skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why? Requiring a license doesn't seem to make car drivers any better.

Then let's advocate for getting rid of licensing since it has a cost and no benefit. I don't think you really mean that, do you? I've got plenty of ideas for a better licensing system for driving.

> Forcing them to need a license will just create more illegal bicyclists.

Illegal drivers face consequences that licensed drivers do not face. The same would be true for illegal bicyclists. I fail to see this as a bad thing.

> Bicyclists already know when they're breaking the law.

They don't know. They might know if they did it in a car they would be breaking the law. They also believe themselves to be incapable of creating a dangerous situation. (Quick anecdote: I was on a jury for a civil case where a bicyclist admitted on the stand he ran into a car that, by all evidence and even his own testimony, was stopped. The bicyclist had also run a stop sign. He felt the driver was at fault for the accident.)

Being a bicyclist myself, I assumed everyone knew as well. Back home, all my cycling friends knew and followed the rules. When I started cycling with people here, I found out they really don't know that the rules apply to them, they think the rules are different in some way, or they just have some really bizarre notions. AFAICT, it's baked into the culture. I mean, people don't know basic stuff like that you can get a DUI on a bike or that you can't ride on the sidewalk...

A bicycle-specific license (or maybe an endorsement on a DL) could focus on bicycle-specific issues, with basic questions like "I have to stop for a stop sign on a bicycle. T/F" and more 'complex' stuff like how bicycle lanes work at intersections with people making right turns. Drivers and cyclists alike seem to have no clue that the driver should enter the bicycle lane (after yielding to bicycles in the lane) for his turn and that the bicyclist should not try to pass him on the right.
If they were going to be their own operator, the probably wouldn't use a mix of CRJ and E-175, but instead have a single-type fleet for lower costs. My guess is that SkyWest or someone like that who already has a mixed fleet is operating the flights.
Im talking about installation in a new system or a docker container.
This posting makes me unaccountably happy.
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I've never heard of statista. I'm interested in hearing experiences and opinions from anyone that uses it! Why is it useful for you? How does it compare to other sources for you?
I would phrase the problem slightly differently: not "I want to use the technologies that make me enjoy my job," but "I want to use the technologies that I already know."

Electron is popular because it lets you write desktop apps in JavaScript, and there are a lot of developers out there who know JavaScript. By going with Electron, those developers can build desktop apps without having to learn anything new. They can extend their existing skills into a new arena, without having to learn any new ones. Developers are always asked to turn products around as fast as they possibly can (and, um, also people are lazy), so this is a very powerful appeal.

This "I don't have to learn anything new" factor is literally the only thing Electron has going for it. Using any other alternative will result in applications that perform better, fit into their host environments more naturally, and generally work better than an Electron app will. But there are a lot of JavaScript developers out there, and any other alternative would require all those folks to learn a whole bunch of new stuff to get started -- new languages (C/C++, C#, Java, Python, etc.), new toolkits (UWP/Win32/Cocoa/whatever, Qt, WxWidgets, etc.), new programming paradigms, etc. etc. etc. Whereas with Electron they can pick it up and be productive in a couple of hours, which is a hugely appealing prospect.

Tools that let people leverage what they already know will always do better than those that require a whole bunch of learning up-front to use. Electron is just the latest example.
It's less fun to consider that most of the Eastern half of what is now the United States was also a vast forest, until European settlers arrived and clear-cut it, first for agriculture and then for industry.

Edit: Yes, the indigenous peoples also cut down trees for agricultural purposes, and even practiced forestry-by-fire. They did so at a radically different scale, however, and it wasn't the loggers' wanton "cut it down and move on to the next patch".

To wit: "Timber production soared from one billion board feet in 1840 to 46 billion board feet in 1904... By 1880, lumber had overtaken agriculture as the most important driver of deforestation. By 1920, more than two-thirds of American forests had been leveled at least once, including the vast majority of eastern forests. Timber companies simply harvested the forest and moved on, from the Great Lakes to the South and across the West, leaving behind stumps, fire prone slash and dead or dying lumber towns. Finally, they were stopped by the Pacific Ocean and forced to begin replanting practices." [1]

Contrast that with, e.g., "the Cahokia people in Illinois (800-700 BP) cut one million trees to house 25,000 people. They also surrounded the village with a two-mile-long stockade composed of 15,000 oak and hickory logs 21 feet tall. Add all the trees they cut for fuel, and it wasn’t long before the Cahokia had leveled the forest within nine miles of their village." [ibid]

There is no reasonable comparison between the strictly localized activities of tribal peoples and industrial logging.

[1] https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/north-ameri...
While self driving cars are likely to make ride hailing cheaper, that does not translate to cheaper car ownership.
To be fair, he stated that he isn't cold hearted in his original post. That is why I said what I did. The article wasn't some economics view into this topic, it was a look at the people. You shouldn't be looking at people struggling as an economics problem. You should be looking at it from a humanitarian standpoint.

