skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to derail the thread. I'm outside Rangeley, Maine. If you would like some pictures, I'd be more than happy to email you a few.

It is absolutely beautiful. It was comparatively inexpensive and you can hike all day and still be on my property.

At the rate similar land is selling, and the single occupancy homes going in, it appears that more monied people are moving in.

However, a million dollars will buy you a couple hundred acres here AND allow you to build a nice house on it. If you're patient, you can get the land much cheaper. I bought during the recession and the land was auctioned by a paper company that was going out of business. I pretty much stole it.
This list is impressive, but a lot of these packages are used to generate HTML which is then not usable for SPA.

Do any of you have a similar list for SPA oriented projects ?
Comments on almost every website I have visited that are not moderated are a toxic stew of conservative trolls. It would be one thing if it was breitbart or infowars or r/the_donald, but when we are talking about newspapers for the bluest urban areas, there's something else going on where the actual residents can't or wont participate in the online discourse in this manner because we know the majority of voters in those areas don't think like the online trolls.
Corporatism research seems legit. Just in time people start discussing the gun laws.
That's good to know but it kind of proves my point, doesn't it? Do you know many languages where literal strings come with a big warning sign saying "probably not what you want, use this (rather opaque) alternative syntax instead"?

The fact that pointers automatically coerce into bools makes some sense in C but is an aberration for modern C++. It's just an example of a legacy "feature" pointing its ugly head to sabotage a modern C++ construct.

If you look at C++ guidelines out there a lot of it is about what par of C++ not to use. Don't use raw pointers, don't use raw arrays, use exceptions, don't use exceptions, maybe use exceptions but only in some cases...

And a lot of the time the most intuitive notation, the one that goes all the way back to C, is also the one you don't want to use. Don't use "Hello, world!", use "Hello, world!"sv. What does the sv do exactly? Uh, we'll talk about that in chapter 27 when we talk about user-defined literals. This is right between the chapter about suffix return types and the one about variadic templates.
If you're going to be cynical, be properly cynical, not just half cynical. Nobody has any use for a spying hardware appliance that tells the user all about how it's listening to every word you say and logs it in a clearly visible location. Obviously this was not intentional on any level.
RFC 4180 just tried to write down what the most common quirks of CSVs were in the wild at the time. It's a reference more than a specification.

It's really a missed opportunity. Had they had the balls to actually specify CSV properly this wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem. This would have probably left a lot of the existing CSV writers non-conformant, but it would have likely improved the future situation considerably.

It doesn't even need to be complex. Just a few rules:

(basic CSV spec here)
1. Reserved characters are , " \
2. If a reserved character appears in a field, escape it with \
3. Alternatively you can double quote a field, in which case you only need to escape " characters in the field
4. Line endings are either CR, CR/LF, or LF. Parsers must suppport all line endings.
5. Character set is UTF-8, however the " , and \ characters must be 0x22, 0x2C, and 0x5C. Alternative language lookalike characters will not be treated as control characters.
6. Whitespace adjacent to a comma is ignored by the parser
They're also needed for the actual javascript code that runs everything.
The basic concept of module is having language support for code separation, with data/code hiding, compiler type checking across modules and optimally a binary format.

I think the issue is more with some C++ devs that never used other languages, trying to grasp how modules fit into translation unit + PCH model they know.
Or just give a DVD with the photos and videos to your sister or parents, or send it to a friend in another city. Encrypted if you prefer. Uploading photos of all your valuable items and your identity documents to internet could lead to a different category of big troubles.
file.pizza is pretty solid, but uses webrtc so ive had failures when sending to some iOS users. Apparently webrtc is included in safari 11 though.
This doesn't. However, I'm now effective in the mornings, >and< afternoons. I do a great deal of programming in the late evenings too, these days.
There was another challenge just like this in the Square CTF at the Grace Hopper Celebration. Unfortunately that CTF is still going on until Friday, but it was a fun challenge; worth looking at if you get a chance. Otherwise, there will undoubtedly be writeups coming after the CTF ends.
The only killer use case I've encountered so far is being able to yell "hey Cortana! Next track!" across the room while playing with a toddler, since either walking over to push a button or pulling my smartphone out to advance it remotely would totally disrupt the current interaction with my child.

Or I could just curate my playlists more carefully.

Everything else is either too low information density (this is why I get the weather from an app, not The Weather Channel) or more efficiently handled manually (music control, search queries) in most situations
What this all boils down to is 1) trust and 2) the value proposition with regards to the trade-off between possible privacy violation and the value the device has to them personally. For me, these devices are worthless and even if their value was >0 the number would have to be enormous because of the value I assign to my privacy.

