skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would this be useful. Why is it any better than installing the OS and then installing everything else after? Does it save time? I'm very curious as to what problems this solves.
I can't fathom how someone can invite an armed squad to some location, under the pretense that a violent crime is in progress, and not have the slighest inkling about the ways things can go wrong in that situation.
That is a summary of the facts, but misses the bigger point. The Joyce estate had a history of being legal bullies. Someone stood up to them, and won their case, setting a precedent that not only is legal bullying not going to work, but can backfire to the tune of a quarter million dollars. It is a win not just for one scholar, but for all of academia.
China and elsewhere, yes. You can Google "buy app store reviews" if you're curious.
You're so woke it's incredible.
It takes months if not years of frequent deliberate practice to change your unconscious gait as an adult (or at least it took a year or two for me; maybe some people are prodigy athletes and can master new physical skills faster). Just switching shoes won’t do anything by itself or overnight.

This is sort of like saying “I’m used to using a fork, and I couldn’t pick up anything when I tried chopsticks a few times. There’s no way people actually eat with a pair of these, I’m sure they actually just stab their food with it like a skewer.”

If you want to learn, I recommend you try switching to walking entirely barefoot all the time for a month or two, including while walking on hard surfaces (e.g. concrete sidewalk). You’ll be forced into a dramatically shorter more balanced stride irrespective of which bit of your foot touches down first, because a long straight-legged stride will be painful for all of your joints. It will be even more dramatic if you try walking very fast or running. Frankly the difference between forefoot striking and heel striking when walking is relatively minor, compared to the difference between a long bouncy straight-legged stride and a short balanced bent-leg stride.

Walking on rough surfaces (e.g. loose gravel, trails strewn with twigs and small rocks, ..) and warm or cold surfaces (within reason; don’t burn your skin off) will also be instructive – after a lifetime of walking in protective shoes which prevent you from feeling the ground this will seem very painful on your sensitive nerves/skin, but within a few months you will become desensitized and tougher and be able to handle walking barefoot in a much wider variety of conditions.

It’s also fun (feels nice) to walk barefoot in the grass, in the mud, in the rain, climbing up trees or over rocks, on cobblestones, ...
I guess KDE Connect uses this kind of API to share the clipboard between the phone and the computer. This is very convenient, but this can be a bit scary too. This means your phone which is full of proprietary blobs accesses everything that is copied from the computer. This is even worse if you have any app you do not fully trust on the phone.

Maybe a solution would be to have a manual button "share clipboard with the phone", instead of automatically sharing the clipboard.
Fiverr sells them openly and a lot of the people at the top of Fiverr list used to purchase fake reviews for their Fiverr profile too.

It's probably easier and more profitable than doing Mechanical Turk jobs.
I think there is some bug with the undo in Planet Coaster with path creation that as a byproduct allows people to create smooth curved plazas. When you add a branch to a linear path and undo it, it seems to create a smooth curve at times so you can repeatedly shape the path. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEtI8Q4XCek
> A slightly more clever spammer would sense the trap in minutes.

Spammers are going to develop anti-spam filters :)
seriously? lots of sites block pw autofill. copy/paste is a must, and frankly, the whole idea that any installed app would have unfettered access to clipboard contents is outrageous.

though to be fair, this is an issue with most OSs.
I did CIS too so I could avoid math but now find myself regretting it. I always enjoyed math but my middle school teachers were more concerned about yearbook planning than teaching and I always suffered from that.

I’ve actually recently started exploring Linear Algebra on my own. So seeing this list is helpful, as I’d like to explore Calculus too.

I agree with your point, though. My courses in Economics and Accounting have proven valuable to my career so far.
Why Swatting is deadly and fatal
There is absolutely no doubt that short term thinking is critical in the modern public company, and certainly examples of detrimental effects of it: at a simplistic level, when executive remuneration and bonuses depend on share prices with quarterly reviews, executive teams can (not do, this is not an absolutist position) focus on short term measures to boost their numbers - maybe they invest less in R&D, maybe they cut training budgets, maybe they fail to invest in long term growth options.

To your other point re Amazon (and really a large number of tech companies) - the multiples we see in these areas are Abberations that are hard to find historical economic rationalisations for. Take Tesla’s PE multiple, for example. At least Bezos laid out to everyone in his first shareholder letter that amazon was going to reinvest everything for pretty much forever. The bottom line: markets don’t always work as efficiently as we believe, and human psychology is the cause
I personally find that threaded discussion substantially worsens the social aspects. When the “best” comments float to the top, any topic turns into soapbox vs. soapbox and actual conversation rapidly breaks down. Social norms are also reinforced and very little change happens in practice.

