skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An innovative traffic information app for London
Live Traffic UK provides drivers with timely images of traffic conditions from hundreds of cameras across London. These images are not just jpegs, but videos to show both the volume and the speed of traffic. The camera videos are frequently updated to show the latest conditions without relying on live streaming which can pixelate, fail completely or use up vast amounts of mobile data.
Using the app is easy, and it means you can check your route, and decide whether to seek an alternative, take a different transport mode or wait till later to travel. Whatever happens, you’re more in control and more prepared.
Features include the ability to save favorites so you can quickly and easily check the cameras on your route, and when necessary alternatives too, so you always travel informed.
As Live Traffic UK grows, its use will have a real effect on the road network. By having this information, if drivers see a jam on their journey, they will do their best to optimize it by choosing a different route, mode or time of travel. The more people who use the app, the more demand on the roads is spread out, reducing congestion.
Live Traffic UK puts power in the hands of the traveler, empowering them to make decisions for themselves based on what they see with their own eyes. On navigation maps, we generally know what green and yellow mean but no one really knows what red means. Is it typical rush hour traffic or is there a lorry lying on its side in the road? These are two VERY different scenarios, and you won’t know without being able to see and decide for yourself. Also, current highway heat maps can be statistically unreliable based upon our own independent testing. We found on average they could be inaccurate 25% of the time, meaning an area showing as red was not actually congested. This means there is no substitute for seeing it for ourselves.
Live Traffic UK is currently in London, but is looking to expand to other cities and main roads soon.
A pretty common structure in comments:

"name of book" by "author_first_name author_last_name"

If you could determine the most common words written before the title begins (read, liked, loved, recommend, etc.) you could probably parse out a lot of titles plus their authors.
Hacker News'ers, why did you vote for republicans knowing they'd do something like this?
> headers in HTTP/2 are compressed using HPACK which negates the issue you mention

You are right, my statement is not correct. It certainly does not completely negate the overhead of additional headers. It does greatly reduce it though. So far, I have only heard of compression inefficiency being a real problem when not concatenating. Do you have some examples of header overhead actually being a real issue? Would be happy to update the post.
gdulli (the grandparent) did say

> It's not that there isn't any reality to any of these concepts.

So he's not saying they're false.

I think I'd be more comfortable with the assertion (on vague authority I'd be willing to believe) that Red Pill ideology is false and that's why we're supposed to oppose it.
Some macs do use ECC memory (specifically some of the most popular varieties, like the Mac Pro) which is probably why you saw lower numbers on bit squatted domains.
Because all the smaller ones couldn't make it. If you only had $2 million in value, you were making less than $20,000 a year, and couldn't support a family at all. (All numbers are made up, but I think the order of magnitude is about right.) So the people with operations that size sold out, and others borrowed money to buy that land, so that they could get up to the level where they're making $50,000 a year and can support a family. (They were able to borrow money on the land, because despite 2008, farmland has not been decreasing in value - or at least not much, so banks are willing to make the loan, because they have good collateral.)

That's the mechanics of how they got that big. As for the "why would rational people ever take that deal" question, I think it's because some people really feel an attachment to the land, to the lifestyle, to the ideal of a family farmer, to family tradition, or some combination thereof.
On-demand ride service Gett confirms acquisition of Juno for $200M
I don't think it presumes there is moral equality at all. Rather, it's perfectly possible for an evil and destructive regime to be elected by misinformed or desperate people, and you might be wrong about voters' motives when you assume that they voted the way they did out of pure hatred and malice.
After 21.co lit that mountain of money on fire trying to build their own miners, I doubt any investors will be too quick to follow suit..
Why should the insured get a discount at all? Or do you mean their insurance would cover 70 percent of the cost? It is a common practice to charge less to insurance companies than patients. I had a friend with a high deductible who used to have everything billed through his insurance company - because it was cheaper that way even though he paid the whole thing while below his deductible. This amounts to screwing the uninsured people who need a price break the most. It's seriously unjust.
How do I get notified when someone else replies my comment?
I'm actually working on the Vue.js implementation (with some help from a few other folks already) and am doing my best to write tests as I go. Learning a new framework while following TDD is a little challenging though.