The real issue here is the same issue we have with government agencies like the NSA and CIA. There is substantially little most people can do to verify the claim. For example, Clapper swore before congress that the NSA wasn't collecting data on millions of Americans. Snowden showed that was a complete lie. The NSA program would have continued without anyone being the wiser without the leaks because the only people that knew that didn't work for the NSA were delivered gag orders. So without some sort of civilian oversight committee that has real teeth, how would anyone actually ever find this information out?

The same is true here with things like Echo, Home Minis, etc. The data being transmitted is encrypted so even if you are technically inclined and know how to capture it on it's way out of your home network, you'll never be able to decrypt it. So how do you really know for sure that it isn't actually transmitting anything and everything you say? The only logical answer is trust. You believe them. That's enough for most people. But to say, as the article does, that ideas like this are from the tinfoil hat crew is kind of absurd. In addition to the PRISM program, we also know that Amazon's Echo is/was being used in at least one murder case and I highly doubt a few seconds before being murdered the victim used a hotword to activate the Echo device. We also know that the NSA has a program called Tailored Access Operations which they can use to intercept online tech purchases and install spyware on them if you are a target of interest.
That ship has sailed regular news has been shown it can’t be trusted for the reasons you point out.

Now we have “news” services like HaveIBeenPwned.com
I have a playlist that I've been working on for the last couple years[1]. It's mostly instrumental, and it's my pride and joy :) I listen to it every day for most of the day while working.

If you end up listening to it, feedback is welcome!

[1] https://open.spotify.com/user/124904258/playlist/7gOx724pPSe...
Which is why there are courts to decide these things.

In this case the guy wrote this very close to the time he took his own life, and the wording does signal that he intended this to be his will and last wishes.

If I were a judge I would have decided the same.

Killing himself was a pretty clear signal that he was done trying to work out his thoughts.
East Cleveland went down with the incandescent lightbulb. It's home to Nela Park, the first industrial park, built in 1901 by the National Electric Lamp Association and later acquired by General Electric. For most of a century, the East Cleveland Lamp Works source of incandescent light bulbs. There were R&D facilities; the compact fluorescent lamp was invented there, but not produced there.

Now Nela Park is down to about 300 people and GE is looking at exiting the lighting business completely.
McDonalds operates at a larger scale than any other restaurant in the world and by a very large margin. What works for McDonalds won't work for restaurants that must order supplies on a much smaller scale.

Also, in McDonalds' early days they didn't have the leverage over suppliers that they wield now, so its food costs have come down by orders of magnitude. This reminds me of something my cost accounting professor told me- to get to large scale businesses have to price items as if they are already at large scale. If you buy a stamping machine that cost $1 million capable of maximum output of 100,000 units, but currently only have sales of 5,000 units, do you price each unit at 1,000,000/5,000 or 1,000,000/100,000? If you opt for the former, you'll never get to maximum output because customers won't be able to afford your prices.
That's exactly how Onionshare works. https://onionshare.org/
Perhaps, they just want to share with everyone their experience interacting with the language of their choice?

(I am joking, but the complexity of the language may, in fact, reflect in the relative complexity of the APIs, say.)
I had an an interesting moment recently where I watched my 88 year old grandfather seemlessly set up music from his Alexa, and order something on Amazon.

We might just not be the target market.
Yes it's among most antivirus packages advertised features. And example from everyones favorite anti virus vendor https://home.mcafee.com/Secure/CloudAV/HowItWorks.html but they all market a similar feature.
Yes, the more grandiose idea is to be open to shutting down unsustainable towns and suburbs.

This does not mean abandoning the people who live there, but the opposite. It requires us to take seriously the people who find themselves living in a dying place, to know their lives, to build different and better places for them to live in and plan a gradual transition and eventual shutdown.

But for any of this to happen, the government needs to admit the problem at hand and the people need to trust their government. After decades of racist real estate policy and constant neglect of the needs of the working poor, and entrenched self-interested careerist local politicians neither are likely to happen.
> Of course there is a walking away option. In fact you will see this happen much more in 20-30 years as the absolutely monumental scale of the unsustainability of suburban infrastructure truly rears it's head.

First, most suburban infrastructure is not unsustainable, despite how many armchair urbanists wish otherwise.

But even if were, people don't have the option to leave anyway, so it doesn't matter. If your poor, and live in a poor area, you don't have a 'walking away option'. Even if you sold your shitty house in a shitty suburb, it wouldn't net you enough money to live anywhere else anyway. Or if you rent, you already live in the cheapest place possible, so how will you afford the higher rent anywhere else?

Detroit is pointed at as an example of people walking away ... but Detroit still has over 600,000 people. East Cleveland is mentioned in the article, but 17,000 people still live there. Flint had poisoned drinking water for more than a year straight, and 97,000 people still live there today. You can literally poison every citizen with bad infrastructure, and the place will still exist.

