skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read some informed speculation that this was done in a fit of pique because of criticism from Angela Merkel: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/paris-and-the-battle-of-...
Yep, exactly. Even the "greats" just relentlessly promote and keep their apps relevant. Even a one-day or one-week windfall from a viral launch will not sustain you over time.
I doubt it gets that far, but it really does seem like something needs to change. The country doesn't necessarily need to shift as far left as california, but right not a set of old laws working with the modern shift towards cities is really reducing the power of a vote in CA/NY. That's a pretty big problem.
I'm surprised the scanse lidar performs so poorly. Its advantage is supposed to be that it's a "real" ToF lidar vs the triangulation thing that RPlidar does.

Has there been recent news on Quanergy? The latest I could find was from last year saying they'll be out early this year. The price point and specs all seem too good to be true, leaving me a bit skeptical, but I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
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Have you been to Texas?

Given the amount of oil related industries there, it's not in the state's interest to regulate carbon, which is mostly a proxy for taxing oil and gas.

Additionally, it is a state with a large hard conservative population. They hate climate change.
> Java applications will not require any recompilations, they will run immediately because they run on a JVM

Except for the native libraries that they depend on.
> And BTW they are quite powerful so you can do a lot with them.

I'm not saying that they aren't powerful. I'm saying that personally, I find declaring one-time-use functions in-line to be syntactically more pleasant / organized than sticking the function definition in the middle of functional code.

I'm not a newbie to Python, but after working with it for years, it's one of those things that I still wish existed. It's not necessarily a pain point or deal breaker or anything. I'm not even sure how it could work given Python's syntax.
There's a small, emerging aftermarket parts market, but it's mostly accessories at this point.
> because it's something that the entire planet and most Americans believe is a huge problem

The problem is even if I believe this statement (which I don't), the proposed solutions are government power grabs and wealth redistribution.
great question... patiently waiting for the answer
Throw in all the solidly blue states and all the solidly blue cities, and you'd have a majority of the US's population and GDP.
And the Bolt has it's base model listed at $37.5k vs $35k for the Model 3. There's also a pretty clear difference in... style here. The Bolt is Mr. Practical and the Model 3 is Mr. Fun. Pretending that these two cars are the same thing is absurd, they happen to have one thing in common: they are both electrics.

But I'm not going to compare a Volkswagon Bug to a Ford Mustang just because they both have combustion engines.
There's been a big legal battle between John Deere tractors and farmers who want to fix them. I haven't been paying close attention to that case, but it seems like a very similar situation.
Maybe this will motivate Cuomo not to shut down all the nuclear plants in NY. I'm not sure how he plans to achieve any sort of reduction if you have to replace nuclear as well (which provides NY with 30% of its electricity).
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Your comment was reasonable until you called him "commander in shit-the-bed". I'd suggest holding back on that kind of rhetoric if you want people to consider your opinion.
Look, there's no dispute that Facebook is an assault on the 'open web' because it's a walled garden where the data only flows in. In fact, on the HN thread for Gruber's previous post about Google's AMP, I defended [1] some aspects of AMP because at least it tries to be distributed vs. Facebook, and in that post I echo much of what Gruber would later say.

But sadly, today's so-called 'open web' is just as much of an assault on the open web: trackers, cookies, and cross-correlated advertisements follow the user everywhere; every new link is literally a crapshoot which may execute arbitrary code placed there by the webmaster or their delegates. It's the devil you know vs. the devil that's brand-new every time: do I want my browsing habits aggregated to help them better target ads and content for me inside some walled garden, or do I want my browsing habits across the 'open web' to be aggregated by a dozen third parties to help them better target ads for me on the outside, while I blissfully extoll the virtues of decentralization and pretend I'm better off?

Until recently, the only way to avoid this was to spin off a clean incognito session in a browser running only one window, then close it after every pageview. Who does that? Short of a very particular few, no one.