If you want to help, the repo's here: https://github.com/mchandleraz/realworld-vue

Or, I'm sure the other repos would greatly appreciate some help with tests too :)
If I remember correctly, that research venture was mostly due to the potential of easy heat exchange and "free" energy via geothermal/tidal. Now that you mention this, though, it's clear that such a datacenter would also be naturally shielded from many things!
they've multiplied by 3 instead of 0.03
hm, so they rewrote the whole platform from scratch in <totally hip language of the month> and it didn't all crash and burn? That's kind of surprising - this is usually a really stupid idea because you often end up mostly solving the problems of the v1 architecture but introducing a whole bunch of different, equally painful problems - but with the added headache of the whole codebase being newish.
I keep trying to take these guys seriously, but every time they put AI/AGI as top level threat and I just can't take them seriously after that. I really enjoyed yesterdays article on this topic: https://backchannel.com/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai-59282b68...
What about memory-error corrupted application data (or application logic) where the corruption occurred on load balancers or web application servers? There's more to data integrity than security holes.
I'm into the idea (I currently use Ia writer saving to a folder in Dropbox). Is there a desktop client or only the web version?
I used to hold the line on "the correct pronoun for any person you do not know is female is 'he'" until I saw a list similar to what tptacek linked to (I think in the book Style: Toward Clarity and Grace).

Singular "they" has been used for centuries. Chaucer used it. It wasn't always meticulously used to identify people who don't fit into traditional gender roles. "He" is certainly acceptable for "person without identifying gender," but so is "they."
Free Rip DVD to MP4 on Mac
With more than 50% you can reject all other blocks and keep the chain to yourself.
Netflix tried something similar a few years ago and it turned into a huge mess.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/6/4/5778770/netflix-warning-me...

https://qz.com/688033/netflix-launched-this-handy-speed-test...

https://bgr.com/2014/06/11/netflix-video-streaming-speed-tes...
My electric rates have been fixed rates 24/7 for decades.
So how was the practice ended?
Drivers in NYC Feel Cheated by Juno, Which Promised to Save Them from Uber
...or they will be the very thing that frees up your users to use them in creative ways without feeling hemmed in to a particular mindset.

We have the concept of 'tags' in our app, which are used by our users to delineate anything from company departments, social groups, locations, age bands etc. - basically anything they see fit. It saves us creating a mess of drop downs to try and cater for all edge cases, and they feel the freedom to think of them however they like.
Lookup: Survivorship Bias
Examining and Learning from Complex Systems Failures
In regards to the tool mentioned that provides information about binary size contribution... ("If you want to see this open-source. Just scream out loud")

I am screaming out loud. Please open source this!
> When I was a kid, a photo was kind of big deal. My kids take and share photos of themselves every single day.

It makes me wonder - is it no longer narcissistic for people born in an age where camera sensors are ubiquitous to take selfies constantly? Can a behaviour be normalised as a result of cost, the same way listening to music in public would have been considered indulgent and neglectful of the world around you before everyone could afford a personal/portable music player?

Personally I lean towards it still being a narcissistic trait. That's not to say the behaviour isn't natural - it's no more artificial than our tendency to gorge ourselves on junk-food because of its cost and availability. But it's something that needs to be controlled.
Alright, well, here's some math.

The Bitcoin network hashrate is currently at ~3,800,000,000 GH/s. The most efficient miners are at ~0.1W/GH. So the Bitcoin network, at its most efficient, would be using 380,000,000 Watts right now.

I'm not sure what to compare that against. I looked up and found this article: https://www9.nationalgridus.com/non_html/shared_energyeff_of...

That article says that office buildings use ~1.53 Watts per square foot to cool the building (that's an average 1.53 throughout the year). So the power used to secure the Bitcoin network is equal to cooling ~248 million square feet of office space. Sounds like a lot, but pulling up a random office building, 55 Water Street, and I see it's 3.5 million square feet.

The U.S. as a whole uses 446,689,497,716 Watts on average. So Bitcoin is using 0.085% of the total U.S. power consumption. Or, 0.015% of world power consumption.

I have no idea if what we are currently spending on the Bitcoin network, in terms of natural resources, is more or less efficient than our current banking system. But those are the numbers.

Personally, I don't think any of its relevant. Reducing energy consumption should not be the primary focus of our species. We should focus on increasing sustainable energy _production_. Energy production is a core attribute of our economy and our civilization. It may even be the _most_ important thing to us, as a growing species. Obviously reducing waste when we can is good, but I'd rather expend the majority of our resources building out solar installations rather than quibbling about whether Bitcoin is power efficient or not.
That's needed for C/C++. I wonder, how something like Rust for example deal with it? Should one also worry about it by default?
From a user perspective, you may not have to download a new app.

Different locale, different customs, regulations may dictate entire different screens.

How an "app" is designed and packaged internally to enable the business to respond quickly does not have to impact the use experience. There are plenty of design patterns and engineering experience to draw from. It's a somewhat boring topic.

I find it more interesting to find answers to question such as:

1. A native person in India will be presented with an "Indian" app, satisfying the locale, regulations, laws, culture, etc.

2. A tourist landing in India, well, er, what version should that person use? Laws, regulations still apply (well, Uber may have a different take :) ) but how about the user experience and colloquial details? Would the tourist prefer something from home or something that more accurately, and perhaps more apt for India?
Honestly, is it the current administration or republicans in general? Have there been any proposals put forth by that party which directly address actual constituents' (people) needs? To me it seems like everything they want to do is wrapped up as "it's good for business, so it is good for you."
Does that answer the question, though, or just change it to "Why did it take 185k years to discover agriculture, cities, and tool making?" Not to mention all the millennia of close human ancestors like Neanderthals who could have potentially stumbled upon them.