When you say "walking away is an option", you are speaking only theoretically. When /u/dalbasal says "Cities and towns do not go away. People live there, even if the population declines a bit.", that's a simple realistic truth. Barring a few extremely rare exceptions, places don't go away.

> You can say walking away is not an option, but continuing to just keep these communities on life support isn't either. There is no option for "make all of suburbia great again" simply due to mathematics.

Sure it is. We just need to pay for it. Which we will eventually be forced to do, and then will do so because it's the cheapest and easiest option.

We have plenty of money to support every suburb. We have enough money to build 2x more suburbs, support all of those, and double the entire freeway system and support that too. We just choose not to spend it. We waste our infrastructure funding on not-infrastructure. At some point, we'll be forced to support the people or the people will die.

Roads are cheap. Pipes are cheap. Powerlines are cheap. Freeways are cheap. Urban Planners will insist it's not true because of their political desires. But if you actually do the mathematics you mention, these things don't really cost much. Compared to the benefits they provide, infrastructure is dirt cheap.
Equifax: About those 400,000 UK records we lost? It's now 15.2M
They do have huge gaps among the subgroups.

I couldn't tell you what the official position of either major party is, besides outlawing bumpstocks, while the country is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic.

The visibility would allow the voter to make a less opaque choice, and bring accountability upon the elected official.
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Lithuania has also halved their homicide rate over the past ten years.

https://knoema.com/atlas/Lithuania/Homicide-rate
I haven't read of a public transit system where the fares covered the costs of building and operating it. I have read that MTA (NYC), BART(SF), Amtrak, NJTransit, and other US ones definitely are in the red year after year.

It's probably super difficult to exactly quantify how much something costs, but I think it should be provable that public transit is cheaper per person than the maintaining the network of roads we have. Of course, it's also hard to quantify the worth of those roads when we have a natural disaster and public transit stops working...
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> It can, however, easily be read via javascript, so mozilla needs to be trusted in any case.

Or you (and some friends from organizations like the EFF and FSF) can read the source code to see what it does, and even compile it yourself. If you do that, you only need to trust the compiler.
I agree wholeheartedly.

There are many problems with dog breeding though. The health and wellbeing of the animals do not seem to be prime motivations in at least some breeds.

But at least it contrasts with cows and chickens, which are domesticated and selectively bred as meat producing machines that survive just long enough for slaughter (for 99.99% of individuals of those species).
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I too have observed no use-cases that make these devices appealing even if data exfiltration was not their principal feature.

But what irks me most is the flimsy excuse that sending their recordings (or even a post-processed textual rendering) to the cloud is necessary to perform these trivial operations. We've had desktop voice recognition of the quality necessary to perform these operations for a long time now.

> "What's on sale today ?"

This could access an Amazon (store) API directly.

> "Find me a Chinese restaurant"

This could use a Yelp API directly, as if it were a web browser.

> "What's the weather"

This could use a Weather Underground (or whatever) API. Ideally the device could be configured to source data for these inquiries from various options.

> "play my party playlist"

This shouldn't generate any off-network traffic at all.
I picked the worst time to have a child.

Then again, I think you could reasonably say that at any point in the past hundred years or so, at least if you were living in America.
This is for building add-ons for GitHub, Asana, Trello, Airtable, Pivotal Tracker, and other productivity apps. And they don't break because they cleanly use that app's API.

The primary features are meant to make API development much better:

- Sign in with X instead of setting up OAuth flows or auth.

- Webhooks are built in, so you don't need a server to catch.

- API docs autocomplete. No need to dig through them.

- It's Serverless. Deploy your add-on on save.

It's inspired by Google Apps Script, the platform that powers all Google Docs add-ons. Hence less like Greasemonkey in that it uses real APIs under the hood, and less like Zapier in that it's for building add-ons instead of event pipelines.
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Slightly OT; I'm guessing that for every developer that goes through that horrible "sign our contribution agreement" there are 99 of us that would just fork+patch and get on with our lives.
And that's why I don't think this program will last, at least for the high-end models. Unless maybe, Porsche is planning to use their Atlanta test track (near ATL airport, fyi) to require "Porsche driver ed" before you get the privilege of renting one of their high end models. That would make more sense and give them a lot more cover reputation-wise when there are accidents or deaths.

The liability to 3rd parties killed by these drivers is pretty enormous. Maybe Clutch is insulating Porsche itself from this, but you have to imagine a trial judge being pretty sympathetic to a claim against Porsche itself if a third party is killed by one of these renters. Under a theory of reckless endangerment of sorts by putting a dangerous instrument in the hands of an unqualified driver.

