skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in South Wales for quite a long time and the impact of Thatcher closing the mines is something that's very hard to understand until you spend time in these areas. They're still affected by those changes today, over 30 years later.

South Wales does have one thing that may save the valleys towns, however; its railway. Unlike most of the UK, the lines up the valleys weren't destroyed in the Beeching changes in the 50s, and today there's a lot of people earning a living down in Cardiff who commute in from up the valleys. There are plans to update the trains to newer and faster tram-like machines, to make it easier for people to move about, and that will hopefully further encourage a renewal of these areas.

The expansion of Cardiff should have an interesting effect on the valleys towns, as people who commute in earn more money and take it back up. And equally, as people get priced out of living in Cardiff, they may start looking at the towns on the outskirts, and over time we may start to see more small businesses cropping up and more work appearing as the towns get new people and money in. Of course they did just royally fuck themselves over by voting for Brexit (the area is regarded as one of the most deprived in Western Europe and receives a lot of EU funding), but that's to be expected when every newspaper and politician has been blaming Europe for their woes for decades.

South Wales actually has a very interesting future in higher level manufacturing, if they continue working towards it. Some of the current Raspberry Pi models are made here and there are quite a few more factories cropping up along those lines.
As you can see from such a search, there are a huge variety of said lights. I asked so that I'd get feedback on a known-good source/brand. Do you have any suggestions?
Yes sure, if they actually put in real useful targets in there. But typically they don't. (Even if they on paper might look the part.)
24h before the vote, the French election is insane and too close to call
LOL. Yes. That's what inspired me to write my own Windows text editor with smooth scrolling: http://deadfrog.co.uk

It's a bit rubbish.

It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. If it wasn't for the embedded Python interpreter, the entire install would be about 300k.
TD-linux develops codec libraries.

I develop crypto code. Testing on BE is nice, not just because of endian neutral code but testing on something 'weird' can turn rare faults into common ones.

Beyond endianness I've found interesting bugs by running code on HP-PA (stack grows in the reverse direction) and on Itanium (misalignment causes a trap to the kernel)...

I wish there were a qemu supported fake architecture that made every optional decision differently (or at least every one that works with most code...).
I wonder if they have data going back to the 1800s to actually back this up. In the 1970s, for example, the country faced day-long blackouts[0] due to industrial action by coal miners (I think limited electricity was still generated for hospitals etc. using existing coal stocks, but there were other sources of energy at the time such as nuclear power plants).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week
Is it the secret of embedding lidar at the trailer hitch in your cars so that it's sure to get smashed if someone rear ends you?
Parsing DICOM files for medical imaging using WebAssembly
> So you think if people keep saying cockroach a lot, suddenly cockroach will magically become some nice clean creature in people's mind?

Something like that. People will associate the name with the database, not the insect. This does happen, over time you almost forget the the original meaning.

Some examples: when somebody says Oracle or Delphi, I'm thinking databases and Pascal successor, not ancient Greek stuff. When somebody says Pascal, I'm thinking programming language not the French mathematician. Fedora is a Linux distribution (and also a type of hat), Twitter is a social network (and also a type of bird vocalization) and so on.
UK launches program to explore removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere
Also Panasas (http://www.panasas.com/).
I like to ask, "how do you spend your time" or "what are you good at." I also like to wear a tag that says "I'm interested in XYZ" where XYZ is what I'm interested in.

The set of useful people is much smaller than the set of people you can't make use of, so it's better to cut the bullshit and spend time with the useful. Unless you've got super low standards, or are so non useful yourself that you have to take whatever comes along.

Conferences are about synergy and false synergy binds the docking site that could have docked with real synergy.

Conference makers, I know your printer is slow, but my nametag having what I've declared I'm looking for is far more important than my name.
People cannot bet on what they don't know. This is how all markets are really inefficient.
it's a nightmare for sysadmins

Many times this.
For people who are thinking "I like to try but i dont know how it will be useful since i use IDE XYZ all day", start with org-mode. Think org-mode as a tool to manage your todo lists, although it it much more than that.
It looks like GitHub caches this really aggressively, as there are more comments showing up on the issue than on the article page. That may be a major downside to this technique.
> no one wants to drift aimlessly while being given money for doing nothing, no matter how great that might sound on the surface.

That is not true. Plenty of people are happy to retire. And quite a few people who have the means choose not to work.
> I disagree with this statement. The most common argument I see is that it's prohibitively expensive

My impression is that costs are second most common argument against; usually, people point out that a decent UBI could probably be covered solely from dropping all other forms of welfare and simplification of bureaucracy that follows.

> You are going to need a citation for this being the obvious outcome. Every advancement that has wiped out massive amounts of industries has just resulted in an increase in expectations for quality of life for members of society and subsequently demand for new things creating more jobs.