The web is a wonderful, versatile medium of referencible documents and multimedia that we've turned into an application delivery platform; and the one thing that content silos like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Apple News get right is that not everyone cares to visit unvetted content solely judged by its URL.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384607
I believe UBI would lead to changing the fundamental nature of money as it goes from scarcity based to rate-of-flow based in its value basis. It will work as long as people who receive UBI spend that money, as opposed to horde it. That mens UBI should be given to people who have no other sources of income, not to those who will likely just accumulate it with no intent to spend it.
While I'm happy that the states are picking up the slack, are you really insinuating that the Red states are leading to their own self-destruction, going on to "languish"? I'm saddened that people have this viewpoint over such a large swath of the country.
While I disagree with GP, I also think a smartphone whose location services can be turned off is different than an "always on" car GPS
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I know it sounds nuts, but why not merge into Canada? Just get Oregon on board and you are golden.
That is inconsistent with the country's founding: the political system, as founded, is supposed to serve wealthy citizens first. It's a country founded on class, founded on making profit. You are white, you have land, you're a man, then you have a political voice. If you lack one of those, you cannot participate. And it was that way for a longer period of time, than it has been since womens' suffrage and the civil rights act of 1965.

Despite being more democratic today than its founding, there's still present a substantial minority who appear to believe in the proper existence of aristocracy. Family name, bloodline, class, are real things, they define who is better and who is inferior. Better people have more money, and they can buy things inferior people can't, or they can buy better versions: privacy, education, health care, justice, political representation, police protection, tax avoidance. Those things are products.

What most people are trying to do is find a civil way of playing reasonably fair. But aristocrats think money buys everything, so when catastrophe comes along to equalize things, they never see it coming.
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> government power grabs and wealth redistribution

The bogeymen conservatives and the GOP use to justify every single one of their regressive and harmful policies...
Looking forward to a future where the seceded states are ruled by the institutional descendant of the Climate Alliance Executive Committee.
Inference Review is quite simply the most undeservedly under the radar journal online. And I hope it is not alway so.
Replace Nuclear with Renewables. Not with coal.
I don't think it's possible to get accurate daily visits of a public site without having access to their analytics. What you can do instead is to use similarweb.com to get the monthly visits. You can divide by 30 to get the daily average visits.
I see you are not familiar with Bay Area artisanal pour-overs featuring hand picked organic berries harvested under a blue moon by Fair Trade certified farmers (TM).

The (TM) alone adds $0.50 to the price of a cup.
I'm not sure why it hasn't happened before. We've built this patriotism about our specific borders as if that's the thing that holds us together...when in reality our borders are the result of a crazy delusional idea called Manifest Destiny from the 1800s. Californians have about as much in common with Alabamians as they do with Australians.

From a purely pragmatic perspective we should probably break up the US anyway. Our political divisions have gridlocked progress basically to the point of no return. We're basically legislating and repealing the same damn things every couple of years.
For rather earth shattering global events such as leaving one of the most stable and powerful military alliances the world has ever seen, I'd like a little more than "writing on the wall" as evidence.

Just because they say they need to be more self-reliant doesn't mean they're pulling out of the alliance. Even Trump, with whom I disagree on pretty much everything, isn't leaving the alliance despite his overheated and irresponsible rhetoric. And "quickly becoming unraveled" is not "we want to leave" it's more "there's a maniac in the white house destabilizing everything that has worked for the past half century".

EDIT: Typo
I did exactly the same thing, only I never visit. (I block FB at the router, along with other surveillance shops.)

The net is so much nicer when you block out the evil.
It's difficult to disentangle high priced housing from the availability of high paying jobs. Some of those people are in NYC or SF because that's the only way they're going to make $300k. I would hate every minute of living in either of those cities, but I still might do it for a few years for the cash.
But there's also a much higher risk that your options will be dilluted to nothing.
Damn that Green energy lobby. Trying to save their constituents from the damages of climate change. Those miserable bastards.
You can imagine them eventually having an option for "i'll supply eggs, milk, flour" or whatnot, but I can definitely imagine that you'd have an awkward product experience when you figure out you actually don't have any
Absolutely, and as I said my story is obviously anecdotal (as is yours of course), and I was not implying that this was the case across the board or in every region or school.
Blue Apron publishes all their recipes for free online so there's nothing stopping you from buying everything yourself for less.

