skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds cool! But why do we need to use a Twitter or FB account to sign up? I am trying to eliminate the closed silos from my life right now, because they represent the polar opposite of "transparent, flexible, democratic".
The Public Library of Science is an exclusively online series of journals in biology and medicine. They have a fairly nice layout and design. Perhaps aerospace has something to learn?

https://www.plos.org/publications
Season 2 was huge and i think very prophetic. The whole Trump movement is based on season 2.
It heavily depends on the airport. E.g. TXL is horrible (depending on the terminal) and even an hour before at peak times isn't enough. Time of the day (e.g. mornings are usually peak times) matter as well.

Luggage drop-off is usually until 45min before departure, same as in the US.

Would love to see some data that quantifies that and recommends when to be at the airport depending on which terminal/gate, status (e.g. priority or TSA Pre), checked in or not, luggage drop-off or not, etc.).
If you want to use less information than available for your decisions, it's your choice.
Absolutely. SourceForge tried to act as gatekeepers of what was worth hosting. GitHub got out of your way. Much better approach.
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True. Solutions can't simply be copied and pasted across countries with very different population sizes, political systems, cultures etc. But I think the author takes this into account and isn't advocating for outright "do what they do", but is instead saying that the focus could go on things like restructuring insurance itself.

Naturally, with this issue now tangling with race, poverty and individual state laws it's an uphill battle.
season 5 made sense given that everyone was getting what they wanted. Policemen who would otherwise question the weak case were happy to get paid. Everyone knew it was bullshit, they made that clear.

Well, except for Daniels, lol. But he was promoted way too fast.
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It's possible to generate new colors using Multi-layer Recurrent Neural Network (RNN, LSTM, and GRU) based on Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values (RGB = red, green, and blue color values)
its fake employment!
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I don't get why developers even bother

I word: laptops.

I've used a laptop as my primary dev environment for years. During that time I ran Debian on ThinkPads. Compared to Windows you paid a price in terms of higher power consumption and randomly breaking sleep and hibernate, not to mention poorer plug-and-play multi monitor/dock support. Add in unpredictable driver support and my newest laptop just runs Windows 10. If I need to use Linux I'll do so via WSL or VMs.
In theory* I don't mind the idea of having a more standardised subset web page that has a consistent internal structure and that renders quickly.

However, having Google load this structured content and host it on its own platform is a terrible idea. Content should remain on the publisher's site. Putting too much content in one place is dangerous for competition.

* In practice there are implementation problems too, e.g. those mentioned in the linked article.
If you read the article, you'll see that one of their optimizations is to start with the centroid of the polygon, sort, and then discard ties, so it should still get the correct answer for your described shape.
This bit made me laugh:

> It seemed kind of strange to me, but David Simon said he had heard about something like that before when he was [at] The Baltimore Sun. I mostly was excited that I was having an episode that I had more than two scenes in. Me and Domenick Lombardozzi referred to it as my Taxi Driver episode, because it’s my favorite movie.

I've read just about every book excerpt/oral history/etc I've been able to find about The Wire, and I've read about Gilliam's and Lombardozzi's and others' recollections on how they were frustrated at times about their scene/line counts. No matter how much I read these behind-the-scenes anecdotes I still have a moment of fourth-wall-breaking-wtf, because the thought of The Wire having the characteristics common to any other kind of entertainment, with writers' rooms and cut scenes and actors demanding more minutes, feels so alien. Of course it's that way, but my mild confusion/shock is a testament to how seamless and real the show and its content and its pacing feel.
Yea, that doesn't make sense. If I charge 30% to host foodcarts at my concert event, cart owners will agree only if it's a good deal. If someone else decides to tear open a hole in the fence and sneak their cart in, it doesn't mean it wasn't a good deal, it means they were cheating scumbags.

In Apples case they've paid developers tens of billions, at least 2x as much as all other mobile app stores combined, and never lacks for new apps from their developers. Their devs clearly think App Store access is worth 30%.

Tencent should man up and pay the 30% to Apple, and send the 70% to the Tippees.
The ideas aren't "slightly different, logically" -- they're nearly diametrically opposed!

Shakespeare is commenting that the essence of the thing is not connected to the social construction of its label, while Wittgenstein is contending that they're exactly that -- that a rose smells the same regardless of the construct of language employed to address it versus an image that appears to be a facsimile of different animals depending on how you address it; that Romeo has an ineffable quality that will remain sans familial ties and social perception versus the notion that Romeo is only who he is because of the social construct of "Romeo" everyone else holds.