Start with CGP Grey's "Humans Need Not Apply", then continue to every single topic about automation on HN in the past few years. It's a pretty well-discussed issue.

> If everyone took your view of replacement jobs being pointless, we would have never advanced once we reached the point of having the technology required to feed people consistently.

Being a replacement job doesn't make it pointless; being pointless makes it pointless.

My argument is that the market is entirely able to provide pointless jobs - especially in aggregate, where one person's job cancels out results of another. As an example, one could point to a big part of advertising industry. The problem with such jobs is that they're zero-sum games, capable of wasting ever-increasing amounts of resources.

As for stopping advancement - fortunately, sustenance is not the only motivation leading to progress, so I think we totally should stop forcing people to work once we can reliably feed and shelter them.
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You must have never been to Europe. Just look how many black people live in poverty in the US, and how many are shot dead every day.
Grothendieck is also famous for discovering a new prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)

He was a very abstract genius.

More on his life:
http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf
> a neighborhood would be gigantic pyramidal buildings of capable of being self-sustaining in terms of labor, housing, recreation, food production, etc. but then the economy tanked and pop growth flatlined and we have relative slow decline and forgotten are those grand dreams of the future.

Those were a fantasy, though, surely. I doubt we could make such structures (I think sometimes called arcologies?) work with todays technology, even if we had the resources and no regulatory hurdles. Maybe in a hundred years...
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Hey New York Times, This Is Why Uber Is Awesome
Interesting product. The only use case I see (from an European perspective) is:

You move into a new office building with your small startup team and depending on the country and Internet provider it can take up to six weeks or even longer until you get an Internet connection (even if you just take over an existing account, it's a mess sometimes). Then your device paired with good data plans would be an awesome substitute.

However, nowadays small teams go rather into turn-key team spaces from coworking spaces where all is set. So the real need might be quite small (because there are just so many good offers). Big teams/companies usually move once the target location is fully setup, so they shouldn't need such a device.

Edit: Another thing: Since LTE you can get constant 150Mbit down and up with one SIM and device. There are already plans which offer this 150Mbit up and down and unmetered for 200 EUR/month which is a very good deal considering the specs. And you just need a normal smartphone as the hot spot. So, I wouldn't build such a device.
To me this feels like something GitHub would approve of. GitHub Issues intentionally gives users a lot of freedom so they can use it however they want. Unlike competitors who forced you to do something a certain way.

This is creative, and if your blog is hosted via GitHub Pages, then using Issues to discuss the content is not far-fetched at all.
Netflix stop blocking linux distro using browser user agents
Evolve a product, don't bloat it
> Reddit threads are automatically archived after six months, at which point no new comments can be added to them.

Some people intentionally do this to the comments on their old posts, to avoid having to monitor them for spam and abuse.
If you like Satie and Cage, try Leos Janacek's piano music. I have sought out a lot of piano music in this style, but Janacek stands out for me.
Worst juicer ever created (YouTube)
Based on Uber producing the device in question eventually. It's in the article.
Because it’s much easier for the court to reach a judgement about a contract if both parties are clear about what they were expecting to gain from it.

Also, you have to ask why someone chose to sign a one-sided contract. Was it signed under duress? The court shouldn’t enforce that. Was it a gift? The court would rather not get involved with enforcing every casual promise!
You should look at some other things the author did. They fit in the same area of craziness, and are absolutely great. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn2PZGZxaI, Portmantout: A portmanteau of every English word, or the first one, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY, Computer program that learns to play classic NES games. I also liked the humor in What, if anything, is epsilon?, https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/epsilon.pdf.
I hope everyone enables TLS particularly now that LetsEncrypt has made it so easy. If you're worried about latency, put your server in the region of the world with the most traffic, and Don't Worry About It unless you see measurably different bounce rates across regions, at which point the solution should be to set up another server, not stripping TLS. That aside...

I'm curious if there's a difference between latency-related bounces on the initial page load vs. the first interaction on the page. Take Google for example: They lose users if search results come back slowly. But is the same true if the front page loads in 500ms?

On that note, do non-technical users even realize that when they click a link, they are waiting on the destination server to respond?
I was talking over this with a friend when the news dropped. My (layman) conclusion is that Rogers already has their happy little non-neutral network for their exclusive use.

All that coax they have lying around? A certain percentage of its spectrum is reserved for Rogers' digital TV service and the rest of the spectrum is dedicated to internet (that they are forced to sell to companies like TekSavvy).

So Rogers has a bunch of things going for them: a huge installed base of cable boxes across Canada with ability to provide demand video; they've had this for years. Bell and Telus don't have the luxury of dedicating a chunk of their copper spectrum to their (IP-based) TV services and thus want the same advantage Rogers gets by default over coaxial. This is why the other guys don't like net neutrality. Of course, they want priority for their content and want to pay less for it. But the CRTC says no.