In a linear discussion, topics don’t die when they reach the width of the page. People can go back and forth on an idea for days or weeks. I believe this property is very important for fostering bonds and maintaining a community spirit. Otherwise, everyone just becomes a collection of their pet ideas.
Why ban solo climbing?

If an idiot wants to do something stupid, why interfere with natural selection?

And why waste money looking for them?
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Do people get testing experience in a CS degree? For me it may be a small part of my software engineering course but that would be it.
I really like HN, but I don't find the "flag" link all that obvious (nor a button). It's front and center for the top of the comment thread, but there is no obvious way to "flag" a comment in a thread other than to click on... the "age" link first, in order to load the view with that comment at the top.

If I wanted to spread disinformation that's where I'd do it; I doubt many people would take that extra step unless it was super obvious and offensive to them. Meanwhile everyone else has bought it.

I think the relative resilience of HN to FN comes from the technical nature of the audience (high expectation of evidence on most topics) and its irrelevance to political manipulations.

It seems to me that
In this case, the supposed hostage taker was the 911 caller.
Grant voting power only to individuals or to entities which follow the same voting power rules. This recursively enforces the rule.

A holding company like that would confer at most the same voting power as trading XYZ directly, but most likely strictly less voting power in XYZ.

A mutual fund which has only held XYZ for a short time would confer little voting power even to shareholders which have held it the longest.
> I wonder if they would sue the app maker and investigate fraudulent ratings.

Apple does investigate this and does take action, yes.[1]

> "Almost 1,000 fraudulent reviews were detected across two accounts and 25 apps for this developer so we removed their apps and accounts from the App Store," an Apple spokesperson told iMore. "Warning was given in advance of the termination and attempts were made to resolve the issue with the developer but they were unsuccessful. We will terminate developer accounts for ratings and review fraud, including actions designed to hurt other developers. This is a responsibility that we take very seriously, on behalf of all of our customers and developers."

[1] https://www.imore.com/whats-happening-dash-and-app-store
I'm not sure I fully understand that last sentence, could you explain?
> The Little Schemer

Do you mean The Little Prover?
The probability of killing someone when you hit them in the center of mass seems a lot higher than that of accidental hits to the femoral artery.

Also, surely you've noticed that when American cops shoot someone they usually go on to cuff them but don't make any attempt to administer first aid, so that quite a few people die from bleeding out. At least if you get shot in the leg you've got some chance of stemming the blood flow, plus it's a lot easier to put a tourniquet on that.
It's possible that the relationship between the number of guns per citizen and gun deaths is non-linear.
And yet by many measures mental health issues are increasing not decreasing so where is all this drastic improvement?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-changing-culture/20...
At some point wealth moves past material goods and into the realm of your ability to influence society. If only everyone with money had noble goals when it came to this influence...
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This seems needless. It’s big, yes, but it’s no different to the TransAmerica Pyramid.

It’s more newsworthy that it’s the first major one in so long tbh
yes, they should see a weapon produced and in the process of being aimed for firing. they are already pointing their arms at the "suspect" and all that is required to complete the firing process is to pull the trigger.
In America, due a culture of police impunity, (the cop rarely goes to jail or even faces trial, and is often even acquitted in cut-n-dried cases like Shaver.) the police officer has been trained to value their lives as higher than the lives of civilians.
this is wrong.
yes, i completely expect to see an actual weapon produced before a shooter commences.
It seemed like they had a larger social justice angle for the piece, then realized it didn’t read well or forgot to write it in the first piece.

To be honest, I expected the article to go that route just from that statement, but refreshingly it didn’t. While valid, the social justice argument is hard to take seriously - audio engineers are people, too, and you can’t expect everyone to be aware of every single one of their biases. Especially not back in the times when MP3 was created.

Still, it would be interesting to read about the technical differences between music in different cultures. As technology spreads in the developing world, accommodating all cultures will grow as an issue.
Why did everything take so long?
I think this is a crucial aspect of Lenny's design. If the bot was just an asshole, you might gain some sympathy for the telemarketers. Their torment at the hands of Lenny feels entirely fair, because it's obvious that he is not fit to be making financial decisions. The more unscrupulous the caller, the longer they stay on the phone with Lenny; it's an elegant self-regulating mechanism.
This building was designed and begun without any Salesforce involvement. Only after did they put their name on it and lease the office space. It would have been built with or without Salesforce.
To clarify, the arrested individual sells a swatting "service" [1]. One of the CoD players hired him to swat the other over a twitter argument. The other CoD player taunted the swatter and gave him a random address [2]. The police showed up at the address and killed an unrelated person.

No parties involved are without blame.

[1] http://archive.is/Ixezf#selection-6279.0-6288.0
[2] https://i.imgur.com/n3Q53nL.png
If nothing else, I'd imagine it's nicer for everyone else not to have to step over a pile of dead bodies to get up the mountain.
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You are probably correct to be skeptical. Anyone engaging this company for real business would likely question how they determined fake/not-fake for the training data, what the performance of the model is, etc.
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I'm well aware, but they still don't make sense in the context unless this is supposed to be a cherry picked list of worst years for each country.