If the best explanation is "it just took a long time to discover," then I can believe it, but it's very odd that not even once (that we've discovered) in 185k years did anybody get the idea to build any kind of permanent stone structures or buildings or even rock formations like Stonehenge.
Microsoft cuts off 40% of Windows phones with Creators Update shift
> Superhuman AI is inevitable because there is nothing magical about human brains.

I'm of the opinion that that's an assumption being made. An article I read at one point supposed that our brains could have, as a way of example, a linking to quantum mechanics that we are not aware of due to not having yet discovered it that causes self-awareness. The point was not so much the mechanism, but that we can't yet rule out such a mechanism existing that our brain could have but our silicon currently doesn't — because we have no real idea what consciousness is, and we've not constructed an AI that proves that no such mechanism exists. If consciousness is intelligence, this could matter more (but this could also be another assumption).

(Unfortunately, I cannot find the article.)

(The article also went on to note that we can copy computer programs, but not brains, and wondered if perhaps there is some relation to the previous problem. It was also advocating that we need a testable hypothesis around consciousness; to either prove or disprove the question "is it possible to clone a brain?" would be an extraordinary discovery either way. I found it interesting.)

> Imagine an AI brain that is optimized for the purpose of mathematics, or computer programming, science, or engineering. Or at doing AI research... Imagine how much better it could be at these tasks than humans. It could quickly solve problems that would take the greatest human minds generations. It could manage levels of complexity that would drive humans crazy.

I'm just wishing for an automatic soap dispenser that can reliably sense my hand.
Regarding the scope of the 1001 statute: U.S. v. Yermian (which held that you don't have to know you're talking to the government, i.e. that the government does not have to prove mens rea as to one element of the crime) is a terrible opinion. Justice Rehnquist's dissent is far more convincing: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/468/63.
China's Didi Said Near Deal to Become Most Valuable Asia Startup
I would posit that it is a strategy as well, sort of like calling a bluff. If you have committed a crime, let them charge you. If you yell 'lawyer' and they leave, it is likely you are not chargeable, at least at that time. Might want to google 'lawyers' in the interim though....
So I have (and bought!) not one but two plaintext editors for iOS that save directly to Dropbox or iCloud: iWrite Pro and 1Write.

I have both apps because iWrite is my reach-for text box while 1Write opens to a Dropbox folder that has a semi-organized idea box (a "personal wiki" of sorts, but informally so).

Why do I want this instead? Versioning? I've thought of moving my ersatz "personal wiki" to Github for that, but I don't wish to make it visible to the world.
In the US, the Bill of Rights gives an absolute right to remain silent; but, like other rights, you can waive it. The courts' idea of "voluntarily waived the right" doesn't match what many people expect ( http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-rights/waiving-miranda-... , "implied waiver"). And, for an "absolute right," there are a surprising number of exceptions.
> "True unlimited full access internet" and eats Verizon's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I would agree with you only if everyone had a choice of that many providers, which is not the case! In my current neighborhood in Boston I have a whopping selection of either America's favorite company Comcast (with bandwidth caps and horrible outdated infrastructure and service) or Verizon DSL (max ~3Mbs down on a good day and only when it doesn't rain). In my previous neighborhood it was only Comcast as it was too far from Verizon's DSL switch. Neither one of those companies have any incentive to improve their networks. Zero. They have a comfortable duopoly and killing net neutrality will only reaffirm their horrible exploitative positions and allow them to start turning the internet into something reminiscent of cable TV, which is their ultimate goal: full control over content providers.
Lawyers are usually on an hourly rate. $200 - $500 an hour is what I've experienced, but I've never employed a criminal lawyer. Lawyers get expensive when they have to do trial because of the time the trial takes and all the discovery (research) that goes into it.
No time for a proper reply, but here's a series of blog posts addressing those issues (among others):

https://evolution-institute.org/blog/complex-societies-befor...

https://evolution-institute.org/blog/why-become-a-farmer/
Brad has already answered this before.[1] In short: they have no interest in cooperating with an upstream that feel -- in many ways -- does not appreciate their work[2], and their view of their work is that it is a complete system and greater than the sum of individual parts, which upstreaming can't solve on its own.

Also, just picking out hundreds of bug fixes isn't really improving kernel security, in reality. It feels good, but it solves very little. It's playing cat-and-mouse, whack-a-mole. You churn 1.5 million lines of code every 3 months, every major release of Linux, add tons of new code, and play the game again. This approach is simply not sustainable in the long run. You also have to have actual mitigation and defense techniques too -- and not just one of them. You need a lot of them, working together.