At heart, they're opposing views on the notion that syntax is semantics.
To me Marc Andreessen's most interesting point in this discussion was that we have to little technology innovation. In particular in education and health care and that this is leading to many of the societal and economic issues we are seeing today. Very interesting and refreshing discussion.
Yeah, must watch the entire thing with close captioning at least once.
Google using their search monopoly to create a distribution monopoly is also extremely worrying.
From the Air France 447 findings:

"Between the autopilot disconnection and the triggering of the STALL 2 warning, numerous messages were displayed on the ECAM. None of these messages helped the crew to identify the problem associated with the anomalous airspeed."

Knowing merely that you're in alternate law is not sufficient to know the entire consequences of the mode you're in.
Yeah the "nobody" was hyperbole, but it's obvious that the current concerns are broadly driven by partisanship.
Siacoin actually has a use.
Interesting I developed very similar application
please take a look at this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spacetime
Yes, these posts aren't connecting with the general populace because the truth is too inconvenient, not because they suffer from any incoherency.
> I don't mind the idea of having a more standardised subset web page

We already had this two decades ago: WAP, its contemporaries (i-mode), and its immediate successors (XHTML Mobile Profile).
Right! They show him in a later season, working at a Foot Locker, right?
What makes you think you'll get the regulation you want, vs. the regulation that whatever politician who picks up this cause wants?

If you want implementation of the six fixes you list there (which in general I think are pretty reasonable), you need to be out there beating that list specifically into peoples' heads, over and over again. You can't just call for blanket regulation, which will be interpreted in whatever self-serving way the politician who enacts it wants. Those six fixes need to be a meme in their own right in public consciousness, such that failure to implement them and only them will doom a politician in elections.
Doesn't really work around here, either (Nashville, TN area)-- the only reasonably consistent rules here are that numbered streets on one side of the river are "Avenues", numbered streets on the other side are "Streets", and most of the Civil War-era turnpikes have retained their names (mostly named after where they go) and are called "Pikes".

Otherwise, we've got "Avenues" and "Streets" all mixed around (running both parallel and perpendicular to each other. "Drives" which are straight, shortest paths between two points without any regard to the natural geography. "Boulevards" that are little undivided two-lane neighborhood streets, and "Lanes" that are heavily-trafficked four-lane roads with medians.

Maybe road naming is more consistent in newer, more highly planned cities?
Except mobile Web adoption in 2002 was poor because of form factor, among other things.
The atheist generation will have grown up and begin to look for someone to tell them everything will be okay. It's a good opportunity to start a new religion.

Also, some form of artificial companionship.
[This look slightly spammy ... but some advice anyway.]

As a recent father, it looks like a good idea. We have an unofficial program like this with the extended family, they gave us a few boxes full of baby cloth and we will pass them to the future baby in the family, with some additions.

Small babies only use the cloth a few times, and they grow up while the cloth is almost new.

Do a thoughtful research about the cleaning method, because people is too paranoid. I think it would be the biggest problem.

Double^H^H^H^H^H^H Triple check the used cloth for buttons, toys or any item that got inside the pockets/package. If someone find a small pebble in the box you can have a huge complain about chocking hazard.

It's not clear where do you ship. I guess USA. Mayor cities in USA? Anywhere in USA? 48 contiguous states?

You essentially ship 20 item monthly. Can someone ask for 10 additional/replacement items in the middle of the month? (Don't put this option now, but be aware if it appears too frequently in the support emails.) It's difficult to select a good mix of cloth the first time. Most people will choose some cute t-shirts and forget the pants. Also, sometimes it will be useful to replace only some cloths.

You will have to modify the Netfix model a little. If the user returns the old cloths, what would they use until the new cloth arrives?!?!

Also, I realy realy like "pants with socks". I'm from Argentina and I don't know the name in English. We call them here "ranitas" (little frogs) or "medio osito" (half bear). https://www.google.com/search?q=ranitas+bebe+medio+osito&tbm...

Remove the sentence "Let us take care of the monotonous day-to-day shopping". Parents really love buying things for the baby (except diapers).

(You don't have stock photos with babies. If you add some mothers, remember to add some fathers too.)
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For non-planing hulls, length of the hull at the waterline has a very large impact on performance, so this is a very reasonable measurement.

I would not be surprised to find that there is a separate record for lowest displacement crossing, though that would be much more dangerous as it would encourage you to skimp on supplies.

In any event this boat is pretty lean by your standard too, as at 1800lbs (~800kg) laden, it displaces about 5-6 times as much as a fully rigged and crewed Laser Standard[1], which is not something you could cross the Atlantic in.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_(dinghy)
"publication independence"? Really? The man who is famous among other things for supporting the most closed ecosystem there is around: iOS, where a single company decides what apps are worth publishing and wish ones doesn't. Or does newspaper publication independence is really that more important than software publication independence. The irony is so clear that it's weird that he didn't even mention it.