I'm still not sure which events the Finland one refers to.
Yeah reconstruction of HTML isn't solved.

The exciting thing is that in this case it doesn't need to be. Segmentation (which is solved) is sufficient to identify semantically separate parts of the page, and then OCR can be used to place the text from the html on the representation of the page.
The number of skyscrapers being built in the US pales in comparison to other parts of the world today. Besides Salesforce Tower, there's the upcoming Vista Tower in Chicago, and a few in New York: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/country/united-states

I'd like to see more, as well as maybe a focus on more detailed craftsmanship along with pioneering engineering. That story mentions the original Call building in SF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Call_bui...

I'd love to see a resurgence of that kind of stonework and masonry in elements of future architecture. What has happened to all the basic brick and granite structured ornamentation, and the elaborate tilework in modern buildings?
Felony murder. If someone does in the process of a crime being committed the person committing the crime can be charged with felony murder.
I don't know the details of the case, so I can't comment on the SWAT officer. But the person illegally calling for SWAT should be charged.
> most of these tragedies are misunderstandings between good people

In many of these cases, including but definitely not limited the hallway video, the "good person" with the gun failed to communicate with their terrified victim, and failed to handle the situation responsibly. They have the gun, they have the badge, they supposedly have the training, and they have the goddamn responsibility.

Until police - yes, police - get their shit together they will continue to murder civilians across the country, all while apologists who've taken a karate class come in and start lecturing the general public about the nature of violence.

Golf claps to infinity
It seems that full metal jacket (ball) ammunition was adopted for technical reasons. The 1899 Hague Convention prohibited ammunition that flattened or expanded on impact, but did not require jacketing. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_metal_jacket_bullet
>Beyond a certain point more wealth has zero marginal utility (pure greed).

Zero marginal utility in buying stuff. Tons of utility in giving you influence over laws and power over society.

Beyond a certain point it's not about wealth as buying utility at all, those people play the game for power, control, and to play the game.

That's why I find it ludicrous hearing about this or that "hard working" billionaire. It's not "hard work" when you don't have to do it. It's just doing what you like all day in -- like a 20-yo could play videogames all day in, those people play business and power games. Work is really work (with all the extra weariness and anxiety that comes from it) if you either do what you don't want to do (e.g. are a cog in some company or flipping burgers) or you do what you like but not just because you like it but also to get by (e.g. lots of small business owners, creators, etc fall into this category). Rant off.

>I don't envy the rich nor am a communist so let them be as rich as they want as long as we don't compete for the same resources.

The hurt is not them merely being rich, it's about them stifling wages, damaging the economy, buying policies, hurting the future, fostering abusing monopolies, and all that to increase their fortunes and win more...
How does the power company actually get the information transmitted by the meter?

One of the articles the author links to says that it is collected by the power company sending someone with an appropriate receiver to drive around collecting the data.

However, my power company website lets you look up your usage on their website, and that is updated daily which makes me seriously doubt that there are any manual steps in its collection. In particular, it gets read on those occasions every few years when we get enough snow to close down traffic on side streets like mine.

My meter is at least 11 years, and appears quite old fashioned--it's got the spinning disc to show instantaneous usage and analog dials to display the cumulative usage.

I'm not actually sure that my meter has remote read capability. I read somewhere that some power companies add remote reading to older installations by putting something on the pole where the lines to a particular house branch off.

There are some mysterious signals in the 900 MHz neighborhood that show up on my SDR. I've seen them at 929.616, 929.664, 929.940, 931.066, 931.216, 931.865, and 931.942 MHz, and have not been able to figure out what they are from. Mostly, they consist of periodical short (about 1 second) bursts of something digital followed a few seconds later by a longer burst (several seconds), then silence for maybe a minute, and then repeat.

Some seemed to be in pairs, where one would send a short burst, then another would send a long burst. I suspected that this may have been my "Weather Channel" weather meter, which has an outdoor sensor and an indoor display, and operates in the 900 MHz area. I suspected the short burst was the indoor unit asking the sensor for a report, and the sensor responding. I ruled that out, though, by taking the batteries out of the indoor unit and seeing no change in the signal pair.

It's been a while since I looked at these, and so I took another look--and now I don't see that apparent pair. I'm not thinking that that one wasn't two things talking to each other, but two separate things that just happened to have their reports lined up so that it looked like they were talking to each other.