The question is did you buy the ingredients and prepare the meals last week? If yes, then Blue Apron isn't for you. If not you would probably benefit. Simple as that.
You can turn off location services, however that still does not prevent your location from being tracked by your carrier. They know where you are, which tower you are connected to, etc. The only way to avoid tracking is to not carry a cell phone, simply turning off location services doesn't keep you from being tracked.
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When it comes to insuring your small to medium sized technology business, who did you purchase your insurance from and why? Which companies understand the needs of tech businesses? Which companies offer the best data breach policies? Were you able to get general liability and data coverage through the same underwriter? Did you purchase direct or through a local agent? Also, after having purchased (and possibly having made a claim on your policy), what advice would you offer for terms and additional coverage?
> I'm not sure why it hasn't happened before.

It has been tried before, but the results weren't great.
Something tells me a proper analysis of the net impact of their propose recycling scheme would be a bit more involved than the two numbers you came up with (and leaving aside such questions of how many customers will actually participate; and the fact that having all those gel packs that have been handled by N customers in the past be send in with my food shipments sounds, well, kind of gross).

That is, at the end of the day, it still sounds -- suspect.
The difference between Californians and Alabamians is more in line with the difference between Urban vs Rural. You will find similar differences within the UK, Australia, Germany and basically every other advanced country.
For those that don't know, September was when all the freshmen would get their first access to the non-commercial internet in college. It was a pain because they (we) had to learn all the nuances of how to interact with the people already on it. Newgroups, IIRC, etc. Eternal September is the term for when the internet went commercial in 1995.

Wow that happened 27 years ago. Time does fly.
GOOD. We should be proud to live in a country that can take leadership and promote this process.
"Instead of trying to make fossil fuels so expensive that no one wants them – which will never work – we should make green energy so cheap everybody will shift to it." [1]

Bjorn Lomborg explains that The Paris Climate Agreement will cost at least $1 trillion per year, and climate activists say it will save the planet. The truth? It won't do anything for the planet, but it will make everyone poorer - except politicians and environmentalists.

What is the solution? Copenhagen Consensus has consistently argued for a R&D-driven approach. Fortunately, more people are recognizing that this approach is cheaper and much more likely to succeed –including the Global Apollo Program which includes Sir David King, Lord Nicholas Stern, Lord Adair Turner and Lord John Browne. [1]

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[1] http://www.lomborg.com/press-release-research-reveals-neglig...
You're seeing the effects of a lot of flagging, which is common for things which are either very political, or for which the discussions are overwhelmingly lame. This discussion is both.
I haven't personally seen this before, but I can't say for sure I know it doesn't happen
tl;dr is basically on one side a suggestion to move away from the prng included in openssl because it could have bug, could be used wrong, and doesn't add anything from a cryptographic perspective and instead directly use the OS methods of generating randomness. There is then a lot of resistance to this on the grounds that fixing these theoretical bugs could add real bugs and considering how many OSs need to be supported this would trend towards rolling one's own crypto which the maintainers do NOT want to do.

There is openness though towards bundling libsodium and using it to generate randomness.
Sweet! Ideas for more: laundry, dishwashing, toilet scrubbing, lawnmowing, gutter-cleaning, grocery shopping, and table un-cluttering. "All in one" would eventually be ideal ;)
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Why wouldn't airplane mode solve this problem?

One could argue that cellphones might secretly call home even on airplane mode and we shouldn't trust them, but then again, why couldn't one apply the same conspiracy theory against vehicles not made by Tesla?
How about Read and Write, two of the most widely-used traits?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/trait.Read.html
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/trait.Write.html
Is having a smartphone mandatory now?
New York generation is almost entirely gas, nuclear and hydro.

It's one of the cleaner states.
I think it's always valuable to analyze the cynical angle and potential game. As a sibling commenter stated, you don't get to Gates or Buffet level without good awareness of the game. In most cases, you can hardly get up more than one or two rungs on the corporate ladder without it.