You can talk about the economic issues all you want, but it comes down to the residents are the ones getting hurt. The people that took advantage of the situation in developing where they did are not getting hurt.
I applaud the effort, but the bureaucratic structure of these government programs are Byzantine for a reason. The more people they keep from successfully enrolling, the less has to be paid out.

Rather than government partnering with the private sector to implement even more technical crap and everybody patting themselves on the back for a job well done, why don't they take a step back and realize how fucked up the fundamental administrative process is and just fucking fix it?

MRelief may get one to the door, but it doesn't provide any greater accountability once you're there. Maybe the system actually works in California (blue state?), I don't know, but in other parts of the country even if someone holds your hand to get the application submitted you get to look forward to your paper applications going missing/stuck in processing purgatory, online application portals being down for months on end, ignored phone lines that ring to full voicemail boxes, social workers terminating your account over requests for documents that were never actually requested (or that you already provided multiple times), notices of scheduled phone interviews that consistently show up in the mail after the fact and all manner of other shady nonsense.

Any excuse that can be played to kick you off the books is fair game, and it's not like you can get a hold of anyone to appeal it-- your only option is to re-apply, but meanwhile you're not their problem for a few pay cycles.

For the brief period of time I had to take advantage of food stamps, it really opened my eyes as to what sorts of bullshit gets heaped upon the people who need it most.
>>To me, this article reads as a better example of the problems with the security industry and the way security research is done today, because I think the lesson to anyone watching is clear: don't build security into your products, because that makes you a target for researchers, even if you make the right decisions, and regardless of whether their research is practically important or not. It's much more effective to be Telegram: just leave cryptography out of everything, except for your marketing.

I am not sure your point is really being reinforced by comparing a flaw by a bigger flaw. You admitted (regarding WhatsApp) that 'it would be better if...'. And that it's an 'unsolved problem'. So why not focus as a community on solving that problem instead of comparing it to a (in your opinion) bigger problem (meaning Telegram) to even out the score?

Additionally, Telegram did not leave cryptography out of everything. You might not agree with it, it might not be secure, it might not be available in group chats, but to say they have left it out completely isn't true[1], you know that too.

https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end
In many cases it's likely due to early farming efforts that were shifted (in the generic unit sense) to superior farm land. Outcompeted, basically.

Part of my family were Appalachian farmers that owned sizable amounts of relatively low-value farm land. The land is difficult to work, almost nothing is flat or ideal. The soil is ok, but only for a select few things. The climate is mediocre for farming in many parts of the greater region.

As US farming industrialized, it concentrated, moved toward far superior farming land regions. If you were a small farmer in much of New England, you lost that economic battle.
Can we get a before/after with a new battery vs a battery with 1k, then 10k, cycles on it?
See https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/12/15/thinking-about-doing-som...

The miner thing is on the right sidebar, won't mine until you actually authorize it to run.
But codecs are implemented in hardware. Gotcha!
99% don't care, so the one person who does doing so is viable, yes.
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The era of duels had problems beyond just the duels.

Civil wars tend to end but I'd prefer the current state of affairs over a full-blown war, to be honest.
> It takes the drama out of redistricting,

The California process may produce better results on average by some measure (and is emphatically more transparent) compared to legislative redistricting, but it emphatically vastly increased the drama associated with redistricting.
... Bush's primary residence was in Texas as of the 1970s.

We're talking about state reps here, so moving the goalposts doesn't help you. State reps are usually representatives of a couple of towns and some land. They aren't senators or governors. You can't adequately represent people at that level if you aren't around them and never meet them.
Yes, those are my own assessments.

It's possible that someone could view Apple's decision to compromise its customers privacy to remain in the Chinese market as "morally strong". I would like to hear a defense of that position if someone held it.

Apple's decision appears to be legally compliant but morality must transcend legality in my worldview. i.e. the "good men" argument per Emerson or others
The title is probably because those platforms are more of a given. IE8 is somewhat old, so maintaining compatibility with it is a differentiator over other virtual DOM view-layer frameworks.
Aaand it's down. Anybody have a mirror?
The United Kingdom is fairly close to the Boreal Forest Biome [1] which spans across Eurasia and North America in a narrow band. I wonder if it used to include the UK region back in the olden days. Does anybody know?

[1] http://w3.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/boreal.htm
At this point, they would have saved themselves time by implementing it in C from the beginning.
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>if they're comparing it to Visual Studio which has absolutely abysmal performance)

how? it's slow to start, sure, but once it's started it's not noticeably slow.
Or perhaps, if you can only accelerate away from the sun, you just aim for a gravity well at aphelion and turn off as you approach, swing round it and float back towards where you want to go. You then turn the engine on to decelerate when you near your destination?