Rogers, naturally, wants to keep their advantage over their competitors, and by supporting net neutrality they limit the possibility of Bell, Telus, and co from eeking out a little extra advantage. Cable and DOCSIS are starting to show their age and can't quite keep up with growing internet demand. So Rogers lays net neutral fibre to meet that demand while leaving their happy little slice of digital TV spectrum just as it is: wide open free of traffic and interference.

The idea of an uninterruptible stream for video content is a good one in principle but is perpendicular to a neutral network. One provider creates the stream and that's it. No buffering or packet re-transmission. It's exactly like radio.

I've missed quite a bit of nuance and history and glossed over important technical details, but that's my general idea of why Rogers doesn't really care, mostly because they may see their main market as, for the most part, competing with Bell and Telus on standard old-school TV.

To counter all that, Shomi (may it rest in peace) showed us that they cared about the Netflix threat but it didn't work out business-wise. If they're going to push IP video over their neutral tubes, why should they waste all that money managing and running a web streaming service when they can charge their sucker clients the same money for the same Netflix-sourced bits per second? Maybe their business plan includes charging exorbitant fees for co-locating Netflix cache servers in their city hubs.

I wouldn't count Rogers out yet. They're always up to no good.

Aside: my little day-dream is to start a municipal fibre-to-the-home ISP. Maybe Elon will bestow micro-tunneling upon us and we can say goodbye to Rogers for good.
Addons of Marketplace Booking and Reservation System Launched
Many cars have blueish lights now. Which I hate because they affect my eyes more than the road.
If your HTTP request size is 2048 bytes and the RPS is 500000 we get 1024000000 bytes / sec that is ~ 8 Gbit/s, lets say with overhead we are hovering around 10Gbit/s. Based on the response size you can do similar calculation. As you can see in the TechEmpower benchmarks frameworks with 3M+ req/s are not uncommon.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

This is on Dell R720xd dual-Xeon E5 v2 + 10 GbE. Now if I chose technology that cuts this performance 200x times I am wasting resources.

I like to idea of Caddy but before we can consider using it in production I need to make sure it can keep up with the performance requirement we got.
When considering the problem is compounded by all the necessary resources required to actually display the content the user is wanting to reach, I can't help but think that the additional overhead for https is negligible in the grand scheme of things.. Not sure what the data says on 4.5s vs 5s, but as a user I would think slow is slow..
Eternime wants you to live forever as a digital ghost
Make a version with helicopters.
Scheduling Async Voice Commands Made Simple
It's kind of outdated now. But Mastering EJB (2nd edition) by Ed Roman was very helpful to me to understand EJB at one point. The writing was very different from a typical technical book. It was like reading a novel.
Looks interesting!

The link to your paper seems to be down:
http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/empath-chi-2016.pdf
Hello developers.

Now you can schedule voice commands on a Raspberry Pi with a single line of code.

from ActionsA import scheduler

scheduler.message(seconds=4, text='I am Batman')

Checkout the Github repo to install and use the library. Comments and criticism are super welcomed.
Natural gas isn't renewable, but a natural gas infrastructure can actually contribute towards solving the energy storage problem.

The idea is that surplus electricity from renewable energy is used to create hydrogen which is added to the natural gas grid and burned later in gas turbines when the demand exceeds the supply of renewables. A significant amount of hydrogen can be mixed in with natural gas without issues.

For the longer term, people are also working on generating methane (CH4), which is the main component of natural gas, from electricity and CO2. Burning that would be carbon neutral as well.
Who is going to pay for all that infrastructure?
Wow, Disqus does so much tracking, this is insane. I am wondering why do they need these many services.
This article leaves out a couple of important things. First, session resumption and TLS False Start reduce the number of round trips required for a TLS handshake to one, both for new and returning clients. TLS 1.3 even allows for zero-RTT handshakes (at the expensive of things like replay attack protection).

> How do we reduce the time to establish a secure connection? The simplest way to solve this is to terminate the TLS connection close to the user using a CDN edge, but this would mean the data travelling between the CDN edge and the site’s server is unencrypted and thus not secure.

This is not correct. CDN edge nodes typically establish persistent connections (HTTP keep-alive) with the backend servers, which would avoid extra TLS (and TCP) handshakes.
No it's not at all.

If you believe drugs should be legalised but you won't sell them in public are you a hypocrite?

You can want system change and also work within it as it exists.
I don't know what to think of a website that scrolls with 2 fps on mobile, lagging my whole browser and loading in about 10 seconds while having "GOLEM IS THE NEW WAY THE INTERNET WILL WORK
" as it's introducing heading..