The program just creates a much stronger tie back to Porsche than a purchase or lease of one of their vehicles.
What is everything? The TLS and X509 code is implemented in forth compiled to C.
> there's no proof that google intended for the device to act as NSA proxy

Of course there isn't. This is the problem with surveillance: inherent in its nature is the fact that if it is done competently, its existence is indistinguishable from its absence.

Note that I'm not saying that Google is acting in bad faith. What I'm saying is that the following is fallacious reasoning:

1. This incident turned out not to be a case of bad-faith surveillance.

2. Therefore, Google never engages in bad-faith surveillance.

This is called the "hasty generalization" fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization
Interesting.
I also start in bash. I then move to sed|awk|bash (extremely powerful). Then I move to TCL or Python. Then I move to swig libraries for either language. Maybe C or intel asm if I miscalculate the problem. But I sometimes move to C first if speed is the issue and I have reusable code for the problem available.
> Because the apartments are higher density, they ought to be cheaper.

In my experience, that is not true because of the location of the apartment buildings. Anecdotally, most apartments I know of are in an area where space, thus housing supply, is at a premium and demand is high, not out in the suburbs where land and housing are already cheap. Why would you pay $X/month for an apartment when $X/month will also suffice for a mortgage?
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I use that regularly. I also use this [0] for a bit more accuracy in finding actual towers, though its search interface is kind of restricting.

[0]: http://www.antennasearch.com
I've just checked the code. It indeed deletes the file once a download has been completely consumed, so it can't really replace other file-sharing services. BUT I wonder how does it deal with race conditions ? My guess is that if many people start a download at the same time, they'll all be able to complete it before the file goes away. At least that's how I'd see it working with S3 or local storage.

You could abuse it by sending the same file many times in order to create lots of download links; but there's little to gain in bandwidth savings: you might as well run your own server. The only advantage I'd see is hiding your IP address, but then you could also run a tor hidden service. The other would be bandwidth amplification by synchronizing all the clients (for big files).
Certainly minor regulation of features relating to 'assault weapons' will have only minor impacts, but surely gun control is a reason why Japan had only 6 firearm fatalities?

People in Maine will have a different view of firearms than people in Boston, so for the most part, I would leave the gun question to states and local governments.

However with freedom of travel and commerce, you cannot effectively restrict guns in Boston if anyone can drive to Maine, walk into a store, buy firearms, get back in the car, and drive back to Boston. (likewise for Chicago/Indiana.)

A Federal approach would make sense to me, national registration, local regulation.

In order to enable state and local regulation, you really need Federal registration of all firearms. You want to own firearms for self-defense, hunting, sport shooting, you and your guns have to be in a national database. The gun's ballistic signature is in the database. Your fingerprints are in the database. You want to sell or gift the gun, you have to update the database under penalty of Federal law. Whenever the cops pay you a visit, they get a popup noting what guns are associated with your address, car etc. A crime gets committed, the cops look up who has the weapon and what its chain of ownership was.

If you are a Boston resident, you buy a gun in Maine, the Boston PD gets a popup. They maybe pay you a visit, ask you where the gun is, remind you of the local gun laws. If it's for skeet shooting at your place in Maine, that's fine. Just comply with your local laws and keep the records updated.

Local regulation, which states and municipalities might wish to consider:

- Safety and responsible gun ownership training.

- How weapons may be stored, transported, etc.

- Background checks.

- Additional limitations for felons, certain violent non-felonies like domestic abuse accusations, subject to due process. Mental illness limitations.

- Inspections. If you have a lot of guns, the government can inspect that they are being stored safely at the location they are registered to.

- Biometric safety devices, so only authorized individuals can access or fire them; geolocation.

- Insurance, financial responsibility if your weapon is stolen, misused.

- Taxes on guns, ammunition to pay for the regulatory regime and the significant economic externalities of gun ownership.

This would be the American way, I think. Move the debate to the local level, so it’s not, Washington wants to take away your guns, and let local communities determine what common sense means to them.

Americans support gun laws that would make a difference, but can’t get them passed, further eroding democracy and trust. But a comprehensive approach would reduce gun deaths, the terrorism threat and irrational fears about it, and help restore trust in cops, who use getting home safely at the end of the day as an excuse for militarization, hair-trigger tactics, mistakes.
I grew up in a suburb of Allentown and, yes, the racists have short memories. Allentown was also a shithole before I-78 came along.
You would need a seedbox to function as a cloud. Then when you send a file, send to seedbox simultaniously. This approach might also increase dl speed for the reciever.
>They're busy with Numerics Flow, a Tensor Flow-like quantum machine learning framework

I wasn't able to find anything about Google's Numerics flow. Would you provide a reference?

> Anybody else active in this field?

Yes. Rigetti Computing has also been working in this area. https://medium.com/rigetti/rigetti-partners-with-cdl-to-driv...
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