(full disclosure: never played KSP)
Yes, we contract with regional part 121 airlines that fly and operate the flights. Skywest, Express Jet, etc. These are the same airlines that partner with Delta, United, and American Airlines to run their regional routes.
If you ever needed a sign that Apple cares more about making money than their user's privacy than this is it. If Apple really respected their user's privacy than they should take a stand and lets the chips fall where they may. If this is the cost of doing business in China then perhaps Apple should rethink its strategy.
I'm curious what the delta is between perf hit on an iPhone 6 and an iPhone 8. I'm guessing that, given the deadline apple had to get this out, most of the attention & optimization went to current devices versus near-EOL devices like iPhone 6.
Because their direct statement, at the end of the day, just unilaterally shifts blame to Electron for something that is partly their fault. So while they do have improvements in 2017, and it's great to see their steps for the future, they still have a fundamental issue in not admitting that they are slower than their direct competitors, who also are burdened by the same issues Atom is saying are the reason for their performance.
A self driving golf cart is not a self driving car. Until we outlaw humans from driving anything self driving cars will need all their current safety tech. That might happen in 100+ years, but it may also never happen because hitting something due to mechanical / software failure is always going to be possible.

PS: Adding a camera may get cheaper over time, that does not mean it's ever cheaper than not having one in the first place.
this isn't a dangerous bug itself, it matters because it exists at all and raises concerns that similar bugs might exist in places where security might actually matter.
Why does Cloudflare tell me I'm able to browse a snapshot while the site is offline, but there is no snapshot?
If you're outside 70 miles, you've got bigger problems. But considering that rush-hour traffic can bring average freeway speeds down to the 5 and 10 MPH range, I'd say this would be a huge improvement for daily commuting. At great expense of course.

The only thing is, something invented for a niche market on Sunday will be made much cheaper on Monday, will be widespread and causing mayhem by Tuesday, regulated to the hilt on Wednesday, the sole domain of big corporations by Thursday, and used for aerial assassinations at-will by the military by Friday.

(My little sequence there takes a cue from this talk, posted on HN yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106331 )
One more thing... I do want very badly a plugin for a code editor that allows me to click and drag on a float (in code) and scroll it up and down. If anyone has any ideas or tips, please post! If it doesn’t exist, any thoughts on an environment or editor that would be friendly to such a plugin would also be helpful.
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
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You know what's even worse? Gas station TV (GSTV.com). Utterly awful content that nobody ever wanted, spewed at you by the pump while you're filling up your car.
that would make for a great A/B test of these environments for some outcome. With a bar maybe the number of drinks/food ordered, who knows. Might be a great surprise the outcome.
I have a lot of data, and I moved most of it to sia.tech just recently. Not the easiest software to use, but saves me tons of money.
Ask HN: In which cryptocurrencies have you invested in and why?
- Bitcoin (BTC), I strongly believe in gold 2.0 as an asset, not a currency.

- Ripple (XRP), just surfing the wave and they're in my town. If BTC fails that means XRP won and vice versa so... better be on both sides :)

- Cardano (ADA), how could you not? PhD's all over the place with lots of experience acquired from Ethereum. It will be the new big thing that can actually scale.
> if you don't need to share your vault with anyone

Or any other devices? Or even have rudimentary browser integration? How is this an alternative?
We're planning on flying Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. And we'll have about 6 flights a day departing from each location. This is just the schedule we'll start out with and we'll add more days and times as we grow.
My 2 year old LG TV isn't receiving updates to the webOS anymore, and there are some apps for their store which aren't available for older OSes. I don't know how long I can keep buying 'other devices' like Chromecast/Roku to get around the problem.
Emacs starts reasonably quick and it is written in a very extensible language.
His 3D fluid simulation and renderer is even more beautiful!
https://benedikt-bitterli.me/vorton-fluid.html
I imagine you use arrow keys too.
It doesn't take a ton of time to be way better-informed than most people on current events. Background reading of big ol' books is a lot more valuable than keeping up with the headlines every day. You can catch up on the need-to-know current events with one monthly paper you scan on a lazy Sunday morning, and maybe a weekly or monthly newsletter or two. Reading about the stuff daily is 100% not necessary.

Similarly, and especially given our two-party system in the US, following every twist and turn in a political race is pure entertainment, of exactly no more value to you or anyone else than watching soap operas. You can make an as-informed-as-it-needs-to-be decision by spending that time on building up foundational knowledge instead, then catching up on the happenings of the race and the candidates' positions an hour before you go vote.
Hi Nelson! The # and DEL conventions came from Multics.