That genie is out of the box, when you decided that you didn't mind a company gatekeeping which software you can install on "your" devices you opened that can of worms, the one where any company can gatekeep anything they want as long as it is "convenient" for most people.
If the main purpose is to document decisions on a project, not your journey as an engineer, consider using Architecture Decision Records — ADRs. Simple, to the point, live-with-the-code. https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools
I used the word "some".
I didn't realize AMP content was hosted by Google.
> Google using their search monopoly to create a distribution monopoly is also extremely worrying.

Google is using any means possible to keep the web (html, js, css) relevant in the age of native apps (that includes Facebook app running on Android). If the web stays relevant, the same goes for Google search.
> Badass gay character

Ironically, one of the big criticisms of the Wire is its lack of interesting or compelling female characters. I think I read in one of the behind-the-scenes books that David Simon's wife, Laura Lippmann, who was also a writer on the show, criticized/made fun of his use of the super-lesbian archetype (Detective Greggs).
"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."

Is anyone working on a competing standard?
Oh sure. Though I'm not actually trying to criticise the idea of a subset, if anything I'd support it. I'm just pointing to potentially useful precedent. It's not a new idea.
> Putting too much content in one place is dangerous for competition

Considering we're on the precipice of a global authoritarian-populist cycle, there are non-market consequences to such concentration, too.
Wrote a whole long response beginning with "my gut feeling is that markets are driven as much by politics as technology so Hacker News may not be the place to ask." Then said, man, that sucks.

I'm hoping for a market to end all markets, where the product is money. You sign up with a company, it pays you. All anyone wants is cheap, cheaper, free. Getting paid tops that.

So maybe solar panels are just getting competitive, but getting paid to put them on your roof, that's hot.

Turo is hot.

Universal basic income is hot. Maybe politicians don't have the imagination to make it happen, but we do. Secretly every employee in the world yearns to load the part of their job that even a monkey could do into a spreadsheet, go home, and still get paid. Given the permission to automate our own jobs, we’ll do it gladly and in large numbers. The only thing stopping us is really really, ridiculously rich people, and people with no imagination. Somehow we have to find a way to pay them as well, and keep paying them, no matter how much they don’t want to get paid.
I agree 100% with his frustration with AMP scrolling behavior on iOS.
The only one I know of is sicstus prolog and it hasn't kept up with the state of the art, such as OR-Tools and HaifaCSP, both of which are available from a FlatZinc language interface.

Prolog has some benefits in its more declarative nature, but it really constrains you because it forces you to use an entire prolog implementation, when all you really need is an interface to a solver.
The incendiary paint hypothesis is a debated alternative to the more widely-accepted hydrogen hypothesis [1]. This bears mentioning since the issue is far from settled.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
> Especially MOND (and any modification to gravity) cannot explain the Bullet Cluster

The creator of MOND addressed that:

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/moti_bullet.html
> Or does newspaper publication independence is really that more important than software publication independence

Well, yes. It really is.
Our odds are likely many times better than that. Deaths per 100MM are provably going to be cut in half over the next few decades, if not more. Automated driving assistants alone will do that, even without fully automated cars.
"Startup PR Mistakes":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6v6Um-hBT0

(Above is another recent presentation by YC on PR covering some of the same points, but also with a few different points too.)
Wow, that's exactly what I was searching for two weeks ago. Android version would be nice too.
There is no evidence that locations such as that were meant as allegories. They grew from real sacred places, as appear in other religions. As cultures grew the religions simply grew with them and was re-interpreted. The metaphor is not the original meaning.

>Firstly, "Yahweh" was a best guess about an unspoken name that wasn't allowed to be written in complete form. We are fairly certain that guess was wrong, and the actual name was "Elohim". They're the same name, and yes, the same spelling. (We transliterate to English using sounds in this case).

I have no idea where you're getting this from. They are quite different. Aleph lamed he yud mem vs. yud he waw he. There was heavy redaction in the 5th century BC in favor of "Elohim" but YHWH definitely existed first. Elohim in ugaritic originally meant "children of god" ie the pantheon under El, which Yahweh was a part of. Later, with the revisionist history, Elohim became "God of gods". What's more, YHWH is forbidden to speak aloud whereas elohim is not.

There was an outright movement as YHWH became more important and El became less important. It wasn't just a name change. They literally switched, and even after Yahweh became the most important god he still didn't fully absorb El's traits until later.

>Wouldn't make sense. Nor would the Caananites hospitality to those of the Ba'al religions. The Biblical record shows this, and it doesn't undermine the record. The Psalms frequently reference belief in other gods. The first reference to monotheism comes in the Davidic era, after Israel has been established, but it isn't entirely fixed, and instead is something that slowly took hold over a great deal of time. Different scholars and theologians have different theories on the why of that.