I don't necessarily impute any of these motives upon Gates or Buffet per se. I just think it's important to be aware of how such actions align with their interests. The subjective judgment of each man's true motives is left to the reader.

I will say that if Gates and Buffet truly believed that 40% of the wealth they accrue each year could be put to better use by the USG than themselves, they could put their money where their mouth is and donate that portion of their assets to the U.S. Treasury. [0] Instead, they seem to keep that wealth within vehicles that they can control.

[0] https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsfaq/faq_gifts_to_govt.htm
> Californians have about as much in common with Alabamians as they do with Australians.

Californians in Redding have about as much in common with Californians in San Francisco as Californians in Crescent City have in common with Californians in San Diego as... oh wait. I suggest you spend a little more time traveling around CA before you form such an absurd opinion about these mythical "Californians."
I gave up Blue Apron after trying for a week for the huge amount of waste it generated to cook one meal. Multiple dry ice packs, plastic packaging for each and every ingredient, a large cardboard box. So much environmental negligence for what ? Cook a meal ?
As I understand it, a smartphone is also able to be tracked when the device is powered off. The only solution is to remove the battery (difficult if it's soldered), or to leave it at home.

Most people don't carry portable Faraday cages.
False. That is "skeptic" nonsense. Note the quotes around skeptic because I don't consider climate denialists true skeptics.

"Climategate" was reviewed extensively by numerous organizations and no wrongdoing was found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...
Eich's story comes up frequently on HN, and he's the founder and CEO of a business that someone might choose to support or boycott. The article is about him and his company. It's reasonable for someone to be more interested in his position than yours.
TLDR: Sensitivity to initial conditions of beings at the micro or atomic level means the system is too chaotic to make (mathematical) predictions at that level, so viewing the system as a (macroscopic) whole is more reliable when looking at the maths of causal prediction.

The only interesting part to me:
"Brain-imaging experiments are being planned in Madison and New York, where Hoel has joined the lab of the Columbia neuroscientist Rafael Yuste. Both groups will examine the brains of model organisms to try to home in on the spatiotemporal scales that have the most causal control over the future. Brain activity at these scales should most reliably predict future activity. As Hoel put it, “Where does the causal structure of the brain pop out?”
Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder; personally I find the live one more aesthetically pleasing.
I thought private stock transactions were subject to board approval, or is that just Canada?
Red states have lower GDP, higher poverty, lower education, and are largely subsidized by blue states through federal grants.

I am not implying causation and there are other interesting facts (lower cost of living relative to wages in red states) but as it stands now if blue and red split it doesn't seem like it's all that controversial to imply red would suffer.

A little bit of googling turns up many interesting articles and interpretations of this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/timworstal...
It's unfortunate that you're downvoted. Civility is of the utmost importance, especially when the command in chief has so little of it, publicly.

It's a way to build bridges, and when we're talking about states separating, that's especially important.
If they've taken VC funding, they most likely are.
New York can buy from Canada. Quebec has a vast ability to generate hydropower.
In may be easier for employers because they can fire under-performing employees easier. Most of the hurdles for firing someone are due to lack of safety-net. With UBI those regulations should be looser.
I had the same problem, but I found out there is an app "Events for facebook," It means less endless scrolling for me. And then I use the messenger app to communicate with some friends.

So far it's been about a week, and it's been 90% great, and 10% meh. I just logged out of facebook on all of my devices and don't save the password, so it at least makes me think before putting in my password. The meh part is the services I use "login with facebook" on, but it's not that big of a deal.
The part about the battery is very interesting! I googled it and couldn't find any more information though... do you have any links?
I grew up in Stockton, I know precisely how diverse California is.
Yes, but your carrier is in many places subject to a whole bunch of privacy legislation. The chances of your CDRs or triangulation info walking out the door there are fairly low. Compared to commercial organizations that sell your data at the drop of a hat I'd trust a cell phone provider long before I'd trust a company in some other country not beholden to local laws.
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