I had guessed that they might be power meters, but I have not been able to find anything that looks like it could be the receiver for them. I don't see anything on the poles around here other than the usual transformers, and we don't have any evident equipment pedestals. The signals don't seem very strong, so I've been assuming that whatever they are talking to cannot be far away. That made power meters seem less likely.
OpenStreetMap does not have much of its own elevation data. (There is a way to tag elevation, but it is rather seldom done). Any project that shows you OSM data and elevation is probably pulling in third-party elevation data such as that from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)[1].

[1] http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
Loved the two-minute papers channel that I came across on this list. Thanks!
Yes this is my point too.

That reaction is pretty disappointing really. It's the "crutches are fine, why should they want artificial limbs" that is really kind of insulting.
I don't understand the sentence "your persist in arguing about "dictatorship" instead of communism". Maybe i wasn't clear in what i meant by dictatorship, but i refer to the "dictatorship of proletariat" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria...) which is core to the communist doctrine.

You'll probably argue that this kind of dictatorship isn't to be understood in the common sense, but judging by the various communists thinkers that refer gladly to violence, as well as its historical examples, i'd say the difference aren't that clear.
I'm a fan of high-density work spaces, as long as they're built in tandem with high-density residential spaces and high-density transportation systems.

San Francisco does the former without the latter. BART is an embarrassment when compared with Manhattan's subway:

* Manhattan subway map: https://i.imgur.com/jOJO2C3.jpg

* Bay Area subway map: https://i.imgur.com/9vKbKoq.gif

* Manhattan compared to SF: https://i.imgur.com/nAvcoS3.jpg - the entire first subway map fits in the white space of this one

Price is the big argument against BART... because we're thinking so small. More ambitious expansion benefits from economies of scale. If we could coordinate projects in multiple metropolitan areas, standardizing technology (boring, rails, power, etc), prices would drop even further... that's where Musk's Boring Company comes into play.
Oh no, not a skyscraper! We must preserve the city in the New World which is only a couple hundred years old as a museum! /s
Also ot, Facebook news feed is pretty terrible and filled with garbage. LinkedIn news feed is just a garbage truck off pointlessnes. I was trying to update my contact list and got so frustrated with the experience, I had a moment: do I need LinkedIn? Nope. Delete account.
Yeah the bloom should be on by default. Otherwise I don't think it captures the look they're going for.
Drop your website URL for reviews
Yeah, the whole article is one giant "sic transit gloria mundi".

And yet, the city grows bigger and taller every year. And that's awesome. Fuck the NIMBY crowd.
Huh? What does making your site less cluttered have to do with patronizing users and/or hiding their messages? Sounds like you're so wrapped up in Lyra land that everything you do is awesome.

I wish you the best of luck.
That, and it sounds like the “hostage situation” narrative should have thoroughly unraveled as soon as he shambled to the door and let them in. I’m not an expert on hostage situations, but I’m led to believe that they typically involve more than one person, not to mention that hostage takers are not known for being immediately compliant.
Cool!

Did you have any trouble convincing your utility company to enable the ZigBee module? Or do they do things differently?
Move to one of the other 190ish countries?
You should be talking ~50ns for a good CSPRNG, which is almost never going to be the overhead.
There's already more than a few bodies up there now. Some are a little famous, like the green boots guy. The bodies can't be removed.

It's such an extreme environment. You can't really rescue people who are in trouble. At best, with multiple climbers, you can have someone else tell you that you shouldn't proceed, which might save your life.

But if someone is already in trouble, you can't really help out, or you will die too. Sure, if you have an extra energy bar, you can give that to your buddy, but that's about it.
Flashlights on Amazon are mostly horrible. Thrunite and their offshoot Wowtac are the only brands I'd buy there, because they sell direct. It's usually better to order from specialty dealers. It's often cheaper too, as they tend to do outreach on forums, /r/flashlight, etc... and offer standing coupon codes.

Visual identification is usually the best way to tell what LED a light really uses. Here's a chart with photos of a bunch of common ones: http://budgetlightforum.com/node/26665

While the lights you find on Amazon making extreme claims about output are almost certainly lying, LED manufacturer datasheets tend to be conservative about how much power LEDs can handle. Typical mains-powered fixtures don't have the sort of heatsinking and thermal paths good flashlights do, and LED manufacturers base their limits on a service life of tens of thousands of hours. You will not use your flashlight for 50,000 hours. Overdriven LEDs aren't rare, especially in enthusiast-oriented lights.

Measuring lumens is hard because you need a way to collect all the light, or at least average it, then put that average on a sensor. Commercial integrating spheres for this purpose cost thousands of dollars. It's possible to estimate using a shoebox and a smartphone though, assuming you have a light source of known output with which to calibrate it. I wrote an app for that: https://github.com/zakwilson/ceilingbounce/
If and when that happens, someone can pick up a suite of cheap domain names. Thanks to the proliferation of generic TLDs, you can register a domain for less than a dollar per year through a legitimate registrar.