Note that from the ASCII perspective, DEL does not mean "delete the previous character." It is meant to be overpunched over a character, effectively deleting the character under the cursor, not before it.

In spite of this, the first DEC machines to use ASCII immediately seized DEL for command-line editing, because it and ESC were the only non-printing characters to have their own keys.

Meanwhile CTSS had begun operating on a variety of terminals and had to use whatever varying features they had available. It adopted " for character erase, ?, :, ~, or _ for line erase, and BREAK, #, or DEL for interrupt, depending on what was available. The second edition of CTSS standardized on ", ?, and BREAK as terminals became more standardized.

In 1966 Multics had begun to be prototyped on CTSS. The TYPSET editor in particular adopted # for character erase and @ for line erase. (There is no reference to a change in triggering interrupts at this time.) I am guessing this is because " and ? were more useful than # and @ in general text, but there is no documentation for the reason.

Multics adopted the neo-CTSS # and @ conventions, and added an elaborate input canonicalization layer that worked on a stream of characters. I think the canonicalization buffering was what led to treating interrupt in the kernel as a character rather than as an out-of-band signal. Notably canonicalization handled the backspace character, but used it for underlining and overstriking rather than for corrections, contrary to our expectations now.

Anyway, Unix adopted the Multics input conventions, with a much simpler canonicalization layer, and kept them until BSD brought Unix to people who were used to DEC operating systems. They retrofitted the DEC conventions of DEL, ^U, and ^C into Unix, where they stuck into the present.
It's suspect it's not in the title, because it's assumed and not interesting or unique. Browser compatibility is listed on linked page.

While it may share a common history and core with ReactJS, React Native is really a separate beast. I realize it may be confusing due to the overlap in names. When people say React they are generally referring to https://reactjs.org and not the intersection it has with http://www.reactnative.com/ or the union of the two projects.
Uber for planes seems pretty impossible :)
Usually, but some won't let you finish set up without some internet access.

Even if you do keep it disconnected, there's no guarantee that a badly behaved update process or app won't interfere with the normal operation in some way.

I'm sure there do exist models that are perfectly fine in offline mode, but it's still a lot of (very opaque) room for things to go wrong in ways that a "dumb" display won't have.
No idea, but I think the gulf stream might interfere with any plans to start living as a sable trapper.
I like mixed use development, but I can't imagine a place much less appealing than Santana Row. Except maybe Valley Fair.
Astronomers may be closing in on source of mysterious fast radio bursts
Most likely they would do a ACMI[0] "wet lease" for a block of flight hours on the aircraft. This is also done by tour operators for package deals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease#Wet_lease
Does it? I've not heard this myself, and the GitHub page says there's no native code in the main repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Thank you for this. Apologies for the bad assumption.
Sports, basically

And some people go to the bars to watch sports with their friends
Wait.

If your JavaScript is only going to execute in 1 version of the V8 engine forever why use JQuery?

Serious question. I’m not a huge JS Develoler but when I dabbled I was told JQuery was there to soften the differences between browsers.
There's not any transit around Santana Row that I know of, other than buses.
It's interesting work but it does seem like the speedup they get is pretty poor (1.3x to 2.3x) when going from 1 to 16 SIMD lanes. It seems like the overhead from all the queue management and AOSOA transformation must negate most of the benefit of the parallelization?

They also mention the fact that programming the system is hard, and plugins must fall back on single-lane code paths until they can be coded into the system proper.

I would assume all the ray sorting makes it extremely difficult to use any bidirectional methods as well.
A jukebox app for a phone could be an interesting thing for a gym. Maybe only on certain days/times.
Not quite what you're looking for, but Gonepass is a GTK read-only frontend for 1Password data. And Enpass is a complete replacement for 1Password.
Thanks for caring about a grumpy (non-paying) customer. I'll file it.

I see similar svg issues are posted already: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/pagespeed-insight...
It seems like 80% of the data is locked behind a paywall. What is left is interesting, but insufficient to make any conclusions.
archive.org does: http://web.archive.org/web/20180110193140/https://melv1n.com...
This might sound dumb but.. with these Meltdown + Spectre bugs would an attacker be able to penetrate to gain full access only if a user downloads a native app or would it be possible through the browser/js?
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This might answer your question: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/avoi...
Time to switch to an Epyc host?
When is this going to stop?
Thanks for those. I remember reading Huck Finn, and it had that same feeling, but definitely more grown up.

And thanks for the recommendations :)
So basically it's a UI bug, not a serious security vulnerability.
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Fair enough. Sorry, I didn't see your previous reprimand since it was posted several days after my comment.

I corrected my previous comment.
Please check their website. You have extensions for Firefox, applications for Android, etc... It is an alternative, albeit not a drop-in replacement.
Data collection on a lot of research papers today: quiz on Mechanical Turk