I dropped a "now", that was meant to say "the thing now called YHWH is a sole god". But even in Kings, Baal and others are no more than false idols eg Ahab, Jezebel and Elijah.

>The Bible is a collection of documents. The meaning ascribed to them doesn't exempt them from treating them as ancient documents.

I did not mean to imply that. Certainly it is not nothing. However it is not realistic evidence for a god any more than the Greek pantheon. We know that there are no gods on top of Olympus. The hyperbolic and contradicted aspects of the bible are likewise not real.
Isn't selling used goods, but not clearly labelling them as such, potentially illegal in some jurisdictions?
The regulation of Microsoft is what got us where we are today in terms of loss of privacy.

The Microsoft model was:

1) Money from selling useful software that people buy

2) The web as an information source. Apps are actually software that is (paid for and) installed

3) The PC as hub for the user's digital Life

Instead, with help from the DOJ, Microsoft lost, and now we have the Google model

1) Software and services given away as enticement for user data which is then sold to advertisers.

2) Primacy of the web app over installed apps.

3) A central service as the hub of a user's digital life.

These together have eroded privacy and user's control over their data.
Man, business is hard. Millions of voices, easy to die by a thousand of cuts.
Ask HN: Sensor emulation for your physical machines
At iotify.io we enable emulation for I2C/SPI based sensors with virtualized hardware, such as TMP105, HCSR04, ADS111x etc. One of the possibility is to enable such sensor emulation also on real hardware such as your linux desktop machine or a physical raspberry Pi.

The idea is to install a mock SPI/I2C driver on your machine and emulate the sensor you would like develop software for, by running our emulator program.

Off course there will be certain limitations here in terms of speed and accuracy of emulation, however for general programming purpose this would be fairly accurate and cut down your software development time drastically.

Would that be interesting for you somehow? Would love to know your thoughts.
Postgres performance analysis resulted in a 10x improvement in CPU use
Later: Well, that didn't work.
I know it might not be their shtick, but I wish the post focused more on the "publication independence" part of the criticism. Giving Google control over prioritizing a subset of the web, and letting them optimize for it, just gives them a better way to filter content. They seriously have enough power over the web as it is.

The other criticisms about how it performs on iOS seem truly secondary, they could easily fix them but we're still left with the far bigger issue.

Additionally, criticisms about iOS having a closed ecosystem seem irrelevant to this. An App Store is one thing, but starting down the path of effectively adding "high speed lanes" to the supposedly free web is scary.
I've been poking around the last couple of days trying to figure out how likely one is to at least break even on a ~$1500 "investment" for the 6 GPUs and barebones components required to run them. My conclusion is: who the hell knows, but it'd probably be a lot easier to just put $1500 into Ether. It seems like mining is riskier without much potential extra reward.
The key difference is that there are alternatives to iOS, which isn't even a majority share of the market.

Google, by contrast, has a far larger share of the search engine market than Apple has of the mobile device market. That means it's more of a concern by default.
This, whereas there's every possibility that dark matter isn't what we think it is, and holds some serious surprises, the evidence that there's a whole extra physical phenomenon (dark matter) that we've never observed seems pretty incontrovertible.

Dark energy, though, currently appears to be a "stuff we really don't understand" factor.
> They offer no conclusion on how sellers can materialize thousands of copies of a book out of thin air.

Claimed, but unverified stock? Print-on-demand counterfeiting.

Though they don't need to materialise books out of thin air. They can buy up used books and mark them as new, for instance.
Shouldn't it be called "wasm-dom" instead?
Sure, and those were good solutions for the time - nothing wrong with similar approaches in a modern context.
For BTC this is absolutely the case now. Other coins can't be mined with ASICs.
Yes, but the Dyson spheres the GP talks about are "dark matter in general". Evidence for WIMPs are elsewhere.
The CMB has a certain spectrum and temperature. The amount of energy in the universe correlates to the amount of mass in the universe. The more energy and mass was present in the big bang, the hotter the CMB will be. The amount of visible matter corresponds to a CMB temperature that is far lower than what we see.
This is not true! The International Workshop on OpenCL was held this past week in Toronto (OpenCL 2.2 was announced there), and there was a session with several Khronos project leaders (including the chair). The future of OpenCL was a big topic and they explicitly said that this has not been decided yet. Yes, it probably makes sense to merge the Vulkan and OpenCL SPIR-V flavors more, but that's not 'Vulkan anf OpenCL will merge'. If anyone reading this was at the conference too and heard something different, please chime in - but if what this article says was said there, it must have been in a parallel conference with people saying the opposite things than what I heard.
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In contrast, I think google is making every effort possible to direct people away from the web and into the Google ecosystem. Searching for maps? Google. Searching for flights? Google. Searching for information? Google. The list goes on, and the technical means for delivery is essentially irrelevant.