pervades it, and every day puts it one day further away from its memories of brighter days long gone. Days when it was useful. Days when it mattered.

And then someone comes along who's bored. Hey, there's nothing better to do, so you push the button. Maybe you push it a few times, maybe a bunch of times. Maybe just once. Doesn't matter. You're not as bored now. And the button gets to be useful again. Not in the same way as it used to be. Doesn't matter. Useful again. Making someone's day a little bit better again. Worthwhile again. Even if only for a minute. Don't be ashamed of that. Never feel guilty about that. Small kindnesses matter, too.

Me, I just like the sturdy feel of the switch.
Yup. It's far more interesting that the guy Assange hinted was behind the DNC leaks was murdered. And that a notable anti-Clinton author wound up dead recently too.

But Russia's evil, so forget everything that's going on at home.

Even worse than the fact this article brings up mostly old shit is the fact that it's not even particularly interesting. Just more of the same.
When mashing prefixes onto words in a way which is unfamiliar, it's usually customary to use a hyphen. E.g. "post-fact[0]" instead of "postfact". Strangely, to me, the former seems to imply that "post-" is a prefix while the latter seems to be a fact involving postal mail.

[0] https://granta.com/why-were-post-fact/
MathML Support in HTML Export and Save Document Page in GIF Format Using Java/.NET
Aspose.Words for Java & .NET 1.7.0 contains over 132 useful new features, enhancements and bug fixes. It has introduced new feature for saving a Document page to GIF format. A new ‘Gif’ member is added into ‘SaveFormat’ enum. Aspose.Words for .Net uses standard GIF codec provided by GDI+ & uses standard GIF codec provided by ImageIO. More String and Number formats for expression results are introduced in LINQ Reporting Engine. It has introduced new feature to support SKIPIF field. This field is now updated during mail merge. It adds Support for MathML in HTML Export and implemented APIs to add embedded fonts in a document when it is saved. Similarly, embedded fonts can be removed from the document when it is saved. It has improved font substitution rules in this release. When specific font is not installed but is embedded into the document and a substitute for this font is assigned. In this case, Aspose.Words will use the fonts embedded in the document. Aspose team has added new methods in Range class to support advanced find/replace operations. It has added new static methods for signing encrypted documents in this new release. In the last parameter of these methods, specify a password for decrypting source document. Also, this is meaningful only if source document has DOCX format.
Data-mining.

How can the smart-fridge company sell your eating habits if your fridge only tells you (and not them) how you're using it?
I don't mind giving up the road to cyclists in cities. I just hope that one day they are finally treated like cars. Bikes on city roads should have to be registered with plates. Bikes in many places in Japan are registered and it makes it a lot easier to figure out when someone is riding a bike they aren't supposed to have. The plates would hopefully go along with police actually enforcing the traffic laws on cyclists so they can't simply blow through traffic lights, stop signs, peddle through pedestrians on the sidewalk, drink and peddle, etc. If cyclists want the same respect as cars on the road, they should be expected to follow the laws just as seriously as someone with a car.
The Unicorn Hedge – There's a bubble but it's not in tech
Sweet data eye candy, I would love to have a near live version on a screen on my wall.
> For instance, the Nest we had in our apartment would randomly start on and off, or suddenly stop being visible to the app, etc.

My own smart thermostat — from another company — has mostly been very good, but it randomly wants me to re-enter my (high-entropy, unmemorisable) password in their site to use it. Why can't I just connect to my thermostat and set up the authentication I want? Why can't I use a client certificate, or an SSH key, or just have a $&% token which lasts approximately forever?

It's my* device; I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Give it (not the vendor's site) a clean API, and I can do anything.
> I don't find it gracious of you to imply that I might be a lying cheat.

I wasn't. I was using the idea that someone could imply that to point out your own behavior. That you took it as negatively as you did and assumed there was some deeper implication was the point (that is, that you could, not that it was intended). The only thing you didn't do is connect it to your own behavior in your prior comment.
Your example doesn't really prove to me that GDP is a terrible metric for economic growth.

Not perfect, sure. But also better than any other metric I know of.
As a driver it's the main reason I refuse to ride a bike, I don't want to die.

Even here in perth that is generally trying to help bike riders I just don't see how it's safe to ride around at 20-30km when the speed limit is 70km and there isn't enough room to overtake without going into the other lane.

I just don't see how you can be safe when people are trying to overtake you in giant utes going twice your speed trying to get home/to work.
I wish I could site the study, but I read it many years ago. It was one of the major studies being touted at the time for showing the effectiveness of CBT. They actually stopped the study at one point to retrain the therapists on CBT. After retraining them they started the study from scratch and through the term of the study constantly evaluated the therapists and provided additional guidance to ensure they were properly applying CBT. What I gathered from the study was that proper application of CBT in the wild was likely to be rare and therefore the effectiveness of CBT in the wild would be limited.
what about non-binary people? What bathroom should they use in a workplace with binary gendered bathrooms?
IMO there is a very annoying trend in household appliances towards worse and worse UI.