I mean the idea sounds great, I am very much in favour of decentralization, Ethereum, etc. but this website doesn't really show competence
Discourse really isn't very good. If you want a more powerful forum system that doesn't need as much CPU power, get SMF or Xenforo or MyBB or something. If you want some new fancy thing, get NodeBB. Many of the sites that used to use Discourse are moving to NodeBB.
Would be great if could have JavaScript which would perform the PR directly from user's browser to github instead of going through static man in the middle.
I think he is aware of the fact that some people are doing this already. His point is they these people will be a very small minority, not enough to support Amazon's valuation.
I suspect that this is because Rogers can offer its digital TV service over Coax as opposed to over IP, so any such zero-rating restrictions would only serve to restrict Bell/Telus' ability to provide TV triple-play products that compete with Rogers' offering.
What about spam filtering?
Hackers compromised thousands of Windows boxes using leaked #NSA hack
81 books recommended by Ryan Holiday
The cost of nuclear fission is ignored/not-understood. It's also impossible to insure against the risks (see Fukishima). As such, it is completly illegal. Also note that it is the cornerstone of nuclear-fission bombs. So nuclear power is the most destructive endeavor of all. It dwarves fossil fuels in potential destructive power. Our survival depends on banning all nuclear fission.
>finding out who to report to at Bank of America (spoiler: it's Hacker One)

Hacker One doesn't have a program for BofA. You probably found this dummy (and slightly misleading) page: https://hackerone.com/bofa
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Ok.. 1 second delay.. yes that totally outweighs the concerns covered by encryption, privacy, security and the ability not to be snooped by anyone "on the way".

I know that there is a large attack surface (the connection ends being compromised, the latest online bank-heist in Brazil), funky certificates, and so on and so forth.. but going back from encryption because of 1 second??
Please take this survey based on a typical human mindset
Under the hood this `push!` function have to do memory reallocation and copying the entire array when the array grows to be larger than some internal buffer, which happens each time the array becomes larger than a^n, where a is usually, but not necessary, selected to be equal to 2.

The amortized complexity is θ(1), but individual insertions might take O(n) time.

It means that it is not hard to have the same in numpy, with the same performance, the only difference is that the growing have to be done manually and that the push_back function has to be called as something like

x, x_len = push_back(x, x_len, 10)

with push_back being defined like

def push_back(x, x_len, value):
if len(x) == x_len:
x = np.concatenate((x, np.empty(max(len(x), 1)))
x[x_len] = value
return x, x_len + 1

so that the x variable is supposed to be updated after each insertion.
Ooor make your site more slim...
Yes, and this is why you won't find any reputable biotech VC on the investor list of Theranos ( Mostly a mix of private equity, family funds and informals) . Biotech VC's have domain experts in house or in their network who won't take the narrative at face value and do ask the hard questions.
UBI isn't only great in theory, a number of countries are only a finger's breadth away from having implemented it. I live in Germany.

There's no way for me to not be under health insurance (working without is actually illegal and the state pays it for unemployed people).

If i lose my job the state keeps paying me 70% of my original wage for an amount of time proportional to how long i worked, and after that drops me to a base level i can live on (though possibly i would need to move). The only things i need to do to keep receiving it is to prove i keep applying for jobs by sending them application copies twice a month, and to not reject reasonable job offers the work bureau sends my way. (And yes, people have rejected such and sued and won in court, with no extra cost to them.)

And even beyond that, there's a minimum wage, and even a state income offset program to allow people with extraordinary expenses (caring for sick relatives, etc.) to receive money if their income minus said expenses falls under a certain limit, equivalent to people on long term unemployment aid.

It's implemented in various different programs, and not in one neat bundle, but in terms of real-politik UBI is already here.

Sure, people can still live in poverty even here, but this is not due to a lack of aid, but due to people's own decisions. (Continuing to live in expensive areas, refusing to get aid, etc.)
Sorry, I should have said "platform of socialism". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party#Politi...

I do not appreciate your made up comments about my character. For the record I am not: (a) of SEA-origin; (b) within such a family; or (c) racist.
I have visited Singapore since the 1980s.

The evidence you ask for was already provided before your comment; clearly you didn't bother to read the thread.

National Service is fascist, and does not at all imply that the society is classless. In fact, from an anthropological perspective it could be construed that military organization is historically the most caste-ridden of all human societies due to its formal recognition of rank.

communism

Sorry, I should have said socialism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party#Politi... ... Initially adopting a traditionalist Leninist party organisation, together with a vanguard cadre from its labour-leaning faction in 1958, the PAP Executive later expelled the leftist faction, bringing the ideological basis of the party into the centre, and later in the 1960s, moving further to the right.