In short, it's not just about a set of patches, or just fixing some infoleaks.. The entire development process needs to take part in this.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59020/why-are-the-g...

[2] While I cannot find a link on me, I actually 'fondly' remember a recent memory somewhere from LKML, where someone (an ARM maintainer, I believe) actively lashed out at Kees Cook for "bothering" to do this work and attempting to upstream some of their work such as PAX_REFCOUNT. The reasoning? Because it's "bullshit" to worry about losers who do not upstream, and making their lives "easier" is a load of crap they shouldn't bother with, and it only benefits people "who do not contribute back". At one point they even started ranting about how people like Samsung similarly just 'take' and do not give back. It took several emails to explain, patiently, that in this scenario, it is not about making anyone's life easier, nor benefitting shitty people like Samsung -- it is about protecting users. And it's about having mitigations that will stop exploits today that don't get discovered until 5 years from now when millions of people are vulnerable with exposed devices. This isn't a simple disagreement about how a patch should be implemented -- it is a complete misunderstanding of defense in depth, and true mitigation.
It's simple for manufacturers to make their devices secure from corruption. Put the firmware in ROM. Malware will not survive rebooting the device.

If you really must be able to update the firmware, add a physical "write enable" switch, not a software enabled one.
Comcast could, but they wouldn't stay in business long.
Did 21.co try to build miners? I didn't pay _too_ much attention to them. All I heard was that they were trying to get mining cores into cellphones and their platform devices, so that the devices would have a passive stream of bitcoins with which to provide and access microservices.

If that's accurate, then that's not the same as building a mining chip. The mining, for them, was just a way to make their microservices stuff viable. Everyone I ever heard who discussed those offerings of theirs knew that the tiny mining cores weren't profitable, and said as much. It's obvious that any chip which isn't 100% dedicated to mining won't be economically viable.
Both macOS/iOS and Windows use code signing for executables, which should guard against most types of corruption.

Web pages (and anything else) transmitted over HTTPS are protected from corruption in transit by TLS's hashing (which is vastly stronger than the checksums at lower levels of the network stack), though that doesn't help if the server has faulty memory or storage.

PNG has built-in checksums, though other image formats don't (JPEG). Not sure about video.
I'm familar with NBBO, my previous employer (Virtu Financial) and current employer (another large electronic trading firm) are very well known HFT firms but I'm in tech, not the trading side. That doesn't mean the NBBO doesn't change before your order can fully execute? Is it fair to assume you've never heard of RBC's Thor[1] and aren't super familar with maker-taker rebates and the scandal behind them? The NBBO and the proliferation of trading exchanges is in fact what allows this to be possible legally. Like many regulations, it became a tool to perform the types of things it was designed to prevent. This article[2] has an interesting take on the NBBO wrt the SIP that is used. Many firms can calculate their own information faster than the NBBO updates. Note that this isn't the kind of trading (speed only) that my current employer does at all, which is why I sleep well at night.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOR_(trading_platform)

[2] http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/HowSlowIsTheNBBO_%20A_Comparison_...
I like this quite a bit. Thanks for sharing!
Why is there no browser version? Some of us don't like using our phones for this type of stuff. Just because I don't like little screens. Other than that, it is about time someone broke up this market. I welcome our new free overlords.
Can adequate shielding help?
Trying to do many things is a classic early mistake. Instead of being a great app for one thing you become a mediocre app for lots of things.

First make a notes app that people love. This will be harder than you think. Once you've done that and have enthusiastic users it will be much easier to move into other areas.
I see Amazon had a slow internet connection uploading their April Fool's video.
I dont think I worry about general AI so much as a having specialized AI in almost every area, including collections of algos that recognize the task at hand and select which specialized AI to engage, as well as other collections of specialized AI algos that select which selector algos to use based on longer term goals, etc.
That is what makes me afraid.
How viruses beat a superbug,and saved a man after 9 months of near-certain death
Of course it would be simpler and easier but who is going to pay for it?

Cambodia is a nation of around 15 million people and a large proportion of them are affected by iron deficiency. You are talking about trying to get skillets/ingots into the hands of hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions.

Even cutting the cost of each item by $1 reduces the overall cost to either the organization(s) running the program or the poor people of Cambodia by hundreds of thousands of dollars. The organizations running this program and the poor of Cambodia aren't sitting on an infinite pot of money.
If you are running as a *nix process, then yes. It doesn't matter if it is Rust, assembly code, ...
It's significantly more expensive, usually around 30-100% more, depending on capacity. IMO not worth it on a desktop, possibly worth it on a home server or a serious workstation. Plus your CPU and motherboard has to support it, which is a pain with Intel's consumer lineup.
The Plastic Tide: help train our algorithm to detect plastics litter on beaches