Basically, it started with light switches already decades ago, at least in Europe. In the past, you had switches that themselves indicated what state they are in, so if you cluster them on a board it's incredibly easy to find the one switched on at the moment [1].

Then, some moron came up with switches that don't show anything anymore [2].

Nowadays you're lucky if you get switches on anything at all. This [3] is how a standard stove looks like in new Swiss apartments nowadays. Good luck explaining this to your grandma. You idiots, it has one job, getting more or less hot!

Recently I took a residential elevator that just had an empty touch field when you came in. No indication of what you could do whatsoever. This immediately gave me anxiety, and I'm just 31 goddamnit. Anyways, what happened was that once the elevator door closed it gave me a selection of floors to go. [4] facepalm

Please, for the love of what's holy, stop improving what doesn't need improvement! In german we have a word for this: "Verschlimmbessern". (a combination of verschlimmern='making it worse' and bessern=improving)

[1] https://adventurelightingblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/li...

[2] http://www.schulungshandbuch.de/WebRoot/Store22/Shops/627847...

[3] http://media3.siemens-home.com/Product_Shots/915x515/MCSA006...

[4] https://www.google.co.jp/search?tbm=isch&q=schindler+touch&t...
There is AIS sat or something(, we used to refer to it by that name.)

It scans the entire (?) globe every few hours. I think accrss to those observations is one of the benefits of a paid AIS subscription.
Is there a way to make the map fullscreen?
> Put them everywhere and behaviour will eventually return to where it was.

don't understand this comment - you mean to say vehicle drivers will eventually resume driving on lanes that are separated by traffic cones?

i suppose they can... but i assume most drivers will try to avoid knocking/running these things over
While I have no doubt that Russia, like the USA, carries out targeted assassinations, perhaps the NYT should do another piece on some of the suspected victims of a recent US administration.

An article about Paul David Wellstone will be an engaging read.
> I guess in America we can never admit to looking to other countries and have to pretend nobody else has figured out healthcare.

There are some problems which exist in America which don't exist in other countries.

Take for instance, when the rest of the world talks about how they ban guns and therefore they have no gun crimes, giving that advice to America is like if Chinese people were giving advice to Australia that they banned Kangaroos, and now they don't have a Kangaroo problem, so why can't Australia do the same?

America will not have universal healthcare like all these other countries for many reasons, which are very American in nature:

* Americans won't accept the huge tax rates which will follow it, calculations show that there would be a 20% tax increase across all income groups to fund it.

* Universal Healthcare would be the single biggest issue on which Democrats and Republicans will fight, win/lose elections, on whether to cut its funding, whether to expand it.

* America is ethnographically different than other countries. Currently our biggest 'universal' service is Courts and Police. Add Healthcare to it, and next thing we know there is an added accusation of systematic racism against certain minorities.
Yes because a 20 pound bike does exactly the same damage as a 6000 pound car. Both to driver and victim. Excellent thought process.

Also slapping plates on bikes will totally fix the issue of theft. Cars never ever get stolen, because they have plates.

I disagree with your underlying assumptions and your suggestions. What you are suggesting would penalize the sorts of people who rely upon their bicycles to get to work each day.
North–South divide
There are certainly areas where remote connectivity is useful. Cameras is one case (although I would be skeptical of the security of most of them).

HVAC is certainly enhanced by the ability to control it remotely, first, because of the potential effort savings in being able to control it from anywhere in your house without having to seek out your control thing or remote, and second, because you can adjust the temperature remotely, which is good for those of use who don't want the house at 18 C all day long when we're not home, you can set the temperature to your desired temperature when you head home from work, which may not be a set time.

IOT toasters though? That's just taking the piss.
Have you looked at a job site in California or New York lately? I guarantee you this is not universal. Unless cones are made of cement people WILL blow through them.
Is my landlord forcing me to work for money by threatening to evict me for not paying rent?

Is my grocer forcing me to work for money when they demand payment for the food I want to eat?
That looks a bit search'n'replace run amok, although I fail to see what the first half of s/?/sphincter/g could be.

The end result is certainly unlovely though: rather colonoscopacetic, if you will.
I do not understand the proclaimed 3X increase of design cost per finfet node, particularly in the context of digital ICs. Most cell designs are highly repetitive, so the increased design complexity should only add a one-time offset to the total chip cost. Hence, the total design cost should be comparable to previous nodes, i.e. well below 2X.
I understand that purely analog designs are a different beast, but it doesn't make any sense to use advanced nodes for these in the first place (ft/fmax drops as a result of higher-than-linearly scaled CGS).
And then the cloud service for your door lock, light bulb or security system gets shuttered.

#internetofbricks
Do you have a recommendation for an encoder that will make sure to apply all of these optimizations?
Yes! I was trying to forecast how much I would pay for prenatal service. I was told I needed to 1) call the doctor and get procedure codes for each visit 2) call the billing department, give them the codes, and find out how much I would get charged 3) call the insurance company to find out how much they'd cover. The doctor would charge different rates for the same procedures to different insurances and insurances would have different reimbursements. I believe lab work would have to be done in addition to that.

It would be a huge amount of work to compare insurance plans or doctors. Even chasing everything down after the fact requires hours on the phone.
Hey Wetwiper, i like your Nickname :)
thanks for the review :-)
1. Yeah, I do understand the working of JWT and Signatures, it was made in a simpler format for naive first time users. There is no security flaw in that
2. Yeah, you are right in a way, but I have seen people do it in case of JWT, as they store the User-id there as well
3. Hahaha.. that's a DB lookup, you loose ;-)
4. I don't understand how multiple would work. Well, as for your "insecure methods" comment, I have a classic example of employees leaving the Tech team.
And as for Signing algorithm you can never say anything. A few years back MD5 was considered most secure and could not be broken and used in every Digital Signature. Now there are websites that generate the text based on the HASH value.. that is not using Rainbow tables. So, even salts in this case wont work :-|

I agree, that my review was biased (isn't everyone? :-o )
+1 for the elevator anxiety. In my case there were no buttons inside the lift!! Really, nothing. One had to select your floor BEFORE entering the lift.
> I'd hate for this behavior to change,

So, how about an option for the rest of us who like the Windows way better?
Some similar grass roots efforts in PDX after a teen pedestrian was struck and killed by a speeding (~55 in a 35) reckless driver earlier in the week:

https://twitter.com/bikeportland/status/767223666014720000
Are you sure it's the buttons you hate?
Shots fired..
The lattice constant for silicon is about half a nanometer, right? So that means that this new "gate" is only about 10 silicon atoms across?

That's a very impressive feat. It's hard to imagine CMOS continues scaling down beyond that point.
Should we require pedestrians to be licensed before we build dedicated walking infrastructure? Oh wait, we already did: they're called sidewalks.
72 bytes.

I don't think that's correct; assuming RIP-relative for all the global variables, the first 9 instructions are 7 bytes each and the last one 4, giving a total of 67 bytes.

You can cherry-pick examples all you want, but I think this is a great example of why you should use Asm: It's not even trying to be optimised, and it still somehow manages to be smaller overall!

Try to optimise it, however, and you can definitely beat GCC...

lea rcx, [copyxe]
imul rax, [rcx], 3
add r9, rax
imul rax, [rcx+copyx-copyxe], -3
add r9, rax
imul rax, [rcx+sizex-copyxe], 3
add r10, rax
inc r14

...with 32 bytes. This human gives, for "-O2", the following 41-byte snippet:

lea rcx, [copyxe]
mov rax, [rcx]
lea rax, [rax+rax*2]
add r9, rax
mov rax, [rcx+copyx-copyxe]
lea rax, [rax+rax*2]
sub r9, rax
mov rax, [rcx+sizex-copyxe]
lea rax, [rax+rax*2]
add r10, rax
inc r14

GCC may be clever to turn (-3) * x into x - 4 * x, but not clever enough to realise that turning 3 * x into x + 2 * x like it did for the other two "statements" and a subtraction would be shorter and faster because it means one less operation on the critical path.
How about as a driver, you don't pass cyclists when it's not safe?
Dumb question, but what's the term for the moving marker? Or are they just 2x2 px leaflet markers?
Yes, definitely. But it will be some time before most cars are self driving.
> Maybe a "vroom" button to tell your self-driving uber to take the fast route

No, this will become something you pay for (unfortunately). Higher priority in the traffic routing algorithm will go to those who pay more.
Mainframes as a lifestyle choice
It's funny, because your statement is a topic in the book.
ITT: HN currently being brigaded by the alt right. Beware.
The same is true as well for Intel, which isn't really 14nm either. But intel's FinFET is also way ahead of TSMC. So even at the same node, Intel is always one technologically step ahead.

And if I remember correctly, TSMC has always wanted to label their 16nm as 20nm ( Good old honest Morris Chang ) , but Samsung's marketing started calling their implementation 14nm, so TSMC had to remarket their 20nm as 16nm to compete.
Live in a world that doesn't give a damn about you for long enough, and it gets hard to sustain that contempt for people who can successfully convince themselves that it does. Something you might want to watch out for.
I've biked to work in New York, SF, and LA for years. The only reason I don't still do so daily is that I got lazy (I suck). Most cities have ways to make it safer if you're clever (LA in particular has bikeways along its rivers).

SF is a "plaintiff friendly jurisdiction" as the phrase goes, but I've had knives and guns pulled on me there too (usually for having the nerve to ask "WTF" after being doored).

I'm not happy it's this way but if everyone gives up and decides to be a puss, nothing will change. I was listening to a guy in Zimbabwe who got beaten for years trying simply to mobilize nonviolent protests against the wicked Mugabe regime. We have it so easy in the US, it's kind of shameful to give up.

YMMV (yes, ha ha only serious).
Perhaps something like this instead? http://hforsten.com/homemade-synthetic-aperture-radar.html It would still give some interesting information.
Automation isn't just for scale
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As a well-traveled cyclist, I yearn for the truely separated roadways my peers ride in other places. In Holland, for instance, their cycletrack treatment is closer to a special sidewalk for bicycles than a repainted stretch of highway. Each mode of transportation (walking, riding, driving, mass transit, etc.) has its own path. This separation of concerns (segmented by both mass and speed) makes getting around safer and easier for everybody.

The thing that San Francisco has and Amsterdam doesn't is private garages in most freestanding buildings. For instance, the northern-most section of the Wiggle has the city's most protected bike lane - there are cement planters separating the bike lane from fast-moving car traffic. Unfortunately, to support private garages, there are gaps in these planters enabling homeowners to enter/exit their driveways. Delivery vehicles and private cars frequently idle in the spaces between these planters, trapping cyclists in the bike lane and forcing them to merge into car traffic that isn't expecting them.

The city does nothing to stop this, and the drivers are incredibly hostile. I've tried getting off my bike and asking people (as kindly as possible) to move, explaining how parking in the bike path puts me life at risk. The nicest response I've gotten was being told to go fuck myself: even the old man in a bus driver's jacket idling in his car was shockingly violent in his reply. Delivery drivers don't give you the light of day. There's a tow company on this stretch of the Wiggle that frequently has trucks blocking the path. I noticed someone had parked to deliberately keep the path clear one day and earnestly thanked him for doing so. Even he threatened me.

San Francisco politicians respond with platitudes everytime once of us dies, but they do fuck-all to actually protect us. Our local transportation board reimagined one neighborhood street as a promenade, prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists and creating a destination for people from all over the city to come patronize local businesses. A handful of shop owners who came of age when the car was the dominant form of transportation raised concerns about parking. Rather than pointing out the plentiful parking on literally every nearby street, offering to construct a garage, or pointing out that users of all forms of transportation would flock to a human-scale shopping district in numbers that more-than made up for the lost parking, the city caved with the mayor scuttling the whole project.
Hard to blame non cyclists, they just have no fucking idea. Once you've seen it from the other side of the barrel it's hard to remember how you saw it beforehand.
I can say "Alexa, dim the lights to 50%" and it happens. I can say "OK Google, dim the lights to 50%" and nothing happens. Both ecosystems have access to my lights (I can control them with various apps), but only one has put effort into first-party integrations with IOT platforms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/2...

I can't imagine how autonomous vehicles could make cycling less safe. The only thing I'm coming up with is that the side profile of a bike at night could get "filtered" as noise and ignored. That same scenario must happen just as often with human drivers though.

My biggest concern while cycling in Sydney was going through roundabouts at night. Cars in front or behind me with bright blinking lights? Just fine. Cars potentially coming at me from the side where nothing but my own reflective vest to identify me? Terrifying.
It's even worse. The longTimer has fired, and it sent a message on the channel just as it was supposed to. When Reset() is called, it causes a second firing and a second message. Here is the code, corrected to illustrate. The output times are exactly as one would expect.

https://play.golang.org/p/lntgH6tkiF
I hope for your sake that you're just trolling and aren't really as ignorant as you make yourself sound.
Seriously? This is easily the worst argument against bicycles I see bought up again and again. Next time you're driving count how many people you see breaking the law be it bicycle, pedestrian or motor vehicle. Now count how many you see receiving fines/being talked to by the police.

But let's go ahead and agree with you and add number plates to bicycles - ignoring the huge costs incurred by the state - how exactly does that help enforce any laws? Bicycles are to small and light to trigger most red light cameras and to slow for speed cameras. So you're only left with visual enforcement by an officer of the law, which will have to physically stop the offender to issue any fines... which... o, hey... you don't need a number plate for that.
I just call it IOJ: Internet of Junk.
Yep. It's easier to implement and makes more sense in a lazy language than what you're describing though. I don't use it in my work but I do use a related technique to isolate what I am focused on fixing.
Drivers in San Francisco don't hesitate to run over plastic posts that separate some bike lanes from car traffic. Other lanes have cement planters separating them - drivers still manage to park in the bike lane.
1) Why do you assume he's passing cyclists when it's not safe?

2) It doesn't help unless all drivers do this, which they don't, which is the problem and the point.
Go Texas! (First time I've ever said THAT in my life...)
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